Today's Topics:
1. [Spain] Fascism is not fought at the polls. If you fight on
the streets! By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, vogliamo tutto: The new sheet of anarchist street
newspaper "AATTRIS # 41" was released - Content + Murder of
Empouka Mamasoumpek [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. anarchist communist ACG: Extinction Rebellion notes
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. liberta salonica: Reconstruct Class Resistors on the Road to
Building a Fighting and Revolutionary Labor Movement - Anarchist
Federation calls for Labor Day [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Germany] Stuttgart: Resistance is not a crime, fight the
G20! By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, vogliamo tutto, street newspaper AATTRIS #41: Where
is the little flame that we gave you? [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Without self-organization on the street it is impossible to stop fascism, institutional
fascism is only a reflection of its social hegemony in the street and depends directly on
it to further deepen its reactionary program. To believe that simply by voting for fascism
will disappear and be defeated is not having understood at all the situation in which we
are. ---- Most dangerous of all this speech is that most people who are focusing their
"struggle against fascism" in asking for the vote to the left, are doing absolutely
nothing (at other times, even criminalizing) to foment the anti-fascist self-organization.
---- The false and simplistic idea that fighting fascism is as easy as dropping a ballot
into a ballot box is leading to a terrible demobilization (even more than ever) of
antifascism in the street. This lack of organization leaves us tied hand and foot and will
have disastrous consequences in the future when we realize that, as historically has
shown, focusing efforts on the institutional level neglecting the street, will result in
fascism continue to grow every time. a more exponential way driven by their social bases
increasingly unleashed in neighborhoods. When the antifascism wants to react, it will be
too late because it lacks a structure that articulates the response of the street.
Let us be aware of the difficult and decisive historical moment in which we find
ourselves, fascism does not fall from the sky and is the weapon that capitalism needs to
wield to maintain itself and it is only necessary to take a look at the world context in
which it is proliferating everywhere without finding resistance. It is urgent that we
organize ourselves in each neighborhood, each district, each locality on the street,
creating horizontal organizational structures capable of confronting them, involving all
those who will be directly or indirectly affected by fascism: Retired, students , women,
people discriminated against, LGTBIQ + people, squats ... this fight affects us all.
Our grandfathers and Durruti have already faced fascism 80 years ago and they were clear:
" Fascism is not discussed, it is destroyed"
Youth Libertarian Zaragoza
Translation> Sol de Abril
>> Note:
Spain will hold legislative elections on 28 April.
anarchist-ana news agency
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Message: 2
On this sheet you can read among others: ---- 1) Where is the little flame that we gave
you? ---- 2) Dimension and interpretation of the Prespa Agreement ---- 3) Venezuela: How
we got here ---- 4) For the new repressive enterprises by the Italian state against the
anarchist site ---- 5) Is there a life without a homeland? 6) Interview with comrade
Antonis Stamboulos ---- 6) When the city is burning ---- 7) Prisons ---- 8) In the battle
of ASOEE's "pavement", we are with the oppressed. ---- 9) Text of collegiality Vogliamo
tutto e per tutti for murder Empouka Mamasoumpek by cops in Omonia AT the Paraskefi 8
Fevrouariou 2019 , published in this newspaper sheet. ---- Below is the text about the
murder of Ebuka Mamasuwek: ---- Impasse by Mamasubbeck cops killed in AT Omonoia-Let's not
leave any state murder unanswered
Ebuka Mamasubek from Nigeria was 34 years old, father of two children. He was working
selling colored bracelets in Omonia. She was nominated at 11.30 in the morning of Friday,
February 8, at Omonia, in the well-known pretext of the verification. An hour later, the
EKAB biker who was called confirmed his death.The identification of data is a constant
tactic of abduction of people from uniforms in the metropolitan field. Controlling people
and extending the public spaces is a lasting bet for the state for decades. Fears, punks,
"wild" youths, poor peddlers, addicted drug addicts, and scribes have long been at the
forefront of suppressive forces. They are an obstacle to the smooth commercialization of
public space and the transformation of the city into a sterile reproduction space of
capitalist regularity. Since the 1990s, Greek cities have begun to host migrants as well,
the control of public space has been "widespread" by a state racism as it is manifested
through "sweeping operations", mass additions, pogroms by cops and fascists, the "zero
tolerance". And the murder of Empus Mamasubek in obscurity would remain if it were not
someone who shared it with alternative media.
