Joint Statement on the Occasion of International Peace Day

Kathmandu 23 September : Resist US Military Bases! Fight for Land, Liberation, Sovereignty, and Just Peace! US Out of Everywhere!
On the so-called “International Peace Day” 2025 proclaimed by the US-dominated United Nations, the below-signed organizations condemn the imperialist drive for war, alive today as ever before, while international institutions attempt to pacify our militant calls for land, liberation, sovereignty, and a peace that is both just and lasting. On International Peace Day 2025, we recommit ourselves to the militant struggle of the people, the only force that will actually bring about genuine peace in the world.
The US commands a sprawling global military infrastructure. Its major strategic theaters pit forces against rivals in Asia and the Pacific, West Asia and Eastern Europe, but its reach simultaneously fuels proxy conflicts and US counter-insurgency and regime change efforts across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. A new northern front is emerging as bases break ground in the Arctic’s stark wilderness. Moreover, the mobile might of US aircraft carriers and submarines transforms entire oceans into operational zones, while terrestrial airbases, now sporting rocket launchpads, extend this militarization into the final frontier: space.
US military bases function as logistical hubs to prepare for and wage wars of aggression that kill, injure, and displace millions, destroying infrastructure and environments that subjugate nations to poverty and misery, all to secure US control over land and resources. Hosting these bases draws countries directly into US-provoked conflicts and subjects them to constant surveillance and imperialist pressure. American soldiers stationed overseas have committed violent abuses, including extrajudicial killings and rape, while the bases cause environmental devastation and disrupt civilian life. The accumulation of toxic waste from these bases makes it impossible for surrounding communities to sustain their means of living amidst ongoing military drills, buildup, violence and crime. These harms persist with impunity, as unjust agreements with puppet regimes shield US personnel from accountability and deny victims justice.
Seven hundred days have passed since the Zionist entity unleashed its genocidal war upon the Gaza Strip. This war, unprecedented in its length and brutality in modern times, is waged by what effectively functions as a vast US military base: the zionist entity of “israel” itself. This satellite serves as an instrument in a strategy of constant regional warfare, building towards a broader confrontation with Iran. The US, through its extensive network of proxy institution, has provided comprehensive and unwavering political, military and financial support, critically reinforced by international diplomatic power. This persistent backing has empowered the occupation to pursue its objectives and continue its crimes with impunity: the forced displacement of populations, systematic ethnic cleansing, and the deliberate obliteration of the foundations of life within the Strip.
Since its declared pivot to Asia in 2012 the US has increased its military footprint in the region and taken every move to paint the economic, diplomatic and military rise of China as “aggressive”, engendering a new Cold War mentality and preparing public support for a future war. This move was accompanied by and justified the building of new military bases, expansion of existent ones and de facto controlling other nations bases through so-called “cooperation agreements.” These US military outposts have been used to support war games and military exercises that terrorize local communities, destroy the environment, increase violence against local and native women, create a strain on natural resources and aim to provoke the US’s most powerful rival into what would be the most destructive war in human history.
The US is currently staging provocative military maneuvers off the coast of Venezuela, even executing over a dozen civilians in cold-blooded murder via drone strike, claiming with no evidence that they were drug smugglers and so-called “terrorists”, a strategy still used since the birth of the Bush-era “War on Terror” doctrine. To prepare for its potential invasion of Venezuela, the US uses its military bases in Puerto Rico to stage its troops, despite mass protests from the Puerto Rican people against the use of their land for US military strategy, and despite the Venezuelan people’s brave resolve to resist a US invasion by any means necessary.
US bases are not invincible, despite the coercive power that these bases project, communities are organizing and taking direct action to resist and expel these outposts of US imperialism. People’s resistance to US military bases today follows decades of rage against these symbols of occupation and centuries of unbowed resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism that US imperialism tries desperately to maintain. Women play a key role in leading their people in militant struggle against the extrajudicial killings, kidnapping, and horrors of sexual slavery that foreign troops bring to to their communities. Indigenous people fight across generations for their national patrimony and to eject the foreign occupiers from their lands and safeguard the environment. Workers, peasants, fisherfolk, and all toiling people unite to reclaim their lands and livelihood from the economic, political, and environmental devastation that imperialist militarization thrusts on their communities. The people of the world are united in their rage and just struggle against the use of their nations as staging grounds for imperilaist war!
A sustained, multifaceted struggle, ranging from legal advocacy to militant confrontation, is essential to defeat the expansion of aggressive military bases. People fight not just to limit militarization, but because united, they can shut bases down. Mass movements have blocked new bases in Korea and Japan and expelled US forces from Subic Bay and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, the US Navy in Vieques and Culebra (Puerto Rico), Ecuador’s refusal to renew a US lease, and the recent removal of French and US bases from Senegal, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. The Axis of Resistance has struck US and Zionist bases, proving these installations are vulnerable with popular support. Ending US imperialism and its fascist allies is crucial to stopping military base violence permanently, and each victory strengthens the movement toward liberating nations from US-led war and imperialism.