“There are people you love and you don’t know how it happened, you may have loved them almost at the beginning of knowing them, or you may have loved them over time, or you may have thought you didn’t love them and then discovered you loved them. or you thought you didn’t love them and you have discovered that you loved them when they are no longer there, because of the emptiness they leave behind”.
Words one year after the departure of our most courageous fighter.
Luisa Toledo.
“To be flowers in the mountains of freedom instead of roses in the garden of obedience!”
How can we measure in a few words a whole life of combat, because Luisa’s life was precisely that, the irreducible story of a compañera who knew early on the pain and the paths of death but who was able to give us so much life, love and rebellion.
From this side, it is difficult for us to say that pain is a revolutionary emotion because pain by itself can have a terrifying, intimidating and dispersing effect. The death of Luisa and Manuel’s children* shook us to our core because they were irreparable losses in the ranks of the irreparable losses in the ranks of those of us who seek total liberation, yet, generation after generation we took up the baton of the combative memory with ascents of rage, courage and conviction.
Luisa taught us about a frightening machine called capitalism, especially when the rich and powerful are threatened. Luisa taught us again that this machine was being transformed into a much more complex one by the technological advances it was incorporating; that it was catching up with globalized domination. Luisa taught us until the end that only by preparing ourselves can we face a giant but never invincible enemy.
What they did with the Vergara Toledo family, the Chilean state -and all those of the world- can repeat it whenever it suits them because they hate those of us who do not submit to their order of misery, devastation and death, but something they can never do is to distort the life and history of struggle, much less hide it because they will find the unrestricted defense of the insurrectional, rebellious and violent youth, just as Luisa loved and defended us so much.
Know, comrades, that we are not alone, that here and there, all over the world, fire and resistance emerge. Today they frequent the sabotage, the street struggle and diverse propaganda, actions that in parallel are nourished by the rise of autonomous spaces, counter-information media and liberated zones. Expressions that qualify our movements and alert us of a decentralized offensive, molecular but organized.
Because it is necessary to occupy everything, to redistribute everything: we want more revolutionary moments and less waiting for the revolution. Anarchy is now and we are building it!
We say goodbye with the certainty that we will meet again in the streets, the noise, the fire and the broken windows of big stores and police stations.
To Manuel and the Vergara Toledo family our most combative greetings.
Compañera Luisa Toledo, for you and our dead, a whole life of combat! PRESENTE!
Our networks are horizontal, our attack in all directions.
The answer is imminent.
Nueva Subversion.
July 6th, Summer 2022.
DN Note
*The assassination of the young brothers Eduardo and Rafael Vergara Toledo, militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), perpetrated in the district of Estación Central on Friday, March 29, 1985 by agents of the Carabineros de Chile during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The day is marked now as ‘Día del joven combatiente‘ (Day of the Combatant Youth) in which comrades remember and fight with the cops in the same area where the brothers were killed.