Belgrade International Conference “The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists”, Dec. 2022

The World Anti-imperialist Platform held the 2022 Belgrade International Conference at the Belgrade Fair in Belgrade, Serbia, on December 17th.

This Belgrade International Conference was conducted with the topic of “The Rising Tide of Global War” followed by the World Anti-imperialist Platform launched at the Paris International Conference in last October.

The conference was attended by 26 countries, 29 parties, political organizations and embassies from Asia, Europe and South America. (directly/video)

Under the urgent situation that the war in Ukraine is ongoing and wars in Taiwan and South Korea are imminent, the participants discussed about an aggression nature of imperialism, a danger of opportunism in anti-imperialist camp and tasks of world anti-imperialist forces. In conclusion, they announced the Belgrade Declaration.

Kim Hye Yeong, the chairperson of the international committee of the People’s Democracy Party (South Korea) hosted the conference. The conference is comprised of three sections.

IIn the first section, Joti Brar (vice president of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)), Baltic Platform (Latvia), Peter Gal (member of the CC of the Hungarian Workers’ Party), Fernandez Torre Andy (regional secretary of Galicia of the Spanish Avantgarde), Vladmir Kapuralin (representative of the international committee of the Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia), Mandir Jovan (secretary of international affairs of New Communist Party of Montenegro), Aleksandar Simonov (coordinator of the Department for Foreign Policy of the Levica Macedonia), Communist Party of Poland gave their speech.

Started with presentation of Saul Ortega (vice-president for International Affaris of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela), Gisela Neira (member of the CC of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)) spoke at the 2nd section. The contributions from the Brazilian Communist Party, the Communist Party (Switzerland), the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, the Italian Communist Party, Communist Party (Italy), Milan Krajca (vice president of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia), the Observatory Institution of the US Military Alliance (Japan) and Leonid Shkolnikov (general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Belarus) were read by organizers. Klara Azhybekova (general secretary of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan), Jozef Bossuyt (representative of the Korea-is-One), Aymeric Monville (head of international department of the PRCF) followed up.

In the 3rd section, Dmitry Kuzmin (member of the Political Council of the Central Committee the Russian Communist Workers’ Party, Russia) participated by video. Yiannis Rachiotis (representative of the Platform for Independence, Greece), Dimitrios Patelis (representative of the Collective of Struggle for the Revolutionary Unification of Humanity, Greece), Aleksandar Benjanac (general secretary of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia), Bruno Drweski (head of international department of ANC, France) and Stephen Cho (Coordinator of the Corean International Forum) spoke. 

At the end of the conference, the Aleksandar Đenić (the represent of the international bureau of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia) read the Belgrade Declaration: The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists, which most of participants agreed and signed in.

In conclusion, the host said, “In Belgrade, on Dec. 17th, 2022, today we announced historic Belgrade Declaration. Just as the international conference was held in from Paris in Western Europe to Belgrade in Eastern Europe, we hope the Paris Declaration is developed into Belgrade Declaration and spread across the whole world.”

Below the photo was taken by all participants for commemoration.

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