Today's Topics:
1. Britain, Statement from the London Anarchist Bookfair
Collective 6th November 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Palestine-Israel, After 13 years of joint struggle (and 12
in Bil'in), we won the right for the unarmed demonstrations
against the separation fence, settlers, and occupation* (it)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. fda-ifa: HDP statement on 4 November ISIS attack in Amed von
Karakök (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: Now (8-11-16):
intervention at the American Consulate in Thessaloniki (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Anarchist student assembly (Athens): "To take back
the life in our hands": Appeal students anarchists secondary to
the student mobilizations (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre -
Intersectionality: What feminism decolonial? (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. fda-ifa: Social media blocked in Turkey following the
operation on HDP von Karakök (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Amir Taaki contacted us a week or so before the Bookfair asking that he be given space to
speak about Rojava. Below is the statement we sent out in respect of this on the Friday
before the Bookfair. ---- Leila Al Shami would define herself as an anarchist. Robin
Yassin-Kassab would not. They co-wrote a book "Burning Country, Syrians in Revolution and
War" and it was because of the issues in this book that we asked them to speak at this
year’s London Anarchist Bookfair. We stand by this decision. Leila and Robin also asked
Shiar Neyo, a Syrian Kurdish anarchist, to speak as well. ---- Amir Taaki and around 15
others decided to occupy the stage at the start of this meeting. We are still unsure if
this was on the false accusation that we wouldn't let him speak or his accusations that
Robin Yassin-Kassab supports fascist groups.
There were a large number of people present who wanted to hear the speakers, so to
progress the meeting those present let Amir could speak for 10 minutes at the start of the
meeting. This he did. But this wasn't enough for Amir and his followers. They still
refused to let the meeting continue and silenced anyone who tried to speak except for
Amir. Robin left the room although Leila stayed.
The Bookfair has a policy of "no filming" at the Bookfair and when we saw one of Amir's
group filming we asked her to stop. This she constantly refused to do even though people
in the room were asking her to stop as it could compromise some people's security.
Eventually someone took the filming equipment from the woman which led to a very short
scuffle lasting no more than a few seconds.
We asked Amir and his associates if they would now leave the stage and let Leila speak and
the meeting continue. Amir refused stating that Leila is also tainted as she is connected
to Robin. As it was obvious Amir considered himself to be the only legitimate voice of
what's happening in Rojava we, as the Bookfair organisers, cancelled the meeting and asked
people to leave. We left the room to Amir, his group of (we assume) supporters and 2 or 3
other
people.
We are disgusted by the way that Amir and his associates behaved. Firstly, a number of
people wanted to hear what Leila and Robin had to say. Many were Kurds, Arabs and Syrians
and some had travelled to the Bookfair specifically to be part of this discussion. We
apologise to all these people and to Leila, Robin and Shiar.
Secondly, we know some people wanted to ask Robin about the accusations being made against
him by Amir.
Thirdly we find it ironic that in the end the only people who heard from Amir were a load
of people who he already knew. Amir and his friends left the Bookfair immediately after
the meeting and did not participate in further meetings.
The meeting about Rojava did happen later on at the Bookfair, as scheduled, and over 100
people participated in a good debate. The Bookfair collective welcomes this debate (as we
have in previous years) and will do so again in future years if it's appropriate.
We have seen emails stating that Amir and co's actions could damage support for the Kurds
and/or Rojava. From the London Anarchist Bookfair's perspective we in no way blame any
sections of the Kurdish community. These were the actions of a very small group of people
(some Kurdish - some not) who decided (1) they wanted to close down any free discussion on
the issues, and (2) only the word of Amir could be heard. Likewise, we hope our Kurdish
comrades do not see the actions of Amir and co as having the support of most anarchists.
He does not represent anarchism as we perceive it.
There were over 70 meetings at this year's Bookfair and over 100 stall holders. Amir and
co disrupted one meeting which most of those at the Bookfair didn't even realise had
happened. We need to keep this in perspective.
Many discussions were had with Amir before the event explaining he wasn't being stopped
from contributing - which was his initial request. At no time initially did he say Robin
shouldn't be allowed to speak. He only made this demand when we explained to Amir he
couldn't speak from the stage and the meeting wouldn't be "his meeting". We wonder just
how much of this story those who supported Amir on the day knew.
