Greeting by ANTARSYA to the 54th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan

ANTARSYA addresses a warm greeting to all the comrades in the 54^th International Antiwar Assembly which will take place in August 7 in 2016 in Japan and sends best wishes for its sessions. The Assembly takes place in a crucial time for mankind, signifying the need for an international antiwar movement which will fight imperialism, nationalism, racism and religious fanatism. There is a crucial need for an internationally coordinated movement of the working class which will effectively battle the brutality of a system that destroys people for the capitalistic profits. A movement which will display the vision of social liberation, for a world without exploitation, oppression and war.

In the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA, in a display of imperialistic power that spread horror and had disastrous effects for decades, the declarations of the Executive Committee for the 54^th Assembly are timely and can be used as a basis for the international antiwar struggle that is currently needed. The war competitions between USA and Japan on the one hand and Russia and China on the other that reach to the point of nuclear destruction, the imperialistic interventions and competitions in Syria, the brutal treatment of refugees and islamophobia are basic threats for peace and humanity itself. The call of the assembly is of universal importance not only against arms trade and equipment, but as well as for the constitutional amendment that the Japanese militarism and neoliberalism are trying to achieve in order to avoid the restrictions imposed after World War II and also the people’s demand that the destruction caused by fascism, nazism, nationalism and militarism would not happen again.

Decision of the Central Coordination Committee ANTARSYA, July 14th 2015

No to the parliamentary coup and to the twisting of the NO that people voted for
General uprising against the signing of the new loan agreement, against the implementation of its reactionary laws, against the new memorandum
Overthrow of the policies of the black front- All out confrontation with any variant of the “memorandum government”

1. The agreement reached by the government and the lenders is a complete, humiliating surrender to the demands of the latter. It’s a deeply reactionary and unpopular new memorandum, which promotes mass abolition of the few rights that were left, reactionary "reforms" – restructuring and tougher exploitation. It includes brutal anti-insurance measures, taxation without end, preservation and expansion of poverty for the working class, crushing of the middle and lower classes and peasants, massive sell-off of public property, infrastructure and networks, anti-trade union laws, release of seizures of primary residence.