Anarchistic update news all over the world - 20 May 2016
Today's 10 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - 1946: Civil war
tipped Greece west (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. i-f-a: Statement from the meeting of the International of
Anarchist Federation Written by CRIFA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, maurokokkino1936: "Black & Red" Collegiality for
Social Anarchism: Actions against the concentration camps. (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: No prosecution of the
arrested on 8 May!!! (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. karakok.ch: From Fascist to anti-militarist: An interview
with a Turkish ex-soldier Resource: Corporate Watch (tr)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, Articles of ESE-Athens, Labor Counter Bulletin #113
(gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. i-f-a.org: Solidarity call for Turkey by LGBTI Peace
Initiative (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Solidarity with CNT-AIT -- Doctors without Borders
discriminates (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Our 82th FNB will be on Wednesday to commemorate our friend
and comrade Gönül Şahin. (tr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. US, CHICAGO MAY DAY REPORT BACK (pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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March 30, 1946, an attack on a police station marks the beginning of a civil war between
forces from the anti-Nazi resistance, grouped around the Greek Communist Party (KKE) and
government troops controlled by the right (a block of fascists, royalists and bourgeois),
allied with Britain and the United States. More than three years later, at dawn on August
30, 1949, falls Hill Kamenik who was the last bastion of the Democratic Army of Greece
(DAG), military training ???. If the loss is definitely spend the country into the Western
bloc, this struggle remains a fundamental reference for the current Greek left. ---- On 28
October 1940 the Greek monarchy, under the influence of his English ally, rejects the
ultimatum of fascist Italy and took part in the war. During this period, the
"dictatorship" of Prime Minister Metaxas, several Communist Party members mainly and small
Trotskyist groups, are imprisoned or exiled. Among them is the general secretary of KKE,
Nikos Zakhariadis who, from his cell in a letter dated October 31, 1940, invited members
of the Communist Party and the Greek people to participate in the war of national
liberation - led by Metaxas government - against the Italian invasion. Greece will manage
to resist the Italians and to stop the invasion, but it will not be able to achieve the
same thing when Germany attacked. In April 1941, Greece was occupied by Nazi troops.
The German occupation will dissolve all dominant political institutions. The Greek
government went to Egypt and no traditional political group appears to favor the option of
the conflict with the occupiers. In September 1941, the KKE initiates the creation of the
National Liberation Front (EAM), which in turn in February 1942 creates armed resistance
groups, called the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), under the command of Thanassis
Klaras, better known under the alias Aris Velouchiotis. The ASM is the largest
organization of resistance in the country, developing an action both political and
military against the Nazi occupation.
Greece is finally released in October 1944 and the race for the succession has already
started. In early December 1944 a violent government crisis occurs. On December 3, in
Athens, during a protest against the marginalization of EAM in politics, the police fired,
killing 21 people and injured over a hundred. The seven ministers of the EAM in the
government resign. Fights start between Elas and the English landed in Athens in autumn,
especially hoping to get rid of the Communists. The English come out victorious. The
Varkiza agreement in February 1945 provides for the disarmament of Elas and pardons for
political crimes committed after December 3, 1944.
Immediately after disarmament begins the period of "white terror", where the fascist
elements, Germans collaborators and reactionaries persecute and murder of members and
supporters of EAM and the KKE. The government does not intervene to stop these terrorist
acts, which are ideological purges and political, and sometimes reprisals by family
members of employees killed by Elas (usually members of the security battalions [ 1 ] ).
The period of the White Terror will open the way to civil war. While partisan groups
spontaneously leaving the cities to resume the maquis, the Communist Party finally chose
the military action to end the political stalemate, but also to protect the members and
supporters of the ASM. A policy statement also announced the selection of abstention for
the elections of 31 March 1946.
The eve of elections, the Communist partisans attacked a police station in Litochoro
Pieria in Macedonia. During the following three years of war, the monarchist troops and
fascist methods use a "dirty war" to deprive the ADG supports: sweeps of the civilian
population, deportation, murder, torture, etc.
Partizanes ELAS during the war.
Anarchists facing war KKE
Anarchist ideas have spread before all the political and ideological currents of the
nineteenth century socialists in Greece. But anarchist groups set up at that time were not
able to last in time. The anarchists of the nineteenth and early twentieth part in some of
the first wildcat strikes, which sometimes lead to uprisings, such as that of minors in
1896 or that of Serifos in 1916.
The leader of that rebellion was the union Kostas Speras, who later lead a group of
independent trade unionists within the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) on a
line that had a lot in common with the anarcho-syndicalists, especially against the
political action of workers. The group, which met some anarchists, book battle to prevent
addiction of GSEE vis-à-vis the Greek Socialist Workers Party, which after some time in
the 1920s, becomes a Communist Party. This minority has been removed from the GSEE. That
was the end of attempts to establish a real anarchist pole within the workers' movement in
Greece.
From the middle of this decade anarchist presence is completely eliminated in the country
and does not reappear until the 1970s, in the last years of the military dictatorship. It
will develop especially during the period of the new regime in 1974 [ 2 ].
