For A New "Peace" Movement

Notes on the US' Attack on Iraq - For A New "Peace" Movement.
Our pacifist movement today should also appropriate all the theorical fruits from the alterglobalisation movement. We have to link these two movements in one and same Movement, because we don't live any more in a happy period where "no war" still meant "peace" immediately…
by Collettivo Pace (Parigi)

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As some Latin-American counrtries' actual situations show us well, the neo-liberal globalisation has begun to be rent everywhere on our planet. Further, there are some "drop-out" regions, which have never enjoyed any benefits from the neo-liberal globalisation and which will never enjoy them in the future. Iraq after the First Gulf War is none other than one of these "drop-outs".

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The neo-lliberal globalisation is rent not only in the "marginal" regions in the geo-political meaning of the term, but also in the very central cities in Europe as well as in the United States. However, the European and the United Sates' governments are of the following same opinion: There Is - and will be - No Alternative but this actual neo-liberal globalisation. TINA.

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The neo-liberal global order consists in giving a maximum "liberty" to its agents and, for this reason, it also requires that all its agents should respect some tacit but strict rules and that a certain authority should control those who violate the rules and those who would violate them.

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The "drop-outs" from the neo-liberal globalisation are the very persons who would violate the neo-liberal rules. It's a permanent priority for the neo-liberal authority to identify and to control these "drop-outs" as early as possible. But, the task of the authority consist not only in controling the "drop-outs", but also in making them obey the rules and even in killing them in case they refuse to obey the rules.

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If it's the United States' government who assumes this authority in the neo-liberal globalisation, it's not so diffcult to find the reason for that. The neo-liberal authority, who should undertake to kill the "drop-outs", needs to have a military force, and it's the US government who has the most powerful one in the world. However, it is never for nothing that the US govenment assumes such an authority. In fact, the US government requires the United Naions to pay for the Iraqi reconstrucion after the war and puts - or rather, has already put - the jobs in the hand of some US cooperations (especially those closely related to the government).

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It's very easy to consider the US government a "crazy" group brain-washed by a certain religious fundamentalism, but it is the same wrong simplification that we commit by reducing Bin Laden to a simple Islamic fundamentalist figure. Even if it's true that George W. Bush is a Christian fundamentalist, we have to keep in mind that he is also a neo-liberal fundamentalist. This means that there will be no "World Peace" as long as the neo-liberal global order dominates our world.

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The global pacifist movement today seems to be continuous with the alterglobalisation movement since the second half of 90's. Our pacifist movement is a veritable global action, simultaneously taken all over the world by making the most of certain global communication tools like the Internet. There is no doubt that it's very here that there is the pontentiality for creating a new world. But, our pacifist movement today should also appropriate all the theorical fruits from the alterglobalisation movement. This means that we have to link these two movements in one and same Movement. We must do so, just because we don't live any more in a happy period where "no war" still meant "peace" immediately…

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Fortunately, the WTO farm talks in Geneva look to be failed this time, but the WTO is preparing a new meeting of trade ministers in Cancun, Mexico in September of this year. Here is another battle field for all those who wish the "World Peace"…

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