Today's Topics:
1. Czech, AFED: A3: Thank you so much. Really? -- November 17?
Celebration or mockery? Theoretically, we all can do a lot today.
Practically only the elect. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: A background analysis from the coup d'état
in Bolivia by Bruno Lima Rocha (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Someone has probably stumbled across a campaign called "Thank you so much" on the 17th of
November. On the campaign website , we read the slogans that we can "live in freedom"
(shots of pre-November police shirts and batons and the Berlin Wall collapsing), that we
can "travel" "Say your opinion" (shot of neo-Nazi demonstration and displayed Tibetan
flag), "create" (shot from concert and studio) that we can "vote" (shot from Czech
Television). Happy those who really can. And maybe those who believe they can at least are
happy. Others seem to be wondering if this is meant to be serious, or around similar
propaganda of the myth of restored freedom go unnoticed, so they don't have to get mad.
To begin with, with the exception of a few stagnant Stalinists, all of them welcomed the
fall of one-party rule at the end of 1989. Given that the regime had already collapsed in
almost all other Eastern European satellites of the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
also had to come to the side. The streets filled, it was a time of euphoria, satisfaction
and hope. Excluding the November 17 demonstration attacked by the police, there was a
totally non-conflicting transfer of power. After thirty years we can evaluate our hopes.
Many thank you for being able to. Many are frustrated at what they cannot do despite the
propaganda cloak.
Several people thank that they can... that they may be billionaires, that they may have
corrupt politicians or possess their own party, that they may have unprecedented
privileges, that they can receive huge subsidies from the EU, that they can receive
exemptions in destroying the environment and climate, they can profit from the poverty of
tenants and people in financial need, they can own the media, and decide what information
and form they get to people, fly on their own aircraft, live in one of their houses around
the planet ... We could go on for a long time, because the privileged people of today can
do very much.
Then there are those who can also travel a lot to the above destinations, say their
opinion, which will not be against the current regime, even if they curse the Prime
Minister's Estébes past. They are often well-placed entrepreneurs, higher batches at
offices and corporations, politicians...
But what about the rest? What about all those unprivileged downstairs? Thank you for often
having to live from hand to mouth? Thank you for living in permanent social insecurity?
Thank you for being able to lose your job at any time? Thank you for having to work from
seeing to seeing to meet the basic needs? Thank you for special discounts in supermarkets?
Thank you for overpriced rentals? Thank you for the hundreds of thousands of executions?
Thank you for the opportunity to travel, when you have to calculate, how much does it cost
to travel to work per month? Do they thank for the election if no one else offers them
anything but prey capitalism? Thank you for being able to say your own opinion when no one
listens to them? (It is worse if they want to go to their own opinion and remove
capitalism in an organized way, and then, along with the anarchists, they end up on the
list of dangerous persons.) racism and xenophobia? (Unfortunately, some are easy to catch
on to this decoy. Hating those who are worse off, but actually doesn't help them.) Thank
you for the incredible social inequalities in society? Thank you for the fact that several
people can own as much as the rest of the population? Are they thanking that their
children can study high when there is no money for tuition and they have to earn other
jobs instead of studying after the brigades? And one could continue long and long. when
there is no money for tuition and for other costs they have to earn their jobs instead of
studying? And one could continue long and long. when there is no money for tuition fees
and for other costs they have to earn a job instead of studying? And one could continue
long and long.
We can talk about life in freedom over the past 30 years as anarchists. Pre-November cops
look like harmless shots compared to today's armored threshers. Only his obedience and
absence of conscience is no different. Watching, wiretapping, raiding, illegal
demonstrations on demonstrations, gratuitous police violence, staged trials... these are
not memories of the past, this is the reality of today. And so, thanks to the fact that we
can keep the neo-Nazi marches under police protection, and the anti-fascists will be
taught that we can preserve the profits of the charcoal and impose fines on climate
protectors.
