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19 years ago a group of companions / the chosen part of the construction of a political
project of red color neg ra, in the defense of collective freedoms were essential for the
forging of a socialism without privileges and domination of any kind. A project which,
although not new, was placed as a huge challenge for this generation of young people,
orphans of direct references in our country, sought references in many years of struggle
and experience of trade union and popular organization of the brothers of the Eastern band
organized in FAU (Uruguayan Anarchist Federation). ---- Not that the experiences of
struggle and organization of anarchism in Brazil were not rich by itself. But weighed
heavily the fact that the generation of militants who somehow experienced in the flesh the
organizational experiences of workers to the 50s of the twentieth century was no longer
alive to contribute to the formulation of responses to the concerns of those who are in
the early 90 wanted to organize to resume the social vector of anarchism.
Organization to account not only the theoretical and doctrinal study of our ideology, but
that could respond to the daily challenges of integration into the anarchist union
environment, student, community, agrarian and popular. An organization that could
articulate these diverse experiences of struggle and organization of low under a strategic
perspective in which the oppressed can be protagonists of social change, without
self-elected vanguard giving orders on what to do. At that time, was the specific
political organization of anarchists (Especifismo) that stood as the best response to this
demand, and after 19 years, we believe the especifista anarchism is still a good tool for
our organization as anarchist militants. A school of life and libertarian militancy that
is for us the Rio Grande do Sul, the Gaucha Anarchist Federation - FAG.
Are 19 years seeking to graft new truths in the trunk of the old fundamental truths as
saying the Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri companion. Are 19 years germinating a new
world in our hearts and building a new man (we would say a new subject) he spoke Spanish
anarchist Durruti and the revolutionary Latin American Che Guevara. Are 19 years studying
and taking inspiration in the women's struggle experiences and men from all parts of the
world long before we were already in the daily work of erecting a new society on the ruins
of the old capitalist society. Do not forget Lucy Parsons, Mikhail Bakunin, Louise Michel,
Errico Malatesta, J. Proudhon, Anselmo Lorenzo, Voltairine Cleyre, P. Kropotkin, Elena
Quinteros, Gerardo Gatti, Jos? Oiticica, Polidoro Santos, Edgar Leuenroth, Emma Goldman,
Alberto Mechoso, Maria Canaria, Leon Duarte, Espertirina Martins, Nicola Sacco, Vanzetti
Bartholomew, the Martyrs of Chicago, Neno Vasco, Domingo Steps and many other comrades
(our mother and other matrices of combative left) that somehow planted seeds Socialism and
Freedom.
It is the memory of comrades who followed in organizing and fighting, from the place that
touches us and act with men and women who daily build through their sweat and toil that
company.
19 years of struggle for Socialism and for Freedom!
Long live the Gaucha Anarchist Federation!
Long live anarchy!
