A-Infos (en) IFA Congress 2026 joint statement - AGAINST GLOBAL DICTATORSHIP OF STATE AND CAPITALISM, (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM - FOR ORGANIZATION, INTERNATIONALISM & SOCIAL 
REVOLUTIO?
AGAINST GLOBAL DICTATORSHIP OF STATE AND CAPITALISM, AGAINST WAR AND 
FASCISM ---- The member federations of IFA are meeting in Athens at a 
time when the global situation is becoming increasingly critical for the 
exploited and oppressed classes. The general rearmament and the spread 
of war policies across various regions of the world, as well as growing 
authoritarianism and the rise of autocratic and reactionary models of 
government, is directly affecting the oppressed and is designed to 
maintain the capitalist and state system amidst a crisis of the dominant 
order.

Empires in collision

The decay and complete bankruptcy of the world of the state and 
capitalism marks the limit of its era of global integration, while 
simultaneously driving the intensification of inter-imperialist 
contradictions and the consequent rise of the threat of war. The 
state-capitalist system carries its contradictions within itself. The 
competition among bourgeois elites for better positioning on the 
chessboard for the plunder and division of precious and limited natural 
resources, for the expansion of their "spheres of influence" is what 
makes the sirens of war echo again and again. For as long as societies 
remain captive to the so-called "national interest", to private profit, 
and to capitalist accumulation, war will remain the only path for 
empires in collision.

This is what is revealed in the most tragic way in the war 
slaughterhouse in Ukraine following the Russian army's invasion four 
years ago, in the genocide of the Palestinian people by the state of 
Israel and its allies, in the brutal military intervention of the United 
States in Venezuela, the arming of militias in Sudan, and in the 
continued strangling of the people of Cuba.

US-Israel attack on Iran

Within this context, on February 28th, the US-Israel military operation 
against Iran was launched with intense bombardments, with the indirect 
support of NATO infrastructure, and continues to this day. The people of 
Iran, having first been drowned in blood once again, as so many times 
over the years by the regime following the popular uprising that erupted 
in January 2026, now find themselves facing the bombs of Western 
imperialism, responsible for so many military operations around the world.

The hypocrisy of Western regimes knows no bounds: at the very moment 
they collaborate seamlessly with all the monarchical, authoritarian, and 
theocratic regimes of the Middle East Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, 
Bahrain, and others they instrumentalize the Islamic Republic regime in 
Iran to cloak their crimes in a supposed "liberating" guise, crowned by 
the cold-blooded murder of more than 168 children in bombardment of Minab.

Fortress Europe and increasing global repression during continuous crisis

The victims of imperialist, predatory, and neocolonial wars and 
interventions are always the people themselves, who are butchered in 
this global slaughterhouse or forced to take the road of migration only 
to meet death at the land and sea borders of a Fortress-like Europe. The 
murderous "push back" policies of the EU are reflected in the thousands 
of dead refugees at land and sea borders, in those trapped in modern 
concentration camps, and in those imprisoned under a special racist 
state of exception. The "walls" being raised serve not only to keep 
"surplus populations" out, but also to lead Western societies toward the 
consolidation of internal fascism, creating a social condition of fear 
and hatred.

Today, at a global level, we find ourselves in the midst of a historical 
phase of continuous reconfigurations, accelerating events, and 
intensifying rivalries that signal a violent transition toward a new 
historical period one in which the preexisting order is in crisis, 
attempting to preserve its bloodsoaked gains through the intensification 
of repression, military escalation, and the deepening of exploitation.

Multipolar realignments and the generalization of authoritarian state power

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 -a new condition of 
equilibrium. From the standpoint of the oppressed, and consequently from 
the standpoint of anarchists, the term does not describe a 
decentralization of power for the benefit of societies, but rather a 
realignment of the hierarchy of states and capitalist elites who are on 
a collision course. A multipolar system means that global power is 
distributed among multiple poles: the United States, China, Russia, the 
European Union, Israel, India, Iran, and other regional powers none of 
which can any longer impose the rules of the game alone. This is not, 
therefore, a matter of less power or some retreat of power blocs, nor of 
a more just distribution of power. It is a matter of competition among 
more rulers who are vying for their places at the same table of 
exploitation.

The basic characteristics of such historical periods are multiple poles 
of power, asymmetric forms of strength, dynamic shifts in balances, and 
the challenging of traditional notions of sovereignty all of which take 
on a different meaning when viewed through the class lens of those 
below. For movements and peoples, these poles are not neutral centers of 
influence but mechanisms of imposition and war machines, economic 
empires, technological surveillance systems, borders, and camps. Each 
power paradigm promises protection and development, demanding in return 
discipline, markets, natural resources, and cheap labor.

The present historical conjuncture 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 governance. 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 give 
birth to peace but to generalized competition, and this competition 
requires disciplined, fearful societies ready to accept sacrifice as 
normality. Fascistization no longer manifests as a mass movement with a 
unified ideology, but as an everyday administrative practice. Borders 
that kill, police forces that function as armies of occupation, a state 
of exception that becomes permanent, the 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 no longer merely manages life it actively organizes 
death, whether directly or indirectly, through famines, sanctions, 
economic embargoes, blockades, and perpetual precarity. Death ceases to 
be considered as a failure of the politics of "the era of development 
and capitalist prosperity" and becomes its instrument for overcoming 
crisis conditions.

