Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #262 - Read: Gaulène,
"Nuclear Power in Asia. Fukushima, and after? " (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - unionism, Union of
Corsican Workers: let the judge salarié.es (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL n° special - Content +
Editorial: Valls, and you're off again! (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. periodico-solidaridad.cl: A march on Monday 25 July: the
sovereignty of the body to the sovereignty of the people By
Lump-Feminist Action Libertaria (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. wsm.ie: Irish Water - mass action is winning lets keep up
the fight (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. US, black rose fed: THE COUP IN TURKEY: TYRANNY AGAINST
TYRANNY DOES NOT MAKE FREEDOM (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. ALTON STERLING AND PHILANDO CASTILE By Bob – First of May
Anarchist Alliance Detroit Collective -- Baton Rouge: For Alton
Sterling and against the cops! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. wsm.ie: Violet Autonomous Space opens in Dublin squat
complex at Grangegorman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #262 - offshore
extraction: An oil summit disrupted in Pau (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Statement of solidarity with the black working class in the
US by Swedish Anarcho-Syndicalist Youth Federation SUF
International committee (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
11. afed.cz - Poland: Against NATO -- Warsaw held protests
during the summit. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Message: 1
The book of Matthew Gaulène, very clear and documented, certainly provides the most
comprehensive overview to date existing on nuclear power in Asia. ---- It opens with a
problematic conclusion: the surprising conversion of Japan in the atom, in 1955, only ten
years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Follows a precise analysis of the Japanese civilian
nuclear program, which will meet from some resistance (opposition focusing mainly on the
issue of nuclear weapons), which, until the 2010s, will be accompanied by real propaganda
cleverly organized. ---- The book emphasizes the "machine to accept" nuclear power in
Japan, which unfolds in an orderly manner, and tends to silence any embarrassing
criticism. This machine to accept relayed by the official media and the political class
(right and combined left), held from 1980, during which citizens' concerns emerge,
relentless strategy of concealment of risks and nuclear-related incidents civil.
On this basis, the Fukushima disaster (March 2011) is considered a critical and distanced
perspective: the author shows how the crisis was handled improvised, and how safety
standards were insufficient in an area where the earthquake risk was nevertheless
important. In contrast to the official version pronuclear which states that Fukushima is a
"natural" accident, which should not undermine the nuclear industry as such, but who would
report an unfortunate "coincidence" we must forcefully remind an elementary fact:
disasters like Fukushima are linked to serious shortcomings in the human management of the
nuclear industry, which is seen therefore structurally challenged. Tepco, which managed
the Multinational Fukushima, knew all the risks, but did nothing to prevent upstream.
It is then found that, even after Fukushima, the pro-nuclear propaganda continues, this
time explicitly obscene way: communicating the "nuclear village" support the thesis that
the Fukushima nuclear accident would have "zero death" affirmation Mathieu Gaulène refuted
easily, numbers and supporting facts. Any embarrassing testimony of individuals still
suffering the effects of the disaster (health risks, possible decontamination) is publicly
discredited: a true "machine bully" is needed. Official speeches minimize the seriousness
of the risks of food contamination, which nevertheless concerned populations, and
objectively produced disastrous effects on the health of individuals. Furthermore, the
author stresses the derisory compensation received by victims of the disaster, which have
lost everything (home, work, family), and are being discredited or abandoned by the
authorities.
The option of an exit from nuclear power after Fukushima in Japan have been quickly
abandoned, then we see the return of the nuclear lobby to power in December 2012: victory
of the "intimidating machine" machine perpetuation sell. The measures do not include the
warning that is Fukushima.
The author then offers a state of the global village: alarming description of the
development of civil nuclear power in other countries in Asia (China, Japan, India,
Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar); description of the alarming proliferation of
nuclear weapons possessed by conflict countries (China, India, Pakistan, North Korea). The
Fukushima disaster allows to consider these phenomena from a new perspective, and
encourages critical reflection measurement became visible threats.
