Resolution of the World Union’s meeting in Győr, Hungary, 15–17 August 2025

Block the way to war and fascism!

In recent years, a pathological Russophobia and war psychosis have spread throughout the “collective West.” EU foreign policy representative Kaja Kallas is a prime example: “If Europe can’t defeat Russia, how can it cope with China?” The many thousands of sanctions imposed by NATO states against the Russian Federation are not in accordance with international law, as the UN Charter grants them exclusive authority to the Security Council. Thus, they are weapons used by a warring party in an attempt to defeat its opponent. The fact that these NATO sanctions are also fully supported by Austria and Switzerland proves that their formal neutrality remains an illusion until popular pressure creates political majorities that make them a reality.

With the anti-Russian sanctions out of the democratic sector

Anti-Russian sanctionitis is not only ruining the Western European economy to the detriment of wage workers in that sector by cutting them off from cheap Russian raw materials and equally cheap Russian energy sources, but also human rights, a fact manifested both domestically and in foreign policy. It even extends beyond the European continent, in the collective West, when, under the Biden administration, military analyst and former US weapons inspector Scott Ritter had his passport confiscated to prevent him from traveling to the Russian Federation, and he only got it back after six months of the Trump administration. Or when, in early August, lawyer Yair Dagan Biran, known for representing pandemic opponents and mRNA vaccine refusers in Israel, was banned from booking a flight from Israel to Bulgaria, even though he quickly succeeded in overturning this ban through a court lawsuit.

So it doesn’t matter whether the rulers in the collective West feel disturbed in their pro-Zionist or anti-Russian policies by people who deconstruct their narratives. These are clear human rights violations whose effects go beyond the right to freedom of expression, even if they begin with restrictions on it.

Such is the case with Francesca Paola Albanese, an Italian legal scholar specializing in international law and human rights, who has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2022. In July 2025, the United States imposed sanctions on Albanese for waging a “campaign of political and economic warfare” against the United States and the Zionist entity Israel by openly naming the perpetrators of the genocide in Gaza.

Evghenia Gutsul, Bashkan of Gagauzia, Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Blagomir Kotsev, Mayor of the city of Varna in Bulgaria, were in the way of the anti-Russian fury. They were persecuted because they rightly argued that we all, regardless of our country of residence, have something to gain from international friendship with the Russian Federation. Blagomir has been in custody since July 8 on trumped-up corruption charges, while Evghenia has already been imprisoned for seven years, even though no evidence has been presented that she allegedly financed an election campaign with Russian money. Milorad has so far evaded arrest to begin serving his sentence after failing to carry out an order from the EU governor, the colonial power. In reality, as in the case of the election annulment and the candidacy bans in Romania, the aim is to push through NATO’s anti-Russian line everywhere with the support of the fascist-Banderist regime in Kyiv.

A clear human rights violation was committed with the sanction imposed in the 17th EU sanctions package against journalists Thomas Röper and Alina Lipp. As German citizens, they are no longer allowed to enter Germany from the Russian Federation and have no legal recourse against the arbitrary measures due to confiscation of assets and a ban on financial donations. The same applies to the German arrest warrants against leading members of the “Friedensbrücke – War Victims Aid” association, who are accused of supporting “terrorism” for delivering humanitarian aid to Donbass.

The person most severely affected is Hüseyin Doğru, a German citizen living with his family in Berlin. He was placed on the sanctions list for his anti-Zionist reporting on Palestine, because reporting on Zionist crimes “serves anti-Russian narratives.” It can be assumed that the Berlin government of the Federal Republic of Germany commissioned this from the EU Commission, as it considers the defense of the Zionist entity of Israel to be a “reason of state,” while in reality, the underlying objective is the profit interests of the arms industry.

The World Union of Freethinkers vigorously protests these blatant human rights violations and calls on Berlin residents to provide all possible assistance to the sanctioned Hüseyin Doğru, even if this constitutes a violation of the sanctions. These sanctions are illegal and illegitimate under international law: Only UN Security Council sanctions are legal, although even these would be illegitimate if they violated human rights, as in the case of Hüseyin Doğru, Alina Lipp, and Thomas Röper.

These sanctions are nothing but further proof that the Federal Republic of Germany, along with the EU and NATO, has left the democratic sector on the path to a new fascism, one that comes without brownshirts and blackshirts and threatens to end no less deadly than that of the Thousand-Year Reich. Where injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!

Klaus Hartmann
President

Jean-Marie Jacoby
Secretary General

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Die NATO: Steuergeldfressender Moloch – Papiertiger, aber fähig zu atomarem Selbstmord?

