Today's Topics:
1. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Myths about
Homelessness (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. US, black rose fed: BRRN FOR BDS AND SOLIDARITY WITH MIDDLE
EASTERN POLITICAL PRISONERS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Russia, avtonom: In Lvov, neo-Nazis attacked the anarchists
from the organization "Black Flag" and inflicted severe stab
wounds on them [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - Nicaragua: Power in
the Storm Zone (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. anarchist communist group ACG: A note on Libertarian
Communism (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Homeless people are victims of the class war. ACG believe in a society based around mutual
aid where a unified working class looks after its self with out any bosses or governments.
The wealthy want us to blame each other for the problems in society and use myths and
rumour to do so. Matt Allen, a member of IWW based in Leicester has made a video busting
some of these myths.
You can find his Youtube Channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4eJtTh2CPQC8_lUFjuftww
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/09/26/myths-about-homelessness/
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Message: 2
In memory of Razan al-Najjar, a 21-year old Palestinian nurse who was deliberately killed
in Gaza by the Israeli military while responding to an injured protester on June 1, 2018.
---- By Black Rose/Rosa Negra International Relations Committee (BRRN-IRC) ---- In April
2018, Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation voted to endorse the Palestinian call for
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against the State of Israel, as well as to join
the Campaign in Solidarity with Middle Eastern Political Prisoners organized by the
Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists. ---- Launched in 2005 by 170 Palestinian unions,
political parties, refugee networks, women's organisations, professional associations, and
popular resistance committees with the example of Apartheid South Africa in mind, the
proposal for BDS advocates for the use of these three means toward the observation of the
following three demands:
Ending Israeli occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Apartheid
Wall (otherwise known as "Separation Barrier" or "Security Fence");
Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full
equality;
Respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to
their homes and properties as stipulated in United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
Resolution 194 (1948)
The Campaign in Solidarity with Middle Eastern Political Prisoners, similarly, has four
objectives:
To shine a spotlight on the political prisoners who are labor, social justice, feminist,
anti-racist and human rights activists opposed to war, imperialism, occupation,
authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and extremism.
To oppose all the global and regional imperialist powers in the Middle East: the U.S.,
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and Iran.
To demand that both state actors and non-state actors responsible for perpetrating war
crimes in the Middle East be put on trial.
To show that demanding the immediate release of political prisoners in the Middle East is
a crucial part of fighting the rise of authoritarianism and racism at home.
Reviewing Our Work
In this article, we militants from the International Relations Committee (IRC) wish
briefly to review and highlight BRRN's engagement with the objectives and demands of both
BDS and the Campaign in Solidarity with Middle Eastern Political Prisoners since our
endorsement of them to date.
As of this writing, to the Campaign's first two goals, a panel with comrades from the
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists was hosted
by BRRN-Los Angeles in May 2018. At this event, co-sponsored by the Coalition for Peace,
Revolution, and Social Justice (CPRSJ), Razan Ghazzawi spoke to the plight of Syrian
prisoners, whereas Celine Qussiny discussed Palestinians prisoners, and Frieda Afary
Iranian prisoners. In parallel, as part of our participation in the Campaign, we have also
republished Leila Nachawati Rego's essay on four women icons of the Syrian
Revolution-Fadwa Suleiman, May Scaff, Razan Zeitouneh, and Lama Albasha-which was
originally published in Spanish in El Diario and then translated into English and
republished on Global Voices by Joey Ayoub. Of these four women, three have died, two in
exile (Suleiman and Scaff) and one in the detention of Bashar al-Assad's regime (Albasha).
Zeitouneh is missing and presumed killed, together with her comrade Samira al-Khalil and
others, who are believed to have been disappeared in December 2013 by the Salafist rebel
group, Jaish al-Islam. Additionally, we hope soon to publish an article on the Syrian
anarchist Omar Aziz as part of our contribution to the Campaign, and also as part of our
biographical series on libertarian-socialist figures.
Frieda Afary, from the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists, educating an audience hosted
by BRRN-Los Angeles about Iranian political prisoners.
