Four years have passed since the war escalated violently with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The conflict is increasingly bitter: hundreds of thousands of people have died on both sides of the front. 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 inherently 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 of people 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, 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 healing rather than for war.
The Meloni government's rearmament decree provides one billion euros to make the arsenal available to the Italian armed forces increasingly deadly.
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. Cannon fodder is needed for wars in which Italy is at the forefront.
Schools and universities have become battlegrounds for the conscription of bodies and consciences.
The Italian arms industry, led by the giant Leonardo, generates billions in profits.
Italy sells weapons to all countries at war. A business of death.
We must overturn the perverse logic that sees the arms 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 poor suburbs, in CPRs, in train stations, and 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 turn normal fighting practices into crimes.
Only 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 enlist. 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 earth, desert war.
We want a world without borders, armies, oppression, exploitation, and war.
We call for information and protest initiatives to be held in every city between February 21st and 24th.
Antimilitarist Assembly
assembleantimilitarista@gmail.com
https://umanitanova.org/con-i-disertori-russi-ed-ucraini-per-un-mondo-senza-eserciti-e-frontiere/
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(en) Italy, Umanita Nova: With Russian and Ukrainian deserters for a world without armies and borders (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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