Anarchistic update news all over the world - 22 April 2016
Today's 7 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - The facs loans and
high schools to fire (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - international, Greece:
anarchists at war against the mafia (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] 260/259 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - fascism, Quebec:
How we Crissé outside Marine Le Pen (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire - Policy, Multiply actions to
maintain pressure by AL Grenoble (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. iwa-ait: On The Publication of the CNT Spain Regarding the
IWA (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. anarchist group "restive horse" member A.P.O.: Capitalism is
relentless, ruthless, cruel and voracious (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - The livestock
crisis symptom of a destructive agricultural model (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Because they are equally concerned es that the wage earners, the students are working hard
to launch a movement against the magnitude of labor law. A crucial element to win. ---- It
was ten years ago today, in 2006, universities were on strike and occupied in protest
against the bill on the first employment contract. Today, the government celebrated in its
own way the ten years of the CPE: the labor law. Since the announcement of the bill,
universities are mobilizing. More than one student in two is employed, often with
precarious contracts. They are not out of the world of work and are fully aware of the
precarious and management. ---- At the initiative of student unions (students with
Solidaires and UNEF), several general assemblies were called. The first at the University
of Toulouse-Le Mirail brought together 400 people, the next day they are 600 students who
are found to-Paris VIII-Saint-Denis, 400 at the university of Rennes II or a quarter of
record at the Rennes IEP! Many other general meetings were held throughout France. While
some universities as Paris-VIII-I and Paris immediately voted to strike unanimously, the
movement is still unequal. Some facs struggle to exceed 200 people AG. But the students
have responded to the call of unions and youth organizations during the demonstrations of
March 9, alongside wage earners and high schools.
self-organize to win
The general assembly, organs of struggle and self-organization are structured. Following
that of Toulouse-Le Mirail, they have called for a demonstration on 17 March. Students are
even more numerous than on 9 March. The amplification of our advantage in the power
struggle with the government is necessary. Indeed, Valls and El Khomri trying to make us
believe that they are made "compromise" by revising the law. But this announcement effect
does not alter our determination since the changes are marginal. This bill still aims to
break the labor code that protects wage earners. That is why during the day of action on
March 17, actions such places of study of occupations, stations, or even symbols of power
took place. The repression of the social movement did not expect and it hit hard in
several cities. And CRS riot police have used tear gas and batons to disperse but student
processions of students and staff of facs, injuring several people.
But that does not stop us. A first coordination francilienne held 17 evening, bringing
together almost all universities in the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. It has been the
scene of tension with the UNEF which little pleased to see the students organize
themselves, set off the fire alarm ENS in order to stop the coordination. Nice try, but it
failed. On March 19 universities from all over France gathered in Paris-VIII for national
coordination which aims to determine the mobilization of suites: ways to amplify it, the
next day of coordinated actions, door Floor-, etc. The challenge is twofold: to make the
government back and wear progressive demands such reduction and sharing of working time
and politicize the universities that have not known movement for over five years. This is
for many to experience direct democracy via the AG and the imperative and revocable
mandate, and to wear self-management practices through the strike committee and commissions.
At the time of writing, the strike days and student demonstrations, high school and inter
24 and March 31 will announce followed. Faced with this law wants to impose precarious
life, it is time to be united and to secure the withdrawal of the bill and win today. We
will continue to fight and we will never abandon nothing!
Claire (AL Saint-Denis) and Lucie (AL Rennes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Les-facs-et-les-lycees-prets-a
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On March 5, in the Athenian district of Exarchia, one could see libertarians with firearms
pass against traffickers. A radical demonstration following a battle over several years
against the Greek State of the strategy of manipulating the deal from the network to fight
the revolutionary forces established in this anarchist stronghold. ---- On the morning of
27 February, three anarchists of Exarchia district of Athens, Member of Social center
occupied Vox, sit in a street when they hear three other individuals start sexist insults
in respect of a pass. Quickly, the comrades taking part in the group and the tone rises.
Individuals out knives. Two militants receive severe blows to the head. One victim of a
brain injury, the other hospitalized with a serious head injury. Only the quick arrival of
the other occupants of the center and drain aggressors avoid their death.
One of these, just well known in the neighborhood, is a dealer carrying the nickname of
Habibi, who stabbed twenty people in the area including a young activist for criticizing
its network Indymedia Athens. The other two are his associates.
On the evening of the attack, a solidarity rally of a thousand people is taking place in
front of the Polytechnic University. The day after the raids are organized 200 volunteers
to transfer all the dealers and buyers in the area. March 5, 5000 libertarian march
against mafia, while some groups exhibit firearms directly threatens sign and to protect
the procession. An explosive situation but did not start today.
Armed and masked militants protect the procession.
A long history of resistance
The Exarchia district has a long history of resistance behind him. It is between its walls
and those of the Polytechnic University that is largely organized the student revolt
against the dictatorship of the colonels in November 1973 until its collapse in the summer
of 1974. No alternative culture ' has never stopped developing it, the neighborhood became
a symbol of struggle and culture.
