A-Infos (en) Brazil, Capixaba, FACA: From Empty Hands to Hands That Defend Themselves: FACA Promotes Self-Defense Training in Espírito Santo (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In an act of preparation in the face of growing state and paramilitary 
violence, the Capixaba Anarchist Federation (FACA) occupied the 
territory dominated by the state of Espírito Santo to hold a 
self-defense training session for the working class in Guarapari on 
October 13, 2025. The horizontally organized and self-managed action 
aimed to arm bodies and minds against daily repression, transforming a 
leisure space imposed by capital into a temporary territory of 
self-organization and collective learning. Far from the state's security 
apparatus, which protects property and criminalizes poverty, the workers 
of Espírito Santo practiced self-defense as a fundamental principle of 
liberation.

This initiative goes beyond a mere physical reaction; it is a profoundly 
political gesture of disobedience to the logic that surrenders our 
security to the same apparatuses that oppress us. While the State 
monopolizes violence to guarantee the order of capital, FACA reaffirms 
that true security arises from class solidarity and the capacity for 
collective defense. Learning to protect one's own body and that of one's 
comrade is the first step in protecting the community and territory from 
the incursions of Capital and its forces of repression, building a 
trench of bodies unavailable for domination.

The training in Guarapari is not an isolated event, but a link in the 
chain of direct actions that seek to forge popular autonomy. By 
providing this knowledge, historically restricted to security forces, 
FACA practices libertarian education that intertwines theory and 
practice, gestating the embryo of the free society we desire: one where 
the people, organized and aware of their power, not only resist but 
build the material foundations of a world without bosses and without a 
State. Each technical blow is a no to submission; each dodge, a 
practical denial of imposed passivity.

Federação Anarquista Capixaba - FACA

https://federacaocapixaba.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/17/das-maos-vazias-as-maos-que-se-defendem-a-faca-promove-formacao-de-autodefesa-no-espirito-santo/
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