Let us not accept being cannon fodder for the next global slaughter of an exploitative system at the end of its tether !

Let us not accept being cannon fodder for the next global slaughter of an exploitative system at the end of its tether !

Workers, women and youth of the world, let us not accept being cannon fodder for the next global slaughter of an exploitative system at the end of its tether !

The American power has sent a clear message : the "Western world" (this has no other meaning than the allies of the USA since it includes Japan, Australia or Canada as well as Europe and England) is called upon to prepare for world war at full speed and all the states that are part of this international alliance are aligning themselves one after the other and engaging their armies in the race for the most sophisticated and most deadly arms.

The exacerbated economic competition and the multiplying wars (from Syria to Yemen, from Ukraine to Armenia and Israel) are the pretext invoked. The world, once unified, is now divided into two capitalist economies (one around the USA and the other around the China/Russia bloc). The economic, financial and monetary war is engaged and war itself is looming. In all current conflicts, one bloc is on one side and the other on the opposing side. The barbarity of these wars is constantly increasing, as Ukraine and Gaza demonstrate every day.

This murderous division of the world is a choice, not an involuntary development, on the part of the great powers that dominate not only the economy but all of human life. This choice is directly linked to the state of the capitalist economic system since its collapse in 2007-2008.

Certainly, capitalism has never rhymed with pacifism, but since its historic fall in 2007 and since the wave of revolutions that began worldwide in 2011, bloodshed has been the new response of the exploiting classes, one of these massacres being the pandemic and the supposedly anti-covid policies with its millions of dead and injured. Because, contrary to the dominant discourse, the ruling classes did nothing to fight the disease, quite the contrary, too satisfied as they were that it struck the people in the midst of a wave of revolutions while imposing injections under the guise of mass vaccinations to support a collapsing global economy and whose generalized confinement was only intended to mask but also to prepare minds for totalitarianism and dictatorship under the guise of a health struggle while at the same time healthcare workers were being laid off and the hospital destroyed even more !

"It’s just a crisis like the capitalist system is used to," all the liars in the world tell us.

And that’s false :

In a crisis, trusts, banks and financial institutions in the red go bankrupt and close in order to restore the rate of profit and thus allow a new deployment of Capital and create the conditions for a recovery, i.e. a new economic cycle !

While in 2001, bourgeois institutions allowed Enron to go bankrupt, making it the largest bankruptcy in American history, in 2008, this was no longer the case ; the bankrupt companies were saved by massive financial intervention by governments and central banks. So in 2008, the global system made the opposite choice. It did not allow the mechanisms of the crisis to take their course, yet they are the only means of regulation that capitalism knows to overcome its internal contradictions of development ! The collapse of 2008 is nothing other than the response to the financialization of the global economy, itself a response to the lack of productive investment since the end of the 70s. 2008 is therefore not the end of an economic cycle but marks the fall of capitalist society based on the exploitation of labor through wage labor, just as the Roman Empire marked the fall of the economy based on slavery or medieval society based on serfdom !

And since then, all crises have been treated in the same way, i.e. by methods contrary to capitalist regulation, and have been bailed out with public funds. The institutions of capital then estimated that each trust or bank, or insurance or other large financial establishment that would fall would be "systemic", that is to say that it would bring down the whole of global capitalism ! And that was out of the question ! It was necessary to save the global economy from collapse at all costs by further indebting the people !

Except that the debt of states and central banks, due to the rescue of capitalists "whatever the cost," as they put it, has become a real abyss that will in turn engulf the entire system. And it is this perspective, combined with that of the wave of revolutions, that is driving them mad and leading the possessing classes to steer the world towards dictatorships, fascisms, civil wars and wars, even world war, although the latter can only bring about the destruction of humanity itself.

There is no solution to this catastrophe if we remain within the capitalist system. Saying no to generalized war means saying no to capitalism and imperialism (this system of domination of a few great powers linked to trusts and banks over the entire world and crushing the majority of the world’s population).

The struggle against war is nothing other than the struggle for socialism, that is, to put an end to the exploitation of man by capital and to establish a new mode of production free from private ownership of capital and enterprises.

