Quim Boix
General Secretary of TUI
of Pensioners and Retirees (P&R) of WFTU

Thank you for inviting me to participate in the debate and for giving me the opportunity to discuss different opinions.

The role of the UN is a concern for all progressive people on the Planet. Especially those who believed it could be a positive instrument for world peace.

However, reality has shown, and continues to show, that this is not the case, nor will it ever be, as long as governments that defend the capitalist system are in the majority.

Imperialism will continue to exist as an instrument of capitalism to steal wealth, formerly from colonies controlled militarily, and now from pseudo-colonies controlled politically and commercially.

The case of Venezuela is the latest proof of this, and the UN continues to be useless, even to prevent the fascist Trump from kidnapping the president of a sovereign country whose “only crime” is to possess a lot of oil that the multinationals who financed Trump’s election campaign want to steal (and to whom he is returning the money they lent him, but he is returning it by stealing it from the Venezuelan people. Contrary to what they have always proclaimed, the current leaders of the PSUV have not dared to stand up to the US army, nor have Russia + China given them the support necessary to prevent military invasion).

The documents we saw before the video conference focused on education issues (given that the organizers are educators: Politeknik), and in my opinion, some issues are not sufficiently highlighted:

• For more than 100 years, the central battle has been between socialism and capitalism.
• The Socialism of the XXI Century option has proven to be a new version of social democracy (in the case of Venezuela, this is becoming increasingly clear).
• Social democracy supported the start of both World Wars, and seems determined to do the same with the increasingly imminent Third World War.
• The collapse of the USSR and some 30 countries that were attempting to build socialist societies led to increased imperialist action by NATO.
• Only five countries continue to openly fight for socialism, each in its own way: Cuba, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Laos, and Vietnam.
• Other countries are expelling the former colonial powers, especially in Africa.
• The UN neither intervenes nor helps, it only produces documents (at great cost, due to the thousands of officials it employs, but which serve no purpose).
• The Security Council is an outdated instrument from the founding stage of the UN, which ceased to serve its purpose when the USSR disappeared.
• Class struggle is the real driving force behind the current history of humanity. Pro-capitalists want to ignore and hide this, but it is the real contradiction across the entire Planet.
• Capitalism will never be able (nor does it intend to, even though it lies and says otherwise) to end the economic injustices and inequalities that widen the gap between the richest 1% and the remaining 99% every year.
• The lies, which most pro-capitalist voters continue to believe, are the basis for the continuity of capitalism (along with oppressive laws of all kinds that facilitate its existence).
• Therefore, ideological struggle is the necessary tool to end capitalism.
• The UN will not take a stand in favor of the working class until that class leads the majority of the world’s governments.
• The ILO and other international platforms or organizations do the same as the UN: they produce many documents with little (if any) effectiveness.
• These documents cannot be used to promote the necessary ideological struggle.
• The ideological struggle is, today, the only way to carry out socialist revolutions (the guerrilla movements that were victorious in Cuba, China, the DPRK, Vietnam, and Laos cannot be replicated today, as the political and military conditions are very different).
• Therefore, even though changing the location of the UN headquarters may help, it will not change anything substantially. It can only help to raise part of the ideological struggle.
• What is needed is to completely redefine the UN, placing it in the struggle between capitalism and socialism.
• The Security Council must be abolished and the NEW UN must function democratically.
• Every country, without exception, must have as many votes in the NEW UN as it has inhabitants.
• The result of the vote must be binding.
• Countries that do not comply must be isolated from international circles.
• War as an imperialist tool must be condemned. We can only accept revolutionary armed struggles (those that seek to end unjust and exploitative capitalism) or defensive struggles against imperialist invasions.
• In short, until the balance of power between capitalism and socialism (real socialism, not false social democracy) changes, there CANNOT BE a REAL NEW UN that is useful to humanity.

AFTER ATTENDING THE DEBATE, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD:

I agree with the positions defended by comrade Tamara Kunayaman (see her document, which will be published in the same place as this one) from Sri Lanka.

The speeches I heard on February 1, 2026, reaffirm my belief that proposing the relocation of UN buildings and other international organizations can only serve to raise awareness of the real global international problem, which I have tried to explain above.

Quim Boix, February 2026