Introductory statement of the Anarchist Political Organization (Federation of Collectives) at the event held on April 4, 2026 at the Lelas Karagianni Squat 37 (Athens) in the context of hosting the 13th Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, entitled "The position of anarchists towards military conflicts and the threat of generalization of war". ---- AGAINST MODERN INTEGRATION, WAR AND FASCISM ---- ORGANIZATION - INTERNATIONALISM - SOCIAL REVOLUTION ---- The world of the state and capitalism is bankrupt. It cannot provide answers to real social needs and has nothing to promise but more misery, poverty, oppression, cannibalism, war and death: The absolute rule of the law of the jungle, of the might of the strongest.
The disintegration and complete bankruptcy of the world of the state and capitalism constitutes a limit to the era of its global integration and at the same time the cause of the intensification of inter-imperialist contradictions and the consequent increase in the threat of war. The state-capitalist system carries within itself its contradictions, the competition between the bourgeois staffs for the best position on the chessboard for the plunder and distribution of valuable and limited natural resources, the expansion of their "sphere of influence" is what makes the sirens of war sound again and again. Because as long as societies are bound by the so-called "national interest", private profit and capitalist accumulation, war will be the only way for empires in conflict. This capitalist law, however, does not at all mean that the system of oppression is heading towards its own annihilation, through its dead ends and contradictions if the peoples themselves do not claim to take fate into their own hands.
This is what is most tragically evident, both in the war massacre in Ukraine after the Russian army invaded 4 years ago and in the genocide of the Palestinian people, which is the brutal escalation of the 78-year-old bloody persecution of the Palestinian people from their land by the state of Israel and its allies.
We are now counting 4 years since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as the culmination of the long-standing conflict between the pro-Russian political and economic elite on the one hand, and the pro-Western ruling class of Ukraine on the other. Millions of refugees, thousands of dead soldiers and civilians, rape, devastation, the devaluation of every concept of life and destruction. The big loser is none other than the people of Ukraine who continue to experience the effects of the war, the dismemberment, the transformation of the country into a chessboard of geopolitical power games between the EU - USA - Russia and the plunder and sharing of valuable and limited natural resources.
The genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza writes another page of barbarity by the state of Israel, with the attempted extermination and genocide of the Palestinian people for two and a half years through mass murders of civilians and famine conditions that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip. Today, despite the apparent ceasefire, the Gaza Strip continues to be under military siege, with shelling of the few remaining structures serving the displaced, while parts of it remain under military occupation, as the population faces serious survival issues with minimal food, water, medical care and no shelter in the middle of winter. At the same time, Israel launches attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, committing murders, arrests, house demolitions, destruction of olive groves and settlements. The systematic extermination of the Palestinian people is also reflected in the recent passage by the Knesset (Israeli parliament) of the "Execution of Prisoners Law", while more than 350 Palestinian prisoners have already died in prisons before its passage as a result of torture, medical neglect and systematic abuse.
The increasing aggression of the US with the intervention in Venezuela and the criminal forcing of the people of Cuba to live under exterminating conditions without any electricity, as well as the war that is raging today against Iran, are a result of the crisis of their global hegemony, the enormous and multiple internal crises and their need to reassert their control over strategic areas rich in oil, minerals, water, etc. Within this context, on February 28, the US-Israeli military operation against Iran was manifested with heavy bombings with the indirect support of NATO infrastructure, which continues to this day. The sensitivity of American imperialism and genocidal Zionism, moreover, became apparent from the very beginning with the attack on a school and a training center, resulting in the murder of hundreds of children. Their same sensitivity was manifested in the bombing of desalination plants, making the situation in Iran even more suffocating due to the escalating water shortage. We then witnessed the attack on an oil production plant in Tehran, with the immediate result that the entire city was covered in toxic gases and substances, which pose a danger to the people living there. The people of Iran, after being drowned in blood - once again over the years - by the regime after the popular uprising that broke out in January 2026, are now faced with the bombs of Western imperialism, responsible for so many war operations around the world.
