THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ PARTIES CONDEMN NATO’S COLD WAR RHETORIC

JOINT STATEMENT

 The Communist and Worker’s Parties of the NATO member states wish to say in a loud and clear voice that we condemn the aggressive anti-communist rhetoric coming out of the latest meeting of NATO leadership. The US, the de-facto leader of the NATO alliance has made it clear that its interests lie in igniting a “new Cold War” centered around anti-Chinese and anti-communist propaganda. This is a threat to all workers around the world.  

Since the infamous “Pivot to Asia” under President BarackObama, it has been clear that the US capitalist elite has seen the rising successes and power of the People’s Republic of China as a threat to itsunipolar, neoliberal world order. During the administration of Donald Trump, the US government became increasingly aggressive in its anti-China and anti-socialist policies and many began to talk about a “new Cold War”. 

Some might have hoped that with the election of a new president, the US might become less hostile towards The People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they would now be greatly disappointed. In many ways, the foreign policy of the Biden presidency has amped up the hostility towards China and its largest strategic ally, Russia. 

At the most recent meeting of the leaders of NATO alliance - an alliance’s that owes its whole existence to policies of anti-communist aggression – “new Cold War” rhetoric was abundant. NATO’s general secretary Jan Stoltenberg even said that “the rise of China” presents a security threat to NATO. Why does the world’s largest country lifting itself out of poverty constitute a security threat to the NATO powers? The answer is that it doesn’t. It does however constitute a threat to US hegemony and capitalist’s profits. 

Both China and its strategic ally Russia, find themselves surrounded on all sides by hundreds of US and NATO military bases. Despite promises to not expand in to Eastern Europe, NATO has continuously expanded closer and closer to Russia’s borders and is aiding anti-Russian, fascist forces in Ukraine while using economic sanctions to punish the people of Russia. 

The world cannot be allowed to descend into another anti-communist Cold War. Despite the name, the Cold War of the 20^th Century was more often than not a hot war and cost the lives of millions of people around the globe. From South East Asia to Africa and Latin America, millions of workers, those seeking freedom and a better world for themselves and their families were slaughtered in the name of global capitalism.These wars did not spare the youth of the U.S. and its military allies 

History cannot be allowed to repeat itself in an even more dangerous form. 

No new Cold War!

 

 

Solidnet Parties Signing 

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Communist Party of Australia
3. Democratic Progressive Tribune-Bahrain
4. Communist Party of Bangladesh
5. Brazilian Communist Party
6. Communist Party of Brazil
7. New Communist Party of Britain
8. Columbian Communist Party
9. Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia
10. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
11. Communist Party of Denmark
12. Communist Party of Finland
13. French Communist Party
14. German Communist Party
15. Hungarian Workers’ Party
16. Tudeh Party of Iran
17. Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq
18. Communist Party of Ireland
19. Workers’ Party of Ireland
20. Party of the Communist Refoundation
21. Socialist Party of Lithuania
22. Communist Party of Norway
23. Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930)
24. Communist Party of Spain
25. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
26. Communist Party of Ukraine
27. Communist Party USA

 

Other Parties Signing

1. Communist Party of Aotearoa
2. Galizan People's Union-UPG
3. Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic
4. Proletariat Schweiz