Today's Topics:
1. enlace zapatista ezln mx: The Walls Above, The Cracks Below
(And To The Left) (ca, it) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #268 - Self-management:
The conquest of bread is not for sale! (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. [Argentina] Buenos Aires: Graffiti against IIRSA By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, solfed: Brighton hospitality worker gets £600
payout after demanding holiday pay for herself and her workmates
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. US, m1aa: Against the Grain Radio: Militant Tactics Against
the Right (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. masari: Anarchist action despite state repression
(MASS-FAO-IFA) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Storm On Our Path ---- For us, as Zapatista originary peoples, the storm-the war-has
been going on for centuries. It arrived to our lands with the lies of the dominant
civilization and religion. At that time, the sword and the cross bled our people dry. ----
Over time, the sword was modernized and the cross was dethroned by the religion of
capital, but it continued to demand our blood as an offering to the new god: money. ----
We resisted, we always resist. Our rebellions were displaced by the dispute between
various forces for Power. Those forces, always from above, demanded that we struggle and
die to serve them. They demanded obedience and submission under the guise of liberating
us. Like those who said and say they fight, they came and come to rule. There were
supposed independences and false revolutions, those past and those to come.
Since then, those above have taken turns and continue to take turns in order to govern,
badly, or aspire to do so. In past and present calendars, their proposal continues to be
the same: that we offer our blood, while they lead or pretend to lead.
Before and now, they forget those of us who do not forget.
And always, yesterday and today, the woman is below, even in the collective that we were
and are.
But as the calendars went by, they not only brought pain and death to our people. Upon
expanding its dominion, Power created new brotherly and sisterly bonds in tragedy.
We saw then the worker and the peasant become one with our pain, lying under the four
wheels of the mortal carriage of Capital.
As Power advanced in its path through time, those below grew increasingly more, broadening
the base over which Power is and has Power. We saw that we were joined then by teachers,
students, artisans, small business people, professionals, and the etceteras with different
names but identical sorrows.
But that wasn't enough. Power is an exclusive space, discriminatory and selective. Thus
different kinds of difference were also openly persecuted. By color, race, creed, and
sexual preference, they were expelled from the promised land and given hell as a permanent
residence.
Next came young people, children, and elders. Power thus converted the calendars one holds
into cause for persecution. Everyone below is guilty: for being a woman, for being a
child, for being a young person, for being an adult, for being an elder, for being human.
But, upon expanding exploitation, displacement, repression, and discrimination, Power also
expanded resistance... and rebellion.
We saw then and now the raised heads of many[muchas, muchos, muchoas]. All different, but
similar in their rage and refusal.
Power knows that it is what it is only when wielded over those who work. It needs them.
It responded and responds to every rebellion by buying or fooling a few and imprisoning or
murdering many. It is not afraid of their demands; it is their example that terrifies it.
Still it was not enough. Having dominated nations, the Power of Capital sought to put all
of humanity under its heavy yoke.
Even that wasn't enough. Capital now attempts to manage nature, to dominate, domesticate,
and exploit her. That is, to destroy her.
The destructive advance of Capital, always through war, demolished the first fiefdoms and
kingdoms. Upon their ruins it raised nations.
Later it devastated nations and upon their ruins erected a new global order: the market.
The entire world became a big warehouse for commodities. Everything can be bought and
sold: water, wind, land, plants and animals, governments, knowledge, fun, desire, love,
hate, people.
But it is not only commodities that are exchanged in the great market of Capital.
"Economic freedom" is a mere illusion that simulates mutual agreement between those who
buy and sell. In reality, the market is based on dispossession and exploitation. The
exchange then is one of impunity. Justice is transformed into a grotesque caricature and
upon its scale, money always weighs more than truth. The stability of this tragedy called
Capitalism depends on repression and disrespect.
But that wasn't enough either. It is not possible to dominate the world if one does not
dominate ideas. Religious imposition was intensified and reached the arts and sciences.