After this critical diagnosis, the book finally offers an inventory of the nuclear
resistance movements: one notes today in Asia, despite a powerful propaganda and
disinformation trend, the rise of anti-nuclear movements and energies renewable. Hope
still allowed, even if it is nothing to sink into an uncritical optimism: the nuclear
tests by Pyongyang, the resumption of nuclear power in Japan, indicate that overall Asian
policy makers have not taken the measure the threats upon the people in the nuclear age.
More generally, this brilliant essay proposes a radical point of view (and legitimately)
disenchanted about the nuclear industry as such: Fukushima has taught us that this energy
is not "safe", and must reflect , urgently, the implementation of alternative energy.
Benedict (AL Montpellier)
Mathieu Gaulène, The Nuclear Asia - Fukushima, and after? , Editions Philippe Picquier,
2016, 200 pages, 13 euros.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Gaulene-Le-nucleaire-en-Asie
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Message: 2
The STC, but also the LAB (Basque), he has the right to stand in the November elections in
very small enterprises (TPE)? Justice said no. We answer yes. It's working women and
workers to choose their représentant.es ---- Monday, July 4, seized by the CGT, FO, CFDT
and CFTC, the Paris District Court has canceled the candidacy for elections in very small
enterprises (VSE, less than 11 salarié.es) of Sindicatu di i Travagliadori Corsi (STC,
Union of Corsican workers). The STC has appealed. ---- The same organizations before
attacking bourgeois justice of the French State the submission of lists of Langile
Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB Trade Union of the Basque Country). ---- The JTS and the LAB
claim, in parallel to the social emancipation of the working people, national emancipation
for their peoples.
STC announced his appeal on 11 July.
P.-A. Bakehouse cc / Corse Matin
Whatever one thinks of these strategic guidelines, nobody can deny the very real
representation of unions in their territories or their practice of trade unionism and
anti-capitalist struggle. That is why we denounce the undemocratic method of
disenfranchising to organize themselves as they see fit thousands of workers and employers.
Moreover, by holding that "under cover of union rights and employee rights protection" STC
"pursuing a specific policy action," justice challenges for all unions the chance to claim
another company. It This is an unacceptable interference and censorship to all those who
share the idea that unions should be anticapitalist alternative carrier.
After the "preventive" bans on demonstrations after the traps and police violence, after
the repression against those who struggle, the capitalist state is based on an
undemocratic electoral process to play the division of the working class and keep his
demolition company social rights.
Alternative Libertaire and union activists express solidarity to the JTS and LAB before
this offensive.
Paris, July 13, 2016
For further:
An interview with Jean-Luc Morucci explaining the union project STC ( Alternative
Libertaire, November 2005)
An article on the contrasting developments of STC , rupture between unionism and
syndicalism integration ( Alternative Libertaire, June 2009)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Syndicat-des-travailleurs-corses
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Message: 3
Labour law; unionism; SUD Solidaires; Night Stand; Franprix; Notre-Dame-des-Landes; RBI;
Murray Bookchin; Sivens; Bure; Palestine; Ukraine; Irene Pereira; Spanish War ----
Editorial: Valls, and you're off again! ---- Spotlight - Special Focus on the movement
against labor law ---- spring burning ---- We are not tired! ---- 2016, 2010, 2003 ...
Ruptures carriers of meaning ---- Diversity of tactics: in Rennes, waltz four stroke ----
unionism ---- A spring two CGT ---- North: bureaucracy divide us, action unites us! ----
Auvergne lock, fuel the social movement ---- SOUTH Solidarity: the interprovincial, it
pays off! ---- SNCF: the duplicity ... and lack of boldness ---- Call "They block all": a
first assessment ---- in protest ---- Organized mayhem: it or break it? ---- Legal
Assistance: defcol on the go
In the street
Night stand: the ups and debates
Ferns standing: a self-management spark
Orleans standing: not far to tread water
Youth
Universities as a missed opportunity
High Schools: coordination Nantes, an example of self-organization
And now ?
