[act-ma] 12/10 Down with the War, War Economy, and War Governments! (New rain date)

[Charlie Welch]

  12/10 Down with the War, War Economy, and War Governments!

Postponed from 12/3 to 12/10 due to predicted heavy rain!
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     Down with the War, War Economy, and War Governments!

Park St Station Boston
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022 AT 1 PM



Current Cosponsors: United Against War and Militarism Boston May Day 
Coalition The Committee for Peace and Human Rights Encuentro 5 
International Action Center Chelsea Uniting Against the War Extinction 
Rebellion - Boston Assange Defense Boston Revolutionary Marxist Student 
Group International Marxist Tendency Workers World Party - Boston  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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