The NATO Summit on 9-11 July 2024, in Washington DC, marks a new round of intensified Euro-Atlantic aggression around the world. In the foreground is the escalation of the imperialist war in Ukraine between the Ukrainian bourgeoisie, actively supported and backed by NATO, and capitalist Russia and its own allies, which poses great dangers for the peoples.

The decisions being launched at the NATO Summit include, among others:

 – Sending modern weapons systems, F-16 fighter jets and even military forces to the war front in Ukraine, using long-range missiles for strikes on Russian territory.

– Upgrading relations with Ukraine, by forming an ‘institutional bridge’ towards its accession to NATO, funding the reactionary Zelensky government with 40 billion euros a year, in addition to the huge sums of money allocated by the USA and the NATO and EU member states. In this context, there are even plans to create a NATO ‘senior political representative’ post based in Ukraine, analogous to what NATO did in Afghanistan during the US occupation.

– Modernisation of the nuclear arsenal and further militarisation of space.

– Strengthening of NATO’s southern wing, in which Greece also participates, and the further strengthening of NATO-EU relations.

– Expansion in the Indo-Pacific and the strengthening of the alliance with Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, in the context of the US confrontation with China for primacy in the global imperialist system, as well as NATO “marking” of other regions, such as the Caucasus (with an invitation to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), the Middle East (with an invitation, apart from Israel, to Arab countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, UAE, Bahrain).

These are very dangerous decisions and plans, preparations for a generalised imperialist war, support for the murderous state of Israel in its genocide against the Palestinian people and the strengthening of Euro-Atlantic interventions in the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Asia, all over the world.

The Summit coincides with the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO. Those who “celebrate” this black anniversary are provoking our people and other peoples, because this imperialist organisation is identified with hundreds of wars and interventions, with military coups and assassinations of militants, with criminal plans against peoples.

For the workers it is necessary to strengthen the struggle against the imperialist apparatus and its servants in the workers’ movement. Against organisations like ITUC-ETUC that collaborate with NATO and even try to present it as an agent of “peace”.

PAME calls on the workers and trade unions to resolutely condemn NATO, the Summit and the decisions it will take, to massively reject and fight against the misleading claims of the NATO “puppets” who present the murderous war machine of NATO as a “force for security and peace”.

Strengthen solidarity with the people of Palestine and stop the NATO-US-US-EU-backed crime of Israel.

Strengthen the struggle for the disengagement of our country from imperialist wars and plans, the disengagement from the imperialist alliances, for a society without wars, without exploitation.