Τα παιδιά της γαλαρίας

Η παρέμβασή μας στο workshop Mass protest and the future direction of anti-authoritarian internationalism στο FAST FORWARD FESTIVAL των Plan C, Σεπτέμβριος 2017

We would like to thank you for the invitation to your festival, which will give us the opportunity to elaborate a bit on the subject of internationalism and mass protest against capitalist targets.

Our group, TPTG, has been active for years, however, as it is a tiny one, we cannot seriously claim that our own resources and organizing efforts alone could disrupt capital’s infrastructure through mass protest. In the over two decades’ period of our existence, we have mainly tried to be part of the real movement going on in a critical way, that’s why we have been involved in strikes, demonstrations, local assemblies, riots or other kinds of mass protest, in both workplaces and non-workplaces, that is to say, in the production and the circulation sphere.

 It is possible that anti-authoritarian internationalism, as you put it, at least in its current form as counter-summits, may provide a very useful network of comrades around the world through which insights, experience, practical proposals and theoretical analysis can be exchanged. However, it has certain limitations. It has been commonly acknowledged that such events usually exhaust their importance by the end of the respective summits, thus their duration is by their nature pretty short. Therefore, they cannot be the basis for any long term struggle, even though they can cause considerable disruption for a certain and rather predictable period of time, like the shut-down of the port in Hamburg, as it is mentioned in the workshop title.

We also share with you the concern on the more and more scientifically elaborated state management of crowd protests and the advanced repressive techniques the cops have been using. We have dealt with such matters in the recent past when class struggles and mass protest in the streets in Greece had reached an unprecedented level and we were confronted with the need to exchange insights with international comrades on our enemies’ renewed repression techniques. For this purpose, we had started an inquiry on the subject which was triggered off and affected by the Aufhebengate.

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