– We were asked here if we had approval to manifest on Glasgow Green. We answered: we, representatives of the working parties, the heir of Red Clyde we have a historical and permanent right to express our views right here, without any additional licenses! - Yes George Galloway, the leader of No2NATO and Workers organization of Britain ostracized the inaugurating activity of No2NATO Scotland.
A place of peace and working anger
The organizers, like before the London peace conference, were repeatedly refused to rent more premises for the conference, citing requirements, among others... ‘Anti-terrorism“ or demanding an impossible amount of insurance. "This is another attack on our freedom of speech, on the freedom of those who want to discuss the danger that our country is in with the expansion of the terrible consequences of the war with Russia," he commented. Colin Buchanan from Glasgow Against NATO Action Committee. In this situation, alternatively of the conference, there was a two-hour rally, connected to the Free Word Zone. So the tradition became besides enough, due to the fact that in fact in the same place, in 1914 the first anti-war centuries led by the legendary leader of the Scottish Left were organized, John Macleana, And in 1917, Glasgow workers marched through the city besides to the fields of the Green to express their opposition to the continuation of the imperialist, capitalist war and to show support for the proletarian revolution in Russia.
The West didn't want peace
– Our gathering here confirms an apparent fact: NATO has no friends in Glasgow! – stressed George Galloway. – Of course, there is simply a group of people misled by false “Nobility of the Ukrainian caseIt’s okay. ” Others are driven by blind hatred of Russia, the same as the russian Union. However, most were simply misled, deceived about the actual course of events in Ukraine, the past of the current conflict, and especially its most drastic hidden moments, specified as the fact that in 2014 there was a coup in Kiev, that the legally elected democratic president was overthrown, that under the barrels of the rifles the parliament was terrorized and laws were introduced denying 40 percent of Ukrainian residents the right to usage their own household Russian language. This fact, which is not public opinion available, but is officially granted by the erstwhile Chancellor of Germany and the president of France, is besides that neither the United States nor their Western European partners wanted a peaceful solution to the conflict for a moment. On the contrary, the Minsk Accords, which constitute a compromise, guaranteeing the rights of cultural and linguistic minorities to reconstruct the regulation of law and self-government in Ukraine, were treated from the outset only as an extortion of the time needed to defend and prepare further fights, in which on the side of Kiev are fighting openly Nazi battalions specified as the infamous AZOV. Their activities are part of an unloving tradition of Nazism in Ukraine, adding cards specified as mass genocide, which was committed during planet War II by Ukrainian Nazis on Polish, judaic minorities, on Ukrainian anti-fascists. These are all historical facts which you will not learn from the BBC, nor from politicians of any of the main parties! – Galloway thundered.
War on capital against production
However, the No2NATO leader focused primarily on the systemic and global context of the current conflict. “We are now witnessing a large war of capital against production. The war that capital loses in front of us, hallelujah! – Galloway raised. In his opinion, the real motives for NATO's aggressive actions are linked to Washington's strategical interest. – The United States cannot stand the thought of Chinese-Russian cooperation alone and 1 which is joined by others: India, Iran, even Saudi Arabia! The departure from the dollar in global turnover, after all, a completely natural mechanics in which a given state has the right to sale its own products for its own currency, is simply a deadly threat to liberal global capitalism! This is precisely how, through the adoption of de-dollarisation by subsequent entities, The time erstwhile Americans could hurt, impose sanctions and invade anyone in any corner of the world. Let us besides look from our perspective, knowing that America has actually given us nothing. The U.S. only helps with the economical suicide of the UK, and most favourably the full of Europe. That's why there are protests everywhere. In the BBC, a half-dozen may have said that there was a demonstration in France due to an increase in retirement age. Really? A generation of 20-year-olds goes out into the street with doubts, erstwhile precisely will he receive a witness that may never be in liberal capitalism? No, these young people are protesting together with the elders against the complete deficiency of perspective, against the trap that draws us all into a broken strategy of globalist capitalism, utilizing invariably aggressive imperialism for its defence. akin protests are besides held in Germany, Slovakia, wherever bankruptcy and the imminent failure of the strategy are seen. So we besides organize ourselves, we besides protest, but not as 1 of the successive pacifist movements, God bless them, but as a combat movement. Fights against NATO before this Pact drags us into planet War III," concluded Galloway.
A common front for self-defense
Participants of the rally actively objected to the policy of NATO and the Tory government of the UK, among others, holding banners among others "Glasgow v. NATO‘, ‘We want Peace – Non-involvement – Neutrality – Let's step out of the War Block!’, ‘Not for War – opposition to the Police State‘, ‘Britain outside NATO” “No war money. halt with the Sanctions!’ ‘Negotiations alternatively of ArmsIt’s okay. ” erstwhile asked as a Pole for a fewer words on the engagement of the current authorities of the III Republic in imperialist politics, I pointed to the existential threat to our nation connected with the direct threat of bringing us into war as a second pitch for the Kiev regime. I recalled the historical and contemporary experience of Ukrainian Nazism, as well as the immense economical burden resulting from the decision to co-finance the continuation of the fighting and influx of multimillion Ukrainian masses into our country. "Only the cooperation and joint action of the European nations, the creation of mass protests against NATO and war policies, specified as Scotland, England, Ireland, Germany, will let us to defy the disaster we all face effectively!" I said.
According to the organizers, the demonstration inaugurated the operation of No2NATO Scotland.
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