Anarchistic update news all over the world - 6 April 2016
Today's 9 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 of March (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Montpellier:
Free our comrades! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. afed.cz: France: Millions of people in the streets -
Demonstrations against the Labour Code are continuing with ever
greater intensity. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Fau-Iaa Direct Action #232 NOV/DEZ 2015: VIO.ME workers call
for solidarity -- Thessaloniki self-managed factory and its
workers’ livelihoods threatened (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. south wales anarchists: Our statement on Saturday’s
opposition to “White Pride Worldwide”,VIA Swansea Antifa
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Now Hollande
backs on Labour law! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Greece, Land and Freedom #2 issued by Anarchist Political
Organization - Federation of Collectives (A.P.O.) (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - history, Feature:
It is ten years, the anti-CPE struggle (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - Flicage: Against a
padlocked company (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
March 8; Patriarchal Society; Assaults Cologne; State of Emergency; anti-CPE struggle;
student struggles; Student unionism; general strike; Iranian WPI, Spain - Podemos; ETA, El
Khomri law; Notre-Dame-des-Landes; 51st Congress of the CGT; 70 years ago: The Greek civil
war ---- Editorial: The ball of idiots ---- Filled them: Women unite against the
patriarchal society ---- the universal enemy of feminists? ---- Assault Cologne: godsend
for racist ---- Cologne, it's not that New Year's Eve ---- Politics ---- State of
emergency: Orléans assigned to resistance ---- Against a padlocked company ---- Dossier:
It is ten years; the anti-CPE struggle ---- 2006 revolt Breath ---- ebb and flow of
student struggles ---- Student Unionism: What have we built? ---- Interpro: Towards the
general strike ---- Interview Mathilde and Jon (activist and militant AL): "A movement
really popular "
International
Interview with members of the Iranian WPI: Fighting in Iran in 2016
Interview with a Spanish libertarian "Podemos dismantled the social fabric"
Social
Hellbent anti-ETA State Bill
El Khomri: Against the case of the code, action!
Ecology
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: The moment of truth
Social
51st congress of the CGT: Release strategic and moral crisis?
Culture
Book: "I am writing from the factory," Jean-Pierre Levaray
test: "Bureaucracy" by David Graeber
mail from a reader: On the "challenges" Philippe Corcuff
History
There are 70 years: Civil war tipped Greece west
Editorial: The ball of idiots
And hop, a reshuffle! There has been the usual demonstrations of servility, rewarded or
not, with such sudden reversals jacket that predictable, but also to shenanigans worthy of
a reality show.
Meanwhile, 136 of 577 deputies participated in the vote on the renewal of the state of
emergency. Yet at each election, voters are insulted es, es infantilized. But it is true
that members have good reason to abstain: dual mandate (and pay), dinner parties ... life
is hard!
The maneuvers began in 2017 and the big idea is the primary. An additional step in
customization and performance policy. The war of egos between self-proclaimed
personalities and some Mexican Army general will feed the newspapers. Nothing bad for the
capitalists who continue to crush us under "reforms" still more despicable.
This policy, we want more. At the ball, only fools believe that music fits their grotesque
dance. But those are the musicians who set the pace.
The labor code reform project shows us the mournful music that will play us: destruction
of 35 hours, lower wages ... Let us stop this ball fools and play our own part: the
strikes and the fight .
Alternative Livertaire, February 28, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?-No259-mars-2016-
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Message: 2
The day of action on March 31 against the labor law has also had its share of police
brutality. In Montpellier, several people, including at least two fellow AL were arrested
and placed in custody following a general meeting of the outdoors. ---- Press
organizations of Hérault: ---- Following the demonstration against the labor law, the
return of the general meeting held on the Place de la Comédie, two demonstrators of the
social movement returning quietly facts are violently challenged by a wholly
disproportionate number of police heavily armed. ---- We demand the immediate release of
our comrades and all victims of state repression against the social movement, the state of
emergency does not musellera the social movement!
