On July 7, the World Anti-imperialist Platform organized a rally and joined march in Washington, D.C., against the upcoming NATO Summit on July 9th. 

Platform delegates rallied in McPherson Square near the White House and marched to the White House. 

The rally was started with the chant “Disband NATO!”, “Free Palestine!”. 

The organizer pointed out that “the current situation can be summarized in one word: the flames of World War 3 perpetrated by imperialism are spreading through Eastern Europe and Western Asia to East Asia.”

Jonathan from the Party of Communists USA said, “There are so many homeless people in this square. There are people without jobs, people without homes, people in need of food, and medical care”, he said, “but the US is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and also sending money to Israel and Taiwan to fund another war” he said. 

“NATO is the biggest threat to peace in the world” he continued, “It’s where American politicians, including Joe Biden, and Western NATO politicians gather. It is a meeting to wage wars in various parts of the world to earn more money.” 

The moderator emphasized that “as long as there is imperialism, invasion, slaughter, domination and plunder will never end”, and that “the fact that the imperialist aggressors are united around the United States today shows that the anti-imperialist struggle is an anti-US struggle”.

A speaker from the Workers’ World Party said, “The current Palestinian refugee camps are the new ghettos. Occupied Palestine reminds us the Nazi atrocities in World War 2.” She said, “We must mobilize people for the lives of Palestinians. We need to stop their scheme.”

Anatole Sawosik of the PRCF said “At European level, and even though it was boycotted by 49% of registered voters and by the absolute majority of workers in France and Europe, the June 2024 ballot also reinforced a form of reactionary bipolarization”, and about the system of European bipolarization, he added “As in the USA, these are two equally detestable European variants of the same oligarchic policy.” 

“In France the rise of the racist far right, … is due in particular to the fact that, for decades, the PCF, in the grip of anti-Leninist revisionism and so-called “Eurocommunism”, has given up on waging a consistent class struggle to free France from the Atlanticist EU and to steer popular resistance towards socialism and workers’ power”, “Cubans, Vietnamese, Koreans and Chinese have torn apart the mesh of colonialism and imposed a path of socialism, peace and fraternity.” he said. 

Christopher Helalil of the Party of Communists USA read the statement of world anti-imperialist joint struggle centered Washington DC. 

After the rally, the Platform delegation marched to the White House alongside attendees of Resist NATO coalition. 

Here’s the full statement of the Platform.  

Let us bring an end to imperialism with the global anti-imperialist struggle and achieve independence and peace!

NATO summit will be held in Washington, DC, from July 9 to 11. The main agendas will be the war in Ukraine, “deterrence” and “defense” of NATO, and intensifying cooperation between AP4 (Asia-Pacific partners) countries, which include Japan, “The Republic of Korea (ROK),” Australia, and New Zealand. The US State Department, addressing the agenda on the war in Ukraine, blatantly expressed its plot to prolong the war by saying, “Ukraine should be in a position to continue this fight into 2025.” Meanwhile, the Biden administration mobilized all US allies in West Asia (Middle East), including not only Israel but also Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, for this meeting. Experts have mentioned that creating a Middle East version of NATO has been a long-held ambition of successive US administrations. A series of facts demonstrates that this NATO summit is a plotting meeting for World War 3.

NATO is expanding its reach to the Indo-Pacific region. The NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg spouted sophistry regarding China-Russia cooperation, stating, “China is inciting the largest military conflict in Europe since World War Ⅱ.”, and regarding NATO-AP4 collusion, he said, “Our security is not regional, it is global.” The US State Department recklessly remarked that both Japan and the “ROK” have been very good partners in addressing the threat posed by Russia, and that the security concerns faced in the Indo-Pacific are very similar to those that are faced in NATO’s Article 5 territory. The USA, Japan, and the “ROK” agreed on the content corresponding to Article 5 of the NATO treaty‘s concept of collective security at the Camp David summit in August 2023 and decided to conduct regular multi-domain joint military exercises, which are similar to NATO military exercises. As NATO’s expansion to the East provoked the Ukraine War, the “Indo-Pacificization of NATO” is causing the opening of the war in East Asia.

The war is imminent in East Asia, and the fronts are expanding in both Eastern Europe and West Asia. The US imperialist aggressive forces are utilizing pro-US fascist power in the “ROK” as their proxy for the war in the “ROK”, and conducting war exercises against DPRK day after day, while manipulating pro-US warmongering forces in the Philippines and separatist forces in Taiwan to carry out aggressive military exercises against China, and moving Japanese militarism forces as a strike group for the war in East Asia. From January to May, the USA and NATO conducted large-scale invasion exercises near Russia and recently allowed their homeland-supplied weapons to strike Russia. The Ukrainian neo-Nazi military fired US-made ATACMS missiles with prohibited cluster bombs at Sevastopol and massacred civilians, instigating the war in Eastern Europe. Zionist Israel, which slaughtered over 40,000 Palestinians, is fanatically expanding the war in West Asia by bombing the Iranian consulate in Syria in April and precipitating an all-out war with Hezbollah of Lebanon in June.

We must crush the imperialist aggressive war drive with the worldwide anti-imperialist joint struggle. As anti-imperialist camp and imperialist camp clash, the truth and justice become clearer whose side they are on. The anti-imperialist camp firmly holds the justification of anti-fascism, liberation, and reunification, which the imperialist camp can never deny. The nuclear missile superpowers of the anti-imperialist camp–DPRK, China, and Russia–are growing stronger; at the same time, they firmly unite with Iran and other ‘Axis of Resistance’ countries, along with world anti-imperialist movements. In contrast, the USA, European imperialism, and pro-US fascist countries are pushing World War 3 in full swing and manipulating the “New Cold War” framework as internal overall crises deepen. It is common sense that the side with both justification and strength wins the war. Awakened and united people of the world will bring an end to imperialism with vigorous anti-imperialist joint struggle and put forward a new era of global independence and peace.

At the McPherson Square, Washington DC.

On July 7th, 2024

World Anti-imperialist Platform