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 very glorious moment in the history of peaceful and free peoples, that of the VICTORY of May 8, 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 victims… Nazi Germany, Hitler’s surrender and the red flag flying triumphantly over Berlin, taken by the Red Army at the cost of millions of innocent victims…
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 aspects.
Georgi Dimitrov presented a report to the 7th Congress of the Third International in 1935. He 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,” published in 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, defeated fascism in 1945.
The State of Israel and the State of Ukraine today meet the economic, political, and military criteria of a fascist state. Financial capital, particularly US financial capital, as the driving force of imperialist monopoly capital, took power in the State of Israel after British imperialism, weakened by World War II, was replaced in Palestine-Israel by US imperialism. Israel is today the bridgehead for US economic and military penetration in the Middle East.
In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski formulated in “The Grand Chessboard” the US strategy in Eastern Europe aimed at dividing the Soviet Union, separating Ukraine from Russia in order to weaken and further divide it. The involvement of former President Joe Biden’s son in a business venture in Ukraine is a good illustration of US economic imperialism in that country.
In Israel for decades and in Ukraine since 2014, 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 war in Ukraine (which began in the Donbass), but also in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen (four places where Donald Trump will clearly not bring peace, but where US 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 presidency in the US and Donald Trump’s willingness to find peaceful solutions, old Europe-the oldest of all colonial and imperialist powers, which has already caused two world wars in 25 years-is relaunching a monstrous arms race costing hundreds of billions of and is strengthening 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 Russia could return the conquered territories… 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 America, “Europe” and NATO.
Pushed by his fascist elements, by Biden, by Europe, by the warmongering NATO alliance and by his own Russophobia, Zelensky refuses to see that it is in his interest to abandon this useless war and negotiate the terms of peace directly with Russia if he does not want to 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 reasons why the COMMUNIST PARTY OF BELGIUM wants Belgium to leave NATO and see it dissolved, because NATO has been imperialist since its foundation, aiming for world hegemony, and we want Belgium to leave the imperialist alliance that today forms 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 so-called “Russian threat” does not date back to the war in Ukraine, but to Churchill’s famous “fear speech” delivered in the presence of Harry Truman at Westminster University on March 5, 1946. It is true that at the time, the alleged “threat” was “Soviet expansion.” This threat still exists despite the fact that the Gorbachev counter-revolution brought Russia back into the capitalist camp, causing the departure of several Soviet socialist republics and reducing the territory of the USSR by 5 to 6 million km2…
Some on the left are content to proclaim that “imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism!” This leads them to denounce the three imperialisms that are supposedly “the global West,” Russia, and… China. They forget that when capitalism is in deep crisis―which is currently the case―it enters its final phase: strong power, its most racist (including Russophobia), brutal, bestial, and murderous form, fascism, and ultimately war… This is what threatens the whole of “Europe” today.
And for the record, 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.
And 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… Even the Netherlands, Great Britain, France (which was Pétainist), 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…
And 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 in the Gaza concentration camp, where 2.2 million Palestinians have been locked up for 18 years and are now being massacred by Netanyahu’s fascist government: the horror is permanent… The “Europe” of Von der Leyen, Macron, Starmer and Co. remains silent and does nothing because it is complicit… As it has been doing for 11 years in Donbass… As it is doing in Syria, as it did in the Balkan wars and in Libya, where it even helped install corrupt regimes…
NO, at this moment, on the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism, we must reaffirm that RUSSIA does not want war, does not want to invade Europe, that London, Paris, Brussels, Rome, etc. can continue to sleep peacefully: RUSSIA has a territory larger than all the EU countries combined, where enormous untapped riches still lie dormant, guaranteeing its self-sufficiency.
RUSSIA, like CHINA, is currently preparing huge development plans, achievements that will astonish the world… These two great countries, within the BRICS+, are also preparing the conditions for new international relations based on peace, development and cooperation, despite their differences in regime, a new world…
On May 8, 2025, we will also celebrate 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 activists. Without the USSR, without Stalingrad, Nazi Germany could have won the war, thanks to the enormous resources it was able to deploy with the help of collaborators. This is what today’s revanchists cannot stomach or forgive, neither Stalin’s USSR nor Putin’s Russia. This is where the Russophobia of the Kiev regime and its allies in the Baltic states, Finland, Poland, Germany and elsewhere in the new European empire comes from…
LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OVER Nazi Germany and fascism. Long live peace between peoples! STOP the new arms race, the new bloc politics… PEACE IN UKRAINE! START NEGOTIATIONS NOW!
