Today's Topics:
1. [Spain] Hundreds of people go to Logroño streets to demand
an end to proceedings against the CNT militants By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - Free Trade:
Ceta, a treaty that will kill jobs (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - antifascism, Lyon: The
Plume noire vandalized by cathos-fascists (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. STATE IS RAPE- Anarchist Women organisation's call text
against the turkish state's new law attempts on sexual harresment
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Women collective protest anniversary of November 17
(gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - Anarchism in
Belgium (1): The Belgian libertarian movement must rebuild (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Alternative Libertaire - Day 80 of the Spanish
revolution, on 19 November in Marseille AL Marseille (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Greece, Patra: Event libertarian education ... in a
libertarian society By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. anarchist collective Oktana APO - Housing is a social good
and not a commodity (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. France, FA Communiqué after fascist attack against the
anarchist bookstore "La Plume Noire" (fr, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
More than 600 people attended this Saturday (12/11), the streets of Logroño, the
demonstration called by the "Platform Stop Represión La Rioja" to mark the "IV anniversary
of Shame" and recall the general strike of the events of 14 November 2012 and ask again
the withdrawal of cases against Jorge and Pablo, the CNT militants, arrested and charged
after that strike. ---- At 12, behind a banner that read "No to the case of 14N in
Logroño", the protesters began to march from the roundabout of Doctor Zubía, through the
Portales and Bretón street los Herreros to finish in Espolón shell. Along the way chanted
cries like "If you touch one, touch us all", "Against its repression, our resistance,"
"Stop police mounts" or "Freedom, freedom, detained for fighting."
At the beginning of Jorge march also took the floor, he is one of the accused who request
two years in prison for a public disorder offense. Jorge thanked the solidarity shown by
so many people who accompanied us today and said that "although he spent four years of
shame will not be silent and we will continue on the street because we have no fear."
Recalling ...
The facts for which Jorge and Pablo are accused back the general strike of 14 November
2012. As explained from the platform, "Jorge and Pablo participated in this journey and
the demonstration ended with an atmosphere of joy for the success of participation."
At that time, before the perplexity of the demonstrators produced a brutal attack of the
National Police and three trade unionists were arrested. Specifically, and after this
event, Pablo was charged with assault against authority, public disorder, 5 injuries and
one offense of injury, and Jorge a public disorder offense.
All in a moment, as noted by the Platform, Pablo "simply carried a sign when he was beaten
to the police car, accused of throwing a stone that initiate the attacks. However, we see
in the videos is a pink globe that led to the attack. " On the other hand, George was held
one day after the 14N. Jorge made a speech with the megaphone at the end of the
demonstration, "but his words are distorted to blame him for various crimes."
In addition, "when the inertia of the police attack, Jorge was not at the scene, after his
speech he left, I was going to work the night shift." Faced with such evidence, "and after
three years the Prosecutor asks him to two years in prison, not 9, as he had done before."
After the demonstration on Saturday, the "Platform Stop Represión La Rioja" also organized
a solidarity concert in the theater of the CNT, and Monday, November 14, at 19:30,
exhibited anti-prison documentary "Abajo los walls" with further discussion with the group
"La Tavaya" in the multipurpose room of Logroño Prefecture.
Video "El IF del 14N en Logroño": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kISyhCb4ks
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Message: 2
Not yet acquired, but already programmed for three months, the ratification of the CETA
will take place on 27 October, while the national parliaments should decide on 18. At the
time of writing, objections are no longer expect a blocking European decision. ---- We
remember that the signing of Ceta (free trade area with Canada) had made a forced march in
2014. Then the negotiations lasted, focusing on dispute resolution mechanism companies /
states and their famous courts Referees (ISDS) subservient to private interests. ---- Now
replaced by "over the investment," and yet, on some issues (agriculture), but not all,
they are supposed to make the virtuous and protective Ceta. But national governments rush
into stretchers, under pressure from social movements, it must be said.
On the Ceta, the parliaments of Belgium (Wallonia) and Austria believe put their veto, and
movements cling to this hope. In Germany, it was believed a rejection after the events of
17 September 2016 were held in the three countries, but the SPD (Social Democratic Party)
has finally adopted the agreement.
Ceta Tafta and even battle
Finally, the European authorities and national assemblies, defiance against the whole TTIP
(+ Tafta Ceta) results of legal remedies, such as when the European Commission wants to
apply the Ceta so "interim" from ratification alone European Parliament, and so even if
national parliaments are opposed. Should we believe in a trend reversal on the subject of
free trade agreements in general, France has requested this was stopping negotiations
Tafta (Europe / US zone)?
