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Deserters of all nationalities unite! Λιποτάκτες όλων των εθνοτήτων ενωθείτε!

Together with other comrades who participated in fundraising for deserters and war refugees, we are publishing a statement in support of desertion, refusal of conscription, and draft evasion.

From A German War Primer

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace

The common folk knows

That war is coming.

When the leaders curse war

The mobilization order is already written out.

Those at the top say:  peace and war

Are of different substance.

But their peace and their war

Are like wind and storm.

War grows from their peace

Like son from his mother

He bears her frightful features.

Their war kills

Whatever their peace

Has left over.

On the wall was chalked:

They want war

The man who wrote it

Has already fallen.

Those at the top say:

This way to glory.

Those down below say:

This way to the grave.

For the last years, war and the danger of its generalization has been constantly around. We are painfully aware of it from the cuts in our wages, be they the result of the rise of the prices of energy and imported goods or the increase in war budgets.

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