From: "Nicolas ." <elgraben-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Barricada Summer/September Out Now!
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:18:14 +0000


Magazine Excerpt Below

Barricada Summer/September Now Available
40 page double issue with feature section, Building the Revolutionary 
Anarchist Movement

After much delay, the new issue of Barricada is finally out.  Because we 
failed to produce a summer issue, we have released a special 
summer/September 40 page issue.  Barricada is North Americas only 
revolutionary anarchist monthly publication.  This issue includes...

-Editorial: Anarchists and the New York City Tragedy

News:
-Long Island ELF Strikes Again
-Resistance in Santiago, Managua, and around the World
-WEF Attacked in Salzburg Despite Pre-Emptive Repression
-Fourth Congress of NEFAC
-The EU Summit in Gothenburg
-The Black Bloc in Genoa, An Affinity Groups Account

Building the Revolutionary Anarchist Movement:
-Genoa Will Not Be Porto Alegre Statement from Athenian Anarchists
-FTAA Summit Text from Main Noire
-The Lessons of Genoa
-The Whitewashing of History Will Not Pass
-After Genoa:  Why We Need to Stay in the Streets
-A Liberal Response or a Revolutionary Response
-Black Bloc:  Origins, Structure, and Purposes
-A Communique on Tactics and Organization to the Black Bloc from Within
-The Community for Libertarian Socialism

Political Prisoners:
-Solidarity with Gothenburg EU Summit Prisoners
-Genoa G8 Prisoners Update

Mobilization:
-Onward to Washington
-Revolutionaries of the World, Organize and Converge on Washington DC
-NEFAC Statement:  This is What Direct Action Looks Like
-RACB Medical Bloc Initiative
-Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Offensive

In Loving Memory of a Fallen Comrade:  A Tribute to Carlo Giuliani

Back issues of Barricada are also still available, please enquire.  Despite 
the delay in releasing this issue of Barricada, the October issue will be 
out mid-October.

Barricada can be ordered by writing to...

Barricada PO Box 73 Boston, MA 02133 USA

Or by emailing us at
barricadacollective-AT-hotmail.com

We are still very much in need of economic contributions as our economic 
situation is constantly unstable.

If you wish to make a financial contribution please send either a money 
order (Preferred), concealed cash, or a check with "Pay to the order of..." 
blank to our PO Box address.

Subscriptions to Barricada are 15$ for 6 issues (US and Canada), 20$ Western 
Europe, or _$ for a supporters subscription. We strongly encourage supporter 
subscriptions as we barely break even with regular subscriptions given our 
low price. Supporter subs also help us fund the free subscriptions that we 
offer to prisoners.
(For all other countries subscription please enquire by mail or email)

Individual copies by mail in the US and Canada are 5$ for this issue, as it 
is a double issue.

We would still appreciate any help in expanding our currently rather 
inadequate distribution network. Barricada is North Americas only 
revolutionary anarchist monthly publication, and we would like your help in 
order to reach as many people as possible. Therefore, if you know of 
somebody who you think would enjoy Barricada, why not arrange for them to 
receive a free sample issue. Likewise, if you know of a distributor or 
bookstore who might be interested in carrying Barricada, please let us know 
and we will send them a free sample issue.

Revolutionary Greetings, The Barricada Collective
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This text was written by anarchist comrades from Greece in anticipation of 
the anti-G8 demonstrations of July in Genoa.  The text on page 14 was 
written by the Main Noire (Montreal) group for distribution during the April 
Summit of the Americas.
	While we do not necessarily agree with absolutely everything they say, we 
certainly do identify with the general spirit and message.

	           The Barricada Collective


For the development of an "opponent awe" against the modern tyranny, its 
apologists and reformers... For "being wherever it happens and wherever we 
are to make it happen"... For the passage from protest to revolt... For 
global social revolution... For Anarchy...

	Today, while globalization proceeds

-armed with new "visions" for looting and redistributing the planet, after 
the collapse of the bipolar world, which allowed anew the geographical and 
social maps to become areas for the operation, the development and the 
imposition of the western capitalist model, having in key-roles 
transnational political and economic institutions (as the G8 and the EU - 
the IMF, the World Bank and WTO)

- armed with the "achievements" of technology (informatics, genetics, 
biotechnology) which become the new instruments for the domestication of 
humans and nature, the new means of control and repression, transforming the 
power not only in numbers but in quality by providing it infinite 
possibilities to be diffused, turning society into a prison...

- armed with criminal military and police mercenary staffs (NATO, CIA, FBI 
and Europol) and with global strategies for the order enforcement and the 
criminalization of resistance (international "antiterrorist" laws), and 
armed as well with a modernized ideological arsenal -deriving from the, 
otherwise sanguinary, humanitarian and democratic western civilization- 
which is to fabricate the necessary social consent to the transaction of 
death operations...