Immigrants are the land plundered in the world of bosses, we are all foreign
It is important to refer to the particular state of the state in the migrant vendors.
After initially removing their ability to work legally (2006), by legislating the racist
provision through the commerce, which considers the number one condition for the work of
someone in a public market to be Greek citizenship or homogeneity, he established in the
urban a peculiar status quoys of persecution and hunting of vendors on the streets of the
metropolis.On August 18, 2007, Nigerian Tony Onua, a CD vendor in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki,
attempted to escape from insurers trying to get out of a café window, resulting in his
deadly fall, possibly by pushing his persecutors. A sample of the growing racism was the
attack of an ATHEX stadium on the marketplace of immigrant pros on the Mesolongi public
market in September 2012. At the same time, in the last ten years, they are targeted by
regime media and are repeatedly attacked by gangs of various kinds, outside the ASOG. On
December 20 and 21, 2018, cops are carrying out business operations in Athens and
Thessaloniki against immigrant smugglers, who are lobbied by selling their treasure
outside ASOEE and within the Aristotle University. In total, 36 people are arrested and
prosecuted while the cops have seized all their merchandise. In October 2018, cops invaded
Pakistani cigarette smokers' homes and tied them with plastic bundles and gagged them to
rip off a quantity of cigarettes.
It is obvious that the state mechanism seeks to keep them under a regime of illegality as
this makes them more exploitable than bosses.The vendor's tank is unlimited. Anyone who is
tired of the chases and the no-win and withdraw or arrested is immediately replaced by
someone else who will simply be in a weaker position. At the same time, state and bosses,
seeking to preserve their privileges and increase their profits amidst a severe capitalist
crisis, made the weaknesses of the Greek society responsible for the economic weaknesses.
Thousands of migrant women who have been uprooted from their homes as a result of economic
and military wars are treated as the new "inner enemy," stacked in concentration camps and
are constantly targeted as guilty of poverty and impoverishment.Immigrant hunting is a
witch hunt that serves state demagoguery and anti-fascist gangs, seeking to impose a civil
war among the poor in every way.
Cops pigs murderers
It is the widespread violence and the declared hatred against anything that does not fit
into the patriarchal, orthodox, ethno-eternity, of the timeless targeting and depreciation
of immigrants. And this violence is expressed bloody in the metropolitan field. In modern
times, the upgrading of the "public order" counts victims with their surname. From the
"praetores urbanus" and the jargonies, the special nervous guards, the DELTA-dependent
drug groups, to the battalion battalions and the self-rule of the bosses we may have
become accustomed to violence and death. With this, and with that, we add another name to
the modern and well-known macabre list that forms the monopoly of state violence and its
fascist reserves:Alexis Grigoropoulos, Lambros Fountas, Sahitz Lukman, Pavlos Fissas, Zak
Kostopoulos / Zackie oh!, Petrit Zifle, Angeliki Petrou, Embuka Mamasubek.
But who forgets the smuggled immigrants from Greek ports in Pharmakonisi? Who knows the
name of the 46-year-old from Bangladesh who "lost his life" in Nov. 2011 in AT Agios
Panteleimonas? Who remembers the young immigrant from the Ivory Coast that was "hanged" in
AT Grevena in July 2013? How did they say the two kids who released videos that showed
their humiliation by cops of AT Omonoia in June 2007? What happened to those children of
the children's theatrical group of occupation of the "2nd Hospitality" (5 children aged 12
to 14 years and two adults aged 20 and 22) who were hurt and tortured in AT Omonoiain
2016; Who remembers the two minors who were beaten in AT New World in August 2016? Who
remembers former prisoner Pëllumb Marnikollaj, 29 years of Albanian origin, who was
presented to police at Patission to give the established "present" and was tortured and
murdered there in 2016? We know that Mohammed Kamran Atif was murdered in October 2009
after torture in AT Nice; We know that on February 8, 2019, in Larissa, two workers from
Pakistan were brutally hit by their boss and two fascists, because they demanded their
accruals? Did we know that on the evening of February 18, 2019, was an incendiary attack
on a refugee home from Iraq to Thessaloniki? And how many other stories about state
killings, torture and fascist attacks we will never know!
