Today's Topics:
1. ANARCHIST LEAGUE IN RIO DE JANEIRO - Who we are (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. apo: CONCENTRATION IN THE COURTS OF THESSALONIKI: May 31,
9:00 a.m. (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #272 - unionism, Company:
Cynicism of "personal development" (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. fau: Next stop, new International (ca, de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. anarkismo.net: Greece, The (indirect) privatization of water
by anarchic group cumulonimbus (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Ruptura Colectiva (RC): Class War against the Imperialist
Wars (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Anarchist League arises from the popular uprisings of June 2013, of conversations,
analyzes and discussions among some anarchist individuals not associated with the
organizations active in the city of Rio de Janeiro until then. Dialogues were advanced and
soon the need for a synthesis collective that brought together militant anarchists for the
purposes of self-defense, mutual support, solidarity, direct action, self-management,
federalism, preserving the characteristics of each one of its members and promoting
dialogue Between existing organizations in Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere to strengthen and
organize the anarchist movement for a free society.
As anarchist principles and methods, we associate our model with that of the synthesis
federations: Direct Action, Anti-authoritarianism, Mutual Support, Self-Management, and
Federalism. The LIGA, as an anarchist collective, is constituted in the following bases:
the plurality of theoretical conceptions fruit of the historical accumulation of the
anarchists throughout its trajectory; The recognition of the diverse forms of action based
on the understanding of the heterogeneity of the struggling, exploited and oppressed
subjects. Thus, the Anarchist League presents itself to dialogue with all anarchist,
libertarian and popular autonomist organizations for collective work and the construction
of the free world.
We understand that all organizations have their role in the struggle and that all have
common enemies. These organizations are complementary and in the current conjuncture they
do not have any protagonism in the struggles of our time. In this way we intend to
maintain the dialogues and build agreements to follow in the struggles, having freedom as
a means, principle and aim.
The Anarchist League will work alongside the anarchist movement in favor of building a
federation guided by the synthesis of the different tendencies, respecting the diversity
of the organizations present and active in our historical moment.
We greet all of you and invite you to meet LIGA.
To download and access the pdf version of the LIGA Charter of Principles , click here .
The Anarchist Emergency - Introduction and Justification
The anarchist emergency is a proposal for an approximate study of contemporary anarchist
and libertarian concepts. Not being a conclusive study that proposes to affirm closed
concepts or a unitary theory, it translates our reading of the anarchist movement itself,
as well as of the libertarian universe, respecting the multiplicity, plurality and
diversity in the organizational fields of actions, methods and ideas. Nor is this a study
that seeks to rescue the classical theories of anarchism, not by disregarding them or
being disconnected from the historical process, but starting from an analysis that the
recent manifestations of new social actors emerging in the political and economic field
are not necessarily connected - by Less consciously - or indebted to the classics of the
anarchist field of action. Obviously, the concepts matured and systematized by anarchist
and libertarian thinkers are present in this reflection, but not as a central theme or as
an object of our research. Before this, they are concepts - as said before - systematized
from a practice, it is this practice that interests us, not diminishing the importance of
this effort of theorization, but we deem that such theorists and their theories are
already discussed in other studies, No less important and no less urgent.
It is healthy to point out a separation between libertarians and anarchists. We understand
every anarchist as a libertarian, but the libertarian field is broader than the anarchist,
embracing other tendencies that will not always have the defining features of an anarchist
practice and thought. Given the diversity of the libertarian movement and the consequent
confusion of its zones of contingency with the anarchist movement, we believe that
reinforcing the idea of this signaling is an important starting point for the
reflections that will follow.
