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Greek anarchists on anarchist movement in Greece

Sun, 01/20/2013 - 13:44 -- worker

From Libcom

Last weekend in the largest show of strength in over a decade thousands of anarchists marched to protest against the violent eviction of the squats of Villa Amalias and Skaramagka and Patision Sts in Athens and also the very repressive climate that police and state have created the last months in Greece.

Below is an interview with one of the largest anarchist groups in Greece- the Anti-Authoritarian Movement (AK) in relation to the present political and social climate in Greece, the threat posed by the far-right and of course the work of the anarchist movement.

Can you provide some background regarding the current crisis and austerity programme in Greece and how it is affecting the working class?

The current crisis has affected deeply the Greek society. Unemployment and poverty has increased hugely. There are homes without food or electricity. Everyday people are losing their work. Lots of people move abroad in order to work. And we think that this is only the beginning. It’s actually another “shock doctrine” experiment.

Anarchism has strong roots in many parts of the globe. When did it first emerge in Greece and what is it current strengths and weaknesses?

Anarchists have been present in Greece from the 1900’s. The big rise of the anarchist movement was in the 1980s though. There are plenty of strengths and weaknesses. We can just mention the participation and solidarity on social struggles of workers, immigrants or prisoners, the strength in the youth, the struggle against repression and against the capital. There must be a special mention on the struggle and the clashes against the IMF cuts and measures.

Who are the Anti-Authoritarian Movement (AK) and what type of activities and struggles are they involved in in terms of unions and community campaigns?

AK is a network of assemblies in some greek cities. There is a variety of struggles we are involved in. At the moment our main campaigns have to do with the support of the workers of “VioMe” factory, who are about to take over the factory and work it in a self – organized manner, the struggle in solidarity to the civilians of Chalkidiki, Kilkis and Thrace, against the goldmines that are going to be built in their regions (a fast-track investment which would be a catastrophe for the area) and generally the support of local struggles against the catastrophic and exploitative choices of the state and capital. Also, in Thessaloniki we participate to two social centers (“Micropolis” and “Scholeio” ) where at the moment we try to create new self – organized forms and structures of social and solidarity economy in order to respond to the crisis and to work on a proposition for a different way of life, a different society. You see, things are in a really critical condition now in Greece and there are basically two routes to choose either mass brutality or creativity. In this process we collaborate with lots of people and groups from Thessaloniki and from all around Greece who work in similar projects. Last but not least we should mention our focus to the antifacist struggle which is also a crucial issue as the radical neo-nazi party of Greece continues rising….

How many anarchist prisoners are incarcerated in Greek’s prisoners?

There must be over 20. Most of them have been accused for armed struggle.

Many sections of the foreign media such as The Guardian Newspaper have focused on the worrying rise of the far-right Golden Dawn party comparing the situation today with the Weimer Republic during the early 1930s. Who are they and what are anarchists and anti-fascists doing to combat their influence?

There is a rise of the neonazi and not just far-right Golden Dawn party. Not only the crisis but the state has created this rise. Golden Dawn was always a tool of the state where police couldn’t act. The state has acted by far more nazi way than the Nazis. The creation of detention centers for the refugees, the beatings of the demonstrators, the refugees, the recent tortures of the antifascists in the police headquarters, the well known brotherhood between police and Golden Dawn (50% of the police voted for it)… All these are turned now into a rise for the Nazis.

With the rise of Golden dawn, there is also a rise of the antifascist movement. Except of the try to inform the society about the role of Golden Dawn and its relations with the police, there is also a struggle to keep them off the streets and minimize their presence in the society. So far, it seems that we have the strength to do it despite their help from the state.

What is your perspective regarding the rise of the radical leftist party Syriza and did many anarchists vote for them in the last election?

First of all, Syriza is not radical at all. We will remind our announcement after the last elections. “We welcome Syriza in authority’s hell”. Syriza gained this rise from the movement in Syntagma Square but it is not the movement. It is a leftist party struggling to be government. We don’t know how many of the anarchists voted Syriza. We know that our assembly –Thessaloniki’s- didn’t vote at all.

