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Title: Announcement Author: KAFEH! Date: 8th October 2019 Language: en Topics: Lebanon, synthesis anarchism, Middle East, protest, Organise! Source: Retrieved on 12th August 2020 from http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/10/08/kafeh-announcement/
Through the latter half of of September there was a wave of protests in
Lebanon starting from Beirut’s Martyr’s Square and heading to the
Parliament building at Nejmeh Square with the intent to break through
the security barriers and kick the corrupt government out.
These protests follow a vast economic crisis proceeded over by a
minority governments lining it’s own pockets. Lebanon has been governed
by a sect-based political system that has stood unchanged since the end
of the Lebanese civil war in 1991 and despite the waves of action during
the Arab Spring in 2011, the government remains in control with an iron
grip and a black heart.
Whether Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites or Druze, the working
class Lebanese all face a new wave of taxes and a faltering economy. The
daily reality of no food in the cupboards and no water in the taps left
them with only one choice. They took to the streets to protest for a
decent existence, only to find themselves dealing with horrific police
brutality.
In the middle of this there is a relatively new group taking to the
streets, organising and sharing the politics of Anarchism, they are
named Kefah! or Struggle. They formed in December last year as “big
tent” collective of Anarchist comrades ( including Anarchist Communists,
Mutualists, Anarcho Vegans and Syndicalists) and quickly became an
active part of the alliance of opposition to the government and
subsequently the current wave of demonstrations.
They told Organise! “our short term aim is to overthrow the current
corrupted oligarchy taking over Lebanon and our long term goal is to
achieve anarchism in Lebanon and the region, either by building
independent communes, or by transforming all the society into an
anarchist one.”
KAFEH! or Struggle! is an Anarchist Movement whose goal is to achieve a
decentralized society without authority , and who upholds the values of
liberty, social justice, egalitarianism, and secularism.
The word “KAFEH!” is an Arabic briefing of the term: “Effective Free
Anarchist Cadres.”
The Premise of the movement is Anarchy or Libertarian
Anti-Authoritarianism.
“KAFEH!” Movement rejects the authoritarian patriarchal dominant system
in Lebanon which is a centralized establishment that incites
sectarianism, and greedy capitalism in order to support allocating
quotas , exploitation , and splitting power, resources and public
wealth.
“KAFEH!” seeks to change the current status quo of the system into an
extended decentralization consisting of small local communities
(communes), each choosing its own self ruling system, respecting liberty
, social justice, egalitarianism, and secularism.
“KAFEH!” aims to minimize the state’s duties to the collection of taxes
from each & every community in order to provide social services and
infrastructure equally distributed amongst all communities.
“KAFEH!” supports the principle of absolute individual freedom in life
choices, beliefs, opinion, expression , ideas , and other principles
based on the declaration of human rights.
“KAFEH!” insists on the necessity to change the current system by all
its forms.
“KAFEH!” considers that any form of change can’t be true if it doesn’t
include the protection of fauna and flora expressed by a pact amongst
all communities.
“KAFEH!” declares itself the protector of the weak and of the oppressed,
as well as of victims of injustice practiced by the current
authoritarian patriarchal dominant system.