A-Infos (en) Germany, Die Platform: Come out for Anti-War Day: Smash the system of wars, fight for global peace! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

85 years ago today, on September 1, 1939, the Nazi regime began its 
attack on Poland. It marked the beginning of the Second World War, the 
most murderous and destructive war the world has ever seen. After the 
military victory over German fascism, the workers' movement in this 
country created September 1 as Anti-War Day to annually demand a world 
of peace and to warn of the danger of new wars.
Wars are systematic
This was also desperately needed. After the Second World War, new war 
zones soon flared up all over the world. This is no coincidence, because 
there can be no capitalism without war. The reason for this is the 
system of imperialist state competition.

Every state tries to offer its national capitals the best possible 
development opportunities. To do this, it uses diplomatic methods such 
as trade agreements or lobbying. If it cannot achieve its goals in this 
way, it is always ready to try to use armed force - provided it has the 
military capabilities to do so. This is why the most powerful states in 
particular determine the competition between states, subjugate weaker 
states and try to exploit them and their resources and sales markets.

The period after the Second World War was marked on the one hand by 
dozens of anti-colonial uprisings in the countries of Latin America, 
Africa and Asia, which the western imperialist states tried to suppress 
by force of arms. On the other hand, it was marked by the system 
competition between the NATO states and the real socialist states of the 
Soviet Union and China, which were also increasingly acting 
imperialistically. Their struggle for global hegemony finally ended with 
the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, China's 
return to capitalism and a comprehensive triumph of the western states.

Wars and the threat of war are increasing

There were also numerous wars in the 1990s and 2000s. But since 2010 
their number has been increasing rapidly worldwide. There are so many 
that we can only pick out a few examples here.

In Kurdistan, the neighboring states are trying to use war to prevent 
the development of a revolutionary alternative to capitalism, the state 
and patriarchy. In Sudan, reactionary military leaders are waging a war 
for control of the country and against the revolutionary movement. In 
Palestine, the Israeli state, with the support of its Western allies, is 
trying to maintain and intensify the oppression of the Palestinian 
population through war. In Eastern Europe, the Russian state and the 
NATO states are wrangling over whether Ukraine should remain or be added 
to their respective spheres of influence.

The global context against which the war in Ukraine in particular is 
taking place is that of an escalation of the confrontation between the 
Western imperialist states and their future main imperialist competitor 
China, which currently still maintains an alliance with the Russian 
state. The NATO states and China are wrangling for global supremacy and 
for spheres of influence in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The South 
China Sea is becoming a particular focal point, where China and the USA 
and their allies are increasingly heading for confrontation.

Both the competition with China and the war with Russia increase the 
risk of an even greater, global military escalation. Given the states' 
huge nuclear arsenals, such a war would endanger the existence of our 
entire species.

German rearmament and militarization

Because the Federal Republic of Germany is part of NATO, the effects of 
global developments are also felt here.

The war in Ukraine serves as a justification for those in power to make 
Germany "ready for war." On the one hand, they are trying to do this 
with material rearmament by massively increasing the budget and 
personnel of the Bundeswehr, making preparations for a new conscription 
and cutting back on the welfare state. On the other hand, 
militarization, i.e. ideological rearmament through war propaganda in 
the media, schools and public spaces, is taking place. It is intended to 
make the idea of massacring their own class brothers and sisters on the 
other side of the front palatable to young wage earners in particular.

Fight for a world of peace!

Even if our world threatens to sink into war: We are convinced that a 
world of peace is possible. A world in which people reach out to one 
another across the former borders of their states and together build a 
society of freedom, equality and solidarity.

But to do this we must eliminate the causes of war. We must overthrow 
the state and capital.

We must work through and correct the effects of centuries of colonial 
exploitation and oppression. We must stop the further scarcity of 
resources in the course of capitalist destruction of the environment.

All of this will only be possible with an internationally organized 
movement from below. We can and must start building it today. In 
Germany, this means disrupting our own state's material and ideological 
preparations for war at all levels.

In schools, by actively contradicting the Bundeswehr's youth officers 
and protesting against their visits. In universities, by raising our 
voices against research into new murder weapons. In neighborhoods, by 
opposing poster campaigns, information stands and Bundeswehr bases. In 
companies, by trying to win over our colleagues to blockade military 
production and logistics. And in the political movement with which we go 
to the gates of the weapons manufacturers and war profiteers, just as 
"Disarm Rheinmetall" is already doing with its actions in Kiel these days.

Only if we wage earners all over the world unite and stab our own 
imperialism in the back will we be able to stop the wars and war 
preparations of the ruling class. Our only weapons remain the class 
struggle and international solidarity!

Down with rearmament and militarization!

Stop wars, fight for peace!

Out for Anti-War Day!

https://www.dieplattform.org/2024/09/01/heraus-zum-antikriegstag-system-der-kriege-zerschlagen-weltweiten-frieden-erkaempfen/
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