American imperialism is the bloodiest, most reactionary force in human history. The US regime is a government of, by, and for the ruling class. Every cynical move it makes—at home or abroad—is to defend and promote the profits of the rich. They care nothing for the Iranian people or the American working class.
From the Trump Administration and FOX News to the liberals of CNN and The New York Times, the class enemy’s forces are speaking with one voice. Their propaganda is as ubiquitous as it is empty.
[Read the RCI’s Statement on the War]
The forces of American and world communism speak with one voice too. Everywhere we go, we answer their lies with the plain and simple truth.
They say: Iran is a terrorist regime destabilizing the Middle East.
We say: American imperialism and the genocidal Israeli regime are the biggest terrorists on the planet. They are the ones destabilizing the Middle East and the entire world.
They say: Thousands of Iranians are dancing in the streets, celebrating the attack on their country and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
We say: The Iranian people didn’t celebrate when over 165 schoolgirls—some as young as seven—were murdered at Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab. As communists, we oppose the regime of the mullahs. So do millions of ordinary Iranians. But that doesn’t mean they support the American and Israeli campaign of mass murder from the sky.
They say: This is a war for democracy.
We say: This war is a direct assault on the democratic right of the Iranian people to self-determination, their right to life and liberty—and the American people weren’t consulted either.
They say: Iran is a threat to “our” so-called “national interests.”
We say: American workers have no “national interests.” We have class interests. We have nothing to gain and much to lose from this imperialist war of choice. It is being waged entirely in the interests of the Epstein class. They are desperate to defend their dying empire and their power to exploit and oppress millions across the planet.
American workers in uniform are the ones being asked to sacrifice their lives. If the war drags on, US workers will bear the brunt of the chaos in world trade. Already, fuel prices have risen, and this will have a knock-on effect on consumer prices generally, potentially leading to mass layoffs.
They say: Regime change in Tehran.
We say: Regime change in Washington, Tel Aviv, and across the Gulf States—by the working class.
As long as the capitalists rule, there will be slaughter and suffering in every corner of the globe. A workers’ government in the US is the first step to ending the scourge of war, once and for all.
No War but the Class War!
American Troops and Bases out of the Middle East!
Down with US Imperialism!
Workers of the World, unite!