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DESCRIPTION:International Day of Action\nStop The Wars With A General 
 Strike\nAnniversary of Ukraine War & Opposition To Wars on Cuba, 
 Venezuela\n& Against US-Israel Attack on Iran & Palestine & People of 
 Middle East\n\nSaturday, February 28, 2026 - 12:00 Noon\nSan Francisco US 
 federal Building\n90-7th St., SF\n\nOn the fourth anniversary of the war in 
 Ukraine, the US and\nIsrael are poised to launch a bombing campaign against 
 Iran,\nwhich could lead to a catastrophic regional war in the Middle\nEast. 
 The US, which instigated the war in Ukraine by back-\ning the overthrow of 
 the Ukrainian government in 2014, has\nused the conflict as a means to 
 weaken its rival Russia—with\nthe strategic aim of subordinating or even 
 fragmenting it as a\ncompeting power. Washington speaks endlessly of 
 “democracy”\nand the defense of Ukrainians against Russian aggression, 
 but in\npractice it has shown utter indifference to the two million 
 civilians \nand soldiers who have been killed. Hundreds of thousands\nof 
 working-class Russians have also died needlessly in this war.\nNeither the 
 Russian nor the US imperialists are acting in the\ninterests of their 
 populations. Only the war profiteers and the\nelites who depend on 
 permanent militarization are benefiting.\nWe oppose all military 
 intervention and call on Russian and\nUkrainian soldiers to turn their guns 
 against their own ruling\nclasses and oligarchs.\n\nThe US has used this 
 war to push for massive increases in military \nspending in Europe, 
 decreasing the living standards of\nEuropean workers, whose capitalist 
 governments are shifting\nbillion more to their own war budgets. This 
 rearmament is financed \nthrough cuts to social programs, wage cuts, and 
 the further \ntransfer of public wealth into the hands of the 
 military-in-dustrial complex.\nThe central target of this strategy is 
 China. As China increas-\ningly outstrips the US in technology and 
 production, the US is\nturning to trade war and militarism. The US seeks 
 dominance\nover the Middle East and key energy routes in order to 
 control\nthe oil and raw materials vital to China’s economy, in 
 prepa-\nration for a potential military confrontation between the 
 two\npowers.\nUS imperialism now has its sights on Iran, which it has 
 long\nsought to overthrow as the primary obstacle to its dominance\nover 
 the Middle East. This is a bi-partisan agenda of both the\nDemocrats and 
 Republicans who just voted for a trillion-dollar\nwar budget, giving Israel 
 3.8 billion dollars per year to prosecute\ntheir genocide against the 
 Palestinians, while cutting health-\ncare, housing and education.\n\nThe 
 AFL-CIO trade union bureaucracy is also complicit in these\nimperialist 
 wars. It recently received $70 million from the fas\ncist Trump government 
 for their so-called “Solidarity Center,”\nwhich operates as an arm of 
 US imperialism. It was involved in\nthe past attempted overthrow of 
 Venezuela, the coups in Chile,\nBrazil, Argentina, Guatemala and many other 
 countries. It has\nreceived over $1 billion for its international 
 operations. The\nAFL-CIO continues to support the US’s trillion-dollar 
 military\nbudget and openly supports US imperialism. Workers must demand 
 \nthat the AFL-CIO break all relations with the US gov-\nernment and stop 
 government funding of the Solidarity Center.\nThe rise of fascism in the US 
 and internationally are directly\nconnected to the decline of US and world 
 capitalism. The events\nin Minneapolis—above all the near general strike 
 of January\n23 and the solidarity it received from workers across the 
 coun-\ntry—demonstrate the power of mass working-class action. 
 This\nmobilization forced a retreat by the Trump administration and\nshowed 
 that when workers move collectively, they can block the\nagenda of the 
 ruling class.\n\nBut the danger is far from over. There is a growing threat 
 of a\nfascistic imposition of martial law by Trump’s government. 
