#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BULGARIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Bulgaria, FACB [Ukraine]: Reply to a letter - News from abroad (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 Dear collaborators. ---- I read your declaration " FACB Position on the War in

Ukraine " as well as your Appeal to the People of the World. I am sending you the
article I wrote with a proposal to publish it in the newspaper. ---- Dear
friends, this is my personal opinion and the responsibility is mine alone. ----
How can we put the attacker and the one who is attacked on the same level? How
can we talk about two imperialisms that are at war with each other? What to do
when a foreign army is at your door? What is the outcome?
It is good that during the Second World War, people did not ask themselves such
questions. Then the only enemy was Hitler, should we have been against this war?
We can, of course, regret that in Germany the working masses did not rise up
against Hitler, but sometimes the class struggle is not accepted.

Did you know that without illusions about the chiefs, during World War II the
Spanish Republicans, the majority of whom were anarchists, fought under the
leadership of the second armored division of French General Leclerc? The name of
the team is NUEVE, in Spanish: NUEVE. This detachment was the first to reach the
Hotel de Ville in French: the Hotel de Ville, the main town hall of Paris, to
liberate the capital. Today, in front of the garden gates near the Hotel de
Ville, a memorial plaque is placed in honor of this detachment, whose commander
was the anarchist Raymond Drone.

Today, when the Ukrainian people are fighting heroically for the right to
organize according to their will, for the right to self-government, to choose for
themselves, like any other European country, with whom to cooperate, is it right
to urge these people to shoot against their own your army, which consists of
volunteers, brothers, fathers and, more recently, women? Ukrainians are fighting
for their houses, homes, for their homeland, this is a patriotic war. The whole
nation is united in the fight against the barbarism of Putin, who, as a worthy
son of the Bolsheviks, offers only one choice: obedience or death. A call for
desertion can only be made to the invader, the tyrant. This was done yesterday by
Russian protesters in Paris, who joined the demonstration in support of Ukraine.

If it's not legible, here's what they wrote: "Russian soldiers do not shoot! This
is not your war. "
President Zelenski is on the side of his people, as in the past President Dubcek
and General Svoboda in Czechoslovakia, and President Nagy in Hungary. Blessed are
the nations that have such presidents, brave, worthy!

I know, maybe for an anarchist, I shouldn't praise presidents, but there are good
people among them.

Death to Putin!
Glory to the Ukrainian people!
Glory to the Russian protesters against Putin in Russia!

Elena Trendafilova Marulevska.

This is the unchanged text of a letter we received on the occasion of the
published "FACB Position on the War in Ukraine". The theses in this letter and
its position are in fact quite widespread and shared by many people in the
anarchist and leftist circles in general. Also, within the anarchist movement
itself, we see the division of more or less two conflicting camps. (Of course,
there are many nuances in the opinions and arguments). Let's try to generalize
the positions:

Against the war. Calling on all soldiers, both Ukrainian and Russian, to lay down
their arms to refuse to fight. For a class war against the capitalist class,
whether they are authoritarian capitalists in Russia or liberal capitalists in
Ukraine and around the world.
Against the war of Putin's Russia and full solidarity with the suffering and
struggle of the Ukrainian people. United in common efforts to repel the Russian
dictator!
You ask us how we can put the attacker and the attacker on the same level...

But let's go back in history first! The author of the letter does just that,
offering us a parallel with World War II. Good parallel, but conveniently
incomplete. The author apparently sided with the allies against dictator Hitler
and chose the lesser evil in their face. However, this gives a moral
justification for the actions of his opponents. He justifies dictator Stalin and
his friends Churchill and Roosevelt sharing the world . He justifies Stalin's
persecutions, purges and camps, slaughtered prisoners of war. Justifies the
anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era on the other side of the Iron
Barrier. It justifies the many local wars and conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba,
Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iran, Iraq and many more. It justifies the apparent growth
of Western Europe at the expense of the complete destruction and depletion of
resources in Africa and Asia. It justifies the fact that the world has been on
the brink of nuclear destruction several times, and yet it was this threat that
prevented another world war, bloody like the previous one. And all this because
evil is less. In general, how much less is this evil? I do not proclaim a world
united under the banner with the broken cross. But are we sure that the
atrocities of the last century are less? How did we recognize the lesser evil?

And one more step back in history. Kropotkin supported the lesser evil of the
First World War in his Manifesto of the Sixteen. This then puts him in conflict
with the general anarchist public. How did it happen? Was the evil less? The
Russian Empire and the army are literally falling apart, and, of course, the
price is paid by the ordinary soldier and inhabitant of the empire, Russian or
other nationality, not the nobles and landowners.

And so let's go back again this time to the Franco-Prussian War and Bakunin's
position. Which, here I will quote it translated into today's language:

On both sides of the front lines, brothers from the "lower" classes are fighting
and dying for the interests of their "own" rulers and oligarchs. The real enemy
is them, inside each of the warring states. In this bloodshed and destruction, we
are for revolutionary defeat and for turning the war into a civil one and the war
into a social revolution.

This can only be the true principled position of the anarchists.
Before determining who is the attacker and who is the attacker, remember that
borders do not divide nations and do not serve them. They divide the states and
serve their masters to turn the country's territory into a giant prison for its
population. And before they counter me with the apparent freedom of the so-called
European Union, just to remind you that only the rich are free to travel there,
the poor simply cannot afford it. Life in pro-Western Ukraine has gotten worse
with each passing year under the rule of pro-Western liberals, backed by the
institutionalized violence of neo-fascist groups openly marching through the
streets and beating down any opposition. What kind of freedom of
self-determination in Ukraine are you talking about?

One third of the country's population identifies as Russians. Some of them
support Russia's intervention. What part, I will not argue, depends on whose
propaganda we are listening to. But this one-third of the population lost their
right to self-determination and mother tongue with the coming to power of the
current junta, and with them all the other minorities in the country.

And before it becomes too pro-Russian, not Russia is no less evil. The Russian
army is not there to save the Russian minority from nationalist atrocities. The
Russian army is there to seize resources. Strategic Crimea and the coal and
gas-rich regions of Donbass are important to Russia's oligarchs. And the rest of
the population, Russian, Ukrainian or otherwise, dogs ate it.

And in conclusion, we support the demonstrations in Russia against the war!

But we are also opposed to NATO's disgusting policies, particularly in Britain
and the United States, which are laying down arms in the conflict and closing the
borders to refugees to cause a massacre.

Down with Putin!
Down with NATO!
Down with the Fascist Queen of England and her lackeys!
Down with national borders and nationalism!
Freedom and equality for the people!

Fedman Casad

https://www.anarchy.bg
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