DiEM25 in Cyprus, alongside other local and international leftist collectives and parties, participated in the Internationalist ‘camp’ event in Lapta, Cyprus, from November 28-30.

The event was organised by NEDA (Nea Diethniki Aristera – the New Internationalist Left), a left-wing transnational movement that collaborates with us in the “initiative for a front of the anti-capitalist left”.

Discussions followed a format of 15-minute presentations by keynote speakers on each topic, followed by Q&A sessions with questions, contributions, and generally productive and valuable debate.

Social activities were also held, along with a screening of the documentary ‘There Is No Other Cyprus’, which maps environmental destruction in the island’s north.

Representatives from the DiEM25 Cyprus coordination team participated and presented positions on:

1) Stop the genocide: Decolonisation, solidarity and the struggle for a Free Palestine

“States must end their complicity and impose political, economic, and military sanctions – not merely announce them as a threat,” George Constanti noted.

“Global solidarity movements must continue to mobilise public pressure to hold states and institutions accountable for their legal and moral obligations.

“They must coordinate campaigns targeting complicit governments and corporations, expose and challenge the networks of impunity, and demand attention and an end to the genocide in Gaza.”

2) Authoritarianism rising: Repression, the far right, criminalisation of solidarity and the war economy

Demos Ioakeim addressed the audience, warning against the ReArm Europe project that threatens to take large streams of money away from crucial services.

“We must oppose the EU’s plans to spend an extra €800 billion on arms,” he stated. “This will be €800 billion stolen – stolen from social services, health, education, labour, peacebuilding, international cooperation, from a just transition and climate justice.”

“It will benefit only arms manufacturers in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. It will make war more likely, and the future less safe for everyone. It will generate more debt, more austerity, more borders. It will deepen racism. It will fuel climate change.

“Together, across borders, DiEM25 and MERA25 are calling for an international front against war machines, repression, labour exploitation, and the corporate power that profits from all three,” Ioakeim concluded.

In closing, we expressed our shared desire for further events and actions to strengthen bicommunality and solidarity, enhance cooperation among all forces within this space, and build an island-wide alliance of the anti-capitalist left.

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