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Blocade All Power! International Call For Solidarity With Egyptian Anarchists & Those Fighting For Total Freedom

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 15:30 -- Anonymous (not verified)

Call out to organize action the night of February the 6th.

http://www.facebook.com/events/150565008433054/

Blocade All Power! International Call For Solidarity With Egyptian Anarchists & Those Fighting For Total Freedom

As night falls on February 6th_____

Find your friends, comrades. Head to the centers of power in your area______

The Egyptian state has declared the black bloc illegal, to be hunted down, beaten and arrested_____

We ask state and capital for nothing, their tyranny will never mean freedom____

Every single person on this planet who struggles is a friend____

On February 6th, our solidarity equals strength.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"You must log in to see this page."
This is why facebook is bad, and you should feel bad.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Thanks for getting this out there. Hopefully friends worldwide will take up this call and organize solidarity actions. I can't think of the last time I felt solidarity action made sense other than now. I suppose that is the nature of the changing game.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

igtt 0/10 unless this is written from a university computer and is serious in that case 10/10

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I honestly don't see an issue with this black bloc campaign, not at all because I am an anglo american and clearly we are involved in some capacity. What troubles me is after the Muslim britherhood is deposed, if we will be able to control this force we are unleashing or will it become another al qaeda in anarchist garb.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Not really sure how to respond to this, I think the best way would be to point out that the extreme fundamentalists in Egypt have already announced opposition to the black bloc with a "white bloc." So, essentially they have differentiated themselves already.

That said, our anarchist comrades are being attacked either way, those who are fighting for freedom in Egypt are under attack in general. This seems to say, "lets show them support."

Submitted by damn skippy (not verified) on

Funny, that's what the CIA said when they created Al Qaeda in the first place.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"if we will be able to control this force we are unleashing"
uh... what the fuck? I think you're confused...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Yeah ... that was 6 or 7 different kinds of racist and fucked up ...

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

A few days ago, there was a call on this site against NATO support for the Syrian rebels. Now, its a call for anarchist support of Egyptian rebels. What happens if NATO decides to ship the Egyptian rebels some hardware? This site can be full of ambiguities. Maybe one should accomodate ones self to the idea that its okay for insurgents to accept outside aid.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

what's up with the people in this thread who haven't been paying attention to what this is about? Have you not noticed the 1000+ news reports and 4 articles on this site giving this call some background?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

So... The ambiguity you speak of is caused by a hypothetical situation that isn't actually informed by the context of this call-out. It's actually a false dichotomy. Let's talk about organizing public anarchist responses to actual events, not hypothetical ones, OK? So as of right now, NATO isn't supporting Egyptian anarchists! That'll be the day, right comrades?!

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

And if the Egyptians were getting any outside support, wouldn't it necessarily be kept as covert as possible? My point, however, is that it is contradictory to support insurgents in Egypt, but not in Syria.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The US has backed Morsi and the MB from the moment it became apparent that Mubarak had to go. Stratfor even ran a front-page headline cautioning investors not to worry, because the revolution in Egypt wasn't a real revolution, so much as a cosmetic makeover (one figurehead down, another in his place, the US-backed Egyptian military & business elite still in the driver's seat). So, to address your hypothetical, no the US and NATO are not backing Egyptian anarchists, they are backing the police and military who are killing Egyptian anarchists.

As for your initial point about ambiguity: of course. Politics is complicated. It always has been, and always will be, full of contradictions and hypocrisies.

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

That is true. But why decline support for Syrian insurgents merely because they do get at least some material aid from NATO???

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

What kind of Egyptian rebels? The antiauthoritarian ones? Because I'm sure NATO won't send help to them.

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

What makes the Egyptian pemdeserving of support than the Syrian people?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"What happens if NATO decides to ship the Egyptian rebels some hardware?"

Considering we're talking about anarchist, that has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever read. Just look at history, what would become nato didn't give the @'s in spain weapons, nor did the fuckin' reds in russia, who were suppose to be fighting on the same side. Instead the would be nato-nites funded franco just like they would fund the brotherhood over team @ any day of the week. As we know, the US has no problem equipping religious fundamentalist, but they will never fund the means to their own end, because sadly their not that stupid.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The bolsheviks fighting on the same side as anarchists? Nato-nites? What?

And yeah, NATO is not going to help the antiautoritarian rebels.

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

If it means getting rid of the Assad regime in Syria, or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they just might. Anyhow, if I were a Syrian, or Egyptian rebel, I wouldn't be looking any would-be gift horse too closely in the mouth. Modern infantry, anti-armor, and anti-aircraft weapons sure beat rocks and bottles!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

No ... they won't. Here's a screen-name I've seen posting stupid shit on multiple occasions now ...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"The bolsheviks fighting on the same side as anarchists? Nato-nites? What?"

He/she is referencing the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War, which the anarchist CNT/FAI were on. The authoritarian elements of the Republican side were primarily armed and supported by the USSR, which betrayed the anarchists in the notorious events of May '37 in Barcelona.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Duhhhhh! NATO didn't exist during the Spanish Civil War. But the French gave the Republican side alot of arms. As did the USSR. And neither anarchists or Marxists in the French Resistance, during WWII would not have been complaining when the Brits or the Americans parachuted arms cannisters to them. Any armed conflict can breed strange bedfellows.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"the French gave the Republican side alot of arms."[citation needed]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

you will not find a citation for that because it does not exist

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

We could have delivered arms to the Spanish Government [Republicans], a legitimate government...We have not done so, in order not to give an excuse to those who would be tempted to send arms to the rebels [Nationalists]. Blum, 1936.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"But the French gave the Republican side alot of arms."

No, they didn't. I think there were some very minor shipments of light aircraft in the opening months of the conflict, but other than that the French refused to arm the Republicans.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Why are people thinking that the Special Activities Division or the like would give weapons and training to a few hundred antiauthoritarian rioters? Seriously, what the hell.

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

No one is saying that. but what if they? Should an anarchist insurgent decline the aid? That is the question.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

That question is so abstract as to be meaningless. In practice, aid is always given with an agenda. In situations like these, "the rebels" are never a homogeneous force, and foreign states will always give aid to those elements who they think are closest to their interests. As with the USSR arming the Spanish Stalinists in 1936, so with the US backing those elements who they think are most likely to become pliable dictators in Libya and Syria today. Aid from foreign states will always end up in the hands of people who want to crush anarchists, pretending otherwise is as useless as asking "But what if Makhno came back to life and offered the black bloc a nuclear bomb?"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

THANK you ... somebody get this bayonet guy a dictionary to look up realpolitik

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Oh, and what is up with putting this ______
at the end of every line? ______

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

just try it_____
and see if you like it_____

it is the new cool thing to do_____
like black bloc egypt____

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Being an Egyptian means more courage to try radicaler street tactics than used by US/UK/GREEK black bloc

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