Today's Topics:
1. iwa-ait: The legal repression continues in Serbia
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarchist-federation.gr: Solidarity with the arrested Kostas
Sakkas and Mario Seisidis (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. International of Anarchist Federations ALIVE & KICKIN' 4-7
August 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, anarchist-federationHands off the squats (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL n° spécial -
documentary, "Reclus, the passion of the world," Nicolas Eprendre
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. International of Anarchist Federations: CONTEMPORARY
ANARCHIST ORGANIZATION IN TURKEY, BLACK HOLE (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Chile: LIBERTARIAN GESTA - DECLARATION AUGUST 8 (ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL n° special - 80 years
ago, 1936: Spain between war and revolution (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. The old world our heels and we can not let us reach.
Interview on the Red and Black newspaper. (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The case against a group of people accused of having attacked the Greek Embassy in
Belgrade has gone on for 7 years already. On July 25, a new chapter in this grotesque
process opened when judge Goran Ramic presented a new sentence, convicting four of the
defendents and acquitting one. Ratibor Trivunac was sentences to an 8 month suspended
sentence for 3 years, Ivan Vulovic, Sanja Dojkic and Ivan Savic were condemned to six
months suspended for 2 years. Tadej was aquitted. This is not the end of the case, since
we will appeal this farse until the end, until all the "Belgrade Six" are completely
cleared of all the charges. ---- We remind people that on September 3, 2009, six people
(four of which are members of ASI) were detained on the suspicion that on August 25, 2009,
at 3AM, they painted a circle A – a symbol of the anarchist movement - and threw 2
„Molotov cocktails” at the Greek Embassy. The six were detained during the night and were
kept in custody for 6 months. The then Prosecutor, Slobodan Radovanovic, personally
intervened to ask that charges be added of " international terrorism".
The Prosecutor tried to implicate all of ASI with the intention of declaring it a
"terrorist organization" in the frame-up of the "Belgrade Six". Thanks to strong
international pressure, acts of public support and the echo of the case in the media, they
decreased efforts to implicate ASI. The Tribunal decided to release the anarchists during
the first trial in February 2010 and on June 16, 2010, the Supreme Tribunal judge
Dragoljub Gerasimovic asked decided that the accused should be aquitted of all the
charges. But this was not the end, but the beginning of a political trial that is soon
entering its 8th year.
In April 2011, ASI launched a campaign against NATO and in response they would organize an
event planned from 13-15 of June. The first protest was scheduled in from of Sava Center
in Belgrade. This peaceful protest was surrounded by police, they were insulted and plain
clothes police brutally detained 8 people, 3 of which were members of ASI. Immediately
after prohibiting the protests, members of ASI were harrassed and detained. This media
lynch included calls for the Appeal Court to overturn the acquittal of the Belgrade Six.
It is not surprising that less than two weeks later, the Appeal Tribunal accepted the
appeal of the Prosecutor to overturn the acquitaal and return the case to the lower court
for a new trial.
The political circumstances that accompanied the process continue in 2015. We will not be
intimidated or remain passive. We will continue to participate in social struggles and
advocating the creation of a combative union movement of mutual aid and direct action to
fight against the State and Capitalism.
ASI Secretariat
(translation shortened from the original text)
http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/legal-repression-continues-serbia
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Message: 2
Communication from the Anarchist Federation for the arrest of anarchist Kostas Sakkas and
Marios Seisidis. - With great sadness we learned that anarchist Kostas Sakkas and Marios
Seisidis few days ago fell into the hands of the police. - Immediately, the minister
Pro.Po. Nick Toskas, rushed to congratulate the ELAS for its success, following the
congratulations for the evacuations of three occupations in Thessaloniki. - In turn, the
mainstream media and parastatals congratulate the authorities for the arrest of
"terrorists". ---- It seems that for Syriza, the security forces are making great
achievements in the "crime" field: the evacuation of the occupied Senate last April,
beatings and imprisonments immigrants to the recent evacuation of three immigrant housing
squatting in Thessaloniki and the arrest of Sakka -Seisidi the repressive work of SYRIZA
has nothing to envy that of ND and PASOK. The state is here and SYRIZA declares
unequivocally "present" as must make every bourgeois political power.
The world of the race knew from the outset that he had nothing to gain from the left
management of the state, but also nothing more to fear. The persecution against militants
and the attack to those who resist was, is and will be part of the policy of the state and
capital, to the struggles of our class to flatten.
Force arrested
Solidarity with political prisoners
anarchist Federation
info@anarchist-federation.gr
http://anarchist-federation.gr
fb: https://www.facebook.com/anarxikiomospondia2015/
twitter: https://twitter.com/anarchistfedGr
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Message: 3
Official part of the third day of IFA congress has finished. More interesting topics and
proposals were disscussed during the day. Some of this were: Anti-nationalist strategy,
fight for the city and migration. Statement against state/religious/racist terrorism was
written and some changes of the IFA associative pact and decision-making proccess
ratified. ----In the evening public/open part of the Congress starts with debate on
anarchist internationalism and struggle with comrades from Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador,
Turkey and others... Later in the evening Punk Choir from Leipzig and dj party. ----
Tommorow last day of the Congress with much work still to be done. But we're in shape,
productive and ready.