Philosophies and beliefs emerged and emerge like passing fashions. The sciences and the
arts ceased to be something distinctively human and instead were placed on a shelf in the
global supermarket.
Knowledge became private property, as did recreation and pleasure.
Capital thus consolidated itself as a giant shredder, using not only humanity in its
entirety as raw material for commodity production, but also knowledge, art, and...nature.
The destruction of the planet, the millions of displaced, the rise in crime, unemployment,
poverty, the weakness of governments and the wars to come are not products of the excesses
of Capital, or of a mistaken detour of a system that promised order, progress, peace, and
prosperity.
No, all of these tragedies are the essence of the system.
It feeds on them; it grows at their cost.
Destruction and death are the fuel for the great machine of Capital.
Attempts to "rationalize" or "humanize" its functioning were, are, and will be futile.
Irrationality and inhumanity are its key parts. There is no possible repair. There wasn't
before, and there is no way now to mitigate its criminal path.
The only way to stop this machine is to destroy it.
In the current world war, the dispute is between the system and humanity. That is why the
anticapitalist struggle is a struggle for humanity.
Those who still try to "repair" or "save" the system are really proposing to us a mass
global suicide, like a posthumous sacrifice to Power.
In the system there is no solution.
Neither horror, condemnation, nor resignation are sufficient, nor is the hope that the
worst has passed and things can only get better.
No. What is certain is that things will get worse.
For these reasons, in addition to what each of us can add from our particular calendars
and geographies, we must resist, rebel, say "no," struggle, organize.
That is why we must raise the wind from below with resistance and rebellion, with
organization.
Only then will we be able to survive. Only then will it be possible to live.
And only then, as we said 25 years ago, will we be able to see that....
"When the storm calms, when the rain and fire leave the earth in peace once again, the
world will no longer be the world, but something better."
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The War and the Walls Outside and Inside
Provoked by the greed of big money, the intention above is to make those suffering the
current nightmare pay for it. Borders are no longer just lines drawn on maps and customs
checkpoints, but walls of armies and police, of cement and brick, of laws and persecution.
In the world above, the hunting of human beings increases and is celebrated with
clandestine competitions: whoever expels, incarcerates, confines, and murders the most wins.
As we have been saying for more than 20 years, neoliberal globalization did not bring
about a global village, but rather the fragmentation and dissolution of the so-called
"Nation-States." Then and now we called this process by the name that best describes it:
"world war" (the fourth, according to us).
The only thing that was globalized was the market, and with it, war.
For those who operate the machines and bring the land to life, borders continue to exist
and continue to be what they always have been: prisons.
Two decades ago, our assertion of this reality provoked mocking smiles from the
international intelligentsia, tied to its old and expired dogmas.
Those same people today stutter in the face of a frantic reality, or they recommend old
recipes, or they move on to a currently trendy idea that, through complex theoretical
elaboration, hides the only truth at hand: they haven't the slightest idea what is
happening, nor what is coming, nor what brought on the current nightmare.
They lament this. The thinking from above had promised them a world without borders, and
the result was instead a planet crammed with chauvinist trenches.
The world was not transformed into a gigantic metropolis without borders, but rather a
great sea writhing in an unprecedented storm. In that sea, millions of displaced (who are
grouped together by the media paintbrush as "migrants") flail in small boats, waiting to
be rescued by the gigantic ship of big Capital.
Not only will it not rescue them, but big Capital is the principal cause of the storm that
threatens the existence of humanity in its entirety.
Under the awkward disguise of fascist nationalism, the most retrograde dark times return,
claiming privileges and attentions. Tired of governing from the shadows, big Capital
dismantles the lies of "citizenship" and "equality" before the law and the market.
The flag of "freedom, equality, and fraternity" with which capitalism adorned its
conversion into the dominant world system is merely a dirty rag, tossed in the garbage bin
of history from above.
Finally the system unmasks itself and shows its true face and vocation. "War Always, War
Everywhere," reads the name on the proud ship that navigates through a sea of blood and
shit. It is money and not artificial intelligence that fights humanity in the decisive
battle: that of survival.