The opponents and opponents know that this bet is far from won. In France, it's obvious,
they bury the Tafta to better promote Ceta, while the spirit of the two systems is common.
The European Union pretends to be firm in the US, but it sets up other similar agreements
with Africa, so-called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). The one with Cameroon came
into force this summer, six were adopted in September with all of southern Africa. Are
they protecting the public interest? Even the European Committee on International Trade
said no, calling for ensuring the protection of society during the ratification process.
And there, no parliament opposes. There is a petition of 22,000 signatures, led by dozens
of associations across the country.
The European anti-Tafta movement mobilized honorably October 15 in several hundred cities,
persevering in its lobbying bodies (local authorities, MEP-es ...), his struggle citizen
information and mobilization for democracy, accumulating resources on agreements and their
consequences (Tafta leaks, independent studies such as the recent case of Tufts
University, who figure job destruction due to Ceta, antilobbies struggle Corporate Europe
Observatory or Attac). But the opposition still seems to have good meager forces against
the totalitarianism of trade it denounces.
Mouchette (commission ecology)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Libre-echange-Le-Ceta-un-traite
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Message: 3
Of broken glass, but no blessé.es ... The Lyon anarchist bookstore Black Feather suffered
collateral damage of a fundamentalist Catholic gathering. We will not let do. ----
Saturday, November 19, the anarchist bookstore Black Feather - by local addition of the
Coordination of Anarchist groups in Lyon - was attacked by twenty fascist on the sidelines
of a gathering of Catholic fundamentalists. The gathering heard oppose the conversion of
the Saint-Bernard church business center. ---- Obviously it was not, on their part, to
oppose an unnecessary urban project, but to get the management of this church is entrusted
to the Society of St. Pius X, that is to say, the Catholic fundamentalist faction founded
in 1988 by a visionary, Marcel Lefebvre . ---- The rally, banned by the prefecture, has
attracted some sixty participants, including various factions fascistoïdes - GUD, French
nationalist party and Identitaires, some wearing helmets and armed.
Since 2011, the Black Feather is set at 8, rue Diderot in Lyon.
After this sad performance, some of the demonstrators headed to the bookstore Black
Feather with the obvious will to fight. The présent.es libertarians have had time to
barricade themselves inside, but the place was still substantially damaged, its windows
had been completely shattered. Fortunately aucun.e blessé.e were reported.
This brutal attack is indicative of the feeling of impunity of the extreme right. Note
indeed that this gathering was held under the complacent eyes of the police, strangely
absent at the time of the attack of Black Feather, which is only reappeared after the
fact, suggesting once again which side it is positioned.
For the Croix-Rousse remains a popular area with many progressive places do not stay
isolé.es; organize the response. Alternative Libertaire participate in support
mobilisations to be held in the coming days.
In Lyon, as elsewhere, facing the fascist gangrene, class self-defense!
Alternative Libertaire, November 21, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lyon-La-Plume-noire-vandalisee-par
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Message: 4
Here is the text of comrades from Anarchist Women organisation about the last situation in
Turkey. We will share the news about the protests after the action today. H. ----Even
though the "sexual abuse" bill prepared by 6 deputies of AKP and proposed on November 17
is now withdrawn, it’s important to understand what it means for us women, this proposal
which have been confronted by the protests of women since it came up. The prepared bill
decreased the minimum age for sexual consent from 15 to 12 and aimed to lay the groundwork
for: impunity of harassment and rape perpetrators currently in court and in the future
criminal suits; exculpation of sex crimes; Acquittal of harassment and rape perpetrators
in case they marry the children that they have abused; exposure of girls to harassment and
rape at the age of 12 and the existence of child brides. Withdrawal of the bill this
morning on one hand became one of the most solid examples showing that we women become
free by resisting, and on the other hand showing the state politics of stalling.
Gender politics of state are beyond ignoring the identity and body of women and are shaped
by the aim to create the "conservative society". Bringing birth control to the agenda by
saying "it's a sin", banning abortion by saying "it's massacre", are of course population
politics on their own. But beyond this, all these politics are related with the aim of AKP
authority, creating and growing a conservative society.
The state which is interested in "conserving" the woman who delivers "a lot" or the woman
who is compelled by the abortion ban to deliver after being pregnant by rape, on one side
conserves the "suppressed" identity of woman and one the other side conserves the
authority of man, through population and body politics against women.
The state which bans the streets today using State Of Emergency as an excuse, is executing
assault politics directly against women struggle, by closing down woman associations,
arresting women who struggle against patriarchy and torturing women. The state which bases
its existence on its masculinity, and the laws of the state, becomes a total attack on our
life, the women's life.
