The federations that make up the IFA met in Athens at a time when the global situation is becoming increasingly critical for the exploited and oppressed classes. ---- General rearmament and the spread of war policies in various regions of the world, as well as growing authoritarianism and the rise of autocratic and reactionary models of governance, are directly affecting the oppressed and are designed to maintain the capitalist and statist system amid a crisis of the dominant order.
Empires in Collision
The decay and complete bankruptcy of the state and capitalism mark the end of their era of global integration, while simultaneously fueling the intensification of inter-imperialist contradictions and the resulting growing threat of war. The state-capitalist system carries within itself its own contradictions. Competition among bourgeois elites for a better position on the chessboard-for the plunder and division of precious and limited natural resources or for the expansion of their "spheres of influence"-is what causes the sirens of war to sound again. As long as societies remain captive to the so-called "national interest," private profit, and capitalist accumulation, war will remain the only path for the colliding empires.
This is what is most tragically revealed in the carnage of the war in Ukraine following the Russian invasion four years ago, in the genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel and its allies, in the brutal US military intervention in Venezuela, in the arming of militias in Sudan, and in the continued strangulation of the Cuban people.
The US-Israeli attack on Iran
In this context, on February 28, the US-Israeli military operation against Iran was launched with intense bombing, indirectly supported by NATO infrastructure, and continues to this day. The Iranian people, who had previously been drowned in blood-once again, as so many times over the years-by the regime after the popular uprising that erupted in January 2026, now find themselves facing the bombs of Western imperialism, responsible for so many military operations around the world.
The hypocrisy of "Western" regimes knows no bounds: precisely when they collaborate seamlessly with all the monarchical, authoritarian, and/or theocratic regimes in the Middle East-Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and others-they are using the Islamic Republic regime in Iran to mask their crimes, culminating in the cold-blooded murder of 168 girls during the bombing of Minab under the pretext of "liberation."
Fortress Europe and growing global repression during an ongoing crisis
The victims of imperialist, predatory, and neocolonial wars and interventions are always the people themselves, who are massacred in this global slaughterhouse or forced to migrate only to meet death at the land and sea borders of a fortress-like Europe. The EU's murderous "pushback" policies are reflected in the thousands of refugees who die at its land and sea borders, in those trapped in modern-day concentration camps, and in those imprisoned in a permanent state of racist exception. The walls being erected serve not only to keep out "surplus humanity," but also to push Western societies toward the consolidation of internal fascism, creating a social climate of fear and hatred.
Today, globally, we find ourselves in the midst of a historical phase of continuous reconfigurations, accelerated events, and increasingly intense rivalries that signal a violent transition into a new historical period-in which the pre-existing order is in crisis and seeks to preserve its bloody gains through intensified repression, military escalation, and intensified exploitation.
Multipolar readjustments and the generalization of authoritarian state power
In the dominant discourse of international politics, the so-called "multipolar world" seems to some to be a more balanced and therefore more just form of global organization and state hierarchy-a new state of equilibrium. From the perspective of the oppressed, and consequently from that of the anarchist, the term does not describe a decentralization of power for the benefit of societies, but rather a readjustment of the hierarchies of states and capitalist elites that are on a collision course. A multipolar system means that global power is distributed among multiple poles: the United States, China, Russia, the European Union, Israel, India, Iran, and other regional powers-none of which can anymore impose the rules of the game alone. It is therefore not a question of diminished power or a retreat of power blocs, nor of a more balanced distribution of power. It is a competition between multiple sovereigns vying for their place at the same table of exploitation.
The defining characteristics of our historical period are multiple poles of power, asymmetric forms of force, dynamic shifts in balances of power, and the challenge of traditional notions of sovereignty-all of which take on a different meaning when viewed from below through a class lens. For movements and peoples, these poles are not neutral centers of influence but mechanisms of imposition, war machines, economic empires, technological surveillance systems, borders, and detention camps. Each paradigm of power promises protection and development, demanding in return discipline, markets, natural resources, and cheap labor.
The current historical phase is characterized by a double and seemingly contradictory movement: on the one hand, the attempted transition to a multipolar world without a stable hegemonic center; on the other, the widespread adoption of authoritarian, fascist, or totalitarian forms of government. These two movements do not contradict each other. On the contrary, the latter is a prerequisite for the stabilization of the former. Multipolarity, as has often been said, does not give rise to peace but to widespread competition, and this competition requires disciplined and fearful societies ready to accept sacrifice as normal. Fascism no longer manifests itself as a movement with a unified ideology, but as a daily administrative practice. Borders that kill, police forces that function as armies of occupation, a state of emergency that becomes permanent, the 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 no longer merely manages life-it actively organizes death, directly or indirectly, through famine, sanctions, economic embargoes, blockades, and perpetual precariousness. Death ceases to be considered a failure of the politics of the era of "capitalist development and prosperity" and becomes its instrument for overcoming crisis conditions.
