In a climate of widespread and ongoing war, the federation believes it is important to revitalize internationalism and antimilitarism as principles and practices characterizing its political action. --- Italy is actively participating on the main war fronts, both with its own military contingents and by sending weapons, providing logistical services, and hosting strategic US and NATO military infrastructure on its soil. At the same time, borders are being further closed to those fleeing war and poverty. The Italian government intends to implement the new European Asylum Pact, legalizing pushbacks at sea with a "naval blockade" and detaining asylum seekers in prisons even outside its borders. To this end, the government has signed a new memorandum with Libya and is providing resources and personnel to the Tunisian authorities, with the aim of repressing and blocking people on the move. A silent extermination, adding to the massive killings of civilians in Ukraine, Iran, and Lebanon, and the ongoing genocides in Gaza and Sudan.
In this scenario, military spending continues to rise, resulting in job insecurity, unemployment, and poverty for large segments of the population, in what has now effectively become a war economy. The arms race also includes the reintroduction of military conscription, increased military personnel and reserves, and a general enlistment of society in the war effort and war propaganda, which are met with widespread opposition, especially among younger generations.
The arms industry, largely controlled by the state, is doing brisk business, and in this context, logistics infrastructure is becoming increasingly strategic for the movement of war materials. Railways, like ports, are among the infrastructures most affected by military traffic and are also the sectors where workers have mobilized against the transport of weapons. The railways in particular have seen a significant militarization across strategic European and international corridors.
To counteract this, the conference believes it is essential to support and relaunch the work of the antimilitarist assembly and launch a series of campaigns against the war on migrants, against the return of military conscription and the conscription of society, against weapons production and the military use of railways, in support of deserters from all wars and comrades who oppose warmongering and bloodthirsty regimes.
Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI) Asti Conference June 6-7, 2026
https://umanitanova.org/contro-tutte-le-guerre-antimilitarismo-e-internazionalismo/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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