Anarchistic update news all over the world - Part 2 - 15 Nov 2016

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, SOLIDARITY AT 21 DIOKOMENOUS ANTIFASISTES /                    STRIES
     By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  US, black rose fed: A new political moment reactions to a
      Trump victory from the radical left (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, "Black and Red" [APO]: Concentration against
      auctions | TO FINISH THE AUCTIONS OR OTHERWISE OUR 
      steals LIFE,
      we will resist (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki: Concentration-march
      against Sunday work | 6/11 (gr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Octobre - antirépression,
      Militarization of the Police: Eye of the Needle (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
6.  Robert Graham Reply to Berthier (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  black rose fed: RED NOVEMBER, BLACK NOVEMBER - AN ANARCHIST
      RESPONSE TO THE ELECTION of Trump (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  US, No One is Coming to Save Us - An Anarchist Response to
      the Election of Donald Trump - by First of May Anarchist Alliance
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  France, Alternative Libertaire - public evening, "1936-2016:
      ¡Qué viva la revolución! "November 10 in Lisieux by AL Auge ,
      AL Rouen (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



On September 30, 2012 takes place in neighborhoods of Athens antifascist motoporeia which 
is hit by the repressive forces. Fifteen antifascists and antifascist caught in the area 
and then tortured inside the police headquarters. Six more antifascists later accused in 
the same proceedings. ---- The motoporeia is part of a large series of anti-fascist 
demonstrations which in the context of the broader anti-fascist and anarchist struggle 
attempted and succeeded in halting the spread of Nazi Golden Dawn, to show social state 
contribution to the establishment of the modern fascist para-state and to awaken 
consciences to the need for political and social self-defense against the state and 
para-state mechanisms. ---- Specifically, motoporeia of September 30 with mass 
participation moved to America Square area in recent days held fascist pogroms against 
migrants from a few dozen neo-Nazis under the cover of the Police Some of them move 
against motoporeias, repulsed and followed widespread repressive operation using batons, 
stun grenades and tear gas. Those arrested are driven to police headquarters where 
tortured for hours, with the then Minister Rep. Order N. Dendias to both public supports 
the dissolution of the course and torture that followed.

The Delta team attack to dissolve the power-demonstration and torture at police 
headquarters were exemplary. They were designed to curb the resistance against both the 
fascists as opposite and their state patrons. The promotion of modern totalitarianism of 
the state and capital, the attack on the social and class weak to their full allegiance 
and the uprooting of the resistance is the general framework that mobilizes state and 
para-state mechanisms behind democratic masks do not hide despite the brutality.

The brutality of a regime that spreads misery and war to manage on their results in the 
concentration camps and the establishment of the Emergency Regime. That leverages the 
fascist gangs to hit those who fight and intimidate those who have every reason to resist. 
Maintained regardless of the political managers of the same direction: creating a 
society-galley.

Against this regime oppressed and the exploited are the only way that the 
self-organization and solidarity. Social self-defense and of creating a class of mutual 
structures. Subversion of state and capitalist barbarism to build the libertarian and 
classless society of Anarchy and Communism. In this way we are not alone ...

AGAINST MODERN TOTALITARIANISM

SOCIAL - CLASS STRUGGLE organize themselves KI

Trial in the Court of Appeal (Loukareos, 4th floor.) Friday, November 11, 2016, 9:00 a.m.

Anarchist collective "Fire Circle" -

member of FROM (Anarchist Political Organisation - Federation collectives)

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The election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States left many across the 
left, even veterans of many years, shocked and stunned. Expecting the triumph of the 
deeply unpopular, status quo neo-liberal candidate Hillary Clinton, the result came in 
with an electoral college victory for the reviled, narcissistic, right-wing candidate 
Donald Trump running on a platform of white nationalism and anti-status quo populism. In 
these moments it's easy to feel powerless, to let rage simply pour out in whatever outlet 
it can find, but as radicals and those who believe in revolutionary social change, it's 
important to look ahead and analyze the new political moment we find ourselves in. ---- 
These short comments and reflections gathered the day after the election are from 
individuals and not particular organizations. We hope they bring hope in the struggles 
that lay ahead of us. #BuildMovementsNotElections #DontMournResist

We Are Not Powerless
By Tariq Khan

I am shocked. My prediction of an easy Clinton victory was quite wrong. Neo-liberal 
rainbow capitalism was not stronger than patriarchal white supremacist populism. The 
electoral system has proven incapable of stopping fascism, which means we have to do it 
ourselves through organizing. We are not powerless. We can still fight.