Statement from the London Anarchist Bookfair Collective
28th October 2016 (the day before the Bookfair)
The London Anarchist Bookfair has Leila Al Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab speaking at this
year’s Bookfair. As the description on our website states “Leila and Robin will discuss
the current situation in Syria with a focus on grass-roots resistance to all forms of
authoritarianism.” Leila would describe herself as an anarchist and we know Robin
wouldn’t. However we have often had non anarchists speaking when we think they have
interesting things to say. Amir Taaki has made allegations against Robin both to us and to
Robin & Leila. Robin categorically denies these allegations.
Amir contacted us about a week ago telling us we needed to let him speak signing off by
saying “I'd love to speak at the anarchist book fair, only if you give me a good speaking
slot and advertise it properly”.
We explained to him that the programme was fully booked, all the publicity had now gone
out and the programme printed but he, like anyone else, is welcome to attend the Bookfair
and any meeting to participate in the debates. His reply to us was “I want 1 hour to talk
from the Syrian and technology talks”. Again we explained that at this late stage it just
wasn’t possible but again said come and take part in the discussion. We have also had a
friend of Amir’s call us telling us we must let Amir speak. We have never said he can’t
speak. We have said we are not going to change the main speakers but that doesn’t stop him
participating from the floor as the meeting will be a general discussion. We have
discussed this with Amir as well by phone. It is now that Amir is making allegations
against one of the speakers.
Amir is also claiming “This event is not having anything about Rojava, even though their
main talk is about Syria. They're trying to sideline Rojava”. He also calls Robin “the
main speaker” at the Anarchist Bookfair. Both of these points are untrue.
Firstly, we do have a meeting about Rojava and this is a separate meeting to the one we
are having about Rojava. We also have a meeting about the situation in Turkey. Amir has
been told this but decides to say something completely different.
Robin is not the “main speaker” at the bookfair. We have 70 meetings and as the organisers
we see all the meetings and discussions have equal billing. We have a number of speakers
coming in from outside the UK and we feel it is an insult to these and speakers from
within the UK to describe one person, as Amir does, as the “main speaker”. We would
question why anyone who would define themselves as an anarchist would “rank” speakers in
order of importance.
We cannot, and would not, stop Amir expressing his views. However we don’t agree with them
for the reasons stated above.
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Message: 2
At the beginning, up to 450 Israelis of the radical left joined the hundreds of
Palestinians of Bil'in and the region in the struggle against the robbery of the village
land for the Modi'in Elit settlement and the separation fence used for that. It took more
than 7 years till the state forces stopped to try to prevent activist from joining the
Bil'iners in the Friday joint demonstrations. It took another 5 years till they stop to
shoot on us tear gas and "non lethal" bullets. Two Bil'iners paid with their life,
hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis were injured, detained and even arrested
(Palestinians for long time up to a year and a half, Israelis no more than a day or two).
Many thousands of international activists participated with us and contributed later for
the international struggle against the occupation. The harassment of the village activists
at nights mainly continue, but the struggle will not stop.
Bil'in, Friday 7-10-16, 5 Israelis, 10 internationals, and about dozen village activists
converged for the Friday demo against the Israeli occupation and settlers. Unlike the few
previous demos the Israeli armed cars were posited at the route of the dismantled
separation fence were they used to block our way to the new separation wall most of the
last year... but just as we started to march the went away - "invited" us to march along
the newly upgraded road to the new separation wall near the Abu Lamun oak orchard - as we
did in the few previous demos. However, they put at the old route a line and warning not
to cross it, declaring the place as military fire training area and harassed the few
comrades who went that way.
However, not accepting their "request" the main demo took another road straight to the
gate in the wall. For a while, when the state force harassed the comrades who did go on
the road leading to the oak orchard we converged not far from the gate waiting for the
armed cars to go away. When they did it, we marched to the gate and then along the wall to
the oak orchard - confronting on the way settler youngsters on the other side of the wall.
After a while the state forces returned but instead of confronting us just confiscated a
car of a village activist.
After a long rest we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209426127023088/
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210633839945324
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210633828785045
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/photos/pcb.1437642866264803/1437642402931516
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=980564308719465&set=pcb.980564845386078
14-10-16 The Bil'in Freedom demonstration went ahead smoothly today and we made it to The
Israeli apartheid wall ! We were about 30 people with International activists from around
the world: Israel, Canada, Holland! Some were from the ISM (International Solidarity
Movement).
