In May 1886, the blood of workers spilled in Chicago ignited a struggle that still burns throughout the world: the fight against capitalist exploitation and the unwavering path toward life and the emancipation of workers. And this May Day, in every corner of the planet, the working class will commemorate their martyrdom not as an act of faith or resignation, but as a battle cry that resounds against the exploitation of capital.

Today, the workers of the world have more than enough reasons to rise up: countless demands are emerging from factories, fields, and cities, wherever exploitation deepens and life becomes increasingly precarious. Among these sentiments, the condemnation of the resurgence of US imperialism’s aggression resonates strongly. Together with Israeli Zionism, US imperialism has brought war to the Middle East, with attacks and military intervention against Iran and Lebanon in a conflict that has escalated with bombings and troop deployments. They are perpetrating a genocide against the Palestinian people, while simultaneously maintaining policies of pressure and aggression against nations like Venezuela and Cuba.

The aggression of US imperialism is not an isolated event, but rather a symptom of a decline it has been experiencing for years; a desperate response to preserve its global hegemony against what it identifies as its main rival, imperialist China, which today is challenging its economic and geopolitical power. In this struggle between powers, where alliances are being reconfigured and conflicts intensifying –as so often in history– it is the workers, the youth, and the people who bear the brunt of the crisis, the war, and the exploitation.

Faced with this reality, the workers and the people cannot and must not take sides with one power or another; Imperialism, by its very nature, is rapacious and an enemy of the people, regardless of the guise it adopts. Amidst the intensification of inter-imperialist contradictions, our position is clear: we do not align ourselves with one power or another, but with those who resist and fight.

We stand with the peoples who struggle for their emancipation, for their right to exist with dignity and sovereignty. We raise our banners of solidarity with Iran, Lebanon, the heroic Palestinian people, and with all those who, in every corner of the world, confront capitalist exploitation, oppression, and violence. Their struggles are our struggles, because in each one lies the possibility of a different future, a world without classes or exploitation.

In the current context, we call for the unity of all anti-imperialist and anti-fascist forces to confront the enemies of the people. It is necessary to block their path with a firm and powerful unity, one that is not merely a slogan, but organized and conscious action.

Let our strength be expressed in daily action, in every space where workers resist, in every country where voices rise up against exploitation and injustice. Let us build a front that acts globally, nourished by the concrete battles we wage in our territories, capable of striking at imperialism and paving the way for emancipation.

The capitalist system faces a critical moment today that exposes its inability to guarantee life. While we witness a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, the living conditions of the working class and the popular sectors are deteriorating alarmingly.

The economic adjustment policies, implemented by governments in the service of capital, have only led to increased poverty rates, higher unemployment, and greater levels of exploitation. Capitalism is not –and never was– a path to well-being for the people.

To achieve true emancipation, it is a historical imperative to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist system. Instead, let us build a new society, founded on the expropriation of the expropriators, justice, and free and dignified work: the workers’ society, socialism.

Long live May Day, the International Day of Unity, Struggle, and Solidarity of the Working Class!

Long live the workers’ struggle!

Death to criminal imperialism and Zionism!       

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
Coordinating Committee

May 2026

We lost our esteemed comrade Vijay, the founder of the Revolutionary Democracy Organization of India, on April 17.

Our comrade passed away in New Delhi, at Apollo Hospital, as a result of the cursed illness he had contracted –an illness which had reached its final stage and for which a cure should long since have been found.

The irreparable loss of our comrade has deeply affected us. He will no longer be able to attend our meetings with his wise character, nor offer us new contributions. We will no longer be able to count on his wise insights and contributions at our meetings, but the cause for which Comrade Vijay lived and fought will triumph. Just as victory was achieved in Russia through the October Revolution in the absence of Marx and Engels, so too will victory be achieved in India and throughout the world in the absence of Comrade Vijay. We know that future generations will ultimately witness its irreversible and definitive triumph. Yet these truths do not ease our sorrow. Our grief is profound.

What offers us solace is that Comrade Vijay encompassed so much within his life and his contributions he left behind to the Marxist-Leninist movement, entrusted to the international working class.

Comrade Vijay was among those distinguished comrades who undertook the task of building a bridge between Soviet socialism and the contemporary communist movement, thereby enabling the international revolutionary workers’ movement to benefit from the experiences of the previous period.

