World Anti-Imperialist Platform

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World Anti-Imperialist Platform
AbbreviationWAP
Leader Collective leadership
Spokesperson Joti Brar
Founded14 October 2022;18 months ago (2022-10-14)
Ideology Anti-imperialism [1]
Anti-Zionism [2]
Anti-NATO
Party flag
WAP FLAG.png
Website
https://wap21.org/

The World Anti-Imperialist Platform (WAP) is an anti-imperialist international organization created in 2022. WAP's objective is to coordinate efforts against imperialism, particularly in the Russo-Ukrainian War and potential conflict between China and Taiwan or North Korea and South Korea. [3]

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WAP believes that Russia and China are not imperialist powers. They view these countries as not engaged in wars of dominance or colonization, and perceive the Russo-Ukrainian conflict as a proxy war against Russia by imperialist powers. [3] WAP's stance sets it apart from other parties in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP), which have characterized the war as inter-imperialist, [4] whereas the WAP supports the Russian invasion. [1] [5]

History

On October 14, 2022, WAP launched its program in Paris, France with a "Paris Declaration", [6] signed initially by 8 parties, including the Communist Party of Great Britain (MarxistLeninist) (CPGB-ML) [7] and the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). [8] This declaration represents the platform's foundational beliefs and goals. The document was ultimately signed by 25 parties, establishing membership in the WAP. [6]

On March 4, 2023, WAP hosted an antiwar conference with the São Paulo Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, where it released a "Caracas Declaration". [9] A mass demonstration was organized by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and simultaneous demonstrations took place around the world.

On May 15, 2023, WAP hosted a Seoul International Conference in South Korea, where it released a "Seoul Declaration", concerning the rising tide of global war in east Asia. [10] The declaration was read by Joti Brar, WAP spokesperson and CPGB-ML vice-chair. [11] The third congress of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was held at the same time, receiving greetings from the Russian Communist Workers’ Party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and the CPGB-ML. [12]

On November 17, 2023, members of the platform participated in protests and demonstrations marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of the Regime of the Colonels, the right-wing dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. [13] On November 26, members of the platform released a "Palestine Declaration", in which the group declared Zionism a "racist ideology". [14]

Reception and criticism

Marxism-Leninism

MarxistLeninist critics, including the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), argue that WAP lacks a Leninist understanding of imperialism. [15] [16] They accuse WAP of being selective in its anti-imperialist stance, focusing more on the form rather than the nature of imperialism. Ivan Pinheiro, former General Secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), criticized WAP as a well-funded effort to legitimize powers competing for world hegemony: [17]

[T]he evidence that all the airfare and accommodation costs of the delegates from the organizations attending these meetings are fully covered by their main stakeholders[,] and the frenetic pace of a world event on average every two months, on different continents, should serve as food for thought and study as to what the primary reason is for the creation and financing of this platform, which is oriented against Marxism-Leninism and in uncritical and unrestricted defense of the strategic interests of powers competing for world hegemony in the imperialist chain, of which they are a part.

The Communist Party of Mexico (PCM) also criticized WAP for allowing non-communist parties into its membership, such as the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). [18]

The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) accused the WAP of defaming the KKE and that some members are "bourgeois, partly nationalist and racist parties" and criticized the separation of imperialism from capitalism in their program. [19]

Other

Trotskyist critics, including Socialist Appeal, have criticized WAP for ignoring the class struggle and contradictions within capitalist systems, as a result of WAP's over-focus on the "primary contradiction" as between the US-led NATO and humanity. [20]

Members

The organizations below have signed WAP's Paris Declaration: [6]