Despite their being over dozen general strikes the current administration under New Democracy continues to impose vicious austerity measures at the behest of the IMF-EU. What do you think should be the next step and what role anarchists should play in these struggles?

It’s hard to predict the next step. One thing we understood, after struggling against a really determined repressive regime throughout the last 3 years, is that the “traditional” ways of struggling against their policies are not really effective at the moment. So nowadays, we try to create new bonds with different parts of the society which will help us resist and build something new. We will try to show to the society that there is an alternative way without the state and the capital. It’s a hard way, we know it but we wouldn’t be struggling for it if we don’t think it is possible. We can’t talk on behalf of all anarchists, we speak for our choices and strategy as AK.

What role can anarchists play outside of Greece in helping the movement?

The part of solidarity is so important at the moment. It helps people to keep on struggling and encourage them. It is vital also to press the authorities. It is so helpful to see that there are comrades and people out of your country who care about you and what is happening here. We feel we are not alone in this attack of the state and the capital. In addition we always look for meetings and collaborations with groups and collectives of Europe and especially from the PIIGS countries to share thoughts, experiences and forms of struggle. We shouldn’t be alone in this. You shouldn’t be alone. We are all together. For that reason during the last year we participate to the “European” anti-capitalistic network M31 (http://march31.net/).

Further links:
Occupied London - up to date info and analysis from the greek streets-
Greece's uncertain future- a short documentary

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Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

weeks long insurrections, and some march is the largest show of strength in decades?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

oh libcom

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

come on. obvious they mean largest numerical show of strength.

Submitted by anonymous on

it seems the imagination of the vast majority of anarchists is limited to community building relations and direct action. With the history of anarchism in Greece being the strongest in the world born in the 1900's and really kicking off in the 80's one would have though by the year 2013 Anarchists would have declared a war which is a campaign to kill the everyday function of normality being capitalist relations and police community relations. I'm talking insurgency to the extreme for those who believe everyone is doing everything that could be done. Most people are not ready to take that step and their number are necessary in achieve the destruction of everyday capitalist relations. That means people going out shopping, working over all following orders to survive the way they were taught to survive by the system and for the system and not for anarchy and freedom and community.

You can't allow a system of hierarchy to function for even one second if you really believe it is so intolerable and unjust because if you allow it to function for even one day. You have already lost. You compliance and submission is needed in order to keep that system working like ever flowing stream.

You don't that ever flowing stream. It is an ever flowing stream of destruction, nightmares and death. You have to kill the illusion of peace to show not everyone is content with what's going on and go extra lengths not to prove a point but the war has to be daily attacks or it is not a war. Sure, propaganda can be just as much a weapon but the fasted weapon is always force. If you could create enough chaos everyday, THE SYSTEM WILL COLLAPSE! A few riots here and there is not enough damage. A few strikes isn't long enough to shut the system down. As long as people prefer to work for their money to buy and consume, the capitalist monster machine and all the banks are open for business and you have failed.

Rioting is one thing but Guerrilla warfare attacks on key infrastructure is the final step that just about every revolutionary is putting off. Direct Action is burning and destroying and fighting cops. Guerrilla warfare is setting bombs in key specific locations all to go off simultaneously on a very special day where you want that day of war to be declared. Then you come out in mass and shut everything down and fight state forces Egyptian style until its over and never let a bank re-open its doors for business. Don't ever let a burned down bank rebuild. Never allow things to go back to normal. Have the anarchist occupation alternative model up and functioning to take care of everyone so they won't work for the capitalist or use the capitalists money.

That is how you FUCK THE SYSTEM!

Submitted by iconoclasta on

someone has been reading too much Alfredo Bonnano and similar stuff. All this quasi-vanguardist actions usually end up putting the ones who do it in jail or dying in combats with the police and army since the "masses" tend to not like the violence and also tend to not trust self-appointed heroes while they are in a retreat or mostly engaging in non-violent action. And especially one can expect that to happen in a political context where a right wing government was voted by a big part of these same "masses" and while others are voting for fascism. I have read insurrectionist texts where the writers say they don´t want or need the sympathy of masses and as such one cannot expect that someone is going to come in your defense when you will clash againts the state. The Che Guevaras of anarchism should only expect this alongside being labeled by the media as "violent extremists".

