A-Infos (en) Germany, LIKOS: Anti-militarist action at the "Lower Saxony Day" (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

From August 29-31, 2025, the so-called "Lower Saxony Day" will take 
place in Osnabrück. This is a marketing and PR event for both Lower 
Saxony and Osnabrück. Part of the program: The Bundeswehr, including 
military equipment. We visited the booth and, among other things, 
distributed and read the following flyer: ---- After Russia's war of 
aggression against Ukraine, the then traffic light government 
immediately approved a special fund of 100 billion euros. To clarify: 
One billion seconds is approximately 31.7 years. This trend of 
rearmament and militarization has continued unabated ever since. 
Military spending is exempt from the debt brake and can be increased 
virtually indefinitely. At the EU level, an 800 billion euro package for 
military and armaments is to be implemented, and NATO has decided to 
spend 5% of GDP on the defense budget in 2025. Germany leads the world 
in terms of military spending.

Conscription is slowly being reintroduced, and attempts are being made 
to prepare young people for war. The Bundeswehr recently opened the 
German Medical Association's Congress and called for a focus on 
continuing education on war injuries. Furthermore, a legally enshrined 
mandatory military service for medical personnel is being prepared. This 
alone should make it clear where this course of action could lead! The 
healthcare system must now also serve the military. This is just one 
example of the paradigm shift in the German mentality. In preparation 
for a war seen as inevitable, everything has been subordinated to 
military doctrine. The social question, not only in monetary terms, has 
become increasingly secondary and is at most mobilized to incite those 
who have little against those who have even less. When everything is 
subjected to military discipline, it has an impact on people. The 
fatherland is the vehicle through which all class differences can 
seemingly be erased to the ground.

Militarization and rearmament therefore do not "just" mean war against 
the external enemy, but also internal repression. Be it the attempt to 
ban the Rheinmetall Disarmament Camp in Cologne or the police attacks on 
demonstrations against the war and the killings in Gaza.

While money flows unhindered into rearmament, the so-called welfare 
state is being massively dismantled. Massive cuts to social security 
benefits, education, healthcare, youth welfare, etc., the list goes on 
forever. This is accompanied by an uninhibited agitation against the 
poor and migrants, which already reveals how far the rulers are willing 
to go. This agitation produces a cold social mood in which everything 
bad is blamed on the socially disadvantaged - the resulting social cuts 
then result in precariousness, which in turn is expressed in agitation. 
This cycle appears to be mutually dependent, but is always and 
fundamentally driven by the eternal hunger of capital, which must 
mobilize all its forces in times of crisis to survive.

Let no one be misunderstood: The Russian war of aggression is 
unjustifiable. Anyone who engages in this logic is among our enemies. It 
must be understood in the context of a deepening crisis of capitalism 
and the West's loss of hegemony. Not just the West, the world is heading 
toward war, in which states are increasingly attempting to assert their 
interests through military means - human rights are not at stake. This 
logic must be rejected. As hopeless as it seems, there is no other 
option than to connect and network with the deserters on both sides of 
the front line, the people who practice sabotage, the strikers, and 
ultimately the people who are paying materially for this war, often with 
their lives, and to betray the logic of war. This cannot be done 
unilaterally, otherwise we would take sides, but we have to start somewhere.

In Osnabrück, Rheinmetall is considering taking over the VW plant and 
producing military equipment there in the future-a good opportunity 
right on our doorstep. Of course, we cannot allow more than 3,000 people 
to be without work and income from 2027 onwards, but politicians are 
currently creating the impression that there is no other option than to 
produce weapons. Let us resist the fact that the means of production 
that could serve our lives are serving our deaths.

https://likos.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/antimilitaristische-aktion-auf-dem-niedersachsen-tag/
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