Second day of the Tenth Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA)
is underway.
Yesterday guest organizations from Greece (APO), Turkey (DAF), Cuba, El Salvador, Chille,
New Zealand, Portugal and Azerbaidjan presented the situation in their countries and state
of the anarchist movement.
Today this topics are disscused (beside internal organizational issues): war and
nationalism, federalism, migration, repression and terrorism. More workshops to follow.
IFA GETTING STRONGER...
#IFAcongress2016
The tenth Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA) started this
morning in Frankfurt, Germany with ratification of new memberships. Anarchist Federation
of Mexico (FAM), Local Anarchist Federation of Valdivia (FALV, Chille) and Liga Anarquista
(Brasil) have joined and are now part of IFA. We want to welcome them in the International!
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalOfAnarchistFederations/
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Message: 4
At dawn Wednesday 27/7, three housing squats refugees and immigrants in Thessaloniki
accepted the police attack. - Within a few hours the occupation of the Orphanage at Ano
Touba, the occupation Hurriya in Charles Diehl Road and the occupation in Mandalideio
building evacuated in Victory Avenue. - Behind the cops came directly and demolition crews
so suppressive mechanism to ensure that their occupation Orphanage will be completely
destroyed. - At the same time, all three shocks were accompanied by complaints of owners
probably after police: prompt from Thessaloniki Metropolis for the occupation in the
orphanage, from private to Hurriya and from the University for the occupation Nike. ----
Let us dwell a little on the attitude of the Metropolis and Aristotle: ---- The orphanage
was housed in a building of the church Inc. and the first time he was attacked. A few days
after the occupation of the building, a small number of priests gathered outside the
courtyard of the occupation in order to push their comrades and comrades to leave the
building. When that did not work, a text signed "Residents Committee Toumba" made his
appearance, kataferomeno against the occupation, and she appeared PPC to cut the stream,
which was prevented by the squatters.
Of course, what care the Church was-business. The orphanage building had been granted to
it by the Ministry of Health for 25 years, the first stated purpose to repair and to serve
as a care home chronic sufferers. Shortly afterwards, the Ministry extended the lease to
50 years and gave the deadline church to operate the building two years while in case of 5
years demolition. After the evacuation of the occupants for the first time (summer 2013)
the church was not repaired the building, proving that the only solution for the part of
the "recovery" of the "fillet" in Toumba center was demolished. For this purpose, the
church managed to not declare the building listed by the Ministry of Culture, while the
loan from the Municipality license for the largest possible building conditions laid down
in Master Plan for the region. So, after four years the church had "forgotten" the
building returned lavra to "exploit" because it had already ensured that she would be
allowed to build a lucrative monstrosity five floors in place of the small two-story house
which was a living community of solidarity and match.
On the other hand, the deanery of Aristotle showed an early perturbed by the conduct of
the No Border Camp in academia. With hysterical calls in all directions, made every effort
to cause suppression of Camp. At the Internet days were full of reports of anthropomorphic
beasts that destroyed the university. Journalists entered secretly to photograph people to
sleep and did -effantastes to be honest effort to document with photos misokounimenes how
antrum lawlessness has become the AUTH (hardly anyone noticed their narkemporous
permanently lished at the entrances of the campus). The Dean of Law and Economics of
Aristotle after the organization issued a statement in which both listed all the "losses"
that had been in the building (to the last scratch) and also made it clear that this issue
had not been closed, as "the moral damage and critical attack the existence of Aristotle"
was "immeasurable" and so on.
Immediately after completion of the No Border, the whole operation in general and the
discharge of Victory occupation specifically, was the rematch of the Rector against the
"occupiers".
We state clearly that self-organized immigrant / twisted housing structures is our most
practical solidarity movement against the most oppressed section of our class.
The "left" government, that part seemed to be defending for decades rhetoric nuggets level
basic freedoms and democratic rights, among them those concerning migrants, aimed at
keeping the ability to self-reproduce in the movement back and draws policy goodwill
through fights that never gave.
