(en) Colombia, Sabana de Bogotá - BORN THE LIBERTARIAN
COMMUNIST CORE! (ca) [machine translation]
The result of years of militant experience, political education, theoretical production,
self-organization and grassroots work in areas of the Sabana de Bogotá, born this
anarchist political organization. We, students of public universities, youth, daughters of
workers, dispossessed, anti-fascist, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, remiss,
anti-militarist, inhabitants of urban peripheries convinced revolutionary, have decided to
promote a new organizational reference for social struggles and anarchists in Colombia,
Latin America and the world that we call core Libertarian Communist (NCL). ---- The NCL
born as a result of a period of discussions and experiences that have occurred within
anarchist circles organized in the region in recent months. Despite the dispersion and
orthodoxy with which has taken the debate against the need for an anarchist political
organization, we decided to step forward and devise a new stage where the revolutionary
project anarchist, as a whole, it is located in a new dimension through the insulation to
become a real alternative of struggle and resistance for oppressed and dispossessed the
country and the world.
We called Core , because despite our strategic commitments in the long run we are aware
that this character, still a minority of our project, is not the same as a specifically
anarchist national organization, which would be our goal in medium term . We also define
the Libertarian Communism , recognizing the rich tradition of the anarchist movement and
its philosophical and political decanted have crystallized through decades in concrete
experiences of transformation, fueled by the principles of anarchist communism.
Our historical perspective:
We are heirs to the struggles of libertarian people who rose up in the Paris Commune
(1871), in the revolutionary events in Russia (1905 and 1917), in the insurrection of
Kronstadt (1921), in the Mexican Revolution and the release of Baja California (1910), in
the construction of the Makhnovichina and advanced the Black Army in Ukraine (1917-1922),
the declaration of the Manifesto of Córdoba (Argentina, 1918), in the Commune of Shinmin
(Korea, 1928) in the guerrilla war that drove the Bulgarian anarcho (1918-1948), in the
Spanish Revolution (1936-1939) and the subsequent libertarian resistance to Franco by the
Maquis, the Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos and the Iberian Liberation Movement in
French anarchist experience that supported the liberation struggle of Algeria in the 50s,
in the revolt of May '68 in Paris, in the Cordobazo (Argentina, 1969), in the anarchist
struggle in Uruguay and Argentina in the 60s and 70s the struggles of the Mapuche people
in southern Latin American cone, the Zapatista uprising in 1994 in protests in Seattle in
1999, in the Argentinazo 2001 riots in Oaxaca, Mexico (2006), in the indigenous resistance
Amazonian native peoples, indignant movements around the world in recent years, especially
in the most radical experiences within the Arab spring revolts in recent African descent
in the United States against racism, in protests against the government of Peña Nieto in
Mexico by teachers and students, and the current development of a social revolution in the
territories of Kurdistan. In the same vein we recognize in the contributions of militant
anarchists and libertarian organizations such as Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy
Parsons, the Mexican Liberal Party and the Flores Magon brothers, Manuel Gonzales Prada,
Errico Malatesta, Camillo Berneri, the Nabbat confederation Nestor Makhno and the Delo
Truda group, Emma Goldman, the historic FAI, the Friends of Durruti, the anarchist
Spartacus Federation Obrera Argentina and the Alliance, the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation
and worker-student Resistencia Libertaria Resistencia (Argentina) Murray Bookchin and his
theoretical contribution about municipalism libertarian, anarchist Unification Congress of
Chile, the current Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Chile Organized
Anarchist Front, the Anarchist Federation Rosa Negra United States and more Recent created
Anarchist Federation of Rosario (Argentina).
We are also aware that on our shoulders and territorial labor anarchists there is a
cumulative experience; well, we claim to different anarcosindicales initiatives and
anarchist groups that existed in the early twentieth century in Colombia, such as the
historic torch Bogota Libertarian Group, the Libertarian Party Santa Marta, the historic
Via Libre de Santa Marta, the Union Sindical Obrera, as Nicholas Gutarra militants, Luis
A. Rozo, Carlos F. Leon, Juana Julia Guzmán and Raul Eduardo Mahecha, as equally
reflexively share recent experiences as the publication Base Workers in the 70's, the
Utopians Heretics and Student Action Group 80, the Cultural Project Xue Wings (1988-1998),
anarchists Kombat (early 90s), the Libertarian Coordination Black Flags (2001-2005), the
contemporary Libertarian Torch Group and Libertarian Collective Rojinegra Flag of Sabana
de West. In our report we also present to Antonio Camacho Rugeles, Beatriz Sandoval,
Nicolas Neira and Augusto Tihuasusa, libertarian companions silenced by the murderous
bullets of the Colombian State.
