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Israel demands the exodus of a million Palestinians in 24 hours, in a sickening parody of biblical proportions.

Netanyahu’s gambit in Gaza is taken directly from the playbook of Putin and Assad.  Collective punishment through annihilation. 

The dictatorial destruction of Grozny, Aleppo and Mariupol is reenacted in the democratic ‘free world’s’ endorsement of the destruction of Gaza.

Like the movie Face Off, umasked, capitalist ‘democracy’ and capitalist dictatorship look interchangeable.

We could all be forgiven for thinking only one war was going on. It seems global media can only focus on one at a time. The 150,000 dead in the European war are shunted to one side.  The West is addressing another of its global rivalry priorities while Zelensky lambasts them for turning their gaze.

The movement of British naval forces to join those the USA has already brought in from the eastern Mediterranean to protect Israel, (though clearly not from a Gazan air force!) suggests another gambit is in play.  It happens to be within range of Russia’s Mediterranean fleet at the Syrian port of Tartus.

Israel’s bombing of Damascus and Aleppo airports in Syria has barely received a mention.  They have targeted what they see as Iranian assets in that country.  This suggests old scores may be addressed in this fog of war and under the protection of a power bloc sponsor.

Two other faces have also become interchangeable, the agony and despair of our class on both sides.  The massacre at the Be’eri Kibbutz sits alongside that of the Ukrainian village of Bucha in the graveyard of our illusions.  The good guys and the bad are also interchangeable.

Whilst anti-semitism is disturbingly on the rise throughout Europe and beyond, and racism from warring actors adds fuel to the fire, behind the divisions here is clearly the theme of national concept and religious difference.

The holding and subjection to the act or threat of violence of hostages is iconic of the barbarism of this conflict. The Islamic fundamentalist Mullahs of Hamas ordered the stealing of our class for their gain. Israel’s far right religious orthodox minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has supported settler violence against Palestinians. He has also called for “cruel punishment” retribution against Arabs.

His sidelining to enable a unity government has led to no softening of rhetoric.  His stand-in as new Defence Minister, Benny Gants, stated that Israel was fighting “human animals”.  An ‘othering’ that permits 2 million people being deprived of food, water, power and medicine – clearly not needed in a desert of rubble.

As this conflict continues to unmask, we see the political extremes of those orthodox faith views are mutually interchangeable too.

Hamas has 150 captive hostages in Gaza.  The Israeli state has more than 2 million.  For Israel, the paramount safety of is hostages is a red herring as it acquires ‘bunker-busting’ munitions to destroy the tunnels they are probably held in.

The son of an elderly Jewish peace activist kidnapped by Hamas was asked what he thought his mother would think. He said, “she would be horrified.  You can’t cure dead babies with more dead babies.”  A powerful heartfelt sentiment full of innate humanity.

One that would resonate as strongly either side of this conflict line. That would resonate as strongly in Ukraine and Russia.  The players are essentially the same, the loser in both is our class. These conflicts are interchangeable too!

War is always against our class. No war is legitimate except our Class War against it!

By Dreyfus

 

 

Continuing our series speaking to comrades about what being in the ACN means to them we speak to Ash from Manchester

What drew you to revolutionary activism?

That’s the cart before the horse!  I wasn’t ‘drawn’ to ‘it’!  As a queer teenager in the late ’70’s I found myself ‘illegal’ and in a life and death struggle.  The early Thatcher years of the AIDS pandemic.  Coming together as lesbian, trans, queer, or simply being young, didn’t feel like a choice, it seemed to present itself to me out of necessity.

Why would that need to be revolutionary when you were seeking equality under the law?

The answer is in the question!  We were virtually underground.  Most in our communities actually were underground, genuinely clandestine.  Those of us who weren’t were not going to be left to die.  Being allowed to be ‘under’ anything else to me seemed ridiculous.  The state, church, system, wouldn’t even let us bury our dead!  It wasn’t difficult to feel the whole rotten shop was in need of burning down!

But why Class Struggle Anarchism?

There’s another kind??  I’m not obsessed with the word anarchist.  As for Class Struggle, ie anti-capitalist internationalism, without that it’s just liberalism.  I demand to be free, not request it.   I’m equally happy with libertarian communist.  Basically, nonhierarchical community over Capital. By that I mean capitalism – the wage labour slave system that you can sometimes survive in but never escape.  Being truly human and accepting exploitation by the bosses are not compatible.