He made it his mission to facilitate the progress of future generations, to whom he would pass on the banner of Marxism-Leninism that he had defended throughout his life; for this reason, he learned Russian and spent part of his life in Russia, studying Lenin and his works. Through his research in Soviet archives, he was the foremost figure among those who conveyed to us and to future generations numerous truths –long obscured and distorted– about the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union and the period during which the Comintern organized and directed the international communist movement. We became aware, through Comrade Vijay’s work, of many debates, speeches, political positions, and practical realities of that era that had remained hidden or had been altered by modern revisionist betrayal. The journal Revolutionary Democracy, of which he was the editor, became not only a vehicle for seeking solutions to the problems of the Indian revolution, but also a means of transmitting these lessons from the past into the future.

There is no doubt that we will try to fill our comrade’s place, but we will always feel his absence.

Glory to Comrade Vijay, a devoted fighter of the Marxist-Leninist struggle!

Long live Marxism-Leninism!
Long live the international revolutionary workers’ movement!
Forward for the victory of the communist cause!

The Coordinating Committee of the

International Conference of the Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations

(CIPOML)

On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed a law granting Israeli courts the power to hand down death sentences against Palestinian prisoners without fully guaranteeing their right to a defense. This reveals the fascist nature of Israeli Zionism, which not only tortures and murders women, children, and the elderly, but also resorts to physical elimination in prison. This death penalty is not applied to Israeli citizens under the same legal framework.

The criminals Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smeitrich have exploited the global obsession with the devastating US war against Iran and Lebanon, and its economic and financial repercussions for the region and the world, to impose the most racist and discriminatory laws imaginable. These laws grant the courts unlimited powers to murder Palestinians under the guise of legality. They are specifically targeted against Palestinians and contain no similar provisions to address the crimes of settlers, even when they deliberately murder Palestinians for political revenge, with complete impunity and without fear of being held accountable or prosecuted by powerless international organizations.

This is happening with the complicity of imperialist states and reactionary Arab regimes that have supported the Zionist regime since the beginning of the war of extermination against the Palestinian people, who defend their land and dignity with exceptional resilience and dedication. The actions of today’s criminals are reminiscent of the massacres and atrocities perpetrated by Nazism and colonialism against numerous resistance movements around the world.

The law authorizing the execution of prisoners demonstrates the occupying state’s contempt for principles and values, as well as for the minimum legal standards established by international agreements that demand the humane treatment of prisoners of war. This situation has sparked a wave of widespread outrage among democratic organizations and revolutionary anti-fascist forces, while many reactionary forces and Western capitalist countries remain silent in the face of selective decisions concerning the rights and freedoms of the Palestinian people.

The International Conference of Parties and Organizations Marxist-Leninist (CIPOML) affirms:

– Its categorical rejection of the death penalty law and the Israeli judicial system, as well as its condemnation of the Zionist apartheid regime.

– We express our support for the struggle of the Palestinian people and for the prisoners held in the occupation’s jails, and we call upon democratic and revolutionary organizations and forces worldwide to develop a solidarity campaign with Palestinian political prisoners in Israel.

– The need to take concrete measures, such as the prosecution and trial of those responsible for this law and their political and diplomatic isolation.

– The urgent need to act to ensure the protection of Palestinian prisoners, guarantee the full enjoyment of their rights, and closely monitor Israel’s practices toward them.

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)

Coordination Committee

The ongoing war is a continuation of the attack carried out on 13 June last year, and the US used the negotiations as a screen while preparing its cursed blow.

The aggressive policy of the US towards Iran and other countries must be evaluated in the context of deepening imperialist contradictions and increasing US actions against the peoples in various regions of the world, especially in the Middle East and Latin America. The accusations made against Iran yesterday and today are merely a cover used to justify warmongering policies, as was the case in Iraq in the past. Now they have dropped their masks and openly called for regime change.

The United States, trying to take full control of the Middle East, together with Israeli Zionism, has recently carried out repeated military attacks against Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. The attacks against Iran are part of this imperialist strategy, as was condemned by CIPOML at that time.

We recognise Iran’s right to defend itself; therefore, without denying the reactionary nature of the “mullahs”, the priority is to condemn and stop US-Israeli imperialist aggression.

For this reason, we call on the peoples of the Middle East and the whole world to mobilise against imperialist-Zionist aggression to strengthen the struggle for peace.

Solidarity with the Iranian workers and people!

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
Coordinating Committee

The CIPOML calls upon revolutionary organisations, the working class, and the peoples of the world to draw the necessary experiences and lessons from these tragic events, the consequences of which are still unfolding.

