File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0108, message 191


From: "rcam" <rcollins-AT-netlink.com.au>
Subject: AUT: FW: post-genoa stuff
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 01:44:38 +1000


xposted from a-infos.  Are both of these from Precari Nati?

Angela
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We thought that the betrayal and the theory of the two opposite
extremisms formed a tragic and awful side of the past, but we were wrong.
We have seen the game played by the GSF (Genoa Social Forum) using
betrayal and disgraceful action against comrades. During the demonstration
many comrades saw themselves left out of the lines and put under pressure
on the one hand by gas that was shot at the level of peopleÆs heads and on
the other hand by lines of "comrades".

The "Black Bloc" is accused of being responsible for the failure of
the theatrical protest organised by the GSF. But what it the BB? Does it
really exist? We have seen proletarians who attacked private property and
refused to be massacred by the cops.

Banks, cars and temporary agencies have been burned, barricades were
organised... At the same time the police beat, shot and killed.
The GSF has pressed for a peaceful demonstration up till the end, for
civil disobedience, while the police has stopped and beat comrades before
the meeting in Genoa. In this way the GSF has allowed the police to do
what it wanted. It entered the camps, arrested comrades and organised
squads of policemen in Genoa and in towns nearby during the nights.
The GSF speaks about non-violence while capital uses the same violence
everyday against proletarians at work, in the neighborhoods. Taking
all this we would have to put up our hands and suffer, leaving the
martyrdom to the catholics. Did you pray when the cops entered the camps?
People were surprised by the repression, by the police-killing in the
square, but donÆt you remember the LEGGE REALE (law that permits the
police to carry and use guns). A year ago they killed one hundred
proletarian prisoners, but where were you? Did you talk about democratic
prisons? When they killed a comrade, a boy, people discussed whether it
was alright to burn cars. For us this is disgusting, comrades!
In Genoa things became clear. The pacifist protest of civil society
and the meeting of the G8 were smeared. The political and democratic
compromise, which was stroking and beating at the same time, was broken.
Yesterday night the GSF had a taste of what thousands of proletarians
endure every day. The problem is how to react, how to refuse to behave
like elephants in a glasshouse. The war capital has declared against
humanity will be fought with every means necessary.

The cops are not the main problem for the proletarian movement, as we
expressed at the demonstration in Genoa. Only from the point of view
of "civil society" - which is only a slimy, bourgeois entity. The problem
of the proletarian movement is how to effectively attack capitalism which
cannot be reduced to a demonstration in Genoa. It is about revealing
the communist passion within capitalist crisis.

Against the pacifist menace
for communist revolution

precari nati ( Bologna / Italy 24.07.01 )
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If we are here, it is not as professional activists of anti-globalisation,
trying to find a position of mediation between the puppets of the economy
and its 'victims', by acting on behalf of others (the "invisible", the
revolted proletarians against the IMF or the World Bank, the refugees, the
precarious workers.) We are not interested in representing anyone, and we
spit in the face of those who wish to represent us. We do not understand
exclusion as exclusion from the centers of economic decision-making but as
the loss of our everyday life and activity as proletarians because of the
economy.

If we are here, it is not because we prefer fair trade to free trade, it
is not because we believe that globalisation weakens the authority of
nation-states. We are not here because we think that the state is
controlled by non-democratic institutions, nor because we want more
control over the market. We are here because all trade is the trade of
human misery, because all states are prisons, because democracy conceals
the dictatorship of capital.

If we are here it is not because we see proletarians as victims, nor
because we want to place ourselves as their protectors. We didn't come
here to be impressed by spectacular riots but to learn the tactics of
everyday class war by the strikers of Ansaldo and the disobedient
proletarians in the metal industry. We come here to exchange our own
experiences as the dispossessed of the whole world.

If we are here, we do not come as members of the numerous NGO's, official
lobbies, ATTAC or the rest of those who merely wish to be included in the
discussions over the modernisation of capitalism and who hope that their
proposals (e.g. tobin tax) will be able to save capitalist social
relations, i.e. the same relations which perpetuate our alienation and
exploitation.

If we are here, it is as proletarians who recognise capitalism not in the
meetings of the various gangsters but in the daily robbery of our lives in
the factories, in the call-centers, as unemployed, for the needs of the
economy. We do not speak on behalf of anyone, we start from our own
conditions. Capitalism does not exist because of the G8, the G8 exists
because of capitalism. Capitalism is nothing but the expropriation of our
activity, which turns against us as an alien force.

Our festival against capital does not have a beginning or an end, it is
not a pre-determined spectacle, it does not have a fixed date. Our future
lies beyond all mediations, beyond nation-states, beyond all attempts to
reform capitalism. Our future lies in the destruction of the economy.

For the total abolition of the state and capital.
For the world human community.

proletarians against the machine




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