First signatories: CGA, NPA, ARM, AL, the Popular Assembly of Montpellier against the
labor law, the Assembly against the state of emergency, SOUTH education, education CNT,
Attac 34, FA 34, package 34, 34 Scalp
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Montpellier-Liberez-nos-camarades
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Message: 3
After previous protests occurred on Thursday, 31 March to sharp clashes between
demonstrators and police in the streets of French cities in other actions against the
planned reform of the labor code. Across the country have enacted over 200 demonstrations,
strikes and blockades. They stopped trains students occupied more than two hundred
schools. ---- Roads were impassable around Paris all day was shut Eiffel Tower, dozens of
flights were canceled. According to information from trade unions to protest attended by
about 1.2 million people, which is twice more than the first protest on March 9. Only in
Paris itself to the street to 160,000 people. On the banners were written, for example,
"Great Leap Forward to the 19th century" . Several dozen radical flipped color on banks
and stores, smashing ATMs and set fire smoke. Clashes with police were also held in Nantes
(which also protested against the construction of the airport), Rennes, Toulouse and Lyon.
In total were arrested about a hundred people and injured thirteen policemen.
In Toulouse were in the streets to twenty thousand people in Marseille eleven thousand,
seven thousand in Grenoble. According to one of the participants in the demonstration in
Nantes on police attacked a peaceful protest with tear gas and provoked clashes alone. She
went on and building barricades, throwing all sorts, police fired rubber bullets and water
cannons began. According to official sources then reported several injuries.
Among the major days of protests taking place in different cities and decentralized
actions such as occupying the seat of a branch of the ruling party in Tours. Further
protests are announced on the 5th and 9th of April and should continue until the bill is
withdrawn.
Resources:
http://www.france24.com/en/20160331-france-braces-strike-protests-labour-reforms-el-khomri
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/france-mass-protests-proposed-labour-reforms-160331180555863.html
http://www.breizh-info.com/2016/04/01/41211/loi-travail-64000-manifestants-bretagne-emeutes-a-nantes-rennes
http://www.afed.cz/text/6404/francie-milion-lidi-v-ulicich
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Message: 4
When the VIO.ME factory was abandoned by its bosses in May 2011, during a period of
intense austerity measures implemented by the Greek government, it was not alone.
Thousands of Greek businesses buckled under the weight of the economic recession, leaving
hundreds of thousands of workers without employment, dignity or hope. The closing of the
factory, which produced building and construction materials and was located on the
outskirts of Thessaloniki, was in many senses unremarkable. The pattern of bosses cutting
their losses and workers scrambling to pick up the pieces of their shattered livelihoods
is a familiar one. ---- Quelle : www.viome.org ---- Subsequent events have been
well-documented, however, as forty of the horizontally organised workers occupied the
factory, with their objective to prevent the valuable assets being stripped down before
they were paid their outstanding wages. Over a year of negotiations followed, with the
workers in dialogue with various trade unions and the Ministry of Labour, but no
acceptable progress was made.
In July 2012 the workers ultimately resolved to continue production on their own terms,
free from the bureaucracy of the management, with the rallying slogan “If you can’t do it
– we can”.It would take many months for that promise to be realised, but in February of
the following year, under direct democratic worker control, production started again. Each
worker had an equal share in the company, and all decisions on the organisation and
functioning of the workplace were taken by a general assembly. To earn their living, the
workers produced locally sourced and environmentally friendly cleaning products, selling
them through social networks or in markets, without mediators. The path to this point
proved difficult, as the workers repeatedly had to deal with their former employers and
the authorities, had no access to loans and battled to find their place in a recessive
market. But their struggle inspired worldwide solidarity, with concerts, demonstrations
and actions dedicated to the struggle of the VIO.ME workers as they attempted to achieve
legitimate status. One of the many political groups that vocally supported the VIO.ME
workers was SYRIZA, who were in opposition to the government at the time, a party that
purported to be formed from a coalition of the radical left and who promised the people of
Greece an alternative to the years of austerity they had faced. Future prime-minister
Alexis Tsipras called for an immediate solution to the issue of the operation of the factory.
SYRIZA: DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, BETRAYAL
Quelle : www.viome.org
That level of commitment waned significantly with SYRIZA’s rise to power. A recent call
for support from the workers of VIO.ME notes that “the determination they demonstrated in
opposition was replaced by timidity, and by proposals that we make compromises in a
different framework than what we had previously agreed upon”.
