The Black Flag - Revolutionary News for Luthori and Terra

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The Black Flag- Revolutionary News for Luthori and Terra is the official Newspaper of the Luthori Anarchist Federation. Its main aims are to aid class struggle and revolutionary action by providing debates and political writings aswell as revolutionary news from throughout Luthori and far beyond.

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THE BLACK FLAG
REVOLUTIONARY NEWS FOR LUTHORI AND TERRA

Liberty Equality Solidarity Forever!

THE FUTURE: HOW ANARCHY IS THE ONLY SOLUTION

Comrades,
We are witnessing the fall of Capitalism. All around us: economic collapse, environmental catastrophe, war and greed. An alternative is clearly needed for Humanity-for Terra itself-to survive. But how can these changes be made? How can political, economic and social suicide be averted? This is the ultimate question of the age, and a question which Anarchists have found an answer to.
The answer is to eliminate hierarchy. Hierarchies have always led to contradictions within the fabric of society. Why? Because people simply don't have the same interests. The Master and the Slave, the Lord and the Serf, the Capitalist and the Worker. Each of these hierarchies is grounded upon contradictions; upon conflicts between interests. The Slave wants freedom, the Master wants servitude. The Serf wants all his produce, the Lord wants the Serf's surplus. The Worker wants high wages and low work hours, the Capitalist wants the opposite.
These contradictions lead to exploitation and to oppression. They also lead to conflict. For the oppressor to survive, they must oppress the oppressed, for if they do not, the oppressed will revolt, and become the new oppressors. Therefore the oppressor must use violence, the State, to defend it's interests.
The oppressor class uses it's monopoly on violence to oppress, to exploit and to get it's own way at the expense of everyone else. This leads to most people losing out, while a few gain immense wealth. The drive for profit at the expense of people has led to the terrible situation we are currently under. Hierarchy needs to be ended, and the contradictions of society need to be rectified before they spiral out of control.
So how to eliminate Hierarchy?
Implement Consensus Based Direct Democracy. Implement Democratic Worker's Councils. Implement protest and labour laws. Federate society along democratic lines. Eliminate class division. And finally end the state. This is the only solution, the only alternative to exploitation, oppression and destruction.

It is the future Anarchists want to see.

-The Black Flag Editorial Syndicate
Fort William, the Luthori Republic

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CRISIS IN THE THIRD WORLD: HOW CAPITALISM UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS

Comrades,
The current situation in Utembo and Bianjie is a horror show too terrible to fully describe; with two rival and highly corrupt state apparatus duking it out, threatening to kill hundreds of thousands and enslave millions more. This is a humanitarian catastrophe that will prove difficult to avert, even for our brave Black Guard and their World Congress allies. However, the solution to these conflicts does not lie simply in warfare; indeed in many cases this can prolong and increase hardship and death. The problem lies at the heart of the economic, political and social system itself; and can be traced all the way back to corporate structures as far away from Dovani as Luthori and beyond.
The origins of these problems start with the colonial period; where states backed by corporate interests vied for control over vast resources and immense profits, at the great expense of the people of the third world. The destruction of tribal structures, the consolidation of power by colonial overlords, the crushing of peasant and worker movements; all these factors tie in to the issues we witness today.
With decolonisation political power was returned to the people of the colonies, and the people of Utembo and Bianjie were allowed to decide upon their own systems. Or where they? No. Of course they weren't. Even with the fall of direct colonial control, the control of the colonies by corporate influence never ended. First World corporations still maintained control of the resources they had bought from the past colonies colonial advisers, and they still owned the factories that they had before decolonisation. And these corporations weren't going to let the people of the colonies have the ability to free themselves from the very system which had enslaved them in the first place; the system the corporations depend on to survive. The corporations needed dictators and they needed violent and oppressive military juntas in order to stop the workers as much as the colonial powers had done during their day and age. And hence, the politics and economics of oppression remained, at great cost. The profits kept roling in and the people still suffered.
Flash forward to today and the dictators continue to reign supreme in Utembo and Bianjie, fighting for control and influence. The terror of their acts must never be forgotten and the dictators and slavers involved should be brought to justice. But don't ever forget who the true villains are; the organisations from which the money for these wars comes from;

the ones who are truly pulling the strings.

-The Black Flag Editorial Syndicate
Fort William, Luthori Republic