A-Infos (en) Italy, FdCA, IL CANTIERE #37 - Fighting Resignation, Rethinking the Ways of Revolutionary Transformation - Libertarian Alternative/FdCA (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

How many times have we found ourselves thinking, while watching the many 
films that talk about the Shoah: "But how was it possible that such a 
horror was committed in almost total general indifference?" . ---- Well, 
in 50-100 years, those who study, read, and review the documents of the 
genocide underway in Gaza will surely ask themselves the same question: 
"But how was it possible? What were the rest of the world doing in the 
face of this tragedy?". ---- The most common approach to this question 
is probably to take refuge behind absolving concepts such as "the 
inevitability of evil, horrors, and brutality, elements always present 
in human history ." This is a more than natural approach because it 
prevents us from asking too many questions and too many uncomfortable 
questions, from feeling implicated: it is that fatalism that somehow 
allows us to carry on despite the fact that around us there is a 
crumbling society.

It is that acceptance, even if passive in the vast majority of cases, of 
the status quo, because all in all somehow we end up moving forward: but 
"each one alone, on his own path".

We, however, as militants of a political organization that aspires to a 
world different from the current one, where capitalism is not the only 
and final possible universe, do not believe in fatalism. We believe that 
the events of human history always (or almost always) have very specific 
causes, sometimes intertwined in such a complex way that they are 
difficult to identify.

Indeed, there are very specific causes for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, 
as well as very clear responsibilities, as we have highlighted several 
times in our documents and more recently in the statement “ Neither with 
Netanyahu, nor with Hamas! ”, published in October 2023 and available on 
our old website.

( 
https://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/wpAL/blog/2023/11/25/ne-con-netanyahu-ne-con-hamas/ 
).

Just as we must not forget that, alongside those responsible for this 
massacre, there are also human beings who, in that context of war, for 
decades and not just today, have opposed deadly nationalism and 
militarism, embracing the idea of ​​a society in which people of 
different religious (and otherwise) and ethnic backgrounds can coexist 
peacefully: first and foremost the Refusniks, young people who refuse to 
perform military service, still mandatory by law in Israel, paying for 
their courageous choice with prison.

As it also happened in Nazi Germany, where small but aware minorities, 
isolated from each other, risked their lives to save dozens of Jews and 
political prisoners.   

Unfortunately, historiography is largely omissive in this regard, and it 
is very difficult to find evidence of these stories in the mainstream 
media, precisely because they tell us that it is possible to choose not 
to be complicit in a system deemed criminal. In this regard, we report 
in particular the words of one of these young people, Yuval Pelleg, who 
just recently, along with another eighteen-year-old, Ayana Gerstman, 
refused to enlist in the IDF ( 
https://www.pressenza.com/it/2025/07/due-diciottenni-israeliani-finiscono-in-prigione-per-il-rifiuto-di-partecipare-al-genocidio-a-gaza/ 
):

Despite all its crimes, the nations of the world continue to supply 
Israel's machine of destruction with weapons and funding. I will soon be 
imprisoned for my refusal to participate in the massacre, and I appeal 
to you, the peoples of the world: intensify the fight! Join me and 
resist destruction and genocide with all your might.

Finally, I want to remind you that this isn't about me. It's about the 
destruction, the people killed, the dialogue that has been extinguished, 
and the justice that has been buried under the rubble of Gaza.

I strive to take part in a struggle for life, equality, and freedom. In 
this struggle, one thing is clear: the army and I are polar opposites.

That’s why I refuse to enlist.”

At the very time when one of the most horrific chapters in recent human 
history was unfolding in Gaza, thousands of kilometers to the east, the 
weapons still used in Gaza on human beings scavenging for food were 
instead burned in a symbolic bonfire by PKK militants. The historic 
event, which followed Öcalan's call for an end to the armed struggle and 
the subsequent dissolution of the PKK decreed by the party congress, 
took place on July 11; The connection with what is happening in Gaza was 
recalled by Bese Hozat, co-president of the Kurdistan Communities Union 
(KCK), who, reading the statement of the “Group for Peace and Democratic 
Society” during the ceremony , underlined that the voluntary destruction 
of the PKK's weapons constitutes a “gesture of goodwill and 
determination” and that “given the growing fascist pressure, 
exploitation across the globe and the ongoing bloodbath in the Middle 
East, our peoples need a peaceful, free, equal and democratic life more 
than ever”.

Certainly there are many other factors that have led the PKK to make 
this choice, among which one cannot fail to mention the recognition of 
the now unbridgeable gap in terms of military technologies between the 
Turkish state and the Kurdish militants.

In any case, it is a courageous choice with which the Kurdish movement 
is trying to break out of a stalemate, demonstrating once again that it 
constitutes one of the most advanced revolutionary perspectives in the 
world today, probably together with the Zapatista experience in Chiapas, 
stubbornly carried forward by the EZLN amidst a thousand difficulties.

And so, while we in Europe are witnessing a continuous worsening of the 
conditions of the working class, with the disintegration of all 
significant political and social opposition, what is happening in 
Kurdistan must spur us to find new forms and languages, to rethink the 
modalities of revolutionary transformation. It is increasingly urgent to 
emerge from disorientation and inertia: an internationalist political 
and social proposal is increasingly necessary, one that transcends the 
now worn-out corporate and national barriers, one that can reconnect 
with the working class and the proletarian strata of all countries, to 
effectively stem the degeneration of the capitalist system into a 
competition between imperialist powers, a harbinger of bloody armed 
conflicts for control of the world market.

A proposal capable of providing organizational responses to a widespread 
but still evanescent feeling of indignation, transforming it into 
awareness and generalizing it to broader contexts, combating resignation 
and beginning to overcome the challenges posed by the contemporary world.

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