No one is safe. Not the naive national capitalist who dreamed of the bonanza that was
offered by open global markets, nor the conservative middle class surviving between the
dream of being powerful and the reality of being the flock for the shepherd in turn.
Then there are the working classes of the city and countryside who increasingly find
themselves in even more difficult conditions, if that were possible.
And, to round out the apocalyptic image, the millions of displaced and migrants piling up
at the borders that have suddenly become as real as the walls that governments and
criminals raise with every step.
In the global geography of the mass media and the social networks, the displaced, nomadic
ghosts without name or face, are merely a statistic that identifies their location.
The calendar? Just one day after the promise of the end of history, of the solemn
declaration of the supremacy of a system that was to have guaranteed wellbeing to those
who worked for it, of victory over the "communist enemy" who sought to restrict freedom,
impose dictatorships and create poverty, of the promised eternity that would annul all
genealogies. The same calendar that announced just yesterday that world history was only
getting started. And it turns out that no, it was all nothing more than a prelude to the
most frightening nightmare.
Capitalism as a world system is collapsing, and the great captains, now desperate, can no
longer figure out where to go. That's why they are withdrawing into the lairs from which
they came.
They offer the impossible: local salvation against global catastrophe. And this rubbish
sells well among a middle class that is blurring into those from below in terms of its
income, but which aspires to make up for its unmet economic needs with authentications of
race, creed, color and sex. Salvation from above is Anglo-Saxon, white, religious, and
masculine.
Now, those who lived on the crumbs that fell from the tables of big capital watch
desperately as walls are erected against them, too. And the worst part is that they intend
to head the opposition to this warlike policy. Here we see the intellectual right making
contrary gestures and attempting timid and ridiculous protests. Because, no: globalization
was not the triumph of freedom. It was and is the current age of tyranny and slavery.
Nations are not Nations anymore, although their respective governments might not have
noticed it yet. Their flags and emblems are threadbare and discolored. Destroyed by
globalization from above, sick with the parasite of Capital and with corruption as their
only sign of identity, the national governments try with inept haste to protect themselves
and attempt the impossible reconstruction of what they once were.
In the airtight compartments created by their walls and customs checkpoints, the system
drugs the middle sectors of society with the opium of a reactionary, nostalgic
nationalism, with xenophobia, racism, sexism, and homophobia as a plan for salvation.
Borders multiply within every territory. Not just the ones that are drawn on maps; also,
and above all, the ones that are erected by corruption and crime turned into government.
The postmodern bonanza was nothing but a balloon inflated by finance capital. And then
reality came to pop it: millions of people displaced by the great war fill the land and
waterways, they pile up in customs and begin making cracks in the walls already raised and
the ones still to be built. Encouraged before by big Capital, fundamentalisms find fertile
ground for their proposals for unification: "from terror will be born a single way of
thinking: ours." After being nourished with dollars, the beast that is terrorism threatens
the house of its creator.
It's the same thing in the United States as in Western Europe or neo-czarist Russian; the
beast writhes and tries to protect itself. It extols then (and not only then) the crudest
stupidity and ignorance, and, in its government figureheads, synthesizes its proposal:
"Let's go back to the past."
But no, America will not be great again. Never again. Nor will the whole system in its
entirety. It doesn't matter what those above do. The system has already arrived at the
point of no return.
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Against Capital and its Walls: All the Cracks
The international offensive of Capital against racial and national differences, in
promoting the construction of cultural and legal walls as well as those of cement and
steel, seeks to shrink the planet even further. In this way they are trying to create a
world where the only ones who fit are those above who are equal amongst themselves.
It may sound ridiculous, but this is how it is: to face the storm, the system is not
looking for roofs to protect itself, but rather walls behind which to hide.
This new period of Capital's war against Humanity must be faced, yes, with organized
resistance and rebellion, but also with solidarity and support for those whose lives,
freedoms, and goods are being attacked.
For this reason:
Whereas the system is incapable of stopping the destruction.