 The\nattempted occupation of Minneapolis, backed by a $75 billion\nsecurity 
 apparatus, sets a precedent for similar deployments\nin cities across the 
 United States. What is required is a general\nstrike of the entire working 
 class, uniting workers across industries \nand regions to defeat 
 authoritarian measures and the drive\ntoward dictatorship.\n\nOrganizing a 
 united front is the immediate task in front of us.\nThe working class needs 
 its own mass working class political\nparty. Our union leaderships continue 
 to support the Democrats, \ndespite their support for massive budget cuts 
 in health-\ncare, education and public services in California. While 
 there\nare 200 billionaires in California and 70 in San Francisco 
 alone,\nteachers are facing school closures and layoffs, while 
 healthcare\nworkers at Kaiser and the University of California are 
 fighting\nagainst massive layoffs and striking for a living wage.\nJoin us 
 in this action opposing the war in Ukraine, the US attack\non Iran and the 
 people of the Middle East, and the US blockade\nof Cuba.\n\n\nSTOP The Wars 
 Abroad, and WIN The War At Home With General Strike\nEndorsed By \nUnited 
 Front Committee For A Labor Party (www.ufclp.org)\n\n\n\n\nDOWN WITH 
 IMPERIALIST WAR AND TRUMP’S AUTHORITARIAN CAMPAIGN!\nFeb 15, 2026 
 \nhttps://ufclp.org/down-with-imperialist-war-and-trumps-authoritarian-campaign/\n\n\nInternational 
 statement \n\nThe current offensive by Donald Trump’s government in Latin 
 America, which so far has reached its peak with the bombing and commando 
 attack against Venezuela and the overthrow and kidnapping of Nicolás 
 Maduro on January 3rd, represents a leap forward in the belligerence of US 
 imperialism, both in its imperialist adventurism and in its internal 
 repression. We are seeing a qualitative change in the political regime with 
 developing fascist tendencies, in which the deployment of the National 
 Guard to multiple cities has been complemented by the far-right militias 
 that were at the forefront of the 2021 Capitol attack, which have been 
 reconverted into a federal force and given a large budget, in the form of 
 the federal ICE force, Trump’s quasi-fascist paramilitary attack 
 force.\n\nThe combination of internal militarization, the search for 
 political conditions to launch military adventures and mobilize workers en 
 masse as an army, and the promise of economic well-being based on the 
 oppression of internal and external enemies are the intimate connection 
 between the elements of this authoritarian project that seeks to halt the 
 decline of the United States as an imperialist power. The breakdown of 
 postwar alliances, as well as the fall of the dollar and US, European, and 
 Japanese debt bonds, are dramatic expressions of a crisis not only of the 
 capitalist economy but also of the imperialist order of world 
 domination.\n\nThe Trump regime is seeking to regain dominance by 
 imperialist military attacks that force countries to break off trade with 
 China, it’s chief rival and to demand that other countries around the 
 world continue to put tariffs on China trade. \n\nThe claims of “fighting 
 drug trafficking” or “fighting for democracy” behind the attack on 
 Venezuela have all been quickly abandoned. As he explained in his National 
 Security and Defense strategy, Trump is concentrating forces immediately in 
 his attempt to dominate Latin America militarily and economically, while 
 maintaining his sights on confrontation with his strategic adversary China, 
 trying to split off Russia from China at least as a short-term policy, and 
 also clashing more and more with Europe. His “focus on the American 
 continent” does not rule out political and military operations from 
 Greenland to Ukraine, from the Middle East to the South China Sea. \n\nThe 
 offensive in Latin America, which includes threats to multiple countries, 
 the opening of new military bases and the deployment of troops, as well as 
 interference in local elections, has already claimed several hundred lives, 
 from the sunken boats to Caracas to the attacks in the favelas of Rio de 
 Janeiro, coordinated with this political offensive. One strategic objective 
 is to break the Cuban state, whose blockade has been dramatically 
 tightened. We declare our solidarity with the Cuban people. The attempt to 
 overthrow the  government in Havana not only aims to overthrow all 
 remaining social conquests of the revolution of 1959, but to advance in 
 imperialist control of the region. It is the duty of internationalist 
 revolutionaries to defend Cuba against the restoration of the informal 
 status of US colony that the island had before the revolution.\n\nThis 
 offensive to control the continent has not been confronted by the 
 governments of the region, nor by its traditional political forces. The 
 right  wing has welcomed the offensive, even though it was ridiculed when 
 its favorite, Corina Machado, the Nobel laureate in requests for foreign 
 military invasion, was dismissed as a government figure by Trump in 
 Venezuela. Nationalists and center-leftists reject it in words, but their 
 governments seek to appease Trump through all kinds of concessions and 
 calls for joint action. They have avoided a process of mobilization against 
 the US attack, after decades of demagoguery about the unity of the peoples. 