The hypocrisy of the Western regimes exceeds all limits: at the same time that they cooperate flawlessly with all the monarchical authoritarian & theocratic regimes of the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, etc., they use the regime of the Islamic Republic in Iran as a tool to invest their crimes with a supposedly "liberating hue", with the most notable being the cold-blooded murder of over 180 children in bombings. They thus continue their godly work as they began in the modern period with the bombings of Belgrade in 1999, with the war in Iraq in 2003 that destroyed the country, the twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan that left behind a renewed and strengthened Taliban regime, the surrender of Syria to the camouflaged ISIS, and the complete disintegration of Libya after the overthrow of Gaddafi, which was plunged into perpetual civil wars.
The victims of imperialist predatory and neo-colonial wars and interventions are always the peoples themselves, who are slaughtered in this global slaughterhouse or take the path of migration to find death at the land and water borders of Europe with the murderous assistance of the Greek state. It would also be naive to believe that the slaughterer of the Palestinian people, Israel, would care about the lives of Iranians, when for two and a half years it has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, while at the same time trying to dominate the Middle East with the aim of completely transforming the region. At the same time, Israel's murderous war machine is sharpening its aggression, expanding its strikes to southern Lebanon. From the multi-day airstrikes on Beirut, the ground invasion and the phosphorus bombs in southern Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,200 people and the displacement of approximately 500,000.
Today, on a global level, we are in the midst of a historical phase of continuous restructuring, accelerating events and intensifying antagonisms, which mark a violent transition towards a new historical period. The pre-existing regime, already in disintegration, now reveals without pretense the deep decay of the systems of power, as each individual formation of global sovereignty - state, transnational, economic - is in crisis, trying to preserve its blood-stained gains through the intensification of repression, the escalation of war and the intensification of exploitation.
In the dominant discourse of international politics, the "multipolar world" often appears as a more balanced and therefore more just form of global organization and hierarchy of states, as a new condition of equilibrium. From the perspective of the oppressed, from below and therefore also of Anarchists, the term does not describe a decentralization of powers for the benefit of societies, but a rearrangement of the very hierarchy of states and capitalist elites that are in a line of conflict. A multipolar system means that global power is distributed among many poles. USA, China, Russia, European Union, Israel, India, Iran and other regional powers, none of which can any longer impose the rules of the game on its own. So it is not about less power or some retreat of the power blocs, nor about a fairer distribution of power. It is about competition between more rulers who claim a place at the same table of exploitation.
The key features in such historical periods are multiple poles of power, asymmetrical forms of power, dynamic shifts in balances, the challenge of traditional notions of dominance, and all of this takes on a different meaning when viewed through the class lens of those from below. For movements and peoples, these poles are not neutral centers of influence but mechanisms of enforcement and war machines, economic empires, technological surveillance systems, borders, and camps. Each power promises protection and development, demanding in return discipline, markets, natural resources, and cheap labor.
The present historical juncture is characterized by a double and seemingly contradictory movement: on the one hand, the attempt to transition to a multipolar world without a stable hegemonic center, on the other, the generalization of authoritarian, fascist and totalitarian forms of government. These two movements do not contradict each other. On the contrary, the second is a condition for stabilizing the first. Multipolarity, as has been said many times, does not generate peace, but generalized antagonism, and this antagonism requires societies that are disciplined, fearful and ready to accept sacrifice as normality. It must be understood that today's "monarchy" is not simply expressed by the hegemonic presence of the political-military system that defends the Western bloc, led by the USA and Israel; today's monoarchy that forcibly unifies the planet is manifested through global capitalist integration, which expresses in different geographies the same unified logic of capitalist exploitation and state oppression, incorporating into it different cultural, religious and local specificities. It is possible that on the basis of these specificities the warring blocs seek their ideological identity, in the face of the dominant Western paradigm, however this does not in any way mean overcoming or challenging at any level the unified state-capitalist mechanism of power, exploitation and oppression.
Fascism is no longer manifested as a mass movement with a unified ideology, but as an everyday administrative practice. Borders that kill, police forces that function as an army of occupation, regimes of exception that become permanent, criminalization of poverty, migration and solidarity. In this context, the concept of necropolitics no longer concerns only zones of violence, but the overall organization of the world. Power does not simply manage life; it actively organizes death, either directly or indirectly, through famines, sanctions, economic embargoes, exclusions and permanent precariousness. Death ceases to be a failure of the politics of the period of development of the fat cows of capitalist prosperity and becomes a tool for overcoming critical conditions.