Eventually, SYRIZA abandoned the workers of VIO.ME completely to the Greek judicial
system. The workers remark that this is “the same judicial system that, despite having
condemned the former owner of VIO.ME, Christina Philippou, to dozens of months in prison,
allows her to walk free, supposedly to do community service at a municipality where she
has strong connections”. The workers of VIO.ME are sceptical that such a judicial system
has in its heart their best interests. Indeed, a group of judges have gone as far as to
suggest that the workers have “no legitimate right” to their outstanding wages from 2011.
The courts ordered that the land the factory is located on is to be auctioned off on
Thursday, 26th November. The land, which consists of fourteen plots, will be sold to
satisfy the creditors of VIO.ME’s parent company, Philkeram. The VIO.ME workers note that
some of these plots of land were “directly or indirectly donated by the Greek government
to former owner Phillipou in recognition of the ‘social contribution’ of job creation”.
The auction will proceed despite the independent consultants DeLoitte concluding that
there was capacity for normal operation at the VIO.ME factory, and despite the fact that
the VIO.ME factory takes up just on seventh of the land up for auction. The workers will
be evicted when this day comes. The VIOME workers’ call for support concludes:“We, the
workers of VIOME, invite all of you, who have been standing beside us during all this time
of struggle, to be present on Thursday November 26 in the auction of the land, to abort
their plan to evict us from the VIOME factory. A space that we have, for two years now,
managed to turn into a place of work and a place of freedom.We invite you to stand beside
us, to support every effort of the workers to make the forces of production autonomous
from the capitalist class, a class which anyway has delocalised all production abroad.We
invite you to support the operation of the factory, since we, the workers, have declared
that we are not leaving, that our lives are now linked to this factory.We invite you to
stand beside us, so we can affirm all together that a solution exists beyond the advices
of the “experts”: this time around, the solution lies with those who are directly involved
in the struggle, not with the luminaries.In solidarity, the general assembly of the
workers at VIOME”
FAU Berlin Foreigners’ Section
https://www.direkteaktion.org/232/vio-me-workers-call-for-solidarity
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Message: 5
On Saturday anti-fascists from Anti-Fascist Network groups across Wales and England joined
locals to oppose the National Front’s “White Pride Worldwide”. ---- Political and
community organisations took the decision to hold a community celebration in Castle Square
– involving children and other vulnerable people – meters away from where violent fascists
were expected to gather. In spite of this, the majority of people were intent on actually
standing up to racism, rather than standing across the road from it. When the 27 NF
emerged from the pubs which chose to serve them they were greeted with a solid wall of
noise, as well as some more up-close and personal confrontations. ---- The gathering of
about seven local bumpkins and twenty seig-heilers from as far away as Wigan was well
protected by South Wales Police. Notable in their absence were The “Valleys Frontline
Firm”, possibly something to do with a bizarre note, accidently discarded by one of theirs
which suggests that their leader – Luke Pippen, currently wanted by Kent Police for
incidents in Dover – is hiding out in Adam Lloyd’s house in Bridgend… or maybe he’s with
his partner, Rebecca Thornton, in Bristol? Be more careful next time boys.
Swansea Antifa had decided not release a public meeting point for our own action.
Intelligence suggested that autonomous groups of fascists would be roaming the streets and
thus that people in the community celebration had to be protected. This proved to be the
right decision.
Having joined the main crowd heckling the NF, we recognised members of National Action – a
neo-nazi youth group, known for their rhetoric and threats of violence – who had sought to
infiltrate the anti-fascist crowd, singing antifascist chants at their NF “comrades” and
waving anti-fascist flags that they had bravely bought online. After numerous recent
humiliations and embarrassing episodes on the streets, it seems the new kids on the block
were keen to prove themselves to their fellow fascists. Apparently dressing up as
antifascists and hiding in antifascist demos earns nazi brownie points. Except it didn’t
work out too well for them this time. Alex Davies, Ben Raymond and Mark James were some of
the figures recognised and challenged. They retreated to the police after an ineffective
attempted attack on antifascist demonstrators and flinging a smoke bomb at the crowd.
Antifascists followed them until they were escorted to the cells in a police van, with
only two – including Alex Davies – avoiding arrest, abandoning their friends whilst
fleeing from antifascists.
Ben Raymond was easily recognised as he recently took part in a BBC documentary where he
talked openly of his abhorrent views. What exactly possessed him to think that he could
get away with disguising himself as one of the anti-fascists is beyond comprehension.