	Today, the matter of posing a rival awe against this modern dictatorship of 
the State and Capital, is more urgent than ever.
	And that is because along with the new ideology emerging by the dominant 
block of authority, who talk about "human rights" and "humanitarian wars", 
"societies of consuming prosperity", "development, security and 
modernization", about "democratic participation" in the governing of the 
world through the "Civil Society" and the NGOs, we also see the reappearance 
of some downgraded servants of the regime, nationalists, priests, 
professional unionists, workers patriarchs, this time disguised as 
"resisters" to globalization. They appear first in order to negotiate their 
own entrance in the new era and then to enslave in their rusty chains the 
authentic social resistance, buying off this way a role in the game of 
domination, as valuable supporters of social consent and guarantors of 
lawfulness.
	This reality increasingly confirms the struggles that have the character or 
rupture with all forms of domination, that their identity originates in the 
radical rejection of the establishment and that promote its total 
destruction, without illusions of negotiating with institutions which only 
expand survival in a world empty of life and freedom. And even more visible 
becomes the desire for the growth of this antagonistic pole within the new 
global scene, for communication between the different struggles and for 
their potential coordination...

	The insurrectional moments that marked the mobilizations in Amsterdam, 
London, Seattle, Prague, Nice, Napoli and Quebec, by acquiring global 
resonance, represent an expression of that perspective beyond the "good" and 
the "evil" (on the one hand the defense of the old world and its values, 
such as patriotism, religion, labor, and on the other its modernization). 
These moments are the stigma of a threat from below in the foundations of 
the new order, against its much-praised omnipotence and the defeatism it 
produces. It is also an expression of a different globalization, with 
universal and anti-regime character, a globalization of resistance and 
solidarity for a world without borders... They are clashes that break out 
with every chance, like for example where the transnational economic and 
political apparatuses organize their conferences... Clashes that constitute 
only moments of the social and class war which takes place everyday and in 
every place of the planet and which includes all small or big actions of 
resistance against the State and the bosses. It is the social war that was 
expressed by the aggressive actions in the streets of Athens the night of 
Clinton's visit, with the indigenous uprising that swept Ecuador, with the 
violent conflicts between the workers on strike and the police in Seoul, 
with the burnt properties of the multinationals that produce genetically 
modified products in N. America, with the militant demonstrations in 
Santiago, Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo in Latin America... It is the same war 
that continues inside and outside the prisons, against the programs of 
extermination for the political prisoners, against the white cells in 
Turkey, against the FIES isolation system in Spain, for the liberation of 
the fighters from RAF and Action Directe in Germany and France, for freedom 
to the Black and Indian strugglers in USA, for the liberation of all 
imprisoned anarchists, of all political and social prisoners all over the 
world... The same war that rages in modern metropolis between the excluded 
proletarians and those incorporated in the system, between youth and the 
police, in the struggles against the neo liberal capitalist attack.
	This summer the bosses travel in the Mediterranean... From July 20 to 22, 
the leaders of the seven most rich and powerful states plus Russia, the G8, 
will meet in Genoa.

The anarchists will be there once more!

-Because it is a chance to meet with our comrades who will come from all 
around the world, a chance in order to promote continual conditions of 
communication and coordination of our struggle in the fields of 
counter-information, solidarity and action, and in order to create together 
moments of social counter-attack.

-Because we are interested in the development of a multiform radical social 
movement, self-organized and subversive, with an antinationalist, 
antiauthoritarian and anticapitalist character, which will penetrate the 
fabricated borders of the states. Because spreading and internationalizing 
the struggle, especially today, is essential concerning its quality and 
effectiveness, against the globalization of the bosses and against those 
"opposed" to it based on patriotic positions.

-Because conferences such as the one of the G8, and the bosses ceremonies 
in general, provoke the discontent or the rage of thousands of people. 
Because the upper-crust coalition of the global leaders is a key-instrument 
in the promotion of globalization, and thus responsible for its devastating 
consequences to people and nature, including all ways that these effects are 
expressed in different places of the planet: either through economic 
development and the simultaneous privation of the proletarians, or with the 
war catastrophe and the immigrants' waves, through looting and polluting the 
land, through escalating exploitation and oppression everyday and 
everywhere.

-Because this institution as well, is one of the headquarters initiating the 
same globalization programs that are imposed in Greece, in the name of 
modernization. And because any place in the global map is an appropriate 
ground to confront the local and foreign bosses. Because when we fight in 
the place we live against the politics of the Greek state, in fact we fight 
against a global strategy of domination. The same way, when we aim at 
undermining a leading staff of the international bosses, we also undermine 
the interests of the Greek ruling class. So, planning the sabotage of the 
fiesta in Genoa is a part of the struggle we are engaged in here, in Greece, 
against the exploiting and repressive role that the Greek state has, both 
internationally and locally:

- Because in the miscellaneous crowd that is gathering for the international 
demonstrations, we can distinguish a variety of collectives and individuals 
who chose different issues as priorities in their struggles -such as racism, 
social discriminations, ecology, unemployment etc. - but through their 
interaction of their meeting in the streets, they have the chance to make 
practical steps towards surpassing the compromises, the entrenchment to 
themselves and the single-issue conceptions.
	There, we can also see a youth suffocating in the margins of life left in 
the modern metropolis; communities that the system criminalizes in order to 
have them surviving under surveillance in the outskirts of the walls that 
are built to protect the corporate centers. Youth that, when participating 
in such events, express dynamically a new kind of politicization, against 
their absorption or crush by the blackmails of the power, the values and the 
roles that are imposed. A "politicization" without any particular bonds with 
the existing status quo;, born in the ruins of the previous season of all 
those exhausted pacifist illusions and consumed trade-unionist claims, 
cultivated in class violence, the alienation and the prison-societies of the 
modern cities.