The dominance of the Communist Party and Stalinism from 1930 is then complete on the labor
movement and the revolutionary movement in the country.
The texts on anarchist resistance and civil war follow two directions: on one side a clear
narrative influenced by veteran Stinas Agis, became a Trotskyite anarchist, representative
of the current "Socialism or barbarism" and the other a positive vision the struggle of
the popular fighters for what they believed a better future.
Kostas Speras
Army Stalinist criminals ...
Stinas and small Trotskyist group, in which served for a time the philosopher Cornelius
Castoriadis before fleeing to France, represented the period of Nazi occupation according
to the Leninist model of "revolutionary defeatism" of the First World War. Transposed to
the Second World War, this perspective was the German soldiers of the Third Reich workers,
so class brothers of local workers, who must together transform the war into a revolution
against capitalism.
Stinas had the opportunity to develop his ideas in his book EAM-ELAS-Opla [ 3 ], published
in 1984. He criticized the national liberation organizations, presented as Stalinist
criminal organizations that kill innocent people for no reason outside the lust for power.
At the same time he denounced the ASM as the main responsible for the rescue of capitalism
and the political system of domination.
From his perspective, the EAM has helped save national unity and to lay the foundations
of a new national development when there was no one to do it. Finally, it insists that ASM
does not have a social discourse but favors only national liberation, with a deeper goal
of taking power to transform Greece into a protectorate of the USSR, another imperialist
power.
Much of the 1974 anarchist adopted, at least in part the speech. In the book's publication
period, the first democratic government of Andreas Papandreou acknowledged national
resistance and granted a pension resistant to integrate citizens left in the state and
representative institutions after decades of exclusion. The anarchist movement, at the
same time, he has chosen the global conflict with the political parties and the state,
which entailed stay beyond and outside of "national unity" manufactured. National
resistance that inspired previous generations was therefore nothing for anarchists of the
1980s, a matrix for some veterans who insidiously incorporate the left of representative
democratic system and heteronomy.
Conflicts with members and supporters of the KKE as intolerance of these to the
anti-authoritarian left, intensifying hatred against the Communist Party, associated with
this story. At the same time, the brutality with which the KKE members attack the
anarchists and autonomous, creates a compelling image of "Stalinist criminals." Finally,
the anarchist movement, very young, mainly derived from May 68, ignores the previous
generation of anarchists in Greece, lost in the mists of time, and looks for historical
roots and an imaginary shaping its history.
The movement therefore has partially adopted this narrative, which he nearest feels
ideologically, as all those condemning the KKE, and has developed organic links with the
perpetrators, as Stinas or Giannis Tamtakos former militant Trotskyite who also joined the
movement anarchist.
... Or popular resistance betrayed?
Unlike narrative, another approach will consider it as national resistance "popular
resistance of the poorest against foreign oppressors and local." This approach praises
armed action of the Greek rebels, making history, almost epic of liberation. While at the
same time, she criticized the leadership race by the KKE, betraying the honest struggle of
people for a better life.
The British, who wanted to totally eradicate the ASM used the same criticisms Stinas. For
Churchill, the resistance of Elas were thieves and brutal murderers. On the contrary, the
criticism of the absolutist Communist Party leadership did not bring so much about his
"criminal action" as told Stinas but rather on its "criminal inaction".
KKE's policy has indeed proved to be the best ally of the English and Greek bourgeoisie:
the signatures of Lebanon agreements [ 4 ], of Kazerta [ 5 ] and Varkiza [ 6 ] played a
perfidious and destructive role in the popular movement in Greece, paving the way for the
final defeat in the civil war.
The KKE was accused of having and not want to give to the fight against the Germans a
class content, subversive, to maintain the balance with the local bourgeoisie and the
British. In other words, the KKE did not make the struggle for social liberation, but for
national liberation.
This second view was formed and developed mainly in the anti-fascist culture of the
anti-authoritarian movement, addressing a wider audience, and while practicing violent
confrontation with neo-Nazis, to create a common imaginary origin, common action. We can
then associate anarchists in rebel National Resistance of EAM since the criteria to
support the action of the rebels are not ideological (which controls the fight or what
kind of society are we going to build?), But are pragmatic: the resistance is violent
conflict "natural" with the fascist invaders and their local partners.
The same argument justifies the civil war, seen as a way for EAM-ELAS fighters against
terrorism paramilitary groups whose crimes are not comparable to the resistance. Finally
the legitimacy to use similar means to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of claim also
involves the struggle that took place in the 1940s.
National Cold War and Liberation
The establishment of several national liberation fronts with Marxist-Leninist deserves
special mention, not only because it presaged a new fragmentation of the world into nation
states, but also because it was decisive for the historical development of world
revolutionary movement. The attitude of the Communist Party, who had under his dominion
EAM and Elas, during the German-Italian occupation of the kingdom of Greece, is typical of
all Stalinist parties.
Communist Party leaders have directed the People of that era left in a bloody struggle for
the realization of "national independence", ie the restoration of the nation-state,
controlled by a "dictatorship of the proletariat 'established and protected by the Soviet
Union. The ultimate goal was not reached, because Greece is now in the camp of England,
thus remaining outside the eastern bloc.
Note here that this aspect is reinforced by the argument that the ASM and the national
liberation movements are the last savior of the nation state, which defends Stinas, but
avoid his verbal excesses enthusiasts who brings him closer to the right. It is clear that
these issues are complex and that a closer analysis, he has to make, would be most useful
to better understand the revolutionary movement.
Aris Tsioumas Translation Natasa Panagou
[ 1 ] The security battalions are paramilitary groups recruited from the army, created in
April 1943 by the Greek government employee to quell the resistance.
[ 2 ] In 1974, after the fall of the dictatorship of a military junta (the "dictatorship
of the colonels"), the Third Hellenic Republic is established on the model of Western
liberal democracies.
[ 3 ] Opla is the acronym for Organization for the Protection of the struggles of the
people, urban vigilante KKE, which was also used to suppress opponents Trotskyites or
councilists.
[ 4 ] In May 1944 to provide a national unity government after the Liberation
[ 5 ] In September 1944, ASM accepts the British landing after the German withdrawal and
the placement of the Elas under British command
[ 6 ] In February 1945, following the Yalta conference, under pressure from Stalin KKE
accept a truce and a regency until the return of the monarchy.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?1946-La-guerre-civile-fait
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The CRIFA in Ljubljana reaffirms solidarity with refugees and migrants. Many of our
federations (especially in Europe, including the Mediterranean and the Balkans regions)
are involved in concrete solidarity with refugees by hosting people, helping them with
medicine, legal processes, developing self-organisation and organising demonstrations.
---- We fight against far-right activists who are taking advantage of the situation to
develop their xenophobic agendas. We oppose nation states, which are encouraging
nationalism, building walls and closing borders, the same states that support global
capitalism and free movement of money or trade agreements which exploit people inside
national borders. ---- In sight of this situation we also see good examples of solidarity
and we support these initiatives. Moreover, we continue to fight against the idea of
borders and to support freedom of movement in general. People must be able to move and
live wherever they want to.
At this moment, the media is focussed on war refugees (Syria) but we know that migration
will continue for many reasons. People have always moved to change their lives, whether it
is to escape bad situations or to try and improve their living conditions. We strive to
live together and share the world’s resources in the face of states, ideologies and
religions that create division and confrontation.
Participants of the Relations Commissionof the International of Anarchist Federations/
Commission de relations de l'Internationale des Fédérations anarchistes (CRIFA) meeting in
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23/24 April 2016.
http://i-f-a.org/index.php/homepage/86-statements/ifa/766-statement-from-the-meeting-of-the-international-of-anarchist-federation
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Message: 3
In the era of capitalist barbarism of fasistikopoiisis and social kanivallismou, one of
the symbols of modern totalitarianism frichtotero constitutes the means of power towards
the man. ---- The concentration camp. ---- The arrogance of power also appeared, and the
ensuing rape of language regarding the policy towards the oppressed. ---- The
concentration camps were designated shelters, as state pogrom in the center of Athens in
the fall of '12 baptized Xenios Zeus businesses. ---- The concentration camps, come
emphatically enforce criminalization condition of human existence and the changing
functions (always bearing in mind the needs of local and foreign bosses) like
paranomopoiisi work (employment of immigrants in permanent confinement threat and
deportation Mr. t.l).
the most recent, yet vulgar operation, established by the government of 'humanist' 'of the
SYRIZA government. The inclusion in the former of NS camps in abandoned factories and
other unused state property, is to assist the stivagma thousands of people into shelters,
separating them based on cultural criteria (!), Marital status and anything else you might
think the sick technocratic logic of '' European partners'. A process, while the
government claims that this option needs and protection of migrants themselves, for us
there is nothing less than a aprokalipto bundling human souls indefinitely (assuming of
course that the funds of the EU, will continue to flow abundantly to the state and not
only funds).
AGAINST the social cannibalism imposed on us daily,
the false '' national unity '' served by someone over local bosses and their minions,
xenophobia and racism representing more missallodoxa and reactive parts of the population,
preceded solidarity between natives and immigrants on the basis of common struggles
against their common oppressors.
DEMAND as a minimum requirement for the elimination of exploitation of migrants
(underrated work, etc trafficking circuits), to provide papers and their free movement in
the countries of destination.
As states will erect walls, fences and modern hellish in our cities amolontas the
uniformed dogs when oppressed, irrespective of religion, color, sex and race they are
fighting, so you will find us with their head up and clenched fists.
-Mikrofoniki Third 17/5, 11.30 Papanastasiou and Mpotsari (OASTH offices)
-Sygkentrosi Sunday 22/5 outside the immigrant camp in Xanthi (departure from ac.