I believe it is necessary, as a justification, to make our Synthetist position clear as
anarchists. Such a position will obviously guide the questions that will arise in the
course of reading this essay and the very purpose of approximation, without the pretension
of drawing definitive conclusions about current anarchist practices and ideas. Synthesis
or synthetism, in a nutshell, can be understood here as an anarchist and libertarian
position that respects and encourages multiple forms of action within the anarchist
framework, seeks a synthesis between the currents of thought that emerge orbit the
libertarian universe and the anarchist movement, Rejects, therefore, closed plans,
platforms or programs that tend to control behavior and delegate functions to bodies that
move in feeling libertarian, Respects free federation and collective agglutination,
without, however, closing the dialogue with the currents of thought and anarchist
organizations that tend to platform or specifism. We understand, therefore, that the
plurality and multiplicity of methods and actions in different fields and in varied forms
are beneficial elements to the construction of a free society.
It is necessary to reflect within the anarchist movement itself. This, as expected, will
run into the zones of contingency that exist with the libertarian universe and the
autonomist practice. The emergence of collective and even individual actions that
self-identify or are read as - and not unlawfully - anarchist practices, impel us to a
reading and the effort to understand them in an articulation with the current conjuncture
of the movement as a whole .
The recent and notorious popular discontent with representative government structures, the
historical economic inequalities inherent in the capitalist mode of production coupled
with its cycle of structural crises and disruptions that have struck the system globally
in the last two decades and, in a perspective that puts us Geographical, historical and
social context of the Latin American context, to the total failure of union structures to
meet the demands of the working class, generated a series of spontaneous actions that
point to an autonomist tendency and in some cases very close to the practices that
Anarchist tradition. Whether it is the phenomenon of popular or working assemblies that
excel by horizontal methods, Are the recent striking movements pulled by the base to the
detriment of the governing groups of their respective unions and even against them in some
cases, the movements that govern the issue of urban mobility and the right to city,
demanding a more direct management of the transport system and Organizing in a
decentralized and even federalized way, the tendency towards self-management that is
identified in the occupations promoted by the housing movements - in fact the lack of it -
and the dissemination and radicalization of libertarian tendencies that see issues such as
the right to the body And decriminalization of drugs. All these tendencies refer in some
way to the universe that orbits or emerges from the set of anarchist, autonomist or
libertarian practices and methods.
All these movements that develop within them such methods do so by a simple conjunctural
question, driven by organizational needs, much more than by a conscious ideological
tendency, although groupings act within such movements and so do consciously is not That
this holds for the whole. Such action does not configure the direction of the subsequent
organization in the direction of control of the movement by these same working groups.
Obviously, the forms of organization assumed by contemporary movements have consequently
led to the media exposure of anarchism and subsequently to a process of criminalization of
anarchist practice. Such a criminalizing movement is not exclusive to Brazil or Latin
America - despite the recent and alarming events of persecution in this continent - is a
process that is developed globally and in an articulated way.
Such a situation leads us to some questions that we can not and should not steal: is it
possible to say that there is "Anarchism" or anarchism? Is anarchism or anarchism a
political-economic-social theory, an ideology, or a set of libertarian practices in which
it is more correct to speak of "anarchist culture"? It is desirable that an articulated
struggle unit, even without theoretical unity or the power of the anarchist movement, can
be found precisely in its atomization and total decentralization, where - forgive the
geological metaphor - it refers to an island configuration of the archipelago, finding
them isolated and Acting on disconnected fronts, disarticulated and deprived of
communication? At what point do the anarchist and autonomist movements find zones of
contingency and separation between themselves in the libertarian field of action?
Such questions afflict us and we deem worthy of reflection if we are to seriously build a
world where a free society is possible beyond utopia. Not only are they provocative issues
that justify reflection and a broad debate for a greater articulation - if this is our
desire as companions and fight partners - as they are urgent issues motivated by a
conjuncture that indicates to us a global articulation of repression to the anarchist
practices and Libertarian It is these questions that we are going to occupy in this series
of studies that, although they are still a timid provocation to the companions and
companions, we have reason to believe that they are soluble questions and of taking
possible positions within our field of action towards the construction of A new world,
egalitarian and free from oppression.