Therefore, since these Eurocommunist ramolimenta seize the perennial parasitic presence
within the movements to emerge from the mire of absence policy and to establish themselves
as the new "improved" manager of the crisis, legitimizing their "negotiating" policy as
the best way towards the Eurozone policies, following the delivery of all their previous
predecessors, as was naturally expected. Thus, at the same time they make that cut as a
possible human treatment of refugees, highlight the overexertion of the armed forces on
the Aegean islands and fully aligned with the EU line. Maintain fully operational the
immigrant camps and the "reception centers" and "hosting" militarize the Coast Guard,
sustain the forces of Frontex in Evros, leave unconcerned Europe's convenient bellman -the
doulemporous- traffickers to roam the Sea, major shipping companies to sell in multiple
price tickets passenger refugees, munching properly the money of European funds for
refugee together with known rabble of philanthropists (as we say animal lovers) NGOs. at
the same time attack the self-organized immigrant housing structures and immigrants, as it
is obvious that their latest spoil the dominant narrative that dresses ideologically
lucrative business game that has been erected on the backs of immigrants: do not follow,
ie, the "correct" way of victimization and dehumanization of immigrants, not treat them as
the future docile workforce according to western government telling us owes thanks.
The displaced people of this world, refugees and immigrants, are flesh of our flesh. So
far from the notions of sovereignty, our solidarity is not trapped in the confines of an
assimilated charity but class and non-negotiable. It is the solidarity of all of us who
take the option to "divide our poverty" and stand away from state institutions and NGOs,
practically next to our class brothers, the downtrodden hell of a war that seems
increasingly close and a misery that seems to have no end in huge chunks of the planet. It
is solidarity that attacks on the sovereignty policies that create, reproduce and exploit
the war and immigration for the benefit of capital. It is solidarity that builds
structures created communities that are on the road struggling.
HANDS FROM KATALIPSEIS
SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS AND MIGRANT
COMMON locals GAMES AND IMMIGRANTS AGAINST STATE AND CHAPTER
anarchist Federation
info@anarchist-federation.gr
http://anarchist-federation.gr
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Message: 5
Nicolas Eprendre The film portrays an unusual personality, at once great traveler,
renowned scientist and man of conviction, a leading anarchist thinkers of the nineteenth
century: Reclus. ---- companions ---- You ask a man of good will, which is neither voting
nor candidate exposing yourself what are his views on the exercise of the right of
suffrage. ---- The time you give me is very short, but having about the electoral vote,
well clear convictions, I have to say can be formulated in a few words. ---- Voting is
abdicating; appoint one or more teachers for a short or long period, give up its
sovereignty. It becomes absolute monarch, constitutional prince or simply representative
having a small share of royalty, the candidate you wear to the throne or chair will be
your superior. You name the men who are above the law, since they are responsible for
drafting and that their mission is to make you obey.
Voting is being duped; is to believe that men like you suddenly gain, the tinkling of a
bell, the power to know everything and understand everything. Your agents have to
legislate on everything, matches to warships, the weeding trees to exterminate the red or
black tribes, it seems that their intelligence grows by reason of the immensity of the
task. History teaches that the opposite occurs. The power has always distraught, the
parlotage always stupefied. In the sovereign assemblies, mediocrity inevitably prevails.
Vote means evoking treason. No doubt, the voters believe in the honesty of those to whom
they give their votes - and perhaps have it right on the first day, when candidates are
still in the fervor of first love. But every day has its day. When the environment
changes, man changes with him. Today, the candidate bows to you, and may be too low;
tomorrow he will recover and maybe too high. He begged the votes, it will give you orders.
The worker, now against Master, can it remain what it had before getting the favor of the
boss? The fiery Democrat he not learn to kowtow when the banker deign to invite her to her
office, when the kings servants do him the honor of the talk in the corridors? The
atmosphere of these bodies is unhealthy to breathe, you send your agents in a corrupt
environment; do not be surprised if they come out corrupted.
So do not abdicate, so do not put your for men necessarily incapable and future traitors.
Do not vote! Rather than entrust your interests to others, defend them yourselves; instead
of taking lawyers to propose a future mode of action, action! Opportunities abound to men
of good will. Blame others responsible for his conduct, is to lack courage.
I greet you from my heart, comrades.
Reclus.
The Passion of the world runs the course and the work of Reclus, French geographer and
anarchist (1830-1905).
Nadar's photographs convey to us a good-natured look and acute. The voice of Carlo Brandt
gives life to the pages that combine poetry and humor, scientific and political thought.
Hélène Sarrazin (biographer), Kenneth White (writer), Philippe Pelletier and Federico
Ferretti (geographers), stand turns the figure of a man who is close to us, and whose
analyzes are echoes ours at the beginning of XXI century .
With Carlo Brandt
Director: Nicolas Eprendre
Image: Nicolas Rideau
Music: Oliver Cahours
Editing: Christine Bouteiller
A coproduction: Antoine Martin Production - Groupe Galactica - Bip tv
With support from the Pôle Image Haute-Normandie and the National Film Centre
buy the film
http://sanchoetcompagnie.fr/index.php/2016/04/03/elisee-reclus-la-passion-du-monde-2/
http://rutube.ru/video/ce25efad21e1675e31526834fc641d87/?ref=logo
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Elisee-Reclus-la-passion-du-monde
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Message: 6
Conversation with guests from Turkey will get acquainted with the new situation in Turkey
following the imposition of a state of emergency in the country. Emphasis will be placed
on the recent history of the anarchist movement in the territory of Turkey and the
activities of organizations DAF. (Devrimci anarsist Faaliyet / Revolutionary Anarchist
Action). ---- DAF has over recent years involved in many different struggles, such as
moving around Gezi Park and as an important support to the Kurdish revolutionary process
in Rojavi and Bakurju. They participated in assisting refugees in the border area with
Syria, and are included in various activities in the field of labor issues antimilitarizma
ecology. They are organized in high schools, faculties, women and workers' organizations.
