On 28 and 29 June, NATO, which is a pact of imperialist states, comes together in a new summit in Istanbul. There can be no doubt that this meeting no is an ordinary one. The impe- rialist centres of power will discuss their main concern. This summit is taking place when the competition and hegemony struggle between the imperialist powers have aggravated extremely. Therefore, the official agenda of the summit is the NATO enlargement towards Asia. After the enlargement to the East, the US imperialism now will impose an enlargement to Asia also on the other member states of NATO.

Consequently, the NATO summit in Istanbul is a meeting in order to impose the geopolitical interests of the US imperialism concerning new regions on the other states. At the same time, they will discuss there NATO's contribution to the suppression of resistance against imperialism in these regions and above all in the Middle East.

There is a direct connection between NATO enlargement to Asia and the 84Greater Middle East Project" of the US imperialism. All imperialist competition centres are sharing the idea of the struggle for power in the 21st century being synonymous with the struggle for power in Eurasia. According to that, they are also defining their strategies of conquering world power. According to these plans, the US imperialism settled directly and through NATO in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and in the Balkans. Furthermore, NATO is building military bases in the Caucasus and the countries of Central Asia by means of the Afghanistan war. But the American imperialism was not able to realize its plans of surrounding Eurasia in the south.

Although it occupied Iraq, it was not able to establish its planned protectorate government. The resistance in Iraq makes the US imperialism relive the Vietnam syndrome once more. And now the US imperialism, which has come to a dead end, calls with a number of compensations upon the other imperialist states to start also breaking the resistance.

Moreover, the US imperialism tries by means of NATO to bring under its control the project of the Greater Middle East, which shall serve worldwide struggle against terrorism and reaches from Pakistan/India to the Strait of Gibraltar, for its own interests and with the NATO member states, especially France and Germany, agreeing with that. In Istanbul, it will be discussed how this should happen and how it will be presented to the whole world.

The US imperialism has also the intention to establish its forces against its rivals and the peoples of the world under the cloak of NATO as well in these regions and to immediately break any kind of resistance, however small it may be, against its interests.

Statements of political representatives of the US imperialism like 84the future of NATO lies in the East and in the South, in the Middle East, it prevents crisis and responds to them" are making the problem obvious.

It is no coincidence when N. Burns, representative of the USA for NATO, stated in his speech from 19 October 2003 in Prague that the threats against the West for the most part come from Central and South Asia, and that the Middle East and North Africa are personifying the threat itself. NATO must reorganize itself and redefine its place within the worldwide competition. This is its real aim. Therefore, it is fighting any kind of resistance against the interests of imperialism in this region, especially of US imperialism, under the pretext of 84a suddenly out breaking conflict", 84release of hostages", 84operation in order to keep the peace".

Today, NATO remains being a means of realizing the imperialist policy of the USA, as it has been in the past, too. In the world of the two super powers, when the socialimperialist Soviet Union still existed, NATO didn't had any considerable internal problems practicing its duty. But today, after the decline of the Soviet Union, the situation has changed and imperialist states like Germany and France, which are members of NATO, begun an open competition against the US imperialism under the cloak of the European Union and since then they act according to their own interests. This means that it won't be easy for the US imperialism to use NATO as a whole for its own purposes. But without any doubt, the majority of the NATO member states will agree with the US imperialism.

The admission of East European states in NATO clearly shows the dimensions of the hegemony struggle between the USA and the EU. Since the EU admitted East European states and hence increased its economic power, as a counter-reaction the USA tries to admit these states in NATO and to maintain its military superiority. At the meeting in Istanbul, this contradiction will be seen also in a certain way.

The resistance in Iraq shows that imperialism means nothing but barbarity, torture, occupation and plunder. Where ever imperialism went to, always it brought this aspects with it and carried them out together with local collaborators. And imperialism did not leave any place by its own will, it was always necessary to drive imperialism out and it was driven out.

NATO, the military organization of the imperialists, is a war machinery aiming at threatening the working class and the peoples of the world. It is aiming at getting the working class to give up its struggle and the idea of revolution and socialism for ever. Therefore, the leading and organized forces of the working class, above all communist parties and organizations, always became the principal target of NATO.

The Turkish state, playing the role of the host during the NATO summit in Istanbul from 28 to 29 June, wants to participate in the occupation and barbarity in Iraq. By that it wants to be recognized as local power under the military protection of the USA and NATO and plans to get a part in the framework of the Greater Middle East Project this way.

The NATO summit is in the first place of the agenda of all the revolutionary and progressive forces in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, but especially of the communists. There are enormous efforts of not letting NATO coming through in Istanbul. There are a number of actions taking place every day all over Turkey. Although the working class of our country has been exposed to the cruelty of US-led fascist coups and dictatorships for decades, at the same time it bears a mighty anti-impe-rialist past and tradition. We are living in a country where once the soldiers of the 6th fleet were thrown into the sea. Today's task consists in increasing this anti-imperialist consciousness and this tradition.

MLCP gave all the activists the task of telling the masses the truth about the imperialist war machinery NATO and its summit, to inform them in this sense and get them moving against it. By that, it is acting with the perspective of creating a unity of all progressive forces and working class organization against NATO and to form a united front of action.

The red ants of MLCP are giving three cheers everywhere, in every street, for the slogan 84NATO won't come through! "

Down With Imperialist War Machinery NATO! Long Live Revolution! Long Live Socialism!