Fernando Monteiro
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Message: 2
On July 27 during the coordinated repressive operation, evacuated three refugee housing
occupations, the Hurriya the Mandalideio and Orphanage in Thessaloniki. ---- The state is
attempting to criminalize solidarity, lead migrants to social exclusion and to break the
link locals and migrants and their common struggles for life and dignity. In trial
Orphanage penalized 10 months imprisonment with 3 years Anas Toli and 2,000 euro fine for
the 5 accused. ---- The repressive approaches are not limited to squats. The coalition
SYRIZA-ANEL as a civil administrator of the attack of the ruling, primes the bosses and
their vanguards, have targeted match structures, base unions neighborhood assemblies and
militants, seeking the delivery of entire regions in the state and business interests.
Opposite the syllogikopoiisi resistors, connection and organization of social and class
struggles can create cracks in the state and capitalist onslaught.
Hands off the squats and our partners.
Solidarity to comrade prosecuted for occupying the Orphanage
Concentration in Thessaloniki courts May 31 at 9 am
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation collectivity
apo.squathost.com - anpolorg@gmail.com
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 3
New management techniques claim to care about the welfare of employees. But in reality, it
is a question of reinforcing our dependence on a dehumanizing system, trying to prevent us
from becoming aware of the alienation of which we are victims. Analysis. ---- There is no
more pernicious than the personal development in company (open door openings !). Under the
pretext of benevolently worrying about the psychological health of employees, we are only
trying to make them more productive, efficient, competent, cynical and pragmatically
speaking (ideology of performance). ---- More generally speaking, any massively
disseminated discourse promoting well-being and self-fulfillment in modern production
conditions implicitly promotes the well-being of the worker in the production chain and
the consumer is dazed in consumption or Recreation: what is presented as a liberation is
that by which our dependence on a profoundly alienating system increases. It is a supreme
cynicism (all publicity is also based on this profound hypocrisy, since personal
development in this sense is nothing other than advertising discourse transposed within
the framework of a " wisdom " of life).
Consolidate channels
If you " heal " the evils of the wage-earner, but the wage-earning in the enterprise is
in itself the opposite of the fulfillment, then you will have taught the wage-earners to
give themselves to themselves, The illusion of a blossoming in the frame where precisely
any authentic blossoming is impossible: you will have merely consolidated its chains (and
will pass in addition for a benefactor of the humanity !).
The fact of rendering a dehumanizing situation more livable actually amounts to making
living dehumanization more livable, whereas it would have to be more lived in its
unbearable dimension so that its scandal appears, and so that the means Of its abolition
are mobilized (so that in short we really humanize ourselves, first in the struggle,
instead of learning to cash in alienation, to conceal it, to forget it, see).
As for personal development directed at entrepreneurs, it has the merit of less concealing
its cynical goals (efficiency, competence, etc.). Because who cares about the " happiness
" of an entrepreneur ? It is his ability to master a certain instrumental rationality
that must prevail. Thus, it is interesting to see how personal development is " developed
" when it is addressed to leaders: it is a now explicit means of consolidating the
workings of an economic system.
The employee who is interested in this fact, when he or she is confronted with management
strategies that mobilize this kind of " positive thinking ", may be less Word " personal
" is therefore only the alibi to consolidate the ideology of " development " (but of
an abstract development, quantitatively apprehended, empty of any positive quality,
subject to a blind logic of accumulation and profits).
In this same perspective, a certain way of thinking social psychology in a restricted
sense, and in a wider sense, can be envisaged.
In fact, a social psychologist in a restricted sense, that is to say, under present
conditions, exercises a direct political activity, but does not discuss the political
dimension (hence the ideological nature of his normative prescriptions) . It will most
often incite the worker in distress to take care of himself so that he can better
integrate himself into the future in the sphere which has precisely rendered him. But
then he treats the symptoms and never attacks the root of the evil (any behavioralism in
general, besides, belongs to this mechanics which solves the problems in surface to better
regulate a machine of which it reinforces the absurd foundations And aberrant: any
behavioralism today is an organ of power).
