Today's 10 Topics:
1. Communicate of the Coordination Brazilian Anarchists (CAB):
March 8, International Women's Day (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Anarchist Collective for the Combative Proletarian
Reconstruction: Serhildan Jiyan e (revolt is life) (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. wsm.ie: Feminist unfinished business - 1916-2016 - 10
demands to begin righting Ireland's wrongs (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) - Middle East,
The glorious Egyptian army (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Press support of the CGT in the KJA at its Congress in
Mujeres Libres Kurdish (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) - unionism,
Mayotte: The Coming Insurrection (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Chile, periodico-solidaridad #32 - Editorial - Until the
usual dignity is made (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. wsm.ie: French Court Rules to Evict over 3000 Refugees by
Sean Prior (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. wsm.ie: Planning to sell off public housing in Derry?
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Czech, afed: Report on the activities of autonomous social
center clinic during the first year of its existence. [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
"We are slaves of the slaves. They exploit them more ruthlessly than men." - Lucy Parsons.
---- Historical rescue on March 8, International Women's Day: ---- We have a culture of
forgetting, erase our memory, are the result of a history that generations ancestors
built. So it is very important that we as feminists anarchists organized, do the rescue
and preservation of the cultural struggle in the history of the oppressed class, the
struggles employed by great women who have not undergone the domineering patriarchal
regime of his time. ---- Important dates which were historic in the class struggle, as the
March 8 and May 1, are "celebrated" without the knowledge their origins. We know that the
ruling class has its own version of the story version that deliberately erases the social
struggles against domination and exploitation. Even more so it is that we must take in the
history of our class, value their achievements and learn from his movement.
March 8th:
The International Day of Women's struggle originates on 8 March 1857. In an episode of
great repression and violence used against the struggle of women workers in the textile
sector and its strike movement. The workers had occupied the factory in which they worked,
claiming reduction of working hours, salary parity with men, who came to receive three
times more for the same type of service, and more dignity in the workplace. In New York
City, the bosses in response to movement, locked the workers and set fire to the factory,
charring and killing about 130 weavers.
If we live in the logic of domination and exploitation which causes thousands of people to
live subjected to various forms of oppressions, we can also be sure that it is women who
suffer most from all inequality and social injustice of capitalism. They are already
exploited as workers, which further intensifies for being women in a society governed by
machismo.
women attacks political situation:
And today, in a society in which the rise of the conservative right is undeniable, we see
the bottom of the attacks will further intensify. One of the attacks is Bill 5069/2013
authored by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB), which deals
with the practice of abortion, that "typifies as a crime against life's announcement means
abortifacient and provides specific penalties for those who induces the mother to the
practice of abortion. "It provides for imprisonment of 4 to 8 years, who assist directly
or indirectly in the pregnant woman abortion. And this is even more accentuated in
relation to aid and / or guidance from professionals, with sentences of between 5 to 10
years in prison.
This should be a time of unification of the sectors of the oppressed class to react
against attacks from above. Only with a lot of organization and social force we women
advance in our economic and political achievements and pluck of the capital and the state
forces, the rights that we have always been denied during the history of class struggle.
We can say that the year 2015 was advances to the struggle of women. In addition to 5th
March of the Daisies in August 2015, which brought together indigenous women, Maroons and
farmers from all over Brazil, also in Brasilia was the first March of the Black Women,
which served to give more visibility to those who until then "did not appear in photo
carrying the piano, "as Juliana Gonçalves, journalist and one of the coordinators of the
movement in São Paulo.
Kurdish and Zapatistas:
In two other points of the globe, somewhat distant from Brazil, they are very interesting
processes course of self-organization and women's empowerment, we can lean in and pay
attention a little more, serving as a reference and inspiration.
One is the Kurdish revolutionary process, in which women, in a region historically
dominated and governed by a perverse machismo, that prevented him from showing his own
face, come starring a central role in the fight against the Islamic State and the Turkish
State, two great enemies of the Kurdish people.
Closer to us, there are the Zapatistas in Mexico, where since 1994 indigenous women has
attracted the attention of everyone in the struggle in defense of their territory and
their culture. As seen in Ley Revolucionaria de Mujeres EZLN, "Noveno: Las mujeres podran
occupy positions dirección en la organización y tener military grads en las Fuerzas
Armadas revolutionary."
