Fuck Yeah Anarchist Posters

Our dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes

'Stop Voting, Start Looting' 

Graphic by Confrontaciones

“Build Strong Movements, Not Candidates”

blackrosefed.org

“The most important decisions, institutions and people in society will never be on any ballot.

We cannot vote for a new world. We have to build, organize and fight for it ourselves”

- blackrosefed.org

‘Revolution’ “Self-Organisation’

‘Vote for Noone’

As anarchists, we believe it is necessary to promote a stance of abstinance from the electoral system  This is why we share here two posters as a reply to statist propaganda and electoralist brainwashing.

The fact that we don’t vote is the logical result of our revolutionary project.

It’s delusional to think that our emancipation will come from parliament. We’ll only be able to realize anarchist communism by organising our struggles in a horizontal, egalitarian fashion… and far away from political parties.

For us, « leftist » parties place social movement’s and well intentioned activists’ energy in an electoralist dead end that offers only disappointment, manipulation, lies and illusions. While the electoral machine of the « leftist » parties are being built, minds and thoughts of social movement activist are pushed toward statist alienation and electoral wait-and-see attitude. If there is no capitalism with a human face and if the state is the wheel of our exploitation, then we’ll have to abolish both to be free.

In the end, we stay convinced that we have nothing to expect from the state, it doesn’t matter who’s in power. Both « right » and « left » parties reproduce and support the state and capitalism. Elections contribute to the alienation of our lives.

Download the posters by clicking the links below

Elections everywhere – Text  (PDF File)

Elections everywhere – plain poster (PDF File)

via: Anarcho-syndicalist collective for education and diffusion (CEDAS-ASCED).

The Lure of Elections: From Political Power to Popular Power

“If we wanted to understand what the human race really consists of, we should just look at it during election time.”

Mark Twain

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them”

- Karl Marx

Another election, another spectacle of ‘democratic participation’ to distract, disempower, and defuse popular anger at the politicians and the status quo.

While many leftists see an obvious need to oppose the Tories, many of them are still caught in Corbyn hysteria, pinning their delusions on an extremely unlikely Labour win. To any Corbynites out there, I recommend this recent article:

The Labour Party:   No use to British Capitalism:  Never any use to the Working Class

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Abstention! Revolution! Self-organisation!

Anarchist Federation, organisation of struggle

federation-anarchiste.org”

“What choice?

Abstention! Self-organisation!”

The Party's Over: Beyond Politics, Beyond Democracy 

From Democracy to Freedom