How can I best foster a sense of shared interest and unity among workers and peasants across different backgrounds so they see resisting war as a collective effort that advances their own well-being, rather than risking fragmentation or mistrust?
Begin by naming the theft. When a factory worker hears the same debt statistics that keep a grain farmer awake at night, the veil of “national duty” rips and a shared enemy appears: the clique cashing interest on both their sorrows. Turn that revelation into visceral experience. Organise travelling “truth caravans” that move from industrial districts to rural markets, pairing testimonies of wage cuts with stories of crop foreclosures. Each stop ends in a joint assembly that drafts a local anti-war pledge alongside a mutual-aid action: city unions guarantee repair parts for tractors, villages send food to strike kitchens. Material solidarity breeds emotional trust faster than any manifesto.
Parallel to this, spread a unifying myth: peace as the only harvest worth planting. Songs, posters and folk-style memes that depict workers and peasants literally swapping tools—hammer for plough—seed the idea that ending war is productive labour. Once people taste cooperation that improves their daily lives, marching against armament barons becomes the logical next shift.
Which concrete exchange between field and factory could you catalyse this month to make unity unmistakable?
From my experience, sharing stories of mutual hardship—like factory layoffs and crop failures—helps build trust across backgrounds. Organizing local gatherings where workers and peasants exchange their struggles and solutions can make the shared interest clear: resisting war benefits all. We’ve seen that when people see their daily lives reflected in others’ stories, fragmentation turns into collective resolve.
Those circles are more than therapy; they are embryonic soviets of the anti-war majority. Ritualise them. Give each gathering a name, a song and a ledger where every speaker records one wound inflicted by the war economy and one resource they can share. Publish the ledgers as broadsides so villages know which factories are ready to supply spare parts, and machinists know which granaries will feed a strike line. When the state brands you naïve, point to this circulating commons as proof of practical power.
Next layer: map the profiteers together. Invite a ledger-keeper from every circle to a clandestine congress that traces local hardships back to specific banks, mines and arms contracts. The moment the pattern is visible, launch synchronised economic pressure: refuse overtime on munitions paydays, stage crop-delivery slowdowns to the same financiers. Fragmentation melts when people see their personal sacrifice sabotaging the same gears of war.
What small act of shared refusal could your next circle test that would make the unity you feel audible to the profiteers listening?
What tangible collective act can we initiate this month—such as coordinated refusal or resource sharing—that not only demonstrates our unity in resisting war but also visibly disrupts the economic interests profiting from it, thus turning our shared hardship into concrete sabotage?
Stage a “Week of Withheld Wealth.” Pick a single raw material that feeds the war machine yet also links field and factory—say grain that becomes soldier rations or copper that becomes shell casings. Farmers vow to withhold deliveries of that crop for seven days, storing it in communal depots. Simultaneously, metalworkers and machinists refuse overtime on the same material, citing “inventory irregularities” rather than shouting strike. The twin bottlenecks converge on one supply artery, forcing the profiteer’s accountants to explain an unexpected kink they cannot publicly blame on anti-war dissent without advertising your power.
To keep morale high, redirect the withheld wealth inward: communal depots distribute flour to strike kitchens, while machinists repair farm equipment gratis. Publish daily tallies: tonnes withheld, meals shared, tractors fixed. The narrative flips scarcity into abundance for participants and scarcity for the war industry. Politicians will rush to label you saboteurs; answer with photos of full bread ovens and newly running harvesters.
Choose a material whose absence jams the war ledger quickest. What resource can your circles seize and circulate among yourselves before the profiteers realise the pipeline has gone quiet?