#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #INFORMATION #WAR #UKRAINE #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) anarkismo.net - Against Militarism and War: For self-organised struggle and social revolution - International anarchist statement (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 A proclamation by Russian President, Vladimir Putin, gave the green light for

Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. Putin claims that Russia's act of war
against Ukraine is aimed at supporting the Russian-occupied Crimea and the
Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in Ukraine, which is flirting with NATO
membership at Western instigation. On Tuesday, 22 February, Russia recognised the
independence of its informal protectorates in Donbas, exacerbating existing
tensions with the Euro-Atlantic axis that supports the Ukrainian regime.
It should not be forgotten that a low-intensity civil war has been going on in
Ukraine since 2014, when the then pro-Russian government of President Yanukovych
was overthrown by an 'Orange Revolution' that brought to power a pro-Western
regime willing to side with the Euro-Atlantic axis. The Euromaidan, from which
the Western imperialist bloc benefits, took Ukraine out of Russia's sphere of
influence. It also strengthened the Ukrainian far right, which gained seats in
parliament and developed paramilitary units that committed atrocities against
Russian-speaking people and members of trade unions.

Russia, on the other hand, was not prepared from the outset to lose its
imperialist foothold in Ukraine and especially in the Crimean region, regardless
of the will of the Ukrainian people. The Euromaidan uprising may have resulted in
the neoconservative regime that it ended up with, but there is no one who is
under any illusion that the non-acceptance of that regime came out of Russia's
'anti-fascist' sentiment or its 'need to protect Russian citizens'. After all,
Putin's authoritarian regime in Russia has rewarded Nazis and fascists inside the
country by imprisoning and killing anti-fascists, while the numerous
interventions of Russian imperialism in areas of the former USSR needed no such
justification. Russia wanted and still wants one thing: to impose its own terms
in the evolving imperialist antagonisms. It will not tolerate the military
encirclement it claims it is being subjected to by NATO, the installation of
nuclear weapons on its doorstep, the Western inducement of Ukraine to join NATO,
the attempted energy blockade of its gas supplies to EU countries and the
reduction of its control over the former Soviet periphery. Another factor is the
blatant nationalism within Russia's ruling class - Ukraine is where the origin of
the russian state (the Kievan Rus) lies and the eastern part of Ukraine is
inhabited by Russian-speaking Ukrainians. That is if not by the irredentist
doctrine of the All-Russian nation Ukrainians (together with Belorussians) are
seen as a part of the Russian nation.

On the other side, the US and the Euro-Atlantic camp, with the UK prominent, are
pushing in violation of international agreements for the eastern expansion of
NATO, the exertion of economic and energy pressure on Russia in favour of US
liquefied natural gas (LNG) and control of the Arctic trade route, which is
opening up with the melting of the ice due to the destructive effect of
capitalism on the natural environment and ecosystem. Both Russia and the US are
trying to export their internal crisis abroad, while attempting to cause shifts
in the global imperialist hierarchy.

Russia has amassed some 200,000 troops on the border with Ukraine. The Russian
army is pounding the entire Ukrainian territory with bombardments. At the time of
writing this statement, it is attacking mainly from Crimea, Lugansk and Kharkiv.
The first casualties of the imperialist war are a fact. There is already talk of
civilian casualties. The Ukrainian Government, which, let us not forget, is an
amalgamation of neoliberals and neo-conservatives, has declared martial law
throughout the country. We are still at the beginning of the horrors of war...

The only losers from the war are to be the world working class, especially the
proletarians of Ukraine and Russia. They are the ones destined to be the cannon
fodder of the states and the capitalists.

The imperialist war is being waged for the sharing of spheres of influence,
energy routes and the rearrangement of geopolitical power. We have no interest in
fighting for the interests of the powerful, for the interests of capital.
Moreover, the outbreak of war is expected to bring further price increases and
inflation in both energy and basic commodities, putting even more strain on the
pockets of those who are already unable to meet their basic needs. We must not
forget that war is a solution of capital to overcome the structural crises of
over-accumulation from which capitalism is periodically afflicted. The
destruction of fixed (means of production) and variable capital (labour power)
paves the way for capitalist reconstruction and development.

Our revolutionary and class duty dictates the organisation and strengthening of
the internationalist, anti-war and anti-imperialist movement of the working
class. The logic of more aggressive or more progressive imperialism is a logic
that leads to the defeat of the working class. There can be no pro-people's
imperialist road. The interests of the working class cannot be identified with
those of the capitalists and the imperialist powers. The sabotage of the war
machine, the organisation of the class and internationalist anti-war movement and
the strengthening of the social and class struggles in the direction of the world
social revolution for the construction of a libertarian communist society are the
urgent and historic tasks of the oppressed and exploited everywhere. We cannot
and must not settle for mediocre and detrimental arrangements.

The workers, the unemployed and the youth have no reason to go to war for the
interests of the ruling class. Let us be aware of our social position and our
class interests. Let these be the indicators of our attitude and action and not
the belligerent, orderly and nationalist rhetoric promoted by the bosses and the
propaganda media they control. We will not pay for the crisis of the capitalist
system with our blood. We will not kill each other with the poor devils of other
countries. On the contrary, it is our duty to block the war machine and to
rebuild the social and class resistances, with the promotion of the class
interests and the material needs of the social base as our guiding principle. To
organise ourselves in the social and class formations of the working class,
organising the counter-attack of our class in mass and militant terms. This
system gives birth to wars and is responsible for poverty, injustice,
exploitation and oppression. It is therefore time to challenge it in an organised
and dynamic way, organising its overthrow on an international scale.

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR!
NEITHER NATO NOR MOSCOW!
CLASS AND INTERNATIONALIST SABOTAGE OF THE WAR MACHINE!
AGAINST MILITARISM AND WAR: FOR SELF ORGANIZED STRUGGLE AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION!

? Alternativa Libertaria (AL/FdCA) - Italy
? Anarchist Communist Group (ACG) - Great Britain
? Anarchist Federation - Greece
? Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM) - Aotearoa/New Zealand
? Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (CAB) - Brazil
? Federación Anarquista de Rosario (FAR) - Argentina
? Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) - Uruguay
? Embat, Organització Llibertària de Catalunya - Catalonia, Spain
? Libertäre Aktion (LA) - Switzerland
? Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG) - Australia
? Organización Anarquista de Córdoba (OAC) - Argentina
? Organización Anarquista de Santa Cruz (OASC) - Argentina
? Organización Anarquista de Tucuméan (OAT) - Argentina
? Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (OSL) - Switzerland
? Roja y Negra - Anarchist Organisation (Buenos Aires) - Argentina
? Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) - France, Belgium & Switzerland
? Grupo Libertario Vía Libre - Colombia

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