The American Party of Labor is proud and humbled to announce its promotion to full membership within the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO). The decision was made by a unanimous vote among the delegates of over 20 member organizations from around the world at the 2024 plenary of the Conference.

Trump’s re-election is yet another step towards open barbarism and the institutionalization of a reactionary form of politics representative of the general decline of the American capitalist system. Trump’s victory opens a new period of potential violence against minorities, women, all marginalized peoples, and the working class at large, necessitating the organization of immediate resistance.

The Zionist invasion of Lebanon is a criminal war of aggression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in the service of imperialism. This attack is a war crime that must be condemned by all the peoples of the world. Despite statements from the bourgeois ruling politicians in the U.S. that a broader regional war would be avoided, they have once again proven themselves to be genocidal liars. Just as the U.S. Government claimed they would prevent Israel from a ground invasion of Rafah, yet continued arming Israel as they bombed refugee camp after refugee camp, the U.S. imperialists will continue to send billions of dollars of aid to Israel for Zionist expansion into Lebanon. Our rulers blatantly display their own hypocrisy and their true pro-war interests when they make braggadocious proclamations as Kamala Harris did at the 2024 Democratic National Convention: “As commander in chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”

A little more than thirty years have passed since the so-called Cold War came to an end, and the world is experiencing a conflict-ridden moment due to the exacerbation of contradictions between the imperialist powers, who continue to fan the danger of a new world conflagration. The seriousness of the current scenario is due to the depth and breadth of the problems that arise, to the forces and factors that act on the world stage, and to the serious implications that, in the future, can increase the current problems. But, at the same time, it is a period in which there is a rise in the struggle and rebellion of the workers, youth, women, peasants, peoples, and indigenous people, who –facing the governments’ anti-popular plans– demand their rights and condemn authoritarian and warmongering policies.

We, the Latin American parties of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO), held a productive meeting in which we analyzed the economic, political and social scenarios unfolding in the region; we evaluated our revolutionary political activity in each of our countries; and, we defined our activities for the immediate future: