No to Putin’s war in Ukraine!
No to NATO military intervention!
Humanitarian assistance to
Ukrainian refugees!
Solidarity with the anti-war
protests in Russia!
Partido Manggagawa (Workers
Party-Philippines) denounces the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military
and the Putin regime. There is no valid reason for Russia to invade and annex
Ukraine which is a sovereign country. The alibis asserted by Putin are
baseless. It thinly masks its expansionist desires and imperialist aims.
We support the anti-war
protests in Russia against the invasion of Ukraine. It is through the
development of a broad anti-war movement inside and outside Russia that peace
can be achieved.
In this respect, we oppose
the call for military intervention by Western countries under NATO against
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. A military confrontation between NATO and Russia
is a recipe for disaster if not another world war. Such a scenario brings the
world to the abyss of nuclear war.
In fact, NATO’s own
expansionist aims to extend its membership eastward to Ukraine and the very
borders of Russia gave Putin a convenient pretext for the invasion. Even as we
condemn Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we do not condone NATO’s expansionism. It
is entirely hypocritical for Biden to slam Putin when the US has its own bloody
history of direct invasion, such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Grenada, and proxy
wars in Africa, and Central and Latin America.
We call for extending
humanitarian assistance to civilian refugees from the war in Ukraine. We too support
solidarity actions by trade unions and labor movements to end the war in
Ukraine. The refusal of airport workers in Pisa, Italy to load arms destined
for Ukraine is an exemplary action that continues the tradition of the
proletarian solidarity against Israel’s occupation of Palestine and siege of
Gaza.
In the Philippines, we work
for awareness raising among organized and unorganized workers for an anti-war
position on the basis of working-class internationalism.
Partido Manggagawa
National Executive Committee