Tariq is a father, teacher, grad student, and organizer in Central Illinois with Black Rose.

Trump: Socialism or Barbarism
By Jackie Brown

In the battle between barbarism or socialism it seems as though humanity keeps choosing 
barbarism. First Brexit, now the rise of Trump. I just wonder how long white ppl will keep 
fucking over the rest of us. While I understand the frustration with neoliberalism and the 
system but what Trump supporters don't seem to understand is that their candidate is just 
as much a neo-liberal as the rest. As far as the white working class goes I can't help but 
feel sick and disgusted. Someone needs to organize them but it can't and won't be me. I'm 
gonna work on defending my community since they have chosen to viciously attack us all.

Jackie is an organizer in NYC with Take Back the Bronx and is a member of Unity & Struggle.

Don't Turn On Each Other
By Arun Gupta

Folks, don't turn on each other. A Trump victory is not the fault of a tiny disorganized 
left or an even more disorganized and ineffective Green Party. This is entirely the fault 
of a Democratic Party slavishly devoted to Wall Street, Obama's timidity, the Clintons' 
venality and corruption.

The entire ruling class - Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, mainstream media, 
celebrities, intelligentsia, foreign policy establishment-threw their full weight against 
Trump and it looks like he beat them all. This is not the responsibility of the left. But 
the responsibility of the left is to think deeply and carefully about how to organize, how 
to defend communities and movements who will bear the brutality of Trumpism, and how to 
actually build principled and radical mass movements that can win instead of clinging to 
tired dogmas.

Arun is an independent radical journalist for numerous publications who has written and 
reported extensively on the 2016 election.

Marches Will Come And Go
By Julio César Márquez Montero

Reflecting on street protests that broke out in Los Angeles with the news of Trump's 
victory: Last night was a reaction to what's coming in the next 4 years. As powerful as 
last night was, we need to push for long-term struggle. Marching without a definitive 
reason can be therapeutic for some but we need to constantly ask ourselves, how is this 
bringing power back to our communities? How does what we're doing get us closer to our 
goal of combating fascism?

For those who have been doing organizing work longer, be patient with those who are just 
now beginning their path toward fighting for a new world. We didn't know everything when 
we came to our first action so we have to be the ones to teach each other where we messed 
up and how we gained victories, what works and what doesn't.

If you are a tenant, organize your apartment building and join a tenants union. If you are 
a worker, organize your workplace and form a worker led union. Join mass organizations and 
organize your community. But please join something.

Marches are good for bringing people together but if we do not direct this energy to long 
term power building, these marches will come and go.

Julio is a cultural fieldworker in LA doing indigenous organizing with Nahuatlahtolli LA‘s 
Nahuatl class and is a member of Black Rose LA.

The Best Thing We Can Do
By Alex Rosales

When we analyze exactly why people voted the way they did, we understand that legitimate 
frustrations and feelings of alienation run very deep, especially among marginalized 
working class communities. The so called "rust-belt" states that historically provided the 
Democrats with a "Blue Firewall" have been penetrated because of neo-liberal trade 
policies that have widened the gulf between rich and poor and have contributed to the 
deindustrialization of their communities- exactly the kind of policies that HRC has 
continuously supported throughout her career. There is absolutely no way anyone can 
honestly and seriously blame third party voters (and even then one will see that the 
Libertarian candidate pulled more from Trump than Clinton than the Greens did from 
Clinton). The D's decided that a pro-establishment candidate with deep corporate ties was 
somehow an answer to those frustrations. The fact that Wall Street is lamenting an 
apparent Clinton loss is really a reflection of where most of the financial aristocracy's 
alliances lied; the very people that have wrought economic misery for millions.

The best thing we can do is protect each other through autonomous organization and focus 
on exercising popular pressure for progressive changes that are still possible in local 
and state levels. Mass movements have been successful even under the most red-baiting 
conservative administrations in the US (think Nixon). Love still Trumps hate, regardless.

Alex lives in Miami and is active in housing struggles and Miami Black Rose.

Righteous Anger, Mindful Anger
By Kristina Khan

To white folks that are angry today: We are allowed to have feelings. (Especially my queer 
and womyn friends. <3) But...

We are NOT allowed to throw our feelings around like we matter more than anyone else.

We are NOT allowed to blame anyone but our own lack of white anti-racist organizing. For 
that is what this is - the result of depending on a vote... the expectation that positive 
change will happen from the ballot box... the internal denial that white supremacy exists 
at all.

Many white supremacists and neo-nazis are well organized. I hope it's clear now that they 
aren't a fringe group but were merely waiting for an opportunity like this to reach white 
people in a way that we did not. People of color keep telling us that white supremacists 
are everywhere - we failed to listen.

