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 We have never believed that war was to be considered an exception in the current

capitalist system and in its various forms: liberal, statist, socialist, etc. Our
position has always been clear and unambiguous: capitalism and war are one thing;
war is not a tool that capital uses when it needs it, or, as the various Marxist
schools repeat, when it has to overcome its own crises. So there would be a
"tendency" to war, which would emerge at certain historical moments, in
particular economic situations, and at others not. ---- Also because capitalism
makes its wars in many ways, and this allows it to sell as peace the absence of
war in a place, just because the hunt for resources, the procurement of part of
its profits, the rubbish against humans. and the environment through the brute
force of the weapons it produces, trades and uses itself, are made in other places.

Capitalism is war. But wars precede capitalism itself as a way of governing
disputes between territories and between entities that exercise power over them.
They are inherent in the exercise of power, with the various state forms that
have developed in the world, all in some way given birth by those processes of
hierarchical organization of societies resulting from the affirmation of
patriarchy and religious hegemony.
It follows that it is the mixture between state and capitalism that produces war
and exploitation, that raises its level and danger, and represents the real enemy
of those who are the enemy of militarism.
Unfortunately, a partial viewof social problems leads to the dispersion of the
energies of many political-associative realities, weakens a potentially broad and
strong front, builds separate, incomplete, incomplete narratives, insufficient to
form a general and complete idea of the social question. And objectively becomes
an accomplice of the system that partly builds its own dominion on the ideology
of social cages.
Breaking the cages means building contamination between the various situations;
some call them intersectionality; it means looking for common strategies,
strategic glues. And antimilitarism is certainly the foremost among them, because
it goes to the heart of state and capitalist rule.
The conflict in Ukraineit has already passed its emotional phase, the one that
brought millions of people to the streets; we have dealt with it in this
newspaper, writing about peace flags recovered from trunks and mothballs, which
would soon return duly folded, to dwell there. We are told by the squares that
have returned half empty, and by the news stories from the front which have
plunged into routine.
The last issue we opened with a title that wanted to underline all this: The
banality of war . Because war is banal, except for those who suffer it directly
and dramatically. But in an interconnected and globalized world its
trivialization is necessary to block any interference, any opposition.
The slope undertaken by the events is now evident: Russia tries to consolidate
its territorial conquests to the sound of bombings and massacres; NATO is
determined to continue "until victory"; the war could go on indefinitely. The
Atlantic Alliance extends into already partner countries, such as Finland and
Sweden, relaunches the Eastern and Baltic front, strengthens the Southern front
(Sicily in the first place). Other weapons are manufactured, armaments and
soldiers are sent to neighboring countries, and the Ukrainian army is inflated
with bombs and military tools. Death industries have never been so healthy. A
global clash with China is on the horizon, no longer denied by the US-led
"western front". It is a present of war; it will be a future of war. All the
crises produced by the capitalist system: climate, food, water, energy, will be
managed (they already are) in war terms. They will all be "just causes" in which
they ask us to enlist.

40 million Kurds , the same number of Ukrainians, are meanwhile sacrificed to
NATO's raison d'etat and driven back under the bombings, attacks, prisons and
torture of the Erdogan regime. Those dressed up pigs who attended the NATO summit
in Madrid called this "the lesser evil". The extermination of the Kurdish people;
the destruction of cities and villages, the military occupation of Rojava and the
destruction of the experience of the democratic confederate, were deliberated by
this handful of criminals in uniform or double-breasted, Draghi and Di Maio among
them, demonstrating once again the cynical and exterminating face of governments.

This predatory and warmongering policy must be made clear to as many people as
possible. It is necessary to intensify the anti-militarist opposition, both by
strengthening the "ancient" movements and the new ones that currently represent,
with their struggles, the various spearheads of the opposition to the war: in
Sicily (NO MUOS and others), in Sardinia (A Foras, against RWM and others), in
Tuscany (No Base neither in Coltano nor elsewhere), in Friuli (Aviano), in Turin
(against Aerospace), and in other places. It is necessary to press for a total
involvement of the environmental movements in the battles against the war, and of
the grassroots unions that have already shown that they can get out of sectarian
logic. It is also necessary to devote oneself to propaganda in the squares,
neighborhoods, universities and schools, places where cultural flattening
projects or direct involvement in military projects are implemented and where the
economic and political repercussions of military spending and continuous
emergencyism are suffered. It must be taken into account that even the gesture of
a minority, or even an individual, against

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