Change society, without being fooled
For a revolutionary alternative
Alternative Libertaire in the fight
Five comrades prosecuted: we stick together
Social
Franprix: The pay strike
In Strasbourg: No fascists in our demos
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: After the referendum, this is not always
basic income, the wages to the test
Ecology
Theory: Murray Bookchin today
Social ecology debates
Sivens: Blocking the road to big project
Leroy Merlin DIY Grand capitalist in the Tarn
Antinuclear: Bure power
International
Palestine: Gaza imprisoned, forgotten Gaza
Ukraine: Between a rock and a hard place
Debate
Around Irene Pereira works
Website: Permanent Revolution
History
80 years ago: Spain between war and revolution
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?-AL-no-special-d-ete-est-en-kiosque-
Editorial: Valls, and you're off again!
Since 2010, the dispute was far sluggish. Worse, it often took a reactionary face.
Remember that the great social movement of the beginning of this five-year period was the
Manif for all! The far right has risen sharply, with an FN to nearly 25%. Finally, the
icing on the cake: the vile attacks between January and November 2015 were the pretext for
strengthening the police state.
In this context, the PS government believed all permits. The propatronales reform have
multiplied. El Khomri should drive the point with the blasting of the Labour Code. The
power was betting on the general resignation ... And no! Divine surprise: the response has
taken shape.
Putting the class struggle in the middle of the game, pushing for some time identity
divisions, this movement has seen two opposing camps. On one hand, the employers, the
state and its henchmen (yellow unions, liberal parties, media orders). On the other, the
proletariat in all its diversity: workers, employees, public, private, but youth and the
educated cohorts of precarious wage labor.
At the time of writing, the outcome of the battle is still uncertain, but already left
government is in tatters. Extra-parliamentary political space opens. The opportunity is
there, let us make it fruitful.
Alternative Libertaire, July 4, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Edito-Valls-et-ca-repart
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Message: 4
The abortion was an ancient cultural practice done throughout history between, by and for
women sovereignly and independently of any authority. In the case of Chile is important to
remember that in 1931 the therapeutic abortion as a social right was regulated, only to be
taken in 1975 and ratified the ban in 1989 by the civil-military dictatorship,
perpetuating the restricted and authoritarian character of the current called democracy.
---- Now the discussion on abortion has been installed in public opinion following the raw
cases in which they have been denied the practice to women who have been raped or have
pregnancies that endanger their lives, uncovering an everyday reality media and
authorities serving the capitalist and patriarchal system have worked to render invisible.
Thus the decriminalization of abortion on three grounds, which do not cover more than 5%
of abortions in Chile, was admitted on March 17 to the Chamber of Deputies and after more
than four months has just begun its passage through Senate, settling in the Health committee.
In this sense, the Christian Democrats (DC) has strategically played a leading role in
delaying the project also tried to incorporate clauses regarding medical supervision,
requiring the support and counseling to women who choose abortion, giving the project a
character victimization of women as if the reality of abortion was only reducible to these
three causes that do not realize the real motives by which we decide to abort.
We consider abortion a demand for our class because we women students, workers, settlers
placed in a position more precarious who we are mostly handicapped by not having
sufficient resources, but not the ruling class uses private clinics or travel to countries
where they do these procedures legally, sector just today opposes a safe and free abortion
on bearing in mind that the criminalization of abortion responds to a neoliberal project,
which needs an overpopulation of the popular sectors to have performed a skilled and
low-cost, justifying the penalty from moral and religious values that are part of a
Catholic-Christian tradition for centuries imposed work.
As organized feminist women, we understand that the first territory of autonomy is our
body and not wait for the state with its laws approved our emancipatory practices.