	Because in such meetings (as it happened in Seattle, Prague, Nice, Napoli, 
Quebec, and tomorrow in Genoa), the anarchists, the anti-authoritarians, the 
proletarians in revolt, with their discourse about radical critique and 
attack against the state and capitalist structures, with their determinative 
intervention within the people who took the streets and with their 
insurrectional action, have managed to sharpen social antagonism, to have an 
incendiary part in transforming an atmosphere of dissent into one of social 
counter-attack. They give specific blows to the symbols and the guards of 
the regime, they damage the picture of "social pacification" and absolute 
control that the bosses want to present as their achievement... In such 
events, they  once more revealed the futility of self-limitations and of 
appealing to the "sensitivities" of a fully armed regime, they debunked the 
controlled and faked clashes of specialized groups, they have made obvious 
that resistance against the State and Capital not only includes all the 
dispensable means of struggle, but it also discovers new ones.
	For that reason, the direct action of the revolted people, which came as 
practical result of their refusal to have any compromise or dialogue with 
the institutions, met not only the angry response of the state apparatuses, 
but also the wrath of the left wing of the regime... and that is because 
this left wing was inside the mobilizations (or somewhere near, anyway) but 
still unable to prevent or control them, to guide or assimilate them, or 
even observe them. So, in the disappointment of those who believed that 
globalization is just an invention in the service of the left, what really 
happened was the contrary

	 What characterized Clinton's visit in Athens was the attacks launched by 
anarchists against banks and luxury stores.  What marked Seattle and sent 
everywhere a message of resistance was the black bloc action, and what 
created a reference to Prague was the anarchists' blue march.
	Thereby, sometime after the Prague events -and the consequent defeat that 
the view of mediation and regression had suffered- a mishmash of managers 
coming from political parties or governments, having among them the internal 
affairs minister of France, personalities like media owners, eminent 
university professors and patriotic trade-unionists, together with a mixture 
of surplus political personnel from European countries, organized the World 
Social Forum in Porto Alegre, relying on the real existence of movements in 
Latin America. 	There they attempted, for the fist time with such a degree 
of organization, to compose a reformist theoretical framework, which would 
convert the struggle against globalization into another incorporated 
"movement" of harmless contestation, where the effects of the social and 
class exploitation are supposed to be transferred for "settlement" to the 
official directories which are approved by the institutions: 
non-governmental organizations,  boss trade-unions, political parties, the 
same organizations that the state itself empowers to negotiate the interests 
of the oppressed.
	In view of Genoa, many left groups and parties from Italy and other 
European countries, with the title of Porto Alegre representatives, met in 
order to determine the boundaries for the mobilizations against G8. In their 
discussion, among other things, "... they referred to some negative 
experiences from Prague and Napoli and they denounced the practice of 
breaking and damaging the cities". They were also hastened to guarantee that 
"... in July 20 there will be no aggressiveness from the demonstrator's 
part, only "civil disobedience"

Their presence in Genoa is for us one more reason to be there.

	Because as we have an answer for capitalism, we also have an answer for 
those who mediate the interests of state security and who safeguard the 
capitalists' property, placing themselves inside the movements; for those 
who instead of denouncing state repression, the maltreatment, the arrests 
and imprisonment of demonstrators by the police in all previous 
mobilizations, choose to denounce the insurrectional practice which came 
from revolted people and was used against those responsible for the misery 
of the world, against the symbols of the rich and the guards of the bosses.

- Because resistance against capitalist globalization can only be based on 
the self-organized direct action of the people who struggle, in the way they 
chose each time, and not surrendered to institutions and self-styled 
representatives.

-Because there is no better way to put in practice a subversive plan for 
attacking the political and economic elite, and for making at the same time 
your presence distinguishable, than when within a mishmash of Stalinists, 
nationalists, and authoritarian pacifists

-Because we are not at all willing to solve the problems of capitalism by 
beautifying it through "constructive" proposals. We are not interested in 
plastic surgeries for the democratic mask of the state coalitions' 
dictatorship. Because we don't want to live in a "more human way" inside 
their nightmarish world; we want to live without them. Because in the 
environment of global resistance which is formed, we find our social and 
class allies to transform the arrogant conferences of the bosses into 
festivals of revolt.

-Because the bosses, their institutions and symbols, as we have already 
proven, are not invulnerable.

Here and everywhere...
Anarchist Collectives and Comrades (Athens, Greece)





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