Defend Iran against Imperialist War

Defeat Trump & Netanyahu’s Fascist War Drive

March Stop the War Against Iran, London 7 March 2026

– Build a Workers’ Boycott of Arms     Trading with the USA & Israel

– End the UK government’s cooperation with Trump’s War against Iran

– All British Armed Forces out of the Middle East & Mediterranean

The Iranian People have the right to determine their Future  Military Conquest is Not Liberation!

09.03.2026

The horrific war that Trump and Netanyahu have launched against Iran is a further escalation of the instability & conflicts that imperialist domination and exploitation have inflicted on the people of the Middle East, for over a century. More significantly, however, it is the clearest sign yet of the growth of 21^st century fascism on a world scale, and of the threat of total war. That is clearly and dangerously expressed in the actions of the current US and Israeli regimes, in their own countries and internationally.

The decision to go to war against Iran was determined by history. It has by far the largest land area and the largest population of the Middle East’s big oil producing countries. It is the oldest state in the region, with thousands of years of history, the imperialist powers have tried to carve it up and repeatedly intervened in its politics, and the outcome of its 1979 revolution was a defeat for western imperialism.

Iran and Imperialism

In the 1920s the British imperialists created and imposed the rule of the brutally repressive Pahlavi dynasty, deposing the previous royal dynasty. When an elected government in the early 1950s nationalized Iran’s oil industry, Britain and the US organised a coup and reinstated the second Pahlavi Shah.

Under the last Shah’s notoriously brutal rule, Iran was second only to Israel as the western imperialists’ ally & agent in the Middle East. Following his overthrow by the popular revolution in1979 the religious leaders (Ayatollahs) who the Shah had exiled, returned to Iran and used their authority to establish a theocratic state which became increasingly repressive.

Over the last 40 years, Iran has come under increasing pressure and sanctions from the US and its allies, and this has caused greater poverty among the Iranian people. In response, the regime has increased its authoritarian control and turned to Russia and China for support. The regime’s authoritarianism has been challenged by outbreaks of resistance that have shaken its authority but have been repressed by its considerable military power.

The western imperialist pressures on Iran are now more likely to preserve its authoritarian, theocratic regime than remove it. The great mass of the Iranian people knows better than to trust the imperialists false promises, and they have demonstrated that they have no intention of turning their country over to the western imperialists.

Why the US has gone to war

There are no rational reasons for this war at this time. It is deeply unpopular in America, even among Trump’s own supporters. The regional power of Iran has suffered a sharp decline, with the setbacks to Hezbollah & Hamas, and the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria. Iran poses no threat to the US.

This is Trump’s fascist war, and that is all it is. This fascist president’s only purpose in going to war against Iran at this time is to demonstrate to the world his unrestrained power of inhuman, fascistic destruction, to demonstrate – not  only to enemies but to unhappy former supporters – that their views are of no account, he is King of Kings.

And it worked quickly with the governments of western Europe. Keir Starmer led the pack, but one by one they dropped their initial ‘disapproval’ of the war on Iran and were converted to ‘co-operation.’ Only Spain has stood firm. Trump had taken a risk, confident that it would work, just as he was confident that China and Russia would not go to war for the sake of Iran. But that does not mean that he is secure; he is actually very vulnerable.

For the poor & oppressed of the Middle East and the whole world the most positive resolution of this war is the military defeat of the US and Israel.

Workers’ Action can Stop the War: Blockade all support & supplies for War against Iran

The movement in Britain that has marched for Palestine is still marching. Those who have built the mass anti-war movement of resistance to Starmer’s warmongering, defended Palestine Action, mobilised against fascists, and filled countless courtrooms are now on the streets demanding an immediate end to the US/Israeli war against Iran. Every time we march for Palestine we must be marching for Iran – One struggle! One fight!