And you believe that’s possible?  Isn’t that just too idealistic – Utopian even?

Wow! The day we give up on a humanity with ideals is the day I guess I stop being human!  There has never been a time where people haven’t imagined a better world without poverty or exploitation. That ‘thin red line’ of resistance that has always shown itself.  Communities of struggle.  For me, those who believe that this system that is driving us to global annihilation through war, poverty and climate change works are the utopians.

You talk of ‘community’, what do you mean?   What might a different society look like?

We all have an experience of its potential in our daily lives. Our humanity constantly asserts itself.  Struggling and consequently incomplete.  I would say the abolition of greed and scarcity, inclusion and direct involvement, mutual aid in the safety of social solidarity.  When I’m asked this question, I usually say look at the relationships and communities around you that you have chosen or are able to create.  They’re opposite of all the relationships we are expected to see as normal in the 50 years most of our waking life is spent trying not to become homeless or hungry.  Friends, neighbours, family.  Places of voluntary engagement like community centres, sports, cultural and social groups.  Charities, food banks, choirs  etc  We know what it is to be in non-hierarchical or exploitative relationships.

After 40 odd years of activism, what do you think is most different now?

Urgency.  40 odd years ago class struggle here was a continuous unbroken tradition.  My parents were the children of miners and council workers.  Change had always been sought, always needed, always believed in. Despite the Cold War there wasn’t the sense that time is running out as there is now.

It is no longer a future dystopian fantasy to imagine that the generation which will witness our extinction is already here. 

Interview by ACN

From our Comrades Tridni Valka

“The position of revolutionaries confronted with capitalist war is always the same: to oppose social revolution to war, to struggle against ‘their own’ bourgeoisie and ‘their own’ national state.”

GCI-ICG, The Invariance of the Revolutionary Position on War: The Meaning of Revolutionary Defeatism – Communism No.12

October 7^th, 2023 – another day of a bloody, decades-long conflict between opposing capitalist factions in the territory of “Israel/Palestine”. Our bourgeois masters are once again pushing our proletarian brothers and sisters to murder each other and expect us – depending on where we live – to rally in support of one or the other side.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad are launching rockets against the towns in “Israel” as well as sending their militias to go street by street and execute or kidnap “civilians” and “soldiers”… just like what happened in Srebrenica, in Sabra and Shatila, in Bucha…

IDF is bombing and shelling indiscriminately across the Gaza ghetto, flattening whole neighborhoods, as well as cutting off the supply of water, electricity, food, medicine… just like what happened in Fallujah, in Homs, in Mariupol… or just like it did so many times before.

We have heard justifications for support of the war in the territory of “Palestine/Israel” many times – perhaps more than any other conflict since the WW2 is this one portrayed as a “Holy War” between “good and evil”. We see this warmongering bourgeois argumentation coming from media, politicians, “right”, “left” and “ultra-left” as well as some of the so-called “communists” and “anarchists”.

The bourgeois ideological construct of “Israeli/Jewish exceptionalism” is tossed around both in a positive and in a negative sense and used by our class enemies to prevent, hinder and crush the development of the class solidarity between “Jewish/Israeli” and “Arab/Palestinian” proletarians.

On one hand “Jews/Israelis” are allowed to defend their “state and identity” even by some of those that claim to be revolutionaries and to oppose all states and national identities, because they “uniquely suffered” during the Holocaust.

On the other hand, different groups that also claim to be revolutionaries and to “fight for the working class interests” never extend their call for fraternization to “Jewish/Israeli” proletarians and instead lump them together with their “own” bourgeoisie and call for destruction of Israel as “uniquely oppressive state”. At the same time, instead of supporting the proletarians in Gaza and West Bank to rise up against their “own” exploiters, they call for a support of the “Palestinian” national state.

As communists, we totally reject all false communities that try to unite the exploited with their exploiters; the proletariat in the territory of “Israel/Palestine” has no common interests with its “own” bourgeoisie, just as global proletariat has no common interests with global bourgeoisie!

“Anti-imperialism” and “national liberation” are nothing else than defense of imperialist interests of that faction of the bourgeoisie, that is not currently dominant. Nothing changes in this regard, if that side is much weaker, or if some of its leaders are willing to sacrifice themselves for their cause!

