A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom - APO's introductory statement on the war (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Introductory statement of the Anarchist Political Organization 
(Federation of Collectives) at the event held on April 4, 2026 at the 
Lelas Karagianni Squat 37 (Athens) in the context of hosting the 13th 
Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, entitled "The 
position of anarchists towards military conflicts and the threat of 
generalization of war". ---- AGAINST MODERN INTEGRATION, WAR AND FASCISM 
---- ORGANIZATION - INTERNATIONALISM - SOCIAL REVOLUTION ---- The world 
of the state and capitalism is bankrupt. It cannot provide answers to 
real social needs and has nothing to promise but more misery, poverty, 
oppression, cannibalism, war and death: The absolute rule of the law of 
the jungle, of the might of the strongest.

The disintegration and complete bankruptcy of the world of the state and 
capitalism constitutes a limit to the era of its global integration and 
at the same time the cause of the intensification of inter-imperialist 
contradictions and the consequent increase in the threat of war. The 
state-capitalist system carries within itself its contradictions, the 
competition between the bourgeois staffs for the best position on the 
chessboard for the plunder and distribution of valuable and limited 
natural resources, the expansion of their "sphere of influence" is what 
makes the sirens of war sound again and again. Because as long as 
societies are bound by the so-called "national interest", private profit 
and capitalist accumulation, war will be the only way for empires in 
conflict. This capitalist law, however, does not at all mean that the 
system of oppression is heading towards its own annihilation, through 
its dead ends and contradictions if the peoples themselves do not claim 
to take fate into their own hands.

This is what is most tragically evident, both in the war massacre in 
Ukraine after the Russian army invaded 4 years ago and in the genocide 
of the Palestinian people, which is the brutal escalation of the 
78-year-old bloody persecution of the Palestinian people from their land 
by the state of Israel and its allies.
We are now counting 4 years since the start of the Russian invasion of 
Ukraine, as the culmination of the long-standing conflict between the 
pro-Russian political and economic elite on the one hand, and the 
pro-Western ruling class of Ukraine on the other. Millions of refugees, 
thousands of dead soldiers and civilians, rape, devastation, the 
devaluation of every concept of life and destruction. The big loser is 
none other than the people of Ukraine who continue to experience the 
effects of the war, the dismemberment, the transformation of the country 
into a chessboard of geopolitical power games between the EU - USA - 
Russia and the plunder and sharing of valuable and limited natural 
resources.
The genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza writes another page of 
barbarity by the state of Israel, with the attempted extermination and 
genocide of the Palestinian people for two and a half years through mass 
murders of civilians and famine conditions that Israel has imposed on 
the Gaza Strip. Today, despite the apparent ceasefire, the Gaza Strip 
continues to be under military siege, with shelling of the few remaining 
structures serving the displaced, while parts of it remain under 
military occupation, as the population faces serious survival issues 
with minimal food, water, medical care and no shelter in the middle of 
winter. At the same time, Israel launches attacks on Palestinians in the 
West Bank, committing murders, arrests, house demolitions, destruction 
of olive groves and settlements. The systematic extermination of the 
Palestinian people is also reflected in the recent passage by the 
Knesset (Israeli parliament) of the "Execution of Prisoners Law", while 
more than 350 Palestinian prisoners have already died in prisons before 
its passage as a result of torture, medical neglect and systematic abuse.
The increasing aggression of the US with the intervention in Venezuela 
and the criminal forcing of the people of Cuba to live under 
exterminating conditions without any electricity, as well as the war 
that is raging today against Iran, are a result of the crisis of their 
global hegemony, the enormous and multiple internal crises and their 
need to reassert their control over strategic areas rich in oil, 
minerals, water, etc. Within this context, on February 28, the 
US-Israeli military operation against Iran was manifested with heavy 
bombings with the indirect support of NATO infrastructure, which 
continues to this day. The sensitivity of American imperialism and 
genocidal Zionism, moreover, became apparent from the very beginning 
with the attack on a school and a training center, resulting in the 
murder of hundreds of children. Their same sensitivity was manifested in 
the bombing of desalination plants, making the situation in Iran even 
more suffocating due to the escalating water shortage. We then witnessed 
the attack on an oil production plant in Tehran, with the immediate 
result that the entire city was covered in toxic gases and substances, 
which pose a danger to the people living there. The people of Iran, 
after being drowned in blood - once again over the years - by the regime 
after the popular uprising that broke out in January 2026, are now faced 
with the bombs of Western imperialism, responsible for so many war 
operations around the world.
The hypocrisy of the Western regimes exceeds all limits: at the same 
time that they cooperate flawlessly with all the monarchical 
authoritarian & theocratic regimes of the Middle East, such as Saudi 
Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, etc., they use the regime of the Islamic 
Republic in Iran as a tool to invest their crimes with a supposedly 
"liberating hue", with the most notable being the cold-blooded murder of 
over 180 children in bombings. They thus continue their godly work as 
they began in the modern period with the bombings of Belgrade in 1999, 
with the war in Iraq in 2003 that destroyed the country, the twenty-year 
occupation of Afghanistan that left behind a renewed and strengthened 
Taliban regime, the surrender of Syria to the camouflaged ISIS, and the 
complete disintegration of Libya after the overthrow of Gaddafi, which 
was plunged into perpetual civil wars.
The victims of imperialist predatory and neo-colonial wars and 
interventions are always the peoples themselves, who are slaughtered in 
this global slaughterhouse or take the path of migration to find death 
at the land and water borders of Europe with the murderous assistance of 
the Greek state. It would also be naive to believe that the slaughterer 
of the Palestinian people, Israel, would care about the lives of 
Iranians, when for two and a half years it has been committing genocide 
in the Gaza Strip, while at the same time trying to dominate the Middle 
East with the aim of completely transforming the region. At the same 
time, Israel's murderous war machine is sharpening its aggression, 
expanding its strikes to southern Lebanon. From the multi-day airstrikes 
on Beirut, the ground invasion and the phosphorus bombs in southern 
Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,200 people and the 
displacement of approximately 500,000.