We remember the murder of Zackie Oh from bosses and cops, as proof of the absolute victory
of "precious" property against the ludicrous human life. We remember the rape and murder
of Eleni Tofaloudi in Rhodes because she refused to be sexually contagious with her
rapists. We remember the murder of the Albanian land worker, Petrit Zifle , from a golden
bullet in Dragotena Lefkimmi, because he dared to question the murderous nationalist
delirium. We remember the assassination of Angeliki Petroufrom her father, because he did
not follow his "orders" and chose as a partner of her life an Afghan immigrant. And how
many more immigrants, women, workers / tribes, members of the community have tasted the
"public order" and fascism produced and imposed by power and diffused in the metropolitan
field.
The murders by cops or fascists are not isolated incidents, and certainly Omonia is not an
exception. The police as one of the main state enforcement and suppression mechanisms has
always been a murderous mechanism and the police departments of humiliation and torture.
The Empouka Mamasoumpek has today named because the United African Women Organization
mobilized and sought him, in spite of the efforts of cops to disguise the "disappearance"
and murder. But there are many and many who will never know their name, murdered at the
border, concentration camps, police stations.
And yet it is not the numbers and the frequency that make sense, but the arrogance of
power that holds every garbage or non-garbage and allows it to easily remove a life. The
extinction of the human being is borne by every fascist, racist, rapist, boss, boss.
We must keep the names of the victims in the collective memory. We have to resist the
death that state, capital, patriarchy, racism offer us generously. We must express our
solidarity with immigrants in practice, demand and liberate the urban space from control
and commercialization, fight for multicultural neighborhoods and open faculties against
state and capitalist barbarism. Why the battle for urban space is another expression of
class antagonism!
To fight through collective and self-organized processes, to trust our forces, to
re-establish our stature, to break the vernacular divisions imposed by power, to respond
violently to the violence we accept and to fight all together for a world equality,
solidarity, justice and freedom.
Do not get used to death - Do not leave any state murder unanswered.
anarchist collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2019/04/23/apatris-41/#more-2256
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Message: 3
Extinction Rebellion has managed to organise an impressive number of people into a civil
disobedience movement. They have managed to shut down and occupy significant parts of
London including numerous major road junctions over the past week. They have many
admirable principles such as "breaking down hierarchies of power for more equitable
participation" and "creating a world that is fit for generations to come". However is
civil disobedience really the best method for getting action to be taken on climate
change? ---- The aim of Extinction Rebellion's civil disobedience campaign is to attempt
to cause enough disruption so that the State meets their demands to bring back order - as
appearing to have order and control is important for the State. It is quite possible that
the State will partially concede to a couple of the demands of extinction rebellion -
however what isn't going to happen is a significant system change. This is an issue
because the root cause of climate change is capitalism with its requirement for constant
growth. The people in the corridors of power are simply too vested in capitalism to allow
something better to replace it.
Because climate change is a product of capitalism, our aim must not be to get concessions
from the system but to replace it. The police have still arrested over 1000 people at the
XR protests. Despite such vast numbers of arrests, which was actually the intention of XR,
the State rarely capitulates in the face of civil disobedience on the part of tiny
mobilised minorities, even highly committed ones like XR. Generalised mass mobilisations,
however, based upon civil disobedience, such as the anti- Poll Tax campaign with
widespread non-payment, community mobilisation and anti-Poll tax riot in London in 1990,
were relatively successful.
