Faced with another Youth Combatant Day, I believe it is pertinent to pause for a moment to look at the life stories of many of our comrades who have fallen in combat, who took up this subversive path, despite the various political contexts in which capital is masked.
This day marks a real concrete milestone in which we rediscover our history and the dialectics of life, which leads us to question our practices as individuals and collectivity on a daily basis.
The expression of combativity is not just reduced to dates or moments of actions (barricades, confrontations, sabotage, etc.), but extends to all forms of collective work deployed in various spaces. It is a daily permanent practice that requires learning, debates and real connection with our surroundings, building affinities and clearly stating our proposals for the destruction of this reality, and it is the task of all of us.
We cannot fall into unbridled spontaneity in the actions we propose.
The networks of complicity are woven in practice and not in virtuality, not in the superficial discourse, poster or selfie published like a crude advertising commercial; much less through ambivalence in regards to institutionality, endorsing conventions and / or elections, arguing the classic “I vote, but I also organize”.
We must be able to enter self-criticism, rethink ourselves, no matter how hard it might seem to us.
As Luisa says “WE ARE OR WE AREN’T”… “HERE IS WHERE OUR LIFE GOES”… Sometimes criticism must be directed towards oneself… bearing the costs, since the mistakes only belong to those carrying out their action.
In this walk of memory, resistance and subversion, all our fallen combatant brothers and sisters walk among us… with their flame always alive, with their legacies and their example.
Pablo, Eduardo, Rafael, Luisa… we continue… we will continue.
Wisdom, strength and decision.
To all of you.
YOUTH COMBATANT, PERMANENT INSURRECTION!!!!!
FREEDOM TO ALL THE SUBVERSIVE, ANARCHIST, MAPUCHE PRISONERS & PRISONERS OF THE REVOLT!!!!!
history and the dialectics of life, which leads us to question our practices as individuals and collectivity on a daily basis.