Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #257 (Jan) - State of
emergency: the hour of the attack against (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. First of May Anarchist Alliance Broadsheet: Anarchist
Revolution JAN-FEB 2016 - Chicago: Moment of Crisis
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, group of libertarian communists: Joint Actions week
6 to 13 February 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, "Black & Red" - Collective for Social Anarchism --
GENERAL STRIKE 4 FEBRUARY -- 3 oil, vinegar 3, 6 vinaigrette?
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, liberta-salonica: Event presentation Anarchist
Federation - Thessaloniki 5/2 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. anarkismo.net: Greece, Call to the general strike February
4, 2016 by A.P.O. - Anarchist Political Organization
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The attacks in November gave the government the opportunity to try to silence the social
movement under the pretext of the fight against terrorism. Do not let him! ---- The state
of emergency was declared by the Council of Ministers on November 14, the day of the
attacks. Framed by a law adopted in 1955 during the war in Algeria, it was extended by
three months following a vote of the National Assembly, until February 26. A formality
since only six deputies voted against [1]. Members of the Left Front have unanimously
voted in favor, on the grounds that Parliament will be informed of measures taken [2].
This was not without causing a stir in the Left Front, communist binding eleven senators
to refrain ... when passing the Senate.
The state of emergency has been used for multiple searches, house arrests, meeting rooms
closure for the beverage sales ban after 20 hours in the North or a curfew in a city in
Sens. All this simple decision of the prefect or the Minister of the Interior, so beyond
the control by the courts, which also bourgeois as it allows a number of remedies and
brakes. La Quadrature du Net conducts a census of the measures taken, most unrelated to
the alleged fight against terrorism [3] t. The most significant are probably those related
to the repression of the mobilization on the occasion of COP21.
Deadweight
All security arsenal was ready to suppress the mobilization, but the state of emergency
fell as a boon. House arrest allowed to nail home the militants and militant ecologists.
The prohibition of protest was possible out of emergency, but was used extensively. Thus,
walking Climate scheduled for 29 November in Paris was banned, but the human chain
organized by the Climate Coalition, also prohibited, was tolerated. As against repression
hit hard on those who chose to protest despite the ban: the first face-to-face with the
riot police, they were gassed before to prevent exit of the Republic Square and place over
300 protestors into custody. Police headquarters and government have directly
communicated, reported by the media: there was one side of the peaceful demonstrators and
human chain on the other the "thugs" who were there only to throw candles Memorial attacks
on the cops. Some organizations have taken the bait immediately as Alternatiba and EE-LV
who condemned so-called "thugs" [4] who "play into the hands of the government" [5].
Videos of the event on the square and riot police dispersing protesters seeking to protect
the memorial before shamelessly trample it showed another version.
This episode, plus the demonstration of support to migrants and migrant also prohibited
Nov. 22, shows what to expect if the state of emergency was extended. All events will not
be prohibited, at least initially. This is for power to modulate repression to be able to
isolate hazardous Gentile citizens extremists. It is from this perspective that
significant rallies against trade union repression of December 2, the day the trial of the
Air France employees following the uprooting of HRD shirts, were allowed.
Uni-es for our freedoms
It is therefore more than ever necessary to refuse this blackmail and organize the
broadest possible mobilization against the state of emergency. Today these are
environmental activists and / or extreme left who were in the viewfinder. But the
viewfinder can switch targets as it sees fit, especially if the manifestation of
co-hosting with prefects settled in manners.
The stakes are high. Valls has announced consider renewing the state of emergency beyond
26 February. It is usual for the government to present himself as the strong man at the
height of the situation, such as "left without complexes" which takes the security and
migration themes to heart.
Thus, proposals such as "changing conditions of self-defense officers," the deprivation of
nationality [6], the suspension of the Stability Pact so far presented as an absolute
must, to hire 5,000 more cops, or an internment camp for stuck S [7] are on the table.
Finally, it is envisaged to "entrench a state of emergency." It is now a simple law,
potentially inconsistent with the Constitution, particularly regarding fundamental
freedoms [8]. Enshrine the state of emergency would be to legally concreting the possible
circumvention of these freedoms. This recipe produces the usual effects: it establishes a
climate where security topics are on the front of the stage, radicalizes all bourgeois
parties to the right and thus pave the way for the National Front, as evidenced by the
results of regional elections 2015. If the government continues outbid by extending the
state of emergency beyond 26 February, then there will be no reason to go back: the
imperialist maneuvers in the Middle East and Africa are not close to ending terrorism, and
the approach of the presidential election in 2017 will speed up the ante, as the coming to
power of the right or the National Front. Recall that during the war of Algeria's state of
emergency lasted from April 1961 to May 1963, well beyond the end of the war. So now that
we must put a stop after that will be much more difficult.
Building a national event
The response today is organized around two frameworks: a first excluding organized them:
political tions, yet directly targeted by repression, driven by LDH, and a second driven
by the DAL, which includes G alongside Solidaires Attac, the Union of Magistrates, the CGT
75, the NPA, the PG, Togetherness, etc. The unification of these two frameworks would be a
positive sign for the mobilization. The second part is the origin of a call "Yes to
freedom, no to the state of emergency" and a meeting in Paris which brought together
several hundred people on December 17. He envisions a national event on the weekend of 6
and 7 February. Time is no longer between the demonstrations convinced es, but to a
construction field through local collective, common hardware and meetings, allowing to go
on contact with the population, still disoriented by attacks and unfortunately still
gained to security excesses. Alternative Libertaire is fully in this dynamic.
Gregory (AL Orléans)
[1] Three environmentalists and three socialists.
[2] This is a modification of the law of 1955. Similarly, the control of the press has
been removed, but added that of Internet, and the conditions of extended house arrest.
[3] https://wiki.laquadrature.ne
[4] "... that have nothing to do with ecology", Cécile Duflot.
[5] Txetx Etcheverry, of Alternatiba
[6] For the French born binational. The Civil Code already allows for binational naturalized.
[7] Of which one must remember that more than half have nothing to do with the Islamist
movement.
[8] Recall that the government had warned the European Convention on Human Rights that he
would probably break the rules of the latter during the COP21.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Etat-d-urgence-l-heure-de-la,6691
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Message: 2
Chicago is in crisis. Gun violence is out of hand, schools are underfunded, rents are up,
and pollution plagues poor neighborhoods. Two-thirds of residents now oppose Mayor Rahm
Emanuel even though he was just re-elected last spring. The day after Christmas, police
shot and killed a 19-year-old college student and a 55-year-old mother of five, both
black. Major social struggles erupted in 2015, and have created an opening for bigger
movements in 2016. ---- First the election. Emanuel won, but it took two rounds. Elections
don’t solve fundamental social problems, and Rahm’s main opponent was hardly a radical
alternative. Still, the runoff highlighted anger against policies that help the rich at
the expense of poor and working people.
Then came the fight over Dyett High School, which sits empty after decades serving an
all-black neighborhood. Rahm wanted to let a private charter school operator take over
the building, but community activists staged a hunger strike and disrupted multiple
public events, demanding it remain a regular public school. Across the city, anger with
Rahm grew even though he agreed to reopen Dyett as a public school.
In November, the city was forced to release video of a white officer shooting a black
teenager named Laquan McDonald sixteen times, killing him. People were horrified by
the footage even though many know police shoot people every week on average and kill
someone almost monthly. But violent cops are almost never punished. Dozens of
protests disrupted business as usual, and most were organized by young people of color
including many queer and trans activists. Public anger forced Rahm to fire his police
chief and now many demand he resign himself.
What’s next? The latest killings may escalate the fight sparked by McDonald’s murder.
