Sasha
6th May 2010, 20:39
Note: although is was at the demo, i didnt write this text and its a bit to insurrectionist for my taste, but a nice breach with most dutch anarchist text non the less.
Mayday Nijmegen
Inspired by the first of May demonstration in Nijmegen, we would like to share some thoughts. Since 1891 the first of May, or Mayday, is celebrated as labour day. Traditionally the first of May is observed and acted upon in many ways and by many differing political opinions. For us the first of May is a chance, not to celebrate the right to work or labour itself, but to attack the logics of wage labour together with all her structures and the system that it is part of. To step outside and to explore the possibilities to highlight our desires and angers through confrontation and also to discover others in a similar position.
This first of May a combatant demonstration got together, a coming together of individuals that found each other expectedly as well as unexpectedly. At crucial moments the pigs were forced out of the demonstration, held at a distance and we stood in the confidence that we could rely upon each other. We walked through the Wolfskuil, a living area of Nijmegen, leaflets were handed out and shortly after we arrived to the commercial city center. Soon the windows of the job agency Adecco were shattered, beautiful; an exploiter of common workers as well as a supplier of prison guards is being assaulted at the same time.
The dutch standard of uneventful A to B demonstrations is something in our heads, a restrictive presence both internal and external, and in this way it influences the practise. A defeatist attitude; before we begin we have already lost. It is a matter of creating the space in our heads in order to break loose from the (safe) idea that ‘nothing will happen anyway’. This mentality is to be escaped to allow for the possibility of following through with our intentions. Saturday showed concisely that there is the chance for escalation.
Our desire for revolt often differs in practice to that in theory, however Saturday demonstrated that we are capable of changing this. We will take this challenge, we will develop the dynamic and we will make the daily reality explode. The experience of overcoming our own fears, to taste the possibilities that we possess; these experiences are essential in order to commence the attack against the system of labour and its protectors.
It is disturbing that people, when reviewing the demonstration, refer to ‘illegal’ police violence or that the right to demonstrate has been obstructed. We don’t care what is or is not forbidden or permitted by their laws. Arrests and state violence are required to maintain the control within the system. Without the “strong arm of the law” their system can not exist, the rich and fairytale-telling parliament representatives surely need protection. This is why we should not be surprised or shocked because of their batons, their vile faces or ‘injustice’.
It is a gathering of intentions; we as individuals meet each other on the street and together we can provoke those in power and their blue tentacles. At that moment, in that place, it is not about whether the pigs are provoking us; we are being provoked every day, we find ourselves almost constantly in a defensive position. They, the ancient bosses and politicians, take every day, they force their will upon us unrelentingly, so a truncheon in your neck is only a temporary argument to defend yourself. Let’s provoke them, decide for ourselves when to take back what has been taken from us, and definitely not wait for a police provocation to inflict our frustrations upon them. We choose the moment. We do not want to affirm or accept the logic of justified violence, e.g. we do not wish to hide behind so-called self-defence to excuse our means. We attack consciously!
Let the offense turn to anger, and let the anger be vented upon everything that restricts us from breathing freely.
source: http://olieophetvuur.6x.to/
Mayday Nijmegen
Inspired by the first of May demonstration in Nijmegen, we would like to share some thoughts. Since 1891 the first of May, or Mayday, is celebrated as labour day. Traditionally the first of May is observed and acted upon in many ways and by many differing political opinions. For us the first of May is a chance, not to celebrate the right to work or labour itself, but to attack the logics of wage labour together with all her structures and the system that it is part of. To step outside and to explore the possibilities to highlight our desires and angers through confrontation and also to discover others in a similar position.
This first of May a combatant demonstration got together, a coming together of individuals that found each other expectedly as well as unexpectedly. At crucial moments the pigs were forced out of the demonstration, held at a distance and we stood in the confidence that we could rely upon each other. We walked through the Wolfskuil, a living area of Nijmegen, leaflets were handed out and shortly after we arrived to the commercial city center. Soon the windows of the job agency Adecco were shattered, beautiful; an exploiter of common workers as well as a supplier of prison guards is being assaulted at the same time.
The dutch standard of uneventful A to B demonstrations is something in our heads, a restrictive presence both internal and external, and in this way it influences the practise. A defeatist attitude; before we begin we have already lost. It is a matter of creating the space in our heads in order to break loose from the (safe) idea that ‘nothing will happen anyway’. This mentality is to be escaped to allow for the possibility of following through with our intentions. Saturday showed concisely that there is the chance for escalation.
Our desire for revolt often differs in practice to that in theory, however Saturday demonstrated that we are capable of changing this. We will take this challenge, we will develop the dynamic and we will make the daily reality explode. The experience of overcoming our own fears, to taste the possibilities that we possess; these experiences are essential in order to commence the attack against the system of labour and its protectors.
It is disturbing that people, when reviewing the demonstration, refer to ‘illegal’ police violence or that the right to demonstrate has been obstructed. We don’t care what is or is not forbidden or permitted by their laws. Arrests and state violence are required to maintain the control within the system. Without the “strong arm of the law” their system can not exist, the rich and fairytale-telling parliament representatives surely need protection. This is why we should not be surprised or shocked because of their batons, their vile faces or ‘injustice’.
It is a gathering of intentions; we as individuals meet each other on the street and together we can provoke those in power and their blue tentacles. At that moment, in that place, it is not about whether the pigs are provoking us; we are being provoked every day, we find ourselves almost constantly in a defensive position. They, the ancient bosses and politicians, take every day, they force their will upon us unrelentingly, so a truncheon in your neck is only a temporary argument to defend yourself. Let’s provoke them, decide for ourselves when to take back what has been taken from us, and definitely not wait for a police provocation to inflict our frustrations upon them. We choose the moment. We do not want to affirm or accept the logic of justified violence, e.g. we do not wish to hide behind so-called self-defence to excuse our means. We attack consciously!
Let the offense turn to anger, and let the anger be vented upon everything that restricts us from breathing freely.
source: http://olieophetvuur.6x.to/