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 Italian Anarchist Federation - FAI

In these months in which the tragedy of war is increasingly brought to
international attention by the crisis in Ukraine, the theme of anarchist
anti-militarism is more compelling than ever. We see how, already before the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, some heavy-handed criticism of our traditional
anti-militarism was carried out by some individuals and groups who declare
themselves anti-authoritarian, libertarian or anarchist. We have carefully
considered these positions in the last few months, and we believe today that we
need to clarify our point of view. ---- Our thoughts first go to our comrades
who, more than one century ago, before the tragedy of the First World War, felt
the need to affirm that: "To all the soldiers of all countries who believe they
are fighting for justice and liberty, we have to declare that their heroism and
their valour will but serve to perpetuate hatred, tyranny, and misery"
(International Anarchist Manifesto against the War, 1915). Like Goldman, Berkman,
Malatesta, Schapiro and the others, we believe in the need that the
internationalist and solidarity voice of anarchism, together with its principles
of universal sisterhood and brotherhood, return to speak to everyone, even more
in a world that is increasingly fragmented by national, ethnic and identity hatred.

War stands at the origin of the current social order, based on domination,
exploitation and oppression. This is a key point for the FAI, as it is exposed in
the Anarchist Programme which is the theoretical reference of our Federation:
"Not understanding the advantages that could come to everyone from cooperation
and solidarity, seeing in every other person a competitor and an enemy, a part of
humanity has tried to grab the greatest possible amount of wealth to the
detriment of the other. In such a struggle, the strongest, or the most fortunate,
ends for winning and variously oppressing and dominating the vanquished".

This is why we maintain our position of rejection of all wars and of support to
the idea of revolutionary defeatism. By defeatism we mean a revolutionary
position before war, which implies that one should fight for the defeat of the
government and the ruling classes of their own country, believing that wars are
fought for the interests and privileges of the oppressors and exploiters. At the
beginning of the twentieth century, and especially during the First World War,
some European governments used the charge of "defeatism" to repress any form of
dissent, opposition to war, political protest or workers’ struggle, which would
break the national unity before the enemy. Therefore, defeatism does not accept
the suspensions of social struggles that are imposed by governments in times of
war through censorship, repression and martial laws. On the contrary, the
struggle against the government during wartimes continues, by both sabotaging the
war and encouraging social struggles. Defeatism is inserted in an
internationalist and revolutionary perspective which aims at provoking the defeat
of the imperialism of "our own" countries, and one of its fundamental points is
the refusal to support any belligerent party in wars between states and / or
imperial blocks.

Dozens of wars are currently being fought, with their load of deaths,
destruction, rapes, looting and mass deportation. In the last fifteen years, the
crisis of the hegemony system based on globalization has produced a worldwide
trend towards authoritarianism and militarization. Globalization as a form of
world domination has for a long time ensured a privileged role in the
exploitation of the planet's resources to Anglo-American imperialism, with the
support of the privileged classes of various countries. The entry of Russia and
China into the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization has
shown that the conflicts between these powers do not question the division of
society into classes and various hierarchies.

At the FAI Congress that took place in Empoli in June 2022, we issued a statement
regarding interpretations of the war in Ukraine, of which we quote a part: "In
the last ten years, a very different scenario has been defined by the
intensification of tensions between states, the trade and financial wars, the
progressive isolation of markets to a greater or lesser extent, the extension of
conflicts which occur partly by proxy, but increasingly in direct form, between
worldwide and regional powers in different regions of the world. The capitalist
model that was imposed in the last century by US hegemony is still the horizon
within which contentions between states take place, but the world is no longer
dominated by a single superpower. The US have lost the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq
and Syria, and compared to a few decades ago their influence in Central and South
America, which they used to consider their backyard, has significantly
diminished. The AUKUS agreement between Australia, the UK and the US, which
reoriented the strategy of these states towards the Pacific with a separate
alliance, seemed to challenge the US presence in Europe and the very cohesion, if
not existence, of NATO. Thus, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is part of a process
of redefining the global balance of power.

