#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CZECH #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Czech, #AFED: Attitudes towards war - How do Czech anarchists view the war in Ukraine? (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 Another issue of the anarchist magazine Existence , which we would like to run on

May 1, will address the issue of resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
One of the texts, which is already in preparation, will deal with a comparison of
anti-war statements from various anarchist groups in the world. From this
comparison, two approaches not similar to those presented before and during the
First World War crystallize the camps alongside Petr Kropotkin and Erric
Malatesta. While the first defended a realistic view of the war and aligned
himself with the Treaty to prevent the victory of German authoritarianism, the
second in principle clung to a strictly anti-militarist stance and the rejection
of both parties. In general, current attitudes are similar.As a tasting, we bring
a chapter of the text in which its author, Karel Lukeš, deals with the attitude
of Czech anti-authoritarians towards war.

Attitudes of anarchists in the Czech Republic

In the Anarchist Federation (AF), as can be seen, among other things, from its
statement " Against the invasion, but without hypocrisy " of 25 February, the
prevailing view is to prevent Putin's invasion without idealizing the Ukrainian
state, having to pay attention to the hypocritical attitudes of the West and to
meet the specific requirements that need to be implemented now to repel the
invasion as quickly as possible, and that will have to be met immediately after
the conflict ends, or during the light of new developments. At the same time, it
also presents points that should become one of the priorities of the
anti-authoritarian movement in this situation.On a practical level, AF focuses on
active support for the Operation Solidarity project, including the Combat Units
of the Resistance Committee.

Our friends in the K115 group published the declaration " No war, for a
transnational policy of peace ", but they did not sign it. In it, various leftist
groups around the world adhere to the "all parties are equal" style and demand
"that all mutual military and economic retaliation be ended immediately",
virtually leaving Ukraine to Putin.

The anarcho-pacifist group VAP did not comment on its blog . The question is
whether it still exists in fact.

The anarchist federation of Ostrava commented on theHipocrisia ocidental: "É
engraçado, no entanto, quando as nações ocidentais da OTAN começam a ofender as
ações da Rússia, que não competem com as ações de 'países democráticos'." A
solidariedade dos desfavorecidos é a arma mais forte que temos contra as guerras
dos poderosos. Ao mesmo tempo, é necessário confrontar aqueles que expressam
abertamente apoio à política fascista de Vladimir Putin. "

The historical association Zádruha addresses the issue of war by publishing
fragments of the anti-militarist history of the labor movement. Together with the
Workers' Initiative (OSIP), it sells charity cakes and "No Wars" T-shirts , the
proceeds of which go to the anarcho-syndicalist group in Russia and the Assamble
group in Ukraine.

OSIP also brought translations of the declaration on the war from several foreign
unions. In a statement released on March 5, he said: "We must not allow people
who had to leave their homes before the war or because of the persecution of the
Putin regime to become cheap human resources for domestic and foreign bosses .
them and organize together against the bosses of the trade union movement." "In
the text" Why be antimilitarist? or the response of workers and youth to war!OSIP
then agitates: "Antimilitarism is not a manifestation of weakness, much less of
cowardice, but the power of spirit and conscience, that we will not play their
game as soldiers, we will not be the murderers of our brothers and sisters!
heroism is rejecting war! Help those fleeing war, and not just women and
children, but also men who refuse to die and become murderers. Heroism is
rejecting the leaders' order to go to war, to give up. Heroism is to lay down
your weapons and defect. Heroism is to protest against war, stop politics in war:
demonstrations, general strike, sabotage of war production and trade, removal of
rulers from power, insurrection, social revolution."And as "the present war and
the threat of future wars can only be stopped by a strong emancipatory movement
of workers and youth,

On March 10, the Grupo Coletivo Contra o Capital, to which we are linked by
friendly relations, released an analysis , in which it realistically affirms that
it is duty "by all available means, but today very weak, to support the armed
democratic movement to emancipate itself from the symbolic tutelage of the
collapsed Ukrainian state. Trying to appeal to the proletarian component of the
movement, a large majority among the volunteers, including those who returned to
work from abroad, anchor their resistance to defend their own interests against
their state and their bosses, who quickly change coats in the first
opportunity.(...) As long as there is no class polarization in popular
resistance, it is not the order of the day to call for the creation of brigades
of proletarian fighters for the social revolution. Such challenges can only make
sense if the lower classes have their own political plan and their own armed
structures, they also note that "the decomposition of revolutionary defeatism
into pacifism is today expressed by the rejection of critical support for
resistance, with the classic assertion of that the two parties to the conflict
are the same. (...) This policy contributes to the political disarmament of the
proletariat and, in the context of the current war in Ukraine, de facto ratifies
the policy of annexation and destruction of Russia."

Related links: A3: Nationalism is the brother of war Five names Volunteers seek
to help refugees in Poland Igor Volochov Kiev: Committee of Resistance No country
left after fighting View of Ukraine and Russia (II.) I will not kill my brothers!
Winter is over, spring is coming: Russian protests against Putin and the war
Putin will not pass, Kiev lives on: what we do to support Ukraine Against the
invasion, but without hypocrisy Nationalism belongs to the IFA dump against
Putin's aggression Anarchists Russians on Invasion of Ukraine How to help
anarchists and anarchists in Russia and Ukraine WITHOUT WAR!Against annexations
and imperialist aggression

https://www.afed.cz/text/7618/postoje-k-valce
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