A-Infos (en) Germany, Anarchistische Gruppe Solidarität von unten (Solidarity from below)

Anarchist? Where are we going? ---- If we take a look at the so-called “left 
radical scene” we’re involved in, we soon see that there are some very serious 
problems… we do not use our free thought but accept things unquestioningly till 
we are left with nothing but dead dogma… there is no clarity of thought or ideas 
on where we are going or how we are going to get there… our groups are full of 
informal hierarchies that are never challenged or countered… our actions consist 
of jumping from campaign to campaign without actually bringing any real change 
to anything… we have built ourselves a self-made ghetto that we are quite happy 
to stay in and where there is hardly ever an attempt to get out of - as if 
anarchism could end at our doors when we leave our “free spaces”… we have become 
selfish in that through the luxury of being able to live in our “free spaces”, 
we leave those struggling to survive, alone, outside of them… we have become 
elitist in our view of those people outside of our ghetto by thinking that we 
are the “pure” ones while those outside are “reformists”, “bureaucrats”, 
“proles” or “happy slaves” if they go to work to feed their families.

We seem to forget that our ideas and the few freedoms we have today are the 
product of centuries of struggle by these very same people, and that we need to 
share our ideas with people outside of our scenes and work together with them if 
we are every truly to be free - we cannot change the world without the rest of 
humanity!

“Circle that A, motherfucker!” *

How many of us run around with circled-a’s on our jackets and chant anti-state 
and anti-capitalist slogans on demo’s… but how many of us actually take the idea 
seriously? Lets be clear, anarchism means literally without authority, but more 
than that, it means a struggle for a society where none has power or authority 
over another.

What do we mean by authority? We mean one or more people having the power to 
tell you to “do this” or “do that” and if you refuse, to force you to do it by 
the threat of starvation or setting their police guard dogs on you. This 
understanding of anarchism leads us to the necessity of a class analysis and 
perspective as without this, anarchism becomes nothing more than a historical 
lie and the word looses all meaning. Because of this, anarchism must clearly be 
a struggle against government (the politicians etc. who make the laws), States 
(cops, judges etc. who impose the laws) and Capitalists (the bosses, landlords 
etc. who the laws are made for).

Anarchism is the fight for a world where all people are equal and free and are 
respected as such, where all people can take part in making the decisions that 
effect their lives… it is the fight for a world of true freedom and peace.

Anarchism also affects too many other areas to mention in a short leaflet… the 
struggle for free decent education for all that is not brainwashing, the 
struggle in the workplaces against the bosses for a decent secure life, the 
struggle for the liberation of women, the struggle against all forms of racism 
which are only there to keep us fighting each other, against national borders 
which do nothing but divide us etc. etc.… all symptoms of a hierarchical society.

This is something anarchists need to have a clear understanding of, and which we 
need to be able to clearly communicate to others.

We need to develop a clear anarchist theory and practice, we need to fight the 
greed and domination conditioned into us, we need propaganda for spreading the 
anarchist idea into the struggles in the workplaces and in our communities… in 
short, we need to be organised as anarchists, for anarchism.

A group of us have finally decided that things have got to change! We don’t want 
to take part in actions that bring nothing to those in the real world, making 
the actions elitist; nor carry on in our passive circles while the world around 
us burns. We invite you to get into contact with us in the hope that together we 
can start the slow process of building the fighting organizations necessary to 
deal the injustices of capitalism and authority crippling blows and start the 
building of a truly free world.

Yours in struggle,

Anarchistische Gruppe Solidarität von Unten

* Check out anarchist, vegan crust punk band R.A.M.B.O.’s (Revolution Anarchy 
Mosh Bike Overthrow) song with the same name
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