#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CZECH #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Czech, AFED: Existence No. 2/2022: Anarchist Strategy - Reflections on Anarchist Politics and Strategy. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 For the autumn issue of the anarchist review Existence, we chose "anarchist

strategy" as the main topic. Earlier it seemed important to us to focus on the
question of creating anarchist politics, attitudes towards specific problems and
the corresponding ways of working. However, with the beginning of Russia's
invasion of Ukraine, this topic became even more urgent in a way. We are
discovering how misleading and unhealthy the uncritical use of hundred-year-old
ideological teachings can be. On the contrary, we see it as strategic to focus on
asking relevant questions that correspond to the given time and space. Already
their formulation and the subsequent effort to answer them honestly helps us
shape our own path, which we believe should be followed. But critically, knowing
that some questions need to be reformulated along the way, as well as some
answers to be reassessed. Anarchism is our compass. We therefore understand
anarchism as a dynamic school of thought, not as a rigid and fixed ideology once
and for all.

In the main topic of this issue, among other things, we return to the discussion
from the turn of the millennium, which was sparked by the article "Cough up
activism", and therefore also to the questions of how we perceive ourselves, what
activism means to us, what are its possible pitfalls, what can revolutionary
organizations to do in non-revolutionary times. We then place great emphasis on
the analysis of individual problems, the social situation and the condition of
the anarchist movement, so that we can choose our next steps based on it. To be
more specific, here is an update of an older text that arose out of an earlier
discussion within the Anarchist Federation (AF) that deals with the segmentation
of anarchist goals in order to begin the search for one's own anarchist politics.
The text "Your politics is fucking boring" translated from the website CrimethInc
speaks about the fact that this policy should not be a manifestation of
self-sacrifice or a boring routine for ourselves. As an example of thinking about
the ways of anarchist political work elsewhere, specifically in the Russian
environment, we publish the article "Strategies of activism and street actions"
by the Finnish anarchist who has been active in Russia for many years, Antti
Rautiainen. Strategic thinking is also approximated by an excerpt from Peter
Gelderloos's new book The Solutions Are Here: Tactics of the Ecological
Revolution from Below. It shows how a global stream of resistance movements over
the past decade has developed effective methods of responding to overlapping
environmental and political crises and claimed many victories.

With just a few texts, we return to the main theme of the previous issue of
Existence, which was entitled "Resisting the Invasion" and was dedicated to the
anarchist reaction to the murderous occupation efforts of Z-fascism in Ukraine.
At that time, we pointed to a historical dispute in the anarchist movement
regarding the approach to the First World War. In his text "Malatesta on War and
National Self-Determination", a translation of which appears in this issue, Wayne
Price shows another possibility of reading the anarchist thinker Malatesta in
relation to the war in Ukraine. The already mentioned Antti Rautiainen deals with
the reasons why some anarchists refuse to support resistance to the Russian
invasion in the text "Misconceptions about imperialism", where he also deals with
anarchist historical traumas, which then lead to often false conclusions. The
ABC-Belarus group argues why resistance to Putin is a revolutionary imperative,
and the transcript of the AF lecture breaks down the false myths about the war in
Ukraine that are circulating on the left and many within the anarchist movement
itself. One of the AF members then disputes the text of the Italian Anarchist
Federation "For a new anarchist manifesto against the war", thereby following up
on the AF's critical comments on the statement issued in March by the
International Anarchist Federations, of which the AF is a member federation.

Further in the issue, you will find a look back at the struggle that people led
nine years ago for Istanbul's Gezi Park. We could not ignore this year's uprising
in Sri Lanka, which is viewed from an anti-authoritarian perspective by an
interview with an anarchist there. The memoirs of anarchist Laura Akai take us to
the United States of the 1970s and 1980s. And even further back in time, the life
story of the French anarchist thinker E. Armand (1872-1962) and the obituary of
Ricardo Flores Magón (1874-1922), who died 100 years ago, by William C. Owen.

And as always, there are regular columns. The overview of some of the activities
of the anti-authoritarian movement in the Czech Republic, with which our magazine
traditionally begins, is dominated by longer reports from the anarchist May Day
on Strelecký ostrov and from the ninth year of the Prague Anarchist Book
Festival. The Anarchist Federation section informs about a new comic from our
publishing house, about cheerful Prague barbecues and about the sad event that
was the death of Václav Tomek. The review of texts from the last issues of the
wall newspaper A3 deals with the themes of klerofascism, racism, inflation, the
hypocrisy of NATO and the need to expropriate the oligarchs.
And finally, as always, a review. The author of the book about Luisa
Landová-Štychová (1885-1969) probably won't get the longest frame. We are also
devoted to the titles Are the prisons overcome?, We also fall on your head, Women
who did not want to be silent, We told you so, Anarchy here and now, Mutual aid,
Chronicle of one hunger strike, Hell under the Spanish sky, Believing in beasts
and Picola. And also a review of a video series about anti-fascist art.

We wish you an inspiring read.

https://www.afed.cz/text/7788/existence-c-2-2022-anarchisticka-strategie
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