So clearly this organization is focused on immediate struggles while trying to help and establish autonomous spaces in order to grow a social concience of the possibility of a different world while trying to live it today instead of only dreaming about it. I really cannot see a different form of doing it. I don´t think these conformist masses deserve anarchists risking their liberty and life while the masses keep voting for capitalism and fascism and reproduce what opresses them everyday.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"The Che Guevaras of anarchism should only expect this alongside being labeled by the media as "violent extremists". "

this matters why? this is new how?

Submitted by iconoclasta on

hardly new at all. it matters if you do care about yourself. if you don´t and are ready to sacrifice for an idea then of course this doesn´t matter, your life doesn´t matter in that case

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

And your idea of winning is.... what? The avoidance or risk? Continued "survival" within this system sounds like a pretty shit goal.

Occasional self-sacrifice towards the success of higher ends is only not worth it if the horizons of your awareness have been contracted down to those of material considerations (basic sustenance, comforts, etc.) "Living" within these contracted horizons hardly feels like living at all to some of us.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Self-sacrifice towards the success of higher ends is worth it, yes, but I'm not even sure that my sacrifice would further the end of defeating the current system, let alone help to replace it with a better system.

Obviously neither are you, that's why neither of us has launched a guerrilla insurrection. The day you or I or anyone else decides that it will further their goal is the day they start doing it.

So in the meantime I think community building is the right tactic because it's by creating a larger and larger community of people who despise government, police, and authority that I would start to feel like sacrificing myself in an insurrection could hope to achieve the end I dream of.

The important thing is to make sure that the communities we work to build are explicitly anti-government, not just "cooperative" or "local" or "horizontal" or whatever the fuck it takes to attract the liberal middle class.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

the confusion present in this argument i think is on the cutting edge of what we have to sort out as anarchists. i've been reading more nihilist/post-structuralist/ and individualist critiques that I think expose very important contradictions. is "Society" a phantom? The above commenter calls 'community building' a tactic, but isn't that debatable? More and more I see libertarian communists and 'Social' Anarchists moving unconsciously towards the role of the socialists, maoists, and reformists they despise. Maybe this is a cancer of inaction that comes from the belief that revolt is for same day off in the future, when we organize our power structures better. But what if the inverse is true- that we can't get organized unless its in the space of destabilisaztion, of heightening contradictions.

Arn't there enormous contradictions on this website? The Social Anarchists troll the individualist/nihilist strands, the individualists trash them in turn, and everyone gets in big arguments around terms like 'insurrection' and 'revolution'.
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Communiques are ridiculed for their failues in a whole range of purposes: communication, generalization (i.e showing a tactic can be reproduced by others easily), education, intent, and, most famously- their meaningfulness, their relevance and effect.

These debates can be healthy. They often arn't- I think a good amount of comments on @news are anarcho-curious types, hanging out because @ smells sexy but don't understand or care to understand theory around insurrection.

What I appreciate about this site is that I think we do an alright job of having a big tent for theory. Even posting things like the so-called "Anarcho-Capitalists" can be seen as a safety measure for preserving a broad range of debate (Imagine instead that Primitivist contet or Syndicalist content were considered 'not real anarchy' and excluded from debate). If anything, the an-capitalists force me as an antistatist anticapitalists to sharpen my critique, to expose the contradictions of those who markets and anarchy go together.

To wrap these observations up, I think we need to advance a discussion on social anarcism strains vs individualist ones, their fusion and interchange, and also take into account how our understanding of insurrection and revolt is advancing, and what that means for both.

Submitted by anonymous on

^ THIS.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

And it's not self-sacrifice to continue living under a repressive regime?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

THIS. this is what the conflict-avoider is missing.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

someone hasn't read any Alfredo Bonanno, iconoclasta. Bonanno is neither vanguardist nor a dogmatic supporter of guerrilla warfare. The original poster was clearly being naive, but your response doesn't clarify much.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Completely agree with the above reply but lets pretend.

