The Horde collective released this fall a participatory game, Antifa. We tested
this game with enthusiasm and wanted to know a little more about its genesis, itspossible future development and the projects of the collective La Horde. ----Alternative liberaire: Can you present the collective La Horde? ---- The Horde:Since 2012, our collective has offered, on a website, something to support thefight against the far right and highlight anti-fascism: we publish analyzes andinformation on nationalist groups, we relay the initiatives of groups who opposeit and we offer material to better understand (mapping, chronology, arguments)and to make themselves visible (stickers, badges, etc.).We are trying to be a toolbox that we hope will be useful to all those who aremobilizing against the extreme right and its ideas. We also participate indiscussions or training, at the invitation of anti-fascist collectives. AL: Howdo you go from the website to the board game ?The Horde: Initially, the game was a training tool: rather than talking aboutanti-fascism in a vertical relationship (someone who tells the story, the otherswho listen), we said to ourselves that it would be more alive and more horizontalto offer a role-playing game in which people bring an anti-fascist group to life.This allowed us to pass on our experience (everything that happens in the game isinspired by real events or anecdotes) while putting people in a situation ofhaving to make choices collectively, since it is a cooperative game ( you have tochoose the actions, the means to prepare them, manage resources, etc.).AL: How much time have you spent designing the game since the idea started ?The Horde: The game was developed over three years, and it has evolvedconsiderably over the formations in which it has been used, thanks to thecontribution of all participants, activists or not. . The friends of the Mare auxDiables, an anarcho-ludic association, also helped us a lot to purify the game,in order to make it editable.It was essential for us that the political aspect and the playful requirementsare articulated between them: a political game, OK, but also a good game, that isto say a game where one feels involved, and where the rules are at the service ofthe subject. AL: There have been presentations of the game. What were the firstreturns ?The Horde: What motivated us to publish it is that people, during training,really had fun while asking themselves questions, often we were asked if we couldleave a copy of the game, and unfortunately it was not possible. Since itsrelease in bookstores in early October, the game has spread well, and we have hadonly positive feedback so far.AL: The game is only intended for convinced activists or can I also play it withmy cousin soc-dem ?The Horde: The game is for everyone (as we say, "anti-fascism is everyone'sbusiness!"): Its primary objective being to popularize activist practices and todeconstruct ready-made ideas on antifascism, if only the antifas could play it,it would not be of much use!In addition, the mechanics of the game make it possible to have various practices(going to the street or not, using the internet or not, etc.) without a strategyinevitably winning or losing. For example, we decided that a demonstration wasmore effective than a petition, but on the one hand both remain possible, and onthe other hand we also took into account that a demonstration is riskier and morerandom.AL: I tested the game and really liked it. Are there any expansions planned:scenarios, characters ?The Horde: The game already offers, in its current form, extensions, such assecret motivations, which can spice up the cooperative mode a little. We alsooffer scenarios, and if the game meets its audience, we hope that there will beemulation, and that new scenarios, proposed by players other than us, can beoffered on our site, in the space devoted to the game.We are also working, with a computer scientist friend, on a digital version ofthe game, but for the moment it is still in the planning stage.AL: A little word from Libertalia, what was their role ?The Horde: With Charlotte and Nico, who run the editions, we've known each otherfor over twenty years, and it was only natural for us to do it with them, as wasthe case when we thought of translating the Bernd's book on the history of Germananti-fascism. Libertalia not only has a militant editorial line that matches us,but also practices that show their concern to reach out to as many people aspossible.It is thanks to them that the game could be offered at such an affordable price,compared to equivalent games on the market.AL: Are other types of media planned today to extend your work?The Horde: We have another book project, which would not be a translation thistime but an original text, but it is still in the writing stage for the moment.We are often asked when the new version of our far-right cartography will bereleased, but here too, we are working on a new medium, and we prefer to take thetime to do it well, rather than rush.Interview by David (UCL Grand Paris sud)DECRYPTION # 2 "REMIGRATION"Every two months, Alternative Libertaire proposes to decipher an expression ofthe extreme right-wing newspeak.Today, "remigration". Remigration is one of those neologisms of which the extremeright has the secret, to believe that like Zemmour who made his first weaponsthere, it is in the agencies of pubs that they will forge their propaganda. Thedefinition given by the identities is simple and seems almost innocent,remigration is, they tell us, the reversal of the migratory flow. It's verytechnical, mechanical, in short not political... and yet. The use of this termwas popularized by identitarians in the 2010s.Their then leader, Fabrice Robert, ex-activist of Third Way, Radical Unity, FNthen MNR organized in 2014 the "Assises of remigration" which saw among othersRenaud Camus, Jacques Bompard, or Jean-Yves The Gallou swallow their hatred. Theterm is then democratized and the leaders of the FN seize it: Nicolas Bay, LouisAliot and even Marine Le Pen before abandoning it very quickly, deeming itundoubtedly incompatible with his company of demonization.No matter how successful it is. Renaud Camus and Éric Zemmour are zealouspropagators. In 2019, she is a candidate for Debout la France, who says she isready to "put" remigration "on the table".But make no mistake, the meaning that is understood by those who use it is a bitmore radical than this mechanistic coating of reversal of flows, remigrationmeans neither more nor less than the forced displacement of entire populations.An idea after all not so new to the extreme right. V. Klempererhttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Collectif-La-Horde-Etre-une-boite-a-outils-contre-l-extreme-droite-et-ses-idees_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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