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(en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #5-26 - With Russian and Ukrainian deserters for a world without armies and borders (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Date
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:14:48 +0200
Four years have passed since the war escalated violently with the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. The conflict is increasingly bitter:
hundreds of thousands of people have died on both sides. The Italian
government has taken sides in this war by sending weapons, deploying
3,500 troops to NATO missions in Eastern Europe. It will soon open an
Italian military base in Bulgaria. The war in Ukraine is inherently
inter-imperialist, a conflict of enormous proportions that risks
sparking a much broader conflict between powers that also possess
nuclear weapons. Stopping it, hindering it, and sabotaging it is an
essential necessity.
In Ukraine, there are two hundred thousand deserters; in Russia, tens of
thousands of people have crossed the border to avoid being drafted.
In Russia and Ukraine, antimilitarists are fighting to keep the borders
open for those who oppose the war. We embrace the fight to break down
borders and welcome objectors, draft dodgers, and deserters.
We do not enlist, neither with NATO nor with Russia. We reject the
shameful games played by Trump, Putin, and the EU at the expense of
war-weary populations, silenced by regimes that harshly repress those
who actively oppose them.
The price of this war is being paid by the poor. Everywhere. Opponents,
saboteurs, objectors, and deserters are paying it, suffering beatings,
trials, and prison. We all pay it, caught in the spiral of inflation,
with starvation wages and pensions and ever-increasing rents and bills.
Try to imagine how many schools, hospitals, and local public
transportation could be funded if research and production were used for
the lives of all of us, for healing rather than for war.
The Meloni government's rearmament decree provides one billion euros to
make the arsenal available to the Italian armed forces increasingly deadly.
Italy is engaged in 43 military missions abroad, mostly in Africa, where
Italian troops wage war on migrants and defend the interests of giants
like ENI.
Various bills aim to gradually reinstate compulsory military service,
suspended in 2005. Cannon fodder is needed for wars in which Italy is at
the forefront. Schools and universities have become battlegrounds for
the conscription of bodies and consciences.
The Italian arms industry, led by the giant Leonardo, generates billions
in profits. Italy sells weapons to all countries at war. A business of
death.
We must overturn the perverse logic that sees the arms industry as the
engine that will make Italy more prosperous. A war economy only produces
more war.
War is also internal. The government responds to poverty by addressing
social issues in terms of public order: the soldiers of the "safe
streets" operation can be found in the suburbs, in the CPRs, in the
stations, on the borders. Every form of social and political opposition
is criminalized with a set of old and new laws that guarantee
ever-increasing impunity for the police and turn normal fighting
practices into crimes.
Only an international community can lay the foundations for that world
of free and equal people that can put an end to wars.
Today they want us all to enlist. We desert. We do not enlist alongside
this or that imperialist state. We reject patriotic rhetoric as a means
of legitimizing states and their expansionist claims. Everywhere. There
is no good nationalism.
We stand with those who, in every corner of the earth, desert war. We
want a world without borders, armies, oppression, exploitation, and war.
We call for information and protest initiatives to be held in every city
between February 21st and 24th.
Antimilitarist Assembly
assembleantimilitarista@gmail.com
Image by Militanza Grafica
https://umanitanova.org/con-i-disertori-russi-ed-ucraini-per-un-mondo-senza-eserciti-e-frontiere/
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