105 years ago, Armistice Day was proclaimed to celebrate the end of the “war to end all wars.” Since that historic announcement, the Occupied U.S. government has been in a state of perpetual war on behalf of a handful of monopoly capitalists with no loyalty to the nation it bleeds at the front. From Vietnam to Iraq, the disastrous policy of imperialism has destroyed entire nations and compromised trust in America for the purpose of merciless looting and plunder by an exploiting few.

Not content with inflicting death, destruction and suffering of millions of innocent civilians, the ruling imperialist clique impoverishes and immiserates the very same veterans it used to carry out its atrocities against mankind. Veterans comprise more than one in ten homeless individuals, and one half are left with mental health disorders. 80% of veterans struggle with alcohol abuse, 30% battle drug addiction, and 33% will take their own life. Young men preyed upon as early as High School suffer the consequences of the inhuman foreign policy of the ruling class and are abandoned when they are no longer useful for it. Nothing can serve as further proof of the fact that the warmongers serve only the cause of enriching the profits of monopoly capital.

The American Communist Party extends its revolutionary solidarity with the veterans and servicemen of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been deceived, exploited, and abandoned by the Occupied U.S. Government. It upholds the vision of George Washington, who warned against “permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world,” and stands against the unpatriotic and imperialist foreign policy of the war machine. It calls for a comprehensive and immediate political solution to the U.S. veterans’ crisis and the uncompromising destruction of the Military-Industrial Complex that is the source of the barefaced robbery and exploitation of the American people and the people of the world.

The Party stands with the abandoned veterans of the United States and fights to smash the American imperialist war machine. The only legitimate American war it recognizes is the class war, and the only victory it recognizes as belonging to the American people is the political supremacy of the working class.