Joint May Day Statement and Resolutions towards the Internationalist Conference of Athens

Joint May Day Statement towards the Internationalist Conference of Athens

Let us unite in the global struggle to defeat Trump’s imperialist offensive

Let us bring down the governments that perpetuate poverty and war

The offensive of the U.S. and Israel against Iran has backfired. Cracks are multiplying in the camp of the invaders. No matter how much they try to cover it up, Trump has suffered a severe political setback. Netanyahu is attempting to advance territorial annexations on Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese soil, but his domestic and international position is increasingly being called into question. The quagmire facing US imperialism and the Zionist regime is practical proof that the U.S. and Israel are not an unbeatable machine. The setback they are suffering in the conflict with Iran is a source of encouragement for the exploited peoples confronting US imperialism across the globe.

It is a boost for the peoples of Latin America who have been suffering from the US escalation in the region. It is a boost for Cuba, which is under threat and facing a blockade that has escalated to levels of humanitarian disaster. It calls into question the Venezuelan government’s shameful collaboration with the U.S. invader and encourages the independent mobilization of its working class. It is a stimulus for the struggle being waged by U.S. workers and youth who are confronting Trump with growing mass participation and radicalization. The 8 million who mobilized on March 28 show the existence of a mass opposition to the war as the government has been publicly discussing the launch of a ground invasion, which would require a massive mobilization of the population as soldiers, and foreshadows an electoral defeat in the midterm elections scheduled for November of this year. It is a boost to the struggle against rearmament and austerity plans that workers are waging against capitalist governments of every stripe across the European continent, with their war budgets voted by the far right, conservatives, liberals, so-called leftists and social-democrats.

And, of course, it is a boost to the anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist struggle throughout the Middle East: in Palestine and Lebanon, and also in Iran. The Iranian people have not heeded Trump’s call to rise up in tandem with the bombings. We are well aware of the oppressive, reactionary, and repressive nature of the Iranian capitalist regime. But a progressive solution for Iran’s exploited and oppressed masses will not come from Zionism and US imperialism. The reckoning with the Tehran regime must come from the exploited people of Iran, who must be the architects of their own destiny, and we have the duty to support the socialist anti-capitalist forces struggling against the regime at the same time as against imperialist aggression. 

We salute the anti-imperialist demonstrations in Iran defying the bombings, the mass demonstrations in the city of Gaza against the criminal and racist death penalty law targeting Palestinians, the resistance against the ground occupation in Lebanon, and the protests taking place across the globe against the ongoing aggression—including the new, massive Global Sumud Flotilla heading to challenge the genocidal blockade still imposed on the Palestinian people. We salute the struggles of the working class against reactionary reforms, from Greece to India, to Argentina, to Portugal. We salute the strikes for wages and living conditions, from the miners in South Africa, to the strikes for fuel prices in Bolivia and Ecuador. The imperialist drive for war promotes chauvinism and bourgeois nationalism everywhere, to which we oppose militant working-class internationalism. The revolutionary character of this internationalism is expressed by being at the forefront of the struggle against the attacks of imperialism against oppressed nations. 

The stance of China and Russia has been one of undisguised duplicity in the face of a new attack on a country with which they are declared partners in the BRICS project. They have even allowed the UN Security Council to pass a resolution condemning the attacks Iran launched against US bases in neighboring Arab countries in response to the extremely severe attacks it suffered. Previously, China and Russia endorsed Washington’s false, neo-colonialist peace plan for Gaza in that same forum. There is neither anti-imperialism nor a quest for improvement for the “Global South” here, but rather capitalist-imperialist depredation and a struggle for spheres of influence.

European governments are navigating their crisis with the US by attempting to improvise their own imperialist pole after decades of integration to it. Their clashes stem from deploying their military resources—which they are bolstering with rearmament budgets and preparing the ground for conscription—where they can advance their own interests and continue their plans for EU expansion into Eastern Europe, plans now called into question by the war in Ukraine, having become completely bogged down after more than four years. They are not guided by “humanism,” but by the quest to satisfy their own imperialist appetites.

In Latin America, the struggle against Zionist and imperialist aggression is inextricably linked to the struggle against Trump’s agents and accomplices on the continent. We denounce the governments that act in concert with the Republican tycoon, such as Milei in Argentina. We denounce the governments that pose as progressives, such as Scheinbaum in Mexico or Lula in Brazil, who have adapted to U.S. pressure and participate in the blockade that Washington is stoking against Cuba, which aims to provoke an implosion on the island to facilitate a U.S. takeover of it. We demand that both governments reject this ultimatum and supply the oil and humanitarian aid that Cuba desperately needs. 