The crisis of this global hegemony is closely linked with the crisis of
governmental systems based on social cohesion, due to the cutting of social
guarantees and the weakening of consensus mechanisms. In many countries, we have
seen the rising of movements that, with different forms and characteristics,
question the governments and the agreements between the ruling classes. In this
context, the use of force becomes these latter’s main instrument for the
preservation of power and social order. In this sense, we have discussed in
recent years the growing role of the military in societies. The uprising in
Belarus in 2020 and the insurrection in Kazakhstan in January 2022 have shown a
serious crisis of consensus within the Russian-led system. In the holding of the
OTSC, the military has assumed a key role. The Russian military intervention in
Kazakhstan to bloodily crush popular uprisings gave a tragic demonstration of
this, and paved the way for the invasion of Ukraine in February. Even in the US,
the anti-police riots against racist violence in 2020 led the armed forces
leadership to support Biden's installation as president in a prelude to civil war
in early 2021, to prevent Trump's violent supremacism from irreparably
exasperating the consensus crisis."

The response to the crisis is the increase in military spending and the
strengthening of the role of the armed forces in political decisions. Once
destroyed the mechanisms of economic and political regulation that established
the hierarchy between powers and the flows of profits towards the imperialist
metropolises, the ruling classes need war to restore the old domination or to
define new ones. In the context of this new world disorder, recourse to war and
military missions is growing, in whatever way governments define them in their
propaganda.

 From Ukraine to Yemen, from Sahel countries to Myanmar, from Afghanistan to
Tigray and elsewhere, passing through all the regions where genocides such as the
Kurdish one and those of indigenous and Afro-descendant populations are underway,
we are all potentially under the bombs and the threat of destruction, repression
and authoritarian change. We know well that the revolving doors between so-called
democracies and the so-called autocracies can move very quickly, and that the
state of war quickly reduces the space for those who want to act for social
transformation. We always give our human solidarity to those who suffer and risk
their lives being in difficult situations, even if they have ideas and practices
that are distant from those we express.

However, social anarchism breaks the current imperial, capitalist, nationalist
and authoritarian logics, rejecting the divisions imposed by borders. We do not
recognize the concept of territorial integrity or territorial "defence" of a
state or any entity that aspires to be like a state because, associated with the
principle of territorial sovereignty, these principles inevitably end up to
foster nationalist or micro-nationalist perspectives. Whatever the word "nation"
means, it hides the division between exploiters and exploited, between oppressors
and oppressed.

We reiterate our irrevocable and unambiguous condemnation of the Putinian regime
and of its criminal invasion of Ukraine, as well as its ferocious repression of
internal dissent. But we also condemn the criminal role of all governments that
blow on the flames of this and other conflicts by providing weapons, often making
money with these supplies. We strongly oppose NATO, which has long been trying to
impose the militarization of social life and the increase of military spending in
member countries, and which thanks to Putin has gained new strength after the
inglorious end of their aggression in Afghanistan. In the same way, we don’t buy
the narrative of a war between freedom and dictatorship. From this point of view,
Zelensky's Ukraine is truly a small Russia, with an authoritarian government, a
circle of oligarchs who plunder the country, acting a repression against all
forms of protest and against minorities that the war has made harder. Today
Zelensky, in order to remain in power, is making debts and sells his country to
the US, the United Kingdom, the European Union in exchange of their military
support. Yet, the penetration of Western interests in Ukraine is far from being
only due to the Russian invasion of February 24: multinational agri-food
companies, many from the United States and one from Russia, control part of the
"granary" of Europe and its main commercial port in Odessa since over 10 years.

The consequences of this war are dramatic on both sides of the front. They are
disastrous also for the rest of Europe, with the increase in prices due to
speculation, the growing militarization and rearmament, the worsening of the
living conditions of millions of proletarians, including fear and violence, which
risk to become dangerous tools for authoritarian governments. This situation is
once again perceived in Europe, but it actually characterises most regions of the
world, paralleling the environmental devastation fostered by the logics of
profit, markets and states, which threaten the very life of the planet where we live.

The first commitment of those who oppose the war is the construction and
dissemination of mutual aid practices such as networks of solidarity from below
to fulfil the immediate needs of the people who suffer most from the consequences
of the conflict, being these food or medical support. There is also the need of
support networks for those who practice strikes, sabotage, desertion, such as
transnational networks for those who hide or flee from or over both sides of the
front. In this vein, we reject and fight to deconstruct the patriarchal and
domination models imposed by militarism that are endlessly repeated by the war
propaganda on official media and on social media as well, where centre stage is
always taken the same images of robust and young male fighters.

 From various parts it was suggested to take a stand by actually fighting for one
of the governments that make this war, as if taking sides for one or the other
were inevitable.

Some relics of Marxism think that they can support a minor imperialism in order
to defeat the prevailing threat that they identify with the "Western" one. But
the strategy of playing with imperialist powers to sharpen their contradictions,
like the alliance between workers’ movements and nationalist forces that
characterized Stalinism between the two world wars and after, led to destroy all
revolutionary perspective and to hinder all autonomous action of the exploited
and oppressed classes.

