We have decided to be at the demonstration against all wars that will take place in Florence (Italy) next November 09, with our banderoles, flags, press and leaflets.
We made this choice for the simple reason that since ever we are contrary to any war.
We made this choice because it is needed that we are in huge numbers to cry it out. But we decided as well that it must be clearly outspoken, with the contents that are part of our history as anarchists.
– It is required to be antimilitarists. It’s no use saying "NO wars" unless with as much strength we say: NO to the tools of wars – fabrication and sale of arms, prisons, law courts, polices, armies, sexism, racism… the militarizing of our consciences.
– It is required to be against states. The existence of a bound territory to be defended from suspected invaders is in itself cause of wars. Nobody should ever be our enemy only because he lives somewhere away from us.
– It is required to be against capitalism. The exploitation of the capitalist system is under the eyes of everyone of us. Be it in the rich and wealthy West or in other places, with different means and more or less intensity, capitalism exploits, reduces to starvation, kills. War is the ruling method of this system. To think one can stand against war without opposing the model that produces it is like being maimed.
– It is required to be anticlerical. Churches, the clergy, ecclesiastical hierarchies… since ever they are vehicle of lacerations among peoples, each pretending the upper role for their own God and their own way to salvation. They speak peace while they foster hate towards those that do not conform to their moral and moralistic precepts.
WAR NEEDS YOU, YOU DON’T NEED WAR; AGAINST ALL MILITARISM OR HYERARCHY: OBJECT AND DESERT; FOR AN IMMEDIATE GENERAL STRIKE IN CASE WAR STARTS!
Antimilitarist committee of Anarchist Federation of Italy