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Title: Remember November Author: Magical Comrade Molotov Catgirl Date: November 11, 2020 Language: en Topics: direct action, history, transgender Source: https://invisiblexarmy.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/remember-november/
November is a month of much remembrance for us Anarchists. On the fifth
is Guy Fawkes Day, when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the ruling
monarch in the Gunpowder Plot — regardless of his motives, it is an
unmistakable act of direct action. His likeness was then used by
Anarchist writer Alan Moore in his V For Vendetta, and following a film
adaptation by the Wachowski Sisters — both trans women — the Guy Fawkes
mask had became a general symbol of resistance, adopted by everyone from
Occupy movement to Hong Kong protesters.
On the eleventh is the Haymarket Memorial Day, when four of our
Anarchist comrades were hung for an act that they were not responsible
of, by a criminal (in)“justice” system too busy serving the authorities
to follow its own goddamn rules, exactly the same as what the pigs are
still doing to black people and other marginalized people in US today.
Isn’t it funny that after more than one century of “progress”, precious
little — if anything — had changed?
One of the Anarchists sentenced to be hung committed suicide rather than
letting himself die by a tyrannical State. This comrade’s name is Louis
Linng, and he had uttered these words:
“I repeat that I am the enemy of the ‘order’ of today, and I repeat
that, with all my powers, so long as breath remains in me, I shall
combat it. I declare again, frankly and openly, that I am in favor of
using force. I have told Captain Schaack, and I stand by it ,‘if you
cannonade us, we shall dynamite you.’ You laugh! Perhaps you think,
‘you’ll throw no more bombs;’ but let me assure you I die happy on the
gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I
have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hung us,
then—mark my words—they will do the bomb throwing! In this hope do I say
to you: I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your
force-propped authority. Hang me for it!”
It was well said indeed, and as relevant today as it was, more than a
full century ago. With the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, and
Trans Day of Remembrance on the twentieth, we must remember that white
supremacy and the patriarch are two of the oldest, most insidious, and
most brutal “order” of today, and they turn privileged people into
inhuman monsters who are apathetic to the death and suffering of their
fellow human beings: if you don’t follow the rules — implicit or
explicit — and don’t obey rigid sex-based roles or a system designed to
prosecute you for your skin color, then you deserve to die for their
comfort.
With Donald Trump being defeated in the election, the so-called Liberals
are all more than ready to start patting themselves on the back for a
job well done, content to return to the good old days of acceptable
amount of genocide and respectable number of rapes, back to the
normality of racial hatred and police brutality being committed in the
dark instead of being dragged into the light. They are happy that they
are now being led by a man little different from the man they so
despised, with the only difference being that this man commits all the
same crimes against humanity quietly. Respectability and nothing more.
But we, the Anarchists, know the truth: nothing is won and nothing is
lost in this satire of democracy called an election. Even as the white
protesters begin to pack up and forget all about black lives, hoping
that things would somehow magically get better after three years of
predictable inaction from Joe Biden, our black comrades are still
fighting on the ground; even as they gladly sacrificed the #MeToo
movement and trans rights so they could put a rapist and a transphobe
onto the throne called White House, the work of our intersectional,
actually Feminist comrades had just began. It is with this in mind that
we beseech you:
Remember Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. Remember Louis Linng and the
Haymarket Martyrs. Remember our trans siblings — some of them merely
children — murdered and raped to the cheers of transphobic fake
“Feminists”. They are all dead now, but you are still alive, and now you
have heard their words. There is only one thing left for you do to,
comrades: be one of the hundreds and thousands who take up arms against
the genocidal ‘order’ of today!
One day, our silence will be more powerful than the voices they’re
throttling today.