ILPS Global Day of Action for Day of the Disappeared

Background Context:

Enforced disappearance is not an isolated crime but a deliberate policy of state terror aimed at demobilizing, silencing, and eliminating popular organizations and the people in general.

This reality reflects the cruelty of state terrorism as a tool for the ruling class to maintain control in a capitalist system that thrives on exploitation and oppression. Forced disappearance is an extreme expression of class struggle, where state forces acting in defense of bourgeois interests, resort to repression and enforced silence to crush the organization of working people and democratic resistance.

They are part of a systematic policy to eliminate all resistance to imperialist hegemony. Enforced disappearances exemplify fascism–a violent mechanism imperialist powers and their client states use to maintain control. The struggle against enforced disappearances is inseparable from the struggle against imperialism, fascism, and all forms of class exploitation.

On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (August 30, 2025), the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) remembers and honors the victims of this brutal and systematic practice.

Call for International Day of Action:

The ILPS urgently calls on all peoples to unite against these crimes, demand justice, and hold perpetrators accountable. Only through collective resistance, truth-seeking, and solidarity can we end enforced disappearances and build a world founded on dignity, justice, and genuine freedom.

The following calls can be issued during these actions. Click on them to download printable placards:

Actions that can be taken on or around August 30th:

HOLD ACTIONS in front of key government or police installations of fascist regimes that are committing enforced disappearances. Actions can also be held in front of US or other imperialist embassies to bring attention to the imperialist backers of these regimes.

TAKE A PHOTO of yourself or members of your organization holding signs with the action calls above.

Footage of mobilizations along with photo actions should use the hashtag #FightBackFascism. Email footage to [email protected]

WRITE AND PUBLISH STATEMENTS commemorating the crimes of forced disappearances and celebrating the fight for peoples’ rights against fascist regimes and the imperialist system.

Use the ILPS global statement as reference, Surface All the Disappeared! Fight Fascist State Terror!

HOLD POLITICAL EDUCATION sessions publicly or within your organizations on current cases of desaparecidos in your country or local communities, and local anti-fascist campaigns. Hold education sessions on the historic development of fascist regimes, their connection to imperialism, and the fight of the people against these regimes.

Attend the education series, Fightback Fascism, happening from now until December 2025, to learn more about the history of fascism and the current fight against fascist regimes and the imperialist system that backs them. Stay tuned to the ILPS social media and email list serve on announcements for the next activities and calls to action in the series
Attend the August 31st webinar, Fascism: Then and Now, part one of the ILPS Fightback Fascism series
- Sunday, August 31st – 9am Buenos Aires / 3pm Nairobi / 5:30pm Mumbai / 8pm Manila
  - Register here