No more deluded by reaction ---- On tyrants only we'll make war ---- The soldiers
too will take strike action ---- They'll break ranks and fight no more ---- Andif those cannibals keep trying ---- To sacrifice us to their pride ---- They soonshall hear the bullets flying ---- We'll shoot the generals on our own side. ----This is one of the verses of the famous revolutionary anthem, the Internationale,written by the Frenchman Eugene Pottier, a libertarian socialist who took part inthe Paris Commune of 1871 and who wrote the song whilst on the run after theCommune was crushed. It is a verse that is often not sung because of itsrevolutionary implications. ---- One of the slogans that the Anarchist CommunistGroup has put forward over the Ukraine War is that soldiers should turn theirguns on their own officers. There is a long history of this, including the‘fragging' by US GIs of their officers during the Vietnam War. The latestinstance of this is when Colonel Yuri Medvedev, leader of the Russian 37th MotorRifle Brigade, and an elite commander, had his legs crushed when his own soldiersturned on him after having sustained huge losses during the war in the Ukraineand drove a vehicle over him. He was taken to Belarus for treatment, but died ofhis injuries. 750 of the 1500 troops in the tank battalion had been killed.Whether conscript or ‘volunteer' (and often this is economic conscription becauseyoung people are forced to join the armed forces because of unemployment in theirarea), soldiers should bear this in mind when forced to fight wars. They shouldremember that the real enemy is the ruling class, that the working class isinternational, and they should think about their own class interests.https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2022/03/27/well-shoot-the-generals-on-our-own-side/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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