I think the first thing is to find a group of people,
a community,
or people in your area
that have a conflict in common.
And based on that conflict,
to agree to organize among these people to achieve an objective.
Any party based organization
from the most left-leaning to the furthest right-wing
utilizes a hierarchical structure in its form of organizing.
They also form part of the political circus,
the spectacle.
In the face of capitalist catastrophe, in the face of the capitalist devastation,
it is necessary to have this energy.
There are those of us who can't
- there are many people who can't stay calm and continue life
in this "normality"
when it is evident that they are exterminating our future.
There are different positions.
So from more anti-social tendencies,
more insurrectionary,
there isn't really much of a call or direct invitation
for people to join up or to start believing in anarchist ideas.
More than being convinced,
those groups have participants because of their own ideas and feelings.
But there are comrades whose political work is more social,
more based in people-power, who believe in organizing from below
and neighborhood organizing.
I think here in Chile, we've had a chance to experience
a broad range of anarchist and anti-authoritarian practices and tactics.
Between territorial assemblies, between affinity groups,
between liberated spaces and squats,
between labor unions, between independant workers,
among professionals and among people who live on the streets.
In these territories we are fortunate that many, many of us have Mapuche ancestry.
We also have that duality,
or that ability to position ourselves politically like this.
From the point of view of anarchists
- but at the same time not forgetting that we have our own history.
That we have our own individuality.
That we are from this territory.
That we come from a colonized territory.
That our history and our practices and our visions of anarchism
aren't going to be 100% the same as the anarchist comrades
from Palestine, Rojava, or Europe,
or from other parts of Latin America.
On the one hand, we visualize, theorize, develop our politics,
basically thinking on what it is we want - what we're seeking.
On the other hand, we start taking action
and we see how specifically we can make those ideas real.
We're all individuals. But everyone has their role.
In Chile we're lucky,
somewhat ironically,
that we have a history full of conflict.
A history of political persecution
and of riots.
So conflicts and objectives have always been present.
The strategies and tactics that have been used in general
have been pretty broad.
The tactics that are winning these days can be inspired by other struggles.
For example the tactics inspired by the conflict in Hong Kong.
The idea of using lasers
and of using water jugs to put out tear gas cannisters.
These are internationally used resistance and street fighting practices.
Then there's blocking the street.
There are barricades - different kinds too.
There's barricades of fire, or barricades of stones.
There are comrades who rescue and help those who are injured.
Follow conflicts around the world that can also serve as inspiration.
So that we can have new experiences. New ways of attacking.
New forms of resistance within the territories in conflict.
The Police
The Judges
The State
The President
The oppressive state is the rapist
The rapist is you
I would invite fellow anarchist comrades
to realize that we have the potential to organize ourselves,
to hold positions and politics that are intersectional
with people who may not necessarily be anarchists.
To those who embrace anti-speciesist ideas.
To those who embrace anti-patriarchal ideas.
To those who embrace ideas and spirituality.
To those who rescue some of the ancestry lost to these centuries of colonization
that European, western, white hetero-patriarchy has imposed on us
- has snatched.