See online: BARBARIA group website ---- We know this perfectly well. The
hundreds of dead and missing are not the product of an uncontrolled
nature. They are not the result of a fatality against which there is
nothing to be done. ---- We are not satisfied with the "meteorological"
explanation, liters of rain, overflowing rivers... ---- The causes are
deep, they are linked to the very foundations of capitalism: a system
that crowds workers into marginal and low-income areas of cities in
order to better exploit them, a system that protects and privileges
productive and commercial activity, without worrying about protecting
people, at the mercy of their fate in the middle of the storm.
And then there are also the various "leaders" of the capitalist system
who are six of one and half a dozen of the other. On this occasion,
these scum, these nobodies, whether they are called Mazón or Sánchez,
without forgetting the Bourbons, can add to their usual status as
lackeys the fact that they are responsible for the deaths and the
tragedy experienced. We will not forget their names and, at the first
opportunity, we will make them pay.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE DISASTER
Both the meteorological service and the Hydrographic Confederation had
predicted the disaster. On Tuesday, October 29, torrential rains
saturated the dry basins, caused the rivers and ravines to overflow,
flooded and submerged a large part of L'Horta Sud in Valencia with water
and mud. The tragedy was served.
From then on, and without the State (autonomous or central) planning
anything, it was the inhabitants who saved other inhabitants and helped
them with the most basic tasks. Without water or electricity, they
survive and organize themselves in the absence of the "government" and
its military and police "forces". The testimonies that reach us are both
moving and heroic: people and families who help each other, even at the
risk of their lives, and prevent the catastrophe from becoming much worse.
On Friday, November 1, the "authorities" and their "forces" still do not
show up, but the solidarity of the people is shown in an extraordinary
way. Thousands of people organize themselves from the city of Valencia
and descend in columns on foot to the villages of L'Horta to help, bring
water and food, support their fellow men with their presence. The State
is alarmed and begins to hinder solidarity, tries to structure it and
give it the form that corresponds to its own interests. He begins to
disorganize solidarity in the form of volunteering and, in a
catastrophic way (because it cannot be otherwise on the part of the
capitalist State), he tries to disarticulate it.
On November 2, five days after the floods, the army shows up with heavy
machinery and sets in motion its strategy to unblock the streets and
villages, discovering the enormous tragedy still hidden by the mud, the
rubble and the piled-up cars.
The "volunteers" begin to be directed to disgusting tasks (cleaning
shops and supermarkets), which the volunteers refuse to take on. They
did not go there to help businessmen and multinationals, but to help
their own people, people like them.
At that time, the missing number in the hundreds and the dead too. The
damage is considerable and thousands of people, most of them workers,
have lost everything.
On the 3rd, the government of the Generalitat banned the influx of
"volunteers" into the affected areas, invoking the orange alert, a way
to avoid protests and confrontation with the politicians who were going
to the area that day, politicians detested and hated by the population,
regardless of the color of the party or the rank they held in the state
apparatus, whether they were kings or presidents. But despite the ban,
people continued to descend on the villages of l'Horta. The
confrontation took place and Felipe VI, Mazón and Pedro Sánchez had to
flee the town of Paiporta under the cries of "murderers" and under the
throwing of mud and stones. MOTIVES FOR THE MASSACRE
This is indeed a massacre that could have been avoided to a large
extent, because it is the product of a system, capitalism, which is
catastrophic and has been managed by its State (autonomous and central,
it is the same rottenness) which only obeys the laws of profit and
capitalist profit.
Elements that favored the massacre:
Developmentalism and absurd and unbridled constructions are not the work
of corrupt politicians, greedy businessmen or clumsy urban planning. It
is the way that capital has found to transport workers to the cities
where work and consumption are concentrated, without taking into account
the place and the way in which these constructions were built,
constructions that are generally of very poor quality and located in
natural spaces where water and rivers used to flow. It is not surprising
that a city can be called Torrent or that a large number of streets are
called cañada or rambla, names that designate the place where the water
flowed and where it will flow again if it rains too much. It does not
matter where we build, what counts is the immediate benefit without
measuring the consequences for the workers, we who are for them (the
rich, the bourgeois, their politicians) only a commodity, a commodity
that can be replaced.
The cold drop has always existed in these regions, but the high
temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea due to global warming are causing
an increase in the intensity and frequency of torrential rains.