Other interpretations follow different approaches, assessing Russian imperialism
as a danger for the whole of Europe and beyond. These interpretations are also
endorsed by some components of libertarian orientation. Without questioning the
threat posed by Russia’s authoritarianism and militarism, we believe that it will
not be Russia’s military defeat in Ukraine that will prevent an authoritarian
turn in Western Europe. The authoritarian social processes that are evidently
dominant in Russia and in the OTSC countries are also being acted since years in
the European Union, and the war is now giving them a further acceleration.
Furthermore, "democracy" is based on the condition of someone’s privilege. The
vision that presents the European Union as a beacon of democracy, identifying
instead Russia, China and their satellites as the heirs of totalitarianism
combined with wild capitalism is the quintessence of a Westernism that does not
belong to us.

These are our positions, confirming our anti-militarism in an internationalist
and revolutionary perspective that should be concretely rooted in social
struggles and networks of solidarity, to create collective and libertarian ways
out from the vortex of war into which states and world capitalism throw us. This
is our contribution to the international anti-war debate. We think that one thing
must be clear above all: with or without weapons, to be effective, any fight must
be done and organized from below, outside the apparatuses of states, governments
and especially outside the armed forces.

Even the belligerent or co-belligerent governments are aware that the war will
imply massacres and devastation in the areas directly affected, but also misery,
unemployment and hunger in the rest of the world, even in Europe, even in the
United States. Governments are aware that the conditions are ripening for an
unprecedented social crisis, which is why they are making the brass bands of
militarism and nationalism play, to prevent the solidarity of the exploited and
oppressed classes.

Since governments are the promoters and beneficiaries of wars, to stop wars,
governments must be afraid of popular movements, because the only limit to the
whim of each government is the fear that popular movements can instil in it.
Opposition to the war is part of our daily commitment, starting from the
denunciation and boycott of the productions of death and from the criticism and
deconstruction of militarist rhetoric, starting from militarist education and
language at all levels. We must stand against all wars and all armies deploying
an intersectional strategy that identifies and counters the connections between
militarism and other forms of oppression such as patriarchy, racism, capitalism
and all kinds of chauvinism, through collective actions as well as personal
relationships.

Only the action of the exploited classes can stop the war by boycotting war
productions, by refusing to construct, trade and transport weapons and all
instruments of death, by participating in the opposition movements to military
plants and bases, and by promoting strikes at the national and international
level against war and the war economy. The anarchist movement participates in
this struggles, in different ways according to the circumstances, by criticising
militarist and nationalist ideologies, constructing grass-roots associations and
networks from below, practicing direct action, supporting all forms of refusal,
desertion and objection to the massacres promoted by capitalism and states.

We are more than ever convinced of the validity of the anarchist principle that
means must be consistent with ends. There are no good wars or just wars, and in
times of growing nationalist and sovereignist craziness we believe that we must
never side in any way with governments or take part in wars between states and
imperial blocs. People must never die or kill for territorial sovereignty. Wars
are all criminal and armies (including their auxiliary corps) are all instruments
of exploitation, patriarchy and more or less "legitimate" state domination over
territories and over the bodies of individuals. We do not recognize any of these
territorial legitimacies and we are not willing to fight for any of them.

History shows that wars are traditionally fought to hinder the action of the
exploited classes for their own emancipation, which is why it is paramount for
anarchism to mobilise now against the war, outside and against all military
institutions. Our strength lies first in the circulation of ideas and in the
defence of spaces for the production and circulation of critical thought,
promoting the unification of pacifist and anti-militarist movements in a common
struggle against governments. The ability of the anarchist movement to be
coherent in the fight against war is the way to activate libertarian practices,
organization and ideals among the exploited and oppressed classes that are the
first to suffer the consequences of wars. On this basis, a new agency will be
possible to provide a different solution to the crisis, looking forward to
building a libertarian society.