Whereas below and to the left there must be no room for conformity and resignation.
Whereas it is time to organize to struggle and to say "NO" to the nightmare they impose on
us from above.
THE SIXTH COMMISSION OF THE EZLN AND THE ZAPATISTA BASES OF SUPPORT CONVOKE:
I.- A global campaign:
In the face of Capital's walls: resistance, rebellion, solidarity, and support from below
and to the left.
With the objective of calling for organization and global resistance in the face of the
aggressiveness of big money and its respective overseers on the planet, which already
terrorize millions of people all around the world:
We are calling for people to organize themselves in autonomy to resist and rebel against
persecutions, detentions, and deportations. If someone has to go, let it be them, those
above. Every human being has the right to a free and dignified existence in the place that
they deem best, and has the right to fight to stay there. Resisting detentions,
displacements, and expulsions is an obligation, just as it is an obligation to support
those who are rebelling against those arbitrary actions REGARDLESS OF BORDERS.
It is necessary to let all those people know that they are not alone, that their pain and
rage are seen even from a distance, that their resistance is not only welcomed, it is also
supported, even with our limited possibilities.
It is necessary to get organized. It is necessary to resist. It is necessary to say "NO"
to persecutions, expulsions, prisons, walls, borders. And it is necessary to say "NO" to
the national bad governments that are and have been accomplices to that policy of terror,
destruction and death. Solutions will not come from above, because that's where the
problems were born.
For this reason we are calling on the Sixth in its entirety to organize itself, according
to its times, ways, and geographies, to support activities for and by those who are
resisting and rebelling against expulsions. This may be by supporting their return to
their homes, by creating "sanctuaries" or supporting the ones that already exist, through
legal advice and support, with money, through the arts and sciences, through festivals and
mobilizations, through commercial and media boycotts, in cyberspace, wherever and however
possible. In all the spaces we move through it is our duty to support and be in solidarity
with each other.
The time has come to create solidarity committees with the criminalized and persecuted of
humanity. Today more than ever before, their house is also our house.
As the Zapatistas we are, our strength is small and, although our calendar is wide and
deep, our geography is limited.
For this reason, and to support those who are resisting detentions and deportations, over
the last several weeks the Sixth Commission of the EZLN has begun contacting individuals,
groups, collectives and organizations around the world that are adherents to the Sixth, to
figure out how to send them a small bit of assistance that may serve as a base to launch
or continue all kinds of activities and actions of favor of the persecuted.
To start, we will send them works of art created by indigenous Zapatistas for last year's
CompArte, as well as organic coffee produced by the indigenous Zapatista communities in
the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. This is so that, through their sale, they can
undertake artistic and cultural activities that will concretize support and solidarity
with migrants and displaced people who, all over the world, are seeing their lives,
freedoms, and goods threatened by xenophobic campaigns promoted by the world's governments
and the far-right.
That's just for now. We will be thinking of new forms of support and solidarity. The
Zapatista women, men, children and elders will not leave them on their own.
II.- We also invite all of the Sixth and anyone who is interested to the seminar of
critical reflection, "THE WALLS OF CAPITAL, THE CRACKS OF THE LEFT," to be celebrated
April 12-15, 2017, at the CIDECI-UniTierra facilities in San Cristóbal de Las Casas,
Chiapas, Mexico. Participants include:
Don Pablo González Casanova.
María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (CNI).
Paulina Fernández C.
Alicia Castellanos.
Magdalena Gómez.
Gilberto López y Rivas.
Luis Hernández Navarro.
Carlos Aguirre Rojas.
Arturo Anguiano.
Sergio Rodríguez Lascano.
Christian Chávez (CNI).
Carlos González (CNI).
Sixth Commission of the EZLN.
We will provide more details soon.
III.- We convoke all artists for the second edition of "CompArte for Humanity" with the
theme: "Against Capital and its Walls: All of the Arts" to be celebrated around the world
and in cyberspace. The "real" part will take place between July 23-29, 2017, in the
caracol of Oventik and at the CIDECI-UniTierra. The virtual edition will be August 1-12,
2017, on the web. We will provide more details soon.
