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 military multi-national alliance, does not bring us safety, it brings us control seeking only our obedience, compliance, and capitulation. Whether it’s the endemic police violence in our communities or the blood-soaked battlefields of #Ukraine and oceans of debris in #Gaza, we have a single enemy: #capitalism and the state.

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, #antiauthoritarians, and all those who oppose war to gather, to organize, and to 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 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), the ReArm #Europe Plan #2030 or any other so-called “collective security” pact or army. By any name, they serve the same purpose: to uphold domination through force, 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 to take action on these days in The Hague and around the world in international solidarity. Let the specifics of our plans grow together. Organise together and prepare our actions, together we will let them know: We reject the false choices of nationalism. We reject the false idea NATO, that is there to protect. We reject the brutality of their #militarism and the martial doctrines of war. We reject their proposed budgets which will starve the coffers of the working class and we support the victims and the deserters of all wars.

No war among peoples, no peace among classes.

TAKE ACTION.
Commission of relations of the International of Anarchist Federations

Marseille, 22nd-23rd 2025

https://antimilitarismus.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/14/the-ifa-call-for-all-anarchists-to-stand-against-nato/

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Syndicalism #antimilitarism #IFA

#LGBTQI #Seattle #anarchists #ACAB

"Roughly 500 people attended the prayer rally. About as many turned out in protest.

(. . .)

'Individuals in the crowd have begun throwing water bottles at officers,' police wrote. 'Additional arrests will occur as we can safely remove those individuals from the crowd.'

Protesters shouted, 'Go home, fascists!'

Mayor Bruce Harrell released a statement Saturday that said the 'far-right rally was held here … to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.'

He went on: 'Anarchists infiltrated the counter-protestors group and inspired violence, prompting SPD to make arrests and ask organizers to shut down the event early, which they did.'

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/arrests-made-at-heated-fascist-family-values-protest-in-seattle/

#LGBTQI #Seattle #anarchists #ACAB

"Seattle Police moved on counter-protesters at a fundamentalist Christian group’s rally Saturday afternoon in Cal Anderson Park. Multiple arrests and injuries were reported.

Groups were in the park to protest against a provocative rally organized by a Spokane fundamentalist church. CHS reported here on the planned '#DontMessWithOurKids' rally.

The clash with police came hours into the gathering as a phalanx of bicycle police moved into position near the front of a large crowd of counter-protesters near the rally stage and suddenly advanced on the crowd using their bikes and batons."

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/05/seattle-police-makes-multiple-arrests-during-counter-protest-of-fundamentalist-church-groups-rally-in-cal-anderson-park/

So I guess they couldn't find any Black youths to infiltrate.

Also, they don't seem to have found the Underground Railroad entrance.

Session went well, though.
Training the next generation.

Now off to enjoy a concert.

https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/114547576254454069

#anarchists #ActivistResouces
#CarymaNgo #CreepySpouseInDaHouse #besetting

This is an analysis about Palestinian national liberation groups, and how anarchists should engage with or support these groups--but I think it applies very strongly to all people who support Palestine.

It is well researched, and it very strongly argues for why it is so important that we don't listen to colonial narratives about Palestinian liberation groups being "terrorist organisations" (the analysis brings it up, though it doesn't focus on this too much; there is a longstanding history of the language of terrorism being use as an imperialist/colonial tool). It argues for why it is so vital that those in the west who support Palestine recognize Hamas as an anti-colonial and national liberation movement. It also explores important context about the October 7th attack such as its motives, its place in the wider Palestinian struggle, and its failures openly--painting a much more complete picture than what I think many western leftists often hold.

As I read through it myself, I found a number of misconceptions that I held about Hamas were challenged. Although I believed that Hamas should be considered a part of the global left as a resistance group against colonialism, I was under the impression for some time that their internal politics had a number of elements of religious fundamentalism and conservatism. The media and even many leftist groups greatly overestimate those aspects though, and I realised that I had overlooked an area in which I was uncritically following colonial narratives about national resistance groups. As someone who is generally against religion, there are some conclusions I have which differ from those in this analysis--but it still is very important to recognize that Islam has had an important position in Palestinian national struggle and identity, which Israel has persecuted and murdered them for--and that not recognizing this importance is a failure to acknowledge many aspects of the genocide and Palestinian resistance to it.

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Hamas, anarchists in the West and Palestine solidarity: An analysis

https://libcom.org/article/hamas-anarchists-west-and-palestine-solidarity-analysis
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#Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #Anarchists #Anarchism #Leftists #Communism #Communists #Colonialism #Genocide

@anarchismhub hey Anarchist News, are anarchists socialists? I’m new on my journey discovering Anarchism, and wanted your thoughts as well as any other #anarchists out there.

#politicalphilosophy #anarchy #anarchism

Also would love to get anyone’s definition of Anarchy. I’ve heard from Stephen West of Philosophize This that it’s hard arriving to a concrete definition that every anarchist agrees with because it’s so varied.