Anti-fascists traditionally cover their faces to avoid surveillance by Redwatch fascists,
but NA’s attempt at ‘disguise’ failed to mask the stench of rotting Nazism. Had it not
been for the defensive actions and effective response of antifascists, the NA nazis could
have successfully mounted an attack on people demonstrating solid community opposition to
fascism.
Anti-fascists stayed in central Swansea to monitor the remaining fascists after the NF had
staggered off. Only one was waiting for the several arrested members of National Action
(or POW’s as they like to call them – how cute) – Alex Davies, all alone with a bag full
of skips and coke (not very nutritious for aryan warriors). He was heard on the phone
exclaiming that “it’s all gone tits up” and “no one came from north of Brum, there were
only ten of us and they weren’t even seasoned activists”. Upon realising that he was being
monitored, he espoused his deep “respect” for antifascists, for how organised we were, and
how solid our sense of solidarity is compared to his authoritarian mates.
Most interesting was his confession that he had spoken to Zack Davies on Skype before
Zack’s attempted racist murder of a Sikh man in Mold
(http://www.channel4.com/…/national-actions-zack-davies-guil…). Previously National Action
have denied any contact with him or that he was a member of their group despite him having
their propaganda in his home. Alex Davies said it was “horrible” when Zack carried out the
attack. Evidently not horrible enough for him to leave National Action.
He claimed to have attempted to “connect with us on a human level” something quite
difficult giving his views that disabled, non-white and LGBTQI* people should all be put
in ovens. He flipped between apologising for his views, acknowledging the ideological
incoherence, justifying that he had to keep at it as he had been kicked out of university
for his dedication to Nazism and then just saying how he was going through such a hard
time personally. There was something quite worrying and tragic about this scared and
lonely young fascist, so clearly desperate for attention. NA would be nothing but a sad
school project, were it not for the genuine threat their sick ideology poses to our
communities.
To top off the day, the dregs of NA were spotted by patrolling anti-fascists in the early
hours, fresh from the cells, huddling together for warmth after Alex Davies fled (again)
and they missed their coaches home. No Skips, no coke, no solidarity for them, just as sad
and pathetic as their 27 NF mates who were booed off the streets of Swansea earlier that day.
Big up all who confronted NF/NA nazi scum on the day. We will never let the fascists have
the streets.
Swansea Antifa
https://southwalesanarchists.wordpress.com/
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Message: 6
After months of hesitation, ridiculous self-justification, under pressure from the
protests against the state of emergency, abandoned by Republicans, released by part of the
PS, François Hollande has just given up convene the Congress to revise the Constitution.
---- The entrenchment of the state of emergency and the deprivation of nationality for
binational are abandoned altogether. ---- A beautiful retreat that will make blood boil
Manuel Valls, but that will delight everyone antiracist and defenders of civil liberties.
---- With this volte-face, the head of state no doubt hopes to get rid of a nasty pot for
the presidential election next year. ---- There's another one that urgently need to
discard: the draft law Khomri El!
He drops the villain project without imagining provided that it will return in 2017, his
disgusted electorate. Holland will save more skin, it's too late! But he does at least a
nice gesture, however, leading the Labour Code in its fall!
Alternative Libertaire, March 30, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Et-maintenant-qu-Hollande-recule
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Message: 7
Organization and struggle against state and capitalistic brutality. ---- General strike of
February 4 against insurance policies. ---- - Update from the strike rally in Patra. ----
- Update from the strike in Thessaloniki. ---- Solidarity with the 21 prosecuted
antifascists. ---- Destroy the manipulated accusations of the cops. Immediate acquittal of
the 2 students. ---- Solidarity with the total objectors of military service. ----
Solidarity with refugees and immigrants. ---- Immediate release of Sanaa Taleb, and all
imprisoned immigrants and refugees. ---- About the attempt of extradition of the 5
fighters to the Italian authorities. ---- No tolerance towards fascists. ---- Text
occasioned by the "Black December". ---- About the (first) evacuation of Eidomeni. ----
Our dreams, their nightmares. (Regard Noir - France) ---- No work at Sundays, we will not
back the capitalists.
