The Soviet Union, the Red Army, the peoples of the Soviet Union, and the workers who emerged victorious from the Second Imperialist World War over the counterrevolutionary front and German fascism dealt a historic defeat to the imperialist-capitalist states. With the victory won by the Soviet Union, the “threat of socialism” became a tangible reality for the capitalist world in every corner of the globe.
Oppressed nations, colonized peoples, workers and laborers, women, and youth rose up against the ruling classes, dictatorships, and imperialists. Revolutionaries, communists, and patriots, who carried the Red Flag with bloodstained hands, captured one stronghold after another from the occupiers, colonial rulers, and imperialists, overthrew their regimes, and wrote new chapters in the struggle for freedom and socialism.
One-third of the world’s population broke away from the capitalist world system and won its freedom. For imperialist capitalism, the hour of its gravedigger had begun. The imperialist monopoly bourgeoisie found itself confronted with a historic nightmare.
Nazi Germany under Hitler, one of the imperialist powers of its time that sought to redivide the world, was brought to its knees by the Soviet Union. France had largely lost its economic and military strength, Britain had suffered severe blows, and Japan had capitulated. Britain and France lost part of their colonial territories to peoples fighting for their independence; other colonies fell under the sphere of influence of the United States. The imperialist United States, on the other hand, unlike Great Britain and France, emerged from both world wars virtually unscathed and began to supplant British imperialism’s leading position.
After the U.S. had risen to become the leading power of the imperialist camp, it declared the Soviet Union its main adversary immediately after the end of the Second Imperialist World War. This marked the beginning of the so-called “Cold War.” In 1947, then-U.S. President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine, named after him. Its core tenet was hostility toward the Soviet Union, socialism, and communism, as well as toward national liberation movements.
U.S. imperialism set itself the goal of encircling the Soviet Union, rolling back the influence of socialism, crushing national liberation struggles, defeating all anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial movements worldwide, and conquering new markets and colonial spheres of influence. On September 18, 1947, the United States established the CIA as its central organ of counterrevolution.
On the same basis, on April 4, 1949, under the leadership of U.S. imperialism and in collaboration with twelve states, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Luxembourg, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded.
In collaboration with the U.S., NATO, and the CIA, numerous assassinations, massacres, conspiracies, military coups, and wars of occupation were organized. Anti-communist organizations, torture centers, and counterrevolutionary secret armies were established. Under the name “Gladio,” a network of such counterrevolutionary structures emerged in every NATO member state.
With the help of these counter-guerrilla structures, revolutionaries, communists, artists, trade unionists, scientists, intellectuals, and anti-imperialists were declared enemies. In the course of outright “witch hunts,” thousands of people were arrested, tortured, and murdered.
Since its founding, NATO has functioned as the planner, organizer, executor, and overseer of the most brutal policies of oppression against the working peoples of the world. It is the driving force behind torture, massacres, military dictatorships, and numerous other counterrevolutionary operations, and remains to this day one of imperialism’s most important and reliable institutions.
No other imperialist institution is as closely associated in people’s minds with death, bloodshed, and massacres as NATO. Wherever its name is mentioned, it has paved the way for the imperialist monopolies. In other words: It has brought war, oppression, and bloodshed to working people. Even today, it continues to turn more and more regions of the world into battlefields.
Workers and the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world!
NATO is the counterrevolutionary war machine of the imperialist-capitalist order. It was an enemy of the peoples yesterday and remains so to this day. As the military center of the imperialist camp led by U.S. imperialism, it continues to transform the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Europe into bloody battlefields in the interests of the imperialist monopolies. Around the world, it wages wars marked by massacres and directed against centers of resistance.
The genocidal war that Zionist Israel has waged in Palestine/Gaza and Lebanon since October 7, 2023, has been sustained by NATO. All NATO member states, including Turkey, bear shared responsibility for the crimes committed by Israel. The Turkish bourgeoisie, under the leadership of the AKP-MHP, has also made itself an accomplice to the crimes in Gaza and Lebanon through its economic ties to Israel.
Waging a revolutionary struggle against NATO means fighting against the presence of imperialism in Turkey, Kurdistan, and the Middle East.
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the NATO summit will once again take place in Turkey. Once again, NATO representatives are gathering to make decisions that will bring bloodshed, war, and oppression to the peoples of the world, as well as to workers and employees. They are gathering in Turkey to expose the oppressed peoples of the world to the dangers of a new world war.
Let us hold high the banner of the anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, anti-chauvinist, and anti-patriarchal struggle that we have inherited from Deniz, Mahir, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, and Mazlum Doğan and their comrades, in order to thwart the policies of the imperialists and their henchmen and block NATO troops’ path to Ankara.
Just as the revolutionary forces used all means and forms of struggle in 2004 to block the NATO summit, let us also mobilize all means and forms of struggle today to intensify the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle.
We call on all workers and all oppressed peoples to join the struggle for freedom and socialism against NATO, the reactionary and imperialist war machine!
Down with imperialism and its war machine, NATO!
Down with NATO, the enemy of workers, laborers, and the peoples!
Long live the united, organized struggle for the freedom of the peoples!
Forward to smash the NATO apparatus in Turkey!
June 2026, DKP/Birlik, DKP/BÖG, MKP, MLKP, TKEP/L, TKP-ML