Union for Communist Reconstruction (URC, France)
November 11 marks the end of the great massacre of World War I (1914-1918), an interimperialist war in which millions of workers and peasants from all countries lost their lives for the interests of bankers and arms manufacturers, and for the colonial partition of the world.
The URC (Union for Communist Reconstruction) calls on everyone for this November 11, 2025 in Paris, not to “commemorate,” but to summon the struggle against those responsible for today’s wars.
Whether today in Ukraine, Palestine or the Congo, or yesterday in Iraq, Yugoslavia or Libya, the decisive role of the United States has always been present as a principal actor, together with other imperialist powers like France, Great Britain and Germany, to crush independent peoples, either directly (Iraq, Libya…) or indirectly, militarily reinforcing local gendarmes (Israel, Rwanda…).
In Ukraine, imperialists have undermined all peace attempts under the pretext of “defending the borders,” turning the country into a NATO outpost aiming at a direct confrontation with Russia and denying by blood and fire the right to selfdetermination of the Donbass, Novorossiya and Crimea; in Asia they stoke confrontation against China through provocative maneuvers in the South China Sea, to the detriment of all the people of the region.
To maintain their profit rates, imperialism is willing to subjugate and destroy any people who resist its challenged hegemony. And for that, the imperialists spend without limits, making military budgets the number one priority, to the detriment of social budgets. The latest budget presented by French president Emmanuel Macron and then Prime Minister François Bayrou is a clear example.
The United States, NATO, and also the European Union have endorsed the goal of raising “defense” budgets, which translates into war budgets. Thus aiming for up to 5% of GDP, compared to the current average of 2%. Specifically, for France this would mean going from a budget in 2025 amounting to 50 billion euros annually to about 150 billion euros annually in the future.
So it would be a matter of finding tens of billions of additional euros every year. The URC strongly opposes this war economy which is already gravely impoverishing workers and destroying our social gains, and which tomorrow, as a direct consequence of leading these conflicts, will lead the people living in France to war. The thousands of millions wasted on preparing and fueling war are thousands of millions stolen from hospitals, schools, pensions and wages.
Already now, Macron has decided to raise the military budget to 64 billion euros by 2027 and has launched a call for youth “commitment” under a disguised recruitment via Universal National Service, in the context of a general militarization of society. Along with Bayrou, they have decided to take away from us two public holidays, including May 8, a supreme provocation since that date commemorates the victory against fascism.
The wars promoted by NATO, the European Union and governments like Macron’s are no accidents or misunderstandings: they are part of the capitalist system in its most aggressive stage, imperialism. When the profits of large corporations begin to fall, the bourgeoisie in crisis seeks more control, more resources, and more domination, expressed in war to continue accumulating capital.
This also happens in Latin America. Venezuela is a clear example: since it decided to follow its own path, with social policies and sovereignty over its oil, it has become a target of imperialism. The United States and its allies enact blockades, coups, media lies, hybrid wars and economic pressure to try to overthrow the Venezuelan government, with the goal of installing a puppet government to regain control over its riches. Not for “democracy,” but to recover control of its resources.
Therefore, fighting war in Europe also means defending Venezuela and other Latin American peoples who resist foreign plunder. It’s not about supporting governments out of sympathy, but standing with peoples who refuse to be colonies of international capital. True peace will only be possible when we stop serving the interests of the rich and build together, across all continents, a just and sovereign society.
We don’t want to pay for their wars!
We don’t want youth to go fight and die for imperialism!
Defending peoples, their right to peace, to social progress and to selfdetermination means saying NO to Macron! NO to the European Union! and NO to NATO!, responsible for wars and austerity!
We demand in France an immediate exit from NATO!
We call on all, workers and youth alike, to organize and mobilize. As The Internationale proclaims, that beautiful hymn of the workers of the whole world: “Peace among ourselves, war on the tyrants!”
Website URC
https://urcommuniste.fr/Campaign for peace and against the war economy: https://framaforms.org/paris11novembremanifestationnationalepourlapaix1759180314
