Workers: Stand with Iran and Palestine!

JUNE 18—In its drive to make the world bow to its dictates, U.S. imperialism is once again on the warpath. Israel’s bombing of Iran is adding fuel to a fire that has already devastated large swaths of the Near East. Now, with the buildup of its military might in the region and its threats on the life of Iran’s supreme leader, the U.S. and its Zionist ally have brought the world to the brink of a broader conflict that will be hard to pull back from.

As we go to press, it’s not clear where this will lead. But one thing is for sure: If U.S. imperialism gets away with pulverizing Iran, it will not stop there. It will become more belligerent and gain more leverage to tighten its talons on the Global South and China—and bring the carnage abroad back home in the form of greater regimentation, repression and chaos.

To defend ourselves from being trampled by the rampaging U.S. rulers, working people must join together to take a stand right now with Iran and Palestine, as laid out in the June 13 Spartacist supplement reprinted below. Pacifist declarations by “progressive” Democrats will change nothing. An actual blow against the imperialist butchers by a united labor movement is needed to stay their hand and give workers and the oppressed internationally time to regroup and strengthen their defenses.

Israel’s strikes on Iran open a new front in the Zionist state’s genocidal frenzy. This new offensive aims to draw the U.S. into the conflict and knock Iran out as a regional counterweight. If successful, Israel will have a free hand to further the extermination of the Palestinians and terrorize the entire region. Workers all around the world: Mobilize against Israel and the U.S.! Defend Iran! Defend Palestine!

This is essential not only for the sake of people in the Near East, who face the threat of carnage on an unprecedented level, but to advance the economic and social conditions of workers everywhere. If Israel and the U.S. are allowed to further escalate the conflict, the barbarity, bloodshed and worsening economic conditions will spread throughout the world.

If workers in the West and in Israel do not mobilize now against the criminal actions of their governments, they will be mobilized by their governments to commit crimes on an ever-growing scale. If workers of the Global South tolerate their governments’ conciliation of the U.S. and Israel, they will be the next victims of the imperialists and their agents.

Nothing good will come from the liberal institutions, whether the UN, the EU or the ICC. They have all shown themselves to be either complicit in Israel’s crimes or utterly impotent. Only workers and the oppressed peoples of the world can put a stop to the ever-growing spiral of barbarity. Demonstrate! Strike! Stop U.S. and Israeli arms shipments! Do not let the U.S. and Israel get away with it once again!