 The heart of the capitulation is in Caracas, where the new government has 
 adapted to Trump’s impositions, even reforming its oil law to comply with 
 US demands.\n\nIn opposition to this line of capitulation, we call for the 
 organization and mobilization of Latin American workers and peoples to 
 confront the imperialist presence in the region. The reformist left that 
 proposes we follow these governments leads us down a dead-end path. The 
 allies of the Latin American masses are the workers of the US, Europe, and 
 the world. \n\nIn response to this offensive, hundreds of thousands of 
 workers are becoming radicalized and, in particular, there is a renewed 
 enthusiasm for the general strike, which made headlines with the days of 
 action in France and Italy and, more recently, with the general strikes in 
 Portugal, Bolivia, and Belgium. The demands have been diverse, but 
 opposition to the Palestinian genocide, repressive domestic measures, and 
 austerity policies and regressive labor reforms all pose a common need to 
 confront the capitalist offensive that seeks to unload the crisis onto the 
 backs of workers.\n\nIt is this path of struggle that young people, the 
 immigrant workers’ communities, and American workers have taken, in the 
 very bowels of the monster, against Trump’s xenophobic and fascist 
 patrol, ICE, using mobilization, strikes, and self-defense. This path 
 challenges the Democratic Party’s approach of semi-collaboration and 
 semi-opposition, which seeks to capitalize on hatred of Trump in the 
 November elections, while Trump moves forward with the open militarization 
 of his country, including public executions and concentration camps.\n\nThe 
 general strike and direct action are the tools taken into their hands by 
 thousands to break the offensive of the millionaire president, the defeat 
 of which would also be a victory for all workers around the world.\n\nThe 
 struggle for a working class united front against the Trump regime is a 
 critical task in the United States and the formation of a mass working 
 class political party with a program to put the working class in control of 
 the economy.\n\nThe need for a working class united defense against martial 
 law and the imposition of military control is on the agenda and the Trump  
 government is threatening to eliminate democratic bourgeois 
 elections.\n\nThe internal struggle in the US capitalist class is 
 strengthening the working class as workers see the real nature of the 
 capitalist class, including the sexual corruption scandal involving 
 billionaires of both political parties and the capitalist class as a 
 whole.\n\nThe crisis and the trend towards war\n\nTrump’s plans 
 exacerbate inter-imperialist tensions and global disputes. The agreements 
 reached around Greenland, which are a partial advance of Trump’s demands, 
 do not rule out the growing attempts by the European imperialist 
 bourgeoisie to gather the economic, military, and political elements to 
 confront Trump’s impositions, as well as to explore their own agreements 
 with China, India, or Mercosur. Canada has moved in the same direction. The 
 recent Davos Forum was a demonstration of the extreme nature of these 
 tensions, with NATO facing a possible split, threats of troop mobilization, 
 and economic attacks used as weapons in the fight.\n\nThe freezing of the 
 EU-Mercosur agreement after it was signed is evidence of the contradictions 
 within the European Union itself, due to the clash of conflicting agrarian 
 and industrial capitalist interests. We reject this EU-Mercosur agreement, 
 an aggressive capitalist restructuring in favour of the industrial and 
 agri-food monopolies. The agreement will be used as a pretext by the 
 bourgeoisie and governments of the EU and Mercosur countries to advance the 
 liquidation of labor rights, promote a stronger competition for jobs 
 between workers of each country to lower wages, devastating poor farmers, 
 harming the environment and the quality of food, under the argument of 
 “competitiveness”. It is an attempt by the EU  to upgrade its role by 
 strengthening its position in the competition with the US and China, at the 
 expense of the peoples of Latin America, intensifying the historical 
 sacking of the riches of their lands. We stand for working class unity of 
 struggle across borders, against both international and national capital, 
 and oppose both the protectionist and the free trade factions of capital.  
