İktidar Covid19 önlemleri adı altında ucu açık ve anlaşılmaz yasaklar açıkladı. Salgın süreci boyunca göstermelik önlemleri uygulayan iktidar gerçekçi önlemleri uygulamadı. Önlemleri fakir ve zengin yaşamını ayrıştırarak uyguladı. Bu ayrıştırma sadece ekonomik değildi, tarafı olduğu kültürel kesimleri kayırmasıyla sosyal bir ayrıştırmaya da dönüştü. Başkanın açıkladığı son salgın yasaklarında da bu açıkça ortadadır. Atölyelerde, fabrikalarda, inşaatlarda işçiler çalışıyorken patronlar izolasyonlarını sürdürmekteler. Kahvehaneler ve kıraathaneler kapanıyorken AVM’ler açık kalıyor, dip dibe yapılan ibadetler sürüyor. Bunlar bize, yapılan bu ayrıştırmayı apaçık göstermektedir. Bu yasakların Covid19 ile alakası yoktur. Yasaklar, krizle karşı karşıya kalan toplumun kontrolünü sağlamak ve krizi anlaşılamaz, algılanamaz kılarak saklama çabasının bir ürünüdür.

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“La prisión no impide que los actos antisociales se produzcan; por el contrario, aumenta su número. No mejora a los que van a parar a ella. Refórmesela tanto como se quiera, siempre será una privación de libertad, un medio ficticio como el convento, que torna al prisionero cada vez menos propio para la vida en sociedad. No consigue lo que se propone. Mancha a la sociedad. Debe desaparecer” (Piort Kropotkin – “Las Prisiones”)

“Que los compañerxs no se sientan solxs. La gente con la que compartieron alegrías y tristezas, fracasos y victorias, están más que nunca junto a ellxs. Peleando con terco fervor. Sintiendo cada día más amor y más odio. Ese amor y ese odio con el que, juntxs, haremos cambiar el mundo de bases” (Juan C. Mechoso – Acción Directa Anarquista: Una Historia de FAU”)

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Es claro que esta siempre fue una disputa interburguesa, entre dos facciones de derecha, cada cual representando sus propios intereses y agendas políticas. Y en esta contienda perdió el que tuvo menos respaldo estratégico. La caída de Vizcarra demuestra un Ejecutivo debilitado y carente de gobernabilidad, pues —entre otras cosas— nunca tuvo una bancada parlamentaria que lo respalde y frene las arremetidas del Legislativo que sí logró consensuar su ataque en bloque bajo la desgastada argucia de la «lucha anticorrupción», cuando siempre estuvo claro que en ambos poderes del Estado el nivel de putrefacción es realmente alarmante. Ahora, con la toma del poder de Manuel Merino, quien está abocado a convocar un gabinete ministerial acorde a sus socios parlamentarios, empieza una nueva repartija del poder, que no quepa ninguna duda.

#EndSARS

A video went viral on social media platforms on October 3, outlining how the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigerian police force shot a young man, dumped him at the side of the road and stole his car. What followed was three weeks of protests by young people against such police brutality and the corruption that defines the state; initially via social media, #EndSARS, and later in towns and cities across Nigeria.

During these protests the Nigerian state used various tactics to either suppress the protests or to try and demobilise them through insincere “concessions”. To begin with, the ruling class, the state it controls and its head, President Muhammadu Buhari, attempted to quell the protests through window dressing. Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu promised on October 11 that the SARS unit would be disbanded and supposedly replaced with a new unit called SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics). This was an obvious lie, as the same personnel that formed part of SARS would form part of SWAT. Over the last several years the government has made similar announcements resulting in no actual change.

Needless to say, the protests continued and grew into the largest in the history of Nigeria. As the protests grew, the state changed tactics and responded to the escalation with outright violence. Part of this involved the state deploying thugs to attack protestors in order to try and intimidate people off the streets. When this failed to produce the state’s desired result, it deployed the military and implemented a curfew in a number of cities. By October 20, however, the protests had spread across Nigeria. Some of the assets of the Nigerian ruling class were also targeted during these protests and the largest and most lucrative toll road in country, Lekki, in Lagos, was blockaded. On that day the military attempted to brutally end the protests and shot dead 12 people at the Lekki tollgate.

This position paper from the anti-State communist collective Unity & Struggle was drafted before Trump caught coronavirus. We share it here as a good piece to illustrate the state of mind of our comrades fighting on the so-called United States of America's territory. We hope it encourages revolutionaries in the U.S. and everywhere else to debate what we can expect in November, and begin making plans, as what happens obviously has an influence worlwide.

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