Let's assume this anon is absolutely right and the only solution to modern society's ills is a state of total war by a presumably massive, well-equipped and organized army of autonomous anarchist militant cells. Assuming that these ferocious anarchist warriors existed in their thousands and they meant business and were ready to kill, ready for a sustained campaign of mass economic sabotage and siege of police stations and military bases ... What do these people do? They post about it on a stupid news aggregator website ... because they're serious. Yeah ...

Submitted by abcdefuck (not verified) on

"Then you come out in mass"

1. Create Chaos

2. ?

3. Come out in mass!

Serious, what fucking "mass" are you going to come out with? All the other 15 year olds that just sewed Conflict patches to their jackets with dental floss? Well shit, sign me up for some hardcore insurrection with that crew, glad to know they'll have my back against Aryan Brotherhood and DOC administration when we're doing hard time for being punk as fuck. Hate to harsh your buzz Spike Anarchy, but some folks have kids to feed. Fuck off hippie.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

KEATING!!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

So..... the anarchist goal is.... to work enough to be able to afford survival within a capitalist system?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"I'm talking insurgency to the extreme"
Can you explain the difference between a moderate insurgency and an insurgency that's been TAKEN TO THE X-TREEM, BRO!?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

oh good, another savior here to tell us through the internet how chaos on a constant basis is the necessity of revolution. go to greece bro and show them how it is done.

Submitted by anonymous on

Posting insurrectionary ideas on a news agitator site anonymously is the best way I know to get a discussion going that has been dying waiting to happen. And doing it anonymously is the smartest of ideas so if it ever actually happens it won't get pinned to the messenger so long as they are anonymous. Who ever thought of starting a campaign of daily disruptions via sabotage and protests that end in chaotic riots to cripple capitalist social relations? Somebody with a different mentality who is very persistent to try harder and push harder to be ahead of the game and ahead of everyone else. Knowing that this is going to take place eventually why not speed it up a bit by stiring up a debate or discussion? A little talk cant hurt nothin.

I'm sure the Greek people have the best chance to actually overthrow the government and they'll probably be the first Westernized Nation on the "world map" to get it done, setting the stage/example for the rest of Europe and then hopefully disgruntled anarchists will use their brains to pull off some big shit with plenty planning and of course with strict security culture.

Events can't take place unless someone conceives a plan of action and ideas can't take off like OCCUPY unless people are willing to act on the call to action. "High-risk actions" will require the "die hards" participation working with independent autonomous cells with some coordinating with each other and other not so much and not at all in many cases. Call them "extremists" or what ever because every attempt at freedom is "criminal into the extreme." And that rhetoric get's played like a broken record over here in the States more often than anywhere else in the world.

There are ways of getting radical things done to minimize possible bad ending scenarios. It takes a great mind with strategy and skills. Mean while the bankers and ceo's will live at your expense until you rise up out of your world of limited possibilities. Yes things can change but people need to be turned on. You have to study what turns people on to ideas by studying basic human psychology. This is what advertisers do to get people to buy and consume shit. There are plenty of books out there to tell you how to subvert and manipulate people to make money. I'm sure the same technique could be incorporated into our arsenal but for the destruction of the capitalist and the world capitalist monetary system. Say 1 million or 1/3 of the country rose up in any given country, "it is always the work of extremists" and never the work of people concerned about their future who are smarter, more educated and have a vision for a better world.

You can't build a new system unless you design it. The internet is the only tool some of us have to share our criminal thoughts anonymously. I wouldn't treat this site or the internet as something with out value.

I just think the Greek people have the potential to take it a step further if they're already to the point of throwing molotovcovktails at the police and banks and setting fires and occasionally you'll read about a bomb blast or shootout, very very rarely though does it happen. As much as I wish we had as much conflict in the States and Greece, the Greeks still fall short in creating enough chaos to overthrow the Greek government/regime.

That's how hard accomplishing a revolution really is just to put things into perspective. You don't need the masses. It's usually just 1/3 or less. American civilians have more firearms including illegal and unregistered firearms and artillery than the government it self. That will become very relevant if things ever go from bloodless revolution in this country to outright UGLY!

