The International Association of Democratic Lawyers joins hands with the Filipino people in condemning the presence of US President Donald Trump at the ASEAN Summit which will be held in Manila on the 16th to the 18th of this month.
As progressive and democratic lawyers celebrating our 80th year of fighting fascism, imperialism and hegemonism, the IADL joins the voice of the Filipinos and the rest of the world in condemning Trump’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
For one, the lameduck Donald and his sidekick Benjamin Netanyahu have been found guilty of genocide, ecocide and crimes against humanity by the IADL-endorsed International People’s Tribunal on “The Right to Resist: The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation and the US Government” in November 2025 in Barcelona.
The IADL is also in the forefront of indicting Trump for his illegal economic and military blockade against Cuba that is causing massive suffering, hunger, deprivation, and lack of basic medical supplies resulting in deaths and sickness among the civilian population.
We also condemned the criminal abduction by Trump of Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro and leader Cilia Flores, his murder of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family, and his unprovoked war on Iran that has caused not only the suffering, death and injuries to the people, but has also resulted in global economic and energy crisis and repercussions.
The visit of lameduck Donald to the ASEAN Summit in Manila is opposed by the Filipino people. People’s organizations of farmers, women, workers, drivers and coalitions of patriotic organizations in Manila and elsewhere have launched a series of protest actions, public meetings, information drives, with the united call “Trump Out”. Filipino migrants and diaspora all over the world are calling Trump Out!
They condemn the hegemonic wars of Trump, his economic trade blackmail, the aggressive US incursions in the Philippines like the presence of US military forces and missiles in bases called EDCA sites, and the flagrant warmongering of the US Navy through successive war games and exercises in the South China Sea to provoke China that are putting the Philippines in harm’s way.
They oppose the new Trump initiative involving 12 countries, called Pax Silica to use hectares of indigenous and agricultural lands in the Philippines to serve as a hub for war preparations including: critical mineral extraction, energy inputs and advanced manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and logistics to ensure the hegemony of the United States, through neocolonialism and imperialism.
The IADL has stood against fascist demagoguery and imperialism since its founding in 1946 during the Nuremberg Trials against Hitler’s minions. Today, another fascist demagogue Donald Trump wields the superior powers of US imperialism to strangle the world. He shall not pass!
IADL stands in firm solidarity with the Filipino people and the peoples of the world who are being victimized today by US wars of aggression, imperialist plunder of critical minerals and resources, and unilateral coercive sanctions against sovereign states like Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and Palestine that are not toeing the Donald Trump line. We shout in unison TRUMP OUT!