Ant was a weekly leftwing publication in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, which first appeared in 1967. Ant supported the Workers Party of Turkey

Workers Party of Turkey

Workers Party of Turkey was a Turkish political party, founded in 1961. It became the first socialist party in Turkey to win representation in the national parliament. It was banned twice and eventually merged with the Communist Party of Turkey in 1988.TİP was founded by a group of labor union...

 (TİP), and sought to resolve the differences betweenthe TİP and other sectors of the left. Ant stressed that the struggle for socialism

Socialism

Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

 and the struggle against imperialism

Imperialism

Imperialism, as defined by Dictionary of Human Geography, is "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationships, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination." The imperialism of the last 500 years,...

 had to be combined.

However in the early 1970s, Ant drifted away from TİP. It began advocating the build-up of a new revolutionay party and gradually it began arguing for the urban guerrilla line.