A-Infos (en) Italy, FdCA, IL CANTIERE #39 - Our Roots: Against Imperialist War A GAAP Document (1951) - edited by Paolo Papini (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Approved at the First National Conference of the Anarchist Groups of 
Proletarian Action (GAAP) (Genoa-Pontedecimo, February 24-25, 1951), the 
Draft Political Line defined in a nutshell the revolutionary 
internationalist positions of the newly formed libertarian communist 
organization. Its section on International Problems represents the first 
document produced by the GAAP on imperialism and war. Faced with the 
division of the world into two imperialist blocs dominated by the USA 
and the USSR and the looming threat of a third world war, our comrades 
of the time defined imperialism as a "unitary and indivisible" 
phenomenon. The opposing and converging forces of private capitalism in 
the Western camp and state capitalism in the "socialist" camp have been 
dividing up world markets since the Second World War and competing for 
new areas of economic, political, and military influence in a 
substantial balance dictated by their mutual interests, equally 
determining the oppression and exploitation of the working class.
Today, as yesterday, capitalism creates its own contradictions through 
its development and cyclically resolves its crises with war. Today, as 
yesterday, it is up to the global working class-and with it, 
anarchist-communist organizations and other forces of the revolutionary 
left-to oppose imperialist war by countering it with proletarian 
internationalism, antimilitarism, revolutionary defeatism, sabotage, and 
desertion, rejecting and countering campist temptations and tendencies.
For these reasons, we believe the GAAP analyses and positions are still 
fundamentally valid and relevant, even though they were developed 
seventy years ago, within the context of a bipolar world order very 
different from today. They are perhaps even more valid today, at a time 
when "imperialism, the supreme stage of capitalism," in its multipolar 
dimension, has reached its maximum level of expansion and pervasiveness, 
giving rise to new phenomena of war, exploitation, poverty, migration, 
environmental devastation, and climate crisis.
We offer this short document below for the attention and reflection of 
our readers and activists, a useful tool for interpreting the changes 
and complexity of today.

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