BAMN is calling for emergency protests to remove Trump now and stop the war. Trump is making unhinged, dangerous threats to carry out war crimes against the Iranian people, saying he will attack civilians by destroying their power plants and civilian infrastructure, the “entire country” will be “taken out,” and that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran doesn’t accept Trump’s exorbitant demands. Pundits are openly calling for the military to defy the President’s order to commit illegal crimes against humanity. But that is not enough to prevent catastrophe: it’s time for the No Kings movement, the movement to stop, block, and drive out ICE and the George Floyd movement to be IN THE STREETS to stop the war and remove Trump NOW:
- The movement demands Trump must go now by any means necessary!
- The war on Iran and Lebanon must be ended now! Victory to the Palestinian struggle!
- Stop the fascist takeover of the American federal government! Stop the Trump police state!
- The American joint chiefs, officers and soldiers must disobey Trump’s illegal orders to commit war crimes against the Iran people!
- We must keep the hands of this madman off the nuclear button!
- Defend immigrant rights! No fascist ethnic cleansing in the Middle East or in the US!
On Tuesday, April 7:
Berkeley, California – 4:00pm at UC-Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza (near Bancroft + Telegraph)
Detroit area, Michigan – 4:00pm in Dearborn’s Hemlock Park (13355 Hemlock Ave., Dearborn, MI 48126)
Los Angeles, California – 12:00pm at UCLA’s Bruin Plaza (https://maps.app.goo.gl/aSdsu26gGqLijk569 )
Email us at contact@bamn.com if you want to organize a protest in your area, and we will support you!
Stop the War Against Iran Now!
Defend Iran Against Imperialist War
Defeat Trump & Netanyahu’s Fascist/Zionist War Drive
* Build Workers’ Resistance: Refuse to Load and Unload Shipments—Especially Arms—Between the United States and Israel
* All US Armed Forces Out of the Middle East & Mediterranean
The Iranian People Have the Right to Determine Their Future
The US-Israeli War Is a Failing Attempt at Recolonization, NOT Liberation—the Iranian People Know It and Reject It
Trump and Netanyahu’s unprovoked war against Iran has raised the specter of demented fascism, genocidal Zionism, and total war—and the world shudders. The Middle East becomes even more unstable. The long-standing crisis of the global capitalist economy deepens. Resolving the climate crisis in a world tied to oil and gas is delayed to an even more distant future. The poor and oppressed become poorer, sicker, and more oppressed. The ruling classes of every country buy more armaments, paid for by more cuts to whatever educational, social and health services are left.
However, Trump and Netanyahu are acting on different agendas, and they have met with greater and more creative resistance than they expected. As a result, their supposed imperialist allies are hanging back and watching developments. We must exploit those divisions and hesitations in order to undermine this war drive. Our international mass movements for Palestinian freedom and the rights of workers, refugees, immigrants, and all oppressed people have that power.
Iran and Imperialism
The war against Iran is an attempt to reverse the 1979 Iranian revolution, which was a major defeat for Western imperialism and for Israel—which is the principal agent of the US in the Middle East.
Iran has the largest land area and population of the Middle East’s big oil producing countries. For more than a century, imperialist powers tried to carve it up or take control of its politics and its resources. In the 1920s, the British imperialists deposed the old royal family and imposed the rule of the brutally repressive Pahlavi dynasty. When an elected Iranian government nationalized the oil industry in the early 1950s, Britain and the US organized a coup and reinstated the second Pahlavi Shah (King).
Under the last Shah’s notoriously brutal rule, Iran was second only to Israel as the Western imperialists’ ally & agent in the Middle East. In 1979 he was overthrown by the people’s revolution. The religious leaders (Ayatollahs) who the Shah had exiled, returned to Iran. In the turmoil of the revolution, they were able to use their authority to establish a theocratic state which became increasingly repressive.