All those progressive & anti-war forces in Britain, especially in the trade unions, must now organise blockades to undermine and disrupt the US/Israeli attack on Iran. We should act in the spirit of the dockworkers in European and Mediterranean ports who have blockaded arms shipments to Israel, but we must act more widely and creatively to stop, disrupt, or undermine the transport and delivery of any form of armaments, goods, services, and communications that could assist the attacks on Iran.

We must demand that our trade union leaders organise this campaign of action, or at least support and defend it, but we cannot wait for them or rely on them. The need for this action is urgent, so we have to organise rank-and-file action groups in our workplaces, whatever and wherever they are.

The Fight  Against Fascism

This fight is not simply a campaign against a war; nor is it just a fight against imperialist wars. It is a fight against fascism. We live at a time when the capitalist system is caught in a political and economic dead-end, when nothing seems to work, even while all the sciences are zooming ahead. Inequality has reached the greatest ever extremes in human history. For the first time fascism has taken power or is advancing rapidly in all the old imperialist countries at the same time.

That is the situation in Britain, in the US, France, Germany, Italy etc.

If we in Britain, as workers, refugees & immigrants, black, Asian & Muslim people, poor & oppressed people can build significant action against the US attack on Iran, we will have weakened our own racist, anti-working class government, and struck a major blow against Trump’s fascist programme in the US, and against fascism in this country and across Europe. That must be our aim.

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Drop All the Charges Now

Stop the Labour Party’s Police-State Terrorism

Stop the Government’s Imperialist War-Drive

!! ORGANISE A FREE THE PRISONERS FOR PALESTINE
DEMO AT THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY !!

31/12/2025

Movement For Justice sends its greetings to the Filton 24, their friends, families & supporters. We have a duty to mobilise our movement to free them. The Government has shown it has no concern for human life: it supports the genocide in Gaza & the West bank; it plans to cancelling immigrants’ right to stay & work, and moves Cross Channel refugees to concentration camps; it attacks LGBT Trans rights, and poor, disabled and working people – and the cost of living crisis that means the rich get richer. These policies are making more enemies for the Government.

The government’s resort to authoritarian measures to proscribe Palestine Action & attack our right to protest is a response to the power of our movement – not a sign of their strength. We have the responsibility to ensure that our heroic sisters & brothers in prison & on hunger strike don’t have to sacrifice their precious lives.

Our movement remains strong and is growing – but it needs a call to action. We must make that call to mobilise a national demonstration in London within the next few weeks. We know that the movements will answer our call in thousands. Our power is in the streets.

The Movement for Justice (MFJ) calls for nothing less than the Victory for the Palestinian Struggle and the defeat of our own imperialist rulers, whether Labour, Tory, or Fascist. We support the struggles and recognise the heroism of everyone in the broad pro Palestine movement who comes under attack from the government, police, employers, educators etc.

We address this statement especially to the young activists who are the most
determined, radical & integrated part of our movement.

This broad mass movement fighting for a free Palestine has opposed inhuman
barbarism, genocide, and the imperialist war drive for more than two years. The
movement has extended its reach and won broad support, which has encouraged other progressive struggles. This movement is opposing the central political and military policies of Tory and Labour governments and most of the rich and powerful ruling class -‘our own’ imperialists.

In many ways, the hopes & character of this movement anticipate the new Britain that MFJ is fighting for, not a day dream, but the only road to progress: a country with open borders; a society integrated on the basis of equality & equal rights for everyone living, working, studying or born here; an economy that serves the needs of everyone and doesn’t exploit anyone, at home or abroad.

Our enemies, who think they must continue to hold power over us, can only imagine a future of exploitation and war. Their policy is to keep close to the US government, however irrational its politics, and to always support Israel as NATO’s most important base for controlling the Middle East. That means Israel’s role must always be to try to control and remove the Palestinians in the territories it controls. That has always been a recipe for wars, ‘ethnic cleansing’ and genocide – policies that Netanyahu’s fascists are still continuing today and which the western powers do nothing to stop.

