Hourriya, internationalist anarchist pamphlets

“Hourriya” is a new international editing project wanting to participate in deepening anarchist ideas by publishing a series of small pamphlets. The different contributions contains experiences like the one lived in Syria by comrades from Aleppo, as well as precise questions such as the one of the informal organisation, the “unforseen” or the science of domination, as well as historical topics. The “internationalist anarchist pamphlets” will consist of texts published elsewhere as well as texts written for the occasion, including unedited forewords (and afterwords according to the contexts).
The pamphlets will only be available on paper and for the price of 2 euros, they will be published several times a year and in different language (French, English and German). One can go to the website https://hourriya.noblogs.org for ordering copies or get some more information.

The first pamphlet is called “Revolutionary echoes from Syria. Conversations with two anarchists from Aleppo”. It contains 124 pages and came out in English:
“The discussion below reflects an overview of the conditions experienced by individuals who are trying to liberate themselves from the system of social hypocrisy and the mentality of subordination. Our experience is still fragile, a newborn.
During the revolution and even now the difficulty lies in our inability to observe clearly the inherent authoritarian power within the society and the state. Consequently this prevented -and still prevents- us from stripping the layers they hide behind and fighting them raw and bare.”

The second pamphlet, “Affinity and informal organisation” (90 pages), just came out in English:
“If the question is no longer how to organize the people for the struggle, we should talk about how to organize the struggle. We think that archipelagos of affinity groups, independent one from the other, which are able to associate themselves according to shared perspectives and concrete projects of struggle, are the best way to pass directly to the offensive. This concept offers the greatest autonomy and the largest field of action possible. In the range of insurrectional projects, it is necessary and possible to find ways of informally organizing ourselves which would allow the encounter between anarchists and other rebels, forms of organization which are not destined to perpetuate themselves, but are aimed at a specific and insurrectional goal.”.

Charity, the perfect alibi for the expulsion machine

The wars and shitty conditions inflicted by capital and the state drive thousands of people towards exile. Many of them flee religious and state persecution towards European countries, in hopes of being granted asylum or refugee status. For the authorities, the main issue is to get them on file (notably via a genetic database put in place by the EURODAC regulations, which form part of the Dublin II law), to keep them under control, to park them until they can be sent back. Those with degrees can “win” the right to stay, since they are directly exploitable by the economy. But hell awaits the the vast majority of those who manage to set foot alive on the national territory – in other words a “life” of permanent anxiety and fear of being arrested by the police, of ending up locked in CRAs (French detention centres) only to be expelled back to their country of origin (or to the first European country they arrived in, according to the Dublin III rules).

To file, sort, detain and expel undocumented migrants, the state relies on many charities, who in exchange are generously showered with subsidies. The most notorious are: the Red Cross which currently shoulders the police at the border between Menton and Ventimiglia in order to send migrants who seek to enter France back to the CIEs (Italian detention centres), which it runs ; Emmaüs, abbot Pierre’s association, which sorts undocumented migrants in Paris so as to facilitate the police’s job, and runs reception centres ; the Order of Malta and France Terre d’Asile (“France Land of Asylum”), which run practically all of the detention centres in France ; the CIMADE, which supposedly intervenes in the CRA to guarantee refugees’ rights but in fact seeks to make their interment “more humane”, in other words more acceptable. They play the ideal role needed by the state: that of social pacification. But the large charities (the most well-known ones) which manage the lions’ share of the market of misery are far from the only ones to intervene. We already recalled (in the 6th issue of the paper) the role of La Vie Active (“Active Life”) in Calais, where the organisation was granted management of the high-security mega-detention camp.

In Besançon as in many other towns of France, a new method of policing undocumented migrants has been experimented with by the state during the summer of 2016, in the framework of the new reform of the CESEDA (Code of entry and of stay of foreigners and of the right to asylum) which was voted on March 7th: house arrests, which are presented as an alternative to detention. To extend internment beyond the confines of prisons is part and parcel of the current logic of the powers that be. Be it for the prisoners (under the authority of the Ministry of Justice) or for the migrants (under the Ministry of the Interior), the state is attempting to unclog prisons and detention centres by issuing alternative sentences, such as electronic bracelets, judicial reviews and various obligations to regularly appear before the police or judges, etc…

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-Prologue –
Desecration of universality and the theatrical significance of civilisation’s performances

In the geographic area where  I am (and not only) there is the need for defiance of the total mental and practical death that is surrounding us in the prison island by destroying ones socially constructed idol and penetrating in a battle which materially it is certain that it can’t be won. By exchanging experiences and tools and taking full advantage  however possible, not quiting even if you are kneeling from despair and create ruptures internally and externally with reality. A reality which has consolidated the trust for the police and the Law, the self repression founded in the social logic of  “equality”, snitches and “guard dog” citizens called the neighborhood watch, cameras even on the most stupid point anyone can imagine, the multi-culture with the morality of humanism and the  “joy” of being a free citizen, the sacrifice of the desires of the individual on the altar of consumerism (mental and material), the ultimate domestication of the non-human animals who could be commercialized  and the genocide of those who were a threat for the civilised human, thus transforming whatever  land has been left into an almost sterilized landscape. Also creating nature reserves, prisons of the earthly environment  but also the non-human individualities, which operate as the total ideologicalization of the control of Man over everything. The logic of ideologicalized imprisonment  is implanted everywhere around us. But so is the logic of victimization.

An anarchist flow of life from a nihilist egoist point of view can be created even from one person. By individualities who move from the shadows into the shadows engaging in speech and action trying to actuate their own decivilized evolution inside a wandering of the unknown without a final purpose.

Primary role has only the satisfaction of the self, the attempt for authentic relations with other animals, human, non-human but also the magnificent environments  of the earthly fields outside of social interpretation, the consistency to no construct beyond being your own self and the pleasure of self-realization with all the means one has at his/her disposal, pushing every feeling and moment to the extremes. Against every civilisation and culture, acknowledging of course that your own

elements have been created from somewhere, however going for the satisfaction of attacking every anthropocentric construct, which in the current era rules every human being and thus emerge even for a while outside the swamp of every human civilisation.

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