https://melbacg.wordpress.com/the-anvil/ ---- The articles will be published as separate
articles over coming weeks. ---- In Solidarity, Ablokeimet for MACG. ---- Let's knock the
whole wall down ---- We must go a few steps further, therefore, than just engaging in
anti-racist and antifascist organising. We must fight the ongoing displacement of
Aboriginal people from their homelands in Western Australia. We must fight the mass
incarceration and illegalisation of people seeking asylum in this country. We must
confront all of these “single” issues. They are part of an entire against the working
class and our communities, by the Government, capital and the State. ---- Reclaim
Australia is one brick in the wall Let's knock the whole wall down ---- It looks like we
are in for another round of Reclaim Australia's Islamophobic, racist and anti-Left
mobilisations around Australia, particularly in Melbourne. Lately we have seen the racist,
Fascist thugs raise their heads, ready to organise not only against Muslim communities,
but also against anyone who opposes them.
We have seen the split from Reclaim Australia, the ugly United Patriots Front (UPF) trying
to storm Richmond Town Hall believing that by doing so they could destroy the what they
imagine to be the main organisers against their rally in Federation Square back in April.
They thought they could destroy the Left and the antifascist movement. What they actually
showed was a few dozen thugs wearing swastikas and other Nazi paraphernalia, failing to
“give the Left a lesson”.
We believe that, in order to fight back and effectively kick out their new round of hate
mobilisations ion 18 July, the whole antifascist movement must not follow the same faults
that have been apparent on 4 April. There is an urgent need for a trade union and mass
community mobilisation. We need the migrant communities’ participation in the
counter-rallies and other activities planned for 18 July in Melbourne and for the next day
in the rest of the country.
The counter-rally on 4 April was comprised mostly not only of white activists but also of
mostly Anglo-Australian militants. With the important exception of activists from the
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), and some non-white supporters of larger
organised Left and Anarchist groups, the non-white and the migrant communities were simply
absent. The same happened in the most recent counter-rally against United Patriots Front
at Richmond Town Hall on 31 May.
This description of the weaknesses of the mobilisations so far is not meant to discredit
the efforts of the organisers of these events. Every effort towards kicking the Fascists
out and building of an effective antifascist movement is welcome. Rather, we say this to
emphasise that the task in front of us is larger than the work we have done so far.
The task we face is to draw the mass of the working class into direct and active
participation in the movement. On the one hand, the Muslim and Asian communities who are
the immediate target of Reclaim Australia. On the other hand, the union movement, which is
the Fascists' ultimate target. Without these two sectors, the anti-racist, antifascist
mobilisation is likely to be seen as a war between fringe groups of our society to which
few will pay attention. This orientation, however, does not mean we recognise the leaders
of the Muslim communities or the union movement as having a veto on our activities.
Through our mobilisations we seek to halt the progress of the far Right. We must realise
the far Right are only a symptom of the government push to criminalise Muslims, indigenous
people, immigrants and people of colour. They label them as potential terrorists and thus
enemies of some imagined “Australia”.
We must go a few steps further, therefore, than just engaging in anti-racist and
antifascist organising. We must fight the ongoing displacement of Aboriginal people from
their homelands in Western Australia. We must fight the mass incarceration and
illegalisation of people seeking asylum in this country. We must confront all of these
“single” issues. They are part of an entire against the working class and our communities,
by the Government, capital and the State.
Capitalism generates racism and produces the potential for Fascist groups to emerge. To
abolish racism and to eliminate the Fascist threat for good, we need a workers’ revolution
to overthrow capitalism.
*This is the main article of the latest issue of “The Anvil”, newsletter of Melbourne
Anarchist Communist Group (MACG). You can download the issue (and all the back issues)
from here http://melbacg.wordpress.com/the-anvil/
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