12 July 2024
Friday
For Class Struggle against War and Militarisation
9:30 - 11:00
A brief introduction to the day - Where we were at Varna and the bloody spiral since
Elena and Keith
Suggested pre-readings
Our Politics from Varna (particularly the paragraphs on Internationalism in the Common Platform)
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followed by
Anti-War Internationalism - Considering Revolutionary Defeatism
Introductions - Old Moles and Vogliamo Tutto
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Suggested pre-readings
Slides from June 16th pre-meeting
Book chapter from June 16th pre-meeting
Documents from and reply to Si Cobas/TIR
Women's anti war actions in Russia
Recent article from Assembly (Ukraine)here
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11:00 - 11:15
Break
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11:15 - 11:45
Work in smaller groups to consider themes such as :-
1.- Origins of war: capitalist crisis.
2.- Media propaganda for war
3.- Left and social-democracy propaganda
4.- Exploitation and front line
5.- Class war
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Comrades will be able to input the results of these exercises into the session starting at 16:00.
11:45 - 13:00
Israel/Palestine, the Middle East and the spreading war
Introduction - Kon-Flikt
Suggested pre-reading
https://kon-flikt.org/en/analysis/on-the-situation-in-gaza
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13:00 - Lunch and presentation - 14:15
Presentation by PAAW
Anti-War Demonstrations around International Women's Day - Italy 2024
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14:15 - 15:45
Coordinating resistance - Breaking the boundaries
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A list of predominantly European based Internationalist anti-war initiatives is at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sZYpmx-6KPH14N34__Elr-d4sHUd7MdOiQ7GNwa3IJc/edit
All comrades will be able to attend and discuss presentations around two current internationalist initiatives.
Speakers -
Ana Barradas/Bandeira Vermelha - Text here
PAAW Articles here- Presentation from a core member
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We have also received this statement from the recent Internationalist anti-war conference Arezzo
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16:00 - 18:00
Internationalism in our Common Platform
Revisiting the formulation from Varna
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This will allow us all to review the discussions from earlier in the day and work towards an agreed statement.
Important pre-reading
#1. Internationalism in the Common Platform in Our Politics from Varna
Recommendation from Vogliamo Tutto is that the first paragraph in Internationalism in the Common Platform is deleted and the second is rewritten as follows- "States worldwide serve to uphold capitalist production, reproduction of class relations and exploitation of labor. Global capitalist relations have produced a global working class, the division of which into national working classes competing with each other is a major factor for class disunity. Capitalist power can only be overcome internationally based on antinational global class consciousness and action. Therefore working towards international class solidarity and perspective is pivotal.
In wars waged between capitalist nations the global working class has nothing to gain and it’s always working people taking the brunt in lives lost and lives disrupted on all sides. At the same time wars tend to deepen class disunity along national lines and especially call for building international revolutionary structures that are able to unite the class against global capital."
19:00 - 20:30
Economic Aspects of militarisation
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Presentation by Revolutionäre Klärung followed by discussion.
Comrades are encouraged to bring a few paragraphs to share about the situation in their own territory.
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