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Solidarity April Pinning your hopes on merely making adjustments to the present system which is destroying our world isn’t enough. The only way to effectively campaign to halt climate change is to impart a true picture of capitalism. Its insatiable hunger for profit is not only undermining the working and living conditions of billions of working SYSTEM CHANGE people but the basis of life itself. The future of our planet depends on NOT building a liveable environment and a movement powerful enough to displace CLIMATE CHANGE capitalism. (Cont. p.2) -THE ANARCHIST ARGUMENT- INSIDE Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Rotorua Climate Strike Report…..p.3 Movement is encouraged by the alarm International Anarchist Statement on over climate change. It has mobilised the Paris Commune……………….p.4 many people previously uninvolved in Anzac Day Statement…………….p.9 protest. We do not want to undermine the important message being brought May Day Statement ..……………p.10 forward. However, we feel that there is a Reviews………………………….. p.14 conversation that needs to be had about what people are demanding. 1 We can begin by looking to build ways of We see the need to create a different form of living outside this economic system and social organisation before the present system start building the new world in the shell of the destroys us all. The entire thing needs to be old. replaced with an economic approach which produces for human needs not profit. Things such as community gardens, repair shops and truly free markets to exchange A sustainable society that is capable of goods are all good starts. Nonetheless, avoid addressing climate change can only be thinking you can demand an idyllic achieved within a world where all the Earth’s capitalism, managed by the state, that can resources, natural and industrial, are under end the destruction being caused to the the common ownership of us all, as well as Earth’s environment. being under grassroots democratic control at a local and regional level. Don’t see your role as just needing to make enough noise to wake up political and To organise production in an ecologically business leaders. A system of private sound way we can either plead with our enterprise cannot move towards rulers or we can take democratic control of sustainability and zero growth; it cannot be production ourselves. The reality is to truly reformed to become a green system. This control production we ourselves have to own way of thinking supposes that things would and control society. So, a society of common be fine if we all bought organic food, never ownership and democratic control is the only took a holiday flight, and put on more clothes framework within which the aim of saving the in winter rather than turn up the heating. planet from climate change is achievable. In reality if you wish to halt climate collapse, you We argue that this completely ignores the have to be an anarchist. way capitalism operates, and must operate. Successful functioning of the system means growth or maximising profit, it means that nature as a resource will be exploited ruthlessly. Not ending capitalism is something that only attacks the symptoms rather than the cause. Green capitalism is not worth fighting for. 2 contents immediately, the only person who actively rejected a leaflet was an elderly Rotorua woman. Climate Strike After the speeches, the crowd began a hikoi Report through the main streets. The atmosphere was cheerful rather than aggressive. Most On 9th April about passersby were bemused by the sight of 100 mostly students out of school in the middle of the rangatahi came afternoon. Quite a few gave support by together in Rotorua honking car horns or waving as they drove as part of the past. After gaining some attention for the nation-wide Climate issue through these interactions, the march Strike. This turnout has to be considered a ended near the lakefront about an hour after success in a town of this size. Likewise when it had begun. The gathering dispersed, with a you factor-in that the poor weather conditions number of the encouraged youth feeling it on the day did not dampen the enthusiasm of had been a worthwhile effort. No doubt for the participants. In the beginning, the young many this had been their first introduction to people gathered to listen to speeches. In political activity. some cases, these came from fellow students. The event being self-managed and We at AWSM supported and participated in driven by the youth themselves was one of the day’s action in other locations besides the positive aspects of the day. Unfortunately, Rotorua. We did so in the full understanding there were other speeches by (admittedly, that our own perspective would have been also young) politicians in the form of a local new to many who joined in. This in itself councilor and a failed candidate from the made it worthwhile. More importantly, for the recent general election. While not hostile to many young participants, this was a useful the latter, the crowd gave them polite exercise in self-empowerment. applause in each case, rather than huge Hopefully, despite attempts by professional cheers. Members of Aotearoa Workers power mongers to lead them into the dead- Solidarity Movement (AWSM) were present end of appealing to the same class that has and distributed leaflets putting an alternative created the world’s climate problems in the case to that of the professional politicians. first place, some will see this positive self- Though most recipients didn’t read the activity as part of a viable future solution. 3 AWSM also distributed stickers and leaflets International at climate strikes in Gisborne and Wellington, where one of our members addressed the Anarchist Statement crowd to call for those in attendance not to put their trust in politicians, and only our own on the Paris direct action will see the necessary changes taking place. Commune Every Sunday Morning members of Aotearoa Workers Solidarity AWSM were pleased to sign this along with Movement come together online many other anarcho-communist groups from for meetings. We typically discuss across the world. recent national and international The victories of the future will flourish from the struggles of the past! Long live the events, and our ongoing efforts to Paris Commune! expand our propaganda This year marks the 150th anniversary of the distribution. If you would like to first modern social revolution in the glorious participate in a future hui and history of oppressed people’s struggle, the participate in building anarchism Paris Commune of 1871. For 72 days, the proletarians of the city of Paris re-organised in Aotearoa, please get in touch the social relationships in terms of direct about becoming a member. democracy, towards the direction of [email protected] economic equality, mutual aid and political freedom. 4 The structural capitalist crisis of 1866 and the particularly unbearable for the French power race of the states had exacerbated people. class antagonisms and transnational rivalries. On 18 March, 1871 Thiers sent his troops The Prusso-Austrian War of 1866 left open into the working-class districts of Paris, to the issue of the non-return of territories snatch the cannons from Montmartre Hill claimed by the Second French Empire. On -cannons which belonged to the National 19 July, 1870 France declared war on Guard and financed by public subscription Prussia and France invaded on 2 August. during the siege of the city by the Prussians. The French troops were defeated, the This attempt failed remarkably thanks to the Second French Empire collapsed and the women of Paris. Women from the Security Prussian army got as far as the outskirts of Committee of 18th District, including Louise Paris. Michel, convinced and organised the National Guards, which consisted mainly of workers. The people of Paris revolted. The National Guard did not hand over their weapons. Then a war broke out between the working class and the bourgeois government, which then, in fear, moved its location to Versailles. Disgusted by the armistice, despite the sacrifices that had been made, and feeling betrayed by the bourgeoisie, the people of Paris founded a power that rivaled that of the provisional government: the Commune was elected on 26 March. On the one hand, the The French bourgeoisie then formed a provisional government embodied a government of national unity and capitulated bourgeois power wishing to preserve the to the Prussians on 26 February, 1871, social order; on the other hand, the handing over territories and forts. The Commune, which hoisted its own flag of the armistice stipulated that, within 8 days, a Commune over the town hall, wanted to National Assembly had to be elected in order embody a popular power wishing to change to decide on the issues of war and peace. society. The economic conditions of capitulation were 5 Among the elected members of the Paris addition, the Commune separated the church Commune, there was a high proportion of from political life, socialised the Church workers (the bourgeoisie having mostly estates and schools to introduce free abstained from voting on the advice of education and educational disengagement Thiers). The contribution of the organised from the Church, elected individuals from political nuclei within it was particularly different geographies in the executives of the important, the actions of which were aimed at Commune in the name of internationalism, strengthening the revolutionary character of banned night work for the bakery workers, the revolution. Blanquist, Proudhonist, three months of rent were postponed and Marxist and Anarchist members of the First default interests cancelled. In the meantime, International acted in this direction.
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