People of color, immigrants, Muslims, and queer folks deserve to put their feelings up for 
all the world to see. They deserve to keep them hidden, too, if they choose. Will we 
listen? And will we take the time to show up - organized - against white supremacy?

Our anger can be righteous and no doubt it can burn in a way that helps support our 
comrades of color destroy white supremacy. But unorganized and selfish, our anger could 
hurt a lot of people that are in pain today. I ask that we be mindful of the space we take 
up today, and practice that mindfulness in the coming days and weeks. And then maybe we 
can better do this work of accountability.

Kristina is a radical birth worker, mother of three young children and active with Black 
Rose in Central Illinois.

We Need To Act Quickly
By KDog

Walking into my son's soccer practice, all the Mexican immigrant dads are staring at their 
phones watching election returns. I better check mine. My mom has left me a message on my 
phone - she was so upset by the results she left her friends election party. The Trump 
wave is hitting and it's scary.

My Facebook post asserting that a Clinton win was a given now looks foolish. I approach 
the dads and give a corny short speech (unlike my kids I don't speak Spanish) about how I 
got their backs and we'll fight Trump in the streets if we have to. They kinda smile and 
smirk at me but at the end of practice the group of them comes by and shakes my hand.

Things are moving very fast. The polls were wrong and our isolation from mostly rural and 
suburban white communities caused us to miss much of the groundswell. Mainstream 
capitalism will not protect us from fascism.  There are immediate dangers that we need to 
prepare for: Emboldened racists and police, immigrant communities targeted by ICE and 
Homeland Security, roll back of women's and LGBT rights.

We need to act quickly and boldly to prevent a culture of defeat and disempowerment from 
taking hold - while at the same time drawing out the lessons from this election.  The 
Democratic Party is a grave yard of social movements.  Our strength will be in the 
streets, schools and workplaces - not the ballot boxes beholden to a system of corruption 
and containment.

Kdog is a union steward, an organizer with the General Defense Committee of the IWW in the 
Twin Cities and a member of First of May Anarchist Alliance.

It May Seem Insurmountable, But We Hold the Power
By T. Nicholas

My heart goes out to all those saddened by this result. Real challenges lay ahead and I 
don't want to diminish that. There are some reasons to still hold on to hope as it's 
always darkest just before the dawn.

In my teenage years I lost all faith in humanity and settled into a self-satisfied 
cynicism, that is until the Bush presidency. The endless stream of brutality that flooded 
the news shook me to my core. I was lucky that where I lived this was joined by a vibrant 
protest movement that spread across the whole country woke me from my political slumber. 
It literally changed my life making me chose to dedicate myself to humanity in my work and 
most of my free time. Those challenges and struggles transformed the way I saw the world 
and my place in it.

It is too easy to feel overwhelmed by the weight of the present, even when a better future 
is so near. Slavery seemed invincible and natural not very long ago. All parties supported 
it and the world economy was dependent on it. The abolition of slavery was a distant dream 
of radicals who had no sway in a system built on systematic violence. But slavery was 
defeated, destroying the political parties that upheld it. Slavery's fall came on the 
heels of Southern victories in the years leading up to the final conflicts, but they 
defeated a pro-slavery Supreme Court and smashed business-as-usual. But it wasn't Lincoln 
and the Republicans who did it - they supported maintaining slavery into the war even in 
attempts to keep the union - it was the radical abolitionists and slave communities that 
used their power to protest, disrupt, and literally attack the system that maintained slavery.

They won by burning the flag, attacking military outposts, waging a general strike in the 
South, and scorning the constitution as a covenant with death and compact with hell. The 
victorious Union Army sang "John Brown's Body" marching into the concentration camps of 
Southern Slavery. The defeat of slavery led to a cascade of changes, including the rise of 
the US labor movement, and permanently altered the landscape of American power. It is a 
poignant lesson in our ti

http://www.blackrosefed.org/a-new-political-moment-reactions-to-a-trump-victory-from-the-radical-left/

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In a period of general economic and humanitarian crisis, once violated labor rights and 
acquired years that salaries and pensions decrease rapidly and unemployment is touching 
red, the bulk of society living in poverty and misery, thousands of people crammed into 
detention centers - "accommodation" in appalling living conditions, the SYRIZA-ANEL 
government in cooperation with banks and always under the supervision of European 
institutions, proceeds of auctioning a 'residence ,. ---- It is truly remarkable the fact 
that what no previous governments have managed to sign the first two memoranda, now comes 
the leftist government to realize and even in the midst of a mismatch social peace and 
consensus. ---- Given the economic and working conditions prevailing in the country and 
the standard of living, which are progressively shrinking, and the vast percentage of home 
ownership in Greece, met easily all the conditions set by law Katseli to facilitate the 
banks' work and n 'grab the houses of the world.

