A-Infos (en) Spaine, Regeneracion: Cover Letter from Liza Granada - By LIZA (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This entire process, both that of the comrades in Madrid and the new 
path opening up in Granada, is born from a shared analysis. It does not 
arise from an organizational fetish or the desire to establish a new 
acronym, but from a political necessity. The need to rebuild an 
anarchism that, in its current state and for a long time now, has lost 
its capacity for real intervention in social struggles. Furthermore, we 
are not alone on this path. Throughout the Iberian Peninsula, similar 
experiences have emerged that, from hope and responsibility, seek to 
build a real alternative for the working class and for the future of 
future generations. This reconstruction across the country is linked to 
the current historical moment of our movement, a moment where the 
courage to overcome our own complexes and prejudices opens up a horizon, 
until then unknown.

We come from years of fragmentation, of scattered efforts, of militancy 
that exhausts itself in impotence or takes refuge in complacency. 
However, we know that there remains enormous potential, a latent energy 
in those who refuse to accept that anarchism is merely memory or 
identity. For too long, the anarchist movement has functioned without a 
common strategy, without a shared political horizon. Not to mention, to 
be more hardline and realistic, without a political horizon of any kind. 
Each group has worked in its own small space, defending its autonomy to 
the point of isolation. We have grown accustomed to reactive politics, 
responding to the offensives of power without the ability to anticipate 
them. We have confused spontaneity with strategy, affinity with 
organization, autonomy with dispersion. This dynamic has led us to a 
tired form of militancy: more symbolic than effective, more reactive 
than proactive. We have created islands of resistance that, while 
necessary, rarely managed to extend beyond their immediate limits.

In Europe, moreover, this trend has been constantly influenced by its 
zeitgeist: an undemanding and aesthetic activism, more focused on 
self-affirmation and personal empowerment than on contesting social 
power. Anarchism has become, in many cases, just another subculture 
within the protest landscape. But an identity-based subculture is 
neither a political subject nor an emancipatory alternative. An identity 
does not transform the material conditions of existence. Ideological 
purity has been, in most cases, a kind of discursive refuge for projects 
that had little or nothing to contribute to social conflicts. This 
supposed purity has led to immobility. Discussions based on principles 
rather than concrete facts, completely distancing theory from social 
reality and objective conditions.

This is not about denying what we have built. The vast majority of us 
who embark on this path come from there. The experiences of squatting, 
social centers, neighborhood struggles, and mutual support networks have 
been spaces for learning and resistance. But they also revealed their 
limits. The lack of continuity, the absence of a common political line, 
the impossibility of accumulating strength beyond a specific moment. 
They taught us that goodwill and affinity are not enough. That being 
right isn't enough, but rather a consolation. And that, without 
organization, all energy dissipates. We formed, therefore, with the 
intention of articulating all the lessons learned and transforming them 
into an organized force.

From these lessons, Liza emerged. Not as a negation of what came 
before, but as an attempt to overcome its limits. We start from a simple 
conviction: anarchism needs to recompose itself ideologically if it is 
to once again become a living force and not a moral relic. It must 
recover its materialist roots, its class perspective, its transformative 
vocation. Anarchism cannot be reduced to a sum of individual gestures or 
an abstract and reactive rejection of power. It must rethink itself as a 
political project for total emancipation, as a theory and practice of 
social revolution.

Recomposing itself ideologically also means recovering militant ethics. 
An ethics that is not reduced to individual coherence, but is expressed 
in collective responsibility. Militancy is not political consumption or 
moral self-affirmation: it is a sustained commitment to a common 
project. Being an anarchist militant entails assuming freely agreed-upon 
discipline, caring for collective spaces, educating oneself, being 
accountable, and building political trust. There is no revolution 
without militant ethics, without the conviction that individual freedom 
only makes sense within the framework of shared responsibility. We are 
the driving force of the world we wish to create.

For this reason, we reclaim the prefigurative politics of anarchism, not 
as a utopian refuge, but as a daily practice. Prefiguration does not 
mean becoming absorbed in self-managed micro-experiences, but rather 
demonstrating, in every space of struggle, that another way of 
organizing social life is possible. Prefigurative politics is the union 
of means and ends: a free society cannot be built through authoritarian 
or bureaucratic methods. But it is also not enough to reproduce small 
oases of horizontality. Anarchist prefiguration, understood politically, 
consists of providing popular struggles with an emancipatory 
orientation, in showing that collective organization, solidarity, and 
mutual support are not simply ethical values, but tools of combat.

That is why we speak of political action when we talk about developing 
our program on the ground. Political action is conscious intervention on 
mass fronts: in unions, in neighborhoods, in study centers, in social 
movements. Not to direct them or turn them into anarchist appendages, 
but to make them more combative, more democratic, more autonomous from 
the state and capital. Our role is not to replace the people, but to 
foster their organization and their capacity for struggle. Political 
action is the concrete way in which the anarchist organization inserts 
itself into real struggles, providing analysis, strategy, and coherence. 
Without this intervention, anarchism is reduced to an idea without 
substance, a morality without force.

In this sense, our organizational commitment is clear. The anarchist 
platform is not intended to be just another space for affinity or 
informal encounter. It is born as a political organization, with a 
vocation for continuity, with a structure that allows for coordinating 
efforts and defining a common strategy. Militancy is not spontaneous 
activism: it is political commitment, responsibility, collective 
discipline. And this requirement is not a burden, but a condition of 
effectiveness. We want militants who think, who study, who act according 
to a shared plan. Not a collection of individualities who occasionally 
coincide.

Our idea of organization is neither centralist nor authoritarian, but it 
is aware that horizontality without coordination is impotent. We are 
committed to political formation, ideological clarity, and tactical 
unity. Each front of struggle and context requires specific tools, but 
all must respond to a common strategy. Because without strategy, all 
tactics remain hollow and become a tirade of abstract principles.

Liza seeks to contribute to a broader recomposition of the libertarian 
movement, both within and outside the Spanish state. We want to recover 
the idea that anarchism can be a mass force, not a moral minority. That 
it can organize working people from a libertarian perspective, without 
delegating, without falling into electoralism, or nihilism. That it can 
build class and libertarian power, without reproducing the spontaneous 
and reformist logic of social movements and reformist bureaucracies.

We see ourselves as an active part of a broader collective process of 
reconstruction. We do so knowing that we are fellow travelers alongside 
other traditions and tendencies, humbly offering our commitment and 
willingness to engage in honest debate. The platform is, in short, a 
tool for strategic thinking and coherent action. An organization where 
ethics, prefiguration, and political action come together in a common 
practice oriented toward social transformation.

Comrades: we come from defeat, but we are not condemned to it. The 
history of anarchism shows that, when it is organized and has political 
ambition, it can profoundly transform reality. We are not heirs to a 
glorious past, but responsible for a future that does not yet exist. 
Liza is not a point of arrival: it is a point of departure. A commitment 
to a living, combative, and strategic anarchism. To a militancy that is 
not content with simply resisting, but prepares to win.

Liza, Anarchist Platform of Granada.

https://regeneracionlibertaria.org/2025/10/20/carta-de-presentacion-de-liza-granada/
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