A-Infos (en) Italy, Anarres Info: JUNE 2. DESERTERS FROM ALL WARS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Every June 2nd the Republic celebrates itself with military displays, 
parades and commemorations. ---- A nationalist and militarist "party" . 
---- The far-right government fuels identity rhetoric, "sacred" borders, 
the glorification of war. ---- Like every year, the military ceremonies 
of June 2nd serve to justify enormous military expenditure, the sending 
of weapons and Italy's direct commitment to military missions abroad 
from Ukraine to Africa. Wars, rapes, land occupations, bombings, 
torture, the entire range of human horrors, if carried out by men and 
women part of an army, becomes legitimate, necessary, appropriate, 
heroic. The parade uniforms, the flags, the medals, the triad "god, 
homeland, family" are not the mere legacy of a more rhetorical and 
grandiloquent past than our present, but the ever-present representation 
of the imperialist and neocolonial attitude of the Italian state .

Wars on a global scale are bringing us to the brink of World War III. 
The spiral seems unstoppable: the Russia-Ukraine conflict risks 
exploding throughout Europe.
Italy is directly involved with its own troops and its industrial 
military apparatus. It is at the forefront of conflicts in which it 
plays on its own and in various alliances with variable geography.
The global crisis, the dangerous convulsions of the US empire and Russia 
in a multipolar planet, the competing imperialist aspirations of 
regional powers such as Turkey, the great plunder of Africa, the 
unstoppable imposition of China make the slope increasingly worse more 
slippery.
The intersection of nationalist impulses, wars of religion and interest 
aims to make even the populations directly affected by the conflicts 
complicit in the massacres .
In our country the government is carrying out a permanent recruitment 
campaign. Faced with the escalation of war, they want people accustomed 
to and available to the concrete possibility of ever greater direct 
involvement.
The Northern League proposal to reintroduce the mandatory six-month naja 
for boys and girls does not serve the needs of the Italian war machine. 
Defense
Minister Crosetto said he was clearly against it. Crosetto maintains 
that such a hypothesis could never concern the armed forces, "which 
cannot be thought of as a place to educate young people, something that 
must be done by the family and the school".
The armed forces today are made up of highly specialized professionals, 
necessary for the ultra-technological wars that are fought everywhere. 
The cannon fodder, when needed, would be quickly trained, reintroducing 
the compulsory call, suspended and not abolished in 2005 .
In reality, beyond the electoral propaganda that pits the two competing 
allies against one another, the compromise between the two positions is 
already contained in Salvini's proposal, a proposal that makes free 
labor available and, at the same time, inserts a new educational module 
based on military discipline. It's easy to imagine an intermediate space 
between school/work and naja. Another horizon of militarization of 
bodies and consciences. A process of militarization affects our cities, 
our schools, the main means of communication and cultural institutions.

