Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is currently in the Arabian Sea poised to attack Iran. Photo: U.S. Navy, November 19, 2019
As a crucial part of fighting for a whole different and far better world, people must prepare now to act against the outrage of Trump’s fascist, imperialist threats against Iran and against any war that the U.S. and/or Israel launch.
People must also reject, and refuse to confine themselves to, the “leadership” and boundaries of the imperialist Democratic Party and its playbook of raising petty objections to how Trump is proceeding and offering a few lame resolutions, while doing nothing to build serious, mass resistance and struggle against the towering crimes now looming over the Iranian people, the Middle East, potentially even the world.
Support the Just Struggle of the Iranian People!
In the spirit of internationalism, people must also learn about and carry out support for those forces and voices within Iran who both oppose the regime and also oppose U.S. aggression. These include the Communist Party of Iran, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (CPI-MLM), and Osyan.
As the CPI-MLM wrote in a January 2026 editorial in its journal, Atash/Fire:
The revolutionary overthrow of the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran] is urgently needed: But we will not allow Trump, the fascist president of the United States, to determine our fate and to exploit our struggles against the IRI for his unbridled imperialism, leaving our society trapped in the web of imperialist relations that is at the root of our current misery.