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It were the anarchists...
February 2014 - Spain

“Listen, I come to sing for those who have fallen, I will
not give names or clues, I will only say comrades...
and I sing for the others, for those who are alive, and
who are having the enemy in their sight...”
To the known and unknown friends and comrades who
embrace the anarchist ideas, to those who keep their
heads high inside of the prisons and those who keep the
struggle alive in the streets. Some thoughts about the
anarchist struggle in the Spanish State.
We find ourselves in a curious political and social situation. On the one hand, ETA put down their weapons.
GRAPO (Groups of Antifascist Resistance of the First
of October) has been dismantled and the Islamic fundamentalism is loosing its presence in the media in this
part of the globe. In parallel, the social crisis linked to
the so-called economic crisis (and we say “so-called”
because capitalism is in itself a constant crisis and because for those on the down side of society, it is the
eternal situation in which we have to survive) seems to
intensify. New outbreaks of protests and even riots appear in different places and social environments of the
Peninsula and the State is going to find himself without
internal enemy to blame for the errors, since blaming
“the people” in favor of whom everyone pretends to act,
doesn’t seem the most adapted thing to do. The anarchist phantom appears then, like an internal devil to
blame for all the clashes in the demos, for all the intensifications of the struggles. To deactivate them, the
State cannot allow itself the luxury to brutally repress
the population, nor to insinuate that the population actu-

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ally has something to do with it. That’s why the State
has to isolate and slander every attempt of rebellion, to
make it seem unsympathetic in the eyes of the normal
souls, so that this episodes and examples do not propagate. So, since a while, those to be repressed, those who
lead the poor on the way of violence and madness, and
who also put bombs and burn churches, are the anarchists (which is not completely false neither). An ether,
something without an outlined body, but which power is
trying to structure sufficiently so it can be categorized
as a terrorist group, and trying to put out the smallest
light of rebellion in her mids.
In the course of the last year, we have seen articles
appearing regularly in the media, speaking about the
growth of the violent anarchist activity in the Peninsula.
About how the strength and the frequency of the attacks
have increased, about how anarchists abroad are being
financed from here out and how the Italian or Greeks anarchist comrades come to teach the natives the art of the
social war, just to give some examples. The public reports of the cops go in the same direction, warning about
the danger anarchist struggles are starting to represent,
making them one of their primary concerns. And even if
they have the habit to say an infinite amount of aberrations with the intention to criminalize and repress, it is
true that our ambition is to become their worst threat.
But on our own merit. We know well the language of
Power. His accusing fingers points towards us and we
are not innocent. We do not want to be innocent. We are
anarchists. And by carrying our anarchism, we want to
inspire to passion, solidarity and revolt.