France – “Anti-imperialists of the world, let’s unite!”: Presentation document of the Anti-Imperialist League
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a document shared by La Cause du Peuple.
We are sharing the presentation document of the Anti-Imperialist League, an international organization whose French section will be launched on February 28. We call on all progressives, revolutionaries, and sincere anti-imperialists to study this text and attend the launch conference of the French section of the Anti-Imperialist League in February!
“Historically, all reactionary forces on the verge of extinction invariably conduct a last desperate struggle against the revolutionary forces, and some revolutionaries are apt to be deluded for a time by this phenomenon of outward strength but inner weakness, failing to grasp the essential fact that the enemy is nearing extinction while they themselves are approaching victory.”
Mao Tse-tung, The turning point in World War II
The final surge… The threshold of its demise… Today, it is fashionable to dismiss such an interpretation of history by these gentle dreamers of revolutionary times, and many oppose it with the sole indisputable and undeniable triumph of a single camp: that of imperialism and its system. A system that, far from being on the brink of collapse, dominates the entire world politically, economically, militarily, and culturally, even in the most remote corners, constantly expanding its sphere of influence, imposing its domination, and exponentially monopolizing all the wealth of the globe. An omnipotent system—the supreme stage of capitalism—has now succeeded in imposing itself as the one and only globalized model, bringing ever more oppressed peoples and nations under its boot and yoke, plundering resources and territories endlessly and unchecked, and imposing its own deregulated rules, without rights or laws, on workers around the world. A system that, through excessive speculation and corruption, fosters unprecedented wealth and power for an unchallenged minority, in an organized manner, by a majority too preoccupied with survival. So yes, if there is one interpretation of history that seems to prevail today in all corners of the world, it would be that of the undisputed victory of imperialism and the sole domination of its ideology, its political, economic, and military system, established and imposed everywhere, willingly or by force.
And yet, how can we not feel at the same time the fragility of this giant with feet of clay? How can we not see that the pseudo-strength of the imperialist powers conceals, on the contrary, the inner weakness of these paper tigers? How can we fail to understand the increasingly exacerbated contradictions between these powers, which are now ready to confront each other directly in open conflict in order to redivide the world, even if it means plunging humanity into a third world war? How can we fail to hear the muffled cries of the countries that are being chained together, one after another, engulfed in revolts and popular wars, shaking off the yoke of colonization through their struggles for national liberation or by dethroning the local lackeys of the imperialists? How can we fail to understand, when reading history, that these external wars, this rampant militarism, this exaggerated patriotism and the gangrene of an increasingly rampant reactionary movement the main aim is to patch up the internal fractures of a capitalist system in decay, prey to the upheavals of popular demands, protests, and revolts that have been managed until now but will soon become potentially unmanageable?
And yet, how can we not feel at the same time the fragility of this giant with feet of clay? How can we fail to see that the pseudo-strength of the imperialist powers conceals, on the contrary, the inner weakness of these paper tigers? How can we fail to understand the increasingly exacerbated contradictions between these powers, now ready to confront each other directly in open conflict to redivide the world, even if it means plunging humanity into a third world war? How can we fail to hear the muffled cries of the countries that are being chained together, one after another, engulfed in revolts and popular wars, shaking off the yoke of colonization through their struggles for national liberation or by dethroning the local lackeys of the imperialists? How can we fail to understand, when reading history, that these external wars, this rampant militarism, this exaggerated patriotism and the gangrene of an increasingly rampant reactionary movement the main aim is to patch up the internal fractures of a capitalist system in decay, prey to the upheavals of popular demands, protests, and revolts that have been managed until now but will soon become potentially unmanageable? Imperialism is indeed in its final throes of an ever more acute, deep, and systemic crisis that it can only provoke as a system of domination and exploitation of the minority against the majority and through the antagonistic contradictions it generates within itself. In its frantic and ever more greedy race to grab ever more wealth, resources, control of strategic areas, an ever more exploited workforce and to redivide the world, how could such a moribund system not generate within itself anything other than unjust wars, genocide, misery, famine, and the destruction of people, resources, and the planet? This system, on the brink of global explosion and implosion, owes its survival solely to the systematic use of violence in all its forms—ideological, political, financial, economic, social, military, and cultural—to establish its domination and pseudo-hegemony. It is held together only by the yoke it imposes on the peoples at its center and on its periphery, through its direct armed interventions, the diktats of its treaties, its fomented coups d’état, its plans for the balkanization of nation states, its diplomatic, monetary, financial, and economic pressure, its alliances of convenience and its ever-present lackeys, its plans for restructuring, relocation, and privatization, its international and national institutions for maintaining its peace, its bourgeois democracy, and its parliamentary cretinism, and through the repression of its class justice, its intelligence services, its national militias, and its overarmed armies. However, this yoke, far from being eternal—as the history of past systems of domination has shown—can only sooner or later be broken in this disproportionate balance of power and these antagonistic contradictions that it conditions and which generate ever greater inequalities and the impoverishment of billions of human beings by a handful of a few thousand. One need only look at the state of the world today to understand not only the inevitable failure of this system, but also the immediacy of the breaking point, the fracture and the shift from this old state to the establishment of another world that must not only be built, but truly won.
