Appeal from Stuttgart Oct. 2008with signatures – No to war

Appeal agreed to in Stuttgart, Germany, October 5th, 2008

No to War – No to NATO

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the NATO military organization, we appeal to all people to come to Strasbourg and Baden-Baden 2009, to protest against NATO’s aggressive military and nuclear policies, and assert our vision of a just world free of war.

NATO is an increasing obstacle to achieving world peace. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has reinvented itself as a tool for military action by the “international community”, including the promotion of the so-called “war on terror”. In reality it is a vehicle for US-led use of force with military bases on all continents, bypassing the United Nations and the system of international law, accelerating militarization and escalating arms expenditure – NATO countries account for 75% of global military expenditure.

Pursuing that expansionist agenda since 1991, designed to advance strategic and resource interests, NATO has waged war in the Balkans, under the guise of so-called “humanitarian war”, and has waged seven years of brutal war in Afghanistan, where the tragic situation is escalating and the war has expanded into Pakistan. In Europe NATO is worsening tensions, feeding the arms race with so-called “missile defence”, a massive nuclear arsenal and a nuclear first strike policy. EU policy is increasingly tied to NATO. NATO’s ongoing and potential expansion into eastern Europe and beyond, and its “out of area” operations are making the world a more dangerous place. The conflict in the Caucasus is a clear indication of the dangers. Each advance of the NATO border increases the possibility of war, including the use of nuclear weapons.

To achieve our vision of a peaceful world, we reject military responses to global and regional crises – these are part of the problem not part of the solution. We refuse to live under the terror of nuclear weapons, and reject a new arms race. We must decrease military expenditure – directing resources instead to meeting human needs. We must close down all foreign military bases. We oppose all military structures used for military intervention. We must democratise and demilitarise the relations between peoples and establish new forms of peaceful cooperation to build a more secure and just world.

We call on you to spread this message in your communities and movements, to come to Strasbourg and Baden-Baden and to make this vision a reality. We believe that a world of peace is possible.

No to war – No to NATO.
The activities during the anti-NATO protest will include a demonstration on Saturday 4th April 2009, an international conference from Thursday 2nd April to 3th Friday April, direct action and civil disobedience, and an international resistance camp from Wednesday 1st April to Sunday 5th April

Signatures (as of December11^th 2022).

All organizations, initiatives and groups are members of the network ‘No to war – no to NATO’:

International: All-African People’s Revolutionary PARTY (GC) /// Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) /// Anti-imperialist Camp /// European Feminist Initiative /// Europäisches Friedensforum (epf) / European Peace Forum /// European Left (EL) /// Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space /// Global Women For Peace United Against NATO (GWUAN) /// International Association of Democratic Lawyers /// International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Europe (IALANA) /// International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) /// International Peace Bureau (IPB) /// No Bases Network /// Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) /// World March of Women Against Violence and Poverty /// War Resisters’ International /// WORLD BEYOND WAR (WBW) /// World Peace Council (WPC) ///

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Committee for Peace, Reconstruction and Culture /// Afghanistan Socialist Organisation /// Association for Afghan Refugees in Europe /// Ayenda Movement of Afghanistan /// Commission for Peace and Freedom Afghanistan /// Left Radical of Afghanistan ///

Andorra: Joventuts d’Esquerra Verda (JEV) ///

Argentina : Movimiento por la Paz, la soberanía y la solidaridad entre los pueblos (MOPASSOL) /// Permanent Assembly for Human Rights ///

Austria: Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit /// Linkswende ///

Belgium: Agir pour la Paix /// Attac Vlaanderen /// Attac Liege /// Belgische Coalitie Stop Uranium Wapens (BCSUW) /// Bombspotting /// CADTM Belgium (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) /// Christenen voor het Socialisme /// Coordination Nationale d’Action pour la Paixet la Démoratie (CNAPD) /// Comité de Surveillance OTAN /// Intal /// Links Ecologisch Forum /// Une autre Gauche /// Forum voor Vredesactie /// Le Mouvement Chrétien pour la Paix (Wallonie-Bruxelles/Belgique) /// monde sans guerres et sans violence /// Mouvement Citoyen Palestine /// Socialistische Arbeiderspartij (SAP) /// Vrede vzw ///

