Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)
Dear comrades, on behalf of our party, the Proletarian Action Communist Party of Chile, and in particular on behalf of our first secretary, Eduardo Artes, I would like to extend our greetings to you. Unfortunately, we have not been able to participate in the meeting of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform this time, as we are currently very busy with political issues in our own country, but we wanted to greet you and tell you that we consider this meeting very important and hope to be able to participate in the next one.
NATO represents an immediate danger to socialist states, as well as to all countries and peoples who want to follow their own path autonomously and independently of the hegemonic states. The struggle against NATO is therefore a fundamental issue for free peoples or those fighting for self-determination.
Since Trump took office as president of the United States, NATO has been undergoing a relatively profound transformation.
Its political orientation is opposed to that of its predecessor in terms of international policy. However, this should not be interpreted as a sign that imperialist hegemony is weak or withdrawing from the European continent. Quite the contrary.
In the Anglo-Saxon world and in the EU, two fundamental positions of bourgeois representatives have clashed in recent years on foreign policy. One sector is highly critical of NATO, which it considers politically responsible for separating Russia from the Western world, rather than integrating it, as it believes should have been done, into the imperialist structure after the destruction of the socialist system in 1990, in order to destroy—by joining forces with it—the last bastion of the socialist states: China. The other bourgeois representatives believe that the financial capitalist system, particularly in Europe, does not have enough time to integrate Russia and then destroy the Chinese socialist system. Monopoly capital depends on immediate opportunities for expansion in order to survive in the long term. Otherwise, its existence is threatened, as demonstrated by the permanent and increasingly deep economic crises since the 1980s. Therefore, in order to maintain monopoly capitalism in the EU and the Anglo-Saxon world, Russia must be economically colonized. However, Russia has resisted this, as it hoped to be accepted as an equal partner in the “Western” world.
The Trump administration has carried out a reassessment of its political and financial activities in Europe: the European states—in particular the EU’s leading economy, Germany, but also France—have not contributed sufficiently to the security of its own monopoly capital and political interests. The US intends in future to share with its European partners the costs incurred so far in Ukraine.
For the ruling class of the EU states, this presents a welcome opportunity to boost their armies and military production industry through ever-increasing military spending and the rearmament of their armed forces under the pretext of the “Russian threat.” The pioneers in this process are Great Britain, France, and Germany, which have been terrorizing their populations with the supposed Russian threat since 2022.
In short, it seems to us that Ukraine and the policy of aggression against Russia will mainly become a financial burden for the EU and Great Britain, while the US wants to concentrate on the Indo-Pacific and Middle East regions. The US will allow the militarization of the EU, particularly Germany, as long as it does not pose a real threat to the US. Trump has already warned Germany about this!
The current internal conflict within NATO is therefore not a sign of weakness of imperialism, but shows that the imperialist states still have the capacity to inexorably continue their process of recolonization and expansion since the end of the USSR. So far, all attempts to resist Western hegemony have been successfully suppressed. Syria seemed to be the place where this would not happen, where for the first time since the Yugoslav War there were signs of a real defeat for Western
forces. But, as the dramatic events of December 2024 showed, it was no exception. After 13 years of resistance, the imperialists have finally succeeded in destroying the last secular state that relied on the continuity of the Arab national liberation movements after World War II. This has eliminated an important ally in the struggle for Palestinian freedom and, at the same time, weakened the greatest adversary of the United States and Israel, Iran.
Fascist Israel is rapidly expanding in the Middle East, even on Syrian territory. A few days ago, almost the entire military leadership of the Al-Qassam Brigades, including Mohamed Sinwar, was assassinated. Hezbollah is currently weakened. In Syria, former soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army are trying to organize resistance, but so far with very little success. Only Yemen remains strong. In the coming months, political, economic, and probably also military aggression against Iran and Iraq (Iran’s last relatively strong bulwark) will intensify.
In our opinion, the fall of Syria does not in any way constitute a betrayal on the part of Iran or Russia, as is sometimes claimed. But it does show that the imperialists have the effective upper hand in the conflict against the forces opposing imperialism.
NATO is expanding and forming a global structure. It appears to be preparing an army at least two to three times larger than Russia’s. However, the main target of NATO’s expansionist policy remains the People’s Republic of China. The alliance against China is strengthening: Japan has ratified a mutual access agreement with the Philippines. This agreement aims to promote the formation of a network of political-military alliances and thus strengthen the AUKUS and QUAD organizations directed against China.
NATO remains the only international military organization. It is to be hoped that the central countries opposed to the imperialists, including China, Russia, Iran, the DPRK, Belarus, Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, will soon establish their own military structure, as the “Warsaw Pact on Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance” did in its day in defense against NATO. It seems that the first steps in this direction have been taken, for example, the DPRK’s participation in the liberation of Kursk.
But only with our help and the strengthening of the communist, socialist, and democratic forces in our countries can the victory of the countries opposing the imperialists ultimately be guaranteed.
If a large part of the peoples of the world oppose imperialism in their countries, it can be thrown into the dustbin of history.
