Reject US Imperialism on the World Stage! Fight for Genuine Solutions and Liberation!
The United Nations is hosting its 80th General Assembly this week in New York City, under the theme of "Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights." From the UN's inception, history has shown us the US and its lackeys will attempt to confuse the people, and present false solutions to the pressing issues of our time. However, genuine peace, pro-people development, and collective rights are impossible under the current system of imperialism, a harrowing profit driven system of competition that inherently breeds war and defines the overall world system.
The International League of Peoples' Struggle US Country Chapter (ILPS-US) condemns the US' weaponizing of the United Nations for its entire 80 years of existence as a means to uphold US imperialism. Only the people can bring about a truly equitable system of international governance, and ILPS-US is one with all the struggling peoples and genuinely independent nations in their fight for land, liberation, sovereignty, and just peace.
For its entire existence, the UN has operated in an era of US global dominance. Emerging out of the World War 2 as the number one super power, the US set up international political, financial, and military institutions that sought to solidify "civil society" and maintain the ruling order, to counteract revolutionary peoples movements for national liberation and socialism. Meanwhile, in the 80 years since the UN was founded, the US has waged countless wars of aggression, overthrown anti-imperialist, progressive, and anti-corporate governments, levied devastating sanctions, and sunk its teeth further into the wealth of other nations.
The current UN system has acted nearly completely under the thumb of the US through the US's permanent veto power on the Security Council. The US has also used other methods to bury important humanitarian reports, dissuade dialogue between members, smear the diplomatic initiatives of states asserting their independence, and shield its allies and puppet regimes of its neo-colonies from accountability from violations of international law.
There is no shortage of pressing issues to solve in the today's world where we are faced with fascism and ever-increasing war and militarism. We are witnessing a brutal genocide in Palestine, in which the US funded and armed Zionist entity has bombarded the Palestinian people for almost two years straight and is now starving the population, a continuation of the decades-long occupation and genocide. Violent border policies endanger millions of migrants that are forced to leave their homelands due to poor economic conditions and US-led war. In response to the imperialist engendered crisis of forced migration, the US only further ramps up its capacity to repress and criminalize the people through multi-billion dollar investments in ICE and for-profit detention centers.
The vast majority of the people of the world are already exploited, over-worked, and underpaid in this imperialist system - Trump's tariff wars aggravates the already distressed working class. The US has infected other nations around the world with neoliberal policies that treat basic human needs such as housing, food, healthcare as commodities for profit. The climate crisis is already here, as storms grow more severe, islands disappear, and deadly heat waves impact the people.
It is the people, in alliance with the nations that are actively resisting imperialist intervention, that must take their future into their own hands. Despite the limitations imposed on the UN by US imperialism, it is a venue in which the demands of the people can be brought if their governments choose, or are pressured to represent them. People's movements should shine a spotlight on the discussions at the UN General Assembly to expose the machinations of the US and its allies, while highlighting the attempts by some nations, such as those calling for sanctions against the genocidal Zionist entity of "Israel", to push for genuine solutions.
In so doing, the issues of the basic masses of the people, the workers, peasants, and other struggling people facing skyrocketing inflation, systematic land grabbing, daily violence from wars of aggression, ecological destruction and the climate crisis, and forced migration due to all of these issues, will be put front and center of the world's eyes.
The people, in alliance with the nations whom are actively resisting imperialist intervention, must take their future into their own hands, just as they are in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Philippines in their fights against government corruption. ILPS-US calls on its members to take to the streets, mobilize our communities, and meet the people wherever they are at to help them raise their voices, assert their collective power, and fight together for genuine pro-people solutions.