Our demonstration is held on our village "Freedom Street" street and peacefully protests
against the Illegal Israeli apartheid and military occupation of West Bank and our farming
village! HELLO! There were NO arrests today! We arrived at the wall and the gate of the
wall, demonstrators climbed the wall to hoist up our national Palestinian flag and the
gates opened and the Israeli Occupation forces came out! The soldiers did threaten the
International activists with immediate arrest if they did not leave the area and actually
took photocopies of their passports! The soldiers looked for cars to steal ...but there
weren't any to Arrest! It was a good day! I am hosting some activists in my home now and I
am proud of their courage and I thank them for blessing our village with their visit!
Palestinians are loving welcoming people and we always welcome you ALL to visit and WE
NEED YOUR SUPPORT! You will always find love from us, its all we have but we give it
freely and generously! Thank you International activists!
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209491473016697
21-10-16 Bil'in, Friday 21-10-16 demo. 4 Israelis, and about 15 internationals joined a
delegation from Ramallah and the village activists. We converged at the Abu Lamun wood.
Before starting the demo the participants continued to clear the wood from the various
remnants of more than 5 years of confrontations.
Than we marched to the wall and along it up to the gate in the wall. There we knocked on
the gate for long time but no response came.
After social time in the area near the gate we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210782368258439
https://www.facebook.com/village.bilin/posts/1765152113750397
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1039151416184190
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/videos/993093430799886/
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209565923597915/
https://www.maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=872286
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/993618954080667
Bil'in, 28-10-16, Friday demo against occupation and settlers, and in memory of Renen Raz
- activist of the anarchist against the wall, who died this week after a long illness (his
activity was participation in the Friday demo in Bil'in). In the demo participated 10
Israelis with the AAtW initiative, dozens of international activist from various countries
and the village activists. We converged at the Abu Lamun oak wood and started marching and
chanting - with many holding Renen picture, towards the gate in the wall. After we arrived
youth climbed the wall to hung an additional Palestinian flag. When we arrived there
people converged in front of the gate taking pictures and knocking on the gate... After a
long time few Israeli soldiers showed themselves behind the wall and threw few sound
grenades.... and then we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/village.bilin/posts/1768926023373006
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210851910436950
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1045220968910568
4-11-16Friday demo. 5 Israelis with the anarchist against the wall initiative Joined
dozens of international activists and the village activists. After converging at the Abu
Lamun oak mini park we marched towards the gate in the separation wall - chanting all the
way. When we arrived there the gate was opened a bit and we could see few soldiers
positioned just behind the gate. After few minutes of converging near the gate the
soldiers came forward - declaring the area as closed military zone and demand us to return
to the village. As we just ignored them they started to threat us with arrests and even
detained two activists. "2 activist - one of the Israeli anarchists against wall and one
village activist (brother of the two martyrs) detained today on the weekly Bil'in"
After a long while with more threats of arrests and partial retreat the army commander
promised to release the detainees when we will be distant from the gate... After the demo
end was declared we slowly started to return to the village.
When we returned to the village the two detainees were released after signing a promise
not to commit the same felony again.
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209699618020192/
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209699465936390
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210924542892716
11-11-16 https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1058140117618653
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210990464580717
Qaddum
14-10-16
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1286039088084808.1073742080.271405776214816
https://www.facebook.com/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1286039088084808
4-11-16 Friday demo. Awful smell, even poisoning our air... Zionist occupation soldiers
spraying wastewater (skunk water) at Palestinian people and houses of Kufr Qaddom village.
The filthy smell lasts more than a week and requires really hard work to clean it. This
way of collective punishment is very common and used everywhere in occupied Palestine.
Ni'ilin
10/21/2016 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLqlUNhsSk
4.11.2016 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42LvHVAN0vI
Nabi Saleh
Friday 28-10-16 Today demonstration against Balfour declaration. After hundred years we
still resist.
https://www.facebook.com/btamimins/posts/1702604780067027
https://www.facebook.com/btamimins/videos/1702598586734313/
Don't Say We Didn't Know 520
Last week the Israeli army carried out various demolitions in the West Bank.
Following is a report of one case:
On Tuesday, September 27, 2016. soldiers came to the Palestinian village of Al Hama in the
northern part of the Palestinian Jordan Valley, near the settlement Mekhola, and
demolished all 25 of the structures there. Since that cursed day, settlers and soldiers
keep arriving there and threatening the inhabitants to cease their cooperation with
Israelis who come to help them and demanding the villagers to leave. One of the villagers
told the Israeli peace activists that in the past houses were demolished as well but there
were no subsequent harassments as there are now.
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Don't Say We Didn't Know 521
This posting is an exception: I include a photo of third-graders of the Bedouin Abu
Al-Nawar family of the Jahalin tribe who live in E1 zone, between Jerusalem and the Maale
Adumim settlement. After a previous demolition of their school, they erected a tent that
served as a classroom. On Tuesday, October 4, 2016, Israeli soldiers arrived and destroyed
the tent.
Don't Say We Didn't Know 523
On October 10, 2016, Israeli human rights activists discovered that settlers from the
unauthorized outpost of Giv'at Sal'it (belonging to the settlement Mekhola in the
Palestinian Jordan Valley) have begun to build yet another, new outpost about 300 meters
from the Palestinian village of Al Hama which the Israeli army has demolished, claiming
the village is built illegally (see "Don't Say We Didn't Know" no. 520). All appeals to
the army and the police have been of no avail. The settlers continue building the new
outpost which will eventually become a new settlement. This is what history teaches us...
Don't Say We Didn't Know 524
The Israeli army persists in its transfer schemes.
Having demolished most of this Palestinian village's houses on October 9, 2016, Israeli
soldiers came to Ras Al Ahmar (in the Palestinian northern Jordan Valley) two and a half
weeks later and issued all the villagers a temporary evacuation order. They are required
to leave their village on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 4 p.m. and will be permitted to
return the next day at 10 a.m.
The villagers of Homsa, a Palestinian village near the settlement of Beqa'ot also received
a temporary evacuation order for Tuesday and Wednesday, October 31st and November 1st.
The reason for these orders: the Israeli army intends to hold manoeuvres in the area.
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Don't say we did not know #525
The Israeli army continues to bully the Palestinians, inhabitants of Ras Al Ahmar in the
Palestinian Jordan valley.
On Monday, October 31, 2016, Israeli soldiers confiscated 5 tractors. Three weeks before
that they demolished the inhabitants' homes (October 9) and evacuated them (November 1)
from their village for the night for army manoeuvre purposes.
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On Sunday, October 30, gov't. agents arrived, escorted by police, to the Bedouin village
Bir Hadaj (near Revivim) and demolished tents, put up by residents after their homes had
been demolished on October 9. They demolished three water tanks as well. Ever since, the
police has increased its presence and on Tuesday, November 1 arrested four people.
On Wednesday, November 2, gov't agents, escorted by police, arrived in El 'Araqib and
demolished it again. This time they confiscated cars, a cart and a water tank.
For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com - about the joint struggles the
Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution:
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
Ahdut (Unity) Position paper about the Palestinian struggle
English - http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27019
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Message: 3
The Governor of Diyarbakir blamed the PKK soon after yesterday's attack on a police target
in Amed, saying that the organization claimed responsibility for the bombing, which didn't
happen. Later in the evening, ISIS claimed the attack. ---- HDP has released a statement
regarding yesterday's bombing which targeted a police station in Amed's central Baglar
district. ---- The Governor of Diyarbakir blamed the PKK soon after the attack, saying
that the organization claimed responsibility for the bombing, which didn't happen. Later
in the evening, ISIS claimed the attack. Even today, Turkish media continued to blame the
PKK for the deadly bombing. ---- Here is the statement by Peoples' Democratic Party, the
deputies of which were at the targeted police station when the attack was carried out.
"The location that was attacked by ISIS at around 8:00 am yesterday morning was a police
school, which has been used for more than ten years as an additional service building by
the Diyarbakir General Directorate of Police. It is located in the center of Baglar
province and consists of a a complex of several units that houses also the riot police
directorate.
Our Co-Chairs Figen Yüksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas as well as our deputies Gülser
Yildirim, Nursel Aydogan, Sirri Süreyya Önder and Ziya Pir, who were taken from their
homes in Diyarbakir in custody, were kept in this building complex before being taken to
court.
