STOP THE WAR AGAINST IRAN!BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR SOCIALIST MOVEMENT!
Join the Socialist Equality Party in building an international anti-war socialist movement of the working class.The US-Israeli war against Iran is a crime against peace. No section of the capitalist establishment will stop it—only the independent mobilization of the international working class. Join the Socialist Equality Party in building an international anti-war socialist movement of the working class.
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EMERGENCY WEBINAR
On March 8, the World Socialist Web Site held an emergency global webinar on the US-Israeli war against Iran, drawing thousands of participants from around the world.
The principal charge brought against the defendants in Nuremberg was 'crimes against peace,' that is, the launching of a war without any legal justification. There was no imminent threat to the United States.
David North
Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS
OUR DEMANDS
The Socialist Equality Party calls for an international movement of the working class against imperialist war, ICE repression, and the capitalist system:
IMMEDIATE CESSATION OF US-ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATIONS!
Stop the criminal war against Iran now. This war violates the US Constitution and international law—it is a 'crime against peace' under the Nuremberg principles.
WITHDRAW ALL US FORCES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST!
Close all US military bases in the region. End 73 years of US imperialist aggression against Iran and the peoples of the Middle East.
END ALL SANCTIONS AND ECONOMIC WARFARE!
Lift the crippling sanctions that have devastated the Iranian people. Economic warfare is an act of war against civilian populations.
FULL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WAR ARCHITECTS!
Prosecute all officials responsible for planning and executing this criminal war. No immunity for war crimes.
DISBAND NATO AND THE MILITARY-INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS!
Liquidate the military alliances and intelligence agencies that serve as instruments of imperialist war and domestic repression.
DEFEND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS! STOP ICE REPRESSION!
Stop ICE repression. War abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home are two fronts of the same capitalist offensive against the working class.
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS UNITY!
Unite workers across all borders against war and capitalism. Build rank-and-file committees to organize strikes against the war machine.
BREAK WITH BOTH PARTIES!
Democrats are accomplices—115 voted for the NDAA, they funded every weapon. The working class needs its own independent political party.
FOR A SOCIALIST PROGRAM!
Place the banks, corporations, and war industries under democratic workers control. End the capitalist system that breeds war and inequality.
Workers have the power to stop war. Transport, logistics, and arms workers can halt the war machine. Call meetings in workplaces and neighborhoods to organize action.
BUILD RANK-AND-FILE COMMITTEES TO STOP THE WAR
No section of the capitalist establishment—not the Democrats, not the media, not the union bureaucracies—will stop this war. They are all complicit. Only the independent mobilization of the working class, organized in rank-and-file committees, can halt the drive to World War III.
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) provides the framework for building this movement. Transport workers, dockworkers, logistics workers, and arms industry workers hold strategic power to stop the war machine. Turkish miners striking against their government's complicity show what is possible.
The anti-war movement must be built on four principles: it must be based in the working class, it must be anti-capitalist and socialist, it must be completely independent of the Democratic and Republican parties, and it must be international—uniting workers in the US, Iran, Israel, Europe and throughout the world against the ruling classes of all countries.
Why a movement for a general strike is needed
WHO WE ARE
The global Trotskyist movement, fighting for international socialism
Socialist Equality Party
A revolutionary political party of and for the working class with parties across the globe. We fight for a workers' government to end inequality, exploitation, and war.
International Committee of the Fourth International
The Fourth International is the world party of socialist revolution, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 to defend Marxism against the betrayals of Stalinism.
The World Socialist Web Site
The voice of the international working class and online publication of the ICFI. We have published over 150,000 articles in 29 languages since 1998.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
The student and youth movement of the ICFI. Organizing the next generation of socialist fighters on campuses and among young workers worldwide.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
A global network of worker-led committees independent of the pro-corporate union bureaucracies. Workers organizing workers.
A tradition of struggle
We stand for the revolutionary tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky.
"The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat.
Karl Marx
1818–1883
Friedrich Engels
1820–1895
Rosa Luxemburg
1871–1919
Vladimir Lenin
1870–1924
Leon Trotsky
1879–1940
What distinguishes us
from other parties
World party, not nationalist
We defend and advance Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution, which argues that the struggle for socialism must be led by the working class and carried out on a world scale.
Revolutionary, not reformist
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and other pseudo-left tendencies work work within the orbit of the Democratic Party to try to reform capitalism. We fight for the political independence of the working class to prepare for socialist revolution.
Class unity, not identity politics
Identity politics serves upper-middle class careerists while dividing workers. We unite the working class across all racial, gender, and national lines.
We educate workers and tell them the truth
The SEP, WSWS and ICFI fight every day to develop socialist consciousness within the working class, in order to build a revolutionary leadership capable of overthrowing capitalism.
Our Program
WHERE WE STAND
A criminal war against Iran
This war is a 'crime against peace' under Nuremberg principles—the supreme international crime. It violates the US Constitution and was launched without congressional authorization.
73 years of US aggression
From the 1953 CIA coup to today's bombing, the US has waged unrelenting war against Iran. This is not about 'terrorism'—it's about oil, geopolitics, and preparation for conflict with China.
Democrats are accomplices
115 Democrats voted for the NDAA. They funded every weapon. No section of the capitalist establishment will stop this war—only the independent mobilization of the working class can.
Workers have the power to stop war
Turkish miners striking against their government's complicity show the way. Transport, logistics, and arms workers can halt the war machine through coordinated international action.
War abroad, repression at home
ICE raids, attacks on immigrants, and the assault on democratic rights are not separate from the war—they are two fronts of the same capitalist offensive against the working class.
Four principles of the anti-war movement
The movement must be: based in the working class, anti-capitalist and socialist, completely independent of capitalist parties, and international—uniting workers across all borders.
WHAT READERS SAY
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United Kingdom
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Maryland, USA
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