As communists, we call for a destruction of all states equally, as they are nothing else than the local expression of the global capitalist State, a structure of organized violence of the bourgeois class against the proletarian class!

Proletarians in the “Israeli” forces – you have no interest in defending any “Jewish Homeland”, it is a land of “your” bourgeoisie, not yours! Refuse to shoot and refuse to enforce the blockade that is starving millions of your class brothers and sisters. As you have shown many times before, refuse to follow the orders, resist the military service!

Proletarians in the “Palestinian” forces – you have no country to conquer! Refuse to kill or be killed for the interests of your exploiters!

Proletarians on the “home” front – how many times have you suffered bombing, shelling, shooting? How many times you were violently repressed by your “own” State when you dared to strike or protest? For how long have you lived in misery? Rise up and refuse to support “your” State and its wars, you can lose nothing but your chains!

In “Palestine/Israel” as well as in “Ukraine”, “Azerbaijan/Armenia”, “Sudan” and elsewhere, our class enemies are turning us either into cannon fodder or into cannon makers. More and more, all these “local” bourgeois conflicts are helping with the formation of few opposing super-blocks, that are coming closer and closer to the open, possibly nuclear, military confrontation. Confrontation that has potential to end all life on this planet.

Our only hope is to turn the weapons against our “own” generals, against our “own” bosses, to refuse to obey the orders, to refuse to produce the war materials – to oppose both the carnage of the capitalist war and the misery of the capitalist interbellum (or as our class enemies call it “peace”)!

Let’s take the example from our comrades that mutinied in “Russia” and “Germany” against the slaughter of the WW1, or those that fraternized across the trench line in the war between “Iraq” and “Iran”, or those in the “American” uniforms during the war in “Vietnam” “fragging” their officers!

Proletarians with and without uniform, let’s organize together against the capitalist system of exploitation of the human labor that lies in the root of all the misery, all the State oppression and all the wars!

Let’s turn this war into class war for the global communist revolution!

Class War – October 8^th, 2023

From Gaza to Tel-Aviv and to the whole World… No War But Class War!

Tridni Valka – Class War

How do you live 
How do you die
A war between states
The working class die

Our brothers and Sisters across the world.
Degenerate patriotism, flags unfurled
Swallowing all the news tells us
Believe this or that but make no fuss

Political apathy, thousands die.
Thoughts and prayers pie in the sky!
National flags on your profile
Taking sides such Statist bile!

War about money, war about power
War about oil, war about Land
No peace between classes
The world is burning make a stand.

1500 dead in the first day alone – not Ukraine this time but again in the Middle East. 

“If war begets war, it feels like it’s spawning at an alarmingly bloody rate across the globe” was a UK journalists introduction to the outbreak of the Israel/Gaza war.

As if war were a contagiousness natural phenomenon independent of cause and effect.  War does not beget war, capitalism does. 

As French Socialist Jean Juarès said just before WW1: “Capitalism carries war within it, just like clouds carry rain”.

The hypocrisy of those claiming to offer solutions is demonstrated in Turkey’s president Erdogan’s statement inviting “…all parties to act reasonably and to stay away from impulsive steps that raise tensions” just days after bombing Kurdish communities in Rojava, northern Syria.

‘Honest Broker’ the USA promises Israel “We will always have your back”, effectively issuing a blank cheque for a license to kill.

Whole families wiped out in their homes in Gaza; hundreds of kids hunted down on bikes and butchered at a music festival.  The slaughter has become immediately vast and merciless.  We know who is doing the killing, we must ask, who is doing the dying?

People like us, workers, Jew and Arab alike.  Without ownership and control, our class, without power killed by those fighting for it.

The suffering of the Palestinians is an open sore of the West’s stronghold in the Levant.  The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been the West’s ‘boots on the ground’ since the ’50’s, playing pivotal roles in such imperialist ventures as the Suez Crisis of ’56.  Armed to the teeth, it wants for nothing.

Despite the Israeli state’s West leaning Democratic credentials, it de facto maintains an apartheid system over the Palestinians, enabling their movement to work when it suits them and locking them in when not.  It’s slow march to the theocratic Right has generated a massive resistance from its own working class.