Western powers would like to force a hegemony which is not expressed 
simply through the politicalmilitary system. Today's "unipolarity", 
which violently unifies the planet, manifests through global capitalist 
integration, which expresses across different geographies the same 
unified logic of capitalist exploitation and state repression, 
incorporating within it different cultural, religious, and local 
particularities. While the rival blocs may seek their ideological 
identity on the basis of these particularities, in opposition to the 
dominant Western paradigm, this in no way signifies the transcendence or 
challenging at any level of the unified state-capitalist mechanism of 
power, exploitation, and oppression.

Anarchist rejection of selective anti-imperialism and opportunism

Today we are living through a period of distortion of meanings and 
values, and the need is even more urgent for the anarchist movement to 
construct its political, ethical, and ideological framework both for the 
awakening of consciousness among those below and for the defense of its 
positions against attempts to impose foreign conceptions regarding the 
anarchist struggle and internationalist solidarity. These attempts are 
rooted in authoritarian tendencies, primarily of the left-winged 
politics, and are expressed through support for totalitarian state 
formations, condemnation of popular uprisings, alignment with power 
blocs, consciously false binaries, emotional blackmail, slander of 
militants, and threats all dressed in the superficial cloak of 
anti-imperialism.

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 their violence, and dismissal of the struggles 
they suppress internally. Thus, anti imperialism is transformed into a 
geopolitical tool, losing all its libertarian content and analytical 
substance.

From an anarchist perspective, this is unthinkable. There is no 
imperialism without the state. There is no imperialism without internal 
repression. The same structures that expand outward also discipline 
inward, within class-stratified societies. The same mechanisms bomb, 
imprison, torture, and exterminate and whoever pretends not to see this 
is not practicing anti-imperialism but political coverup.

Proletarian internationalism does not choose states, flags, or poles 
through opportunistic alliances  though this does not mean it will not 
use the internal contradictions and cracks in the system. It chooses a 
side in social struggles: it stands with workers, with refugees crushed 
at the borders, with conscripts and deserters, with prisoners, with the 
insurgents with all those who pay the cost of imperialist rivalries, 
wherever they are. It does not pass through foreign ministries or 
geopolitical calculations. It passes through internationalist solidarity 
from below.

In a world where new regional or even central powers are emerging, the 
challenge is not to choose the "right" or "oppositional" imperialism. It 
is to reject them all. Not to baptize the realignment of power as 
liberation. Not to confuse a crack in unipolarity with a rupture with 
the system. A rupture with the system occurs when we deepen these 
cracks, make them more profound and insurrectionary.

Our position is clear: against every pole, against every state, against 
every war of the masters. With those from below, without taking sides or 
accepting false choices. This is the only anti-imperialism that does not 
betray itself.

Appeal for internationalism and deeper connections

The dynamic changes and upheavals that the rulers pursue demands the 
rapid reorganisation of the anarchist current at an international level. 
The urgent need to expand the network of contacts and communication 
among anarchists internationally is proven by the facts themselves with 
the primary aim of exchanging experiences, sharing information about how 
the politics of domination are taking shape in each geography, and about 
the social resistances emerging at every point of the planet. 
Furthermore, discussion at the international level regarding the war 
condition and the generalized threat of war is critical, as deepening 
this discussion along with the corresponding cooperation of anarchists 
internationally are basic prerequisites for strengthening the struggle, 
that is, the social and class resistances themselves that can protect 
societies from the threat of war and the intensification of exploitation 
and repression.

It is literally a matter of life and death for the movement, for 
societies, and for the oppressed to develop and adopt the most coherent 
possible anarchist stance toward militarism, the threat of war, and 
resistance to global domination. We believe this can be achieved if 
comrades all over the world manage to recognize that while there are 
visible historical, political, social, and even cultural differences 
among particular societies (and therefore among movements) which are 
necessarily formed under the shadow of the nation-state and which must 
be respected at the same time, it must be noted that today's anarchist 
analysis identifies a unified state and capitalist condition that 
dominates and oppresses the entire planet.

Against this condition we must stand in unity whether it is expressed 
through the warmongering hegemonic Western coalition of the 
USA-NATO-Israel, through bellicose Russian authoritarianism, through the 
oppressive obscurantism of Islamic regimes, or through bureaucratic 
Chinese state totalitarianism.

Solidarity with struggles across the globe

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 for class and social emancipation against every form of 
tyranny not to serve one or another tyrannical regime, state, or 
interstate bloc. We stand in solidarity alongside every people fighting 
for survival, dignity, land, and freedom against the global dictatorship 
of the state and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. We draw 
inspiration from people struggling across the entire world who, facing 
the monster of fascism, state and capitalist barbarism, rise up, strike, 
demonstrate, and fight the brutality of power. These are the elements of 
struggle we wish to highlight as anarchists: the ability of the 
conquered to counterattack against the all-powerful conqueror, the 
capacity of the poor and excluded to revolt under even the most barbaric 
conditions. We want international solidarity to create ruptures within 
the attacking rulers, bringing to the forefront our own history the 
history of the struggles of those below who, against all times, create 
the living reality of freedom and solidarity, constituting the only real 
bulwark against the advance of modern totalitarianism.

Until the total liberation of all people from the chains of the state 
and capital until the Social Revolution for a world of equality, 
solidarity, and freedom.

International of Anarchist Federations (IFA-IAF)

April 3-5 2026 - Athens, Greece

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