A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #14-26 - Against the global dictatorship of the state and capitalism, against war and fascism. Organization - internationalism - social revolution (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The federations that make up the IFA met in Athens at a time when the 
global situation is becoming increasingly critical for the exploited and 
oppressed classes. ---- General rearmament and the spread of war 
policies in various regions of the world, as well as growing 
authoritarianism and the rise of autocratic and reactionary models of 
governance, are directly affecting the oppressed and are designed to 
maintain the capitalist and statist system amid a crisis of the dominant 
order.

Empires in Collision

The decay and complete bankruptcy of the state and capitalism mark the 
end of their era of global integration, while simultaneously fueling the 
intensification of inter-imperialist contradictions and the resulting 
growing threat of war. The state-capitalist system carries within itself 
its own contradictions. Competition among bourgeois elites for a better 
position on the chessboard-for the plunder and division of precious and 
limited natural resources or for the expansion of their "spheres of 
influence"-is what causes the sirens of war to sound again. As long as 
societies remain captive to the so-called "national interest," private 
profit, and capitalist accumulation, war will remain the only path for 
the colliding empires.

This is what is most tragically revealed in the carnage of the war in 
Ukraine following the Russian invasion four years ago, in the genocide 
of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel and its allies, in the 
brutal US military intervention in Venezuela, in the arming of militias 
in Sudan, and in the continued strangulation of the Cuban people.

The US-Israeli attack on Iran

In this context, on February 28, the US-Israeli military operation 
against Iran was launched with intense bombing, indirectly supported by 
NATO infrastructure, and continues to this day. The Iranian people, who 
had previously been drowned in blood-once again, as so many times over 
the years-by the regime after 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: precisely when they 
collaborate seamlessly with all the monarchical, authoritarian, and/or 
theocratic regimes in the Middle East-Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, 
Bahrain, and others-they are using the Islamic Republic regime in Iran 
to mask their crimes, culminating in the cold-blooded murder of 168 
girls during the bombing of Minab under the pretext of "liberation."

Fortress Europe and growing global repression during an ongoing crisis

The victims of imperialist, predatory, and neocolonial wars and 
interventions are always the people themselves, who are massacred in 
this global slaughterhouse or forced to migrate only to meet death at 
the land and sea borders of a fortress-like Europe. The EU's murderous 
"pushback" policies are reflected in the thousands of refugees who die 
at its land and sea borders, in those trapped in modern-day 
concentration camps, and in those imprisoned in a permanent state of 
racist exception. The walls being erected serve not only to keep out 
"surplus humanity," but also to push Western societies toward the 
consolidation of internal fascism, creating a social climate of fear and 
hatred.

Today, globally, we find ourselves in the midst of a historical phase of 
continuous reconfigurations, accelerated events, and increasingly 
intense rivalries that signal a violent transition into a new historical 
period-in which the pre-existing order is in crisis and seeks to 
preserve its bloody gains through intensified repression, military 
escalation, and intensified exploitation.

Multipolar readjustments and the generalization of authoritarian state power

In the dominant discourse of international politics, the so-called 
"multipolar world" seems to some to be a more balanced and therefore 
more just form of global organization and state hierarchy-a new state of 
equilibrium. From the perspective of the oppressed, and consequently 
from that of the anarchist, the term does not describe a 
decentralization of power for the benefit of societies, but rather a 
readjustment of the hierarchies of states and capitalist elites that 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 anymore impose the rules of the game alone. It is therefore 
not a question of diminished power or a retreat of power blocs, nor of a 
more balanced distribution of power. It is a competition between 
multiple sovereigns vying for their place at the same table of exploitation.

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

The current historical phase is characterized by a double and seemingly 
contradictory movement: on the one hand, the attempted transition to a 
multipolar world without a stable hegemonic center; on the other, the 
widespread adoption of authoritarian, fascist, or totalitarian forms of 
government. These two movements do not contradict each other. On the 
contrary, the latter is a prerequisite for the stabilization of the 
former. Multipolarity, as has often been said, does not give rise to 
peace but to widespread competition, and this competition requires 
disciplined and fearful societies ready to accept sacrifice as normal. 
Fascism no longer manifests itself as a movement with a unified 
ideology, but as a daily administrative practice. Borders that kill, 
police forces that function as armies of occupation, a state of 
emergency 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, directly or indirectly, through famine, sanctions, economic 
embargoes, blockades, and perpetual precariousness. Death ceases to be 
considered a failure of the politics of the era of "capitalist 
development and prosperity" and becomes its instrument for overcoming 
crisis conditions.

Western powers seek to impose a hegemony that is not expressed simply 
through the political-military system. Their idea of "unipolarity," 
violently unifying the planet, manifests itself through global 
capitalist integration. This integration, across diverse geographies, 
expresses the same unified logic of capitalist exploitation and state 
repression, incorporating diverse cultural, religious, and local 
particularities. While rival blocs may seek their ideological identity 
based on their particularities, in opposition to the dominant Western 
paradigm, this in no way means that they represent an alternative or a 
challenge at any level to the unified state-capitalist mechanism of 
power, exploitation, and oppression.