In the 1980s, when there emerged the beginnings of an organized anarchist movement, the
Greek government launches major cleanup in order to purify the violent area "rockers" and
"punks" who "squatteraient". These operations include numerous police raids and a
perpetually negative propaganda in the media.
It was after these many attacks a harder defense movement was born with a firm intention
to protect the region. Each barricades raid emerge and clashes places. Repression up in
violence at the same time that the response of the inhabitants and residents from throwing
stones and Molotov cocktails passive defense commando attacks against all police vehicles
nearby. Over time the state and the police decide to drop these attacks, allowing a real
anti-authoritarian self-management of asylum emerge.
View about this excellent film Yannis Youlountas Do Vivons More Like A Slave
But that does not mean the end of reprisals. The lack of police presence soon attracts the
mafias, and the Greek state benefits quickly the advantage that it can draw to weaken
resistance from within. Links are forged between state apparatus and networks of the deal
(mainly heroin), they are encouraged to take ownership of Exarchia where they could
conduct their business without fear, while in parallel police cars round up addicts they
stop in town to release the edge of the area. Strategy of tension still used today as
Anel-Syriza government.
Pacification tactics
It is useful to put into perspective with the Greek crisis many people take refuge in the
"artificial paradises" to escape the daily misery. This phenomenon gives rise to a
constant increase in consumption and the emergence of new cheap synthetic drugs, then
spreading on the black market throughout Europe. A little-known situation in France but
taken very seriously by the anarchist movement there, witness the terrible consequences of
politicization resulting from these practices.
A very good book to understand the whole point of this tactic is to pacify the brochure of
former Black Panther activist Michael Tabor Cetewayo , Capitalism + Cam = Genocide ,
written in 1969 while the latter was imprisoned with 20 other members of the BPP . It
analyzes how the use of drugs and the management of their contracts by the US state of
arms, as the security against revolution in the black ghettos pretext of combating
trafficking, are in fact the two sides of same draft permanent war against "undesirable"
in order to counter any revolutionary activity and bring social genocide.
This strategy is proving doubly beneficial in Athens since the libertarian movement is
reflected on the one hand facing a new parallel mafia state on its territory, the other
for media slander, turning the eyes of the population in Exarchia space lawless ghetto
high risk when it is better not to venture. The area is so much more often described in
great Greek media as a hotbed of crime and drugs as a revolutionary space when the two are
not simply combined.
libertarian response
These are the reasons why the Greek anarchists to radicalize this issue. Drug use, even
fresh, is now banned in almost all squats and libertarian centers. Some collectives up to
organize themselves raided warehouses and networks there to destroy cars stocks they find.
Practices that do not always agree but that meet the emergency situation in which the
medium is facing an unimaginable thing for here.
The street battles among anarchists and dealers have become commonplace (Police sometimes
to intervene itself to protect the traffickers) and recently it is the center libertarian
"Social Vox" very involved in this anti-mafia fight, who was the victim of a bullying
attack on the firearm.
The Assembly against social cannibalism behind this massive rally which appeared in these
armed vigilante groups, is one of the responses of inhabitants and people facing these
attacks. Parallel to the fieldwork conducted against poverty and isolation.
While it is now difficult to predict the form of this response in the time ahead, the
Greek anarchists seem more determined than ever to do battle to free the area from the
yoke of the mafias that poison.
The anti-mafia mobilization of March 5:
from rozkordeles on Vimeo .
Killian (AL Marseille)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Grece-les-anarchistes-en-guerre
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[Photos] The political trip of the president of FN in the Belle Province has turned into a
fiasco. In just two days, the Quebec and Montreal activist circles have mobilized to make
him see all the colors. She will remember! Refugees welcome! Fascists out! ---- Friday,
March 18, Quebec began to rustle a strange rumor: Marine Le Pen, leader of the "main party
of France" was soon landing in Montreal. "But what is she doing here? "Demonstrating its
international stature? " Oh yeah! Count on us for that, my great! "The Activists soon
scrutinize the agenda of his visit. Quebec is known for its hospitality, no question of
this reputation. ---- The radical leftist circles are not the only ones to be moved: the
entire political class reacts and even cultural background ... Marine, this is where your
nightmare begins.
Politicians and cultural backgrounds turn their backs on FN
Even before his arrival, politicians of all stripes have announced and they refused to
meet her, some even with sensational formulas. Bernard Drainville, MP of the Parti
Québécois (PQ), said she should "go home immediately landed the plane." Annoyed, Marine Le
Pen has called Canada and its policy of welcoming migrant.es of "land of Care Bears."
However, these politicians are they so virtuous? Remember that the PQ has polarized Quebec
with a draft "Charter of Values" somewhat xenophobic, and that Prime Minister Couillard
certainly refuse to appear with Le Pen, but sees no problem strutting with the princes of
Saudi Arabia.