In this March 8, we want to draw particular attention to the murder of Berta Cáceres. She
was general coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular Organizations and Indigenous
Honduras (COPINH). He had repeatedly expressed themselves against the actions and
intentions of both the current government concessions of natural resources and harmful
foreign transnational companies by building dams and capture the resources of indigenous
peoples. She was murdered in her home on 03 March. For her, no minute of silence. All our
lives the fight!
The Coordination Brazilian Anarchist (CAB) publicly say that part, with all the women in
this struggle against the patriarchal capitalist system and the recovery of historical
memory of the struggles of women. We call all people to the struggle in defense of the
working woman, the woman riverside, the indigenous woman, the peasant woman, the quilombo
women, black women, LGBT women, of all women oppressed and exploited !!
LIVE 8 MARCH !!
VIVA BERTA CACERES !!
VIVA Kurdish and Zapatistas !!
NO TO PL 5069/13!
Women CAB, March 8, 2016
https://anarquismo.noblogs.org/?p=389
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Message: 2
Since June 2015, after the elections in Turkey in which Erdogan and his party (AKP)
suffered great losses, an all out war has been declared against the Kurdish communities of
eastern Turkey on the pretext of fighting “terrorism”. By waging a nationalist war, the
fascist regime of Erdogan aims to dominate the extreme class antitheses within the turkish
region as well as the interstate and imperialist antagonism within the wider region from
the Black Sea to Mesopotamia. As Erdogan’s government incites nationalism and chauvinism
within Turkey by spreading violence and repression, the forces of Kurdish and Turkish
fighters maintain a mighty resistance and are escalating the level of confrontation by
declaring autonomy in many regions and managing to strike military and police targets.
Against the brutality of the fascist Turkish regime, the popular guards of the
kurdish autonomist movement and Turkish revolutionaries resist by any means necessary,
barricade their neighborhoods and take up arms.
Every day towns and cities in Kurdistan are being bombed and are under state of
emergency; curfews, bombings, assassinations by the repressive forces of the army and
the police, home raids and arrests on charges of participation in either the rebel forces
of PKK or in one of the hundreds of grass roots organizations which mobilize in Turkey and
in Kurdistan around a variety of issues ranging from local governance and neighborhood
assemblies to human rights groups and solidarity to political prisoners. The regime’s
strategic plan is to attempt the palestinization of Kurdistan. An entire population is
forced into a state of siege under conditions of subordination or even annihilation, by
military and bio-political means. For this reason, the Turkish state is not only targeting
revolutionary organizations but the entire spectrum of the social web. The state and
military are deliberately assassinating women, children and the elderly, precisely because
they are aware that the latter constitute an active subject of the social resistance and
not simply unarmed civilians.
Women and children in Kurdistan are the ones who lend the struggle its great momentum. The
Turkish state cannot face the rebels’ armed resistance without bearing overwhelming losses
and without the risk of suffering crushing defeats. It could compromise with a truce with
regards to the armed conflict, however the immediate peril for the regime is the movement
for democratic autonomy that has been developing for years and which feeds the Kurdish
resistance and signifies its depth. The mass social resistance cannot be confined into the
line of fire; it permeats and deconstructs the space occupied by power.
In these many years the Kurdish movement has given bloody battles for autonomy by
self organizing the regions of Kurdistan with councils and grass roots assemblies, by
incorporating into the realm of self direction a variety of social issues, such as gender
equality, ecology, self management, collectivization whilst at the same time it fights
back against the violence of the Turkish repressive forces. Over 10,000 kurdish and
Turkish fightes are held captive Turkish prisons. The struggle of the kurdish autonomist
movement in Turkey carries many thousands of fallen fighters .