Capitalism is the system that has accumulated the most knowledge about
the effects of human action on its ecosystem, but it is also the most
destructive mode of production towards it. Its need to accumulate
capital leads it to require ever greater quantities of energy and raw
materials, no matter what. It is an internal dynamic that it cannot stop
and that necessarily places us in a scenario where the catastrophe
experienced can be recurrent over time.
The lack of prevention was also part of the massacre, part of the
cruelest. Despite the warnings, despite the forecasts and despite the
knowledge of the risk since Tuesday 29 in the morning, nothing was done,
the flow of labor-commodity could not be interrupted, stopping
production is something unimaginable for the political administrators of
capital. No one, neither the Generalitat, nor the central government,
nor the opposition (which is now trying to take advantage of the
situation) has considered that people would not go to work, nor to the
shops, nor to the educational centers; they have not considered
evacuating the inhabitants of the "flood zones" (which are well known,
however!). The world of goods and value must not be altered, no human
sacrifice is too much to quench the thirst for blood of capitalism and
its bastard leaders.
And once the crime is committed, the attention paid to the victims is
crowned by chaos. The State provides practically no help until the fifth
day and prevents self-organization. The State clearly shows that its
function is not to "take care" of people, but to take care of the world
of money, goods and the ruling classes, and in any case to control and
repress any attempt at organization from the bottom up, any attempt at
human solidarity.
SPONTANEOUS SELF-ORGANIZATION
Capital and its media never tire of repeating everywhere that human
beings are selfish by nature, that they only care about their own petty
interests, that they care about no one, that man is a wolf to man. They
want to impose on us what they are, what their system of exploitation,
their class system represents. This refrain is as old as capitalism.
Stories that scare.
What they will not be able to hide is the solidarity and
self-organization of people in the midst of tragedy. They will not be
able to hide from anyone the spontaneous organization in the face of the
massacre and the brutality of a system that hates life. Contrary to what
they preach, we have seen thousands of men and women offering their
selfless, passionate and active help in the affected areas. They can't
stand to see how, in villages and cities, people organize themselves to
meet their needs without waiting for the State's approval. What scares
them is that the cash register doesn't ring, that many goods become use
values, which can be enjoyed without purchase. The capitalists and their
media, this servile and well-paid carrion, have rushed to denounce the
theft and pillage of their properties. The State only appears to defend
private property with fire and blood.
The mountain of corpses grows every day, every hour, the devastation is
Dantesque, but they only think about saving their four fucking bags of
madeleines, their two pairs of shoes and their television... We won't
forget that either.
At this point, the answer is obvious: this happens to us because we live
under the thumb of the capitalist system, whether its political leaders
are left or right.
In the coming days we will witness the circus of "reproaches". Those who
today call for demonstrations against the "fascist" government of the
Generalitat are opportunists who seek to make political profit from our
deaths, from our misery.
While left-wing political parties, like unions, are equally guilty and
responsible for promoting and managing unbridled developmentalism, which
turns its back on natural space, because the only thing that matters to
them is the production of wealth (for the rich, of course) and the
extraction of profits (surplus value) at the expense of the working class.
Because let's not be mistaken, this is the reason for the existence of
parties and unions: to defend the capitalist mode of production to the
limit, to be the essential intermediaries, both politically and
ideologically, by maintaining the illusion that this system can be
reformed, that it can be made more "humane". We cannot ask them to be
anything other than what they are.
It is time to mourn the lost loved ones, to find their bodies, to bury
the deceased with dignity. It is time to remove the rubble and recover
the little we have in this life of misery. It is also time to clench our
fists and our teeth. But beyond the flood of feelings, it is time to
understand in depth the real causes that led to the tragedy. The
essential thing is that capitalism cannot stop activity, workers must
produce at their workstations, and "citizens" must consume the goods
produced. The wheel of capitalist valorization cannot be stopped,
whatever the cost, even if it means transforming cities and villages
into gigantic mousetraps.
Nature has not suddenly gone mad. What prevents the reduction of
greenhouse gases is the profound alteration caused by the competition of
capital and productivity itself as well as by the accelerated production
of superfluous goods, simple "trinkets" that have no meaning. And even
recognizing the natural nature of floods and floods, which have always
existed, the exponential increase and their appearance in areas where
they did not occur before (let us recall the floods in Germany and
Belgium in 2021 with their 167 deaths) respond to causes that are
social: capitalism.
