Motion adopted at the 84th Congress of the Anarchist Federation, held in Merlieux (02) on May 23, 24, and 25, 2026. ---- In every country in the world, military budgets are reaching unimaginable sums, sounding the death knell for public services and human rights, and sowing misery. And wars, orchestrated on every continent for the profit of a few voracious multinationals, terrorize and decimate populations. Diplomacy is now nothing but a distant memory, while international peace treaties are ridiculed. The time for escalation has arrived.
Without their choice, the world's populations are allowing the annihilation of lives in Ukraine and Iran under the fire of the United States and Israel. Without their choice, the world's populations are becoming impoverished when the price of oil skyrockets. Total Radiation.
France is not to be outdone, and its government, through a power play from the far right to the extreme center, secured a 36 billion euro increase in funding in May 2026, in addition to the 413 billion initially allocated by the military spending law.
To appease dissenters, the updated law first introduces a new state of emergency: a "national security alert." This grants the ruling clique sweeping powers to disregard civil liberties and environmental protections. We remember how the French government used this "state of emergency" during the Yellow Vest movement and the COVID crisis.
But it is young people who are the primary target of this war indoctrination. A "day of mobilization" will replace the "defense and citizenship day." This event is designed to promote military content. While the failure of the Universal National Service (SNU) led to the implementation of a national service that will now be only "voluntary," the aim is nonetheless to gradually make the militarization of society acceptable and desirable. This conditioning begins at a very young age, and the military is increasingly infiltrating schools.
The Blanchet Law, adopted in March 2026, stipulates that moral and civic education on the concept of "defense ethos" can now be provided by the military. Furthermore, the deployment of "Defense Classes" is intensifying in secondary schools. At university, warmongering propaganda takes the seductive form of the video game Orion*, designed to test the population's resilience during a conflict.
War takes many forms, even those of peace. Economic, capitalist, military-industrial, technological, nuclear, territorial, neocolonial, patriarchal, religious, ideological... It remains enslaving and deadly.
Whether internal or external, "peacekeeping" or "humanitarian," war is essential to the development of capitalism. Wherever it is located, the army's function is social control, in conjunction with the police and prisons. In times of "peace," any uprising, any political or social demonstration, any criticism of the state and its sovereign power is met with increasingly repressive laws in the name of urgency and exceptional circumstances. In times of war, it is the civilian population that suffers the most: drones, bombings, anti-personnel mines, torture, rape as a weapon of war, sexual slavery, forced displacement, etc.
Everything is geared towards terrorizing populations in order to subjugate and train them to serve capitalism and the powerful, always using patriarchy, often religion, and increasingly, a secularism of order.
The Anarchist Federation calls upon all movements of deserters, refuseniks, workers, trade unionists, peasants, feminists, LGBTQIA+ people, anti-patriarchs, anti-racists, pacifists, and anarchists worldwide to organize for peace and social justice.
The Anarchist Federation is waging anti-militarist campaigns both through action and ideas. This commitment will continue both locally and internationally. Furthermore, the pacifist and anti-militarist imperative is the dismantling of all multinational military infrastructure and nuclear arsenals worldwide.
The Anarchist Federation supports all victims of state repression in the name of their social and pacifist struggles.
The Anarchist Federation always upholds the right to object.
* Large-scale operation for resilient, interoperable, high-intensity combat-oriented armies. Innovative.
https://federation-anarchiste.org/?g=Lien_Permanent&b=1_278
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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