A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #17-26 - Not even an hour in the army. Greece: Against women's conscription (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The recent call from the Army General Staff to women between the ages of 
20 and 26 for voluntary conscription could not fail to be accompanied by 
the phrase, "The responsibility of the homeland concerns me too." ---- 
And this very phrase epitomizes the way in which the state seeks to 
extend its control over our bodies and our lives, demanding not only our 
consent, but also our active participation in the reproduction of its 
sovereignty. Specifically, the announcements, which are part of the EU's 
Territorial Agenda 2030, invite women to enlist in the ground army for a 
12-month pilot period, starting in April, with 200 "volunteers" at the 
war material training center in Lamia.

It is clear that women's conscription does not represent a step toward 
freedom or equality, but an extension of the same violence that 
organizes the world of the state and capital. Participation in war is 
not a "right," but rather a death knell, a further attempt to normalize 
the idea that we must all be available to the demands of sovereignty.
It is no coincidence that this voluntary enlistment in the army is 
presented as a constitutive element of independent national existence, 
with a term like "opportunity" and at the same time as a legal 
continuation of the "glorious Greek past"; as a responsibility in a 
period in which "ever-changing conditions create new demands."

Precisely in these conditions of widespread modern totalitarianism, 
daily impoverishment, and the crystallization of the dystopian mosaic of 
exploitation, so-called gender equality, under the guise of 
democratization, is exploited by the state and its mechanisms as a tool 
to reproduce hierarchies and extort consensus. This method is used to 
bridge social conflicts under the umbrella of "inclusion," "national 
honor," and "supply," while simultaneously regulating our bodies and 
preparing the social base as "destined" to be part of a collective 
military machine.
In this way, women are supposedly reestablished as active subjects, 
while in reality they are invited to integrate precisely into these 
demands of state and capitalist domination and to preserve the 
conservative network of social relations that calls us to assume "battle 
positions."
Furthermore, overall, it is clear that to safeguard plans for 
territorial sovereignty and military and economic expansion, disguised 
under the vulgar cloaks of "social welfare" and "common good," but also 
to normalize the sirens of war that are beginning to wail again, states 
methodically establish and reinforce this network of discipline and 
subordination that permeates every aspect of social life.
From school to the field, bodies are trained in obedience, alignment, 
and integration into hierarchical structures, while violence is 
internalized as a necessary means of maintaining "order" and cohesion.
In other words, militarization is not limited to the spaces of the armed 
forces, but permeates everyday life, transforming society into a 
mechanism where surveillance, fear, and obedience become the norm, and 
where preparation for war becomes the very organization of life.
At the same time, militarization cannot be separated from the broader 
reality of exploitation and exclusion. The same mechanisms that today 
call upon women to defend their homeland are the same ones that leave 
workers in precarious conditions, that transform migrants and refugees 
into cheap and expendable labor, that fuel and reproduce gender-based 
violence and social exclusion.
Consequently, we must not delude ourselves that these mechanisms, 
structurally and a priori programmed to implement and reproduce 
gender-based oppression, repression, and exploitation in every sphere of 
private and public life, can display any sensitivity, even if only 
feigned. After all, power can be managed and disguised, but its 
structural element will always be the need for control.
And it is clear that the homeland for which we are called to fight is 
not a common place of freedom, but rather a camp of exploitation and death.

We refuse, therefore, to be transformed into "flesh" in the hands of a 
mechanism that produces death, destruction, and subjugation. We oppose 
and fight daily against the nationalism that wants us to identify with 
the interests of the sovereign, against the patriarchy that extends its 
control even through "integration." Even in times when, faced with 
borders, transnational capital formations, and wars, human life is 
clearly devalued, it is the dignity of existence that could never be 
appeased or limited within the narrow confines of EU spatial planning, 
proclamations, and the professional "bonuses" of the General Staff.

And at the same time, we create our own declarations, proposing another 
perspective: that of internationalist solidarity among those who suffer 
exploitation, a perspective that transcends national borders and 
artificial divisions imposed from above!
Because we have nothing to defend in this world of inequality, wars and 
oppression, exploitation and death. Nor could we ever acknowledge any 
responsibility towards states that organize life in terms of domination 
and death.
Because the responsibility we assume is that of one another, of every 
person who resists, of the very possibility of a life free from 
exploitation, borders, and power. And so we unwaveringly uphold the 
promise that, in the face of intensifying totalitarianism, barbarism, 
and death, freedom cannot be won by fighting, but rather is built 
through struggle-a total struggle destined to crush all power, the 
anarchist struggle that will not stop until we have eradicated 
oppression, the state, capitalism, and patriarchy from their 
foundations, until we have built a world of equality, freedom, and dignity.

INTERNATIONALIST STRUGGLES AGAINST PATRIARCHY, THE STATE, AND CAPITAL - 
AGAINST NATIONALISM, FASCISM, AND WAR

Free Women of the Collective for Social Anarchism - "Black and Red"
Member of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

https://umanitanova.org/nemmeno-unora-nellesercito-grecia-contro-la-coscrizione-delle-donne/
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