Today's Topics:
1. Greece, anarchist-federation: Update 23/12 actions hellhole
(gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Where the revolution is more likely to
happen, in developed or non-developing countries? by Zaher Baher
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, afed.cz: Work download -- The brochure about the
system and ideology of labor and anarchist request to free
themselves from them is now free to download. [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. wsm.ie: RTE Drivetime's hostile click bait against Apollo
House falls flat on its face (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre -
Antisécuritaire: Police hate (almost) everyone (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On Friday, December 23, the Anarchist Federation called for actions in three cities
(Athens, Thessaloniki, Lamia) in solidarity with the struggles of punishing prisoners. ---
We support the requests of prisoners for inclusion of St. Paul in the NHS (ie the
transformation into -even stoicheiodos- hospital) and the normalization of release due to
health, now completely arbitrary disposal of "justice" resulting dying, almost steadily, a
man a month. --- In Athens, with the participation of 20 locomotives and some cars took
the motoporeia from Exarchia Square Park city hall next to Korydallos prison. --- It was
the first action of solidarity meeting in the struggles of punishing prisoners in
participating the region of Athens AO ---- They set up a sound system and was distributing
information material. A message of solidarity was from "outside" to "inside". These
actions will continue and escalate until the final satisfaction of self-evident demands of
the prisoners.
At the same time, solidarity interventions made at the same time in Thessaloniki and Lamia
from the groups members of the Anarchist Federation in these cities.
In Thessaloniki, the intervention was to Kamara from the Libertarian Initiative of
Thessaloniki, at 18:00. They hung banners, shared texts and tossed leaflets.
Lamia call was given for 18:30 in Freedom Square and the intervention began at 19:00. The
square posted banners and shared texts Anarchist Federation passers / s for about half an
hour, by members of the Assembly of Anarchists antiauthoritarians / -Three Lamia and
solidarity / s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2FlJaMsWV8
Anarchist Federation
http://anarchist-federation.gr
http://ainfos.ca/gr/ainfos02781.html
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Message: 2
There is no doubt that over the last couple of decades our movement has declined
dramatically . Not only it is not achievable anymore, in fact it cannot maintain what had
already achieved before. It is also very clear that Marx's theory is not the remedy for
the current situation any longer. I believe it is extremely hard to expect that the
revolution to take place in the advanced industrialised countries, at least not in the
very near future. ---- This article puts forward the argument of possibility that the
revolution could happen in the less or non-industrialised countries, before the advanced
industrialised countries. ---- The article explains the mechanisms that exist in the
non-industrialised countries that brings about the revolution. ---- Where the revolution
is more likely to happen, in developed or non-developing countries?
By: Zaher Baher Nov 2016
Opposite to the communists and other leftists, I understand revolution as a
socialist/anarchist one and its outcome is a classless and non-hierarchically society.
Developing capitalism, reaching globalization, the fast increase in the number of working
class and apparent economic crisis that has often been mistaken for capitalist crisis - it
all makes old theories about revolution obsolete. It's not just that the revolution has
not happened. In fact, if the revolution in advanced industrialized countries has not
aborted, certainly it has been postponed for a long time.
Capitalism on its own managed to create many groups among leftists, socialists,
libertarians and feminists who are serving the system instead of fighting it. It also
managed to find gaps, places as a cheap market, using issues of nationalism, terrorism,
racism, fascism and religion to create different types of war between the human beings. By
doing this it has expanded and managed to renew itself. This has proved that capitalism is
not "digging a grave for itself" in fact it is digging it for us, and was able to create a
crisis often to make our movement weaker and weaker.
In addition, capitalism in very industrialized countries long time ago has managed to
defuse all the tools like strikes, demonstrations, protests that have been used by the
working class and the rest as the tools of struggle. These tactics in fact are now playing
in the hands of the system instead to be against it.
Previously I have written quite a lot about that, I'm therefore trying to avoid repeating
myself here and prefer to get straight to the subject.
There are a couple of views about the way revolution happens and its victory:
First: Revolution through vanguard party, the military coup or through the election of
parliamentary system. This means the revolution happens from the top of the society and
the outcome of either one is more or less the same. History proved that these revolutions
wherever they have happened has not just failed but in fact, brought disasters and
disappointment to people. They also proved that imposing the theory over realities is
wrong and brings catastrophe.
Second: preparation for happening revolution through self-organizing in radical
independent non-hierarchal groups, committees, assemblies in all realms: politics,
economic, culture, education, social and climate and ecology. Self-organizing in
factories, farms, public services, markets, schools, universities, and in other work place
is crucial. These groups in the beginning are working to achieve daily necessities and
empowering the role and independence of the individuals. Then to work on building a
movement on a local level, nationwide through the social networks and the people's
assemblies in the neighborhoods, villages, cities and towns. They link together to launch
their activities through direct action by using direct democracy. After empowering
themselves and establishing self-administration they can challenge the state and its
entire administrations and getting closer to its main strategy.
