(en) anarkismo.net: Colombia, Constituent Declaration of
Student Libertarian Action (ALE) (ca) [machine translation]
In late July 2014, after some reflections collectively about the role that organized
libertarian students as active dynamization in building strong union processes and
autonomous basis, a group of students from the National University, Central and Free we
met again after an unfortunate process of political break with what had been until our
student project Student Anarchist group, to start building a new organization under the
principles and libertarian practices began and continued since daily militancy
construction work, organization and hosting of the student movement of educational
institutions of the country and so from our specificity, bring to the people's struggles
for liberation. ---- Today, after several months of work under the name of Student
Libertarian Action, and the joy of knowing that we are now more and we have new partners,
such as the National Pedagogical University, who have begun to contribute their ideas-
force in the construction of this new organization, we get to light our constitutive
statement, in which we present in detail our bets as policy-student organization we expect
further strengthening, giving validity and relevance both in space and in time, thanks the
experience and new ideas of colleagues who come to build and move along with us this path
we have decided to start some time ago.
Constitutive Declaration of Student Libertarian Action
"So much to do! An army of young field could find ample time to use the full force of
their youthful energy, the full force of his intellect and talent, helping the people in
the vast company that has undertaken for his release! " Pyotr Kropotkin. At jóvenes.1880-
In late July 2014, after some reflections collectively about the role that organized
libertarian students as active dynamization in building strong union processes and
autonomous basis, a group of students from the National University, Central and Free we
met again after an unfortunate process of political break with what had been until our
student project Student Anarchist group, to start building a new organization under the
principles and libertarian practices began and continued since daily militancy
construction work, organization and hosting of the student movement of educational
institutions of the country and so from our specificity, bring to the people's struggles
for liberation.
Today, after several months of work under the name of Student Libertarian Action, and the
joy of knowing that we are now more and we have new partners, such as the National
Pedagogical University, who have begun to contribute their ideas- force in the
construction of this new organization, we get to light our constitutive statement, in
which we present in detail our bets as policy-student organization we expect further
strengthening, giving validity and relevance both in space and in time, thanks the
experience and new ideas of colleagues who come to build and move along with us this path
we have decided to start some time ago.
<> Our character
We are a socio-political organization open to the participation of all interested persons,
that seeks constituted from the active involvement and continues its participants. We plan
to become an organizational option for the social struggle of students from various school
levels (secondary technical and university education technology,,), with a common policy
proposal and alive, permanently remakes and we express in a libertarian political agenda,
which includes a set of political and organizational principles, strategic lines and
common militant practices.
1. Our political gamble: As an organization we collect and drink experiences battling
Libertarian Communist power, which, from the promotion of spaces for popular organization
and struggle against capitalism, the state and other social oppressions, has fueled
building a social project based on welfare, autonomy and self-management of the workers,
the oppressed sectors and people in general. Thus, we define ourselves as libertarian
concept we do not understand as an ideological definition, but as a set of articulated
into a political program practices and a joint project of critique of social domination
and building free, egalitarian social relations and solidarity, which recognizes the
importance of betting on a coherent do with our intended purposes. In other words, a make
from the build real alternatives now working from a libertarian praxis.
2. Our political principles: We gather around the following guiding political ideas:
o The classism, we understand as an identity and a political project of liberation of the
working class and other social sectors subject to class domination, domination exercised
today by the bourgeoisie and other key social sectors.
o Direct Action Popular, we understand as a form of collective and protagonist of subjects
who constitute the popular field action. Determined, exercised and performed by the
persons involved unmediated by external and hierarchical social institutions.
o The construction of Popular Power from an anti-authoritarian parent, understand it as
the daily accumulation of an opposed to capitalist domination, which today provides
enhanced struggles and deepen social self collective social force, autonomous.
o The intersectionality of oppressions and multisectoral nature of the struggles, we
understand as the construction of a complex look at the various expressions of oppression
and social domination, look which becomes the basis that enables the integrity of a
transformative project and the articulation of the various sectors in struggle.
o The libertarian feminism and the defense of sexual dissidence, we understand as an
option for the affirmation of freedom and equality between people regardless of sex and
the destruction of gender oppression, a claim that involves a fight against structures
social dominance and patriarchy and normative heterosexuality.
o The social environmentalism and antiespescismo, we understand as a position in favor of
a reciprocal relationship not based on domination between human societies with nonhuman
animals and nature in general.
o The multiculturalism and internationalism, which we view as a vision based on
recognition of the importance of the enormous diversity and interaction between human
cultures and their territories, unacceptable domination of one over another or segregation
between them.