Cultural circles have also made a hostile demonstration at Le Pen, whose trip was falling
at the same time as the Gala of Quebec cinema. The forum where we handed him an award, the
filmmaker of Chilean Patricio Henriquez went there a fascist salute, earning a standing
ovation from the entire audience.
In Quebec, the press conference is disturbed
FN The ruling has finally had trouble with the radical left. His press conference March 20
in Quebec City was disrupted by dozens of internationalists and antifascists. The comrades
invaded the hall and unfurled banners and shouted slogans including "Youth Fuck the
National Front." The guard of Le Pen, furious to see this media outlet marred by "bolchos"
distributed some shots. Upset, Le Pen unleashed a "Enough kids, go take a shower and go to
bed! "Too late, the images of this stampede made the media tower and galvanized the troops
... Montreal was going to take over.
Photos Quebec: The Activist
In Montreal, the little fascist party is canceled
Monday, March 21 evening, the day before his press conference in Montreal, 150 people
gathered outside the hotel that hosted the delegation of the FN, to protest against his
visit. At the same time, the local IWW, a revolutionary union, was that Le Pen was eating
supper at the Sports Station in the Centre-Sud neighborhood.
The ruling National Front was to meet his supporters and some Quebec fascists in the dingy
basement of a restaurant owned by Peter Sergakis, a wealthy owner of bars, restaurants and
buildings of Greek origin and supporter of Golden Dawn .
But when she tried to leave his followers to go to Radio Canada, surprise: sixty antifa
blocked his truck! He had to wait until the police intervention in order to move. Clashes
ensued much of the evening, sometimes with anti-riot forces, sometimes with local
fascists, frustrated their little spoiled party.
Marine could not back off the evening with his friends, as expected. The fascists had to
leave gradually the scene, sheepish, some even through the back door.
The hotel itself has finally asked him to leave, fearing that his image is associated with
the FN. A beautiful fiasco, thanks to the mobilization fascist!
Montreal Photos: Cedric Martin
Only the media have held out the red carpet
His advisers could give him a few history lessons. At least remind him that Quebec is no
longer the once named New France colony, when it was enough for the French to land to do
what they wanted. Quebec has its own political debate, and does not require that the
National Front comes indicate the way forward.
Only positive for Marine Le Pen: complacency media. Certainly, everyone expected that
radio garbage would serve him soup. But not that the national media provides a platform
upon VAT up the invitation as "expert" to discuss the Brussels attacks! Thus, Marine Le
Pen has enjoyed a disproportionate media coverage, while the trip was turning political
and diplomatic fiasco.
In short, Navy, we hope that you hated your passage here. We hope that never again you
will not see Quebec as a land where you could broadcast your crappy ideas. Our French
comrades do not have a choice, you are part of their landscape. May here, fortunately, you
are nothing.
Gustave Mauk (Montreal)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Quebec-Comment-nous-avons-crisse
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Outside the days of strike and demonstration, and even small, multiple actions can be
organized to support the fight. Back on why and how through three examples of easily
déclinables action everywhere, recently performed at Grenoble. ---- Calling some motivé.es
little désœuvré.es! If the "Shares" are well known to union and association militant.es
and libertarian milieu, the social movement in course allows thousands of people to learn
how to act by discovering the principle of punch action . Occupation of a bank, Toll Free,
deploying banners, flooding of a service of power, radio relaying the views of the power
or the police ignoring of reality, bordélisation the conference a pro-reform deputy, by
April 28, do not hesitate to inform the principle, and to build hundreds in the country to
maintain pressure.
Actions: the importance of why and how
What is it about? - This is an action with a goal or a clear target, bringing together
people who have organized to achieve it. There are all kinds of more modest - as a small
gathering outside a bank to denounce the practice of tax evasion - to more ambitious - as
shares of blockades of entire devices - but they take all the frames within the movement,
in claiming, and complement other engagement initiatives such as strikes and demonstrations.
Why this could be relevant - it is not - yet - a general strike every day, though, between
the major events must maintain pressure. In addition, the mobilization is uneven from one
place to another in the country: even being small, it is possible to unite the energies of
a few dozen people to decide to act.
With that act, in what context? - If collective frames are launched, such as general
meetings, Night Stand, collectives, then the art participant may propose actions inside.
Otherwise, the libertarian groups, the struggles of unions and associations can be good
incubators. Start the principle of action being isolated can be used to collect other
people, however, the best is to hang in group settings. Depending on the nature of the
proposed action, and the degree of potential repression, everyone will want to participate
can not be: it does not matter! the diversity of tactics is not opposed to a spirit of
common dynamic for the movement.
