Let’s Step Up the People’s Joint Struggle Against the G7 Imperialists!
Take to the Streets in Geneva on 14–17 June!
The imperialist powers that condemn the peoples of the world to hunger, poverty, displacement and death are gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, from 14 to 17 June for this year’s G7 Summit. The imperialist bloc comprising the US, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Japan and Canada; whilst attempting to deceive the peoples of the world with rhetoric of “peace”, “stability”, “democracy” and “human rights”, is in fact at the heart of policies that escalate wars, organise occupations and deepen the system of exploitation.
Today, the peoples of the world are facing the severe consequences of imperialist aggression. US imperialism’s aggressive policies towards Iran and its military build-up in the region are dragging our planet to the brink of a new war of partition. Whilst the Zionist state of Israel continues its massacres against the Palestinian people, the entire region, from Lebanon to Yemen, is being turned into a target of imperialist interventions. Millions of people are being displaced by wars, left to die on migration routes, and confronted with border walls and deportation centres.
The Russia-Ukraine war, meanwhile, is one of the most recent examples of how imperialist rivalry brings devastation to the peoples of the world. As the struggle for hegemony between NATO and Russian imperialism intensifies, the cost of war policies is being borne by workers and labourers. Whilst war budgets are being increased across Europe, resources allocated to education, healthcare and social rights are being cut. Whilst arms monopolies rake in billions of dollars in profits, the people are being forced to endure poverty, price hikes and a bleak future.
Imperialist states are expanding their war policies on the one hand, whilst on the other they are spreading repression and fascist practices at home. In many European countries, racist attacks against migrants are on the rise, asylum and immigration laws are being tightened, and deportation policies are being expanded. The ruling classes, who are responsible for the crisis and wars, are attempting to make workers and labourers foot the bill.
We know that imperialist summits are not held to find solutions to the problems of the world’s peoples, but to protect their own interests and maintain the system of exploitation. The G7 summit is also one of the coordination centres for the imperialists’ attacks on the world’s peoples.
To intensify the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist struggle against those who seek to encircle the youth with militarism; to organise against the patriarchal capitalist system that exploits women’s bodies and labour; to strengthen the joint struggle of local and migrant workers against racist policies that target migrants; and to expand the united resistance of the peoples against imperialist wars, occupations, poverty, exploitation; as ATİK, YDG and Yeni Kadın, we call upon all progressive, revolutionary and democratic forces fighting against imperialism, capitalism, Zionism, fascism, patriarchy and racism to join us in intensifying our common struggle against the G7 Summit.
Let us intensify the struggle against imperialist wars, occupations, exploitation, racism, fascism and patriarchal attacks!
Let’s meet in Geneva from 14 to 17 June!
ATIK- Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe

