Since the end of the 1980s and through the liberal discourse of the End of History and the legal mechanisms of the so-called “fight against terrorism” militants and political organizations of the anti-imperialist resistance have been put underground in our reality; to the tunnels of resistance, to the prisons and dungeons of power, to clandestinity after persecution, to mass graves and cemeteries, like a seed, they are now buried under the earth, and from there prepared to nourish and make grow the struggles against the contemporary colonial order.

The long history of persecution against anti-imperialist organizations since the mid-twentieth century has sought to silence by force a generation of militants, has attempted to erase their knowledge and experiences from the collective memory, has sought to break the thread of transmission from these anti-colonial political and ideological ancestors to the current generations

that seek to confront the capitalist/colonial current order.

The root you pulled out is not a hole in my land, it is a tunnel, it is a popular puppet theatre piece that tells of the resistance of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles of the 20th century from

underground, which power believes it has defeated. They wanted to bury us but they did not know that we were seeds, they wanted to uproot us but they did not know that our roots left holes there, and that those deep holes in our land are now our tunnels.

Voices: Andrej Ostroški, Vladimir Bjeličić.

Translation to Serbian: Vladimir Bjeličić, Andrej Ostroški.

Puppets performance: Zoja Borovčanin, Daniela Ortiz, Andrej Ostroški.

Production: Andrej Ostroški, Vladimir Bjeličić and Cultural Center of Belgrade

Presented in Oktober Salon 2024 Belgrade.