The idea that the police are potentially our friends, which is spread around by XR, is
just wrong. Many people were abused by the police (especially people who are part of a
minority) with people being dragged into cells and stripped searched by force or
threatened with broken bones. The nice police officers you might come across when you're
protesting "nicely" pretend to be friendly to get information and to get into peoples'
heads, but they will turn into brutes the moment they are ordered to. This idea that the
police are possible allies is harmful to everyone who has been abused or has suffered
systematic abuse from the police as it marginalises their experiences.
And despite the best efforts of thousands of people for over a week, how many police
officers have thrown their badges on the floor and refused to serve a regime which throws
people in cells for protesting what is going to kill billions of people? It is obvious
that the police are not going to change sides and help shut down all the different things
which are poisoning the planet. Rather, as was shown as the week drew on, they will
continue to protect them. Furthermore, it is only a matter of time before the police start
using more heavy-handed methods (the bully cannot let people stand up to him and get away
with it!). Therefore, our attempts cannot be restricted to just civil disobedience as it
is not capable of dismantling the capitalist system. Instead of imploring the State to
stop doing evil things, we must stop these evils ourselves using a wide range of tactics
which allow us to attack what is destroying the planet.
But we must remember, because any meaningful response to climate change requires system
change, the manner in which we change the system is incredibly important too. If we just
have a few thousand people leading the charge we risk making a society which doesn't
represent the needs of everyone - and risks replacing our current form of oppression with
a new one. We need to have a mass, global movement from the entire populace to ensure the
new system is a good system.
So what's the alternative? Imagine if the thousands of protestors in London, instead of
peacefully occupying public spaces started organising with the public to achieve mass
action against things like fossil fuel plants (as in industries?) and the like. Instead of
us asking those powerful people who are benefiting from the destruction of the environment
to stop destroying the planet - we could fight to just stop them whether or not they agree
to do this! Ultimately though, this will mean a revolution to get rid of capitalism and
replace it with a society based on need not profit and exists in harmony with nature.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/04/25/extinction-rebellion-notes/
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Message: 4
"May Day is the symbol of a new era in the life and struggle of the workers, a date that
opens up new, increasingly tough and decisive battles against the bourgeoisie, the freedom
and independence depriving them, their social ideal " ---- Nestor Makhno ---- The class
reality as it has been in the last ten years with the outbreak of the international
capitalist overaccumulation crisis, and in particular its physical imprinting in Greek
reality through the application of the fiscal adjustment measures, has created
particularly difficult working and living conditions for the whole working class, whether
we are talking about its active part in the production process, or about the reserves of
the unemployed, whether they are locals or immigrants. Capital has set in motion at this
juncture a violent cycle of neo-liberal advance against the crumbling social base,
promoting the rebuilding of the bourgeois camp through the continuous classical bleeding
of the slave layers. In this process,
The government of SYRIZA, by voting (along with other bourgeois parties) and by
implementing a number of anti-labor and antisocial measures over the current four years,
has shaped the ground for the implementation of neo-liberal capitalist restructuring
through the denationalization and integration of social and class struggles, the
acquisition of hope by election, relying on a cheap populism, and repression. In these
four years of government, class downsizing continues at unabated intensity, and the attack
on the state and capital is pervasive (flexible, intensified, precarious and mostly
uninsured for work, Sunday job for merchants, wage cuts and pensions, tax reduction,
privatizations, auctions, bank recapitalisations through the liquidation of public funds
reserves, cuts in public benefits and dissolution of social security). At the same time,
unemployment rates remain at an alarming rate, while the bourgeois depression is expressed
by threats and beatings of workers from paid minions, even with the killing of workers at
work, which bosses call "labor accidents" to renounce their responsibilities to overstate
the working patterns of workers and the lack or non-existent benefits for the safety of
workers.