Even though the state first proposed new laws to acquit harassment and rape perpetrators,
and then withdrew them later, it is attacking our lives by executing all its politics
about women. We Anarchist Women, know that our emancipation is neither related to laws
that the state proposes and later withdraws, nor its punishments, nor its alleged justice.
We sure know that the "sexual abuse" bill will be revised and proposed some time later and
be brought to the agenda again with new proposals that aim to assault our lives.
Therefore we emphasize once again that the only way of our existence against the state,
which sustains its existence by destroying our lives, is through us being organized and
our struggle. Against the state with its laws, bans and alleged justice, which expects us
to beg him, we are resisting and becoming free to create a new life; we are calling all
women to struggle until we destroy patriarchy and state.
Long Live Our Struggle!
Long Live Solidarity Of Women!
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Message: 5
For our participation in the anniversary demonstration on November 17 - On Thursday,
November 17, the female collective self-organization Militant Women for Social Liberation
participated in the anniversary demonstration in the Polytechnic uprising. - Throughout
the course we shouted slogans against the state, capital, patriarchy and uniformed guards.
- After the dissolution of the larger piece of course, somewhere at the height of the
Refugee Av. Alexandra, we continue to proceed with banners and a crowd of demonstrators in
the occupied Polytechnic to unite with the world crashing that day with the forces of
repression. ---- Marched as blocks with strong pulse and slogans endlessly until Sp.
Trikoupis. ---- Arriving in Tositsa angle and Sp. Trikoupis, we and the people who were
already in Pl. Exarchia and defended the barricades around ap'tin Square We were attacked
by riot police with tear gas and stun. But the trend was broken, the piece manages to go
to the square, while the crowd which had gathered at the intersection, riot police
retaliated in and opened the door. When we reached the square of Exarchia, the occupied
Polytechnic was already blocked and battling both the University and the wider region raged.
Total Assessing the race held in three days of the Polytechnic anniversary, we think that
alerting the struggling is a necessary step establishment of a wider collective body,
which can move in the direction of social liberation.
We went down the street as women and organize ourselves on this basis because we
understand that class, gender and race intersect and interact, producing systemic social
inequalities on which is built the authoritarian system. We believe that we have to
organize ourselves on the basis of our oppression, on the common need for
self-organization and the common struggle of all oppressed social liberation. The aim,
therefore, female self-organization is to recover our autonomy and our SELF as autonomous
racing subjects. Through our empowerment we aim to undertake those responsibilities on the
playing field, which the patriarchal system predominantly undertaken by men. Because there
can be no social emancipation without equal and militant participation of women in this fight.
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Message: 6
Belgium is a laboratory of social atomization and "individual fortress", complemented by a
political culture of consensus, with no equivalent in France. Our task is unique and that
is to share his special experience and the specific challenges it faced the collective
Alternative Libertaire Brussels is launching this series of articles this article series
for his French comrades. ---- Anarchism, Belgium, is a reflection of the radical and
revolutionary circles of the country broke out, geographically and politically, in search
of a story that cling and bruised by the absence of mass popular movement. ---- Our French
comrades without doubt difficult to imagine the mental state of disrepair of Belgium;
bisected by the linguistic border, over which Flemish and Walloon superbly ignorant,
divided into many levels of institutional powers that make it incomprehensible to foreign
eyes and nourish a cohort of professional politicians, it has nor the cultural unity of
France, nor his (very relative) media-editorial variety.
A glaring lack of media activists
This may seem trivial but it is not at all. It does not exist in the French-speaking,
so-called left press, let alone revolutionary press. We have a single alternative
publishing house, rather communist obedience, and verging on bankruptcy every year. We do
not have no more place for exchanges and joint meetings with radical groups.
In fact, every organization has its small media, often a blog or a web-newspaper, which
follows a political line too narrow to really talk to non-encarté.es or even allié.es its
objectives. Journalism in our country is even more deleterious than in France, the two
great generals dailies Le Soir and La Libre Belgique, openly adhere to the "modernization"
liberal and became communications agencies serving professionals and policy large companies.
Politically, the space of the "revolt" is occupied by a former Maoist party, the Workers'
Party of Belgium (PTB), which for some years has managed a reconversion into social
democracy "radical". As time passes and the PTB adheres to the codes of political
communication and enters the ordinary parliamentary game; his "radicalism" is ever
decreasing. The other parties, small groups or Trotskyist Communist old recipe, are
completely crushed and remain in an ambiguous position between submission in elections and
calls on the proletarian revolution.
