WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GERMANY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Germany, LIKOS: Anti-militarist action at the "Lower Saxony Day" (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 From August 29-31, 2025, the so-called "Lower Saxony Day" will take

place in Osnabrück. This is a marketing and PR event for both Lower
Saxony and Osnabrück. Part of the program: The Bundeswehr, including
military equipment. We visited the booth and, among other things,
distributed and read the following flyer: ---- After Russia's war of
aggression against Ukraine, the then traffic light government
immediately approved a special fund of 100 billion euros. To clarify:
One billion seconds is approximately 31.7 years. This trend of
rearmament and militarization has continued unabated ever since.
Military spending is exempt from the debt brake and can be increased
virtually indefinitely. At the EU level, an 800 billion euro package for
military and armaments is to be implemented, and NATO has decided to
spend 5% of GDP on the defense budget in 2025. Germany leads the world
in terms of military spending.

Conscription is slowly being reintroduced, and attempts are being made
to prepare young people for war. The Bundeswehr recently opened the
German Medical Association's Congress and called for a focus on
continuing education on war injuries. Furthermore, a legally enshrined
mandatory military service for medical personnel is being prepared. This
alone should make it clear where this course of action could lead! The
healthcare system must now also serve the military. This is just one
example of the paradigm shift in the German mentality. In preparation
for a war seen as inevitable, everything has been subordinated to
military doctrine. The social question, not only in monetary terms, has
become increasingly secondary and is at most mobilized to incite those
who have little against those who have even less. When everything is
subjected to military discipline, it has an impact on people. The
fatherland is the vehicle through which all class differences can
seemingly be erased to the ground.

Militarization and rearmament therefore do not "just" mean war against
the external enemy, but also internal repression. Be it the attempt to
ban the Rheinmetall Disarmament Camp in Cologne or the police attacks on
demonstrations against the war and the killings in Gaza.

While money flows unhindered into rearmament, the so-called welfare
state is being massively dismantled. Massive cuts to social security
benefits, education, healthcare, youth welfare, etc., the list goes on
forever. This is accompanied by an uninhibited agitation against the
poor and migrants, which already reveals how far the rulers are willing
to go. This agitation produces a cold social mood in which everything
bad is blamed on the socially disadvantaged - the resulting social cuts
then result in precariousness, which in turn is expressed in agitation.
This cycle appears to be mutually dependent, but is always and
fundamentally driven by the eternal hunger of capital, which must
mobilize all its forces in times of crisis to survive.

Let no one be misunderstood: The Russian war of aggression is
unjustifiable. Anyone who engages in this logic is among our enemies. It
must be understood in the context of a deepening crisis of capitalism
and the West's loss of hegemony. Not just the West, the world is heading
toward war, in which states are increasingly attempting to assert their
interests through military means - human rights are not at stake. This
logic must be rejected. As hopeless as it seems, there is no other
option than to connect and network with the deserters on both sides of
the front line, the people who practice sabotage, the strikers, and
ultimately the people who are paying materially for this war, often with
their lives, and to betray the logic of war. This cannot be done
unilaterally, otherwise we would take sides, but we have to start somewhere.

In Osnabrück, Rheinmetall is considering taking over the VW plant and
producing military equipment there in the future-a good opportunity
right on our doorstep. Of course, we cannot allow more than 3,000 people
to be without work and income from 2027 onwards, but politicians are
currently creating the impression that there is no other option than to
produce weapons. Let us resist the fact that the means of production
that could serve our lives are serving our deaths.

https://likos.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/antimilitaristische-aktion-auf-dem-niedersachsen-tag/
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