The first auction attempt first house shows all the vulgarity of the government and of 
this law, as regards individual diagnosed with high disability rate that fails to work. 
However, this does not tell us anything, because we believe the housing basic social need 
and will fight to not lose no man's house by banks.

The right to primary residence is not a matter of luxury but biotic need. The complete 
hypocrisy of the government culminates once raised the mask of the welfare state, but at 
the same time criminalizing the ownership of empty spaces and homes. Bind the property of 
the people, creating armies of homeless people will be forced Being on the road with their 
children or themselves to find solutions to meet their need for housing.

We, as anarchists / s perceive housing as indisputable social and basic need and to those 
who will try to to deprive any man, we say this: You will find us to you! We will not 
allow to pass into the hands of banks anyone home.

Against new and old understandings, against local and international masters To dismantle 
capitalism and to rebuild their lives, with key components of social solidarity, 
cooperation, self-organization. To take back all the stolen wealth, give the factories to 
the workers, the services to return to the public sphere, in society that will supervise 
them. To get around the ecclesiastical wealth and use it for our needs. To give life to 
empty houses and to realize the free life as we think in them. To sustain each other, to 
cook together, to feed them all, do not let any misanthropic being, no "political leader" 
divide us, talking together in a direct way, geitonia- neighborhood to meet and get to 
know our needs, to find together ways to cover them with justice and equality. Do what is 
our plan. A design that has remained the only one that does not lead to more misery in war 
and bloodshed. It is not easy and we will fight any government, the police, the army. But 
we will win because we have right on our side, we have the consciousness of the people on 
our side. And that is all you have. And it is enough.

We call for the exclusion of the Peace Thessaloniki to assert that we are entitled, of our 
homes! We call the whole world of struggle, the collectives, the neighborhood assemblies, 
the base unions, student figures to march with us and no home is not found at banker hands 
or any other state apparatus. All along, natives and immigrants, workers or not, To combat 
the looting of our lives and to give his life in our hands. All together for a society of 
equality, solidarity, freedom.

Challenger THE RIGHT TO HOUSING. Disputes PART THEREOF.

TO FINISH THE AUCTIONS. Take OUR LIVES ON IN OUR HANDS.

ALL / S IN COURT ON WEDNESDAY 9/11 15.30

Collegiality for social anarchism "Black and Red", a member of the Anarchist Political 
Organisation -O.S-

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To break the window of Capitalism ---- In times of impoverishment of the working class and 
the state of exception in which they are unemployed came from the previous government, the 
law provides for the operation of shops for seven Sundays a year, which by decree 
increased to 52. "We defend the Sunday holiday! Not shop not working "was the slogan of 
Syriza up before the election. Nevertheless the shops will remain open for another Sunday, 
6 November. As with a number of issues that would change radically with the left 
government, so it is on ice. We had no doubt this development already before the election, 
let alone now. The SYRIZA-ANEL government does nothing other than to ensure "labor peace" 
and to promote "national unity", a section always orchestrated by the bosses and works in 
their favor.

Which aims to abolish the Sunday holiday?

The abolition of the Sunday holiday and full flexible working hours is a very important 
part of capitalist restructuring intensified in response to the crisis. At the heart of 
this restructuring is the labor relations as the factor that is based on the exploitation 
of workers, the production of surplus value and ultimately the profits of the capitalists. 
It is a measure that will directly benefit mainly of businessmen trade sector and major 
shopping areas that foster the further accumulation of capital. But it is still another 
attack on labor achievements that opens the way for the further intensification and 
aftarchikopoiisi already bad labor relations in accordance with the prevailing spirit of 
full commercialization of our lives. To survive capitalism in crisis should be expanded 
aggressively in more and more places where until now had not been sufficiently exploited. 
The goal is the transformation of workers into labor machines with few rights when no work 
would be tame consumers. That is, the total conversion of life in a goodwill production 
cycle, consumption goods and capital accumulation. This is the notorious capitalist 
development. Anyone who thinks that this attack in his spare time workers will cease to 
trade is very mistaken.