Anarchist rejection of selective "anti-imperialism" and opportunism

Today, we live in a period of distortion of meanings and values, and the 
anarchist movement has an even more urgent need to build its own 
political, ethical, and ideological framework-both to awaken 
consciousness among the oppressed classes and to defend its positions 
against attempts to impose concepts alien to the anarchist struggle and 
internationalist solidarity. These attempts are rooted in authoritarian 
tendencies, primarily on the left, and are expressed through support for 
totalitarian state formations, condemnation of popular uprisings, 
alignment with power blocs, false binary oppositions, emotional 
blackmail, slander of activists, and threats-all disguised under a 
superficial mask 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, the justification of its violence, and the delegitimization of the 
struggles it suppresses internally. Thus, anti-imperialism is 
transformed into a geopolitical tool, losing all its libertarian content 
and analytical substance.

From an anarchist perspective, this opportunism is inconceivable. There 
is no imperialism without the state. There is no imperialism without 
internal repression. The same structures that expand outward also 
discipline within class-divided societies. The same state apparatuses 
bomb, imprison, torture, and exterminate-and anyone who pretends not to 
see this is not practicing anti-imperialism but political cover.

Proletarian internationalism does not choose states, flags, or "poles" 
through opportunistic alliances-although that doesn't mean it won't 
exploit the system's internal contradictions and cracks. It chooses a 
side in social struggles: it stands with the workers , with the refugees 
massacred at the borders, with conscripts and deserters, with prisoners, 
with the insurgents-with all those who pay the price of imperialist 
rivalries, wherever they may be. It doesn't 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 isn't to choose the "right" or "alternative" imperialism. It's 
to reject them all. This doesn't mean viewing the reconfiguration of 
power as liberation, nor confusing a crack in unipolarity with a 
breakdown in the system. A breakdown in the system occurs when we, from 
below, deepen these cracks, making them deeper and more insurgent.

Our position is clear: against every bloc, against every state, against 
every war of the bosses. With the dominated and oppressed classes, 
without aligning ourselves or accepting false choices. This is the only 
anti-imperialism that does not betray itself.

Call for internationalism and deeper connections

The dynamic changes and upheavals pursued by those in power require a 
rapid reorganization of the international anarchist movement. The urgent 
need to expand the network of contacts and communication among 
anarchists internationally is demonstrated by the facts themselves-with 
the primary goal of exchanging experiences and sharing information on 
how the politics of domination is taking shape in every geography and on 
the social resistances emerging across the globe. Furthermore, 
international discussion on the state of war and the generalized threat 
of war is crucial, as deepening this discussion-along with the 
corresponding cooperation among anarchists internationally-is a 
fundamental prerequisite for strengthening the struggle, that is, the 
very social and class resistances 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 
anarchist position possible against militarism, the threat of war, and 
in resistance to global domination. We believe this can be achieved if 
comrades around the world can recognize that, while there are visible 
historical, political, social, and even cultural differences between 
societies (and therefore between movements), which understandably arise 
within the context of the nation-state and whose differences must be 
acknowledged, at the same time, it should be noted that a contemporary 
anarchist analysis identifies how the state and capitalism dominate and 
oppress the entire planet.

We must remain united against this condition, whether it is expressed 
through the warmongering hegemonic Western coalition of the USA, NATO, 
and Israel, through the bellicose authoritarianism of Russia, through 
the oppressive obscurantism of Islamic regimes, or through the 
bureaucratic state totalitarianism of China.

Solidarity with the struggles around the world

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 social emancipation against all forms of tyranny, 
and not to serve a tyrannical regime, a state, or an interstate bloc. We 
stand in solidarity with all those fighting for survival, dignity, land, 
and freedom against the global dictatorship of state and capitalism, 
colonialism, and imperialism. We draw inspiration from those struggling 
around the world who, faced with the monster of fascism, the state, and 
capitalist barbarism, rebel, strike, demonstrate, and fight the 
brutality of power. These are the elements of struggle that we 
anarchists want to highlight: the capacity of the dominated to fight 
back against the all-powerful rulers, the capacity of the poor and 
excluded to rebel even in the most inhumane conditions. We want 
international solidarity to create fractures within the powers that 
attack us, bringing our own history to the fore-the history of the 
struggles of those who suffer oppression and who, throughout time, 
create the living reality of freedom and solidarity, constituting the 
only true bulwark against the advance of modern authoritarianism.

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

International Federation of Anarchist Federations (IFA-IAF)

April 3-5, 2026 - Athens, Greece

https://umanitanova.org/contro-la-dittatura-globale-dello-stato-e-del-capitalismo-contro-la-guerra-e-il-fascismo-organizzazione-internazionalismo-rivoluzione-socila/
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