FEDERAÇAO ANARQUISTA GAUCHA (General Secretariat; Rio Grande Do Sul - Brazil)

Since its foundation in 95, the FAG has had few tools to spread propaganda about anarchism throughout the country. Its written communication basically during these years has resulted in a few sporadical pamphlets, financed by the dues of its members, and based on some important current event. And we have used posters. The longest lasting propaganda experience was carried out by groups of comrades in Alegrete, with the publication of "O Retruco" based on specific local, regional and frontier (across the national border) events. The technique for printing this one-page bulletin was serigraphy, with a run of 500 to 1000 copies. O Retruco is still published regularly (!?)

In 98, the libertarian propaganda spread by specific anarchist organisations was suspended due to internal reasons. The media that with more regularity covered this gap was the "Libera. Amore Mio" of the Centre of Libertarian Studies Ideal Peres of Rio De Janeiro (Celip-RJ). This was the bulletin with the largest circulation in the Brazilian anarchic movement after the dictatorship of the military governments. This bulletin, despite its limitations of space, was and continues to be the untiring broadcaster of the ideas and specific experiences of militant anarchism in the country.

The III General Congress of the FAG however, reaffirmed the importance of a solid and constant broadcasting of the anarchic ideology associated the popular fights contemporaries and defined tasks related with this subject. The invocation and organisation of public acts (anarchic assemblies) for the Federation, the publishing of the periodical bulletin "Anarchic Opinion" and of short leaflets with interviews, writings and documents that offer synthesis of theories, policies and organisational strategies with which we identify revolutionary anarchism.

These tasks until the present are being carried through certainly with much willpower, but with the difficulty that the lack of means implies. "Anarchic Opinion" a simple A3 bulletin is being published every two months in a private printshop with a run of 1000. The leaflets, four so far, are run off in photocopiers in runs of 100. And we print posters when needed.

In the beginning of 2001, FAG set up a screenprint centre to print T-shirts with prints on libertarians and problematical social political themes. The experience still is recent but it has had turned out well in left-wing public. These artisan tasks have caused us to feel the need of proper structures of work to produce and to stimulate the anarchic propaganda, finishing with the dependence of external ways.

The FAG Federal Council traced as the one of the future objectives of the FAG build minimum infrastructure for propaganda and agitation, to strengthen the ideological fight of the Anarchist Organisation through distinct media, being the written press the most important. Excellent initiatives of militant anarchism in Brazil in the field of the ideological propaganda, in publications that spread out theoretical studies on practical libertarian social intervention, etc., have appeared. They need material support in order to develop. One of these cases is the magazine "Rupture", a project carried by anarchist comrades of Rio De Janeiro: the FAG working together with them for being the most serious theoretical and investigative material in Brazil.

As with all material difficulties that surround us, for us the perspective of setting up a printshop that can be used to for militant anarchist publications is related with the possibility of international cooperation with the groups, entities and libertarian organisations with whom we are more alike. To be clearer, we need to acquire offset printing equipment.

With the specific goals of a printshop are:

1. Periodicalise the printing of FAG publications, and support the militant publications of other parts of the country;
2. solidary support for the propaganda of the popular movement with which we coincide or relate
3. professionalisation of comrades in the printers trade;
4. creation of source of work and income for comrades through commercial service;
5. unionising of comrades who are printers.

Total: Dollar 8,200,00

• physical space (workshop)
• serigráfico apparatus
• computer
• telephone

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