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 the
surveillance of the internet are just some examples for this tendency.

To put it in a nutshell, we are confronted with an overall policy to
establish what is euphemistically called “security”. In plain words this
means an authoritarian formation of the societies. Any disturbance of the
ongoing process of exchanging goods shall be made impossible at its early
beginning. Militarisation and repression are the terms that describe this
tendency. Military interventions on the outside and massive repression on
the inside are the two sides of the same coin.

Therefore we call for an issue on militarisation and repression during the
next PGA-Europe-Conference on 18th-225th of August in Alexandroupolis. We invite any
antimilitarist and antirepression collectives and groups to take part and
to prepare workshops and discussions during the conference.

DON’T HATE THE PLAYERS, HATE THE GAME.
FIGHT BACK AND MEAN IT!