Internal war and external war are the two sides of the same coin, that 
of the war on the poor for the control of resources, consciences, supply 
routes and information flows.
Since January of this year, the soldiers of the "Safe Roads" operation, 
which began in 2009 and is constantly refinanced by the governments of 
the day, have been assigned, in addition to the surveillance of CPR, 
institutional sites and militarized construction sites, also in the 
stations and on the outskirts of the big cities.
Entire areas of poor neighborhoods are put under siege, with continuous 
roundups of people without documents or those who live thanks to an 
informal economy.
The government at all levels points the finger at the poorest, most 
racialized people , with the continuous blackmail of documents, to hide 
the social war that it has unleashed against all the poor , Italian and 
born elsewhere, siding alongside the big bosses and little ones.
The ethnically targeted control of the territory aims to repress any 
possible social insurgency in the bud. The CPRs, the administrative 
prisons for those without European cards , are social dumping sites , 
similar to prisons . The government experiments with social control 
techniques that were previously unthinkable, in order not to spend a 
penny on housing, healthcare, transport and schools. Military spending 
is constantly increasing, the missions abroad of the Italian armed 
forces have multiplied. The soldiers spend six months on military 
missions abroad, six months on the streets of our cities.
Many missions are in Africa, where the tricolor flags fly next to the 
yellow ones with the six-legged dog of ENI, the spearhead of Italian 
colonialism.
The war for control of energy resources goes hand in hand with the 
offensive against people on the move, to push them back into Libyan 
prisons, where torture, rape and murder are normal occurrences.
The movements that have developed in recent months, especially in 
universities, have the merit of having grasped the fundamental 
connection between academic research and the war industry, in an 
intertwining of interests that place the logic of domination and that of 
profit at the centre, outside and against any supposed neutrality of a 
scientific investigation that moves following the directions of the 
clients on duty. However, they have a strong limitation both in the 
definition of objectives and in the methods of pursuing them.
The enormous emotion that accompanies the enormous massacre of the Gaza 
population with genocidal purposes ends up placing only criticism and 
boycott towards the State of Israel in the foreground, forgetting that 
our country (and its universities) are in the forefront row in numerous 
theaters of war, which remain in the background, wrapped in a dangerous 
oblivion, which risks making us complicit in infinite horrors. Just 
think of Artsakh and Sudan, two of the many wars to which Italy 
contributed directly, supplying weapons and trainers in the silence of most.
The 120,000 Armenians of Artsakh, whom the Azerbaijani troops had 
declared they wanted to execute, fled after the year-long siege and a 
final attack launched by troops supplied with weapons by Leonardo and 
trained in Italy.
In the two years preceding the outbreak of the civil war which reduced 
Sudan to rubble, killing or forcing hundreds of thousands of people to 
leave their homes, Italy supplied weapons to the RSF, the Rapid Support 
Force of Dagalo, former commander of the Janjaweed. In this war Dagalo 
and his men returned to their favorite sport, the one they had been 
known for for decades, that is, burning villages, raping women, killing 
men and enlisting children.
Italy was counting on Dagalo to block the departures of migrants from 
that area. Dagalo reciprocates the support from him, in the silence of 
the media and, unfortunately, of many of the movements.
A step forward would be to unite those who oppose CPR and borders, those 
who fight against the militarization of society, and those who fight 
against the war industry.

A real criticism of collusions between universities and war research 
should have the minimum objective of canceling cooperation agreements 
with all war industries and all states at war. A radical critique should 
question the role of universities and the need for permanent 
expropriation of areas of study and research in the service of the 
imperialism of capitalist logic.

Modern wars, not least the one that began on October 7 between Israel 
and Gaza, have civilian populations as their main victims, massacred to 
weaken the enemy, to induce him to surrender or flee.
Opposing war without opposing militarism is a short-sighted perspective, 
because it fuels the opinion that there are good armies. And it is not 
enough to put the word "resistance" in place of "army" to change the 
meaning of wars fought to ensure exclusive control of this or that 
geographical area. Only the transnational alliance of the oppressed and 
exploited breaks the borders, shatters the statist and patriotic logic, 
blows the identity cap linked to the place, to religion, to tradition to 
open a symbolic and real space to the non-place, to utopia, which is not 
the unrealizable but only the unrealized.

We must forcefully oppose those who, from Ukraine to the Eastern 
Mediterranean, cultivate the dangerous illusion that wars can be stopped 
by siding with this or that side at stake, that the spirals of hatred 
and violence that inflame so many conflicts can be defused, by 
supporting nationalist logics and religious wars.
Instead, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of global war, to 
grasp the elements of resistance, defeatism and desertion to strengthen 
the anti-militarist and internationalist networks of opposition to the war.
In every country, starting with the one we live in, it is possible to 
stop the war.
Everywhere there are weapons factories, barracks, ports and military 
airports, shooting ranges, patrols on the streets. The war bases are a 
stone's throw from our homes.
Throwing sand into the engine of militarism, jamming its mechanisms 
depends on each of us.
For a second June of SenzaPatria.
Many missions are in Africa, where the tricolor flags fly next to the 
yellow ones with the six-legged dog of ENI, the spearhead of Italian 
colonialism.
The war for control of energy resources goes hand in hand with the 
offensive against people on the move, to push them back into Libyan 
prisons, where torture, rape and murder are normal occurrences.

