10 positions of ANTARSYA for the war | Start Media Corfu TV

With its announcement, ANTARSYA states:

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1. The war is birthplace of capitalismy and has “its own awful characteristics”. Especially in times of crisis. The first world war broke out 10 years after the crisis of the early 20s^uh century and the second a few years after the great depression of 1929. Today, more than 10 years after the crisis of 2008, the capitalist system clearly has not overcome it and is sinking deeper and deeper into rivalries and wars.
2. On the ground of the capitalist crisis, the bourgeois and imperialist rivalries, with the core of the conflict between the capitalist Western powers USA-EU-NATO on the one hand and the emerging Euro-Asian axis of China-Russia and their allies on the other, who claim their own share of the imperialist shares, according to their power and specific interests.

Today the states they are equipped to the teeth. Global military spending surpassed the astronomical figure of $2 trillion (2.11 trillion) for the first time. Military spending in the US was set at $800 billion in 2021 to rise further to $860 billion in 2022, while requiring it to be higher than 2% of GDP in all NATO member countries.

In times of war every government attempts to subjugate and crush the working class and the people, to poison them with nationalistic poison, to crush their rights by “states of emergency”, to strengthen in addition to profitability and the dominance of capital.

War is the nightmare means to solve the imperialist ones contradictions between capitalists, states and their associations. Each bourgeoisie, in order to overcome its crisis, seeks to exploit not only its own workers, but also the workers, the wealth-producing sources, the transport routes.

1. Today’s contrasts and wars and first above all the destructive war in Ukraine is an unjust war between imperialist blocs.

The US and Western powers are intensifying the confrontation with the rising economic power China and the emerging China-Russia axis to maintain their economic, political and military dominance. On the “opposite” side is emerging a heterogeneous rising pole of states and economies (centered in China, Russia, BRICS, etc.).

These are two competing blocs “hostile” to the people, far from the needs of the working class and the people. Each of them both at home and abroad pursue a reactionary policy, a policy for the benefit of their own bourgeoisie. We are not choosing sides between NATO and Russia.

1. NATO is the largest and most aggressive military coalition on the planet. It is responsible for hundreds of juntas, military coups. Today it leads the global arms race. NATO is in a period of generalized war preparation with an increase in military spending to 1.050 trillion. dollars, from 1,031 in 2020 and 1,001 in 2019, while with its recent Summit it officially declared China and Russia as enemy countries.

“We belong to the West” was the strategy of all post-war governments. The SYRIZA government launched the Greece-Israel-Egypt reactionary axis under the auspices of the USA which the ND continued and upgraded even more by filling Greece with bases, loading the people with 17 billion in equipment, supporting its aggressive stance in Ukraine.

The slogan “out the Bases, out forever from NATO” was and still is today, in the age of wars, a life and death slogan.

1. In the international context Greek-Turkish competition is also developing. Every government and every state puts all the blame and all the injustice for the rivalries and wars on “others”. He never acknowledges his own responsibility. This also happens with the Greek-Turkish rivalry.

The truth is that the bourgeois classes of Greece and Turkey are competing for their role and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, each “exploiting” the so-called “international law” on its behalf and looking for the backs of the “allies”, for Greece NATO -USA.

Both peoples experience poverty, pay billions for armaments, live the nightmare of war threat and conflict.

The people have nothing to gain from this competition. It is unfair and reactionary competition from both sides of the Aegean. Competition in favor of the big interests in the exploitation of hydrocarbons, transportation routes, their control.

We do not fight under foreign flags. Struggle against mining and EEZs. Peace-friendship-solidarity of peoples.

1. ND, SYRIZA and PASOK have the same foreign policy, which is determined by the commitments to NATO and the so-called “Western world”, as well as the interests of the powerful capitalists who want to play the first role in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. In the name of “protection” from Turkey, they are building the strategic relationship between Greece and the USA, they are filling Greece with bases and thrusters of the American fleet. In this way we are “entangled” more and more and more deeply in the adventures of imperialism, which maintains and sharpens the contradictions in order to control the region.

This is why we are fighting for the immediate disengagement from NATO, the removal of the bases, the rivalries of the bourgeois classes in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

1. The extreme right and the various versions of the fascist formations are par excellence nationalist, war-mongering and patriot-mongering parties. They are firmly oriented towards Euronato patronage. They bet on hatred between peoples, on hatred for “others”. They talk about the “homeland” and they mean the interests of the wealthy, which also serve the US-NATO protectors. The relative differentiation of parts of the extreme right in Ukrainian is done from the point of view of the alliance with Russia, the Greek Orthodox arc, the isolation of Turkey, not from the point of view of peace and the rights of the peoples.

1. DAY 25 is critical of NATO’s role by proposing, a new “international of non-aligned countries”, even with reactionary regimes, in which it includes and invites the EU as well! Regarding the war in Ukraine, he considers only Russia to be responsible, denouncing “neutrality” as complicity with the “criminal”, proposing “solutions” at the initiative of the EU. Any critical proposals for US-NATO are made from the point of view of the upgraded intervention of European imperialism.

The KKE, while correctly characterizing the war in Ukraine as an imperialist rivalry between NATO and Russia, takes a “patriotic stance” on the Greek-Turkish rivalry as it considers that only Turkey has an aggressive stancehe doesn’t see that and the Greek bourgeoisie and its governments aim to dominate the region with the backs of the US-NATO-EU. It accepts all the aggressive Greek claims for the EEZ, and thus does not contribute to the creation of a real class and internationalist movement, with complete independence towards all the urban classes of the region and of course ours.

1. Today, more than ever, a class-internationalist program of struggle is necessary, which is the only way we can protect life and peace in the region. Basic positions are:

• No involvement of Greece in the imperialist war in Ukraine! No to the sanctions, which are directed exclusively against the peoples.
• Cancellation of the gigantic armaments program. No to the 17 billion equipment (frigates, Rafale, F35) and to the continuous escalation of the dead-end Greek-Turkish military rivalry that strengthens the multinationals of death and their domestic partners.
• Greece is out of NATO and the Eurosrat – To close the bases of death.
• No to the unfair and reactionary Greek-Turkish competition of the bourgeois classes. The workers and the people on both sides of the Aegean are brothers. No change of the Greek-Turkish border.
• No to EEZs and mining. Joint anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, international struggle of the peoples, on the march for revolutionary change

1. This program is a program of defense of life and peace, and as such it is opposed to the tendency of capitalism towards competition and war, the imperialist blocs that oppose each other (US-NATO-EU, Russia-China) and the bourgeois classes competing in our region (Greek and Turkish).

The working class and other popular strata benefit from the anti-war struggle which pays for competition and war with poverty, pain and blood. This struggle will take place under the banners of social liberation, of the abolition of the system of exploitation that gives birth to wars.

Just as October 1917 stopped the slaughter of the First World War, just as the people’s anti-fascist struggle crushed fascism and ended World War II, so now a new wave of workers’ struggles, anti-capitalist and revolutionary struggle can end the new slaughter , to free us from the nightmare of a nuclear holocaust, to ensure a “just, peaceful life”, as our songs want.

We will be back soon, with our positions for the heroically fighting people of Palestine.