Today, on a global level, we are in the midst of a historical phase of 
continuous restructuring, accelerating events and intensifying 
antagonisms, which mark a violent transition towards a new historical 
period. The pre-existing regime, already in disintegration, now reveals 
without pretense the deep decay of the systems of power, as each 
individual formation of global sovereignty - state, transnational, 
economic - is in crisis, trying to preserve its blood-stained gains 
through the intensification of repression, the escalation of war and the 
intensification of exploitation.
In the dominant discourse of international politics, the "multipolar 
world" often appears as a more balanced and therefore more just form of 
global organization and hierarchy of states, as a new condition of 
equilibrium. From the perspective of the oppressed, from below and 
therefore also of Anarchists, the term does not describe a 
decentralization of powers for the benefit of societies, but a 
rearrangement of the very hierarchy of states and capitalist elites that 
are in a line of conflict. A multipolar system means that global power 
is distributed among many poles. USA, China, Russia, European Union, 
Israel, India, Iran and other regional powers, none of which can any 
longer impose the rules of the game on its own. So it is not about less 
power or some retreat of the power blocs, nor about a fairer 
distribution of power. It is about competition between more rulers who 
claim a place at the same table of exploitation.
The key features in such historical periods are multiple poles of power, 
asymmetrical forms of power, dynamic shifts in balances, the challenge 
of traditional notions of dominance, and all of this takes on a 
different meaning when viewed through the class lens of those from 
below. For movements and peoples, these poles are not neutral centers of 
influence but mechanisms of enforcement and war machines, economic 
empires, technological surveillance systems, borders, and camps. Each 
power promises protection and development, demanding in return 
discipline, markets, natural resources, and cheap labor.
The present historical juncture is characterized by a double and 
seemingly contradictory movement: on the one hand, the attempt to 
transition to a multipolar world without a stable hegemonic center, on 
the other, the generalization of authoritarian, fascist and totalitarian 
forms of government. These two movements do not contradict each other. 
On the contrary, the second is a condition for stabilizing the first. 
Multipolarity, as has been said many times, does not generate peace, but 
generalized antagonism, and this antagonism requires societies that are 
disciplined, fearful and ready to accept sacrifice as normality. It must 
be understood that today's "monarchy" is not simply expressed by the 
hegemonic presence of the political-military system that defends the 
Western bloc, led by the USA and Israel; today's monoarchy that forcibly 
unifies the planet is manifested through global capitalist integration, 
which expresses in different geographies the same unified logic of 
capitalist exploitation and state oppression, incorporating into it 
different cultural, religious and local specificities. It is possible 
that on the basis of these specificities the warring blocs seek their 
ideological identity, in the face of the dominant Western paradigm, 
however this does not in any way mean overcoming or challenging at any 
level the unified state-capitalist mechanism of power, exploitation and 
oppression.
Fascism is no longer manifested as a mass movement with a unified 
ideology, but as an everyday administrative practice. Borders that kill, 
police forces that function as an army of occupation, regimes of 
exception that become permanent, criminalization of poverty, migration 
and solidarity. In this context, the concept of necropolitics no longer 
concerns only zones of violence, but the overall organization of the 
world. Power does not simply manage life; it actively organizes death, 
either directly or indirectly, through famines, sanctions, economic 
embargoes, exclusions and permanent precariousness. Death ceases to be a 
failure of the politics of the period of development of the fat cows of 
capitalist prosperity and becomes a tool for overcoming critical conditions.
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Greece, as a member of the European Union and NATO, is firmly oriented 
towards the pursuits of the dominant political and economic elite of 
which it is an integral part and is tied to the chariot of 
Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many warlike and military 
interventions in recent years and beyond. The continuous energy and 
defense cooperation agreements between Greece and the United States 
constitute yet another example of the ratification and expansion of 
relations between the Greek and American states, confirmation of the 
attachment of the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot of interests of 
the dominant international political and economic elite and 
strengthening of the role of the Greek state in the crucial region of 
the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is precisely this 
strengthening of the role of the Greek state, which today passes through 
the undivided and all-round support of the US and the state of Israel, 
that makes the entire Greek territory the rearguard of the front line of 
Western imperialism in the Middle East.
In particular, the American base of Souda operates as a critical center 
for military monitoring, coordination and support of American and 
Euro-Atlantic operations throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle 
East. The upgrading and expansion of its capabilities is directly linked 
to military actions in the Middle East, including direct and indirect 
support for the Israeli state and its participation in the genocide of 
the Palestinian people. This base symbolizes and serves the maintenance 
of American and Euro-Atlantic sovereignty and guardianship in the 
critical region of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing military 
capabilities for rapid reaction and handling of its geopolitical 
interests. Every ship that sets sail, every aircraft that takes off, 
every order issued from the Souda base offers services to the death 
machine that slaughters the peoples of the Middle East. In this context, 
the Greek state sends warships and planes to Cyprus, pretending that it 
is for aid and defensive purposes to prevent an attack. In reality, 
however, the Greek state involves the country more and more deeply in 
the war, first to defend the British military base at the Paphos cape, 
while then sending anti-aircraft systems to Karpathos for the defense of 
the American base at Souda, its frigates were and continue to be off the 
coast of Israel for its defense and the transfer of information via 
military radars regarding imminent strikes on NATO and American-Israeli 
targets, and Greek Patriots were used to intercept Iranian ballistic 
missiles that targeted an oil company in Saudi Arabia. At the same time, 
Greek shipping capital, in its attempt to increase its profits, forces 
the crews of its oil tankers to risk their lives to pass through the 
Strait of Hormuz.