Build and prepare the action - According to the target, target, the number of people
required, the necessary equipment, some actions require the prior preparation. then it is
may be important to have a little time and start tasks among more motivé.es to have
everything ready and well prepared the big day Anyway, keep in mind that the date, time,
place of appointment, must be well defined. If the items are not met, or that the action
was not well prepared, sometimes it is better to postpone at the risk of endangering or
miss the target.
inform or keep secret - If you advertise your action, the police may be present and
prevent it. If you do not advertise, then there will be no reinforcements dozens or
hundreds of people who have received the message and will want to be with you. The
relevance of public or not make the call to action clearly depends on these objectives and
whether or not others who were not invested in preparing the meet.
namely to inform the success! - The action was successful? great! Think inform, being
careful to blur faces and not give names. Make a small text, video, lets know, and
galvanizes motivé.es who were not present, makes you want to act. And inform yourself
avoiding diversion or caricature by the mainstream media.
Organize against repression - this is a fundamental point. It is necessary that chacun.e
informé.e is well on the risks, have a solicitor number, know these rights in view Guard.
If possible, discuss ahead of what to do in case of police intervention, and provide for
contacts outside participant.es to act in case of repression.
Here below three examples of actions carried out recently in Grenoble as part of the
movement, are not models but illustrations of achievements in practice.
classic and effective Vive Toll free!
Well received by the majority of motorists, free tolls allow economically targeted
motorway companies to give visibility and popularize the struggle among motorists actually
exempted from the toll, and raise money for strike funds and in antirépression tending
more leaflets boxes of supports for car windows. The police, however, take place
systematically and security issues in relation to passages of the cars must be well
prepared. This therefore requires organization and determination.
Make a free toll is a fairly simple operation to perform and allows minimal time to reap a
sizeable amount of money. So that the action is in the best possible and effective, we
offer several features and requirements.
Toll free operation // // Grenoble Thursday 45 March 2016 from Stephane funk on Vimeo .
target a conference, the movement of an opponent of the event
MP defends your corner of the reform? it's good, it gives a lecture or organizes a public
conference in a few days, will visit him and take him to task, no defilade this time he
will be forced to take! Whether from within or from outside, disrupting a lecture by an
opponent of the social movement is an opportunity to point fingers responsibility of
policy makers and managers, and disrupt their own agenda.
target company, bank, etc.
Small story of an easy action to achieve, and that potential targets, alas, do not miss:
"We were about 80 people - half of students with the presence of Solidarity Student-es,
JC, UNEF, comrades invested in Night Stand Grenoble - to invade and block the McDonald's
in the center of Grenoble, site Victor Hugo, this Thursday, April 14, 2016 at noon in the
dual framework of the movement and the Global Day of Action against the multinational junk
food.
We denounce the degrading working conditions in place at McDonald's, the incredible labor
repression that the company exerts abroad but also in France - with all devices
harassment, extreme violence experienced in our country daily thousands of trade unionists
- the judicial impunity of the company that has made the tax exile champion or should I
say the "tax optimization" ... So the El Khomri menu was already on sale at McDonald's and
already very spicy for the worker-s ..
So after an hour of festive bordélisation shouting "Big Mac everywhere, justice nowhere",
"if you knew Ronald, your working conditions where we put them," or the popular "Thanks
Boss! "With comrades who strove to find the money stolen by some business around the
restaurant that direction in a state close to nervous breakdown, police were called to the
meeting, asking us nicely to leave because the public good was not on our side. So we
waited with the present-mates are on site yet thirty minutes to finish psychologically
history with management and then we started to block all entrances to the outside, to
transform us into hedges of honor-labyrinths for those / those who wanted to return when
it was beginning to heat up. After 2:30 of joyful anarchy, we dispersions ...
Happy moment that will have galvanized tou-te-s-es the participant for late April and May,
we hope-fought! "
Alternative Libertaire Grenoble
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Multiplier-les-actions-pour
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Recently, the CNT has published their positions on the ”refounding of the IWA”. Several
points of their article could cause misunderstandings and are factually incorrect. ----
Any official decisions of the IWA related to this matter can only be taken at the Congress
of the IWA. It is not possible, under the IWA statutes, for the CNT or any other Sections
to convoke a refounding conference of the IWA without the approval, in Congress, of the
entire IWA. Only if the IWA Congress approves any Ordinary or Extraordinary Congress
dedicated to its refoundation can such Congress be considered organic and legitimate. ----
We stress that only the decisions of the Congress are representative of the IWA's
positions. In turn, only the official positions of each member Section are representative
of that Section.
Below we have produced a small FAQ related to the points brought up in the publication and
to the many questions sent people from around the world have been asking us from the IWA
Secretariat. The information herein is based on the actual Congress decisions of the IWA
and other facts documented internally in the federation.
When is the Congress of the IWA?
The Congress of the IWA is in December 2016. Any official positions of the IWA on these
proposals can only be known after this Congress.
Is the FAU expelled from IWA?
No. The Extraordinary Congress of the IWA of December 2014 decided to put this question on
the agenda of the next ordinary Congress in December 2016.
No final decision has been made by the Sections concerning the future affiliation or
disaffiliation of that Section.
Did the current General Secretary make this decision unilaterally and with no basis?
No.
The Secretariat is held by Sections of the IWA, although the Congress may also name the
General Secretary. The term General Secretary is related to one person while the
Secretariat refers to a group of people. The Section chosen may delegate as many people as
they wish to the functioning of the Secretariat but a minimum of three is required.
