Mass Resistance in solidarity with Iran & Palestine: Al-Quds Day, March 13
On February 28, 2026, US and Israeli forces launched joint military strikes against Iran, a criminal and reckless act of war following years of sanctions and hybrid warfare aimed at regime change. This display of US arrogance and aggression aims at imposing Western dominance and preventing the region’s resurgence. It comes during bad-faith negotiations by the US over manufactured “threats,” the largest US military buildup in the region since 2003, and follows two and a half years of genocide against Palestinians, escalating violence in the West Bank, regime change in Syria, and assaults on Yemen and Lebanon.
These are coordinated attacks aiming to crush resistance to imperialist domination across West Asia.
This joint strike proves once again that the US settler colonial-Zionist entity alliance is the most dangerous, utterly fascist and genocidal force in the world today. Iran has been targeted because of its assertion of sovereignty and its opposition to US imperialist ambitions in the region. In response, we, the popular social movements and grassroots forces throughout the US and Canada, must mobilize and organize in full solidarity with Iran's unconditional right to resist. We must vehemently resist all forms of US war, aggression and intervention violating the self-determination of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
We call on all forces and people to join local/regional/national mobilizations and actions on March 13, 2026, being organized for Al-Quds Day, and to organize their own where they do not already exist.
On Al-Quds Day and in the lead-up, we call on all forces mobilizing to incorporate solidarity with Iran and opposition to all facets of imperialist-zionist war on Iran into their messaging and activities. Make the anti-imperialist connections between wars on Palestine, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, Lebanon, Yemen, as well as the domestic repression and ICE kidnappings in the US
This call affirms that:
Iran has been targeted for its independence and unwavering support for the Palestinian people for decades, including throughout the zionist-imperialist genocide that has taken over 100,000 Palestinian lives.
Iran has every right, including under international law, to defend itself and counterattack against US bases, outposts, and Israeli settler colonialism and occupation in the region.
Iran’s resistance to this brutality is in defense of the whole of the Global South, from Palestine and Sudan to Cuba and Venezuela.
Iran’s targeting of U.S. bases in the region underscores how Washington’s vast network of roughly 750 military installations across more than 80 countries and colonies—costing taxpayers at least $80 billion annually—serves as the global infrastructure of U.S. imperialist domination, and must be dismantled and shut down.
Iran is defending its sovereignty against the same US imperialist war machine that, kidnaps and terrorizes migrants, targets working class, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities with its carceral and surveillance apparatuses, defunds healthcare, education, and other life-sustaining institutions, and is engaged in the McCarthyite repression of those resisting. The US remains the number one threat to peace in the region and in the world, inflicting death and destruction through military and economic warfare, including unilateral coercive measures, blockades, tariff wars, and currency manipulation.
We call on all popular forces to stand with Iran, reject imperialist-zionist aggression, uphold the right of resistance, continue to join emergency actions worldwide, and prepare for mass mobilizations and resistance to US war on Iran and ongoing genocide in Palestine on Al-Quds Day, March 13, 2026. Until then, we encourage all forces to issue statements and labor resolutions, organize political education events, walkouts, protests, strikes, pickets, and sit-ins and other actions, and prepare to SHUT IT DOWN in opposition to this criminal assault.
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In solidarity,
Black Alliance for Peace, United National Antiwar Coalition, US Peace Council, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, PAL-Awda NY/NJ, National Students for Justice in Palestine, Resist US-Led War Movement, Veterans for Peace, Within Our Lifetime, National Lawyers Guild, Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis, The Indivisibility of Justice, Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Fellowship of Reconciliation
