SWP NC Statement: US Out of the Middle East! – The Militant

[….] Washington has been and remains the biggest obstacle to Israel obtaining a decisive defeat of Hamas. The US rulers’ objective is to strengthen their own class domination of the countries and peoples of the Middle East, in order to exploit the natural wealth and labor of millions of Arabs, Jews, Kurds, Druze, Yazidis, and others. To impose a Pax Americana — an American imperialist peace of the grave — across that region. As we’re already seeing, Washington’s assault on Iran and its buildup of massive firepower in the Middle East increase the likelihood of more devastating wars both there and around the world. The US rulers’ actions are dragging humanity toward a third world war.

As the Socialist Workers Party National Committee stated in the immediate aftermath of Washington’s air attacks on Iran in June 2025: “The US ruling class has its eyes firmly fixed on plunder. On pillage of the Middle East’s vast natural resources — oil and gas fields, above all — and exploitation of its low-wage labor.

“Amid the capitalist world’s profit-driven rivalries and arms buildups today, the last thing Washington wants is to destabilize its economic, political, and strategic relations with bourgeois governments in the Middle East. It acts to maintain US imperialism’s interests — and its control — over what happens there.” And the SWP statement concluded:

“Iran’s working people, of many nationalities, remain the most important curb on the aims of the regime there. They are feared by both the Iranian rulers and imperialist powers. . . .

“The crisis of imperialism is accelerating, and conflicts among rival capitalist powers are becoming ever more explosive. As during the buildup to the second imperialist slaughter of the twentieth century, Jew-hatred and violence are once again being openly embraced as a banner of reaction. It is capitalism and the ruling classes who are the enemy of working people everywhere, however, not ‘the Jews.'”

Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews!

US troops, bases, and warships out of the Middle East!

SWP NC Statement: US Out of the Middle East! – The Militant