Brasilia: Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos e Luta pela Paz (CEBRA PAZ) ///

Canada: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace /// Canadian Peace Alliance ///

Czech Republic: Neradaru /// Socialistická Solidarita ///

Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo): AMSEL Lubumbashi ///

Croatia: Anti-imperijalisticka akcija ///

Cyprus: Union of Cypriots ///

Denmark: Aldrig Mere Krig (AMK) /// Danish Communist Party /// Enhedslisten de Rod Gronne (Red-Green Alliance) /// Faellesskabet for Menneskets Udvikling /// International Forum /// Nej til Krig (No to War) /// TID TIL FRED – aktiv mod krig (Time for Peace – active against war) ///

Finland: Finnish Peace Committee /// Technology for Life /// Suomen kommunistinen puolue (SKP) ///

France: Americans for Peace and Justice, Montpellier /// Association des Combattants de la Cause Anticoloniale (ACCA) /// Agir Contre la Guerre (ACG) /// Americans Against the War, France (AAWF) /// Association Nationale des Elus Communistes et Républicains (ANECR) /// Association des Médecins Français pour la Prévention de la Guerre Nucléaire (AMFPGN) /// Association Nationale des Elues Communistes et Républicains /// Attac France /// Attac Strasbourg /// Collectif des Taxieurs contre la Guerre /// Collectif Faty Koumba /// Collectif national OTAN-Afghanistan /// Collectif OTAN-NON /// Coordination Française Marche Mondial des Femmes /// Dissent France /// Droit Solidarité France /// Fédération Syndicale Unitaire (FSU) /// Les Alternatifs /// Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR) /// MARS – Gauche Républicaine /// Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les peuples /// Mouvement de la Paix /// MPEP France /// Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) /// Parti Communiste Français (PCF) /// Parti Communiste des Ouvriers de France (PCOF) /// Pour la République Sociale (PRS) /// Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) /// Union Pacifiste de France (UPF) ///

Georgia: War Resisters’ International Georgia Section ///

Germany: Aachener Friedenspreis /// Antimilitaristische Gruppe Münster /// American Voices Abroad Military Project (AVA) /// Aktionsbündnis gegen die NATO und Sicherheitskonferenz /// Attac Deutschland /// Berliner Bündnis gegen den NATO-Geburtstag /// Bund für Soziale Verteidigung (BSV) /// Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag /// Bundeswehr wegtreten /// Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft – Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DFG-VK) /// Deutscher Friedensrat /// Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (DKP) PV /// DIE LINKE. (Bundespartei) /// Dortmunder Friedensforum /// Essener Friedensforum /// Frauennetzwerk für Frieden e.V. /// Friedensbewegung Murnau /// Friedensbündnis Karlsruhe /// Friedensnetz Baden-Württemberg /// Friedensplenum/Antikriegsbündnis Tübingen /// Fortschrittliche Gemeinschaft Afghanistans, Heidelberg /// GRÜNE JUGEND (Bundesverband) /// Hamburger Forum für Völkerverständigung und weltweite Abrüstung /// Heidelberg Forum gegen Militarismus und Krieg /// Informationsstelle Friedensarbeit /// Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) /// Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges, Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung (IPPNW) /// International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA)(German Section) /// Internationale Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit (IFFF)(Deutsche Sektion) /// Internationaler Versöhnungsbund (VB) /// Internationale Sozialistische Linke (isl) /// Interventionstische Linke (iL) /// JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke Berlin /// Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie /// Kooperation für den Frieden /// KriWi e.V. (Unterstützung internationaler Kommunikation kritischer WissenschaftlerInnen und IngenieurInnen) /// Kulturvereinigung Leverkusen /// Kultur des Friedens /// linksjugend [‚solid] /// MC Brigadistas /// Mönchengladbacher Friedensforum /// Münchner Bürgerinitiative für Frieden und Abrüstung (BIFA) /// Münchner Friedensbündnis /// Munich American Peace Committee (MAPC) /// NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative Verantwortung für Frieden und Zukunftsfähigkeit (NatWis) /// Netzwerk Friedenskooperative /// Netzwerk Friedenssteuer /// Ökologischen Plattform – DIE LINKE. /// Ostermarsch Komitee Ruhr und Rhein /// Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen für den Frieden (PPF) /// Pax Christi Deutschland /// Pressehütte Mutlangen /// Republikanischer Anwaltsverein (RAV) /// Résistance deux Rivières /// Revolutionär Sozialistischer Bund (RSB) / IV. Internationale /// Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung /// Trägerkreis Atomwaffen abschaffen /// Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BDA) /// Werkstatt für Gewaltfreie Aktion Baden (WfGA) /// Würselener Initiative für den Frieden /// Zukunftskonvent Berlin ///