The conflict in Bakur Kurdistan is clearly a class conflict. In the last years the
resistance has spread into urban centres in which the turkish state and mulitnational
capital find a fruitful ground for economic development. Moreover, the kurdish autonomist
movement paves the way and lends a coherent revolutionary perspective to a number of
radical and combative collective formations of political, social, religious (e.g. Alevites
or the Anticapitalist Musulmanlar who actively participated in the Gezi park resistance
movement) or ethnic character (armenians, kurds, laz, circassian, turkmens, tatars
e.t.c.). The current campaign of the turkish state (and parastate) in its territory is the
follow up of its operations regarding the civil war in Syria and the revolution in Rojava,
of its policies in Bashur Kurdistan (northern Iraq) and of its collaboration with a number
of states and financial elites that have invested in the Islamic State. The war that is
unfolding at the moment in Anatolia is a critical and pivotal point in the social struggle
for self direction and it concerns a broader region beyond the turkish territory.
The turkish state is a crucial yet weak nexus in the global capitalist pyramid. And even
though the turkish state is trying out its own expansive policy in the Middle East, in the
region of Caucasus, in North Africa and in the Balkans, it nevertheless serves and is
supported by the economic-political-military complex of NATO and the EU. As a member
state of these interstate mechanisms, the greek state fully endorses the turkish state's
military operations.
The struggle of the kurdish people for social autonomy in Turkey, in Syria but also
beyond state borders paves the way by giving its blood for the global subversion of state
and capital. It is time that we join the struggle in solidarity with all those who are at
the receiving end of the turkish state's murderous repression. To reinforce in a diverse
manner and in all its fronts, the forces that are fighting against it. To stand against
the interstate structures that beget war and slavery.
VICTORY TO THE KURDISH RESISTANCE
VICTORY TO THE COMMON STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLES OF TURKEY
REVOLUTIOARY SELF-ORGANISATION EVERYWHERE
Anarchist Collective for the Combative Proletarian Reconstruction
asmpa@espivblogs.net
http://asmpa.espivblogs.net/files/2016/02/%CE%91%CE%91%CE%91-Serhildan-Jiyan-e.pdf
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Message: 3
With historic working class centenaries occurring in recent years we have heard a lot
about Unfinished Business. This message was strong in 2013 in reference to the 1913
Lockout and the inequality that still prevails in Ireland. Cries of Unfinished Business
are once again being proclaimed in this centenary year of the 1916 Rising and it is true,
we do have unfinished business. ---- We still have bosses and businessmen who could give
William Martin Murphy a run for his money. The Republic that the rebels envisioned and
enshrined in the proclamation has not been achieved and despite the rhetoric of the YES
campaign we do not “cherish the children of the nation equally”, and we have a long way to
go to get there, with particular work needed on Ireland’s hatred of women.
So, on this year’s International Women’s Day we say we have Feminist Unfinished Business
and so, we demand:
(1) The Repeal of the 8th Amendment and Full Reproductive Freedom. This means Free, Safe
and Legal Abortion on Demand, as early as possible and as late as necessary. It means that
whatever support is needed for those who choose to continue with a pregnancy is given. It
means consent and consultation during pregnancy and childbirth.
(2) Justice for those who have suffered at the hands of Catholic Ireland, from the victims
of the Magdalene Laundries to the victims of Symphysiotomy.
(3) The complete and permanent dismantling of Capitalism and the full distribution of
wealth so that poverty, corruption and greed are condemned to the history books.
(4) An end to Violence Against Women and the culture that normalizes, excuses and
reinforces it.
(5) The decriminalization of Sex Work and the recognition of it as work.
(6) That all are free to express their sexuality, straight, queer, asexual and everything
in between, without fear.
(7) That all are free to express their gender identity, cis, trans, and everything in
between, without fear.
(8) An end to Direct Provision and the tearing down of the borders.
(9) A society that is community–orientated, in which decision making lies with those who
lives will be affected, in which all are empowered to question, to think critically and to
live co-operatively and in peace.
(10) The destruction of all forms of oppression and oppressive power structures through
intersectional means.
These demands are not to be cherry picked to fit in with a liberal agenda. Those who are
currently fighting for an end to oppression, be it in Rojava, Palestine or elsewhere, know
too well that the solution does not lie in liberal feminism.
Feminism must be a threat to things as they stand, if not what’s the point? Seeking to
take our current structures and establishments and “make them feminist” will not make our
society more equal, it will only make the gender balance of those doing the oppressing
more equal.
