We believe that social change is only achievable through the unity of ideas and actions.
While the material situation today might restrict our agency as individuals and collectives, it is only through our actions that we can create meaningful and long-lasting change.
As young militants, we all stumbled on to anarchism in our searches for a way of organising society which allows for each individual to live without restrictions, to exercise their freedom, and to live without the fear of violence, starvation, homelessness, or any other problem that faces so many people today.
As anarchists, the dignity of human, animal, and plant life is worth endlessly more than any amount of wealth, luxury, and power could ever provide.
The value of humans and the environment does not come from its ability to produce more wealth, but rather in its simple existence.
All life is valuable, regardless of which borders it falls under.
Anarchism gives us a model of society which allows for maximum liberty and enrichment while retaining a harmony with the needs of communities and environments. It is a society in which relationships are based upon solidarity and mutual aid, and which constantly moves in the direction of equality, liberty, and its sustainable reproduction.
Yet anarchism is also a method: it is a set of principles and tactics which are determined by the ends
that we seek. Our goals are to establish a revolutionary society guided by anti-authoritarian, feminist, and ecological principles, and this must be reflected in the means we use to reach it.
Social Organisations
We call ourselves social anarchists because we believe that the strength of the anarchist movement, and our ability to change the world from within it, depends on how organised our movement is.
Anarchism has provided social movements with a valuable set of tactics and methods, such as mutual aid and direct action. However, the political direction of these movements is often swayed to reformist or parliamentary directions by “entryism” – joining movements to take over or change their path – of authoritarian, campist, and other less radical actors.
The sad reality is that, as has happened repeatedly throughout history, anarchists have lacked a platform to clearly show their ideas and engage with social movements in ways which guide them, through example, towards libertarian directions.
We believe anarchists should form specific anarchist groups to coordinate the presence of anarchists in social movements otherwise dominated by other political tendencies.
Hope and Victory
Even those sympathetic to our cause often shake their heads at us, suggesting our idea is too idealistic or impractical. On the other hand, we have those who seek to repress us because we pose a danger to the established order of things. They do so with brute violence, surveillance and incarceration, and the atomizing of all social relationships.
We’re not strangers to hopelessness. Neither the idea, nor it’s experience. But we do not need hope to be anarchists, we do not need hope to know that we should still fight for what is right. We cannot wait for a perfect moment to arrive in order to commit ourselves to this struggle.
The only thing we can rely on is the faith, integrity, and trust we have in our own principles and each other, which through action and organisation, must lead to a better world.