Across all continents and throughout the world, hundreds of indigenous peoples have resisted for centuries the invasion of their territories, oppression and colonial and neocolonial exploitation of their bodies, their knowledge, and their natural resources by foreign powers, nation states, and private companies. The multidimensional crisis we currently experience constitutes the deepening of all threats to their forms of collective existence. Therefore, it is a matter of strategy and principle that the International Socialist League actively supports their demands:

For the full and inalienable right to self-determination.

For the right to create plurinational states where indigenous peoples demand it.

For the defense of their ways of life, including their languages, arts, educational systems, medicine, and their systems of community organization and justice.

For respect for their integrity, for the restitution and reparation of their territories by states and capitalist companies.

For access to land for cultivation, grazing, and for obtaining resources specific to their ways of life.

For access to the health, education, and social security benefits that have been denied to them.

For the defense of the right to free, prior, and informed consultation, established in Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization of the United Nations.

For the expulsion of transnational and national extractive companies from their territories.

For their full and inalienable right to truth, reparation, and justice for the aggressions and ethnocides perpetrated against them.

For the denunciation of new invasions, aggressions, persecutions, and threats perpetrated against them.

The International Socialist League will hold its First Open Conference of Pan-Amazonia and Caribbean of the ISL in July 2026, in the Amazonian city of Belém do Pará in Brazil, inviting organizations from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Venezuela, and Ecuador to attend.

Adopted by the III ISL Congress