Statement of Support for Camp Sovereignty
We, as members of NAILS and ROSY strongly condemn the racist attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne by Neo-Nazis. This attack been enabled by Australian government’s failure to support the rights of First Nations people and opposing right wing ideology.
Australia is constantly facing the presence of right wing extremism, threatening and attacking communities, including attacks against migrant people. This is enabled by the ruling class with the collaboration with the imperialist powers.
History proves that people cannot be suppressed for long by political and armed means. Every attack deepens the people’s determination to fight against oppression, until democratic rights is achieved. We support the First Nations People’s struggle for self-determination against all oppression in Australia.
The examples of such attack call on all those fighting against oppression, exploitation and occupation to remain steadfast, disciplined and united.
In solidarity,
National and Anti-Imperialist Liberation Solidarity (NAILS)
No to US Military Expansion: Talisman Sabre & the Escalation for War in Asia-Pacific
Joint statement written by NAILS (National and Anti Imperialist Liberation Solidarity, Australia (NAILS) and Resist US-Led War Movement
As the Talisman Sabre exercises conclude in Australia, we can plainly see the US agenda for military expansion and domination in our region. These are Australia’s largest multi-domain (army, navy, air force etc) exercises, with over 40,000 military personnel deployed, major tactical exercises, and over 19 countries participating for 3 weeks across US and Australian military areas. These exercises are dangerous for our communities and stoke the fires of inter-imperialist war in our region. From the bases, exercises, military storage, and arms sales, the US-Australia alliance has been a pillar of the US Indo-Pacific military strategy, to contain and attack its rival, China. We must understand the history and interests of the US using Asia Pacific to plunder our resources, and use our land for staging military aggression. We must also speak out against all forms of US military expansion in our country and in our region.
The capitalist crisis of the 1920s led to the Great Depression, exposing a contradiction between shrinking markets and unchecked overproduction. This crisis triggered global fallout and ultimately led to World War II. Since then, US imperialism has repeatedly brought the world to the brink through WWII, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, the Middle East, and now tensions with China, North Korea, and Iran.
Backed by nuclear weapons, a vast military-industrial complex, and dominance over global finance, the US enforces control through force when so-called “diplomacy” fails. Today, it’s preparing for war with China to reassert dominance in global commodity and debt markets.
The narrative is being set: Trump accuses China of sabotaging the US economy, and US defense officials warn of a Taiwan invasion by 2027. US military presence in the Philippines is growing, with 9 bases now, including new ones near Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Australia plays a key role as a military rear base for the US in the Pacific, as it did in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Its rare earth minerals are also vital for US weapon production.
US infrastructure on Australian military bases is being expanded to support western aspirations in the region. Imperialist competition between US and China is the primary feature that impacts the strategy of Australia’s collaborator ruling class to support US imperialist tactics. Darwin already hosts an annual rotation of up to 2,500 US Marines and there are plans to increase the number further. In December 2024 Japanese troops joined the US Marines in Darwin.
Under the US Force Posture Initiatives, the US defence force is in various stages of spending between $490 and $970 million to expand Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) bases in Darwin and Katherine, including command centres, barracks, and hangars. Maritime security analyst Bec Strating said the growing US investment in northern Australia was in recognition of the region’s geographical proximity to the Asia-Pacific.
Other recurring international military exercises conducted across northern Australia have also expanded in recent years including Exercise Talisman Sabre, Kakadu, and Predator’s Run. These events aim to develop military preparation and cross compatibility of the participating militaries primarily against China being the main competitor in the Indo-Pacific commodity and debt market and against and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, an independent country standing up against imperialism. The US is secondarily waging a genocidal war in West Asia with US-Israel aggression against Iran and the Axis of Resistance. In Europe, on the 3rd front, the US.-NATO led war in Ukraine against Russia has been going on for nearly 3 years, with key US imperialist interests to control Ukraine’s key raw materials (earth minerals, oil, and gas).
In 2005, Talisman Sabre involved just the US and Australia, while in 2025 it is hosting 19 countries in its largest ever iteration. They include a focus on rehearsing the deployment of lethal force and interoperability — the sharing of military communications and assets between nations. Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 (TS25) will be the 11th biennial exercise, hosted in Australia. It consisted of live fire exercises and field training exercises incorporating force preparation activities, amphibious landings, ground force maneuvers, and air combat and maritime operations.
