Get into the neighbourhoods, don’t be afraid of hostility, suspicion, quarrels and base passions, that, I assure you, you will encounter. Take advantage rather of the fact that the virtual recuperation penetrates even into those with an empty stomach. Seek out those with no house, salary, health, assistance, hope. Convene a whole neighbourhood and confront it with the idea that it is in their hands to change the situation. Continue to grow, one step at a time, with effective assemblies, free of pompous discourses. Offer reality, naked and harsh reality. And begin to take, take and take, until nothing remains that you don’t manage yourselves. It may frighten, but it is the vertigo before a revolution that begins. You only have to assume it. You won’t be able to? Well at least, dammit, you will have tried. … [I]f they exploit misery, then it is for us to organise it.
Ruymán Rodríguez, Anarquía a pie de calle
We return to the Federación de Anarquitas Gran Canaria (FAGC), with two texts describing the collective’s militant activity and a closing text by Ruymán Rodríguez analysing the politics of okupation …
For the syrian revolution
Without any pretense of a well founded critical evaluation of political events in syria, in the context of a multi-front civil conflict between imperialist and proto-state actors, we share two anarchist reflections on the country’s revolution, in the wake of the fall of Aleppo to the Bashar al-Assad regime.
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