Thanks for creating ... when we have the money to do it. Otherwise, bad luck. When you
need space for your projects and creations and occupy a building that has not been used
for a long time, as was the case with the Prague Clinic, you are evil. And so, thanks to
the fact that we can have empty buildings in the city and at the same time homeless people
and artists without spaces. Thanks to living in a world where private ownership and profit
generation are more than the lives, health and dignity of people, more than the future of
young people and future generations...
Thank you for believing in the fairy tale of capitalism and bourgeois democracy. But we
don't believe her!
Download, print and distribute the November issue of the A3 wall paper!
A3 (November 2019) for download HERE .
http://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2019-11.pdf
Download, print, distribute!
The wall paper A3 is published every month by the Anarchist Federation. They are primarily
intended for dissemination through street signs or posting at workplaces and schools.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7065/a3-diky-ze-muzem-jako-fakt
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Message: 2
The following words add to the background reflection preceded by the immediate fact of the
coup d'état in Bolivia. ---- Introduction ---- The following words add to the background
reflection preceded by the immediate fact of the coup d'état in Bolivia. The model of
analysis would be based on the Bolivian case, the Plurinational Constitution and the legal
multiplicity that ensures the "decisive autonomy and de facto popular sovereignty in the
territories". I had no idea that I would have to close the text watching live on Telesur
and Bolivia TV the resignation speech of the president and his deputy. ---- Coup d'état in
Bolivia ---- Sunday, November 10, a coup d'état is decreed in Bolivia. It begins with the
fourth reelection of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) -IPSP (Political Instrument for the
Sovereignty of Peoples) candidates. I leave here the explicit criticism that the MAS /
IPSP would necessarily have to nominate new candidates and thus break the cycle of
concentration of power, which, of course, strengthens the position of the right-wing
parties linked to the more narrow imperialism. Just the opposite happens.
Evo and Linera competed. By the night of October 20 they would be winning, but there would
be a second round. Soon the count is interrupted and in return, by Bolivian legislation,
the officialist plate surpasses by ten percent the second place, the former president
Carlos Mesa, and would have won. The opposition obviously does not accept the result - in
fact it would not accept any result - and resume a rising from Santa Cruz de La Sierra.
Led by Luis Fernando Camacho, at the head of the Civic Committee of this locality (which
has national expansion), operating as a shock force, they start the sieges in the big
cities, on the roads and expand the conspiracy with the most reactionary forces.
Articulations with US-based evangelical churches, key role of the European
Union,https://elperiodicocr.com/bolivia-filtran-audios-de-lideres-opositores-llamando-a-un-golpe-de-estado-ubra-evo-morales/
). Consideration should be given to the role of the private and oligarch-owned media, as
well as the role of very conservative Pentecostal church networks. Mottoes like "the bible
back to the palace" circulated influenced by robots and servers that would have the same
origin as those operated in the Brazilian elections. That is, a more or less predictable plot.
On Sunday morning, November 10, no longer capable of defending the state and still less of
the basic institutions (of social organizations), high military mandates declared
themselves in disobedience to the Head of State and barracks. According to what circulates
through feminist militants in Bolivia, the procedure of "civic centers and unions" is to
surround an indigenous union, association or movement headquarters, burn down this
headquarters, lower the Whipala (Aymara-based indigenous) flag, raise the flag of the
country and sing the national anthem. Explicitly racist and anti-indigenous act. It was
predictable the ability to unstable and surprisingly did not assemble a resistance structure.
It is incomprehensible. The deposed MAS government, in Evo's latest public statement, says
it trusted the National Police entirely! This is after all that Bolivia has gone through,
with only the 21st century. On Sunday, October 20, they went to the elections knowing that
there could be a right-hand table turn. So why didn't they prepare the foundation to
resist? Did they have a social basis for this? Apparently not. Ah, Evo complains, almost
80% of the National Police formation is of indigenous origin. AND? Does ethnic belonging
surpass militarized discipline? Of course not. Did they blindly trust the "loyalty of the
military"? In 2008 the attempted coup was defeated in the street. And the resistance?
