#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ARGENTINE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Argentine, FAR: Nestor Makhno - 133 THE FREEDOM OF EACH ONE IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERYONE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On October 27, 1889, Nestor Makhno was born, a fervent anarchist revolutionary,

promoter of the Peasant Revolution of 1918 in Ukraine. He is considered one of
the most transcendent militants that anarchism has given. ---- A native of
Guliai-Polié and the son of extremely poor peasants, from a very young age he
began to work as a laborer on the properties of the settlers then settled in
Ukraine. Already as a teenager he began to work in a local iron foundry, where he
began to be introduced to anarchist ideas. ---- During the stormy years that
followed the Russian Revolution of 1905, he was sent to prison several times for
being an anarchist, even being sentenced to hang on one occasion. It is here that
Makhno forges ties with anarchist militants of great stature, among them Piotr
Arshinov, and forms himself politically and ideologically, becoming a militant
with a powerful will and firm ideas about revolutionary politics.

Liberated with the Revolution of 1917, he begins to apply these ideas
immediately. Back in Guliai-Polié he devoted himself fully to militant work
alongside numerous anarchist cadres, quickly becoming head of the local soviet
and bringing together delegates from peasant and trade union organizations. In
addition, he promoted the constitution of the Committee for the Defense of the
Revolution for the expropriation of land and properties of landowners and
industrialists.

 From the beginning of the Peasant Revolution in Ukraine, he participates in the
formation of the Council of Insurgents -administrative form after the dissolution
of the State- and the Insurrectionary Army, where he will be a great protagonist
as a strategist. At the head of the Black Army, he brought together thousands of
militiamen and obtained the support of millions of peasants, while liberating
numerous localities where not only the self-determination of the people was
established, but also an advanced cooperative production and distribution system
was established. The Makhnovist revolution was a true social and revolutionary
movement.

With the betrayal and defeat at the hands of the Russian Bolsheviks -for whom the
Ukrainian Revolution also presented a danger-, Makhno went into exile, from where
he began to write, together with other anarchist cadres, a balance of what
happened, systematized in the Platform of Dielo Truda organization. In it he
urges the organization of anarchists in a solid political organization, with a
programmatic base and with theoretical and action unity, capable of influencing
the social environment with a revolutionary strategy. He dies in exile in France,
his health deteriorating.

We remember him with one of his phrases

"To the rude violence of our enemies, we will respond with the compact force of
our revolutionary insurrectionary army. We will respond to incoherence and
arbitrariness by building our new life with justice, based on the responsibility
of each one, a true guarantee of freedom and social justice."

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