There is no real division between the government’s policy in Britain and its policy in the Middle East. They are both about maintaining the power and wealth of Britain’s imperialist ruling class. That is their aim and the aims of all the imperialists and the super-rich, including their allies in Europe & North America and their rivals in China & Russia. Those aims are truly unrealistic, but the attempts to implement them are destroying all our futures.

The sensibilities of the younger people who are the backbone of our mass movements, the people in their teens, twenties and thirties, have been shaped and sharpened by ‘forever’ wars, the disasters of Brexit and Covid, the destruction of their right to a free & broad education, etc. You are fighting for your futures by any means necessary. You are the activists who the rich and powerful fear most of all, and that our movement needs the most – as leaders.

Join Movement For Justice, we are an organisation of leaders like yourself. We have a tried and tested method and programme that fights to win. We know we have to be in a collective leadership organisation in order to grow and learn.

Our whole movement must make – and we must demand – a specific campaign to set our Prisoners for Palestine free – a campaign that goes beyond legal challenges and starts with a mass demonstration in the first weeks of January 2026.

The Integrated Mass Action of our Communities & Youth Will Defeat Fascism & anti-Muslim, anti-Refugee Racism

WE ARE HERE TO STAY & HERE TO FIGHT

OUR POWER IS ON THE STREETS

VICTORY TO THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE

– No Platform for Fascists! Their aim is to mobilise racist terror against Muslims, immigrants, refugees and black & Asian communities

– Organise Anti-Fascist Worker/Community Defense on our Streets, in our Communities and Workplaces

– Defend our Free Speech on Genocide: Collective non-cooperation with the ‘Anti-Terrorism’ laws and the anti-Muslim Prevent policy

– Demand Community Accommodation for Asylum Seekers Now: No more Hotels, Barracks & Concentration Camps – Fight for a mass programme of Affordable Public Housing for ALL those who need it

– BUILD MASS ACTION TO STOP DEPORTATIONS

25/10/2025

Why the 25^th October fascist march was really banned

The police did not ban the planned 25^th October fascist demonstration in Tower Hamlets because they were so concerned about the safety of the Muslim population and supporters of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. The police rarely ban fascist marches, and they are the enforcers of government repression against the pro-Palestine movement, which includes the great majority of the Muslim community.

The police issued the ban early in the past week because they realised that the fascists (and the police themselves) would meet overwhelming resistance from the Bangladeshi, Somali, Muslim youth of Tower Hamlets, who would be supported by their communities and the East End generally.

The planned march had been heavily promoted as an event of significant national importance by Nick Tenconi, the leader of the Turning Point UK fascist organisation (operating under the guise of UKIP). It was designed to take advantage of the increasing level of fascist violence nationally, and the crisis in the whole political system – and to raise Tenconi’s profile. He called this a “Holy War.”

Well before the appointed day, East London had successfully denied the fascists the opportunity for their ‘Holy victory.’ That was a victory for the power of the Tower Hamlets’ community and youth – but it was a limited, ambiguous victory. By banning the fascist from marching in Tower Hamlets and transferring their march to west central London, the police saw to it that Tenconi and his fascist supporters avoided the real, humiliating defeat they would have suffered on the streets of Tower Hamlets.

Our mass movements must recognise that fascism has to be defeated in action – and that our power is on the streets & in our communities. Fascists can’t be ‘educated’ out of their fascism, because fascism is not rational. It is based on lies, prejudices and violence. Fighting fascism is a matter of elementary, collective self-defense.

The leading role of youth in fighting fascism

Under attack, we fight back! Whenever racist, fascist thugs have tried to invade Tower Hamlets and terrorise Bangladeshi, Somali, Muslim people the community has fought back, and every time the youth have taken the lead. As a result, there has not been a significant attempt to hold a fascist demonstration in Tower Hamlets for a good many years – not since they were driven out by the militant mass action of youth and community members (Sept 2011).

Youth from Tower Hamlets and across East London have continued the struggle against racism, fascism and police violence. They were the most militant part of the huge, integrated crowd that defeated fascist plans to attack an asylum advice centre in Walthamstow in August 2024.

