International People's Front

Resist NATO!

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.

Resist US-NATO Aggression, Bases, and the Militarization of Europe! Uphold Peoples' Rights and Liberation!

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Points of Unity

  • We oppose NATO as a US-led military alliance that is a prime actor in imperialist and proxy wars of aggression, military occupation, and environmental destruction, resulting in the deaths and displacement of millions of people.
  • We oppose US-NATO strategy of expansionism and intensification of militarization across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe and the complicity of governments of European Union member countries in further service of US geopolitical and economic interests in the region.
  • We oppose US-NATO strategy of security through wars of counter-terrorism, counterinsurgency, mass surveillance, and systematic attacks on peoples’ rights and freedoms, as well as their direct responsibility for intensifying interimperialist rivalry.
  • We oppose NATO’s role in enabling the rise of far-right and authoritarian governments in Europe, which use militarization and fear-driven narratives to erode civil liberties, suppress dissent, and undermine democratic rights.
  • We oppose NATO's collaboration with non-member states through partnership programs such as the Mediterranean Dialogue, Partnership for Peace, Istanbul Cooperation Initiative and other frameworks that include governments such as the Zionist government of Israel, with records of systemic violence, human rights abuses, and genocide.
  • We oppose NATO's push for ever-increasing military spending, which prioritizes the war economy over social services and compels European governments to deepen austerity measures, undermining public healthcare, education, housing, pension, and the welfare of the working class across the region.
  • We support the right of peoples and nations to self-determination and sovereignty, the exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms, and their right to resistance against imperialist aggression.
  • We support a just peace through resolving the root causes of armed conflicts, allocating resources not to the war industry but to serve and provide for people's needs.
  • We support peoples’ struggles to assert their democratic rights in the face of increasing attacks on freedom, political rights, and social justice imposed by militarized and authoritarian policies.

Upcoming Events

NATO Expansion and the Russia-Ukraine War

An Educational Webinar

🗓️ Tuesday, February 25th
⏰ 18:00 Central Europe Time

✅ Register here

 

3 years since the bloody and destructive war in Ukraine began, there is little sign of the conflict ending. hundreds of thousands have died, and both Ukrainians and Russians keep being thrown into the slaughter in a war in which many on the front lines are losing the will to fight. Yet, elite business and military interests keep the war funded and hide the disastrous military and political situation from the public's eyes in what has amounted to a US-NATO proxy war against Russia fought to the last Ukrainian soldier.

With Trump in the White House promising a peace deal, but also threatening new Russian sanctions and holding the global oil market hostage, it is unclear what the future holds.

The start of this horrific conflict goes back many years to a ticking time bomb whose fuse was lit by NATO. What should the European and global anti-war movement understand to urgently grow the movement for peace in Ukraine and an end to aggressive expansion?

This webinar will look at NATO expansion following the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO and US war provocations that heightened tensions in Eastern Europe, and the urgent need for peace after three years of the brutal destruction of Ukraine.

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