The Greek state, as the border guard of Europe-Fortress, has over time 
followed and expressed in the most emphatically the anti-immigration 
policy of the EU. The murderous policies of "deterrence" are reflected 
in the thousands of dead refugees at land and water borders, in those 
trapped in modern concentration camps and in those imprisoned under a 
special racist regime of exception. The "walls" that are erected, such 
as the fence on the Evros, do not only serve to keep "surplus 
populations" out, but also to lead Western societies to entrench fascism 
within them, creating a social condition of fear and hatred.
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Today we are going through a period of distortion of meanings and values 
and the need for the anarchist movement to be able to establish its 
political, value and ideological framework is even more intense, both 
for the inoculation of the consciousnesses of those below and for the 
defense of its positions against the attempts to impose foreign 
perceptions regarding the anarchist struggle and internationalist 
solidarity. Perceptions that are based on authoritarian and 
authoritarian tendencies, basically of the left, through the support of 
totalitarian state formations, condemnation of popular uprisings, 
camping in power blocs, consciously false bipolars, emotional blackmail, 
slander of fighters and threats, ostensibly dressed in the cloak of 
anti-imperialism.
Within this landscape, a dangerous delusion also emerges: that it is 
enough to fight against an imperialism to be anti-imperialist. That the 
conflict with the West, with the USA, is enough for any other state 
power to be baptized "progressive". This logic is not anti-imperialism. 
It is a choice of camp. It is a disguise of submission to "realism". No 
anti-imperialism is real when it fights against only one imperialist 
bloc and allies itself - directly or indirectly - with the rest of the 
emerging ones. Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, are not "anti-systemic 
exceptions". They are states with their own armies, prisons, borders, 
repression, exploitation. Calling themselves "anti-imperialist" because 
they are clashing with a stronger and more competitive opponent than in 
the period of the monarchy and now asking for a new Yalta, simply means 
that one imperialism is seeking legitimacy to replace another.
The logic of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" always leads to the 
same dead end. Silence about the crimes of the new and opportunistic 
ally, justification of its violence, underestimation of the struggles it 
suppresses within itself. Thus, anti-imperialism is transformed into a 
geopolitical tool and loses all liberating content and analytical substance.
From an anarchist point of view, this is inconceivable. There is no 
imperialism without a state. There is no imperialism without internal 
oppression. The same structures that expand outwards, discipline 
inwardly, within class-stratified societies, are the same mechanisms 
that bomb, imprison, torture and exterminate, and anyone who pretends 
not to see this is not practicing anti-imperialism, but is practicing 
political cover-up.
Real anti-imperialism does not choose states, flags or poles through 
opportunistic alliances, without this meaning that it will not use 
internal contradictions and cracks in the system; it chooses sides in 
social struggles: It stands with the workers, with the refugees crushed 
at the borders, with the conscripts and deserters, the prisoners, the 
insurgents, with all those who pay the cost of imperialist antagonisms, 
wherever they are. It does not pass through foreign ministries, nor 
through geopolitical calculations. It passes through internationalist 
solidarity from below.
In a world where new regional or even central powers are emerging, the 
stakes are not to choose the "right" or "oppositional" imperialism. It 
is to refuse them all. Let us not call the rearrangement of power 
liberation. Let us not confuse the crack in the monarchy with a rupture 
with the system. The rupture with the system is when we strengthen these 
cracks, make them deeper and more rebellious, our position is clear: 
against every pole, against every state, against every war of the 
bosses. With those from below, without camps, without illusions. This is 
the only anti-imperialism that does not betray itself.