When the police brutally attacked, beat & arrested pro-Palestine activist Waheed Yousaf in Whitechapel last year, community members videoed and circulated the incident and within a few hours a huge crowd of Bangladeshi youth was at Bethnal Green police station. They stayed there until Yousaf was released in the early hours of the next morning.

The fascists & racists will be back, in one way or another, and the youth will be on the front line of resistance. The whole community must support and co-operate with the youth.

Fascism is on the rise – it can and must be defeated

Fascism is increasing around the world because the economic system is breaking down: economic growth is in decline everywhere, poverty is growing everywhere, and extreme wealth  is concentrated in the hands of a small number of super-rich people and giant corporations – the Elon Musks of the world. We are experiencing the results of this situation with the growing housing and cost-of-living crisis in Britain.

The super-wealthy rulers of  the world’s most powerful countries are turning to fascism as the way to divide and crush the poor & oppressed people who they exploit in their own countries, to take away all their rights & freedom, drive them into deeper poverty – and then prepare them for a war with rival imperialist countries.   

The pro-Israel fascist who calls himself Tommy Robinson boasts that Elon Musk is paying his court costs. That is not surprising. There are super-rich people funding all the fascist groups who are whipping up divisions and attacking Muslims, Sikhs, black people, refugees, immigrants, LGBT- targeting Trans people.

Palestine v Fascism

Israel is a fascist state based on ethnic cleansing, genocide, the mob violence of West Bank settlers, a brain-washing education system, and huge backing from western imperialist rulers. Every government in Europe and North America that is arming Israel and facilitating the genocide, is facing an active mass movement on the streets of its own cities and towns. When those governments try to repress the movements, the movements have become more defiant, bold and determined.

Dock workers in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Indonesia and most of all in Italy are successfully boycotting arms shipments to Israel. In Italy, trade unions have called a series of national strikes in support of Palestine, and Palestinians in Gaza have demonstrated their appreciation.

Israel and the western governments are increasingly isolated by the crisis they created for themselves, and by the growing power of the international anti-war movement. A few months ago, Donald Trump was fantasizing about a Trump Gaza riviera and was ready to give Netanyahu whatever he wanted. Now he says that Israel has to get out of Gaza and cannot declare the West Bank to be part of Israel.  

The ceasefire is an unspoken admission that all the plans of Israel and its backers have failed and have to be abandoned. That does not mean peace, freedom and democracy for Palestinians – but it does mean that the political balance of forces has shifted against Israel and its backers. Western politicians, Arab dictators and Zionist government ministers will be looking to see what is in it for them, but any new form of oppression they try to impose is certain to be resisted by the Palestinian people.

The fight now is for nothing less than full, unconditional self-determination for the Palestinians, and that is now central to the global struggle against fascism.

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Stop Trump’s Drive to World War III

No UK support to Trump’s war on Iran

Victory to the Palestinian Struggle

Starmer must end all UK Aid to Israel

Withdraw all UK armed forces from the Middle East

The majority of British & American people oppose Trump’s policies

Trump’s bombing of Iran is an act of war, not diplomacy; His only policy for the Middle East is war

End Trump and Netanyahu’s fascist alliance to carry out genocide and ethnic cleansing in order to destroy the basis for any Palestinian state

No to any invasion of Iran: Oppose all Israeli and American attacks on Iran

Stop the Egyptian blockade of aid to Gaza

The anti-war movement can & must defeat the state’s attack on Palestine Action

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s plan to ban and criminalise Palestine Action is obviously an attack on the whole pro-Palestine Anti-War mass movement. It is also a measure of the government’s desperation and fear of our movement’s strength, commitment and breadth of our support.

Cooper’s plan is a huge over-reach. Britain’s anti-terrorism laws are already over-reaching, anti-democratic and racist, but Palestine Action has not terrorised anyone – unless Cooper thinks that weapons or aircraft have consciousness.

