Solidarity with all those fighting against the war in Russia and Ukraine.
In the early hours of Thursday 24/2, the Russian state launched a large-scale attack on the Ukrainian state. A bloody war is developing with thousands of deaths, rapes, killings of civilians and destructions of the natural world.
In the Russian state, against the calls for national unity, transnational massacres and military recruiting, a war against war is unfolding. Mass demonstrations, refusals of military recruiting, armed attacks on military personnel, arson of recruiting offices are being developed. Actions that also take place are sabotage on railway lines that transport military equipment and on factories that produce war material. One of the most hopeful anti-militarism movements of recent decades is underway.
The Russian state is trying in vain to suppress this movement, by arresting and conducting express trials that imprisoned many people opposing those things, with exterminating sentences. The Moscow Anarchist Black Cross makes an international call for solidarity to those imprisoned and in complete isolation. We answer to this call and send strength and solidarity to the comrades in the prisons of Russia.
In the Ukrainian state, where the authoritarians comment that “the country is on defense” and by that conduct their suppressions, the struggle against war is more limited but existent. Those who refuse to join the army, are facing extreme repression from the state and fascist parastatal groups.
All these denials and struggles point out, that the propaganda of the rulers, often does not catch on. And this is even more important if we consider that this propaganda is particularly powerful and extensive in this particular war.
The forces of NATO and the EU (with an important role of the Greek state) present themselves as “the defenders of democracy and human rights” in opposition to “Russia’s authoritarianism”. This classic rhetoric used in many wars with the most recent example being, the cycle of interventions in the middle east that resulted in millions of dead.
On the other hand, the Russian state is re-warming this rhetoric (from the USSR era) in defense against the intrusive west, trying to find allies and support.
Each side through the war in Ukraine is trying to win the militarily and politically race for world domination. We do not forget that war is “the extension of politics by other means”. Armed conflict is the consequence of various other conflicts that have already happened before (economic, political, nationalist propaganda). That’s why there is no side at the war that started in Ukraine (and any interstate war) to defend and we do not recognize any state calling itself victim that we must support. There is nothing that unites the exploiters and oppressors, whatever their ethnicity, with the exploited and oppressed to fight with them. On the opposite everything separates us, the class position, the ability and way of survival, the fact that for us, the prospect of destroying the existing world and building another life will only be positive and hopeful.
That is why we fight in times of “peace” and war, against every state and every form of oppression and exploitation, without any submission to national unity. We are moving into military recruiting denials , clashing with the military and the war industry. We are sabotaging war preparation and national war. We refuse to kill each other for the interests of the capital and the glory of the country. We continue the social and class struggles, against militarism, the destruction of nature, patriarchy, until total liberation.
Our goal is to continue the struggle for the social and class revolution and for that, it is worth giving all our strength. To pave the way for anarchy. A free society of equal people to be spread across the planet.
In Greece, Russia, Ukraine the enemy is the state, the capital and the patriarchy
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