You Say You Want an Insurrection

Crimethinc | 13.01.2010 21:49

You Say You Want an Insurrection

So do we—a total break with domination and hierarchy in all their forms, involving an armed uprising if need be. Until that’s possible, we’ll settle for recurring clashes in which to develop our skills, find comrades, and emphasize the gulf between ourselves and our oppressors.

But how do we bring about these confrontations? How do we ensure that they strengthen us more than our enemies? What pitfalls await us on this road? And what else do we have to do to make our efforts effective?

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/rollingthunder/insurrection.php

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Impressive

14.01.2010 19:19

Despite being something of a CrimethInc. cynic (although some criticism is overdone), this is well worth reading, I recommend it highly.
Their politics are improving...?

@non

news?

15.01.2010 10:28

is this news? really?

is this anything at all? create a problem so as to cause hate and fear amounst the people?

WHY?

Is this to make yourself feel a bit better about your own lack of direction, violence isnt a skill.

Still it's not dificult to be a violent revolutionary in a country where there are more reasonable people, try that shit in Russia/Cuba/ South America/ eastern Europe/ North Korea or china and you will find yourself dead.

So really, all your saying in this whole peice is, I live in a country with freedoms and little real oppression and I prove this by the fact that no one has "disapeared me" yet.

thank you for setting the action of all those working for a better world back by you frivolous and childish actions.

congratulations.

anon

@troll - insurrection is GLOBAL

15.01.2010 18:11

Hey troll, didn't you notice it's a link to a CRITIQUE of insurrectionism? The implicit Beatles reference is not encouraging.

Ohh, and when was the last time you saw a peaceful protest in China? The regime is evil but I've news for you moron, insurrection works in China, and very few people get killed doing it.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080701_1.htm

http://www.hkhkhk.com/engpro/messages/2741.html

http://boingboing.net/2008/11/30/nerf-factory-riot-in.html
It's preiodically reported there are thousands of riots a year, surely not true (it's a translation of the official term "mass incident") but indicative nevertheless:

http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/075531.php

Eastern Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7827708.stm

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Election_in_Moldova_instigates_rioting_mob_demanding_recount

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLE473019

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5359574.stm

http://www.ainfos.ca/04/mar/ainfos00237.html

http://libcom.org/library/1997-albania-laboratory-subversion

Russia:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL1929710420070919

South America:
(there's ten countries there, some of them the police are rather trigger happy, but we're talking 10s of deaths out of hundreds of thousands of protesters):

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article816

http://www.videonewslive.com/view/285839/peru_student_clashes

http://ecuador-rising.blogspot.com/2009/10/president-indigenous-groups-at-odds.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN051571

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3149541.stm

http://ww4report.com/node/1148

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7726069.stm

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/americas/news/article_1164424.php/Calm_after_the_storm_death_toll_from_uprising_climbs_to_96

Insurrection is a fact of life in most of the world... Britain must be in the bottom quarter at least of countries for militant protest nowadays...

LOL@TROLL

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lol

15.01.2010 20:38

wow I made you waste some of your life in arguing FOR "insurection", please tell me ONE country that is a workers paradise such as most ani's are after?

Violence breeds violence, to wish for it is to want a society bassed on hate and sadism (french revolution and its consiquences). but then, you dont really want it do you.

would do it myself but sorry my parents couldnt aford to put me through Uni and I had to work instead.

anon

Think global, insurrect local..

15.01.2010 22:22

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080701_1.htm

Fuck those Chinese know to insurrect :)

It is heart warming to see entire communities rising up to defend themselves. As I am sure most people who frequent Indymedia know non-violence is racist, patriarchal, privileged, and most of all, ineffective.

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