None of our victories, large or small, would have been won without mobilising our power on the streets, in our communities and at the courts. Next week, on 30^th June & 1^st July, we must respond to Yvette Cooper’s attacks with the biggest ever mobilisation for the hearing of the #Filton18.

To fight racism we must defend & extend the rights of refugees and immigrants

• Support the refugees who are Opening the Borders to find freedom & safety
• Amnesty now for all undocumented immigrants & refugees
• Shut down all detention centres
• Restore the right to work for asylum seekers
• No ban on overseas care-workers
• Asylum law must put the burden of proof on the Home Office instead of the asylum seeker

23 June 2025

15.03.2025

Defend Refugee & Immigrant Rights: Stop Deportation & Detention, By Any Means Necessary

To defeat Racism & Fascism we must fight for Free Movement & Open Borders

Keir Starmer is the Agent of Imperialism – he must Resign or be Removed

Capitalism is in its Death Throes and Destroying the World – A new party of action must end its rule and establish a Socialist Society & Economy

Victory to the Palestinian Struggle

LABOUR MPs who are alarmed by Starmer’s policies must recognise that their public silence allows him to normalize fascism, genocide and cut aid & welfare to fund warfare. They must speak out, demand his resignation, vote against his policies, and organise resistance in their constituencies and local parties.

MASS MIGRATION is an international rebellion against the impact of Imperialism: Mass Poverty, Super-Exploitation, Escalating Wars, Despotism, the Effects of Global Heating & Environmental Destruction, and Oppression & Persecution based on Sex, Sexuality, Ethnic Identity and Religion.

OPEN THE BORDERS: Freedom of Movement is a Basic Human Right – Opening the Borders is what refugees are doing every day, in order to resolve real, material problems in their lives and find safety and freedom. Starmer knows what they are escaping from. He detains & deports them because he is an imperialist, and imperialism needs to maintain that poverty, exploitation and tyranny.

The Trump Effect

Donald Trump is imposing a fascist regime on America, the world’s richest economy with the most powerful armed forces. It is the most significant victory for fascism since the end of World War Two. Trump still has to consolidate his power, however, and he faces growing resistance, mainly from youth and immigrant communities. MFJ’s sister organisation in America (BAMN) is playing a leading role in building that resistance.
However, we are already seeing the international impacts of the fascist takeover of American government: Trump has created panic in the governments and ruling classes of the western imperialist powers and the Arab World. Britain and the major countries of the European Union (EU) are trying in vain to persuade Trump to maintain America’s longstanding role as leader of the western imperialist powers in NATO. All they are achieving is the normalisation of fascism.

‘Democratic’ politicians normalise fascism: the case of Israel

Israel today is a fascist state, it is based on ethnic nationalism and the forced exclusion, removal and genocide of the Palestinian people, and has a political system intertwined with the military. The education system, the media and even the army function as systems of indoctrination. And the Settler Movement in the West Bank provides the Zionist state with a free-lance terrorist force whose atrocities are not directly attributable to the government.
That is the system fascism aims for. It is the system Trump intends to establish in America. Yet supposedly democratic governments in the West have been funding and arming Israeli fascism for years and decades. They have driven Israel towards fascism to serve their imperialist need for a dependable, heavily armed, white ally to serve their interests in the Middle East. When the Zionists go ‘too far’ and provoke international outrage, those ‘civilised’ western imperialists feed Israel’s need for more weapons – and arrest, beat and imprison protesters.

Imperialism in crisis & war

Imperialism is the domination and exploitation of the world by the giant capitalist corporations and banks, based in a small number of powerful countries. From the end of World War Two until the 1990s, the US was the dominant power in a small group of imperialist countries in Western Europe plus Japan & Canada. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the restoration of capitalism from eastern Europe all the way to China led to the emergence of two new imperialist capitalist powers, China & Russia. Western Imperialism’s biggest victory – a totally capitalist world – became a disaster: a new age of inter-imperialist conflict. The period from the early 1990s has been an age of ‘forever’ wars, proxy-wars, civil wars, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Even before this period, the global capitalist economy had lurched from crisis to crisis. The ‘golden age’ of relative prosperity from the late 1940s to the late 1960s has never returned. Instead, the imperialists and capitalists have attacked the rights and living standards of poor people and poor countries, in largely unsuccessful attempts to increase growth and profits. More and more wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

