With Russian and Ukrainian deserters for a world without armies and borders - Saturday, February 21st, day of information and antimilitarist struggle, 10:30 a.m. at Balon ---- Four years have passed since the violent escalation of the war sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The conflict is increasingly bitter: hundreds of thousands of deaths have been recorded on both sides. ---- The Italian government has taken sides in this war by sending weapons, deploying 3,500 troops to NATO missions in Eastern Europe.
An Italian military base will soon open in Bulgaria.The war in Ukraine is innately inter-imperialist, a conflict of enormous proportions that risks sparking a much broader conflict between powers that also possess nuclear weapons. Stopping it, hindering it, and sabotaging it is an absolute necessity.
In Ukraine, there are two hundred thousand deserters; in Russia, tens of thousands have crossed the border to avoid the draft.
In Russia and Ukraine, antimilitarists are fighting to keep the borders open for those who oppose the war.
We embrace the fight to break down borders and welcome objectors, draft dodgers, and deserters.
We do not enlist with NATO or Russia. We reject the shameful games played by Trump, Putin, and the EU at the expense of war-weary populations, silenced by regimes that harshly repress those who actively oppose them.
The price of this war is being paid by the poor. Everywhere.
Opponents, saboteurs, conscientious objectors, and deserters are paying it, suffering beatings, trials, and prison.
We are all paying it, caught in the spiral of inflation, with starvation wages and pensions and ever-increasing rents and bills.
Try to imagine how many schools, hospitals, and local public transportation could be funded if research and production were used for the lives of all of us, for treatment rather than war.
The Meloni government's rearmament decree provides one billion euros to make the arsenal available to the Italian armed forces increasingly lethal.
Italy is engaged in 43 military missions abroad, mostly in Africa, where Italian troops wage war on migrants and defend the interests of giants like ENI.
Various bills aim to gradually reinstate compulsory military service, suspended in 2005. It needs cannon fodder for the wars in which Italy is at the forefront.
Schools and universities have become battlegrounds for the enlistment of bodies and consciences.
The Italian arms industry, led by the giant Leonardo, generates billions in profits. Italy sells weapons to all the countries at war. A business of death.
We must overturn the perverse logic that sees the war industry as the engine that will make Italy more prosperous. A war economy only produces more war.
War is also internal. The government responds to poverty by addressing social issues in terms of public order: the soldiers of the "safe streets" operation can be found in the suburbs, in the CPRs, in the stations, on the borders.
Every form of social and political opposition is criminalized with a set of old and new laws that guarantee ever-increasing impunity for the police and transform normal fighting practices into crimes.
Only an international humanity can lay the foundations for that world of free and equal people that can put an end to wars.
Today they want us all to conscript. We desert.
We do not enlist alongside this or that imperialist state. We reject patriotic rhetoric as a means of legitimizing states and their expansionist claims. Everywhere. There is no good nationalism.
We stand with those who, in every corner of the world, desert war.
We want a world without borders, armies, oppression, exploitation, and war.
Antimilitarist Assembly
Meetings every Tuesday at 8:30 pm - Corso Palermo 46
antimilitarista.to@gmail.com
www.anarresinfo.org
https://www.anarresinfo.org/disertiamo-giornata-di-lotta-antimilitarista/
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