Appeal for the 2026 International Meeting against war
20 June 2026 – London, UK
The wolf is at the door.
We know the face of war after the genocide in Palestine, watched live by millions. That genocide continues because of the complicity of western governments who refuse to take the action that could halt it.
Those same governments have actively worked against peace in the war in which 1.5 million Ukrainians and Russians lie dead or wounded. They now constantly increase NATO military spending and are beginning to enlist the youngest to throw them into the jaws of disaster.
Talk of war has become active preparation for war the length and breadth of Europe. Working people are seeing the money that should be spent on repairing their broken health care system, transport facilities, education and housing swept away into the bottomless pockets of the arms manufacturers, whose profits increase at a rate faster than ever before.
Families that have not known military conscription for generations now listen in fear as military leaders and politicians warn that their sons and daughters must be prepared to fight and die.
The false promise of industrial jobs in the arms industry is a trap for the working class. These weapons are the most inefficient job creatures but they are the most effective life takers. They will tear apart the bodies of the young on battlefields whose horrors will be greater than the worst we have ever seen.
As French writer Anatole France said at the time of the First World War: “You think you are dying for your country, you are dying for industrialists”.
The wolf is at the door and we must raise the alarm. It is the duty of every citizen, but especially the duty of the labour movement, to defend peace, freedom of speech and protest, and jobs that are useful to the society and for the planet. It is our task to say to the new warlords, we will not pay for, nor accept, rearmament that imperils our world.
We say lower your guns and raise our wages, welfare not warfare, jobs not conscription.
At the Paris anti-war conference of October 2025, attended by thousands of ordinary citizens, trade unionists, political and peace activists, we began to raise the alarm and to organise for peace.
Building on that success and the resistance of the peoples already repulsed the face of war, and the racist divisions it breeds, we are meeting again in an international rally in London on 20th June 2026. We invite every student and worker, every trade unionist and anti-war activist to attend.
We will not accept the descent into chaos and war that is the only achievement of the Trump Presidency. We reject the warmongering of the European leaders who supported the military aggression against Venezuela. We affirm our solidarity with the people of Venezuela and the people of all the countries threatened by Trump and his allies. We demand the release of the President of Venezuela and his wife, who were abducted by the US government.
US President Donald Trump, the emperor of the new war drive, has his international networks of far-right war mongers and chauvinists. He is appeased by the heads of government in Europe, and far beyond Europe.
We must create our own international network which will organize for peace, oppose the revitalised US imperial project, and fight for the livelihood, indeed the very lives, of working people.
