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Mexico City protest against genocide in Palestine, May 28, 2024.
From Palestine to Iran, from Venezuela to Cuba, in Mexico and elsewhere, U.S. imperialism has mounted an inhumane onslaught of aggressions, war crimes, and gangster threats. Now spearheaded by the fascist Trump regime, it even boasts of its crimes against humanity—threatening, in the case of Iran, that “an entire civilization will die” if they do not submit. In the face of this desperate, criminal onslaught, it is urgent to intensify the people’s anti-imperialist and revolutionary struggle.
The Israeli-U.S. genocide in Palestine continues, despite a supposed peace agreement that Israel violates daily. They have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children. Now Israel has invaded and occupied southern Lebanon, murdering many and displacing 1.2 million people—one-fifth of the Lebanese population. The illegal, unprovoked war against Iran—launched amidst supposed negotiations by the U.S. and Israel—began with a double-impact U.S. airstrike against a school, murdering 168 girls, and continues to claim thousands more lives. Trump boasts of controlling Venezuela’s oil following an illegal and immoral military attack in which President Maduro and his wife were kidnapped, and some one hundred people were murdered. They seek to strangle Cuba by imposing a blockade on oil imports, which is causing immense suffering and unnecessary deaths among the population due to a lack of medical care.
All of this is not the product of “Trump’s madness,” but rather an international offensive by his fascist government aimed at reversing the decline of the U.S. empire in the face of its rivals: the imperialists of China and Russia. This contention is driving the world toward the precipice of a third, nuclear world war—a war that would result in the end of civilization as we know it, and quite possibly the end of humanity and other species. These and other events demonstrate that the capitalist-imperialist system is running up against its limits. Both the necessity and the possibility of revolutions—to create another radically different and far better system—are increasing.
We must expose and fight against all these horrendous imperialist aggressions and crimes, by forging the firmest internationalist unity among people worldwide. We must not fall prey to the false illusion that Chinese or Russian imperialists represent a better alternative—all of them represent the deadly global capitalist-imperialist system, and all of them seek to expand their empires of exploitation and oppression. The Iranian Islamic fundamentalist regime is also a reactionary force. We must stand firmly united with the struggle of the people of Iran—and, above all, with the revolutionary struggle of the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)—against imperialism, as well as against the reactionary Islamic fundamentalist government that murdered tens of thousands of Iranians shortly before the current imperialist aggression.
In the United States, a fascist regime has been imposed which is racist and fundamentalist, women-hating, transgender people-hating, migrant-hating, and anti-science. It seeks to prosecute those who oppose its fascism as “domestic terrorists.” La Migra (ICE and CBP) has murdered at least nine migrants and citizens on the streets, some 70,000 people are currently incarcerated, and 43 individuals have died in their concentration camps. We must stand firmly united with the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle of the people in the United States—and, above all, with the “RevComs” and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA—who are fighting to drive out the fascist Trump regime now!, as well as for a real revolution within the belly of the beast.
We must not fall prey to the false illusion that the Democratic Party—which has also armed and backed the genocide in Palestine—represents any real alternative. For its part, the Mexican government has sent “diplomatic notes” and now promises legal action regarding the deaths of migrants in the U.S. However, it refuses to unequivocally denounce these crimes, and Mexican president Sheinbaum has stated regarding migration that “We cannot intervene in the politics of the United States” (La Jornada, June 9, 2025). The inhumane hunting down of migrants and others constitutes crimes against humanity and is by no means a matter of U.S. domestic policy—just as the genocide of the Jews by Hitler’s forces was not a matter of Germany’s domestic policy.
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy asserts that “the United States must occupy a preeminent position in the Western Hemisphere” and combat “foreign influence.” This is a strategy aimed at imposing—through bloodshed and force—an even more ironclad domination over the Americas, as part of its contention, particularly with Chinese imperialism. This strategy materialized in the “Shield of the Americas” initiative, in which 12 Latin American governments aligned with U.S. fascism accept the training and mobilization of their military forces by the United States, as well as combating Chinese influence in the region. The U.S. seeks to dominate and control Latin American governments and militaries much more directly, by imposing fascist or subservient regimes. They hide behind a supposed “war on drugs,” yet, if this was for real, Trump would not have pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced in New York to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking.