Already in the summer of 2018, SYRIZA. has resorted to communicating the alleged
suppression of the memorandums, hoping in this way to renew his government mandate while
trying to restore his pro-governmental social-democratic profile. Of course, all of this,
except cynical, is extremely fragile. Quite simply because it is denied by the very
material reality of class devaluation from the bottom. New austerity measures may not be
called "memorandums," but they will continue to intensify the predatory transfer of wealth
from the bottom to the top of the social pyramid. Capitalist barbarism spreads like dense
darkness, condemning to poverty and subordination, in the long run, from the bottom.
International fiscal supervision is to continue at least until 2060. Surveillance will not
end before 75% of the public debt is repaid, causing bloody surpluses that the working
class itself is about to bear in its entirety. In addition, the privatization of public
property or more simply the privatization will keep through the Hypermarket until 2114.
Let us not forget that none of the 700 memorandum laws passed have been revoked or
abolished, nor one of the 60,000 memorandum provisions nor one of the 300,000 ministerial
and implementing memorandums. which involves bloody surpluses that the working class
itself is about to bear entirely on its backs. In addition, the privatization of public
property or more simply the privatization will keep through the Hypermarket until 2114.
Let us not forget that none of the 700 memorandum laws passed have been revoked or
abolished, nor one of the 60,000 memorandum provisions nor one of the 300,000 ministerial
and implementing memorandums. which involves bloody surpluses that the working class
itself is about to bear entirely on its backs. In addition, the privatization of public
property or more simply the privatization will keep through the Hypermarket until 2114.
Let us not forget that none of the 700 memorandum laws passed have been revoked or
abolished, nor one of the 60,000 memorandum provisions nor one of the 300,000 ministerial
and implementing memorandums.
The irreconcilable internal contradictions of capitalism, which once again contributed to
the explosion of a structural crisis, bring to the forefront one of the strong papers that
the ruling class is supposed to throw in such cases. This paper is war, as it is a way out
of capital from the capitalist crisis, but also a golden opportunity for the enrichment of
the arsenals. The price, of course, is going to pay for it, both from their pocket and -
above all - from their blood, where the land is oppressed and exploited. War is an
advantageous solution to capital when it is in deadlock. It can open up new markets, new
business opportunities through the insatiable exploitation of the raw materials and the
labor hands of the areas in the eye of the cyclone of war. Also, after a period of
generalized disaster, which is destroying both parts of the fixed (production) and the
variable (labor) workers, there is always a period of developmental capital
reconstruction, even if it is based on debris and corpses. Today, it is necessary to set
up a anti-militia-anti-militarist movement on the basis of proletarian unity and
internationalist class solidarity. Part of this framework is the army's sabotage, as well
as the refusal of the proletarians to serve in the ranks of the national-urban armed
forces. Based on the Greek reality, this movement must have a clear anti-NATO character,
May Day is an important time of historical significance for the class struggle itself. In
addition to preserving the class memories of the militant struggles of the trade union and
anarchist movement, as well as the workers' rebellion at Haymarket Square in Chicago in
1886 and the executed anarchists, it is also a constant reminder of political importance.
In capitalism, the fragmentary gains of the working class over capital can be temporary
and revoked at any moment. At each historical juncture, the class struggle's weight is
tilting accordingly, reflecting which of the two opposing class camps prevails in this
irreconcilable conflict of conflicting interests. The satisfaction of the immediate
material needs of the social base is critically important, that is why the trade union
struggle in today is necessary. However, in order to break the grid of bourgeois
sovereignty that defines social and productive relations, which deprives us of free time
and alienates the working one, it extracts from the workers the product they produce
because of the capitalist contract of private property , condemning us to poverty and
poverty, we need to move on to a straight and widespread conflict with the state and
capital, on an international scale, in the direction of the social revolution, in order to
we can meet collective human needs through the creation of a self-directed society of
freedom, economic and social equality, mutual assistance, community ownership and
self-management.