With regard specifically to the Campaign's second demand, that of resisting all global and
regional imperialist powers in the Middle East, we would direct comrades to our External
Education Committee's recent Twitter thread on "campism" - an approach to international
politics that falsely divides the world into "imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" states,
effectively giving cover to authoritarian regimes, regardless of their crimes, as long as
they are seen as opposing U.S. designs in some limited way. Moreover, a recent panel at
Left Coast Forum 2018 that was chaired by a BRRN militant provided critical perspectives
on internationalism, imperialism, and the phenomenon of campism, otherwise known as
pseudo-anti-imperialism.
To the Campaign's third demand of demanding that war criminals be prosecuted for their
atrocities, this is admittedly not something that has advanced, perhaps both because of
the hegemony of abolitionism among our membership, but also because of a lack of
discussion on this specific point. We hope to discuss this matter soon.
As Assad, Vladimir Putin, and the Islamic Republic of Iran face down the last
rebel-controlled territory of Idlib province in Syria, where thousands of supporters of
the Revolution mobilize against Assad, despite the menace posed by the conventional and
chemical weapons possessed by this axis to the largely displaced civilian population of
nearly 3 million people in the territory-including about 1 million children-we feel this
Campaign to be highly relevant, and we encourage more comrades to get involved.
BRRN for BDS
Returning to our engagement with BDS, we published an article, "Gaza Massacre Marks 70
Years of Al-Nakba: We Demand Justice!" on Nakba Day, May 15, 2018, covering the Great
March of Return protests and their suppression by the Israeli military. (To learn more
about these protests, we highly recommend "Between Fire and Sea," a documentary about
Ahmed Abu Artema, one of the March's main organizers.) With this intervention, we
expressed our support for the first and third goals sought by BDS: an end to Israeli
occupation and colonization, as well as observation of the Palestinians' right to return
to the lands from which they have been displaced and ethnically cleansed. Yet beyond this,
we face the reality that BRRN as an organization does not have any investments to divest,
and, as with the prosecution of suspected war criminals, we have not discussed our
position on international sanctions (which are presumably to be enforced by states). While
we can boycott commodities produced by labor in Israel (or, more precisely, whose profit
is appropriated by Israeli-owned companies), we see our commitment to BDS as mostly
symbolic at this time, though we remain committed to respecting the BDS picket line. We
would see it as desirable for our student organizing to advance the demand for divestment
in the educational sector, and possibly for organizing around the question of the
divestment of labor union pension funds in the future along these lines.
As with the situation in Syria, it remains necessary to highlight the unprecedented
intensification of oppression of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli State, which
is entirely backed up by the Trump Regime. Whereas the U.S. has for decades consistently
supported Israeli expansionism and settler-colonialism, with the falsely progressive
Barack Obama negotiating an increase to $3.8 billion in aid to Israel annually by the end
of his administration (up from $3 billion per year previously), one struggles to recall
such an ultra-reactionary posture among U.S. presidents as that taken up by Trump since
taking power in 2017. By appointing the ultra-Zionist settler-sympathizer David Friedman
as U.S. ambassador to Israel, recognizing Occupied Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and
mandating the move of the U.S. embassy to the city, and delegating the designing of the
"deal of the century" between Israel and the Palestinians to his politically inexperienced
yet hardline-Zionist real-estate broker son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Trump has greatly
bolstered Israeli ultra-nationalism and exacerbated the persecution of Palestinians. It is
almost as though Trump were enacting the right-wing Likud Party's wish-list.
Presently, the United States continues to commit outrage after outrage against the
Palestinian people. On Monday, September 10th, U.S. National Security Advisor and
far-right figure John Bolton ordered the shuttering of the Washington, DC, office of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a UN-recognized body representing Palestinians.
In effect, Trump has eliminated consular services for Palestinians in the U.S., affecting
at least 600,000 Palestinian-Americans. Trump has also expelled the Palestinian ambassador
after having revoked his family's visas. In parallel, Bolton announced that the U.S. would
be immediately suspending all contributions made to the UN Relief Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), an agency founded in 1949 to provide
essential goods and services to Palestinian refugees and their descendants displaced by
the creation of Israel. To Trump, this amounts to a ‘savings' of around $360 million
annually, but to UNRWA workers and Palestinian refugees, it signifies considerable
hardship. Furthermore, the U.S. let it be known that it was also cutting off $25 million
in funding for a network of specialty hospitals in Occupied East Jerusalem serving
Palestinian cancer and pediatric patients, among others.