In 2022, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) revealed RAAF Base Tindal, outside of Katherine, would host rotations of six nuclear-capable US B-52 bombers. Although US and Australian military figures have remained silent over when those deployments will begin.
Last year (2024) the Northern Territory hosted the biggest ever military Exercise Pitch Black, featuring thousands of personnel and 140 aircraft from 20 nations, including the United States, Japan, India, Indonesia, and Great Britain. The US imperialist power is tailoring its war-fighting tactics and capabilities to the unique geography of South-East Asia, the South-China Sea, East China Sea and the Indo-Pacific, which are potential hot spots. The involvement of Indonesia, Japan, and India in this military exercise clearly shows that the US-dominated comprador ruling class of these countries are taking sides in a geopolitical power struggle between China and the US.
As the US ramps up its military presence in the Northern Territory and its naval presence in Western Australia, some of Australia’s closest Asian neighbours are increasingly concerned about being drawn into the US-China regional rivalry.
The US military umbrella is also being stretched beyond Australia and Indonesia with the most recent and largest in its history Talisman-Sabre exercises currently being at sea in Indonesian waters and in North Queensland and Northern Territory where military testing of new missiles and weapons are under way. They will utilise a number of locations, including both Defence and non-Defence training areas. These locations provide a realistic test of how a large military force should function in a broad area of operations. TS25 will leverage locations and ranges for all domains of military operations: air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace. This not only threatens safety and security here in Australia, but to maintain operational secrecy, the locations used and destroyed are remote and often untouched natural areas of Australian bush land, destroying an untold number of flora and fauna in its wake.
The people of Australia are suffering under increasing cost of living pressures, unable to afford food or housing. Meanwhile, our government is pouring our taxpayer money into increasing our military, throwing hundreds of billions on AUKUS submarines and another 10 billion dollars commissioning new warships from Japan. Along with this, the Australian government has taken an active part in QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue; a strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States) and SQUAD (along with Philippines, United States and Japan), putting the lives of common Australians at risk being part of the US imperialist war effort. At the same time US demands Australia lifts defence spending by $40b a year ‘as soon as possible’ to support US war effort against China.
The Talisman Saber military exercises and the presence of foreign military bases in Australia have significant impacts on Indigenous communities, often disrupting their connection to ancestral lands and sacred sites. These large-scale operations, conducted in remote regions, can lead to environmental degradation, restricted access to traditional hunting and ceremonial grounds, and noise pollution that disturbs cultural practices. Additionally, the militarization of Indigenous territories raises concerns about sovereignty and the lack of meaningful consultation, as many communities oppose the use of their land for defense purposes. The exercises also risk damaging culturally significant landscapes, further marginalizing Indigenous peoples and perpetuating historical injustices tied to land dispossession and colonial military presence. Essentially such activities help reestablish the old settler colonial rule and deny the right for self-determination of Australia’s First Nations People.
The ordinary people of Australia and the United States have no hatred towards any other country. We want to live in peace and want to secure our income, housing, and living. At the same time, we oppose interfering with the democratic rights of the people of any other country.
The US currently leads a $1.7 trillion “modernisation” program for its expanding arsenal, perpetuating global nuclear terror and environmental devastation. As the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons in war, its refusal to disarm undermines global security, pushing rivals to maintain their own arsenals in self-defence. Every voice raised against this threat is crucial in highlighting how US imperialism holds the world hostage by nuclear blackmail. This aggression by the US imperialism and its subjugated ruling class like in Australia is only to protect the interests of US finance capital. It is with the aim of expanding this imperialist capital that the United States has attacked in the past from Korea to Vietnam, from Iraq to Afghanistan. For this purpose, they are carrying out genocide in Gaza with the help of Israeli Zionists and killing innocent civilians there. And for this same purpose, they are preparing for war against China, the victims of which will be billions of people in the world from Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, and many more.
We strongly oppose this war effort and military operations such as Talisman Sabre in preparation for it and hope that the democratic peace-loving masses of Australia and the United States will unite with the freedom-loving and anti-imperialist masses of other countries around the world.
Only a united struggle of ordinary democratic peace-loving people can stop and destroy the imperialist war machine. We must unite against the world’s primary nuclear threat: US-led war.
