Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Anti mperialist concentration; Course Tuesday 15/11
17.30 Athens (Stournari & Patision) (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Trump's victory speaks to a crumbling liberal
order by Jerome Roos - ROAR (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire Tract AL - Against
patriarchal violence: in the street on 25 November! (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, class war: Fuck Farage, Overthrow the Elite! 5th
December, Whitehall (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On 15 and 16 Neomvriou political representative of US imperialism, Barack Obama, will
visit Greece, to congratulate the Greek Government on the progress that has shown in
implementing reforms, demanding the further involvement of the country in the imperialist
plans, and will be on the table the issue of refugees. - The visit of the President of the
World in the given situation (like Clinton on 19/11/99) is an even greater challenge for
the youth and the workers' and people's movement, as it will take place in view of the
three-day celebration of the Polytechnic uprising. ---- This move aims to attack the
anti-dictatorial struggle and the student movement and the reversal of the actual content,
it aims to highlight the murderers of the people as friends and allies for debt relief,
such as constantly projected by the SYRIZA-ANEL government . Why are the same, which
supported the local bourgeoisie of the period of the Greek civil war and after, so to set
up the post-civil war state persecution and terrorism. Why are they who implemented the
NATO emergency plan "Prometheus" (April 1967), ostensibly eliminate the communist threat.
In this sense, the Obama visit mocking the anti-imperialist struggle of the people against
the Euro-Atlantic interests, attempts to apoprasanatolisei the people and youth of the new
unbearable anti-labor measures, to be taken during the beta evaluation epivivevaionei in
the most brutal how reactionary position "belong to the West," which had expressed Tsipras
2014 before the rise of Syriza in power.
Nobel laureate peace first colored US president - worthily continuing the previous
American leaders of the world the systematic violation of status rights of African
Americans with dozens dolofonies- as responsible for enhancing the monstrosity of ISIS,
the wipe out thousands of people, the refugees, death , disaster and rapacious
exploitation and plunder of resources xechon countries is undesirable days of the popular
uprising of the Polytechnic and will welcome him, as befits a murderer and an enemy of the
people.
We call them comrades and the girlfriend of the revolutionary movement, anarchists and
communists, non-aligned militants and fighters to protest massively and fighter against
imperialist killing machine, serving Obama, honoring the popular movement anti-imperialist
struggles. Why do people determine their history, snapping imperialism and the capitalist
system that generates the. Why the mnimoniaki Greece until the heroic resistance to the
territories of Palestine and the sacrifice of the Kurdish people, the victory of the
people will mean the nightmare of the imperialists.
WAR IN RULE, CAPITAL, IMPERIALISM
VICTORY IN THE ARMS OF PEOPLES
ALL / S IN THE STREETS
Imperialist concentration; Course Tuesday 15/11 17.30 Athens (Stournari & Patision).
Anarchist collectivity New Philadelphia
Anarchist collectivity Rubicon
Red line - group for the working counterattack
anarchist-communists Assembly class counterattack against the EU
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Message: 2
Only a reinvigorated left and radical-democratic movements can clear away the ruins of the
political establishment and defeat the proto-fascist right. ---- A political earthquake
has just ripped through the world. There can be no doubt that Donald Trump's victory in
the US presidential elections marks a historic breaking point for American politics and
the liberal international order established in the wake of World War II. Things simply
won't be the same after this. And yet it's crucial to remind ourselves that this moment
has been a long time in the making. ---- In recent years, the twin pillars of the postwar
world system - global capitalist markets and liberal democratic institutions - have been
steadily decaying under the strains of a structural crisis of financialization and a deep
legitimation crisis of the neoliberal political establishment. Yesterday's shock election
result indicates that this dual crisis has finally come to a head. Trump himself will
eventually move on, but the crisis he speaks to will fester and ultimately overflow the
regulatory capacity of even the world's most powerful state. We are now rapidly moving
towards the kind of world-systemic chaos predicted by sociologists Giovanni Arrighi and
Beverly Silver at the turn of the century.