I'd rather see bombings done the Weathermen way WORLDWIDE with zero casualties with an extreme back support by a militant resistance movement always flexing its muscle Egyptian and Greek style and everyday there is a fire, bombing putting an end to the days of broke windows, spray paint and other "useless symbolic gestures" that do very little to destroy, disrupt, intimidate and interrupt the social order.

Conflict is the only way.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"Conflict is the only way."
Sorry bro, I reckon Zounds and Rudimentary Peni were better.

Also, Jesus, just noticed this:
"That's how hard accomplishing a revolution really is just to put things into perspective. You don't need the masses. It's usually just 1/3 or less."
So, if you can get 1/3 of "the masses" to join your army, we can abolish the economy and politics and replace them with new forms of life where everyone actively participates in decisions that affect them. 1/3 of the population is going to do that, everyone else will just sit about and watch. Right. Down with the 33%!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

So lets say I agree with you, with the substance of what you're saying; I don't like the messianiac tone like you're the only one who's ever thought half this shit but in terms of tactics, of course most of the I@s would agree. Now you've got your praxis, so what comes after that? You look around at the actual conditions of this conflict and you see that one of the more militant cultures of resistance (in terms of a modern neoliberal capitalist society being fucked over by international banking cartels, ie greek anarchist milieu) isn't even close to capable of pulling off the sort of campaign you're describing ...

Let alone anywhere else. I'm assuming it was you that began by saying why the fuck do anarchists focus on "community work"? That's why. Because we need to make the ocean for the sharks to swim in again. That's how utterly defeated and on the defensive we are in 2013. Conflict IS the only way but it doesn't always look like the spectacle of conflict that you're referring to. I look around the battlefield and I see that we have no bases, no resources and few serious fighters ... nah-mean?!?!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Also, the weathermen blew themselves up like dumbasses. Squamish 5 is a better example, although they ran in to the usual problem where they ended up causing casualties anyway.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Anti-Authoritarian Movements are not an anarchist group. They themselves very specifically do not use the word anarchist to describe themselves and instead use "anti-authoritarian" for very specific reasons: because they were not operating on the same set of principles as the anarchist movement in Greece and cannot claim something they are not.

They are the anarcho-liberals of Greece, although it's hard to contextualize but foreigners should know that this is in no way the voice of the anarchist movement.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

...Right, they just march with red-and-black anarcho-syndicalist flags, organize themselves on blatantly anarchist principles (direct democracy & leaderless horizontal organization), and possess a membership that is entirely (as far as I have seen) composed of self-identified anarchists.

Look, some of the different groups in Greece hate each other for various reasons, some petty, some legitimate. A few of the Greek groups hate AK, and make exactly the same line of argument that you just did. In any case, it's a pointless exercise in dividing the anarchist movement, and it accomplishes nothing. There are some great anarchists in AK who are very committed to the cause - no need to sling mud at them on the internet.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

It's not "mudslinging", it's objectively true. AK is not an anarchist organization, they've never ever called themselves that and there is a major split between them and the so-called "anarchist space". Not that one can't take AK seriously or whatever, but they are not anarchists. Why call them something that they themselves do not want to be called? Not to be that smart-ass traveled dude, but when I was in Athens, every self-described anarchist I met had no relation to AK and vice-versa.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I've stayed at the homes of AK members in Athens, Thessaloniki, and elsewhere in Greece, and all of them were self-described anarchists, with very clear anarchist beliefs, participating in a very clearly anarchist organization. You don't know what you're talking about.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Ok so what I took away from this interview is that a lot of anarchists in Greece are actually in exactly the same rut as the rest of us and just as hard pressed to act proactively towards our own end goals.... great.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Ah, ok this understanding is amended in the light of the comment above it about what AK is.

OK but still........ where is the war it outwardly looks like should be being waged?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"where is the war it outwardly looks like should be being waged?"

That is entirely up to anarchists once they learn that all this infighting is postponing the -A- team revolution. Time to shape up or ship out. Have it your way.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Anarchists everywhere could really use a little tolerance for one another to accomplish their goals and the more they procrastinate and fight the more it negates the promise of any real alternative to the system and the more we fight the more it justifies their system as being better because we're too argumentative to put anything together. Maybe that's the work of co-intelpro combined with pure stupidity among comrades. Who knows who to blame for it all? My experience is people don't learn to cope with one another for the betterment of a better world until the world their living in is no longer livable. I guess it says we have lot of time to waste or else we'd act a lot more serious. I by serious I mean, everyone puts up with each others differences because they put the struggle first unless putting the struggle last is your main objective like the lot of you.