Unbearable situation
A social psychology in a broader sense, which would be coherent, should be revolutionary,
and at all costs avoid serving the interests of enterprises (without which it increases
the evil it claims to cure).
It seems to me that a person who is " healthy ", responsive, receptive to our society of
efficiency, profitability and competence is the one who, plunged into the world of
business, or even wage-earning in general, The situation is unbearable, and will crack:
this one, paradoxically, is in good " psychic " health (it does not tolerate
dehumanization). On the other hand, a person who is fully developed in this milieu,
convinced that he is serving his own interests and those of society as a whole, will tend
to frighten and can not be healthy: it tolerates the intolerable, becoming-quantity of the
human, his becoming-abstract, and in fact the condition of his " happiness " of his "
comfort ".
Any " personal development ", " social psychology ", or even " human resources
management " aimed at curing ill-being attached to wage-earners in order to reinstate the
wage-earning worker, will refuse to see what he / There is a healthy one in the cracker
and will try to bring it back to the fundamentally sickly, insensitive, non-receptive,
passive, dehumanized state of the second type of individuals of which I have just spoken.
It is thus that these " therapeutic " approaches maintain the pathologies of the social
by removing certain so-called " deviant " behaviors that are nevertheless calls for help
with extreme subversive potential (sanitation potential, so to speak).
To be a genuine social psychologist would be to take care of these suffering wage-earners
and reveal their subversive potential, so that they could work for themselves and
themselves, in a struggle to abolish their condition of Rather than making them feel more
free in wage-earning (contradictory absurdity).
This is to enable them to promote another society, to engage in a political and social
struggle capable of freeing all individuals from what has caused them to plunge deeply
into suffering.
Benoît (AL Montpellier)
In addition, do not hesitate to look at the second part of the documentary "the killing of
the work", dealing in particular with the management.
Video:
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Entreprise-Cynisme-du-developpement-personnel
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Message: 4
A conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany, this past weekend to prepare a new
international association of anarchosyndicalist and revolutionary unions. This was the
third conference of its kind. ---- At the meeting it was decided to hold a constitutional
congress in a year's time. The long runup is needed to facilitate the grassroots
decision-making processes of the unions involved. Over the coming months, every individual
member of the unions will have the opportunity to make proposals about the makeup of the
international. Afterwards, they will vote on the proposals. ---- The conference was
attended by the unions CNT (Spain), USI (Italy), ESE (Greece), IP (Poland) and FAU
(Germany), who have all committed to taking part in this project. The CNT-F (France) as
well as the IWW for English- and German-speaking European countries took part as
observers. The conference was also joined via a video chat by Rocinante (Greece), IWW (USA
and Canada) and FORA (Argentinia). The FORA has also committed to joining the project.
Stimulating discussions and a productive working atmosphere meant that contentious issues
were dealt with that had prevented these like-minded unions from coming together in the past.
Although there is still a long way to go before the first congress, it was clear at the
conference that the unions were already providing each other with solidarity and mutual
aid as well as cooperating in their union work. For example, mutual aid in the form of
help for earthquake victims in Italy, solidarity in the form of direct action in support
of the CNT's struggle against Ford, and union cooperation in the form of an international
campaign for delivery workers. The fact that many of the basics tenets of "syndicalism"
are already being practiced across national frontiers bodes well for the nascent
international.
