International Initiative for Peace
We publish the Coordination Declaration “Stop the Third World War” (STOPWW3). The Declaration was drawn up immediately after Donald Trump’s electoral victory on November 5th. After a close discussion it was finally approved on 29 December. Trump will take office as president next Jan. 20. The statements he released after the electoral victory seem to confirm our opinion.
(1) The world has entered a period of instability and great turmoil. The propulsive thrust of American-led globalization has come to an end. Because of its liberalist devices and Yankee imperialist arrogance, globalization has accentuated internal social inequalities within each country, economic and geopolitical imbalances, and plunder to the detriment of poor countries. The coming decades will decide the order of the world: will we have a new globalization, and what kind will it be? polycentric or will another power take the place of the U.S.? Or, conversely, will nation-states take back the keys to the house by choosing the path of protectionism and economic self-sufficiency? When a new world order and a new hierarchy of powers are at stake, recourse to war becomes inevitable. If the peoples and the oppressed classes remain on their knees, if anti-imperialist resistance does not achieve field victories, the future of the world will be decided in what we have called World War III Prolonged.
2) Donald Trump’s disruptive revenge can only be explained in this context, and as a result of the infighting that tears apart both American society and its oligarchic elites. The Trumpian fraction, while taking into account the heterogeneous nature of its social basis presents itself as a revanchist movement, the task it sets itself is to defend the world supremacy of the United States (MAGA). Ideologically, in addition to racist and misogynist traits, the main ideological basis is a Christian-Zionist messianism, whereby, if the world supremacy of the United States were to fail, the end of the world would occur. What would actually happen, should the U.S. be deprived of its parasitic position of dominance, is that it would plunge, if not into civil war, into an inexorable existential crisis.
(3) The idea of establishing an agreement with Putin’s Russia should not mislead. It is not an impossible new Yalta that the Trumpian fraction has in mind. The neutralization of the conflict with Russia, which the Biden administration has taken to its highest point, is a dangerous strategy to tame Moscow and detach it from Beijing, and then focus and aim all forces in the confrontation with China, the only rival that can contend with the United States for world supremacy. No illusions then: with Trump it is not peace on the horizon, but a war only differently maneuvered and waged – the Palestinians, as well as the various anti-imperialist nations, know something about this.
(4) So we cannot rejoice in Trump’s victory, but we certainly do not grieve the political defeat of the Democratic fraction of the Yankee elite. Rather, we are glad. For one fundamental reason: when discord and contention prevail in the enemy camp, this is good in the camp of friends, in the camp of the oppressed and rebellious nations. It is therefore also a good thing for the countries that are part of the albeit disunited Brics coalition since any paralysis, however momentary, of the U.S. imperial machine, makes their battle to end the dollar’s overwhelming power less complicated and lays the foundations for a multilateral order. It is well known that Trump rightly considers the Brics phenomenon to be an execrable danger to U.S. hegemony, and there is no doubt that he will try in every way to sow discord and divide them in order then to strike at China. Finally, there is one last reason why Trump’s victory was the lesser of two evils: it has wreaked havoc in Europe, accentuating the pushes for the disintegration of the European Union, a disintegration that would deal a lethal blow to the Eurocracy and the might of the U.S. empire, giving vital new oxygen to European revolutionary forces.
(5) The Stop World War 3 – International Initiative for Peace reiterates its call to stand with those fighting against imperialism, colonialism, and Zionism. We must redouble our efforts to ensure peace with Russia and China, especially with the possibility of a nuclear conflagration becoming most possible with each Western escalation. Our work for peace and justice are neither criminal nor treasonous. Only a united mass movement can confront the oppression at home and the wars abroad. We call on all forces to join us in this work.
Stop World War 3 – International Initiative for Peace
December 29, 2024
