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.