This complex contains also a gym, which was used as facility during the detention of our
various HDP and BDP co-presidents and party members of Diyarbakir province and its
counties. As will be remembered, Demirtas had held a press conference on October 19th,
2016 in our Diyarbakir offices with regard to these detentions. In yesterday`s attack, the
DBP (Democratic Regions Party) co-president of the county Cüngüs, Recai Altay, who was
also held custody in this building, lost his life.
About two hours before yesterday`s attack at 08:00 am in the morning, our Co-Chairman
Selahattin Demirtas and our Diyarbakir deputy Ziya Pir had been held here before they
were taken to court.
At the time of the bombing, our Co-Chairwoman Figen Yüksekdag and our Ankara deputy Sirri
Süreyya Önder were still being held in that very building complex.
As it has been reported in press, a minibus containing the bomb had a collision with a
commercial taxi on the road. Because the minibus did not stop and continued on the road
after the accident, the taxi chased him and cut him off. When the taxi driver descended
from his vehicle, he saw that there was a bomb in the minibus. According to witness
accounts, he shouted "There is a bomb" just when the explosion happened. Thus, the minibus
loaded with the bomb exploded before it could reach its actual destination. If the
commercial taxi and the minibus had not collided, the minibus with the bomb would have
reached its target.
Despite knowing all of these facts, the Diyarbakir Governor's Office has been misleading
the public with fraudulent information. In addition, a number of ‘media' organs continue
to target our party and our co-chairs who were arrested along with our deputies in
conjunction with this attack carried out by ISIS.
We resolutely demand the full disclosure of all facts about this bomb attack which was
clearly planned to be more destructive, yet failed its target."
https://fda-ifa.org/hdp-statement-on-yesterdays-isis-attack-in-amed/
https://karakok.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/hdp-statement-on-yesterdays-isis-attack-in-amed/
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Message: 4
The visit of the outgoing US President Barack Obama in Greece anything but courtesy is.
Beyond the strong symbolic weight of the visit of an American president on the eve of the
anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising (and even in a "left-wing" government) the content
of Obama's coming could be summed up in "business as usual". As is known, of course, these
jobs are always contaminated with the blood of the people. ---- The world today is not Eei
nothing to do with the welter of words on the "end of history" made after the end of the
cold war and tried to provide a theoretical justification for global autocracy US. Amid
capitalist crisis antagonisms between the imperialisms have turned vast areas of the
planet in slaughterhouses, at the same time the epelafnontas capitalism attacked fiercely
in the lives of the exploited and even oppressed in countries where until now the world of
work retained some rights he won through struggles and blood in the last century.
The agenda of Obama's visit to Greece is diverse. Initially we must not forget that the US
is actively involved in the Greek crisis. The North American capitalism ever since
Pinochet promoted by the IMF in the total deregulation of the labor market and the frontal
attack on employment rights. Given the intention of SYRIZA / ANEL government to open the
issue of work aiming at the final settling with whatever is left to remind labor unionism
can easily imagine the results of the discussion. The main reason but the Obama visit is
none other than the developments in the wider region of the eastern Mediterranean and the
Middle. East. The US has since promoted the transformation of the Arab Spring in process
to suit their plans for the region, having primed the most reactionary jihadists tracks
like ISIS, have engaged in a hopeless competition with other imperialisms (such as
Russian) mainly in front of Syria and Iraq and in Libya, Yemen, etc. They convert a large
part of the M. East field in open warfare with avevaio future. The Greek state, loyal to
NATO commitments involved directly and indirectly in this conflict. Due to the
geopolitical balance is imperative for the US to stabilize this participation. Finally we
must not forget the classic trade weapons the US is doing with their two best clients of
areas, the Greek and the Turkish state.
We for our part we have no illusions. We are not opposed to US imperialism having the back
of our mind to ally with another imperialism. There fantasize "folk" or national class
collaboration fronts against the "external" enemy. Our enemy is total world domination,
the state, capitalism and imperialism whatever form or guise though it gets. We understand
that the by-the-less, the proletarians and oppressed of this world have no interest in the
sovereignty of the state and capital, either of a national or supra-interstate sign, have
no interest in escalating warfare caused by imperialist antagonisms. Unlike what should
unite them is the struggle for a universal society of freedom and equality, the struggle
for libertarian communism.
For this reason we stand alongside those struggling against oppression. Kurds of Syria
with which the United States playing a very dirty game, helping militarily against ISIS
but also supporting the murderous regime Erdogan who do not miss an opportunity to attack
them. Palestinians who for decades not bow their heads and fight for their freedom. All
the peoples of the Middle. East, Asia and Latin America who refuse to yield to.
