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Title: Who is Syspirosi Atakton? Author: Syspirosi Atakton Date: 2013 Language: en Topics: Cyprus Source: Retrieved on 3rd April 2022 from https://syspirosiatakton.org/who-is-syspirosi-atakton/
We consider ourselves as part of a wider anarchist/antiauthoritarian
movement willing to deconstruct and undermine the structural forms of
the current socio-political system and put into practice alternative
forms of socio-political organisation. Based on our local experience we
are participating to an international antiauthoritarian network, trying
to circulate the ideas of self-organization, self-legislation and
solidarity.
The world, now, is passing through a grave crisis. The present political
dynamics will decide if the current state of emergency, — with its
military invasions, oppression and social repression — will extend, or
whether the resistance being developed worldwide will prove to be
efficient enough to halt it. We are marching towards the hope that this
global resistance will prevail, fighting the solid base of this brutal
system: capitalism/hierarchy/patriarchy.
The above three aspects of our lives are structurally interlinked,
dominate our actions and subjugate the human spirit. Therefore we
believe that antiauthoritarian practice should take place in various
forms including matters of class, race and gender –always refuting
bipolar dichotomies and fighting the ways in which our current political
system is creating domains of abjected beings and domains of
subjectivity based on arbitrary bias. The radical movement should
primarily start from the inside: it needs to fight any hierarchical,
sexist, racist, nationalist behaviour because this normative discourse
and practice is allowing the present system to reproduce itself.
Our efforts also take under consideration the environmental crisis,
referring to “ecology” as a particularly fragile domain of the current
reality. At the same time, as a libertarian movement we should get rid
of any neoliberal attitudes which deduct the class character from our
struggles and present our fight as a simple claim of more rights without
the utopian vision.
Our region, Cyprus, due to its natural resources has been for decades in
the eye of the storm. Competition for domination in the region has
already driven to numerous wars and conflicts. The totalitarian
post-colonial regimes that were formed do not represent the interests of
their people. We are in solidarity with every movement fighting towards
social liberation and emancipation from local and foreign sovereignty.
Cyprus is one of the most militarized areas on the planet. Those of us
who live here, trapped for decades in nationalist conflict, have allowed
the elite to exercise their authority and implement their interests in a
wider area without confronting any serious resistance. It is vital that
the hegemony of nationalism breaks. We will be actively present in any
effort to defuse it.
At the same time exploitation of workers from other countries has
developed new unfavourable conditions for the workers. Within the
struggles for equality in society, there is no place for exclusions
based on birth place or other made-up identifications. Immigrants, as
the most oppressed part of our society, are our potential allies. We
must escape from any charity logics and seek for new ways towards
substantial political and equal collaboration.
City as our main field of action is a reflection of what is happening in
our wider society. Its nationalistic division, the invasion of
capitalistic interests threatening to transform it to a window display,
“clean” of any elements causing “nuisance”, church as the largest
landowner with its own vision of “development”, are only some of the
factors creating a challenging field of action, in which we aim to
intervene creatively by expressing and accomplishing our own proposals
for societies organized against hierchical, capitalistic and sexist
institutions and logics, on the basis of self-organisation, solidarity,
collectivity and liberality.