Our Socialist Party (PS) boasts of being one of the "far left" in Europe - which is
certainly the case at the programmatic level, but the mode of government of Belgium, where
no one can form unitary government, brings the PS to build coalitions with conservative or
liberal parties. They can then hide after each privatization or every repressive policy
behind the need to "compromise", which are actually only additional compromises.
Since the emergence of the PTB endangers their electoral square near the old dinosaurs of
the PS put the bar on the left, promising a work week of four days and a co-decision
process in enterprises; measures that will be deleted afterwards course under the double
pressure of the "market economic reality" and the need to govern with the right.
Lack of a bilingual organization
The only puffs of air are in some corners of the labor movement.
Youth groups born in the ashes of young Christian workers or among students, practicing
self-management and play a central role in organizing street actions, especially in
Brussels. These groups, at the crossroads of different radical spheres, see mingle
anarchists, radical environmentalists, Trotskyites and a whole bunch of people who do not
fit into these boxes.
Despite their "hegemony" on the practice of political radicalism in the public space,
these groups are ultraminoritaires and will meet in Brussels, not more than one or two
hundred Activist.
The anarchists are deeply divided, first between Walloons and Flemish, but also between
urban centers, and there is no national organization (bilingual) or even representative of
the Francophonie in its entirety.
The two main French libertarian homes are located in Brussels and Liege. Even within
cities, activists anarchists are divided into at least three groups: organized (collective
Brussels Alternative Libertaire), those that attach around a location / cultural project
as a library (Acrata) or library ( BibLibre), and finally the most autonomous whose
collective crystallizes in squats and in lesmanifestations, rallies, fight against
prisons, etc.
Weak popular location
Even if people get to know each dint of frequenting the same actions, political ties are
non-existent and it would be difficult to talk about "anarchist movement" Belgian or
French. The project for a large gathering, a congress of the Belgian anarchist, is
regularly raised but remains a arlésienne. It is anyway doubtful that it allows to create
intergroup dynamics, given the political and especially strategic disputes between
libertarians them.
The main obstacle between anarchists of a real merger with the discontent caused by
liberal and authoritarian policies of the government comes from the social composition of
our groups. Libertarians will first recruit among white son and middle-class graduates.
The contribution of the popular classes and especially the Belgians from immigrant is
extremely marginal; it disconnects the daily political action of those who suffer most
directly the worst effects of financial capitalism.
The decommissioning process and casualization is well underway in Belgium but poverty is
still concentrated in ghettos where common-libertarian groups have not rooting.
The accumulation of these problems - almost total lack of dissemination of anarchist
positions, overwhelming media propaganda, division and breakdown, disconnection with the
popular classes - questions and forces us to question our thinking and action.
Alternative Libertaire Brussels
Following in Alternative Libertaire in December 2016.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Anarchisme-en-Belgique-1-Le
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Message: 7
The Spanish revolution was a unique experience in history, both in his fight against
fascism and in building self-managing society. ---- To celebrate her birthday, we will
have: ---- An exhibition on loan from the Spanish CGT ---- A discussion with historian
Frank Mintz ---- Revolutionary fields with the Magic Fight ---- Tapas and music! ---- DAY
80 YEARS OF THE SPANISH REVOLUTION ---- Saturday, November 19, 2016 ---- At 18 o'clock
---- at Manifesten ---- 59, rue Adolphe Thiers, Marseille 1 ---- The link to the event
https://almarseille.blogspot.co.il/2016/11/espagne-36_15.html
Viva la Revolucion!
Alternative Libertaire, CNT-F, CNT-SW Germinal Group of the Anarchist Federation
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Fete-des-80-ans-de-la-revolution
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Message: 8
Event-Discussion: "The struggle against the educational system today. organization and
resistance recommendations. The role of the anarchists. The vision of libertarian
education in a libertarian society. " Show the position of anarchist groups "restive
horse" on the way to the 2nd Congress of the Anarchist Political organization - Federation
collectivity ---- Documentary: "Long live the modern school", about the life of the
Spanish anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer U Gkouardia ---- TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 19:00 PM
IN autonomous spaces ON qualifications (PATREOS 87) ---- anarchist group "restive horse"
-Member Anarchist Political Organisation | Federation collectivity
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 9
Inside the lunar landscape of Greek reality, as formulated in the period of capitalist
crisis, the right-left governments and the European Union, the social wealth bleeding
campaign puts another purpose: housing. - After the frontal attack the state and capital
to work, agriculture, insurance, social liberties, the environment and social goods, raise
their targeted one of the few remaining materials supports the working class and
oppressed. ---- The antiasfalistiko bill passed by parliament, is another face of the new
war which has declared the local and international capital to employees, self-employed,
farmers, pensioners and by extension to all people to maintain their incomes (children,
relatives with chronic diseases, etc.). After the new criminal bill in social security, is
more evident than ever that an all-out class tried in housing areas, insurance, health,
leading to a concerted proletarian payment refusal is necessary.
