ELA demands the dissolution of NATO as a route towards a safer and more peaceful world

Jun 27, 2022
ELA is taking advantage of the summit that is currently being held in Madrid to reaffirm its rejection of NATO and to demand its dissolution, as an essential condition towards a safer and more peaceful world, without the constant threat of military expansion that this institution defends.

The Spanish government’s enthusiastic support for the Madrid summit meant embarking on a warmongering escalation, which is against the will of the Basque people, who in the 1986 referendum mainly voted against joining NATO.

Once again, NATO is going to strengthen its militarist strategy in Madrid, demanding an increase in military spending by its members and marking out war aims for its expansion (in this case, towards the East). Accordingly, it is clear that NATO continues proposing war as an option for the management and solution of conflicts. For this reason, supporting or tolerating this international summit means accepting these principles and sentencing the world to a never-ending military escalation.

ELA, on the other hand, insists that the Ukraine war must be stopped, along with the forgotten conflicts that are being fought in other places around the world such as Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia, Western Sahara or Palestine. Humanity must concentrate all its efforts on facing up to civilisation’s great challenges, such as climate change and its devastating consequences, instead of centring on something as destructive as war.

ELA defends ‘No to war’ and will always propose negotiating peaceful alternatives that guarantee human rights and peace between different peoples.