Istanbul,
2-3 February 2013, draft statement
After
attending the meeting “Struggle against NATO barbarism in the
Middle East and North Africa” on February 2-3 2013 in Istanbul, the
communist and workers’ parties make the following joint statement
and call on all progressive forces that struggle for peace and
justice to undersign and share it.
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Imperialists
used to tell the impudent lie that NATO existed for defense against
the so-called threat of the Soviet Union. However, following the
dissolution of the Socialist Bloc, NATO’s notorious mission has not
come to an end. On the contrary, this war machine of imperialism has
expanded its membership and area of operation, promotes an arms race
and ever greater military spending and invests in new weapons and in
their worldwide network of military bases. Involved in numerous
military operations over a vast geography from Afghanistan to Libya,
NATO is now even a bigger threat to peace all over the world. As
communist and workers’ parties struggling in NATO-member countries,
we declare that under these conditions, a resolute and militant
struggle against NATO and is not only essential but urgently needed
everywhere more than it has ever been.
The
USA is today playing the leading role as the strongest power both in
the framework of NATO as well as in the framework of the global
imperialist system. However the command of NATO is formed on the
basis of the strength (political-military and economic) that the
bourgeois class of each member state of NATO has. The only
sovereignty in NATO is the sovereignty of capital overseen by the
imperialist forces of USA and Europe. We declare that the struggle
for social, economic, democratic and national rights and emancipation
of the peoples and against NATO is inseparable from the struggle
against capitalism.
Since
its foundation, NATO has been carrying out covert operations against
revolutionary movements, working class organizations and progressive
sectors of societies. The clandestine NATO organization, informally
known as Operation Gladio, was behind countless covert actions
including bombings, political assassinations and subversion
techniques, etc. In addition to these covert operations, NATO engages
in overt propaganda for the imperialist interests through media
manipulation, funding the NGOs activities and research programs at
universities, etc. We condemn all attempts of NATO, either covert
operations or overt public relations activities since in whatever
form they are constituted, all are driven by deep antagonism toward
the working class and the people and their progressive organizations
and by fierce anti-communism.
The
USA-NATO and EU, three “outposts of capitalism and imperialism,”
work in coordination to ensure capital’s power in different ways
and by different instruments. The variance in methods and instruments
does not change the fact that they all ultimately serve the interests
of the same system, imperialism, which is in complete contradiction
with the interests of the people. The military structure of EU is
articulated with NATO. We declare that a true struggle against NATO
entails resolute rejection of all other imperialist organizations and
alliances as well.
NATO
has expanded its area of intervention starting from the early 1990s.
In the Summit in Rome in 1992 and in Washington in 1999, NATO agreed
on a new doctrine enabling NATO to engage in armed interventions
around the whole world. Pretexts such as combating terrorism or
establishing democracy have been used to legitimize the expansion of
NATO aggression into new geographies. The barbaric war against
Yugoslavia and the bloody invasion in Afghanistan have been early
examples of the practical consequences of this new doctrine. In the
same context, NATO developed new programs in such as the Partnership
for Peace in order to gain new partner countries. We declare that we
are determined to struggle against all forms of NATO expansionism
intervention and aggression for the dissolution of NATO and for the
sovereign right of each people to decide the disengagement and the
withdrawal from NATO and the imperialist alliances.
In
an international context marked by a deepening of the structural
crisis of capitalism, an intensification of the exploitation of
workers and peoples, by growing anti-democratic threats and attacks
on sovereignty, life shows that war and aggression continue to be
instruments of the imperialist strategy of economic and geostrategic
domination.
But
the escalation of the imperialism face the resistance of the peoples
who, through the most diversified forms of struggle, courageously
confront the aggressions, invasions and wars which imperialism
imposes upon them.
Struggle
of the peoples for Peace, which has been dealt so many blows by the
ruling classes of the big imperialist powers, who seek to overcome,
by force and violence, the profound contradictions and crisis which
their system has engendered.
Expressing
our solidarity with the peoples that resist imperialist occupation,
aggression and interference, namely in the Middle East and Africa, We
reaffirm our commitment for the strengthening and enlargement of the
peace and anti-NATO movement, for the development of the
anti-imperialist front, against imperialist aggressiveness and wars,
against the so-called anti-missile shield, the foreign military
bases, against the participation of the military forces of our
countries in the imperialist aggressions against other countries and
peoples.
Recently
NATO has become the imperialist tool to overthrow governments in the
Middle East and North Africa and replace them with those that serve
the interests of imperialism best. The barbaric bloodshed in Libya,
which resulted in the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi and the opening of
the Libya to imperialist plunder, has now taken its place as a
despicable black page in the history of humanity. France's current
military intervention in Mali, with the participation and approval of
several other NATO member states, is in continuity with NATO's war of
aggression against Libya.
NATO
has been striving to set the same bloody scenario in action in Syria.
The imperialists and their client states in the region have armed,
financed and supported the armed opposition from the start of the
crisis. NATO is prepared to directly intervene in the conflict since
the NATO mercenaries, has now been proven incapable of defeating the
regime of Syria. The deployment of Patriot missiles on the
Turkish-Syrian border poses a real threat to peace and sovereignty of
all the people in the region. Turkey through this action has been a
direct threat not to Syria but Iran, which is constantly intimidated
by imperialists. In this regard, we condemn all forms of NATO actions
against Syria and Iran. We declare that it is only the people of
Syria who have the right to determine Syria's future. In complete
solidarity with the people of Syria, we also declare that we will
continue to fight against all imperialist plans in the region.
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