AGAINST WAR, AGAINST POWER.

AGAINST WAR, AGAINST POWER.
THE IFA CALL FOR ALL ANARCHISTS TO STAND AGAINST NATO

The 2025 NATO Summit will take place 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 must not meet it with silence. 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 oligarchical few at the expense of the many. The state, NATO, or any other multi-national alliance, does not bring us safety, it bring us control seeking only our obedience, compliance, and capitulation. Whether it's the endemic police violence in our communities to the blood-soaked battlefields of Ukraine and oceans of debris in Gaza, we have a single enemy.

Since its inception in 1947, NATO has only acted as an enforcer of imperialist violence, a tool of repression, and an engine of war. It is no protector of peace. It is our class enemy and a direct threat to the lives and well-being of each of us. Our struggle is not between nations—it is between the ruling class and all of us who resist. This continues to be true, even during the brutal realities of war.

Under the guise of European and national security, NATO governments are funnelling billions into military budgets while slashing vital social services. As they build armies, they leave us to fight for basic survival. They impose austerity while they hoard resources for war. They build armies while we struggle for healthcare, housing, and basic dignity.

We watch daily as they every more turn to the next generation and prepare for them to take up arms, stripped of opportunity, see no option but to sign up to become cannon fodder in conflicts not of their making, sold on adventure, fraternity and patriotism. When they return, maimed and broken, they are discarded, useful only as symbols for empty parades. A small few banded around day time shows the propaganda never ending.

We call on anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and all those who oppose war to gather, to organize, and to resist. 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 forge networks of solidarity and we will stand in direct opposition to their wars, their militarized police, and their repression of our movements.

We anarchists fight for a world without borders, without states, and without the armies that uphold their rule. We call for international solidarity against NATO and every manifestation of militarized oppression—whether the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Peninsula Shield Force (PSF), the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), or any other so-called "collective security" pact. By any name, they serve the same purpose: to uphold domination through force and to perpetuate suffering across the world.

The weapons they use to secure resources today, will be turned on us tomorrow.

We call upon all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and anti-militarists by whatever framework, tendency, or school of thought to take action on these days in The Hague and around the world in solidarity.

Let the specifics of our plans grow together.

Organise together and prepare your 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 and we reject their proposed budgets which will starve the coffers of the working class. 

No war among peoples, no peace among classes.

TAKE ACTION.

Commission of Relations of the International of Anarchist Federations (CRIFA)
Marseilles 2025