IV.- We also ask that you be on the lookout for the activities to be convoked by the
National Indigenous Congress as part of its process of formation of the Indigenous Council
of Government.
V.- We convoke the scientists of the world to the second edition of "ConCiencias for
Humanity" with the theme: "The Sciences Against the Wall," to be celebrated December
26-30, 2017, at CIDECI-UniTierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico and in
cyberspace. We will provide more details soon.
That's not all. It is necessary to resist, it is necessary to rebel, it is necessary to
struggle, it is necessary to get organized.
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.
Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.
Mexico, February 14 (the day of our dead), 2017.
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2017/02/16/the-walls-above-the-cracks-below-and-to-the-left/
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Message: 2
Boulangerie self-managed in Montreuil (93) since 2010, recognized space of exchanges, The
Conquest of the Bread has always supported the social movement. Today, it needs help in
return to improve production, working conditions and its political project. ---- The
Conquest of bread is a self-managed organic bakery, but it is also the fruit of collective
work carried out by committed workers, whether salaried or not. Together they demonstrated
that their bakery is a political and social project that makes sense, is economically
viable and is invested in social struggles and neighborhood life. ---- Since its creation
in 2010, the bakery has evolved greatly: we have gone from four to ten, we have increased
our opening hours, we have initiated and supported numerous projects: social tariffs, sale
for the benefit of struggles, donation of bread Migrants ... Today, it is a period of
transition: a new team takes over, supported by the founders! Thanks to our success, and
the support of clients, Amap, local inhabitants, associations, activists and activists, we
decided to commit ourselves to continue the adventure by remaining in the Framework of
self-management.
Our bread is good but to further improve its quality, and that of viennoiseries, we need
equipment, for example a shoot chamber. To improve the working conditions, work is
necessary in the shop. The bakery has shown that self-management is valid, today it wants
to make further progress in this logic.
A production tool at the service of another worldview
The new team has the will to open a production laboratory not only for the production of
bread, but also to host militant initiatives: exchange of knowledge, collective use of the
premises ... We see lots of workshops, specific training, Of initiations in the bakery, or
of doors open around the bread, with professionals, schoolchildren, inhabitants and
inhabitants of Montreuil, amapiens and amapiennes ... We also see a space of culinary
workshops strongly desired by the Associations.
The Conquest of the Bread is a space for collective experimentation of a production tool
in the service of another vision of the world - support for militant collectives, trade
unions, political organizations and struggles. It is a model for other projects. It exists
thanks to our work but also thanks to you who eat our bread and who support us from the
beginning. For her to live, we ask for your help: we need 35 000 euros for the shoot room,
work in the shop and in the snack laboratory. We thank you.
The team of the Conquest of bread
You can send your checks to the order of La Conquête du pain: La Conquête du pain, 47, rue
de la Beaune, 93100 Montreuil.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Autogestion-La-Conquete-du-pain-n
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Message: 3
(For the Week of Agitation and Anarchic Propaganda Against IIRSA) ---- The fight is not
only in the countryside, in the woods, in the rivers, in the mountain, in the forest, in
the jungle or in the seas. Even if we recognize it: the more effective direct struggle for
Earth is there. But our struggle is not limited. ---- The expansion of exploitation and
extractivism - the devastation of the Earth - has an origin and base that drives it. A
gray and monotonous cement base. It is a domineering and conquering origin. ---- Container
cities bury their lives, like a cemetery waiting for them. Because under the cement is the
earth. Earth that will be fertilized with the defenders and impellers of the devastation
when these are buried soon to reap rebellion.
What the enemy calls nature to us is us.
Because we do not move away nor do we want to separate ourselves from what we are. We
defend it, defend ourselves and attack it as it is and with whatever, even if it is little
or not much.
With affection and rebellion to those who fight directly, face to face, by Earth and Life
against Capitalism and the alienating Civilization wherever it may be.
