A-Infos (en) US, BRRN: Disorganization is Their Weapon, Solidarity is Our Shield: Committing to Principled Collective Defense (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We live in a perilous moment, one when the specter of a new Red Scare 
looms closer by the day. But we cannot allow state repression, whether 
threatened or realized, to achieve its intended aim of demobilizing or 
disorganizing our social movements and political organizations. To 
counter these attacks our only option is to build a solidarity that is 
both broad and principled. ---- Over the last several years the 
Palestine solidarity movement has borne the brunt of repression brought 
down by the federal government. High profile student organizers like 
Mahmoud Khalil have been imprisoned and are now fighting deportation 
while the state works to compile a blacklist of other movement participants.

More recently, as efforts to defend communities from ICE occupation have 
ramped up, so too has the repressive reaction. Organizations such as 
Unión del Barrio, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, as well as 
other left and anti-war groups have been made the target of an 
escalating 'investigation' by the House of Representatives. Despite our 
deep political and practical criticisms of some of these organizations, 
we recognize that an attack on them today only paves the way for attacks 
on the rest of us tomorrow.

The latest pretext for crackdowns has come in the wake of Charlie Kirk's 
assassination. It does not matter that the alleged shooter had no ties 
to the organized left or social movements. No sooner had the shot been 
fired than was the right promising to use the state's repressive arm to 
indiscriminately 'go after left-leaning organizations'. Similarly, the 
aim of Trump's executive order declaring 'antifa' a domestic terrorist 
group is not to break up any specific organization, but to create a 
legal pretext that enhances the prosecution of any individual or group 
the state argues fits their ambiguous definition.

The overriding purpose of these attacks, investigations, and bluster is 
to create a climate of fear and demobilization. The reactionary right 
understands that in our deeply atomized society, these tactics can 
effectively convince people that keeping their heads down will guarantee 
safety. We know this could not be further from the truth. Not only does 
individualized silence make us more vulnerable, history has shown time 
and time again that vigorous and public solidarity is our most powerful 
means for collective self-defense.

What this looks like in practice will depend on the specific kinds of 
repression used. In general it means that we commit to standing 
shoulder-to-shoulder with different formations of the organized left 
when they are facing state-directed attacks. We can maintain our 
criticisms and independence from one another while recognizing that we 
are dramatically weaker when driven apart.

We affirm our commitment to organizing towards our ultimate objective of 
libertarian socialism and to defending the interim gains our movements 
have won. We will meet the state's efforts to silence us, or to compel 
us to keep quiet, by becoming louder. When the state tries to chill us, 
we will turn up the heat. Instead of demobilizing, we will redouble our 
efforts to build strong social movements and a culture of mass 
resistance. Only through active solidarity and organized self-defense 
will we counter the repressive tactics of the state and ruling class.

Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation

https://www.blackrosefed.org/solidarity-shield-anti-repression/
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