Faced with the brutalized and monetized capitalist leisure and sports, Albacete’s libertarian sensibility is organized to offer alternatives:

Last Wednesday, November 1, a group of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist militants met in an assembly with the aim of forming the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group, as well as to make the first agreements for its operation.

A large group of colleagues attended the assembly for this purpose, in which, first of all, the paper that had been proposed and which was presented by a colleague was presented. Once presented, there was a debate in the assembly about the orientation and character that should be given to the group, there was no disagreement and the constitution of the group was agreed upon.

The debate focused on the characteristics that should be conferred on it and its purposes in accordance with our clearly anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist principles. Despite the different opinions, it was clear that there was general agreement and a collective feeling to work in this field.

With this, the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group, as it was called, aims to be a space so that the anarchist movement can carry out activities related to nature: hiking, backpacking, mountaineering, and various sports disciplines.
We go back and adhere to the anarchist tradition of exploring geographers such as Elisee Reclus and Piotr Kropotkin, and anarchist doctors such as Isaac Puente.

The need to integrate nature into our lives, distanced and destroyed by capitalist society, has the objective of helping us to be more aware of the world around us, with the aim of transforming it.

Our group not only wants to promote strong activity in nature with Routes, but also wants to oppose competitive sports, the obsessive disease of the capitalist world for the body, selfishness, obsession, the cult of personality, competitiveness , professionalization, the elitization of sport, institutionalization, profitability, sponsorship and, ultimately, capitalism.

Human beings must cultivate both their mind and their body, therefore, our group not only defends the return to nature, but also defends the idea that this return be done consciously.

Another of the group’s purposes is to distance the working class from all those forms of harmful leisure that capitalism has always spread: consumerism, drugs, prostitution, bullfighting, technological consumption, predatory tourism, advertising, betting houses, soccer. business, etc. We understand that the anarchist movement must create a form of social relationship founded on the basis of respect, culture and ethics of mutual support and solidarity, as well as moral and intellectual growth, and not on the basis of misery, depravity and moral and intellectual impoverishment.

The Anarchist Mountain Group of Albacete also seeks to bring the mountains closer to the working class, each day further removed from our daily lives, converted into an object of consumption, a capitalist luxury for a few, in the form of a tourist product. Above all, bring the nature of our environment closer to our knowledge.

The Routes that will be organized will be naturalistic and historical routes, aimed at getting to know our environment better, training ourselves and being more aware of the world around us from anarchist ideas.

For this reason, from the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group, we encourage you to get in touch with our group and participate in the activities that we organize from now on.

Health and Mountain!