While these 10 demands do not sufficiently lay out the changes that we are trying to make
this writer hopes that they help to lay the foundations.
WORDS: Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird
This piece is for the 13 who will leave this island today to receive the healthcare that
this government refuses them. It is for all those who have fallen victim to state
sponsored misogyny. For those who fight for another world.
Subject: Feminism, 1916
Topics: Gender
Geography: National
Source: Opinion
Type: Analysis
Author: Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird
http://www.wsm.ie/c/feminist-1916-2016-demands-righting-irelands-wrongs
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Message: 4
Participation in Egyptian parliamentary elections in autumn 2015 was very low. It reflects
the consciousness of the people to the ineffectiveness of urns face corrupt governments
that protect their political and economic interests. ---- After the presidential
"elections" of 2014, during which the polling stations remained deserted, the same
scenario is repeated for the "elections" Parliamentarians that took place in October and
November, despite appeals to the general vote and the media. ---- It is true that the
generals have no need to hold parliamentary elections, to the extent that no domestic
political force grows them, and some politicians have even said that a parliament would
threaten the Chief of Sissi. They do not have to worry about either international
pressure. France has no problem fiddling with a president without a parliament to sell
gusts (phew, a buyer!), And Germany hosted in large pump Sissi in June ...
These elections have known or big meetings, which constitute a well-established tradition
in Egypt, nor crowds chanting for their candidate. The participation rate was 0.6% to
2.7%, which did not prevent the High Elections Committee to announce a 27%.
Candidates were not left behind in this farce: the list For the Love of Egypt, headed by
Sameh Seif Al-yazal (which is intelligence officer and regional director of security firm
G4S) gathered, former Mubarak party to police retirees, with the program to reduce the
powers of the future parliament.
The economic disaster
The economy of the countless structural weaknesses, which constitute an almost
insurmountable obstacle preventing the establishment of a minimum of public services.
While the military control over 45% of the Egyptian economy, no trace of a tax repayment,
nor control, nor customs duties or anything that can be likened to a "normal" operation .
The rest of the economy is ruled by corruption, and again, the lack of control is total.
Add to this the informal sector (over 6 million street vendors). Finally, the state is the
largest employer in the country with (5 million civil servants, not including the police
and the army).
We understand that in this situation, the balance is difficult to maintain, especially in
addition to that the loyalty of the officers and judges bill dear to the state. The latter
is also unable to have enough foreign reserves: this is due in part to a paralyzed tourism
as well as the continued decline in Suez Canal revenues. Faced with this situation, the
army continues to protect ferociously its predation on the economy.
This will give nothing to their privileges and continue to trim down the economy weakens
even more the alliance of the army with men of civil affairs. The latter, thanks to the
media, helped Sissi to the coup of July 2013.
The indifference and contempt seem to be the answer of the Egyptians and all current
Egyptian political games. Avoid the bloodshed is still the main reason for the absence of
challenge. This can not last forever, and it is likely that few will punctuate " peaceful,
peaceful " to the next popular uprising!
Yasser Abdelkawy, MSL (Egypt), translated from Arabic by Marouane Taharouri
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-glorieuse-armee-Egyptienne
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Message: 5
Women's Secretariat of the CGT want to express our support and appreciation to the KJA at
its Congress in Mujeres Libres Kurds being held this week. ---- Secretary for Women SP CC
CGT ---- The struggle of the women of Kurdistan, being an example of awareness,
empowerment and self-organization for many libertarian. In particular, today, March 8.
---- Sisters, it is a pleasure Sentir so close and reinforce the feeling that another
world is possible. Your resistance and struggle for a free Kurdistan, autonomous and
egalitarian give us many teachings of motivation, training and fighting. ---- Although
each live very different realities in regional oppression of capitalist power and sexist
attitudes are the same for all. ---- We hope in the near future, be able to cross borders
and to share with you the rediscovery of natural society and return to an ethic of other
values very different culture of possession and rape.
Comrades, we are with you, because when we touch one, touch us all!
Madrid on March 8, 2016
Secretary of Women.