Venizelos 10.00)
-Mikrofoniki wednesday 25/5, 12.00 Lambrakis and Kleanthous
-Poreia fifth 26/5, 17.00 Kamara
FREEDOM TO ALL EGKLEISTOUS / HS IMMIGRANTS / TRIES TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS
THE IMMIGRANTS ARE BROTHERS class, CONCENTRATION CAMPS NEVER AND NOWHERE.
SOLIDARITY IN immigrant Shannon Taleb on trial 31/5 ON BECAUSE resisted EXPULSION OF
Collegiality for social anarchism "Black and Red"
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com
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Message: 4
Sunday 8/5, and while passed the new law on insurance, the SYRIZA-ANEL government
suppresses those and those protesting against the harsh measures impose. After storming
the police in Exarchia, arrested and detained 14 people, including immigrants. They
alleged categories; for some misdemeanors (disturbing the peace, attempting unprovoked
dangerous bodily harm, defiance) and for the remaining categories "upgraded" and made a
felony (possession of explosives). On 10/5, the first seven passes of prosecutor and set
free, while getting postponed for Tuesday 17/05. The remaining 7 prosecutor spend
Wednesday 11/05, when they are released on bail. ---- The insurance bill affects all of
the lower classes and especially the working class because of a reduction in total pension
expenditure gradually by 2018 to 8.6 billion (21 billion in 2011), reducing pensions,
integrating all funds and supplementary pension funds gradual abolition of EKAS (Social
Solidarity benefit for Pensioners), reduction of disability pension (the key will be given
only to those who have 80% disability), reduction of sunk by 10% and reducing the basic
OGA pension (4%) while increasing contributions (3% now, aiming for 13%). In conditions
like this, any safety net existed for bottom dismantled piece by piece, with the active
consent of GSEE and other trade institutions sold out. No care course is not "appropriate"
being for the case where a / a unable to work ground or disease or pregnancy in general
age and health reasons. Even worse, the reduction of pensions downwards dissolves
literally and definitively wider social solidarity between older and younger or local and
migrant workers.
Within all this context where hacked what remained of essential social security, state
power punishes those who dare to struggle against the pension bill to life and dignity.
Arrest and prosecute those who are struggling against the fragmentation of our class,
against increasing the retirement age, reduce pensions, to everything that we divide and
break us as a class, all that create difficult living conditions for all and all of us
today and tomorrow. To those who are fighting for equal rights for all and all the workers
and workers, for the legalization of all migrants and immigrants and against inequality in
the workplace based on gender or age, managers of capitalist interests, SYRIZA-ANEL, react
with repression and persecution.
SOLIDARITY SYLLIFTHENTES THE 8th MAY
NO NO EXPULSION DIOXI-
SOLIDARITY TO OUR WEAPON
Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative
http://www.libertasalonica.wordpress.com
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Message: 5
Yannis Vasilis Yaylal? was brought up as a proud, nationalist Turk. From a fascist
background, he joined the army in the 1990s, at a time when Turkey was waging its most
brutal attacks ever on its Kurdish population. Yannis was eager “to go east and fight the
Kurds.” After just a few months in the military, he was captured by Kurdistan Worker’s
Party (PKK) guerillas and spent two years as a prisoner of war. Yannis was completely
transformed by his experience. He now lives in Roboski in north Kurdistan (within
south-eastern Turkey), where he lives as a Kurdish solidarity activist. He is also part of
the Conscientious Objectors Association, which gives solidarity to those who refuse to do
mandatory military service in Turkey. In January 2016 he was sentenced to seven months in
prison for ‘alienating people from military service’. We met Yannis in Roboski in July
2015 and interviewed him about his life.
http://barisicinaktivite.com/9929-2/
https://karakok.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/from-fascist-to-anti-militarist-an-interview-with-a-turkish-ex-soldier-resource-corporate-watch/
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Opposite the State attack and bosses NGOs to protakoume solidarity mas.Eimaste employees
or partners, or volunteers, he said in a call, the CLUB BASE WORKERS IN NGOs (SVEMKO)
asking for the support and solidarity collectives and workers for peremvaseis the trials
that erchontai.Eidikotera there are calls for: Monday 9 Maiouopou heard lawsuit eight
workers at the NGO "Shield of David" .the Tuesday, May 24 Opy heard appeal of NGO
"METAdrasi" against first instance decision vindicates ergazomeni.Tin Friday, the 3rd June
(Athens County Court 9: 00pm.) Opy dealt treatment worker at the NGO "EKPOSPO NOSTOS" and
action for libel by the NGO to request compensation amounting to 25,000 € .Epiprostheta
the call of SVEMKO wrote the following: Because the obvious labor rights not are
privileges, because nothing and never was granted to by the bosses, we decided to raise
our voice. We said NO to the arbitrariness of the bosses in MKO.Oi lawsuits with former
employers is one way when katexakolouthisi violated labor rights. Can the individual
employer to believe that the person claiming individual workers mania to suppress any
labor claim will restrain the common struggles of workers but does not calculate that
behind each / each of us will find us all towards it. Because our struggles are collective
and class. The entire announcement SVEMKO you can read HERE the HERE
When the employer thinks he is above the law ... dismiss illegally and attempts to
criminalize trade union drasi.Apaitoume reuptake female counterparts and each withdrawal
minysisapo employers of PANTHEON Coast! Ayta wrote the invitation of the Association of
Technical Employees (WAP) - Annex Heraklion for massive show of protest on Friday 6/5 to
inspect the ergasias.Kai WAP add the following: explicitly declare that it will not stop
the struggle until the full restoration of morality female counterparts: demand the
reinstatement and payment of all those in need. We state categorically we will not stop
the fight to withdraw any complaint in every direction from the employers of PANThEON.Oi
persecution towards three members of the board of our association Heraklion Annex
constitute persecution towards the club itself and provocative attempt to criminalize
industrial action and allilengyis.Dilonoume of all tones that neither Mickey nor any
employer threats will be tolerated. No arbitrariness will not remain unanswered. Attempts
to criminalize the struggles will fall on deaf ears. Send message to any boss who thinks
he can arbitrarily at the expense of workers that will find us in front of them. In
intractable, militant struggles for dignity in life and work.
It is worth noting that the call synypegrafan many clubs, unions, labor collectives,
anarchist groups and parties of the left from Crete and throughout Greece.
E kdilosi - discussion on "The Collective Agreements Labour link the struggle for labor
rights and the reconstruction of the labor movement" organized the n Tuesday, May 31
7.30pm at the offices of S. yllogou books Charter Digital MesonAttikis (6 Londos &
Mesolonghi Exarchia ) from Colleagues Initiative in n Paper-Paper-Digital Media space. the
Miletus it is: Apostolis Kapsalis, researcher labor relations INE-GSEE and Peter
Papapetros, State Employees Association of Paper Paper Digital Media Attica.
3-day general strike by strike-course concentrations-apokleismous- katalipseis.Tin
Paraskefi6 / 5 in Athens and Patras unfortunately the turnout was not as expected for the
burning issue of asfalistikou.Stin Thessaloniki became occupation of the Labour Centre
companion, the process which began arches loud slogans disappeared from a / blocks
throughout the course, thrown leaflets, written slogans in banks. Earlier attempt
occupation of office of SYRIZA in the city of students, riot police walked in front
chemical kicked and pushed the world to the shields.
In a pergiaki concentration called the Coordinating action against the abolition of the
Sunday holiday and "liberated" hours . "On Sunday, May 8, 2016, another Sunday with shops
open (based on the law for the" 8 Sundays "), and day general strike, the Coordinating
action against the abolition of the Sunday holiday and 'liberated' schedules calls to
strike concentration at 10am on Ermou (Constitution), " said the call of Coordination .
" Double" the call of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKERS WIND ( PA.S.E WIND), against the
new asfalistiko- tax bill. The Paseo WIND made a 48-hour strike and also participated in
the May Day rally of coordination against the abolition of the Sunday holiday and released
hours, Sunday, May 8 at Syntagma.Gia not pass -as mentioned-the bill will worsen the
living conditions of all of us and not institutionalized the abolition of the Sunday holiday.
The entire text of Outside you can find HERE .
The only we can defend our rights, to assert what they steal us and what we are entitled
to cancel any employer arbitrariness, we ourselves, within our workplaces. Through visible
or invisible workers committees through labor collectives, through our clubs, they
reported on their own call the workers - workers in the trade sector, the famous workers'
collective "standing".
This space-themed E rgatiko K Entre Thessaloniki ( SHIFT) -founded 1917 and became race
center with combative action clubs and reason for over half a century ago "occupied" by
the union bosses-and lost every match and confrontational tone. this n space, now want to
'liberate' from all of them. it said in a statement-call, the Coordination for the new
insurance through the busy SHIFT. the statement adds: and to him we call primary unions,
base unions, labor groups , anti-capitalist and anti-state collectives and organizations,
race meetings in neighborhoods, student and student groupings struggle, but each operator,
worker or unemployed, to attend to support the game center or even better to build new, to
strike and to go down the road en masse and fighters, to act in concert, in the first
year, not to pass the bill to the insurance, and second to start to built a standalone
class movement that fights against the hegemony, bureaucracy, hierarchy, mediation of the
struggles of from institutions and will fight both for the improvement of life conditions
in today, and for a world without states and bosses, without discrimination and wars, a
world of common ownership, equality, solidarity, eleftherias.Oli proclamation calling HERE
or alternatively HERE . the occupation ended on Sunday morning 8/5 and took the course in
the city center with the participation of 200-250 syntrofon.Perase the streets Olympus-Ion
Dragoumi-Hermes-Pavlou Mela-PP. German and resulting in Egnatia with outside rolling
burger bar where four workers were fired because they were claiming you are entitled, and
now fighting for the reinstatement of three and reimbursement of their accrued. Held 2
hour block.
