The basis of our campaign is the statement ‘A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity’, which was issued in 2020 and endorsed by prominent organisations, scholars, activists, and leaders from across the world. Thousands more have added their names, affirming a simple principle: the world does not need confrontation—it needs cooperation.
Read the full statement here and invite others to sign and strengthen this global call for peace.
No Cold War Campaign Collective
The No Cold War campaign is run by a collective. Biographies of members of the collective are below.
Ali Abutalebi
Executive director of Mazmoon Books (Tehran, Iran), the publication director at the House of Latin America (HOLA, Tehran), and the founder of the Iranian Campaign for Solidarity with Cuba.
X: @Aliabutalebi | Telegram: @CubaSolidarity
Alina Duarte
Journalist, activist and internationalist. She is with the Instituto Nacional de Formación Política de Morena in México.
X: @AlinaDuarte_ | Telegram: @_alinaduarte
Anlin Wang
Chair of the International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He is the organiser of the Philadelphia chapter of the DSA.
Bandile Mabuza
Member of PUDEMO, a liberation movement that fights for democracy in Eswatini/Swaziland, and the Chief Political Commissar of the Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO).
Bert De Belder
Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA)
A medical doctor by education and longtime activist, Bert De Belder co-founded the international solidarity organization Intal. In his peace activism, he has been mobilizing against NATO, co-organizing solidarity missions to conflict zones, and international conferences, both at the European and world level, linking the struggle against militarism to the fight for social justice.
X: @BertDeBelder | Websites: https://www.pvda.be/ (Information also via the Intal websites)
Biljana Vankovska
Professor, former Senior Fellow of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute and the Geneva-based Center for the Democratic control of Armed Forces. Served as a Faculty staff member of the European Peace University in Austria (until 2014).
A respected academic and peace activist specializing in critical security studies, militarism, international relations and peace research. Based in the Balkans, a region deeply scarred by war, her work is a powerful critique of NATO's role and the global arms industry. She advocates for demilitarization and neutral security frameworks as a foundation for genuine peace.
Substack: https://biljanavankovska.substack.com
Blaise Tulo
Leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana and a member of the Pan-Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International Peoples Assembly.
X: @blaisetulo3
Charles Xu
Charles Xu is a member of the Qiao Collective.
Dae-han Song
International Strategy Center (Seoul).
A writer and organizer based in South Korea, a nation technically still at war. His work with the International Strategy Center focuses on building people-to-people solidarity and challenging the logic of militarism and empire on the Korean Peninsula. He is actively involved in movements for peace, reunification, and against the presence of foreign military bases. He is also an associate of the Korea Policy Institute.
Instagram: goiscorg | Website: https://www.goisc.org/home
Daniela Ortiz
A Peruvian artist who has shown her visual art at Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), MACBA (Barcelona), and Palais de Tokyo (Paris), as well as the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, was published in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian and Newsday newspapers for fourteen years. She received the national Medal for the Development of Women (Gold) in 2022. Her current artwork, The Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Imaginative Archives, focuses on memorialising histories of Indian indentured women’s labour and labour resistance.
Gisela Cernadas
Editor of the Spanish edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横), a journal on Chinese contemporary thought. She is an economist who coordinated the study Hyperimperialism: a dangerous and decadent new stage (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, 2024).
Jai Kumar
Jai Kumar is a Federal President of a Progressive Students' Federation. He is a political activist and a researcher. he is also an editor of the Marxist magazine Surkh Sawera Sindhi edition.
X: @JaiKumarBhagat | Instagram: jai.malhi
John Ross
Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. Winner of China's highest prizes both for foreign writers on China and for foreign experts working in China. He was the Director of Economic Policy for the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for eight years. He is the author of the English language book on China’s development, “English China’s Great Road” and in Chinese, the books “The Great Chess Game” and “Don’t misunderstand China’s Economy”. He has over a million followers on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter. He is the author of over 1,000 articles since 1992 on China’s geopolitical situation and economy.
X: @johnross43 | Substack: https://johnross43.substack.com/
Llanisca Lugo González
Researcher at the Juan Marinello Institute in Cuba. She is a member of the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power, a psychologist, and a community educator.
Marco Fernandes
Marco Fernandes is a Brazilian member of the BRICS Civil Council, geopolitical analyst for Brasil de Fato, and co-editor of Wenhua Zongheng International. He lived in Shanghai and Beijing (2020-2025) and is currently based in Moscow.
X: @marco1871
Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
A researcher and editor at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and co-coordinator of the Tricontinental Pan-Africa office, where she co-wrote a recent dossier titled Sahel Seeks Sovereignty. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. She is a member of Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International People's Assembly.
X: @mikaela_nhondo | Instagram: mikanhondo
Omar Deeb
Member of the political bureau of the Lebanese Communist Party and is responsible for international relations. He is a former general secretary of the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth, and a former vice president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
X: @lc_lcparty
Nidol Ishola Salami
Member of the Communist Party of Benin and of the Union of Communist Youth of Benin. HE is a member of the editorial board of La Flamme. He is a member of the Pan-Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International Peoples Assembly.
Website: https://www.la-flamme.org/
Vijay Prashad
Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a movement driven research institute based in the Global South. A journalist with Globetrotter, an international wire service. An editor at Inkani Books (South Africa), LeftWord Books (India), and La Trocha (Chile). His most recent books are (with Noam Chomsky), On Cuba, and (with Grieve Chelwa) How the International Monetary Fund Strangles Africa.
X: @vijayprashad | Instagram: possiblehistory | Website: https://thetricontinental.org/ | Substack: https://luciddialectics.substack.com