Permanent Secretariat. Confederal Committee of CGT
http://cgt.org.es/noticias-cgt/comunicados/comunicado-de-apoyo-de-la-cgt-la-kja-en-su-congreso-de-mujeres-libres-kurda
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Message: 6
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 marked the temporary end of a massive mobilization on the
island of Mayotte. A move that would crescendo, seeing day strikes and actions or
operations snails succeed in recent weeks. Back on this dispute, which has not said its
last word, and more generally on the social reality of Mayotte with Abderrahmane
Abdelhaoui, teacher and activist SOUTH education locally. ---- Alternative Libertaire:
What is the mobilization of the fall 2015 Mayotte? ---- Abderrahmane Abdelhaoui: This is
without a warrant or mastery of the claims of the Inter that the Minister of Overseas
received the wage earners in the private and the public on strike on 10 November.
Government responses have remained unsatisfactory, despite the succession of events that
took place that day (in the morning with the Minister and with the Prefect and with
advisors to Minister of Overseas afternoon).
Indeed, as regards the private sector, the Inter has yet to press the government on the
immediate implementation of the Labour Code [ 1 ]. Regarding the public sector, although a
work of inventory of the department of general seniority of agents are built-in public
office should be conducted, the government must first enact the principle of trade-in
their seniority and set an implementation schedule.
Furthermore, the Inter regret the fact that the Minister has deigned to mention the claims
relating to the indexation of wages to the cost of living and the attractiveness of the
region and deplores the fact that the sanctions in against trade union officials and
agents or officers fighting were not addressed.
The strike, alas, was suspended because of the attacks of 13 November in Paris and the
establishment of the state of emergency. Which is a shame because it was in full rise. The
Inter FSU, Solidaires, CFDT, FAEN [ 2 ], CGT and FO remains, however, united and play the
game of mobilization. There is anyway undeniable will to fight. Early 2016, the fight
should leave ...
This angry gesture follows another in 2011 ...
On 31 March 2011, Mayotte became officially the hundred and first department of France and
fifth Department of Overseas Territories. From autumn 2011, major movements of protest
against the rising cost of living block the activity of the island. The government then
appoints a mediator to resolve the crisis. For several weeks, protests are organized
against high prices. The island is gradually paralyzed. The violence of the security
forces is unprecedented. The police have repeatedly instructed the processions. One
protester died. Another is seriously injured. The metropolis media observe a general
silence on the events.
What conclusions can we draw of departmentalization?
It is appropriate at this stage to say that the departmentalization is far from a success.
In reality everything is to do everything to build. But it seems clear that the
historical, political, social and worship was not considered suitable and realistic by the
" thinkers " of departmentalization.
One example will suffice to illustrate this: the application of schedules over the
metropolitan schools in a country that, at mid-day, experiencing intense heat and some
students are already up since 4 am! This is daily and from Mayotte Mayotte and that one
realizes the gap between the " good intentions " of the metropolis and their translation
in the territory.
Meetings with municipal officials and administrative officials, mostly " underground "
erase some reality, which is detrimental to the actual situation of the Island. The plan
"Mayotte 2025" is regarded with a certain indifference by Mayotte Mayotte and a little
"insider-es". So what about the other ....
Socially, the structures are not up to the needs of a population where over 50% of people
under 18; where maternity Mamoudzou experiencing the largest number of deliveries of
French territory; where in the seventeen colleges of the island there are no school meals
for children who sometimes have to get up at 4 am to be underway at 7: 30 pm; where one
road leads to 20 km per hour; where the state has invented a local tax on income that most
Mahorais had never known; where most of the population does not live in houses worthy of
the name and lives below the poverty line, sometimes without water or electricity ...
This situation generates social inequalities related tensions is explosive. If one adds
the behavior of certain "subways" ranking-es or not who imagine still be colonies of time,
we can easily imagine the complexity of the situation.
It seems that much of the tension on the island is due to the ongoing migration from,
among others, the neighboring Comoros. Can you say more?
INSEE officially lists 240,000 people in Mayotte, but in reality, it is estimated that a
quarter of the population of migrants and migrant-es came Comoros, Madagascar and
Mozambique! Insurrectional climate are due to social misery especially as it is coupled
with an acute overcrowding problem: Mayotte has the highest population density of France
overseas, with 566 inhabitants per km².