Solidarity towards united struggle against imperialist aggression and a peaceful world in the future.
Support the struggle for independent
Kashmir
India-Pakistan War and Kashmir
The entire Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan, Kashmir, India and Bangladesh, is becoming the center of gravity of imperialist rivalry between US and Chinese blocs. A place for inter-imperialist struggle to capture market, raw material, strategic military position against each other and exploitable cheap labour power.
Kashmir is one of the most important aspects of this puzzle. On one hand, imperialists want monopoly dominance over the raw material and militarily strategic location of Kashmir. On the other, the imperialist collaborator ruling class of India and Pakistan seek to hide their economic and political plight from the people of their countries through ultra-nationalist madness in the name of Kashmir.
Historically, Kashmir was never a part of India. They have their own rich cultural, linguistic and economic history – the Kashmiriyat. After conquering Kashmir, British colonialists included the territory within British-India. But since the India-Pakistan partition of “British Raj” in 1947, Kashmir remain as an unfinished business.
During colonialism, the struggle of the Kashmiri people against the feudal ruling class forced the local ruling class to become collaborator of British imperialism. Kashmir was one of the independent kingdoms and were forced to choose either Pakistan or India at the time of Partition. After their feudal king decided to join India against the popular demand for an independent state, the people of Kashmir lost their identity in front of India and Pakistani state. Currently, the people of Kashmir are fighting for their Azadi (freedom) from Indian (primarily an agent of the US imperialism) and Pakistani (primarily an agent of Chinese social imperialism) expansionist powers.
Since 1947, expansionist Indian ruling class has worked as an imperialist stooge, using their military to dominate various nationalities across the Indian subcontinent including Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Asam, Goa, Central India, Panjab, West Bengal, Telengana and more. This helps imperialist powers to exploit the local population and natural resources. India’s occupation over Kashmir and the ethnic cleansing of the local population is comparable in its horror to Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine.
The ongoing armed struggle for Kashmir’s independence claimed the lives of more than 80,000 people in Kashmir. This small valley is the most densely militarized zone in the world with more than 550,000 Indian armed forces active to Kashmir, destroying every democratic right of Kashmiri people. The people of Kashmir live under one of the most brutal military occupations in the world. They live under an incredibly vast and oppressive surveillance
network, with collaborators and spies in various sections of their society. The utter brutality, the kidnapping of young peoples and subsequent torture these people face is rarely, if ever,
reported by the imperialist media outlets.
Time and time again, the Indian government has continued to deny Kashmir’s self-determination and continuously rejects and suppresses every kind of democratic right they deserve. They have been denied any peaceful means to struggle for their right to self-determination and their struggle, and thus the Kashmiri national resistance, is just and legitimate.
We resolutely condemn Indian expansionist assault on the people of Kashmir and support the Kashmiri desires for sovereignty. The recent Indo-Pakistani war has nothing to do with the interests of the people of India, Pakistan or Kashmir, but rather with the expansionist interests of the fascist governments of India and Pakistan, who are agents of the imperialist powers and are working in the interests of imperialist’s military economies.
While the fascist Modi government and media of India are trying to stir up ultra-nationalist hysteria about Kashmir, they are shamelessly continuing the war against their own people by denying any kind of free press and suppressing the people’s democratic rights. Under the so-called “Operation Kaagar”, the Modi government have launched an offensive against
Indigenous people’s resistance with around 490,000 armed forces, including huge number of Airforce, military and para-military troops.
We are in complete support of the right to self-determination of the people of Kashmir. We oppose Indian or any other expansionist power’s occupation of Kashmir, as well as the war
machinations of US imperialism or any other foreign power. Every nation has the right to their freedom and no country has the right to force people to remain with or within it. Only the people of Kashmir have the right to determine the future of Kashmir.
- Long live the struggle of Kashmiri people against imperialist and expansionist powers!
- Condemn the war effort between India and Pakistan!
- Support resolutely the democratic rights of Kashmiri people!
- Condemn the Indian aggression and occupation of Kashmir!
- Solidarity with the Palestinian and Kashmiri people!
- Withdraw all armed forces including Indian and Pakistan and demilitarise the Kashmir Valley!
- Cancel all Armed Forces Special Power Act from Kashmir!
- Unite against Indian expansionism!
People are driven to unite against their enemies. Sanction and boycott Indian government now.