| November 28, 2010 
30, 000
march in Lisbon Portugal in defence of peace and against NATO
The culmination of the World Peace Council (WPC) and
Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) Peace Yes! NATO No!
Campaign was held on November 20 at the Marques de Pombal Square
Restauradores, Lisbon Portugal where over 30,000 gathered in a peaceful
demonstration to voice their demand to
DISMANTLE NATO!
Portuguese people expressed their opposition to the NATO
summit meeting of warmongers and their objectives and demanded;
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The Portuguese government to withdraw all Portuguese
forces involved in NATO military missions;
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The end of all foreign military bases and NATO
facilities in the country;
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The dissolution of NATO;
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Nuclear disarmament and the dismantling and
destruction of all nuclear weapons and WMD;
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The Portuguese authorities to execute the decision of
the UN Charter and the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, in
respect for international law and sovereignty and equality of
peoples.
Speaking at the “Peace Yes! NATO No!” event was:
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Helena Barbosa, representing the National Preparatory
Council of the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students to be held
in South Africa;
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Socorro Gomes, president of the World Peace Council
(WPC) and the Brazilian Center of Solidarity with the Peoples and
Struggle for Peace (Cebrapaz);
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Graciete Cruz, member of the Executive Committee and
the Secretariat of the National Council of the General Confederation
of Portuguese Workers - National Trades Union (UGT-IN);
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Rui Rosa Valentine, on behalf of the Campaign “Peace
Yes! NATO No!” and President of the Portuguese Council for Peace and
Cooperation (CPPC);
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Maria do Ceu E Guerra, actress, who will present a
draft resolution to the protesters.
The slogans:
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Peace Yes! NATO No!
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Peace, work and bread! Not war!
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For the war are millions! For workers just pennies!
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Stop the aggression! Peace in Afghanistan!
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End the occupation! No War in Iraq!
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NATO, dissolution! Adhere to the Constitution!
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Dismantle NATO!
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Peace and Bread! Not Nuclear weapons!
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Peace is the solution! Missiles in Europe are not!
The campaign “Peace Yes! NATO No!” was established in
January 2010 and unites more than 100 organizations in a diverse and
broad spectrum - which include movements that already represent some of
the richest and most comprehensive in terms of workers' unity and
Portuguese people in the fight for their rights and also for peace.
The campaign “Peace Yes! NATO No!” received the support
of important international structures such as the World Peace Council
and World Federation of Democratic Youth and dozens of organizations in
the peace movement worldwide.
Canadian Peace Congress Statement on the
Lisbon Summit
NATO: Wolf in
a Sheep's Skin, Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman CC, Communist Party of
the Russian Federation (CPRF)
World Peace Council - New: Peace Messenger!
US-NATO
Decree: Continue Canadian Military Commitment to the War in Afghanistan!
World Peace Council/CPPC Appeal on the NATO Summit in Lisbon
Our Fight for Independent National Policies is Our
Fight for Peace. Yes to Peace - No to NATO!
Speech By World Peace Council President -
Socorro Gomes for the Secretariat meeting of the World Peace Council
Report By Report of Thanassis Pafilis General Secretary WPC to the
Secretariat Meeting, Brussels October 12, 2010
NATO Meets to Plan Expansion, Repression and Future
Wars: Don Currie, Chair CPS
Socorro Gomes, President of the World Peace
Council Demands that NATO be dissolved
Press Statement: Statement of
Movement for Peace, Sovereignty and Solidarity Among Peoples (Mopassol -
Argentina): GRAVE DANGER OF NUCLEAR WAR
Regina Peace Council: NATO & Canada's Peace
Movement (March 31, 2010 Re-Print)
World Peace Council: Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (PCPC)
Campaign for the defence of peace and against the NATO
Summit in Portugal, YES TO PEACE! NO TO NATO!
November 20 - Demonstration in
Lisbon!
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CPS Statement on Rising Tensions on the Korean
Peninsula
November 23, 2010
Prime Minister Harper Inflames War
Danger
Reject the Right Wing War Policy of the
Minority Conservative Harper Government
Demand the Canadian Government Act to
Reduce Tensions and Promote a Negotiated Peaceful Settlement
When the choice is between a Canadian
government initiative that could reduce tensions and promote peace and
actions that raise tensions and lead to war, Prime Minister Harper
chooses war over peace.
Prime Minister Harper’s knee jerk support
for the Obama administrations threats against the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (DPRK - North Korea) inflames the danger of a skirmish
becoming a major war. It is the height of irresponsibility to promote
war when peace is possible.
Read...
Statement of Canadians
for Peace & Socialism
For a Canadian Foreign Policy of
Peace
October 13, 2010
The rejection by a majority of the member
states of the United Nations, of the bid by the right-wing minority
Conservative Government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a seat
on the Security Council of the UN is a stinging defeat for the pro-NATO,
pro-Israel, pro-war, anti-people’s program foisted on the UN by the
leading G7 imperialist states led by the U.S.A.
The Harper defeat at the U.N. paves the
way for further defeats of the right-wing minority Conservative
Government at home and its ouster in the next federal election.
It would be a mistake to consider the
defeat of the Harper right-wing Conservatives as strictly a Canadian
affair. It is much more than that. This incident deserves a deeper
analysis by the left progressive forces for peace and socialism as to
the significance of the complex struggles unfolding among UN member
states. The majority of member states are less inclined to subsume their
interests in those of the leading G7 states. Given the opportunity via a
secret ballot to elect another avowed representative of the pro-U.S.,
pro-NATO, pro-Israel lobby at the U.N. a majority of the U.N. member
states refused.
Read...
Statement of FOS
Editorial Board
November 28, 2010
The editorial board of Focus On Socialism
(FOS) is issuing this public statement as a response to Darrel Rankin,
Manitoba Provincial Leader of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC),
objecting to FOS editor Don Currie stating that Darrel Rankin
“plagiarized” Don Currie’s March 27, 2005 article entitled “The 60th
Anniversary of V.E. Day”
Read...
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