. 3. Our organizational principles We joined an organization we want to work under the
following ideas:
o libertarian Praxis, we conceived primarily as an ethical to understanding that our daily
struggle prefigures and will from now promoting free and fair social relations that will
outline concrete ways for social transformation.
o Horizontalidad and direct democracy, which we recognize as an ongoing and evolving
process that proposes a form of organizational construction, rejecting hierarchical social
structures, some of the practical affirmation of equality among the participants of the
organization, building it into the Group mechanisms of democratic participation for
critical decisions.
o Federalism and asamblearismo, which we pursue as a form of organization that avoiding
the creation of centers leaders outside and above local areas of intervention, commitment
to the role of the same, seeking his real articulation of the local to the general and
collective progress through political deliberation plenary methods which promote equitable
participation of all members.
o Self-management and autonomy, which we pursue as ways to maintain direct social control
of the people involved in organizational processes, without the interference of external
authoritarian institutions, as an exercise in organizational independence and class.
o Self-criticism, constructive criticism and collective commitment that we pursue as forms
for ongoing assessment of the development of subjects and processes, through collective
and humble construction that recognizes the work of the other, in relation to a sense of
self-discipline necessary for success in any initiative.
o anti-authoritarian effective and ethical solidarity, based on the recognition that
solidarity should take concrete and effective expressions, to promote real with other
links and make everyday practice a set of valuations and behaviors that seek to move
towards free relations, egalitarian and supportive, you efectivizadas in every action.
o Dialogue knowledge and lifelong learning, which we pursue as part of our pedagogical
approach based on dialogical exchange of knowledge and collective construction of
knowledge that contributes to the ongoing definition of our political do.
4. Our main lines strategies. The way we project in time for the development of our
political commitment is expressed in different strategic lines of action that make
everything a common project, which is real and living to the extent that its militants
shape in the daily struggle, and through the victories achieved it is become increasingly
true day for below. We present the following lines basis points when assembling the set of
our strategy:
o Organizational Work Base as one of the pillars of our organization. We understand it as
a bid to build permanent and strong union processes that stimulate political deliberation
and collective construction of the actors involved in social spaces in which we work,
enabling the development of a diverse and broad social force that can generate alternative
Construction departing from local realities to the more general spaces. We constantly seek
basic processes in this case the estudiantiles- are the protagonists when lifting the
struggles that our industry has to undertake. In this sense, we define as central to our
doing, construction, promotion and contribution to union spaces, seeking to build a
collective leadership that weaves new relationships between subjects and promoting
libertarian practices as horizontality, autonomy and equality in Regarding the
participation of each person within the processes.
o Construction of Student Power to the People Power, understood from an antiauthoritarian
area. We collect in this proposal that has been part and identity construction project
libertarian various organizational expressions in Latin America. It is then recognized the
need to build another power that is exercised by the oppressed, who have historically had
the potential to directly drive and collectively every field of social life; potential
that has been denied including the same opportunity to decide on their own lives and
territories.
In this sense there is an allusion to the seizure of power or hierarchical construction of
an apparently transformative project. Rather, it is to strengthen and develop a social
force from below, starting from each of the spaces where working people is in dispute;
example is the Educational Institutions; so raise the slogan of building Student Power to
increase the people's government, which in other words means promoting direct control and
autonomous educational spaces by the students along with teachers and workers, thus
contributing to the foundation of a pole that supports and allows the progress of projects
of social transformation.
o Democratic Student Unit. We recognize the unity of the students as collateral and needed
to give strength and forcefulness as industry struggles to define developing condition. In
that sense, we focus on creating scenarios student organization in general levels which
enrich the diversity of perspectives and be moved by the open discussion and make joint.
Therefore, we plan to boost local spaces from consolidation based on direct democracy,
student federations confederated together constitute a unitary organization among
Colombian students of different school levels (secondary, technical, technological and
university) with prospects rebuild from below a unitary regional and international
movement, which implies from the democratization of international joint radical scenarios.
o multisectoral Unit. We assume affirm that the student struggle despite containing within
itself an amazing, able to lift joints and waves of rebellion that have marked important
milestones in the history of mankind power is not enough to carry out social
transformation giving way to a free society where economic exploitation and social
domination have no place. Therefore, forging unity among students and other sectors in
struggle as the working class, peasant, indigenous, black, women and sexual dissidents,
environmentalists and animal liberation movements, and struggles for national liberation,
It is essential to enhance the people's struggle with class character in our territory;
seek to contribute from our specificity, forging and participating in common scenarios for
the construction of an articulated and solid grassroots movement. In other words, build a
strong nation.
o Creating a libertarian political project. As Trend organization recognize the importance
of building an identity that learning from the diversity of libertarian expressions in the
world and in our country, allow us to consolidate our project, but moved by libertarian
principles rooted in the concrete realities which we live. In this process we understand
that we are not alone and that we share roads with colleagues from other sides who have
chosen to make real a libertarian project in permanent construction. We have also
considered the importance of learning from other colleagues and processes that have fought
and are still fighting for other possible worlds, learning and giving openness to dialogue
on the job with other perspectives without losing our own walk.
Finally, we can only say that these aspirations are heading our efforts and they hope to
meet with sincere and entregadamente struggling to build a world-as the Zapatistas say
many worlds.
We come to fight! We came to Win!
Above the fighting!
Student Libertarian Action
Bogotá, Colombia
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