Important activities are also fighting against patriarchy and support LGBTI movement. For
many years they developed various practices of collective economy and everyday life, and
self-organization.
In the recent past, in 2010 and 2012, the Turkish state has led political process to DAF-u
(consider them as a possible terrorist organization, but in both cases the processes were
abandoned). DAF is now due to new political movements in the country, once again the
target of new investigations, making their operation is severely hampered.
Among other things, the country a few days ago prevented the escape of their longtime
newspaper Meydan.
_DAF:
http://anarsistfaaliyet.org/
https://www.facebook.com/anarsistfaaliyetorg
_Internacionalna Anarchist Coordination of solidarity:
http://ifa.org
_Priporocamo Event:
Tuesday, August 9, 2016, at 21:30 @Avtonomna Rog, Ljubljana: About the situation in Turkey
today on Transform:
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Message: 7
Today came to light an extremely worrying and detrimental to the future of the student
movement, their demands and their organization news: Camila Rojas (President Date, Left
Autonomous.) And Javiera Reyes (Vice Date, JJ.CC .) will go tomorrow to the education
commission of the chamber of deputies to exhibit next to Cefech (Center for Studies Date).
---- We denounce the d ecision of these two characters, who have chosen to go over the
decisions taken by the student movement at full both the Date and the Confech; movement
throughout the year has emphasized the harmful and unproductive to sit to have any kind of
interaction, dialogue or discussion with the executive government tables. With these
decisions, obviously they respond to their own political interests and their logic of
corrupt and bought games only desvalidan further his speeches, wear our movement and
remaining forces in working to defend our demands, to transform the system more than mere
patches solutions, useless and unsatisfactory reforms scholarships. It is a situation very
serious, since it seems that seized the moment of recession mobilization activities to
defend their own interests, which at recent meetings of the Confech had been quite clear,
and they are reaching extremes as corrupt as meet under the same government that has no
intention of really consider our counterproposals, requirements, and historical claims
with the seriousness they deserve.
We express our repudiation, as Libertaria Gesta this practice and condemn any
representative who is deaf to the decisions taken at the grassroots. We condemn this
action so typical of the neoliberal oligarchs who subject us every day, repudiate this
absurd politicking that we only splits and removes legitimacy out.
We want to make the call to defend our agreements, not to let them continue passing
machine from addresses Confech from any executive board from any puppet government, and we
begin truly to organize horizontally, protecting our own needs and raising our demands
consistently, without compromise or allow these corrupt practices intruding into our space
construction of a revolutionary horizon.
Libertarian Gesta
August, 2016
https://gestalibertaria.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/declaracion-8-de-agosto/DECLARACIÓN 8 DE
AGOSTO
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Message: 8
When the Spanish Civil War began in July 1936, there were not two, but three camps:
fascists, republicans and revolutionaries. The question was: which of the three should
prevail over the other two? By force of circumstances, the CNT-FAI had to ally with the
Republican government to face Franco. But has not she been duped? Alexander Schapiro
details the errors. ---- Less than a year after the fascist uprising and the workers'
revolution who replied, Alexander M. Schapiro (1882-1946), militant anarchist and
syndicalist, published in The unionist battle of May 28, 1937 an article entitled "War or
revolution. " ---- After the week of the barricades in Barcelona, he criticizes the lack
of preparation and the candor of the CNT to the imperatives of a revolution to build and
consolidate. It also discusses the repeated capitulations Officer of the Iberian
anarcho-syndicalist Central.
Alexander Schapiro (1882-1946)
Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam (1907) in the Spanish Revolution, Schapiro was a network
node and an organizer of the international libertarian movement.
Schapiro is one of the leading figures of the international libertarian movement of the
early twentieth century. Banished from Bolshevik Russia, he fled to Germany and then to
France where he was actively involved in the construction of the International Workers
Association (IWA), founded in 1922 in Berlin. In the 1930s, he joined the revolutionary
syndicalist CGT and actively collaborates in the newspaper Le Combat unionist.
His article discusses the strategic mistakes that condemn the revolutionary process.