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Greece, as a member of the European Union and NATO, is firmly oriented towards the pursuits of the dominant political and economic elite of which it is an integral part and is tied to the chariot of Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many warlike and military interventions in recent years and beyond. The continuous energy and defense cooperation agreements between Greece and the United States constitute yet another example of the ratification and expansion of relations between the Greek and American states, confirmation of the attachment of the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot of interests of the dominant international political and economic elite and strengthening of the role of the Greek state in the crucial region of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is precisely this strengthening of the role of the Greek state, which today passes through the undivided and all-round support of the US and the state of Israel, that makes the entire Greek territory the rearguard of the front line of Western imperialism in the Middle East.
In particular, the American base of Souda operates as a critical center for military monitoring, coordination and support of American and Euro-Atlantic operations throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The upgrading and expansion of its capabilities is directly linked to military actions in the Middle East, including direct and indirect support for the Israeli state and its participation in the genocide of the Palestinian people. This base symbolizes and serves the maintenance of American and Euro-Atlantic sovereignty and guardianship in the critical region of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing military capabilities for rapid reaction and handling of its geopolitical interests. Every ship that sets sail, every aircraft that takes off, every order issued from the Souda base offers services to the death machine that slaughters the peoples of the Middle East. In this context, the Greek state sends warships and planes to Cyprus, pretending that it is for aid and defensive purposes to prevent an attack. In reality, however, the Greek state involves the country more and more deeply in the war, first to defend the British military base at the Paphos cape, while then sending anti-aircraft systems to Karpathos for the defense of the American base at Souda, its frigates were and continue to be off the coast of Israel for its defense and the transfer of information via military radars regarding imminent strikes on NATO and American-Israeli targets, and Greek Patriots were used to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles that targeted an oil company in Saudi Arabia. At the same time, Greek shipping capital, in its attempt to increase its profits, forces the crews of its oil tankers to risk their lives to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Greek state, as the border guard of Europe-Fortress, has over time followed and expressed in the most emphatically the anti-immigration policy of the EU. The murderous policies of "deterrence" are reflected in the thousands of dead refugees at land and water borders, in those trapped in modern concentration camps and in those imprisoned under a special racist regime of exception. The "walls" that are erected, such as the fence on the Evros, do not only serve to keep "surplus populations" out, but also to lead Western societies to entrench fascism within them, creating a social condition of fear and hatred.
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Today we are going through a period of distortion of meanings and values and the need for the anarchist movement to be able to establish its political, value and ideological framework is even more intense, both for the inoculation of the consciousnesses of those below and for the defense of its positions against the attempts to impose foreign perceptions regarding the anarchist struggle and internationalist solidarity. Perceptions that are based on authoritarian and authoritarian tendencies, basically of the left, through the support of totalitarian state formations, condemnation of popular uprisings, camping in power blocs, consciously false bipolars, emotional blackmail, slander of fighters and threats, ostensibly dressed in the cloak of anti-imperialism.
Within this landscape, a dangerous delusion also emerges: that it is enough to fight against an imperialism to be anti-imperialist. That the conflict with the West, with the USA, is enough for any other state power to be baptized "progressive". This logic is not anti-imperialism. It is a choice of camp. It is a disguise of submission to "realism". No anti-imperialism is real when it fights against only one imperialist bloc and allies itself - directly or indirectly - with the rest of the emerging ones. Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, are not "anti-systemic exceptions". They are states with their own armies, prisons, borders, repression, exploitation. Calling themselves "anti-imperialist" because they are clashing with a stronger and more competitive opponent than in the period of the monarchy and now asking for a new Yalta, simply means that one imperialism is seeking legitimacy to replace another.
The logic of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" always leads to the same dead end. Silence about the crimes of the new and opportunistic ally, justification of its violence, underestimation of the struggles it suppresses within itself. Thus, anti-imperialism is transformed into a geopolitical tool and loses all liberating content and analytical substance.
