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Tuesday December 16, 2008 22:45 by US NEFAC National Secretary - North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists
A statement by US NEFAC on the recent US presidential election
We encourage the support of unions, neighborhood democracy, resistance to police brutality, support for political prisoners, models for mass education, and also a movement with teeth. Above all, we must struggle for what we need, not what the system is willing to give us. In addition, we must all be on the watch for expressions of racist hatred and organized fascist movements in the months and years following the election. [Castellano] [Français] [Italiano]
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Spring zu Komment: 1 2 3 4 5 6I think is a very good statement which addresses the issue properly and hits the main points with clarity and insight. It is also to be applauded for not sinking into traditional dogmatic "perspectives" on elections etc., while remaining critical and emphasizing at every point the centrality of popular struggle independent of, and in contrast to, bourgeois political reforms which admittedly can make real improvements for the working class but always on the basic assumption, in the framework, of the State and capitalism.
As I see it, anarchists should not let their guard down, they should view with suspicion all bourgeois politicians and all bourgeois economic and social reforms; but we should never substitute our critique of bourgeois politics and capitalist "solutions" for firmly-grounded social activity. The class and social struggle must be central to our program and pervade every aspect of activity, always agitating for it to the masses and organizing ourselves the better to fight collectively and bring our concerted influence to bear on radical and popular movements.
Thank you so much for concisely putting into the written word what I've been struggling to explain to people during this election. Change for the US needs not just a face and a hope but the work of everyone to achieve the goals of the people.
It is very crucial for everyone to understand that a revolution has begun in Greece and that our major cities are burning. I suppose that the international media and the media of your country are hidding the maginitude of what is happening in Greece. The anarchists monements in Greece are at the streets burning our major cities in groups 25 to 500 people doing damage to police stations goverment offices and big corporation stores. The desperate immigrant's ,homeless and desperate people of the cities are helping us either by destroying or by looting the fake private property and taking back what is rightgully theirs.But here we also see the common worker destroying and protesting at thousends of students and common people without real knowlendge of Anarchism throw rocks and hit police stations. This started by the death of an innocent 16 year old boy by a cop. As we speak the goverment is weakened and so far the police is holding back their shooters because another innocent death would result in total collaption of the state, they are in defence for the first time and the anarchist movement is getting stronger. This is a message to all the partners anarchists in the world, if you can travel to Greece and help the movement by throwing a cocktail, smashing a bank or killing a pig of the agencies please come. The situation is very mature for overthrowing the goverment and building the spanish model. The revolution can be exported to Paris that is ready to explode, If we start to believe that anarchy is an outopia in our own movement we are doomed. If you don't believe our words of the right time right place scan the net for what really is happening in Greece. Come there is work to be done.
As the person writting has no great knowledge of the political meaning of some words in english don't missunderstand nothing we believe in Anarchism in its true form. We just don't know good english.
Via the internet/media it seems the localised uprisings are region-wide throughout Greece with global solidarity actions: a unique situation ongoing for 2 weeks. While there is not the France 1968 extension of 10 million wage slaves in general strike & workplace occupations...so far the fighting spirit of the youth and their supporters has much support and may take the direct action in workplaces route. Already occupied Union HQ to protest at their collaboration with repression and airlines have been diusrupted.
Like the Argentine Piqueteros the too young to vote not in a job youth have occupied their schools but go into the streets and use direct democracy to make decisions. In 19th century Maltesta & crew used to take over Town Halls and burn the land & tax documents to encourage the land to be taken over by those who worked it and not the Landlords and Government.
A different time yet the similarities are striking.
Like the "economic crisis" this situation baffles the economists, experts and the would be Governors who seek to get their own agenda realised ie get themselves into Power like authoritarian socialists.
Here is the Economist magazine response to Greece: freaking a tad at prospect of the example inspiring Europe wide "copy cat" example. This reminds me of the 1980 Bristol, 1981 Brixton then Britian wide 1980s riot which anarchists and Irish & black communities in resistance inspired...it did not extend to workplaces much as initiative was unemployed who took fight up to Police.
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Already, the Greek riots are prompting talk of a new era of networked protest. The volume of online content they have inspired is remarkable. Photos and videos of the chaos, often shot with cellphones, were posted online almost in real time. Twitter, a service for exchanging short messages, has brimmed with live reports from the streets of Athens, most of them in Greek but a few in English. A tribute to the slain teenager—a clip of photos with music from a popular rock band—appeared on YouTube, the video-sharing site, shortly after his death; more than 160,000 people have seen it. A similar tribute group on Facebook has attracted more than 130,000 members, generating thousands of messages and offering links to more than 1,900 related items: images of the protests, cartoons and leaflets. A memorial was erected in Second Life, a popular virtual environment, giving its users a glimpse of real-life material from the riots. Many other online techniques—such as maps detailing police deployments and routes of the demonstrations— came of age in Athens. And as thousands of photos and videos hit non-Greek blogs and forums, small protests were triggered in many European cities, including Istanbul (see picture above) and Madrid. Some 32 people were arrested in Copenhagen.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaysto...15678
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http://riotsinhungary.blog.hu/2006/10/25/interactive_ri...ugh_1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g03o4GDpCog
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..during the French riots of 2005, teenagers posted blogs that urged people to “burn the cops”—and made massive use of text messages to co-ordinate the protests.
The youths that trashed Budapest in 2006 relied on blogs to enlist supporters, and distribute an audio recording of the prime minister admitting government corruption.
Hungarian blogs were also used to aggregate visual evidence of police brutality. There were novel online projects such as an “Interactive Riot Walkthrough”, which superimposed photos of the latest events on a map of Budapest, offering “virtual tours” of the city as it burned.
Greece is the Word !
What's so impressive (or reflective of anarchist thought) about more than half of half of the voters who still care to participate, uniting behind a man who still stinks war is an acceptable solution to anything...I'm not seeing it....
It's merely typical of how the two parties divide and conquer via the media and buzzwords and how the left is manipulated into thinking they are the "kind" half of the half who care...
-Alice
Re: Organizing and acting...
Alice, some thoughts on your post...
"What's so impressive (or reflective of anarchist thought) about more than half of half of the voters who still care to participate, uniting behind a man who still stinks war is an acceptable solution to anything...I'm not seeing it...."
I think this is simply the reality we will have to face until a greater level of internationalism is achieved. It is certainly not the case that the average working class American would celebrate the death of an Iraqi, but rather they believe that there is not another option. However, I think that some hope can be taken from people choosing to vote for Obama. Do not mistake me, I hold no hope for Obama as a President, or the system, but the vote still stands as an indicator of where Americans are politically. It is important that an African American was elected, it is important that the majority of Americans wish to end the Iraq war (if perhaps not the conflict in Afghanistan) and want resources and attention to go to schools, communities, and jobs rather than fill the pockets of the rich. The trick is how to organize so that these causes can truly be forwarded. We must keep reminding people of what they wanted when they voted, and why the system can not offer it.
"It's merely typical of how the two parties divide and conquer via the media and buzzwords and how the left is manipulated into thinking they are the "kind" half of the half who care..."
I agree with the media manipulation. However if by "the half" you mean American voters, of course they care. These are working people with families and hopes just like anyone else. We are manipulated, oppressed and exploited, but of course we care. If we do not believe this than what hope is there for Anarchism?