We want peace. We say no to rearmament, no to conscription, and yes to well funded health, education and public services, decent jobs, and higher wages.
Hundreds of signatories from 22 countries have already joined the appeal: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
The mobilisation continues, and this list will be updated regularly.
Join us in London on 20th June 2026, noon Westminster Central Hall
Initial Signatories
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT : Ségolène AMIOT (France, MP LFI); Ione BELARRA (Spain, MP Podemos); Laura CASTEL (Spain, ERC senator Cortes Generales); Gabrielle CATHALA (France, MP LFI); Beranger CERNON (France, MP LFI); Sophia CHIKIROU (France, MP LFI); Jeremy CORBYN (UK, MP Independent); Jean-François COULOMME (France, MP LFI); Lorena DELGADO VARAS (Sweden, MP, co-president FV); Özlem Alev DEMIREL (Germany, MEP, Die Linke); Fabio DE MASI (Germany, MEP, co-president BSW); Mirze EDIS (Germany, Bundestag MP, Die Linke); Nicole GOHLKE (Germany, Bundestag MP, Die Linke); Cem INCE (Germany, Bundestag MP, Die Linke); Elise LEBOUCHER (France, MP LFI); Jérome LEGAVRE (France, MP LFI); Elisa MARTIN (France, MP LFI); Marie MESMEUR (France, MP LFI); Irene MONTERO (Spain, MEP Podemos); Sandrine NOSBE (France, MP LFI); Danièle OBONO (France, MP LFI); Thomas PORTES (France, MP LFI); Daniel RIAZAT (Sweden, MP, co-president FV); Jordi SALVADOR DUCH (Spain, MP ERC); Javier SANCHEZ (Spain, MP Podemos); Noemi SANTANA (Spain, MP Podemos); Isa SERRA (Spain, MEP Podemos); Julia C. STANGE (Germany, MP Die Linke); Zarah SULTANA (UK, MP Independent); Aurélien TACHÉ (France, MP LFI); Sylvain THÉVOZ (Switzerland, MP Geneva Socialist Party); Jon TRICKETT (UK, MP Labour Party); Aaron VALENT (Germany, MP Die Linke); Martina VELARDE (Spain, MP Podemos); Michael VON DER SCHULENBURG (Germany, MEP BSW)
TRADE UNIONISTS : Mouadh ABOUDI (France); Rafael AGUILERA (Spain); Lara AL-KITAN JARRAH (Sweden); Michael ALTMANN (Germany); Nick Papak AMAOOZEGAR (Germany); Pavlos ANDONOPOULOS (Greece); Sarah ANGELE (France); Yusuf AS (Germany); William AUDOUX (France); Robin AUGSBURGER (Switzerland); Jean-Claude AYMÉ (France); Awa BA (France); Stephane BALAGUÉ (France); Philippe BEAUFORT (France); Heiner BECKER (Germany); Shanez BELMEHDI (France); Abdeladim BENALI (France); Samia BENSMINA (France); Cendrine BERGER (France); Farid BERHAL (France); Harold BIBRAC (France); Luis BLANCO (Switzerland); Frédéric BOCHARD (France); Sébastien BOIS (France); Xavier BOISTON (France); Alain BOUM (France); Evelyne BOURGEOIS (France); Anthony BOURGES (France); Britta BRANDAU (Germany); Olivier BRUNEAU (France); Leonor BUSCAGLIA (Switzerland); Mickaël BÉDAY (Switzerland); Aude CAPRON (France); Beatriu CARDONA (Spain); Marcus CARLSTEDT (Sweden); Juan José CASADO PEÑA (Spain); Marco CASAGRANDE (Switzerland); José CASIMIRO (Portugal); Matthieu CHARBONNEL (France); Samy CHARIFI ALAOUI (France); Fabienne CLAMENS (France); Lucas CLAVEAU (France); Ana Sofia CORTES (Portugal); Giorgio CREMASCHI (Italia); Blaise CROUZIER (Switzerland); Kévin CRÉPIN (France); Nadine CURIER (France); Antonis DALAKOYORGOS (Greece, president of the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Seamen – Penen); Thierry DAVIAUD (Switzerland); Baris DEDE (France); Manu DEHU (France); Vincent DELAUGE (France); Ben DELRUE (France); Luc DESPREZ (France); Loïc DIVERRES (France); Sébastien DUBUJET (France); Thomas DUFAUD (France); Franck DUMONT (France); Armin DUTTINE (Germany); Ulrike