From autumn 1936, the entrance to the governments of the Catalan Generalitat and the
Madrid anarchist ministers; Then, in April 1937, the tacit complicity of those
"comrades-ministers" when is promulgated the decree of militarization of militias which
ended the idea of a revolutionary army under the control of workers' organizations;
Finally, the bloody events of May 1937 in Barcelona who see the activists of the CNT, the
Libertarian Youth, the Friends of Durruti and Poum clash with the forces against
revolutionaries (primarily the Stalinist PSUC).
As the fighting raged, the anarchist ministers Federica Montseny and Garcia Oliver, famous
figures of the CNT-FAI, called their comrades to surrender and to fraternize with their
opponents. The cup is full, hence the acerbic tone of Alexander Schapiro.
Government participation conceived as a means to control impulses against-revolutionaries
"partners" Republicans is judged before the altar of history. The "comrades-ministers"
have controlled anything. By their presence in the offices of Caballero and Companys, by
their repeated calls for "responsibility" and "calm" they made themselves accomplices
strategic setbacks and political capitulations.
Jeremiah (AL Gard)
Days May 1937
After clashes between revolutionaries and Stalinists in Barcelona from 2 to 7 May 1937,
the Republic openly against rocks in the revolution: the Poum is prohibited, the CNT under
surveillance, hundreds of activists were imprisoned or murdered with the help of NKVD
(later KGB).
Alexander Schapiro
"WAR OR REVOLUTION"
Combat Unionist, May 28, 1937
Training in Valencia a Ministry of Republican concentration exclusion, by name, the UGT
and CNT, is actually a clever maneuver to get rid of the CNT, because there continues to
CGU be represented - and how! - By three Socialist ministers and two Communist ministers.
We believe, moreover, that the CNT should have taken the lead. For committing a very
serious offense requiring government involvement does not mean that, by continuing to
deepen, make a virtue.
This fundamental error had been closely following the events of 19 July 1936. The CNT had
thought she would win the revolution in Catalonia and Spain participating ministerially,
and in all other areas, with the bitterest enemies of revolution. It has, however, forced
the CNT to move away from this revolution for which it had done so many physical and moral
sacrifices.
"CNT - July 19, 1936"
The victory of the insurgent people on the military coup in Barcelona remain a mythical date.
On 19 July, the watchword was: War against Fascism and Social Revolution in the back.
Agrarian and industrial collectivization, took an admirable rise among the workers and
peasants. The organization of militias under the control of CNT guaranteed the armed
people the sovereignty of the working class and peasantry in the conduct of the fight
against fascism. The creation of the Economic, independent of political influence, allowed
the proletariat extension, to its ultimate limits, a temporary collectivization, preparing
the way for a total socialization of the land and the means of production.
The revolution marched to victory, despite the enormous difficulties that it inevitably
encounter all sides: on the front and rear.
Complicity of the CNT Direction
The participation of the CNT to the governments of Barcelona and Madrid immediately
changed the face of things. Under the pretext of concentrating all efforts on the armed
struggle against fascism, the bourgeois state and elements of these governments - which
are, after all, against the representatives of the CNT, an overwhelming majority -
required the slowdown revolutionary measures that people get along finalize.
CNT bent these requirements: it thus fulfilled the conditions of the cooperation pact.
First it was the militarization of the militias which led, of course, to their complete
abolition. The proletariat had not in his hands the main weapon that ensured against the
traitors of tomorrow. It was then, with the consent or on the initiative of a minister of
the CNT, which was created a Ministry of National Economy duplicating the Economic, live
organ of the proletariat. The latter had to pack on the same order of anarchist minister.
"Fusion of all militias in the People's Army"
Founded in October 1936, the People's Army is supposed to rein in the anti-fascist
militias and place them under the command of professional officers. She did not show more
efficient.
The CNT was returning gradually in the legislative abandoning furrow every day, the great
revolutionary road, not by the will of its allies who were in the majority. "The first
war, then the revolution" became the watchword need for the so-called demands of the
moment, but which actually were the conditions imposed by the bourgeoisie and by
authoritarian socialist collaboration of the CNT.
This bent again these requirements on behalf of the cooperation pact. There remained, in
short, to make war and to forget the revolution. But the war was beyond the borders of
Catalonia; it was the government of Valencia who was responsible. But here, the levers
were not in the hands of the CNT? They starved the Aragon front - the keystone of the
entire war - because they did not give the anarchists who held that front arms that could
serve the revolution?
So the situation is this: in Catalonia, where the CNT was, in the opinion of all the
possibilities of a revolutionary grassroots development of libertarian board, the
revolution was strangled voluntarily not to impair driving the war. In the rest of
Republican Spain, the war against fascism was, first, a war against the CNT, since the key
to victory, Huesca and Zaragoza, was deliberately ignored.
so is being deliberately want to lose the war as it was deliberately suppressed the
revolution. Besides, the government Negrin-Prieto, far from being a government of war to
the end, turns out to be already a government mediation, first, then peace. The events of
May 4 and 5 in Barcelona hastened the advent of this government against revolution.