Because of this misery, there is a strong reality of insecurity and delinquency. And it
follows a violent racism on the part of Mayotte and Mayotte with regard to migrants and
migrants. This can have dramatic consequences. In villages, Mayotte Mayotte and organize
and make the law themselves against petty crime. Comorian families were forcibly evicted
from their homes by the villagers under the pretext that their son was found robbing a
nearby house. Lately, even worse, a thief was kidnapped several days by the inhabitants of
a neighborhood. He was saved in extremis as they were about to set fire to tires they had
put around her neck.
At the union level, our response to this situation of extreme distress in which is this
whole section of the population is a legal support but also a protection approach of these
migrants and undocumented migrant victims of racist attacks true. Our task remains enormous.
Interview by Jérémie Berthuin (AL Gard)
[ 1 ] Mayotte remained under French sovereignty in the independence of other Comoro
islands of the archipelago in the mid-1970s to the 2010s island knows a singular
administrative status marked by many legal exceptions: most of the texts in force in
France do not apply.
[ 2 ] Autonomous Federation for National Education.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Mayotte-L-insurrection-qui-vient
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Message: 7
March begins with the struggle for free, safe and free abortion, and install the urgency
in the Chilean left to develop strategies to overcome domination and exploitation in its
various forms: not only against capitalism. The battle against patriarchy is not just a
women's issue and should be a fundamental part of any policy that calls itself
revolutionary. ---- This demand comes amid a crisis of representation that has dragged on
since last year, showing the breakdown of the Chilean political system. Mistrust of the
population towards the political, business and church domes of the country, spread like an
oil slick, demonstrating the inefficiency of "measures to address it," (Bill for
Strengthening and Transparency Democracy, joint statement probity and transparency, among
others), mechanisms developed by its own protagonists, the same that have led our country
in recent decades.
In this scenario, the New Majority, is leaderless and under a clear predominance of
conservative forces. The policy of the agreements has been in full evidence, the nefarious
enforcement of budgetary glosses, income of the "short law" in education, labor law reform
and abortion bill on three grounds; They realize their dominant conservative forces. This
situation overrides the neoliberal bloc, supported by some "progressive forces" to the
"left" of the conglomerate of any attempt to crack or "dispute".
So how do you crack the consensus of the neoliberal transition, to enable the constitution
of the social subject and emergence of political forces of change? As part of the upcoming
municipal elections, some people think it is a good time to broaden the political scene,
and express discontent through a "third force" outside the existing duopoly.
Perhaps one of the questions that worries the ruling bloc, is whether this social malaise
achieved partially crack the Chilean political system. Instead, concern for the small
strip of the independent left, is to think and realize the forms that the politicization
of the popular classes. In that sense, as libertarians and libertarians argue that the
current social and political cycle, Ought go articulated in a Broad Social Movement, which
in itself constitutes a political player, a task that does not allow shortcuts or short
adventures.
We believe this resolute efforts to organize bands of students, residents / as and workers
/ as contributing with their talent, creativity and human force under deep revolutionary
aspirations; They are inescapable needs of a broad spectrum of militants. Whose conception
of socialism is decidedly feminist, and ecological decolonial. It is putting at the
center; freedom, self-management, and popular power of the impoverished classes.
For Socialism and Freedom!
Put up and Struggling!
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2016/03/11/hasta-que-la-dignidad-se-haga-costumbre-editorial-edicion-n32-de-solidaridad/
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Message: 8
French authorities have decided to bulldoze the homes of up to 3,500 refugees living in a
section of the Calais camp. A court in Lille made the ruling today, one which Refugee
Solidarity activists plan on ‘appealing immediately’. ---- Authorities have claimed they
will provide shelter for about a third of the evicted refugees, reported to be in the form
of recycled shipping containers. Many of the others who are now being made homeless are
unaccompanied minors who will find themselves at even higher risk of abuse and abduction
by child traffickers. The adults who will once again find themselves homeless in an
increasingly hostile country, will also find themselves at higher risk of crime and
disease as a result of exposure and malnutrition. ---- Many of the refugees, in panic and
despair at the thought of losing the little that they have, suffer already from symptoms
of PTSD after fleeing brutal conflicts in which our Western governments, notably France
are partaking.