Such harsh neo-colonial measures have been designed with the clear intent of provoking
despair among the Palestinians and forcing their leadership to ‘accept' the fundamentally
unjust terms being imposed on them by Israel and the U.S. Indeed, Trump's suspension of
all aid to UNRWA in late August follows several months of announced cuts in U.S.
contributions to the agency, which themselves were meant to demoralize the Palestinian
people. These moves can be considered to represent a direct U.S. war on Palestinian
refugees and the Palestinian people as a whole. One especially problematic proposal being
floated by the Trump Regime is the redefinition of who "qualifies" as a Palestinian
refugee: Trump would like to reduce the number by 90%, from the current 5 million to just
500,000. Such ideas of "demographic engineering" have disturbing echoes with the genocide
of the largely Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar/Burma, the Bharatiya Janata Party's
(BJP) move to strip four million people of citizenship in India's Assam State, the
proposed land-swap between Kosovo and Serbia which could exacerbate tensions and reignite
regional war, the looming forcible repatriation of 5-6 million Syrian refugees from Europe
and neighboring Arab countries, and the Assad Regime's own exterminationist
counter-insurgency strategy.
Paradoxically, though, the extreme austerity measures and other reactionary policies which
the Trump Regime is imposing on the Palestinians reflect its own anxieties: that Bolton
expressly framed these aggressive policy changes as retaliation for the Palestinians'
referral of Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation and
prosecution for war crimes shows how very threatened the U.S. and Israeli states feel by
the possibility of accountability for their numerous atrocities. That Bolton outlined a
policy of sanctions against the ICC, if it were to indict any Israeli or U.S. American for
violations of international law, demonstrates the significance of holding oppressors to
account.
From our perspective, we see militating in favor of an arms embargo and academic boycott
of Israel, expressing solidarity with Palestinian workers and peasants, and supporting
Palestinian resistance to imperialism and settler-colonialism to be pressing priorities at
this time.
http://blackrosefed.org/bds-isreal-middle-eastern-prisoners/
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Message: 3
In the evening of September 23, 2018, in Lviv four groups of anarchists were attacked by a
group of about 20 neo-Nazis. Some of them were T-shirts of the National Corps, the
ultra-right Ukrainian party created on the basis of the neo-Nazi volunteer regiment Azov
(banned in Russia). "They attacked four guys. They cut with knives and hammered, "said an
anarchist spokesman Anton Parumbul. ---- "We played soccer near the school behind the
circus, when we changed clothes, we saw a group of people in black clothes. Attacked,
beaten with telescopes (telescopic batons), knives ", - specifies the details of the
Veronica incident, another victim of the ultra-right. ---- This is the second attack of
Nazi groups in Lviv over the past three months. In late June, the radicals defeated the
Roma camp and slaughtered one of its inhabitants. In the attackers learned members of the
same "get-together", which attacked the Roma.
Two guys and two girls attacked on Sunday evening, September 23, at the school stadium
near the circus. The guys say that they played football and did not hold any shares. The
victims of the nationalists say: they were attacked suddenly, they tried to fight back,
but the forces were unequal.
"We were beaten with hammers and telescopes (they were such spreading bits), we were
closing our hands, there were puddles of blood, one guy, Serezha, they broke his head and
wounded him in the heart, he was hooked up to the apparatus," said one of the battered
activists of Alexander, who was cut hands and severely beaten.
In Veronica - a knife is broken with a knife and the arm is broken, in Dmitry - the joints
on the fingers are beaten, the legs are beaten, the shoulder is cut.
The guys learned among the attackers representatives of the National Corps, some had
T-shirts with the name of the organization. Considered to them a related organization
"National Resistance" posted on its page in sotsseti news about the attack. The spokesman
for the National Corps, Roman Chernyshev, in his commentary to the "Country" denied the
involvement of the radicals in the attack on four people in Lviv. "Our people there just
was not." It was some sort of provocation, whose exactly - find out, "- says Roman Chernyshev.
However, the "Black Banner" is sure of the opposite. Opponents of nationalists are sure
that their offenders are acting in conjunction with the authorities.