But the fault lies with those who, on May 5, have appealed to revolt anarchists to lay
down their weapons. The government against revolutionary Negrin was preceded by an
anti-revolutionary appeal of the popular front in Barcelona. For if that call had not been
made, we would have had in Barcelona the revolution.
Mysticism War
Today the conduct of the war falls to the background of our concerns. The stifled
revolution in Barcelona on May 5, any victory on the fronts can otherwise only end with
the complete defeat of any new revolutionary attempt in the aftermath of such a victory.
We are today - if we do not want to one day be treated as traitors to the revolution - to
the urgent need to proclaim high: only the revolution, and it alone, will decide the fate
of the war.
"July 1936: They shall not pass! - July 1937: we will! "
The militarization of the militias within the People's Army: the Republic promises victory
of Franco; she cares especially to curb the revolution.
But we run with our friends in Spain, a new wave of mysticism: the mystique of war. Before
19 July, it was the mystique of revolution that prevented our comrades to understand that
a revolution is organized. Unable to realize the psychological moment of July 19, they
were replaced by the mystique of war. And like any fanatical mysticism, we are also today,
as before 19 July, before a reasoning disability. In the issue of May 4, the Solidarirad
Obrera, the organ of the Catalan CNT, published the headline the following call:
War, comrades! Par- above all the miseries of the back, above the unworthy politics, above
party competition, there is war! Hard days are preparing for Catalonia that only the unity
of all be overcome. Comrades: war, war, war!
The unity of all that has been made impossible by the complete and utter betrayal of all
contracting parties of the pact of July 19, with the exception of the CNT, calling the
Soli is rather that of a voice crying in the desert and the people themselves no longer
understand.
The time is now to revolutionary audacity. Above all the dangers of a break, all the
dangers of a sharp break with politicians, above all the obstacles sown by socialist
traitors, Communists and Republicans, above all the risk of civil war on the fronts and
back, there is a revolution!
And the hard days ahead Catalonia will be overcome by the strong will of the proletariat
of town and country to realize its only salvation today as it should have been yesterday,
as it will certainly tomorrow: revolution, revolution, revolution!
Alexander Schapiro
1936-2016:
NEWS OF THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
On 19 July 2016, it will make 80 years that "armed people" of Barcelona and the main
cities of the Iberian Peninsula, routed the military coup of Francisco Franco.
Although the epilogue in 1939 of what would become the Spanish war is painful, it still
represents for us an important event. Indeed, at least for several months (July 36-August
1937), the revolutionary character, under the fold of the red and black flag of the CNT is
undeniable.
Exhibition "libertarian revolution"
Far commemoration of past times, our ambition is to revert to the Spanish revolution in
order to learn to enrich our present militant practice.
It is in this sense that we have decided to propose to the autumn 2016 and winter 2017, a
series of public meetings in cities where the AL groups are present.
On this occasion, beyond films and debates on this subject, it will be possible to
discover an exhibition entitled "libertarian revolution". It was produced and we have been
given by our compañeros and compañeras of the CGT from the Spanish State.
This exhibition, rich in 26 panels, covers various topics, among others: the agrarian
collectivisation, workers' management, women and the movement of Mujeres Libres, the
anti-authoritarian educational experiences, another cinema and theater, the publications
of the CNT ISP, exile ...
Jeremiah (AL Gard)
THIRTY YEARS OF REVOLUTION
AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
February 1902: General strike in Barcelona.
July 1909: "Tragic Week" in Barcelona. Running libertarian educationalist Francisco Ferrer.
October 1910: CNT Foundation (see "1910: CNT birth of a legend" in G No. 200 of November 2010)
March 10, 1923: Assassination of the leading Catalan anarchosyndicalist Salvador Segui by
gunmen employers. The Nosotros group, consisting of figures of the Iberian libertarian
movement (Francisco Ascaso, Buenaventura Durruti, Garcia Oliver), multiplied retaliation.
September 1923: Claiming the anarchist agitation, military coup and dictatorship of Miguel
Primo de Rivera.
1927: In a CNT ordered to underground, creation of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)
supposed to bring together the most radical libertarian union center elements.
April 14, 1931: Proclamation of the Republic.
January 1933: Unrest in Catalonia and Andalusia. Massacre of the Andalusian village of
Casas Viejas .
October 1934: Insurrection miners of the CNT and the UGT and Town of Asturias. The army
led by Francisco Franco repressed the movement. Spain then had 30,000 political prisoners.
February 1936: Victory of the Popular Front in general elections. Political prisoners
amnesty law.
Uprising and social revolution
July 18, 1936: the army in Morocco uprising spreads to the peninsula.
July 19, 1936: Failed uprising (coup) in the main cities of the country except Seville and
Zaragoza, although strongholds of the CNT.
Summer-Fall 1936: Departure of the workers' militias (principally the CNT-FAI and Poum)
organized columns to the Aragon front. Establishment of the Central Committee of
Anti-Fascist Militias of Catalonia. Collectivisations wave of land and industry in
Catalonia, Aragon and the Levant.