The future does not lie in returning to a more liberal, more democratic society under capitalism ! It is a lie to pretend that economic liberalism and bourgeois democracy were synonymous with freedom within society and political freedom. Under capitalism, people only have the choice between interchangeable politicians, each as liar as the next, but they have no choice over the policies they pursue once in government.

Democracy and the possession of wealth by a tiny minority are mutually exclusive.

It is characteristic that people have never had the right to decide what to do in the face of economic crises, wars, or pandemics. More than ever, in the phase of the historic collapse of capitalism, there is no question of democracy anywhere in the world, neither in rich nor in poor countries.

Everywhere, fascisms and dictatorships are returning to serve as crutches for a crumbling system. The violence of repression is growing everywhere, including in the wealthiest metropolises.

IT IS UP TO THE WORKING PEOPLE, TO WOMEN AND TO YOUNG PEOPLE TO GIVE A CLEAR RESPONSE TO THE RISING BARBARISM :

The struggle against war and for socialism, led by committees resulting from the mobilization, electing revocable delegates and controlled by general assemblies with decision-making power, this is where true democracy will come from, on which to found a new society, which is not subject to the owners of big capital.

At a time when all those in power are talking about are rearmament, mobilization, and military service, when they proclaim to have increasingly sophisticated "toys" of death and sell them all over the planet, particularly in war zones, at a time when even states that are not officially at war are supporting wars in the four corners of the world, it is important that we, workers, women, and young people, engage in the struggle to put an end to this dying and bloody system.

There is no question for us of supporting one side against the other, no question of supporting "national" trusts and banks against their adversaries, no question of attacking peoples by supporting our own exploiters and the governments at their beck and call.

We must be for the defeat of all the great powers and the victory of all the peoples who seek to free themselves from them.

No government in the capitalist world will bring us what we want because the States, whether they claim to be democratic or not, are directly linked to big capital and all parties, left, right or far right are in fact attached to the capitalist system and defend it more or less openly like the unions which are integrated into the management of capitalism ! We will not build the future with the structures put in place by its direct enemies. Those who claim that it is enough to elect good governments are deceiving us. Those who make us believe that we can win social struggles without claiming to take political power are also lying to us. These reformists do not reform anything at all and less than ever we will not reform the killers of capitalism, we must disarm them and arm the working people.

We need a government based on the grassroots committees of the working people in the cities and countryside, of women and youth, as appeared here and there during the last wave of the so-called Spring Revolutions. We need government of the people by the people, self-organized direct democracy, independent of all the institutions of the old, rotten society.

To end wars is to do

• Falling states and governments

• Organize and arm the people !

Not allowing ourselves to be invaded by barbarism and generalized war is building socialism ! There is no other way out !

Like the mutinous sailors of the Potemkin in 1905...

Peace among us, war against the Tyrants

Let’s apply the strike to the armies,

Sticks in the air and let’s break ranks !

If these cannibals persist

To make us heroes,

They will soon know that our bullets are for our own generals.

All the world’s police forces will be mobilized to massacre the revolutions !

All the armies of the world will be mobilized to crush the people !

Little soldiers, little policemen !

Don’t think you’ll make it out alive ! Don’t think you’ll be able to sleep soundly about the horrors they’ll make you commit ! Look at Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, and many other places : you won’t be able to hide the reality of the dirty work the ruling classes expect of you !

Little soldiers, little policemen, refuse to become cannon fodder for the ruling classes who also make you the sworn torturers or assassins of the people you think you are defending or not !

Like the mutineers in 1917 in the French trenches who refused, not to die to defend their own, but to die for the bankers, financiers or other capitalists, the true leech of the people or these soldiers who fraternized in the trenches, like the sailors of the Black Sea who turned their weapons against their superiors so as not to crush the revolution, or the National Guard in 1871 which supported the revolution !

There are only two camps : that of the people or that which, even in the name of democracy or the republic, strikes, locks up in prison or camps, mutilates, blinds, murders, bombs, massacres or commits genocide against the people, making policemen and soldiers, like you, the fascist gravediggers of the working people !

Little soldiers and little policemen, refuse to be a band of armed men exercising violence in the service of the privileged minority ! Turn your weapons against the capitalists, the imperialists and their political henchmen ! Join the working people ! Unite with the working people !

Let the committees of the working people link up with the committees of revolutionary soldiers and policemen, and capitalist domination will be a thing of the past !