A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #352 - "No war but class war!" - No other war than class war! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The intensification of repression, authoritarian practices, conflicts, 
and the trampling of international law by the most powerful countries 
threaten the freedoms of all, everywhere on the planet. In this deadly 
dynamic affecting governments of all persuasions, the far right, whether 
active, complicit, or lying in wait, is winning significant electoral 
and ideological victories. While the world seems to be at a historic 
turning point, contradictions are exacerbating, and so-called 
democracies are revealing their true colors.

The law is the guarantor of our freedoms, and it is the same for 
everyone, as our leaders say! But, on the contrary, the law expresses 
above all a balance of power, and the least we can say is that it is not 
in our favor. It increasingly protects the private interests of the 
powerful, relentlessly repressing those who try to stand up against 
inequality and injustice. We are witnessing, year after year, a 
dislocation of the meager guarantees, which, through struggle, had set 
limits to the claims of the bourgeoisie: labor rights that are dwindling 
to guarantee maximum profit rates for bosses; the right to housing, 
derisory in the face of increasingly unaffordable rents; the right of 
access to public services, uncertain, at a time of their privatization; 
the rights of foreigners, which are constantly hardening, plunging 
entire populations into the arbitrariness of the administration, the 
violence of migratory routes and expulsions, and brutal exploitation; 
criminal law that is increasingly extensive and repressive; rights of 
expression and information mistreated by the power and the media at its 
command... It is the same reality, which is unfolding with the same 
violence, everywhere in the world. The welfare state and social 
compromise are nothing more than chimeras for those nostalgic for social 
democracy and the National Council of Resistance, who quickly forget 
that a left hook can hurt as much as a right jab.

At the same time, the fundamental principles of international law, which 
governed relations between states, are being trampled upon, and only 
brute force reigns. Netanyahu ignores his arrest warrants for war crimes 
and crimes against humanity from the International Criminal Court and 
continues to massacre Palestinians with the complicity of Western and 
Arab states. When Israel repeatedly violates this same international 
law, carries out genocidal actions in Gaza, invades Lebanon, and bombs 
Iran, no sanctions can stop its pretensions; on the contrary, some 
countries continue to arm Israel and loudly endorse it. Behind the 
screen of the fight against the Iranian military nuclear program led by 
the "only democracy in the Middle East", exercising its "right to defend 
itself", we observe strong similarities with the historical imperialist 
arguments, which have served to mask the geopolitical and economic 
interests of the moment: from the imminent acquisition of "weapons of 
mass destruction" to reduce Iraq to chaos to that of the fight against 
terrorism for Afghanistan, including the protection of civilian 
populations in Libya... And woe betide those who would dare to point out 
that all state leaders hold each other by the beard and are as alike as 
two peas in a pod (embezzlement, embezzlement, oil and mining interests 
to defend, with associated massacres, wars, torture); or even simply 
those who commemorate the civilian victims of the Gaza genocide, like 
this teacher from Sens, suspended for having allowed her students to 
gather for a minute of silence! Because while Trump and Netanyahu carry 
out one military coup after another, the genocide in Gaza continues 
amidst a deafening media silence.

In this global landscape, we must not forget that other parts of the 
world are at war. The race for profit that is suffocating the planet and 
its inhabitants stops at nothing to massacre populations: in the 
Democratic Republic of Congo, several million have died since the 
mid-1990s, without anyone being moved; in Yemen and Sudan, the war 
continues; in Somalia, the strikes continue...

But in this quagmire of terror orchestrated by the powerful to the 
detriment of the population, the embers of protest are still burning, 
and resistance exists. Let us not be fooled by the rhetoric of the 
corporate media, which relays official information and obscures the 
mobilizations that are emerging in various places. Tens of thousands of 
demonstrators are marching in all the capitals to protest against the 
massacres, against the resumption of arms production, and against the 
genocide in Gaza. The mobilization, even belated, of the Marseille 
dockers who refused to load weapons to Israel delighted us all. It's not 
much, but it's the way forward. Solidarity with the Palestinians is 
built in the struggle against "our" bourgeoisie, allied with 
executioners of all kinds and exporters of deadly weapons.

Extending the class struggle here and elsewhere against wars also means 
organizing a response against unemployment laws, undocumented 
immigrants, repression, public services, and more. Our exploiters know 
it and say it: to prepare for war, they must pick the pockets of the 
proles. Heavy weapons mean low wages. The fate of proletarians 
everywhere on the planet is therefore linked.

Against war, against the tyranny of profit, class struggle!

Ile-de-France Group of the OCL

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