The All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO) expresses its concern at the escalation of tensions in the West Asian region. The blame for this lies squarely with Israel, which is carrying out a genocide in Palestine.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was created on April 4, 1949, precisely 75 years ago, and since then it has constituted the greatest threat to Peace in the world.
The creation of NATO countered the creation of a collective security system provided for in the United Nations Charter, imposing on the world a political-military bloc and the logic of confrontation, arms race and war.
The Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace (EEDYE) organized on 21st April the 41st Peace Marathon (42,3 km from Marathoin to Athens) with many hundreds of Peace fighters till the Ministry of National Defense of Athens, where many thousands friends of EEDYE rallied for a protest demonstration. The date coincided exactly with the first banned Peace March in 1963 carried out by Grigoris Lambrakis, Vice-president of EEDYE and MP who was assassinated one month later.
On April 2, 1976, as a result of the struggle of the Portuguese people and the April Revolution, begun on April 25, 1974, which put an end to fascism and colonialism, the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CPR) was approved and promulgated, enshrining broad democratic rights.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) condemns the systematic policy and repeated manoeuvres by the United States of America (US) to try to destroy the system and way of life of Cuban society – freely and sovereignly determined by the Cuban people –, and once again transform the dignified and sovereign Republic of Cuba into a vassal country of the USA.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) marks Palestinian Land Day, March 30, remembering the general strike and the huge demonstrations of 1976 against the illegal confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel, when Israeli troops murdered six young Palestinians in Galilee.
This date became a milestone in the patriotic unity of the Palestinian people in the struggle against Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and for the right to a free and independent Palestine.
Ilda Figueiredo and Julie Neves, from the CPPC's National Board, participated in the International Conference "From Aggression to New Just Order", between March 21 and 24, in Belgrade, which evoked the 25th. anniversary of NATO's aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (then integrated by Serbia and Montenegro).
This March 8, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation salutes all women and expresses
solidarity with the struggle for their rights, particularly calling for participation in the national
demonstration that the Women's Democratic Movement will hold on March 23, in Lisbon, with the motto
“For the Equality to Which We Have the Right”.
The already long struggle for women's rights has always been linked to the struggle for peace, and its
contribution has been fundamental to swell the river of hope in the materialisation of rights for equality in
This year marks the 75th anniversary of NATO’s formation, and Western ruling circles and their military brass are planning a big celebration leading up to the NATO Summit in Washington DC this coming July. But peace and solidarity activists know that NATO’s existence is nothing to rejoice about, and here’s why.
Dr. Liz Payne
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