Statement from the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
In the early hours of February 28, 2026 President Donald Trump gave the green light to Israel to attack Iran. By evening the largely civilian casualties in Iran number in the hundreds, many of them children. The U.S. spent weeks sending the largest Naval fleet to the Persian Gulf since its 2003 invasion of Iraq. Despite Trump’s hollow rhetoric about negotiations, which were always contradicted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated intentions and Trump’s own threats, Iran was prepared for a war and vowed to strike back at Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf region, which it did promptly. As of this statement Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz. If the effort is successful, repercussions will be felt globally. About 20% of the global oil supply passes through the straits.
The U.S., joined at the hip with Israel is at war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. With the confirmed killing of Iran’s supreme leader, escalation is assured and the cost in human lives will be dear. War with Iran is condemnable on its own, but the economic and political fallout will be the enduring legacy to the American people and should be a clarion call to all revolutionaries to act in the interests of our class. In the U.S., every indicator of well-being is declining, and every measure of destitution is increasing. This crisis does not unfold in isolation from the war economy being unleashed abroad — both are expressions of the same dying system.
The Trump administration displays the depravity and the desperation of the ruling class he represents, hostile to the concept of democracy and any vision that does not maintain their rule. How are we to make sense of the immorality of deliberate targeting of Iranian civilians, including a girl’s elementary school, killing over 150 children? We are seeing once again the historical link between war and fascism at home and war against the world.
The people of Iran united against imperial aggression in the face of their own internal struggles. Revolutionaries in America can and must unite if we are to work toward a society in which we can thrive and establish peaceful coexistence.
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