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Title: Iberian Anarchist Federation Author: Iberian Anarchist Federation Date: 2006 Language: en Topics: IAF, Spain, Portugal Source: Retrieved on 2020-04-02 from http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/anarkiista_debato.pdf
The Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) is a federal group. That is, it
is free, based on equality and solidarity between the affinity groups of
which it is made. Its purpose is to provide an effective coordination
between the different anarchist groups of Spain and Portugal, so that it
is possible to organise a social revolution which, abolishing private
property and waged labour, can establish a new society based on
anarchist communism. It strives for an order without imposition, without
government, without authority of any kind and without exploitation. An
order based upon the freedom of every human being, based on social
equality, on free agreement, on mutual aid and on solidarity.
It is a coherent organisation, and therefore it is internationalist. FAI
understands that a social revolution in Spain and Portugal must be part
of an anarchist global revolution. Opposing every kind of nationalism,
colonialism or imperialism, FAI, which is a member of IFA since its
foundation supports a practical solidarity between the exploited
classes, the poor and governed of the whole world, as part of a
revolutionary struggle striving for the destruction of capitalism and
the abolition of national borders. Its broader aim is a free federation
of the different communities, peoples and regions of the world.
FAI fights the state in all its shapes (monarchy, republic,
representative or popular democracy, dictatorships of any kinds..). For
the federation only the disappearance of the oppressors by the action of
the oppressed, and of the state by those governed, will bring about the
liberation of the human kind.
It fights for an anarchist society to be brought about only through
anarchist means, through direct action and not by any political mean,
reformist or through laws.
The federation can not be legalised and can not be part of an
institution. Its action is only based upon the capacity of its members,
on international anarchist solidarity and the freedoms conquered. FAI
won’t dwell on the grounds of given « freedoms », regulated by the
state, and it does not enter into any kind of agreement with
institutions, whether of a political or religious nature.
In agreement with this practice, which questions the metaphysical or
religious principle of authority upon which the slavery of the
individuals is based, the federation states to be rationalist and
atheist : it will oppose religion in all its forms.
Accordingly to these rationalist ideas and against religion, the
federation fights for a new social environment based on individual
freedom and aiming at the total development of every human being. It
also considers, on the other hand, that this individual development is
not a separate issue from the social question, and that therefore it is
only possible in the free society which is sought.
The FAI opposes the official and bureaucratic unions, as they thwart the
development of the worker’s direct action and try to contain the social
struggle inside democratic legality, while aiming at making of the
proletariat a piece or tamed component of democratic capitalism.
FAI refuses any cooperation with individuals, groups or associations,
which call themselves libertarians, but which take part in institutions
of the status quo, which try to transform the libertarian movement in
just another part of the democratic society, as it understands that
their attitude goes against anarchism. It only supports those who
actively and consequently refuse power under any guise. Through a work
of specifically anarchist propaganda, of the peaceful constructive
example and the intervention in different social movements against the
many realities of state and capitalist usurpation, the FAI fights for
the creation of an insurgent movement, which questions the whole of the
authoritarian society. Its way is direct action, considered in its
widest and most dynamical, constructive and revolutionary shape.