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Trump's war on Iran, funded by both Democrats and Republicans, is threatening to spiral into a broader regional conflict, with horrifying consequences for millions of working people.
Thousands have been killed, tens of thousands have been injured, and over four million people have been forcibly displaced across the region, including Iran and Lebanon.
The global economy has been thrown into crisis with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, with working and poor people internationally being forced to bear the cost of massive price increases.
A majority of the Democrats in the House and Senate voted alongside the Republican Party last December for more than $900 billion for war funding. This accounted for the overwhelming bulk of the trillion dollars of military spending approved last year, making it the largest military spending approved in U.S. history, and effectively a blank check for Trump to carry out this war on Iran.
Democrats and Republicans have also together carried out vicious sanctions against Iran for decades, which have eviscerated the standards of living for working and poor people in Iran.
The only way to bring an end to this horror is by using working-class power to present a real threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, both parties of capitalism, genocide, and war, and to the billionaires and multimillionaires they represent.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the labor leadership has tied itself to the Democratic Party and has offered no leadership whatsoever in fighting to stop this war.
We need political leaders to help organize mass civil disobedience and strike action to shut down the imperialist profit machine. We need leaders like Workers Strike Back founder, Kshama Sawant, who is running as an independent revolutionary socialist for Congress against warmongering Democrat Adam Smith.
Join Workers Strike Back this Sunday at 12pm PT / 3pm ET for our national meeting and discussion on how we can get organized to build toward such a movement and fight to elect Kshama to Congress! RSVP today to join over Zoom or find a watch party near you.
RSVP to get organized to fight back against both parties of Wall Street and war.