The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra.
Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with the investments of their States. This action is actually a strategy of world domination, of appropriation of wealth and territories, of oil and gas… and a great windfall for the interests of the arms industry.
The United States, along with Israel – its partner in this onslaught – spread their ideology of arrogance, intimidation and violence. They don’t need a complicated narrative to spread it, it’s enough to stoke fears of nuclear war and to put forward a few slogans: “good against evil,” “the fight against terrorism.” The media and social networks, controlled by these same interests, reproduce this ideology and censor dissent.
After allowing the puppet state of Israel to carry out unlimited attacks on Iranian territory, the United States has now entered the conflict. This marks the realization of an obsession held for decades by many members of the U.S. ruling elite: the desire to overthrow the Iranian regime. This obsession stems from the strategic defeat the United States suffered in 1980, when its chosen puppet was overthrown during the Iranian revolution. But more significantly, it is driven by the new imperialist strategies the United States is trying to advance. These attacks on Iran—led by Israel, the United States, and NATO—are taking place while China, as a consolidated power, and Russia, a state constantly seeking European power status, wait and play their hand in a scenario of overflowing international tensions and an exponential increase in class struggle.
Before the world’s wide open blind eyes, the Palestinian territory is devastated and its population exterminated. A besieged area, an apartheid.
Now, Iran is being attacked, a regime that is troublesome not because it is autocratic but because it does not follow imperial interests, and because it is also a key geopolitical area in the Middle East. Iran defends itself but its civilian population is massacred.
New technologies of war proliferate, always to the detriment of the people. New generation drones and missiles that hover over the defenseless population, over children and the elderly… Technology so ‘precise’ that it does not find terrorists, but thousands and thousands of innocent victims every day.
We must also remark on the absurdity of the situation. Those who dropped the atomic bomb yesterday are the guardians of ‘peace’ and ‘democracy’ today. The presumed legitimacy of international institutions, such as the United Nations, breaks down as we observe their absolute inability to intervene in these conflicts.
Moreover, not only do these institutions not serve to defend oppressed peoples, instead they offer legitimacy to those who make war, as we have seen in the most recent G7 statement, which holds that Israel’s attacks on Iran are its right to self-defense. In other words, by attacking Iran, Israel is getting its hands dirty against a state that is advancing in nuclear capability, something that pleases the countries of the global north because it keeps the current hierarchical structure of the international system untouched.
What is clear is that this is the most vile and cruel face of capitalism, a new historical stage of articulation that captures the worst of lived experiences, but that tries to mask itself, sometimes, in the name of democracy and freedom–while at other times more plainly raising the banner of white supremacy.
We are facing a system of death, but we know that in the face of oppression there is resistance. That the people suffer, but also rise up. That international solidarity manifests itself in mobilizations in various parts of the world and that a clamor has arisen to stop this genocide. And that in the face of so much barbarism, we anarchists are outraged, we are in solidarity, but we also propose to fight for a new world.
WAR BETWEEN STATES MEANS DEATH FOR THE PEOPLE!
STOP THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA!
STOP THE U.S. AND ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN!
Signatories:
Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA)
• Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB)
• Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU)
• Anarchist Federation of Rosario (FAR)
Sibling Organizations of CALA
• Anarchist Organization of Córdoba (OAC)
• Anarchist Organization of Santa Cruz (OASC)
• Anarchist Resistance Organization – Buenos Aires (OAR)
• Anarchist Organization of Tucumán (OAT)
Supporting Organizations
• Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation [USA]
• Vía Libre Libertarian Group [Colombia]
• Anarchist Federation of Santiago (FAS)
source: Black Rose Federation