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woensdag 1 februari 2023

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CZECH #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Czech, AFED: Want to hear a secret? - Essential and maybe a little scary facts about the We Don't Need a President campaign (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Secret 1 ---- Want to hear a secret? Basically, we don't care if you went to the

polls. As you probably know, some time ago we launched the We Don't Need aPresident mini-campaign with a special website. Several reasons led us to this.On the one hand, it annoys us that, no matter how much one might get theimpression from the political and media frenzy, as if the world could be tornapart with the second round of elections, in reality the election of an officialwill not affect the difficulties of our lives or society. ---- Often stupid,poorly paid and insecure work, expensive and high rent prices in contrast to theever-richer oligarchs and their political henchmen, the advancing climate crisis,the ongoing campaign of the Russian emperor against ordinary people in Ukraine,discrimination against various "others", fear of what will be tomorrow. Mantrasthat if it's hard for us, we're probably not trying hard enough, and if we tryharder, we'll get a chance to spin more money in the malls, or some more modernvariation on New Age esotericism.Practically nothing that annoys us about the complex of relations we callcapitalism will be significantly changed by the election of a new "head ofstate". Moreover, the opinions presented in televised debates are one thing, thereality of the endless growth of the elite's profits and the simultaneousimposition of losses on the shoulders of the weakest is another. The energy putinto buzzing around what today's form of capitalism does so well-creatingmarketing-honed savior figures-is needed elsewhere.Although we generally think that a person has the right to criticize even whenthey are not presenting a concrete solution, this is only one layer of that "wedon't need a president". What the boycott-smelling slogan really says is a callto action. We don't need that president because we have to - and we believe wecan - do the really important things from below, together, without the circus ofshiny billboards and press conferences. Where we live, work, meet, not during aritualized act in the polling station.While the first round of elections was being counted in the Czech Republic, inLützerath, Germany, thousands of people tried to break through between policebatons and water cannons to help the defenders of the village resisting with thelast of their strength the state-corporate effort to expand a dirty lignite mine.We couldn't think of a better example of what we're talking about here.A mysterious monk mocking the heavy-clads stuck in the mud; the defenders of thevillage who, despite the risks, occupied an underground tunnel or defied thepolice on ropes in the treetops; friends writing to us "with tears in our eyes,but the first barrier of fools has been broken" or thousands of other peoplestanding at the right time in the right place with the intention of defending thefuture of all of us - they all showed what it really means to vote. In the senseof "choose" - to choose the path of decisive joint actions where they are needed;not to vote someone we have never seen in our life, and we only know him throughhis expensively paid PR.When we say "we don't need a president" we are calling for action.Secret 2Want to hear a secret? Much of the institutions and superior-subordinaterelationships that we are told from childhood that without them life would fallinto chaos only mask what people can do without them. The law and the police aresaid to be there so that people don't kill each other, steal, commit violence andevil against each other. However, the vast majority of people do not murder theirparents for an inheritance, rob a little old lady in a dark alley, beat a randomperson with a pint, or sell heroin to children. Not because it's forbidden, butbecause it's wrong. If someone desires to do such a thing, the vast majority ofpeople will condemn it and possibly try to prevent it.And vice versa: the crap that is experienced by countless people around the world(from rape in the family, which usually does not receive an adequate response, toviolence of an immeasurable scale, such as, for example, the offensive war of adying empire against the population of a neighboring country), is literally basedon inequality, power, can.The violent relations of patriarchy assuming that "if the man wants, the womanmust" are maintained precisely because of the hierarchization of society, not inspite of it. And they weaken only thanks to the activity of countless tenaciousand courageous women fighters for another world, not due to the sacred existenceof the state. And in the end, only people defend such a Ukraine, with their ownstrength, intellect, courage and will. It is no coincidence that there areanarchists among them, standing against the murderous onslaught. Not because theyhave to, but because it's the right thing to do. Meanwhile, their and our friendsin Russia resisting the mobilization and the Z-fascist regime are being torturedby the police and condemned by the courts based on laws and sections. They areunderground, although they are preventing evil.The law is a double-edged sword. If the supporters of the state, institutions,hierarchy and the sanctity of legality could see with their own eyes what hashappened in various places in history completely legally, or even by law, theywould be in shock for at least a week. Conversely, a large part of positivesocial relations is not held together by legislation, but by basic shared values,awareness of mutual humanity, and often active mutual, egalitarian help. Let'scall it affinity, the same word we use to name our basic "organizational unit"for troublemaking-the affinity group.If we go further, it is hard not to notice that the mythical capitalism, itscorporations and managers are not what provide us with houses, food, health andother care, a beer after work or a movie in the evening. Things are made bypeople, they are made up of purposeful, coordinated activity: work. The ballastaround it represents only a form of organization, one of the possible ones.Anyone who has experienced non-payment of wages, dismissals under falsepretenses, all kinds of labor law violations, or being promoted by an incompetentfool to a higher position can quite rightly question whether or not it was evergood form. After all, if we were to ask the people who, at the short end of therope, supply capitalism with the cheapest or hardest work in the poor countriesof the so-called global South, we would find out very quickly that ourdifficulties with a job are still a village within this supposedly "best of thebad systems".We can be more. If we don't become bloody psychopaths when there isn't a policepatrol nearby, we can organize very well without the constant threat of uniformedviolence. Based on mutual help, equality and the will to defend against evil, wecan create a different, better life together. And this change begins the momentwe imagine the world differently.When we say "we don't need a president", we are calling for self-confidence.Secret 3Want to hear a secret? Anarchists are not another interest group trying to getyou elected: in fact, we're just trying to use them to make a point. Evenspecifically as the Anarchist Federation, we do not feel that we are any kind ofrepresentation or authority, on the contrary, we adhere to the old saying "trustno one, don't trust us either". Accordingly, we want to add to it: "trustyourself and the people with whom you want to determine how you will live".We organize from below at the level of local groups and we are convinced thatthrough similar, non-hierarchical activity we can contribute to overcoming thecurrent choices of lesser evils to a society in which we will be able to makereal choices in the sense of decisions and actions. Freely, sustainably, equallyin all diversity. Without misery, exploitation, racism, oppression of any kind.We do not come up with precise instructions and dogmas, on the contrary, we aresuspicious of social engineering and the promises of all kinds of preachers, evenif they swear by revolution instead of God. Anarchism as an emphasis on freedomand solidarity is a moral compass and method for us, since the world we dream ofcan take a thousand forms and use a thousand other words. It is about freepeople, not about a new ideological facade.What we present is not a sacrament or magically revealed truth. It's an option.It's a chance that instead of tossing a coin and waiting to see if it lands "ox"or "donkey", which will then squat in the Castle, we can throw it. We can changethe rules and start making real choices.When we say "we don't need a president" we are crying out for hope.https://www.afed.cz/text/7845/chcete-slyset-tajemstvi_________________________________________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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