Therefore, before any prohibition against any oppressor criminalizing mandate and respect
our decision that this existed, it exists and will persist despite successive governments
respond with self-management, feminist sisterhood and self-defense.
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2016/07/13/a-marchar-este-lunes-25-de-julio-de-la-soberania-del-cuerpo-a-la-soberania-del-pueblo/
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Message: 5
Even at this late stage in the game, water charge campaigners still come across the odd
person on the street who will parrot the government propaganda line "We have to pay for
water". Of course, this line is nonsense as we already pay for our water through general
taxation and paying extra billions to an utter failure like Irish Water, which they'll
just waste on consultants fees, is lunacy. ---- As we know, Irish Water was set up solely
as a tool to facilitate the privatisation of our water infrastructure, not to fix leaks.
Water conservation, upgrading of our infrastructure and other justifications are just
pretexts for a long term plan to transfer public assets to private investors who will
squeeze every cent out of us for access to this vital resource.
Fortunately, most people understood this and boycotted Irish Water right from the
beginning, which is why we are where we are with mass cancellation of direct debits to the
company. Irish Water will be scrapped alright, but by working class direct action, not by
the maneuverings of political careerists in the Dáil.
So keep up the boycott, keep blocking meter installation and keep organising because every
action we take against Irish Water is an action that moves us closer to the kind of world
we want to live in, a world where the needs of humanity triumph over the insatiable greed
of the few.
The Right tend to get a little panicky when working class people organise and engage in
direct action. We saw this over the past 12 months where media outlets consistently
published smear stories aimed at water charge protesters but today on George Hook's radio
show The Right Hook, George (jokingly) suggested that we need a 'benign despot' to ensure
stability and order.
While this was meant in a light hearted way, it is actually fairly indicative of the
reaction of the right wing to growing working class power. When a left wing party or
movement is even perceived by them to be powerful enough to challenge right wing political
dominance, the right's first thought is of using the military to 'restore order'.
Actual use of military force to crush left wing forces is common, probably the most well
known example is the coup d'etat against Salvador Allende's left wing government in Chile
on September 11th 1973.
While we aren't expecting armoured personnel carriers to confront us on the next water
meter blockade, we should remember that as working class power continues to grow, so does
the paranoia of the capitalist class and their right wing helpers.
George can rest easy for the moment though, we haven't yet got to the stage where the
working class has built enough power to take over and run our country. We're working on
that though.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/irish-water-mass-action-winning-may2016
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Message: 6
By Morgan Presta of the Rojava Solidarity Commission of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
UPDATE: The coup attempt appears to have been defeated by the government. We can expect
that the following months will see in increase in strength for the AKP’s base that came
into the streets out to support Erdogan tonight, and an even stronger orientation towards
centralization and repression from the government. ---- There is currently a military coup
in Turkey. It is not certain what the outcome will be, but tanks are on the streets,
soldiers have taken over state television, airports are shut down, and gunfire and
explosions have been heard in Istanbul and Turkey. It is clear that a substantial section
of the military has taken action against the government and is in control of parts of the
country. At this moment there are reports of soldiers killing protesters. Given the
historic weakness of the Turkish military as a political power relative to the eras in
which it carried out previous coups, there is a strong chance that the government will
prevail. But this is clearly a very organized coup attempt that may be able to unseat the
government.
The rebelling section of the military has announced on television that martial law will be
declared and that the country will be ruled by a “peace council” – a euphemism for a
military junta, most likely. This military section says that their justification is the
restoration of the democratic and secular rule of law, after years of rule by President
Erdogan and the AKP has resulted in a de facto dictatorship.
We have been supporting the struggle against the AKP government. Erdogan’s government has
arrested our friends, started a war with the Kurdish movement, laid entire cities to
waste, displaced thousands of people, sponsored the spread of ISIS, allowed our friends
and comrades to be killed in Turkey by ISIS, and an endless list of other crimes. Erdogan
has been attempting to create a one party dictatorship in Turkey.
