Alarm: Why it exists.

Alarm is an Anarchist Collective which was formed in Sydney. It was created because we saw the need for a place where young people could organize where they felt comfortable, and where the voices of young people could be heard.

It was created by and for anarchist youths.

It was organized along anarchist principles – without leaders, and where all peoples are equal – to serve those ends; because that is the world we aim for.
Alarm was established as a means of spreading revolutionary ideas, and helping for those ideas to blossom in the minds of young people, and to be put into practice.

It was seen by some of us, that joining already established groups can be quite intimidating, seeing as though most are much older, and such environments can make us feel unwelcomed and uncomfortable.

Alarm exists to help end this. It exists to help create an environment of solidarity and comfort between young people, where we can organize, discuss, and struggle together.

We can’t escape intimidation and dominance; but we can help to destroy it.

It was also created to help spread Anarchist ideas as an alternative to those that we see among the ‘left’ in Australia.

Many groups here in Australia have succumb to reformism, and have become nothing more than bodies which, despite all illusions, do nothing more than maintain the status quo, by having an unquestionable, and unchangeable system, which asserts that we must keep the peace by any means necessary, which, as rightly claimed by groups, aligns with the repression of dissent that is happening in this country.

We want peace. But Peace without justice and without liberty is not peace at all. That is fear. That is intimidation. That is us taking whatever the state puts forward to us lying down, without challenge, without resistance, though the only way that we may challenge these laws is through our resistance.

This simply isn’t good enough, and has to end; and this is where it begins.

We welcome all Anarchist youths to join Alarm

Because a better world is possible, and it’s foundations are born in our hearts and minds

A declaration of revolutionary solidarity,

Alarm