Intensity NOTED Friday, May 6 in Thessaloniki when Tier Associations Coordination
Initiative and leftist organizations, tried to enter the offices of SYRIZA to make squat.
A platoon of riot police was in the building and another rushed to the spot. The men of
riot police have used chemical and beat with shields, the demonstrators. The concentration
regrouped and returned to the point, and then went to the IKA which has hung banners and
called on the world in the next mobilizations diastimatos.Pigi: athens.indymedia.org
Apergiaki guarding the headquarters of the construction "monopoly ELLAKTOR" held from
early Friday morning with Decision Association of Technical Employees (WAP).
In a 48-hour strike went Friday and Saturday 6 and May 7 employees in public
nosokomeia.Stin48ori strike builders also participated and workers in O MSW and OASTH, the
Power in Metro, the Tram and Trolley, the Trains and Tram.Oi journalists and employees at
the National Theatre. they continue their abstention lawyers who will refrain from their
duties to 14 Maiou.Kinitopoiiseis with squats buildings began Friday morning 6/5 and
WTO-TAB. Finally, vgainontas apotin ... hibernation GSEE campaigning Three day (72-hour)
.Geniki Strike, Friday, May 6, Saturday, May 7 Sunday May 8, 2016 and the ADEDY also a
48-hour general strike on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7, 2016.
With relatively greater participation by the strikes of the two previous days, took place
on 8/5 automatically Ioannina path against the Insurance-Tax. On concentration, the Labour
Centre of the city , had participation in SVEDI and ERC with not more than 40 people . M
together with the left parties, trade unions and other not surpass n 200 people.The tragic
was that at the same time (and on the same street) made voluntary WIND's race (RUN GREECE)
which flanked twice as people from all demonstrators together. Heard the slogan: " T
recheis for WIND and your bosses, and you have given up your rights" at the end of the
road was blocked on a few stores so they closed .
Dozens of arrests strikers builder in Athens and bringing a worker in the port of Volos
where he became deposit insurance measures by ship owners to come out illegal strike
rymoulkon.Eidikotera the Friday afternoon the police defiantly proceeded to arrests 30
builders outside the construction site of the Center Culture "Stavros Niarchos
Foundation", in Neo Faliro. A few hours later, under the pressure and interference of
strikers and workers from other sectors builders were left eleftheroi.Episis, the port of
Volos, at the behest of shipowners attempted to enforce the strike-breakers FLYING DOLPHIN
«ERATO». Over 30 port authorities attacked the strike protection and arrested employee A
little later he was released.
In Piraeus , the owners of Trailer - Life Saving proceeded to protective measures against
the National Union Management Life Saving Crew Trailer, for deciding and participating in
the strike struggle. The decision will come Friday night. The ferry Rio line - Antirrio ,
shipowners and port authority threatened by the prosecutor's intervention seafarers to
undermine the strike. However the strike of seamen had success thus be dead ports.
Blocking the unpopular anti-labor measures in insurance abortion and
foroleilasia. With all our forces to organize the battle repulse the new anti-labor -
unpopular kataigidasAfto said the closure of the Association text-call Technical Employees
(WAP) to strike 6-7, and May 8.
Microphone Protest Thursday 6/5 "set up" the Unemployed Workers-the Plaza Syntagma
Assembly call for the merger with microphone you can read HERE .Deite also HERE Convention
text-Unemployed Workers of Syntagma Square, the law guillotine .
The Federation of Labour Base participated in strikes against the all-out attack from
state and bosses, this time with the passing frontispiece insurer nomoschediou.Se
announcement noted that t not rely Sunday morning if the actions Coordinating action
against the abolition of Sunday holidays and participate in sygkerimena in ygkentrosi on
Sunday 8 May at 10am in Ermou also prochorisetin same day in ygkentrosi of the
Constitution the vote at the bill. Here's this call here .
Finally, concentration against new antisocial measures held Saturday, the 7th and Sunday,
May 8, the Anarchists assembly for Social and Class Cheirafetisi.Mporeite to see schriko
call HERE . Intervention - Microphone against the new anti-insurance in Pl.Kypselis Friday
6/5 out by anarchists and communists from the blister and the Gyzi .Ekdilosi on May 6 and
rally on May 8 for the insurance was from the anarchist-communists Assembly class
counterattack against the EU. strike concentrations pragmatopiise the Assembly block
anarchists on Social Class and Empowerment, Friday 6 not Saturday 7 and Sunday 8
Mai.Kalesma against Social Security on Friday 6/5 and had sent the Anarchist Federation
Region Athens.
https://ese.espiv.net/
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About LGBTI Peace Initiative ---- LGBTI Peace Initiative is a group of activists who have
been involved in various social and grassroots movements with anti-sexist, anti-fascist
and anti-capitalist agendas. After the Suruç Bombing on July 20, 2015, the war between
Turkish state and the Kurdish Freedom Movement escalated, the politics of the ruling party
AKP (Justice and Development Party) lead to the death, injury, imprisonment and torture of
our friends. ---- With the elections in June 7, 2015, a pro-Kurdish party, HDP, gained 80
of 550 MPs, despite attacks against the party and its supporters during electoral campaign
period, including multiple arson attacks to party buildings and a bombing in the rally in
Diyarbak?r, on June 5, killing 5 people. The visibility gained by the minority and
progressive groups of Turkey with the success of HDP frightened AKP, which lost its
absolute majority in the parliament for the first time since 2002, the year when they
first came into power. Nonetheless, none of the parties in the parliament were able to
come up with a coalition, hence the parliament not being able to function lead to another
general election on November 1, 2015.
