collettivo pace writes:

"Notes on the US' Attack on Iraq - For A New "Peace" Movement.

We don't live any more in a happy period where "no war" meant "peace" immediately…

by Collettivo Pace (Parigi)



1.

As some Latin-American counrtries' actual situations show us well, the neo-liberal globalisation begins 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 one of these "drop-outs".



2.

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 and in the United States. However, the European and the United Sates' governments are of this same opinion: There Is - and will be - No Alternative but this actual neo-liberal globalisation. TINA.



3.

The neoliberalism consist in giving a maximum "liberty" to its agents and, for this reason, the neoliberalism 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.



4.

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 control these "drop-outs" as early as possible. But, the role of the authority in the neo-liberal globalisation consist not only in controling them, but also making them obey the rules, or killing them in case they refuse to do so. This is the role of the authority in the neo-liberal globalisation.



5.

If it's the United States' government who assumes this neo-liberal authority, it's not so diffcult to find the reason for that. The neo-liberal authority, who even assumes the role of killer, needs to have a military power, and it's the US government who has the most powerful military power 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, has already put - the jobs in the hand of some US cooperations (especially those closely related to the government).



6.

It's very easy to consider the US government as a "crazy" group brain-washed by a certain fundamentalism, but it would be nothing but the same wrong simplification as saying that Bin Laden is a simple Islamic fundamentalist. Even if 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 far as the neo-liberal globalisation exists on our planet.



7.

The world wide pacifist movement today seems to be continuous with the alterglobalisation movement since the second half of 90's: global actions simultaneously taken all over the world, by making the most of the Internet. There is no doubt that it's very here that there is the pontentiality for creating a new world. But, the 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've not lived any more in a happy period where "no war" meant "peace" immediately…


               

8.

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"…



March 30th 2003

Collettivo Pace"