Surat bagi para pelajar, Desember 2008

Sebuah surat terbuka dari para pekerja Athena, berhubungan dengan gejolak sosial atas tertembak matinya seorang anak muda.

Umur kita berbeda dan keasingan umum ini membuat kita sulit berbicara di jalan2; oleh karena itu kami mengirim surat ini.

Banyak dari kami belum menjadi botak atau menjadi buncit. Kami bagian dari gerakan pada tahun 90-91an. Kalian pasti pernah mendengarnya. Kala itu, meski kami telah menduduki sekolah kami selama 30-35 hari, kaum fasis membunuh seorang guru karena ia telah berjalan melampaui peran yang “seharusnya” ia lakukan dan malah pergi berseberangan jalan; ia telah memihak kepada kami, ke dalam perjuangan kami. Meski yang terkuat dari kita menguasai jalanan dan membuat rusuh. Bagaimanapun, kami tak pernah berpikir seperti yang telah kalian dengan mudah sekali sekarang ini: menyerang kantor polisi (meski pada waktu itu kami bernyanyi “bakar kantor polisi”)

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The following articles argue for a class-struggle perspective, with two basic points: that all oppressions, class and non-class, should be fought against and that working class struggles are, in certain ways, central to an overall perspective. This is due to an analysis of class and non-class oppressions and the ways they interrelate, which produces a strategic and moral orientation.

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Reasons for a working class perspective. What is wrong with a nonclass perspective. Rooting class struggle anarchism in an analysis of capitalism, a strategic orienation, and a moral perspective.

What is Class Struggle Anarchism?
PART 1: Why the Working Class

Recently an activist friend, who has been influenced by Michael Albert’s Parecon program, wrote to me. He asked, “Why should we call ourselves class struggle anarchists instead of feminist-antiracist-green-class struggle anarchists?” In other words, why single out the struggle of the working class? At least his approach includes class conflict as one of the aspects of social struggle. There are many, liberals and radicals, who completely reject class struggle. Many denounce unions (from the right). Hardt and Negri have been influential in replacing the working class theoretically with a concept of the “multitude.”

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