Tomorrow marks the start of the annual G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France. Its members are Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, which together hold around 60% of the world’s economic wealth.
They meet every year to organise the capitalist direction of the world, becoming a tool of militarisation in the service of multinational corporations. The meeting takes place in a context of deep geopolitical tensions that will make it difficult for the authorities of these states to even issue a joint statement.
In the face of the police shield imposed by the French repressive forces, which have banned any demonstration on their territory, the internationalist resistance is organising on the other side of the border, in Geneva (Switzerland). The NO G7 coalition, made up of more than 40 anticapitalist organisations, is calling for a counter-summit from June 13 to 17, which will include debate sessions on the 13th and a large demonstration on June 14, coinciding with the historic Swiss Feminist Strike.
There is absolutely no need for the G7 to meet once again to discuss, once again, how to solve problems that they themselves largely create, making commitments that they will never achieve, even turning out to be a diplomatic failure of globalisation.