JOINT STATEMENT

THE COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ PARTIES CONDEMN NATO’S COLD WAR RHETORIC

The Communist and Worker’s Parties of the NATO member states wish to say in a loud and clear voice that we condemn the aggressive anti-communist rhetoric coming out of the latest meeting of NATO leadership. The US, the de-facto leader of the NATO alliance has made it clear that its interests lie in igniting a “new Cold War” centered around anti-Chinese and anti-communist propaganda. This is a threat to all workers around the world.  

Since the infamous “Pivot to Asia” under President BarackObama, it has been clear that the US capitalist elite has seen the rising successes and power of the People’s Republic of China as a threat to itsunipolar, neoliberal world order. During the administration of Donald Trump, the US government became increasingly aggressive in its anti-China and anti-socialist policies and many began to talk about a “new Cold War”. 

Some might have hoped that with the election of a new president, the US might become less hostile towards The People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they would now be greatly disappointed. In many ways, the foreign policy of the Biden presidency has amped up the hostility towards China and its largest strategic ally, Russia. 

At the most recent meeting of the leaders of NATO alliance - an alliance’s that owes its whole existence to policies of anti-communist aggression – “new Cold War” rhetoric was abundant. NATO’s general secretary Jan Stoltenberg even said that “the rise of China” presents a security threat to NATO. Why does the world’s largest country lifting itself out of poverty constitute a security threat to the NATO powers? The answer is that it doesn’t. It does however constitute a threat to US hegemony and capitalist’s profits. 

Both China and its strategic ally Russia, find themselves surrounded on all sides by hundreds of US and NATO military bases. Despite promises to not expand in to Eastern Europe, NATO has continuously expanded closer and closer to Russia’s borders and is aiding anti-Russian, fascist forces in Ukraine while using economic sanctions to punish the people of Russia. 

The world cannot be allowed to descend into another anti-communist Cold War. Despite the name, the Cold War of the 20^th Century was more often than not a hot war and cost the lives of millions of people around the globe. From South East Asia to Africa and Latin America, millions of workers, those seeking freedom and a better world for themselves and their families were slaughtered in the name of global capitalism.These wars did not spare the youth of the U.S. and its military allies 

History cannot be allowed to repeat itself in an even more dangerous form. 

No new Cold War!

We invite other Communist and Workers Parties to co-sign this joint statement.  This statement is open for further endorsements

Solidnet Parties Signing 

Communist Party of Albania

Communist Party of Australia

Democratic Progressive Tribune-Bahrain

Communist Party of Bangladesh

Brazilian Communist Party

Communist Party of Brazil

New Communist Party of Britain

Columbian Communist Party

Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Finland

French Communist Party

German Communist Party

Hungarian Workers’ Party

Tudeh Party of Iran

Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq

Communist Party of Ireland

Workers’ Party of Ireland

Communist Party of Italy

Party of the Communist Refoundation

Socialist Party of Lithuania

Communist Party of Norway

Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930)

South African Communist Party

Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of Ukraine

Communist Party USA

Other Parties Signing

Communist Party of Aotearoa

Galizan People's Union-UPG

Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic

Proletariat Schweiz