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Beitrag von JEAN-MARIE JACOBY an der WUF-Konferenz vom 16. August 2025 in Győr

Mir wird immer wieder vorgeworfen, ich sei zu optimistisch, wenn ich die NATO als nicht wirklich kriegsfähig bezeichne und als brüllenden Papiertiger. Grundsätzlich bin ich ein optimistischer Mensch, der sich nicht dauernd vor der größtmöglichen Katastrophe fürchtet. Aber die Fakten sind hartnäckig und können meine Einschätzung unterfuttern.

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Die BRICS-Staaten – Motor der multipolaren Entwicklung

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Beitrag von ELKE ZWINGE-MAKAMIZILE an der Konferenz vom 16. August 2025 der WUF in Győr

BRICS als neue wirkkräftige Plattform des globalen Südens und Osten kann nicht verstanden werden ohne den Kolonialismus, westliche Angriffskriege und antikoloniale Befreiungsbewegungen in den Blick zu nehmen.

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Die Freiheit, die sie verkünden – die Repression, die sie praktizieren

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Beitrag von ARMAND CLESSE an der Konferenz 2025 der WUF in Győr

Sehr viele Menschen machen sich Sorgen um die Sicherheit oder um das Klima, sehr wenige um die Freiheit. Oder wer würde schon für die Verteidigung der Grund­freiheiten auf die Straße gehen? Manche wären sogar bereit, für die Sicherheit oder den Schutz des Klimas auf Freiheiten zu verzichten. Gezeter, Gezerre, hysterische Aufwallung und heiße Luft, wenn es um die allerdings in mancher Hinsicht berechtigten Sorgen um die Umwelt geht, Wegschauen und betretenes Schweigen, wenn es um die Freiheit geht. Woher rührt diese Gleichgültigkeit, diese Indolenz, wenn es sich um die Bedingungen eines dem Menschen würdigen Lebens handelt?

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Betting the Farm on the Imaginary War

by William Schryver

It has now been ten years since I first turned my attention to the necessity of prudent financial investments in order to both preserve and hopefully enlarge the modest amount of wealth I had accumulated up to that time. I began by attempting to identify the wisest and most discerning “experts” in the field. This was no easy trick.

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Are Western Democracies a Model for the World?

Part 1

Shining democracies face gloomy autocracies. This is the narrative of the Western mainstream, in the familiar vein of old Eurocentric arrogance. The author of this article has investigated the matter and found that in many countries of the global South, unique forms of democracy and participatory processes have emerged that differ from the sclerotic bourgeois systems of Western countries.

by Ricardo Martins, october 19, 2024

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The Chiefs of MI6 And CIA Publish A Statement of Lies

On September 7, the British and American chiefs of their secret intelligence services, Richard Moore and William Burns, released an op-ed piece in the Financial Times, and on that day took part in a live talk hosted by the same journal. They had one common objective, to lie to their peoples and the world about the real causes of the violence and insecurity in the world, to provide them with the pretext for their attempt to rule the world. In other words, they openly displayed the conspiracy of their governments to commit aggression against anyone in the world who resists them, the supreme war crime.

by Christopher Black, September 12, 2024

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The ICC – A Cog In The NATO War Machine

The ICC – A Cog In The NATO War Machine

On June 25th, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, so-called, issued arrest warrants for two more Russians, the former defence minister, Sergey Shoigu, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, on three charges, which claim the deliberate targeting of civilians in the conflict in Ukraine by the Russian Armed Forces, in strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, to wit, electric power generating plants.

by Christopher Black, July 2024

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The World Union supports South Africa’s lawsuit against the State of Israel

The World Union of Freethinkers has signed the letter from organisations calling on nations to support South Africa’s lawsuit against the State of Israel at the International Court of Justice. The letter was initiated by a newly formed coalition to end the genocide in Palestine. It is imperative that more states follow South Africa’s historic lead and demand that Israel be held accountable under international law. The Coalition is determined to end genocide in Palestine, regardless of how the World Court rules on the South African case, and will continue to take action to make this a reality. The letter has now been signed by more than 1500 international organisations worldwide.

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International Peace Conference: “We are not extremists, it’s about the survival of humanity”

The International Peace Conference, which took place in Rome from 27 to 28 October 2023, was attended by peace organizations from all over the world. The conclusion: humanity is acutely threatened by a Third World War. For this reason, a new, peaceful and just concept of living together is needed. Under the motto “Stop the 3th World War”, the participants of the International Peace Conference in Rome founded an international alliance of anti-imperialist peace organizations on the last weekend of October and set a sign for commitment to peace over ideological differences.

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