KKE-TKP: Our struggle against NATO is a shared one to overthrow the world of exploitation and war

A delegation of the KKE,  comprising Giorgos Marinos, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the KKE, and Aris Evangelidis, member of the Central Committee of the KKE, took part in a mass anti-NATO rally organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) in Istanbul on 27 June 2026. The keynote address was delivered by Kemal Okuyan, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the TKP, while G. Marinos delivered a greeting in which he stated the following:

“We extend our heartfelt thanks to the leadership of the Communist Party of Turkey and convey the warmest comradely greetings of the KKE to today’s event. We support the TKP’s struggle and the initiatives it is undertaking against the NATO Summit. We condemn the Turkish authorities’ decision to ban demonstrations in Ankara and all forms of repression.

The KKE is militantly taking part in the events organized by TKP, so that, together, we may condemn this predatory alliance, the bourgeois classes and their governments, which are devising dirty schemes and dragging the peoples into imperialist wars and plans.

From the very first day of its founding in 1949, NATO has served as the guardian of capitalism, the armed wing of imperialism against the peoples, and an anti-communist force directed against the Soviet Union, socialist construction and the revolutionary movement.

Following the counterrevolution, NATO has continued to expand its ranks and engage in multifaceted military action, playing a particular role in dangerous imperialist rivalries. We are closely monitoring the contradictions within the Euro-Atlantic camp, between the USA and the EU, and we take a clear position. Whatever form NATO may take —whether “global” or “European”, or what some are now calling “NATO 2.0” or “NATO 3.0”— it will remain equally dangerous for the peoples.

The simultaneous accession of Greece and Turkey to NATO in 1952 served the interests of the bourgeois classes and continues to do so today at the expense of the Turkish and Greek peoples, who have suffered the severe consequences of this bloody history marked by dozens of imperialist wars, interventions, and coups, led by the US and powerful European states.

The KKE condemned the founding of NATO and Greece’s accession to it, denounced the bourgeois government of the time and the other bourgeois parties, and called upon the people to resist under conditions of illegality.

Forty days after the Greek Parliament ratified the country’s accession to NATO, the bourgeoisie executed the communist hero Nikos Belogiannis.

Today, the KKE is at the forefront of organizing large-scale demonstrations against of country’s participation in NATO’s wars and interventions. It has played a leading role in the struggle in recent

years, particularly since the outbreak of the imperialist war in Ukraine between the US – NATO – EU and capitalist Russia.

Through hundreds of demonstrations following the criminal attack by the USA and Israel against Iran, the KKE condemned Greece’s deep involvement, for which the New Democracy government and other bourgeois parties bear responsibility.

The KKE has organized mass marches with the participation of thousands of people to the US embassy, blockades of trains transporting military equipment, NATO missions, and military cargo shipments. It has led mass popular protests against visits by US and NATO vessels to the port of Piraeus and other ports throughout the country. It has confronted the forces of repression and resisted the persecution of our comrades.

The anti-imperialist sentiments of our people run deep and cannot be suppressed by the defenders of Euro-Atlantic imperialism, the liberal and social-democratic parties, or the forces of opportunism.

We continue to struggle consistently for the closure of US–NATO bases and for the return home of all units of the Greek armed forces deployed on imperialist missions abroad.

These struggles are inseparably linked to the great cause of overthrowing the decayed capitalist system and paving the way for a socialist–communist society, for disengagement from NATO and the EU, with the people in power.

We firmly reject the myths that NATO and the EU guarantee the security of the peoples. Every imperialist alliance expresses and defends the interests of the monopolies.

We continue our struggle under conditions of intensifying imperialist competition marked by the confrontation between the USA and China over leadership of the capitalist system, a confrontation that laying the groundwork for new, widespread wars.

The decisive force is the independent struggle of the peoples for their own interests, organized by the communists.

We are intensifying our efforts to further strengthen solidarity, friendship, and the common struggle of the Turkish and Greek peoples.

Our parties have developed strong comradely ties. They participate together in the European Communist Action and the International Communist Review, and they are fighting to overthrow the world of

exploitation and war, and to build a world of prosperity, socialism–communism, free from the exploitation of man by man.

Long live proletarian internationalism!

Long live the joint struggle of the TKP and the KKE!”