From Umanità Nova
April 29, 2025
The 2025 NATO Summit will be held at the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands, from June 24 to 26. As the war machine gathers thousands of delegates from its 32 member states to orchestrate the next great wave of military expansion, we cannot remain silent. We must raise a banner of defiance and resistance. NATO does not exist to protect us. It serves the interests of states, corporations, and the few at the expense of the many.
The state and NATO, or any other multinational military alliance, do not bring us security, they bring us control by seeking only our obedience, our compliance and our capitulation. Whether it is the endemic police violence in our communities or the bloody battlefields of Ukraine and the oceans of ruins of Gaza, we have only one enemy: capitalism and the state.
Since its inception in 1947, NATO has acted only as an enforcer of imperialist violence, an instrument of repression and an engine of war. It does not protect peace. It is our class enemy and a direct threat to the life and well-being of every one of us. Our struggle is not between nations, it is against the ruling class we all resist. This remains true, even during the brutal reality of war. Under the guise of European and national security, NATO governments are funneling billions into military budgets while cutting vital social services.
As they build armies, they leave us to fight for survival. They impose austerity while they hoard resources for war. They build armies while we fight for healthcare, housing, and basic dignity. We watch them every day as they increasingly turn to the next generation and prepare them to take up arms, deprived of every opportunity, seeing no choice but to enlist to become cannon fodder in conflicts not of their own making, sold out to adventure, false brotherhood, and patriotism. When the conscripts return, mutilated and broken, they are cast aside, useful only as symbols for empty parades. In their military regalia, they show in the light of day that propaganda never ends.
We call on anarchists, anti-authoritarians and all those who oppose war to come together, organize and resist militarism. NATO and its warlords will meet, but so will we. We will take to the streets. We will disrupt their displays of power. We will create solidarity networks and directly oppose their wars, their militarized police and their repression of our movements. We anarchists fight for a world without borders, without states and without armies that uphold their rule.
We call for international solidarity against NATO and any manifestation of militarized oppression, be it the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Peninsula Shield Force (PSF), the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), the ReArm Europe 2030 Plan, or any other so-called “collective security” pact or army. In each case, they serve the same purpose: to sustain domination through force, to perpetuate suffering around the world. The weapons they use today to secure resources, will be turned against us tomorrow.
We call on all anarchists, anti-authoritarians and anti-militarists to act these days in The Hague and around the world in international solidarity. Let the specifics of our plans grow together. Organize together and prepare our actions, together we will let them know: we reject the false choices of nationalism. We reject the false idea that NATO is there to protect. We reject the brutality of their militarism and the martial doctrines of war. We reject their budget proposals that will starve the coffers of the working class and we support the victims and deserters of all wars.
No war between peoples, no peace between classes.
Relations Commission of the International of Anarchist Federations – Marseille 22-23 March 2025
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People's Front of Judea…
anon (not verified) Sat, 05/03/2025 - 05:23
People's Front of Judea finally has a cell in Marseille? Good to know!
"AGAINST HIERARCHICAL…
anon (not verified) Sat, 05/03/2025 - 19:47
"AGAINST HIERARCHICAL MONOPOLIES OF POWER" *PIROUETTES AND LEAVES STAGE*
In this materialistic world,…
anon (not verified) Sat, 05/03/2025 - 21:08
In reply to "AGAINST HIERARCHICAL… by anon (not verified)
In this materialistic world, horse-power is the God brah
And now, Horse-Power Haiku -…
anon (not verified) Sat, 05/03/2025 - 21:24
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And now, Horse-Power Haiku -
---Power same for all,
Elon takes all for Mar's jets,
Poor folk walk barefoot.----
Quite possibly the worst…
anon (not verified) Sun, 05/04/2025 - 02:22
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Quite possibly the worst haiku ever produced. Nice
Lol, yes, I know it, Sounds…
anon (not verified) Sun, 05/04/2025 - 03:57
In reply to Quite possibly the worst… by anon (not verified)
Lol, yes, I know it,
Sounds so freakin' bland and flat,
But that's how words are.
Hey you pompous ass, Fancy…
anon (not verified) Sun, 05/04/2025 - 05:46
In reply to Quite possibly the worst… by anon (not verified)
Hey you pompous ass,
Fancy purple prose is fake,
Anarchs say it straight!
I have yet to read an haiku…
anon (not verified) Sun, 05/04/2025 - 07:21
In reply to Quite possibly the worst… by anon (not verified)
I have yet to read an haiku that doesn't sound like some cheap AI-generated one-liners.
(cheap AI-generated one-liners to appear below)
I asked ChatGPT to write a…
anon (not verified) Sun, 05/04/2025 - 16:53
In reply to I have yet to read an haiku… by anon (not verified)
I asked ChatGPT to write a haiku about revolution and it wrote this:--
Chains shatter at dawn,
Whispers swell to roaring waves—
Freedom’s fire burns bright.
This is quite good, a tad cliched, but acceptable to chant at demos, write on placards, scream at police etc.
Chatgpt haiku
anon (not verified) Sun, 05/04/2025 - 17:01
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Anti-war Haiku---
Silent fields of loss,
Echo cries for peace denied—
War’s cost lingers on.
UN and War Haiku--
Words of peace proclaimed,
Yet shadows march with deceit—
Justice left undone.
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