Where are the Rojos Ponchos? And now?
Transform a society through the state?
Definitely the state is a complex apparatus, it has since the public service under some
form of popular pressure (as in the Brazilian case, the poor SUS or public education) and
at the same time is not only government and services, have permanent, real specialized
bodies such as the Judiciary, the Public Prosecution Service (MPF and State) and the whole
repressive apparatus.
The state, if endowed with militarized bodies (such as the ongoing civic-media-police coup
in Bolivia), has a relationship of command and obedience and social division of labor
between officers and squares. Therefore, this type of institution does not produce new
forms of reproduction of life, on the contrary. Such bodies tend to reproduce even under
extreme regime changes, see the case of the Russian Empire (Okhrana), Soviet Periods
(Cheka, GPU, NKVD, KGB) and Russia again (KGB).
Therefore, just as it is necessary to dare in the legal arrangement (as in the case of the
Plurinational Constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia), it is necessary to dare in taboo
institutions, such as those of self-defense in Latin America. If we militarize a foreign
exchange process, we kill the seed, or we become dependent on the chains of command (as
Velasco Alvarado was succeeded by pro-US military, the same in Panama, when Manuel Noriega
ends up taking power after Omar Torrijos's murder). ). The opposite is also true. If we do
not defend ourselves, as a country and sovereign territories, almost all of us die and we
bury our projects alive.
Which political economy points exchange processes?
We need to rethink political economy even within capitalism. If you do not break the
fiscalist fallacy (the lie comes like this "there is no money because there is no money,
there is no money because there is no growth") there is no out of credit. If this
aforementioned fallacy were true, the US would not have emerged from the Great Depression.
It is by circulating money in its various functions (unit of account, reserve of value,
element of exchange, deposit guarantee and transactions) that the capitalist economy
rotates and others (as with social currencies). Therefore, if we do not break the fiscal
fallacy (I insist), territorial communities will survive on their resources, but there
will be a lack of public policy.
But only the capitalist economy in the form of public service does not solve. This is true
for territorial reserves and the gigantic metropolitan spot in Latin America. Territories
and their productive projects need not just be in the economic game of capitalism. Trade
fairs, circulation of social currencies, community credit without using the official
currency are already taking place. Finally, as the times to come will be even more scarce,
the greater the volume of experiences of communal economy, the better, because everything
does not develop from scratch if there is transformation of society, even in the
intermediate form of duplicity or legal multiplicity.
Who rules and how does it govern? Do what with local power relations?
We need to think of some form of co-government, of pressure elements in municipal power
and regions. There are traditions that call this libertarian municipalism and social
ecology, but we can call it other concepts, such as Kurdistan under Democratic
Confederalism. He has victorious experiences of this municipalism in Latin America, both
in greater self-government and autonomy, as in Chiapas and in all Mexican states, as in
the urban action of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the so-called "water war" that took place
between April and June 2000. This was the turn that led to the victory in the 2003 Gas War
and the ensuing electoral victory of the MAS / IPSP (December 2005) and the Plurinational
Constitution (February 2009).
Making territories life forms and schools of multiple and egalitarian resistance?