September 25, 1936: Creation of the Council of the Generalitat (Catalan Government) with
the participation of the CNT.
October 1936: creation of the Council of Aragon dominated by the CNT and drawing on
anarchist columns.
Priority to war
November 4, 1936: Largo Caballero form a new cabinet, dubbed the "second government of
Victory", which includes prominent members of the CNT such as Juan García Oliver
(Justice), Juan Lopez (Commerce), Federica Montseny (Health) and Joan Peiró (Industry).
April 1937: militarization of Decree militias.
2-7 May 1937: "Week of barricades" in Barcelona. Activists of the CNT, the Poum, the
Libertarian Youth and the group The Friends of Durruti confront the Stalinist PSUC. Garcia
Oliver called for calm. Italian libertarian Camilo Berneri and Francesco Barbieri executed
by NKVD agents.
June 1937: Prohibition of Poum and assassination by the Stalinists of Andres Nin.
August 1937: the against-revolution is victorious in the Republican zone. The Council of
Aragon is definitely dissolved. Joaquin Ascaso, its president, is imprisoned. SIM
creation, political police trained and supervised by the NKVD.
Defeat of the republic
July-November 1938: Battle of the Ebro and Republican debacle.
January 26, 1939: Fall of Barcelona. Franco's armies marched on the Ramblas. Start of
Retirada and escape to the French border for hundreds of thousands of refugee-es.
February 24, 1939: The French government recognizes the Franco regime. Marshal Pétain is
named ambassador of France in Spain.
March 28, 1939: Fall of Madrid.
Opening photo, a poster of the CNT-FAI: "Greed, militarism, war is fascism. Joining forces
for destruction. "
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José Luis Carretero Miramar (1971), professor, writer and lover of critical thinking, has
been a member of the Madrid social movements. ---- He was a member of the Board of Free
Association (ALA) and currently teaches training and career guidance in public schools.
---- He has published several books on the transformation of work, the consequences of the
crisis and the alternative economy, as well as a couple of volumes of narrative. ---- He
is a member of the Institute of Economics and Self Management (ICEA) and the union
Solidaridad Obrera. ---- José Luis, since the crisis of the 70s, especially in Europe and,
from 80 to global levels, have seen dispossession of essential services for the community,
delivered to the markets these essential services for life (health, energy, education,
care, environment, etc.) for the business and profitability, but what is the logic or
logic that capitalism has used to make this a universal fact?
The dynamics of dispossession of populations to generate surplus has always been present
in the DNA of the capitalist system. Capitalism started well, surrounding communal lands
and becoming impossible life in rural communities to generate a mass of free people of
their medieval bonds, and no more property than their workforce. A new class of people who
had no choice but to work in the factories of the wealthy.
The current cycle of accumulation by dispossession and privatization is deployed from the
crisis of the seventies. When it becomes problematic to obtain the rate of return needed
in the industry, the Capital seeks new business areas and develops strategies to
temporarily save the situation: the flexibility of labor and globalization,
financialization of the economy and the dispossession of the commons and privatizations.
The latter allow conversion into a profitable private business which was a social property
before, along with a form of indirect wage for the subaltern classes. New sources of
surplus are exploited.
This has been done on a global scale, because capitalism has deployed unquestioned way
throughout the globe. If no effective alternatives nowhere, and wealth is in few hands,
you can force governments and societies to assign, based on them compete with each other
by the imperative for society to not spoil the whole funding. Privatization usually come
associated with adjustment programs, "rescues", the "debt renegotiations," the
"memorandums of understanding" and other niceties, which can be imposed at different
levels (local, state, etc.).
If we agree that there are two logical, that of (private, of course) Market and logic of
Life (the common, of all people , as needed), and both two apparently have a "common goal,
which is none other to meet human needs , " how do you confront the reality of everyday
people, who daily have to be fed, warm, educated, be careful ...?
Keep in mind that real wealth, which consists not only of the goods necessary for life,
but also in all the services, care and essential for the development of individuals and
species cultural flows, occurs in common, in an increasingly socialized and interdependent
process. Nobody works alone. No one could live alone. Human beings are inherently social
beings. The common heritage is produced by the common people.
However, that common produced in common is colonized by the logic of accumulation and
private ownership in two main ways:
First by private ownership of the means of production, on behalf of the "free market"
which leads to the privatization of the social product. We produce in common, but the
product is a specific kind of gentlemen who, allegedly the work of a free market was never
really monopolize wealth.
And second, because nesting of production and social reproduction, concomitant with the
monopoly of the media, is imposed, in many ways, to the whole of social life, putting at
your service and setting it. So as we not dream our dreams, nor have the relationships we
could have, but only dream, eat and love what is functional to the process of accumulation
in private hands.
