A-Infos (en) UK, AnarCom: Internationalist Statement Against Capitalism and War from the revolutionist gathering in Arezzo, Italy, June 2024 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

While the global capitalist system is dragging the world into ever more 
war and misery, those who refuse to take sides in these wars and fight 
to end the system that causes them, are still few and far between. So it 
is a promising sign that this summer several extended meetings of 
internationalist revolutionaries from many different countries were 
organized in Europe. in early June, on the last day of the anti-war 
congress in Prague, we agreed on the need of a short statement on 
capitalism and war that expresses our common positions and can serve as 
a base for further networking and common action. This statement was 
drafted after the congress ended. It was discussed, amended and approved 
at the internationalist meeting in Arezzo where the hope was expressed 
that it will be further discussed by the participants of the Prague 
congress and those who will gather in Poznan later this month.

AN INTERNATIONALIST STATEMENT ON CAPITALISM AND WAR

1. In our times, all wars are capitalist wars. While the specific 
circumstances in which they break out may be quite different, all are 
rooted in the capitalist system, which is based on competition and 
exploitation.

2. While imperialism has been a constant feature of capitalism since its 
beginning, the systemic crisis which capitalism faces today and the 
instability it engenders  both push economic competition to military 
conflict and create opportunities to do so. This crisis will only 
deepen, making it inevitable that the continuing existence of capitalism 
would imply the prospect of generalizing wars.

3. The working class, the vast majority of humankind, has nothing to win 
and everything to lose in war. It is always its main victim. National 
defense and national liberation means fighting and dying for the 
interests of one faction of the capitalist class against another. It 
means killing (and being killed by) other working class people for the 
power and profit of the class that exploits and oppresses us.

4. We reject both nationalism and democracy, which are the principal 
ideological tools by which the capitalist class creates the illusion 
that its interests and those of the working class within its borders are 
the same, and by which it mobilizes for war and justifies the 
militarization of society.

5. There are no separate solutions for the many existential threats to 
humankind. A peaceful capitalism, a green capitalism, a socially just 
capitalism are all just pipe dreams to hide the growing horror that is 
real. War, ethnic cleansing, genocide, ecocide, climate disasters, 
pandemics, poverty, insecurity, forced migration, homelessness, stress 
and mental breakdown will continue to worsen, together with the crisis 
of capitalism which causes them all. Therefore there is but one solution 
to all of them: closing the capitalist chapter of human history.

6. We are not pacifists. We do not call for negotiations or UN 
interventions, parliamentary resolutions, disinvestments, etc. We do not 
appeal to the ruling class to act "reasonably", because we understand 
that it can't. Instead we count on autonomous, class based resistance to 
capitalism. The global working class is the only social force capable of 
ending capitalism and establishing a human community based on the 
fulfillment of needs instead of the compulsion of making profit.

7. But it has a long way to go. Its struggle cannot be merely economic, 
it has to be political as well and confront the state. It has to refuse 
to submit to capitalism's war drive. We support proletarians on both 
sides of any war who refuse to fight, who desert, who fraternize instead 
of killing each other. We support sabotage of the war machine and 
collective resistance against conscription, mobilization and the 
militarization of society.

8. But the oxygen on which the war-machine depends is the exploitation 
of the proletariat, the extraction of surplus value. It would be 
paralyzed without it. So war can't be stopped without ending 
exploitation. Furthermore, to make room for the war efforts, the ruling 
class has to attack the social wage, impose austerity. In fighting 
against it, workers fight against the war, consciously or not. The more 
they wage this fight autonomously, without any collaboration with the 
capitalist class and its state, the more it can blossom into a struggle 
against exploitation, a revolution which puts an end to capitalism, to 
its wars and its miserable 'peace'.

https://anarcomuk.uk/2024/07/13/internationalist-statement-against-capitalism-and-war-from-the-revolutionist-gathering-in-arezzo-italy-june-2024/
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