https://www.fau.org/artikel/art_170522-214508
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Message: 5
This paper was read at the event for the destruction and plunder of nature and society
from the state capital, in under 2 days to anarchy and libertarian communism organized
anarchist group "restive horse" in Patras. ---- The value of water as a natural resource,
the water as pressure medium and coercion, (de) privatization of water, and (indirect)
privatization Corfu. ---- Suggestion for the water and the (indirect) privatization Corfu
---- The value of water as a natural resource, the water as pressure medium and coercion,
(de) privatization of water, and (indirect) privatization Corfu. ---- Water as a resource
---- Water is synonymous with life. It is known that every body needs water to survive
while living situation without water there. Water as a natural resource and compound
environment presents some peculiarities with respect to other natural resources: the most
important is its importance; the water is more than necessary for the human body, health,
agriculture and human economic activities . The second particularity lies in its rarity;
although it covers the largest area in the world, only a small percentage (namely only
about 2.5%) is drinking. It is characteristic that even the overall quantity is finite and
limited, not any new quantities of water in nature, so every drop of water is on the
planet has existed for millions of years. The third peculiarity of water is the ease with
which man can manage; water, in contrast for example with air, can easily be limited to
pipes or packages, transferred, distributed, bought and sold. Consequently, the way in
which it is consumed and used, by whom and under what conditions it is possible to subject
the decision.
It is undeniable that human water needs are constantly going upward, after rising world
population and at the same time the demand for water from the activities of agriculture,
industry and general production are becoming more and more water consuming. It is
significant that, according to some estimates, in the next 25 years provided for the use
of water to grow by 40% and 17% more water will be needed for agriculture to meet the
needs of the world population food. Given the finite amount of water on the planet, the
huge deficiency in specific geographical areas, and the imbalance in use, do not need much
effort to understand that the future for the "bottom" of the world specified at least
alarming. Nor need great insight to understand that water can be leveraged exercise
geopolitical influence and social pressure. In fact, this is already happening in many
parts of the world and will continue to happen even more strongly in the future. This
valuable item, just because it is the supreme good, may prove the biggest weapon. Whoever
controls the water controls and the fate of people.
The environmental intervention
Water as a means of pressure and coercion
Water as a weapon
Approximately one billion people have no access to drinking water (specifically, according
to findings of the United Nations, published in 2013, 780 million people), while 6-8000000
people die annually from water related diseases. These people are not only in poor
countries of Africa and Asia. Even within the developed capitalist western countries, vast
tracts of land drying up of water or polluted water makes the water undrinkable. In the
US, the Colorado River has been diverted to supply water to major cities located in the
desert, such as the Las Vegas whose fate for the coming years is still uncertain. In China
the excessive pumping river leads to internal migration flows, while the Yangtze River
pollution (the longest river in Asia) has reached such levels which pose an immediate risk
of millions of Chinese.
On the other, touching example of MEKOROT, State of Israel water company, it appears that
the water control can be a vital contributor in various repressive intentions; in this
case, the displacement of the Israeli state policies. Specifically, upon operation of the
IDF, the MEKOROT monopoly pumping-management-distribution of the water in these soils. So,
they are able to provide dramatically limited amount of water to Palestinian communities,
which charge even more expensive than the corresponding Israeli charge. Still, it has
dried up the natural springs and wells in the occupied territories, has destroyed tanks
and makeshift water supply, while constantly hovering threat of permanent shut. Overall,
controlling the water has imposed a peculiar apartheid against Palestinian communities and
various Arab tribes in the area.
It is very common, as the rivers do not respect borders, more than one community or
country to share water resources. This theoretically allows each state to distract access
the next "closing the tap." Deprivation of water to populations of other countries or to
undesirable minorities inside may prove invaluable weapon in the hands of the bosses of
the world. Large multinational companies and states, anticipating future developments
rushing now to secure precious water supplies, in an informal yet war for the greatest
resource of the planet. It is clear that if nothing changes in the near future, ensuring
water will be according to the law of the strong.
Water is a public good or a commodity?
Privatization or public management?
Throughout human history, people organized their lives around areas with water. It is no
coincidence that the greatest civilizations of antiquity were developed around the fertile
areas of the world with plenty of water (example Mesopotamia, Egypt). For millennia people
satisfy their thirst, the needs of agriculture, and all their other needs, simply drawing
the water from where it was available, without terms and conditions. This practice was a
matter of course, the opposite was not only technically impossible, but philosophically
inconceivable. Water, then, was for millennia social good.