Italian Anarchist Federation - FAI

[document presented at the XXXI Congress - Empoli June 2022 and ratified in the
following weeks]

https://www.federazioneanarchica.org/

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#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, FA: Heats and fires, State accomplice of Capitalism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The thousands of hectares gone up in smoke due to fires of an almost

unprecedented scale in France are not the result of chance or bad luck. ---- The
fact that in France there are no deaths does not hide the fact that elsewhere in
the world people have lost their lives and that here and elsewhere thousands of
people have lost precious goods, including their homes. ---- But we can affirm
it: it is indeed human activity, in particular that linked to Capitalism, which
is the cause of all this. ---- Forest management today no longer responds to a
logic of preservation but rather of capturing wood for maximum profit for owners
and companies in the wood industry. They are planted against common sense,
accumulating highly flammable tree species, without creating a buffer zone in
case of fire.
The means of fighting fires have been abused for years by public policies focused
on everything profitable, to the detriment of the useful. Thus, protection
professionals find themselves in poorly paid jobs, not recognized as dangerous
and under great pressure from public service reforms. They are assisted by
volunteers themselves very poorly compensated, with vague mission outlines and
overexploited due to a lack of professionals. The Anarchist Federation does not
doubt the dedication of these people, it even thanks them for holding on despite
these terrible and unacceptable conditions. To top it off, the equipment is often
dilapidated, the planes grounded, due to lack of maintenance and timely
investment. What to add to the anger.

The current temperatures, which are hotter than ever, are the consequence of
productivism and predatory capitalism pushed to the limit, which have led to
climate change, the first visible effects of which we are experiencing. We cannot
expect anything from Capitalism, nor from the State, which has been its assumed
accomplice for years, to get us out of this.

It is by taking control of our spaces, locally and collectively, while respecting
risks and needs, that we can change the situation. It is by removing the
productions necessary for humanity from any form of profit that we will be able
to move forward and certainly not by turning to the management tool that has
brought us to the abyss, we call Capitalism.

Let's quickly reinvent a collective living together that protects both nature and
humans, let's go beyond private property to bring back to the collective
everything that allows us to live and take the necessary steps today towards a
more desirable future.

Down with Capitalism. Long live anarchy.

Anarchist Federation

https://www.federation-anarchiste.org/
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#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #329 - Antipatriarchy, Libertarian Feminism: March 8, 2023, It Starts Now (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The UCL antipatriarchy commission met in Montpellier for a weekend of reflection

and elaboration. A success to be repeated. ---- The Antipatriarchy commission,
like all the intervention commissions of UCL, is in charge of animation,
appearance and public relations, the organization of campaigns, the liaison
between local groups and members and the sharing of information concerning its
field of intervention. If the intervention commissions are not places of
decision-making and orientation, their work nevertheless allows activists to
compare theories and experiences on the ground. ---- After long months of work
and remote development, the antipatriarchy commission had the pleasure of meeting
in Montpellier at the end of May. This long weekend of work aimed to share our
knowledge, our experiences and our tools around thematic workshops (and to put
down the patriarchy, of course). This weekend was also an opportunity for the
members of our committee to meet to share moments of conviviality and to
strengthen our bonds of camaraderie.

Our exchanges were numerous, rich and extensive. We were able to reflect
collectively on themes and fronts of struggle as varied as the unionization of
feminized sectors, the modalities of non-mixedness, domestic work, the system of
prostitution or even anti-feminist currents.

Tools for the future
All the reflections that we have had will allow us to elaborate effectively and
with enthusiasm the questions and the struggles that we wish to carry or that we
already carry out within UCL. In particular, we came out of it with the desire to
make March 8 the high point of our activist year, and we want to start preparing
for this date now.

Another important project on which our commission has already been working for
more than a year is to establish a positioning text on the prostitution system
for our next congress. We were thus able to lay the foundations on which to build
in the rest of our reflection, which we can then take to the rest of the
organization to continue this work of collective development.

The weekend ended with a public debate on libertarian feminism, where one of us
presented a brochure that traces the history of this political current, in which
we fully subscribe.

The outcome of this work session is a great success, and we look forward to
concretizing everything we have said to each other, to continuing our reflections
and our exchanges and, above all, to meet again to sing the revolution together !

The UCL Anti-Patriarchy Commission

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Feminisme-libertaire-Le-8-mars-2023-ca-commence-maintenant
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#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Publication of the Anarchist Children's Dictionary by the Emma Goldman Collective (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We are publishing a new work this summer: the Anarchist Dictionary for Children.

Using definitions, comparisons and metaphors, this little book aims to introduce
rebellious young minds to anarchism. The book is self-produced. We will
distribute a limited quantity by our own means during the next events and within
our networks. Libraries, educational settings and other alternative places open
to children/adolescents, as well as classmates who would like to obtain a copy,
can express their interest by e-mail (cegsaglac@riseup.net). Also, contact us
fairly quickly if you would like to organize a launch in your area.
The book uses the magnificent illustrations of a book published in Chile by Jorge
Enkis with his permission. Some passages have also been translated and adapted
from Spanish. The rest is new content produced by the Emma Goldman Anarchist
Collective. Like the original work, we have sought to appeal to the realities
closer to children living in the territories of Nitassinan and so-called Quebec.
Each of the definitions is embellished with a drawing and presents a libertarian
perspective on a wide range of questions that will feed the curiosity of the
youngest.

