World Anti-imperialist Platform | |
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| Abbreviation | WAP |
| Founded | 2022 |
| Political orientation | Marxism–Leninism |
| Website | |
| https://wap21.org/ | |
 YouTube channel | https://www.youtube.com/@worldanti-imperialistplatf1312 |
The World Anti-imperialist Platform (WAP) is an international anti-imperialist organisation launched in 2022 to coordinate the efforts of all those who desire to work for the defeat of imperialism. It believes that the single most important theoretical task facing anti-imperialists today is that of correctly characterising both the ongoing war in eastern Europe and the imminent wars in east Asia (south Korea and Taiwan).[1]
It believes that Russia and China are not imperialist powers, for they are not engaged in wars of dominance, colonisation and rivalry over the control of superprofits. It describes the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict as a proxy war waged by imperialism against Russia.[1]
This sets it apart from organisations such as the Communist Party of Greece and most parties in the IMCWP, which have characterised the war as interimperialist.[2][3] There now exists a clear demarcation of views on the Ukrainian war: those that characterise Russia as imperialist, and those that do not.
History
2022 Paris Declaration
On October 14, 2022, the platform launched its program: the Paris Declaration.[4] A full version of the text can be found here.[5] On this date, the declaration was signed by 14 parties, although this number is expected to grow as the imperialist war drive intensifies.[6]
List of signatories in chronological order
Ruling parties listed in bold.
- Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), UK
- People's Democracy Party, South Corea
- Korea is One, Belgium
- Baltic Platform
- Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan
- Hungarian Workers' Party, Hungary
- Communist Party, Italy
- Italian Communist Party, Italy
- Communist Party, Switzerland
- Spanish Avantgarde, Spain
- Eastern Initiative
- New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Serbia
- National Association of Communists, France
- Pole of Communist Revival in France, France
- Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), Chile
- Socialist Workers Party of Croatia, Croatia
- Platform for Independence – Greece, Greece
- Communist Party of Peru (Patria Roja), Peru
- Collective of Struggle for the Revolutionary Unification of Humanity, Greece
- People's Party of Panama, Panama
- Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, Spain
- New Communist Party of Montenegro, Montenegro
- United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Venezuela
- Union Proletariat, Spain
- Rassemblement Communiste, France
- Lebanese Communist Party, Lebanon
2023 Caracas
On 4 March, 2023, the platform will jointly host an antiwar conference with the Sao Paulo Forum. A mass demonstration will be organised by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and simultaneous demonstrations will take place around the world.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://wap21.org/?p=749
- ↑ https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/No-to-the-imperialist-war-in-Ukraine/
- ↑ "22nd IMCWP, RESOLUTION on the imperialist war on the territory of Ukraine" (2022-11-07). SolidNet.
- ↑ "Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists" (2022-10-14). World Anti-imperialist Platform.
- ↑ "The rising tide of global war and the tasks of anti-imperialists (Full text)" (2022-10-14). World Anti-imperialist Platform.
- ↑ "Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and our tasks" (2022-10-20). Proletarian.
- ↑ "Worldwide Anti-imperialist Simultaneous Struggle Centred Caracas" (2023-02-10). World Anti-imperialist Platform.