Abaixo, um texto detalhado sobre o que está acontecendo no Chile, escrito por companheiros anarquistas comunistas de lá. Está prevista uma greve geral para hoje. O texto propõe que se organizem assembleias de base generalizadas. De nossa parte, além disso, propomos que é necessário afirmar não apenas uma forma (auto-organização) mas também propor abertamente um conteúdo preciso e determinado. Isto é, a superação da greve pela produção livre (como explicado aqui: http://bit.ly/31tz4MQ), que afirma diretamente um novo modo de produção em que as capacidades e necessidades humanas se preenchem de modo múltiplo, se potencializando mutuamente, numa livre circulação que curto-circuita o singular e o universal, abolindo e superando o mercado, a propriedade privada, o dinheiro, o trabalho, o Estado, a família e a nação. Acreditamos que apenas este conteúdo preciso e determinado ensejará a fraternização cosmopolita do proletariado em todo mundo pela tomada, por toda parte, das condições materiais de existência universalmente interconectadas (ver http://bit.ly/2o4AHmB), em um processo que se difunde rápida e exponencialmente, de maneira apaixonadamente incontível.
O link em que encontramos o texto abaixo está em Omnia Sunt Communia ediciones.
¡VAMOS HACIA LA VIDA!
One week ago, when the subway fare in Santiago reached the stratospheric price of 830 Chilean pesos (USD 1.20), the unbridled student youth proletariat—which has the virtue of denying this world in practice, refusing any kind of dialogue with power—launched an offensive calling for the “mass fare-dodging,” self-organizing a gigantic movement of disobedience that instantly earned a tremendous backing among our class, since this means of public transport is used by at least 3 million people daily. The State responded by throwing hundreds of riot police to protect the stations, provoking severe confrontations in the subway system, which left hundreds of people wounded and detained. On Friday, October 18, the rupture occurred: during a new day of protests against the fare hike, Santiago’s subway lines began to close completely, one by one, starting at 3 p.m. This caused an unprecedented collapse in the metropolitan urban transport system. That day the spark was ignited and the proletarian class demonstrated its power, as thousands of people threw took to the streets, overwhelming the repressive forces and staging major riots in downtown Santiago that surpassed any forecast. The corporate building of ENEL (an electrical company operating in Chile) burned in flames and several subway stations suffered the same fate. The Capitalist State showed its true face to the population, decreeing a “state of emergency”, which meant that the military was brought out for the first time since the end of the Dictatorship as a result of a social conflict. From that night on, nothing will ever be the same.
On noon Saturday, a call to meet at Plaza Italia, in downtown Santiago, quickly led to a general revolt with insurrectional features that reached every corner of the city, despite the strong military presence on the streets. And literally, the uprising moved on to all of the cities in the Chilean region. Like an oil stain, it began to spread out with cacerolazos (pot-banging), barricades, attacks on government buildings, sabotage of infrastructure strategic to the circulation of capital (toll plazas and fare meters on highways, 80 subway stations partially destroyed and 11 totally reduced to ashes, dozens of buses burned, etc.), 130 bank branches damaged, 250 ATMs destroyed, some attacks on police stations and a military facility in Iquique, and what has most irritated the ruling class: the looting of supermarket chains and large malls.
In this scenario, which for us has been a party, where the proletariat is self-organizing and facing its conditions of extreme precariousness, the “state of emergency” has been extended to approximately a dozen cities that have joined the fight, which have also faced a relentless “curfew” controlled at gunpoint by the military and police vermin that currently stand at 10,500 troops who have the green light to shoot to kill.
Looting and immediate satisfaction of human needs
The sacrosanct private property was radically questioned by tens of thousands of proletarians who supplied themselves with everything they could at most supermarkets and large stores, which have been thoroughly plundered, and in many cases burned, as a terrified bourgeoisie looks on and constantly calls on its representatives to crush without reservation what they call “a small group of violent elements and vandals.” However, the reality is far from this, since, although they deny it continuously, this is not the action of a minority, but a massive phenomenon that has been expressing itself with irrepressible force.
Those of us who have been stripped of everything and survive as we can, indebted, without being able to make ends meet, have affirmed in practice that we have no reason to pay to access what we need to meet our needs. The reproduction of the commercialized daily survival in this way of life imposed upon us is, at all times, subordinated to the accumulation of capital by the bourgeoisie, at the expense of wage laborers and the life of misery that we must endure day in and day out. We have done nothing more than expropriate what belongs to us and what has robbed us our entire lives, and this they cannot bear. In short, widespread revolt means claiming ourselves as human beings and denying ourselves as merchandise.
The press: spokespersons for capital and defenders of merchandise
The press has played a crucial role in the defense of “common sense” and channeling what is called “public opinion”, that is, the dominant logic of the capitalist system, where material things and the production of goods matter more than human lives, emphasizing time and again the defense of “public order”, “individual rights”, “private property” and “social peace”, to justify the massacre being promoted by the capitalists and the most reactionary sectors of society.
Through the misrepresentation and/or concealment of information, the spreading of lies and false stories, the criminalization of social subversion, the entire press has shown itself to be an accomplice to State terrorism: for all this they must assume the consequences. Some examples of what we affirm are the following:
- Hiding the number and cases of assassinations by the repressive forces, and not reporting repeated allegations of “excessive use of force in arrests, child abuse, mistreatment, blows to faces and thighs, torture, undressing of women and men and sexual abuse,” as indicated by the National Institute of Human Rights (NHRI).
- Communicating that there has been looting of “farmer’s markets” in some municipalities such as La Pintana, Puente Alto, among others, which is totally false. People have denounced on social and alternative media that these have been plainclothes police who have tried to provoke infighting within our class.
- Promoting fear among the population by emphasizing that looting will also affect private homes and small businesses, when there have been just a few completely isolated events of this, which our class must firmly reject.
- Differentiating between “citizens” and “criminals,” between “peaceful” and “violent” protesters, betting on the division and isolation of the most radicalized elements that are part of the movement and that are trying to promote an anti-capitalist orientation in the development of the revolt.
- Remaining in complicit silence regarding the water supply cuts that have directly affected several municipalities in the southern sector of Santiago, which are “suspiciously” also the places where the combats against the State/Capital have developed in most direct manner against their institutions and where authority is most flatly despised.
The government recognizes 8 dead, but we know that there are many more
As President Piñera declares that “we are at war against a powerful enemy that respects nothing and nobody,” the despicable Andres Chadwick, Minister of the Interior, in a brief statement made on television, said that 7 people had “died”—and not been killed at the hands of the State—without offering any further details. We who have been present in the struggle and coordinating with comrades in different parts of the country know that the number of those dead is much larger. Videos and photographs have been shared on social media and counter-information websites, which are being systematically removed from the internet, showing people killed by soldiers and cops in various places where they are resisting. At least by our count—still unable to confirm due to the deliberate campaign of concealment and misinformation of the Capitalist State—this figure is 16 people: 1 person in Quinta Normal, 2 in San Bernardo, 5 in Renca and 2 in La Pintana , who died as a result of fires during the looting, 1 person killed in Lampa after being deliberately run over by the police, 1 by military bullets in Colina, 3 in La Serena and 1 in Pedro Aguirre Cerda who died as a result of police repression. We know that this partial assessment can grow even further, since as we are quickly writing this text, severe confrontations continue under the curfew with the military, cops and undercover police in several places within the Chilean region.
The general strike on Monday, October 21 and some perspectives
Tomorrow, Monday, October 21, a diverse grouping of mass organizations have called for a general strike, the first one that may be highly effective, directly affecting production, due to the collapse of the transportation system, at least in the city of Santiago. The State is doing everything possible so that “people go to work”: they have partially enabled Line 1 of the subway system, they are trying to reinforce the bus service, and they have called on the population to show “solidarity” by helping their neighborhoods reach their jobs. The capitalist class is only interested in producing for themselves, we are only useful to them for producing and moving their merchandise and increasing their accumulation of capital. For this reason, we are calling on people to not go to work and actively participate in the strike, as the subway workers’ union has, due to the “police and military repression.” In addition, we believe it is important to agitate the following perspectives:
- Do not fall into the dynamic of fighting amongst ourselves over food, water and the satisfaction of our needs: that is the State’s game, to divide and conquer. To solve our problems, we must organize ourselves in the community, there is no other way out.