Educational and pedagogical use of the dictionary

This book aims to fuel critical thinking and raise questions in children. Its
format and texts can be similar to books generally intended for children aged 9
and over. The "5-finger method", where the child counts the number of unknown
words on a page chosen at random to check the reading level, is not suitable for
this since it is a dictionary; he/she can sail there in disorder by following
his/her fields of interest. It is educationally relevant to accompany the child
in his discovery of the book. The definitions sometimes go against the grain of
what is generally understood. We can bring the child to observe this gap in the
representations which is rich in questions. Other texts will lead her to think
about new issues and realities for her/him. The role of the guide is thus to ask
questions about the child's understanding, to lead him to make connections with
his own reality and to support his curiosity. The child does not need to agree
with everything and that's fine! In fact, that's definitely not the point of this
reading. Rather, it is about raising questions that may, sooner or later, give
rise to new concerns and ideas. And maybe not... In this case, the child will at
least have learned that there are different ways of seeing the issues presented
and that it is possible to doubt, criticize and fight against the injustices that
cross his society.

By Emma Goldman Collective

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/07/parution-du-dictionnaire-anarchiste-des.html
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#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL - Current motion: Bringing the autonomy of the social movement to life (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The French political and social context is currently marked by unprecedented

electoral results: Absence of an absolute majority for the liberal government,
reformist left and worrying presence of fascist deputies in number. Faced with
the neo-reformism of the NUPES, the social and trade union movement will now have
to relearn and defend its independence. But above all, we will have to stand up
against employers by promoting direct action and not delegating our power to act
to them. For that, we will have to convince our class that the extreme right will
never constitute an ally of circumstance.
The French political and social context is currently marked by unprecedented
electoral results in the elections. Indeed, the absence of an absolute majority
for the liberal government and the sum of the reformist left groups are to be
taken into account for the social movement, as well as the extremely worrying
presence of fascist deputies in number.

It is in this context that the government announces to keep its course of
capitalist policy to reform the retirement, to break the public service, etc. The
effects of the war in Ukraine are being felt more and more, inflation continues,
and poverty will not be solved by the few ad hoc and insufficient measures of the
government.

The parliamentary configuration obliges the government to form alliances and
weakens it. It is an opportunity for the social movement to no longer suffer from
the situation and to regain control by establishing a winning balance of power.

The social and trade union movement will now have to relearn and defend its
independence. Indeed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already called for a mobilization
date at the start of the school year, choosing to turn his back on the date
called by the inter-union on September 29.

The traditional strategy of social democracy claiming to be an emanation from the
labor movement in parliament is set aside to pose as a competition. Already, the
traditional call for the "third social round" had turned into a call for revenge
in the legislative elections. Never before, the NUPES or its figures have called
on workers to organize themselves in unions or strengthen counter-powers wherever
they are.

Yet this is what will allow our class to defend its interests directly. It will
of course have to put pressure on the reformist deputies who claim to represent
it so that they pursue the program on the basis of which they were elected. But
above all, we will have to stand up against employers by promoting direct action
and not delegating our power to act to them.

For that, we will have to convince our class that the extreme right will never
constitute an ally of circumstance. Indeed, the national assembly parliamentary
group will never be an opposition group, neither to Macron, nor to the interests
of employers. History shows us that fascism has never defended anything other
than the bourgeoisie who finance it.

The attack on social movements, and in particular the recent LGBTI pride marches,
or the attack across the Atlantic on the right to abortion (almost instantly
taken up in France) obviously seems to us to be additional proof, if needed, of
the incompatibility with our social project and the defense of our interests.

UCL undertakes to continue and amplify unitary efforts at local and national
level, to build these broad frameworks when they do not exist, and to bring
anti-fascist mobilizations to life everywhere.

The Union Communiste Libertaire will take all its responsibilities to bring to
life the autonomy of the social movement, popular anti-fascism, and defend the
interests of our social camp through our counter-powers. We will do this now and
in anticipation of a social return that we want to be massive, determined and
offensive. We call to join the inter-union call for mobilization of September 29
and build in the long term and in its aftermath, for our salaries, our pensions,
our life.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Motion-d-actualite-Faire-vivre-l-autonomie-du-mouvement-social
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