5. máj 2009 23:55
RE: article about you from the authoritarian left

I´m very suprised after reading the chronicle that "Carlos" has written about the presentation of the CNT and FAU that took place in Bratislava the 27th of April. I took part there as member of the CNT, invited by the comrades of our brother organisation in Slovakia, Priama Akcia. 
 
"Carlos" seems that didn´t follow my speech with much interest and that only went to the presentation looking for, as we say in Spain, "talking about his book" afterwards, no matter if he needs for that purpose to deform my words for making it. First of all, there are numerous mistakes about the struggles that I explained. There is no town in Spain called Leproja, nor the hairdressers there were in struggle, and when I spoke about "joint struggle" I did it refering to the joint struggle of the workers of a same workplace, organised in our union, without divisionist parties. But there are only small mistakes compared with what comes after...
 
It is true that I was talking after the presentation with a guy who presented itself as a communist militant and asked me to talk with him. But the content of that conversation was not as is described by him. 
 
I couldn´t say him that I´m not purely an Anarchist because, efectively, I am. I said him, that is true, that I´m communist: a libertarian communist. That is, an anarchist. And CNT is an anarcho-syndicalist confederation of unions. This means that is an union that woks under libertarian structures and ways of acting. You have not to be an Anarchist to be part of the CNT, but you have to respect its libertarian structures.
 
I suspect that the position described by Carlos as mine about the political and social situation in Venezuela is the one of the group in which Carlos takes part and so he is very interested in showing that as mine. But, to be honest, is not the mine...  
 
I have to mention too that my impression is that the traslation was correct, I have that impresion from the questions from the public after the presentation, that were all of them accurated to the content of the speech. I have to say, too, that the most of the people who asked me about were militants of Priama Akcia. The debate was about the ways of organising in the workplaces and about the concrete experiences in the CNT. In the debate nobody said a word about unity between movements against capitalism.
 
The article of "Carlos" seems the purpose of a leninist party of presenting my ideas, or the CNT ones, as the same that theirs, and inside a strategy of trying to confuse the people who are fighting or interested in social ideas and practices. I have to declare, as everybody who went to the presentation could see, that I am a libertarian communist, member of an anarcho-syndicalist union and partisan of the solidarity of exploited and oppresed and that I´m against every form of supression of the autonomy of their struggles and class organisations, the same if that comes from the State or comes from a party. I´m sure that it is the same position sustained by the comrades of Priama Akcia.
 
Luis, from Seville CNT