A-Infos (en) Italy, FDCA, Cantiere #34 - Against the barbarity of imperialist wars we respond with the weapons of class struggle and internationalist solidarity. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA message to the international conference in 
Paris in May 2025 ---- The global situation, highly critical, is 
configured as follows. The change of strategic course of the American 
administration under the Trump presidency only partially modifies the 
terms of the conflict between imperialist powers, but it affects the 
general political framework of alliances, disrupting relations between 
NATO countries and in particular between the United States and European 
countries. The decision of the American president to abandon military 
support for Ukraine and the threat to introduce duties on European 
exports, particularly in the automotive sector, are tangible signs of 
this new strategic orientation of the United States. If under the Biden 
administration the goal was to weaken Russia's political-military weight 
through a proxy war, now, President Trump's strategic reversal has the 
purpose of recovering relations (political and commercial) with Russia 
to undermine the historic alliance with China and preemptively exclude 
the latter from the narrow circle of those who are preparing to redraw 
the new assets, areas of control and regions of influence at a global 
level. In this new scenario, Ukraine becomes the bargaining chip to 
define the terms of the new relations between the United States and 
Russia and the division of raw materials, in particular lithium, which 
the Ukrainian territory is rich in. The European countries, in 
fibrillation, still demonstrate their strategic inadequacy and are 
incapable of implementing shared political and military choices. The 
wobble of the alliance between Europe and the United States puts 
European states in serious difficulty, which, orphaned by American 
support, find themselves having to manage the "hot potato" of the war in 
Ukraine triggered by the aggression of Russian imperialism. If the 
difficulties in building a European military force are tangible, the new 
strategic framework is already producing an acceleration in the 
application of rearmament programs.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, the United States continues to support 
Israeli and Turkish nationalism, weakening the alliance between Russia 
and the Shiite countries with the overthrow of the Syrian government of 
Bashar Al Assad. A regime change that would not have been so easy 
without the Israeli military interventions in Gaza and Lebanon that have 
produced, in addition to thousands of civilian victims and the genocide 
of the Palestinian people, a weakening of the armed formations of Hamas 
and Hezbollah, financed by Iran.

In the Middle Eastern context, it is worth mentioning the experience of 
"Democratic Confederalism" put into practice by the Kurdish community in 
the Rojava region and today threatened by the drones of the Turkish army 
and the pressure of the Syrian provisional government.

Democratic Confederalism, which draws inspiration from the thought of 
the anarchist philosopher Murray Bookchin on social ecology and 
libertarian municipalism, wants to overcome the concept of the nation 
state to develop a system based on a sustainable and supportive economy, 
on the emancipation and participation of women, on municipalism and 
self-defense. With all the limitations that the Middle Eastern situation 
imposes, we can argue that today this social experiment, inclusive and 
pluralist, represents the only serious attempt to overcome ethnic and 
religious divisions for the construction of a libertarian and 
self-managed society, an alternative to the proxy wars supported by 
imperialist powers and regional nationalisms. The growing protagonism of 
emerging countries that are gaining more and more economic strength, 
with a leading role for China and India, has important consequences on 
the redefinition of political and military balances in the various 
strategic areas of the world. It is unavoidable, as far as we are 
concerned, to remind everyone of the situation in which the African 
continent finds itself (since the time of the inexorable condemnation to 
eternal slavery inflicted on the "imprudent" Cam). Almost one billion 
and four hundred million people, a surface of over thirty million square 
kilometers, 54 countries; this neglected (mediatically) part of the 
planet perpetuates its role as the favorite target of the predatory 
instinct of imperialism of all colors.

In this climate of international destabilization, war is the instrument 
for the affirmation of a new "imperial stability" and the prospect of a 
world conflict is becoming increasingly threatening. The more than 50 
conflicts spread throughout the world are the product of this fierce 
imperialist competition. The risk of the use of nuclear weapons is the 
order of the day and the race of states to increase military spending is 
now involving all the major world powers. The core of American foreign 
policy has as its priority the clash with China for economic and 
technological primacy that unfolds through the control of global supply 
chains in all its phases, from the supply of raw materials to 
production, from storage, transport and distribution to retail sales. If 
the bourgeoisie is divided on the international level, it finds its 
unity in the class struggle. The attack that is being waged against 
workers and proletarians, thanks to the support of national states, has 
the same objectives regardless of the context in which it is carried 
out: accumulating profits by increasing the exploitation and 
impoverishment of the proletariat. Added to all this is the increase in 
war spending that takes economic resources away from primary services, 
such as health or education, already heavily penalized by privatization 
policies, thus reducing the rights acquired as a result of workers' 
struggles in recent years. Meanwhile, the demonstrations of resistance 
to capitalist exploitation and the harmful effects it produces (wars, 
environmental disasters, etc.) find concrete expression in the struggles 
for the emancipation of the exploited; in the desertion of thousands of 
young people tired of suffering a war they do not feel is their own; in 
the initiatives to defend the territory from militarism and speculation. 
Against imperialist wars, the struggle and internationalist class 
solidarity must be relaunched. As libertarian communists we believe that 
internationalism is the only answer to capitalist madness because the 
exploited have no borders to defend but are united by common goals: to 
free themselves from capitalist exploitation that produces a society 
divided into classes, to emancipate themselves from the State that is 
its product, to build libertarian communism. But to achieve these goals 
we must relaunch the mass organizations, today hostage of concertative 
and interclassist currents, and their class autonomy; the unity of all 
the exploited must be built to bring back to the forefront the conflict 
between capital and labor and the awareness of the need to overcome the 
system of capitalist exploitation.

We must stop militarism and the threat of global destruction by 
supporting all deserters and by taking action to jam the war machine and 
by contributing, on the ground of political praxis, to the dissolution 
and overcoming of the clamorous contradictions that plague the exploited 
class everywhere, auspices of identity, ethnic, religious and 
nationalistic pathologies.

Without overcoming capitalism, the logic of competition, profit and its 
accumulation, there will be no possibility for human beings to take 
control of their own destinies for the construction of a society based 
on peace, freedom and equality.

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