Although at the individual level, anyone could have been "hit" in a car,
and even a businessman could have been swept away by the flood, it is
the workers who mainly pay the price, crammed into their neighborhoods
threatened by floods, prey to real estate speculation and a precarious
and miserable life. It is no coincidence that uncontrolled urbanization
has crammed millions of workers for decades, often having built their
homes with their own hands, into rieras[old riverbeds now dry]or into
landfills. These workers, from impoverished rural areas, are today
paying with their lives for capital's thirst for labor. What seems to be
a simple misfortune is in reality only the observation of the existence
of a society divided into classes.
Faced with so much pain, so much suffering, it is comforting to see the
solidarity that has been demonstrated everywhere. Outside of the State
and administrations of all kinds, people recognize each other as equals,
as brothers and sisters in misfortune. We must concentrate this energy.
Complicated days are coming, when the helplessness in the face of so
much destruction will be aggravated by the action of all the proponents
of the system, from the extreme right with its "national" and racist
solutions, praising a so-called "people" that would include us all, to
the extreme left, with its "new" proposals for "radical" reforms and its
incessant harassment of the right.
But there is another option. We must bring reflection to our
surroundings, at work, in schools, among friends and family. The tragedy
concerns us all as a proletariat, regardless of the sector. We must
discuss in depth the real causes, placing the analysis of capitalist
laws at the center of the debate. There is no half-measure, no
intermediate solution. Not attacking the capitalist system at the root
is contributing to perpetuating its devastating effects in each of its
manifestations.
The mud will be cleaned, the cars and furniture will be removed. Let us
hope that from there emerges a new class consciousness, a new dignity,
honoring all the dead, present and past, screaming in the face of our
enemies, all this cohort of politicians, cops, businessmen and beggars
of the capitalist system, that what we want is a community without
capital, without money and without goods, without a State. That we want
communism.
It is probably not for today, but perhaps we can swell the ranks of
those who want to wage a relentless fight.
Because no one will silence us, we will speak in the name of our dead.
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4289
_________________________________________
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hundreds of dead and missing are not the product of an uncontrolled
nature. They are not the result of a fatality against which there is
nothing to be done. ---- We are not satisfied with the "meteorological"
explanation, liters of rain, overflowing rivers... ---- The causes are
deep, they are linked to the very foundations of capitalism: a system
that crowds workers into marginal and low-income areas of cities in
order to better exploit them, a system that protects and privileges
productive and commercial activity, without worrying about protecting
people, at the mercy of their fate in the middle of the storm.
And then there are also the various "leaders" of the capitalist system
who are six of one and half a dozen of the other. On this occasion,
these scum, these nobodies, whether they are called Mazón or Sánchez,
without forgetting the Bourbons, can add to their usual status as
lackeys the fact that they are responsible for the deaths and the
tragedy experienced. We will not forget their names and, at the first
opportunity, we will make them pay.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE DISASTER
Both the meteorological service and the Hydrographic Confederation had
predicted the disaster. On Tuesday, October 29, torrential rains
saturated the dry basins, caused the rivers and ravines to overflow,
flooded and submerged a large part of L'Horta Sud in Valencia with water
and mud. The tragedy was served.
From then on, and without the State (autonomous or central) planning
anything, it was the inhabitants who saved other inhabitants and helped
them with the most basic tasks. Without water or electricity, they
survive and organize themselves in the absence of the "government" and
its military and police "forces". The testimonies that reach us are both
moving and heroic: people and families who help each other, even at the
risk of their lives, and prevent the catastrophe from becoming much worse.
On Friday, November 1, the "authorities" and their "forces" still do not
show up, but the solidarity of the people is shown in an extraordinary
way. Thousands of people organize themselves from the city of Valencia
and descend in columns on foot to the villages of L'Horta to help, bring
water and food, support their fellow men with their presence. The State
is alarmed and begins to hinder solidarity, tries to structure it and
give it the form that corresponds to its own interests. He begins to
disorganize solidarity in the form of volunteering and, in a
catastrophic way (because it cannot be otherwise on the part of the
capitalist State), he tries to disarticulate it.
