Faced with another Day of the Young Combatant, I think it is appropriate to pause for a moment to delve into the life stories of many of our compañerxs who fell in combat, who took up this subversive path, despite the different political contexts in which capital is disguised.
This day marks a real and concrete milestone, in which we reencounter our history and the dialectic of life, which leads us to question our practices as individuals and collectively on a daily basis.
The expression of combativeness is not reduced only to dates or moments of actions (barricades, confrontations, sabotage, etc.), but extends to all forms of collective work deployed in different spaces. It is a daily and permanent practice that requires training, debates and a real connection with our surroundings, building affinities and clearly stating our position that the destruction of this reality is the task for all of us.
We cannot fall into an unbridled spontaneity in the actions we propose.
Networks of complicity are woven in practice and not in virtuality, not in the apparent speech, poster or selfie published as a crude advertising commercial; much less in the ambivalence towards institutionalism, endorsing conventions and/or elections, arguing the classic “I vote, but I also organise myself”.
We have to be capable of self-criticism, of rethinking ourselves, however hard it may seem to us.
As Luisa says “WE ARE OR WE ARE NOT”… “THIS IS WHERE OUR LIVES ARE GOING”. Sometimes criticism must be directed at oneself… owning our errors, since the mistakes are only those of the person who carries out the action.
On this path of memory, resistance and subversion, all our fallen brother and sister combatants walk among us… with their flames always alive, with their legacies and their examples.
Pablo, Eduardo, Rafael, Luisa… we continue… we will continue.
Wisdom, strength and determination.
For all of us.
COMBATANT YOUTH, PERMANENT INSURRECTION!!!!
FREEDOM TO ALL THE SUBVERSIVE, ANARCHIST AND MAPUCHE PRISONERS AND THE PRISONERS FROM THE REVOLT!!!!!
DEATH TO THE STATE AND CAPITAL!!!!!
Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz
Subversive prisoner
March, 2022.
Machine-assisted translation of the following Spanish-language post from the ‘Publicacion Refractario’ blog: https://publicacionrefractario.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/palabras-del-companero-pablo-oso-bahamondes-el-29-de-marzo-breves-reflexiones-para-el-debate/
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