Dear comrades, hello, I want to thank every comrade participating in this conference, which seems all the more important to me, given the situation we are in today. I was just at a demonstration in Paris that the French government, the Macron government, has dared to ban. I dare to say it: once more. This… Weiterlesen Jérôme Legavre, POI member and LFI member of parliament for Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris region), France

Fred og Rettferdighet (FOR, engl. Peace and Justice) is a newly founded organisation in Norway, aspiring to become a registered party ahead of the next general election in 2025. Dear comrades, champions of peace! As is widely recognized, the current world situation has many similarities to the situation just ahead of the World War. The… Weiterlesen Marielle Leraand, Initiative „Fred og Rettferdighet“ („Peace and Justice”), Norway

Thank you very much for organising this broad and ambitious conference, and thank you also for allowing me to speak here on behalf of the SDAJ, the youth organisation “ Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterjugend” (Socialist German Working Youth). The SDAJ gathers high school pupils, apprentices, students and young workers throughout Germany. In my speech I will… Weiterlesen Joscha Mecke, member of the Federal Executive of the youth organisation SDAJ, Germany

Dear comrades, My name is Ratibor Trivunac, I am antiquarian bookseller by profession, from Belgrade, Serbia. I am anarcho-syndicalist and anti-militarist activist for more than two decades, with primary focus on activism in the Balkan region of Easter Europe. I was very pleased to get an invitation to this videoconference and I am very sorry… Weiterlesen Ratibor Trivunac, anarcho-syndicalist and anti-militarist activist from Belgrade, Serbia

Dear fellow campaigners, Congratulations for undertaking the coordination of several initiatives for Peace throughout Europe. We are in accordance with the slogan: „No to war – No to social war“, which links the fundamental issue of Peace to the workers movement and several other movements. Recent developments on the war front, a war conducted by… Weiterlesen Evangelina Sotiropoulou, Anti-NATO Action, Greece

Dear friends, Thank you for inviting me to this important conference. I am very pleased to be here with so many supporters of peace from all over Europe.     I am a member of the Berlin State Parliament, the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus. There I am a media expert for Die Linke (The Left). I was also one… Weiterlesen Alexander King, member of the Berlin State Parliament, Die Linke (The Left), Germany

Thank you for organising this important conference. Its aim is to bring together different political and trade union forces to promote joint action against war in Europe. And the slogan of this conference is also of the utmost importance: „Against war – against social war“. Our first common international task centres around the question of… Weiterlesen Andrej Hunko, member of the Bundestag, Die Linke (The Left), Germany

Left-wing activists must be the driving force for social justice and peace. Dear friends, „Peace is not everything, but everything is nothing without peace,“ former German Chancellor Willy Brandt once said. With this in mind we must welcome any initiative today that aims at winning peace and not the war. The war in Ukraine, like… Weiterlesen Video address by Sevim Dagdelen, member of the Bundestag, Die Linke (The Left), Germany

Stockholm, June 21, 2023 Dear initiators of the European Conference Against War, July 8, I wholeheartedly support your initiative and thank you for your efforts in this very difficult period, with warmongering rhetoric and actions on all levels. In Sweden, the general support for the war, for the deliveries of arms and for the sanctions… Weiterlesen Message from Marcus Carlstedt, Trade Unionist in the educational sector, Sweden