From the West Coast to the East, our ILPS members and allies rallied on July 4th to protest exploitation, plunder, and terror by the US on its 250th birthday. Communities from all walks of life came out to take up the fight against US imperialism -- Indigenous, workers, migrants and youth, progressive veterans, healthcare workers, women and LGBTQ+ -- we all showed up to build the peoples resistance against war profiteers and US-led war!

• We staged a rally outside the White House to call out the hypocrisy of America @ 250 and its legacy of exploitation and violence against communities both abroad and within the U.S. The rally built on a Peace Forum where community members from across the DC-Maryland-Virginia area united around concrete campaigns and next steps to strengthen our movements - including the continuing fight for justice for Las Madres Unidas en la Lucha (migrant mothers from Central America), for Lockheed out of our communities, for an end to police terror in our communities, and to build solidarity between people's movements fighting for liberation from imperialism and war across the Global South!

• In New York, we demanded the release of Venezuelan President Maduro and Cilia Flores. Our members are also building up fights against Korean company Hanwha Philly Shipyard located in Philadelphia’s navy yard which manufactures warships and maritime submarines, bringing nuclear materials into the city and contaminating local water and food. Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm based in NYC, is also a target as it acquired land in Subic Bay in the Philippines and colludes with the Marcos regime and the U.S. Armed forces to build an ammunition/arms manufacturing depot as a forward base against China.

• Seattle-Tacoma and Portland descended on Joint Base Lewis McChord military base and denounced the economic plunder, warmongering, and violence enacted by the U.S. against nations all over the world while calling for the taking on of all war profiteers in Washington, from Anduril to Boeing!

• Southern California mobilized to San Diego - a launching pad for US imperialist advances of militarism and fascism across the world. The region is wrought with US military and naval operations as a center for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) war exercises and for war manufacturers. It is used to enforce the US-Mexico border and Trump’s increasing ICE attacks against migrants.

After over 400 years, US imperialism continues to plunder our homelands, deliberately destabilizing regions, propping up puppet-governments, and violently suppressing people’s liberation movements; in Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, the Philippines, Iran, Lebanon, and beyond. Let us continue to uplift the calls, demands, and leadership of the working masses to build and grow the anti-imperialist united front! Join ILPS and our members as we continue connecting workers’ struggles and community issues on the local and national level to taking up the fight against US-led war!

No Boots on the Ground No Bombs in the Air! US Out of Everywhere!