The tragedy of Gaza is that it rests in the horns of a dilemma. Because of the blockade by the Israeli state, it has been described as the “largest open prison in the world “.  Its further misfortune is to be guarded by the Hamas Islamic Statelet. 

‘Hamas’, meaning ‘Zeal’ is a viscous theocratic dictatorship worse than that which the world has been protesting against in Iran.  As liberals and leftists chant ‘we are all Hamas now’, they might do well to reflect on how long they would survive there. 

Hamas even butchers its own, like Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a former Hamas commander who was, according to the New York Times, “…accused of moral turpitude, by which Hamas meant homosexuality” then was tortured and shot in 2016.

As with the Vietnam Têt Offensive of ’68, this brutal ‘David’ assault on a brutal ‘Goliath’ is an attempt at a paradigm shift.  

It is as much aimed at the Fatah faction of the West Banks Palestinian Authority to usurp its leadership as to scupper Israel’s attempts to freeze the conflict through rapprochement with its Arab neighbours.

While it might seem counter intuitive for Hamas to have united a divided Israeli entity, it may prove a timely exploitation of the West’s focus on the European war to widen the conflict by dragging in an unwilling Iran.

With US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, talking up the potential of Iran’s role, this could go anywhere.  Sending their western Mediterranean Carrier strike force eastwards ‘to deter Iran’ would certainly free up Israel to take on a wider military venture against Irans nuclear program that it has been itching to do.

Whatever the truth, this is not Arab versus Jew, this is workers on both sides slaughtered and manipulated by capitalisms Power Bloc rivalry carried out through their bloody proxies.  Capitalist war, red in tooth and claw!

Neither one state nor two states can end this cycle, no agent of capitalism is able or willing too.  All their wars are against our class.  Class War is our only response which is why there, as in the Ukraine we say resist their drive to war – No War But The Class War!

Article by Dreyfus

In this new occasional series, we’ll be speaking to comrades about what being in the ACN means to them. In this first interview, we speak to Steve in Glasgow.

Steve, we describe ourselves as a class struggle organisation. What does class mean to you?

Class is our relationship to the means of production. Do you own the factory, or do you work in it? A class analysis of power in society comes down to one word: ownership. Class is a relationship. Do I need to work in order to live, or can I live off my capital, my investments? For most of us, the answer is we need to work. If we can. Or we draw benefits, which aren’t enough to live on.

The media keep using the phrase “white working class”. Do you think the working class is white?

Well, the working class is most of us. So that means it’s black people, white people, Asians, trans people, cis people, gay, straight, men, women, people with disabilities. People you see all around you. People who need to work to live. And we all have that in common. The same relationship to ownership.

What does direct action mean to you?

It’s kind of there in the question. It means acting directly. Not acting indirectly. Getting directly stuck into what matters to you and your community. It’s the people affected by a problem acting together for the solution of that problem and doing it without external mediation. The structures that are part of the problem, part of the system, love to mediate us. Stick their oar in. That’s how they co-opt and neuter activism.

Direct action means people getting together as equals and deciding our common interests and needs, then going for them. Not believing that politics means going to others to act on our behalf. Like signing petitions, voting for “representatives” once every four years, and so on.

Another term we hear is “solidarity”. What is solidarity?

It’s a process. It’s the way that the powerless discover the power to carry out our own liberation. By acting together, we learn our own power. Solidarity brings about this self-confidence, which comes from within the working class. And this self-confidence is nurtured through solidarity and direct action.

But isn’t the working class reactionary?

That’s the story we’re told to hold us back. But if you’re afraid of the working class, you’re afraid of yourself, to mangle a Fred Hampton quote. A friend of mine said something the other day, we were talking about this, and it made me laugh: “they can come and call me homophobic if they want. I’m queer as fuck. They can fuck right off”. That’s what people forget. Who is the working class? It’s us.

It’s Uber delivery riders, shop workers, care workers, bar tenders, cleaners, flight attendants, call centre workers. That’s what makes us working class. But we’re also gay, straight, trans, cis, black, white and all those other things too.

What is missing is direct, participatory democratic control in the hands of all those people, which means cooperation and solidarity. Listening to each other’s needs. It means direct democracy. It means needs being met rather than wealth being unequally hoarded. It means fighting for common ownership and control of the means of production. We need to overturn ownership as the basis for power and control and replace it with humanity as the basis for control.