U.S. imperialist interference is also intensifying in Mexico, driven by the same lie of a supposed war on drugs. Trump has issued repeated threats of military intervention, labeling the country an “epicenter of cartel violence.” In reality, the UN and other sources estimate that between 85 and 90 percent of drug trafficking profits remain within the United States, where they are laundered through the U.S. financial system. Only a small fraction—between 10 and 15 percent—flows back to the cartels in Mexico or Colombia. Drug trafficking is an integral part of the current capitalist-imperialist system and can only be eradicated by overthrowing this system.
U.S. espionage and harassment have intensified: There have been increasing reports of U.S. spy aircraft overflying Mexican territory—including flights not authorized by the Mexican government—according to U.S. officials themselves. There are also several documented instances of Mexican fishermen being harassed by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. The CIA, DEA, FBI, and ten other U.S. agencies currently operate within Mexico, according to reports from the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.
The United States trains the Mexican armed forces: It is estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 Mexican military personnel receive training from the U.S. annually, and, in March, President Sheinbaum requested that 36 U.S. military personnel—armed and arriving aboard their own C-130 Hercules aircraft—be permitted to enter Mexico for training and preparations related to the upcoming World Cup.
Under the threat of increased tariffs, Trump succeeded in compelling Mexico to further intensify its criminal treatment of migrants: In the face of these threats, the Mexican government deployed some 10,000 troops to the northern border to harass migrants. By doing the dirty work of the U.S. immigration authorities—under the administration of Sheinbaum—the Mexican Army has massacred six migrants in Chiapas and two others in Chihuahua, while the National Guard has murdered two more in Veracruz. Others have died in migrant detention centers in Mexico City and Nogales; furthermore, migrants have been repressed, beaten, robbed, and deported throughout Mexico.
Confronted with the intensified interference by the fascist regime, Sheinbaum asserts: “We collaborate... but we will never subordinate ourselves to the U.S.” However, by collaborating, the Mexican government is, in reality, being forced to accept ever-greater subordination in fact. For instance, they contradict themselves in their lies intended to cover up U.S. espionage: While Sheinbaum claims that “there is nothing illegal” about this—given that the surveillance overflights are conducted at Mexico’s request (La Jornada, February 19, 2025)—General Trevilla, the Secretary of National Defense, maintains that “There have been no overflights by foreign aircraft” (La Jornada, January 11, 2026). Harfuch, the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, lies brazenly when asserting that no U.S. agency operates within the country.
To appease the power to the North [the U.S.]—and to serve their own ends—they have become accomplices to genocide and other crimes: The Mexican government has utilized espionage technology from Israel and has refused to sever ties with that genocidal regime. Nor has it condemned the aggression by the U.S. and Israel against Iran, opting instead merely to advocate for a diplomatic solution. To make matters worse, in March, a delegation from the Mexican government paid an official courtesy visit to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz—a vessel that has been involved in the barbaric and illegal killings of at least 163 people aboard small boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, including at least eight Mexicans.
It has been argued that the Mexican government has no choice but to collaborate with the fascist Trump regime, given the Mexican economy’s heavy dependence on the United States. This is true: There is no other choice if you accept the domination of Mexico by imperialism and the big Mexican capitalists allied with this imperialism. For this reason, we do not accept either this domination or the current criminal capitalist system, and we fight for a real revolution that overthrows the existing order and establishes a socialist, independent, and internationalist Mexico.
As Bob Avakian—the architect of the New Communism—points out: We, the people of the world, can no longer afford to allow these imperialists to continue to dominate the world and determine the destiny of humanity. They need to be overthrown as quickly as possible. And it is a scientific fact that we do not have to live this way.
To learn more about—and to participate in—the anti-imperialist and revolutionary struggle that is so urgently needed, get in touch with us, and let’s fight together.
Aurora Roja
Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Organization, México