As the wars in the Middle-East continue, leaving in their wake millions of dead civilians
and millions more refugees like many of those in Calais, there are no sincere calls for an
end to the violence from any involved Western government, or Russia.
On the contrary, earlier this month the US Pentagon requested an unprecedentedly high
budget signalling more disaster for the people of Syria and Iraq in the not distant
future. The illegal US-lead invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 by American and
European armies are directly responsible for creating the conditions which have grown
Islam fundamentalism, prolonging and intensifying the Syrian conflict.
Instead of begging as they should, forgiveness from the people of the middle-East who have
been maimed, raped, tortured, killed and forced to flee as a result of their actions, our
governments have denied them for the most part any semblance of dignity or justice,
forcing them to live in dangerous camps, regularly interfering with, harassing and
evicting them. This must stop.
Words: Sean Prior
Subject: Calais solidarity, Fortress Europe, Asylum, Border rebellion
Topics: Migration / racism
Geography: International
Source: News alert
Type: News
Author: Sean Prior
http://www.wsm.ie/c/french-court-rules-evict-3000-refugees-calais
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Message: 9
You can always tell when there’s an election just round the corner. Investment
announcements, over grinning politicians in the press looking for another go only this
time they REALLY promise things will be better. Others hoping to be elected doing all
sorts just to get their photograph in the papers, again promising us the moon and the
stars. However the gloves are off in Derry’s Bogside as news filters out that a sizeable
section of social housing stock, currently owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive
(NIHE), now plan to offer them up for sale to private sector housing bodies. ---- Several
hundred residents now fear that private housing associations in the city will totally
transform the way in which they have engaged with the Housing Executive over the past four
decades. Particularly when it comes to levels of rent and of course allocation of housing
which first gave birth to a new generation of street politics and the Civil Rights
Association back in the late sixties.
At present in Derry there is an ongoing “consultation process” between the NIHE and local
tenants over the possibility of social housing being transferred to private housing
associations which first sparked fears of an imminent sell-off.
Operation Dismantle The Housing Executive is said to be run by the Strategic Investment
Board (SIB), an unelected body only answerable to the Office of First Minister and Deputy
First Minister over in Stormont. Many understandably view the SIB effectively to be the
Stormont Executive’s secret ‘privatisation unit’. Again this is no real surprise as it’s
own website explains: "SIB is monitored by the Public Private Investment Unit within the
Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister”.
As for the Housing Executive itself, well it has a history which is etched deep into
peoples memories across the six counties as it was first created back in 1971 out of the
Housing Executive Act (Northern Ireland) that followed on from a very lengthy and
traumatic civil rights campaign throughout the 1960’s.
Before 1971, the allocation of public housing was the responsibility of local councils
across the North and the ‘Northern Ireland Housing Trust’. Up until then, sectarianism was
rife within the housing system as shown back in June 1968 in Dungannon, when the District
Council was accused of discriminating against a Catholic family for allocating a new
council house in the Caledon area to a young single Protestant woman who it was believed,
had close links to a local Unionist politician. This incident proved to be a watershed
period for the civil rights movement.
It is that history alone which has concerned and enraged many as talk is now widespread in
relation to the privatisation of the Housing Executive as a public body. The flurry of
activity around the issue by politicians and ‘would-be’ politicians spells only one thing
and that’s election time again.
Workers within the NIHE, as voiced several times by a number of trade unions, have over
the past number of years expressed their own concerns due to the way in which both general
services and workplace conditions have been rapidly declining. Housing stocks across the
North have had to wait years to receive even the most minimal level of adjustments,
corrections and refurbishments to their homes.
But this isn’t about the sudden ‘concern’ of politicians towards saving social housing and
public sector jobs. It’s about elections and their own political empowerment. Elections in
the six counties has and probably will remain a sensitive issue for some time to come.
However for anarchists, both back in the 1960’s as today, what passes for politics and
elections here has always come down to a sectarian head count. Them and us, orange and
green, and thats the way the State and those in power would like it to remain.