Ever since that revolution, Iran has come under increasing pressure and sanctions from the US and its allies. This has caused increasing poverty among the Iranian people. In response, the regime has increased its authoritarian control and turned to Russia and China for support. The regime’s authoritarianism has been challenged by outbreaks of resistance that have shaken its authority, but they have been repressed by its considerable military power.
The imperialist pressures on Iran have done more to preserve its authoritarian, theocratic regime than remove it. The great mass of the Iranian people knows better than to trust the imperialists’ false promises, and they have demonstrated that they have no intention of turning their country over to Western imperialism and Israel.
Why the US and Israel Have Gone to War—and How They Miscalculated the Response
For Trump’s fascist regime in America and Netanyahu’s fascist regime in Israel, the current war on Iran is a continuation of their genocidal war and ‘ethnic cleansing’ against the Palestinian people, in order to destroy all resistance and maintain their domination of the Middle East and its resources.
That is an impossible goal. It has put the state of Israel in a state of permanent war, which, if continued, will end in self-destruction. It is only possible at present because of US support. They are united by their fascist delusions, which is what makes them—and this war—so dangerous.
For Trump and his declining circle of devotees, this is his fascist war, and that is all it is. There are no rational reasons for this war at this time. It is deeply unpopular in America, even among Trump’s own supporters. This fascist president’s only purpose in going to war against Iran at this time is to demonstrate to the world his unrestrained power of inhuman, fascistic destruction, to demonstrate—not only to enemies but to unhappy former supporters—that their views are of no account, he is King of Kings.
For Netanyahu, however, there is a ‘mission’ that he shares with a powerful, fascistic section of Israeli Jewish society—the Israeli conquest and ethnic cleansing of a broad area of the Middle East. And at this point in history they believe they have an opportunity because Iran does not pose a threat to either of them.
However, they were blinded to the power, determination, and creativity of resistance by a people under attack. And for the poor and oppressed of the Middle East and the whole world, for all the discriminated-against communities, refugees, immigrant workers, etc. in this country, the most positive resolution of this war is the military defeat of the US and Israel.
Workers’ Action Can Stop the War: Build Workers’ Resistance to Refuse to Load and Unload Shipments—Especially Arms—Between the United States and Israel
The movement in the US that has marched for Palestine is still marching. Those who have built the mass anti-war movement of resistance to warmongering, defended free speech for pro-Palestine activists and organizations, mobilized against fascists, and filled countless courtrooms are now on the streets demanding an immediate end to the US/Israeli war against Iran. Every time we march for Palestine we must be marching for Iran—One struggle! One fight!
All those progressive and anti-war forces, especially in the trade unions, must now organize worker resistance to refuse loading and unloading shipments and supplies to undermine and disrupt the US/Israeli attack on Iran. We should act in the spirit of the dockworkers in European and Mediterranean ports who have blockaded arms shipments to Israel, but we must act more widely and creatively to stop, disrupt, or undermine the transport and delivery of any form of armaments, goods, services, and communications that could assist the attacks on Iran.
We must demand that our trade union leaders organize this campaign of action, or at least support and defend it, but we cannot wait for them or rely on them. The need for this action is urgent, so we have to organize rank-and-file action groups in our workplaces, whatever and wherever they are.
The Fight Against Fascism
This fight is not simply a campaign against a war; nor is it just a fight against imperialist wars. It is a fight against fascism. We live at a time when the capitalist system is caught in a political and economic dead-end, when nothing seems to work, even while all the sciences are zooming ahead. Inequality has reached the greatest ever extremes in human history. For the first time fascism has taken power or is advancing rapidly in all the old imperialist countries at the same time.
That is the situation in the US, in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, etc.
If we in the US and Britain, as workers, refugees and immigrants, black, Latina/o, Asian, & Muslim people, poor and oppressed people can build significant action against the US/Israeli attack on Iran, we will have weakened our own racist, anti-working class government, and struck a major blow against Trump’s fascist program in this country, North and South America, across Europe, and in the Middle East. That must be our aim.
3/20/2026
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