Our revolutionary proposal also draws on the rich tradition of struggle in Colombia, as
palenquera revolt in the 1600s driven by Benkos Bioho the insurrection Comunera 1781, the
historical struggle of indigenous peoples during the colonial period and the first decades
of the republic in regions such as the Caribbean, the Amazon and the South-east, the
revolts of artisans sucedidas late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the
indigenous movement led by Manuel Quintin Lame, revolutionary union experiences in the 20s
of last century, peasant struggles that spread during the time of violence, banners
implemented the student movement of 1971 and the historic National University Federation,
built in claims from the oppressed classes in the general strike of 1977, in the
indigenous struggle long-established in the North of Cauca and crystallized through the
CRIC, in the tradition of class unionism, combative contemporary (especially in the
foundations of some central labor), in resistance to Uribe government and Santista by
social movements, in claims for truth, justice and reparation for victims of State crimes,
such as the mothers of Soacha, on the strike of sugar cane cutters 2008 and the Indigenous
Minga of the same year, the student movement which came into permanent assembly National
in 2011, in the Agricultural National Strike of 2013 and the current struggles that weave
in Catatumbo, in the liberation of Mother Earth in northern Cauca, Arauca, the Great
Tolima and in defending the environment against neoliberal onslaught.
Our political struggle:
We have identified the current stage of social struggle in Colombia in a dimension of
attack, in a period that can locate from the last years of the Uribe government and began
the strike of sugar cane cutters and the Indigenous Minga, demonstrations that took place
in 2008 and generated the joints that have marked the political and social struggle of
recent years. The end of the Uribe government and the beginning of the stage Santos added
an extra element that changed the balance of power nationally in the structural framework
of the regime: the peace talks with the FARC-EP.
Since 2011, social processes in Colombia have been in constant mobilization and milestones
have prefigured not seen for decades, projecting flags radicalized demands and
increasingly anti-systemic struggle against the deepening of neoliberalism, which is
manifested through of the privatization policies in health and education, labor
outsourcing, the free market, the cutting rights to the dispossessed, increased
paramilitarism and the acceleration of mining and energy locomotive in our territories and
communities. However, the social struggle has resisted despite having all this against,
the parliamentary reformism and authoritarianism present in the traditional left, it shows
have been the different national and regional strikes (University, 2011; agrarian, 2014;
teaching , 2015; indigenous resistance process in Northern Cauca, 2015).
In this scenario, the anarchist movement has grown strongly despite the setbacks.
Specifically, the libertarian communists have been developing coordinated social activism
since 2011, with particular emphasis on the inclusion in public universities, peripheral
areas of Bogota and youth struggle against militarism, for feminist demands and against
speciesism. Despite this growth, which has been slow but steadily, social sectors and
organized anarchism have fallen into a pathological dispersion promoted by personalities,
tactics sectarianism and lack of definition in certain situations, rewarding one that ends
up isolating ourselves principismo of concrete reality that the fight below.
From our militant group have proposed that to overcome this stage and to provide social
struggles of a projection defined through basic work and social inclusion, we must create
a cadre organization to act in a disciplined and coordinated way, and serve as a catalyst
for self-organization and awareness within the social movements while developing in them a
libertarian action strategy to extend the anti-authoritarian principles promoted by
political and social fronts to put the libertarian communist struggle from specific
sectors in practice.
Thus, we have identified a number of political principles that govern our perspective
militant:
a) The libertarian communism as a strategic and cross horizon of all our political action;
b) The fight against the principle of authority, the state and capitalism; c) classism,
fighting and working and social self-management; d) Direct action organized; e) social
multisectoral and unity of the workers of town and country; f) joint and coordinated
action of revolutionary against capitalism; g) internationalism, anti-imperialism and
anti-colonialism; h) feminism, antipatriarcado and defense of reproductive and social
rights of sexually divergent communities; i) multiculturalism and combating racism,
xenophobia and any discriminatory ideology; j) social and revolutionary environmentalism;
k) basic work, social inclusion and active participation in social movements and, l)
memory, participatory action research, libertarian and popular education, and
comprehensive militant training;
Our organization:
As opposed to trivial organizational project of traditional social democratic and
authoritarian political parties that favor the verticality and bourgeois democracy on
libertarian principles, and given that it is necessary to create a specifically anarchist
organization with a real insertion into the popular movement and a clear impact on the
fight for another social model, we understand that libertarian communism must be set to
horizon, praxis and overarching principle in our struggle.
We are aware that the libertarian society for which we fight is only possible if we fight
in the races today, in our daily lives and how we relate to others marked a consequence
saved. Thus, the organizational principles are not only practices of our organization but
we intend to extend them to all the oppressed communities and social movements that are
fighting the operator.
Picking the immense theoretical and historical legacy of libertarian individuals and
communities that have come up ideological barricades against oppression and for a more
just, egalitarian and anti-authoritarian society, we decided to drink the organizational
thinking anarchist tradition that is based on the following principles :
a) federalism from the bottom up; b) horizontal and asamblearismo; c) autonomy and
self-management; d) collective action, strategic and tactical unit agreements; e) militant
discipline and collective responsibility; f) effective solidarity and mutual support; g)
libertarian ethic; and h) especifismo and anarchist organizational dualism.
When we take as individuals such revolutionary political organization, we have also
decided that the basic element of our project is a militant with a real delivery to the
emancipatory cause of the workers, and in general, of the dispossessed by the state and
capital . Thus, to carry out our strategy, NCL consists of comprehensive tables that
perform a unitary strategy and act according to the statements above political and
organizational principles.
For the Libertarian Communism and the Social Revolution!
A bottom unite and organize in combat and rebellion!
Feel, hear, Up the fighting!
Libertarian Communist core (NCL)
June 2015