The Secretariat may receive some mandates from IWA Congresses which ask it to take certain
steps in certain events. In the case in question, the Secretariat was mandated to expel
FAU under certain circumstances due to violation of Congress decisions. This mandate was
given through the process of two IWA Congresses.
The current situation involved six months of discussion and consultation about the
circumstances and this mandate. The issue was brought to an Extraordinary Congress where
the positions of all the member Sections were heard. The decision of the Extraordinary
Congress was to treat this question in 2016 at the regular Congress. This would allow
Sections to formulate their positions or initiate conflict resolution measures.
CNT did not agree to this process?
No. lt seems that CNT does not recognize that the Extraordinary Congress voted or that
there was a mandate. It maintains that the General Secretary acted alone.
What has been CNT's position on this issue?
The position of the CNT on this issue is currently to support the FAU. However, the
original motion to expel FAU was made by the CNT. The CNT brought these positions to 4
consecutive IWA Congresses from 2000-2009.
Does this mean the position of the CNT changed?
Yes and it is normal. Organizations develop, change their membership or re-assess their
positions so this can and does happen.
If the position of the CNT changed, could they ask to change the mandate of the IWA
Secretariat?
Yes. All mandates of the IWA Secretariat are decided by the IWA Sections in Congresses and
Plenaries and all Sections are entitled to make motions to change mandates or make new ones.
In 2009, the CNT supported it and the next Congress was in 2013. No motion was made by the
CNT to revoke the mandate, nor was there any position of CNT related to this matter.
However, after the issue of FAU re-emerged in 2014, the CNT claimed that there was no
longer any mandate for the Secretariat.
How was this claim handled?
Any claims like this must be decided by the Sections in a collective process. During the
collective process, it is natural that there can be disagreements.
Further, a principle of anarchosyndicalism is that any parties claiming that an elected
delegate has acted inappropriately has the right to motion to recall said delegate. Such
an option was indeed exercised but rejected during the statutory process required in the
IWA. That is, a majority of Sections voted against it.
lf CNT is bigger, why doesn't the IWA just take that into account and let them decide what
to do?
This is against our federative statutes which have regulated this since 1922. ln 2009 and
2013, the IWA overwhelmingly rejected motions which would go in this direction.
This historical position shapes the current composition of the IWA today since, had we
operated on the assumption that the largest should decide, the CNT would not be the IWA
Section today. That is because the CNT which we know today was the smaller part of two
factions which split years ago, the larger being known as the CGT today.
The same principles which forced us to recognize the CNT as our legitimate Sections years
ago are in play today. CNT conformed to our statutes, ideas and tactics. The faction which
later became CGT held a split Congress and, although they were definitely much larger,
this process was in contradiction to the organic norms and it was not the continuation of
the CNT-AIT.
Today, the CNT takes another position. However the type of refoundation process it
proposes today is close to this situation. The questions related to the organic legitimacy
of such processes, remains the same.
Is it the duty of the Secretary to engage in dialogue between the Sections to resolve the
issue of the difference of opinions related to voting rights?
The Sections of the IWA bring any motions that they have to IWA Congresses and at any time
between the Congresses they are free to submit their opinions and propose any debates.
It is the Sections' right to debate this.
IWA sections did discuss these issues twice in IWA Congresses.
It is not the duty of the IWA Secretariat to bring these issues back to the Congress for
discussion: it is the right of the Section to motion for this.
Have there been any motions to the IWA or petitions to the IWA Secretariat to start a
process of discussion with the aim to explore if there can be any compromise decisions?
No.
What has been the process of discussion with FAU after the last Congress?
The IWA Secretariat expressed to FAU that it would like to talk and would hope that some
Sections would facilitate discussion. Unfortunately, there has not been any good
development in this area.
Members of the IWA Secretariat travelled to the Congress of FAU but were not allowed to
address this issue at this Congress. Attempts to ask about meetings, including meetings
with other Sections, did not get any positive response.
The Secretariat informed the Sections of these situations and sent all the proposals.
Later it stressed that if any dialogues could be undertaken, efforts to initiate these
processes would have to be undertaken by Sections interested since reactions towards the
IWA Secretariat were hostile and any steps towards resolution really required a collective
effort. From the very beginning it expressed opinions to the FAU delegation at the 2014
Congress that if FAU did not agree with the Secretariat and this presented a problem, it
would be best if some other Sections, preferably ones considered more neutral, be part of
this process.
Did the CNT offer to be involved in any process that would seek a resolution to basic
problems between FAU and other Sections?
No. No Section has done this.
The CNT proposes a number of changes in the IWA. What next?
If the CNT proposes these things, they go on the Congress agenda for debate and voting.
Why hasn't the IWA discussed some of these issues before? Some of them seem very important.
The IWA discusses every issue that Sections put on the agenda for debate. If something
hasn't been discussed it is because there have not been appropriate motions in the IWA for it.
