NATO is a US-led military alliance that is a prime actor in imperialist and proxy wars of aggression, military occupation, and environmental destruction and ensuing climate crises, resulting in the deaths and displacement of millions of people. The people rise to resist NATO, fight against imperialist wars, and build just and lasting peace!
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operates as a US-led military alliance central to imperialist wars and occupations that have caused the deaths and displacement of millions worldwide. NATO’s strategy of expansionism, as demonstrated by its proxy involvement in Ukraine, intensifies conflicts and inter-imperialist rivalries while advancing U.S. geopolitical interests at the expense of global peace.
NATO’s collaboration with non-member states through programs like the Mediterranean Dialogue, Partnership for Peace and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative extends its militaristic agenda. These partnerships, including those with the Zionist government of Israel occupying Palestine, further enable systemic violence, such as Israel’s human rights abuses and ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
By prioritizing militarization and increased military spending, NATO undermines global stability, exacerbates inequalities, and diverts resources away from vital public services. This has a dire effect on those living in Europe who face massive austerity cuts to public services, rapidly rising inflation, and mass unemployment.
In 2024, a broad coalition of pro-peace, anti-war, anti-imperialist, human rights, labor, migrant, and many other people's organizations came together to oppose the 75th NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
United in a shared understanding and will to oppose NATO as one of the prime actors in provoking and elongating conflict around the world, and in fighting to uphold peace, peoples' rights, sovereignty, and the right to resistance against imperialist aggression, these organizations formed the Resist NATO campaign.
Together, they led 4 months of political education and organizing, and mobilized nearly 300 people from around the US and the world to an anti-NATO counter summit, hundreds in a march through the streets of Washington, D.C., and up to the gates of the NATO Summit itself to oppose it.
This June 2025, the 76th NATO Summit will be held in The Hague, Netherlands. With regional wars being provoked and fueled around the world, military spending skyrocketing, and the people's livelihoods deteriorating, the need to Resist NATO and fight for peace has never been greater!
The organizations of Resist NATO 2025 will conduct an education and mobilization campaign to mount mass opposition from across Europe and around the world to direct confront the NATO Summit on 24 – 25 June in The Hague.
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NATO: Imperialist War Machine
Primer of the Resist US-Led War Movement and Asia Pacific Research Network.
Learn the history of NATO, analysis on its aggressive nature, its involvement in wars of aggression in Ukraine, the Pacific, West Asia and North Africa, and around the world, and what people are doing to fight back against it!
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Webinar Recording: NATO Expansion and the Russia-Ukraine War
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Webinar Recording: NATO Not Wanted in Latin America!
Webinar Recording: NATO Out of Leeuwarden!
NATO and the Rise of the Far Right: A Webinar by the Resist NATO Campaign
Monday, April 28
19:00 CET (go to registration page to see the time in your time zone)
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This webinar will cover a brief history of NATO's deliberate creation of far-right movements, the current state of the far right in Europe and the place of NATO in these movements, the use of so-called "counterinsurgency" and other forms of state terror exported by NATO countries around the world, and what we as a global anti-war and anti-imperialist movement can do about it
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