Mücadele Birliği (Struggle Unity, Türkiye)
In July 2026, Istanbul will once again host a “NATO summit” after a 22-year hiatus. This murderous gang, which is dragging the entire world step by step into a devastating war, will once again set foot in Istanbul with its bloody boots!
Although NATO markets itself as a “defense organization,” it is in fact an offensive pact established against communism and the Soviet Union. Since its inception, it has considered every means permissible to crush national liberation struggles, the goal of socialism, and every genuine popular revolution. Coups, political assassinations, covert operations, and direct military interventions are crimes etched into NATO’s history. This list of wars and destruction, stretching from the breakup of Yugoslavia to the invasion of Afghanistan, from the bloody adventures in Iraq to the destruction of Libya, is the most concrete proof that NATO is not a “defensive” organization, but an “offensive” organization.
As the structural crisis of the imperialist-capitalist system deepens, the working class and laborers around the world are taking to the streets and squares. Predicting that the 21st century would be a “century of uprisings,” imperialism reorganized NATO on the basis of a “counter-insurgency strategy” and launched a “global civil war” against the world’s working class and laboring peoples.
This process is an extraordinary fascistization in which the last remnants of bourgeois democracy are rapidly being eliminated and even the most symbolic rights are being curtailed. In all capitalist metropolises, especially the US and Europe, every kind of democratic right, from the right to strike to freedom of expression, from the right to assemble to union activity, is being ruthlessly curtailed, and fascist dictatorial practices are becoming widespread. NATO is both the driver and supporter of this wave of fascistization, as well as its global protector.
NATO is the sword of Damocles hanging over humanity―the instrument of the imperialist “full annexation process,” the incubator of fascism, and the global counter-revolutionary apparatus of the imperialist gangs. But it is not invincible. It is built on sand―the shifting sands of exploitation and oppression, which are already crumbling beneath its feet.
NATO is the most relentless enemy of any struggle waged by the working classes for power, whether it be called “national liberation” or “socialist revolution.” Every genuine popular revolution must fight not only against the bourgeoisie in that country, but also against imperialism and its military-political organization, NATO. Let us not forget that anti-communism is in NATO’s founding genes and is the building block that keeps it standing.
Twenty-two years ago, in 2004, the NATO summit held in Istanbul was met with militant resistance from the working class and laborers of Türkiye. Slogans such as “Murderer NATO, Get Out!” and “NATO, Murderer of Peoples” echoed through the streets of Istanbul. In 2026, the same spirit will take the stage, even stronger and bigger. This war machine of imperialism will once again face the justified anger and militant resistance of Türkiye’s workers in Istanbul.
We declare hereby that imperialism’s war headquarters, NATO, the murderer of the people, will once again be met with the anger and militant actions it deserves by workers and laborers 22 years later! Once again, they will hold their meetings in those tiny spaces where they hide from the people, under the occupation of thousands of cops. However, with the presence of thousands of police and military units kept in reserve, they will “feel safe” and sign their bloody plans with their fake smiles.
There is no peace for them anywhere! They cannot feel comfortable anywhere, and they never will! Istanbul, the city of our struggle, will give this pack of hyenas the welcome they deserve!
This is our call to workers, laborers, women, and youth. Let us take to the streets to protest this war gang gathering in Istanbul in July 2026 and shout our demand for its dispersal. We will not allow NATO’s attempt to occupy Istanbul. We call on all forces defending democracy and peace, freedom and socialism for the people to take to the streets and rise up against NATO!
Down with NATO, the murderer of peoples!
Long live proletarian internationalism!