Today, in this jungle of cement, walls that will fall will at least say:
NO TO IIRSA
NO TO THE EXPLORATION
Anarchic graffiti somewhere in Buenos Aires.
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Message: 4
Brighton Hospitality Workers zero hours contract Brighton hospitality ---- One of the most
common problems faced by workers in the hospitality industry is the withdrawal of holiday
pay. In an industry dominated by zero-hour contracts, many workers and even employers are
unaware of workers' legal right to holiday pay, even when on a zero-hours contract. This
was the case for one former waitress at a cafe in the North Laine. ---- The worker had
been at the cafe for several months before even discovering, via a colleague affiliated to
SolFed, that workers on zero-hour contracts are still entitled to holiday pay proportional
to the number of hours which they work. The workers collectivised this issue and were
succesful in pushing the employer to provide all of the workers with a new contract which
stipulated that they would be entitled to holiday pay.
After some time following the signing of the new contract, the worker came to experience a
hostile work enviromnent due to the attitudes of certain collegues, and decided that she
wanted to leave her employment. It was at this point that she realised that her employer
only intended to pay her the holiday pay which she was entitled to from the point that she
had signed the new contract, some ten months after she had initially begun working there.
The employer also decided that they would work out her holiday pay according to the
minimum wage, and not the wage which she had been earning whilst working there.
The worker then brought her case to Brighton SolFed, asking for help in working out
exactly how much she was entitled to and in demanding that the employer pay it in full.
A demand letter was written up by SolFed in accordance with the worker, demanding that the
employer pay the full amount of holiday pay of over £600. The worker submitted this letter
on their own due to the complex workplace dynamic which might have seen a SolFed member
accompanying her as being overly intimidatory. Still, the worker was confident that SolFed
was there to back her up, should any issues arise.
As a business which operates in the busy North Laine, the employer clearly did not want
to endanger their business in any way and payed the amount in full under threat of
industrial action by the SolFed local.
This case clearly demonstrates both the power of collectivisation, when the workers
collectivised to demand that holiday pay be included in their contracts, and the power
that the threat of industrial action can have on a business operating in a busy area with
high visibility.
Since this case, the worker has become an active member of the local, as she wants to show
the same solidarity which was extended to her to other workers in her position.
http://www.solfed.org.uk/brighton/brighton-hospitality-worker-gets-ps600-payout-after-demanding-holiday-pay-for-herself-and
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Message: 5
We re-post this interview which includes a Twin Cities General Defense Committee member
discussing anti-fascism, the history of Anti-Racist Action, and the perspective of IWW ‘s
GDC.: In the aftermath of the shutdown of far right celebrity Milo Yiannapoulos at UC
Berkeley, there's been much debate among progressives and leftists about the use of
militant tactics against the right. Some of the questions under contention are whether
militant tactics bring down repression on the most vulnerable, and whether free
speech-even for fascists-is sacrosanct. Undocumented UC Berkeley student Juan Prieto
talks about why he supported the shutdown. And Kieran discusses the history of the group
Anti-Racist Action and makes the case for mass militant organizing and action.
Listen here
Resources:
Twin Cities General Defense Committee
Building Working-Class Defense Organizations: An Interview with the Twin Cities GDC
A History of Anti-Racist Action
https://antiracistaction.org/history/
http://m1aa.org/?p=1392
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Message: 6
The lines below are written from personal experiences of action with anarchist positions
and meeting with police and judicial repression as a direct consequence. The result is a
self-evaluation of people who deal with repression and interviews with people who lived
through it. The goal is to think about the possibilities of their own behavior under the
repressive actions of the state and provide a potential roadmap. The motivation behind
writing is to continue to act in all circumstances in which they find themselves. ----
Repressed think of any action repressive apparatus (police, informers, secret service,
courts, prisons, military), which tries to suppress, restrict or isolate the anarchist
action. Under the anarchist action we mean any direct action against the state and
capitalism, relying on its own forces, without waiting for any permission not commanded
and building different relationships that are based on equality, solidarity and honesty
here and now, time wishing and realizing different future.