However, since today, the goal of abolishing class society and the reorganization of
social affairs, production and distribution on a universal human liberal basis,
unfortunately, we have to devote ourselves to the "work of the ant," giving this phase
defensive struggles mainly to secure what we have gained in previous years and are now
being put on the barrier of capitalist restructuring. At this stage, therefore, it is
necessary to reconstruct our class camp and to consolidate the collective lines of class
resistance.
However, the resistance of the working class is in the face of a huge threat, with an
amendment to that effect, as a precondition for a strike by primary unions, is the
approval of 50% + 1 of the registered members instead of the current guarantee of the
majority of the members attend the general assembly of the association. Essentially, this
arrangement makes it impossible for strikes to be declared, generously offering the bosses
the "gift" of the unimpeded - from the workers' mobilizations - the extraction of surplus
value. This means that in the face of employers' arbitrariness, intensified and flexible
working relationships, but also in the face of economic exploitation, the militant trade
union response will have lost one of its most important tools: the strike.
But as long as we avoid the fight, we will experience the defeat. Achievements won with
long-lasting struggles, which have never been given to us, are "smoked" in every
subsequent round of the memorandum. The loop narrows even further on our neck. In order
not to live as slaves and not to beg for beggars, we must organize our social and class
counter-attack against state and capital. Organize into grassroots societies, while the
bureaucratic and urbanized trade union of GSEE and ADEDY is a brake on labor struggles
because it is a pole of orderly peace and consensus in social and labor extermination
policies, while at the same time parasitic "professional trade unionists" are being
maintained and civilian careers are being built up by aspiring rescuers on the backs of
the workers. So, to make the union unconquerable, intransigent and militant, dangerous for
the bosses, to make general strikes, lasting rather than spectacular rifles in the air to
complete the trade union duty.
And we have well in mind that capitalism is not reformed and brutality can not be a human
face. That's why every aspiring messiah who espoused a humanitarian streamline the
conditions of oppression and exploitation of man by man and nature is originally needless
to say the least social base and real collective needs. Besides, no one can know better
than ourselves and our own collective needs and desires. That is why we can not accept any
external dispatcher of our will. We are called, therefore, to defend our class interests
with our collective strengths, participating in daily social and class struggles therefore
abstaining from the elections,
NO CONTRIBUTION WITH THE STATE, CAPITAL AND OFFICIAL AND ATTENTIONAL ASSOCIATION
THE WORKING GAMES IN HANDS OF WORKERS AND WORKERS
ORGANIZATION AND RACE FOR WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND COMMUNICATION
ALL AND ALL IN CONCENTRATIONS AND PROCESSES OF LABORATORY PRIMARY:
ATHENA:
COURSE
11:00, MUSEUM
THESSALONIKI:
COURSE
11:00, KAMARA
We support the common anarchist / anti-authoritarian bloc
GHOUL:
MICROPHONE CONCENTRATION
19:00, SITE OF FREEDOM
SLOW:
MICROPHONE CONCENTRATION AND PATH
11:00, LABORATORY CENTER
Anarchist Federation Youtube: Anarchist Federation
anarchist-federation.gr
anarchist-federation@riseup.net
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https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2019/04/25/
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Message: 5
On 15 April, an activist who protested against G20 policies at the "Welcome To Hell"
demonstration in Hamburg received a provisional ruling. About 20 activists from Stuttgart
chose this occasion for a street protest in solidarity with all those affected by the
crackdown. ---- She has received three years probation because, like many other activists,
she has been against the policies of the G20 states. Policies that cause war, poverty and
environmental destruction around the world. We say: protest against these policies is
legitimate and necessary. ---- With a banner of solidarity and slogans of solidarity
painted with spray, we wanted to make clear that it is up to us to respond to the
repression. The verdict is not "just" a conditional sentence, but a verdict of class
justice. A justice that faces many other activists and has already put numerous activists
behind the prison walls.
With our protest, we want to make it clear that repression can strike any of us. It is up
to us to combat it and build solidarity. We send greetings of solidarity to all who are
affected by repression!
Resistance is not a crime, fight the G20!
Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/31420
Translation> Remembrance of the Oppressed!