On November 2, five days after the floods, the army shows up with heavy
machinery and sets in motion its strategy to unblock the streets and
villages, discovering the enormous tragedy still hidden by the mud, the
rubble and the piled-up cars.
The "volunteers" begin to be directed to disgusting tasks (cleaning
shops and supermarkets), which the volunteers refuse to take on. They
did not go there to help businessmen and multinationals, but to help
their own people, people like them.
At that time, the missing number in the hundreds and the dead too. The
damage is considerable and thousands of people, most of them workers,
have lost everything.
On the 3rd, the government of the Generalitat banned the influx of
"volunteers" into the affected areas, invoking the orange alert, a way
to avoid protests and confrontation with the politicians who were going
to the area that day, politicians detested and hated by the population,
regardless of the color of the party or the rank they held in the state
apparatus, whether they were kings or presidents. But despite the ban,
people continued to descend on the villages of l'Horta. The
confrontation took place and Felipe VI, Mazón and Pedro Sánchez had to
flee the town of Paiporta under the cries of "murderers" and under the
throwing of mud and stones. MOTIVES FOR THE MASSACRE
This is indeed a massacre that could have been avoided to a large
extent, because it is the product of a system, capitalism, which is
catastrophic and has been managed by its State (autonomous and central,
it is the same rottenness) which only obeys the laws of profit and
capitalist profit.
Elements that favored the massacre:
Developmentalism and absurd and unbridled constructions are not the work
of corrupt politicians, greedy businessmen or clumsy urban planning. It
is the way that capital has found to transport workers to the cities
where work and consumption are concentrated, without taking into account
the place and the way in which these constructions were built,
constructions that are generally of very poor quality and located in
natural spaces where water and rivers used to flow. It is not surprising
that a city can be called Torrent or that a large number of streets are
called cañada or rambla, names that designate the place where the water
flowed and where it will flow again if it rains too much. It does not
matter where we build, what counts is the immediate benefit without
measuring the consequences for the workers, we who are for them (the
rich, the bourgeois, their politicians) only a commodity, a commodity
that can be replaced.
The cold drop has always existed in these regions, but the high
temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea due to global warming are causing
an increase in the intensity and frequency of torrential rains.
Capitalism is the system that has accumulated the most knowledge about
the effects of human action on its ecosystem, but it is also the most
destructive mode of production towards it. Its need to accumulate
capital leads it to require ever greater quantities of energy and raw
materials, no matter what. It is an internal dynamic that it cannot stop
and that necessarily places us in a scenario where the catastrophe
experienced can be recurrent over time.
The lack of prevention was also part of the massacre, part of the
cruelest. Despite the warnings, despite the forecasts and despite the
knowledge of the risk since Tuesday 29 in the morning, nothing was done,
the flow of labor-commodity could not be interrupted, stopping
production is something unimaginable for the political administrators of
capital. No one, neither the Generalitat, nor the central government,
nor the opposition (which is now trying to take advantage of the
situation) has considered that people would not go to work, nor to the
shops, nor to the educational centers; they have not considered
evacuating the inhabitants of the "flood zones" (which are well known,
however!). The world of goods and value must not be altered, no human
sacrifice is too much to quench the thirst for blood of capitalism and
its bastard leaders.
And once the crime is committed, the attention paid to the victims is
crowned by chaos. The State provides practically no help until the fifth
day and prevents self-organization. The State clearly shows that its
function is not to "take care" of people, but to take care of the world
of money, goods and the ruling classes, and in any case to control and
repress any attempt at organization from the bottom up, any attempt at
human solidarity.
SPONTANEOUS SELF-ORGANIZATION
Capital and its media never tire of repeating everywhere that human
beings are selfish by nature, that they only care about their own petty
interests, that they care about no one, that man is a wolf to man. They
want to impose on us what they are, what their system of exploitation,
their class system represents. This refrain is as old as capitalism.
Stories that scare.
What they will not be able to hide is the solidarity and
self-organization of people in the midst of tragedy. They will not be
able to hide from anyone the spontaneous organization in the face of the
massacre and the brutality of a system that hates life. Contrary to what
they preach, we have seen thousands of men and women offering their
selfless, passionate and active help in the affected areas. They can't
stand to see how, in villages and cities, people organize themselves to
meet their needs without waiting for the State's approval. What scares
them is that the cash register doesn't ring, that many goods become use
values, which can be enjoyed without purchase. The capitalists and their
media, this servile and well-paid carrion, have rushed to denounce the
theft and pillage of their properties. The State only appears to defend
private property with fire and blood.
