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COMMUNIST and workers’ parties have called for efforts to “strengthen the struggle against Nato and imperialist plans” following the war machine’s recent summit.
An open letter, with signatories including the Communist Party of Kurdistan Iraq, the Communist Party of Greece and the Communist Party of Ukraine, warned that Nato had outlined a strategy that constitutes an escalation of aggression and a preparation for war.
“New and old pretexts are being utilised, such as security, defence, climate change, cyberattacks and other asymmetric threats, in order to escalate their aggression against the peoples, causing a new unbridled arms race,” the letter says.
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
In the first half of a two-part article, PETER MERTENS looks at how Nato’s €800 billion ‘Readiness 2030’ plan serves Washington’s pivot to the Pacific, forcing Europeans to dismantle social security and slash pensions to fund it