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Against war, rearmament, and militarization, it is urgent to multiply and organize resistance. Defend social resources, halt the war economy, and build an alternative based on a new international law, disarmament, ecology, and grassroots diplomacy
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Caught between Trump and Putin, Europe has chosen war. “Peace is over,” the EU leadership tells us. “If you want peace, prepare for war” has become the mantra of European institutions.
And they are indeed leading us into war. With a massive rearmament plan that drains resources from social and environmental expenses. With the war-driven conversion of the economy, which is generating enormous profits for corporations while destroying work and nature. With the militarization of territories, infrastructure, knowledge, education, research, schools, and universities. With the return of mandatory military service. With the resurgence of patriotism demanding conformity and obedience, censorship, the hunt for internal enemies, and the use of information as a tool of war propaganda. They want to convince us that to perish or to take up weapons are the only possible choices.
But we know that an alternative exists: it is called enforcement of international law, common and unarmed security, diplomacy and disarmament, ecological and social conversion, and grassroots diplomacy. We feel the urgency to multiply and organize resistance to war, rearmament, militarization, and genocide everywhere: in schools and universities, in territories and communities, in workplaces. To network locally, nationally, across Europe, and globally. To contaminate and innovate thoughts, visions, and forms of struggle, weaving together pacifist, anti-colonial, ecological, feminist, and anti-system cultures. To converge. To jam the machinery of war through popular, widespread participation and action.
The Global Sumud Flotilla has shown us that it is possible, that we can break free from the cage of powerless frustration and assert the strength of the peoples. And it is up to each and every one of us, wherever we are, to feel the responsibility to act and build a movement against war worthy of the danger we face.