The mountain of corpses grows every day, every hour, the devastation is
Dantesque, but they only think about saving their four fucking bags of
madeleines, their two pairs of shoes and their television... We won't
forget that either.
At this point, the answer is obvious: this happens to us because we live
under the thumb of the capitalist system, whether its political leaders
are left or right.
In the coming days we will witness the circus of "reproaches". Those who
today call for demonstrations against the "fascist" government of the
Generalitat are opportunists who seek to make political profit from our
deaths, from our misery.
While left-wing political parties, like unions, are equally guilty and
responsible for promoting and managing unbridled developmentalism, which
turns its back on natural space, because the only thing that matters to
them is the production of wealth (for the rich, of course) and the
extraction of profits (surplus value) at the expense of the working class.
Because let's not be mistaken, this is the reason for the existence of
parties and unions: to defend the capitalist mode of production to the
limit, to be the essential intermediaries, both politically and
ideologically, by maintaining the illusion that this system can be
reformed, that it can be made more "humane". We cannot ask them to be
anything other than what they are.
It is time to mourn the lost loved ones, to find their bodies, to bury
the deceased with dignity. It is time to remove the rubble and recover
the little we have in this life of misery. It is also time to clench our
fists and our teeth. But beyond the flood of feelings, it is time to
understand in depth the real causes that led to the tragedy. The
essential thing is that capitalism cannot stop activity, workers must
produce at their workstations, and "citizens" must consume the goods
produced. The wheel of capitalist valorization cannot be stopped,
whatever the cost, even if it means transforming cities and villages
into gigantic mousetraps.
Nature has not suddenly gone mad. What prevents the reduction of
greenhouse gases is the profound alteration caused by the competition of
capital and productivity itself as well as by the accelerated production
of superfluous goods, simple "trinkets" that have no meaning. And even
recognizing the natural nature of floods and floods, which have always
existed, the exponential increase and their appearance in areas where
they did not occur before (let us recall the floods in Germany and
Belgium in 2021 with their 167 deaths) respond to causes that are
social: capitalism.
Although at the individual level, anyone could have been "hit" in a car,
and even a businessman could have been swept away by the flood, it is
the workers who mainly pay the price, crammed into their neighborhoods
threatened by floods, prey to real estate speculation and a precarious
and miserable life. It is no coincidence that uncontrolled urbanization
has crammed millions of workers for decades, often having built their
homes with their own hands, into rieras[old riverbeds now dry]or into
landfills. These workers, from impoverished rural areas, are today
paying with their lives for capital's thirst for labor. What seems to be
a simple misfortune is in reality only the observation of the existence
of a society divided into classes.
Faced with so much pain, so much suffering, it is comforting to see the
solidarity that has been demonstrated everywhere. Outside of the State
and administrations of all kinds, people recognize each other as equals,
as brothers and sisters in misfortune. We must concentrate this energy.
Complicated days are coming, when the helplessness in the face of so
much destruction will be aggravated by the action of all the proponents
of the system, from the extreme right with its "national" and racist
solutions, praising a so-called "people" that would include us all, to
the extreme left, with its "new" proposals for "radical" reforms and its
incessant harassment of the right.
But there is another option. We must bring reflection to our
surroundings, at work, in schools, among friends and family. The tragedy
concerns us all as a proletariat, regardless of the sector. We must
discuss in depth the real causes, placing the analysis of capitalist
laws at the center of the debate. There is no half-measure, no
intermediate solution. Not attacking the capitalist system at the root
is contributing to perpetuating its devastating effects in each of its
manifestations.
The mud will be cleaned, the cars and furniture will be removed. Let us
hope that from there emerges a new class consciousness, a new dignity,
honoring all the dead, present and past, screaming in the face of our
enemies, all this cohort of politicians, cops, businessmen and beggars
of the capitalist system, that what we want is a community without
capital, without money and without goods, without a State. That we want
communism.
It is probably not for today, but perhaps we can swell the ranks of
those who want to wage a relentless fight.
Because no one will silence us, we will speak in the name of our dead.
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4289
_________________________________________
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