Meanwhile Chicago is almost bankrupt and the Teachers Union recently voted to
approve what would be their second strike in four years. Protests amidst the crisis show
regular Chicagoans are coming to realize we have collective power in spite of a bullying
mayor, a racist school system and trigger-happy police. Maybe 2016 can be the year we
take things to the next level. – Francis Coyle (Chicago M1)
http://m1aa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/AR1EngFull.compressed.pdf
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Message: 3
Against the military operations of the Turkish security forces and the Solidarity with the
resistance and self-organization of the Kurdish regions ---- For 15 years, the radical
Kurdish movement, abandoning the idea of forming a separate new national state, has formed
an open social experiment: the experiment of democratic autonomy. Forming democratic
councils in each municipality, trying to form a confederation of all Kurdish areas. The
first step was the creation of the federation of the three cantons in northern Syria, in
2014, acquired as a symbol of the months of heroic resistance of People's Protection Units
in the Rozava. ---- From summer to date, preach autonomy of many municipalities in the
Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey marked the declaration of a violent and deadly war on
the part of the Turkish military and police forces, while multi-day declared curfews in
many cities. In this war, the state forces bombard cities with cannons, tanks,
helicopters, demolishing homes, destroying historical monuments, killing mostly women,
elderly and children, performing new and evacuate areas cutting off water, electricity and
gas. People may not have the essential items of daily life due to traffic prohibitions.
Schools are closed, hospitals are under siege, and in fact the dead are not allowed to be
buried leaving them many murdered in the streets for days.
The immediate manifestation of practical Internationalist Solidarity -in those fighting
for a world without divisions between nationalities, sex, religion, color, for a world
where people will have their lives in their hands through councilist forms of direct
democracy; it is a key priority.
Not to leave the area of the Mediterranean hostage of the geopolitical games of big and
regional powers, who have already put their military machines to work, religious
fanaticism and nationalism leading nations in mutual slaughter.
To make the Mediterranean bright beacon
Social Liberation
Concentration / Course - Saturday, February 13
12 pm. - Monastiraki
Libertarian / Anarchist * Meetings / Initiatives Solidarity
from Athens, Patras, Heraklion, Larissa, Volos, Mytilene, Kalamata, Tripoli, Halkida
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Message: 4
The mathematics of the "left" who will pay again? we! ---- After a time, two times "left"
three elections, it is clear that any hope is now bankrupt. In the third memorandum signed
by the coalition SY.RIZ.A. - AN.EL., antiasfalistika the measures to be voted on, impose
such changes to the pension and the contributions of taxpayers, who is sure that will
further impoverish the lower walks of life for the benefit of capital. ---- Initially,
consolidation of all the funds proposed in a single body that will "ensure" main insurance
and another that would "ensure" subsidiary. The public social insurance will be thing of
the past, as will become individual obligation of workers and public health services will
no longer be a private and thus expensive "luxury". On top of all this comes on top of the
cutting of main and supplementary pensions frightening rates! The new single will be
provided (when possible!) Markedly reduced and the government promotes the reduction of
EKAS in order progressively to the disappearance as in 2019. At the same time the
contributions for health insurance and workers are increasing resulting in further
reduction of their salaries .
It is obvious that the government aims to cover the deficit on the backs of already
impoverished social groups, such as pensioners, but also with the changes promoted
condemns all future employee as well as the new pension system is only one more attack of
the local and international capital in the acquired labor rights. In this way, not only
affected the lower social strata, but also goes a step further individualization of work
with obvious purpose to further fragmented the interests of workers so as to remain
inactive in the face of impositions state and bosses. These freedoms are being, rights
violated and to have their peace of mind, state and bosses promote social cannibalism in
all aspects of daily life, ensuring their stay in power. The competition, the individual
interest and the pimp welcomed the working environment to become the norm that dissolves
class resistances before they barely occur.
At a time of intense political and economic turmoil, as the maintenance of social peace is
a key challenge of all governments (let alone this "left-right" abortion) there are still
forces that resist the rule of poverty. The whole of society, living in permanent terror,
which translates either as economic impoverishment / or unemployment as an external threat
because of the "invasion" of immigrants / three fails to recognize the single interests
and oppose the real enemy called capitalism.
We, for our part, we see ourselves as an integral part of this society and against the
logic of the award, against bosses sold out of GSEE and unorganized pseudo-strikes
calling, we set our own spearhead. Through base unions and ventures with anti-hierarchical
characteristics and horizontal structure, but put forward and participate in
self-organized, akidemoneftous social and class struggles. We stand by the emancipation of
labor as part of social liberation, as we understand that the workers' claims can not be
divorced from social needs.