"Garbage for the hand greet with the Nazis, almost do not fraternize, there is a photo
after one action.The best friends so to speak.How many lawmakers after the Maidan fell
into the power structures, I generally keep quiet. who attack them with knives, and then
heroically out of the courtroom are bailed out, so they wander around Lviv, and the cops
cover their asses, "one of the activists of the" Black Banner "shared with us.
"Outrageousness and openness of crimes are indignant, they have long been used as
protection in the information space, and the perfection of propaganda is the support of
the population by default," says Veronika.
According to the victims, during the attack, "people in black" fouled and shouted "quench
it, quench it," which means "hit" in slang and "pull the repertoire" (among the injured
there is a guy rapper). The guys learned among the attackers representatives of the
National Corps, some had T-shirts with the name of the organization. Considered to them a
related organization "National Resistance" posted on its page in sotsseti news about the
attack.
Natsionalny asked to post a news about the attack on the anti-fascists
"Zigi, screams, Nazi symbols - that's enough to identify the far right." They attacked us
because we were against fascism, and we showed this with our activism. "The reason for the
attack is our existence." People played football on the court, and they took advantage of
the numerical advantage and attacked ", - said Martha Fender, an activist of the" Black
Banner ".
"They cut everyone who does not like them"
Activists, meanwhile, fear for their lives and safety. "Some of our people in Lviv know in
person, you can go out to the store for bread and get under the ultra-right knife," Fender
says. The activity of the "Black Flag", according to their representatives, is that they
protect parks, fight illegal buildings, and stand for social equality against racism,
xenophobia, homophobia and discrimination in all its forms, which fundamentally
contradicts the views of the ultra-right.
After the murder of the Roma, they staged an anti-racist rally in Lviv and consider the
present attack to be a revenge against the ultra-right. "We have the ultra-right, first of
all, the National Corps, they are" Sober Evil Youth "," Misanthropic Divisions "and C. 14.
True, they are trying their best to deny the involvement of these" organizations "to each
other, but so far they are bad at it They are zygomets and Nazis, "Fender does not hold
back emotions.
According to the anarchists, they were attacked by "those people who, under the guise of
fighting against the" Russian world ", are slaughtered all in a row: Roma, anti-fascists,
gays and in general all those who do not like them." "There are people in Lviv who do not
tolerate other views, opinions, positions." They know what the police know about them,
obviously, but somehow they react so weakly, and the society somehow keeps it mum. "And
are you sure that you will not tomorrow in their place? ", wrote Irina Yuzyk, who supports
beaten up activists and is an assistant to the People's Deputy of Nadezhda Savchenko, on
her Facebook page.
Stripping Lviv
The current attack is not the first attack by the ultra-right on ideological opponents.
"Two months ago, they also beat a guy from the left movement, cut his head, once attacked
the girls - they just poured gas cartridges, but this time they first rushed to cut with
knives, so much so that it is not known whether one of them will survive, who share a
left-wing view, do not have a hierarchy in the structure, are engaged in eco-protection,
they marched after David's assassination, against the persecution of Roma, they march on
feminist marches and tolerate people of no traditional sexual orientation. They also try
to demonstrate that Lviv will become their city and they will clear it for themselves from
dissidents, "Yuzyk said.
According to anarchists, a year and a half ago in Lvov, their friends Victor Ganulyak, who
fought against the superstructure on the monument of architecture, beat them with bits. As
Fyodor Svyatoslav Rusich, the man beaten by Omelyash, wrote to him in the last six months,
he was attacked with weapons three times.
"In addition to me, the ultra-right has been persecuted by many active activists of
various organizations." At least four people were seriously injured, three of the victims
had nothing to do with public activity. "In Lviv, there is a criminal group that wants to
destroy or intimidate activists of various grassroots initiatives and organizations. group
under the auspices of the "National Corps." The police almost do not react to their
criminal actions, perhaps they have serious patrons in law enforcement bodies, "- says Rusich.
Opponents of nationalists believe that the attackers act in conjunction with the authorities.