The context of coups in Turkey
Many people, especially those who support the Kurdish movement, may be enthusiastic about
the prospect of the military coup succeeding, because Erdogan would be removed, and there
may be some chance to end the war and re-organize mass revolutionary social movements.
This would be misplaced enthusiasm. Although no one can predict exactly what will happen,
there is no reason to believe that a military coup will mean progress for the popular
classes of Turkey. Replacing one dictatorship with another dictatorship does not mean
freedom for the people. The generals cannot give us freedom. Only the people’s struggles
can win freedom.
The 2013 military coup in Egypt demonstrates this. Goaded into action my massive popular
protests, the military deposed President Morsi and installed military rule. Some on the
left supported the military coup, because they felt that it carried out the people’s will
to topple Morsi’s government. But since then the military government has been even more
harsh and repressive, and has made no moves towards democracy. The military coup has been
a large step backwards for the Egyptian people, even though it removed an enemy of the
popular classes. Under military rule in Turkey, we can expect to see a greater
concentration of repressive power that will make it even more difficult for social
movements to organize than it has been under Erdogan. Already in their first hours, this
section of the Turkish military has been killing protesters.
Turkey has a long history of military coups – in 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1998. The country
is currently operating under the constitution crafted by the 1980 military junta
government. These coups have always, by their very nature, been a threat to democracy. The
military itself is highly ideological and opposed to democracy and the left – perhaps more
so than Erdogan. They are the main political center of ethnic nationalism in Turkey, and
have continuously been calling on Erdogan to be more aggressive in his war against the PKK
and Kurdish people. Given the ideology and politics of the Turkish military, we could
expect a coup government to be even more aggressive in repressing minorities and the left.
What we must do
We must stand with our comrades in Turkey at this time. If the coup succeeds, we can
expect increased repression and even more suspension of democratic processes. If the coup
fails, we can expect retaliation from the AKP and a harsh clampdown on any opposition to
the government. We should support the left-wing opposition to the coup that is already
being voiced. We should not support voices that try to justify a military coup that will
only replace one enemy of our class with another, but on an even more undemocratic foundation.
The only way forward is mass revolutionary struggle!
http://www.blackrosefed.org/coup-turkey-tyranny-tyranny-not-make-freedom/
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Message: 7
“We can’t reform white supremacy; we must destroy it. It is time to face this. We can
fight for reforms. We can fight for justice. But we will not end the police murders of
Black people and other innocent people until we end and destroy the system of white
supremacy, until we end the system built on the wealth created by genocide, murder and
slavery, and until we bring down the USA and the capitalist system, once and for all.”
---- Baton Rouge and St. Paul now are added to the list of cities where Black men are
executed by the police for the “crime” of being Black men. The list of men and women and
children of color murdered by the police across this country is long and growing longer.
The cops, primarily white cops, who carry out these executions are, in most cases, not
indicted or ever charged with a crime. Those who are charged, in most cases, are acquitted
or convicted only of a minor violation.
We all know the drill: it’s too complicated or it will take a long investigation or the
officer feared for his life or it was really an accident or, and most often, the killing
was justified. Philando Castile’s mother had it right: the police are hunting down and
executing Black people.
In the police executions of the past week, both men were armed. Alton Sterling in Baton
Rouge was selling his CD’s in the store parking lot and he had a gun on his person. He
didn’t pull the gun or attempt to use it, but the 911 call said he had a gun. The two cops
arrived, but he probably didn’t know why they were there. One cop went behind him and did
a violent take down, once the two cops had him on the ground, they put their guns on his
chest and his back and shot him point blank five times. What was clear is that the cops
were afraid of him. They could have said hands on your head and taken his gun and then
talked with him. Instead, the cops chose to take him down and murder him. Can anyone
believe that Alton Sterling would go for his gun, down on the ground with two cops on top
of him with guns drawn and where he had done nothing wrong?
