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Editorial
Half the world at war, the other half awaits its turn to enter
the cruel ball of massacres and bloodshed. While states
trumpet the total mobilization, the Islamist gangrene devours uprisings, at the start galvanized by strong desires
for freedom and rejection of the idea of conquest of power,
like in Egypt or Syria. In the neighborhoods of excluded,
increasingly abundant in the European cities, flourishes
confusion, produced by decades of programs of stultification, of deprivation of analytical tools and of destruction of
intellect and sensitivity by a world bloated with technology. A confusion that guarantees the continuity of capitalist and state domination, but at the same time favors the
recruitment by a religion, an ideology, a nation. The massacre in the name of conquering power then lies just around
the corner. And as for the few revolutionary tensions, they
seem to have to expect an ulterior push towards the margins, close to oblivion and to disappearance from the stage
of the social war.
No, the times ahead are not magnificent for those who have
not yet given up on social revolution and the fight for freedom. Even if the few struggles in which we are involved
are certainly not insignificant and that the insurrectionary
and anarchist projectuality can always, almost unexpected,
flood the grounds of social war, we must indicate the urgency, or rather, the vital necessity to reverse the tendency.
The paths to get there are murky, the repressive risks are
high (and will be more so in the coming times of total mobilization), but it’s often when you’re with your back against
the wall that you find the courage and the strength to try
one last time, one last jump to escape suffocation.
If the world is going to war today, anarchists know that its
peace has also always been a war. The massacres are in
accordance with the logic of those who want to impose a
power, whether rather under state control or more religious,
rather Stalinist or rather Islamist. And the bloodshed takes
places daily, literally by the industries of arms, security and
extermination, and more broadly by capitalism; exploiting,
devastating and poisoning. If everywhere all those who fight
with freedom in their hearts against this war and this peace
will be further pushed to the margins as we said, it is time to
acknowledge this and act accordingly. In the margins, perhaps, but not without ideas. An absolute minority, surely,
but not without courage. Almost robbed of any relevance
in the ongoing conflicts, possibly, but not without projects.
Let’s talk about these projects. Some current struggles
can provide us with some clues, such as the possibility to
launch, at the initiative of anarchists, specific struggles able
to enter the social fabric in decomposition. Other experiences, recent or past, teach us, in a good or a bad way, how
to prepare for the inevitable repression. Still other stories
give us the certainty that in the depths of this abhorrent society, there is always still way to move, to escape control,

to conceive complicity. Specific projects we develop today,
each and everyone in a certain context, in a certain period
of time, with specific goals and the means required, should
be part of a projectuality more vast, larger, able to understand or create links between all these singular projects.
Given the current situation, two elements seem of paramount importance in this projectuality: seeking means of
struggle and the international approach.
The first element is inane, yet not simpl