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<font size="5">'''Appeal to the'''<br>'''international provotariat'''</font>

{{sc|What is the provotariat}}?

{{tab}}{{w|Provos|Provo_(movement)}}, {{w|beatniks|Beat_Generation}}, {{w|nozems|Nozem}}, {{w|teddy boys|Teddy_Boy}}, {{w|blousons|Blouson}} noirs, {{l|gammler|https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gammler}}, {{w|raggare|Raggare}}, {{w|stiljagi|Stilyagi}}, {{l|mangupi|https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mangup}}, {{w|mods|Mods_and_rockers}}, students, artists, {{w|rockers|Mods_and_rockers}}, delinquents, anarchists, {{w|ban the bombers|Nuclear_disarmament#Nuclear_disarmament_movement}}, misfits. …

{{tab}}Those who don{{t}} want a career, who lead irregular lives, who feel like cyclists on a motorway. Here in the {{w|carbon-<wbr>monoxide|Carbon_monoxide}}-poisoned asphalt jungles of {{w|Amsterdam|Amsterdam}}, {{w|London}}, {{w|Stockholm|Stockholm}}, {{w|Tokyo}}, {{w|Moscow}}, {{w|Paris}}, {{w|New York|New_York_City}}, {{w|Berlin}}, {{w|Milan}}, {{w|Warsaw}}, {{w|Chicago}}. …

{{tab}}The provotariat is the last rebellious grouping in the {{w|Welfare State|Welfare_state}} countries. The {{w|pro''le''tariat|Proletariat}} has become the slave of the politicians, happy to watch TV. It has joined its traditional enemy, the {{w|bourgeoisie|Bourgeoisie}}, making with it, becoming bloated, grey Arse-<wbr>people.

{{tab}}The new class opposition is Provotariat versus Arse-<wbr>people.

{{tab}}But the provotariat is not a class{{dash}}its make-up is too heterogeneous for that. The provotariat is de-<wbr>classed.

{{tab}}{{sc|The provotariat is a grouping of subversive elements.}}

{{tab}}Why does the provotariat rebel?

{{tab}}The example of millions of elbow-<wbr>bargers, rat-<wbr>racers and social climbers is too boring. {{qq|Success}}: a home of your own, a car of your own, a TV of your own, a woman-<wbr>of-<wbr>the-<wbr>year of your own, a fridge of your own, a position of your own.

{{tab}}We live in a tasteless, monolithic, mass-<wbr>society. The creative individual is an exception. Behaviour and consumption patterns are thrust on us by the Big Bosses, capitalist and communist alike.

{{tab}}But the provos want to be themselves.

{{tab}}They want to be the Creative Leisure Activators of tomorrow!

{{tab}}Down with {{w|Philips}}, {{w|Seven Up|7_Up}}, {{w|Persil}}, {{w|BMC|British_Motor_Corporation}}, {{w|Players|John_Player_&_Sons}}, {{popup|MacLeans|a brand of toothpaste}}.

{{tab}}{{sc|The provotariat despises the slave consumer.}}

{{tab}}We live in an authoritarian society. The authorities (the heads and arms of the Arse-<wbr>people) decide what happens. We can get stuffed. We organise {{w|happenings|Happening}}. The happening is our contribution to the Happening which is authorities withhold from us.

{{tab}}Against our will the authorities are preparing for {{w|atomic war|Thermonuclear_war}}. The full weaponry of mass destruction is being stockpiled everywhere; in {{w|America|Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States}}, {{w|England|Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom}}, {{w|France|Force_de_dissuasion}} and {{w|China|China_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction}}, and soon in {{w|West Germany|Germany_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction}}, {{w|Sweden|Sweden_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction}}, {{w|Indonesia|Nuclear_power_in_Indonesia}}, {{w|Israel|Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel}}, {{w|India|India_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction}} and so on. If the {{w|war in Vietnam|Vietnam War}} becomes nuclear war we can expect the Northern Hemisphere to be uninhabitable!

{{tab}}The Authorities decide our manner of living and our manner of dying.

{{p|236}}{{tab}}{{sc|The provotariat is scared of the authoritie{{s|r}} atomic war.}}

{{tab}}So the provotariat is at odds with authorities everywhere. The police hit out at us when we demonstrate against the atom bomb, when we organise happenings, when the mods and rockers come on the scene in their own way (in subconscious protest against this society). The police work off their spite on us provos.

{{tab}}{{sc|Police versus provotariat}} = {{sc|hierarchy against anarchy.}}

{{tab}}The anarchistic spirit of the international provotariat has given birth to the anarchist Provo movement which attempts to make the provotariat of the whole world aware of its alienation.

{{tab}}What does anarchism want?

{{tab}}{{sc|Collectivisation.}} (No private property, as much as possible common property.)

{{tab}}{{sc|Decentralisation.}} (Abolition of the State in which Government holds practically all power.)

{{tab}}{{sc|Demilitarisation.}} (Disarmament and no hierarchies.)

{{tab}}A new society composed of a federation of communes, each as autonomous as possible, in which private property is abolished. In the approaching cybernetic age electronic machinery will carry out the tasks of administration which are the eternal pretext for the existence of politicians.

{{tab}}In such a technological society, decentralised into small communities, there will be ''real'' democracy.

{{tab}}{{sc|Anarchism demands revolution!}}

{{tab}}{{sc|Provo}} despairs of the coming of Revolution and Anarchy. Nevertheless it puts its faith in anarchism; for {{sc|provo}} anarchism is the only acceptable social concept. It is our ideological weapon against the authoritarian forces which threaten us. The provotariat lacks the strength for revolution but one thing remains to us:

<div style="text-align:center;">{{sc|Provocation.}}</div>

{{tab}}The subtle pin-<wbr>prick{{dash}}our last chance to hit the authorities in their soft, vital spots. Through provocation we force authority to tear off its mask. Uniforms, boots, helmets, sabres, {{w|truncheons|Baton_(law_enforcement)}}, {{w|fire-<wbr>hoses|Water_cannon}}, {{w|police dogs|Police_dog}}, {{w|tear gas|Tear_gas}} and all the other means of suppression they have lined up for us, must be produced. The authorities must be forced to act like authorities: chin jutting, eyebrows knitted, eyes glazed with rage, threatening us right and left, commanding, forbidding, condemning, convicting. They will become more and more unpopular and the popular spirit will ripen for revolution. A revolutionary feeling will once again be in the air: crisis.

{{tab}}A crisis of provoked authority.

{{tab}}Such is the gigantic provocation we call for from the International Provotariat.

{{tab}}{{sc|Provoke! from anarchist groups!}}

{{tab}}{{sc|Provos awake! we are losing a world!}}

<div style="text-align:center;">(''Provocation No. ''8,'' published by ''{{sc|provo}}{{dash}}''an anarchist journal,''<br>''Amsterdam'' 1965.)</div></div>

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imported>Ivanhoe at 02:33, 16 March 2018

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imported>Ivanhoe: Created page with "{{header | title = ANARCHY 66 (Vol 6 No 8) AUGUST 1966
Appeal to the international provotariat | author = | section = | previous = ../Explainin..."