The holy alliance of commercialization of our lives

This effort brings together an enlarged front forces each in its own way contributes to 
the common goal. The driving force is of course the capitalists and a key lever the 
government using the state apparatus acts as trustee of capital. This course is one of the 
basic functions of the state in modern totalitarianism. The role of the judiciary is also 
clear and distinct and a rough look at the role played in smashing to pieces of labor 
rights in recent years does not let the fact on which the decision of the State Council to 
cloud the issue. The mainstream media have taken over the role of the ideological vanguard 
trying to present the Sunday opening of shops as a solution to the crisis and to advertise 
as much as possible, at the same time showing any reaction as antisocial and harmful to 
workers. Particular mention should be made of the chipsterofasistikes free press tabloids 
who allegedly apoideologikopoiimeni and aestheticised visual content crystallize social 
ekfasismou as aggressive neoliberalism. Trade associations in the majority and they helped 
them in their own way. Initially the tergiversation of "7 Sundays and not 52," which 
seemed to not understand that hegemony now belongs to the bourgeois and not the same, and 
any change in the Sunday public holiday will not be staying there but will sway me 
everything. After the introduction of institutions that contribute to more flexible 
schedules such as the "white nights" where workers are forced to work until midnight to 
increase turnover. In the 'white nights' they contributed several municipalities that 
supported many such efforts, even mayors belonging to the left, demonstrating its role as 
left the capital and their potential power management system rather than the tipping 
force. Finally, shouting consumers who are willing to preface their breasts to shop Sunday 
playing the role of useful idiots who do not realize that the complete elimination of 
labor rights and will affect them.

The importance of the fight against the abolition of the Sunday holiday

We must not forget the direct impact of the intensification of work in the lives of 
workers. At the same time the official unemployment rate is 26% spending time workers 
clipped. The concept of free time shrinks to only fit the consumption and much needed 
rest. The labor movement needs to understand the problem of free time as the same 
importance to the salary, as aspects of the same thing. Must epananoimatodotisei the 
meaning of free time outside and against capitalism, a time that employees use to organize 
their resistance to capitalist barbarism, to create their own culture, to live outside the 
sovereignty of the goods. The struggle against the abolition of the Sunday public holiday 
must beat to give an impetus to the workers' struggles and to enrich their content.

What to do

The abolition of the Sunday public holiday is not just for shop assistant but all workers. 
The strikes of the industry associations Sundays are open shops are necessary and should 
be supported, but not enough. It is necessary to horizontal coordination of larger pieces 
of our class, based associations, labor collectives and shapes that these strikes to 
obtain generalized characteristics. In this endeavor the institutional unionism and 
defeated logic and practices of a burden, not an ally. To win this battle, the road is 
one: we must destroy the functioning of the market on Sundays. With massive marches, 
dynamic interventions and inclusive shops, sabotage, closures of roads to create a diverse 
movement until you get a decision that our Sundays are not going to give away the world of 
the commodity. Our Sundays will use to just have fun and talk, to fall in love and to 
organize the social revolution that will sweep the world of the state and capital and 
build freedom.

CONCENTRATION-COURSE and then LIVE in tribute to the political song SUNDAY 6/11 12.00 
TSIMISKI WITH ST. SOFIA (organized coordinated action against Sunday work and 'liberated 
hours ")

Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/

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Pierre Douillard-Lefevre, sociologist and historian, lost an eye following a launcher 
firing "defense of bullets." In a small book published by Editions du Waterfront, Eye of 
the Needle, it traces the history of the creation of the French police arsenal in detail 
the composition, and highlights the growing militarization of the police. ---- In 1995, 
the Director General of the National Police, Claude Gueant, decided to equip his men with 
a new weapon: the Flash-Ball gun. The turn is symbolic: the troops fired back at the 
crowd. In 2002, Sarkozy, Interior Minister, will engage in this shift with enthusiasm and 
non-lethal weapons will increase. They allow to target a determined protester and 
implement a highly effective strategy in a hurt to deter thousand.

Tested in a ghost town in the Dordogne and in the peripheries (the poor and non-white 
constitute the overwhelming majority of serious blessé.es victims of police) or at 
sporting events, these weapons are designed to a field of Action: revolt. The deployment 
of men and equipment against social movements is increasingly imposing, even while 
contesting practices are pacified. The rupture between rulers and ruled-are radicalized, 
and our leaders are responding by intensifying the violence safe.

Meanwhile, the capitalist logic is grafted on the issue of policing: France, we know, is a 
major arms sellers countries, lethal and non-lethal ... The field use is a good argument 
sales and the ability to obtain new orders, a good reason to still massify already 
colossal equipment.

