06. Do you support national liberation struggles?

The internationalist slogan is “proletarians of all countries, unite”. The creation of new national borders is not a step forward in the direction of the international unity of all proletarians. National struggles involve the proletariat in wars among bourgeoise factions at international level, which in no case imply the defence of proletarian interests. Those struggles, instead, divide proletarians of different nationalities and push them to line up under national flags, to pour their blood for a bourgeoise homeland, instead of struggling to free themselves from the wage labour exploitation, from the one imposed by stranger owners as well as from the one which new local owners would want to impose.

  • leftcom.org Le guerre di liberazione nazionale nell’epoca dell’imperialismo