Even in the heart of the beast, however, within the US developed resistances. Not long ago
the big nationwide strikes of workers in the food supply as required and managed increases
in the minimum wage. The Black Lives Matter movement also fighting for years against
police violence and murder but also in general against racial and class oppression that
never ceased to exist African Americans. Also a great movement has begun to grow in
prisons where prisoners combining many forms of struggle as strikes, riots and hunger
strikes resist unpaid forced labor forced to give private contractors, ie they resist
turning them into modern slaves. Indigenous Sioux recently dug up the hatchet of war
resisting the passage of a catastrophic oil pipeline through their lands. These are just
some examples of the oppressed in the US struggles remind us that the struggle against
imperialism and capitalism has no national colors, is not determined by national borders
nor can it be achieved by allying with the various bourgeoisies.
Today, Tuesday, November 8 we intervene at the American Consulate in Thessaloniki. We wish
in this way to get involved early in the protests against the arrival of US President. We
invite all / s to go down the road the day of Obama's visit to the war against the state,
capitalism and imperialism.
Unearth the hatchet internationalists SOCIAL-class war
SOLIDARITY THE WEAPON OF PEOPLES, WAR, WAR OF THE BOSSES
Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative
Anarchist Collectivism Rubicon
- Members of the Anarchist Federation
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2016/11/08/
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Message: 5
Text of the "Anarchist Student Assembly area (Athens)" published on the website of the
Assembly on the occasion of the demonstrations of high school students. The title of the
original Greek is "to take back the life in our hands." ---- Again students are not in
schools but in the streets claiming the life and dignity they deserve. It is a life that
we lose the minute in the school-oppressive. E dignity trampled daily with dozens of
pretexts: Eliminations of powers in technical schools, shortage of teachers, materials and
school books, schools without heating due to lack of oil, fainting pupil hunger, dangerous
buildings, abuse of power by many teachers, very oppressive school rules, with equal
penalties oppressive, an educational system based on tests and antagonism, exterminating
us and removes all creative and free thinking, "support classes" (in private schools) that
they are already required and eliminate in practice the "free education", the pressure of
entrance exams, which leads us all to a state of stress and exhaustion, and some,
unfortunately, even suicide. Pondering all this (and much more that will not fit on a
sheet of paper) we conclude that we have every reason to organize ourselves as a school
community, and to fight in the streets and in our schools, claiming the life we deserve .
We claim:
- Transportation to school, free and secure for all those in need.
- Free food for all students
- Financing needs of state funds
- Elimination of the abolition of the powers of technical schools, and put an end to
layoffs of teachers
- Immediate integration in schools of children of immigrants-refugees who wish
- A school community open to all, without discrimination and distinctions
- Immediate access to the painful measures, such as the free labor of students of
technical schools as learners, rejection of the proposals of the Committee for Dialogue
and school-dungeon that we are trying to impose lock
We will not allow that no one tampers with our struggles.
We all know that the concentrations and student marches, such as the November 7 , are
called for "coordination committees schools-students-technical schools" e.tc. At the same
time, however, it seems that nobody knows more of these "committees" which over call us to
go outside! No one knows where and when meetings are held, who the summon, who are
organized, how and on what basis decisions are made on them. Despite all that, these few
who participate in the meetings of these committees coordination without asking anyone's
opinion, make decisions on important issues concerning all-as those-those involved in the
demonstrations, and "manipulate" at their convenience. Occasionally it might do us the
"favor" to call someone open assembly, which always gets his way.
Why such secrecy? Because people and groups as those behind the (supposedly "apolitical")
student committees want to act as manipulators and lead their classmates to the party
organizations to which they already participate. For those who want to sneak in as a mere
"students" are actually members of partisan youths, whose line adopted. And to be more
precise, those who know something of the organization of student demonstrations and has
chosen not to turn a blind eye, is well aware that these "committees" are manipulated by
members and instructive youth party "Communist" ( KNE) and in general for this match. The
reason why these people are not going to admit (acknowledge) never its relations with the
party youth, is because simply if the student community the know, quickly give them back
and organized to take the issue of the student struggle in their hands. For the same
reason consistently they ensure isolation, silence and taunt those who have (express)
different ideas of their own, those who dare to participate in the fight expressing their
ideals, and those who resist manipulation and partisanship, informing classmates of their
existence.
