The All-Empire Worker’s League and its Member Organizations call on all Communists, all local Marxist cells, and all those who love the people and yearn for liberation, to engage in immediate efforts to unify and solidify their local allegiances. We urge any and all Marxist-Leninist cells within the US empire or its junior partners Canada and Mexico to contact the League directly to begin the process of integration into a country-wide network capable of opposing the imperialist war machine.

Fight, fail, fight again!

On the morning of the 28th of February 2026, the Great Satan and its vassal in occupied Palestine launched a cluster of missiles at the Islamic Republic of Iran. Just in the opening salvo, the settler-terrorist regime has bombed a school and killed over a hundred school-aged children, decisively bringing the devastation of the children’s holocaust in Gaza to the heartlands of another nation. As thus proven, the imperialists will stop at nothing to reassert their hegemony, to rescue the “Pax Americana,” because they cannot stop. The abyss of financial collapse and imperial decline looms wide in the imaginations of the yankee elites, as well it should. To preserve the empire and their place in it, no crime is too criminal, however grotesque, and no atrocity is too atrocious, however vast. No destruction is too devastating, however permanent and disfiguring for the shared future for humanity. Anything and everything is on the table, no matter the consequences.

Today the Third World War is being fought on every continent. The genocides waged by the imperialists in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue unabated. The Alliance of Sahel States continues its open rebellion against the neo-colonial system. The battle with Revolutionary Yemen over control of the Red Sea reignites. Missiles launched by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rain down across the empire’s “middle east.” Sirens blare once again in the heart of the forward base colony in occupied Palestine. Resistance forces in occupied Iraq launch a new offensive against the imperialists. The decade-long struggle by the Russian Federation to wrest Ukraine from the clutches of the neo-nazi NATO coup regime continues to grind at the unity of the US-NATO-EU imperialist cartel. The people’s struggle for control of the state in Bolivia carries on despite setbacks, and besieged Venezuela and Cuba persist and develop national autonomy with the assistance of the multipolar powers. Soldiers of the Korean People’s Army march triumphant in Pyongyang on their return from the Kursk front, bringing home valuable modern combat experience against imperial troops for use in the defense of their homeland. The Taiwan question looms at the forefront of east Asian politics.

The Palestinian people of Gaza, silenced and forgotten by the West, still struggle for their lives against floods, cold, disease, and starvation, as the colony’s encirclement and genocidal siege continues unabated in its third year. With every passing hour the disfigurement and trauma of colonial genocide is laid ever heavier on the lives and minds of hundreds of thousands of innocents.

At every turn for the past five centuries, the settler-colonial invasion and occupation of our beautiful continent by imperialist Europe and its “United States” has revealed itself to operate according to raw violence and self-interest alone — and today more people than ever before in all of world history stand witness to the unremittent and unabashed savagery of the euro-amerikan imperial system and are asking themselves, “what is to be done?”

Inside the borders of the US empire, the ICE secret police continue to kidnap innocents and doom untold thousands to die in concentration camps. Migrant workers, refugees, and Indigenous people are targeted for ethnic cleansing, and resistance is stamped out by increasingly militarized police forces. The empire’s oppressed wage a daily struggle for survival against a still-rampaging but censored SARS-2 pandemic, eugenicist labor policies, and ever more openly-genocidal ableism and transphobic violence. And yet the “progressives” of the imperial heart of darkness itself are talking about their 2028 electoral candidates, as if this war is merely a matter of legislative policy. Many “socialists” insist that revolution is impossible, and the Four Opportunist Parties continue their strategies of co-opting spontaneous organizing and demobilizing radical movements. For those of us in the imperial core, the question of how to respond, how to organize, and how to start winning, weighs more heavily and more urgently than ever.

Take stock of the international situation, of how ever more of the world is drawn into conflict with the empire. Then take stock of your local situation, of how ever more people around you are drawn into antagonism with the system. Settlers splinter into fragmentary interest groups as the solution to the crisis of imperialism becomes a more contentious and pressing issue, or they simply “check out” of political engagement altogether, preferring to numb themselves with the bread and circuses of our age. At the same time, the oppressed are drawn to co-operate and resist together, or die alone. As the international situation shifts, it is reflected in the local conditions we experience. Just as the settlers here are more and more at each others’ throats, the member states of the NATO imperialist cartel descend into infighting as their position worsens and continues to destabilize. The experience of the first two world wars of the capitalist-imperialist era taught us that global war is the standard modus operandi of how the global capitalist system resolves its internal crises. Furthermore, the experience of the first two world wars taught us that only revolutionary war can put an end to these conflicts. The first world war was ended by revolutionary uprisings in Russia and Germany, and the second by the united efforts of the revolutionary peoples of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. No such revolutionary force directly threatens the heartlands of the imperialist forces today as the Soviet Union and its allies once did, and so this third world war will only end as the first did: when the revolutionary masses within the empire unite and put an end to it. These masses are the millions in occupied New Afrika and the occupied First Nations, and the millions of settlers oppressed by their state on the basis of their ability, gender, sexuality, and age.