States and ruling elites are redistributing the world and the darkest 
thing that human history has ever produced is emerging. War and fascism, 
as the most depraved expressions of state and capitalist imposition, 
constitute a reality that threatens societies all over the world. The 
class, social, internationalist solidarity barricades and the 
popular/social resistances and uprisings of the plebeians all over the 
world constitute humanity's only hope for the overthrow of the dominant 
destructive plans and for the building of a new society of equality, 
solidarity and freedom.
For our part, based on our principles and values as organized 
anarchists, we intervene and act in the fields of social and class 
struggle, aiming at class and social emancipation against every form of 
tyranny and not at serving one or the other tyrannical regime, state or 
transnational camp. We stand in solidarity, on the side of every people 
who fight for survival, dignity, land and freedom against the global 
dictatorship of the state and capitalism, colonialism and imperialism. 
We draw inspiration from the struggling people throughout the world who, 
faced with the monster of fascism and state and capitalist barbarity, 
rebel, strike, demonstrate, clash with the police. These are the 
elements of the struggle that we want to highlight as anarchists, the 
ability of the conquered to counterattack the all-powerful conqueror, 
the ability of the poor and the excluded to rebel even under the most 
barbaric conditions. We want international solidarity to create rifts 
within the attacking sovereigns by bringing to the fore our own history, 
the history of the struggles of those from below that, against all 
times, create the living reality of freedom and solidarity, constituting 
the only real bulwark against the onslaught of modern totalitarianism. 
Until the total liberation of the peoples from the shackles of the state 
and capital, until the Social Revolution for a world of equality, 
solidarity and freedom.

On this basis, we address our appeal from the Greek space to the 
international anarchist movement. On the one hand, the very dynamics of 
the changes and upheavals sought by the dominant forces require the 
rapid reconstruction of the current at an international level, the 
urgent need to expand the network of contacts and communication of 
anarchists at an international level is proven de facto, with the main 
goal of exchanging experiences, informing about how authoritarian 
politics is shaped in each geography but also the social resistances 
that manifest themselves in every part of the planet. In addition, the 
discussion at an international level regarding the war treaty and the 
generalized war threat is decisive. It is literally a matter of life and 
death for the movement, as well as for the societies and the oppressed, 
to be able to form and adopt the most coherent possible stance of 
anarchists towards militarism, the threat of war and resistance to 
global domination. We believe that this can be achieved if comrades in 
every geography manage to realize that while there are visible 
historical, political, social or even cultural differences between the 
individual societies (and therefore movements) that are necessarily 
constituted under the shadow of the nation-state, which must be 
respected, at the same time today's anarchist analysis establishes a 
single state and capitalist condition that hegemonizes and oppresses the 
entire planet. We must oppose this condition unitedly, whether it is 
expressed through the warmongering hegemonic Western coalition of the 
USA-NATO-ISRAEL or through the belligerent Russian authoritarianism, the 
oppressive Muslim obscurantism and the bureaucratic Chinese state 
totalitarianism.
The deepening of the relevant discussion and the corresponding 
cooperation of anarchists at the international level are basic 
prerequisites for the strengthening of the anarchist struggle, that is, 
the strengthening of the social and class resistances themselves that 
can protect societies from the threat of war and the intensification of 
exploitation and oppression.

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