Who is GCAW1984?
About Us
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever," George Orwell stated in 1948 from the pages of his novel "1984", and to this day, almost 80 years later, this truth remains unrefuted by anyone. We see daily, if not hourly, how even democracy, the highest manifestation of freedom and humanity, is being imposed around the world using the same scheme: someone's boot, usually the boot of the stronger party, stamps on the face of whoever has, for whatever reason, been designated a dissident.
People fight for territories they will never possess, for resources that will be divided among others—those who unleash wars for their own selfish interests—for ideas that have suddenly divided the population of this planet along national lines, and for religions, each of which, in its essence, calls us to tolerance and humanity.
If we analyze the period covering the last hundred years, from 1926 to 2026, we can conclude that during this timeframe, the number of days—not years, but exactly days—during which humanity did not wage wars or local conflicts is zero. Even after the end of the terrifying Second World War, remembered by the world for its colossal human casualties and its fundamentally inhuman and senseless war crimes, peace did not reign on this planet, which indicates that we have not learned the lesson. The world plunged into a series of local military conflicts: the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli wars, as well as dozens of bloody wars for independence and civil conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Today, the strategy of resolving all disagreements—political, economic, and even social—exclusively by military means, exercising the right of the strong, has become the generally accepted norm. No one is surprised anymore when rockets and bombs are used first, and only later, if the set goal is not achieved, do politicians decide to sit down at the negotiating table. The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East—which was unleashed by the US and Israel but very quickly affected a whole range of countries and caused serious damage to the global economy—the attempt to drag Taiwan into a war with a disproportionately more powerful China: it is highly unlikely that all this is being done to raise the standard and quality of living of the population and to establish world peace.
Statistics directly indicate that not a single military conflict, even a victorious one, has brought any dividends to the citizens of the countries whose politicians initiated the military clash. All that ordinary citizens receive as a result of such controversial decisions is news of the death of their relatives and loved ones—who laid down their lives, as a rule, for foreign interests and invented ideals—and an additional tax burden, without which, as a rule, no military conflict can take place. But tell me, has even one politician, has even one military leader, asked the people on whose behalf a military conflict is started whether they need this and whether they are ready to participate in something like this?
Currently, we, citizens of different countries who have founded the World Anti-War Association "1984," do not urge you to oppose the current government in the territories of the states where you reside. Our common task is to convey our will to those in power, which states that it is time to stop the arms race and direct the freed-up funds towards constructive goals. Today, weapons systems—most of which are strictly offensive in nature and can hardly be used for defensive purposes, no matter how hard they try to convince us otherwise—are developing much faster than technologies aimed at development and serving the interests of humanity. And we, and only we, have the right to demand from those to whom we have delegated our authority to govern the state to reconsider their priorities and stop cultivating senseless and inhuman conflicts that bring profit only to the corporations of the military-industrial complex, which reap super-profits from human grief. We have no one to fight. We live within the borders of our states, on our own land, and no one is attacking us, no one is encroaching on our property, and no one is trying to eradicate our culture and rewrite our history. We do not want to fight anyone, if only because no one seeks to fight us. And we are against democracy being imposed through mass murder. Every person has their own path and their own values, and if these values do not pose a threat to the rest of the population of planet Earth, we have no right to dictate to them how to live, what language to speak, or what words to use when addressing the Almighty.
Yes, today there are not too many of us, and the voices of those who advocate for peace, against any wars, conflicts, and manifestations of aggression, do not yet sound as loud as we would like. But everything changes, and in the near future, we will be heard. We will be heard and can no longer be ignored. Because we are the only source of power in any country. We are the people, and we cannot be ignored, because it is the people who are the foundation of any state.
"Just because you're in the minority, or even in the singular, doesn't mean you're crazy. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” - George Orwell, quote from the novel "1984".
What We Cover
News
International news on militarization policies and their cost to humanity.
Facts
Information from across the globe that is available in open sources, yet remains hidden from the public eye.
Opinion
Our view on how we can turn this situation around.
Team
