Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties for the 60th anniversary of NATO
Segunda 6 de Abril de 2009
Working Group
"The
4th April 2009, is the 60th
anniversary since the foundation of NATO, the imperialist
organisation which is under the leadership of the USA.
NATO
was created allegedly in order to confront the USSR, the first
workers’ state in the world that withstood and confronted
successfully the attack of the Nazi plague, giving a new impetus to
the struggle for national and social liberation all over the world.
At
the same time, the capitalist governments of the USA, Canada and West
Europe needed a military political mechanism to repress and
intimidate the peoples. This need was served by the foundation of
NATO.
Its
goal was to confront and obstruct with the use of arms any type of
progressive changes. For that reason, but also for ensuring the
interests of imperialism, NATO supported the reactionary regimes and
dictatorships in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, while it played a
leading role in the partition of Cyprus.
Its
action was based, and still does, on anticommunism and all types of
fabrications and provocations against the revolutionary communist
movement and peoples’ struggle for peace, social justice,
socialism.
NATO’s
history in its role as world “sheriff” of imperialism is linked
to violations of the international law. It is marked with the blood
of victims of its direct or indirect interventions throughout the
world.
Especially
nowadays the character of NATO as a military mechanism, as a basic
tool of imperialist action inside the member states as well as
outside their borders for the establishment of the “new order”
has been fully revealed.
The
argument that NATO was an allegedly defensive Treaty is a lie and
empty propaganda aiming at concealing the real goals and role of this
aggressive organisation. Since the Summit in Rome in 1992 and in 1999
in Washington, NATO adopted a new doctrine that provides the
possibility of intervention in the whole world, in the name of new
threats, under the pretext of combating terrorism, the protection of
natural sources’ flow etc. During this period NATO moved on with
its new structure which is based mainly on the aggressive “rapid
deployment forces”.
The
USA along with the EU have organised the dissolution of Yugoslavia
and in this way NATO triggered off the war in Bosnia, realized the
dirty war against Serbia, with the 78 days of bombing in 1999 that
levelled the country to the ground and led to NATO and EU occupation
of Kosovo and its “independence” from Serbia.
The
wars of NATO in the Balkans and Afghanistan, the participation in the
war in Iraq, the interventions in Pakistan, in South Asia have proved
that the imperialist brutality. "NATO
was always the main supporter for Israel in its aggression policy
against Palestinian people and other Arab peoples. NATO, also,
played, and still plays a role in the siege imposed on Gaza. Contrary
to peoples’ will, NATO attempts to draw to its web Ukraine and
Georgia. It encourages in every possible way their armament,
supporting the most reactionary circles of these countries. The
imposition of a “new order” have as an enemy the states and the
peoples that react to the imperialist aggressiveness. Therefore, it
escalates the armament and develops new threatening weapon systems,
such as the so-called antimissile shield, in Poland and the Czech
Republic.
NATO’s
programme “Partnership for Peace” promotes its expansion with new
country-members. It was implemented in all former socialist countries
of Central and South-Eastern Europe that later became members of the
NATO. Nowadays, pressure is exerted to the government of the Republic
of Cyprus in order to join this programme and be integrated in the
Euro-Atlantic plans. The government and the people of Cyprus strongly
resist because an approval would give an indulgence for the invasion
of the Turkish army in Cyprus conducted with the approval of the USA
and the NATO, as well as acceptance of the de facto occupation of
part of the island by the Turkish troops that continues till
nowadays.
Imperialism-USA-NATO-EU
are closely related concepts. Despite their contradictions and their
antagonisms, both EU and USA turn against the peoples, since the EU
in the Euro-treaty considers NATO as its main pillar and fully
accepts its role. The EU army is linked with the NATO and France
returns to the latter’s military arm.
In
the 60th anniversary of its establishment, NATO attempts to present
itself as “innocent as a dove”, with an unprecedented propaganda
of distortion of history, through the media manipulated by the
system, the universities funded by research programmes of NATO etc.
NATO
appears to be all-powerful, but it is not. The world economic crisis
of capitalism strengthens the imperialist aggressiveness while at the
same time it shows its limits. Imperialism cannot exist without
controlling new markets, without broadening its influence, without
capturing and oppressing other peoples, along with the peoples of its
own states, for the expansion of monopolies’ activity.
There
is a counterweight to NATO; it’s the anti-imperialist forces all
over the world, the global anti-war, anti-imperialist, peace movement
that in coordination with the workers’ movement and the other
social movements of women, the youth, in defence of nature of natural
resources and the movements of solidarity struggle against
imperialism and demand from the collaborators of the “predatory
alliance” the immediate dissolution of the NATO.
This
is the “one-way road” for the peoples. We have to stop the
imperialist aggressiveness, contribute to the defeat of imperialism
that constitutes a prerequisite for a peaceful world.
Nowadays,
the verbal condemnation of NATO’s crimes and threats is not enough.
There needs to be a wide anti-war, anti-imperialist peace movement
that will rally the workers, the youth and broad social and popular
forces.
The
peoples through their struggle can actually set obstacles to the
criminal plans of the NATO and the other imperialist forces and win.
The
Communist and Workers’ Parties call the peoples to intensify their
struggle:
-
Against
the military expenditure. -
Prohibition
of NATO programmes at the universities. -
The
immediate return of all troops and other missions that participate
in imperialist operations outside our countries. -
The
emancipation of our countries from the imperialist wars, countries’
occupation and imperialist interventions. -
The
removal of all foreign military bases from our countries. -
The
disengagement of our countries from the NATO. -
The
dissolution of NATO.
LONG
LIVE THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE PEOPLES
DOWN
THE NEW ORDER OF THE IMPERIALISTS
The
parties
-
Algerian
Party for Democracy and Socialism -
Communist
Party of Bangladesh -
Communist
Party of Belarus -
Worker’s
Party of Belgium -
Workers'
Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina -
Brazilian
Communist Party -
Communist
Party of Brazil -
Communist
Party of Britain -
New
Communist Party of Britain -
Party
of the Bulgarian Communists -
Communist
Party of Canada -
Socialist
Workers' Party of Croatia -
Communist
Party of Cuba -
Communist
Party of Bohemia Moravia -
Communist
Party in Denmark -
Communist
Party of Estonia -
Communist
Party of Finland -
German
Communist Party (DKP) -
Communist
Party of Greece -
Hungarian
Communist Workers’ Party -
Communist
Party of India -
Communist
Party of India [Marxist] -
Communist
Party of Ireland -
Party
of the Italian Communists -
Jordanian
Communist Party -
Socialist
Party of Latvia -
Lebanese
Communist Party -
Socialist
Party of Lithuania -
Communist
Party of Luxemburg -
Communist
Party of Malta -
Party
of the Communists, Mexico -
New
Communist Party of the Netherlands -
Communist
Party of Pakistan -
Communist
Party of Poland -
Portuguese
Communist Party -
Romanian
Communist Party -
Communist
Party of Russian Federation -
Communist
Party of Soviet Union -
Communist
Workers Party of Russia-Party of Communists of Russia (RKRP-RPC)
"Union
of Communist Parties –CPSU -
New
Communist Party of Yugoslavia -
Party
of the Serbian Communists -
Communist
Party of Slovakia -
South
African Communist Party -
Communist
Party of Spain -
Communist
Party of the Peoples of Spain -
Communist
Party of Sri-Lanka -
Syrian
Communist Party -
Communist
Party of Syria -
Communist
Party of Sweden -
Communist
Party of Turkey -
Communist
Party of Ukraine -
Union
of Communists of Ukraine -
Communist
Party of Uruguay
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