got this new strain called “transed gender” you’ll be zonked out of your mind

1h later: the CIS are lying to us. do you hear a bus coming closer

April just sneaked up on me. it was February just now

soil is the hot new trend

A few weeks ago, Spanish social-democratic president Pedro Sánchez and his government gained some attention from NATO because of the apparent refusal to reach the 2% GDP military expenditure demanded for this summer, originally a goal for 2029. This is happening at the same time as the EU commission’s recommendation for households to get a 72 hour emergency survival kit, “in the case of war or some other crisis”, and more broadly, the reinstatement of partial drafts in Central-northern Europe and massive increases in military spending in the easternmost NATO members such as Poland.

So, in the face of the very explicit turn towards a war economy in Europe, it might seem like social-democrats such as Sánchez are a good enough ally against that militarization. However what has been less publicised than that initial opposition was the agreement to reach the 2% by the end of this year, and the statements Sánchez made in favor of a “Euroarmy”. He knows that standard remilitarization is still widely unpopular, so instead, he proposes to create an army for one of the largest imperialist organisms on Earth, the EU. All the while, the largest NATO naval exercise in years happened in Cádiz with the complete support of this supposedly pacifist government.

At the core of bourgeois pacifism is always a material support for the furthering of imperialism. They kept selling arms to Israel into 2024, they’re a wilful and eager support of the EU’s so called external borders and managers of one of the most militarized and deadly borders in the world, they hold NATO summits, they act as a vessel for the penetration of European capital in Latinamerica, they continue to permit the leasing of the bases in Rota and Morón to NATO, not to even mention all the key infrastructure held in Spain, such as the Combined Air Operations Center in Torrejón, which “is responsible for some of NATO’s special Air Policing arrangements, such as Air Policing over Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Slovenia.”

In the face of an imperialist rearmament, the only answer is the independent political organization of the working class, that is, breaking with the promises of social peace (that is, the complete control of the capitalist class) that the managers of capitalism seek in exchange for breadcrumbs and lies. A total and immediate withdrawal from NATO, the EU, and every other imperialist structure.