The Coordination of No to NATO, Bases Out Platforms, constituted by the signatory organisations of the Call for Mobilisation Against the NATO Summit in Madrid, called on citizens to hold the No to NATO, Bases Out Counter-Summit, Madrid 2022 as a response to the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government.
Gathered in the city of Madrid on 24 and 25 June 2022, those attending this Counter-Summit DECLARE:
This NATO Summit in Madrid must be considered as a historic event that will mark the beginning of a new world order and the beginning of a warmongering period that will involve most of the planet. It is a crucial event in the present conjuncture of imperialism, reflecting the present stage of the class struggle.
The system in which we live, capitalism, is in the throes of a crisis which has been defined by its own institutions as structural, systemic and long-term. NATO and the rest of the Western war structures, especially the US military bases, are key players in this reconfiguration of the world order.
At a time when there is an awareness of the decline of US world hegemony, the US is organising itself to dominate the world and will defend its privileges in every possible way, including all kinds of war and aggression.
There is no blueprint for the new phase towards which we are moving, but the major international economic institutions and NATO itself have already announced the lines of action to deal with the problems that have already been identified: financialization, debt, creative destruction, technological revolution, social control and warmongering expansion against everything that hinders this capitalist reorganisation. This process will take place outside and inside its own borders. It is the definitive launching of the World War, a global, arbitrary, unpunished war of aggression, by any means and on any scale, aimed at eliminating any expression of resistance to imperialist expansion.
The fronts of this war already extend to the Middle East, Central Asia, the Sahel, Taiwan, the Southern Mediterranean, Latin America and Europe, to which must be added the internal front of the empire. NATO is present in all of these except the Asia-Pacific region.
The expansive character of this organisation is not a forecast; it is a fact, the scope of which was recently announced by the UK Foreign Secretary: GLOBAL NATO.
Economic Europe has not gone beyond that scope, it has not been able to provide itself with a political structure; the attempt to provide itself with a European constitution failed, as did the initiative to create a European defence system outside NATO.
What really binds the European Union together, because of its own pro-monopoly class character, are the European Central Bank, which determines its economic functioning, and NATO, which determines its external relations. The European Union is united under the discipline of the Atlantic Alliance, and after its action following the interests of the USA in the conflict in Ukraine, it will be necessary to talk about NATO’s Europe.
NATO’s historical trajectory shows that there are no territorial limits for this organisation, but neither are there any limits to its alliances, methods or the consequences of its bellicose activity.
NATO has resorted to terrorism in all its forms, from the Gladio network in Europe to takfiri Islamic fundamentalism, in whatever form, throughout the Muslim world. In recent decades, its members and the organization itself minimize their casualties by hiring companies of mercenary military professionals and by arming and training Nazi and Fascist paramilitaries. Nor are there any limits to the suffering caused by its aggressions, the dead must be counted in the hundreds of thousands and the displaced now officially number over a hundred million. We can therefore affirm that NATO is a criminal organization.
At the moment, this organization’s priority mission is to isolate and weaken the Russian Federation in order to create the best scenario for confronting China, the ultimate goal of imperialism. In this drift, they have not hesitated to bring us to the brink of a nuclear conflict in order to disengage Europe from the Russian Federation.
Once again, there have been no limits: billions of dollars spent, thousands of tons of arms (a good part of them uncontrolled), formation of neo-Nazi paramilitary groups, censorship of the media and of Russian culture, creation of a toxic atmosphere which not only allows the manipulation of public opinion but also justifies all the measures that the new order needs: militarization of society, social control, minimization of the state, inflation, unemployment, precariousness and over-exploitation. All this will be a consequence of the imperialist war, preventing the free self-determination of the peoples.
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