CountryNative NameEnglish NameAbbreviationIdeology
Flag of Europe.svg  Europe Anti-imperialist Camp AIC Anti-imperialism
Flag of Europe.svg  Europe Eastern Initiative EI Socialism [21]
Flag of the African Union.svg  Africa Dynamique Unitaire PanafricanePan-African Unitary DynamicsDUP Pan-Africanism
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) CPGB-ML Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 민중민주당 People's Democracy Party PDP Communism
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina Partido Comunista de la Argentina Communist Party of Argentina PCA Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Partido Comunista Colombiano Colombian Communist Party PCC Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria Движение 23 септември 23 September Movement Communism
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia სოციალისტური პლატფორმაSocialist Platform Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Επαναστατική ΕνοποίησηRevolutionary Unification Communism
Flag of Kyrgyzstan (2023).svg  Kyrgyzstan Коммунистическая Партия Киргизстана Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan KPK Marxism–Leninism
Кыргызстан Коммунисттеринин Партиясы Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan PKK Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi/Leninist Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist TKEP/L Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg  Guinea-Bissau Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde PAIGC Democratic socialism
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Magyar Munkáspárt Hungarian Workers' Party MM Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Partito Comunista Communist Party (Italy) PC Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Partito Comunista Italiano Italian Communist Party (2016) PCI Communism
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Swiss Partito Comunista Communist Party (Switzerland) PC Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Нова комунистичка партија Југославије New Communist Party of Yugoslavia NKPJ Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria) Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC(AP) Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Flag of France.svg  France Pôle de renaissance communiste en France Pole of Communist Revival in France PRCF Marxism–Leninism
Association Nationale des CommunistesNational Association of CommunistsANC Communism
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia Socijalistička radnička partija Hrvatske Socialist Labour Party of Croatia SRP Democratic socialism
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru Partido Comunista del Perú – Patria Roja Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland PCdP-PR Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism
Partido Comunista Peruano Peruvian Communist Party PCP Marxism–Leninism
Mariáteguism
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama Partido del Pueblo de Panamá People's Party of Panama PPP Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain PCPE Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Vanguardia EspañolaSpanish VanguardVEThought of Gustavo Bueno
Unitarism
Republicanism
Post-capitalism
Iniciativa CommunistaCommunist InitiativeIC Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Union ProletariaProletarian UnionUP Marxism–Leninism
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia KSČM Marxism
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela United Socialist Party of Venezuela PSUV Socialism of the 21st century
Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia Левица The Left Levica Left-wing populism
Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon الحزب الشيوعي اللبناني Lebanese Communist Party LCP Marxism–Leninism
Flag of the United States.svg  United States Party of Communists USAPCUSA Marxism–Leninism
Center for Political InnovationCPI Patriotic socialism
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus Kamunistyčnaja partyja pracoŭnych Bielarusi Workers' Communist Party of Belarus  [ zh ]BKPT Communism
Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg  Bolivia Partido Comunista de Bolivia Communist Party of Bolivia PCB Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Quebec.svg  Quebec Parti communiste du QuébecCommunist Party of Quebec [lower-alpha 1] PCQ Marxism–Leninism
Quebec sovereigntism
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador Partido Comunista del Ecuador Communist Party of Ecuador PCE Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Komunistyczna Partia Polski Communist Party of Poland KPP Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Всесоюзная коммунистическая партия большевиков All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991) VKPB Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия в составе Коммунистической партии Советского Союза Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union RCWP-CPSU Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan مزدور کسان پارٹی Mazdoor Kisan Party MKP Marxism–Leninism
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya Communist Party of Kenya CPK Marxism–Leninism
Maoism
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Communistische Partij van België / Parti Communiste de Belgique Communist Party of Belgium (1989) CPB / PCB Marxism–Leninism
조선과의 친선협회 Korean Friendship Association KFA Juche
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Об'єднання «Боротьба» Borotba (Association "Struggle") Marxism–Leninism

Stalinism

Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Páirtí na nOibrithe Workers Party of Ireland PO Marxism–Leninism

See also

Notes

  1. Not to be confused with the Communist Party of Quebec (PCQ-PCC), the nominally independent Quebecois branch of the Communist Party of Canada.

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