In the suburb of St. Paul, Philando Castile was pulled over for driving while Black with a
taillight allegedly at issue. The cop approached, Philando said he had a permit to carry
and was carrying a gun. Again, the cop could have said put your hands on your head or on
the steering wheel and removed the gun and proceeded with the traffic stop. Philando had
his girlfriend and her four year old daughter in the car. Can anyone believe that he would
jeopardize his own life and theirs over a traffic stop? The cop was afraid of a Black man
with a gun, the cop shot him five times, again, point blank, as Philando attempted to
comply with the cop’s request for license and registration.
Philando Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, had the presence of mind and the courage
to use her cell phone to videotape the death of her boyfriend, while the cop/executioner
stood at the window with his gun still pointed at Philando . In Baton Rouge a brave person
in the parking lot captured the police execution of Alton Sterling on their cell phone and
spread it. In St. Paul, Diamond Reynolds, used her cell phone to live stream her
interactions with the killer cop and kept it going, asking for help while the killer cop
stood at the window of the car with gun still drawn. According to her, the other cops then
“consoled” the cop/executioner, before any attempts were made to assist Philando Castile
who the cop had shot five times and who was dying.
Police around this country are hunting down and executing Black people and people of
color. Police had stopped Philando Castile more than 50 times for traffic violations, for
driving while Black. In this final stop, allegedly for a broken taillight, Philando did
everything to cooperate. He told the cop he had a permit to carry and was carrying, he
attempted to comply with providing his driver’s license and registration. He was
cooperative and not a threat, but the cop executed him anyway. The cop was that afraid of
a Black man with a gun, even though it was a stop for a minor traffic violation and
Philando had his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter with him.
In Baton Rouge, Alton Sterling was selling CD’s in the store parking lot, which the store
owner said he did regularly. Apparently another man was harassing Alton Sterling, and Mr.
Sterling showed that he was carrying. The man then made a 911 call claiming falsely that
Alton Sterling was “brandishing” a gun. It appeared the cops arrived ready to kill Alton
Sterling. They approached, threw him to the ground and pumped five shots into his chest
and back point blank within a few seconds. Alton Sterling never had a chance. Philando
Castile never had a chance.
In both situations, the system of white supremacy, the history of white supremacy was at
work. The white cops assumed that the Black men involved were dangerous. The cops assumed
the Black men who were armed were a “threat” to the cops and that somehow the very fact
that the men were carrying made the cops fear for their lives. There is absolutely no
evidence that Alton Sterling or Philando Castile threatened the cops who killed them; the
opposite is true. Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had done nothing wrong and
attempted to comply with the police. These cops and the whole system of white supremacy
killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
This country, the USA, is built on white supremacy. From the early settlers stealing and
privatizing the land of the indigenous people and enslaving African people to do the work
on this land, Europeans used the philosophy of white supremacy to explain and defend
genocide and slavery. The great wealth created by stealing the land and turning it into
private property and by stealing African people from their homes and turning them into
slaves and private property is based on the philosophy of white supremacy, so that the
great wealth of the rulers and the billionaires in the USA was accumulated by
exterminating indigenous peoples and enslaving and exploiting African people.
We can’t reform white supremacy; we must destroy it. It is time to face this. We can fight
for reforms. We can fight for justice. But we will not end the police murders of Black
people and other innocent people until we end and destroy the system of white supremacy,
until we end the system built on the wealth created by genocide, murder and slavery, and
until we bring down the USA and the capitalist system, once and for all.
Two things stand out in these most recent executions. First, the cops who carried out the
executions brought all the accumulated assumptions of hundreds of years of white supremacy
with them to the encounters. These cops executed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at
the drop of a hat, in large part because of the assumptions of white supremacy which they
brought with them. That’s why it didn’t matter how much Mr. Sterling and Mr. Castile
cooperated or were not threatening; the problem was not Alton Sterling and Philando
Castile, the problem was the cops who killed them and the assumptions those cops brought
with them and the history and the continuing life of white supremacy.