Right after the deadly suicide bombing in Suruç district of Urfa, a town 10 km from
Kobanî, Turkish government one sidedly ended the ceasefire with the outlawed Workers’
Party of Kurdistan (PKK). The bombing lead to the death of 33, the majority of whom were
university students. On 10 October, in Ankara, another bombing lead to the death of 102.
Those who were killed in this attack, were gathered for the “Labour, Peace and Democracy
March” to protest against the growing conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and PKK.
After highly controversial elections, AKP once again gained the power in 1 November 2015,
as the ruling party.
As the legal political activity of HDP grew weaker under war conditions, PKK guerrillas
took the initiative as Turkish Army continued bombing the rural areas and mountain bases.
PKK started declaring autonomy in the cities of Turkish Kurdistan. Turkish army attacked
civilians as well as the PKK members, with devastating and ruthless military operations in
the cities. In 7 cities, more than 60 curfews have been declared since June 2015, lasting
for more than 100 days in some areas. Humanitarian aid groups were prohibited to access
the wounded civilians who get caught in the crossfire, the wounded were left to die. The
official numbers do not reflect the correct number of casualties (both civilian and
armed), as observers and journalists were denied access to the conflict areas, with
threats of deportation or physical force. The locals who communicated with the press had
to take the risk of brutal consequences. According to the Turkish Human Rights Foundation
(TIHV), at least 310 civilians were killed in the conflict during the various curfews
imposed in parts of the region between August 2015 and March 2016. As of 16 August 2015,
at least 1,642,000 people in the curfew areas are deprived of their fundamental rights,
including right to life and health care. 355,000 people had to leave their homes as a
result of the conflicts. At least 59 unidentified bodies were buried by the state in Cizre
district of S?rnak.
Instead of employing peaceful means to respond to these conflicts, AKP used ISIS as a
means to weaken the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Syria and let ISIS forces to
have access to weapons and military equipment, health care in hospitals in Turkey, and
allowed ISIS to recruit people to join their forces by opening the border between Syria
and Turkey.
The free press is the biggest enemy of AKP in this war, so journalists Can Dündar and
Erdem Gül are now facing terrorism charges for publishing documents and footage proving
the transportation of weapons to ISIS soldiers under the supervision of Turkish
Intelligence Agency (MIT). They were arrested and imprisoned for a while. They are
released now, but there are still 29 journalists who are in prison in Turkey.
AKP also favoured the repression of free speech: In January 2016, a group of academics
called for a petition to the campaign “We will not be a party to this crime,” claiming
this war was a crime committed by the Turkish state. More than 2000 academics signed the
petition, and Erdogan accused them for being terrorists. With Erdogan’s call, the
academics were with terror charges and four of them were arrested and have been held in
prison since then. Their case is still on trial.
Recently, with a “decree” of Erdogan, the definition of terror in Turkish penal system
will be extended so as to include “terrorist activities without arms,” which clearly
targets to silence those who speak up for peace in non-violent ways despite the oppression
and the threats they face.
CALL FOR ACTION AND SOLIDARITY
Creating international pressure on Turkish government is crucial for the peace talks to
start again, a ceasefire between the Turkish State and PKK to be declared, and curfews in
the Southeast of Turkey to end.
Please share the information above, and organize your own solidarity actions.
The asylum seekers face threats of deportation as a consequence of the refugee agreement
made between the EU and Turkey. We should break the silence of the EU-member states and
their institutions, show them that they shouldn’t turn a blind eye to this violence and
human rights violations with the aim of stopping the refugees coming to Europe. Refugees
are a result of this war, in which Turkey plays an important part.
SAY NO TO WAR IN TURKEY, SAY NO TO WAR IN SYRIA!
What can you do?
1) Support and spread our campaign on Indiegogo: generosity.com/emergencies-fundraising
2) Organize fundraiser events, and contribute to the campaign supporting the
reconstruction of Sur and Cizre. (All activities under this campaign will be shared on the
website: en.kampanya.barisicinkadinlar.com)
3) Organize demonstrations and sit-ins in front of the Turkish Embassy buildings in your
city/county. Join the LGBTI groups from all around the world who will protest this war in
front of the Turkish Embassy buildings on 10 May 2016. You can choose the most suitable
time for you. Please shoot the announcement and take beautiful pictures of your
demonstration. And don’t forget to send us the text of your announcement, and any other
news on the media.
