[act-ma] 12/03 Down with the War, War Economy, and War Governments!

[Charlie Welch]

    Down with the War, War Economy, and War Governments!

Park St Station Boston
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022 AT 1 PM


Let’s join together in protest against the US and NATO’s continued 
escalations of the war in the Ukraine. We will also be standing in 
solidarity with workers in Italy, who will stage a general strike on 
December 2nd & 3rd against Italy’s participation in the war as well as 
the worsening economic conditions for the masses that this war is only 
intensifying.
After 9 months of the proxy war in Ukraine, the crisis facing the masses 
in Europe and across the world has become increasingly more acute. Gas 
prices have gone up across the board, food prices are skyrocketing, and 
the purchasing power of working people is sinking. This is all a result 
of the dirty game between the “great powers” for global supremacy and 
the rotting economic system that drives these countries to war.
As the crisis rages on, the US rulers continue to escalate the 
situation. They have pledged up to $60 billion and counting to the 
Ukraine, continuing to arm the government and it’s neo-Nazi wing to the 
teeth, and most recently have gone boots on the ground. Many so-called 
“progressives” have shown their true, reactionary colors, frequently 
leading the calls for further escalation. The Russian rulers have gone 
tit-for-tat in these escalations, coercing the masses into this rich 
man’s war, and cracking down on any dissent. And as a result of the 
belligerence of these powers, the threat of nuclear war is now greater 
than it has been in decades with the survival of the planet hanging in 
the balance.
But in the face of these worsening conditions and increasing 
belligerence, the masses are beginning to unite in resistance. In Europe 
in particular there have been massive protests and strikes in Germany, 
France, Belgium, Greece; and on Dec 2nd & 3rd, there will be a general 
strike in Italy. The Italian elites are, of course, responding by 
cracking down on dissent and banning strikes, proving how all sections 
of the elite and their political parties are in agreement with the need 
to crush the will of the people.
There is a lot of inspiration we can take from our Italian brothers and 
sisters. Their resistance represents an emerging clarity about the 
nature of this war and the oppressive system that must be amplified 
across the world. The conditions that Europe faces are conditions we are 
already dealing with in its early forms today. And this looming crisis 
requires us to elevate the struggle against the war economy, the war 
government, the employers imposing these economic conditions, and the 
imperialist war they all are waging.

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