Here we should immediately dispense with a pervasive and dangerous myth: Trump's rise
cannot simply be blamed on the supposedly extremist and backward views of the American
working class. In the US, at least, the rush to right-wing populism appears to be a middle
class response to the dual crisis of global capitalism and liberal democracy. As Paul
Mason puts it, "Donald Trump has won the presidency - not because of the "white working
class," but because millions of middle-class and educated US citizens reached into their
soul and found there, after all its conceits were stripped away, a grinning white
supremacist. Plus untapped reserves of misogyny."
It was this white middle class, especially men, that handed Trump the presidency: the
majority of those making less than $50,000 a year voted for Clinton, while a majority of
those making more than that voted for Trump. Almost two in three white men, 63 percent in
all, voted for the far-right Republican candidate. But while these numbers certainly do
reveal a disconcerting picture about the deeply embedded racism at the heart of American
society, Trump's popularity should neither be overstated nor naturalized. All in all,
Trump actually garnered a lower share of the popular vote than either Bush, Romney or McCain.
The question we should be asking right now is why America's racist underbelly has suddenly
burst out into the open. And here we cannot bypass the complex interactions between
cultural and economic factors. The academic literature on nationalism and anti-immigrant
sentiment has all too often treated this relation as some kind of dichotomy. In truth, the
two are deeply intertwined and cannot be separated from one another: it is the existential
fear generated by intense socio-economic insecurity that causes deep-seated ethnocentric
biases to resurface. In a climate of pervasive anxiety, wrought by decades of neoliberal
restructuring and years of economic crisis, the lure of a strong leader and the
identification of a set of scapegoats may be too much to resist for many.
While Trump is clearly neither charismatic nor honest, Noam Chomsky essentially foresaw
the general development that would lead to a "crazed" right-wing Republican electoral
victory six years ago:
If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest, this country is in real trouble
because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any
coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an
answer, we have an enemy'? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants
and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be
told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. Military force will be
exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it
happens it will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world power.
Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don't think all this is very far
away. If the polls are accurate it is not the Republicans but the right-wing Republicans,
the crazed Republicans, who will sweep the next election.
Ultimately, the "frustration, disillusionment and justified anger" that fed into Trump's
victory has its roots not only in the botched handling of the global financial crisis and
the Great Recession that followed it, but goes back to the four decades of economic
globalization and neoliberal restructuring that preceded it. This is a crucial point.
After all, if Trump were merely a symptom of the financial crisis, a sustained economic
recovery could eventually undermine him. But if, in contrast, his rise is actually the
result of a much more deep-seated set of contradictions in global capitalism and liberal
democracy, the factors that fed into his electoral victory are likely to persist - and the
anti-establishment backlash is likely to further intensify.
In The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi famously identified a very similar set of
developments leading to the breakdown of the liberal world order in the early-twentieth
century. As he pointed out, the rise of fascism was not just a result of the Great
Depression, but more importantly of the extensive liberalization of world markets in the
first wave of globalization of the late-nineteenth century. For Polanyi, it was the
"disembedding" of economic relations from all social constraints, the commodification of
spheres of life that had hitherto been protected from the "vagaries of the market," and
the intense social insecurities generated by this "great transformation" that finally
propelled the rise of nationalist countermovements to economic liberalism - a popular
backlash against cosmopolitan haute finance, personified by the racist stereotype of the
greedy Jew, and against the political establishment of the day.
Donald Trump, the billionaire real-estate mogul with his lavish and unconventional
cosmopolitan lifestyle, is clearly not a straightforward fascist or national-socialist of
the 1930s variety. But while history may not literally repeat itself, there is at least
one important respect in which today's situation at least rhymes with Polanyi's times.
What we are witnessing at the moment appear to be the early stages of a long drawn-out
process of political fragmentation, ideological polarization and institutional
decomposition that will be marked by intensifying systemic chaos and an escalation of
political conflict across the board. It is not altogether unlikely that these developments
will eventually culminate in the gradual breakdown of the Pax Americana, just as the
global disorder of the interbellum period lauded the end of the Pax Britannica.
This crisis, however, is structural - and Trump should not be viewed in isolation. Between
Brexit, Le Pen, Alternative für Deutschland, Golden Dawn, Geert Wilders and Viktor Orban,
the nationalist far-right is on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic. If we include the
constitutional coup in Brazil and Erdogan's counter-coup in Turkey, we can even extend
that same line of analysis to emerging markets. The political disorder predicted by
Arrighi and Silver is steadily becoming generalized. Clearly the crisis of national
democracy and the revival of economic nationalism are international phenomena. The
political economist Mark Blyth rightly refers to it as "Global Trumpism."