Contact us via lgbtibarisgirisimi@gmail.com if you require further information.
http://i-f-a.org/index.php/communique-d-autres-organisations-10/761-solidarity-call-for-turkey
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The workplace branch of the CNT-AIT (an anarcho-syndicalist union in Spain) at Doctors
Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Spain is fighting against the
precariousness of its fundraising staff. MSF has been discriminating against migrant
workers and has also included performance-related clauses in the contracts of all of its
fundraising workers. ---- MSF has discriminated against two foreign workers. The company
had to change the contracts of every worker in 2014. As the company was using temporary
contracts in an illegal way, it was forced to give everyone to permanent contracts.
Everyone except two foreign workers. These workers only have temporary visa and work
permit. They have worked for MSF for three years now. MSF HR told the workers that they
didn't want them to use the contract with MSF to get a permanent visa in Spain.
The contracts of the fundraising staff includes clauses related to performance.
Fundraisers recruit new members on the streets who in turn pay the fees that finance MSF.
Workers are required to recruit an unreasonable amount of members. Many of the fundraisers
have faced disciplinary actions for not achieving the target imposed by MSF. Disciplinary
actions have even ended in redundancies.
The workers are not going to accept more injustices, abuses, discrimination or unionist
repression. On 18 May a first trial will take place related to this case. The FAU calls on
MSF to get rid of perfomance-related clauses and give contracts to the two workers.
http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_160517-084754
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Message: 9
On Weds, we will articulate Gönül’s wish to live in a world without wars, exploitation and
torture and read her last letter to the world. ---- Every wednesday from 16:00 to around
evening, Food Not Bombs Istanbul holds a public meal to share food with hungry people,
address unnecessary waste, and make a statement about non-violence in relation to all
living creatures at given address in the end. ---- Join us on this Wednesday for FREE,
DELICIOUS, VEGAN Sofra (meal); good company and great conservation! Learn more about
hunger, poverty, freeganism and solidarity – bring your friends and your appatites! ----
All decisions to be made by consensus! (i.e.: no hierarchy, no majority rule – all
decisions are to be reached unanimously) ---- (Food Not Bombs is an international direct
(A)ction organization that provides meals made from rescued/foraged food to those who
struggle to feed themselves under capitalism.)
Contact: 05513914591
Etkinlik Grubu
http://sosyalsavas.org/2016/05/gonul-sahin-anisina-82-sofra-82th-food-not-bombs-in-the-memory-of-gonul-sahin/#more-29814
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Message: 10
On May 1st, around 50 people showed up to a demonstration in Chicago organized by Chicago
Anarchist Black Cross. The march started in Douglas Park on Chicago’s west side and took
the streets headed northeast towards downtown. Along the way, the march passed the youth
detention center and made some noise for those locked inside. They were met with loud
banging on the windows from those locked up inside. ---- Unfortunately, due to police
presence gaining numbers, the march had to move on quickly and continue heading towards
downtown. As the march moved onward toward the downtown business district, the police
presence increased significantly (what a surprise!). Upon reaching the downtown area, the
march stopped to do a noise demo in front of the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Those
inside banged on the windows and flashed the lights in their cells for almost 20 minutes
in response. After showing their solidarity with those locked inside the federal prison,
the march decided to keep moving. Seeing the increased police presence, it was decided
that it may be best to go meet with a larger march which was rallying in front of Trump
Tower. Unfortunately, the march never made it there.
Soon after leaving the Metropolitan Correctional Center and being pushed on the sidewalk,
police kettled the march and violently arrested 19 individuals. Police injured a number of
people, with one person even being sent to the hospital. All were charged with
misdemeanors for obstruction of justice and one was charged with a felony for destruction
of government property. All individuals charged with misdemeanors were released later that
night and are currently awaiting trial.
After being held for almost 48 hours, the individual charged with a felony appeared at
bond court and was given a ridiculous $100,000 bond with an electronic monitor. At the
time of writing, the individual charged with a felony was awaiting release from house
arrest after posting the $10,000 needed for bond. Thank you to the Chicago Community Bond
Fund for all their help with fundraising to make that possible!
While the march was violently attacked by the Chicago Police, it did not take away from
the purpose of the march. The marchers effectively showed their solidarity with those
behind prison walls, reclaimed the streets, and made their presence known in the city
where it all began. In addition, when it came time to support those who were arrested,
people really came together in a beautiful way. While there were successes in some areas,
we were also left with a lot of questions.
How can we be better prepared to defend ourselves in the streets? Knowing that Chicago
police are notoriously violent and oppressive, how does that figure into our overall
tactical strategy? Are we better off joining in with larger liberal marches rather than
being brutally attacked on our own terms? Many of these things could have been addressed
by having better communication before taking to the streets. Moving forward, it’s
important we communicate our strategies with one another prior to actions taking place and
that we help one another learn how to use the tools at our disposal to defend ourselves.
By doing so, we can increase our safety in the streets and defend against the snatch and
grab tactics of the police.
https://itsgoingdown.org/chicago-may-day-report-back/
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