No to the new Caucasian War!

Posted on August 18, 2008

A statement from the Workers Solidarity Alliance (USA/Canada) on the conflict between Georgia & Russia, based on the call sent out first by Polish Anarchists and then by the International Workers Association (IWA):

The eruption of military violence between Georgia and South Ossetia, despite the recent development of a shaky and tentative truce, threatens to develop into a large-scale protracted war between Georgia supported by NATO on the one hand, and South Ossetia supported by the Russian state on the other. Despite the relative brevity of the length of the war thousands of people have already been killed and wounded – principally, peaceful non-combatants; whole cities and settlements have been wiped out and their
inhabitants displaced. Hateful nationalist and chauvinistic hysteria is being whipped up by self-interested leaders on both sides of the conflict. The development of a full scale protracted war in the Caucuses would mean nothing but suffering and devastation on a mass scale for many more in the region, all so that statesmen, the military brass, and wealthy capitalist entrepreneurs can gain ever more wealth and power through the strategic control of the region and the control of marketable Caspian oil and gas. Read more