The State/Capital have never been orders of peace, except to the extent that they are able to pacify those exploited and oppressed by the system. When challenged though, they very quickly reveal their nature, their foundation in power and violence, the basis of all class sovereignty. And whether through its own forces of repression, or parallel organisations, State/Capital will employ them as social conflict dictates. Greece is the most extreme experiment in todays’ Europe of private appropriation of public wealth and power. And not surprisingly, where the most violent expressions of power display themselves. But equally, where resistance, in a multiplicity of forms, also intensively lives.
The insurrection of citizens or of freedom?
On the 27th of October, the spanish congress was again a stage for protest, another encerclement, with the aim of protesting, contesting, but also openning the door to a new constituent process of political/institutional creation. How many such acts will we witness? Where will such a movement lead? Criticise it, we have already done so. But critical voices from within 15M and beyond have also been heard. 25S, as this new series of protests/process has come to be called aims for a political change of sovereignty, a retaking of national authority by the people. It presents itself in other words as a movement of citizens, abused, betrayed and no longer to be silenced. What traps lie here? So many …
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