EIFLER (Germany); Ellen ENGSTFELD (Germany); Marlène FERNANDEZ (France); Susanne FERSCHL (Germany); Lia FEST (France); Pablo GARCIA CANO (Spain); Mari Pau GARCIA CUPERTINO (Spain); Gabriel GAUDY (France); Yolanda GIL (Spain, International Secretary of the Federation of Health CCOO); Benjamin GOLLY (France); Henrique GOMES DA COSTA (Portugal); Luis GONZALEZ (Spain); Alex GORDON (UK, former President RMT); Claire GUELMANI (France); Aude GUERRINI (France); Pascale GUYOT (France); Hanspeter GYSIN (Switzerland); Eva GÜRSTER (Germany); Christine HAKANI (France); Nabil HAMAM (France); Linn HANSÉN (Sweden); Fran HEATHCOTE (UK, General Secretary PCS); Norbert HECKL (Germany); Rafael HENRIQUES (Portugal); Sylviane HERRANZ (Switzerland); Ian HODSON (UK, national president BFAWU); Christian HOUPIN (France); Ulf IMMELT (Germany); Valérie JACQ (France); Catherine JOURGEAUD (France); Stéphane JOUTEUX (France); Grigoris KALOMIRID (Greece, president of the Panhellenic Union of Retired Teachers); Christos KOURNIOTIS (Greece); Ralf KRÄMER (Germany); Mario KUNZE (Germany); Damien KUSTER (France); Abdou LANDRY (Switzerland); Nathan LAPEL (France); Magali LARDEUX (France); Sébastien LARDEUX (France); Michel LE ROC’H (France); Fatima LEE (Switzerland); Vincent LEGGIERO (Switzerland); Mattia LENTO (Switzerland, journalist); Benoit LEPEIX (France); François LIVARTOWSKI (France); Jean-François LOUIS (France); Isabel LOUREIRO (Portugal); Siegfrid LOYAU (France); Luis LÓPEZ GUERRA (Spain); Axel MAGNUS (Austria); Mohamed MALEKH (France); Léo MARIASINE (France); Silvia MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ (Spain); Rachel MESSOUSSE (France); Florence MICHEL (France); Nicodème MICHON (France); Christophe MOREL (France); Nonni MORISSE (Germany); Patrice MOULUN (France); Isabelle MULLER (Switzerland); Muriel NAVARRO (France); Frédéric NEAU (France); Josè NIVOI (Italia, spokesperson for the Collective of Dockers and Ports workers of Genoa (CALP) and the Union syndicale de base (USB) sea and ports); Sanna OLSSON (Sweden); Khadidja OSMANI (France); Brian PADILLA (France); Yeltas PANHALEUX (France); Franck PATTIN (France); Zoran PAVLOVIĆ (Serbia); Philippe PENIN (France); Astrid PETIT (France); Arnaud PIGACHE (France); Haifa PIN (France); Raymond PONTVIANNE (France); Mugurel POPESCU (Romania, president of the Hermes Trade Union Federation); Jorge PORTE TIRAPO (Spain, General Secretary UGT Tarragona); Marie POULLET (France); Clément POULLET (France); Volker PRASUHN (Germany); Hubert RAGUIN (France); Jörn (Dr.) RIEKEN (Germany); Catherine ROCHARD (France); Ricardo RODRIGUEZ (Switzerland); Thomas ROGER (France); Neus ROIG SAIZ (Spain); Torsten ROTTE (Germany); Marc ROUDET (France); Sylvain ROUVIÈRE (France); Charlotte RUTZ‑SPERLING (Germany); Bruno RYF (Switzerland); Sami SABAANA (Switzerland); Pascal SAMOUTH (France); Isabelle SAURET (France); Julie SAUTRON (France); Aziza SBAA (France); Selma SCHACHT (Austria); Birgit SCHÖLLER (Germany); Vincent SERMET (France); Beate SIEWEKE (Germany); Linda SOUEI (France); Andreas SPRINGER‑KIESS (Germany); Sylvie SZEFEROWICZ (France); Hans THURNHERR (Switzerland); Josephine THYRÊT (Germany); Sílvia TIMÓTEO (Portugal); François TRINQUET (France); Marian TUDOR (Romania); Céline VERZELETTI (France); Vincent VILPASTEUR (France); Brice VIRLY (France); Cédric VOLAIT (France); Marian VĂRUICU (Romania); Maria José WANCEULEN (Spain); Herbert WERNECKE (Germany); Dominique WILLIATTE (France); Miriam ZARALLO (Spain); Klaus ZWICKEL (Germany, former IG Metall president and former president of the International Federation of metallurgists)
