United Nations- An imperialist tool for propaganda

Today (9-21-23) is the International Day for Peace as declared by the UN General Assembly. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres rushed to inform us: “Peace is needed today more than ever. War and conflict are unleashing devastation, poverty, and hunger, and driving tens of millions of people from their homes." Indeed imperialist wars are raging across the world, with the most glaring example being that of Ukraine where the conflicting economic/geopolitical interests of NATO-EU and the emerging Russia-China pole clash at the expense of Ukrainians and Russians. And as this war continues and threatens to unleash a proper Armageddon in the general area the UN attempts to comfort us with vague calls for "action and peace". Calls that are for some reason directed at the general public as if we're the ones involved in it; not the UN member states that shed crocodile tears while continuously supplying Ukraine with arms. On their behalf the UN have adopted a resolution (2-23-23) that demands Russia leave Ukraine invoking the UN Charter and International law. In this article we're not going to argue on the merit of international law and how it's shaped and changed based on the global power dynamic of each era (and of course aren't going to tolerate the unjustifiable invasion of capitalist Russia) but it is interesting recalling some of the times the UN acted in disregard to their very Charter map and defended imperialist wars. Case 1: Korea

It was Tuesday, 27th of June 1950 when the American President Truman would announce the invasion of Korea on the pretext of defending peace at the peninsula that was "in danger from communists". The same day the UN Security Council under a US-UK proposal validated the attack, with fast track procedures and without the participation of the USSR, which was a permanent member of the Security Council but wasn't invited! The pretext for such a decision was the assertion that the People's Republic of China was the invading force... The imperialist intervention lasted 3 full bloody years, with 21 countries in total sending invading forces under American leadership. The result of the Korean war was the dismemberment of Korea into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and South Korea- that remains until today- the permanent installation of the american army in the area, and the split of a people that wanted to build their own power after liberating themselves from Japanese imperialism.

The bombed Port of Busan (1953)

Case 2: Libya In a more recent example we have the military intervention of NATO-US in Libya in 2011. NATO, after UN authorization, instituted a no-fly zone in the aerial space of a sovereign country as well as a naval blockade with the pretext of protecting the Libyan people from the repressive government of Muammar Gaddafi. NATO allies implemented through force the embargo, along with bombing campaigns. In the end Gaddafi was killed and his government toppled. The conflict that spurred over oil control in Libya didn't end there. Libya had another civil war in 2014 that is practically still going. The people of Libya continue to pay the price for the imperialist conflict of interest.

It is obvious that organizations such as the United Nations don't want to and can't protect peace with their empty statements. They are merely used as apologists of brutality, to give a "humanistic" justification for the imperialist ploys. The only ones that can guarantee peace are the peoples of the world that have nothing to divide them, if through their organised struggle overthrow the arsonists of war and build a society free of man to man exploitation.