March 18th 2015 will see the inauguration of a monument to European crisis policy when the
new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) opens in Frankfurt. At the ceremony,
the representatives of the European member-states will pat themselves on the back for
their crisis-solutions whilst using the celebrations to prepare for the next round. We
will come from all over Europe and beyond to crash this party. ---- In partnership with
the ECB, the governments of Europe are implementing their rigid policies of austerity,
which serve as restructuring programmes on behalf of the respective national elites. They
are responsible for the social havoc being wreaked on many European countries. The ECB is
thus not only a symbol but also an actor of capitalist domination in and over Europe. Come
to Frankfurt with us, take a vacation, skive off work, skip school ? or just come.
In the upcoming weeks further information about the antiauthoritarian mobilization against
the opening of the new ECB building will be placed here on march18.net. Informations on
the general Blockupy mobilization can be found here.
https://blockupy.org/en/4344/call-march-18th-2015-transnational-actions-against-the-european-central-banks-opening-gala-lets-take-over-the-party/
We invite all antiauthoritarian and social movements to participate ? in the discussion
about austerity and crisis and in the actions on the 18th of March 2015 in Frankfurt/Germany.
Let us create a common struggle against the neoliberal crisis regime and capitalism.
Leading to the day of action we will be present in many European countries ? stay tuned
and get in touch!
If you want to support our call, please sent us an email.
M18 is an initiative by Beyond Europe and other antiauthoritarian groups and unions:
Antiauthoritarian Movement (GR)
FAU Frankfurt
Plan C ? Thames Valley (UK)
Plan C - Manchester (UK)
Syspirosi Atakton (CY)
?ums Ganze! (DE/AT)
The Call:
Face the players, fight the game -- M18: Let?s crash the Opening-Party of the ECB
The spring of 2015 will see another symbolic landmark in European crisis policy emerge
with the opening of the new European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. The ceremony will
allow the representatives of the European member-states to pat themselves on the back for
their crisis-solutions whilst using the celebrations to prepare themselves (and us) for
the next round of austerity programmes. They want to institutionalize the state of exception.
But a lot of people are going to crash the party ? because the solutions for the crisis
that is capitalism are a catastrophe for the people. Hence the spring of 2015 will
hopefully also see a landmark of resistance against the European crisis regime as
thousands of different people from all over Europe and beyond travel to the action days
against the ECB-party. We call for the antiauthoritarian movement to participate in these
actions and discussions. Let?s use this possibility to promote transnational
self-organisation in the fight against state and capital and turn this party of domination
into our party.
The ECB as symbol and transnational state-apparatus:
The Governments of Europe are implementing rigid policies of austerity through the ECB. It
has already wreaked havoc on the social fabric, especially in the south of Europe. Yet no
end is in sight, because both a forced cut back in state spending and an increase in
money-flow have not been able to revive or even stimulate the economy: unemployment and
underemployment are at an all-time high whilst profitable investments are hard to be
found. The crisis will persist and the policies of crisis will become permanent. The ECB
is the transnational state-apparatus institutionalising the crisis-policies through which
less and less people get increasingly richer whilst more and more people are forced into
crass poverty. The ECB has become a clear symbol of capitalist domination in Europe.
Kicking the habit: breaking complicity with capitalism
Capitalist domination controls every aspect of our lives. Through it traditional relations
of dependency and control, but also of solidarity, are being dissolved: how we work, what
we eat, who we love, where we live and what air we breathe is constantly determined anew.
Our livelihood depends on the daily reproduction of capitalism and we are as much a part
of its machinery as those that rule us. This also promised and promises new freedoms, and
as such is not only implemented by the ruling classes but also embraced by the exploited.
But it is also here, in the everyday, where conflicts and contradictions within this
system of domination appear: for example; when wages and pensions are cut; tenants thrown
out of their flats; welfare and healthcare torn apart; the environment is destroyed, with
a shrug, in the name of private profit; and conditions of (over-)exploitation are
institutionalised by the deadly border regime against refugees and migrants. These
struggles are our point of departure. We are determined to break with the concrete
domination brought about by the abstract principals of capital. Capitalism is made by us
all, together we can overcome it.
Self-organising beyond State, Nation and Europe
Nobody can do this for us, no state and no party. Bourgeois politics ? in the end ? is
always confined to the management of capitalism?s necessities. It can?t challenge the
basic terms of capitalist domination: economic growth (capital accumulation) as an end in
itself and thus the necessary separation of work (labour) and the means of production.
We?ll have to take control of our lives ? and aim for anti-authoritarian
self-organisation. Within Europe, transnational institutions like the ECB have been
created outside of the realm of the old national processes of parliamentary deliberation.
Granted, we won`t shed any tears for the old days. But, to avoid being pitted against each
other across state borders, our struggle must be on the European level at the very least!
The choice between the old nation-state and Europe ? as it is being presented to us by the
populist right ? is no choice: Europe is and always has been the framework in which the
competition between nation-states is organized. It is the framework, with the ECB as its
agent and materialised symbol, that produces winners and losers, reproduces national
divisions and strengthens nationalist formations. A liberated society will only be won
against and beyond both the nation-state and Europe.
Let us deepen the process of transnational exchange. Let us bring our common struggles,
our common anger together and tackle the ECB as a symbol of capitalist domination in
Europe. Come to the Beyond Europe barrio at the camp, join the antiauthoritarian block on
the anticapitalist demonstration and take part in the blockades of the ECB-party in Frankfurt.
Face the players, fight the game! Come to Frankfurt and crash the party.
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