*I don't want to pick on the Turks or anything, but if Istanbul... Istanbul?! – gave in to even ONE of these political demands... no, let's say Istanbul gives into ONE PERCENT of ALL of these demands... Istanbul would instantly become one of the weirdest, most interesting cities in the world. An Istanbul full of gay leftist occupied squats in the formerly gentrified districts? Man, that would be like Orhan Pamuk on acid.
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Conclusion report of 1-8 October anti-capitalist resistance days
against the IMF and WB summit
We are informed that on 7th of October while we were sieging
İstanbul from all sides, the IMF and the World Bank meeting had to
be finished in a haste. So we, as the ungovernable of resistanbul,
gathered here to announce our own riotistanbul decisions against the
so-called Istanbul decisions of the governors.
We are announcing our own economic and social program which is both a
proposal for a libertarian anti-capitalist way of life that we have
already started to create in different sectors of society, as well as
a proposal for a way out of global capitalism. Our program consists
of a series of resistance and counter-struggle tactics that can dig
down the roots of the capitalist world system that has colonized all
parts of our life.
-Strikes in and occupations of in all sorts of workplaces against
the repression and exploitation of all managers and directors,
-Factory occupations aiming at the self-government of workers,
-Occupation of all sorts of workplaces and creation of collective
solidarity forms so as to create workplaces without bosses.
-Organization and creation of syndicates and confederations
supporting small and local agriculture and permaculture against the
agricultural monopoly and the ecological destruction.
-Collectivization and occupation of land against the impoverishment
of the farmers and forced exile of peasants from the villages and
their lands.
-Occupation and resistance movements for the creation of autonomous
spaces with autonomous municipalities.
-Occupations of buildings and public spaces against homelessness
created by urban gentrification and creation of communal living
structures in the liberated spaces.
-Development of alternative and local production systems against the
capitalist exploitation of nature based on the imposion of consumption.
-Supporting of any sort of individual and collective migration for
the abolishment of borders that create ethnical, national and
cultural separations and hostility. Spreading the motto of ‘no
border’ so as to emphasize the brother/sisterhood of the humankind
and our common struggle against capitalism and the state system.
-Transformation of the education systems by working with student
councils for the creation of free education spaces ; occupations of
schools and universities against commercialization of education and
education systems based on class discrimination.
-Support of all propaganda and art-sabotage against the
commercialization of art and culture. Creation of our own free spaces
for increasing the expressive art movements of anti-professionals.
- Manifestation of the rising voice of the women’s movement against
violence towards women, gender discrimination and gender oppression.
-Creation and organization of a counter-culture that questions the
male identity against the gender oppression and dominance of gender
identity of men in collaboration with the feminist movement that
will question machismo through individual male identity.
-Spreading the anti-authoritarian cultural values against the family
pressure over children and youngsters.
-Resistance against the discrimination, exclusion and violence
against lesbian, transvestite, transsexual, bisexual individuals to
be able to say we exist with our differences against transphobia and
homophobia.
- Mobilization for a global antiwar movement against wars supported
by states and capitalists and militarism disciplining every aspects
of our lives; abolishment of any sort of military service
obligatory or paid.
In an age when life is being colonized and controlled by the powers,
ways of resistance are being multiplied through the development of
imagination , courage and solidarity. For this reason creation of a
horizontal network of all different social struggles and connection
of all resistances will be the goal of social movements for the
coming years.
Resistanbul Committee of the Ungovernables