But the fight is also semantic ... a nod to Klemperer, P. DL offers us a tasty analysis of 
the term "defense of bullet launcher," a masterpiece of understatement! More broadly, any 
term calling the police arsenal deployed deny the violence, while conversely, the 
protestors are diabolisé.es ( "thugs" ...) or réifié.es by the speeches of agents and 
service their superiors. Moreover, the servile complaisance of politicians who bet on an 
alliance with the police unions to get (or stay) in power, causes them to adjust their 
interventions on this paradigm. Rightward and rampant media in recent years using the 
security doxa to bloom, and the injured are serious-disappearing speeches.

Opening with the death of Remi Fraisse , and a review of the state apparatus immediately 
set in motion to stifle the political, the text written before the attacks of 13-November 
and forward movements against the law work, describes the state of chilling picture of the 
situation today. And ends on the idea that the question is no longer whether new 
thresholds will be crossed in police violence, but finding how to organize ourselves to 
resist.

Mélanie (girlfriend AL)

Pierre Douillard-Lefevre, Eye of the Needle - State violence and militarization of the 
police, 2016, 86 pages, 8 euros.

To go further, please read:

Mathieu Rigouste, Police domination
Their weapons, our mutilé.es! Solidarity with Laurent
Flash-Ball in Notre-Dame-des-Landes: the PS-EELV method
The Testet: Killed by a grenade-called "non-lethal". The struggle continues!

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Militarisation-de-la-Police-L-Arme

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You recently posted René Berthier's response to my (and Max Nettlau's) claims that Bakunin 
really was an anarchist [http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29301]. I would appreciate it if 
you would post my response:

https://robertgraham.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/beware-bakunin-anarchist/

Regards,

Robert Graham
www.robertgraham.wordpress.com

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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:11:49 +0200
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Subject: (en) black rose fed: RED NOVEMBER, BLACK NOVEMBER - AN
        ANARCHIST RESPONSE TO THE ELECTION of Trump
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WHAT WE ARE FACING ---- Donald Trump has been elected the forty-fifth President of the 
United States. As revolutionaries we are committed to a world that has no place for the 
likes of Trump or Hillary Clinton. We know that Clinton would have continued making a 
world for the ruling class and would likely have done nothing of substance for common 
people. However, it's impossible to deny that Trump and his Vice President Mike Pence 
represent a virulent force of racism, misogyny, and authoritarianism that must be 
absolutely resisted. They recall the memories of the dictators of history, particularly 
the German and Italian Fascists, having been propelled to victory by an insurgent racist 
turnout at voting booths around the country. ---- Although these are trying times, we 
cannot afford to withdraw into despair and sorrow for long. We must fight the fear that 
grips us, and the fear that Trump will perpetuate.

There is no way around it. We MUST organize.

Trump has been clear. He will use the movement that gravitated towards him to advance a 
white supremacist platform. He will dismantle the victories won by workers and oppressed 
people. He and Pence are sworn enemies of women, people of color, undocumented immigrants, 
queer people, and the left and progressives generally. They will not respond to the 
ecological crises of climate change and species extinction, except by adopting policies 
that make these much worse.

Although Clinton promised continuing deportations, expanded wars, rising income 
inequality, police murders, theft of indigenous land, and all of the chronic ills of 
neoliberal capitalism, we can expect new and stronger dangers from Trump. Migrants will 
face dangers on all fronts - even though Obama deported more migrants than all of the 
presidents of the 20th century combined. There are promises to ramp up into a massive 
violent anti-immigrant campaign, targeting especially Mexican, Muslim and Arab immigrants. 
While neoliberalism has largely been discredited, it remains to be seen if Trump will be 
able to replace the current economic regime with his reactionary racist agenda, or if the 
capitalist class will fight him back on that. Yet we can clearly expect the weak 
environmental protections that exist to be undone, resulting in spiraling climate change, 
bringing more energy companies to further destroy indigenous land in the immediate future, 
and accelerating the possible extinction of life on our planet by decades. We can expect 
abortion rights to be rolled back. We can expect many more poor people to die from lack of 
adequate healthcare with a repeal of Obamacare. We can expect a harsher climate of 
repression against social movements like Black Lives Matter coming from Trump's Department 
of Justice. We can expect Trump to integrate with the international alliance of 
authoritarian statists and far-right populists - from Vladimir Putin to Golden Dawn in 
Greece, Marine Le Pen in France, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands - and to worsen 
Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, collaborate with Bashar al-Assad to crush the 
Syrian and Rojava Revolutions, and unleash wars without precedent that may well pass the 
nuclear threshold.