A year ago, the anarchists detained the SBU
In the nationalistic environment of the victims themselves, the attackers are blamed for
provocation. Evgeny Karas, coordinator of the neo-Nazi organization "C14" in a blog on one
of the websites wrote that in July the left radicals allegedly hammered against the
nationalists who were sitting in a cafe in the center of Lviv, and one of the members of
the "Black Flag" in the social network boasts successful attacks on the activists of the
"National Corps", whom he calls "avakovskimi henchmen." "These people propagandize armed
attacks on nationalists, the" system "and the" junta, "says Karas.
In the "Black Banner" they also believe that one of the reasons for the attack is their
critical attitude towards the authorities. "For me, the Zashqvar is what the country is
brought to. And nationalist organizations like C14 are working for Poroshenko and the
Security Service, and all those who criticize the authorities are connected with the
Kremlin for them," said activist Anton Parumbul.
The activists who suffered from the Nazis have a conflict with the Security Service for a
year already. In October 2017 in Lviv, activists of the anarchist organization Black Flag
and left nationalists from the Autonomous Resistance were accused of preparing a coup and
working for Russia. They came with searches of the SBU, they complained of rough
detentions "face to asphalt."
At the same time, the anarchists and left-wing nationalists prepared a march in honor of
the UPA and are generally known in Lviv as "bandera" shares. Among them there are
pro-Ukrainian immigrants from the Crimea, participants of the Crimean "Euromaidan" and
associates of Sentsov and Kolchenko, prisoners in Russia. Activist Artem Artemenko then
called the case against the nationalists "an unsurpassed surprise from the Lviv SBU."
"Insolent and open crimes"
In the comments in social networks "Black banner", some people are now being reproached
for their "work on Russia", they say, among them there are Russian speakers. The
organization is perplexed about this. According to ?????????, one of the activists had a
conflict with the Russian-speaking "chauvinists", she defended the Ukrainian language.
Another member of the movement in the ATO lost his father. Opponents of neo-Nazis are
outraged by their impunity.
"Infuriate the impudence and openness of crimes." They have long used security in the
information space as a defense, and the perfection of propaganda is the support of the
population by default, "says Veronika Yablonskaya.
Supporters of nationalist organizations of the ridge and swastika are explained by their
interest in Scandinavian and pagan mythology. Their opponents consider this a cover: "This
is not about Scandinavia, it's about SS, murders, holocaust, persecution and suffering,"
Yablonskaya says.
https://avtonom.org/news/vo-lvove-neonacisty-napali-na-anarhistov-iz-organizacii-chernyy-styag-i-nanesli-im-tyazhelye
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Message: 4
Since April 18, the country is shaken by a protest movement. Started to oppose the reform
of the Social Security, the popular demonstrations violently repressed gave birth to a
composite movement against the authoritarian system of the president Daniel Ortega. Back
on this mobilization that woke up Nicaragua. ---- On April 16, the government launched a
social security reform without debate in the Assembly, signed directly by Ortega and
published two days later. On April 18, young students decided to demonstrate and did not
communicate the venue until one hour before its start. The meeting place was to remain
secret for a while, so that the government could not occupy this space beforehand by its
sympathizers and officials forced to demonstrate in favor of the Ortega regime. The goal
is not to let young people demonstrate on this public space and to dislocate their
movements. Indeed, a week before, the locations planned for the demonstrations against the
negligence of the government in the management of the fire of the Indio Maiz nature
reserve in the south-east of the country, festivity "organized by the government to
show the support of the people in Ortega.
During the demonstration on April 18 against the reform of the Social Security, students
and students are very violently attacked by the Sandinista Youth, civilians organized and
paid by the government. Present at this time, the national police does not intervene and,
with complicity, let the Sandinista youths suppress the protesters with aluminum tubes and
other knives in complete impunity, even under their protection.
Sandinista Youth suppresses protests
The next day, several universities rebel and protest. The police strongly repressed these
demonstrations and deplore the first extrajudicial executions provoked by real shots
firing at the protesters' heads, breasts and stomachs. Several media that transmitted the
clashes are censored. From then on, protests broaden in favor of freedom of expression,
the right to demonstrate peacefully and demand justice for the murdered youth.
Since the suspension of the reform, the repression continues and it is a real terror of
state, led by the police and militia paramilitary masked and armed, that falls on the
population: in the neighborhoods of several cities, on the highways occupied by the
peasants and even in the houses of the opponents. The record of the repression is very
heavy with hundreds of people murdered, detained and tortured in prison and thousands of
wounded.