From the points presented by the CNT, issues of minimum membership and voting rights have
been discussed twice at IWA Congresses. The issues of dues have been discussed and
regulated, as has training and international expansion.
Below is some basic information on decisions or pending topics.
The minimum membership issue was rejected by two Congresses.
In 2013, another Section rejected the number criteria completely and submitted the opinion
that the criteria should be a demonstration of syndical activity and organizational
regularity, together with an adhesion to our principles and tactics. However has this
opinion could only be made after the original proposals were submitted and there was no
time to submit a counter-proposal, it is up to the Section to propose a continuation of
debate on it in 2016 or not.
The point on international expansion was brought in 2009 to the Congress by the CNT. There
was a position paper of that organization. The IWA Sections were in agreement that they
wanted to expand but the details on the specifics of how to do this, what steps to take,
etc., were not in this paper and thus it was decided to take this to the next Plenary.
In 2011, the CNT did not add to this point, but several concrete proposals that could be
said to relate to expanding contacts were agreed. Some of these were proposed by the other
Sections. The CNT and ZSP proposed the creation of an lnternational Working Group
comprised of delegates from the Sections and this was accepted (in the CNT's version).
In 2012, the CNT did not submit any further points although another Section did. The CNT
did not prepare any mandates or decisions nor send any official delegate to this Plenary.
In 2013, this proposal, still being pending, went as a point to the IWA Congress but
lacking any development on the part of the CNT, it remains a pending point.
Currently there are working groups in the IWA which already are set up to carry out some
of the tasks referred to in the CNT proposals: the lnternational Working Group to build
contacts and the Syndical Education Commission. They are open to all Sections to send
delegates but the CNT does not currently have delegates in either.
The idea to make training seems very productive. Why hasn't the IWA done this before?
Some sections of the IWA hold training events in their own localities and the IWA
Secretariat has organized some workshops on the international level.
The IWA Congress has recognized the need for education in this respect and has an open
commission which all Sections can participate in. lf the CNT would like to propose
anything in this respect, it can join the commission and volunteer to organize events,
especially in coordination with other Sections. This does not require any additional
Congress decisions - it only requires initiative and implementation.
What about the legal issue? Is the IWA funds in the name of one individual?
No, this is not correct. The funds are in the name of a member Section and have been for
quite a long time.
Permission to access and manage the funds comes with the appropriate mandate of the IWA
Congresses and this is a rotated task. The IWA Secretariat is fully accountable and
reports all use of funds regularly.
We point out that no matter which entity holds the funds, only a group of mandated
individuals would be legally empowered to access them. The safety of any collective money
therefore is dependent on the commitment to our ideas of collective responsibility.
As the CNT should know, just because money is in the name of its organization does not
mean it is safe because everything depends on the culture of the organization, whether
people are committed to ensuring responsibility and have the ability to control the
delegates of their organization.
The CNT welcomes other organizations to join the refounded IWA. What are the details on that?
Affiliation to the IWA is open to all organizations that agree with its statutes. By this,
it is understood the binding statutes which are in agreement and approved by the official
instances of the IWA. The official instance for modifying the statutes is the IWA Congress
and only the official IWA Congress, held in accordance with our statutes, or any
Extraordinary Congress held by decision of the IWA Congress. The IWA Congress is agreed
according to the statutes and cannot be decided by a faction.
The normal affiliation process in the IWA has looked as follows: an organization makes
contact with the official representation of the IWA (the IWA Secretariat), or vice-versa
and the correspondence is transferred to all the Sections for transparency. There is
usually a period of exchange and cooperation to get to know each other and build
solidarity. Some organizations opt to start as Friends of the IWA to become more familiar
with everything.
If an organization decides that the IWA is right for it, it applies to join and its
potential membership is assessed by all the Sections.
The legitimate organic instance for applications is only the Congress of the IWA which is
set out in our statutes.
We welcome organizations to be in contact with the IWA through official means, which
implies accountability to all the Sections. Such contact is not limited to those
organizations which would like to join, but also to those which would like to receive or
exchange information (solidarity calls, bulletins, etc.).
At the same time, we point out that the CNT is not mandated to invite organizations to a
refounding process that has not been approved, nor is it mandated to speak on behalf of
the IWA. The process of official delegation is one strictly based in anarchosyndicalist
doctrine and concretely in our case, by the Statutes of the lnternational Workers Association.
All Sections of the IWA are free to maintain relations with other organizations and do
this, keeping in mind and within the agreements of the IWA.
We hope that this information will clarify some questions related to the publication. We
ask that if organizations have questions, they ask them by writing to the IWA Secretariat
so these questions and answers can be known to all the Sections. We also ask for time and
respect for our internal process at this moment which is very difficult for our federation.
