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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 08:24:48 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: AUT: Re: Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:42:40 +0100


    More Third Position neo-fascist crap on anarchist fora.
Michael Pugliese

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Left and Right: Prospects for a Revolutionary Alliance (english)
by American Revolutionary Vanguard 3:06pm Wed May 30 '01 (Modified on 3:21pm
Fri Jun 1 '01)

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44002&group=webcast
Left and Right: Prospects for a Revolutionary Alliance
Left and Right: Prospects for a Revolutionary Alliance

While many contemporary American revolutionaries consistently bemoan the
apparent apathy displayed by much of the American public, evidence exists
that the winds are in fact beginning to blow in our direction.Polls taken in
recent years indicate that nearly forty percent of Americans believe
government to be a serious and immediate threat to the liberty and security
of the people. Indeed, many of these polls show that approximately three
percent of Americans now feel that armed struggle against the state would be
justified. That may not sound like a lot when viewed on its own but a look
at the historical evidence provides some interesting insights. When the
American colonists declared independence in 1776 ( the actual war of
revolution had begun a year earlier) only five percent of the two and a half
million colonists actually favored secession from the British Empire. By the
time independence had been won seven years later, nearly a third of the
people had come to favor independence with another third remaining loyal to
the crown and yet another third being neutral. Only sixty thousand persons,
about two and a half percent of the population of the colonies, actually
participated in the revolutionary effort itself. The situation of the
colonial revolutionaries was not unlike that facing Americans of today. The
British Empire was the dominant world power and was regarded as the most
advanced, prosperous and enlightened state of its time. It was one of the
first nations to informally implement religious toleration and was a leading
nation in the crusade against slavery. The typical British citizen enjoyed
greater personal liberty than residents of other nations of the time and
British political and legal culture had begun to absorb some of the liberal
ideas that had emerged from the Enlightenment. Indeed, England had
comparatively strong libertarian traditions reaching as far back as the
Magna Carta and Anglo-Saxon common law. Today, the United States is the
dominant world power, possesses the strongest military force in history and
is also the most technologically advanced nation and one of the wealthiest.
The United States also has, for the time being, relatively high levels of
individual freedom and probably possesses the strongest libertarian
traditions of any contemporary nation. Like ancient Rome in its latter days,
the United States is a great but decaying and dying civilization in the
process of being eaten away by the cancer of internal corruption. The
similarities between the incompetent leaders of latter day Rome-Caligula,
Nero and others-and many current American leaders ( Bill Clinton, George W.
Bush, Rudolph Guiliani, Edward Kennedy) are all too obvious. The United
States is rapidly degenerating into a tyrannical police state. Twenty five
percent of the world's prisoners are located in American penal institutions
and the American states's "War on Drugs" has begun to mirror the early day
of the Nazi pogrom against the Jews. A massive prison-industrial complex, a
pernicious program of civilian disarmament, widespread police terrorism, the
gradual establishment of paramilitary police forces as an occupational army,
growing use of the regular armed forces in domestic "law enforcement" and
other related measures are planting the seeds for a full blown American
fascism. Meanwhile, the process of globalization promises to create an even
narrower concentration of absolute power into the hands of political,
economic, media and military elites. Resistance has emerged from a variety
of sources in recent years. The anti-globalization movement staged the
largest confrontation with elite power in three decades during the Battle of
Seattle in November 1999. The massacre of the Branch Davidian religious
community in April 1993 has become the contemporary equivalent of the Boston
Massacre that was so pivotal in the events leading up to the American War of
Independence. The 1992 uprising on the West Coast was the largest since the
Civil War era. The recent Texas prison break demonstrated that the
prison-industrial complex is not quite so invincible as it might appear. An
avowed separatist was elected governor of Alaska and an elected New
Hampshire state representative openly endorsed armed struggle against agents
of the state. The remainder of this essay will outline a comprehesive
strategy for resistance to the current American state towards the ultimate
goal of carrying out a second American revolution for the purpose of
liberating the peoples' of North America from both the increasingly
tyrannical domestic regime and the emerging global regime ruled by
megaconglomerates and commonly referred to in some dissident circles as the
New World Order. Three basic points are argued:

1) Emerging resistance elements represent a wide variety of trends
originating from entirely different sources and with widely divergent
motivations but with nearly identical enemies.