- Do not allow the political parties and social democracy to present themselves as our “representatives”, to appropriate the struggle and sit down to negotiate with the State to put out the fire of the revolt, attempting to steer the resolution of the conflict towards cosmetic, superficial reforms that do not aim to eradicate the root of the problems that afflict our class.
- Occupy all educational facilities and turn them into places of resistance, debate, meeting and self-organization, places to gather food and medicine, and spaces to assist our wounded.
- Organize grassroots assemblies in the territories where the struggle is developing, in order to collectively decide the direction of the ongoing revolt.
- Demand the freedom of the nearly 1,700 detainees who are being prosecuted for their participation in the revolt.
TOWARDS THE GENERAL STRIKE FOR EVERYTHING!
LET’S MOVE TOWARDS LIFE!
Some communist/anarchist proletarians participating in the revolt"
On Friday, October 18 a wild revolt erupted in the city of Santiago and the next day had already expanded to practically all cities in the country. The apparent reason was the rise of the passage in the collective locomotion of Santiago (in the buses of metropolitan network of mobility and the subway), but at the root showed a total discontent with the capitalist lifestyle. A huge and uncontrolled movement made this way its historical appearance and as some / as partner have claimed in several pamphlets spread in the revolt: "nothing will ever be the same".
The favorable movement for the antagonist perspective
- the first thing we must highlight is the spontaneous generalization of the movement and its criticism in the acts to the entire capitalist-neoliberal lifestyle: expropriation and mass sharing of goods of large capitalists (supermarkets, shopping centers, pharmacies, banks, etc . ), destruction of state infrastructure (police stations, municipal buildings, etc. ), massive repudiation of the repressive bodies of the state in a " Democratic " context (Carabineros, research police and militia), and an intuitive sketch of criticism to the entire commodification of all aspects of everyday life (there is no " Demand " or " vindication " Concrete, wants to " change everything ").
- the dynamic role that has played and plays the youth proletariat, with its programmatic intransigence and subversive combativeness to all test.
- wild protests effectively constituted a huge damage to the private property of the great capitalists of this country: this was the real reason for the state to put the cops in the streets. This horrified the dominant-capitalist class.
- another aspect that has called us deeply attention is the proliferation of nuclei that practice the offensive violence and self-defense against the repressive forces of the state in the demonstrations-both in the "center", and in the peripheral neighborhoods -. There is something like "proletarian violence of diffuse masses", which is coordinated in a solidarity way in the middle of the barricades, which makes unnecessary-at least, for now-any kind of specialization or professionalization of this activity by groups. So far, this has been pretty effective.
- the fracture of isolation and isolation to which we are subjected daily in this system that manifests in: spontaneous solidarity of class and social communication outside the previously prefabricated roles.
- despite the "State of emergency", of the touch of remains, and of the cops in the streets, the proletariat has not been afraid and has not abandoned the fight despite the brutal repression that has claimed an still unknown number of killed / as, tortured / as, missing / as and imprisoned. At the time of writing these lines has been announced in many regions, including the metropolitan region, the cessation of the touch of remains, by the social pressure of the proletariat that has not respected it at all and that manifests a visceral hatred to the cops.
- despite all the efforts of the state to return to " certain normality " and the defamation of mass media, this has been impossible to restore, as our class a continued protesting daily without even " asking for permission " To do so-all demonstrations have been "illegal"-.
- the reality of the struggle has overwhelmed the attempts to "Espectacularizar" The Press Revolt: the proletariat has recognized that the social-essential function of the press is to distort the facts and assemble a story related to the interests of the dominant class - The journalists are the "Spokespersons" of the capital -.