Submitted by anonymous on

"Tolerance" meant for anarchists like you motivated only by "special interests/social issues". Not the same kind of tolerance used and preached by "other North American leftists", politicians and reformist. All of which lean toward a policy of "anti-militancy". I can tolerate anarchists using the anarchists movement to benefit their own personal struggle so long as they stay together. What I can't handle is the type of anarchist who will abandon the anarchist struggle once their little social improvements/reforms have been enacted. Take the "legalization of gay marriage" for instance or "social improvements for women". If the majority of feminists and gays leave, I will have much respect for others who stay for the main objective. That being "no gods no masters" and no capitalist police bastards". For me it's not just about LGBT. It's not just about Capitalism. It's not just about police murder and abuse. Not even about anti-war, labor or media control. These are all self absorbed social issues all of which are too concentrated on them selves to make the harmony and peace necessary to work together as a group. All are affected by the same mega monster but no interest really cares about one another only their own interest group it seems. It's part of the reason why self-proclaimed anarchists are holding off on militant action as if their waiting for something, some improvement under the Obama Administration that they've always been waiting for. The real anarchists is pure and by pure I don't mean perfect but is always there and unhappy no matter what reform takes place. It is not enough because anything that falls short of autonomy which requires the destruction of Western Culture is just not gona do. Get it? Got it? GOOD!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

purity? yikes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

^doesn't get it.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

A few painful fucking replies on here...makes me wish being 17, but not very much.

To the kid with the big brass pair, we should probably let you in on a secret. We've all had these dreams. We've all stayed up late drinking with our friends scheming up ways to make total destroy on everything. It's inspiring, but there's a reason it never happens (at least in English countries). Why? Because it's actually kinda difficult to do it for more than a week without resorting to all that boring movement-building work you're trying to avoid. An effort like that needs supporters, and I don't mean fanboys - the kind of people who'll drive you to a 'job', buy your supplies or let you hide out in their basement. Normal people who don't stand out and have nasty things like jobs and mortgages. Now, ask yourself, why would those people risk their ass to support you? What, in your endless nihilistic self-indulgence are you offering them? If you're really trying to turn their whole life and world upside down (or worse) why shouldn't they just rat you out or tackle you on the spot? Why would any other "serious" revolutionaries join in?

Submitted by anar_sal (not verified) on

By the way, it should be mentioned that just recently the "head" of the "Antiauthoritarian Movement" of Athens (as frequently presented by mass media) E. Skiftulis took place in a public discussion with members of the parliament, that is of Syriza leftist party, regarding "direct democracy" etc. Let's be clear and pay attention to whom we interview, leftists and direct democratists are not anarchists.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The North American anarchist movement lives in a world of limited possibilities because it is not really a genuine anarchist movement at all. It pre-occupies most of its time dealing with gender issues rather than insurrection which is why nothing ever happens.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

IGTT 2/10

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

I understand your frustration. However, I think the current state of mindset amongst US anarchists is more reflective of their CLASS background, as well as infiltration by various police agencies.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

If by "dealing with gender issues" you mean "trying to get laid," then I totally agree.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Its cute that the self-described anarchists of poland think that anarchists in the US have problems getting laid or moving fluidly through society (when they want to).

Submitted by CowardiceDoesNo... (not verified) on

ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWS OF FAI-IRF:
http://325.nostate.net/?tag=informal-anarchist-federation-fai

INSURRECTION NOW AND ALWAYS

MORE NEWS:
liberaciontotal.lahaine.org
actforfree.nostate.net
waronsociety.noblogs.org
325.nostate.net
contrainfo.espiv.net

TEXTS ON ANARCHIST GUERILLA:

Babis Tsilianidis, Dimitris Dimtsiadis, Socrates Tzifkas, Dimitris Fessas - "Open letter on the revolutionary struggle" - Greece 2011 - http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/babis-tsilianidis-dimitris-dimtsi...

