AGAINST THE STATE AND ITS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - AGAINSTCAPITALISM AND ITS GLOBALIZATION

The summit of the European Union in Thessaloniki will take place in the echo of the military crusade against Iraq by the USA and its allies.
The latter continue their military occupation and negotiations for looting Iraq through “development” and “humanitarian” programs launched not only by the forces who have invaded the country militarily, but also by the so-called “peace-loving” part of the European block.
For a moment the “big idea” of the European super-state and the ambitious role it wants to play in the game for global dominion seemed to be tottering because of the partial interests of the member-states. However, given the hierarchy that exists within inter-state relations and inter-authoritarian antagonism when the stake is the distribution of the world, that did not change the orientation of European Integration: the establishment of an integrated space of exploitation, social control and repression that functions as a base for the capitalist attack beyond its borders. A fortress for the refugees and immigrants who try to cross them and a vast prison for those inside.
The construction—and extension—of Fortress Europe, the elaboration of a common constitution and efforts to form concrete policies on issues like “defence”, security and international affairs, are part of a procedure of political and economic integration for the expansion of Capitalist pillage and the consolidation of State terrorism within the framework of the globalization of domination. They are part of the campaign to re-conquer the world at every level, with any means. This was triggered by the collapse of the cold-war scene, promoted by trans-national lobbies and reinforced by the modern weapon of technology and the infinite possibilities it provides for the approach of the nightmarish authoritarian vision to control every aspect of life, space and time.
If the mass slaughter in Iraq highlights the barbarity of war, then the political management of exploitation, persecution and death by the EU institutions outline the barbarity of capitalist peace, of which war is a precondition.
This “peace” means the relentless draining of “expendable” populations living outside the European borders, whose misery feeds the stock-markets. This “peace” means looting the natural resources of the Balkans, their regions destroyed by the war, and all the territories integrated in the Union, transforming their societies into cheap labour to refresh the European markets. It is a “peace” that means the deepening of social inequality and exclusion within the “developed” European countries. This “peace” is nothing but continuous human sacrifice on the altar of profit, where thousands of workers are killed or injured in so-called “accidents” at work, thousands of immigrants suffer a modern form of slavery in order to be allowed to stay in the “capitalist paradise”, and thousands more people are buried alive in the dungeons of wage slavery. It is an undeclared war where human dignity is mutilated daily by class oppression, alienation and the race for survival.
Along with the modernization of the methods of exploitation, the methods of imposing it are also modernized. Within the international Orwellian scene of the “anti-terrorist’ crusade, these methods tend more and more to totalitarianism. Institutional, military and police violence and technologically supported surveillance and repression are responses to the rulers’ insecurity due to existing or possible threats that are incubating against the hurricane of authoritarian aggression.
In the case of the E.U., the European army is to serve its imperialist aspirations, while further fortification of its borders for the murderous confrontation of immigrants is dictating the formation of a common frontier police, concentration camps and a remodelling of the Schengen Information System in line with the requirements of expansion. At the same time, the integrated judicial space, the European terror-law that criminalizes any subversive expression against the structures of exploitation and oppression, the treaty of extradition to the global cop and owner of the Guantanamo—that will be signed by the greek P.M., chairman of the EU and US president after Thessaloniki summit—signify the passage to the era of globalized repression.
Globalization of domination has never been an unhindered procedure without opponents, or simply an object of academic research by its apologists. On the contrary, the modern assault of the State and Capital and its unbearable consequences for the people, became the point of reference and explosion of social and class resistance throughout the planet, from Chiapas to Argentina, from Seattle to Genoa, where the rulers’ clubs were meeting. More than a reflex action, these struggles, free from the cold-war antagonism between two different authoritarian systems, brought back an internationalist revolutionary perspective where there is no place for “national” or partial “solutions’, to the forefront of history. It was the actions of resistance themselves that created a new sense of collective, that of communities of the South and the North in revolt, of the armed Indians and the youth in the capitalist cities that re-liberated the forces of Utopia, for a world without borders, globalized from below...
In particular the resistance that broke out against the summits—only one of the infinite expressions of struggle against global dominion— became moments of social counter-attack on the symbolic galas of the bosses, who arrogantly take cover in luxurious guarded zones to pronounce decisions that will mark the future of the world. These summits became meeting points for those engaged in the daily struggle in the various places that these decisions are realized, and created opportunities for interaction and for the outbreak of insurrectional events that assailed the artificial social peace and submission.
It was not only the ideological propaganda and repressive violence of the State that we were organised to confront. It was also the rag-bag of obsolete aspects of the regime (political parties and unions, Stalinists and nationalists) on the one hand, and the post-modern versions of political representation (NGOs, Social Forum etc) on the other, who both rushed to chain anything new that was arising into the bonds of the old world and its defence, to within the limits of the “possible”. This term means nothing but the transformation of the dynamic expressed in the streets into packages of supposedly “realistic” proposals aimed at reform capitalism, or finding alternatives for the management of the authoritarian system. Basically though, it simply meant their effort to present resistance as a well-controlled phenomenon to sell off as a reality that can function as pressure so that these self-appointed leaders will be recognized by the bosses as trustworthy interlocutors.
This antagonism with the representatives of the European super-State, as well as with the Reformist international and Stalinist and patriotic relics of the past, will pass through the streets of Thessaloniki this time. This city is a symbol of the capitalist assault in the Balkans, and consists of one more “red zone”, a space colonized by the values of merchandise and social control. It is a city that will be guarded both by the State forces of repression and the institutional “antiglobalization” movement. The role of the latter has already been shown during previous summits within the Greek presidency of the Union. In coordination with the police, they hurried to provide their guarantees to the State to try to marginalise the self-organized anarchist black blocs and dull things through authoritarian manipulation. Their novel idea to lead the demonstration during the EU summit for Expansion that took place in Athens on April 16 towards the US embassy is one example!!
This summit, under Greek presidency, is a chance for the expression of social resistance against the local dictatorship of political and economic bosses. Against the dictatorship of profit that is crushing the lives of the workers and jobless, of the hundreds of people about to lose their jobs and those who survive under “black labour”. Against the dictatorship that is promoting doctrines such as the enhancement of the country’s image through its ascent in the ladder of domination, read the increase in its percentage of pillage of other societies and further misery for local proletarians. Against the dictatorship of police death squads in the cities and at the borders. Against “democratic court-martials” for militants, white prison cells and the acceleration of State terrorism.
It is a chance to challenge the foundations of Fortress-Europe, shattering the illusion of social consent to their criminal projects. A chance to oppose self-organization and direct action to hierarchy and capitulation. A chance to send a message of solidarity to all the oppressed in the world, to all who fight the tyranny of the State and Capital with any means, demonstrating that the road from protest to revolt is always open.
ANOTHER WAR IS POSSIBLE:
SOCIAL - CLASS WAR!
 
initiative from Solidarios, Anarchist Bulletin for Counter-Information and Action