Perhaps one of the most important changes is that under Trump's presidency the far-right 
will continue growing into a more organized and powerful movement, and will have the space 
to take action. Racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, and xenophobic violence will rise 
as they receive state sanction. With large numbers of white people won over in a 
terrifying way to a strong allegiance to whiteness, there is fertile ground for the 
fascist right to expand.

War is not an option, as it is happening to us as we speak. Our only choice is whether or 
not we will fight back.

OUR NEXT MOVES

Revolution cannot be an abstract idea or distant-goal bandied around by out-of-touch 
intellectuals. It must be a living, breathing movement that brings hope and victories to 
our communities, workplaces, and schools. Our revolution will not be a single spectacular 
event, but instead it is a process that has already begun. Community meetings, marches, 
strikes, blockades, occupations, physical defense of abortion clinics, and physical 
resistance to racists and neo-Nazis are just some of the tactics we can employ. The 
important part is for regular everyday people to come together, to build power from below 
that does not rest in the hands of any corrupt Washington party in any way.

Our strategy relies on the unity of these direct actions, as the ballot box is no defense 
against fascism and hatred, nor is the Democratic Party. We are seeing that victories we 
have won through hard struggle could very well be reversed. Our only chance is to build a 
movement that relies on the power of the people.

A strategy to defend our communities and to challenge Trump begins with us, the exploited 
workers. Together we hold the solution to Trump and to the bigger problems of capitalism, 
patriarchy, and white supremacy. Some sections of the ruling classes may share our desire 
to get rid of Trump, but only so that they can put another capitalist in the White House 
and then have us go through this cycle of crisis all over again. While we may end up 
marching with these people in the streets for the next four years, we know that our allies 
are those who also work to build the independent power of the exploited classes, not those 
who want us to pin our hopes on political candidates.

We must push for greater unity of working-class social movements. We need to reach out to 
others who are doing organizing in our areas and talk to them about working together. We 
should push for social movement organizations that we are part of - like labor unions, 
Black Lives Matter chapters, immigrant rights organizations - to organize city-wide 
summits to plan how to support each other and how to coordinate opposition to Trump. 
Between now and January 20th, we should organize as much national discussion and 
coordination between social movements and revolutionary organizations as possible. We 
should plan for mass protests on Trump's inauguration day, and we should see these 
protests as organizing tools to continue building unity and to draw people into the 
day-to-day organizing in our communities where we will really be building the long-term 
power that we need to be a threat to the state.

Our organizing should be building spaces where people can have open political discussions, 
begin taking control, and create their own democratic mass movements. We should be 
striving to organize neighborhood and community assemblies: bases for our collective power 
against the state and capital.

Meanwhile, we need to be confronting far-right violence; seeking out and shutting down 
fascist organizing wherever it rears its head. In the long term, though, we will need to 
do much more to undercut the political base for Trump and the far-right by organizing 
white workers to abandon their support for white supremacy in favor of class solidarity. 
That means that white revolutionaries need to focus their efforts more on organizing white 
people, and on rebuilding social movements that can organize white people not only around 
the needs that they share with working class people of color, but also around people of 
color's demands for freedom. Right now most of our comrades are concentrated in liberal, 
highly-educated, urban centers. In the long term we must put more resources into 
developing bases for revolutionary politics in rural areas, in the south, and in the midwest.

We need to build the people's power from below, to resist Trump's policies directly, to 
create spaces where his directives will not be obeyed. If we sit idly by, we can only 
expect further generations of people like Donald Trump.

As we organize against Trump, we must also fight the tendency to want to resolve this 
problem through electoral politics. If anything, this election has proven that the 
neoliberal Democrats are obsolete, that they can never give us what we need. Let us leave 
them behind. Looking forward, we cannot afford to have any more false hopes, and we cannot 
ever again accept the lesser of two evils - because this is where it has gotten us. The 
best chance we have is to turn towards our communities, schools and workplaces and start 
building popular power.

Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation alone cannot make this movement, but we can be 
a part of it. On Tuesday, Trump won the election, but now the people must win back their 
hearts and peace of mind.

With Love and Anger!

#DontMournResist #NoMorePresidents #

Statement by Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (US/EE.UU)
http://www.blackrosefed.org/election-statement-2016/

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Message: 8


The surprise victory of Donald Trump this past Tuesday has quickly presented people in 
this country (and around the world) with a vastly different political landscape than we 
had expected. We are seeing a rise in right-wing attacks as the far right is emboldened by 
the victory, much like what happened earlier this year after the success of the Brexit 
referendum in the UK. The incompetence and capitulation of the Democratic Party has forced 
many of its former supporters to recognize that the fight against the far right cannot be 
won by liberal electoral politics. This new reality forces anti-authoritarians of all 
stripes to rise to the challenge of building strong movements for working class 
self-defense in this new atmosphere. ---- Much writing in the coming weeks will be 
dedicated to figuring out, from the Democratic perspective, “what went wrong.” Already 
many authors have argued that Trump’s success is solely the result of white nationalism 
and misogyny. Part of Trump’s appeal is that his ideas are a racist response to there 
currently being a black president. Trump’s open embrace of white supremacy and patriarchy 
was crucial to his victory, but we do not believe it can tell the whole story. It cannot, 
for example, explain why Trump received more votes than other recent Republicans from 
latinos, women, and black voters.

