#title Avenge George Floyd and all those murdered by State brutality
#author Tekoşîna Anarşîst
#SORTauthors Tekoşîna Anarşîst
#SORTtopics Tekoşîna Anarşîst, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, communique
#date 04/06/2020
#source Retrieved on 2020-06-13 from [[https://twitter.com/TA_Anarsist/status/1268639149231419392/][twitter.com]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2020-06-17
— Angela Davis
The uprisings ongoing in America, a response to the police brutality that murdered
George Floyd, are underlining the racist origins of the american states, founded on
genocide and built by slaves. The violence of state forces against black and other
people of colour has sparked massive social unrest. Even in the heart of the former
Confederacy, we are witnessing resistance on a massive scale against racially
motivated killings by police. For centuries, countless people have been kidnapped
from their homelands and forced to build countries which, in return, have oppressed
and murdered them. This is a long term existential struggle that has made significant
strides, but has never been able to fully resolve the inherent racist contradictions
at the foundation of the american societies. In the US, the regime has very clearly lost
control, and is now sending an occupying army in an attempt to maintain order. The
people are surrounding the White House as the president cowers in a bunker and the
stores of the wealthy from Beverly hills to Manhattan have been relieved of their
luxury goods. In Brazil, outraged protests are challenging the fascist government that
has been threatening the poor, people of colour and indigenous communities. From
the favelas to the jungles in Amazonas, from the coffee fields to the suburbs of the
overcrowded cities, resistance is spreading and uniting their voices proclaiming
that “Black lives matter.” And this resistance is being organized not only in America
but also in Europe, in Asia, in Middle East, and of course, in Africa.
Uprisings are important, they remind us we have the power to change things. But we
also know that the nation-states will use every means to prevent a revolutionary
process and maintain the status quo — police, military and paramilitary, jails, torture,
media manipulation, counter intelligence operations. In order to defend ourselves we
have to transform this spring of rage into organized resistance, not only with
capacity of self-defense but also able to develop alternatives, to develop a meaningful
struggle, to develop free life. We have to show our commitment and determination to
continue the path that we are walking, the path that so many freedom fighters walked
before us, whatever consequences may come. This can only be achieved by engaging
with society, with the community, cultivating true love and comradeship among
our friends and allies, and struggling together for a better world. We need to regain
faith that another world is possible, and we need to do it together, because “If not we,
who? If not now, when?” We need to educate ourselves to build our own truth, able
to challenge the lies they tried to make us swallow. To believe in our own strength
and recover the trust in ourselves, that makes us able to stand up and shout loudly and
full of pride that “I am a revolutionary.”
From the front lines of the Rojava Revolution we support these uprisings
unflinchingly, and encourage all revolutionary comrades to do the same. People
should not be oppressed and regarded as inferior for their skin color, gender, social
class, ethnic or religious identity. We have to get rid of borders and hierarchies
that divide us. Let’s come together through solidarity and self organization. Let’s
come together and build a free life beyond the state. All revolutionary struggles have
the same horizon, and only by mutual aid and international solidarity we can face the
violence and oppression of this system of capitalist modernity. The antiracist struggle
has to come hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, with the antipatriarchal struggle, the
class struggle and the ecological struggle. Because it is the women, the poor, the
black, the queer, the colonized, the indigenous, all the oppressed and dispossessed of
the world, who can build a world where other worlds are possible.
— Fred Hampton
— Fred Hampton