Perhimpunan Merdeka: Abolish Parliament! Update on the Wave of Rebellion in Indonesia

In response to the most recent wave of militant protests across Indonesia, the anarchist organisation Perhimpunan Merdeka (in Engl: Freedom Association) released the statement below.

In case you want to know more on the current political developments in Indonesia, check out this well-made introduction by Warfronts:

Additionally, these voices from anarchists on the ground can help to get a better insight:

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Abolish Parliament!
Update on the Wave of Rebellion in Indonesia

This wave of rebellion, starting in late August 2025, was caused by the accumulation of anger over various political and economic issues. There was no single issue. Everything escalated with a massive increase in house taxes across the region, due to the government’s budget deficit. At the same time, members of parliament received a tenfold increase in wages. This was exacerbated by officials’ often arbitrary statements. For example, the Regent of Pati said that taxes would not be reduced, even if a mass demonstration of 50,000 people took place. Pati was the first city to explode with a turnout of around 100,000 people on August 10, 2025. Protests against the tax increase spread to Bone, then to other cities. During a demonstration in Jakarta, an online transportation worker was killed after being run over by a police vehicle. The following day, demonstrations spread to many cities, and they continue to this day as we publish the update. At least ten civilians were killed, several officials’ homes were looted, and half a dozen House of Representative offices were partially burned or burned to the ground. We were confident this rebellion would subside, but the public’s anger did not.

There are too many organizations, networks, and groups formulating demands. Even each city has its own unique demands. There are two revolutionary demands: the first from the Perserikatan Sosialis (PS), and the other, a loose, informal, and decentralized network that issued the Declaration of the Indonesian Federalist Revolution 2025, which calls for the dissolution of the unitary state and the DPR system and its replacement with a Democratic Confederalism of thousands of people’s councils for the implementation of direct democracy. Progressive liberals call for a more reformist call, the 17+8 demand. Insurrectionary anarchists, individualists, and post-leftists focus on attacks and street clashes, calling for the destruction of the state and civilization, but without bothering with a platform or program. There is no united front, but we avoid excessive ideological sectarianism.

While there’s no single issue, the discourse simultaneously centers on three: tax increases, police violence, and, most importantly, the dissolution of the House of Representatives. Perhimpunan Merdeka hasn’t yet taken a position, but it’s participating in every demonstration in its respective cities and using it to expand its network. We are calling for the global people’s movements solidarity to support our struggle in Indonesia through a variety of tactics and methods.

Long live the revolution!

This statement was originally published on perhimpunanmerdeka.org.

By the way, thousands of riders joined the funeral of their fellow worker Affan:

Schafft das Parlament ab!
Aktuelles zur Welle der Rebellion in Indonesien

Diese Welle der Rebellion, die Ende August 2025 begann, wurde durch die Anhäufung von Wut über verschiedene politische und wirtschaftliche Probleme ausgelöst. Es gab kein einzelnes Problem. Alles eskalierte mit einer massiven Erhöhung der Haussteuern in der gesamten Region aufgrund des Haushaltsdefizits der Regierung. Gleichzeitig erhielten die Mitglieder des Parlaments eine Verzehnfachung ihrer Gehälter. Verschärft wurde die Lage durch oft willkürliche Äußerungen von Beamten. So erklärte beispielsweise der Regent von Pati, dass die Steuern auch dann nicht gesenkt würden, wenn es zu einer Massendemonstration von 50.000 Menschen käme. Pati war die erste Stadt, in der es am 10. August 2025 mit rund 100.000 Teilnehmer:innen zu Ausschreitungen kam. Die Proteste gegen die Steuererhöhung breiteten sich auf Bone und dann auf andere Städte aus. Während einer Demonstration in Jakarta wurde ein Lieferdienstarbeiter getötet, nachdem er von einem Polizeifahrzeug überfahren worden war. Am folgenden Tag breiteten sich die Demonstrationen auf viele Städte aus und dauern bis zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung dieses Updates an. Mindestens zehn Zivilisten wurden getötet, mehrere Häuser von Beamten geplündert und ein halbes Dutzend Büros des Repräsentantenhauses teilweise oder vollständig niedergebrannt. Wir gingen davon aus, dass diese Rebellion abklingen würde, aber die Wut der Öffentlichkeit hielt an.

Es gibt zu viele Organisationen, Netzwerke und Gruppen, die Forderungen formulieren. Sogar jede Stadt hat ihre eigenen spezifischen Forderungen. Trotzdem gibt es zwei revolutionäre Forderungen: die erste stammt von der Perserikatan Sosialis (PS), die andere von einem losen, informellen und dezentralen Netzwerk, das die Erklärung der Indonesischen Föderalistischen Revolution 2025 veröffentlicht hat, in der die Auflösung des Einheitsstaates und des DPR-Systems und dessen Ersatz durch einen demokratischen Konföderalismus aus Tausenden von Gemeinderäten zur Umsetzung der direkten Demokratie gefordert wird. Progressive Liberale vertreten reformistischere Forderungen, die sogenannten 17+8-Forderungen. Aufständische Anarchist:innen, Individualist:innen und Post-Linke konzentrieren sich auf Angriffe und Straßenkämpfe und fordern die Zerstörung des Staates und der bestehenden Zivilisation, ohne sich jedoch um eine Plattform oder ein Programm zu kümmern. Es gibt keine Einheitsfront, aber wir vermeiden übertriebenen ideologischen Sektierertum.

Es gibt zwar nicht den einen gemeinsamen Schwerpunkt, aber es kann gesagt werden, dass der Diskurs sich auf drei Punkte zunehmend konzentiert: Steuererhöhungen, Polizeigewalt und, was am wichtigsten ist, die Auflösung des Repräsentantenhauses. Perhimpunan Merdeka hat noch keine Position bezogen, nimmt aber an allen Demonstrationen in den jeweiligen Städten teil und nutzt diese, um sein Netzwerk zu erweitern. Wir rufen globale Strukturen und Bewegungen zur Solidarität auf, um unseren Kampf in Indonesien mit verschiedenen Taktiken und Methoden zu unterstützen.

Es lebe die Revolution!

Dieses Statement wurde ursprünglich auf perhimpunanmerdeka.org veröffentlicht.

Übrigens, tausende Rider begleiteten die Beerdigung von Affan, ebenfalls ein Rider, welcher am 28. August von Cops getötet wurde.

Abolir o Parlamento!
Atualização sobre a onda de rebelião na Indonésia

Esta onda de rebelião, que começou no final de agosto de 2025, foi causada pelo acúmulo de raiva por várias questões políticas e econômicas. Não havia uma única questão. Tudo se intensificou com um aumento maciço nos impostos sobre imóveis em toda a região, devido ao déficit orçamentário do governo. Ao mesmo tempo, os membros do parlamento receberam um aumento de dez vezes nos salários. Isso foi exacerbado pelas declarações frequentemente arbitrárias dos autoridades.
Por exemplo, o regente de Pati disse que os impostos não seriam reduzidos, mesmo que ocorresse uma manifestação em massa de 50.000 pessoas. Pati foi a primeira cidade a explodir, com uma participação de cerca de 100.000 pessoas em 10 de agosto de 2025. Os protestos contra o aumento de impostos se espalharam para Bone e, em seguida, para outras cidades. Durante uma manifestação em Jacarta, um trabalhador do transporte online foi morto após ser atropelado por um veículo da polícia. No dia seguinte, as manifestações se espalharam por muitas cidades e continuam até hoje, enquanto publicamos a atualização. Pelo menos dez civis foram mortos, várias casas de autoridades foram saqueadas e meia dúzia de escritórios da Câmara dos Deputados foram parcialmente queimados ou totalmente destruídos pelo fogo. Estávamos confiantes de que essa rebelião iria diminuir, mas a raiva do público não diminuiu.

Existem muitas organizações, redes e grupos formulando demandas. Até mesmo cada cidade tem suas próprias demandas específicas. Há duas reivindicações revolucionárias: a primeira da Perserikatan Sosialis (PS) e a outra, uma rede informal e descentralizada que emitiu a Declaração da Revolução Federalista Indonésia 2025, que pede a dissolução do Estado unitário e do sistema DPR e sua substituição por um Confederalismo Democrático de milhares de conselhos populares para a implementação da democracia direta. Os liberais progressistas defendem uma proposta mais reformista, a reivindicação 17+8. Anarquistas insurrecionistas, individualistas e pós-esquerdistas concentram-se em ataques e confrontos nas ruas, apelando à destruição do Estado e da civilização, mas sem se preocuparem com uma plataforma ou programa. Não existe uma frente unida, mas evitamos o sectarismo ideológico excessivo.

Embora não haja uma única questão, o discurso se concentra simultaneamente em três: aumento de impostos, violência policial e, o mais importante, a dissolução da Câmara dos Deputados. A Perhimpunan Merdeka ainda não tomou uma posição, mas está participando de todas as manifestações em suas respectivas cidades e usando isso para expandir sua rede. Estamos pedindo a solidariedade dos movimentos populares globais para apoiar nossa luta na Indonésia por meio de uma variedade de táticas e métodos.

Viva a revolução!

Esta declaração foi originalmente publicada em perhimpunanmerdeka.org.
Credit for the translation into Portuguese goes to arquivolucyparsons.org

A propósito, milhares de motociclistas participaram do funeral do seu colega de trabalho Affan:

Tea workers in Bangladesh rally and get organized!

The Tea Workers’ Trade Union Center (TWTUC) commemorated its 1st National Conference at the Moulvibazar District Council Auditorium in Sreemangal on June 29th, 2025 with hundreds of workers coming together.

The conference was announced by comrades of TWTUC with the following words:

Revolutionary greetings from the tea workers of Bangladesh. For generations, tea workers have endured systemic discrimination and exploitation. In response, we have been organizing sustained movements and struggles to secure our fundamental rights and dignity. Today, we express our heartfelt solidarity with tea workers across the world. From continent to continent, working people face similar patterns of exploitation, marginalization, and repression. Our struggle, therefore, is not confined within national borders—it is part of the broader fight for international working-class unity and justice.
We believe that the liberation of the working class cannot happen in isolation. True freedom is only possible through the unity and solidarity of all oppressed, exploited, and struggling workers across the globe. As part of our ongoing movement, we are pleased to announce the 1st National Conference and Mass Rally of the Tea Workers’ Trade Union Centre.

Logo of the Tea Workers Trade Union Center (TWTUC) featuring the organization's name in Bengali and English, accompanied by an emblem depicting a worker.

TWTUC released the this 10-point charter of demands:

1) Wages

a) Set the minimum daily wage at 600 BDT*, preserving all current benefits (including rations, housing, and healthcare). Overtime must be compensated at double rate. For additional leaf picking, a payment of 12 BDT per kg must be ensured. Manipulation in weight measurements must stop—replace analog scales with digital ones visible to workers. An annual 10% wage increment must be guaranteed. The anti-worker Gazette published on 1 August 2023 must be repealed.
b) By labor law, provide all workers with Provident Fund, Gratuity, and 5% of company profits under Section 234 of the Bangladesh Labor Act, 2006. As per the 2016 agreement, retired workers must receive a pension equal to 1.5 months’ wages per year worked. In case of workplace death or disability, full lifetime earnings must be compensated.
c) Provide two annual festival bonuses equivalent to a full month’s wage, and one additional incentive bonus—these must not be attendance-based.
d) Enforce casual leave (10 days/year) and earned leave (1 day for every 18 working days) as per labor law.

* 600 BDT equal approx. 4.20 EUR / 4.93 USD. The current daily wage stands at 168 BDT and a new phase of labour struggles for higher wages could be expected later this year

2) Rations

Provide full family rations weekly, including rice, flour, lentils, oil, sugar/jiggery, soap, tea leaves, and kerosene. End all unjust ration deductions for agricultural land use. Sanitation infrastructure (toilets, etc.) must be provided per Section 59 of the Labor Act.

3) Land Rights

Grant legal ownership of residential and cultivated land to tea workers. Distribute unused land among unemployed tea worker youth.