Behind the glittering veneer of the endless announcements made by the club of ultra-rich individuals and their media watchdogs to deliver the latest rankings of heirs and new entrants, there exists first and foremost the reality firmly rooted in the lives of people across the globe who, in their flesh and in their daily lives, relentlessly confront the violence of this system in an attempt to escape it, survive it, and even live. But the equation is not the one that these powerful people, their acolytes, and the prevailing fatalism brandish every day in the uninterrupted stream of their filthy words: that of the dominant destined to grow fat and the dominated forced to suffer. The reality of power relations is much more complex, and the time is not far off when fear will change sides, giving rise to a new era for the cause of the people and peoples. Proof of this can be seen in the cracks and fissures that are appearing here and there, and there much more than here, to thwart the plans of the imperialists and free themselves from the yoke of exploitation and domination of this system, because the people know that they have nothing to lose but their chains. Wherever misery is sown, the anger of the masses rumbles and rises, refusing to admit, bend, or submit; everywhere, the world is boiling over with demands, protests, uprisings, revolts, resistance, and struggles, national liberation struggles, and peoples’ wars; everywhere, the streets are also filled with an uninterrupted stream of demonstrators rejecting the barbarism of this system and tirelessly chanting their unconditional and international solidarity with the peoples – all united and determined, once forces have been gathered and final rehearsals organized, to sooner or later break down the last protective barrier of these powerful figures entrenched in their golden citadel, untouched by time and history. From poor and landless peasants in Brazil, India, the Philippines, and elsewhere around the world fighting for the central issue of land, to strikes, blockades, and sabotage by workers around the world fighting for their just and legitimate demands for a dignified life, to the youth of Y en a marre in Senegal and Generation Z in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Morocco, Peru, Turkey, and elsewhere denouncing the corruption of political elites, social inequalities, lack of infrastructure and public services, all express, either implicitly or openly through their actions and the violence of their anger, the imperative to put an end to an alienating mode of production and to all those wealthy individuals who are in control or who are gorging themselves on it.
Resistance is a right, and only struggle pays off! The masses and oppressed peoples and nations know this well: there is no alternative to their emancipation other than to be part of this balance of power and this confrontation. And if further proof were needed, we need only look once again at the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people, who for more than a century have faced oppression under the colonial yoke of the Zionist entity, the organic arm of the imperialist powers in the region, and which, against all odds, despite all the attacks since the arrival of the first settler on its historic land to the current genocide in Gaza, still continues to resist. For yes, in the face of barbarism, oppression, and exploitation, there is no alternative but resistance, which, once organized, can only express itself in one way, through the only just solution to contradictions: the path of revolution, that uprising, that act of violence by which one class overthrows another and can only bring down imperialism and all forms of reaction.
The time is not far off when the spark will inevitably set the plain ablaze: all the visible and latent contradictions and their manifestations on the ground are clear signs of this—until the planet itself cracks and erupts. In this new historical era, “we must banish from our ranks any ideology of weakness and powerlessness, for any viewpoint that overestimates the strength of the enemy and underestimates the strength of the people is wrong!” ” (Mao Zedong). However, banishing from our ranks any ideology of weakness and powerlessness necessarily begins with the imperative to regroup, unite our forces, and organize ourselves: the enemy knows how to use this tactic of alliance to ensure the continuity of its domination and its system when its interests are threatened. Conversely, how could we, in our own camp, go into battle without this, in disarray?
We are the people and the future belongs to us, but to achieve this we must unite against imperialism, Zionism, fascism, and all forms of reaction. The Anti-Imperialist League is promoting this project and this dynamic on a global scale: it is up to us to make it a reality in France so that we can fight together—by coordinating our respective forces and expressions—against our own imperialism, its class war, and its wars of plunder, in which none of our children, brothers, or loved ones will be sacrificed. Anti-imperialists of the world and of France, let us unite!
Imperialism and all reactionaries are nothing but paper tigers!
Dare to struggle! Dare to win!
Against imperialism, Zionism, fascism, revisionism, and all forms of reaction, let us unite for victory or victory!
Paris, December 2025
Anti-Imperialist League (France)
laifrance@proton.me