The alleged "market" which is nothing more than the visual and propaganda effect of the
monopoly of social power by a particular class of people, pouncing on the common people,
on workers, expropriating the wealth and life them and they produce and care, but also you
could imagine and create.
And what are the consequences on the primacy of one over the other? Improved life of
humanity? We are more or less dependent, ie we care better, we are less sick and diseased,
have more universal and adequate access to essential rights?
The primacy of the "market" that Free has not had nor has anything because since its
origin sits on the dispossession of the majority, the more often by extreme violence, has
built unlivable and degraded societies, not only the very survival of the species has come
to be endangered by the looming ecological devastation and the dimensions of militarism
and global violence, but also individuals can not develop their own potential.
It is a society of multiple daily violence, seated on earlier forms of oppression such as
patriarchy, which, in the hands of Capital, reach extreme limits.
It is dehumanized society plethoric Center and Periphery of misery, not only globally, but
in each of our cities. The society of the bodies of refugees on the beaches and youth who
lock themselves in their room without leaving for years, as in Japan.
The useful inventions, more or less liberating technologies, real health advances of the
last century, are not a product of capitalism, but of the struggle of humans against
superstition and conservatism. Capitalism all he has done is to appropriate them, turn
them into a source of private monetary benefit and redirecting them to their own ends,
often turning them into sources of suffering for the populations which sometimes could
have been instruments of a fuller life. Humans have ever invented, has always
investigated. They did not begin to do with capitalism, and do not stop after him.
In the State Spanish seems that the "battle for the public", ie recovery by public
institutions, both the central government and the regional and local, is something that
was in programs called "parties change "and their practices and their results, while
policies (in the forms and contents) which have been, and what are the prospects?
The results have been extremely limited, if not downright disappointing. In Madrid, for
example, it has abandoned the goal of redistricting street cleaning service, despite the
insistence of some councilors. But it is that Madrid have also abandoned other things
coming in the original program Carmena's candidacy as the formation of a municipal
banking. And the proposed debt audit of the City languishes. It will be the strategy of
"assault on the institutions" also has a glass ceiling, as we were told to give the
demonstrations clinched the 15-M.
The fundamental problem is that history can not be reversed. A new social democratic and
Keynesian welfare state and state regulation of capital was is not viable in the new
context of globalization and instant telecommunications. Disciplining capital is
impossible, limiting their field of action without knock them down, as was done in Europe
after World War II, is not feasible anymore.
Neoliberalism (the new strategies developed by the capital after the crisis of the
seventies, we talked about in the first question) was invented precisely to block that
possibility. The return of Keynes, that all progressive economists expected after the
onset of the crisis, is increasingly problematic. There are many papers signed, there are
many clauses in many bilateral and multilateral agreements on free trade, there are many
global players with higher billings governments, there are many transactions "shadow" out
of control. Around back it is simply impossible. And those who seek to manage capitalism
to repeat the alleged "human face" that only occurred in a particular area of the world,
for a few specific years, and under the threat of a concrete alternatives are finding the
limits of a radically transformed situation, requiring new and bold solutions.
Reversal of the privatized, commodified to the public, should be more than statism? Do you
think that the SSPP should not be owned (legal) of administrations, but all and all, of
the Community, and that subjects of rights (workers, individuals, unions, community
organizations ...) would have to review , decide and implement?
This is what I mean with "new and bold solutions." This is not to repeat the "spirit of
'45" and re-nationalize utilities. Not suffice, even if, in some places, you get to do.
States are now powerless against the pressures of global capital. Crowds have to intervene
in the battle.
The only way out of the devastation that threatens us is to create genuine common
institutions take charge of the services necessary for the survival of all. Something
other than the capitalist state, which has been built to defend the privileged classes.
New institutions where workers, neighbors and all those affected directly involved in the
management and decision-making.
Our ability to create and invent these new institutions will be elucidating much of the
future. The only way out of the devastation of senile capitalism is to start a process of
transition to a new type society where common institutions constitute the center. A new
libertarian socialism. It has to invent these new institutions, the new form of
community-community property to ensure the welfare of all, and the participation of all.
This is not a declarative question, it is not entangled with the "public" and "private"
categories of bourgeois law. It is to invent a new labor law, a new community-Community
law. New ways of operating in common what all is. democratic forms that give producers of
social wealth control over it, and also about their lives. Utilities that are serving the
public, not bureaucratic caste state or employees of Capital.
Let us not rob the public by privatization and transforming it into the ordinary,
inventing forms of participation and rules and checks and balances that guarantee.
Add and ends synthetically what you want ... ..
Today as yesterday, "the old world runs after our heels," and we can not let us reach. To
build the new we must make visible the curse of the old (violence, despair, dispossession
that is the society of Capital), but also what is missing for the new to come: the rules
of the common experiences reappropriation of the public, the widespread self-management.
What we have to do much, and yesterday it was too late.
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