On
the occasion of NATO’s summit, in Brussels, in July 2018 and of all
the mobilisations that will be organized to denounce this war
mongering military alliance, we say :
No
to NATO
No
to European war policy
International
solidarity against reaction and the policy of war and austerity of
imperialism
The
11th
and 12th
July, the representatives of 29 States, members of the biggest
military coalition, led by US imperialism, will hold their annual
meeting in NATO’s bunker, Brussels.
In
continuing Obama’s program, but with his own provocative style,
Trump has pressured his allies to raise their war budgets to 2% of
the GNP and they all agreed. In all the NATO members states, the
governments are increasing the budgets devoted to new weapons by tens
of billions of Euros, crowns, liras, etc., at the expanse of the
budgets for education, health, social demands. The militarisation of
economies and States is developing rapidly.
The
Nordic countries are more and more involved in the US, NATO and EU
strategy of encircling Russia, transforming this strategic zone into
a vast camp of training for thousands of soldiers, tanks, aircrafts
and vessels, and of electronic spying, surveillance and guidance of
missiles through satellites and huge radars.
At
the same time, all the facilities are given to NATO troops and
vehicles to travel all around the EU countries, under the leadership
and control of a new ‘logistical” command centred in Ulm
(Germany).
In
the context of sharp crisis of the worldwide imperialist system, the
contradictions between imperialist powers are increasing. Trump is
destabilizing the existing imperialist “order” and its
“multilateral” agencies, rules and treaties, in order to
reinforce US hegemony. NATO is also impacted, even if the “common
interest” between the US and the big imperialist powers in Europe
against Russia are prevailing, as can be seen in the relationships
between the EU and NATO.
Under
the pressure of French and German imperialist powers, the EU is
developing a “common policy of defence”, with several
initiatives, such as PESCO, European fund for defence, etc. Billions
of Euros are devoted to developing new weapons for the European
market first and for getting a bigger share of the international
market for weapons. The Middle East reactionary monarchies, Egypt,
Israel, Turkey, etc. are “good” clients, no matter if their
policy has nothing to do with the “democratic values of Europe”.
In
fact, the ruling class in Europe tramples on these same “values”
towards migrants who are trying to escape the wars waged by the same
imperialist powers (in Africa, in the Middle East – and the misery
that they provoke by plundering the wealth of these continents (oil,
raw material, water, soil, etc.). The reinforcement of “Frontex”
– a kind of European Police of borders goes along with the
reinforcement of the collaboration with NATO in the Mediterranean
Sea. The result: more difficulties and dangers for the migrants,
constant police harassment, more drowning...
The
militarization is presented by Macron and Merkel as one of the best
way to promote a new step for European integration. This fact shows
the reactionary nature of the EU. The big monopolies of the weapon
industries, especially German and French ones, have contracts of
billion of Euros, for years, which mean billions of sure profits.
This is of course a matter of friction between the US and EU
monopolies.
We
support the growing people’s opposition to the policy of war,
militarisation and against NATO and European war policy
The
peoples’ opposition to this policy of war is developing on the
local, national, regional and international level. We support them
strongly in each of our countries and work to develop international
solidarity and common work between all these movements, under the
slogan: no to NATO, no to European War policy.
We
support the opposition to raising the budgets of war, under the
slogan:
“Money
for education, health and social demands; no money for bombs, no
money for wars”.
We
support the opposition to US and NATO bases, in the different
countries where they are installed and demand the withdrawal of all
the nuclear missiles and bombs in the air bases.
We
stand clearly for the dissolution of NATO.
We
extend this mobilization against the foreign military bases of the
States that are members of NATO, especially, the French bases in
Africa and against the military operations of the EU and European
States in Africa, especially in Mali, in the Middle East, etc.
We
continue to oppose the war against Syria, which is extending to the
whole region and say “no” to any kind of war against Iran.
We
support the struggle of the Palestinian people for its national
rights and denounce strongly the policy of Israel, the war criminal
Netanyahu and its international supporters: Israel is closely linked
to the US and NATO and participates in many common military
exercises.
We
mobilize against the policy of “modernization of nuclear weapons”,
promoted by US imperialism and also followed by France, UK, etc. and
the evolution of the doctrine of employment as “first strike”.
We
support the popular movement of opposition in the Nordic countries to
militarisation and the transformation of this zone into a battlefield
between the US, NATO and EU on one hand and Russia on the other hand.
We
are convinced that the peoples’ movement can develop broadly, on
clear anti-imperialist bases, that does not rally to one imperialism
against another but seeks to develop the ties with peaceful,
democratic, anti-war, internationalist, anti-imperialist,
revolutionary movements all over the world.
We
insist on involving the workers’ movement, the trade union
movement, the women’s movement and the youth in this large front,
against war, militarisation, for freedom and social progress.
The
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and
Organizations, of Europe.
June
2018
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