Syspirosi Atakton

We consider ourselves as a part of the wider movement of the rupture with the current model of organisation of the society. Using our international and local experience we will try to contribute to the discussions and the actions that have as a vision and goal to set up a society of self-organization, self-legislation and solidarity.

Our efforts take serious consideration of the continueous  environmental imbalance caused by humans, and we consider “ecology” a particularly fragile domain of the current reality.

We are going through a crucial conjucture. The dynamics that will arise during this period will decide whether the current system with its military invasions and the repression of social achievements will be extended or whether the resistance that are developping internationnaly will be proven efficient in order to halt and reverse it.

We believe that against this international form of totalitarianism we are up against, the mobilizations should come in many different forms and many different levels, because the capitalistic, patriarchal and hierarchical inter-relationships dominate every aspect of our lives and our spirits.

Our region, due to its natural resources has been for decades in the eye of the storm. Competition for domination in the region has already been the driver of numerous wars and conflicts. The totalitarian post-colonial regimes that were formed do not represent the interests of people. We are in solidarity with every movement who is fighting towards a social liberation and emancipation from local and foreign sovereignity.

Cyprus itself is one of the most militarized areas in the planet. Those of us who live here have been trapped for decades in nationalist conflicts and have allowed the elite to exercice power in order to implement their interests in the area without confronting any serious resistance. It is vital that the hegemony of nationalism breaks and we wil be active and present in any effort to its supression.

At the same time the exploitation of workers from other countries developped a new unfavourable conditions which are against of the workers. During fights for equality in society, there is no place for exclusions based on birth places and other made-up identifications.

Immigrands, as the most oppressed part of our society, are our possible allys. We need to escape from the logic of being charitable against them and quest for new ways towards substantial political and equal collaboration.

The cities as our main field of action is a reflection of what is happening in the wider society. Its demarcation but also the invasion of the capital which threatens to  transform the city to a  window display, “clean” of any “unwanted” elements, and the church who as the large landowners has its own goals of “development”, are only some of the factors that create a field of action which is challenging.  A field of action however, in which we aim to intervene, in order to express and  accomplish our own proposals for societies that are organised away from any hierchical, capitalistic and sexist institutions and logics, and that are based in self-organisation, solidarity, collectivity and liberality.

Syspirosi Atakton | October 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus