“Retomando Nuestras Vidas” fue una serie de charlas y conversaciones con Jean Weir en Hamburgo y Berlín Alemania el 20 y 22 de septiembre… A las que asistieron entre 50-100 personas. En Hamburgo se hizo la charla en la “Rote Flora” un espacio anticapitalista que lleva mucho tiempo y en Berlín se hizo en “Stadthaus Bocklerpark” una sala popular de deportes. Lo siguiente es un apartado de las charlas en total.
Sabes que… de cierto modo, creo que tenemos que examinar nuestrxs expectativas- porque estamos aquí- porque vivimos en un mundo de repeticiones y las cosas se suelen repetir, también con nosotrxs dentro del movimiento. Es posible que esperamos, en cuando aparece un compañero de una cierta edad, que esta persona nos explicará su organización y de alguna forma extenderla en el hecho de describirla. No es el caso esta noche. Sólo intentaré comunicar un par de ideas dentro de un contexto de ideas porque somos anarkistas- bueno, hablare del punto de vista de una anarkista- no tomaré por descontado que todo el mundo aquí es anarkista, pero obviamente estamos de acuerdo que tenemos un enemigo en común. Continue reading Retomando Nuestras Vidas: Jean Weir→
Jean Weir
The struggles taking place in the inner city ghettos are often misunderstood as mindless violence. The young struggling against exclusion and boredom are advanced elements of the class clash. The ghetto walls must be broken down, not enclosed.
The young Palestinians throwing stones at the Israeli army rightly have the sympathy and solidarity of comrades who see them in their just struggle for freedom from their colonial oppressors. When we see even the very young of Belfast throwing stones at British soldiers we have no doubt about their rebellion against the occupying army whose tanks and barbed wire enclose their ghettos. Continue reading Breaking out of the Ghetto→
Deseo clarificar, inmediatamente, que me encuentro aquí como una enemiga del Estado y de la sociedad. Lejos de ser una comunidad viva que comparte el bienestar social y la alegría de la vida, lo que es denominado como sociedad no es nada más que la organización aburrida de la desigualdad y la explotación mediante roles sociales y prohibiciones. La ley es la alambrada que mantiene todo en su sitio, y que ha sido asimilada hasta al punto de formar la base inconsciente del hábito diario incluso para aquellos que la aplican. Los media fabrican opiniones para mantener el consenso y la delegación de la responsabilidad individual en ese órgano de terror institucionalizado, el Estado. El Estado incluyendo a sus sujetos, se encuentra en este momento en la base de todas las relaciones sociales, incluida la de hoy en este juzgado. Continue reading Palabras de la anarquista Jean Weir (de elephant editions UK) en el juicio de la Lucha Revolucionária→
Anarchist practice has fallen sharply in recent years, with few actions either at mass level or at the level of specific groups. As a result we see a revival of the issue of how to get closer to ‘communism’ or to building situations that not only express our ideas and ethical and cultural values but are also capable of satisfying our fundamental personal and collective need for freedom. In other words, there is a proposal to create points of reference that go beyond the classical division between the personal and the political. Continue reading “COMMUNITY” SICKNESS→
Anarchist practice has fallen sharply in recent years, with few actions either at mass level or at the level of specific groups. As a result we see a revival of the issue of how to get closer to ‘communism’ or to building situations that not only express our ideas and ethical and cultural values but are also capable of satisfying our fundamental personal and collective need for freedom. In other words, there is a proposal to create points of reference that go beyond the classical division between the personal and the political. Continue reading Community Sickness→
The function of space throughout the development of capital could be described as true ‘history’. From the first enclosures of great masses of people into circumscribed spaces to the most advanced factories today, capitalism has tried to cut out portions of space to dedicate them to one specific use: the production of surplus value. Now, with the advent of the recent post-industrial development and advances in technology, the management of this space has changed profoundly. It has passed from a partial management to a total one. Here capital has had the support of power and the State. We think that it is important to reflect on the conditions of the relationship that exists today between social space and capital. Continue reading The struggle for self-managed social space→
If you endorse the idea of the destruction of work, you will always find someone, even among anarchists, who replies, ‘And tomorrow? If we don’t work, what will we eat tomorrow?’ Continue reading LET’S KEEP OUR FEET ON THE GROUND, PLEASE→
The points that follow are addressed to the part of the movement for self-management that claims to exist within the anarchist movement. Personally, I do not believe that it exists at all. In fact, in areas where traces of an embryo of it might seem to exist, they turn out to be quite the opposite. Of course, this could be considered to be quite an arbitrary assumption, but a moment of reflection should help to clarify the matter. It is not enough for anarchists to build some kind of structure, be it a squat, a libertarian school, an alternative bank, or a food or services coop, for the latter to be considered self-managed. Continue reading ENGLISH, OR ALMOST SELF-MANAGEMENT→
First published in English in Insurrection 1982
THE THEME OF WAR has been present in almost every kind of publication in recent months, including anarchist ones. War is approaching, it is about to break out, the two great international blocks are moving towards war: we must do everything we can to prevent the world from being completely annihilated through a mad impulse of those who govern us. Continue reading Towards anarchist antimilitarism→