Today things are different. Capitalism has turned this social good into a commodity, that
is a product designed to create profit. Free water does not exist, unless one has its own
drilling. The water reaches the people through public, municipal or private water
companies. To provide pay bills and considered self-evident that the supply is interrupted
if the amount is not paid on time. At the same time, water is sold everywhere bottled by
companies that derive the free or almost free from natural sources. Capitalist economy is
not acceptable for people to acquire directly from the nature of the amount of water they
need, since it is not clear profit for anyone.
As for each manageable resource, so the water in the capitalist system creates an entire
grid of economic activities, which the qualifying are in the gross domestic product of the
national economy: tax revenue for States, earnings for individuals, a primary stock
purchase of water (with associated fluctuations in price depending on supply and demand),
and a secondary derivatives market ( «futures») shares or companies that buy and sell
exchange traded products, the prices of the Whose fluctuate depending on the expectation
of future profitability of the companies marketing water. In short, a set of economic
activities according to the dominant terminology called "investments" and lead to the
fabrication of capitalist "development", always of course offering in return the precious
lure of "jobs".
Whether the water is good or commodity is the most important debate to be asked when
public debate is conducted on any issue related to water, both political and technical
level. No further discussion can not lead to anything substantial until a clear answer to
this question. This is because in the response are directly important implications itself.
The commodity totally contrasted the good. Good intended to meet an immediate human need,
therefore it has an undeniable value. The commodity, on the other, is not intended to
cover the needs of any particular person, but destined to be sold to anyone who is willing
to buy it, and undoubtedly has value. The logic behind the management of goods is saving,
conservation, rational management, as far as possible open access and fair distribution to
all. The logic behind the management of the goods is the property of their economic
exploitation, unequal distribution in humans, the quotation in accordance with market
rules, without the actual abundance or scarcity of market producers to influence somehow
the transaction -besides the corresponding adjustment of the price of course. The
merchandise can be wasted by whoever pays, since this implies earnings for the goods and
since, ultimately, the consumer "pay" therefore "belongs".
Water as a resource requires social and public management. Water as a commodity means the
imposition of privatization and its economic exploitation. Globally performed a continuous
dialogue on this issue, and different countries have followed different paths towards the
management of water resources. This is a debate, however, conducted between leaders,
statutory organizations, think tanks, environmental non-governmental organizations and
economists. In this not involved from the bottom of this world, nor consulted; called, but
in any case to pay the consequences of all the above options.
Latin America - US
One example is the case of Bolivia. In 1997 initiated the water privatization processes,
while two years later all the city's water and sewage infrastructure Cochabamba came under
international consortium AGUAS DE TUNARI. Within a short time, the company sharply
increased water charges, charges that reached up to 200 times higher than previously. When
the people began to open their own wells and to collect rainwater, introduced legislation
to ban these acts, of course in order to protect sales of the commercialized water.
The "experiments" privatization of basic human goods continued in Latin America. In Chile,
water is commercialized supremely. The pumping rights and water consumption are subject of
purchase, sale, rental and concessions, just as happens in other countries with real
estate. There is nothing to prevent one individual to acquire the rights to exploit all
stocks in a region, simply because it is the bidder. This regime was imposed in Chile by
the Pinochet dictatorship, under the teachings of neoliberal dogma, and of course not only
limited to water.
A similar case is the AGUAS ARGENTINAS, a private company took over water supply and
sanitation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the government of Carlos Menem and neoliberal
doctrines that followed was decided to privatize the public water company. To become
attractive for investors, tariffs were increased by 21% in February 1991 and even 29%
after two months. In February 1992 charges increased an additional 18%, and immediately
after VAT was imposed, leading to new growth (21%). Shortly before privatization, water
prices increased by 8% yet. Following these developments, the company has become
attractive for investors and sold in 1993 to private consortium, which included the
familiar names LYONAISSE SUEZ, VIVENDI (VEOLIA later), and ... the World Bank.
