The vice-president of the Party of the European Left (EL), Maite Mola, took part last weekend in the closing ceremony of the World Congress of the International Peace Bureau from September 30 until October 2 in Berlin, with the motto of "Disarm! For a Climate of Peace. Creating an Action Agenda”.

Maite Mola, who came directly from Cartagena de Indias to represent the EL in the official act of the signing of a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the guerrillas of the FARC-EP, spoke of the importance of this great step to end more than 50 years of war in the country. She spoke of the need to work on the causes that generated the conflict: the enormous inequality that exists in the country, the struggle of classes, the far right, landless peasants, extreme poverty, homophobia, the ecological devastation and the very strong gender inequality. Therefore, Maite Mola explained that when the head of the guerrillas, the commander Timochenko, speaks of the peace agreements, he talks about the defense of public services, education and public health, democracy, LGBT, etc.

She added that of course we have to talk about "militarism, the business of weapons, NATO, the infamous Lisbon Treaty that unites us to NATO, the false concept of security of the EU, terrorism, displaced, the road map of Bratislava, the NATO summit in Warsaw, the class war and the war of Saharawi, Kurdish and Palestinian peoples ". Also to energize, convene and maintain the general and specific movements struggling against all these destructive situations.

The vice president of the EL pointed. "We have to talk about three things. The first one, the education for peace as a compulsory subject since childhood and focused on equality at all levels".

The second one, she said, is that the peace movement must be built with the convergence of movements struggling against climate change, poverty and racism, in defence of LGBT rights, public services, feminism and democracy. We have to see how we can work with unions and parties that have peace as central axis, as the EL does.

And the third point, she stressed, is the call for global mobilization for peace, recalling the anti-NATO demonstrations planned on the occasion of the inauguration of the new headquarters of NATO in Brussels.

She concluded by asking for the inclusion of militarism in the agenda and urged the mobilization to stop the capitalism and imperialism, because "we cannot wait”.