Comments on: Helen Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’

By: Terry Coggan

Terry Coggan — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:03:00 +0000

Helen Clark is correct when she writes “Nuclear war is an existential threat to humanity. Far from receding, the threat of use of nuclear weapons is ever present.” She is also correct in locating the reason why this is so in the escalating rivalries between the imperialist powers (even if she would not use that term).

We are now witnessing the build up to World War Three, just as previous generations witnessed the build up to World Wars One and Two. In both those earlier periods peace movements raised the slogan of “Disarmament,” as does David Robie here when he talks of “global nuclear disarmament.” But this is utopian.

No propertied ruling class in any country holding nuclear weapons is going to disarm and risk its own wealth and power while its competitors remain nuclear-armed. The only answer is for the working classes of the world to take these weapons out of the hands of their respective rulers. This imperative is only made the more urgent by the qualitatively greater destructive power of nuclear weapons compared to earlier armaments.

In an article written in the middle of World War One called “The Disarmament Slogan,” Lenin wrote: “Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie, will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap heap.” Another revolutionary leader, Leon Trotsky, wrote on the eve of World War Two: “Disarmament? But the entire question resolves around who will disarm whom. The only disarmament which can avert or end war is the disarmament of the bourgeoisie by the workers.”

By: Malcolm Evans

Malcolm Evans — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:07:15 +0000

Imagine the outcry if China or Russia did any one of the myriad atrocities the US, Israel and its complicit western accomplices are responsible for. Rotten to the core, our so-called western democracies, in thrall to venal predatory capitalism, are exposed beyond the point where even the most myopic observer can ignore their self-serving duplicity, and are resorting to Fascist tyranny to stave off their ultimate destruction.

By: Clive

Clive — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:01:51 +0000

In reply to Steve. The world probably won't end if all the oxygen is gone either

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:38:26 +0000

Helen Clark should expand her sources of information, as there is no prophecy saying that nuclear weapons are the major threat to humanity. The world is not going to end because of a nuclear war.

By: Mohammed Khan

Mohammed Khan — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:38:16 +0000

While nuclear weapons in themselves are not a threat to humanity, nuclear weapons in the hands of the zionists and their american puppets are the greatest threat humanity currently faces.