This competition is exacerbating wars in Asia Pacific, West Asia, and Eastern Europe, and spreading U.S.-led military aggression and intervention in Palestine, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba. The Pax Silica initiative drives forward a renewed attack on sovereignty to control land and resources like oil and critical minerals. The Pax Silica is a losing deal for the peoples of the world and the environment, and will not bring genuine development. We oppose the US government and all governments that facilitate the further violations of national sovereignty, quell the people’s aspirations for self-determination wherever it is implemented.

Pax Silica will intensify and expand U.S. militarism and the war economy, escalating the race to dominate the artificial intelligence supply chain, especially for surveillance and weapons technology, to reap super profits. We oppose the diversion of public resources and national budgets to the military industrial complex and to AI/tech monopoly corporations while workers and families continue to suffer from mass layoffs, declining wages, and government neglect.

We especially uplift national liberation struggles and peoples’ movements in the global south, like in the Philippines, Korea and Palestine, as well as the struggles of indigenous peoples, farmers, and land defenders against land-grabbing, extraction, and forced displacement. Together with struggles of working peoples’ throughout the world, we commit to wage campaigns to stop Pax Silica and the related AI/tech projects impacting our workplaces and communities.

We oppose the stealing of indigenous peoples’ ancestral domain; the impacts of large-scale mining like deforestation, soil degradation, toxic runoff, landslides and flooding; and the air pollution and high consumption of water and electricity of mega-data centers in countries and communities that barely have the infrastructure to sustain and develop the majority of its population.

We promote building economies which serve the interests of the people, preserve the resources and land, and expand the livelihood and wellbeing of working people. We uphold the peoples’ just struggle for the land they work, control of the resources in the interests of society as a whole, genuine development, and an end to government corruption which steals from and sells out the people.

We support the fight of artists and indigenous peoples to preserve cultural heritage and practice. We support the fight of workers, scientists, artists, educators, engineers, and all sectors to develop society for the benefit of all working people. We oppose the usage of artificial intelligence and technology which degrade the people and culture and propagate lies which reinforce the current system.