WAR is in full swing and rounding up the troops. The carnage by the Assad regime, Daech and the democratic bombing is drowning any revolutionary possibility in Syria in blood. And from Iraq to Mali, Yemen to Ukraine, daily terror is devastating lives and territories for economic and political interests in the name of religion, an ethnic group, a nation.
To different degrees, the dirty war of oppression allows soldiers to let loose against entire populations, ordered to submit or follow one or the other side. In January and November 2015 the Paris killings arrived to remind us that the horror of war is not limited to far off battlefields.
HERE soldiers of god also massacre to impose their rule, while the French government is reinforcing its own war at all cost. The army is deployed and the state of emergency drags on. Pumped up surveillance and uniforms, beatings, trigger happy hunting for migrants and undesirables, laws and measures against anything that might resemble an “enemy within”, the message is clear: the screw is being tightened and everyone must tow the line.
Against the logic of war which is engulfing bodies and minds, in the name of power, it is time to break ranks and spread the struggle for freedom.
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM does not seek little soldiers and defers to no higher authority. Rather, it takes shape in each refusal to delegate one’s decisions and the will to take one’s life in one’s own hands. It advances in rebellion against the permanent war that strikes through money and cops. It is led by all those who are fighting here and now for a truly different world, without moral or criminal codes, States or borders, masters or slaves.
Facing what hinders freedom also makes us face ourselves: it is for us to determine, experiment, approach what we want to live. It is certainly not easy, but we have weapons that the powerful fear: SOLIDARITY among rebels against isolationism, SELF-ORGANISATION without leaders or hierarchy, individual and collective ATTACK on all everything involved in domination.
So let’s give free rein to our autonomy of thought and action to spread subversion and break their barrack-style peace! Let’s take the initiative to sabotage all their projects of devastation! Let’s go on the offensive to destroy the machinery of the war machine, control and exploitation! To finally put an end to this deadly order!
anarchists
[Poster found on the walls of several towns, February 2016]
