Various anarchist groups have together launched the SIDE BY SIDE campaign . Let’s jointly face the repression and show solidarity with the people indicted more than two years ago in the so-called Operation Piñata, and other similar operations that, with the excuse of anti-terrorism, have attacked the anarchist movement.

SIDE BY SIDE, facing together the repression that seeks to dissuade us, immobilize us, discourage us. Together, not isolated. With the strength that we try to understand our differences and learn to find ourselves in complicities.

SIDE BY SIDE, that’s what we call this campaign, this cry of resistance, this new challenge to power. Another attempt to break the silence, to make visible the social conflict increasingly evident as a result of the sharpening of the structural crisis of the capitalist system.

We go back to the immediate antecedents. Police Campaigns based on antiterrorist operations have infested the peninsula since 2013:: Raids with smashed down doors,, attacks on homes of partners, Occupied Social Centers and ‘Ateneos’, arrests and imprisonment with all their consequences. All this decorated with a media blitz tinged with scandal, with phrases like “anarchist terrorism” resonating like a ridiculous but incisive mantra.

Police campaigns named Column Operation, Operation Pandora, Operation Piñata, Operation Pandora II, .. thearrests of 13 April (2 comrades imprisoned in Germany today). Dozens of people accused of belonging to a criminal organization for terrorist purposes, precautionary measures, economic asphyxiation, beatings and targeted of political environments.

We understand that we are in a new repressive scenario in which the operations mentioned show up this transformation of the concept of “terrorism” and the political intentions it hides.

Intentions that alter the meaning of ‘terrorism’ to draw a quorum of opinion favorable to the persecution of dissent, of all those who raise their voices and dare to question with their practices a social peace imposed in defense of the privileges of certain sectors of the population. .. Extending the scope of action of the anti-terrorist laws to very diffuse limits which were unimaginable until now.

The accusing finger, in these judicial and police actions, in particular, has fallen on anarchists and anti-authoritarians, but the threat goes far beyond these political spheres.

The warning remains latent and waiting to materialize on those who dare to rebel. This is also demonstrated by the arrest of two puppeteers (a childrens puppet show!) and the subsequent scandal, the dozens of people seriously accused of ‘enhancing terrorism’ just with comments on social networks, as well as rappers brought before the National Court due to their songs .

All this is in the context of a hardening of the Criminal Code, the infamous “gag law” and other repressive policies aimed at social control, punishment and isolation of those who, because of structural conditions or political decisions, the State considers irretrievable or an annoyance to ‘The correct functioning of the prevailing system’.

This campaign aims to deal with political repression, aims to crack and shake the ‘insurmountable’ wall with which we are led to believe that we are facing. But at the same time it is intended to be a continuation of the significant signs of solidarity unleashed in recent years.

Because as the myth of Pandora’s box reminds us, deep down, there is always hope. This has been demonstrated by the fighters who precede us and thus we try to prove it ourselves.

We do not back down.

We have a lot to lose because we have so much to fight for.

SIDE BY SIDE, let’s face repression together!

Codo a codo, afrontando juntas la represión