A Communique
from a Partisan of
Individual and
Collective Autonomy
Considering that the habitants of Oaxaca
have the right to live their lives as they wish, in the city and the
region that belong to them.
Considering that they have been victims
of a brutal aggression from the police, the military, and the death
squads at the pay of a governor and a corrupt government, both which
are not recognized by the people anymore.
Considering that the right to live of
Oaxaca's habitants is a legitimate right, and the illegitimacy is in
the actions of the forces of occupation and repression.
Considering that the massive and pacific
resistance of the people of Oaxaca vindicates their resolution of not
yielding to the threats, the fear, and the oppression, and also proves
their willingness to not counter the violence of the police and the
paramilitary murderers with a violence that would justify the work of
suffering and death accomplished by the enemies of life.
Considering that the struggle of the
people of Oaxaca is the struggle of millions of beings who vindicate
the right to live like humans and not like dogs in a world where all
the forms of life are threatened by financial interests, the law of
profit, the business mafias, the transformation into commodities of
natural resources, the water, the earth, the flora and fauna, the
woman, the child and the man, all enslaved, in their bodies and their
conscience.
Considering that the global struggle
executed in the name of life and against the totalitarian affairs of
commodities is what can prevent the people of Oaxaca from yielding to
the hopelessness that always serves faithfully power because it
paralyzes thought, seizes our self-confidence, and blocks our ability
to imagine and to create new solutions and new forms of struggle.
Considering that the international
solidarity satisfies itself much of the time by emotional bullshit, by
humanitarian speeches and empty declarations, where only the
self-complacency of the orator is the object of satisfaction.
I desire that practical aid would be
delivered to the popular assemblies of Oaxaca with the objective of
transforming that that still isn't a commune into one. The struggle in
Oaxaca is situated in the line of continuity of the Paris Commune and
the collectives of Andalusia, Catalonia, and Aragon — collectives
created during the Spanish revolution of 1936-1938, in which the
experience of self-management established the bases for a new society.
For that objective, I make a call to the
creativity of everyone in order to address the questions that, without
prejudging their pertinence or their relevance, should appear, with or
without reason, in the constitution of a government of the people for
the people — of a direct democracy in which individual vindications
would be considered, examined from the angle of a possible
harmonization and blessed with a collective recognition that would
permit its satisfaction.
If it is possible and desirable that the
parents of the victims of the repression and the occupation of the
police make a demand against the government and the responsible
instances of the murders and the violence, how guarantee such parents
international support?
How to prevent the imprisonments, the
action of paramilitaries, and the reconquering of the region by the
bloody hands of the corrupts?
Beyond the indignation caused by the
savagery of the state and the police, how should we aid the people of
Oaxaca so that they materialize the aspiration that they relentlessly
express: we do not want to be the victims of any violence?
How should we act so that no oppression
should be exerted over the right to live of the individuals and the
collectives attached to the defense of such universal right?
What support can be contributed by the
international solidarity to the civil resistance of Oaxaca in such a
way that this civil resistance could bring the legitimacy of governing
themselves through direct democracy to the people?
And in a more longer term perspective:
And if they wish so, how can we aid the
commune of Oaxaca in the organization of the supplying of food, and
goods of individual and collective utility?
How can we help the popular assemblies
so that they themselves, without the intervention of Power, accomplish
the self-management of transportation, sanitary services, the industry
of water, electricity, etc?
What international contribution can be
made to the project of "alternative education" that, after the long
teachers' strike, has become feasible in Oaxaca?
Is there a scientific association that
could facilitate the development of natural energy and non-pollutants
in the region of Oaxaca? The objective would have two parts. One part
is to prevent that this energy be implanted in an authoritarian fashion
in the benefit of the State and the multinational conglomerates, like
how it has happened in the Isthmus. The other part is to remember that
the preoccupation of energy and the environment is nonsensical to us if
it doesn't has a relationship to self-management, because only
self-managed industries would be able to be at the service of
self-managed , autonomous communities. Self-managed natural, clean
energy not only makes it possible for such energy to become independent
of the technological and petroleum mafias, but also their renewable
characteristics makes it possible — after paying for the costs of the
investment — to make it gradually cost-free. A cost-free energy implies
cost-free transportation, medical services, education, and, an absolute
weapon against commodity tyranny, guaranteed human richness.
Each time a revolution has dismissed as
their main objective to enrich the everyday life of everyone, it has
armed the repression.