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Title: Negres Tempestes Presentation Author: Negres Tempestes Date: 20th March 2006 Language: en Topics: catalan independence Source: Retrieved on 4th September 2021 from https://negrestempestes.cat/2006/03/20/negres-tempestes-presentation-english/
Some time ago different people, with certain ideologic affinity, started
to talk about some questions. On the one hand, there is the ideologic
lack of different collectives, the contradictions in their
antiimperialist fight. On the other hand, the wrong stereotype that
makes an important part of the organized people tend to think that an
independentist wants the attainment of a state, with the
authoritarianism it implies, and that every anarchist despises the own
culture and language, in our case the Catalan one, from a false
internationalism. It would be the case of the most used: “Independence
is fascism” or “anarchism is love of Spain”. Sentences without any
meaning that do not solve anything and that allow people to continue
using roles and false clichés that hinder people from thinking by
themselves.
From this perspective, those of us who see the necessity to destroy the
ruling system (the state as a basis of authority, repression and
economic exploitation), are aware of the importance of the culture in
the relations and in the change of the essentialist/ dogmatic minds that
do not see far from their own, and we seek to explain that we do not
believe in dogma, states or borders (neither the real nor the imposed)
nor in anything more important than the human being. This group, not
homogeneous, wants to explain things as we think they should be, without
anyone telling us if we are this or that, clarifying that we leave
labels for whoever who wants to carry them, believing having fought in
who knows which barricade of a certain war, or having killed who knows
which dragon in a mystic age…
We do not think to be over good or evil, we do not intend to be more or
less revolutionary than anyone, we do not aim to become vanguard or
reference. Our intention is simply to show evidence that many times
things are not as we have been told, that it is not necessary to follow
the white or black tendencies imposed by different people. In the fights
to change the basic things that surround us we prefer to approach them
rather than leaving them to approach us. We do not want to change what
we know, but to make people know that there are more worlds, more ways
to know things.
With this lack of will to be more than we are, we decided to gather and
to deepen into our approaches. From here, we would like to explain how
we see the world and how to collaborate to make it a place a little bit
more breathable (at least in our surrounding) and to help the debate to
carry this project out.
In this way is born Negres Tempestes, a “collective” that in in its
field of relations will try to break the pre-existing schemes. We are
organized in an assembly way, so that the debate of the different ideas
takes us to consensus. From our point of view it is the only way from
which we can talk about democracy, because the different opinions we are
given will be represented. This is our ideological base, the one that
defines us. We consider ourselves anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist,
understanding these two postulates as two approaches which can never be
given up and which are inseparable.
Anti-capitalists in order to create a setting where the consciousness of
social and economic oppresion leads to the knowledge of the reality that
is hidden from us and to the reflection and debate to change it.
Anti-imperialist to give voice to the peoples, and to their individuals
in their fight for their freedom or their simple existence.
Our intention is to be ourselves and not to define us according to what
the others think or do. We know that the attainment of freedom at all
levels starts from ourselves, whether as individuals or collective.