2) Effective resistance to the common enemies can only take place if a
united front is maintained by resistance elements in spite of serious
cultural and ideological differences and increased efforts by elites at
cooptation, disruption and repression.

3) A common program involving large-scale organization towards common ends
with the use of radical decentralization as means of working around major
internal differences and resisting external repression is absolutely vital
to the ultimate success of the resistance effort.

The first of these points are to some degree the product of the heterogenous
nature of American culture. Whether one is speaking of ethnic minorites
brutalized and terrorized by urban police thugs and herded into the
prison-industrial complex, rebellious middle-class youth drawn to resistance
activity as a result of both natural youthful idealism and restlessness and
the expanding attacks on youth by the state, rural and small town militiamen
feeling encroached upon by federal tyranny and globalization generated
dislocations or simply persons from all walks of life fed up with business
as usual, the voices raised universally condemn the same primary
targets-centralized political and economic power, media and academic
institutions that serve as mouthpieces for elite propaganda and the creeping
fascism finding its way into every area of life. Thus far, resistance has
been brewing in a number of camps yet no determined effort has been made to
sew the various threads of discontent into a quilt of a unified resistance
alliance organized around a comprehensive revolutionary program. It appears
that resistance is emerging from four basic population groups. These include
both working and privileged class youth, traditional working people from the
sparsely populated areas of the United States, the urban poor and minorites
and, lastly, conventional "outlaw" elements or, as the Marxists like to say,
the "lumpenproletariat" consisting of gang members, ex-convicts, prison
inmates, various drug cultures, the homeless and other street populations
and the like. How would a new political paradigm aiming at the organization
of these diverse elements into a resistance front be constructed? First, it
must be recognized that each of these constituencies, regardless of their
various differences, have essentially the same enemies-government, police,
socio-economic and corporate elites and the forces of globalization. Second,
a program must be developed whereby these differences can be separated from
one another in order to strengthen the common effort. The primary
differences are cultural. Rural and small town farmers and workers attracted
to the militia movement are primarily white, Christian, socially
conservative and culturally homo- genous. The urban poor are primarily
ethnic minorites with a wide variety of religious orientations including a
growing Islamic presence and frequently exhibiting a matriarchal, extended
family structure naturally resulting from the incarceration of so many urban
poor males as part of the state's program of repression. Youth attracted to
revolutionary politics seem to be primarily, though not exclusively, white
and from more privileged sectors than their rural or inner-city
counterparts. Lastly, the so-called "lumpen" elements frequently originate
from the lowest rungs on the socio-economic ladder and are viewed with
suspicion and mistrust even by other disenfranchised sectors. It is
essential that a serious revolutionary movement adopt a profoundly
decentralized structure in order to accommodate the diverse elements within
its own ranks. This can be done if each element fights on its own "turf" in
a separate but mutually supportive way towards the aim of realizing a few
common goals-eradication of central power, elimination of the domestic
police state and withdrawal from the globalization process. Geographical
separation becomes the key to making this process work. A comprehensive
revolutionary program must have a political, economic, social, cultural and
military dimension. A parallel infrastucture, reminiscient of the old Wobbly
concept of "building the new system within the shell of the old", must be
established. Institutions developed by the militia/patriot movement in
recent years may provide some guidance here. The initial motivating factors
for the creation of the militia movement were the federal killings at Waco,
Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the threat of repressive federal "gun control",
or civilian disarmament ( taken as a personal threat by the gun-oriented
rural culture), the dislocation of millions of farm families in America's
heartland region at the hands of government and agribusiness, land seizures
and other forms of repression and growing fears about the totalitar- ian
nature of the globalization process. In the process, the militia/patriot
movement has created a subculture organized around a wide number of
alternative institutions and activities. These institutions are worth taking
a look at because they provide a splendid example of a working class
resistance effort created by working class persons solely on their own
initiative. Included in these institutions are military, legal, political,
educational, media and economic activities. The militia is the military arm
of the movement. These groups are highly decentralized with no central
command structure at all. Some militias are open and public and march and
train in public view sometimes even in the presence of television cameras.
Others are secretive and are generally organized into small, tight-knit
three-to-five man cells. The most common difficulty faced by these groups