The movements that have developed in recent months, especially in 
universities, have the merit of having grasped the fundamental 
connection between academic research and the war industry, in an 
intertwining of interests that place the logic of domination and that of 
profit at the centre, outside and against any supposed neutrality of a 
scientific investigation that moves following the directions of the 
clients on duty. However, they have a strong limitation both in the 
definition of objectives and in the methods of pursuing them.
The enormous emotion that accompanies the enormous massacre of the Gaza 
population with genocidal purposes ends up placing only criticism and 
boycott towards the State of Israel in the foreground, forgetting that 
our country (and its universities) are in the forefront row in numerous 
theaters of war, which remain in the background, wrapped in a dangerous 
oblivion, which risks making us complicit in infinite horrors. Just 
think of Artsakh and Sudan, two of the many wars to which Italy 
contributed directly, supplying weapons and trainers in the silence of most.
The 120,000 Armenians of Artsakh, whom the Azerbaijani troops had 
declared they wanted to execute, fled after the year-long siege and a 
final attack launched by troops supplied with weapons by Leonardo and 
trained in Italy.
In the two years preceding the outbreak of the civil war which reduced 
Sudan to rubble, killing or forcing hundreds of thousands of people to 
leave their homes, Italy supplied weapons to the RSF, the Rapid Support 
Force of Dagalo, former commander of the Janjaweed. In this war Dagalo 
and his men returned to their favorite sport, the one they had been 
known for for decades, that is, burning villages, raping women, killing 
men and enlisting children.
Italy was counting on Dagalo to block the departures of migrants from 
that area. Dagalo reciprocates the support from him, in the silence of 
the media and, unfortunately, of many of the movements.
A step forward would be to unite those who oppose CPR and borders, those 
who fight against the militarization of society, and those who fight 
against the war industry.

A real criticism of collusions between universities and war research 
should have the minimum objective of canceling cooperation agreements 
with all war industries and all states at war. A radical critique should 
question the role of universities and the need for permanent 
expropriation of areas of study and research in the service of the 
imperialism of capitalist logic.

Modern wars, not least the one that began on October 7 between Israel 
and Gaza, have civilian populations as their main victims, massacred to 
weaken the enemy, to induce him to surrender or flee.
Opposing war without opposing militarism is a short-sighted perspective, 
because it fuels the opinion that there are good armies. And it is not 
enough to put the word "resistance" in place of "army" to change the 
meaning of wars fought to ensure exclusive control of this or that 
geographical area. Only the transnational alliance of the oppressed and 
exploited breaks the borders, shatters the statist and patriotic logic, 
blows the identity cap linked to the place, to religion, to tradition to 
open a symbolic and real space to the non-place, to utopia, which is not 
the unrealizable but only the unrealized.

We must forcefully oppose those who, from Ukraine to the Eastern 
Mediterranean, cultivate the dangerous illusion that wars can be stopped 
by siding with this or that side at stake, that the spirals of hatred 
and violence that inflame so many conflicts can be defused, by 
supporting nationalist logics and religious wars.
Instead, it is crucial to understand the dynamics of global war, to 
grasp the elements of resistance, defeatism and desertion to strengthen 
the anti-militarist and internationalist networks of opposition to the war.
In every country, starting with the one we live in, it is possible to 
stop the war.
Everywhere there are weapons factories, barracks, ports and military 
airports, shooting ranges, patrols on the streets. The war bases are a 
stone's throw from our homes.
Throwing sand into the engine of militarism, jamming its mechanisms 
depends on each of us.
For a second June of SenzaPatria.

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