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/26/espanha-solidariedade-com-xs-reprimidxs-do-g20/
anarchist-ana news agency
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Message: 6
Sister, Comrade: Zapatista women, women we fight, we welcome you. What we want to tell
you, to inform you, is a bit tricky because we will not be able to organize in March of
2019, here in our pagan land, the Second International Meeting of the Women Who Are
Struggling. You may already know the reasons why we can not, and if not we will explain
them to you: It seems that the new bad governments have already said clearly that they
will move on to their big plans, large capital projects: the Maya Train, for the
Touantepeque Isthmus, planting trees for timber and fruit trade. And they also said they
would allow mines and big food companies. They also have their rural plan that destroys us
as native peoples because it turns our land into a commodity. So with all these plans,
they will finish that Salinas de Gortari left in the middle when we stopped him with our
uprising. These plans are destruction plans. As much as they try to hide it with their
lies. Whenever they multiply their 30 million votes. The truth is that they go for
everything against native peoples.
They are for our communities, for our land, for our mountains, for our rivers, for our
animals, for our plants and for our stones. They say that they are not turning only
against female Zapatista but against all native women. And against men of course, but
here, as women we are, we are talking about women. They want our land, our lands to be no
longer for us, but to have tourists to tour, have their big hotels and their big
restaurants and businesses that will offer them these luxuries. They want to turn our
lands into plots that will produce luxury wood, fruit and water. To convert them into
mines to produce gold, silver, uranium and all the minerals that exist and which the
capitalists want. They want us to turn to their servants, to their maids, to sell our
dignity for a few coins a month. Why these capitalists and those who obey them from the
new bad governments think that what we want is money.
They can not understand that we want freedom, they do not understand that the little that
we have succeeded in succeeding in a fight without paying us, without interviews, without
photos, without books, without referendums, without polls, without votes, without museums
and without lying.
They do not understand that what they call "progress" is a lie that can not even guarantee
women's security. In their worlds, progressive or conservative, women are still being
raped, raped, murdered. How many women were murdered in these progressive or conservative
worlds while you were reading these lines, and I fell in love with my sister? Perhaps you
know it, but we also say it plainly here: in the Zapatista lands no woman has been
murdered for many years. Nevertheless, we blame for retrograde, ignorant, insignificant.
Perhaps we do not know who is the best feminism, maybe we do not know to say "cuerpa"[i]or
change the words, or what is gender equality or pronounce those terms that have so many
letters you can not measure. And in our opinion, what they say about "gender equality" is
not even complete, because they are talking only about equality of women and men while
even we, who call us ignorant and late, know very well that there are those who do not are
neither men nor women and we call them "otroas" (others). But these can call themselves as
they want, and it was not easy for them to gain the right, to be as they are without
hiding because they were being beaten, persecuted, raped, murdered. Will we make them
either men or women and choose one side or the other? If they do not want it, bad ones do
those who do not respect them. Why then do we complain that we do not respect women as if
we do not respect these people? But perhaps it is because we are talking about what we
have seen from other worlds and we do not have much knowledge of these things. But what we
know for sure is that we are struggling for our freedom and now it is our turn to fight to
defend it.
So that our daughters and grandchildren do not suffer the pain story of our mothers and
grandmothers. It is our turn to struggle to avoid repeating the story we want in the world
just to cook and to give birth to children, so that we can then see them growing up in
humiliation, contempt and death. We did not make the armed uprising to get back to the
same. We are not resisting 25 years to become servants to tourists, their bosses and their
supervisors. We will not stop being education, health, culture, tercias, rebels,
authorities, and administrators to become employees of hotels and restaurants, serving
strangers for a few pesos. And we do not even care if there is a lot or a lot of pesos,
the point is that our dignity is not worth it. Why do they want a companion and a sister:
to turn our own land into slaves who receive graces and allow them, in return, to destroy
the communities. Comrade and Sister: When you reached these mountains for the 2018
meeting, we saw that you looked at us with respect and sometimes perhaps with admiration.
