The conference for peace convened by Podemos in Madrid together with its partners and allies from all over Europe and Latin America has been a success, but also a confirmation of impotence: the urgency of a diplomatic solution process for the cessation of the war in The invasion of Ukraine is a consensus of the concelebrants, who at the same time confirm their powerlessness to impose the peace agenda as long as the continental population does not mobilize.
The conference, organized by Podemos at the Fundación Larra in Madrid and with the help of its confluences –IU and En comú Podem– and allies –ERC and EH-Bildu– with the assistance of representatives of the entire European left and a large part of the of Latin America, was a communion in diagnosis and regret.
At the head of the III conference for peace, Ione Belarra, Minister of Social Rights, asked the president, Pedro Sánchez, to admit the error of the war escalation, and warned about the evolution of the conflict: “They tell us that there will never be Spanish soldiers in Ukraine, but we have no guarantee that they will break their word again because the war escalation is an insatiable animal”. Among spokespersons for all the European left, who agreed with each other, a worrying diagnosis, which the former Jemad, Julio Rodríguez, was right to express: the difference with 2003 is the mobilization, the European population is not thrown out on the streets demanding peace, and that obstructs any possibility of putting pressure on governments to emancipate themselves from NATO’s warmongering. Enrique Santiago, general secretary of the PCE, warned of the critical moment, on the brink of an escalation with unforeseeable consequences, while the fronts of hostilities are stagnating. Mara Rosique, deputy for Esquerra, recalled the historic mobilizations against the Iraq war and assumed that without a public opinion mobilized and committed to peace in Europe it would be impossible to rescue the EU from following the war following the dictates of the US administration.
One year after the start of the Russian invasion, those appearing agreed in their condemnation of Russia, but focused their speeches on the need for Europe to emancipate itself from NATO strategies. The claim that the current leading role of the Atlanticist organization be replaced by an emergency of the conciliatory role of the United Nations was a coincidence of many speakers, but at the bottom of the day there was an anxiety: When will the European society become aware of the urgency of to mobilize for peace in Ukraine? In the background, atomic terror.