Second the right bear arms depends on who is carrying the arms. The USA has this
constitution and this second amendment and people have the right bear arms and blah blah
blah. But like most everything else in this country, the constitution is based on and
built on explicit white supremacy. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were armed and had
the right to be armed. Half of the countryside is armed. Philando Castile was licensed to
carry. None of it mattered. They were Black men with guns, and the cops killed them for it.
How many time have we seen white folks carrying guns and open carry and armed
demonstrations and actions and how understanding the police and the government are. The
cops or federal agents don’t kill them, they talk with them. They leave them alone. They
appreciate their second amendment rights. It’s a different story for Black people with
guns. Not so much on the second amendment stuff. That doesn’t apply. The cops kill Black
people with guns and discuss it later or don’t discuss it at all.
We have to learn these lessons and act. This system of police executing Black people, this
system of white supremacy and exploitation cannot be reformed away. It must be overthrown
and brought down. It takes all of us to do this. This system attacks and kills all of us.
This system destroys the land and the water, it kills our people and our children, it
fills its prisons with our people, it drives people from their homes, it fails to educate
and value our children.
And the system and those who support it and those who profit from it will do anything to
save the system and protect their wealth. The rulers and the billionaires will do anything
to defend themselves and their system by trying to scapegoat other people as the source of
the problem. That’s what is going on now as the rulers and their media outlets struggle to
squash our resistance and convince people that the police are not the murderers, the
police are the victims. We’ve seen it all before. The rulers want people to focus on race
war or war against immigrants or war against Muslims. We understand this is class war, and
our class, the working class, includes the great mass of people and people of all colors
and nationalities and religions and from all parts of the world.
Our goal now must be to build the revolutionary movement and revolutionary organizations
which can bring down this system, destroy the system of white supremacy and capitalist
exploitation and end the USA and capitalism once and for all. Against white supremacy and
murders and calls for race wars and wars against immigrants and building walls, we say
unite our forces and tear it down. Unite our forces to destroy white supremacy. Unite our
forces to bring down the government and the state and the police and the courts and all of
it. We say no nations and no borders, and we mean it. Our future is with the alliance of
all working people, and the working people of all nations, races and regions, uniting to
end this system and to build a new future.
Against the police and the state,
For Anarchy and Revolution.
http://m1aa.org/?p=1194#more-1194
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Message: 8
We are excited by the news that a new radical social centre opened 6th June in Squat City,
Grangegorman named the Violet Autonomous Space (after Violet Gibson, the Irish woman who
once shot at Mussolini!). ---- Dublin has quite a long history of social spaces, going
back at least to 2004 when the Seomra Spraoi project began, but has been without a
dedicated social centre since the Barricade Inn closed last year. These kinds of
non-profit, autonomous spaces provide an important and welcome contrast to the kinds
provided by the capitalist system (pubs, coffee shops, etc.) where people tend to be
unwelcome unless they have money and are willing to spend it, and those using the space
generally have no input into how its run or what goes on there.
The Violet will be autonomous, run by the people who use the centre, and completely
separate from the rest of the Grangegorman Squat. As a brand new social centre it's likely
that it needs lots of things to help realise its potential, but what it needs most of all
is people. People to get involved and help out, and people to just hang out there and use
it as a social space. To start off, the Violet Autonomous Space will be open Mondays from
6 to 10 pm. Why not drop by and check it out.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/violet-autonomous-space-dublin-grangegorman
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Message: 9
5, 6 and 7 April 2016 stood at Pau a top offshore oil, bringing together the major players
in the extraction of oil at sea, invited by Total. An event that could not go unanswered.
---- Several organizations had called to block and disrupt the summit of offshore oil held
early April in Pau, mainly Nonviolent Action COP21 (ANVCOP21) alternatiba, 350.org,
Friends of the Earth, Attac France, Bizi! Emmaus Pau Lescar Ocean Nation, Surfrider
Foundation, Christians United for earth ... this call is one of the suites against the
COP21-summit, as the organizers networks met there, and it's also the first mass action
related global warming taking place in France since. ---- And nearly 500 activists
gathered es on a camp at Emmaus Lescar-Pau Village for seven days. The program features
several non-violent actions: activists handcuffed and militant-es at the bargaining table,
lying-es front cars of delegates, blocking a 5 star hotel with the summit participants ...
For the radical non-violence is brandished as a strategy by the organizers, including
members of ANV COP21 that make it a workhorse. One objective of this strategy is to enable
everyone to participate in actions - thus we saw a man in a walker brave the large police
presence, alongside other activists determined es - and therefore massify of participation
in such events, to increase the capacity of "nuisance" of the movement. It also explains
that the top lock was communicated six weeks before the meeting, despite the certainty of
facing heightened security measures.
500 000 liters of fuel in a stream
This will open activism everyone has paid off: many participants conducted their first
actions. Training was set up in the village, on
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Extraction-offshore-Un-sommet
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Message: 10
We hereby wish to express our solidarity with the Black working class in the United
States, who are currently experiencing heavy repression against their long struggle for
social justice. ---- For far too long racism has been used by the bourgeoisie to divide
the working class, with the violence exercised by the American police force as a cruel
example of just how brutal it is in its implementation. Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric
Garner, and Philando Castile are just a few of the hundreds of Black Americans whose lives
have been taken in recent years. So far, in 2016 alone, more than 500 Black people have
been murdered by the American police. 500 citizens killed by the state that claims to
protect them, with less than a handful of police officers facing any repercussions.
Additionally, the people killed are constantly being dehumanized and demonized by the
liberal media in order to maintain the system of racial oppression, in which the Black
community is suffering. The victims of police violence are portrayed as dangerous or
unreliable, with any possible previous crimes or even unflattering photographs being dug
up and used in reporting. State violence is being either neglected, de-contextualized, or
justified by bourgeois media. State and Capital, working intimately together on the
expense of Black lives.
The movement that has risen up against these brutal injustices, the Black Lives Matter
movement, has our sincere support. We hope that one day, the American Black working class
will be free of the burden that racism puts upon them, as well as from the economic system
in which it thrives. No justice, no peace.
In solidarity,
The International Committee of the Swedish Anarcho-Syndicalist Youth Federation
http://www.suf.cc
For further reading on the movement; visit http://blacklivesmatter.com/
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Message: 11
On Saturday 9 July in the Polish capital held various protest actions against NATO, held
in connection with the NATO summit. The organization of protests were also involved
anarchists or Stop War Initiative. ---- Warsaw Anarchist Federation held an event at
Constitution Square in the work of Food Not Bombs. Handing out food there and flyers, hung
the banners , "War is the only entertainment of the rich, participating poor" and "Neither
Washington nor Moscow". ---- "NATO was founded in response to the rising power of the
Soviet Union: the Alliance must defend capitalism and democracy before an expected Soviet
aggression. That was the theory. In practice, however, the alliance from the outset to
support regimes that kill political opponents, and were carried out genocide against
social reforms, " said one of the anarchists.
The main demonstration on Saturday was organized by Stop the War Initiative. Then
participated in various leftist and anarchist organizations and foreign activists from
different countries. Liberals unusual was the presence of such organizations as the party
Raz (Together), Krytyka polityczna and others, located under their influence.
Demonstrators walked past the US Embassy, Canada, France and Germany. Before the march
began, police prevented people to get to the place, and perlustrovala them.
Source:
http://cia.media.pl/warszawa_protesty_anty_nato
http://www.afed.cz/text/6486/polsko-proti-nato
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