While military tensions between states intensify and war scenariosextend, the Italian government launches new military missions such asthe naval one in the Red Sea, approves a new shipment of weapons toUkraine, increases the number of armed forces and proposes theestablishment of a reserve. ---- Two years after the invasion of Ukraineby the Russian Federation, February 24th becomes a day of high symbolicvalue to consolidate the anti-militarist initiative, counter thegovernment's warmongering policy, support deserters and objectors of allwars.For this reason we support and relaunch the appeal of the AntimilitaristAssembly to make 24 February a Day of Antimilitarist Struggle and weinvite the federated entities to give strength to this appointment withlocal initiatives.This is the text of the appeal of the Antimilitarist Assembly:With the deserters and objectors of all warsFor a world without armies and bordersAgainst all nationalismsSaturday 24 FebruaryDay of anti-militarist struggleTwo years have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, despitethe waning of media attention, the conflict is increasingly escalating.Wars and conflicts bloodied vast areas of the planet in a spiral thatseems to have no end. With the rekindling of the war in the Middle East,the outbreak of the conflict in the Red Sea, the multiplication ofTurkish attacks in Rojava, the tensions over Taiwan, the continuation ofconflicts for the control of resources on the African continent, therisk of a war on planetary scale is a real possibility.Concretely opposing it is an unavoidable urgency.The war in Ukraine has an enormous inter-imperialist conflict in its DNA.The price of this war is paid by the Ukrainian and Russian populations.Opponents, saboteurs, objectors and deserters who suffer beatings,trials and prison pay for it.We all pay for it caught in the spiral of inflation, between starvationwages and pensions and constantly increasing rents and bills.The Italian government took sides in this war by sending weapons,deploying 3,500 soldiers in NATO missions in Eastern Europe and theBlack Sea.Italy is involved in 43 military missions abroad, mostly in Africa,where the Italian troops wage war on migrants and defend the interestsof giants such as ENI.Italy sells weapons to all the countries at war, including Israel andQatar, directly contributing to that atrocious war.We need to overturn the perverse rationale that sees the war industry asone of the engines of the economy. A war economy only produces more war.Well-being, the real one, is elsewhere, in non-commodified access tohealth, education, transport, housing outside the ferocious logic of profit.War spending reached 104 million euros per day. An enormous waste ofresources.Try to imagine how many schools, hospitals, local public transport couldbe financed if research and production were used for the lives of all ofus, for care instead of for war.The war is now also internal.The government responds to poverty by treating social issues in terms ofpublic order: the soldiers of the "safe streets" operation this yearhave risen to 6,800: you can find them in the poor suburbs, in the CPRs,in the stations, on the borders.As if that wasn't enough, the Minister of Defense announced the creationof a "reserve", a body of 10,000 volunteer soldiers in constant trainingwho can be called up to deal with any internal "emergency".The war has now also reached schools, where the military carries outpropaganda for the enlistment of bodies and consciences.In Russia and Ukraine, despite the harsh repression of the twogovernments, there are those who reject war and militarism, those whooppose it, those who throw away their uniform because they don't want tokill and don't want to die to move the border of a state. He does notwant to kill and does not want to die for the imperial interests of thepowers that compete, here and everywhere, for control of resources,communication routes and territories.In Russia and Ukraine there are those who fight for the borders to beopen for those who oppose the war.We make this fight against the borders our own, for the reception ofobjectors, renitents, deserters* from both countries.We do not join either NATO or Russia. We do not join any war to move aborder, to change the color of a flag, to move entire populations elsewhere.We reject patriotic rhetoric as an element of legitimation of states andtheir expansionist claims.Antimilitarism and internationalism have been central to the strugglesof the workers' movement since its origins.Borders are just thin lines on a map: a nothingness that becomestragically real when well-armed soldiers transform it into aninsurmountable barrier. But there are always those who, even at the riskof their lives, cross them. Let's delete them!To oppose the war, indignation is not enough, a broad front of struggleis needed.A stone's throw from our homes there are military installations,shooting ranges and airports, barracks and death industries. Let's closethem!Alongside the people who, in every corner of the planet, die under thebombs dropped by planes built in our country.No to war and militarism!We support those who oppose the war in Russia, in Ukraine, in theEastern Mediterranean, in the Red Sea... and everywhere!Let's open the borders to objectors and deserters from all countries at war!Let's desert the war!No to sending weapons for warNo to military missions abroadNo to military spendingNo to the militarization of schools and citieshttps://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2024/2024021011carrara.html_________________________________________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
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten