A-Infos (en) Spaine, Aragon, Apoyo Mutuo AM: Mutual Support defines its political line: for democratic confederalism in Aragon (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On February 26 we celebrated the first Aragón Mutual Support Congress. 
Five months after the first libertarian social forum Colectiviza!, 
organized in Andorra, we met in Ejea / Exeya to lay the foundations of a 
political organization that we want to be a reference for 
confederalists, libertarians, municipalists, unionists, collectivists, 
cooperativists, feminists, interculturalists and ecosocialists from 
throughout the Aragonese territory.
During the morning, we received the delegations of Union Communiste 
Libertaire (France), Embat (Catalunya), the KCK (Union of Democratic 
Communities of Kurdistan), CNT Aragón-La Rioja, colleagues from 
Andalusia, as well as support videos from Nafarroa Ekosoziala and Apoyo 
Mutuo Madrid, and greetings from CGT Aragón.

A political organization for the entire territory.

The first block of agreements focused on the organization of Mutual 
Support around territorial nuclei. Our objective is to adapt to a 
territory like Aragon, disorganized by capitalist development during the 
20th century, which has depopulated our regions, while concentrating 
more than half of the population in a single city, Zaragoza. We want the 
good people who reside in our neighborhoods, towns and small 
municipalities to be able to have a political home, in which they can be 
supported in their militant commitments by colleagues who are 
geographically and emotionally close.

At an organic level, therefore, Apoyo Mutuo was defined as an 
organization based on federalism and the social insertion of a political 
strategy resulting from the analysis and collective debate of its militants.

Our structure will be based on the principles of autonomy, 
responsibility before the assembly and the organization, revocability, 
co-representation (women and men in all positions) and female veto. This 
last principle means that co-responsible women will have the right to 
veto the decisions and issues to be dealt with at different 
organizational levels. In addition, Apoyo Mutuo agreed to draft a 
"Protocol against sexist attacks" in the organization.

Political Line.

Next, we debate and agree on the Framework Presentation on our Political 
Line. In it we define Mutual Support as a political organization 
belonging to the tradition of libertarian socialism and that is 
committed to a model for Aragon inspired by Democratic Confederalism. 
This opposes the Nation-State model, born of Capitalist Modernity. We 
understand that the State, as a tool of class oppression, is an enemy to 
defeat, which we need to convert into something as weak as possible to 
be able to overcome it. This task is carried out from the construction, 
in opposition, of popular power, the strengthening of the structures and 
organizations of the movements. From the awareness that the State is not 
an ally to count on, but an obstacle that must be overcome, we defend 
its replacement by a society organized around institutions of democratic 
counterpower, capable of taking charge of the administration of the 
common issues.

Just as our colleagues defended decades ago, our territorial model faces 
the borders defined by Nation-States, which tend to cultural 
homogenization and segregation. In an opposite sense, our confederal 
model, starts from the same municipality or neighborhood, establishing 
an organization from the bottom up and where diversity is welcomed and 
promoted on a daily basis.

Radical Democracy.

Secondly, Apoyo Mutuo defends a radically democratic society, 
understanding this democracy not only as the existence of open channels 
of political representation, but also as a system that allows and 
encourages the participation of the entire social body in public affairs 
based on mechanisms of direct and federal democracy. This concept of 
democracy is incompatible with capitalism, which puts the means of life 
in the hands of a privileged social class, preventing the free social 
and political development of the majority of the population.

The democracy that we defend is equivalent to replacing the current 
structures of domination and exploitation with others based on the 
collective ownership and management of social wealth, as well as on the 
socialization of political power. To achieve this, we are committed to a 
representation model that prevents privilege through mechanisms such as 
co-representation, revocability and delegation mandated from grassroots 
bodies.

Radical democracy implies a democratization of the economy. Proud of our 
collectivist history, we are committed to a libertarian socialist 
economic model, which we understand as the collective ownership of all 
means of production, distribution and investment, as well as natural 
resources. We defend this collectivization to be carried out through 
institutions such as the union, the cooperative and the various 
democratic institutions of territorial administration, starting from the 
municipality.

In the presentation we also defined our position as a feminist, 
eco-socialist organization that supports respect for cultural pluralism 
as a condition for achieving democracy. Next, we debate specific 
presentations on Aragonese linguistic diversity, overcoming the weak and 
self-conscious proposal of an outdated and ethnocentric "trilingualism" 
of the country; and other presentations on the different strategic lines 
to follow during the next two years: in the face of the normalization of 
machismo in our society, in the face of the institutional reality of 
Aragon or our commitment to class unionism.

We closed the congress with four territorial nuclei in progress, opening 
the organization to the good chent / good people / good people who want 
to create a radically democratic Aragon.

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