ARTISTS : Khalid ABDALLA (UK, actor); David AYALA (France, actor and César nominee); Nawel DOMBROWSKI (France, singer, author and actress); Annie ERNAUX (France, Nobel Prize in Literature); Yorgos KERAMIDIOTIS (Greece, filmmaker); Daniel KUNZI (Switzerland, filmmaker); Sir Mark RYLANCE (UK, Oscar winning actor); Éliane VERNAY (Switzerland, writer, Rilke Prize winner)
AND : Awad ABDELFATTAH (Palestine, One Democratic State Campaign); Allan AHMAD (Sweden); Kassem AL BARIDI (Switzerland, journalist); Tariq ALI (UK); Maria ALLAGNAT (France); Anas ALTIKRITI (UK, Global Alliance for Palestine); Albert ANOR (Switzerland); William AUCANT (France, regional councillor LFI Pays-de-Loire); Bally BAGAYOKO (France, LFI Saint-Denis); Jovo BAKIĆ (Serbia, Professor Belgrade University); Loren BALHORN (Germany, editor in chief Jacobin Deutschland); Ramzy BAROUD (Palestine, editor-in-chief Palestine Chronicle); Vuk BAĆANOVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina, historian); Yessa BELKHODJA (France, co-founder of the collective for the defence of young people in Mantois); Abdel BELLOU (France, professor of Emergency Medicine, President of Global Network on Emergency); Judith BENDA (Germany, BSW coordinator European Parliament); Medea BENJAMIN (USA, Codepink); Lothar BINDING (Germany, former Bundestag MP); Goran BJEDOV (Serbia); Torbjörn BJÖRLUND (Sweden, former MP); Maria Teresa BLÁZQUEZ (Spain, COESPE); Sophie BOLT (UK, General Secretary CND); Gauthier BOUCLY (France, LFI Sannois); Dahbia BOUKACEM (France); Carla BOULBOULLÉ (Germany); Reiner BRAUN (Germany, International Peace Bureau); Thale BRENNA (Norway, Executive member FOR); Antonella BUNDU (Italia, left common project Florence); Nils BÖHLKE (Germany); Silvia CAPANEMA (France, departmental councillor LFI 93); Ursula CARLE (Germany, professor, University of Bremen); Deniz CELIK (Germany, Hambourg Parliament MP, Die Linke); Ben CHAKO (UK, editor Morning Star); Marta COLLOT (Italia, co-spokesperson of Potere al Popolo!); Marko CRNOBRNJA MALETIĆ (Serbia, International Secretariat of the Party of the Radical Left); Jorge CUSTÓDIO (Portugal); Clare DALY (Ireland, former MEP); Ludo DE BRABANDER (Belgium, Vrede); Enriqueta DE LA CRUZ HERRERA (Spain, writer and journalist); Andreï DEMIDOV (Russia, Union of the Post-Soviet Left); Wiebke DIEHL (Germany, journalist); Jürgen DORNIS (Germany); Nicoletta DOSIO (Italia, figure of No TAV); Marc DRESSLER (Germany); Laura DROMPT (Switzerland, journalist); Wolfgang DÄUBLER (Germany, professor of labour law); Brigitte EHRICH (Germany); Peter EISENSTEIN (Norway, vice-president FOR); Udo EISNER (Germany); Jamila EL AZHAR (Switzerland); Mark ELLMANN (Germany, DKP Peace commission); Jules EL‑KHATIB (Germany, editor Etos Media); Philipp ERDMANN (Germany); Jeannette ESCANILLA (Sweden, President Ship to Gaza Sweden); Christian EYSCHEN (France, spokesperson for the International Association of Free Thought); Juan Miguel FERNÁNDEZ (Spain, COESPE); Nathan FINKELSTEIN (Switzerland); Ramón FRANQUESA ARTES (Spain, COESPE); Henning FREY (Germany); Litsa FRYDAS (Greece, Communist Liberation international committee); Vicente GARCÉS (Spain, former MEP, socialist left); Julie GARNIER (France, LFI regional councillor Île-de-France); Lindsey GERMAN (UK, convenor Stop The War); Reinhard GLATZEL (Germany, former president of SPD Metzingen); Maria João GOMES (Portugal); Ana Isabel GONZALEZ MARISCAL (Spain, deputy Mayor of Getafe); Encarnación GONZÁLEZ TRIGUERO (Spain, COESPE); Giuliano GRANATO (Italia, co-spokesperson of Potere al Popolo!); Stefan GRASGRUBER-KERL (Austria, president of SPÖ section 1, Vienne-Josefstadt); Philipp GRAVENHORST (Germany, Member of the Federal Executive Committee of Die Linke); Harri GRÜNBERG (Germany, Movement Aufstehen, BSW); Andreas GRÜNWALD (Germany); Julian GÜRSTER (Germany); Gérard HADDAD (France, doctor); Foudil HADJI (France, doctor); Battran HAGEN (Germany); Khaled HAMAD (Germany, chairman of the Palestinian community and coordinator of the European Alliance in Defence of Palestinian Detainees); Christian HASS (Germany); Manaf HASSAN (Germany, journalist); Doris HEINEMANN‑BROOKS (Germany); Rita Sybille HEINRICH (Germany); Lühr HENKEN (Germany); Lukas HOF (Germany); Andrea HORNUNG (Germany, president of Socialist German Workers Youth); Susanne HUBER (Germany); Andrej HUNKO (Germany, former Bundestag MP, BSW North Rhine-Westphalia); Chris HÜPPMEIER (Germany); Huguette JUNOD (Switzerland, writer); Constantina KAKOUROU (Greece); Taïeb KALI (Switzerland); António KATCHY (Portugal); Hudson KATE (UK, vice-president CND); Jutta KAUSCH‑HENKEN (Germany, actress, initiative « Never again war – Lay down your arms »); Ramsis KILANI (Germany); Brigitte KLEIN (Germany); Tara KOMANOVIĆ (Serbia); Nebojša KOMANOVIĆ (Serbia); Viktor KOSAN (Germany); Jörg KRONAUER (Germany, journalist); Gotthard KRUPP (Germany, AGBSW, editor Soziale Politik & Demokratie); Andreas KUTSCHE (Germany, Brandenburg MP, BSW); Wolfgang KÄMMERER (Germany, WasTun); Bernd KÖHLER (Germany, musician); Djamila LAIB (France); Andrii LEBEDIEV (Ukraine, Union of the Post-Soviet Left); Marielle LERAAND (Norway, leader of Peace & Justice Party FOR); Francisca LÓPEZ FERNÁNDEZ (Spain, COESPE); Philippe LÜSCHER (Switzerland); Beata MACHUL-TELUS (Poland, president of the Association for the Development of Civil Society Pro Human); Magali MANGIN (Switzerland); Michael MANSFIELD KC (UK); Carlos Manuel MARQUES DA SILVA (Portugal); Ari Alba MARQUEZ (Germany, Cuba Sí, Die Linke); Guillaume MARTINE (France, lawyer); Cornelia MATZKE (Germany); Faye MENTZEN (Germany); Steve MERCIER (Switzerland, Gaza Flotilla member); Nebojša MILIKIĆ (Serbia); Wolfgang MIX (Germany); Irene MOLINA (Sweden, Professor at Uppsala University); Frédérique MONOD (France); Elsa MORA ORTIZ (Spain, councillor United Left-Podemos Yepes); Roderic MOUNIR (Switzerland, journalist); Andrew MURRAY (UK, journalist, Stop The War); Orly NOY (Jerusalem); Kathrin OTTE (Germany); Rémy PAGANI (Switzerland, former mayor of Geneva, Gaza Flotilla member); Anne PAGNIER (France, pediatrician); Ilan PAPPÉ (UK, historian); Alix PARODI (Switzerland); Angel PASERO (Spain); Rosalina PATRICIO (Switzerland); Katarina PEOVIĆ (Croatia, former MP, co-president of the Workers’ Front and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Rijeka); Carmelinda PEREIRA (Portugal, former MP of the Constituent Assembly); Uwe PFLUGRATH (Germany); Maria PITA CARDENES (Spain); Tim POMMERÄNIG (Germany); Thomas PUCHAN (Germany); Michael QUETTING (Germany); Juan QUINTERO (Germany); Naisan RAJI (Germany); Luc RECORDON (Switzerland, former MP); John REES (UK, journalist, Stop The War); Jakob REIMANN (Germany, editor Etos