That truth is the first casualty of war' is the first lie amongst many that
accompany the slaughter of our class. For war to happen requires truth to havebeen well buried long in advance. The biggest lie, from which stem all others, isthat we, the working class, the fodder of both wage labour and war, have anyinterests in common with those who order us to fight. ---- From the Fatherlandmyth, to the democratic values' con, the idea that any Russian worker is equal toPutin through patriotism, or that any British worker, by using a ballot boxalongside Johnson, shares the same power and influence would be laughable if itwasn't so deadly. In either state concept the social peace' we are supposed toprize is the drudgery of work, poverty, vulnerability to hunger and homelessness,under the heel of the laws that protect property, profit and power.The community of nations following the national interest' in the rules-basedsystem is a thieves' kitchen of speculating wheeler dealers: politicians, armsdealers, bankers, shareholders and profiteering planet wreckers protected by lawsof their own making. Nothing we prize has been given to us, but wrung out of therich by bloody class struggle and conceded to us to avert revolution and sustainthe illusion of social peace. That peace' takes our eyes off the jackbootrelentlessly hovering over our heads. The lie of freedom.Freedom, as the old song goes, is another word for nothing left to lose. And yetit is what they call on us to defend on either side of their frontiers, when theprospect of new real estates in the form of fuel, land, investment and resources- including us - drop from the table of their rules-based international system.The sheep's clothing falls off to reveal the wolves fighting over a new carcass.Carcasses, the bodies of workers, we who labour, in and out of uniform, peoplelike us, are fooled or coerced to fertilise this new opportunity.Then, as we can see from Yemen to Ukraine, the sickest lies of all come out.Witness Turkey, which fed ISIS and watched Kobani burn, now acting as honestbroker, for humanitarian reasons - from lies to irony! To restrain our disgustand resistance and channel it into the dead-end of sympathy, they mesmerise uswith the fictions of war crimes and illegal wars. Banned'; Defensive' or immoral.Some weapons good, some weapons bad, some bombs virtuous chastisement, some bombscriminal. As if the real issue is a campaign for real war and not against it!War is the crime! The causes and excuses, the lies! But there is another war, thereal war, the class war. We don't just die, we resist! Ukrainian farmers towingtanks away with tractors, 20,000 arrested protesting in Russian cities and thenfragging', something not talked since the anti-war resistance in Vietnam:Soldiers killing their officers! Whilst sympathetic protest is growing,meaningful organised hostile resistance has yet to really develop. But thoseseeds, the seeds of class war, the real war to end them all, are also, iftragically, being sewn in fertile ground. https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2022/03/29/the-campaign-for-real-war/_________________________________________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
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