This protest movement that awakened Nicaragua began with the mobilization of students from
several universities spontaneously. In other words, these young people were not members of
a political party or organized movement. It is after the repression of April 18 and the
death of the demonstrators that the Nicaraguan society has solidarisée with the students:
spontaneously people provide food, medicines and create makeshift hospitals for the
wounded who are not admitted in state hospitals. Notably because of the order that some
public hospitals have to not receive young people shot and wounded.
The central role of the Civic Alliance
On 22 April, as Ortega decided to revoke the reform and organize a national dialogue, the
movement began to organize. The student youth is getting organized and is starting to
receive support from other sectors such as employers (Higher Council of Private
Enterprise, former ally of Ortega), peasants, especially the movement against the
Nicaraguan canal, and the organizations in favor of human rights. Today, this movement is
represented by the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy whose objectives are to
democratize the country, restore the independence of state institutions and obtain justice
for the victims of extrajudicial executions, the wounded , detainees, threatened and
victims of enforced disappearances. All this being possible only if Ortega decides to
leave the power. No political party is part of either the Civic Alliance or the movement
in general. Some politicians, including the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC), have
stated their support for the movement but have been heavily criticized for wanting to
appropriate the popular struggle.
A movement marked by diversity
In the demonstrations, it is possible to see Catholics, evangelists, atheists, feminists,
ecologists, right-wing and left-wing people, including Sandinistas who also demand the
liberation of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) from the domination of the
Ortega clan. The movement is therefore marked by diversity and seeks a concrete goal: to
get Ortega and his family
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Nicaragua-Le-pouvoir-dans-la-zone-des-tempetes-7895
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Message: 5
The Anarchist Communist Group often uses the phrase "libertarian communism." This term
seems to cause some people problems. ---- Occasionally, someone will contact us and tell
us, for example, that "communism killed 200 million people". This figure appears to come
from adding together creative US estimates about the number of people who have died at the
hands of the Stalinist USSR, the Chinese so-called Communist government and the Khmer
Rouge in Cambodia. ---- If the ACG was a state communist* organisation we would point out
that this 200 million figure is problematic. It's an exaggerated figure, closer to
propaganda than fact, and would need to be put in the context of the number of people who
are killed by capitalism. Save the Children's "End of Childhood talk" reports that 16,000
children under the age of five die every day under capitalism**. According to poverty.com
and the world counts a person dies from hunger every five seconds*** (currently at over 26
million and the year's not yet over). Those figures are not even including the perpetual
wars between rival capitalist military gangs.
But the ACG isn't a state communist (state capitalist) organisation. This is because even
though the 200 million figure is a lie, we wouldn't want to be associated with any
ideology or economic system that kills working people. That is one reason why we are anti
capitalists, because of the number of people who are murdered by the bosses and the state
under capitalism. Furthermore, we agree that a state that not only has the power to direct
the army and police but also has direct power over the economy would undoubtedly be
authoritarian and will also certainly kill working people.
The State (of whatever variety) is always the political arm of the ruling class, so that's
why we are anarchists, libertarian communists or anti state socialists. We reject the
State as it is a tool for the minority to force its views on the majority, just as much as
we reject capitalism. Regardless of the ideology of the people who control the state, it
is a more or less authoritarian institution which batters, imprisons, mutilates or kills
those who resist or who it does not need.
Socialism cannot be forced on working people from above. Anarchists believe that anarchism
can only happen when anarchist ideas are widely established in the working class, so that
working people defend themselves from those who wish to control the state. This will only
be possible when anarchist ideas are spread widely among the workers.
Libertarian communist ideas are the only ideas that defend the working class from the
state, regardless of what political wing controls it.
*By "state communism", we mean "state capitalism" where, rather than being wage slaves
exploited by lots of companies and public bodies, everyone is instead an exploited wage
slave for the State.
**https://www.savethechildren.org/content/dam/usa/reports/emergency-response/end-of-childhood-report.PDF
***http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/global_hunger_statistics/how_many_people_die_from_hunger_each_year
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/09/24/a-note-on-libertarian-communism/
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