Venezuela in the framework of inter-imperialist contradictions

This terrorist act reveals, first and foremost, the deepening of the aggressive, expansionist, and predatory character of U.S. imperialism, inscribed in a strategy defined by its ruling elites to sustain their global hegemony, recover areas of influence lost over time, and expand into new zones in the world. This orientation is formulated in the 2025 National Security Strategy, released by the U.S. government at the end of the last year.

In that same logic of imperialist aggression, the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as the murder of a hundred men and women—including civilians—constitutes an act of international banditry that flagrantly violates International Law and represents a direct attack on the independence and sovereignty of Venezuela. Nothing can justify an action of this nature by the government of Donald Trump, which deserves only the strongest repudiation and the solidary condemnation of the workers and peoples of the world.

The U.S. attack against Venezuela and current events cannot be fully understood unless analyzed within the framework of growing inter-imperialist struggles and contradictions which, for example, have the war in Ukraine—involving principally Russia, the United States, and European powers—as one of their critical points.

Can the U.S. attack against Venezuela—immediately followed by incentives for oil monopolies to invest and produce in the country—be separated from the fact that, until recently, China absorbed more than half of exported Venezuelan oil and stood as its main trading partner? Is it possible to ignore that China has granted loans to Venezuela exceeding 70 billion dollars, consolidating itself as its top financial guarantor?

Can one ignore that this very link with China has been an essential element of the Venezuelan energy mechanism, with Beijing as the central buyer of crude oil and a strategic partner in financing and trade?

Can the U.S. threat against Panama be understood without linking it to the cession of control of important ports linked to the Canal—structurally decisive from a commercial and military point of view—to Chinese capital, in a context of competition for geoeconomic influence?

Can the attacks, sanctions, and pressures against Iran be explained without considering the flow of oil toward China, Tehran’s close alliances with Beijing and Moscow, and the relevance of those ties to the global rivalry between power blocs?

And finally, can the U.S. threats against Denmark over Greenland—a region rich in rare earths and other critical resources with direct implications for the European Union and semiconductor supply chains—be understood without placing them at the heart of the imperialist dispute for strategic resources, geopolitical presence, and technological control against China and the European imperialists?

The decline experienced by U.S. imperialism and the rise of China as a power disputing U.S. hegemony have a strong impact on the unfolding of inter-imperialist contradictions. China has become the main creditor, foreign investor, and trading partner on all continents, including Latin America, relegating the United States to the background. Chinese industrial products flood almost every country, while the dollar progressively loses its role as the dominant international currency. With Trump, U.S. imperialism has opted for a policy of force to halt its decline and block China’s rise.

Although the United States continues to be the main global economic power, it faces growing difficulties in confronting and containing its strategic rivals. Its military spending alone exceeds that of the next nine countries combined. Shielded by this overwhelming military superiority, U.S. imperialism seeks to displace and weaken its competitors in regions rich in oil, minerals, and other strategic raw materials, where they have consolidated investments and expanded their commercial ties. Within this framework, it attempts to force its main rival, China, either to accept a relationship of subordination or to precipitate an early confrontation that it is not yet in a condition to win.

Silence in the face of U.S. aggression would not only aggravate the difficulties of its rivals in the fields of energy, raw materials, investment, and trade, but would also erode the credibility of governments like those of Venezuela and Iran, with whom they claim to maintain “good relations.” This passivity, far from containing it, would only further stimulate the aggressiveness of U.S. imperialism.

The intensification of U.S. imperialist aggression is provoking, at the same time, a sharpening of the contradictions between oppressed peoples and dependent countries vis-à-vis imperialism, as well as class contradictions between the bourgeoisie and the working class, insofar as each adopts clearly differentiated positions regarding the events in progress.

The new imperialist offensive

The CIPOML warns that the renewed attempts by imperialist powers—led by U.S. imperialism—to re-divide the world into zones of control, domination, and exploitation entail extremely grave dangers for workers, peoples, and nations. This process constitutes an offensive designed to crush the struggles of the peoples for their social and national liberation, and deepens the risk of a new imperialist war.

Alongside military and political aggression, the imperialist offensive is activating openly fascist and neo-fascist political projects that are gaining influence on a global scale.

Imperialism, war, and deception

The peoples of the world confirm, once again and through painful experiences, that when imperialist powers speak of peace, they are in reality preparing for new scenarios of war and aggression. These maneuvers aim to subjugate peoples and nations, plunder their resources, and swell the profits of the imperialist military-industrial complex.

