The 9th Federation Congress of the anarcha-communist platform took placein Berlin on November 4th and 5th, 2023. Berlin has now hosted acongress for the second time. The gathering was organized by one of ouroldest groups. ---- The two well-filled days of the congress, to whichmembers of all local groups came, dealt with a wide variety of topics.One focus was on completing the revision of our previous recordingtexts. This was decided at the last federation congress in Cologne andhas made significant progress in the six months since then. We alsolooked at the planned development of our programmatic basis and decidedon the first steps here. We also worked out a restructuring of ourawareness structures at the last congress, which we were able tofinalize this congress. In various discussion rounds we also talkedabout the current state of our practice in social struggles as well asthe further spread of our local structures in different parts of theFederal Republic of Germany.A special highlight followed on the second day of the congress: we wereable to welcome guests to our federation congress for the first time. Adelegation of comrades from Perspective Self-Administration paid us avisit. Two rounds of discussions were about exchanging experiences andthe future joint networking and collaboration of our two organizations.Like every year, we took time to exchange ideas, network and empowereach other as FLINTA*s within the organization. Meanwhile, the cis-malecomrades have carried out an organized criticism of their malesocialization, which is already a regularly anchored structure in almostall local groups and is intended to recognize and reflect patriarchaldynamics in our federation as well as in private life.In the evening after our content program, we relaxed together, ate andit was finally time to talk privately: Newly joined comrades were ableto get to know each other personally and "long-serving" comrades werehappy to see each other again. Unfortunately, in the stress of everydaylife and political work, this is often neglected and our congresses arealways a great opportunity to meet each other on a human level and growtogether as a federation.We once again received some greetings from our sister organization forthis congress, which we always read out on the morning of our congressday as a little motivation. Below we have documented the greeting fromour Catalan comrades from EMBAT:"We live in complicated times. In connection with the serious massacresin Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, there is a risk of increasingintervention by world powers. This leads to a generalization of war anda very dangerous escalation in the Middle East, the Sahel and EasternEurope. As we can see, not only is there a risk of war, but civilliberties in our Western Europe are also in serious danger given thealignment of our countries with the NATO bloc. This is the worstpossible scenario for meeting the challenges facing humanity thiscentury: climate change, energy crisis and the sixth major extinctionevent in the history of the planet.However, although the situation is very serious, we understand that therole of a revolutionary organization is to prepare the revolution. InEurope, no one represents the possibilities of social change better thanthe working class (whether native or immigrant) in Germany. We are awarethat our ideas do not yet have leadership in our society, but we areaware that it is the class struggle that is the driving force for anychange.That's why we encourage you to lead the way on the important challengesthat lie ahead.To do this, it is essential to design a roadmap, a strategy, that willenable us to navigate these rough seas.For the triumph of libertarian communismLong live the platform!Luchar, crear, poder popular!"This year, UCL - our sister organization in France, Belgium andFrench-speaking Switzerland - also held its second congress on the sameweekend. Unfortunately, a planned joint video conference from congressto congress had to be canceled because the weekend was verywork-intensive for both organizations. Despite everything, we did notmiss the opportunity to send a greeting to our comrades, which we havealready published.In summary, we can look back on a very nice congress weekend. Thedelegates from the local groups returned to their homeland exhausted butmotivated. At this point, a big thank you again to our comrades from theBerlin local group who organized the congress!Although there is certainly still room for improvement in many respects,it was a weekend that gives us hope that we can continue to build astable, long-term active anarchist organization. An organization thatgives us the basis to push forward and support the work for theself-organization of the oppressed and the building of counter-powerfrom below even more in the coming months and years. If you want to bepart of this path, part of a supra-regional, class struggle anarchistfederation, then join us! Moving forward on the rocky path, we can morethan use every person who wants to move forward with us and ask questions.Long live the anarcha-communist federation!Long live the platform!Moving forward together towards free communism!https://www.dieplattform.org/2023/11/12/9-kongress-der-anarchakommunistischen-plattform-in-berlin/_________________________________________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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