(en) Mexico, Chiapas, Subcommandante Marcos: Anarchists welcome (pt)

In his latest communiqu? Subcommandante Marcos takes a little time to respond to the 
anti-anarchist campaign launched by the Mexican media and part of the left. Marcos makes 
clear that those registered to the Escuelita who have asked the Zapatistas to not accept 
anarchists, and moreover ?expected an apology and a purging of the registry?, are not 
welcome to the school. The Zapatistas invite Mexican anarchists to send them texts which 
will respond to the accusations against them, and which will be published on the EZLN 
website. ---- via: dorset chiapas solidarity ---- SPECIAL CASES: the Anarchists ---- Given 
the anti-anarchist campaign launched by those of ?good conscience? and the well-behaved 
left united in a holy crusade with the old right to accuse the anarchists, young and old, 
of challenging the system (as if anarchism had another option), including the dismantling 
of their shows (this thing about turning the lights off, was that so we wouldn?t see the 
anarchists?), and the repetition ad nauseum of epithets such as ?anarcho-hardliners,? 
?anarcho-provocateur,? ?anarcho-thugs,? ?anarcho-etcetera? (somewhere I read the epithet 
?anarcho-anarchist,? isn?t that sublime?), the Zapatista men and women cannot ignore the 
climate of hysteria that so firmly demands respect for windowpanes (which don?t reveal but 
rather hide what happens just behind the counter: slave-like work conditions, a total lack 
of hygiene, poor quality, low nutritional value, money laundering, tax evasion, and 
capital flight).

Because now, apparently, the robbery poorly disguised as ?structural reform,? the assault 
on the teachers union, the national patrimony ?outlet? sale, the theft imposed by the 
government on the governed through taxation, and the fiscal asphyxiation ? which only 
favors the large monopolies ? is the anarchists? fault.

This includes blame for the fact that now ?decent people? don?t go out into the street to 
protest anymore (?hey but what about the marches, sit-ins, roadblocks, graffiti, flyers?? 
?Yes, but those are teachers-bus drivers-vendors-students, that is, country bumpkins, and 
I?m talking people really-truly-from-the Federal District.? ?Ah, the mythical middle 
class, so courted and yet so despised and cheated by the entire political spectrum and all 
of the media??), the fact that the institutional left also evicts the protest rallies, the 
fact that the ?only opposition to the regime? has been overshadowed by the nameless again 
and again, the fact that the arbitrary imposition is now called ?dialogue and 
negotiation,? the fact that the murder of migrants, women, youth, workers, children ? all 
of this is the anarchists? fault.

For those who fight as and claim the ?A,? a flag without a nation or frontiers, and who 
are part of the SIXTH?but who really are in the struggle, not just as a fashion or a 
fad?we have, in addition to an embrace of solidarity, a special request.

Anarchist Compas: We Zapatista men and women aren?t going to blame you for our 
shortcomings (or lack of imagination), nor are we going to hold you responsible for our 
mistakes, much less persecute you for being who you are. Actually, I should tell you that 
various invitees to the August course cancelled because, they said, they couldn?t share 
the classroom with ?young people who are anarchist, ragged, punk, pierced, and 
tattoo-covered,? and that they (those who are not young, nor anarchist, nor ragged, nor 
punk, nor pierced, nor tattoo-covered) expected an apology and a purging of the registry. 
They continue to wait in vain.

What we would like to request is that when you register, you submit a text, maximum 
one-page in length, where you respond to the criticism and accusations that they have 
leveled against you in the for-profit media. That text will be published in a special 
section of our website (enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx) and in a 
magazine-fanzine-or-whatever-it?s-called soon to appear in the globally global world, 
written and run by indigenous Zapatistas. It will be an honor for us to have your word 
together with ours in our first issue.

Huh?

Yes, even a page with a single word taking up the whole space counts: something like 
?LIARS!!? Or something longer, such as ?We would explain to you what Anarchism is if we 
thought you would understand;? or, ?Anarchism is incomprehensible to those with little 
brains;? or, ?Real change first appears in the police blotter;? or, ?I shit on the thought 
police;? or the following citation from the book ?Golpe y contragolpe? by Miguel Amor?s: 
?Everyone should know that the Black Bloc is not an organization but a tactic of street 
struggle similar to ?Street Fighting [Kale Baroka] that a constellation of libertarian, 
?autonomous? or alternative groups have been using since the struggles for the squats 
(?okupations?) in the 1980s in various German cities,? and add something like, ?if you are 
going to criticize something, first do your research. Well-written ignorance is like 
well-pronounced idiocy: equally useless.?

In any case, I?m sure that you won?t be lacking in ideas.