Anarchist comrades: In the twenty-first century, the barbarism of world capitalism is manifested in the increased exploitation, misery and death of millions of human beings. Exploitation, theft, violence, domination and discrimination remain the engine that drives capitalist civilization in this era of new knowledge and technologies. Meanwhile, the thirst for profit of the business generated by the increasing destruction of the planet’s natural resources. —- Dominant states of the world turn to war in order to exercise its hegemony over the countries and societies that seek to subordinate and plunder. Meanwhile, states and governments of different political use repression and seek the destruction of social movements to wipe out the flames libertarian rebellion, attempting to quell the strikes and popular uprisings with dignity and a new world fighting barbaric exploitation and domination.
It is then that exploitation, domination, dispossession, discrimination and a stark devastation of natural resources not only legitimate, but they do need, now more than ever, every struggle against capitalism and the state.
In Mexico, the exploitation and misery left a trail of 55 million poor, starvation wages, destruction of labor rights, unemployment and emigration. Hunger, exploitation and death for the Mexican people. In contrast, for the lords of wealth power and money, high profits and a growing concentration of wealth. Nevertheless, and against what they want their rulers, the Mexican people are not left to overcome, resist, and build alternative rebels against the miserable reality of hunger, deprivation and violence when they want to convict the thieves and corporate and government operators .
A tenacious defiance of the Mexican people, the State responds to the persecution, detention, disappearance and murder of worthy men and women who fight against every injustice and desire a radical transformation of the established system. The commitment of political and economic elites is that of state terrorism by the country’s militarization and criminalization of individuals and anti-systemic social movements. In fact, the state imposes the fear, uncertainty and repression in many social areas in order to immobilize the society. The village, away from a standstill, resist and rebel against that oppression and the terror against the dispossession of their lands; protest against the building of dams, ecosystems defends against greedy construction companies, resisting biopiracy biotech companies ; protest against the Church and conservatives of all signs that seek to impede the rights of women, gays, bisexuals and transgender people to the free enjoyment of their bodies, desires and affections against private businesses who profit from public spaces such as west superhighway, Metrobus and Metro Line 12 in Mexico City, demands freedom for political prisoners, indigenous autonomy and builds out into the streets to demand their right to health, education, housing, land, bread and freedom. In sum, while the lords of power and money spread fear, hunger and violence, the people planting freedom, autonomy and dignity.
State repression, but above all the strength of the Mexican people, make urgent the need for and anarchists around the country we are in a Prime Anarchist Congress to discuss how to organize, how to combat the state and capital in today, and how to accompany the rebellion of the people towards building a new world without exploitation and domination.
The purpose of the First Congress Anarchist in Mexico is to create a space for encounter, dialogue and action in order to practice mutual support, meet our transgressions, exchange experiences among those who agree â â wish, activities and joint actions against current exploitation and domination. Anarchist Congress does not seek to homogenize the fight and think of different ways of understanding and actions of the anarchists of the country, a claim would be contradictory to our nature libertarian. Anarchist Congress does not seek hegemony in the various anarchist forces and trends that are now scattered across the country, which would be a contradiction and would go against the most basic libertarian principles. Emphasize that the Anarchist Congress does not seek to centralize and standardize the action and thinking of libertarians, or create leaders vanguards of anything or anyone.
Prime Anarchist Congress in Mexico seeks to create a space for encounter, dialogue and mutual support among anarchists that would strengthen the anarchist action against the onslaught of government repression of the PAN, PRI and PRD, and create a space that allows him continuity to the social and cultural rebellion of anarchists from around the country.
The space of encounter, dialogue and mutual support which seeks to build with Prime Anarchist Congress in Mexico is based on anarchist ethics is based on individual autonomy, fraternity and equality of human beings.
Inspired by these ethical principles, various anarchist groups and individuals have made a series of meetings convened for the purpose of our sisters and brothers from ideal to attend the First Congress Anarchist in Mexico, to be held in Mexico City, on 29, April 30 and May 1, 2011, Auditorio Che Guevara.
Anarchist comrades:
The urgent need to destroy the exploitation and domination of the rotten capitalist civilization and the aspiration to build here and now a society of autonomous, free, equal and respectful of nature, summoning us to the realization of the First Congress Anarchist in Mexico.
We hope that your heart and true word libertarian and build with all of us that freedom, rebellion and mutual support. Also, we urge the anarchists who live in the states of the Republic confirm their participation in the First Anarchist Congress as soon as possible to prepare the accommodation and to seek financial support to assist their relocation from their place of origin to Mexico City.
Health and social revolution.
Mexico, Planet Earth, January 2011.
Fraternally.
Local individuals Libertarian Federation (FLL)
Neza TV Project
Anarchist students of the Faculty of Sciences UNAM
Members of the Auditorium “Che”
Thought Ungovernable-FLL
Anarcho-feminist Cell
Fanzinoteca Auditorium “Che”
Anarchist Black Cross.
