At least 25,000 gathered at the big peace rally in Berlin on Oct. 3 Unity Day in Germany, with numerous organizations taking part. Among the peace organizations at the Berlin rally, the LaRouche movement’s Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (BüSo) had its own table, with constant discussions and people eagerly taking the leaflet, which had the link to for the Oct. 2 Zoom conference keynote by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and addressed by former U.S. Ambassador Jack Matlock, Theodore Postol, Rainer Rupp, Col. Alain Corvez (ret.) and Wolfgang Effenberger on it. We got out 2,000 leaflets explaining the urgency for a new security architecture, made a lot of contacts and raised funds. A special attraction was, as always, the big banner “Germany’s Future is the New Silk Road” and the BRICS.
Among the many other banners displayed at the rally, was one that read: “Hiroshima Yesterday—Euroshima Tomorrow?—No Stationing U.S. Medium-Range Missiles on German Territory!” Peace Alliance Northern Germany, warning against nuclear war, created that banner.
Most prominent speakers were Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), Peter Gauweiler (CSU, one of the earliest signers of the Feb.2023 Wagenknecht-Schwarzer anti-war petition), and Ralf Stegner (SPD). Wagenknecht addressed the large rally at the Victory Column. She thanked Mikhail Gorbachev for making Germany’s peaceful reunification possible, but she denounced Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) as a “security risk” for Germany, countering a comment by Baerbock on the Wagenknecht party’s electoral success in the Eastern German states. Lashing out against the war party, Wagenknecht called for a “battalion of warmongers” to prove their war readiness at the front.
