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Against the Terror of Anti-Terror

Written by Malaginoo.

The Philippine government is another step closer to revealing its true self: an undemocratic, oppressive entity ready to protect and serve the interests of the powerful, wealthy, and privileged few. Before there was talk of lockdowns and quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was the issue of updating the Human Security Act, a law defining the parameters of terrorism. After many days and weeks of politicking, grandstanding, and red-tagging, Congress unveiled the 2020 Anti-Terror Bill.1

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  1. See a report on the proposed law: Neil Arwin Mercado, “Longer warrantless detention among features of Lacson anti-terror bill.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. October 02, 2019. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1172687/longer-warrantless-detention-among-features-of-lacson-anti-terror-bill [↩]
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A Call for International Solidarity to Autonomous Resistance and Food Not Bombs Initiatives Around the Globe

A statement from Food Not Bombs Archipelago.

Homelessness and hunger is prevalent in many countries. People begging for food and malnourished children are common images in many places around the world that used to have healthy communities and ecology. While people are enduring poverty and hunger, governments particularly the first worlds are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to develop war materials they use to control other countries through war, intimidation and manipulations.

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An Anarchist Opposition to the Anti-Terror Act and the Terrorism of the State

As anarchist, autonomous, and anti-authoritarian collectives in the archipelago, we declare our opposition the Anti-Terrorism Act recently railroaded in Congress.

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Detention is Better Than Cure?: The Railroading of the Anti-Terrorism Bill Amidst the Pandemic

photo: Phil. Star

Written by Safehouse Infoshop and initially published on their website.

We have witnessed the government respond to the health crisis with military and police might. Over 30,000 people were arrested and detained, while those estimated to be affected of the actual virus only amounts to less than number. Many were detained for non-violent acts. Some were beaten up for not wearing masks. Others were shot dead, with the president’s grace, for mere disobedience. Demolitions continued. And despite strict security measures in the streets, human rights activist were gunned down.

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We Reject the Terror Bill

Truncheon-wielding Quezon City police disperse protesting urban poor inside the NHA compound on Nov. 22, 2017. (Photo by Philippine Collegian)

Preface from Bandilang Itim

We are reproducing this cross-sectional statement drafted by the NUJP because we unite with them in opposing the Terror Bill. However, we are against the Terror Bill, but we do not oppose on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. As anarchists, we do not believe we ought to be governed by law—indeed, we do not believe we ought be governed at all. Making a thing constitutional does make it right, and what is right is sometimes unconstitutional. We reject the idea that the constitution and laws itself as concepts that decide what is right and what is wrong. The law has been used to tyrannize people ever since colonial times; that the archipelago is nominally independent does not change the fact that the law is still a tyranny used against activists and workers.

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Cosa Nostra: Sponsorships, Affinity-based vetting and recruiting

Written by APS.

I’m writing this as a quick guide to screening people one might invite to the anarchist collective, since we seem to have an issue at the present where some reactionary elements have entered nominally Anarchist spaces. Not to mention the threat of entryism by those in the Maoist-aligned National Democratic movement. The information here is a synthesis of conversations I’ve had with other organizers, written records of existing anarchist organizations and as well as my own experiences having to organize spaces for planning and action, however small they may be.

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Advertising Anarchy

Written by Ponkan on his personal blog, republished by request on Bandilang Itim.

Throughout history Anarchism and Anarchies have long been known to appear and explode as vibrant as it is sporadic. At its most practical, it has been long defined by bursts of activity and small, however self-professing or simply resemblant it is.

Most of this intermittent yet persistent attitude is brought by the movement’s preference for solutions-based activity over theory. If there is any, its most seminal ones do not play around its own philosophy–it is unfettered and blunt aside from some bents towards propagandistic and erudite language. Why wait, nay–prepare for the coming upheaval when you can make liberation happen yourself? Direct action!

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Social Revolution is the Solution

Written by Bas Umali in October 2011. Published in May 2020 by Alimpuyo Press. Translation into English and edits by the author with help from Maku Felix. (Basahin sa Filipino.)

This is a republished article written by anarchists in the archipelago known as the Philippines or its diaspora. We at Bandilang Itim wish to highlight and disseminate these works to better propagate the ideas of anarchism in the archipelago.

The political exercise that is taking place in the United States is a manifestation of the worsening crisis of capitalism, where one percent of the population of the world has the sole control of the labor, resources, facilities and tools that were supposed to develop and expand the potentials of the world populations’ 99 percent.

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Panlipunang Rebolusyon ang Solusyon

Sinulat ni Bas Umali noong Oktubre 2011. Inilimbag noong Mayo 2020 ni Alimpuyo Press. (Read this in English.)

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Ang pampulitikang ehersisyong nagaganap sa Wall Street sa Estados Unidos ay manipestasyon ng lalo pang lumalalang krisis ng kapitalismo, kung saan ang isang porsyento ng populasyon ng daigdig ang siyang may kontrol ng lakas-pagawa, likas-yaman, mga pasilidad at kasangkapan na dapat sana’y magpapaunlad at magpapayabong sa potensyalidad ng 99 porsyentong populasyon ng sa daigdig.

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Ang Werpa ng mga Institusyon para sa Kontrol at Dominasyon

Sinulat ni Bas Umali at inilathala sa Anarki: Akin ang Buhay Ko 2.0 noong Disyembre 2017. Inilimbag ni Non-Collective (NC) at Onsite Infoshop.

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Ayon sa diksyunaryong Cambridge ang kontrol ay: to order, limit, or rule something, or someone’s actions or behaviour.1

Ang kontrol ay ang sapilitang limitasyon ng kilos at mga gawain sa mga tao o hayup sa mga tukoy na lugar. Halimbawa: pagpigil sa pagpasok, pag-okupa, pag-ani o paggamit ng mga biyaya ng kalikasan.

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  1. Cambridge English, “Meaning of control in English” https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/control [↩]