The peace rally in Munich, held in the context of the Easter Marches against war and rearmament over the Eastern weekend, included Werner Zuse of the Schiller Institute among its speakers, providing a good opportunity to present the importance of the BRICS, and the urgent need to build a new security and economic architecture for the world.
Zuse recalled that 42 years ago, a peace movement of several hundred thousand took to the streets to prevent the stationing of SS-20 missiles by the Warsaw Pact and Pershing II missiles by NATO in Germany, which was prevented, because there was also diplomatic contact between the West and the U.S.S.R. That contact has been unavailable in recent years; therefore, additional efforts to revive peace and disarmament diplomacy are required, along with efforts to build peace by creating a new world economic system and a new international security architecture.
The cause of today’s threat to peace lies in the bankrupt state of the Western economic and financial system, Zuse explained, and that had already been stated by Lyndon LaRouche when the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971, at which point LaRouche warned that this vector pointed to fascism and war, if no alternative were created. Central ideas of LaRouche have been adopted by the BRICS today, which is not a military alliance but walks in the footsteps of the 1955 Bandung conference, which created the Non-Aligned Movement to overcome the colonialist era by peaceful development.