The private shape immediately proceeded to cut staff by 40%. In the following years, it
failed in almost all the objectives laid down in the concession. While profits stability
reasons provided for the prohibition of changes in water prices, the investor invoked
"exceptional economic difficulties" just eight months after the concession, and achieved
further tariff increases which led to astronomical profits in the second year of
operation. Meanwhile, forecasts for expansion of the water supply, which was the most
burning issue of city water, covered only by half without involving the poorest sections
of Buenos Aires.
In the first decade of private business, tariffs rose by an average of 88%, in an almost
zero inflation period in the country. In the same decade, with continuous changes of the
contract repeatedly postponed obligations of AGUAS ARGENTINAS for construction of sewage
treatment plants and extension of drainage, and the implementation of many environmental
conditions. The result was the drinking water of the river Rio de la Plata to contaminated
wastewater to levels that made the water mains dangerous to
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30298
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Message: 6
The following text was the result of a discussion between a member of the Revolución
Internacional / World Revolution and a member of the International Communist Current in
Monterrey, Nuevo León, which was held in June 2013 in the face of the first threats of war
between the US and North Korea. In view of the renewal of these threats, we believe it
pertinent to reproduce this short text. ---- We believe that it is pertinent to share
revolutionary interpretacion with the rest of the anti-statist proposals in order to
clarify the revolutionary process. Today we need to make it clear that all states are
oppressive, so any war born of a State is harmful to the working class. ---- The recent
declaration of war of North Korea to the United States and South Korea raises different
opinions. There are those who defend the rhetoric of the United States because the Asian
country is armed "to the teeth". Others, like the left of the capital, call to defend it
in the face of the threat of US imperialism. However, what is the interest of the working
class in this conflict?
The wars in the present stage of capitalism are nothing more than conflicts of interest
between different fractions of the bourgeoisie, which use the proletariat as cannon fodder
for the defense of their interests. Wars are the expression that capitalism is in decline
and its only way out is the constant confrontations between different imperialist poles.
To choose a side in this context is to participate in the imperialist carnage that
capitalism develops and that will tend to develop even more. Positioning in favor of one
side is to participate in the game of the bourgeoisie and follow its dynamic warrior that
uses the working class to defend interests that are not their own.
It is common for the media and the rulers of the Asian country to call this country
socialist or even communist. But the long regime of the Kim manifests itself as a
dictatorship with a classic monarchical succession (father to son). This dictatorship has
developed from the beginning a cult of the personality of Kim, the image of the dictator
becomes an object of worship and becomes genius in every discipline, the president is the
one who gives the orders and a very small group of people have the opportunity to advise
something other than the will of the Kim. It is well known that the dictatorial regime
with such a cult of personality is nothing more than an inheritance of stalinism that was
imposed from the outset in North Korea.
Since the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, it is clear that
their "revolution" was more an act of imposition of these "revolutionary leaders" than a
true revolutionary process of the working class. The revolutionary process must come from
the hands of the proletariat, not from a small "red" mafia that is delegating power from
generation to generation.
On the other hand, the economic system of North Korea is a state capitalism. The country
lives within a class society; it is absurd to suppose that North Korea is a communist
country. The development of the Korean system only helps to clarify the revolutionary
process of the working class by illustrating that the only way out of capitalism is to
defend its own interests.
The beginning of a war against different capitalist powers is nothing more than an
imperialist struggle that responds solely and exclusively to the interests of the rulers
and the bourgeoisie of these countries.
In view of this, the proletariat has only a realistic alternative, an outlet that will
allow to develop as a class in its struggle: its international union against capitalism,
crossing national borders and becoming a class for itself.
The emancipation of the working class will only be the work of itself, the development of
its own struggles. It represents itself and defends its interests. Only through their
international union is it possible, finally, to eliminate class society and build a new world.
http://rupturacolectiva.com/class-war-against-the-imperialist-wars/
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