Media); Dieter REINISCH (Austria, editor in chief of International, journalist); Milena REPAJIĆ (Serbia, President of the Party of the Radical Left); Jan RICHTER (Germany); Ralf RIPPEL (Germany); Irena RISTIĆ (Serbia, Professor Belgrade University); Aires RODRIGUES (Portugal, former MP of the Constituent Assembly); Damián RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA (Spain, COESPE); Alison ROSAMUND KATZ (Switzerland, former international WHO civil servant, member of the People’s Health Movement); Holger ROTHBAUER (Germany, Aachen Peace Prize winner, SPD); Manuel RUIZ ROBLES (Spain, former captain in the military navy); Aleksei SAKHNIN (Russia, Peace from below); Tatjana SAMBALE (Germany); Carlos SANCHEZ MATO (Spain, professor Complutense University of Madrid, United Left); Ophélie SAUGER (France, deputy MP LFI); Beppe SAVARY BORIOLI (Switzerland, doctor); Philippe SCHELLER (Switzerland); Jean-Marc SCHIAPPA (France, historian, Guizot Prize of the French Academy); Cristina SEMBLANO (Portugal, economist, former professor at Sorbonne University); Viktor SIDORCHENKO (Ukraine); Jana SILVERMAN (USA, co-chair of the DSA International Committee and Professor of International Relations, Universidade Federal do ABC); Stefan SJÖLANDER (Sweden); Jeff SKINNER (Sweden); Liza SMIRNOVA (Russia, Peace from below); Pedro SOARES (Portugal, former MP); Costanza SOLARI (Switzerland); Luca SOLARI (Switzerland); Ingar SOLTY (Germany, author); Andreas (Dr.) STIEGELE (Germany); Wolf THEILACKER (Germany); Kamila TOPRAKOGLU (Switzerland); Diangou TRAORÉ (France, activist from working-class neighborhoods); Werner UHDE (Germany, ISA); Vlad (Ukraine, Union of the Post-Soviet Left); Tom UNTERRAINER (UK, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation); Frank VACHERON (Switzerland); Jan VAN HAGEN (Germany); Willi VAN OOYEN (Germany); Pablo Andrés VARGAS ROSALES (Switzerland); Chloé VEUTHEY (Switzerland, journalist); VLAD (Ukraine); Hans VON SPONECK (UK, former assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations); Aleksander VORONKOV (Russia); Lela VUJANIĆ (Croatia, researcher); Mick WALLACE (Ireland, former MEP); Léo WALTER (France, former MP LFI); Konrad WANNER (Germany); Théo WIDER (Switzerland); Filip WINKLER (Germany); Jonas WINKLER (Germany); Maciej WISNIOWSKI (Poland, journalist, founder of the news portal Strajk.eu); Norman WOLF (Germany, vice‑president BSW Berlin); Agnieszka WOLK-LANIEWSKA (Poland, editor-in-chief of national weekly newspaper NIE); Ann WRIGHT (USA, Former U.S. diplomat and U.S. Army colonel); Mertcan YILDIZ (Germany); Eyup YILMAZ (Germany, Frankfurt City Councillor, BSW); Olika ZARIPOV (Russia); Theodor ZIEGLER (Germany); Silviu ȘOMÎCU (Romania, former MP)
ORGANISATIONS : Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation (UK); Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK); Codepink (USA); Demilitarise Education (UK); DSA International Committee (USA); Future Left FV (Sweden); Global Campaign on Military Spending (UK); Movement For Black Lives (USA); Palestine Swiss Organization for Development and Peace Opsef (Switzerland); Peace & Justice Party FOR (Norway); Peace from below (Russia-Ukraine); Penen – Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Seamen (Greece); Podemos (Spain); POI (France); Potere al popolo! (Italia); Red Left (Denmark); Stop The War (UK); SUD PTT 93 (France); Union of the Post-Soviet Left (Russia-Ukraine-Kazakhstan)