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Internationalist Manifesto Against the War

category international | imperialism / war | non-anarchist press author Friday April 15, 2022 07:38author by submitter: Wayne Price - Anticapitalist Organizations of Russia, Ukraine, and NATO Countries Report this post to the editors

April 22, 2022 Statement Against Imperialist War on Ukraine

A Manifesto by a number of revolutionary amtcapitalst organizations. It condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, condemns U.S. imperialism, and supports the armed resistance of the Ukrainian people. It concludes with a list of 6 internationalist demands.
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The criminal war launched by Russian imperialism against Ukraine is the most serious threat to world peace since the end of the Cold War. It brings the world closer to a global conflagration than at any time since Mikhail Gorbachev’s peace initiatives.

The main culprit for this dangerous evolution is US imperialism, which took advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union in order to consolidate its global military network, expand its presence in various parts of the world and launch invasion wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington fostered in Russia and Eastern Europe the adoption of a brutal neoliberal program that created conditions for a far-right drift in most of these countries, especially Russia where it supported Boris Yeltsin’s antidemocratic coup in 1993.

To stress this historical responsibility of the Cold War’s victor does not in the least exonerate the far-right government of Vladimir Putin of its Great-Russian expansionist ambitions, its own militaristic drive and increased global reactionary interventionism and, above all, its murderous invasion of Ukraine, the most brutal invasion of one country by another since the US invasion of Iraq.

In addition to the terrible devastation and death that it brought to Ukraine, the Russian invasion has boosted the global militaristic drive and reinvigorated NATO after years of obsolescence. It is being seized as an opportunity for a sharp rise in military expenditure benefitting military-industrial complexes. This comes at a time when NATO governments themselves keep stressing that Russia’s force has been very much overrated, as proven by the heroic Ukrainian resistance, and when U.S. military expenditure alone is close to 40% of the global total, three times that of China and more than twelve times that of Russia.

As anticapitalist forces, we are as much in solidarity with the Ukrainian people’s resistance as we are radically opposed to this global militaristic drive. We therefore stand indivisibly for the following demands:

• Immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine
• Support for the Ukrainian resistance and its right to get the weapons it needs for its defence from whatever source available
• Support for the Russian antiwar movement
• Russia should be forced to pay reparations for what it has inflicted on Ukraine
• No to any increases in military expenditure—we pledge to launch, as soon as this war ends, a new campaign for global disarmament, the dissolution of all imperialist military alliances and an alternative architecture of international security based on the rule of law.
• Open doors in all countries to all refugees fleeing wars in any part of the world

Signatories (by 11 April 2022):

Social Movement (Sotsialny Rukh) – Ukraine

Black Flag – Ukraine

Russian Socialist Movement (RSD) – Russia

Liberation Road – USA

Solidarity – USA

The Tempest Collective – USA

International Marxist-Humanist Organization – USA

Green Party of Onondaga County (New York) – USA

SAP – Antikapitalisten / Gauche anticapitaliste – Belgium

Midnight Sun – Canadian State

Anti-Capitalist Resistance – England & Wales

Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) – France

Fondation Frantz Fanon – France, Martinique

Elaliberta – Greece

Rproject-anticapitalista – Italy

SAP – Grenzeloos – Netherlands

International Marxist-Humanist Organization – UK

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To sign this Manifesto (collective signatures only), write to: manifestointer@gmail.com

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Stop the war!     Bellid    Mon Sep 12, 2022 00:42 
   I hope this will end!     Tom    Wed Nov 09, 2022 09:01 
   This war needs to stop!     Kadan    Tue Nov 22, 2022 21:18 
   Interesting     Kien Brady    Fri Nov 25, 2022 08:42 
   Nice     Lesly Jacks    Mon Nov 28, 2022 09:57 
   Nice     Lesly Jacks    Mon Nov 28, 2022 09:57 
   Internationalist Manifesto Against the War     Lesly Jacks    Tue Feb 07, 2023 08:55 
   Thanks a lot     Anthony Scotte    Mon Feb 20, 2023 14:06 
   Thanks a lot     Anthony Scotte    Mon Feb 20, 2023 14:10 
 10   invasion     Gregory    Sat Feb 25, 2023 07:57 
 11   marco island jet ski rentals     Amor Scott    Wed Mar 01, 2023 16:03 
 12   statement     Amor Scott    Wed Mar 01, 2023 16:07 
 13   This is Worrisome!     Poly    Tue Mar 14, 2023 05:38 
 14   History!     Ainz    Tue Mar 14, 2023 08:33 
 15   Nice Article     builder16    Wed Apr 26, 2023 06:03 
 16   Couldn't agree with this more     Reese    Sun Apr 30, 2023 21:06 
 17   Nice Blog     Calista Webster    Sat May 13, 2023 03:47 
 18   Nice Article     builder16    Fri Jun 02, 2023 09:31 
 19   Nice     builder16    Tue Jul 11, 2023 02:04 
 20   Nice Article     boL16    Sat Aug 26, 2023 01:50 
 21   Nice Article     boL16    Fri Oct 13, 2023 01:17 
 22   Great     Angel17    Fri Nov 24, 2023 20:51 
 23   agreed this is great content     jean neana    Tue Feb 20, 2024 00:59 
 24   agreed this is great content     jean neana    Tue Feb 20, 2024 00:59 
 25   Stop     Cliff    Sun Mar 24, 2024 16:38 
 26   Anarkismo article     Jdotb    Mon Mar 25, 2024 20:52 


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