The war, which is spreading, is an expression of the historical exhaustion and decay of the current capitalist social order. One of its manifestations, given its status as the world’s leading power, is the decline of the United States, which is one of the main engines fueling the trends toward a world war. The current ceasefire is violated permanently by the US and Israel. They have been forced to take a step back, but the US’s need to advance militarily against its enemies or confess its decline is very strong.

The crisis of overproduction and the fall in capitalist profit margins lie behind the drive toward war and the destabilization of the existing imperialist order. All capitalist governments, whether liberal or “progressive” or “socialist”, aim to reignite their rivalry on the basis of heightened levels of exploitation and austerity, while seeking to advance repression and social discipline that will allow them to deploy their workers as soldiers in the coming clashes. The war in Iran itself, far from solving the capitalist crisis, has aggravated it, with oil prices impacting living conditions all over the globe and increasing the prognosis of a profound economic depression.

The struggle against the threat and advance of fascist and far-right formations will not come from the formation of “Popular Fronts” of class conciliation, but from the independent organization and mobilization of the working and exploited masses, from a united front of action against imperialist war. This independent struggle is joined inextricably with the task of throwing the trade-union bureaucracy out of the labor movement and recovering unions as tools of the class struggle. The truce of the AFL-CIO with Trump, during acts of mass struggle where thousands discuss the need of a general strike, is an example of the global tendency of integration of these bureaucracies into the state and betraying the interests of their class. There has been an upsurge in working class actions against the war machine, blocking production and distribution of weapons and opposing the functioning of US and NATO bases. We demand the shutdown of the 800 military bases the US operates in 80 countries for its imperialist war machine!

It is urgent to build a proletarian international and internationalist front against all capitalist states and all capitalist blocs. While forces claiming to be of the left vote for their bourgeoisies’ military budgets, we internationalists have the obligation to raise a class banner, to fight for our living conditions, and to confront the spreading imperialist offensives and steadily oppose rearmament and capitalist wars. 

We propose holding a new internationalist conference against imperialist war in July in Athens, to raise a banner of working-class defiance against militarist barbarism and exploitation. For an international workers’ front to rise up against imperialist war. Let us promote the formation of workers’ parties and a revolutionary international.

Hands off Iran!
Israel and the Zionists out of the Middle East!
For the defeat of the U.S.-Israeli genocidal coalition!
Stop the bombing of Lebanon immediately! Israeli troops out of Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank!
End the criminal blockade of Cuba and Gaza!
For the revolutionary unity of the peoples of the Middle East, free from capitalist and imperialist domination!
For an international and internationalist class front against capitalist governments and the wars of capital!
Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

First signatures:

KA – Communist Liberation (Greece)
PO – Workers Party (Argentina)
SEP – Socialist Laborers Party (Turkey)
SWP – Socialist Workers Party (Great Britain)
TIR – Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency (Italy)
Fuerza 18 de Octubre (Chile)
GAR – Grupo Acción Revolucionaria (Mexico)
UFCLP- United Front Committee for a Labor Party (US)
WCP-H – Workers Communist Party of Iran- Hekmatist (Iran) 

RESOLUTIONS 

Resolution on the new Global Sumud Flotilla 

We salute the Global Sumud Flotilla initiative to organize a new international fleet to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, delivering humanitarian aid and a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against genocide and occupation.
As internationalist, revolutionary, anti-capitalist organizations and movements across the world, we join our voices with the millions of people mobilizing in solidarity with Palestine. Thanks in part to the last  Global Sumud Flotilla, the pro-Palestine movement in some countries has grown, reaching a significant leap in both quality and scale.  General strikes in Italy, Greece, and Spain, blockades in ports and railways especially in Italy, massive street demonstrations, student mobilizations against the warlike research in universities, and protests in Greek resorts against IDF members,  illustrate the massiveness that this cause has attracted.  
We refuse to remain silent in the face of war, occupation, and genocide imposed by the Israeli state. We condemn the hypocrisy of Western governments that proclaim humanitarian values while continuing to arm and finance genocide and occupation. The US,  NATO, and the EU bear direct responsibility for every Palestinian life lost.
Together with the international solidarity movement, we must escalate our struggle through strikes, occupations, and collective action in workplaces and educational institutions. We demand an immediate end to all military and economic cooperation between the governments and the Israeli state. The money spent on war preparation and co-operation with the occupation army makes the governments partners in these crimes. Public resources must be directed toward schools, hospitals, and social needs — not toward armaments and war.