Founding Statement of Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Italy 2003 - http://325.nostate.net/?p=1434

Interview with Autonomous Cells for the Immediate Revolution (CARI), Mexico 2011 - http://flying.squat.gr/2011/11/23/english-cari-one-year-ago-an-interview...

"The Sun Still Rises" by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire - FAI, Greece 2011 - http://325.nostate.net/?p=2870

‘Do not say that we are few’ – Statement from the Italian FAI, 2011 - http://325.nostate.net/?p=3015

‘Rain & Fire’ – Statement from a UK FAI sector - http://325.nostate.net/?p=3032

"FIRE AND GUNPOWDER : From Indonesia to Chile… A proposition for FAI/IRF (Global)" CCF/FAI Greece 2011 - http://325.nostate.net/?p=3624

"THE MARK OF LIFE-Toward an imaginative way to destroy the existent" by Nucleo Olga/FAI, Italy 2012 - http://325.nostate.net/?p=5259

Haris Hatzimichelakis, CCF/FAI: "Never Again Unarmed" Greece 2012 - http://325.nostate.net/?p=6503

Gustavo Rodríguez, Mexico 2011 – "Antagonistic violence: Approaches to the armed struggle in urban environments from an anarchist perspective." http://flying.squat.gr/2011/11/06/espanol-gustavo-rodriguez-violencia-an...

communiqué for the high-profile vehicle-bomb against Microsoft by Deviant Behaviours for the Spread of Revolutionary Terrorism – International Revolutionary Front (Greece) - http://325.nostate.net/?p=6793

Submitted by anonymous on

Being an anarchist means we are not here anymore to focus on any one political issue created by the state for all time invested to appease and accommodation these marginal groups only furthers the continuation of the root problem - the system.

We cannot allow our selves anymore to be slowed down, distracted and hijacked by these special interest groups of the liberal left if we ever want to be serious and hopefully successful in achieving our anarchist dreams and goals. What ultimate end have these democratic leftist social issues really served.... but filibusterers to insurrection? We all know time it self like the mind is a very precious thing to waste.

Yeah so all these North American Anarchist circles be it the syndicalists, green anarchists, primitivists/anti-civs, apocs, anti-caps, anti-cops, queers and feminists have worked them selves apart and into a corner right where "THEY" want us.

Anarchism is no longer a haven for militant activists who know the root cause of all injustices in society is created and maintained by the system so long as the system is allowed to exist freely with out dreams of daily chaotic interruptions. It's all about picking your title and sticking with it and thumbing your nose at every other sub title of anarchy. Look out for your own interest and sell out all the other interests for your own interest is more important and overthrowing the system is but an old outdated dream turned dumb idea. Follow the way of weak minded liberal democrats and pave the way for reform.

North American Anarchists no longer seem to carry that sentiment of being united and all wanting the down fall of the U.S. government but have settled to reform and thus have ceased being anarchists. It's now back to being a liberal fighting against calls for revolution and all militant work and struggling for limited goals and everyone takes their pick at what goal they represent.

"What are you a "Green Anarchist"?"

Fuck I'm not any of that shit. I just want to overthrow the government because I'm no longer a reformist and that shit don't work. Is that good enough for you? Guess that makes me a traditional black flag anarchist. There. There's a happy label for you to cling on to.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

And with no one having much to say in response to my critique of modern day North American anarchists, I feel as if I have struck a nerve that has left everybody speechless. You ought to be cause nobody really calls the lot of you out on any of this and so you ought to be ashamed of yourselves in how much you have stayed from anarchy to liberalism and still call your selves anarchists. You're all corrupt and don't even realize it. Anarchists against insurrection and against hope for resistance as a means to an end. Go fuck yourselves.

Submitted by Yeh Boi (not verified) on

You've hit a nerve alright.

Where was the revolutionary solidarity with the ELF?

Anarchists went from threat number 1 to pesky sideshow BY CHOICE overnight.

But it doesnt have to be like that.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Nobody's responded because the topic is old and the criticisms were drivel.

Mostly, we just don't know HOW to respond to the absurd suggestion that North American anarchism's biggest problem is minorities.

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