The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting titled “Stop the US-Israeli War Against Iran!” to discuss the escalating imperialist war against Iran and the tasks facing the working class in Sri Lanka and internationally. It will take place on April 7 at 3:30 p.m. at the Orient Educational Institute in Hindagala, near the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.
As the US–Israeli war nears its first month, the naked imperialist interests behind it are being exposed: the US aims to establish control over the resource-rich Middle East, including Iran, and to block energy access to its economic rivals, mainly Russia and China. Fascistic President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that he does not care about international law in achieving US predatory aims.
During the course of the criminal war, massive US and Israeli strikes have killed around 1,500 people, including hundreds of school children in an American missile strike on a girls’ school. Over 4,000 civilian buildings, including hospitals, have been damaged. As the Trump administration prepares to deploy ground forces, the war will expand further, along with the destruction.
The war has provoked a huge economic and energy crisis throughout the world, and in Asian countries in particular. Sri Lanka has already been forced to increase fuel prices, followed by rising costs of all consumer goods and services, placing the burden of war directly on working people and the oppressed.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-led National People’s Power (JVP/NPP), closely following the stand taken by India, are providing tacit support to the US and Israel in this war of aggression. Behind the facade of “neutrality,” Dissanayake’s complicity in this war has been repeatedly exposed.
Trump cannot proceed without facing immense resistance from the American and international working class, who are already experiencing the initial shocks of the war.
Under these conditions, the fake-left Frontline Socialist Party (FSP)’s call for building “a Global People’s Power against imperialist war” is to put pressure on US imperialism, which will only disarm the working class.
In contrast to these scoundrels, the IYSSE plainly states that war cannot be stopped through appeals to the fascistic Trump administration or any imperialist power. To defend the Iranian people and defeat war criminals, it is necessary to politically mobilize the international working class against global capitalism on the basis of a socialist strategy.
Speakers will discuss the causes of the war, its global implications, the historical and theoretical issues involved and, above all, the necessity for the working class to intervene politically to stop it. We call on workers and students to participate in this important discussion.
Date: Tuesday, April 7
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Orient Educational Institute, Galaha Road, Hindagala