- the movement, in the context of the revolt, is being given-Embryonic-of fighting bodies with territorial rooted, based on the conformation of self-organized assemblies of neighbors and neighbors, which are in various neighborhoods and populations building from below a Anti-capitalist perspective that is against the precariousness of life. We consider these areas of strategic proletarian association to form a community of struggle, because it expresses the need for self-activity by the same / as proletarians / as autonomously to any external intervention to them / as.
- an important sector of the proletariat has rejected in block the proposals of "reforms" with which the government has tried to extinguish the fire of the revolt: they are considered unworthy crumbs, which has the state in check, at least, so far.
- there is no "political sector" capable of self-government and valid to dialogue with the government: question that has the bourgeoisie baffled. It's a revolt without leaders. From There, "the anarchic" of this movement.
The contradictions and limits that revolutionary minorities must fight in the bosom of the movement
- during the megamarchas made on Friday, October 25, that only in the city of Santiago called according to official figures to more than 1.500.000 protesters, a patriotic identification feeling and national unity was massively expressed, to the detriment of a Perspective of class of social conflict. Example of this was the proliferation of Chilean Flags-that had been absent-and a festive and pacifist atmosphere that prevailed throughout the day, being this valued by the same government as an opportunity that "opens paths of future and hope".
- the hesitation that has shown certain organized sectors of the worker movement to participate in the revolt-for example, the miners of the state company codelco and the trade unions belonging to the National Coordinator of workers and workers -, with the worthy exception of the Port Union of Chile (Upch) and the construction guild grouped in the combative union sintef: what has not been exempt from contradictions, limits and uneven development depending on the geographical location.
- the echo that in certain social sectors has made the rumor spread by the press and the government that there is a wave of looting that has as goals houses of individuals and small businesses-those who have been very particular and little numerous cases -. This has been expressed in the phenomenon of "Yellow vests", neighbors / as organized in crews defending their neighborhoods of non-EXISTENT LOOTERS. This is dangerous because it is breeding broth for right-Neo-fascist currents and because it faces proletarians / as against proletarians.
- the existence of militants of traditional matches and the "new left"-which is more of the same-in the assemblies and self-organized cabildos, which try to adopt and supplant the self-direction of the movement to impose their positions and become interlocutors valid to negotiate With the power.
- despite the great qualitative jumps that the movement has given in its vast extension, it has not been able to curdle and consolidate a clearly class reading, weakness that demonstrates a great pending task that must be remedied by the projection of the movement. This has meant, especially from the megamarchas, the resurgence of an identification as "Middle class" of some sectors of the proletariat promoted by order parties and mass media.
- the revolt found revolutionary minorities organized and fragmented, which, however, did not mean that they participate immediately in the movement, trying to provide guidance through acts and propaganda, despite their limited means. The left and leninism in general did not want to mix with the uncontrolled, they revolted from the revolt, and even their most traditional sectors condemned the looting to large companies, and took at least three days to demonstrate their presence in the streets. This highlights the need to create an openly anti-capitalist movement that group the most radical sectors of the class.
Provisional perspectives
Despite what happens in the outcome of this great situation, it is clear that there has been an irreversible break, a crack, which marks a change of time for our class in this region. What they have lived in these days thousands and thousands of proletarians / as without prior experience of struggle, can hardly be erased from the combative memory of our class. This revolt has provided a unique opportunity that should not be wasted: it has become clear that only fighting is imposed on claims and concrete improvements in the living conditions of the proletariat. We have realized our own strength. The Widespread Revolt, announces the latent possibility of a possible revolutionary change, of the reconciliation of the human species with itself and its natural environment, despite the previous contempt that manifested sectors of the subversive environment of our region-with speeches of the type "Humano=Plaga" Or that the "people are dead"-. the proletariat has not died, we are not only variable capital, we have a huge role to play to liquidate this capitalist world and has been shown in practice. For Now, the fight continues on the street and in the assemblies against the social pact that they want to impose on us and the reformist recovery. This revolt intuitively questioned the foundations of the capitalist social structure and that will not be erased from historical memory. We go beyond, let's go to life.
Algun@S Proletari@s in fight of the Chilean region
Tomorrow from Saturday 26 October
Subversive Spring of 2019”
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