Western powers seek to impose a hegemony that is not expressed simply through the political-military system. Their idea of "unipolarity," violently unifying the planet, manifests itself through global capitalist integration. This integration, across diverse geographies, expresses the same unified logic of capitalist exploitation and state repression, incorporating diverse cultural, religious, and local particularities. While rival blocs may seek their ideological identity based on their particularities, in opposition to the dominant Western paradigm, this in no way means that they represent an alternative or a challenge at any level to the unified state-capitalist mechanism of power, exploitation, and oppression.
Anarchist rejection of selective "anti-imperialism" and opportunism
Today, we live in a period of distortion of meanings and values, and the anarchist movement has an even more urgent need to build its own political, ethical, and ideological framework-both to awaken consciousness among the oppressed classes and to defend its positions against attempts to impose concepts alien to the anarchist struggle and internationalist solidarity. These attempts are rooted in authoritarian tendencies, primarily on the left, and are expressed through support for totalitarian state formations, condemnation of popular uprisings, alignment with power blocs, false binary oppositions, emotional blackmail, slander of activists, and threats-all disguised under a superficial mask of anti-imperialism.
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, the justification of its violence, and the delegitimization of the struggles it suppresses internally. Thus, anti-imperialism is transformed into a geopolitical tool, losing all its libertarian content and analytical substance.
From an anarchist perspective, this opportunism is inconceivable. There is no imperialism without the state. There is no imperialism without internal repression. The same structures that expand outward also discipline within class-divided societies. The same state apparatuses bomb, imprison, torture, and exterminate-and anyone who pretends not to see this is not practicing anti-imperialism but political cover.
Proletarian internationalism does not choose states, flags, or "poles" through opportunistic alliances-although that doesn't mean it won't exploit the system's internal contradictions and cracks. It chooses a side in social struggles: it stands with the workers , with the refugees massacred at the borders, with conscripts and deserters, with prisoners, with the insurgents-with all those who pay the price of imperialist rivalries, wherever they may be. It doesn't pass through foreign ministries or geopolitical calculations. It passes through internationalist solidarity from below.
In a world where new regional or even central powers are emerging, the challenge isn't to choose the "right" or "alternative" imperialism. It's to reject them all. This doesn't mean viewing the reconfiguration of power as liberation, nor confusing a crack in unipolarity with a breakdown in the system. A breakdown in the system occurs when we, from below, deepen these cracks, making them deeper and more insurgent.
Our position is clear: against every bloc, against every state, against every war of the bosses. With the dominated and oppressed classes, without aligning ourselves or accepting false choices. This is the only anti-imperialism that does not betray itself.
Call for internationalism and deeper connections
The dynamic changes and upheavals pursued by those in power require a rapid reorganization of the international anarchist movement. The urgent need to expand the network of contacts and communication among anarchists internationally is demonstrated by the facts themselves-with the primary goal of exchanging experiences and sharing information on how the politics of domination is taking shape in every geography and on the social resistances emerging across the globe. Furthermore, international discussion on the state of war and the generalized threat of war is crucial, as deepening this discussion-along with the corresponding cooperation among anarchists internationally-is a fundamental prerequisite for strengthening the struggle, that is, the very social and class resistances that can protect societies from the threat of war and the intensification of exploitation and repression.
It is literally a matter of life and death-for the movement, for societies, and for the oppressed-to develop and adopt the most coherent anarchist position possible against militarism, the threat of war, and in resistance to global domination. We believe this can be achieved if comrades around the world can recognize that, while there are visible historical, political, social, and even cultural differences between societies (and therefore between movements), which understandably arise within the context of the nation-state and whose differences must be acknowledged, at the same time, it should be noted that a contemporary anarchist analysis identifies how the state and capitalism dominate and oppress the entire planet.
We must remain united against this condition, whether it is expressed through the warmongering hegemonic Western coalition of the USA, NATO, and Israel, through the bellicose authoritarianism of Russia, through the oppressive obscurantism of Islamic regimes, or through the bureaucratic state totalitarianism of China.
Solidarity with the struggles around the world
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 for social emancipation against all forms of tyranny, and not to serve a tyrannical regime, a state, or an interstate bloc. We stand in solidarity with all those fighting for survival, dignity, land, and freedom against the global dictatorship of state and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. We draw inspiration from those struggling around the world who, faced with the monster of fascism, the state, and capitalist barbarism, rebel, strike, demonstrate, and fight the brutality of power. These are the elements of struggle that we anarchists want to highlight: the capacity of the dominated to fight back against the all-powerful rulers, the capacity of the poor and excluded to rebel even in the most inhumane conditions. We want international solidarity to create fractures within the powers that attack us, bringing our own history to the fore-the history of the struggles of those who suffer oppression and who, throughout time, create the living reality of freedom and solidarity, constituting the only true bulwark against the advance of modern authoritarianism.
Until the total liberation of all from the chains of the state and capital-until the Social Revolution for a world of equality, solidarity, and freedom.
International Federation of Anarchist Federations (IFA-IAF)
April 3-5, 2026 - Athens, Greece
https://umanitanova.org/contro-la-dittatura-globale-dello-stato-e-del-capitalismo-contro-la-guerra-e-il-fascismo-organizzazione-internazionalismo-rivoluzione-socila/
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