The turn to Fascism

That situation is creating greater resistance by the poor, oppressed and exploited – and more extreme attempts at oppression by the ruling classes. That is the story – the heroic story – of the Palestinian resistance and the international anti-war movement in solidarity with Palestine, against our own governments.
This, and other broadly similar conflicts, foster the growth of fascism, in two ways. Firstly, the imperialists turn to authoritarianism & dictatorship to defeat the resistance. Secondly, the economic situation leaves an ‘in-between’ section of the population that is demoralised and believes it is losing its former status. Fascism uses their grievances and prejudices to mobilise them in elections or on the streets.
Last summer’s race riots took place north of England towns that lost their industries. They were mobilised by fascist networks – and by Starmer’s anti-immigrant Labour election campaign a few weeks earlier. Nigel Farage used the grievances & prejudices of elderly white people, many of them retirees or invalids, to win in a former seaside resort in Essex that had seen better days.

The Labour government celebrates immigrant bashing

Earlier this year the Labour Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced a further racist, inhuman attack on refugees who entered Britain without a visa (i.e. those who were so desperate and so determined that they risked their lives to cross the Channel in small, overcrowded boats). Even if they overcome all the obstacles put in their way and make successful claims for asylum in Britain, they will never be able to apply for British citizenship.
The week beginning Monday 10th February was national immigrant-bashing week for Starmer & Cooper. The Home Office flooded the media with photos & videos of its raids on nail bars, garages etc and the arrests of undocumented workers – not as a rescue operation for people trapped in super-exploitation and slavery, but as a fast-track to deportation on a charter flight. The deportations were filmed and widely displayed by the government.
The Labour government has taken the ‘hostile environment’ policy to new extremes. In less than eight months following the general election there were 38% more raids on workplaces than the Tories had done in the twelve months before the election. The number of immigration arrests in January was 75% higher than in January last year – from 352 to 609 – and 16,400 people were deported between the July election and February this year.
These policies are normalising fascism. Our movement must defend refugees and immigrants and stop detention and deportations by any means necessary.

The way ahead

Our principal reason for hope is the strength of our mass movements and the connections between them. A secondary reason is that public opinion still appears to be more liberal or progressive than the politicians, and on many issues it is further to their Left.
However, we have to reckon with the speed with which the Labour government is moving to the right, with a worsening economic situation, and a world-wide growth of fascism.
That is why the Movement for Justice is pressing for the creation of a new party of action. The obvious basis for such a party lies in the current mass movements and such new ones as are created in response to government attacks. Not just a supportive relationship between a number of campaigns on separate issues, but a single organisation uniting all the issues and struggles, that builds action on all fronts and fights by any means necessary.
It definitely cannot be an attempt to recreate the ‘good old Labour Party’ that never was: that would be even more absurd than dreams of bringing back the Mammoth or the Dodo; at least they did exist once, the Labour Party and every Labour government have always defended imperialism.
We are not in the age of Parliamentary Democracy anymore. It is simply not democratic anymore and it is not working for the majority of working class, poor, oppressed and struggling middle class people. Most of us did not vote in the last election because we did not see the point. We have to build the sort of party all of us can turn to and rely on because it actually leads the fights for equality and democracy.
To conclude. The party we propose can score many victories against imperialism if we really fight to win, but capitalism is incurable. It is destroying far more than it creates; it has proved its inability to solve a single one of the plague of destructive problems it has created. Humanity can’t afford to run this experiment any longer.
Our central objective has to be putting an end to imperialism and capitalism. It has to be replaced by a socialist society and socialist economy, with public ownership of the means of production and distribution that will be organised to meet the needs of humanity, not to amass profit for a few.

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