INSURRECTION

A considerable part of the anarchist movement shares insurrectional
positions. But they are theoretical stands only. We think that a new
way to consider insurrection is possible.

Apart from a few not very significant fringes, the international
anarchist movement shares theoretical positions of a revolutionary
character. The liberal democratic vein, important as far as it shows a
possible line of involution, remains on the margins.

In turn almost the whole of the revolutionary anarchist positions -
with different nuances - see insurrection as a necessary phase along
the road to revolution.

But this insurrection is seen as a mass revolt due to certain socioeconomic
forces that serve to set it off. The role of anarchist
movement is to limit itself to understand these conditions and
economic and social contradictions to make them more
comprehensible to the mass. Basically, a role of propaganda and
counter information.

Often even the anarchist comrades who see the need for violence
struggle against the structures of the oppression without half
measures, limit themselves to the part of this analysis and do not feel
obliged to go any further. The mass - they say - must do everything
themselves. Anything else would be authoritarian on the part of the
specific anarchist organisation and could turn out to be disastrous.
This idea of insurrection might have been logical when nearly the
whole of the anarchist movement was on positions of synthesis, i.e.
in the dimension of the big (or not so big) quantitative organisations.
Through the instruments of the syndicalist organisation they planned
to address the whole of the social and economic struggles into a
situation of waiting for a breaking out of the revolutionary moment.
There is a different way to envisage revolutionary struggle in an
insurrectionalist key in our opinion.

We consider the anarchist organisation, so long as it is informal,
can contribute to the constitution of autonomous base nuclei which,
as mass organisms, can programm attacks against structures of
social, economic and military repression. These attacks, even if
circumscribed, have all the methodological characteristics and
practises of insurrectional phenomena when not left to the blind
forces of social and economic conflict but are brought into an
anarchist projectuality based on the principles of autonomy, direct
action, constant attack and the refusal to compromise.
In a word, this is the insurrectional conception
that we are inviting all comrades interested to
access with critiques, analysis and debate. .







by Alfredo M.Bonanno, from the magazine Insurrection