This groundswell of anti-establishment anger will continue to spread, and we should expect
further shockwaves in the months and years ahead - perhaps most acutely in Italy, where
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi looks set to lose a constitutional referendum later this year,
possibly resuscitating the Eurozone debt crisis that has been lying dormant ever since EU
governments crushed yet another short-lived anti-establishment government in Greece last
year. There is little doubt, then, that 2016 will go down in history as the political
corollary to 2008. The crisis of global capitalism and liberal democracy will continue to
deepen, and things will probably get a lot worse before they get any better.
Our response to this crisis must be guided by Walter Benjamin's observation that the rise
of every fascism is always an index of a failed revolution. Now more than ever we need a
radical, independent left and strong social movements to build collective power from
below. Only a radical democracy can clear away the ruins of a decaying liberal order and
defeat the proto-fascist right before it wreaks irreversible damage on our planet and the
world population. This is the point at which we get organized and dramatically intensify
our struggles.
Related Link: https://roarmag.org/essays/trump-victory-legitimation-crisis-capitalism/
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29756
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Message: 3
Whistled in the streets, underpaid work, beaten and enslaved in privacy, look at us, do we
speak to break the taboo of violence. When a woman is attacked, it is all women who are
affected and it is all together that we must defend ourselves against male violence. ----
In 2014, France, 134 women died at the hands of their spouses. 223,000 women aged 18 to 75
undergo annual physical and sexual violence by their partners and 84,000 each year are
victims of sexual violence or sexual abuse attempts. 1% of them say they have complained.
Nevertheless, in 2014, only 765 men were sentenced. In France, men earn 23.5% more than
women. 100% of women who use public transport there have been harassed. ---- In Paris, the
demonstration of November 25 will leave at 18:30 Bastille. ---- Join Alternative
Libertaire in antipatriarchal radical pole.
Upon arrival, Republic Square, participate in the activities "Feminists against patriarchy"!
Violence against women whether physical, sexual or psychological effect is to isolate,
humiliate, and dominate all women. They are daily.
If successive governments adopt pseudo-feminist discourses, the reality of their actions
is quite different: the government undermine women breaking the public health service or
by breaking the labor law. More women are insecure in the field of work or isolated at
home, they are more vulnerable to male violence.
Against the FN and all reactionary policies
We have to now fight inequalities and macho violence nevertheless intolerable political
events marked by the rise of the National Front and even fascist reactionary movements can
imagine the worst for the coming months. The extreme right exploits the rights of women to
propagate hate speech and fight the right of women to control their own bodies when they
are elected, they remove subsidies Family Planning.
Similarly, the delisting of abortion is only part of the FN program that develops a range
of inequality measures favoring the forced return of housewives where isolated, they can
be entirely by the husband and thank you serve "the nation". We firmly fight their
project, that of a hierarchical society in which women occupy an inferior place in the
private sphere as in the public space.
Do not suffer the violence imposed on us men!
We refuse to undergo this society in which women are humiliated, assaulted, raped.
We refuse inequalities that produce violence. They have only one goal: keeping women in
oppression and exploitation. Our enemy is patriarchy, a system that exploits and oppresses
women.
Whistled in the streets, underpaid work, beaten and enslaved in privacy, look at us, do we
speak to break the taboo of violence. When a woman is attacked, it is all women who are
affected and it is all together that we must defend ourselves against male violence.
Today, all back on the street, never to be regarded as objects.
Today, all resuming power over our lives and never suffer patriarchal oppression!
G campaign on violence against women
Do you provide also:
the special issue of G on violence against women
of A1 and A2 format posters
the stickers
pitches of 8 pages with figures, explanations, tools to react. Available at the shop .
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Contre-les-violences-patriarcales
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Message: 4
‘Without violent confrontation with the forces of the state the working class will never
break through the deadly, stultifying condition which enmeshes it today. The class becomes
decadent without class violence.
Without a willingness to confront and attack capitalism physically the state, authority,
institutions will continue to flourish.
This will mean the subordination of every individual not part of the ruling class to every
facet of the system'
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/overthrow-elite-whitehall-5-december/
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