#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #UKRAINE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Motions and documents of the Italian Anarchist Federation approved at the Convention of 19-20 February 2022 (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 SOLIDARITY AGAINST ALL BORDERS ---- The conference of the Italian Anarchist

Federation expresses solidarity with all those who are fighting for the
demolition of borders anywhere in the world, in particular on the border between
Poland and Belarus. ---- To support the intervention of the no-border movement in
which the Anarchist Federation of Kracovia is also active, it launches a
solidarity campaign that starts with local initiatives and material and economic
support for solidarity activities. ---- Italian Anarchist Federation ----
Conference of 19-20 February 2022

On the Ukrainian question

Faced with the military escalation in Eastern Europe, which sees Ukraine and
Russia facing each other, bringing military confrontation to the limits of direct
confrontation, and with the heavy involvement of the United States and the
European Union, our position can only maintain rejection of the imperialisms of
the contending states and coalitions, NATO and OTSC.
The power politics of the states, nationalisms, small countries, are only screens
to hide the exploitation of the working classes, resources, territories. The
repercussions of this confrontation, even if it does not lead to an open war,
will still be extremely serious, first of all for the civilian populations of the
affected areas who have been in a situation of conflict and material deprivation
for years.
But this conflict also affects workers from all over Europe, who are already
seeing their incomes cut by the increase in the costs of energy and basic
necessities, as well as by the cut in public social spending to the benefit of
the increase in military spending.
The ongoing conflict is part of a world scenario of growing political and
military disorder. The United States, although it still remains the first world
power, has for years been in evident difficulty both externally, as evidenced by
the stampede from Afghanistan, and internally as shown by the social insurgency
of 2020 and the resumption of the conflict of class.
For its part, the Russian Federation is in a defensive position that forces it to
attack to stay on its feet. The crisis that opened in the Russian sphere of
influence, which became evident with the social mobilization in Belarus in the
summer of 2020 and with the protests in Russia in January 2021, shows the
fragility of the Russian state both on an external and internal level. Fragility
that could be fatal in the event that even one of the neighboring states could
collapse, as evidenced by the brutal and hasty repression of the uprising in
Kazakhstan in January 2021.
As far as we are concerned, Italy is heavily involved in the confrontation, with
the US and NATO military bases throughout the country, and in particular with the
installations in Sicily used for the control of the Russian fleet in the
Mediterranean. Furthermore, the Italian State is directly present in Eastern
Europe with its own troops, and therefore takes part concretely in the spiral of
war. In Latvia, troops with tanks and snow tracks are deployed as part of NATO's
"Baltic Guardian" mission; in Romania, near Constanta, there is a squadron of 4
Typhoon fighters as part of the "Air Black Storm" mission; in the Black Sea there
are the FREMM frigate "Margottini" and the minesweeper "Viareggio", as well as
the aircraft carrier "Cavour" with the F-35s.
This deployment of forces was authorized with a budget of 78 million euros, which
the government will certainly have to increase. The intention has already been
announced to send another 2,000 Italian soldiers to the area. The growing
military spending is justified with our security, but no one says that security
is above all education and health, income for all and not war.
As anarchists, we intend to raise the banner of solidarity among the exploited
classes, beyond and beyond any nation.
This is why we appeal to all those who oppose the war to strengthen and relaunch
the fight against the war-mongering policy of the Italian government, to create a
broad anti-militarist movement that knows how to impose the withdrawal of
military missions abroad.
In the hypothesis of an open conflict, our position remains that of revolutionary
defeatism, solidarity, fraternization and rebellion against the High Command of
each State.

Italian Anarchist Federation
Conference of 19-20 February 2022

Against military missions abroad, against all wars!
Let's strengthen the anti-militarist struggle!

In recent months, Italy's war commitment abroad has further increased with new
missions in particular in Africa and in the Ukrainian scenario.
At the same time, internal militarization made up of soldiers in the streets and
border controls shows no sign of abating while the military-industrial complex
continues to increase its profits.
For this reason, we believe that it is central in the coming months to support
and expand the anti-militarist struggles in the various territories: from the
mobilizations in Piedmont against the war aerospace industry and the candidacy of
Turin to host the NATO project DIANA (Defense Innovation accelerator for north
Atlantic) to the struggles in Sardinia against military bases and shooting
ranges, from those in Sicily against Muos to those in Friuli against the new
"green" army barracks and the pollution produced by the exercises.
Also important is the contrast to the growing penetration of Army propaganda in
schools and universities, not least the stipulation of agreements for the conduct
of PCTOs in Sicily at the barracks.
We strongly support the upcoming initiatives promoted by the Antimilitarist
Assembly on March 19 and April 2, both in Milan, to denounce Eni's role in
dictating the Italian government's foreign policy to grab energy resources by
plundering and devastating southern countries. of the world and Africa in
particular. It is important to fight against the environmental devastation caused
by the armies and multinationals they protect and to create intersections between
the ecological movements from below and anti-militarism.
Today more than ever, even in the face of the winds of war that are also sweeping
through Europe, it is necessary to develop and practice antimilitarism in every
area of society.

https://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2022/20220220massenzatico.html
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