A-Infos (en) Britain, AFED, organise magazine: KAFEH! | Announcement

Through the latter half of of September there was a wave of protests in Lebanon starting 
from Beirut's Martyr's Square and heading to the Parliament building at Nejmeh Square with 
the intent to break through the security barriers and kick the corrupt government out. 
---- These protests follow a vast economic crisis proceeded over by a minority governments 
lining it's own pockets. Lebanon has been governed by a sect-based political system that 
has stood unchanged since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1991 and despite the waves 
of action during the Arab Spring in 2011, the government remains in control with an iron 
grip and a black heart. ---- Whether Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites or Druze, the 
working class Lebanese all face a new wave of taxes and a faltering economy. The daily 
reality of no food in the cupboards and no water in the taps left them with only one 
choice. They took to the streets to protest for a decent existence, only to find 
themselves dealing with horrific police brutality.

In the middle of this there is a relatively new group taking to the streets, organising 
and sharing the politics of Anarchism, they are named Kefah! or Struggle. They formed in 
December last year as "big tent" collective of Anarchist comrades ( including Anarchist 
Communists, Mutualists, Anarcho Vegans and Syndicalists) and quickly became an active part 
of the alliance of opposition to the government and subsequently the current wave of 
demonstrations.

They told Organise! "our short term aim is to overthrow the current corrupted oligarchy 
taking over Lebanon and our long term goal is to achieve anarchism in Lebanon and the 
region, either by building independent communes, or by transforming all the society into 
an anarchist one" .

You can get in contact via their Social Media account Here. ?

Here is their statement of intent in English with the Arabic below.

KAFEH! or Struggle! is an Anarchist Movement whose goal is to achieve a decentralized 
society without authority , and who upholds the values of liberty, social justice, 
egalitarianism, and secularism.

The word "KAFEH!" is an Arabic briefing of the term: " Effective Free Anarchist Cadres ".

The Premise of the movement is Anarchy or Libertarian Anti-Authoritarianism.

"KAFEH!" Movement rejects the authoritarian patriarchal dominant system in Lebanon which 
is a centralized establishment that incites sectarianism, and greedy capitalism in order 
to support allocating quotas , exploitation , and splitting power, resources and public 
wealth.

"KAFEH!" seeks to change the current status quo of the system into an extended 
decentralization consisting of small local communities (communes), each choosing its own 
self ruling system, respecting liberty , social justice, egalitarianism, and secularism.

"KAFEH!" aims to minimize the state's duties to the collection of taxes from each & every 
community in order to provide social services and infrastructure equally distributed 
amongst all communities.

"KAFEH!" supports the principle of absolute individual freedom in life choices, beliefs, 
opinion, expression , ideas , and other principles based on the declaration of human rights.

"KAFEH!" insists on the necessity to change the current system by all its forms.

"KAFEH!" considers that any form of change can't be true if it doesn't include the 
protection of fauna and flora expressed by a pact amongst all communities.

"KAFEH!" declares itself the protector of the weak and of the oppressed, as well as of 
victims of injustice practiced by the current authoritarian patriarchal dominant system.

http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/10/08/kafeh-announcement/
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