[act-ma] 12/10 Down with the War, War Economy, & War Governments

[Charlie Welch]

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

    Saturday, December 10 at 1:00 PM
    Park Street T Station, Boston MA

    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 Solidarity
    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 staged 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 among 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 was a
    massive 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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