#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, Unicoba: DECEMBER 2: NO PUTIN, NO NATO, NO WEAPONS, NO WAR by Stefano d'Errico (National Secretary of Unicobas) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The modern history of Ukraine must be remembered. The revolution was anarchic,

led by the peasants and by Nestor Makhno, but it was betrayed and destroyed by
Trotsky's Red Army, which had left it alone to fight against the troops of the
Entente and then, since the Ukrainians had resisted, that revolution was struck
in the rear in violation of agreements and alliances. The Soviet invasion was
experienced as an annexation. During the years 1932/33, the central government
led by Stalin imposed a disastrous and punitive agricultural policy on the
country, producing millions of deaths of starvation. In 1941 the Nazi invasion
was mistaken by the pro-fascist right wing of Stepan Bandera for a sort of
"liberation", but Hermann Goering (Göring), already from his first official visit
to the occupied territories, immediately dashed all hope: the Ukrainians were
slaves of the Germans, those who worked, deported and without rights, if they
managed to resist would have ensured (perhaps) mere survival, the others would
have died of hunger. ---- Then it's recent history: 25 million Soviets and
Ukrainians died to crush Nazism, even if for Western propaganda the war would
have been won by the Anglo-Americans alone.
Unicobas is a libertarian trade union, we have never been fans of the Soviet
Union, much less we are of Putin, a remnant of state capitalism that has ended up
with privatizations and neo-liberalism, where those who managed gas, for example,
have become masters of Gazprom. Putin is an autocrat and the sub-culture of war
as well as the invasion of Ukraine itself is unacceptable.
But all this does not mean placing the left at the service of NATO, jointly
responsible for US-led coups and aggressive wars around the world. NATO has
violated all pacts. The Yalta agreements, with the shameful division of the world
into blocks, were still a treaty. The Russia-Finland treaty (1948) established
Finnish neutrality. In 1989 Reagan assured Gorbachev that no former Warsaw Pact
country would join NATO.

Since 2014, the massacre of civilians began in the Donbass and Lugansk regions.
But even in Odessa 50 were burned alive in a house of the people, and whoever
threw himself from the windows was finished with the bayonet by the Ukrainian
neo-Nazis (and not only) then incorporated into the regular army complete with
symbols of the Third Reich on the uniforms. Shortly before, Russia had invaded
the Crimea.
Then the Minsk protocol was signed: it provided for the autonomy of Donbass and
Lugansk, the withdrawal of all heavy weapons, but it has never been respected by
Ukraine, whose government has even eliminated the Russian language from schools
and outlawed throughout the country the communist party and that of autonomy.
Today we are witnessing other massacres, violence, torture. War is always like
this, it unloads on those who have not decided it and enriches those who unleash
it and the armaments industry: a product of old and new nationalisms against the
peoples of the world. This is why the workers' movement, when it hasn't been
corrupted and deviated, has always been internationalist and hostile to all wars.
Before February 2022, there were 8 years of clashes, with 15,000 dead, many among
old people, women and children, after Zelensky's takeover of power, remotely
guided by the US. Eight years of joint NATO-Ukraine maneuvers. A war on the type
of the current one. With the same "side effects": this is how the USA called them
at the time of the "smart bombs" cheerfully dropped on Iraq, invaded without the
slightest proof of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.
Even the Pope reminded us of the provocations against Russia, speaking of a long,
insistent, ardent barking of NATO at the borders. We do not subscribe to the
current Russophobia.
Immediately, 11 other parties were outlawed by Zelensky at the start of the
invasion of Ukraine. Would he be the bulwark of democracy? If Putin is an
oligarch, Zelensky is a cynical businessman and sorcerer's apprentice, with his
villas in Forte dei Marmi and in California. Teleguided by Biden that he uses it
to wage a war through an intermediary country, with the blood of the Ukrainians,
in order to weaken Russia and undermine the European economy. Two birds with one
stone.
Biden thanks to 50 and more billion dollars lent will keep Ukraine and its
resources by the neck for the next 40 years. All this is just tragedy, even more
so in the face of the risk of nuclear war. Humanitarian aid is plausible, but not
the supply of instruments of death, rearmament and co-belligerency. For this
reason, 65% of Italians (more than a third of whom abstained in the general
elections) are against the boomerang sanctions and the interventionist policy of
the Draghi government, which Meloni copies to reassure Washington.  To be
precise, 55% are against sending arms, because one cannot work for peace if one
does not have a third and independent position. This second republic is
beautiful! Neither Moro, who would have spoken of a "moment of responsibility",
nor Craxi or Andreotti would have ever been such servants of the Americans. And
for what then? Draghi, as an accountant of the bosses, would like to become
deputy head of the world and head of NATO, but he lacks geopolitics. After all,
his master, Biden, is only a dwarf in the hands of the masters of war, one who
governs with not even 40% of the consensus, who has abandoned tons of
sophisticated weapons in the hands of the Taliban and betrayed every hope of
women and the people. Afghan.
While they feed us nonsense about the level of air conditioners and radiators,
the bankers in Amsterdam have been speculating on the price of gas since before
the invasion of Ukraine, and Biden will make us pay three times as much as the
Russians. Raising cash for Americans: this is the fate imposed on workers, on
that 40% of young people who are unemployed or precarious for life, on families
who, if they didn't make ends meet before, now find it hard to get through the
first week. Bills have already increased sixfold, but will double by the end of
the year. The ceramic plants have closed, the crisis and the high cost of living
are galloping even on basic necessities, and in the world millions of human
beings are at risk of dying from hunger.
Where are the environmentalists? Because, if they haven't understood it, the
second emergency (after the pandemic) is the excuse seized on the fly by the
owners of fossil, non-renewable and polluting energies, such as nuclear power,
whose main propagandist today is Macron.
Where is NATO's democracy? Does Erdogan exercise it? Dictator and criminal, but
within the alliance, he jumped into the war to restart bombing the Kurdish people
who were in the streets with us on May 20 to remind everyone that there is not a
single war. Did they stop Daesh? Well, this is the thanksgiving of the West.
There are at least 36 dirty wars.
Where are the greens? They govern in Germany together with the Social Democrats
and have decided to squander 100 billion in 5 years to rearm themselves: a fatal
blow to the highest welfare state in the EU. Via citizenship salary, absolute
regression of health and social expenses. Autonomous energy policy (another 200
billion). What will Italy do with layoffs, salaries (the most regressive in the
EU), social safety nets, services, education and health care? To stay in the
saddle, Meloni will soon go from 15 to 40 billion a year in military spending
(according to an address law already voted with Draghi) and if 80% of school
buildings are not up to standard, those 800 million will go away too allocated,
against the 13 billion that according to the civil protection were already needed
10 years ago. On the other hand, there will be no lack of partitions, nor aid to
banks and speculators.
Today it is grassroots unionism that represents the conscience of the country,
because unlike the ready-to-sign party unions, it has no interests to guarantee,
it does not enjoy secondments paid by the state, it is not inside the political
theater. It is an enormous responsibility that we will be able to honor together
if we are able to concentrate on the general strike of 2 December, without
pretense, games and reference parties, an effort capable of reopening the space
of dissent with a large national demonstration and if we continue the work
started with the Forum of alternative and libertarian European trade unionism, to
the point of "infecting" other EU countries with a common struggle.

Stefano d'Errico (National Secretary of Unicobas)

https://www.unicobas.org/unicobas-comunica/1331-2-dicembre-no-putin-no-nato-no-armi-no-guerra.html
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