From an anarchist point of view, this is inconceivable. There is no imperialism without a state. There is no imperialism without internal oppression. The same structures that expand outwards, discipline inwardly, within class-stratified societies, are the same mechanisms that bomb, imprison, torture and exterminate, and anyone who pretends not to see this is not practicing anti-imperialism, but is practicing political cover-up.
Real anti-imperialism does not choose states, flags or poles through opportunistic alliances, without this meaning that it will not use internal contradictions and cracks in the system; it chooses sides in social struggles: It stands with the workers, with the refugees crushed at the borders, with the conscripts and deserters, the prisoners, the insurgents, with all those who pay the cost of imperialist antagonisms, wherever they are. It does not pass through foreign ministries, nor through geopolitical calculations. It passes through internationalist solidarity from below.
In a world where new regional or even central powers are emerging, the stakes are not to choose the "right" or "oppositional" imperialism. It is to refuse them all. Let us not call the rearrangement of power liberation. Let us not confuse the crack in the monarchy with a rupture with the system. The rupture with the system is when we strengthen these cracks, make them deeper and more rebellious, our position is clear: against every pole, against every state, against every war of the bosses. With those from below, without camps, without illusions. This is the only anti-imperialism that does not betray itself.
States and ruling elites are redistributing the world and the darkest thing that human history has ever produced is emerging. War and fascism, as the most depraved expressions of state and capitalist imposition, constitute a reality that threatens societies all over the world. The class, social, internationalist solidarity barricades and the popular/social resistances and uprisings of the plebeians all over the world constitute humanity's only hope for the overthrow of the dominant destructive plans and for the building of a new society of equality, solidarity and freedom.
For our part, based on our principles and values as organized anarchists, we intervene and act in the fields of social and class struggle, aiming at class and social emancipation against every form of tyranny and not at serving one or the other tyrannical regime, state or transnational camp. We stand in solidarity, on the side of every people who fight for survival, dignity, land and freedom against the global dictatorship of the state and capitalism, colonialism and imperialism. We draw inspiration from the struggling people throughout the world who, faced with the monster of fascism and state and capitalist barbarity, rebel, strike, demonstrate, clash with the police. These are the elements of the struggle that we want to highlight as anarchists, the ability of the conquered to counterattack the all-powerful conqueror, the ability of the poor and the excluded to rebel even under the most barbaric conditions. We want international solidarity to create rifts within the attacking sovereigns by bringing to the fore our own history, the history of the struggles of those from below that, against all times, create the living reality of freedom and solidarity, constituting the only real bulwark against the onslaught of modern totalitarianism. Until the total liberation of the peoples from the shackles of the state and capital, until the Social Revolution for a world of equality, solidarity and freedom.
On this basis, we address our appeal from the Greek space to the international anarchist movement. On the one hand, the very dynamics of the changes and upheavals sought by the dominant forces require the rapid reconstruction of the current at an international level, the urgent need to expand the network of contacts and communication of anarchists at an international level is proven de facto, with the main goal of exchanging experiences, informing about how authoritarian politics is shaped in each geography but also the social resistances that manifest themselves in every part of the planet. In addition, the discussion at an international level regarding the war treaty and the generalized war threat is decisive. It is literally a matter of life and death for the movement, as well as for the societies and the oppressed, to be able to form and adopt the most coherent possible stance of anarchists towards militarism, the threat of war and resistance to global domination. We believe that this can be achieved if comrades in every geography manage to realize that while there are visible historical, political, social or even cultural differences between the individual societies (and therefore movements) that are necessarily constituted under the shadow of the nation-state, which must be respected, at the same time today's anarchist analysis establishes a single state and capitalist condition that hegemonizes and oppresses the entire planet. We must oppose this condition unitedly, whether it is expressed through the warmongering hegemonic Western coalition of the USA-NATO-ISRAEL or through the belligerent Russian authoritarianism, the oppressive Muslim obscurantism and the bureaucratic Chinese state totalitarianism.
The deepening of the relevant discussion and the corresponding cooperation of anarchists at the international level are basic prerequisites for the strengthening of the anarchist struggle, that is, the strengthening of the social and class resistances themselves that can protect societies from the threat of war and the intensification of exploitation and oppression.
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