[Editorial Note: The Partisan is republishing the Cauca Declaration of the Founding Congress of the International Anti-Imperialist League (AIL), an international organization of anti-imperialist, democratic, and progressive organizations across the world. Other central documents of the Congress can be assessed here.]

On April 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the First Founding Congress of the International Anti-Imperialist League (AIL) was successfully held in Cauca, Colombia, a region with a history of peasant, popular, and anti-imperialist resistance.

This congress gave birth to the AIL with the drafting and approval of its founding documents: program, statutes, and resolutions of the First Congress. This organization is a tool for the struggle of the peoples, oppressed masses, and nations of the world to develop and wage new battles toward a single goal: to wipe imperialism off the face of the earth once and for all.

After years of hard work and constant struggle to achieve unity, the founding of the AIL is a victory for the exploited and oppressed of the world, achieved right under the nose of U.S. imperialism. The International Anti-Imperialist League takes on the task of uniting as many active forces as possible that fight against imperialism under the revolutionary banner of fighting and resisting without kneeling before the invader.

On the one hand, we see imperialism in a deep and acute crisis, with wars on the rise, a tendency to fascism, and a constant desperation to maintain exploitation and oppression; on the other hand, the peoples of the world are inflamed, enraged, and rising up seeking their liberation. This situation has placed on the agenda the essential task of bringing together all those willing to fight against imperialism and uniting the spontaneous anti-imperialist movement with the conscious revolutionary movement.

Consequently, the slogan that is now on the agenda and that we must raise is:

“Countries want sovereignty, nations want independence, and peoples want revolution.”

New times have arrived; the winds are blowing in favor of the peoples; the unity and organization of all those willing to struggle against imperialism is an urgent task. It is our duty to organize all efforts, initiatives, and struggles to act as a single fist and strike a blow against imperialism. Peoples of the world, we have a common enemy and a common goal: to cast this outdated and rotten system into the dustbin of history!

The First Congress of the AIL also pays its deepest tribute to all those revolutionaries and democratic masses who have given their lives in the anti-imperialist struggle and organization. In particular, to the internationalist militant Celedonio Luis Santibáñez, a Mexican revolutionary comrade who died while serving the cause of building the International Anti-Imperialist League. We swear, in the name of our martyrs, the poor masses of the world, the massacred Palestinian women and children, the peasants fighting for land, and the oppressed nations resisting the invader, to take up and strengthen the building of this instrument to drive a vigorous anti-imperialist movement, where the peoples unite their struggles and earn their freedom.

The anti-imperialist struggle must direct social and national liberation struggles in a revolutionary manner against imperialism, its collaborators and lackeys. All social problems and contradictions should be addressed in a manner that targets the imperialist system (monopoly capitalism) as the source of the problem and is directed against reactionary political power. Showing solidarity with those revolutionary struggles is essential; otherwise, one cannot be anti-imperialist.

Long live the International Anti-Imperialist League!
Death to imperialism!
Unleash a vigorous anti-imperialist movement that sweeps away imperialism!
The peoples of the world will defeat imperialism!

April 5, 2026
Anti-Imperialist League

Signatories:

• Action for Democratic Rights of the People (ADRV) – Austria
• Red League– Germany
• Anti-Imperialist Front – Chile
• El Pueblo Newspaper – Chile
• Coordinator of People’s Struggle – CLP–Colombia
• Student Movement at the Service of the People – MESP – Colombia
• League for the People’s Right – LDP – Colombia
• Coordinator of People’s Organizations of Cauca – Colombia
• Base People’s School – Colombia
• Popular Women’s Movement – MFP – Colombia
• Student Alternative– Colombia
• Peasent Leaders of Cauca – Colombia
• Alba Mapaches Colective – Colombia
• Critic Periphery “popular School for the peace” – Colombia
• Solidarity Committee with Sectors in Conflict – Oziel Tapasco Quintero –
  Colombia
• Student Movement for the People’s Struggles – MELP – Colombia
• Circle for Marxist Research and Education– CIEM – Colombia
• Support Group for Poor Peasants – Colombia
• New Democracy Press – Colombia
• Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People’s Rights (FRDDP) –
  Brazil
• Popular Revolutionary Student Movement – Brazil
• Poor Peaseant League – Brazil
• Revolucionary Student Movement- MFP – Brazil
• Class movement of Workers of Education-MOCLATE – Brazil
• Popular Women’s Movement – MFP – Brazil
• Civil Cintruction Workers union of the region of Bello Horizonte – BH
  MARRETA – Brazil
• Unified Union of the education workers of Minas Geais – Vespasiano-Brazil
• National Executive of Pedagogy Students – ExNEPe – Brazil
• Dawn of the People – AP – Brazil- Student Collective Children of the
  People – CEFP – Brazil
• Red Unit League of Revolutionary Youth – UV-LJR – Brazil
• Workers’ League – Brazil
• National federation of Oil workers- FNP-Brazil
• Brazilian Center of Solidarity with the Peoples – CEBRASP – Brazil
• A Nova Democracia newspaper – Brazil
• Anti-Imperialist Action – Denmark
• The Front fort the Defense of the People’s Struggles-Ecuador
• For People’s Democracy Collectives – Italy
• Anti-Imperialist League – France
• Red Action – Finland
• People’s Front Red Sun – Mexico
• Anti-Imperialist Action (AAI) – Portugal
• Mumia Abu-Jamal Collective (CMA-J) – Portugal
• Partizan – Turkiye
• Revolutionary Democratic Trade Union (DDSB)– Turkiye
• New Democratic Youth (YDG) – Turkiye
• New Democratic Women (YDK) – Turkiye
• Environmental Association (MÇD) – Turkiye
• Partisan Families of Martyrs and Prisoners (PŞTA) – Turkiye
• Union of Migrant Workers in Europe (AGEB) – Turkiye
• Federation of Turkish Workers and Youth in Austria (ATIGF) – Turkiye
• Federation of Turkish Workers in Switzerland (ITIF) – Turkiye
• Red Purple Collective – Turkiye
• Coordinating Committee of the Anti-Imperialist Front – United States
• The Partisan – United States
• Red Action – Finland
• Struggle Committee – Norway
• Bergen4Palestine – Norway
• Russian Support Group of the Anti-Imperialist League – Russian Federation
• Anti-Imperialist Front Coordinating Committee – United States
• Revolutionary Committees – Spain
• Sweden’s Anti-Imperialists – Sweden