Another narrative states that in the rust belt as in Europe, the devastating effects of 
decades of austerity, neoliberal trade agreements, and an orientation towards 
multinational corporations have been challenged. That challenge in the U.S. and elsewhere 
has come in the form of xenophobic nationalism. There is a significant amount of truth to 
this as well, but it can’t explain much of Trump’s success without acknowledging the 
serious appeal that open white nationalism and misogyny has gained in this election.

Perhaps the most revealing aspect of this moment is that after spending months describing 
Trump as a grave threat to the lives of women, people of color, queer and trans people and 
the disabled, the entire Democratic Party has immediately capitulated to him. They have 
made clear that they always held preserving their broken system to be far more important 
than our lives. Many among their base are for the first time seeing the party’s true 
colors, and are reaching out to radical organizations in the interest of carrying on the 
fight that the Democrats so quickly abandoned. Already we are seeing attacks on muslims, 
immigrants, people of every color besides white, queer and trans people. This is not 
abstract, it is already happening. We should expect more of this and must make organizing 
to oppose it a top priority.

For anti-authoritarians, this presents a fundamental challenge that we must rise to. Many 
on the left will continue to advocate for independent candidates, third parties, or 
“progressive” Democrats like Bernie Sanders. In response, we must not only articulate that 
this is a dead-end strategy but offer serious alternatives for people to engage in and 
understand what we mean by our watchword of Community Self-Defense.

Across the US, from cities to rural areas, it is imperative that anarchists and 
anti-authoritarians strive to build organizations to battle the emboldened far right, to 
advocate through militant action the needs of working-class communities, and to combat 
state repression. We must encourage broad participation from those who are now looking for 
an alternative to the failed strategy which has got us to this moment. Moving forward, we 
must be sure to resist the pull of nonprofits and electoralism which will surely return to 
stymie any radical activity once the Democratic Party recovers.

Trump is an opportunist who understood the frustration of mostly struggling white people 
and tapped into that anger. He is not currently a fascist but has fascist tendencies that 
emboldens fascists and authoritarians of many stripes. Calling him one can limit our 
understanding of fascism, which we need to develop in order to better oppose it.

We are encouraged that so many have taken to the streets across the country. We hope more 
will do the same. Trump’s attacks in the form of policy and his supporters physical 
attacks and intimidation, must be opposed from day one.

Our organizations must be effective. The sense of despair many are feeling is grounded in 
the reality of an ascendant far right. Right now, they face little resistance. The sense 
of urgency many of us have felt is a recognition of the need to build that resistance. It 
is time for us to take up that task, to find new comrades ready to fight, and to fight. No 
one is coming to save us–we cannot use the electoral system to fight the far right 
effectively. It’s time to stop waiting and defend each other in the streets!

What Needs to Be Done:
1. No to National “healing”, working with, or a grace period for the Trump Regime
2. Take to the streets – build a militant resistance
3. Build working-class defense organizations that resist racist attacks, sexual assault, 
immigration and homeland security raids and deportations, police brutality and state 
repression
4. Agitate and organize for workers actions – including a general strike against Trump
5. No to containment of the struggle back into the Democratic Party, electoralism and the 
Non-Profit Industrial Complex

http://m1aa.org/?p=1268

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Message: 9


Come discover an exhibition dedicated to Spain, followed by a screening and participate in 
the debate with Franck Mintz, writer and historian of Spain and especially this period. 
---- In 1936 a part of Spain rose against a fascist coup. In Catalonia the people 
mobilized to build another social project. ---- In 2016, facing the rise of fascism, we 
must resist whatever our differences, in order not to suffer the peoples of Europe martyr 
in the 30s and 40s. ---- LISIEUX-HAUTEVILLE ---- Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 19:30 ---- 
Mozart Room, Lisieux-Hauteville ---- Event for the public meeting on social networks, 
reach and disseminate! ---- The Collective Alternatives Libertarians Rouen and the Pays 
d'Auge.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?1936-2016-Que-viva-la-revolucion