Communist Party of Belgium
Dear comrades and friends,
The victory over fascism is a great moment that the Communist Party of Belgium wishes to celebrate with you, at your side. We warmly thank you for inviting us once again to be among you and to speak.
This new international meeting of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform is being held at a glorious moment in the history of peaceful and free peoples―the victory of 1945, which saw the defeat of Nazi Germany, the surrender of Hitler, and the red flag flying triumphantly over Berlin, taken by the Red Army at the cost of millions of innocent lives.
What is Fascism?
The first fascist states were founded in Italy in 1922 and in Germany in 1933. The concept of fascism has political, economic, and military dimensions.
Georgi Dimitrov, in his report to the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in 1935, defined fascism as “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, and most imperialist elements of finance capital.” In his book Unity Against Fascism (1935), he called for the creation of a united front of the working class against fascism. This front, under the leadership of the Soviet Union, ultimately defeated fascism in 1945.
Today, the states of Israel and Ukraine meet the economic, political, and military criteria of fascist states. Financial capital, particularly U.S. finance capital, as the driving force of imperialist monopoly capital, took power in Israel after British imperialism, weakened by World War II, was replaced in Palestine-Israel by U.S. imperialism. Now Israel is as the bridgehead for U.S. economic and military penetration in the Middle East.
In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “The Grand Chessboard” the U.S. strategy in Eastern Europe, aimed at dividing the Soviet Union, separating Ukraine from Russia to weaken and further divide it. The involvement of former President Joe Biden’s son in Ukrainian business ventures is a good illustration of U.S. economic imperialism in that country.
For decades in Israel and since 2014 in Ukraine, fascism has abandoned the “democratic” and hidden forms of fascism, such as elections, and has organized a terrorist and genocidal regime, killing tens of thousands of people.
This glorious moment of victory on May 8 is nevertheless overshadowed by many events, a major turning point, new wars dangerous for humanity, a great historical upheaval, and large-scale brainwashing aimed at shaping public opinion.
The wars in Ukraine (which began in the Donbass), Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen all reveal the same pattern. U.S. imperialism continues to supply bombs, missiles, and drones, and detonate them with its own military forces in Yemen.
Regarding Ukraine, instead of taking advantage of the change of U.S. presidency and Donald Trump’s supposed willingness to seek peaceful solutions, “Old Europe”―the oldest of all colonial and imperialist powers, which already caused two world wars within 25 years―is re-launching a monstrous arms race, costing hundreds of billions, and imposing its boomerang-like and ineffective sanctions against Russia, with which it claims to be at war, with China as its ultimate target.
Old Europe is deluding itself that Russia could be defeated by Zelensky’s fascist regime and that the conquered territories might be reclaimed. Zelensky does not say what he would do with the millions of Russian speakers living in these regions that the Kiev regime has been bombing and massacring for 11 years, under the command and with the silence of the USA, “Europe” and NATO.
Pushed by his fascist allies, by Biden, by Europe, by the warmongering NATO, and by his own Russophobia, Zelensky refuses to recognize that it is in his interest to abandon this useless war and negotiate the terms of peace directly with Russia, rather than see his country ransomed by Trump for its black earth and other riches.
This “Old Europe,” which proclaims itself capitalist, liberal, free enterprise and competitive, increasingly expansionist and annexationist, is a sham. It does not want peace, it wants to wage wars of conquest.
This is one of the reason why the Communist Party of Belgium calls for Belgium to leave NATO and for NATO to be dissolved. NATO has been an imperialist instrument since its foundation, seeking world domination. We also demand that Belgium leave the imperialist alliance that now constitutes the European Union.
It is with sadness that we see certain “left-wing” parties joining it, voting to help fascist Ukraine, declaring that a European army is necessary since we have abandoned our American masters, whom we revere as our protectors, our “liberators,” and that Russia should not be invited to the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, because of its “aggression” and “invasion” of Ukraine.
The “Russian threat” narrative did not begin with the war in Ukraine, but with Churchill’s infamous “fear speech” delivered with President Truman at Westminster College on March 5, 1946. At that time, the alleged “threat” was “Soviet expansion.” This same myth persists, even though the Gorbachev counterrevolution brought Russia back into the capitalist camp, dissolving several Soviet republics and reducing the USSR’s territory by over five million square kilometers.
Some on the left are content to proclaim that “imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.” This leads them to denounce the three imperialists that are supposedly “the global West,” Russia, and China.
They forget that when capitalism enters a deep crisis―which is currently the case―it evolves into its final phase: strong power, its most racist (including Russophobia), brutal, bestial, and murderous form―fascism―and ultimately war. This is what threatens all of “Europe” today.
Belgium now also has a Flemish nationalist prime minister whom no one wanted ten years ago because the N-VA was considered extreme right-wing, and therefore anti-democratic and unfit to govern. That changed after the elections of June 9, 2024, when a far-right coalition made up of liberals, Flemish nationalists, Christian Democrats, and so-called Flemish “socialists” also came to power.
This “democratic” and “free” Europe is seeing this brown plague increasingly coming to power in most of the countries that once made pacts with Hitler: Hungary, Italy, Germany (obviously), Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Spain and even the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Sweden (a formerly neutral country, but which still sold 80% of its steel to Uncle Adolf) are infected. As for Ukraine, enough has been said about its past, its present, its carefully cultivated Russophobia.
In Europe, there are leaders, parties, trade unions, and pacifists who let it happen. Yet these fascists also exist elsewhere and are already putting their skills to “good use”: this is the case are also visible in Gaza concentration camp, where 2.2 million Palestinians have been imprisoned for 18 years and are now being massacred by Netanyahu’s fascist government.
The Europe of Von der Leyen, Macron, Starmer, and others remains silent does nothing because it is complicit, as it has been in Donbass for 11 years, and as it is doing Syria, the Balkans, and Libya―where it helped install corrupt regimes.
At this moment, the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism, we must reaffirm that Russia does not seek war, nor does it wish to invade Europe. London, Paris, Brussels, and Rome can continue to sleep peacefully. Russia, larger than all EU countries combined, possesses immense untapped resources that ensure its self-sufficiency.
Russia, like China, is preparing vast development projects that will astonish the world. Within BRICS+, both great countries are laying the foundations for a new international order based on peace, development, and cooperation, despite differences in their political systems.
On May 8, 2025, we celebrate once again the victory over fascism―made possible by the immense contribution of the USSR (now Russia), the Western Allies, the partisans, the resistance fighters, and the underground press. Without the USSR and without Stalingrad, Nazi Germany could have prevailed, thanks to the vast resources and collaborators it had at its disposal.
This is what today’s revisionists cannot forgive―neither Stalin’s Soviet Union nor Putin’s Russia. This is the root of the Russophobia of the Kiev regime and its allies in the Baltic states, Finland, Poland, Germany, and elsewhere in the so-called new European empire.
Long live the victory over Nazi Germany and fascism!
Long live peace among peoples!
Stop the new arms race and bloc politics!
Peace in Ukraine―start negotiations now!