About the recent arrests for street clashes
August 2015 - Chile
In recent months there have been a series of arrests of youths , accused of participating in riots and clashes with the repressive forces , actions carried out by hooded persons on university grounds . Some of them now remain in various conditions of detention , from house arrest to preventive prison .
Some comrades have already reflected ( in “ Viraje de la Violencia del Estado hacia la Critica Practica ”) on the role of selective state repression and how the powerful try to drive back the various forms of conflictuality against the established order .
We , individuals who cover their face and use insurgent violence against the oppressors , as part of the multiform struggle for the total liberation , we believe it primarily depends on ourselves if our practices of struggle eventually die out permanently . Therefore , we want to spread some of our analyses and reflections .
1 . The repressive situation
It becomes evident when analysing the repressive situation , that power has been expanding its range of repressive actions to sectors beyond the known internal enemies ( unrepentant former militants of the Marxist guerrillas , anarchist insurrectionists and Mapuche in resistance ), to disseminate fear and punishment among radicalised and mobilized students and others who undertake various struggles within society .
We expected this and it was announced , in a context of “ social mobilization and agitation ” where power tries to impose the reforms of the system as the only way to transform reality , through institutions and peaceful ways and established by the democratic order .
To achieve this end , the powerful , parallel to the deployment of its communication and journalistic army , sharpen their legal mechanisms , tightening the Firearms Control Act in parallel with the Antiterrorism Act , to repress the rebels and sow fear , trying to prevent acts of rebellion and revolutionary violence .
2 . Not everything is guarded : against victimhood and the idea that everything is a set-up
There was a very serious error made when power deployed its repression , and that was to let it proceed without any resistance or offensive on our part , as well as to think that the enemy is watching all of us and that it is impossible to carry out conspiracies , attacks and acts of violence against power .
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