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(en) Mexico, Chiapas, Subcommandante Marcos: Anarchists welcome (pt)
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Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:21:48 +0200
In his latest communiquà Subcommandante Marcos takes a little time to respond to the
anti-anarchist campaign launched by the Mexican media and part of the left. Marcos makes
clear that those registered to the Escuelita who have asked the Zapatistas to not accept
anarchists, and moreover âexpected an apology and a purging of the registryâ, are not
welcome to the school. The Zapatistas invite Mexican anarchists to send them texts which
will respond to the accusations against them, and which will be published on the EZLN
website. ---- via: dorset chiapas solidarity ---- SPECIAL CASES: the Anarchists ---- Given
the anti-anarchist campaign launched by those of âgood conscienceâ and the well-behaved
left united in a holy crusade with the old right to accuse the anarchists, young and old,
of challenging the system (as if anarchism had another option), including the dismantling
of their shows (this thing about turning the lights off, was that so we wouldnât see the
anarchists?), and the repetition ad nauseum of epithets such as âanarcho-hardliners,â
âanarcho-provocateur,â âanarcho-thugs,â âanarcho-etceteraâ (somewhere I read the epithet
âanarcho-anarchist,â isnât that sublime?), the Zapatista men and women cannot ignore the
climate of hysteria that so firmly demands respect for windowpanes (which donât reveal but
rather hide what happens just behind the counter: slave-like work conditions, a total lack
of hygiene, poor quality, low nutritional value, money laundering, tax evasion, and
capital flight).
Because now, apparently, the robbery poorly disguised as âstructural reform,â the assault
on the teachers union, the national patrimony âoutletâ sale, the theft imposed by the
government on the governed through taxation, and the fiscal asphyxiation â which only
favors the large monopolies â is the anarchistsâ fault.
This includes blame for the fact that now âdecent peopleâ donât go out into the street to
protest anymore (âhey but what about the marches, sit-ins, roadblocks, graffiti, flyersââ
âYes, but those are teachers-bus drivers-vendors-students, that is, country bumpkins, and
Iâm talking people really-truly-from-the Federal District.â âAh, the mythical middle
class, so courted and yet so despised and cheated by the entire political spectrum and all
of the mediaââ), the fact that the institutional left also evicts the protest rallies, the
fact that the âonly opposition to the regimeâ has been overshadowed by the nameless again
and again, the fact that the arbitrary imposition is now called âdialogue and
negotiation,â the fact that the murder of migrants, women, youth, workers, children â all
of this is the anarchistsâ fault.
For those who fight as and claim the âA,â a flag without a nation or frontiers, and who
are part of the SIXTHâbut who really are in the struggle, not just as a fashion or a
fadâwe have, in addition to an embrace of solidarity, a special request.
Anarchist Compas: We Zapatista men and women arenât going to blame you for our
shortcomings (or lack of imagination), nor are we going to hold you responsible for our
mistakes, much less persecute you for being who you are. Actually, I should tell you that
various invitees to the August course cancelled because, they said, they couldnât share
the classroom with âyoung people who are anarchist, ragged, punk, pierced, and
tattoo-covered,â and that they (those who are not young, nor anarchist, nor ragged, nor
punk, nor pierced, nor tattoo-covered) expected an apology and a purging of the registry.
They continue to wait in vain.
What we would like to request is that when you register, you submit a text, maximum
one-page in length, where you respond to the criticism and accusations that they have
leveled against you in the for-profit media. That text will be published in a special
section of our website (enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx) and in a
magazine-fanzine-or-whatever-itâs-called soon to appear in the globally global world,
written and run by indigenous Zapatistas. It will be an honor for us to have your word
together with ours in our first issue.
Huh?
Yes, even a page with a single word taking up the whole space counts: something like
âLIARS!!â Or something longer, such as âWe would explain to you what Anarchism is if we
thought you would understand;â or, âAnarchism is incomprehensible to those with little
brains;â or, âReal change first appears in the police blotter;â or, âI shit on the thought
police;â or the following citation from the book âGolpe y contragolpeâ by Miguel AmorÃs:
âEveryone should know that the Black Bloc is not an organization but a tactic of street
struggle similar to âStreet Fighting [Kale Baroka] that a constellation of libertarian,
âautonomousâ or alternative groups have been using since the struggles for the squats
(âokupationsâ) in the 1980s in various German cities,â and add something like, âif you are
going to criticize something, first do your research. Well-written ignorance is like
well-pronounced idiocy: equally useless.â
In any case, Iâm sure that you wonât be lacking in ideas.
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