IWA Secretariat
http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/publication-cnt-spain-regarding-iwa
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Message: 6
Our struggles for the overthrow of being militant, collective and unmediated ... - "I was
standing on a hill. And I saw the Old approaching. But coming as a New. Crawling on new
crutches. That no one had seen before. And new mass murderer putrid smells. That nobody
had xanamyrisei (...). " - Mn. Brecht - Six years after the inclusion of the country in
international economic regime control of the political and economic directorial EU, ECB
and IMF, with the agreement of the local civilian staff and local bosses, the attack
against the vast majority of society continues. ---- In fact, this is an attack that began
at least two decades ago in Greece as a result of capitalist restructuring taking place
today at the global level and new misery conditions gradually formed millions of exploited
after the outbreak of the global capitalist crisis with major axes the greatest possible
seizure of social wealth, the complete control and subjugation of human societies.
Understandings and loan agreements are just the modern version of this escalating attack
aimed at complete overthrow of labor relations and social rights for the benefit of the
state and capital.
Before about two decades megalomegistanas Agnello, commenting on the politics of his
country, Italy, he said: "There is a kind of Left that is more useful than the Right. It
is at the left that can do everything you could do the Right. " And of course, this is not
only true in the case of Italy.
Today, the newly elected "aristerodexia" political management Syriza-ANEL pave the way for
the deepening of the operating conditions and oppression and for the intensification of
this attack in an even more extensive sections of the population. After having fostered
false hopes on the landscaping of the system through a government role-taking and
contributed decisively to the weakening of social and class movements that had developed
over the previous period, then adopted the same neo-liberal agenda with its predecessors,
fully in line with the requirements and antisocial patterns of local and international
elites, while attempting to give extended life in the already bankrupt political and
economic system by allowing social conditions of peace, national reconciliation and
diataxikis cooperation.
Managing illusions systematically cultivated lately not aimed at improvement of people's
living conditions, as you contend for this their exponents. One in which targeted and
partially succeeded was the formation of consensus and assimilation conditions humane
enforcement of the terms of the new capitalist attack that is already in progress by
imposing new antisocial measures that increasingly degrade the life and contribute greatly
to the further ftochopoiisi and impoverishment of the population.
The adoption a few months ago, the 3rd Memorandum and the implementing laws that came,
came to seal the adoption of new antisocial measures aimed at imposing predatory taxation
(continued ENFIA and new taxes), the dismantling of social security, education and
healthcare (undermining further the already dissolved education and health systems) - the
new cuts in pensions, the elimination of each and increasing the retirement age, the
release of the first home auction to holders of "red" loans, in perpetuating of flexible
working - "interest" as ruling slavery for most (introduction of voucher-further
flexibilisation of labor relations programs, individual contract, employer
terrorism-layoffs-reductions under the threat of unemployment, unionization hit)
stoxepoulima public property ( privatization of ports, airports and entire regions), to
impose hunger wages.
At the same time, the perpetuation and rising unemployment generate hard ftochopoiisis
conditions, social exclusion and marginalization of hundreds of thousands of young people
(many driven up to suicide), which facilitates the control and their subjugation. It is a
fact that confirms the antisocial and murderous nature of capitalism not alleviated
depending on its political operator, but instead, as the crisis deepens, it becomes even
more voracious and ruthless.
Key contribution to the manipulation and the appeasement of social and class resistances
have trade elite, controlled by partisan and bureaucratic mechanisms leaderships of the
unions undertake a mediating role between society and the bosses, time found in good
cooperation and dialogue with second, managing to total discredited trade union and
workers' demands, to foster defeatism workers and challenged the effectiveness of the
collective struggle. Today, having lost much of its mediation capacity, as large pieces of
the racers have turned back, attempting to restrict their class struggles promoting social
peace and diataxiki cooperation.
Strikes - "rifles in the air", convened by the sold out bosses of the government
association (GSEE-ADEDY), trying to pull the wool over the workers' eyes, while they put
gravestone in the labor movement and its demands, and made without planning and prospect
thereby undermining the credibility of the medium in the consciousness of the world.
At international level, the picture is no different. The capitalist restructuring taking
place in the direction of enforcement of state and capitalist dictatorship over human
societies through the establishment of modern totalitarianism. Despite individual
differences detected from region to region, there is no room for doubt that the severity
of the systemic attack takes the character total war declared by the global political and
economic bosses against the exploited and oppressed of the world. The establishment of a
permanent emergency regime within the western metropolises together by conducting a
relentless war in the wider capitalist periphery are the hallmarks of this war that aims
at full control of societies and the consolidation of national and supranational
mechanisms as dominant players in the global geopolitical. Meanwhile, there are also the
endokapitalistikes conflict through the emergence of various power blocs in the global
chessboard with different interests and aspirations.
The Greek state, as an active member state and southeast of the European Union border
guard and co-perpetrator in European capitalist integration, actively participates in the
formation of this international landscape by imposing poverty and indigence conditions
inside and standing up impenetrable walls for those who took the road of migration and
refugees because of looting and destruction led various areas of the globe yielding to
appetites of global capitalism. The effort to reduce their flow and intensification of
reconnaissance control creates a militarized area in the southern and eastern borders of
Fortress Europe which includes fences, police-military operations, international patrols,
minefields, warships and everything becomes useful in curbing this huge amount of people
trying to enter the "capitalist paradise".