4) Education

Officially recognize tea workers’ ethnic identity, language, and culture. Establish government primary schools in every tea garden. Provide primary education in workers’ native languages. Establish specialized secondary schools, colleges, technical institutes, and cultural academies in every valley.

5) Healthcare

Ensure qualified MBBS doctors, functional community clinics, and adequate medicine supplies in every garden. Provide safety equipment against pesticide-related health hazards.
Install deep tube wells and one tube well per 20 families for safe drinking water. Each garden must have at least one ambulance.

6) Women’s Rights

Grant 6 months paid maternity leave to female tea workers. Provide 2 days of paid menstrual leave per month. Supply free sanitary pads through community clinics. Ensure safe and hygienic delivery facilities, nutrition, medicine, and vaccines. Allocate raincoats to all female workers each monsoon. Build separate toilets for women in each section. Take effective measures to eliminate child marriage and violence against women in tea gardens.

7) Job Security & Employment

Regularize the employment of all temporary workers. Provide job opportunities for unemployed tea workers. Eliminate child labor in gardens. Establish quota reservations in employment for workers’ children. Employ educated female workers in staff positions.

8) Recognition of Historical Struggles

Declare May 20—the day of the historic “Cholo Mulluke” tea worker uprising—as National Tea Workers Day, with paid leave. Identify and honor tea worker freedom fighters and martyrs from the Liberation War. Preserve all related memorial sites.

9) Local Governance

Form union councils (Union Parishads) based on tea gardens. Utilize all opportunities to form sub-districts (upazilas) in tea-producing regions.

10) Legal & Organizational Rights

Repeal all anti-worker laws in the tea industry. Ensure the right to free association and trade union formation. Fully implement the Labor Act in tea gardens. Establish a Minimum Wage Board specific to the tea industry. Set up a permanent Labor Court in Sreemangal, and ensure resolution of all cases within 90 days.

The Daily Star reports on the conference:

A procession followed, drawing hundreds of tea workers and students from across Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, and Sreemangal. They carried banners, festoons, and chanted slogans, demanding recognition of their rights and fulfilment of their long-standing demands. […]
Organisers said the conference marks the beginning of a broader movement aimed at mobilising the collective strength of tea workers in their fight for dignity and justice.

Several unions and comrades in Bangladesh and internationally expressed their support and solidarity with the tea workers ahead of the TWTUC conference, such as GABRIELA, the broadest alliance of Filipino women, and the International Confederation of Labour (ICL-CIT). All greetings were published on the TWTUC facebook page.

Solidarity Wins – Conditions at Hang Kei factory improved!

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A major victory was achieved at Hang Kei Myanmar Garment Factory Ltd following an internationally coordinated effort by grassroot labour unions.

Key data:

  • Factory owned by Hang Kei Garment Co. Ltd with its head office in Hong Kong / a subsidiary company of Koon Ngai Garment Factory Ltd based in Hong Kong as well.
  • The factory is located in the Yangon industrial area with more than 1000 workers.
  • Products: lingerie
  • Brands: Hunkemöller (Hunkemöller International B.V. based in Hilversum, Netherlands and Worcestershire, UK) | La Vie En Rose (owned by Boutique La Vie en Rose Inc. based in Montreal, Canada) | My Specials (belongs to Women’Secret based in Madrid, Spain)

For many months Hang Kei Myanmar Garment Factory has made negative headlines. At the beginning of April 2025 we received news of positive changes inside the factory.

Chronology of events:

March 8th (Day of Feminist Struggles): Internationally coordinated actions inside factories of Myanmar and outside shops of companies placing orders at those factories. Main theme “Menstrual products for all who need them!”.
Among others Hunkemöller was confronted with the demands put together by factory workers on the ground. The factory management of Hang Kei Myanmar Garment Factory Ltd was reached out to internationally as well.

March 17th: An audit team (from Hunkemöller), incl. doctors, visits the factory and also speaks to the workers.

April 7th: Factory management reacts and presents the changes applied following the six demands put forward by the workers. May Su Lwin works at Hang Kei factory in Yangon and reports about the recent changes:

May 8th: An audit team visits the factory again to check, if the changes are adopted correctly.

June 1st: May Su Lwin confirmed at an online meeting between FGWM and ICL Working Group Asia that the structural changes are still being maintained and the situation for the many workers has improved noticeably.

We do see the positive changes inside the factory and appreciate the efforts by Hunkemöller and the factory management. At the same time we emphasize that we keep monitoring the developments on the ground closely and are always ready to escalate the struggle again.

Menstrual products for all who need them!
Global solidarity is our weapon!

The following grassroot labour organisations were involved in this coordination:
☆ Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM)
☆ International Confederation of Labour (ICL-CIT) Working Group Asia
☆ Syndicates and individual members of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) in various cities

contact: asia@icl-cit.org

Ein bedeutender Erfolg wurde in der Fabrik der Hang Kei Myanmar Garment Factory Ltd. erzielt, nachdem sich auf internationaler Ebene Basisgewerkschaften zusammengetan hatten.

Eckdaten:

  • Fabrik im Besitz von Hang Kei Garment Co. Ltd mit Hauptsitz in Hongkong / eine Tochtergesellschaft von Koon Ngai Garment Factory Ltd, ebenfalls mit Sitz in Hongkong.
  • Die Fabrik befindet sich im Industriegebiet von Yangon und beschäftigt mehr als 1000 Arbeiter*innen.
  • Produkte: Dessous/ Unterwäsche
  • Marken: Hunkemöller (Hunkemöller International B.V. mit Sitz in Hilversum, Niederlande, und Worcestershire, Großbritannien) | La Vie En Rose (im Besitz von Boutique La Vie en Rose Inc. mit Sitz in Montreal, Kanada) | My Specials (gehört zu Women’Secret mit Sitz in Madrid, Spanien)

Seit vielen Monaten sorgt die Bekleidungsfabrik Hang Kei Myanmar für negative Schlagzeilen. Anfang April 2025 erhielten wir jedoch Nachrichten über positive Veränderungen innerhalb der Fabrik.

Was ist passiert?

08. März (Feministischer Kampftag): International koordinierte Aktionen in Fabriken in Myanmar und vor Filialen von Unternehmen, die Aufträge an diese Fabriken vergeben. Schwerpunkt: „Menstruationsprodukte für alle, die sie brauchen!“.
Unter anderem wurde Hunkemöller mit den Forderungen konfrontiert, die von den Fabrikarbeiter*innen vor Ort zusammengetragen wurden. Auch an das Fabrikmanagement der Hang Kei Myanmar Garment Factory Ltd wurde international herangetreten.

17. März: Eine Prüfungskommission (von Hunkemöller), darunter auch Ärzt*innen, besucht die Fabrik und spricht mit den Arbeiter*innen.

07. April: Das Management der Fabrik reagiert und stellt die Änderungen vor, die sie aufgrund der sechs Forderungen der Belegschaft umsetzt. May Su Lwin arbeitet in der Hang Kei-Fabrik in Yangon und berichtet darüber, was konkret verändert wurde:

08. Mai: Die Prüfungskommission besucht die Fabrik erneut, um festzustellen, ob die Änderungen weiterhin bestand haben und vom Management umgesetzt werden.

01. Juni: May Su Lwin bestätigt beim Online-Treffen zwischen FGWM und ICL Arbeitsgruppe Asien, dass die strukturellen Veränderungen weiterhin aufrecht erhalten werden und sich die Situation für die vielen Arbeiter*innen merklich verbessert hat.

Wir nehmen die positiven Veränderungen in der Fabrik wahr und schätzen die Bemühungen von Hunkemöller sowie der Fabrikleitung. Gleichzeitig betonen wir, dass wir die Entwicklungen vor Ort weiterhin genau beobachten und jederzeit bereit sind, den Kampf erneut zu eskalieren.

Menstruationsprodukte für alle, die sie brauchen!
Globale Solidarität ist unsere Waffe!

Die folgenden Basisgewerkschaften waren an dieser Koordinierung beteiligt:

☆ Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM)
☆ International Confederation of Labour (ICL-CIT) Arbeitsgruppe Asien
☆ Syndikate und einzelne Mitglieder der Freien Arbeiter*innen-Union (FAU) in verschiedenen Städten

Kontakt: asia@icl-cit.org

Urgent Call: Support workers in Myanmar after earthquake! (crowdfunding)

For several years the working group Asia of the anarcho-syndicalist International Confederation of Labour (ICL-CIT) has been coordinating actions internationally to pressure brands and factory owners to improve working conditions. The last occasion was the Day of Feminist Struggles on March 8th 2025.

Most of you have probably heard of the massive earthquake that struck many parts of Myanmar killing thousands of people and destroying the homes for hundreds of thousands in the news at the end of March this year. Our friends of the FGWM are struggling to support each other and are calling for support from comrades worldwide. Therefore we initiated a crowdfunding and aim to collect 20 000 EUR:

  • 10 000 EUR: Menstrual pads for 5 000 (factory) workers
  • 10 000 EUR: Solidarity packages for 200 families severely affected by the earthquake

Workers on the ground organised with FGWM are involved in the coordination and decided that they need the following things inside the solidarity packages: 1 x power bank, 1 x mosquito net, as well as 1 x tarpaulin cover for roofing (15 yards). Each package is worth around 50 EUR.

The distribution of the menstrual pads as well as the solidarity packages will be organised by 12 comrades of FGWM.

Listen to Nilar, a comrade of FGWM nearby Mandalay, talking about the situation after the earthquake in March 2025:

Before the earthquake also this video was published to inform about the crowdfunding, back then focussing solely on the availability of menstrual pads.

So far close to 10 000 EUR have been collected (date: May 14th), therefore some support within the next two weeks is needed to still achieve the goal of 20 000 EUR.

There are two ways of contributing:

OPTION #1

via the page on gofundme:

OPTION #2

by transfering contributions directly to the account of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Hamburg:

Account holder: AS FAU Hamburg
IBAN: DE43 4306 0967 2070 7898 00
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
Bank name: GLS Bank
Reference: FGWM solidarity

There are also leaflets available for download in English, German or Spanish as well as a poster design.

Turning solidarity into practice – Solidarity not charity!

This crowdfunding is being coordinated by the ICL Working Group Asia together with FGWM and the support of the comrades of FAU.

Questions or comments? Contact: asia@icl-cit.org

Radical May Day in Indonesia (2025)

Anarchists took to the streets in several cities across Indonesia, such as Surabaya, Malang, Solo and Makassar.

Especially in the major cities Jakarta and Semarang (Central Java) clashes broke out between workers and riot cops.

JAKARTA

In Jakarta an alliance of radical unions took to the streets. At least 14 workers were detained.

Civil groups from all walks of life commemorate May Day by staging a rally in front of the House of Representatives building in Senayan, Jakarta, on May 1, 2025. […]
The rally was joined by the Indonesian Women’s Alliance, Campus Workers Union, Independent Journalists Alliance, The Indonesian Media and Creative Industry Workers Union for Democracy (Sindikasi), and the Congress of the Indonesia Unions Alliance (Kasbi). They are part of the Labor Movement Together with the People (Gebrak). […]
The posters illustrate demands and protests from varied perspectives, from labor to women. One of the posters read: “May Day is not a holiday. This is the day to fight back.” […]
“The Gebrak Alliance stresses that the Indonesian Labor Movement cannot be claimed by anyone or any group whose ultimate goal is to get a piece of the ‘power’ pie,” they wrote in a statement on Thursday, May 1, 2025. […]
there are five demands brought by Gebrak in today’s rally, including:

  1. Revoke the Omnibus Law on Job Creation and enact a pro-labor Manpower Bill;
  2. Enact the Domestic Workers Protection Bill and recognize the status of informal sector workers such as online motorcycle taxi drivers and couriers;
  3. Stop evictions, implement genuine agrarian reform;
  4. Stop national strategic projects that damage the environment and enact the Indigenous People Bill;
  5. Revoke the Military Law and reject military involvement in civilian affairs.

source: en.tempo.co

SEMARANG

In Semarang (Central Java) students (mainly anarchists) and workers took to the streets and clashed with cops.

media reports: en.tempo.co, voi.id

BANDUNG

In Bandung anarchists smashed at least one police car.

Students of Liga Mahasiswa in Malaysia expressed their support for the workers effected by state repression during May Day in Indonesia.

Note: The activities during May Day 2025 in Indonesia were not linked to the call for Global May Day 2025.

Chamada para ação: GLOBAL MAY DAY 2025

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Primeiro de Maio! Primeiro de Maio!

Auto-organização contra o autoritarismo, o fascismo e as ditaduras!

A estratégia de mobilizar as pessoas com base na ansiedade econômica e cultural e construir um nacionalismo baseado na identidade para ganhar poder é descrita de várias formas como nacionalismo majoritário, autoritarismo populista ou populismo de direita.

Fonte: What Do Populist Authoritarians Do When They Rule? por Kamal Mitra Chenoy,  EPW.in

Os movimentos autoritários e de direita estão ganhando força em todo o mundo e mais governos autoritários estão chegando ao poder. Os desenvolvimentos variam de uma influência crescente de movimentos políticos reacionários (por exemplo, na Alemanha, no Reino Unido, na Dinamarca, em Israel e na França) a regimes cada vez mais autocráticos e oligárquicos (por exemplo, na Argentina, nos EUA, na Hungria, na Áustria, nas Filipinas, na Indonésia, em Hong Kong, na Itália, na Nicarágua, na Rússia, na Índia, na Turquia e em Bangladesh), bem como em Estados totalmente repressivos e autoritários (por exemplo, no Myanmar).
Embora seja necessário analisar os contextos históricos locais para entender completamente os desenvolvimentos autoritários, há pontos em comum importantes. Uma característica comum é a fusão dos interesses do capital organizado com um Estado-nação repressivo. Os primeiros alvos geralmente são as pessoas trans. Depois que Milei assumiu o poder na Argentina, elas foram as primeiras a serem demitidas de empregos no setor público. Desenvolvimentos semelhantes podem ser observados na Itália, com Meloni da Fratelli d’Italia no poder. Aqui as pessoas trans também foram atacadas pelo governo de direita. Eles restringem o acesso a cuidados médicos para a transição de gênero, especialmente para os jovens.

O autoritarismo descreve “ideologias de desigualdade”, como racismo, sexismo, nacionalismo, classismo e chauvinismo. É um fenômeno social, cultural, político e econômico. Olhando para o mundo atual, podemos certamente falar de um despertar do autoritarismo.

Crise após crise atrás de crise. As inseguranças sociais e econômicas criam condições de vida precárias para muitas pessoas. A oferta de ideias autoritárias é uma promessa de segurança: você tem um lugar no mundo e pode direcionar sua frustração contra os mais fracos. Um sistema cada vez mais instável é mantido pelas forças do Estado. Portanto, a disseminação do autoritarismo não é apenas um movimento de cima para baixo, ou seja, uma conspiração das elites, nem um “levante de baixo para cima”.
Para ganhar poder, os políticos reacionários usam a retórica de ser contra o sistema, as preocupações com a segurança pública e as acusações de criminalidade (por exemplo, contra a oposição, a sociedade civil e as minorias sociais) como pretexto para restringir as liberdades, muitas vezes com o apoio de elites arraigadas. Os primeiros anos da industrialização já viram a demonização e a repressão estatal dos pobres, dos indigentes, dos movimentos políticos dos trabalhadores – qualquer pessoa que não fizesse parte de uma força de trabalho assalariada dócil. Quando as lutas sociais ganham espaço democrático, o capital organizado está disposto a sacrificar os direitos humanos para reprimir o trabalho.
As democracias (neo)liberais não são garantia de um futuro livre de autoritarismo. O antiautoritarismo deve ir além da simples “defesa da democracia”.

Para muitos países do chamado Sul global, o liberalismo no Norte global tem significado mais frequentemente tirania do que democracia. Afinal, as democracias liberais modernas foram construídas com base na escravidão, bem como na desumanização e no genocídio dos povos indígenas. Elas prosperaram e continuam a prosperar com a extração brutal de recursos e, atualmente, estão por trás de um regime de fronteira que considera dezenas de milhares de migrantes que morrem tentando atravessar fronteiras militarizadas como essencialmente “descartáveis”. Essa desumanização das pessoas para exercer o poder é parte integrante do modo atual do capitalismo.

Não podemos conquistar um mundo melhor esperando que a pessoa certa seja eleita – ou que a pessoa errada seja expulsa. Temos que nos organizar e lutar. Lutar para transformar a sociedade, para transformar o mundo, organizando-nos em nossos locais de trabalho, escolas e bairros.

Além de combater as tendências autoritárias, nosso objetivo é superar as raízes dos problemas: o sistema salarial e o próprio capitalismo. Lutamos pela construção de um mundo organizado por e para nossa classe,
um mundo que funcione em harmonia com a terra.

Vamos nos organizar para moldar o discurso público. Vamos nos organizar para propagar narrativas que se oponham aos desenvolvimentos autoritários e lutar por uma vida melhor para o povo da classe trabalhadora, por uma semana de trabalho de 30 horas (sem redução de salário) e por boas aposentadorias públicas controladas pelos próprios trabalhadores, que permitam uma vida digna. Pela união dos trabalhadores do mundo!

Convocamos a solidariedade global da classe trabalhadora no Primeiro de Maio – e todos os dias!

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Πρωτομαγιά! Πρωτομαγιά!

Αυτοοργάνωση εναντίον αυταρχισμού, φασισμού, και δικτατοριών!

Η στρατηγική της κινητοποίησης των ανθρώπων στη βάση του οικονομικού και πολιτισμικού άγχους και της οικοδόμησης εθνικισμού που βασίζεται στην ταυτότητα για την απόκτηση εξουσίας περιγράφεται ποικιλοτρόπως ως πλειοψηφικός εθνικισμός, λαϊκιστικός αυταρχισμός ή δεξιός λαϊκισμός (RWP).

Πηγή: Τι κάνουν οι λαϊκιστές εξουσιαστές όταν κυβερνούν; του Kamal Mitra Chenoy, EPW.in

Τα αυταρχικά και δεξιά κινήματα ενισχύονται σε όλο τον κόσμο και περισσότερες αυταρχικές κυβερνήσεις έρχονται στην εξουσία. Οι εξελίξεις κυμαίνονται από την αυξανόμενη επιρροή αντιδραστικών πολιτικών κινημάτων (π.χ. στη Γερμανία, το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, τη Δανία, το Ισραήλ και τη Γαλλία) σε ολοένα και πιο αυταρχικά και ολιγαρχικά καθεστώτα (π.χ. στην Αργεντινή, τις ΗΠΑ, την Ουγγαρία, την Αυστρία, τις Φιλιππίνες, την Ινδονησία, το Χονγκ Κονγκ, την Ιταλία, τη Νικαράγουα, τη Ρωσία, την Ινδία, την Τουρκία και το Μπαγκλαντές) καθώς και άκρως κατασταλτικά και αυταρχικά κράτη (π.χ. στη Μιανμάρ).

Αν και είναι απαραίτητο να δούμε τα ιστορικά πλαίσια στο πεδίο για να κατανοήσουμε πλήρως τις αυταρχικές εξελίξεις, υπάρχουν σημαντικά κοινά σημεία. Κοινό χαρακτηριστικό είναι η συγχώνευση οργανωμένων κεφαλαιουχικών συμφερόντων με ένα κατασταλτικό εθνικό κράτος. Οι πρώτοι στόχοι είναι συχνά τα τρανς άτομα. Αφού ο Milei ανέλαβε την Αργεντινή, ήταν τα πρώτα που απολύθηκαν από θέσεις εργασίας στον δημόσιο τομέα. Παρόμοιες εξελίξεις παρατηρούνται και στην Ιταλία, με την Meloni του Fratelli d’Italia στην εξουσία. Εδώ τα τρανς άτομα δέχθηκαν επίσης επίθεση από τη δεξιά κυβέρνηση. Περιορίστηκε η πρόσβαση στην ιατρική περίθαλψη για τη μετάβαση του φύλου, ειδικά για τα νεαρά άτομα.

Ο αυταρχισμός περιγράφει «ιδεολογίες ανισότητας», όπως ο ρατσισμός, ο σεξισμός, ο εθνικισμός, οταξισμός
και ο σοβινισμός. Είναι ένα κοινωνικό, πολιτιστικό, πολιτικό και οικονομικό φαινόμενο. Κοιτάζοντας τον κόσμο σήμερα, μπορούμε σίγουρα να μιλήσουμε για αφύπνιση του αυταρχισμού.

Μια κρίση μετά την άλλη. Οι κοινωνικές και οικονομικές ανασφάλειες διαμορφώνουν επισφαλείς συνθήκες διαβίωσης για πολλούς ανθρώπους. Η προσφορά αυταρχικών ιδεών είναι μια υπόσχεση ασφάλειας: έχετε μια θέση στον κόσμο και μπορείτε να κατευθύνετε την απογοήτευσή σας στους πιο αδύναμους. Ένα όλο και πιο ασταθές σύστημα διατηρείται από τις κρατικές δυνάμεις. Επομένως, η εξάπλωση του αυταρχισμού δεν είναι απλώς ένα κίνημα από τα πάνω, δηλαδή μια συνωμοσία των ελίτ, ούτε μια «εξέγερση από τα κάτω».
Για να αποκτήσουν εξουσία, αντιδραστικοί πολιτικοί χρησιμοποιούν αντισυστημική ρητορική, ανησυχίες για τη δημόσια ασφάλεια και κατηγορίες για εγκληματικότητα (π.χ. κατά της αντιπολίτευσης, της κοινωνίας των πολιτών και των κοινωνικών μειονοτήτων) ως πρόσχημα για να περιορίσουν τις ελευθερίες, συχνά με την υποστήριξη εδραιωμένων ελίτ.
Τα πρώτα χρόνια της εκβιομηχάνισης είδαν ήδη τη δαιμονοποίηση και την κρατική καταστολή των φτωχών, των άπορων, πολιτικών κινημάτων των εργαζομένων – οποιουδήποτε δεν ήταν μέρος ενός πειθήνιου μισθωτού εργατικού δυναμικού. Μόλις οι κοινωνικοί αγώνες κερδίσουν τον δημοκρατικό χώρο, το οργανωμένο κεφάλαιο είναι πρόθυμο να θυσιάσει τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα για να καταστείλει την εργασία.

Οι (νεο)φιλελεύθερες δημοκρατίες δεν είναι εγγυητές για ένα μέλλον απαλλαγμένο από αυταρχισμό. Ο αντιαυταρχισμός πρέπει να υπερβαίνει την απλή «υπεράσπιση της δημοκρατίας».

Για πολλές χώρες του λεγόμενου παγκόσμιου Νότου, ο φιλελευθερισμός στον παγκόσμιο Βορρά σημαίνει πιο συχνά τυραννία παρά δημοκρατία. Άλλωστε, οι σύγχρονες φιλελεύθερες δημοκρατίες οικοδομήθηκαν πάνω στη σκλαβιά καθώς και στην απανθρωποποίηση και τη γενοκτονία των αυτόχθονων πληθυσμών. Ευδοκίμησαν και συνεχίζουν να το κάνουν με τη βάναυση εξόρυξη πόρων και σήμερα στέκονται πίσω από ένα συνοριακό καθεστώς που θεωρεί δεκάδες χιλιάδες μετανάστες που πεθαίνουν προσπαθώντας να περάσουν τα στρατιωτικοποιημένα σύνορα ως ουσιαστικά «ανθρώπους μιας χρήσης». Αυτή η απανθρωποποίηση των ατόμων προκειμένου να ασκήσουν εξουσία είναι αναπόσπαστο μέρος της σημερινής μορφής του καπιταλισμού.

Δεν μπορούμε να κερδίσουμε έναν καλύτερο κόσμο περιμένοντας να ψηφιστεί το σωστό άτομο – ή να καταψηφιστεί το λάθος άτομο. Πρέπει να οργανωθούμε και να παλέψουμε. Αγώνας για τη μεταμόρφωση της κοινωνίας. να μεταμορφώσουμε τον κόσμο οργανώνοντας τους χώρους εργασίας, τα σχολεία μας, τις γειτονιές μας.

Εκτός από την αντιμετώπιση των αυταρχικών τάσεων, στόχος μας είναι να αντιμετωπίσουμε τις ρίζες των προβλημάτων: το μισθολογικό σύστημα και τον ίδιο τον καπιταλισμό. Αγωνιζόμαστε για την οικοδόμηση ενός κόσμου που οργανώνεται από και για την τάξη μας, που λειτουργεί σε αρμονία με τη γη.

Ας οργανωθούμε για να διαμορφώσουμε τον δημόσιο λόγο. Ας οργανωθούμε για να διαδώσουμε αφηγήσεις που αντιτίθενται στις εξουσιαστικές εξελίξεις και ας αγωνιστούμε για μια καλύτερη ζωή για τους ανθρώπους της εργατικής τάξης, για μια εβδομάδα εργασίας 30 ωρών (χωρίς μείωση μισθού) και για καλές δημόσιες συντάξεις που ελέγχονται από τους ίδιους τους εργαζόμενους, που επιτρέπουν μια αξιοπρεπή ζωή. Εργατά του Κόσμου Ενωθείτε!

Καλούμε για παγκόσμια αλληλεγγύη της εργατικής τάξης την Πρωτομαγιά – και κάθε μέρα!

Λευτεριά σε όλους τους αντιφασίστες!

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Since 2017 efforts to connect May Day activities worldwide take place through the Global May Day network. Also this year unions will unite within a common framework for a Global May Day 2025. A call to action is ready, materials such as posters and stickers are online. Join this meeting on April 19th (Saturday) for final coordinations and to announce your local May Day activities!

Everyone sympathising with the Global May Day self-conception is invited to participate!

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¡May Day! ¡May Day!

¡Autoorganización contra el autoritarismo, el fascismo y las dictaduras!


La estrategia de movilizar a las personas sobre la base de la ansiedad económica y cultural, y construir un nacionalismo identitario para obtener poder, se describe de varias formas: nacionalismo mayoritario, autoritarismo populista o populismo de derecha (PDD).

Fuente: ¿Qué hacen los autoritarios populistas cuando gobiernan? por Kamal Mitra Chenoy, EPW.in

Los movimientos autoritarios y de derecha están ganando fuerza en todo el mundo, y cada vez más gobiernos autoritarios están llegando al poder. Estos desarrollos van desde el creciente poder de movimientos políticos reaccionarios (por ejemplo, en Alemania, Reino Unido, Dinamarca, Israel y Francia) hasta regímenes cada vez más autocráticos y oligárquicos (por ejemplo, en Argentina, EE.UU., Hungría, Austria, Filipinas, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Italia, Nicaragua, Rusia, India, Turquía y Bangladesh), así como estados abiertamente represivos y autoritarios (por ejemplo, en Myanmar).
Aunque es necesario considerar los contextos históricos locales para comprender plenamente los desarrollos autoritarios, existen similitudes importantes. Una característica común es la fusión de los intereses del capital organizado con un Estado nacional represivo. Las personas trans suelen ser uno de los primeros objetivos. Tras la llegada de Milei al poder en Argentina, fueron las primeras en ser despedidas del sector público. Se han observado desarrollos similares en Italia, con Meloni de Fratelli d’Italia en el poder. Allí también se atacó a las personas trans desde el gobierno de derecha. Se restringe el acceso a la atención médica para la transición de género, especialmente para los jóvenes.

El autoritarismo describe “ideologías de desigualdad” como el racismo, el sexismo, el nacionalismo, el clasismo y el chovinismo. Es un fenómeno social, cultural, político y económico. Al observar el mundo actual, sin duda podemos hablar de un resurgimiento del autoritarismo.

Crisis tras crisis tras crisis. Las inseguridades sociales y económicas dan forma a condiciones de vida precarias para muchas personas. La oferta de ideas autoritarias promete seguridad: tienes un lugar en el mundo y puedes dirigir tu frustración hacia quienes son más débiles. Un sistema cada vez más inestable se sostiene por medio de fuerzas estatales. Por lo tanto, la expansión del autoritarismo no es solo un movimiento “desde arriba”, es decir, una conspiración de las élites, ni un “levantamiento desde abajo”.

Para alcanzar el poder, los políticos reaccionarios utilizan retórica antisistema, preocupaciones por la seguridad pública y acusaciones de criminalidad (por ejemplo, contra la oposición, la sociedad civil y las minorías sociales) como pretexto para restringir libertades, a menudo con el apoyo de élites arraigadas.
Los primeros años de la industrialización ya vieron la demonización y represión estatal de los pobres, indigentes, y movimientos políticos obreros: cualquiera que no formara parte de una fuerza laboral dócil. Una vez que las luchas sociales ganan espacio democrático, el capital organizado está dispuesto a sacrificar los derechos humanos para reprimir a la clase trabajadora.
Las democracias (neo)liberales no garantizan un futuro libre de autoritarismo. El antiautoritarismo debe ir más allá de simplemente “defender la democracia”.

Para muchos países del llamado Sur Global, el liberalismo del Norte Global ha significado más a menudo tiranía que democracia. Al fin y al cabo, las democracias liberales modernas se construyeron sobre la esclavitud, así como sobre la deshumanización y el genocidio de los pueblos indígenas. Prosperaron y siguen prosperando sobre la brutal extracción de recursos, y hoy respaldan un régimen fronterizo que considera a decenas de miles de migrantes que mueren al intentar cruzar fronteras militarizadas como básicamente “desechables”. Esta deshumanización de personas para ejercer el poder es parte integral del modo actual de capitalismo.

No ganaremos un mundo mejor esperando que llegue la persona correcta al poder – o que salga la persona equivocada. Tenemos que organizarnos y luchar. Luchar para transformar la sociedad; transformar el mundo organizándonos en nuestros lugares de trabajo, nuestras escuelas, nuestros barrios.

Además de contrarrestar las tendencias autoritarias, nuestro objetivo es superar las raíces de los problemas: el sistema salarial y el capitalismo mismo. Luchamos por la construcción de un mundo organizado por y para nuestra clase, uno que funcione en armonía con la tierra.

Organicémonos para dar forma al discurso público. Organicémonos para propagar narrativas que se opongan a los desarrollos autoritarios y luchar por una vida mejor para la clase trabajadora, por una semana laboral de 30 horas (sin reducción salarial) y por buenas pensiones públicas gestionadas por los propios trabajadores, que permitan una vida digna.

¡Trabajadores y trabajadoras del mundo, uníos!
¡Llamamos a la solidaridad global de la clase trabajadora este Primero de Mayo – y todos los días!

¡Libertad para todos los antifascistas!

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Auto-organizzazione contro autoritarismo, fascismo e dittature!

La strategia di mobilitare le persone sulla base dell’ansia economica e culturale e costruire un nazionalismo identitario per conquistare il potere è descritta in vari modi: nazionalismo maggioritario, autoritarismo populista o populismo di destra.

Fonte: Cosa fanno gli autoritari populisti quando governano? di Kamal Mitra Chenoy, EPW.in

Movimenti autoritari e di destra stanno guadagnando forza in tutto il mondo e sempre più governi autoritari stanno salendo al potere. Gli sviluppi vanno dall’influenza crescente dei movimenti politici reazionari (ad esempio in Germania, Regno Unito, Danimarca, Israele e Francia) a regimi sempre più autocratici e oligarchici (ad esempio in Argentina, USA, Ungheria, Austria, Filippine, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Italia, Nicaragua, Russia, India, Turchia e Bangladesh) fino a stati apertamente repressivi e autoritari (ad esempio in Myanmar).
Sebbene sia necessario guardare ai contesti storici locali per comprendere pienamente gli sviluppi autoritari, ci sono importanti elementi comuni. Una caratteristica comune è la fusione degli interessi del capitale organizzato con uno Stato nazionale repressivo. Le persone trans sono spesso i primi bersagli. Dopo l’ascesa al potere di Milei in Argentina, sono state le prime a essere licenziate dal settore pubblico. Sviluppi simili si osservano in Italia, con Meloni di Fratelli d’Italia al governo. Anche qui le persone trans sono state attaccate dal governo di destra. Viene limitato l’accesso alle cure mediche per la transizione di genere, in particolare per i giovani.

L’autoritarismo descrive “ideologie della disuguaglianza” come razzismo, sessismo, nazionalismo, classismo e sciovinismo. È un fenomeno sociale, culturale, politico ed economico. Guardando al mondo oggi, possiamo certamente parlare di un risveglio dell’autoritarismo.

Crisi dopo crisi dopo crisi. Le insicurezze sociali ed economiche creano condizioni di vita precarie per molte persone. Le idee autoritarie offrono la promessa di sicurezza: hai un posto nel mondo e puoi sfogare la tua frustrazione contro i più deboli. Un sistema sempre più instabile viene mantenuto attraverso le forze statali. La diffusione dell’autoritarismo non è quindi solo un movimento “dall’alto”, cioè una cospirazione delle élite, né una “rivolta dal basso”.
Per ottenere potere, i politici reazionari usano retorica anti-sistema, preoccupazioni per la sicurezza pubblica e accuse di criminalità (ad esempio contro l’opposizione, la società civile e le minoranze sociali) come pretesto per restringere le libertà, spesso con il sostegno delle élite consolidate.

Già nei primi anni dell’industrializzazione si assisteva alla demonizzazione e alla repressione statale dei poveri, degli indigenti, dei movimenti politici operai – chiunque non facesse parte di una forza lavoro obbediente. Una volta che le lotte sociali conquistano spazi democratici, il capitale organizzato è pronto a sacrificare i diritti umani per reprimere il lavoro.

Le democrazie (neo)liberali non garantiscono un futuro libero dall’autoritarismo. L’anti-autoritarismo deve andare oltre la semplice “difesa della democrazia”.
Per molti paesi del cosiddetto Sud Globale, il liberalismo del Nord Globale ha significato più spesso tirannia che democrazia. Le moderne democrazie liberali, dopotutto, sono state costruite sulla schiavitù e sulla disumanizzazione e genocidio dei popoli indigeni. Sono fiorite, e continuano a farlo, grazie all’estrazione brutale di risorse e oggi sostengono un regime di frontiera che considera decine di migliaia di migranti morti nel tentativo di attraversare confini militarizzati come essenzialmente “usa e getta”. Questa disumanizzazione delle persone per esercitare potere è parte integrante dell’attuale modalità capitalista.

Non vinceremo un mondo migliore aspettando che venga eletto il politico giusto – o che venga cacciato quello sbagliato. Dobbiamo organizzarci e lottare. Lottare per trasformare la società; per trasformare il mondo organizzandoci nei luoghi di lavoro, nelle scuole, nei quartieri.

Oltre a contrastare le tendenze autoritarie, il nostro obiettivo è superare le radici dei problemi: il sistema salariale e il capitalismo stesso. Lottiamo per costruire un mondo organizzato dalla e per la nostra classe, che viva in armonia con la terra.

Organizziamoci per plasmare il discorso pubblico. Organizziamoci per diffondere narrazioni contrarie agli sviluppi autoritari e lottare per una vita migliore per la classe lavoratrice, per una settimana lavorativa di 30 ore (senza riduzione salariale) e per buone pensioni pubbliche gestite dai lavoratori stessi, che permettano una vita dignitosa. Lavoratori e lavoratrici di tutto il mondo, unitevi!

Chiamiamo alla solidarietà globale della classe lavoratrice per il Primo Maggio – e ogni giorno!

Libertà per tutti gli antifascisti!

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