Turkey, WE ARE WINNING! - We have seen the beach beneath the stones we have carried the black flag of the revolution*

On ?stiklal Street, around French Consolate, 200 meters far from police, holding the 
stones of the beach in one hand and the flag of the revolt in the other you are clshing
with the police. A piece of cloth wet with talcid is your gas mask, police is spraying 
pressured water, throwing gas bombs one and after, you are left in the middle of gas 
retreating throwing stones you are out of breath smothered, breatheless at that moment 
somebody run near you, spray water with antiacid on your face, asking ?how are you, are
you okay?? You are not okay but immediately you get well.
You take a stone of the beach in one hand, taking the flag of the revolt in the other. You 
lean against the barricade with your half breath. Your breath is refreshing with the 
freedom of rebellion. Because everywhere there is solidarity, this revolt is adorned with 
solidarity, you fall but you are picked up, they are asking when you are hitching, you boo 
at the same time when the sound bomb exploded, you hold your breath together when gas bomb 
comes. When the blocade fades out you sing together and shout out your rebellion.

Never ending pressure water, gas and resistance. You got tired sit on a pavement to take a 
breathe one coming with water in her hand and gives you water another one brings a 
sandwich. You are not either thirsty or hungry because everywhere the people share, there 
is no ?mine? or ?ours? here. Everyone is together. There is no slackness, if you were to 
fall the one next you would not. There is no crestfallenness, if you were to fall your 
comrade would not. You are getting rid of the fear which the system has created through
the years and courage is to do what you are scared of. And you experience this. You are
leaning against the police and you move forward as you lean. The police is doing 
everything they can to stop you. Even though you slow down sometimes the sound of the 
other clashes are whispering in your ear: ?we are moving forward?. You are getting excited 
and you lean again and again. On the final strike you see that the police is retreating, 
no you see they escape maybe you are living what you have been expecting for a long time.

\You meet with others on Taksim Square, you are glad to see your loved ones. After hugging 
each other for a while you start building barricades. Without losing time. The ones with 
you start to croon a song from 1930?s, the song of spainsh Anarchists. You join in. ?For 
bread, justice, freedom everyone to the barricades...? As the song gets louder the 
barricades are build; with upside down police cars, police buses, barriers of a ?looted
construction? Let them come, let them come and see the communion and solidarity is 
increasing. Everyone wants to move away from selfishness from competition. The tables ar 
opened the tents are erected. A people?s square is being created. There are a few 
insincere ones but you dont care. Because every moment from everywhere, from Ankara, from 
?zmir, Antalya, Dersim rebellion. From Athens, Thessaloniki, Paris, Sofia... The news of 
solidarity are coming. Solidarity is growing, one?s who share are increasing. The revolt 
is spreading because we are winning.

Now, a revollt is telling us about herself a revolt is telling us what we had forgotten. 
Telling us the importance of communion solidarity organisation and most important of all, 
freedom. Now the never ending cinder in our hands is glowing with a revolt. Now inside the 
rebellion we are looking into our shimmering eyes in other words to each other. We are 
holding each others hands which carry the stones of the beach, hold the flag of revolt,
which were burned by the gas bombs. We are hugging each others bodies which are carrying 
our hearts full of revolution. And although we don?t say it aloud, we say thank you to 
each other with the happiness of sharing this moment. This is a temporary thank you 
without being content. Without being content we are waiting for tomorrow side by side from 
today.

The first statement on the uprisings in Turkey written by Devrimci Anar?ist Faaliyet (DAF, 
or Revolutionary Anarchist Action) and originally published in Meydan Gazetesi.

Taksim Revolution/4 June

* by Revolutionary Anarchist Action - Devrimci Anar?ist Faaliyet