Costa Rica - new anarchist organization

[Matthew X]

 A - I N F O S N E W S S E 
R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ http://ainfos.ca/index24.html 
  From: Moésio Rebouças 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Comrades! Libertarian greetings to all. I am pleased 
to announce various people from different groups are getting together to 
form a new organization called the Organización Anarquista Comunista 
(Anarchist Communist Organization) which, apart from the Colectivo 
Anarquista Libertad y Solidaridad, expects to present a stronger front in 
the struggle, and thereby spread the beautiful idea of anarchism. At 
present, we are in an excellent position in various social sectors - the 
founder members of the Organización Anarquista Comunista come from other 
groups where we hold positions in sectors ranging from ecological struggles 
to labour struggles, and our proposals, which were always anarchist, hold 
some weight. With this new group, we hope to encourage a growth in 
anarchism through more concrete proposals and more radical methods and to 
build the bases of a new society towards libertarian communism. We are 
followers of thinkers such as Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Malatesta, 
Rocker, Flores Magon, Reclus, Malato, Berkman, Goldman, R.Mella, Abel Paz 
and many other fathers of anarchism. We take as examples such experiences 
as the Paris Commune, the '36 Rebellion (our greatest influence) and May 
'68. We sympathize with CNT, FAI, FORA, Mujeres Libres and the AIT, those 
who have kept anarchism alive. We admire the bravery and worth of men like 
Buenaventura Durruti and Nestor Makhno and the power of ideas converted 
into creative action by men like Ravachol, Lombroso, Emile Henry, Caetano 
Bresci, Michelle Angiolillo, the Chicago martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti, and 
many more. We are accused of being hooligans, filthy, useless pamphleteers 
and endless other infamous names such as petty-bourgeois (a term much loved 
by Marxist- Trotskyist pseudo-revolutionaries). We have little to say in 
reply to them. We are enemies of those pseudo-revolutionary ideologues who 
try to keep people in submission through force and through authoritarianism 
- they are no revolutionaries, they are clowns. Through our experiences so 
far, we have managed to revive something which was lost following the 
1940's and the rise of the Communist Party of Costa Rica which practically 
killed all libertarian hopes. Some old militants of red groups told us 
It's years since we last saw black flags waving through an anarchist 
sector at demos or meetings and of course we were very happy about this, 
though we believe there is better to come. In modern times, anarchism is no 
utopia or myth, it is a reality and a day-to-day struggle. The revolution 
is lived and built every moment of every day, from dawn to dusk. It is 
nothing sacred or untouchable. The growth or the life of the revolution 
depends on us. It is we who decide if this gentle breeze should become a 
hurricane. Malatesta put it well when he said We say that a revolution is 
necessary, that we want to make the revolution, and to this end we busy 
ourselves with stimulating the desire. With raised fists we have to work 
everywhere we can to sow the seeds of anarchism. As an organization, our 
principle is Freedom, our method is Direct Action and our aim is 
Libertarian Communism. Ideological unity, tactical unity, collective action 
and discipline, federalism and internationalism are the bases with which we 
operate. We will continue to publish the anarchist journal Agitando 
Mentes [Agitating Minds], which will be monthly, including a section 
called Prisión Demolición which will be the mouthpiece of the Costa Rican 
Anarchist Black Cross. We will be reactivating a study group and hold a 
series of forums and meetings about anarchism. We will also be trying to 
establish a library. We would like to take this opportunity to ask for 
international assistance in establishing better links, in providing help 
and in sharing experiences. We would also be grateful for any material 
which we could use in our library and wish to exchange publications. We 
plan to inundate this land with the beautiful ideas of anarchism. Further 
ahead, we intend to set up a website. Three of our members are members of a 
hardcore band called Manifiesto Acrata [Anarchist Manifesto] which will 
be useful in spreading our ideas. If you have a journal, magazine, zine or 
similar, we would ask you to publish a short piece about this message and 
we would also be grateful if this message could be spread on internet 
lists. Nothing else to add, except that we hope to keep in touch and enjoy 
good relations! We send you our best libertarian greetings! For the 
Organización Anarquista Comunista and the Cruz Negra Anarquista: Juan Pablo 
Hernández, Carol Ramirez, Karloz y Cesar Alvarado. ¡¡Salud y anarquia!! 
¡¡Viva la revolucion social anarquista!! ¡¡Viva el anarcosindicalismo!! 

New Anarchist

[proffr11]

http://www.anarchistcommunitarian.net/whatisanarchism.shtml
What Is Anarchism?
First off, all notions that anarchism stands for chaos, disorder, violence, 
laissez-faire capitalism, structurelessness, terrorism, and everyone for 
themselves needs to be abandoned in order for one to have a clear 
understanding of what anarchism is actually about. In fact, it can be said 
that anarchism is actually the opposite of all of that. However, despite 
this fact, a great many mis-conceptions, mis-understandings, slander, and 
media-portrayals of negative stereotypes of anarchists has occurred all 
over the world for hundreds of years. The cumulative effect of all of this 
has led to most people considering anarchism, especially anarchy, as one 
of those things that I listed above. With most people having this negative 
prejudice towards anarchism, many naturally do not want to try and learn 
anything about it, and hence the cycle of ignorance is perpetuated.
Anarchism is the social, economic and political theory that all forms of 
hierarchy, domination, authority, and coercion are wrong and should be 
abolished and replaced with new forms of inter-acting that are based on 
voluntary cooperation, direct participatory democracy, free association and 
mutual aid. Because of these core beliefs, anarchism advocates the complete 
abolition of all forms of capitalism, government, racism, sexism and 
homophobia. Anarchism sees capitalism and government as being institutions 
fundamentally based upon hierarchy, domination, authority, and coercion, 
whereas it views racism, sexism and homophobia as being inter-personal 
expressions of the same things.
Anarchism sees order and organization without authority and government as 
being possible, desirable and, to some extent, already existing in some 
small forms today. Anarchism seeks to create new forms and structures of 
relating and organizing without government and authority, as well as 
expanding upon the already existing ones.
There is a wide and diverse variety of anarchists, anarchist beliefs, 
tactics, and visions of a future anarchist society. There are 
eco-anarchists, union-centered anarchists, anti-God anarchists, Christian 
and Jewish anarchists, pacifist anarchists, animal rights-centered 
anarchists, class struggle-centered anarchists, pro-technology anarchists, 
anti-technology anarchists, etc etc. However, the things that unites all of 
these anarchists is the core beliefs that I wrote above(although each 
individual anarchist would think about and express this core unifying 
sentiment in a different and unique way).
To learn more about anarchism, I suggest that you read this essay.
For an even larger and more in-depth introduction to anarchism, I recommend 
that you visit An Anarchist FAQ.
Some good, useful and informative anarchist web-sites that I recommend are:
Liberty For The People
Anarchy Archives
Spunk Library
Infoshop.org