If we start quote Napoleon will be more clearly which direction we intend to go. French
soldier, statesman and emperor collected a wide range of experience throughout your life,
so you listen to the "wisdom of police work is that - that would be punished less often,
you have to punish serious." A mayor or any other politician in office in the city, county
or state level to exert pressure on the repressive apparatus that certain persons
necessarily deter physical violence, persecution of the police, and then the judicial
procedures, to the system smoothly continued with his action. Then workers can smoothly
continue to go to work and make money for the boss, the children go to school and learn
obedience, and you continue to watch television šopajuci the fear that we are a dominant
share and moving away from each other, and all together we can see how it looks in
practice slogan so often chanted to the police in the protests - "protect the rich!". This
pyramid scheme works identically if the place of politicians and / or above it, which you
insert tycoon thwarted business. The chain of command works, but between us, that we are
on the bottom of the social pyramid and those who are above us was their political
positions and / or capital, stands the police.
When the police decided to act, be sure that by then certainly collected enough data to
find out your habits, social contacts and networks that you use for the mobilization in
your actions. To collect the data used in the control of which can flow through
interviews, photography, physical surveillance, wiretapping mobile devices, monitoring of
orders on the Internet, such as your e-mail, Facebook account or by inserting listening
devices in the room where you are staying. Some parts of the work carried out by the
"old-fashioned", and that their turn informers who are recruited by fear, extortion or
salary. It is no news that every country has the secret service, which is provided with
its own infrastructure, so control your movement is not a problem, indeed the existence of
GPS (global positioning system) in your mobile devices and IP (Internet Protocol) between
your computer and the Internet the job is easier than ever.
Operatives can rent an apartment next to your order you had your eye on for 24 hours a
day, you follow and record your contacts and habits, while the more daring can try to get
into your society. In addition to paid operatives can count on people who have "owed" to
the police. Paid operatives and "debtors" will try to gain your trust in order to obtain
information about your activities or be drawn into potentially dangerous situations
(usually by persuasion to senseless violent actions, operations arms, etc. In the context
of when it has no justification, and danger of bringing real). There are people who are
just scared and decide "Drukat", due to lack of spine or concerns for your family and
workplace. It should all be aware of calm or pay dearly staying without freedom.
Now that we have pointed to any network repression has, we'll come back to Napoleon, the
role of the police and the wider consequences for those which are subject to repression
and of those who watched. The situation is as follows; over you were the only witnesses
physically attack police because of some action (eg, protest, occupation or strike) and
waiting for the sentence in freedom or in custody. Since you have decided to make an
example to others, and you're holding a flag / banner / megaphone, distributed leaflets,
newspapers, speeches, led by action, or simply maintain a page on the Internet as part of
a broader social movement. Police violence produces wider social trauma, how much you and
others (family, friends, acquaintances). Trauma is mainly manifested so most people who
had previously participated no longer wants to "take in hand" organization or specified
"materials" from fear of punishment. This reproduction of fear known to go as far as to
you some people begin to defend each other "subversive acts", as no one would be punished
again. Even if some again and receive participation in social movements such as
demonstrations, initiatives, campaigns, taking note that within the framework of the
system, how to not to provoke repressive apparatus, and behind such social movements are
mainly opposition parties and non-governmental sector (NGOs).
For the purpose of illustrating this social phenomenon take the example of the monkeys who
are our close relatives. In the experiment, the monkeys in captivity offers an opportunity
to take a banana, which is set up so that it should make an effort to come to take. When
one fails to take a banana is punished with the others. Next monkey who wants to take a
banana in almost all cases is trying to be prevented by other monkeys out of fear that you
do not get a penalty. Therefore, all of us at one time can take on the role of a police
officer. Now if you repeat a quote Napoleon would probably make more sense; "That would be
punished less often, you have to punish serious".