Opposite to our violent devaluation of life, all us from below, workers, the unemployed,
youth, natives and immigrants, knowing our real needs, we must take life in our hands, to
organize and to fight collectively, self-organized and adiamesolavita in any society and
the workplace, in schools and colleges, workplaces, neighborhoods and streets, away from
any party and union manipulation which inevitably leads to the weakening and degeneration
of social and class movement. With base unions, neighborhood assemblies and racing
patterns of youths, pupils, students and workers to set up embankments in the state and
capitalist attack that ruined our lives.
For the wild-hit social basis there is no room for other illusions. The only real dilemma
must be "capitalism or social revolution." The only realistic option is that of social
transformation, the process that structures of exploitation and oppression relations
imposed by the existing regime of slavery and misery and repealing society existing
organizational structures, replacing them with other types of horizontal and collective
self-organization such as libertarian communes , workers' councils, the assemblies and
collectives.
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Message: 7
Months pass and the farming crisis continues. Despite the large sums released by the
State, breeders and ranchers are not out-es of the rut. ---- Facing the farming crisis
that never ends, the government announced in early March action: blank year in social
security contributions, debt erasure order to still invest and increase productivity and
competitiveness ... But it are only temporary measures, they are ineffective as a
structural crisis of overproduction, the same source is the disappearance of regulatory
tools at European level, quotas among others. ---- peasant anger ---- The only proposed
route is the headlong rush towards industrialization: increase investment, the size of
farms, production. It's the same small liberal refrain that we hear for months. A European
leader is reassuring: "The market will eventually regulate itself. "The regulation of the
market means that a number of small and medium farms will go bankrupt, and thus compensate
for the increased production of the largest. That is the reality. The market regulation is
a social disaster, human and economic. The invisible hand cleaned up our campaigns
The last European negotiations "crisis" of the mid-March did not question this approach.
While there may be some temporary regulations, there will be no collective measure
throughout the European Union.
Contestation and peasant actions have been more or less intensity in recent months but the
anger remains the same. FNSEA, the majority union which organizes the vindictiveness
facing a dramatic situation, blows hot and cold. A portion of the claims brought is
populist and fuzzy, "too many burdens," "too many standards." You can put different
realities behind these watchwords. Indeed, some maintain standards and peasant agriculture
farm, others want to impose an industrial vision. Two visions of agriculture therefore
face in their implementation. Or just another part of the claims of the businessman's
union Xavier Beulin goes in the direction of increasing industrialization (investment,
automated slaughterhouses ...), which will only make the livestock crisis. On the one hand
the FNSEA stirs protest, but on the other, she oversees claims for profit.
Peasant Confederation fights hand to restore regulatory tools to return to decent prices.
This is the only short-term solution to avoid bankruptcy for many peasants. A claim shared
by many of the farmers and breeders are concerned, but the peasant union trouble to
succeed. Involved, difficulty drill mediatically but especially orientation and union
strategy not enough offensive in the regions most affected by the crisis.
Taking criticism of industrialization
We can not find appropriate solutions to this crisis only through a critique of the
agricultural model that was set up. For several decades, the way of "progress" has
dominated the whole development of agriculture expansion, investment in more efficient
tools and machines, thrust selection on livestock to increase productivity ... This unique
ideology is required in all areas, agricultural training to the technician who comes
adviser on the farm, through the accountant, banker, neighbors, co ... When everyone works
in one direction, it is difficult to change path. That's how many generations have found
themselves locked in a very export-oriented system that wanted to play on the
international markets. Ideological choices but also geopolitical led to the establishment
of this model. A country with a very export-oriented agriculture has an important weight
in the international arena. And a number of farm leaders have contributed to the
transformation of cooperatives in food multinationals, which now have policies against
farmers. Stuck in this model, they are paying now adding salt. But analysis of the link
between the production model and the crisis that we know is not worn by everyone in the
country Confederation. In some departments, the union has the means to lead a political
front, more ambitious, but it is necessary to assume that policy coherence.
Produce to win export markets implies an industrial system. We must make large volumes at
low cost. Between the monstrous investments, fluctuations in market prices and
cooperatives that compress regular prices paid to producers, farmers and farmers are
cutting back on their income to keep a semblance of economic stability. We are in a
situation where people supposed to feed people are actually working to feed the financiers
and speculators, whose profits are linked to international transactions on agricultural
matters.
The power at the heart of agricultural production
There is therefore a need to return to the debate from the center the direction of
agricultural production. This may seem trivial but it is imperative to give it a dietary
goal. Because if we produce to feed the population, then we have that production is
consumed locally. She does not need to cross the planet for that. If we work to feed the
population, then we must produce quality food and therefore of farmers and many farmers on
preserved land. If the primary objective of agriculture is food, then you have to change
agricultural policy!
Georges Claas (AL Var)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-crise-de-l-elevage-symptome-d
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