The no to war in the Manifesto for the sovereignty and rights of peoples. “Beyond political alignments” –

A Manifesto for the sovereignty and rights of peoples as a tool to stop the war. This morning the illustration of the project in the presence of the presenters of the Manifesto, the historian Franco Cardini, the analyst Stefano Orsi, the biologist Enzo Pennetta and the philosopher Andrea Zhok all agreed in reiterating the no to war by launching an appeal to all political and cultural fronts. This is demonstrated by the presence of Gianni Alemanno and Massimo Arlecchino, Secretary and President of the Independence Movement and Marco Rizzo and Francesco Toscano of Coordinator of Sovereign and Popular Democracy who supported the manifesto. Two polar opposite political sides “but when it comes to important topics such as peace we don’t look at the cards because there are issues that go beyond political affiliation”.

Massimo Arlechino, President of the Independence Movement, introduced and presented the event, while it was Professor Cardini’s turn to illustrate the guidelines of the manifesto and his personal thoughts on peace and war. “Being once morest war – declared Cardini – is a tradition of all civilized peoples and the human race. However, wars have always happened and they occurred because they were a way to obtain peace. Today this is no longer the case, the the conversation has changed. War has become technically impossible: we risk the extinction of the human race, but this means taking a very steep slope which will certainly lead, if it is undertaken, to the extinction or destruction of the world. mankind. Today – he concluded – is one of the many symptoms that something is starting to move so it is important for me”.

“Today, men of culture and politicians from the most diverse ideological backgrounds launch an appeal for peace and an indictment of Europe, a prisoner of a Euro-caste and immobile in the face of wars – said Alemanno – Italian political leaders, instead of arguing over the latest arrest of the day, they should discuss how to make our country take on a decisive role in obtaining a ceasefire in these dramatic hours in Palestine and how to respond positively to the signal sent by Putin regarding his willingness to dialogue with the ‘West. Faced with the tragedies of our time, we need to know how to build transversal fronts and a new political vision to force Italian institutions to take decisive action for Peace. We – he continued – ask that the Italian Government force the other European leaders to stop Netanyahu using the instrument of sanctions and the embargo on arms supplies and to pressure American President Biden to make a ceasefire proposal in Ukraine too. But to set these mechanisms in motion, every political and social force opposed to the war, from right to left, from the students occupying the universities to the entrepreneurs in crisis due to the recession induced by the wars, must come out of their ideological niche to create a great popular movement for Peace”.

“This anti-war manifesto – stated Rizzo – explains the need for a true policy of peace, which certainly cannot be a reason only to build a banal electoral list, but rather a policy of building an alignment for the multipolar world, once morest imperialism and for system change”. According to Francesco Toscano, president of Democrazia Sovrana Popolare, “today means united reflection and political proposal. Initiatives like this once morest the war – he said – establish a record involving economic and social issues. A real table on which to build political planning and true sovereignty for our country”.

At the end of the conference, which also saw the participation of the diplomat Elena Basile, a collection of signatures was started “to give voice to all those who do not share the contents and methods with which this European electoral campaign is developing”.