On September 21st, the “No Command NATO” demonstration is held in the Firenze, the largest city in Toscana region.
The demonstration is against the plan to install the Nato headquarter in the Predieri barracks in Rovezzano, Florence. According to Italian local authorities and the Ministry of Defense, this headquarter will be a strategic administrative center covering all of Southern Europe. In June 2023, local residents and anti-imperialist organizations formed the No NATO Command in Florence Committee.
About 60 anti-NATO organizations, including the World Anti-imperialist Platform, People’s Democracy Party (PDP), Committees to Support the Resistance for Communism (CARC), the Italian Communist Network of Communists (RDC), and the Italian trade unions Unitary Base Confederation (CUB) and Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) participated in the rally and marching. Protesters marched chanting slogans and holding flags, banners, pickets against war, NATO and the establishment of fascist law.
Davide Pinelli, President of the “Comitato No Comando NATO”, warned of the dangers of establishing a NATO command, saying that “Florence would become a military target. The regional government of Florence is an accomplice in the creation of the NATO command,” adding that “they are responsible for leading us to World War 3”.
A member of the PDP said “The storm of World War 3, caused by imperialism, is blowing from Eastern Europe through West Asia (Middle East) to the Western Pacific. The NATO imperialist alliance is carrying out extreme provocations in Eastern Europe, where the war is already ongoing, in order to make World War 3 irreversible. To this end, it has made no secret of its ambition to turn NATO member states, in particular the entirety of Italy, a strategic point in the Mediterranean, into its rear bases.” he appealed.
And, “With the largest number of US tactical nuclear weapons, B61, in Europe, Italy is already at risk of being drawn into a NATO imperialist war at any time. Furthermore, if NATO bases are expanded in Italy, Italy will be caught in the ravages of war the moment the war in Ukraine expands. As NATO is stretching out its evil hand across the world and the wars in East Asia and Eastern Europe are closely linked, it is time for anti-imperialist forces worldwide to unite in one front, the anti-imperialist front.” he sincerely spoke.
“As NATO is stretching out its evil hand across the world and the wars in East Asia and Eastern Europe are closely linked, it is time for anti-imperialist forces world wide to unite in one front, the anti-imperialist front.” resolving unwavering solidarity.
The rally participants continued their march to the applause of the people, expressing their interest and encouragement.