Break the siege of Gaza now.
The struggle continues until liberation
Immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Zionist army from Gaza and of settlers from the West Bank!
Let’s block the supply of weapons and goods to Israel; let’s boycott Israeli businesses! Break all relations with the Zionist State!
Free Palestine from the river to the sea!
For the revolutionary unity of the peoples of the Middle East, free from capitalist and imperialist domination!

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Resolution on the continuing occupation of the Fate factory in Buenos Aires

No to the closure of FATE Argentina! For the reinstatement of the 920 dismissed workers.

The 920 workers at the FATE tire factory in Argentina, owned by the national capital group Madanes Quintanilla, are resisting by remaining on the premises where the illegal and fraudulent decision by management to close the iconic 86-year-old industrial factory is being implemented. 
FATE is one of the country's major industrial plants to close in the context of the industrial crisis caused by the ultra-liberal, pro-imperialist, and anti-worker economic policies of Javier Milei's government, which has already led to the closure of 22,000 companies.
The workers and the Sutna, their class-struggle-oriented and combative union, denounce that the FATE warehouses have all the supplies needed to start production immediately. During the summer holidays (January to March), the technical shutdown and maintenance of the machinery was carried out. For the reasons stated, the closure of the plant is an act of employer abuse.
Sutna is engaged in a plan of action, remaining at the factory and demanding the reopening of the plant, the resumption of its production activity, and the reinstatement of all workers.
For all these reasons, we declare our solidarity with the struggle of the FATE workers and call on workers around the world to show their solidarity with their just struggle.

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No to the US blockade of Cuba

Trump has set his sights on Cuba as part of his broader offensive to consolidate the White House’s dominance over Latin America. It is an attempt to break the Cuban people through economic suffocation. The measure is triggering a humanitarian crisis, with daily mass power cuts and a lack of access to energy and transport.
Regional governments, both right-wing and centre-left, such as Lula’s in Brazil or Sheinbaum’s in Mexico, have been complicit in this situation, bowing to the US fuel blockade and extortion.
The offensive against Cuba, Venezuela and the whole of Latin America must be confronted through the mobilisation of the workers and peoples of the region.
Down with imperialism. Down with the blockade against Cuba. For the socialist unity of Latin America.

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Acquittal for Vanina Biasi. No to the persecution of those who denounce the genocide in Gaza

Through a legal fraud and political persecution driven by Zionism, accompanied by a smear campaign in the media subservient to those in power, the Argentine state is persecuting and seeking to condemn Vanina Biasi’s criticism of the genocide of the Palestinian people committed by the State of Israel, classifying it as the discriminatory crime of anti-Semitism.

A few days ago, the Argentine Supreme Court dismissed an appeal lodged by Vanina Biasi in the case, at a time when Argentine President Milei is preparing to travel to Tel Aviv in a show of support for the imperialist war against Iran, the bombings of Lebanon and the genocide in Gaza.

The persecution of the Workers’ Party leader and Buenos Aires City Assembly member for the Left Front seeks to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. For stating on Twitter that “the Zionist state is Nazi in its practices and ideology”, or that “Zionism is genocide, Zionism is apartheid”, Judge Daniel Rafecas charged her with “inciting persecution or hatred against the Jewish community”. 

Vanina submitted a list of 50 witnesses comprising nationally and internationally renowned figures, including historians, journalists, human rights lawyers, and leading figures in the struggle against genocide, many of them, of course, from the Jewish community. An international anti-repression forum, held in April 2025, as well as numerous international and national deliberative bodies, spoke out in support of Vanina Biasi. We call on all workers across the world to raise their voices and unite their struggle with that of those who denounce and combat genocide worldwide.

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Resolutions regarding Turkey and Azerbaijan

• End the repression of socialists, environmental activists, militant trade unionists, and opposition journalists in Turkey! Freedom for all political prisoners!
• We support the struggle of teachers who responded with a strike against the two consecutive mass murders in schools, defending education and the safety of children in Turkey!
• We condemn the fabricated judicial file created to criminalize the Socialist Laborers’ Party (SEP) in Turkey. End the repression!
• Immediate freedom for all dissidents in Azerbaijan, especially Ahmad Mammadli and Afiaddin Mammadov, who were sentenced to brutal prison terms by the Aliyev regime for their trade unionism and journalism!