#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Spain, FAI: May 1, 2022: Against war and the cost of life - War and the business of death (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 After long weeks of military tension, and the beginning of the Russian invasion

in the war that has been going on in Ukraine for several years, a new step was
taken in an endless conflict that, with all certainty, will remain entrenched.
Those of us who lose out in armed conflicts are humble and hard-working people.
We have to swell armies, we suffer bombing, we suffer humiliation and misery, we
are forced to emigrate and face social uprooting, we suffer increased poverty and
disease, and the repression of States if we mobilize against war campaigns.
Thousands of soldiers and mercenaries have perished in the conflict, millions of
people have been killed or are being displaced, and hundreds of people have been
arrested in Russia for mobilizing against the war. The media in Spain are
dedicated to whitewashing the neo-Nazis and fascists of the Azov battalion,
strengthening NATO's strategy with the most violent and dangerous fascism,
ignoring the humiliations, authoritarianism and coercion that they are also
perpetrating against the civilian population, and strengthening the role of the
extreme right, giving it prominence, to the detriment of the Ukrainian population.

Meanwhile, governments increase investment in the industry of war and death,
benefiting the arms industry to the detriment of investment in social welfare. In
Spain, important companies in the sector such as Airbus, Indra, Navantia, Santa
Bárbara Sistemas, etc., made direct sales in 2019 to the Ministry of Defense and
other countries for an amount of 6,654 million euros, as well as 1,664 million
euros through from third party companies or subcontractors. Spain is the fifth
largest international arms supplier in the world.

The increase in military investment and the consequent reduction in social
investment lead to the inability of the State to cover the needs of the people.
This brings with it the drastic curtailment of rights and freedoms, and the
exacerbation of authoritarianism by the coercive machinery of the State (army and
police), and the exercise of repression and fear.

Against wars, the business of death, and the nationalist interests of economic
and political powers, we anarchists advocate demilitarization, the abolition of
armies and repressive bodies. Neither a man nor a weapon for the State!

The precariousness and increased cost of life after the pandemic

Two years have passed since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its disease,
COVID-19. The ideology and logic that have prevailed in the management of the
crisis have been those of neoliberalism. There has been an acceleration of the
dismantling of public health and other essential services for the benefit of the
commodification of health by private companies. These have benefited, on the one
hand, thanks to the increase in their clientele due to the management of the
Community of Madrid in health matters with the closure of outpatient clinics and
specialty centers, closure of hospital beds, closure of emergency services,
increase in waiting lists, precariousness of personnel and reduction of
resources. And, on the other hand, by benefiting from the passivity and inaction
of the central government when it comes to expropriating hospitals to put them at
the service of the most vulnerable people.

The result of the health crisis and the war has been the increase in the existing
social gap to the detriment of the working class. Job insecurity and informal
work have increased, workplace accidents have increased, and the price of basic
goods and services has increased. However, for the highest incomes, the crisis
affects them in a very different way. Unlike the workers, in these two years of
pandemic and crisis they have increased their assets by 11%, becoming even richer
while the poverty of the working class increases.

The networks of solidarity and mutual support are the ones that have served as a
cushion for those of us who suffer the most from this situation. Solidarity,
mutual support, association is something intrinsic to human beings, both to
support the people who need it most, and to defend our interests as workers in
the face of the widening social gap. Only when we are organized can we have our
own political capacity, resist the neoliberal offensive promoted by the big
business elites and the economic powers (managed by the political powers),
overcome the fear of repression, social cutbacks, cutbacks in rights and
freedoms, and see the need to confront the State and its hegemony.
Against the rise in food and basic services
For the self-organization of workers and the breakdown of social peace
for anarchy

Earth Group

https://federacionanarquistaiberica.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/1-o-de-mayo-de-2022-contra-la-guerra-y-el-encarecimiento-de-la-vida/#more-1282
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