#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BRAZIL #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Brazil, OASL, FARJ, RUSGA LIBERTÁRIA E COMPA:Announcement about our departure from CAB (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We communicate that, after a long process of discussion - which involved the

entire Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB) and the Latin American Anarchist
Coordination (CALA) -, the Anarchist Organization Socialism Libertarian (OASL,
from São Paulo), the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ), Rusga
Libertária (RL, from Mato Grosso) and Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarquista (COMPA,
from Minas Gerais) took the decision to leave the CAB. ---- While being treated
respectfully, this separation reflects significant political differences and
views that, at this time, we consider irreconcilable. The central reason for our
departure has to do with the balance we make of the last few years of the CAB
and, also, with the paths that we understand to be necessary for the next period
of development of social struggles and Brazilian organized anarchism. We
understand that, finally, it is time to overcome the status of coordination and
found a national anarchist political organization.

Brazilian Especifismo has always had the foundation of a national organization as
its project. The first attempt was the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL),
which operated between 1997 and 2000. However, it did not work, since it was
built in a hurry and without the due maturity of the states and their militancy.
The greatest achievement of this first process was the impetus for the state
experiences of Popular Resistance (RP), which began in 1999. It was from them
that we returned to reinvest in the political and organizational process, this
time, with much more calm, founding, in 2002, the Forum of Organized Anarchism
(FAO). We gave up that intended unity in the OSL and started to bring together
individuals, groups and organizations around only the agreement with two axes:
the need for organization and the need for social work (by the masses).

As in any process of political construction, there were moments of disagreement,
tension, conflicts and internal divisions. With the departure of the current
Popular Anarchist Union (UNIPA) and the end of the Libertarian Fight (LL) /
Libertarian Socialist Organization of São Paulo (OSL-SP), the FAO began to renew
itself internally from 2009, with the rapprochement of the FARJ and a set of
state organizations that had been formed under his influence and even with the
presence of his militants. All organizations in this network have joined FAO
since 2009; the most consolidated state initiatives (RJ, SP, CE, PR, SC) and
others that were starting their articulation (MG, PE, a new reconstruction in BA,
among others). In this whole process, until the junction with the new
consolidated and articulated states, some states that were (first training in BA
and an articulation in GO) and others that remained in FAO (especially RS, AL and
MT) were very important, the which played a leading role. This merger allowed for
the great advances that culminated in the founding of CAB in 2012.

The proposal, at that time, was to take a step towards national organization. We
left the organicity of a forum (space for exchanging information and carrying out
common tasks) for coordination (national articulation of state organizations). In
this new stage, we established that we would build a national organization in the
medium term to strengthen the ideological and social struggle in Brazil. We
wanted to unify concepts and processes in order to, in the medium term, form a
national anarchist political organization. This need for unification was a
complex challenge, as the FAO and the network that was built around the FARJ
referred to the logic of "organic groups", proposed in the document "Fight and
Organization", from 1996. There was, at that moment, a plurality of conceptions
and realities, which we have been homogenizing since 2009, in a movement that
continued throughout the first years of CAB. Although all states defended
Especifismo and its general lines, there were many other aspects that needed to
be homogenized, both in ideological and theoretical terms, as well as in
strategic and programmatic terms.

Until that moment, we managed to move forward in our project, deepening
organicity and social work, maintaining this horizon of a national organization
that was bein

The criticisms we made of the CAB were diverse, and formalized in this document.
It is not our intention to go back to what was posted there. It is enough to
point out that the central aspect of our criticism is that, in our region
(Southeast/Center-West), we were already functioning as a regional political
organization, unifying processes, concepts, lines, etc. We understood that it was
necessary to move towards nationalization, finally conforming the national
organization that had been in our project since 2012. However, for this to be
possible, it was necessary to solve the problem of the "irreconcilable paths"
that existed within the CAB, the which went through three major aspects: 1.)
Conception of anarchist political organization; 2.) Political line and practice;
3.) Theoretical and ideological line. It is important to point out that, for us,
these criticisms were also identified as self-criticism, since we were
participating in the organizational process, we also had responsibility for the
problems we pointed out.

However, in our assessment - which was based on all the debates in recent years
in the most different instances of the CAB -, there would be major divergences
from our criticisms and propositions. Recognizing that the CAB had played an
important role in the national organizational construction of anarchism and that
there were different positions, with different gradations, on the different
points we mentioned, we understood that perhaps the best path would be to put an
end to the CAB itself, recognizing its exhaustion as tool. So, those who wanted
to advance in organizational terms (as in our proposal) would do that, and those
who didn't would form another forum or coordination.

There were intense discussions and different responses to our document. However,
in general, the other organizations aligned themselves in the sense of
disagreeing that the dissolution of the CAB would be the best alternative.
Therefore, they rejected the proposal of our organizations. Our militancy, with
no perspective of solving the problems pointed out, and avoiding to intensify the
conflicts, decided to leave the CAB. We inform you, on this occasion, that we
intend to constitute ourselves, soon, as an anarchist political organization and
move towards nationalization.

CONFLICT AT FARJ

At the same time, at the end of 2020, a group of FARJ militants sent a request to
CAB to follow up on an internal complaint.

The CAB followed up on the complaint and, during this period, determined the
freezing of the FARJ. At the end of the process, it reached the conclusion that a
sector of the organization had failed to comply with the criteria indicated for
staying at CAB, disrespecting national indications and decisions. The whole
situation provoked a lack of political trust with this part of the militancy and,
consequently, the CAB decided that this group will not be able to return to its
instances. Finally, it was deliberated to unfreeze the political identity of the
FARJ, which was under the responsibility of the group of militants that had made
the complaint.

Two years since the beginning of the follow-up, respecting national procedures,
assessments and deliberations, the FARJ returns to the public and aligns itself
with the other organizations that today leave the CAB, sharing our criticism and
the need to build a national anarchist organization.

DESPITE THE DIFFERENCES... RESPECT AND FRATERNITY

Even with the divergence of paths, we reinforce the need to maintain respectful
and fraternal relations between our future organization and CAB. In these years
of joint construction, we have learned and matured as anarchist militancy. Even
with the political differences, we wish that we can all develop and contribute to
our common final objective: the emancipation of all dominated. We have no doubt
that the fight against our enemies and for our socialist and libertarian project
is greater than the differences between our organizations, but we believe that,
at this moment, this disengagement is necessary so that our fight can advance.

Arriba l@s que luchan!
Fight, create, people power!
Ethics, commitment, freedom!

Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarchista (COMPA)
Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ)
Libertarian Socialist Anarchist Organization (OASL)
Libertarian Swoop (RL)

(Coming soon, a new anarchist political organization)

December 2022

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