A-Infos (en) UK, ACG, Jackdaw #24 - Resist (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

2025 saw the increasing instability and danger of the international 
situation, with the world seeing a new phase in the crises of 
capitalism. These crises are now often described as a polycrisis, with 
economic instability, the widening gap between poor and rich, increased 
poverty and unemployment, increasing conflict between the different 
capitalist powers, alongside the ongoing climate crisis. What were once 
seen as enduring rights and liberties are increasingly under attack. 
This comes amidst increasing repression and the moves towards 
militarisation, rearmament, and the introduction of conscription. In 
addition, in many countries, austerity measures by governments of both 
right and left have seen attacks on pensions, unemployment insurance, 
and labour rights. Privatisation has accelerated, as has labour 
deregulation, accompanied by repression and the criminalisation of 
struggle and the right to strike.

In the USA, the Trump regime is becoming increasingly authoritarian and 
pursues racist, misogynist, and anti-working class policies. It is 
increasingly belligerent in its foreign policy in Latin America, above 
all in its attacks on Venezuela, its kidnapping of its President, and 
its piracy of its oil tankers. Across the USA immigrants are kidnapped 
on the streets by the paramilitary ICE, who gun down those who protest 
this, and the Trump administration gives encouragement to far right and 
fascist groups around the world, whilst its enablers like Elon Musk and 
the tech billionaire Robert Shillman finance the same groups.

In Europe, political leaders are increasing their war rhetoric, calling 
for the strengthening of NATO, increased military spending, and a drive 
towards the introduction of military service. At the same time, they and 
the USA support the murderous regime in Israel, where 63,000 
Palestinians were killed in 2025, and where hospitals are destroyed and 
health workers routinely murdered. Meanwhile, in Ukraine the horrendous 
war drags on.

However, alongside this gloomy scenario, we see the mass mobilisation in 
many countries against the genocide in Palestine. Millions have come out 
in the streets against austerity and repression. 2025 saw a wave of 
struggles in Nepal, Indonesia, Madagascar, Morocco, Peru, and Kenya. In 
addition to this, there were revolts in Togo, Timor-Leste, Paraguay, and 
Mongolia. There is an ongoing movement against the government in Serbia. 
There were strikes and  escalating demonstrations in Iran by workers, 
pensioners, and students, which are increasingly 
threatening the mullahs ' regime in Iran. There were massive general 
strikes in Belgium, Greece, Portugal, and Italy, with resistance to 
austerity being increasingly linked to resistance to war fever and 
militarisation. In Germany, school and university students came out on 
the streets to protest against the war plans of the government and the 
threat of conscription. There were also massive strike movements in 
France, and huge demonstrations and blockades against government 
austerity plans.

Even here in Britain, workers have increasingly taken strike action - 
bin workers, TEFL teachers, museum and gallery staff, cleaners, tube 
workers and bus drivers, hospitality workers, oil refinery workers, 
university lecturers, and doctors all on strike in recent months.

Against the plans of the boss class we should advance the ideas of class 
unity, social justice, internationalism, and uncompromising resistance 
to austerity. We should offer the vision of a world without States, 
without classes, a world free of wars and of exploitation and hierarchy.

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