Interview by ACN

It has come to our attention that some so-called anarchists have accused the ACN of Transphobia and have said that members were kicked out of the ACG for being transphobic. This is untrue and ill -informed to say the least. A small group of people resigned from the ACG as we felt that transphobia was not being robustly enough challenged within the ACG and that a very small minority were using what could be considered transphobic language.

We later formed a new group with people who had left AFed and Solfed and had been inactive for a time, amongst others so we could continue to be a voice for class-based anarchist communism within the UK.

We have tried to keep out of the rumour and back stabbing that has gone on but this is a step too far. Baseless accusations with not even a hint of truth by people who have no knowledge of what happened. At least try to get the facts straight rather than attack what you don’t know and then pretend you are so clever.

Winter is coming.  Not a line from Game of Thrones but a meteorological reality in the Northern Hemisphere.

Before the rains stagnate the battle lines for another 6 months, a new victim falls in this conflict of rival capitalist blocs.  Azerbaijan’s barely reported attack on its besieged Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has led to Armenia’s complete surrender.

Despite being a member of Putin’s ‘near abroad’ Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).  Russian peacekeepers have only been able to negotiate the terms of Armenian surrender.

Putin’s humiliation has been orchestrated by Azerbaijan’s key ally, NATO’s Turkish president Erdogan.  The Special Military Operation in Ukraine has made Russia impotent in its own backyard.

This lightning war did not last long enough to present those who claim to oppose war to agonise over which belligerent to support.

In Ukraine, despite the bloodiest three months of carnage in a NATO resourced offensive, frontlines that have barely changed will once again be frozen.

The wars. second anniversary on February 24th will be energetically marked by a reconstruction and strengthening of the unbreachable frontiers of conflict.

A conflict that has an echo in dividing lines between pro (supporters of one or other belligerent) and anti-war (against all belligerents) in what was once the revolutionary milieu.

Why is opposing war so controversial amongst some of those who lay claim to revolutionary tradition?  It is an unmitigated catastrophe.  10 million displaced, an estimated 500,000 casualties with 150,000 dead.  $1 trillion cost and half the world hungry or paying the price of austerity driven by war profiteers.

In part this is explained by our natural reaction of horror and sympathy at the scale of suffering and injustice – laudable instincts that are then manipulated to support one side or the other on the basis of just or unjust, legal or illegal war.  This is the fog which leads us do a distorted narrative of good versus evil.

Rather than seeing the Ukraine and Russia conflict as corporate corrupt capitalist states fronting international capitalisms global rivalry at the expense of workers on both sides, the false narratives direct us to moral platitudes.

A David versus Goliath.  An innocent victim against a violent aggressor, leading us to a simple binary outcome of supporting the goodie against the baddy.  This is the logic of the pantomime not the analysis of revolutionary internationalists.

The individuals here are not Russia and Ukraine, but their thousands of workers with everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Those who can’t see the fault of this logic should ask themselves why and whom did they choose to support when Ethiopia attacked Tigre? Or when Eritrea attacked Ethiopia, or Rwanda attacked DRC?  Indeed, where was their moral outrage over Nagorno-Karabakh?

Some argue it’s not for revolutionists in the capitalist heartlands to form a perspective on conflicts elsewhere.  This they say, in the contemporary language of culture wars, is ”West-splaining’.  An uncomfortable resonance with Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 comment that we have no business

in a “quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing”.  That was at the abyss of WW2.

Internationalists then knew how to respond.  Freedom Press’s ‘War Commentary’ and the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation’s ‘Solidarity’ opposed the war throughout, culminating in a prosecution in 1945 for their categorisation of Britain as a ‘Warfare State’.

Their efforts included contributions from such luminaries has Guy Aldred; Paul Mattick; Anton Pannekoek and Sylvia Pankhurst’s Communist Workers Party.

This failure, through confusion or design, to unite on an Internationalist position of Revolutionary Defeatism has necessarily caused rifts with former comrades.  It has also forged new links with others.  An historical if familiar realignment of revolutionary forces is taking place, as it did after previous betrayals of principle in 1914 and 1939.

We are again at an abyss and the chaff of liberalism and left social democracy is sorting itself out from Revolutionary Internationalism.

We continue to fight for the escalation of class war on the Home Front.  Undermining Capitalism’s ‘Social Peace’ here frustrates their drive to war, all war.  That is what we mean by ‘No War But The Class War!’

