Washington declaration:
The Nato imperialist alliance can be defeated if we build the worldwide Axis of Resistance!
Recognising that the ultimate cause of all the wars currently raging around the globe is imperialist monopoly-capitalism, the global economic system of domination and superexploitation, we, the parties and organisations of the World Anti-imperialist Platform, note the following:
- That during the last two years of Nato’s war against Russia via fascist proxies in Ukraine, many weaknesses have been exposed in the imperialist camp.
- That nine months of imperialist war (a Nato war in all but name) against the people of the middle east via zionist proxies in Palestine have only served to exacerbate these weaknesses and expose them further.
- That the war in Ukraine first exposed the economic weakness of the Nato imperialists, who tried to destroy Russia’s economy with a sanctions war and ended up by strengthening Russia’s economy and further damaging their own.
- That as a result, the economic crisis that the imperialist countries were trying to escape, has only been exacerbated, with energy prices and inflation rocketing, European industry becoming unviable, and the cost of living for ordinary workers climbing steeply.
- That the war in Palestine has further exposed this weakness, revealing that despite almost unlimited subsidies to the settler-colonial entity, its backers in the west are no longer able to keep the zionist economy afloat.
- That the war in Ukraine has also exposed the military weakness of the imperialist countries, which have for so long held out the threat of overwhelming force to compel the submission of those in the oppressed and developing world. In Ukraine today, despite Nato having spent a decade creating huge and multiple lines of fortification in preparation for a confrontation with Russia, and despite having built up the Ukrainian army into what was essentially Nato’s largest fighting force, the western alliance is being decisively beaten.
- That the war in Palestine has further exposed this weakness. Despite its backing by Nato bombers and aircraft carriers, and despite being re-equipped daily with arms supplies from the west, the zionists are being decisively beaten on every front of the war: in Gaza by the Palestinian resistance, in northern Palestine and the Golan Heights by Hezbollah, in the Red Sea by Ansarullah and across occupied Palestine by a combination of regional resistance forces, including those based in heroic Yemen and in occupied Iraq.
- That the death and destruction that the zionists have wrought so mercilessly on innocent Palestinian civilians, on their homes, schools, workplaces and hospitals, have achieved nothing militarily – today there is no area of the Gaza Strip that is safe for Israeli or US soldiers.
- That both these wars have highlighted an extremely significant shift: that the west has lost its technological dominance, and with it the ability to enforce its will over the people of the planet.
- That the war in Ukraine has also exposed the systematic dishonesty of the imperialist camp. Unable to win outright military victories, the imperialists have been using their global dominance of corporate and social media to spin headlines and build narratives about the war that are pure Hollywood, with no real basis in reality.
- That during this process, the imperialists have been extremely careless with Ukrainian lives, unconcerned with the hundreds of thousands of men who have been sent to their deaths for no military purpose whatsoever. Thus, the absolute inhumanity of imperialism has been highlighted once again.
- That this duplicity and inhumanity has been most glaringly laid bare in Palestine, where real-time footage of the ongoing Gaza genocide has been giving the lie to the assertions of western journalists and politicians almost as soon as they are uttered.