An illustrative example of how these committees get push back our struggle are the
characteristics they acquire (take) the demonstrations organized by them. The same
ceremonial marches each year, which actually are a mere walks in the center of Athens. The
same concentrations outside the Ministry of Education, where we waited patiently until our
demands in a way unknown to us are satisfied. (At these concentrations) representatives of
the protesters dialogue with ministers, general secretaries and mayors, and then go out to
confirm what we all knew, or who have not achieved anything. It is totally logical, since
nothing is achieved pleading, however high pleas shout.
If high school students are not cast off these elements of partisanship and manipulation,
struggle and their just demands are never going to move forward, but will continue to be
the appropriate way for KNE (and any KNE) can recruit members micropolitical and play
their games.
A fight for an education and a different world.
As a group of anarchists secondary students, from various neighborhoods and schools of
Athens, we support the student demonstrations, actively participating in the fight, to the
satisfaction of their demands. Occupations of schools, student marches, rallies and
protests, information actions of our classmates, combative interventions, clashes with
cops: All means of action should be used in the context of our struggle, since all (each
their way) are pressure means necessary to achieve our goal. As mentioned above, nothing,
never and nowhere has been achieved begging.
Participate in movements aimed at meeting the demands of the student community, however,
we do not limit ourselves to that. We fight for a truly free education, to which everyone
has access and the ability to adapt it to your needs. We want a school whose epicenter is
the student and desires, not the needs of the market and the capitalist system, and
desires and patterns, small and large. We have chosen to organize, here and now, our
resistance to the educational (and not only educational) system, face the State Capital
and their protectors. We oppose the exploitation of man by man, and all hierarchical power
structures. We defend the interests and struggles of the oppressed of this world against
their oppressors, against the oppressors of all. We oppose the State, the fascists and the
employers, moving towards a society of solidarity and fellowship, in which decisions are
taken by all equally, towards a society in which everyone involved in the production
according to their possibilities and enjoy their products according to their needs. What
queremo everything for everyone. And we are going to get.
Everyone in the Propylaea (Old University of Athens), on November 7 , at 12: 00h.
immediate satisfaction of student demands. All men and women in occupations,
demonstrations, clashes.
Organization and struggle for social revolution, anarchy and communism.
Anarchist student assembly area (Athens)
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Message: 6
"Women" are not a homogeneous class. In women there are different experiences of
domination as that one is white or racialized. The decolonial feminism intends to take
into account the specificity of the oppression of racialized women in their struggle. ----
Postcoloniality refers to how the former colonial societies were shaped by slavery,
colonization and racial discrimination. By extension, it refers to the discourses and
practices that organize the continuation in other forms such a social structure, once
abolished exploitation and official segregation. ---- Deconstructing blanchité ---- The
decolonial feminism is in this perspective to highlight how gender relations are
determined by the construction of the race by the postcolonial state, and show that
feminist agendas are not the same as that one is from an e-postcolonial minority or not.
An example put forward by the African American feminists in the 1960s was precisely that
we could not address the same way the slogan "My body belongs to me," hastily claiming
that all women recognize themselves in the struggle for right of abortion. Not that black
American feminists reject such a law nor even the idea that "my body belongs to me", but
they refused that their struggles are invisibilisées by the agenda of non-racialized
feminists.
Indeed, during the so-called second wave of feminism in the 1960s, non-white women and
white women of the lower classes - themselves dominated as poor - were mainly concerned
about the institutional campaigns of forced sterilization of forced abandonment of children.
Hence the famous injunction "White woman, listen" Hazel Carby saying the importance for
minority women to speak for themselves, organize themselves according to their own
experiences, without maternalism women white that kept universalize their views.
The decolonial feminism aims to deconstruct the blanchité, understood as a social
relation, in that whiteness has been historically signify a form of ownership resulting in
benefits, not least of which is not that of the immediate position universality. By this
is meant the failure to seize himself as speaking from a point of view, representing a
class interest determined by skin color.
Conversely, racialized-es-es are often reduced to their supposed communitarian
particularism. This is called racialization - being reduced to an innate tendency to group
in our choices and attitudes, which we could not undo - operates on a gender
differentiation: how one feels labeled, categorized, identified as a woman, is also how
one feels identified as non-white woman.