Not all, because we know that some have come to criticize us, to look at us
contemptuously. Does not matter, we know that the world is big, full of different
thoughts, and some understand that we can not do all the same things, and others do not.
We respect this, I am a companion and a sister. Besides, it was not the purpose of the
meeting to see who gives us good or bad graduation but to meet and learn how we fight as
women. So we do not want you to look at us now with sorrow or pity, to see us as maids
giving orders in a good or bad way. Or like those with which you are bargaining for the
price of their products, sometimes crafting other times fruits or vegetables, other times
whatever it is, just as female capitalists do. Here. Because when they go to their
shopping centers there do not haggle but pay, what exactly the capitalists demand and they
are happy with. NO! sister and comrade. We will struggle with what we have, with all our
might, against these mega-growth plans. If they conquer these lands will be on our blood,
the blood of the Zapatista women.
So we think about it and so we will. Perhaps these new bad governments think and believe
that as women we will quickly bend our head and submit to the boss and his new supervisors
because what we are looking for - they think and believe - is a good boss and some good
money. But not: what we want is our freedom that no one gave us, we conquered it by a
fight, even pouring our blood. Do you believe that when the forces of the new evil
governments arrive, their paramilitaries, will their ethno-priests accept them with honor,
gratitude and joy? No! We will accept them by struggle and see if they learn what a
Zapatist woman means, not sold, not surrendered, not yielding. We, our companion and
sister, during the meeting of the women who are fighting, we tried to feel happy, safe and
happy. Here is a list of reviews you left us: that the boards were very hard, that you did
not like the food, that it was expensive and why one and why the other .. We already
answered about the way we worked and the reviews which we accepted. But even with
complaints and criticisms, here you are a safe comrade, without being seen and evaluated
by men, good or bad. Now, as a companion, there is no security here, because capitalism
comes for everything and it does not interest the cost. And they will do it because they
feel that there is a lot of people who support them and will applaud them in as many
barbarities as they do. They will attack us and then check their polls to see if their
rates are high. And they will continue until they are over. As we write these lines, the
attacks of their paramilitaries have begun. And they are the same, those who were PRI
before, PAN, PRD, PVEM and now MORENA.
So, you comrades and sisters, we will not do the Encounter here. But you do it in your own
places, according to your ways and times. Although we will not attend, whatever you think
we will be thinking. Comrade and sister: Do not stop playing. Even if the cursed
capitalists and the new evil governments make their own and eradicate us from the face of
land, you must continue to struggle in your place. Why did we agree with this at the
meeting: that we will fight for no woman to fear in any corner of the world because she is
a woman. You are hurting to fight in your place, I am a companion and a sister, and it
hurts us here on the Zapatista land. The new bad governments think that it will be easy to
beat us, they think we are few and that no one supports us out of the other worlds. But,
my companion and sister, even one to stay with us, will fight to defend our freedom. And
we're not afraid, mate and sister. If we were not afraid 25 years ago that nobody saw us,
even less now that you see us, just like you see us. Comrade, sister: We leave in your
hands the little light we gave you. Do not let it go out.
Even if our own light goes out with our blood, even if it goes out in some places, you
take care of your own. The times may be difficult now, but we must continue to be what we
are. And what we are are women who are fighting. These are all comrades and sister. In
short, we will not do the meeting, that is, we will not be able to participate. And if you
do the meeting in your own world and ask where the Zapatista women are, why did not they
come, tell them the truth, tell them how the Zapatista women are fighting for their
freedom as women. Watch out for comrades and sister. Maybe we can not come back. They may
tell you to stop thinking of the Zapatista because they have paid off. There are no more
Zapatista, they will tell you.
From the mountains of southeast Mexico,
Zapatista Women,
February 2019
[i]This is the word cuerpo meaning a body with a female ending.
[ii]Tercias (compas) are called the comrades that make up the Zapatista media.
https://apatris.info/poy-einai-i-mikri-flogitsa-poy-soy-dosa/
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