The goal of repression is correct "deviant behavior", you return to the "right path" or if
it is impracticable to remove you from any track at a certain time, and anarchist antidote
is seemingly simple - you need to stay persistent, stubborn and find ways to rehabilitate
and continue to operate. When we wrote that most or some do not want to continue to act
for fear of punishment, and if some of them continue to operate operate solely within the
system, that does not mean that such behavior is only possible, and that from such a
situation there is no escape. Trauma pass, wounds heal and experience remain. Persistent
minorities can turn things in your favor, radicalized himself and the situation, and is
set back on its feet. Frightened supporters a little back, creates a new sympathy for
people who have had similar experiences and come to a new generation unencumbered by fear.
If you have difficulty or prohibited the movement and activity in the city center, to be
understood that the city has the periphery, if you are prohibited or hampered activity in
the city, one should understand that there are other cities, regions and countries,
depending on how much repression spreads its tentacles so there are alternatives.
Why would feel like lab rats and react to pulses with which you power, such as scientists
who test on animals, studying and making you crazy? It is allowed to use cunning to avoid
their network, will be an opportunity to fight back. The key is not to give up, continue
to connect with like and allow you rehabilitation. If there be fear of punishment, should
you ensure repetition of the situation that led to the penalty, this time without penalty.
It is said that fear is the most effective to solve if you go to meet him, and it is quite
true. Some of us had the opportunity to participate with the anarchists in other countries
in the actions after which they were punished, and opportunities to talk with people who
have gone through state repression. Therefore, one of the sources of power and the
international character of our movement. The anarchist movement has a rich history and is
globally widespread, so it is unlikely that someone before you has gone through something
similar and continued to operate.
We have to break one illusion I occasionally come across - that it is possible to act
without ever comes in contact with the repressive apparatus. Anarchist action entails
consequences of which can not be run as is, among other things, lies our strength. Where
others give up in front of the smallest obstacle we are accustomed to act in an atmosphere
of fear of sanctions and conflict. It is impossible to build a fighting movement expecting
that there will be no problems, but it has to be built despite them and to their resolve.
You can organize a lot of action and go unpunished, but a matter of time when the police
will knock on your door and you scruff of the neck and put you foxes. It needs to learn
that it is necessary to have a network of contacts that will serve in solidarity with
those affected by repression (by providing encouragement, "safe houses" and others.),
Gathering support for different types of pressure on the police, judiciary, government,
serve filling "solidarity fund "for people who, through their actions out of work, against
whom court proceedings or in need of medical care.
In the end it may be a reason to start to wear thicker and shorter poles for flags in
action and hold in their hands or on their heads, motorcycle helmets, because police
generally attack defenseless civilians counting on the fact that very few people will
resist, a sense of fear to overcome. If we can not defend each other in action, we can
forget about the growth of our movement, no one likes being a punching bag, and recall our
protests are known to visit the whole family with children, a girl could walk without fear
in the first place, holding flags and banners. Therefore, should clearly know where the
first line should take the people who are ready mentally, physically and financially
withstand the pressure of the repressive apparatus.
They stressed that it should not be confused with human justice law prosecutors and
courts, revolutionary pulse weight with public opinion which is formed through the
mainstream media, people know this is easily confused because they do not draw their
authority from their sense of justice and freedom, but from "the law stronger" and
lowering the head from passive acceptance of the status quo. We are talking to because we
legitimacy to act draw from ourselves and from all those oppressed groups in society that
suffer systematic humiliation. Anarchists have a line of individuality bordering on
anti-social thought, which helps them to continue to operate and for this there are no
"real conditions", when "public opinion" conservative or reformist minded, when social
movements temporarily failing and returning the faith in "parliamentary solutions".
Despite everything, it is necessary to continue to operate without numbing blade anarchist
critique and uncompromising in the fight, while retaining its autonomy against the state
and its solutions. Therefore, it is important to keep your securities positions and do not
allow suction in various parliamentary and non-governmental options, upgrade to their and
others' experience and push forward. It is necessary sometimes to rest, but is not allowed
to give up. Opportunities for our intervention will indicate, and we will be more prepared
and more determined than before. The reasons for the action never miss.
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