A world without NATO is necessary‏

A world without NATO is necessary‏
From: aic-bounces@antiimperialista.org on behalf of Newsletter Anti-imperialist Camp (aic@antiimperialista.org)
Sent: 26 October 2008 20:16PM
To: aic@antiimperialista.org

In April 2009 NATO will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in Strasbourg / Kehl right on the French-German border. A massive international mobilisation is under way to express the popular protest and refusal of this main instrument of Western capitalist and imperialist domination and war mongering. On last October 4/5 an international conference took place in Stuttgart, Germany, to prepare the protests which issued the call below. The Anti-imperialist Camp not only endorses the call but urges everybody to massively participate. During the deliberations of the conference the Anti-imperialist Camp proposed to add following demands to the call in order to make it more concrete and to the point: x Withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistanx No to the extension of NATO to the Eastx End occupation and war in the Middle East Although this seemed to be consensus among the participants it nevertheless was not reflected in the conclusive text. We will continue to fight for those slogans to be adopted by the movement. As Anti-imperialist Camp we, however, go much further as we insist that we need to support the popular resistances against imperialism which sprang up in the last decade first of all in the Middle East but not only. Exactly this incapacity to clearly take side, expressed in the erroneous equidistant formula “no to war, no to terror” which implicitly equated the resistances to terrorism, eventually led to the decay of the anti-war movement. Actually only thanks to these resistances -- first of all in Iraq, but also in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine -- the American Empire could be put into question. Only these resistances let to the continuous postponement of the war on Iran and convinced Moscow to put a brake on NATO’s expansion in the Caucasus. Now the financial crisis of the capitalist centres fortunately adds momentum to their troubles. That does, however, not mean that the US’s and NATO’s war drive will come to a halt. As Washington is electing a new emperor it will get ready also for new wars to defend its hegemony regardless which candidate will make it. While the war against Iran is not from the table, the US is pushing its allies to go against Russia. At stake is the Ukraine. The US wants to bring it into NATO while Russia is categorically opposed to that. If Washington continues its aggressive stance they inevitable will provoke new wars in Eastern Europe. This is exactly why we believe that the struggle against NATO’s extension to the East is decisive for the struggle for peace (see the Anti-imperialist Camp’s call below). *** No to war, no to NATOStuttgart Appealwww.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5849&Itemid=55 On the alert!Call of the Anti-imperialist Camp for an int'l campaign against the enlargement of NATOwww.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5843&Itemid=55 The kindly ask you to sign both calls by replying to this message with a short endorsement. ************************************Anti-imperialist Campwww.antiimperialista.orgcamp@antiimperialista.org************************************