We understand as crucial in creating a stable pole that will become the 'counterweight' to
the institutional state-syndicalism and proceed to militant demands both at work / labor,
and socially. Opposite the strikes - fireworks, collated our general term strikes but put
forward the belief that labor rights and social needs are non-negotiable and as such will
defend! Do not live like slaves!
THE INSURANCE not be solved by LAWS
OR ONE LIFE TO Treat Or A LIFE IN THE STREETS
UNTIL THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
UP TO ANARCHY AND libertarian communism!
ALL AND ALL IN strike COURSE ON 4 FEBRUARY!
CONCENTRATION | CHAMBER 10 a.m.
Collective for Social Anarchism "Black & Red"
-Member Anarchist Political Organisation / Federation collectives
Federation syllogikotiton-
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B7-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1-4-%CF%86%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B7/
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Message: 5
[..] The self-organization (that kind of organization that profess libertarian-an almost
inexhaustible source of experiences and ideas from labor and social movement) tends to
emerge around as an almost "natural" or perhaps intrinsic tendency of that anarchism It
has a holistic vision of the world and seeks social revolution. In this context, the
association and involvement of collectives into a coherent organizational structure put
forward as an answer to the question what kind of organization they wish anarchists. The
anarchist federation, then, is an attempt to reestablishment of anarchism in its natural
environment, the organization [...] ---- OPEN EVENT PRESENTATION OF ANARCHIKIS FEDERATION
---- Presentation of the project of the Anarchist Federation. ---- Talk about race
strategies in the current context. ---- Thessaloniki, Friday, February 5 6:00 pm Job center
Comrades comrades
it is our pleasure to meet with comrades and comrades with whom know each other through
our common political and social struggles but also with whom we share common concerns and
anxieties. Referring to concerns about both the means and methods of our struggle and
structure with our spearhead and objectives and about the nature of relations between the
partners, agonists and collectives. And naturally anxious about the effectiveness of all
the above regarding how to promote our common cause, namely the social revolution, the
individual and social emancipation and creating a world of freedom, equality and solidarity.
It is these concerns and anxieties were the fuel that fed our discussions over the last
2.5 years, the focus of which was ever the issue of organization of anarchists in Greece.
The result of this effort was the creation of the Anarchist Federation, the first
appearing in historical anarchist Greece. This result and our path to creating we want to
present.
Suggestion for the open presentation events Anarchist Federation.
Anarchist Federation
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/%CE%B5%CE%BA%CE%B4%CE%AE%CE%BB%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82-%CE%BF/
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Message: 6
AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST BARBARISM ---- ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL
REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM ---- GENERAL STRIKE ---- THURSDAY FEBRUARY
4, 2016 ---- AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST BARBARISM ---- ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR
SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM ---- GENERAL STRIKE ---- THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 4, 2016 ---- State and Capitalism's total attack and the constant enforcement of
new, onerous terms of exploitation and oppression are expressing the overall process of
violent restructuring of the state and capitalist model of social organization. ---- The
current political management has undertaken the task to seamlessly continue this policy of
social subjugation and impoverishment and to restore the regime during the crisis,
promising a capitalist system with a human face, while at the same time it aims at
hijacking, assimilating and neutralizing social resistance.
On our side, the side of the unemployed, the workers, the poor, the plebeians, history of
social and class struggles shows that proletarians have nothing to expect from
institutions, parliaments, elections, bureaucratic union leaderships, manipulators and the
mediators of class struggle. Whatever we have to win will only be through widespread,
combative and radical struggles organized from below. Only through total overthrow of
State and Capitalism, social expropriation of the wealth which we ourselves produce and
which is sucked by a powerful caste, and social revolution aiming at a new society of
common ownership, solidarity and freedom, can the desires and the real social needs of the
oppressed and the exploited be met.
DEMONSTRATIONS – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016:
ATHENS: 11 am – Museum
A.P.O. - Local Coordination of Athens: Anarchist Collectives “Circle of Fire” and “Omikron 72”
THESSALONIKI: 10 am – Kamara
Collective for Social Anarchism “Mavro & Kokkino” (“Black & Red”) – A.P.O.
PATRAS: 10 am – Parartima
Anarchist group “Disinios Ippos” – A.P.O.
anpolorg@gmail.com
Related Link: http://www.apo.squathost.com
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