TO KILL A WAR MACHINE (2025) – on the history and importance of direct action within social movements (film & discussion)

TO KILL A WAR MACHINE (2025) – on the history and importance of direct action within social movements (film viewing and discussion)

Direct action has historically been considered one of the legitimate methods of anti-systemic movements - from syndicalist to avant-garde struggles. The practice of direct action can allow groups to respond to current attacks, can serve as a method of agitation, can be a moment of mobilisation and can ultimately help in stopping the de-radicalization and NGO-ization of social movements.

A film about the English activist group Palestine Action, which accompanies footage of their direct actions from 2020-2025 with interviews with activists, their family members, supporters, journalists and an international lawyer, thereby placing their story in the context of the effectiveness of documented actions and the rich history of direct action and protests in England. The creators of the Rainbow collective accompany the withdrawal of the film, the distribution and screening of which could be persecuted under the Terrorism Act 2000, with the following words: "We believe that this is an important film in which activists and the public present arguments for why direct action against companies that commit genocide is morally and legally justified. We also believe that banning of a non-violent protest group is the most worrying example of authoritarian overreach that we have seen in the UK in our lifetime, not only in terms of the right to protest, but also in terms of the rights of independent filmmakers, writers, journalists and artists like us, who should be able to express the views and actions of non-violent protesters."

The film viewing is part of the Antiauthoritarian Summer School. The school is space for self-educating of the movement against the systems of domination, a tool for researching history and revolutionary ideas, and a meeting point for various proposals for action in the social struggles of the future.

The school is organized by the Antiauthoritarian Platform, thereby continuing and deepening the educational and organizational processes of the movement and opening them to the outside world. More about the Antiauthoritarian Platform: anarhistka.org/about/

[the event will be held in English/ dogodek bo potekal v angleščini]

TO KILL A WAR MACHINE (2025) – o zgodovini in pomenu direktnih akcij (ogled filma in diskusija)

Direktna akcija je skozi zgodovino obveljala kot ena izmed legitimnih metod proti-sistemskih gibanj - od sindikalnih do avantgardnih. Kot praksa skupinam omogoča odzivati se na aktualne napade, služi lahko kot sredstvo za agitacijo in mobilizacijo, v končni fazi pa lahko pomaga zaustavljati de-radikalizacijo in NVO-izacijo družbenih gibanj.

Film, ki je nastal pod taktirko Rainbow collective, predstavi angleško aktivistično skupino Palestinska akcija (Palestine Action), posnetke njenih direktnih akcij iz let med 2020 in 2025 pa pospremi z intervjuji z aktivisti, njihovimi družinskimi člani, podporniki, novinarji in mednarodnim odvetnikom. Zgodbo postavi v kontekst bogate zgodovine direktnih akcij in protestov v Angliji. Ker se je Palestinska akcija znašla na seznamu terorističnih organizacij,  so oblasti film prepovedale, predvajanje pa lahko preganjajo po protiteroristični zakonodaji. Ustvarjalci so umik filma pospremili z besedami: "Menimo, da je to pomemben film, v katerem aktivisti in javnost predstavijo argumente, zakaj so direktne akcije proti podjetjem, ki izvajajo genocid, moralno in legalno upravičene. Prav tako menimo, da je prepoved nenasilne protestne skupine najbolj zaskrbljujoč primer avtoritarne prekoračitve oblasti, kar smo jih videli v Združenem kraljestvu v času naših življenj, ne le glede pravice do protesta, temveč tudi glede pravic neodvisnih filmskih ustvarjalcev, pisateljev, novinarjev in umetnikov, kot smo mi, ki bi morali imeti možnost prikazati stališča in dejanja nenasilnih protestnikov."

Ogled filma se odvija v okviru Antiavtoritarne poletne šole. Šola je prostor za samoizobraževanje gibanja proti sistemom dominacije, orodje za raziskovanje zgodovine in revolucionarnih idej ter stičišče različnih predlogov za delovanje v družbenih bojih prihodnosti.

Šolo organizira Antiavtoritarna platforma, s čimer nadaljuje in poglablja izobraževalne in organizacijske procese gibanja ter jih odpira zunanjemu svetu. Več o Antiavtoritarni platformi: anarhistka.org/about/