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Title: Iberian Anarchist Federation
Date: 2006
Source: Retrieved on 2020-04-02 from [[http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/anarkiista_debato.pdf][www.i-f-a.org]]
Authors: Iberian Anarchist Federation
Topics: Spain, IAF, Portugal
Published: 2020-04-03 08:43:51Z

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.

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