Greece: ADEDY Civil Servants Confederation /// Agricultural Bank of Greece Workers Association /// AGSSE Confederation of Pensioners /// Altec Workers Union /// Association for animals protection /// Association of Athens Law University students /// Association of Biology Students /// Association of Crete University Postgraduate Students /// Association of Doctors in the Hospitals of Ipirous /// Association of Ioannina University Teachers /// Association of Pedagogic Students /// Association of Physics Students /// Association of Psychology Students /// Association of Sociology Students /// Association of students in the Athens University of Economics (ASOEE) /// Association of Students Residents in the Domboli Dormants /// Association of the employees of Rethymnon Local Government /// Association of the students in the Architecture Department of the NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) /// Athens Lawyers Association /// Attica Bank Workers Union /// Bank of Greece Workers Association (Greek Central Bank) /// Campaign Genoa 2001 /// Chania Cooks Union /// Chania Doctors Union /// Chania Ecological Initiative /// Chania Elementary School Teachers Union /// Chania Federation of High School Teachers /// Chania Firefighters Union /// Chania Immigrants Forum /// Chania Labor Center /// Chania Postal Workers Union /// Chania taxi drivers union /// Civil Servants Union /// Collaboration for Change /// Collettivo Bellaciao Grecia /// Committee against Military Bases and Foreign Dependency /// DOE Federation of Primary School Teachers /// EINAP Athens and Piraeus Hospital Doctors Union /// EKA Athens Labor Center /// GENOP-DEH Federation of Public Power Company Workers /// Greek Oil Company Workers Union /// Greek Social Forum /// Greek Social Forum (Rethymnon) /// GSEE Greek General Workers Confederation (Private Sector) /// Ioannina Labor Center /// Ioannina Social Forum /// Ioannina Teachers Union /// Iraklion Federation of High School Teachers /// Iraklion Labor Center /// Iraklion Teachers Union /// Local Government of Prevesa /// National Bank of Greece (Cyprus Department) Workers Union /// National Bank of Greece Workers Association /// OENGE Hospital Doctors Federation /// OIELE Federation of Private High Schoolteachers /// OIYE Federation of Private Sector Employees /// OLME Federation of Public High School Teachers /// OLP Port Workers Federation /// OME-EYDAP Federation of Workers Working for the Water Company /// OMYLE Federation of Port Workers /// OSYO Federation of workers in the Ministry of Finance /// OTOE Federation of Bank Employees Unions /// Pakistani Community of Ioannina /// Piraeus Lawyers Association /// POEDHN Federation of Hospital Workers /// POE-DOY Federation of Tax Employees /// POEDXB Federation of Workers of the Chemistry Industry and Refineries /// POE-OTA Federation of Municipality Workers /// POS Federation of Railway Workers /// POSE-IKA Federation of workers in IKA /// POSPERT Federation of workers in the radio and the television /// POST Federation of Postal Workers /// POSYPPO Federation of Workers in the Ministry of Civilization /// Prevesa Labor Center /// Radical Left Municipality Groups (DRASI-NORASI) /// Radical Left Students Association (AEP-EAAK) /// Rethymnon Federation of High School Teachers /// Rethymnon Labor Center /// SIEL Union of Private High School Teachers of Athens and Pireus /// Stop the War Coalition Greece /// Union of hospital workers /// Union of Metal Workers of Ipirous /// Union of tax employees /// Union of the workers in the General Hospital of Chania /// Union of workers in the Agia Olga Hospital /// Union of workers in the Chania Prefecture /// Union of workers in the Local Government of Nea Ionia /// Union of the employees in the Agricultural Insurance Company ///