Article by Dreyfus

For more articles about the war and resistance to it check out the following articles on LibCom via https://libcom.org/tags/assemblyorgua

https://libcom.org/article/refusals-fight-both-sides-front-entering-second-autumn-war

AnarCom Network has recently attended an assembly of revolutionary anti-war Internationalists on the Black Sea coast, to coordinate our focus and attention on the crisis of war in Ukraine and the intensification of the attacks on our class at home. 

Around 70 comrades from 14 countries across 5 continents were in unison in refusing to take sides in capitalist wars, re-asserting No War but the Class War!

Anarcho-Communists like us, Anarchists, Left Communists, Syndicalists and Autonomists agreed on the need for reasserting the fundamental principle of revolutionary defeatism – a plague on both their houses!

Russian capitalism is forcing its workers to slaughter, in order to steal the assets of Ukrainian workers labour. Ukrainian capitalists are militarising Ukrainian workers towards the same meat grinder to sell those same assets themselves for a profit.

Those who are confused by the moral challenge of aggressor violence v self defence should reflect on this false identification of Russia and Ukraine as if they were individuals, they are not! They are rival capitalist entities with their class interests at heart.

Hundreds of thousands of individuals from both sides of their proprietorial national state boundaries have been killed, maimed or displaced.   Workers without mutual animosity before this marshalling to war from which our class only loses.

Internationalist work against the rival imperialist blocs continues on the home front where disrupting their ‘Social Peace’ here, slows down their drive to war.  The class war at home is the peace movement!

We continue to develop our international work with like-minded revolutionists across their artificial frontiers.

Article by Dreyfus

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 9 anarchist comrades were arrested by the French anti-terrorist police (DGSI), across France. In Toulouse, in Dordogne, in the Paris region, in Brittany, and in Rennes.

They are accused of being a “..criminal association planning a terrorist attack”, even though there is no real evidence of this.  So, what did they do?

The French State has used the following “evidence” to back up the charges of terrorism:

• The use of digital privacy tools (such as Signal, VPN’s etc.) and the refusal to give decryption codes to phones or hard drives;

• The occasional use of air-guns in a “paintball type survival” game;

• Travels (to Belgium, Czechia, Greece, Colombia, etc.);

• Volunteering to in Rojava against Islamic State, and

• Possession of ‘elements or substances’ used in the composition of explosives (everyday household products including bleach and other cleaning items).

None of these activities amount to terrorism and most are not even a criminal offence.

In order to build a case for the resulting “terrorist” threat, the DGSI created the story of a “group” that would conduct “paramilitary training” to prepare “acts of terrorism” against “law enforcement or military”, while consulting for this purpose with members of various groups having the same objectives in France and abroad, and by means of encrypted communication.

This scenario is identical to the one that has been used against many internationalist comrades. Where political opinions (true or supposed), lifestyles (squat, mobile housing, international activism, autonomy) and profiles of the accused people, become sufficient elements to charge activists with the crime of terrorism! 

Exactly as we saw in the UK’s famously farcical ‘Persons Unknown’ trial of anarchists in the 1970’s. A familiar déjà vu.

We are aware that our comrades were subjected to ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ – sensory deprivation and subjection to white noise.  Torture in other words!

To be clear: the anarchist ideals of our comrades and the presumption of guilt is what maintains the “terrorist” accusation although there is no proof.  ‘Thought Police’ terrorism!

The DGSI and the French Anti-terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) is also trying to transpose the judicial treatment of people who joined the Islamic State to activists who fought against them or who have been designated as far-left.

The fight for a social revolution is not a terrorist act!

The real terrorists are those who hold weapons of mass destruction and the most powerful armies in history. They are the ones who destroy our planet and exploit its resources and us in the pursuit of profit.  They are the ones who enslave the people and massacre those that resist.

Both France and the UK welcome bloodthirsty dictators, like Erdogan or Mohammed bin Salman, and are in the top ten arms exporters (France now being the 2nd, with the UK hovering around 7th).

As long as oppression exists, as long as capitalist power continues, its destruction we will continue to exist.  We cannot be beaten or destroyed!

The AnarCom Network will be taking action in the form of leafleting/info stalls throughout the week in various locations – reports will follow!