World : (en) IFA / IAF - War is the Health of the State

In today?s world, as in the past, war is a necessity for States to establish domination 
over other parts of the planet, to unite their own populations behind them against an 
external Enemy, to boost their own arms industries which are a growing part of their own 
economies. Increasingly, large corporations and financial institutions like the IMF and 
the World Bank in conjunction with states like the USA, France, China, Russia etc impose 
their economic domination through military force. Moreover the development of the nuclear 
power industry leads to a nuclear society of control and centralisation and a looming 
threat to human life and the environment. New technology (drones etc.) is used to kill 
more and more people and for increased State surveillance including the control of 
Fortress Europe borders against immigrants from Africa.

The search for minerals for these industries informs the fight by the different power 
blocs to establish control over important sources of uranium, oil and other minerals.
War is intimately bound up with environmental destruction as with the defoliation of the 
jungle during the Vietnam War and the huge environmental damage with the bombing of oil 
refineries during the Gulf Wars.

War involves the displacement of whole populations, enforced migration and the 
establishment of huge refugee camps. It triggers famine with attacks on crops and 
harvests. Mass rape is readily used as a weapon of terror and as a symptom of the 
distorted masculinity bred by militarism.
As well as manufactured threats like that of Islamic fundamentalism and once again those 
of the Russian Bear or of Western imperialist aggression, increasingly the threat of 
internal disorder , often provoked by the State itself, is used to create an internal 
enemy, The Enemy Within- whether this is youth gangs or political groups. The growing 
militarization of society is thus justified, with a developing presence of troops in the 
streets and at transport hubs, and an increasingly militarised police force.
The competing power blocs- USA, Russia, China, the European Union etc- seek their own 
spheres of influence on a global level, leading to an increasing tension as can be seen 
with the Ukrainian situation.



We oppose the drift towards the militarization of society and the drive towards war. 
Disputes over borders are used as a means by power blocs and nation states to trigger 
conflicts. The answer is not the solution of micro-nationalism (Scotland, Catalonia, etc) 
with the development of new small States with their own armed forces but a free federation 
of the peoples, with the destruction of the war industries, the disbanding of the armies 
and the disappearance of borders and the overthrow of capitalism itself. On a practical 
level we oppose their drive to war and the militarization of society with campaigns 
against military recruitment, support to all deserters and war resisters, mass civil 
disobedience and blockades and strikes against the shipment of arms and armies.

No borders
No wars
The sharing of all resources by the populations of the whole planet
WAR AGAINST WAR!