Polytechnic students
Individuals libertarians s
Collective Self-FLL Magonista
Mutiny-FLL
Hijos del Pueblo-FLL
KontrAxionZocial
THE EQUILIBRIUM OF POWER
Posted in Commentary with tags 2006, APPO, mexico, Oaxaca, struggle, VOCAL on August 19, 2008 by flowerofthewordby David Venegas Reyes “alebrije”
Participant in the APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca)
member of VOCAL (Oaxacan Voices Constructing Autonomy and Freedom)
11 July 2008
translated by: bojobita
POWER, this monster of one thousand faces of politicians, businesspeople, bishops, and military men, that in 2006 was at the point of being squashed beneath millions of feet in the people’s victorious march for freedom; that was burned by the magnificent heat of the millions of good hearts set alight with the fire of rebellion and hope; that hid itself, terrified when cornered by the thousands of barricades; that was deafened by millions of throats that shouted like never before the slogans of justice, freedom, dignity and peace, words that are naturally opposed to power. That same power that was humiliated and mortally wounded by the insurrectionary action of the peoples of Oaxaca, today is rapidly regrouping its forces and rises furiously from the ground, with a thirst for vengeance.
Where in 2006 power had as its ultimate refuge the space bought on TV screens and the covers of a few daily papers, the only spaces where it could feel safe, and from there it performed a false show of strength. Today power goes out in the streets to demonstrate its renewed cynicism. The faces of businesspeople and politicians of all the parties that in 2006 looked with skepticism or open disdain at the more violent and authoritarian face of power, of the repressive and murderous governor (Ulises Ruiz Ortiz). In their hypocrisy these faces of power that in 2006 publicly criticised the fascist face of power, negating their common origin, today have reconciled and renewed their agreement to keep their power alive at whatever cost.
Power licks the deep scars left in its skin by thousands of anonymous hands of the people that hastened its deafening collapse, painting slogans of freedom and justice on its reptile body to the bewilderment of those who thought that power would never succumb, and the happiness of those who thought it was already dead. For this affront power feels a renewed appetite for the blood of the working people, an appetite stimulated by its desire for revenge.
Revenge disguised as reconciliation, power knows that it should show its friendliest faces in order to get its claws within reach of the distrustful and rebellious public, and once captive, it will return to feeding on their obedience, fear, admiration and their blood. For this, power counts on its most hypocritical faces, faces of leftist politicians, of legitimate deputies, senators and presidents, of leaders of falsely revolutionary social organisations, of bishops, of painters, “philanthropists”, of union leaders, of parrot-journalists and even the faces of some that are called “Leaders of the APPO” that with their long serpent tongues speak magnificent discourses of surrender and spit the venom of the demagogy at those that are within reach of their treacherous tongues, fulfilling the vile task of attracting the people that rose up in 2006 to the jaws of power so that they may be devoured by this monster of a thousand faces.
The leftist faces of power in 2006 sought eagerly to put themselves at the front of the valiant actions of the people in the struggle, and when they spoke at rallies or on occupied radio stations they gave speeches so inflammatory in their revolutionary vehemence that they squeezed with emotion the hearts of thousands of brave and honest men and women.
Leftist faces of power including those who encouraged people to engage in direct confrontation with the police and military face of power. Today they don’t lose the opportunity to label as “radical, violent and police” the people from the struggle in the streets who dare to denounce their treason and opportunism for becoming once again efficient servants of power. There is a powerful rationale behind these accusations of the leftist faces of power: To discredit, defame and eliminate those members of the social movement that refuse to serve power, those that continue fighting for freedom.
The power which in 2006 showed its most fascist and repressive face, which provoked the forceful action of the people to deeply and mortally wound its ghastly body, has learned the lesson and is ready to include however many faces may be necessary, even many faces of the left, so that this monster – devourer of peoples, nature, culture and future – may continue living. There are many faces of the left, many of those self-described leaders of the APPO who don’t hesitate to become part of the body of power and sate their appetites, to this day they rehearse the gestures, the solemnity and the demagoguery necessary to form part of this monster.
They forget and ignore that the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca is naturally opposed to power. Since horizontalism, respect for consensus and respectful dialogue are the fundamental principles of the assembly, inheritances from the assemblies our indigenous peoples have practised for millenia, the assemblies are precisely the reason for the indigenous peoples’ survival through the successive invasions, plunder, attacks, colonialism, capitalism and neoliberalism with which the owners of power have attacked them for centuries. Today the assembly remains in force as the communities own form of self-government, but above all as a political proposal of national and international reach. The APPO is that historic paradigm where the experience of struggle of the peoples of Oaxaca and the different peoples of the world that have struggled for freedom, justice, dignity and peace is combined, in a moment in history where savage capitalism is found in terminal crisis, and power, its bastard son, has shown its most criminal faces.
Power has suffered more than the superficial wounds left on its body by the people’s insurrectional action of 2006, and even though it may be adorning its hideous body with words of social peace, reconciliation and development, it will not be capable of curing itself of the most profound wound caused by the people in 2006, the wound created at the source of its strength by the consciousness gained by our peoples of their unsustainable situation and the need to fight tirelessly for true justice, freedom, dignity and peace. It is this mortal wound that remains in the heart of power and from this it will never heal.
See also: http://vocal.lahaine.org
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