In fighting all of these wars the empire is running out of ammunition; its production simply can’t keep up. Where it can’t control us with naked force, it seeks to intimidate us with pervasive surveillance. But always remember that the empire doesn’t have the manpower to surveil all of us. This is why it pours its finances into AI to do the work for it (as well as to create venues for speculation and parasitism). The empire aims to have the repression infrastructure it needs built before the AI bubble bursts, but rampant corruption and insufficient electrical infrastructure call even that goal into question. It has taken the combined efforts of billions of people in struggle over the last century to bring the empire to its knees, and our task is paltry by comparison: organize a few million more to at last tear out the empire’s heart on behalf of all humanity. We have to turn the third world war into the second US civil war, and carry this war to vanquish the settler empire once and for all. Only a policy of revolutionary defeatism, the pursuit of the empire’s defeat and complete capitulation to its enemies from within, can provide us the concrete foundation for building revolutionary unity among our organizations. All revolutionary and anti-imperialist organizations must struggle between one another for unity on this line, and where such organizations do not yet exist, they must be built.

The mass media, slaves to the ruling class, are nevertheless beating the drums of war. The Washington Post (“Democracy dies in darkness”) openly trumpets that the war in Ukraine is good for the U.S. Empire in all of the expected ways: It will “break up” the Sino-Russian alliance, it will defeat “our” enemies (who are “we” here? The editorial doesn’t say, but merely assumes that anyone reading the rag is bourgeois, upper petit-bourgeois, or otherwise aligned with the political class of the Empire), Ukraine is a good place to test experimental weapons and gear up to go to war with the People’s Republic of China, and the perennial favorite, U.S. manufacturing will return if we go to war. Of course, the author Marc Thiessen, speechwriter for some of the most evil people on the planet, doesn’t mean general domestic manufacturing — he means high-tech jobs in the murder sector like Raytheon and Northrop.

There’s more money to be made in Ukraine, though: The U.S., which pushed Ukraine into war with the R.F., can turn around and “rebuild” its infrastructure. The empire and its junior NATO partners have already committed $66 billion to do just that. This would, of course, result in significant concessions within Ukraine to these foreign investors. In June of this year, the U.S. Empire announced its intentions to own the Ukrainian energy grid with a $1 billion investment. Criminal financial monopolists like BlackRock have taken time from their busy schedule of buying all the housing stock in the U.S. to help the clown Zelenskyy raise private capital so U.S. investors can buy his entire country. The war has turned out to be a fire sale for the West. Yes, we are all aware that “[p]rivate investors see a ‘tremendous opportunity,’” as the JPMorgan ghoul Stefan Weifer cooed in an interview with CNN, in the destruction and privation of the Ukrainian people, but we thank JPMorgan for pointing out that the investment firms intend to capitalize on human misery! Of course, the mass media has called out the feeding frenzy and publicized it so no investor need miss out on this opportunity to financially colonize a country.

Reuters released the results of a poll on Wednesday June 28, 2023, showing that this media saturation has had its intended effect. The poll “charted a sharp rise in backing for arming Ukraine, with 65% of the respondents approving of the [weapons] shipments compared with 46% in a May poll.”

In foreign policy, the U.S. government represents the most rapacious elements of U.S. Capital. Anyone who bucks this trend on the all-empire scale, including those within the ranks of the reactionary far-right GOP block, is rapidly silenced. The capitalists cannot afford skepticism about Ukraine, the war, and their part in it. Left-liberal politicians, for so long pointing to the Wagner Group within the R.F. as proof that the R.F. had its fair share of Nazis, rejoiced this month when the same Russian fascist private military contractor turned on Putin and the R.F.’s government. Whichever side they fight for, the U.S. ruling class and their pet politicians seem to keep eagerly lining up with various fascists. Global fascism, in fact, traces its funding and support directly to the post-World-War-II United States intelligence agencies.

We cannot afford to be duped by the mass media, by the politicians, or by the ruling class. We must agree that we will not support the imperialist Ukraine war. We say NO to all U.S. dollars and resources being spent to see bigger piles of bodies in Eastern Europe, to see blood spread across an ever-widening arc in Ukraine. The support of the U.S. is the kiss of death, and benefits no one except the far-right elements within Ukraine. We demand an end to U.S. support for this war!