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Title: Tunisian Anarchists Against World Capitalism Author: Anonymous Date: March 19, 2013 Language: en Topics: anti-capitalism, capitalism, Tunisia, manifesto Source: Retrieved on 6th March 2021 from https://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/tunisia-tunisian-anarchists-against-world-capitalism/
In response to the World Social Forum in Tunisia, some Tunisian
anarchists have issued this anti-capitalist manifesto. Volume Three of
Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, contains similar
selections regarding anti-capitalist anarchist movements in Egypt,
Greece, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America. Volume
Three is available through AK Press.
On the occasion of the World Social Forum which will be held in Tunisia
during March 2013, we believe that the liberal reformist approach opted
for by the organizing bureaucracy of the Forum will in no way lead to a
revolutionary project for the people of the world. Even though the event
is presented as an opportunity for the revolutionaries coming from all
corners of the globe to meet, we deem that the ultimate objective,
namely the collapse of the capitalist system, will not be taken into
consideration.
This Forum will take place in a highly critical time in the history of
the world; social movements and uprisings are sweeping capitalism off
its feet. Rage against the system does not recognize frontiers and
geographical taxonomy of East and West. The so-called democratic states
are as threatened by these risings as the worst dictatorships; the
question to be examined is what are the driving forces of these revolts
from Spain to Egypt and from Greece to Tunisia which are jeopardizing
the capitalist states?
The economic crisis is not a conclusion created by “experts” and
professional critics of the field; even politicians in power and their
oppositions admit that they are incapable of putting an end to the
outrageous rates of unemployment, impoverishment, undernourishment,
diseases and pollution. The repetitive discourses delivered through
mass-media are only encouraging people to adjust to the situation and
await resolutions that will never come. This proves that the system has
resorted to the time-old strategies of encroachment and propaganda in
order to survive one of its many major crises throughout history.
Wherever and whenever implemented, these strategies only brought about
ravages and precariousness.
Despite the recurrent scenario of democratic succession to power and
elections as a means of power distribution between “left” and “right,”
”liberals” and “conservatives,” and despite the huge budgets spent to
organize media campaigns to promote the illusion of “democratic
transition” and “political liberties” or “freedom of expression,” only
disillusionment is installed.
The World Social Forum, which is held and financed by capitalists and
their affiliates, is nothing but an attempt to convince the victims of
the capitalist system that the inherent reasons behind the economic
crisis are so-called “Neo-Liberalism,” “extreme globalization,”
”financial speculation” and worsening debt, which they suggest calls for
the one and only alternative and that is the reformation of a system
which is the actual source of these ailments.
The wretched of the earth are rejecting their everyday reality through
uprising and revolting; now they know that union and determination are
the keys to their own liberation and to the liberation of future
generations from the grip of capitalism.
As the wretched and revolutionaries of the world we have to continue the
insurrection in order to liberate our existence from the deadly claws of
capitalism. There is absolutely nothing more powerful than our union and
determination to fight till the last gasp against the oppressive system.
We boycott and oppose this Forum not only because we refuse tohave
anything to do with the bureaucratic syndicalist associations organizing
the event, and because the mere participation in the Forum is equivalent
to being part of the project of promoting for and installing colonialist
collaboration and social submission which are cherished by the
bourgeoisie, its media and political mediocrity, but also because we
primarily boycott every reform movement whether it comes from the right
or the left.
As the crisis is intensifying and is more keenly felt by the masses we
can see disobedience movements being born all over the world along with
incessantly growing uprisings. These different crises have resulted in
revolutionary movements in different countries like Tunisia, Egypt,
Yemen, and Bahrain as well as social uprisings in Greece, Spain,
Portugual, and even in the United Kingdom and the United States.
This call is ours. It is that of the marginalized, the unemployed
graduates and non-graduates, the farmers without lands, women without
voices, the exploited miners, all those that the bureaucrats of the WSF
pretend to represent after excluding them from the organizations of
debates. Our call is that of the disobedient, revolutionaries and other
social movements opposed to the capitalist system and authoritarian
governments.
Sellers of illusion and fear disguised under their reformist customs who
are pretending to be against the capitalist system are only a part of
this very system. We only have to examine the components of this Forum,
its bureaucratic organization and statements to realize that it does not
attack the essence of capitalism and that it is nothing but another
attempt to diminish the rage of the billions of individuals revolting
against hunger, impoverishment and precariousness chanting but one
unique slogan:
This was the echo of the cry which resonated from Tahrir Square to Wall
Street, from Athens to Tunis and from Barcelona to Bahrain. This cry
carried one simple slogan that frightens the retrograde forces which
call for an accurate articulation of the exact words of the slogan:
Capitalism is the system; a particular president, a political party, or
a king, are no more than the temporary guardians of the system and not
the system. They are the docile executioners of its mechanisms
regardless of the form of the government it adopts.
Mass-media owned by world capitalism spend billions to circulate the
illusion of democratic transitions. It distorts any experience or
attempt of self-organization by workers to manage their own resources
because it threatens the capitalists’ best interests.
In order for us to emancipate ourselves today we need to form
revolutionary fronts, coordinate our actions and effectively fight
against the world capitalist regime. We want to trigger real
transformation in our societies which must be based on self-management
of resources.
We call upon all the revolutionary forces of the world, movements and
organizations of resistance to capitalism to unite our work
internationally against the pseudo-democratic states or dictatorships
whether they are secular or religious, liberal or conservative.
Capitalism is the crisis; the fall of the system is the fall of
capitalism.