For more information about the Anarchist Political Organization read the Political
Invitation to the Founding Conference of APO.
http://apo.squathost.com/political-invitation-to-the-founding-conference-of-a-p-o/
http://apo.squathost.com/invitation-politique-a-la-conference-de-fondation-dorganisation-politique-anarchiste/
http://apo.squathost.com/invitacion-politica-al-congreso-fundacional-de-la-organizacion-politica-anarquista/
Issued by Anarchist Political Organization /
apo.squathost.com
anpolorg@gmail.com
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Message: 8
In 2006, salarié.es and especially students and pupils have achieved the first victory of
magnitude against a government reform since 1995 - and also the latest. ---- In early
January 2006, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac, announced the
establishment of a contract of those under 26 years, the First Employment Contract (CPE),
as part of the law called "Equality opportunities ", which also includes learning from 14
years, working at night from 15 years and suspension of family allowances in cases of
truancy. This is a frontal attack on the working class through their youth. ---- In early
February, the students of the University of Rennes II began a two-month strike, blockade
and occupation, soon suivi.es by most higher education institutions and secondary schools.
In early March, the occupation of the Sorbonne accelerates the mobilization in
Île-de-France. In early April, as protests have 3 million people and that actions are
multiplying daily, Villepin withdraws the CPE. During these three months of struggle, the
social movement has not won the war, but at least one battle. Salarié.es and especially
students and pupils have achieved the first victory of magnitude against a government
reform since 1995 - and also the latest.
How this struggle was built, and what it teaches us about the difficulties in mobilizing
today recurring? What were its effects, and that there remains now?
A file coordinated by Julie (AL Saint-Denis), Tristan (LA Toulouse) and Francis Lopez
Contents of the file:
2006: the breath of revolt
Chronology
class struggles: Ebb and flow of student struggles
student unionism: What have we built?
Interpro: Towards the general strike?
Interview with Mathilde and Jon (activist and militant AL): "A really popular movement"
books on the fight
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Il-y-a-dix-ans-la-lutte-anti-CPE
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Message: 9
Extension to extend the state of emergency settles into the landscape with its attendant
and arbitrary searches of residency. Against this authoritarian, continue mobilization.
---- The state of emergency was declared on November 14 for twelve days and then extended
almost unanimously on 20 November for a three-month period as from 26 November. On 16
February, after a stint in the Senate, the House has again extended an overwhelming
majority: of the 246 voters, only 31 voted against. Bottom line: If nothing changes, we
will have to undergo at least until May 26, unreasonable searches, arbitrary summonses,
police pressure and a spectacular military presence to the gates of schools that had
requested it. ---- And we are certainly not out of the woods yet as to justify this
exceptional regime, the Interior Minister has seriously told the Senate that the "imminent
peril" revealed by the November attacks had "not faded away " . Going even further, Manuel
Valls did not hesitate to say, in an interview with the BBC, that the state of emergency
could be extended "until we can finish with Daech". France and the organization of the
next European Football Championship in the summer of 2016 may provide the perfect pretext
for a further extension after May. Recall that during the war in Algeria, the state of
emergency was maintained for more than two years of 23 April 1961 to 31 May 1963.
Besides, if Bernard Cazeneuve today assures us that he is working on an "exit" of the
state of emergency, it is simply because, firstly, the government seeks to consolidate
this scheme except by including it in the Constitution, and because, on the other hand, he
tries to put into law strengthening the powers of the Police currently guaranteed by the
state of emergency. Clearly, we may move from a temporary to a permanent state security
safe condition. This is the challenge of "bill strengthening the fight against organized
crime" by bypassing ordinary courts, increasing the powers of the prefects, authorizing
the use of new monitoring techniques, it marks a step more towards a padlocked and
obsessed with the policing society.
Battle of ideas
Fortunately, a growing share of the population refuses to live in this society imposed on
us and a large number of associations, trade unions and political organizations are trying
to move to refuse registration of the state of emergency in the Constitution and calling
for his immediate removal. After the national day of demonstrations on 30 January in which
nearly 45,000 people took to the streets despite the rain, a new date of mobilization is
scheduled for Saturday, March 12 to say "stop" to the state of emergency and the
deprivation of nationality.
In the meantime, to ensure the success of the demonstrations, we must continue the battle
of ideas to convince around us and to spread. Until then, he'll have to explain that there
were over 3300 searches and much battered doors for only five procedures to terrorism.
Until then, he'll have to repeat that we do not want a society where social problems are
solved in the custody cells and where fear replaces solidarity.
Ben (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Flicage-Contre-une-societe
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