 \n\nThe divisions between the United States and the European Union extend 
 to the war in Ukraine, which is about to enter its fourth year. Discussions 
 are underway regarding so-called “security guarantees” and the division 
 of territory and spheres of influence between Russia, US and European 
 imperialisms. We reject the inter-imperialist war in Ukraine, but also the 
 prospect of an “imperialist peace” based on the plunder of the 
 Ukrainian people. The people of Ukraine, as well as the Kurds, must draw 
 profound conclusions regarding the leftist advisors who propose that they 
 align themselves with western imperialisms in the name of a supposed 
 “national defense,” which has proven to be the worst of catastrophes 
 and subjugation. We call on the workers of Ukraine and Russia to fraternize 
 with each other and to confront the war-mongering governments in their own 
 countries.\n\nThe blocs of inter-imperialist confrontation are not stable; 
 rather, we are repeatedly witnessing new shifts and realignments. The 
 underlying reason for the tendencies toward war is the crisis of the 
 capitalist system as a whole. An agreement in Ukraine, which is still 
 uncertain today, would not dispel the underlying tendencies inherent in the 
 global situation. This is particularly true for the temporary trade truce 
 reached by the United States and China.\n\nThe massive speculative 
 capitalist bubble in the US around AI and data centers along with the US 
 deregulation of the banks and crypto currency is setting the stage for a 
 massive economic collapse greater than 2008 and will require the working 
 class to prepare for workers control of the US and world economy. \n\nThe 
 race to increase military spending goes hand in hand with cuts to social 
 spending and attacks on working conditions and pensions. Several European 
 governments are pushing for the reinstatement of military service, which 
 was met with massive protests and student strikes in Germany, with students 
 declaring: “We don’t want to be cannon fodder.” The shift to the 
 right and advance of fascism promoted by multiple capitalist sectors is not 
 an ideological fad, but is linked to attempts to defeat the working class, 
 destroy its gains, and use it as cannon fodder.\n\nThe imperialist 
 bourgeoisie offers the masses only hunger and war. The workers of the world 
 must rise up against this bleak prospect.\n\nMiddle East\n\nWe reject 
 Trump’s misnamed “peace board”, which is, in truth, a colonial 
 protectorate over the Gaza Strip. With the consent of all capitalist 
 governments, including the Arab bourgeoisies, it has been agreed to 
 establish an international occupation force, while seeking to dismantle the 
 Palestinian resistance and deprive the inhabitants of Gaza of the basic 
 right to elect their own rulers. Not only are they seeking to set up an 
 obscene business scheme around the reconstruction of the coastal territory 
 they have destroyed in a genocidal action, but it is also part of a plan to 
 reorganize the region in view of the world war that is being prepared, 
 which has included the Zionist offensive against six countries in the 
 region, the advance of colonization in the West Bank, and support for the 
 jihadist regime in Syria, which some supposed leftists hailed as a 
 democratic revolution and which today is carrying out a massacre against 
 the Kurdish people and other minorities.\n\nWe support the mass uprisings 
 in Iran that erupted in late December against the severe deterioration in 
 popular living conditions and against the capitalist-ayatollah regime as 
 such, and we condemn the regime’s criminal repression. At the same time, 
 we condemn the US military deployment in the area and attempts to exploit 
 the popular uprising for the interests of imperialism. Only the exploited 
 masses can overcome the reactionary regimes that plague the region, as 
 demonstrated by the reactionary solutions that the local bourgeoisies and 
 imperialisms imposed on the Arab Spring uprisings.\n\nThe struggle against 
 genocide in Palestine, the invasion of Venezuela, forced conscription and 
 the war economy in Europe, and fascist raids against immigrants in 
 Minnesota are all part of a single international struggle by the working 
 class against escalating imperialist war and the governments that promote 
 it.\n\nWe say:\n\n\nDown with Trump’s imperialist offensive in Latin 
 America and the Middle East.\n\nFor Working Class United Fronts and General 
 Strikes Against repression and attacks on the working class in every 
 country of the world. \n\n\nLong live the struggle of the people of United 
 States against ICE and Trump, in Minneapolis and other US cities.\n\n\nNo 
 to the genocide of the Palestinian people and Trump’s colonial 
 junta.\nFor the right to self-determination of the Palestinian and Kurdish 
 peoples. For a single, secular, and socialist Palestine. For a socialist 
 federation of the Middle East.\n\nNo to imperialist military intervention 
 in Iran. \n\nWe denounce the fierce repression of the Ayatollah regime and 
 support the mass movements of the Iranian people. \n\nWe stand in 
 international solidarity with all oppressed identities subjected to ethnic 
 cleansing in Syria, supporting their demand to live freely and equally in 
 their own lands.\n\nDown with imperialist war, war budgets, and their 
 governments. \nFor workers’ and revolutionary parties around the world. 
 \nFor a workers’ international.\n\nWe call for organizing actions of 
 struggle in as many cities as possible under these slogans on February 28, 
 marking four years of continuous inter-imperialist war in Ukraine, and for 
 holding an online meeting of internationalist forces in early March to 
 advance the organization of a larger joint campaign against imperialist 
 war. \n\nFirst signatories:\n\nKA – Communist Liberation (Greece):\n\nPO 
 – Workers Party (Argentina):\n\nSEP – Socialist Workers Party 
 (Turkey):\n\nSWP – Socialist Workers Party (Great Britain):\n\nTIR – 
 Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency (Italy):\n\nUFCLP- United Front 
 Committee for a Labor Party (US):\n\nWCP-H – Workers Communist Party of 
 Iran- Hekmatist (Iran):\n 
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SUMMARY:International Day of Action: Stop the Wars Abroad and the War at Home with a General Strike
LOCATION:San Francisco Federal Building\n90 7th St.\nSan Francisco
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