A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI: We support the day of anti-militarist struggle on 24 February - Motions approved at the extraordinary FAI Congress and Conference. Carrara 10-11 February 2024 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

While military tensions between states intensify and war scenarios 
extend, the Italian government launches new military missions such as 
the naval one in the Red Sea, approves a new shipment of weapons to 
Ukraine, increases the number of armed forces and proposes the 
establishment of a reserve. ---- Two years after the invasion of Ukraine 
by the Russian Federation, February 24th becomes a day of high symbolic 
value to consolidate the anti-militarist initiative, counter the 
government's warmongering policy, support deserters and objectors of all 
wars.

For this reason we support and relaunch the appeal of the Antimilitarist 
Assembly to make 24 February a Day of Antimilitarist Struggle and we 
invite the federated entities to give strength to this appointment with 
local initiatives.

This is the text of the appeal of the Antimilitarist Assembly:

With the deserters and objectors of all wars

For a world without armies and borders

Against all nationalisms

Saturday 24 February

Day of anti-militarist struggle

Two years have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, despite 
the waning of media attention, the conflict is increasingly escalating.

Wars and conflicts bloodied vast areas of the planet in a spiral that 
seems to have no end. With the rekindling of the war in the Middle East, 
the outbreak of the conflict in the Red Sea, the multiplication of 
Turkish attacks in Rojava, the tensions over Taiwan, the continuation of 
conflicts for the control of resources on the African continent, the 
risk of a war on planetary scale is a real possibility.

Concretely opposing it is an unavoidable urgency.

The war in Ukraine has an enormous inter-imperialist conflict in its DNA.

The price of this war is paid by the Ukrainian and Russian populations.

Opponents, saboteurs, objectors and deserters who suffer beatings, 
trials and prison pay for it.

We all pay for it caught in the spiral of inflation, between starvation 
wages and pensions and constantly increasing rents and bills.

The Italian government took sides in this war by sending weapons, 
deploying 3,500 soldiers in NATO missions in Eastern Europe and the 
Black Sea.

Italy is involved in 43 military missions abroad, mostly in Africa, 
where the Italian troops wage war on migrants and defend the interests 
of giants such as ENI.

Italy sells weapons to all the countries at war, including Israel and 
Qatar, directly contributing to that atrocious war.

We need to overturn the perverse rationale that sees the war industry as 
one of the engines of the economy. A war economy only produces more war.

Well-being, the real one, is elsewhere, in non-commodified access to 
health, education, transport, housing outside the ferocious logic of profit.

War spending reached 104 million euros per day. An enormous waste of 
resources.

Try to imagine how many schools, hospitals, local public transport could 
be financed if research and production were used for the lives of all of 
us, for care instead of for war.

The war is now also internal.

The government responds to poverty by treating social issues in terms of 
public order: the soldiers of the "safe streets" operation this year 
have risen to 6,800: you can find them in the poor suburbs, in the CPRs, 
in the stations, on the borders.

As if that wasn't enough, the Minister of Defense announced the creation 
of a "reserve", a body of 10,000 volunteer soldiers in constant training 
who can be called up to deal with any internal "emergency".

The war has now also reached schools, where the military carries out 
propaganda for the enlistment of bodies and consciences.

In Russia and Ukraine, despite the harsh repression of the two 
governments, there are those who reject war and militarism, those who 
oppose it, those who throw away their uniform because they don't want to 
kill and don't want to die to move the border of a state. He does not 
want to kill and does not want to die for the imperial interests of the 
powers that compete, here and everywhere, for control of resources, 
communication routes and territories.

In Russia and Ukraine there are those who fight for the borders to be 
open for those who oppose the war.

We make this fight against the borders our own, for the reception of 
objectors, renitents, deserters* from both countries.

We do not join either NATO or Russia. We do not join any war to move a 
border, to change the color of a flag, to move entire populations elsewhere.

We reject patriotic rhetoric as an element of legitimation of states and 
their expansionist claims.

Antimilitarism and internationalism have been central to the struggles 
of the workers' movement since its origins.

Borders are just thin lines on a map: a nothingness that becomes 
tragically real when well-armed soldiers transform it into an 
insurmountable barrier. But there are always those who, even at the risk 
of their lives, cross them. Let's delete them!

To oppose the war, indignation is not enough, a broad front of struggle 
is needed.

A stone's throw from our homes there are military installations, 
shooting ranges and airports, barracks and death industries. Let's close 
them!

Alongside the people who, in every corner of the planet, die under the 
bombs dropped by planes built in our country.

No to war and militarism!

We support those who oppose the war in Russia, in Ukraine, in the 
Eastern Mediterranean, in the Red Sea... and everywhere!

Let's open the borders to objectors and deserters from all countries at war!

Let's desert the war!

No to sending weapons for war

No to military missions abroad

No to military spending

No to the militarization of schools and cities

https://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2024/2024021011carrara.html
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