To at least generate a Political Impasse, or a duality of Political Power in the country,
taking as an example the action of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of
Ecuador (CONAIE), it is necessary beyond the struggle for land and territory, daring in a
new legality based on uses. and customs and, in the Brazilian case, necessarily going
through Interreligious Dialogue (I don't know if this term is correct, but I am waiting
for contributions to the appropriate concept). Unite the people in their diversity, also
in terms of jurisdiction and conflict resolution. This is already happening in many places
in Latin America and the Caribbean. An example is given to indigenous majority
municipalities in Guatemala as compensation and even punctual victory after 33 years of
civil war (1962-1995). In the Brazilian case, there is an important consideration. We have
the demographic condition of not having an indigenous majority and being a metropolitan
country, where the Afro-Brazilian population is the majority and Afro-Brazilian cultures
operate as the backbone of modern nationality. Therefore, the debate between
Afro-Brazilian Religions, Popular Christianity and yes, a huge portion of the Evangelical
Churches - as a project of materializable social power - this debate, even being delicate,
must continue. Importantly, towing never leads to anything but disaster. The CONAIE is
only alive because it had no adhesion, was not subordinate to the government of Rafael
Correa. But it can only turn into boundary situations because it is allied with the urban
and metropolitan struggle. where the Afro-Brazilian population is the majority and
Afro-Brazilian cultures operate as the backbone of modern nationality. Therefore, the
debate between Afro-Brazilian Religions, Popular Christianity and yes, a huge portion of
the Evangelical Churches - as a project of materializable social power - this debate, even
being delicate, must continue. Importantly, towing never leads to anything but disaster.
The CONAIE is only alive because it had no adhesion, was not subordinate to the government
of Rafael Correa. But it can only turn into boundary situations because it is allied with
the urban and metropolitan struggle. where the Afro-Brazilian population is the majority
and Afro-Brazilian cultures operate as the backbone of modern nationality. Therefore, the
debate between Afro-Brazilian Religions, Popular Christianity and yes, a huge portion of
the Evangelical Churches - as a project of materializable social power - this debate, even
being delicate, must continue. Importantly, towing never leads to anything but disaster.
The CONAIE is only alive because it had no adhesion, was not subordinate to the government
of Rafael Correa. But it can only turn into boundary situations because it is allied with
the urban and metropolitan struggle. must follow. Importantly, towing never leads to
anything but disaster. The CONAIE is only alive because it had no adhesion, was not
subordinate to the government of Rafael Correa. But it can only turn into boundary
situations because it is allied with the urban and metropolitan struggle. must follow.
Importantly, towing never leads to anything but disaster. The CONAIE is only alive because
it had no adhesion, was not subordinate to the government of Rafael Correa. But it can
only turn into boundary situations because it is allied with the urban and metropolitan
struggle.
Political project, political projects and consequences?
I would be irresponsible if I did not put the relevance of food sovereignty and
territorial defense to the pressures of the Interactional System, including China, which
owns Syngenta, for example. The least a country needs is to feed, have enough energy for
what it needs or projects, keep its natural resources under popular control, and be able
to defend itself. Even in a situation of a more left government, without necessarily a
process of exchange, who will push this "supposed government" is the set of self-organized
peoples of Brazil. The same is true in other Latin American countries. We should not
wonder if this is happening, if it will have a table turn. But when the colonialists and
their internal allies will try to take one or more table turns.
Tributes: Honduras and Bolivia
I would like to dedicate this tiny effort of the above text to the memory of the Garifuna
leadership (equivalent to quilombola in Portuguese or Palenquero in the Colombian and
Venezuelan tradition) Francisco Guerrero Centeno (39 years) and before the martyrdom of
the Garifuna leader María Digna Montero . Centeno was a leader in the Masca community on
the Caribbean (Caribbean) coast of Honduras. This country suffered the first new coup
d'état in Latin America (June 2009) already in the execution of the Bridges Project, in
the cycle of the so-called Constitutional Coups aided by the US Department of State:
Honduras 2009, Paraguay June 2012 and Brazil April 2016. The most recent coup d'etat
occurred at the closing of this text in November 2019 in Bolivia.
Bruno Lima Rocha is a postdoctoral fellow in political economy, doctorate and master in
political science; He teaches in international relations, law and journalism.
Contacts: blimarocha@gmail.com (for Email and Facebook); Telegram group
(t.me/estrategiaeanalise), estrategiaeanaliseblog.com (texts and audios) and
www.estrategiaeanalise.com.br (archives until May 2018).
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31641
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