There is only one thing to be said on its seventieth anniversary: NATO must be destroyed! / European Communist Initiative in Solidarity with peoples of former FRY on the occasion of 20th anniversary of NATO aggression against FRY
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There is only one thing to be said on its seventieth anniversary: NATO must be destroyed!
NATO was established seventy years ago, in 1949, in order to block the ideological and political influence of socialism and the Soviet Union, which had greatly increased after the Second World War, as well as its military power. As of its establishment, NATO became one of the headquarters of anti-communism and an imperialist alliance aimed to stop the rise of the working class. Their war policies of relentless military harassment threatened with direct military attacks, including nuclear ones, against the countries that were building socialism, which was answered in May 1955 with the signing of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Warsaw.
NATO was responsible for criminal attacks against communists in its member states and was the centre of counter-guerilla organizations. It was a tool that facilitated the expansionist goals of imperialism, by manipulation and political restoration of other countries according to the interests of those on top of the hierarchy, and by creating political space to counter-revolutionary ideas.
Another disastrous outcome of its creation was the arms race, which on one side enabled a huge new market for capital accumulation for monopolies and, on the other side, meant a hard blow to socialism by capitalism, as that one was forced to allocate large resources which could have made faster improvements on life conditions for the working class and the working people.
Imperialism is stepping up the gear for its aggression in Ukraine, Balkans, Middle East, Asia, Latin America and everywhere in the World. The US uses NATO membership as a tool in order to align countries like Brazil and Colombia, where its collaborators are in power, into its policies while re-establishing its hegemony in Latin America. On the other hand, NATO enables the incitement of nationalism as a means for increasing the exploitation of the Balkan people. Also, initiatives are taken in the Middle East in order to create a block of Arabic States against Iran, creating acleavage which is at the service of the capital.
The resolution to increase the “defence expenditures” approved in the latest NATO summit is a clear imposition to all the member states to increase the budget for their war machines at the expense of making budgetary cuts from people’s basic needs. NATO is putting the future of humanity at a grave danger by fastening the nuclear arms race.
On the other hand, the crisis of imperialist-capitalist system deepens and the manifestation of this crisis can be seen in the loosening of imperialist alliances, unique quests pursued by imperialist states in Europe and the deterioration of persuasiveness of capitalism on people. PESCO agreement signed by EU member states in order to create their own war machine under the mask of “security and defence” and the frequent pronunciation of a European army is a manifestation of this crisis. However, the alternative to NATO cannot be another capitalist military alliance, another “pole” or “savior” of capitalist character, neither in Europe, nor in other regions. The only way for peace against the increasing aggression of capitalism is socialism, the brotherhood of the working classes.
NATO is a war organization which has been active for seventy years. The criminal record of these seventy years is full of lies, extortion, murders and massacres. There is only one thing to be said on its seventieth anniversary: NATO must be destroyed! Humanity shall eliminate the arch-enemy of peace and security in the World, imperialism, and its organizations like NATO, PESCO and EU. For this reason, the struggle against the counter-revolutionary organization NATO can never fall off the agenda of the communists. We, as the member communist and workers parties of the European Communist Initiative, will continue to struggle in order to shut down all military bases of NATO, kick NATO and all of its affiliates out of our countries and region. We will continue to struggle together in order to destroy this criminal organization before it causes more harm. We will continue to organize in order to establish socialism-communism.
Down With Imperialism!
Long Live Socialism!
The Secretariat of the ECI
European Communist Initiative in Solidarity with peoples of former FRY on the occasion of 20th anniversary of NATO aggression against FRY
Twenty years have passed since the beginning of NATO aggression against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia when at least 2,500 civilians were killed and more than 12,500 people were injured during the 78 days of bombing, more than $ 100 billion in damage was inflicted, the environment was contaminated with depleted uranium and other non-conventional and forbidden weapons, and civilian property and infrastructure was destroyed. Women, children, the elderly, mothers with their new-born babies, patients in hospitals, refugee columns, farmers in the field, passengers on buses and trains, workers in factories and utilities, journalists were all innocent victims of NATO’s terror. Until today, no one has been held responsible or prosecuted for these serious crimes but the US-NATO imperialism and the EU are to blame.
Between 24th of March and 11th of June 1999, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its inhabitants were faced with a ruthless attack of the strongest military alliance in the world. It is difficult to cpmpare the military might utililised, due to the qualitative and quantitative disproportionate force employed.
The NATO aggression against the FRY was an imperialistic attack. Historical experience teaches that the bourgeois class and the imperialist alliances utilize existing minority issues and/or create non-existing minority issues to divide the peoples, so that they can enforce the policy of “divide and rule”.
The NATO offensive violated every concept of international law that the imperialists use as a pretext according to their own interests, as they use human rights in order to intervene against the peoples.
The war conducted by NATO in the name of the defence of human rights cased war crimes and murdered civilian population.
Yugoslavia served as an experimental laboratory for the interventions which followed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on April 4th 1949, in cooperation between the USA and European capitalist countries, created the armed hand of imperialism for the defence of the exploitative system and the prevention of revolutionary changes in Europe, in order to attack the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries of Eastern Europe.
From its beginning NATO was a powerful aggressive political and military block and a stronghold of the cold war, promoted a massive expansion in nuclear and conventional armaments and remains responsible for amassing of incredible arsenals of weapons of war and mass destruction.
In spite of the counter revolution which witnessed the end of the USSR and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (founded in 1954 in answer to NATO’s aggression), NATO instead of dissolving, strengthened its forces and reach.
The parties of the European Communist Iniative must strengthen the struggle against imperialist wars NATO and all imperialist alliances, Let’s strengthen the struggle against imperialist wars, the NATO and all imperialist alliances!
End the system of exploitation that breeds wars, crises, refugees, exploitation!
Long live socialism!
23/3/2019
The Secretariat of the European Communist Initiative
