(en) Núcleo Comunista Libertario, accicon-directa #1 - Our
perspective on the peace talks in Colombia (ca) [machine translation]
"The peace achieved by the sword is merely a truce" Pierre J. Proudhon ---- Peace talks in
Havana (Cuba) between the Revolutionary Armed Columbian Army (FARC-EP) Forces and the
National Government have just completed 3 and a half years. Despite the extensive time,
the anarchists have not given up the debate required much less have had a political
position on the future and present of the country and the struggles in the dynamics of
these negotiations, which for better or worse, affect the correlation of forces in the
fight of the oppressed against the regime. ---- It is important that the libertarian
communists, in a joint manner, we can develop an accurate and honest when reading dialogue
dimension. Thus, it seems important to stress that in times where progress, with many
setbacks, talks in Havana and possibilities for creating a new process with the National
Liberation Army (ELN) are opened, the political-social onslaught should accelerate.
This means that it is important that social movements positioned their battle standards
and are capable of dispute to earn them, not as it has been treated, its role is limited
to demand the acceleration of the talks or bilateral ceasefire. Sadly, the issue of peace
with social justice, promoted a broad spectrum of the parliamentary left, has become a
demobilizing agent in recent months (as critical to the peace process) together with the
electoral stakes, just need to see the lack of solidarity that has been expressed with
indigenous struggles in the North of Cauca and Putumayo farmers last year while leaving a
large aparatajes relucirse in the march for peace.
When we talk about social movements must regain dynamics do not think it means to be out
to demonstrate for peace only, but must return to historical claims as working hours of
eight hours and an end to outsourcing, criticism of the privatization policies health and
education, land rights and sovereignty of the territories, etc. Only if the war extends to
the heat of the struggle will be meaningless to speak of social justice, we believe we
will not reach through negotiations with Allied national bourgeoisie wild imperialism, but
with the development of a revolutionary process that touches all the areas of Colombian
territory and has as its ultimate end through internationalism, the complete liberation of
humanity.
This does not mean that we disagree with humanitarian demands as bilateral ceasefire, the
de-escalation of the conflict or decent political prisoners of the guerrillas treatment,
because we believe in the practical arena are the children of the workers, peasants,
indigenous and unemployed young people, our own neighbors or relatives, who have to wield
a weapon, either because that have been pushed by state violence or because they have been
forced to do so. However, this requirement must be understood in its humanitarian
proportion and not as a political end in itself, require bilateral cessation is not
revolutionary per se. These claims are just a heartfelt call to stop dying so many human
beings, as has happened in recent military actions in southern departments eastern
Colombia and Magdalena Medio.
We hope that the end of the armed conflict, which is only one of the edges of the social
war, does not mean a setback in the struggle, a social demobilization or electoral
exacerbated optimism, as has historically happened in periods of transition in Latin
America. On the contrary, this scenario should allow to pass to a new stage where we no
longer get used to lose but to be able to fight and conquer. But this will only be
possible if the Colombian government shows that it is able to accept its responsibility as
an agent of conflict, not only through their legal military forces but to the promotion of
paramilitarism. While there is no real will to not let prosper the war as a business, we
suspect that the peace talks are not going to nowhere and have to follow a dynamic interim
war, although in the cities do not feel as strongly as in the fields.
This is important to raise once again the call that we have the anarchists to participate
in social movements and build, through grassroots work and social inclusion, purposeful
criticism of the reformist understanding of peace. Only through direct action it is that
we can get a peace that does not mean the 'peaceful' coexistence with whom we exploit and
repress, but neither bloodshed means not seeking the benefit of below but the rise via
military or parliamentary power. It is important to intensify the mobilization and
self-organization on all fronts of struggle and in all territories, to horizontal,
anti-state and solidarity, we are historically oppressed people can live in peace in a new
world where there already exists a system where they dominate those we have historically
oppressed.
https://nclibertario.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/nuestra-perspectiva-frente-a-los-dialogos-de-paz-en-colombia/
