The State of Security: Militarisation and Repression Carambolage Call Out for the PGA-Conference

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The world is at war. After the worldwide changes during the last decades of the 20th century we are now facing efforts to restructure the whole world according to the needs of capitalist production. The wars in Iraq, the war in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan violently express this tendency in world politics. To continue this policy, the countries began to establish rapid reaction forces, so that they can intervene on any conflict everywhere with a minimum of time. Furthermore military bases are set up worldwide under the name of Nato to defend freedom and democracy. On the other hand, police forces are trained and established to do the same on a innerstate level. For example riot controll and counter insurgency trainings are held by the different european state polices. And at the same time the cooperation of the different police forces of the European states is intensivied. Even a common European police force is established. Similar developments can be observed globally for example during the preperations for G8-summits when the different polices share their experiences with mass-protests. But “security”-politics do not just reinforce military- and policestructures. They are also aiming to controll our everyday lifes. Video-observance of public spaces to “prevent crime”, wire tapping and thesurveillance of the internet are just some examples for this tendency.To put it in a nutshell, we are confronted with an overall policy toestablish what is euphemistically called “security”. In plain words thismeans an authoritarian formation of the societies. Any disturbance of theongoing process of exchanging goods shall be made impossible at its earlybeginning. Militarisation and repression are the terms that describe thistendency. Military interventions on the outside and massive repression onthe inside are the two sides of the same coin.Therefore we call for an issue on militarisation and repression during thenext PGA-Europe-Conference on 18th-225th of August in Alexandroupolis. We invite anyantimilitarist and antirepression collectives and groups to take part andto prepare workshops and discussions during the conference.DON’T HATE THE PLAYERS, HATE THE GAME.FIGHT BACK AND MEAN IT!