Grupo Anarquista Aurora Karakola | Anarchist solidarity with the comrades who protest in Cuba
Channel: Anarquistas
Date: 24/07/2021

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Saturday, July 24, 2021

 Grupo Anarquista Aurora Karakola Editions: Anarchist solidarity with comrades protesting in Cuba



 Death to the State and to the "revolution" that needs it:


 Statement from the Anarchist Group Aurora and the Karakola Ediciones in solidarity with the comrades who take to the streets in Cuba


 It is urgent that anarchist internationalism take sides and abandon authoritarian discourses that are closer to Marxism and state communism than to the will to build community societies, horizontal and devoid of any authority.  In this necessary task, the Aurora Anarchist Group and the Karakola Ediciones send all our solidarity to the Cuban comrades and Cuban comrades who, from the libertarian perspectives, are currently facing the tyranny of the Castro regime, as well as the clutches of the United States.  We have our eyes on your resistance and your efforts to undermine the power of now and forever and to build the society we long for.



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 In the Spanish territory, two clear positions prevail with respect to the situation that today plagues the Cuban people and working class: on the one hand, the media related to power and a good part of the population very willingly assumes Western intervention and American capitalist, so they have no problem appropriating and exploiting the wave of protests for a dignified life free of tyrannies that has erupted on the island.  On the other hand, the left, especially those linked to Marxism and state communism, and surprisingly a good part of the anarchists, assume the easy speech that the Cuban government itself emits: the protests have been orchestrated from Miami, by sectors bourgeois and capitalists who want to overturn the "revolutionary" dream of 1959. In this way, they turn a blind eye and allow themselves to be numerous strategies of repression, censorship and coercion that, deployed in other territories by neoliberal governments, have scandalized to the entire international community and have been the object of condemnations and great solidarity.  Not to mention the paternalism that this discourse exudes and that presents the working people as a manipulable useless that must be guided to their emancipation.


 It was also a coup orchestrated from Miami, according to Mariela Castro and the Castro regime, the LGTBIQ Pride march that was illegally held two years ago in Havana after CENESEX canceled the traditional conga against homophobia, and that ended with numerous people arrested, injured and who for a long time afterwards were scrupulously watched by the Castro police.


 The presence of patriots and neoliberals in protests developed in territories governed by capitalist regimes, and the interclass character of many of the protests that spring up spontaneously from below and from the margins have not made us put all activists in the same bag or it has been a reason to condemn the protests and the outright manifestation of popular anger.


 We would never have willingly or as a "necessary evil" assumed the arbitrary detentions, deaths and brutal police violence deployed on the Chilean working class in the social outbreak that continues today.  Censorship and attacks on freedom of expression that we condemn and fight in Spain cannot be seen with good eyes if the one that deploys it is a regime that calls itself revolutionary, but which is still the old hulk of always, with its police, with its army, with its repression, with its prisons, with its intelligence services, with its oligarchies, with its exploited classes, and that devastates the territories, suffocates life and condemns it to misery in the name of the revolution .


 We refuse to accept any of these Manichean and pamphlet discourses that only favor and legitimize power and the State, be it the Castroist or the American one.  We refuse to assume as part of our anarchist discourse the double yardstick with which we analyze and value institutional and state violence against the people who inhabit the territories.  We refuse to endorse, legitimize and accept the confrontation and the fictitious war to which the Cuban government subjects the working class, calling on the "truly revolutionary and revolutionary Cubans" to confront those who protest against the famine and against the tyranny of the state.  For the only possible war is that of classes.  The problem is not the people, it is not the working class.  The problem is the states, including the Cuban and anyone who claims to be of the people, and the capitalist, racist and patriarchal power contained within them.


 The social revolution, dignity, freedom, equality and communism will never come from any government, state, institution or political party.  Not even presenting themselves as the ones who will lead the working class to its emancipation...