No imperialist country—beyond the deception of feigning support for tactical backing purposes—will come to the aid of the peoples’ struggles for democracy, freedom, and true independence. Despite the worsening of their internal contradictions and conflicts, imperialist powers always manage to reach agreements when it comes to safeguarding the interests of big capital and sabotaging struggles for national and social liberation.

The tasks of the working class and the peoples

In this complex scenario, in which the historic incapacity of the bourgeoisie in the fight against imperialism is once again made evident, the CIPOML underscores once more that the only force capable of frustrating imperialist aggression is the organized struggle of the peoples, under the leadership of the working class, for a democratic order of social and national liberation with a socialist perspective.

It is urgent to strengthen unity work with social and political forces interested in confronting imperialism; to work for the development of a broad global anti-imperialist and anti-fascist front; to raise the struggle against war, for peace and the international solidarity of the peoples; and against the violence generated by the prevailing system.

The unification and mobilization of all democratic forces and sectors, both at the national and international levels, constitute a task of the first order.

Today, the condemnation of U.S. aggression and solidarity with the workers and people of Venezuela acquire special importance.

No imperialist intervention in Venezuela!

Long live the struggle of the workers and the Venezuelan people for their social and national liberation!

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)

January 2026

The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) expresses its strongest condemnation of the treacherous military aggression by the US government against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The air strikes and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife to the United States—following an economic blockade, political threats, and the seizure of trade ships imposed by Washington—are a clear violation of international law and the principle of self-determination, as well as a clear act of piracy. CIPOML believes American imperialism seeks to punish a people who challenge the hegemony historically imposed on the continent and who have shown the determination to control their own destiny and natural resources. With this attack on Venezuela, the American imperialists are not only attempting to seize the fate and resources of the Venezuelan people; it is a threat and a warning to the peoples of the world, especially those in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The attack on Venezuela comes shortly after attempts to establish American hegemony in the Middle East—aiming to completely rid the region of anti-American forces—where Trump, the leader of American imperialism, threatened to intervene against Iran. This imperialist aggressor, claiming to be the master and policeman of the world, attacks any power it views as an obstacle and must be stopped.

The principle of indivisible sovereignty over the American continent, announced by US imperialism at the end of November as an update to the Monroe Doctrine, is the basis of these imperialist atrocities against Venezuela.

This new imperialist attack on Venezuela is the latest step in a systematic strategy to gain control over countries that choose to follow their own path. In this context, Venezuelan sovereignty is part and parcel of the pride of its people. Defending Venezuela’s independence and sovereignty must therefore be an indispensable priority for all progressive and revolutionary forces aiming for a world based on peaceful coexistence and non-interference in internal affairs.

CIPOML therefore calls for active opposition to this attack, which adds new elements of turbulence to the international situation.

The voices of the workers and the people must be strong in defense of Venezuela. We reaffirm that we will not allow the rights to sovereignty and peace to be violated for a people who aim to build their future without foreign guardianship.

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
Coordinating Committee

Since 2014, we have been engaged in an important discussion with the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) regarding various issues. Among them are the nature of imperialism; becoming a defender of a “multi-polar world”; the imperialist character of Chinese and Russian investments and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran and across the world; the policies of the Iranian regime and its despotic and anti-democratic government; the meaning and essence of the independence of Iran; the right to self-determination of the oppressed nations, not only generally but in the current historical moment, especially the Kurdish nation in Iran and the nations of the Near and Middle East; the revolutionary and anti-imperialist role of the proletariat while the role of Iranian bourgeoisie is counter-revolutionary and only anti-American but not anti-imperialist; the role of women in the democratic struggle and in the transformation process in Iran; and other fundamental aspects related to the strategy and tactics of our Conference.

The parties and the organisations of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) have concurred on various occasions that the divergent positions held by the Party of Labour (Toufan) of Iran on these aspects over recent years differ substantially from our founding manifesto, our platform of struggle and the ideological and political guidelines of our Conference.

We inform the proletariat and the people of Iran, and all the militants of our parties and organisations, the democratic and anti-imperialist movement, and the forces and organisations of the popular camp that, as a result of this debate and refusal of the Party of Labour (Toufan) of Iran to rectify its positions, it has placed itself outside the ranks of our Conference– a decision we underscore as being its sole responsibility.

