ILPS Global Day of Action For Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day

Background Context:

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the barbaric bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle joins the Japanese people and all peace loving peoples in commemorating the event and in condemning the continuing nuclear proliferation threat from the US and its imperialist allies.

The US has constantly intimidated and blackmailed the whole world into submission using nuclear armaments. Despite many multilateral treaties passed to try and stop the growth of nuclear weapons, such as the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, multiple versions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the US has either not signed, has found loopholes around, or simply ignored these and continued its aggression and provocative threats of “nuclear readiness” against its rivals. The US has also threatened its rival countries that were suspected, sometimes baselessly accused, of developing nuclear weapons such as Libya, Iraq, Iran, and others.

There are believed to be close to 4,000 active nuclear weapons in the world today, with the total number including reserve stockpiles numbering over 12,000 as of the beginning of 2025. Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Türkiye all host land-based nuclear weapons of the US. South Korea, Australia, Japan, multiple states within the NATO alliance, and other countries are believed to host US nuclear aircraft or submarines.

Even without a single nuclear weapon ever being used in an act of war, their existence harms many peoples and communities along their supply chains. Uranium miners are subject to harmful radiation and are often recruited from rural working class and peasant communities with few other options for livelihood. Exposure to these mines and the waste from many enrichment and manufacturing sites also reaches the wider communities living near these areas, such as throughout the Congo, Niger, Namibia, Kazakhstan, and parts of Australia, Canada, Russia, China, and the US. Most of the world’s uranium is mined on indigenous land.

Thus, instead of calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons now, we instead call for the US to be disarmed of its nuclear weapons so that the historic nuclear threat it has posed to the world’s people and many states is no longer the leading factor of the nuclear arms race.

Call for International Day of Action:

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki and honoring the thousands of innocent lives lost, the surviving victims with their long-term suffering and their fading memories as silent witnesses to the horror of nuclear bombs under imperialist aggression, the ILPS calls on all the world’s peoples to intensify their struggle against US imperialism and its barbaric and terrorist policy of producing, maintaining, using and threatening to use nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. 80 years is enough.

The following calls can be issued during these actions:

• End US Nuclear Terrorism!
• No More Hiroshimas! No More Nagasakis!
• Stop the Imperialist Drive for Nuclear Weapons!
• End US Wars of Aggression!
• Fight Against Imperialist Wars!
• Hands Off Iran!
• Hands Off DPRK!
• Down with US Imperialism!
• Fight for Just and Lasting Peace!

Actions that can be taken on or around August 6 and 9:

HOLD ACTIONS in front of US embassies and the offices of weapons companies and other war profiteers on August 6 and/or 9, or digitally to raise awareness of the crimes of US wars of aggression.

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 #WeShallReturn. Email footage to [email protected]

WRITE AND PUBLISH STATEMENTS commemorating the historic crime of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the condemning the wars of aggression that the US waged and provoked around the world as the leading nuclear power.

• Use the ILPS global statement as reference, “80 Years is Enough: Resist US Imperialist Wars of Aggression and Nuclear Bullying”

 HOLD POLITICAL EDUCATION sessions publicly or within your organizations on the history of US wars of aggression and the threat of imperialist nuclear weapons.

• Attend the August 10th webinar, Remembering the Bombings, Fighting US Imperialist Aggression
  • For Asia/Europe/Africa: 2pm CET / 3pm Kenya / 8pm Manila / 9pm Tokyo
    • Register: bit.ly/ILPS-HN1
  • For Americas: 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern
    • Register: bit.ly/ILPS-HN2
• View and use the ILPS video reels:
  • Why are the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki even more relevant today?
  • Who is violating nuclear treaties: Israel and the U.S. or Iran?
  • Join the ILPS Day of Action for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day in a few ways!
• Use the ILPS primer, “Nuclear Weapons, US Imperialism, and the Fight for Just and Lasting Peace”. Download it here, as well as a printable version here.