Any talk of rejecting the electorialism out of hand is still frowned upon. Many still
would say that ‘we fought for the right to vote!’ and were ‘beaten of the streets for
demanding the right to vote!’ which is true to a certain extent but it wasn’t the only
reason. Demanding civil rights or greater freedoms of any sort be it decent jobs, better
wages and decent housing was and remains a dangerous thing to do for our class. This has
always been the case for working class people for centuries. But is electorialism the
answer for creating real conditions for change? For anarchists its not.
Elections has always been a source of dis-empowerment. Electing leaders such as
politicians plays directly into the hands of those who control the system that holds us in
poverty while they reap the benefits, divide and rule. Electing leaders who tell us that
they are better than the last set, or they are even more radical or more left wing is
nothing short of farcical. ‘Just elect us, sit at home and we’ll do the rest for you!’
creates widespread passivity in which leaders are elected to act on our behalf. To somehow
speak for us and decide what is and what is not in our best interests. Ultimately it
pacifies and reduces the power and strength we have as a united class, on the streets or
in the workplace.
A unified working class is what the State and Capitalism fear the most. This has been
clearly demonstrated time and time again throughout our history. We only have to look at
what our power generated on the streets with the civil rights movement of the 1960’s in
Ireland as inspired by the developments on the streets across North America. More recently
we have examples of similar actions with regards to the Arab Spring across the Middle East
and what has been developing across the 26 counties in relation to the Water Charges campaign.
Just as with the reduction of our public services for the elderly recently with their
proposed closure of nursing homes to make way for greater privatisation. Stormont
Ministers took notice alright when working class communities, Public Sector workers and
the relatives of those in care had taken to the streets to demand an end to such Tory
policies as practiced by all shades of political power in Stormont. It wasn’t due to any
urgent, last minute intervention by some erstwhile politicians who rushed in to save the day.
The current Tory policy being practiced by Stormont to sell-off public housing stock and
the NIHE into private hands won’t be stopped in its tracks by politicians in the mouth to
an election. It will only be stopped with ordinary grassroots campaigns on the streets by
the community, in conjunction with the trade union movement who will face down any moves
towards privatisation of our public housing and public sector jobs.
Community and workplace resistance will stop the privatisation of social housing - Not
politicians looking for votes!
http://www.wsm.ie/c/planning-sell-public-housing-derry-f2016
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Message: 10
Just before this date for the clinic, which took place over twenty decentralized events
not only in Prague but also in the rest of the Czech Republic, and two even beyond, issued
a collective autonomous center summary report on the activities that in the past year
filled with dilapidated building in Jeseniova street life . Issue Annual Report 2015 was
also a response to the ideological and bureaucratic decision of the authorities not to
renew the contract of loan Clinic, despite the fact that its social contribution is
undeniable and unique. Unique in the fact that the clinic from the rest of society does
not require any funds for its operations and activities, no grants, no subsidies, etc.,
And still offers space for the implementation of many projects for which consequently can
have each candidate access without someone was He demanded money. Any contributions are
purely voluntary.
The publication you read, what principles Clinic works, why it is autonomous and why and
what social activities earlier builds. You'll learn what works were carried out to the
building was able to operate: cleaning of all manner of waste, garden landscaping,
scraping plaster, paint, roof repair, introduction of electricity and water ... And of
course a long list of regular activities that the center underway: English language
courses , French, Romani, Chinese, German, Spanish and czech for foreigners, courses in
drawing and painting, meditation courses, fotokroužek, lectures Folk Zizkov University (I
lie) and workshops People's Zizkov trainig center (LŽUC) screening KinoKlinika, concerts,
Radical library, theater , benefits, festivals, refugee collection ... Clinic hosts
projects freeshopu Zdrojovny, radio StreetCulture, Zinovy and book shops here and there,
social laundries deer in the basin, self-help groups Mamata parental or family theater.
The past year at the Clinic in addition to plain text documented, lots of nice photos. It
also mentioned various problems and entanglements with which the team had to contend with.
Reproach could Annual Report perhaps unnecessary waste of space that it stretches to an
incredible 76 pages.
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http://www.afed.cz/text/6389/rok-na-klinice
