No to the New Cold War

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No to the New Cold War is a pro-Chinese Communist Party group of Marxists associated with Code Pink and the ANSWER Coalition, an anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-North Korea organization aligned with the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Both No to the New Cold War and Pivot to Peace, also associated with ANSWER, seek to undermine America's national security strategy on China.

International meeting: No to the New Cold War

Webinar: No to the New Cold War

From their website as of July 25 2020:

"This event will see some leading analysts from China, the US, Britain, India, Russia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil come together to discuss how to counter the New Cold War."

Speakers include:

• Medea Benjamin (Co-founder, CODEPINK)
• Wang Wen (Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China)
• Martin Jacques (Author: 'When China Rules the World')
• Vijay Prashad (Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)
• Carlos Ron (Vice-Minister for North America, Venezuela's Ministry for Foreign Relations)
• Qiao Collective
• Yury Tavrovksy (Author: 'America Against China: Cold War in Times of Coronavirus')
• Yang Hanyi (Senior editor, Guancha.cn)
• Ajamu Baraka (Black Agenda Report)
• Margaret Kimberley (Black Agenda Report)
• Max Blumenthal (Editor-in-chief, The Grayzone)
• Anya Parampil (Journalist and presenter, The Grayzone)
• Kate Hudson (General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
• Radhika Desai (Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba)
• John Ross (Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China)
• Elias Jabbour (Associate Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University)
• Jenny Clegg (Author: 'China's Global Strategy: Toward a Multipolar World')

Press Release

In their July 23 2020 press release, No to the New Cold War stated:

"Faced with the threat of a new cold war, due to increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government, a number of individuals from the US, China, Europe, India, Latin America, and other countries have come together to launch a statement ‘A New Cold War Against China is Against the Interests of Humanity’. This has been published in 14 languages, accounting for those spoken by the majority of humanity.

"An initial public online meeting of the campaign, with 15 of the signatories as speakers, will take place on 25 July at 14:00 British Summer Time (09:00 US Eastern Standard Times, 06:00 US Pacific Time, 21:00 China Standard Time). There will be speakers from eight countries - the US, China, Britain, India, Russia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil.

The statement, initially drawn up by individuals, has also now been signed by two leading peace organisations in the US, CODEPINK and ANSWER coalition, and also in Britain – the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Stop the War Coalition.

Participants from 33 countries have already registered to participate in the launch meeting.

Other international organisations and political figures have signed the statement. A number are included below, and others will be released after the meeting.

This will be an ongoing campaign and further meetings and initiatives of both organisations and individual supporters of the statement will be announced in the coming period.

Initial signatories - in personal capacity

(*indicates speaker at the meeting)

• Ajamu Baraka – BlackAgendaReport.com (US) *
• Brian Becker - National Director, ANSWER Coalition (US)
• Medea Benjamin – Codepink.org (US) *
• Max Blumenthal – Editor-in-chief, The Grayzone *
• Ben Chacko - Editor, Morning Star (UK)
• Jenny Clegg - Senior Lecturer in International Studies, University of Central Lancashire, author of China's Global Strategy (UK) *
• Radhika Desai - Professor at Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba (Canada). *
• Francisco Dominguez - Head of Latin America Studies Research Group, Middlesex University
• Camila Escalante - Producer teleSUR English and Kawsachun News
• Sara Flounders - Organiser, International Action Center
• Lindsey German - Convenor Stop the War Coalition (UK)
• Danny Haiphong - Author of ‘American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News – From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror’
• Kate Hudson – General Secretary Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK) *
• Elias Jabbour – Associate Professor at Rio de Janeiro State University (Brazil) *
• Martin Jacques - Senior Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University (UK) *
• Margaret Kimberley - BlackAgendaReport.com (US) *
• Daniel Kovalik - Adjunct Professor of International Human Rights, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• Rania Khalek - Journalist
• Brian Mier - Co-editor Brasil Wire (Brazil)
• Carlos Martinez - Author of 'The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse'
• Aaron Mate - Journalist, The Grayzone
• Maite Mola - Vice-President, European Left Party (Spain)
• Dirk Nimmegeers - Editor ChinaSquare.be (Belgium)
• Ben Norton - Assistant Editor, The Grayzone
• Anya Parampil – Journalist and presenter, The Grayzone *
• John Pilger – Prize-winning journalist, director of ‘The Coming War on China' (Australia)
• Vijay Prashad - Executive-Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (India) *
• Qiao Collective *
• Carlos Ron – Vice Minister for North America (Venezuela) *
• John Ross – Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute, Renmin University of China (UK) *
• Ajit Singh – Journalist and China specialist
• Yury Tavrovsky - author of 'America Against China: A Cold War in Times of Coronavirus', Izborsk Club (Russia) *
• Yashpal Tandon - Professor, author and public intellectual (Uganda)
• Ollie Vargas - Kawsachun News (Bolivia)
• Yang Hanyi – Senior editor Guancha.cn (China) *
• Wang Wen - Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (China) *
• Colonel Ann Wright - US Army (retired), Veterans for Peace (US)

Peace organisations signing the statement

• ANSWER coalition (US)
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
• CODEPINK (US)
• International Action Center (US)
• Pivot to Peace (US)
• Stop the War Coalition (UK)

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