has been the avoidance of infiltration by informants and government agents
and the succumbing of careless persons to government entrapment schemes
resulting in "illegal weapons" prosecutions. The legal arm of the movement
is organized around the so-called "common law courts". These are essentially
an effort to create a parallel legal infrastructure in opposition to the
state's legal system. The nature of these courts is highly diverse.
Influences include such divergent sources as the U.S. Constitution, state
constitutions, the Magna Carta, the Uniform commercial code, old English
common law, the Bible and others. The "laws" of these courts are typically
quite libertarian, usually rejecting all laws except those prohibiting
aggression against other people and their property, although some fringe
elements within the movement throw in aspects of Christian fundamentalism or
white supremacy as well. Some patriot elements have also organized an
alternative political system usually centered around the idea of a
"sovereign township", that is a decentralized community independent of
conventional federal or state authorites. Hard-core participants typically
refuse to obtain driver's licenses or social security cards or display motor
vehicle tags. Refusing to send their children to state-run schools, home
schooling is very big among these people as well. Patriots have also
developed a fairly large alternative media culture consisting of short wave
and pirate radio programs, web sites and other forms of internet
communication, "underground" magazines and newsletters and public access
television. In addition, an economic aspect of the movement exists
consisting primarily of self-sufficient rural and mountainous "survival"
compounds, various types of appropriate technology and do-it-yourself
medical treatments and energy sources and even alternative forms of monetary
currency. It would be highly beneficient for a similar effort at the
creation of an alternative infrastructure to begin among other population
groups as well. An urban revolutionary movement needs to develop as a
complement to already established rural alternative institutions. An urban
militia system might form inspired partially by the patriot militias and by
previous urban armed struggle efforts such as the Black Panther Party, the
Black Liberation Army, the Young Lords, the Brown Berets, the Young
Patriots, the Chinese Red Guards,etc. Groups of this type might operate
paramilitary training camps in secret locations in the outlying areas around
cities while maintaining a decentralized cellular model of
self-organization. In addition, alternative "courts" might be set up in
urban communities for the arbitration of disputes without involvement from
the state's legal system. A parallel political infrastructure, based on the
idea of a federation of sovereign neighborhoods, might be established along
with alternative, non-governmental schools, assistance programs for the
needy, alternative media, cooperative enterprises, businesses owned and
operated by radical and community organizations, tenants unions, claimants'
unions for recipients of public assistance, consumer information services,
free clinics, neighborhood patrols, guilds for the defense of the homeless,
addicts, runaways, prostitutes and other populations with special needs, urb
an gardens, squats and the like. Radical youth clubs should be established
on high school and university campuses and in suburban and upper class
communities as well as working class and poor ones. These clubs would
engaged in ordinary cultural and recreational activities centered around
youth fashion, music, art, etc. but would provide sound political education
and firearms and civilian defense training as well. The gang structure built
up in many urban communities provides a number of special challenges. There
are approximately thirty-one thousand gangs active in the United States
today with a combined membership of nearly one million. These people are
armed, angry and have the correct enemies. Successful attempts to politicize
urban gangs have occurred in the past. The Young Patriots and Young Lords
were originally street gangs and the Black Panther Party recruited heavily
from the urban gang culture as has the Chicago-based New Black Panther
Party. A number of major gangs have become politicized in recent year
including Los Angeles' Bloods and Crips, with a truce implemented between
these two previously warring gangs, and Chicago's Gangster Disciples whose
political arm, Twenty-First Century Vote, has become active in city
politics. Prison gangs that could be mobilized in direct opposition to the
prison- industrial complex would be a tremendous asset to the struggle.
During his stay in California's Folsom Prison in the 1970s, Dr. Timothy
Leary formed an alliance of the Mexican Mafia, Black Muslims, Hell's Angels,
Aryan Brotherhood and other California prison gangs around the issues of
prisoners' rights and prison conditions. Ultimately, the goal would be to
create a nationwide federation of popular organizations representing a huge
variation of interests and activities. At local levels, each city or county
would form an alliance of local radical, community and defense
organizations, perhaps coordinated by a council consisting of one delegate
each from every participating neighborhood association, economic enterprise,
union, cooperative, activist group, church, street gang, militia, anarchist
group, separatist group, etc. Each council would then send a delegate to a
regional and then national federation of similar type. The purpose of the
national federation would be mutual defense and support. Each local alliance
