WORLD WORLDWIDE UK uk News Journal Update - (en) UK, Surrey ACG: Against Nationalism and Militarism. An on-line meeting: Thursday. February 15th. 7pm - 9pm. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Against Nationalism: class struggle!  - Against Imperialist war: class
war! ---- The Left have lost sight of this, but anarchist communists
mustn't!  ---- The Anarchist Communist Group hosts an on-line meeting:
---- Thursday. February 15th. 7pm - 9pm. ---- The struggle against
Imperialism can only be a struggle against global capitalism in favour
of global social revolution. This struggle is the class struggle. ----
We don't believe that it is necessary for revolutionaries to support one
Imperialist power or alliance over another, the task is to abolish
capitalism and therefore, imperialism. We are not in the business of
supporting one proto-state against the established state.

But we ARE required to analyse the shifting alliances, to try understand
the rationale of the Imperialist powers and to oppose them through the
only method that can ultimately stop them: the direct action of the
working class.

The problem is that the tendency to see the world in national rather
than class terms is deeply ingrained in the psychology of the left, as
much as it is in wider society. Though leftists may be capable of
criticising nationalism in their own back yard, they are incapable of
doing it when faced with certain foreign movements.

This reflects the powerlessness of the left. When faced with brutal war
and the slaughter of populations in distant parts of the world, a proxy
is sought in response to their own lack of agency. Supporting the
underdog side - the 'resistance' - forms a substitute.

But it is the power of the working class that holds the key. It is the
working class that produces and exports the weapons that, for example,
pound Gaza. We facilitate that and we can stop it. Unless we find a way
to build working class power then we remain at the mercy of imperialist
powers, hoping that the interests of one or more of those powers might
mean that another war on Gaza, another invasion of a former Soviet
country, another escalation doesn't have to happen.

https://surreyanarchistcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/2024/01/against-nationalism-and-militarism.html
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