Leaving now aside every pretext, the recent enactment of prerequisites in late 2015 by the
SYRIZA-ANEL government, paving the way for the advent and international finance capital
against the house. Manage Red loans and real estate longer enter into international
investment houses and funds, and in particular, as the guardian of the interests of
debtors against the above companies, displayed by the Bank of Greece and the Banking Code
of Conduct (!).
After 'legal drafting improvements "in November substantially slash whatever protections
existed until now, the framework of the auctions protection afstiropoieitai dramatically
timeouts remain unclear, while new abstract concepts are introduced as the" cooperative
borrower. " Clarifications, definitions, reviews etc., Pass all the banking crisis. The
government washes its hands, simply asking bankers to show understanding and grace (see.
Dragasakis November statements). Queues of debtors in local courts late last December, for
joining the relatively favorable settings Katseli Law, reveal the dimensions of the
threat. The application for inclusion in the Act itself is a costly process with the
required amount could rise to about 1000 euro. Even the claim to protect, handsomely paid.
From 1/1/2016 abolished the possibility of zero dose for those who have no income or
unable not only to pay their installments and to cope with daily expenses of their
families. In addition, it opened the process of free sale and reducing the costs of
auctioning. If that is the first auction prove fruitless, the second starts at half the
market value of the property, and if he too is not completed, the third starts from zero
starting price. Even if the property is auctioned at an amount lower than the commercial
value and the loan amount, the borrower still owes the bank the remaining amount. And
loses his home and still owes. In essence sought from borrowers repayment of the loan for
the second time. And this at a time when many of the red loans have essentially paid to
banks through taxes and bank recapitalization.
So if someone is unable to repay the banks the net profit will be marked "uncooperative"
and home will be coming under the hammer or alternatively, the loan can be passed into the
hands of investment houses, which with even greater ease than banks -as not necessarily
expect the repayment of the loan will convert the property to a financial product and
gamble multiplying their profits. For us, the defense of the first housing and preventing
evictions and auction, is practical and class terms defend the social good housing. Away
from populist, Falsified radical fanfare, our policy framework for the fight against
auctions, is class protection of all social assets, part of which is the dwelling-house.
The cancellation of an auction in the county court, shifts the process 2 months after
creating a first time, a temporary defense forefront of our class. Therefore, the presence
of all of us in local courts is necessary. We must realize the need to pass from the
defense of housing, to guarantee as good for all and all; the necessity of passing from
defense to attack.
Starting from this position, and against all private and commercial exploitation of the
dwelling, used but put the tool of the occupation as a form of militant recovery of social
wealth, to ensure housing for all the oppressed of the world, homeless / s, immigrants /
behavior shows, workers / behavior shows, the ftochodiavolous of our time.
as Anarchist Federation piece the exploited and oppressed, we fight with our class by any
means. We will be there, the local courts, roads, neighborhoods, opposite to the judges,
bank representatives and managers of investment funds, in physical confrontation if
necessary with their uniformed protectors; with the poor, the unemployed, workers, the
oppressed with the exploited against the state and capital.
Do not let anyone just opposite to bank gangs
Class counterattack, self-organization, solidarity
anarchist Federation
CONCENTRATION iN HERAKLION County Court,
Wednesday 23/11, 16:00
anarchist collective Oktana
member of the anarchist Federation
oktana.espivblogs.net
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Message: 10
We support the comrades of "La Plume Noire" (The Black Plume) ---- This Saturday, 19 of
November of 2016 , around 18h, the anarchist bookstore "La Plume Noire", located in Lyon,
suffered an attack during a demonstration of the extreme right. A command about 15
Brucutus wearing helmets broke the window and wounded fortunately lightly, some people who
were unlucky enough to be there at the time of the incident. ---- The Anarchist
Federation[FA]denounces this violence against a place of culture. It is clearly
premeditated acts to terrorize those men and women who have the heart to international
solidarity and the fight against all forms of exploitation and oppression; Typical acts
both religious fanatics today, how many Nazi groups of the 30s and 40s.
The Anarchist Federation ensures its full solidarity with the people affected by this
violence, as the animators of the bookstore "La Plume Noire." We invite all and all for
freedom of expression is not an empty word, to participate in the mobilization of support
that will occur in the coming days.
Not pass away!
Francophone Anarchist Federation
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