We call on all Marxist-Leninists, and revolutionaries in different countries to undertake more vigorously our fundamental tasks of the struggle against imperialism and for socialism, to defend Marxism-Leninism uncompromisingly, to combat old and new ideas alien to the interests of the working class, and to carry on tenaciously the struggle for the objectives and demands of our peoples. We, the CIPOML, as the representative of the proletariat, the main force against all imperialist aggressions and privileges, strongly condemn the aggressions of US imperialism and Israeli Zionism against Iranian people, and call on the proletarian revolutionaries of Iran to establish their proletarian party and unite with us.

All imperialists and reactionaries will be defeated, and we, the proletariat and the peoples of the world will win!

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
30th Plenary Session

With the political responsibility we assume as the revolutionary vanguard of the working class and the peoples and committed to strengthening the struggle to put an end to capitalism and fight for socialism, the organisations and parties that make up the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) have successfully concluded the work of its 30^th Plenary Session.

An objective analysis of world reality has led us to note the deepening of the fundamental contradictions of our era, the intensification of the general crisis of the capitalist-imperialist system, and the multiple negative consequences it imposes on the lives of the peoples. We live in a world that offers nothing good to workers, youth, and women from the popular sectors; a world in which the old desperately clings to power, even though it is rotten from within.

Inter-imperialist confrontation determines the course of the main events on the international stage. Its growing intensification bodes nothing favourable for the peoples; on the contrary, it brings about a slowdown of the world economy, the overexploitation of the working class, increased imperialist plunder, the intensification of violence against oppressed nations and dependent countries, the development of localized wars that may become more frequent, and the real risk of a military conflict of global proportions.

The capitalist-imperialist system, determined to extract the maximum profits and divide up domination of the planet, directly attacks the living and working conditions of the working masses and the peoples, and also causes irreparable damage to the environment.

The decline that U.S. imperialism has been experiencing for years, and its desperate drive to preserve its zones of influence and protect the interests of the monopoly groups that sustain its power, have brutally intensified its aggressiveness, openly manifested in the economic, commercial, political, and military spheres, as we have recently seen in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

China is currently the only imperialist power with the capacity and the will to challenge U.S. imperialism for hegemony. However, mutual recognition as rivals competing for world predominance does not eliminate the contradictions that both maintain with other imperialist powers and developed capitalist countries, nor does it cancel their struggles to preserve their own zones of influence.

We view with concern and repudiate the growing militarization of society, which cuts across the economic, political, and social spheres. The governments of the major powers and of many dependent countries subordinate their budgets, public policies, and forms of governance to preparations for confrontation, strengthening repressive apparatuses, criminalizing protest, and normalizing the military presence in areas that previously belonged to civilian life.

In this context, there is an advance of right-wing and openly fascist forces, which exploit the crisis to promote hate speech, restrict rights, divide workers and peoples, and shore up authoritarian projects in the service of big capital.

But in this world, protagonism is not found solely among the owners of capital. The working class and the peoples are carrying out significant protest actions that clearly demonstrate the advance of the class struggle. In the face of the Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people, millions of voices have been raised on all continents, denouncing the barbarity and demanding an end to relations with Israel and the Zionist occupation. Likewise, austerity policies, subjugation to foreign powers, the curtailment of democratic rights, and other expressions of the reactionary offensive have met with a firm response in the streets. The working class, youth, women, and broad popular sectors are mobilizing, rejecting these attacks and reaffirming their determination to achieve profound changes that improve their living conditions and open the way to a different future.

It is evident that mass movement struggles are being revived worldwide, along with the growing protagonism of youth in various countries. And when the masses find in struggle the path to win rights and confront their class enemies, they advance with greater determination, raise their levels of organization, and transform their indignation into a force capable of disputing the direction of society.

We live in a conflict-ridden world, but at the same time these are better times for the work that our parties and organizations carry out with a view toward organization and the triumph of the proletarian revolution and socialism.

It is imperative to work for the development and strengthening of a broad global anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movement; to keep aloft the banners against war, for peace, and for international solidarity among peoples; against the violence generated by the prevailing system. Our ultimate objective is to achieve the social and national emancipation of workers and peoples, a goal that can only be fulfilled with the working class in power.

For our parties to fulfil their mission of becoming the revolutionary vanguard of the workers, they must be strengthened in all respects –ideological, political, and organizational– and actively engage in political and social struggles.

The 30^th Plenary Session of the CIPOML reaffirms the commitment of its members to the working class and to the oppressed peoples and nations of the world. We advance firmly toward fulfilling the responsibilities imposed upon us by history.

November 2025