would be expected to gain political control of its own "turf". This could be
done by economic methods (strikes, boycotts,etc.), political methods
(running for and obtaining positions on city councils, state assemblies,
school boards, zoning commissions) or direct military action (armed
insurrection). Once the revolutionary forces became dominant in enough
areas, the next step would be to declare an independent confederat- ion of
sovereign regions, townships, villages, city-states, communities, tribes,
republics, kingdoms, etc. combined with total renunciation of the
state-corporate political system, the dismantling of state political, legal
and judicial systems locally and regionally, the freeing of prisoners,
occupation of industrial facilities, seizure of military bases and so on. Of
course, central power would never step down without a fight so armed
conflict would inevitably result. On one side would be civilian militia
organizations, paramilitary forces and guerilla armies organized,
variously,on a geographical, cultural, ethnic, religious, ideological,
economic, biker, gangster,etc. basis. On the other hand would be the forces
of the state-primarily regular military connected to Pentagon interests,
federal paramilitary forces and metropolitan police. Probably at least some
National Guard, regular army and rural sheriff's departments would defect to
the revolutionary side. The state's armed forces are not as invincible as
they may seem. During the West Coast uprising of 1992, the Los Angeles
Police force (one of the best trained in the world) turned and ran. During
the Columbine massacre, SWAT teams facing only two teenagers armed with
semi-automatic rifles hid behind ambulances. Even the Branch Davidians did
quite well in the initial gun fight with the BATF. It wasn't until
reinforcements (including regular army with tanks) were called in that they
were crushed. A similar massacre of the Montana Freemen in 1997 was
prevented by the threat of militia groups offering to come to their aid.
Many different efforts such as these occurring simultaneously and in support
of one another would be very difficult for the state to suppress. This would
be particularly true if the resistance forces were receiving substantial
amounts of economic, political, diplomatic and military assistance from
foreign sources such as Arab and Islamic nations and revolutionary
movements, Asian and Latin American drug cartels, revolutionary forces such
as the Zapatistas, Shining Path or the Columbian rebels, a wide assortment
of anti-U. S. government and anti-globalization elements in both Western and
Eastern Europe, perhaps the nations of Russia and China, independent
financiers of revolutionary activities of the Osama Bin Laden type,
continental African states and many others. The American Revolution was
successful partially because of the support the colonists received from
France, who declared war on England in their support, Holland, who declared
war on England simultaneously, and Spain, who provided indirect economic,
political and military support to the colonists' efforts. The modern world
has seen a number of examples of small guerilla-militia movements
successfully resisting modern industrial states. The Viet Cong won their
independence by defeating the most powerful military force in history. The
Afghan resistance effectively defended themselves against Soviet occupation
for eight years and eventually drove the Soviets out. The Irish Republican
Army, the Palestine Liberation Organization,and the African National
Congress have waged successful struggles against the nations of Great
Britain, Israel and South Africa, all modern industrial states. The Finnish
militia system repelled a Soviet attack in the early days of World War Two.
The Swiss militia system was so effective that it deterred a potential
invasion by Nazi Germany. Dr. Ralph Turner, a professor of military science
and defense director for the Republic of Texas independence forces, believes
a well-coordinated civilian revolutionary force would be able to fight the
federal regime to a standstill. The post-revolutionary North America would
be a profoundly decentralized collection of small, independent, political
units, perhaps forming a voluntary confederation for the purpose of
continental self-defense. Each group would choose its own political and
economic system according to local needs, customs and preferences. The
state-supported corporations would collapse in favor of smaller enterprises,
worker run businesses, cooperatives, collectives, municipalized industries,
the self-employed, farmers, family businesses, guilds, kibbutzes, communes,
barter networks, intentional communities, etc. Police and prison systems
would be eliminated. Dangerous people would be banished to segregated areas.
Anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-youth and other forms of repressive
legistlation and policy would be scrapped. Media would be decentralized into
the hands of community organizations. Education would be a partnership
between teachers and students. Many other positive changes could be made.
The American Revolution of 1776 effectively eliminated the monarchy, the
aristocracy and the established church. The next American Revolution will
eliminate state and corporate privilege as well.

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> It seems that indymedia are also asking the asian community to embrace
their attackers in a united front against the state?
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> http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44002&group=webcast
>
>
> Fabian
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