Donald Trump and Israel launched a murderous illegitimate and illegal war on the sovereign country of Iran with the aim of regime change. First and foremost, humanity cannot afford to have this man’s finger on the nuclear trigger for another day. Trump Must Go Now ! This war is not only illegitimate because they are targeting children, it’s not only illegitimate because they don’t have the approval of Congress or the people. The war is illegitimate because it is the supreme war crime - a war of aggression. And this risks escalation to all-out nuclear war with the potential to spell game-over for humanity.
The invasion is not about liberation of the Iranian people as Trump claims - fascists cannot be liberators. This US-led war on 93 million people is not a distraction or a ploy, nor a foreign agenda. The war is integral to the regime’s global fascist vision. No more talk of democracy or rule of law. Only overwhelming American violence.
AND this war will give Trump a pretext to step up repression within the U.S. to consolidate fascist rule.
At what point do you face the reality that this regime is on the offensive and will not allow itself to be stopped or deterred by what you have been taught are the “normal channels”?
The Democratic Party can’t fight this gangster fascism in the way it needs to be fought and they can’t be relied on to oppose this war in any meaningful way. While they might object on procedural grounds, both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have pointedly refused to oppose war on Iran, even with ample opportunities.
At what point do you face the reality that the Democratic Party cares more about preserving this system than it does about preventing and getting rid of fascism and everything that goes with that fascism? We should count on them to oppose a war with Iran as effectively as they opposed the invasion of Iraq and the years of horrors that followed. That is to say, not at all.
The Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi made a profound statement years ago. “The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”
This is even truer now. Our people are the people of the world. Our interests are the interests of humanity. What your government wants you to do for their interests, you must refuse to do.
Only WE can stop this, the millions of us who have a heart and conscience but who are being cajoled into normalizing a fascist nightmare.
Trump Must Go Now! Stop the War on Iran!
Flood the streets with these inextricably linked demands louder and clearer every day until they have been won.
- Sam Goldman, Host of the Refuse Fascism Podcast
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