The BüSo party (Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität, Civil Rights Solidarity) held a national convention in the Saxony state capital of Dresden on August 17, with presentations and discussions focused on the urgency of preventing a nuclear war. In her keynote to the 70 delegates and supporters, BüSo national chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche explained at length through the timeline of NATO’s buildup of the present danger of a strategic war against Russia from the 1990s on, and she emphasized the utmost urgency of building global resistance to stop the war drive, against the background in which 85% of the global population opposes an escalation. The main venue for that is the International Peace Coalition (IPC), whose last online meeting on August 16 had participants from 50 countries, and the call to create an international Council of Reason to replace geopolitics by real statecraft.
As for Germany’s population, who would be the target of nuclear missiles from both sides in a war, it has to overcome its dangerous passivity and to rise up to prevent the planned stationing of ever more U.S. missiles on German territory, to seek for diplomacy to end the Ukraine war, and to support a constructive German role in cooperation with the BRICS. There is no alternative to the latter. Nor is there any alternative to an in-depth renaissance of classical culture which has to insert an image of creative man into science, economics and politics, as opposed to the bestiality that dominates the Western system now, Zepp-LaRouche said.
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche also recalled that the antidote to the destructive geopolitics of the Western monetarist system has been there since the programmatic interventions of Lyndon LaRouche in the early 1970s, with his proposal for replacing the International Monetary Fund by an International Development Bank, and other proposals including the Oasis Plan to economically develop Southwest Asian.
The keynote was followed by a lively, constructive discussion, featuring among other topics, an initiative for a petition to stop the war drive and enter an era of cooperation instead. Three presentations introducing a panel on the ongoing deindustrialization of Germany also took place, featuring representatives of the nuclear power industry, the petrochemical industry and the automotive industry.