There is such entanglement of these two identifications that both sides of our being are
inseparable: the experience of womanhood, non-blanchité and, a fortiori, poverty or
insecurity, come to create a so hyper-aware, that the African American sociologist of the
early twentieth century, WEB Du Bois called "double consciousness".
There is always in us what is expected of us as being racialized-e: is expected of us that
we confirm prejudices about our supposed culture, skin color, and our sex. Specifically, a
popular area of women wearing the hijab will always expected to be submitted to a woman
who can afford all kinds of paternalistic lessons.
One could easily dismiss these expectations and stigma to a purely moral dimension of
racism, sexism and class contempt. Or, precisely, prejudice as they form a social
unconscious borrow wider domination of policies, those that feed on all social relegation
and especially the labor exploitation.
The question for the decolonial feminism is to work on institutions to undo the intricate
construction of race, masculinity, femininity, and the hegemonic sexuality. Specifically,
this is for example to criticize the immigration policies that accept foreign women
workers for work in big vegetable farms in southern Spain, on the grounds that Moroccan
women and separated from their children at home will not want to stay in Spain after their
contract ended.
This way of analyzing the operating logic of domination and taking into account both
racialization, labor exploitation and patriarchal domination, this is called within
feminism decolonial intersectionality (the fact that can be found at the intersection of
several relations of domination).
With this "method", we can observe and criticize the combinatorial effect - and not merely
cumulative, racialized women suffered another racial oppression that a man, not just an
additional oppression - different violence.
Our brothers are also our sisters
But decolonial feminism is also a great strength of thought that research at the heart of
cultures inferiorized sources of political consciousness, able ultimately to bring
together women and men, and to reconcile with each and every self, of loving oneself as
Malcolm X said, against this "accumulation of differences"[1]which makes capitalism.
We now understand the claim of decolonial feminism, like the indigenous feminist
libertarian Julieta Paredes, who defends a libertarian feminism community in Bolivia: "I
belong to my community. " No essentialism of the community there, on the contrary. This is
to leave the Aymara and Quechua cosmographies to build a community that demystifies
feminism of sexual difference and naturalization of social inequality.
Critical "identities"
We find the same thing in the Islamic feminism where the idea is that of ijtihad, the
effort to reinterpret the texts in the direction of gender equality and social justice.
Decolonial feminism is not an identity feminism insofar as it originates in the gap
vis-à-vis the dominant discourses and assujettissants, including in the so-called
community of belonging - as fictitious as it is.
It is therefore not simply to tell the pride of being a black woman, native, Arabic, Roma,
since these "identities" are themselves subject to our criticism. Rather, it is to refuse
to fight in our struggles without the possibility that our brothers are also sisters in an
enlarged sorority, racisant against the risk that has long been of our brothers, our
fathers - already humiliated by colonization, imperialism and capitalism - the only
supporters of our enslavement.
Hourya (AL Tarn)
[1]See interview with Silvia Federici in Alternative Libertaire September
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Intersectionnalite-Qu-est-ce-que
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Message: 7
Figen Yüksekdag, Co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is the only party
implementing the co-chair system in Turkey with an equal representation of women, has sent
a message to women after her arrest. HDP Co-chair Figen Yüksekdag was formally arrested
in Amed after she was detained during a raid on her house in Amed after an instruction by
Hakkari Public Prosecutor. Irmak was taken to Hakkari Courthouse together with HDP Hakkari
MP Abdullah Zeydan earlier today. ---- teks ---- After giving their statements, both
deputies were referred to court with a demand for their arrest. ---- Irmak has been
formally arrested Friday evening. ---- Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairs
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdag were detained as part of last night's operation
against the party executives in several cities in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan.
While Demirtas was detained in Amed, Yüksekdag was detained in Ankara and then brought to
Amed. Both Co-chairs have been taken to Diyarbakir Courthouse where they made a joint
statement alongside other detained MPs of the party earlier today.
Referred to court with a demand for their arrest, both Co-chairs have been remanded in
custody Friday afternoon.
HDP Mardin MP Gülser Yildirim who was detained within the scope of the operation against
the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) last night, has been arrested by a court she was
referred to earlier today.
https://fda-ifa.org/social-media-blocked-in-turkey-following-the-operation-on-hdp/
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