A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #35-25 - Turin. Deserters from all wars! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

A large anti-militarist march has passed through the streets of Turin, 
breaking the smokescreen surrounding the war industry and the aerospace 
weapons market in our city. ----- From December 2nd to 4th, the tenth 
edition of the Aerospace and Defense Meetings will be held, where major 
global players will sign trade agreements for the weapons that destroy 
entire cities, massacre civilians, and poison lands and rivers. 
Manufacturers, governments and international organizations, members of 
the armed forces, and contractors will meet and do business at the Oval.
The aerospace industry produces fighter-bombers, ballistic missiles, 
satellite control systems, combat helicopters, and armed drones for 
remote-control operations.
At the Aerospace and Defense Meetings, deadly games are played for 
millions of people everywhere: Italian weapons, led by the state-owned 
giant Leonardo, are present in every theater of war.

Turin is vying to become one of the main centers of our country's war 
industry.
Some say no, others get in the way.

Saturday, November 29th, was an important day of struggle against 
militarism and war.
The demonstration, called by the Antimilitarist Assembly, was attended 
by the "Turin Coordination Against War and Those Who Arm It" and 
delegations from the many struggles against military bases, shooting 
ranges, barracks, and death factories. There were local coordination 
groups and assemblies from Asti, Novara, Livorno, Carrara, Reggio 
Emilia, Palermo, Trieste, Milan, Rome, and Ragusa.
The procession started from Porta Palazzo, the heart of the city, 
preceded by Murga and the Clown Army with performances that captured the 
attention of the many people who pass through Porta Palazzo on Saturday 
afternoon.

The demonstration then headed to the City Hall, where it remained for a 
long time. The city's "pacifist" administration is among the political 
sponsors of the arms industry and the aerospace and defense meetings. 
The Clown Army lined up at the entrance and launched an antimilitarist 
action.
Speeches were given by the antimilitarist groups participating in the 
march along the entire route.

A wide range of topics were addressed. At Porta Palazzo, the war economy 
that affects our country's poor was discussed: cuts to healthcare kill 
those who cannot afford prevention and treatment. A focus was given to 
the migrant genocide in the brutal war in the Mediterranean and on the 
Alpine passes, dismantling all nationalist rhetoric in a context of 
solidarity among the oppressed and exploited everywhere.

This was followed by speeches on recruitment campaigns and patriotic 
propaganda in schools, the war economy and military spending, against 
war missions abroad and the militarization of our cities. Ample space 
was dedicated to the collaboration between the Polytechnic University of 
Turin and Leonardo, in the Aerospace City project, a new warfare 
research center in the center of Turin.
Antimilitarist Turin has sent a strong and clear signal: opposing a 
future for the city tied to warfare research, production, and trade is a 
concrete way to oppose war and those who a(r)e it.

Throwing sand in the wheels of militarism is possible. It depends on 
each of us.
Antimilitarist struggles are slowing the spread of the war machine, 
jamming its joints in our territories.
But it's not enough.

Dozens of wars are bloodying the planet: most are being fought in 
silence and amidst the indifference of most. From Ukraine to the Middle 
East, extremely violent conflicts are raging, which could explode far 
beyond the affected regions.
Everywhere, girls and boys, women and men are being massacred by weapons 
produced just a stone's throw from our homes.

Wars have concrete foundations and interests in our territories, where 
we can act directly to throw sand into the wheels of militarism.
Wars today, as in the past, are fought in the name of a nation, a 
people, a god.
Antimilitarists and stateless, we know that there are no just or holy wars.

Only an international humanity can lay the foundations for that world of 
free and equal people that can put an end to wars, breaking their roots, 
which feed on the poisonous source of nationalism, exclusionary 
identities, and the denial of any dynamic of coexistence that stems from 
the protagonism of those who fight against borders, states, religions, 
and exploitation.
The march was strong throughout, with slogans, speeches, and tactical 
frivolity combining communication, mockery of militarism, and a strong 
commitment to struggle and desertion.
The march concluded in Piazza Vittorio with a captivating performance by 
Murga.

We do not enlist on the side of this or that state. We reject patriotic 
rhetoric as a means of legitimizing states and their expansionist claims.
There is no good nationalism.
We stand with those who, in every corner of the world, desert war.

The arms market opens in Turin on Tuesday, December 2nd. Antimilitarists 
will also be there.

Let's kick out the arms dealers!

Tuesday, December 2nd
11:30 a.m.
At the Oval at Via Matté Trucco 70
No to aerospace and defense meetings!

ma.ma. of the Antimilitarist Assembly

More photos here

https://umanitanova.org/torino-disertori-di-tutte-le-guerre/
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