Confronting repression … not everything goes
June 2015 - Spain
The state employs different strategies to eliminate its enemies , also those who raise their voices to put the established order into question . It tries to cut at the roots any rebel initiative and counts for this on an efficient juridical apparatus that disposes of a large punitive range : from light accusations which in general end up with fines or suspended prison sentences to the use of hard instruments among which the joker of the anti-terrorist law is loosing its novelty as this card is frequently put on the table . Having assumed that prison is an eventuality in the struggle against domination , we consider that the actual context is favouring the fact that this eventuality might come closer to more and more persons . Many are those who do not know if tomorrow they won ’ t sleep in a cell and those who , like us , ignore for how much longer they will stay inside . Once you find yourself confronted with an enslaving machinery put in motion by their paranoias and hallucinations , which in the end is one of the many ways to exert domination , the situations sometimes becomes confused . The fast pace with which the repressive blows came one after another have fed this confusion , even more when the accusations are extremely “ imaginative ” and everything is accompanied by the spectacular approach of the media of Power . Those who exert and support domination will never understand our anti-authoritarian forms and will therefore try to put us in the mould of their logics .
As we have seen , the collectives , spaces and individualities struck by repression are heterogeneous . They have proximities and differences as how to understand the state and its function , as well as in how to confront the blows of Power , the prison and with who to string “ alliances ”. Confronting this , one often hears that is preferable to step over what separates us and to give priority to the points in common as to fight with efficiency the blows of Power . This position privileges obviously the quantitative aspect rather than determination and will , aspects that for us are fundamental . We are conscious of the important to string alliances , but the question is with who . History has proven clearly what have been the dreadful consequences for the anarchists of alliances with authoritarian groups and / or in favour of institutional politics , with those who always lean to the side of Power ending up with crushing all libertarian initiative . Should we bow our heads and abandon these aspects that are essential for us ? Not in any case .
Renouncing important ethical aspects had as a result to always be more towed by leftist , citizenist and democratic movements with who we have nothing to do ; they support Power while we are trying to eliminate it from our lives . Confrontation is unavoidable , even necessary
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