WITH THE REBELS….ALWAYS!

Us, anarchists, we shouldn’t forget,not even in those moments when a black defeca called us towards prudence, the valiant man or woman who fell Anarchy.
We can’t take from their fall nothing else but will power and solidarity.
To say they fell because they were dreamers, or because they were absorbed in an illusion like a theatre act, because they held out their first or chest, further than allowed, this experience, doesn’t only sing towards disorientation, but something worse: It declares us superior. That would be like beating them after their fall.
We should’t do this. Not only for this man or woman, but for all the multitude. This happens too many times and creeps up over us. Games of freedom and life for causes that seem like inopportune labour.
For the triumph of a strike that left things as it was.
Go to the cementaries and say they were crazy or to prisons and dictate to the cons some sanity, that is even worse, it’s repugnance.
The individual rebellion, or the towns rebellion, will not be, and we all agree, the revolution, but it is it’s nerve and it’s essence.
It’s the feeling of this, that without it there wouldn’t be any anarchists now or anarchy.
Fuck! We have to learn from our defeats, but not from it’s possibilities and signs but from will power and conscience. For more firm solidarity for the fallen and for more action for those who are still on their feet. Not so we can be their leaders, but to be, more than ever, their comrades.
Always with the rebels!

(from ‘’Carteles I’’ by Rodolfo Gonzales Pacheco (1882-1942), a series of Spanish language anarchist texts which are circulating in the Spanish prison system and beyond. Translated into English by anarchist prisoner Rafael ‘’Jon-Bala’’ Martinez Zea.)

--extract from 325 Magazine n. 7 – October 2009