On February 15, thousands marched in Munich, Germany, protesting against the Munich-Security Conference 2020 hosted in the city from February 14 to 16 Sunday. More than 5,000 people joined the protest called by anti-war, anti-NATO organizations against the meeting of the war hawks of the European Union (EU) and NATO. North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between North American and European countries and is often criticized for its imperialistic and warmongering manuverous. Activists from the German Communist Party (DKP), Socialist German Workers Youth (SDAJ), Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and Turkish Communist Party (TKP) have also joined the protest.
The communist parties have called for an end to imperialism and global wars waged by NATO and its allies. They have asked the German state to stop militarisation and its funding to the EU-NATO war efforts. The parties accused the German government of cutting the social security benefits and wages for the people to fund the wars waged by the United States-EU-NATO bloc. They also condemned the Defender Europe 2020, a EU-NATO joint military exercise, and demanded peace with Russia and China.
According to reports, the security forces had earlier attempted to block and attack some of the protesters at the demonstration organized on Friday night. The Munich Security Conference is an annual conference on international security policy that has been organized in Munich since 1963. In the three-day conference of this year, over 500 delegates from different parts of the world are participating.
