This page was created out of the need to drive the conversation away from police reform and towards defunding. We have witnessed a wave of calls to defund police and ultimately abolish institutions of domination – we’re down with that! We also recognize that appealing to the state to defund a vital pillar of their institutional life with its limitations. In other words, the state will only concede on certain demands but will never give up its total control. As insurrectionist abolitionist, we see that only real threats to the legitimacy of the system can produce the conditions for a different world. This is to say that calls to city council meetings, petitions, voting, and appeals to politicians are limited in scope – they have an effect but not the sustained militancy we require. Our end is abolition of the current world and that is a long road ahead.
Additionally, May 29th was a watershed moment as a local comrade retells the battle that ensued between the youth and police on that day. It’s clear that the legitimate rage of the youth is steeping underneath the veneer of non-profit (liberal) driven protest – these are the voices not present at City council meetings. For any radical possibility, we must build on the confrontations with San José police from that May 29th short-lived rebellion.
For those reasons and others not cited here, we want to unearth the radical scene that we see is null to non-existent in so called San José. We want to build a project of insurrection that understands that confrontations with the state are necessary while rejecting any partnership or alliance with it. Our project looks to be explicitly anti-capitalist, anti-state, anti-patriarchy, anti-sexual violence, and vociferously for the proles. Confrontaciones is born out of our opposition to the state, capitalism, and to elements of an established “left” seeking representation over struggle.
There are still many questions to be answered but we see the road of confrontation with power as the only option for this current regime to end. If you wanna know more, hit us up!
– Confrontaciones