Week of Action - Fight Against “America 250”

Fight 250 Years of Exploitation, Plunder, and Terror! US Out of Everywhere!

July 4th, 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States of America. For those 250 years, the working and oppressed peoples of the world have struggled against enslavement and genocide at the hands of the US. The legacy of the US has been defined by war, resource extraction and forced migration from its neocolonies. To this day, it continues to uphold monopoly capitalist rule through violent repression, counterinsurgency, and fascist violence. Workers, migrants, oppressed nationalities, and people of the Global South have fought U.S. war and plunder since the genocidal founding of the country and are amassing strength to win their sovereignty and liberation from US imperialism.

Two propaganda initiatives representing different factions of the ruling class are set up to commemorate 250 years of the US. America 250 is a "non-partisan" initiative first set up in 2016, budgeted tens of millions by Congress, and represents largely liberal bourgeois interests, promoting charity donations while whitewashing the US's legacy. Trump's "Freedom 250" is the outright reactionary version, led by cabinet members, promoting "patriotism," "prayer," and "freedom." Both America 250 and Freedom 250 are sponsored by major multinational corporations representing oil, weapons, banking, and other destructive industries eager to peddle false narratives of American exceptionalism and "innovation" through media and celebratory events.

While readying for these imperialist festivities, Trump has continued the tradition of lies to deceive the public and initiate a war on Iran, kidnap Venezuelan President Maduro, and tighten its stranglehold on Cuba and Palestine. All of these acts of aggression amount to trillions of dollars taken away from public services such as access to reproductive healthcare, SNAP benefits, and education especially as Trump is demanding to raise the already monstrous defense budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, the highest in history. These wars of aggression are only serving to enrich the ruling class and especially weapons manufacturers, big tech, and AI corporations. In 2026: Anduril received a $20 billion contract with the US military, Scale AI received a $500 million contract with the Department of War, and Boeing secured contracts worth over $700 million with the Air Force. The CEOs of weapons corporations and their benefactors reap record profits and sit alongside Trump, in their strategic class alliance of monopoly capitalists.

Amidst Trump's heightening fascist attacks, imperialist war, and criminal corruption, the contradictions endemic to monopoly capitalism are revealing its most severe cracks. The imperialists will attempt to clamor around the 250th anniversary of the US and parade the military to project narrow-nationalist strength, but the people's calls for justice must ring louder and expose the true nature of the rotten system. On the 250th anniversary of the US, ILPS-US calls for a National Week of Action against the #1 Imperialist terrorist & the biggest plunderer on this planet, including Trump himself.

During this National Week of Action, we commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a historic rebellion of the LGBTQ working class against state repression. Pride was a protest and started in the streets through the collective resistance of queer people against their oppressors. And in 2026, as Trump's fascist attacks rise against the LGBTQ community, it is clear that the struggle for queer liberation is not separate from the struggle against US imperialism.

As struggles for national liberation advance to break the chains of US imperialist domination, the US is intensifying its plunder and militarization of their land through initiatives like Pax Silica to gain technological dominance to enforce its economic and military hegemony. Pax Silica is the Trump regime's newest neoconservative initiative to regain control over the entire semiconductor supply chain directly flowing from the National Security Strategy to ensure US imperialist interests are reinforced. Resources plundered from the Global South are manufactured into the weapons targeting the enemies of US imperialism, paid for in billions by US taxpayers. As part of targeting Trump and the imperialist system itself, this week of action calls on the people to oppose US-led war and plunder by targeting the weapons, AI, and tech companies profiting off war and the plunder of the Global South that upholds US imperialist domination.

Join our week of action as we raise the call “Fight 250 Years of Exploitation, Plunder, and Terror! US Out of Everywhere!”