A-Infos (en) France, OCL: For revolutionary defeatism in all states at war! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We have received this text calling for the formation of an 
internationalist anarchist network for revolutionary defeatism, which we 
feel is important to relay. Dear comrades, We invite you to take a stand 
on the proposal for a new Internationalist Anarchist initiative made by 
the AnarCom Network and the Anarchist Communist Group, both based in the 
United Kingdom. We hope to build on the contacts and relationships 
established in Prague and with other internationalist anarchists at 
national and international events. The aim is not to create a new 
organization, but to provide a network for revolutionary 
internationalists to meet and build a libertarian hub against 
imperialist wars and propaganda, while also being able to cooperate 
where we can on meaningful activities. On a practical level, we want to 
show that as revolutionary internationalists, we can, in addition to 
political perspectives and propaganda, contribute in a concrete 
(/material) way to the broader struggles of our class. For example, by 
raising funds to support those who refuse to fight, deserters, and our 
networks of comrades who work with them. We present the following 
statement as our founding proposal and ask you to consider signing it 
and collaborating across traditions and borders against capitalist wars 
and capitalist peace!

"The Network of Internationalist Anarchists is: For revolutionary 
defeatism in all states at war!"

Will: Support war resisters, draft evaders, deserters, and conscientious 
objectors!

Call for: A major libertarian internationalist initiative to counter 
militarist propaganda! A nuclear catastrophe is looming! The ruling 
classes of both "East" and "West" are charlatans whose thirst for power 
and profit increasingly relies on the war industry.

The self-proclaimed West is developing scenarios for a new world war. 
For them, the "free world" is waging an existential battle against 
"autocracies" increasingly identified with Orientalist stereotypes that 
threaten to destroy our so-called "civilization."
Nations in the "democratic" camp, such as Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, 
are hailed as waging the same global battle of "good guys" against 
"evil." This logic goes so far as to place Syrian Islamists on the side 
of the "good guys."

On the other side, Russia, China, and Iran, totalitarian states ruled by 
secret police and security forces in the hands of the party or clerics. 
Each violently represses our class's struggle against austerity and the 
march toward war. For a libertarian internationalist initiative against 
the militarist propaganda disseminated daily, which presents our 
supposedly "good" armed states as if they were a humanitarian enterprise!
We must offer practical and moral support to war resisters, draft 
resisters, deserters, and groups that adopt internationalist positions, 
especially in war zones.

It is fundamental to support refusal, conscience, desertion, and 
insubordination on all sides of the war fronts, for revolutionary defeatism.

Russia and Ukraine themselves recognize that desertion is a major 
obstacle to their deadly programs.
This support, within the framework of our internationalism, encourages 
initiatives aimed at challenging nationalism and borders, territorial 
sovereignty, the nation-state or its proto-state rivals, by building new 
mechanisms of international solidarity and fraternity.

The front lines are closer than you think, no further than the nearest 
weapons or components factory, the nearest logistics depot, 
transportation hub, or communications center.

War is being fought where the ports and airports, the military bases and 
their reserve barracks are located. It is being fought on the rail and 
highway networks, in the towns, neighborhoods, cities, and factories 
where we, the workers, pay the price of war by living in poverty due to 
worsening austerity. And now, the threat of conscription.

We cannot move without being at war, and when we notice it, the 
rhetorical weapons fly: "Disruptor, extremist, traitor!" We must be all 
of these things.

Militarist propaganda is everywhere.
It is time to clearly distinguish our movement from those who support 
"some wars before the class war."
We are clear that revolutionaries not only oppose their wars, but call 
for the transformation of war resistance into a social revolution! We 
are not calling for a return to the pre-war situation, their "capitalist 
peace," which is nothing more than their repression of us in preparation 
for their next bloody enterprise.

What can we do concretely, individually and collectively, at home and 
abroad? At the most basic level, think globally, act locally. Reject 
their consensus and denounce their hypocrisy, defending our interests 
and those of our class across borders. Collectively, let us reject their 
"national interest."
Link our struggles to austerity and their war profiteering. Everything 
we do for ourselves and our class hinders their "state of war." Let us 
unite in solidarity across localities and professional sectors: a 
victory on the home front is a victory and an example abroad.

From the rivers of the Arctic to the Red Sea, from Taiwan to the Congo 
Basin, continental borders are ablaze, or the embers are smoldering. No 
matter who the superpowers are in charge of, they want us to fight-one 
capitalism, one war! The danger is real, the danger is present.»

Signatories to date:

UK: Anarchist Communist Group / Anarcom Network / The Stirrer / Alex 
Alder (in personal capacity)
Czech Republic: Antimilitarist Initiative / The Czechoslovak Anarchist 
Association (CAS)
Germany: Astendenz (AST) - Antipoltitisch-Sozialrevolutionäre Tendenz - 
Berlin
France: Olga Taratuta Initiative

NB: We are relaying this text without having signed it, not out of 
political disagreement, but because the OCL signs texts or appeals when 
we are concretely engaged in the struggle in question. This is not the 
case here, not by choice, but because we are far from being able to 
cover all fronts of the struggle. Signing here, as in other cases, would 
be to pursue a "politics of signature," appearing for the sake of 
appearing, which we avoid doing as a matter of political principle.

https://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4508
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