A-Infos (en) Brazil, Capixaba, FACA: Voting is Taming Revolt (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Comrades, enough of believing in the fairy tale of bourgeois democracy! 
The ballot box is not an instrument of liberation, but a coffin where we 
bury our autonomy while the henchmen of capital sharpen their claws. 
Voting is the opium of the modern people, the escape valve that the 
ruling class invented to make us complicit in our own subjugation. While 
we place our hope in a crumpled piece of paper, the police continue to 
massacre the periphery, the boss continues to squeeze the sweat of the 
worker, and the state machine continues to spin to accumulate wealth in 
the hands of a few. Don't be fooled: the impenetrable voting booth is 
the tomb of revolt.

Look at Espírito Santo, this fertile land watered with indigenous blood 
and slave sweat. Choosing between Colonel Ferraço and the opportunist 
Pazolini is the same as choosing between a rifle butt and a baton. Both 
are puppets of the same rotten system; Both swear allegiance to the same 
Constitution, designed to protect large landholdings and financial 
capital. With Ferraço or Pazolini, the worker in Cariacica will continue 
waking up at 4 a.m. to earn a salary that barely covers bread. The Black 
youth of Vila Velha will continue to be targets of stray bullets. 
Indigenous lands will continue to be invaded by murderous agribusiness. 
There is no institutional solution to structural violence, because 
violence is the very foundation of the institution. The changing of 
masks in the carnival of oppression fools no one with blood in their eyes.

We, anti-capitalists and anti-statists, reject this rigged game. Our 
freedom is not won in a Sunday queue, but built day by day, with 
calloused hands and solidarity burning in our hearts. Our praxis is 
mutual support - the plate of food shared in the occupation, the 
medicine obtained without bureaucracy, the collective defense against 
eviction. Our compass is self-management - the factory taken over that 
produces for the community's needs, the urban garden planted where there 
was once rubble, the horizontal school where knowledge is exchanged and 
not imposed. Our horizon is federalism - the decentralized articulation 
between neighborhoods and cities, without bosses, without presidents, 
without governors, where the decision emerges from the base to the base. 
While politicians negotiate in air-conditioned offices, we weave 
networks of resistance that ignore the borders of the state of Espírito 
Santo.

And that is where the crucial difference lies. While the media and 
parties hypnotize the masses with the electoral ritual, the Espírito 
Santo Anarchist Federation (FACA) is in the real trenches, building 
tomorrow today. We don't see ourselves in legislative chambers, but in 
collective kitchens feeding the hungry; we don't see ourselves on 
platforms, but in neighborhood assemblies organizing the fight against 
fare increases; we don't see ourselves in decrees, but in urban 
occupations that restore the social function of the land. The FACA 
(Knife) sows daily insubordination, combats racism and patriarchy in 
every act, and organizes the general strike without asking permission 
from the State. The construction of freedom is a hammer striking the 
chain every day, not an empty promise for four years from now.

Therefore, let us reject this pathetic ritual that repeats itself every 
four years like a replay of hell! Let us reject the farce that reduces 
us to mere numbers in a system of domination. The way out for the 
working and oppressed class is not in the impenetrable booth, but in the 
street, in the factory, in the favela, and on the land. The way out is 
anarchism - the only doctrine that restores our sovereignty over our own 
existence. Tear up your voter registration card, spit on the bourgeois 
citizenship manual, and join us! The Anarchist Federation of Espírito 
Santo is standing, building tomorrow today. Don't vote. Organize. Social 
revolution is urgent, and it doesn't wait for the blessing of any 
politician.

Capixaba Anarchist Federation - FACA
Affiliated with the Federalist Anarchist Union - UAF

https://federacaocapixaba.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/17/votar-e-domesticar-a-revolta/
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