In my opinion while we see the state as a main center of the entire power in the country,
in this case it is practical and sensible to have the same view to the most advanced
industrialized countries like US, Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan and the western
countries as a center for the world. This center with its financial institutions has an
enormous political and economical power over the rest of the world, especially the not or
less developed countries as they are main bases for them. In this case collapsing this
center with the theory "the revolution must be bottom up" should start from the countries
which are protecting and preserving the interests of the advanced industrialized
countries. This does not mean the demonstrations, protests, strikes, occupations and riots
do not happen in the industrialized countries. On the contrary, while there has been
exploitation, work slavery, inequality and no social justice, they certainly caused the
backslash. However, when people have no intention to organize themselves, do not have a
long-term plan, these tools of struggles are just temporary ways to achieving the current
goals - even if all these actions are for maintaining what we have achieved previously. So
these activities do not just achieve major changes; in fact they bring disappointment for
people.
What made this Center so strong is the existence of not or less developed countries where
they preserve the rich ground in providing cheap labors, cheap materials also they are
lucrative markets for them. When the political and economic dependency of the Center to
these countries and vice versa ends, in other words when the bases are destroyed, then the
top will collapse as well.
There are some social areas in less developed societies, which do not exist in advanced
industrialized countries, being rich soil for a revolution. These grounds are:
* Social Relationship
In these countries capitalism has not reached every corner of the individual's life who
are living in a very good social relationship and their contacts are more human and less
on the basis of goods and materials. The State's agencies designated to help and support
the poor or unemployed either do not exist or offer very little help. And also in the
situation of the natural and man-made disasters, in both cases, whole burden falls on the
shoulders of the people themselves and their communities. They help each other morally,
financially, collecting stuff and showing solidarity. In short, people in those societies
rely completely on themselves in the community rather than on the government to fulfill
their needs, when they face the disasters or in having happiness times. In those countries
there are still some simple bases of old community remained. To certain extent still in
some places these people are living and working collectively. Their conversations are
about politics and the problems are going on in their communities and outside, are
concerning them. In a society like this the contacts and making relationships between
individuals in their workplaces, in neighborhood, in villages, in universities and other
places are very easy. People there talk about their daily needs; they debate and discuss
the concerning issues, making decisions about them. They trust one another so that it is
easy for them to come together in doing the common work, activities and can commit
themselves to do so. Of course these can be much easier for the people to organize
themselves for different issues, making decisions and delivering them. Certainly this is
easier to be done in remote villages than very big villages, in towns than the cities. The
self-organization through building local groups and people's assemblies, make people
working and living collectively in convenient and more practical.
There are more positive points in addition to the above in the societies of those
countries while in an advanced industrialized countries it either does not exist or very
little.
*The weak points of the capitalism
It is quite clear that achieving easy target and easy victory always happen from the
weakest point of the system. It is also clear the weakest point here are the none or
lesser industrialized countries and their communities because of the grounds that I
described above. While in these societies the majority of their people have not become
robot, their talks and conversation are still not about the latest fashions, models of the
different consuming, they have still remained human being. In these places effort and
preparation for building cooperatives, trying to live together, desiring to share their
social and economic necessities is easy. In such places the villages, the countryside and
the small towns are less dependent to big towns and free-market.
In those countries and their societies, if the people are ruling themselves, they are able
to obtain all the necessities of life, and also simple tools, means of agricultural and
ecological economy. If they cannot obtain some of their needs, they can get them through
exchanging process via social network or their assemblies. There is no doubt to believe
there are countries in the world where people remain poor, if the people rule themselves.
What made those countries and their society are poor is greedy rich and elites, the state,
corruption, the society structures that set up on the basis of class and hierarchy and
implementing polices and plan of neo-liberal economy.
The process of defeating the capitalism, the process of ending up the dependency of one
another is slow, long way but very solid. Its entire victory and expanding the experiment
rely on the international solidarity of libertarians and anti-authoritarians and also
happening the same process at least in a few countries...
Existing hierarchical and class society, inequality, injustice, poverty, war and more,
have left us with just a few options: sitting down and doing nothing, or waiting for the
vanguard party, the military coup, election (the biggest lie in history). This way is more
dangerous than the sitting back and doing nothing because most of the time intensify the
disasters. Or simply fighting back the system through building the independent radical
non-hierarchal local groups. These are the real basis and the real hope for the future
revolution.
Zaherbaher.com
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29856
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Message: 3
Publishers Anarchist Federation on the occasion of the approaching January's release of
new figures existence on the topic "The Myth of Work", published by download brochure work
, which was published in 2011 with the subtitle Why become drudgery of work? We can do
something about it? With the new design envelope publication is available in both PDF and
format for readers. ---- The bulk of the booklet contains the translation of the text from
a member of the British Anarchist Federation, which is an interesting look at the
development of ideology work. Expresses emotion that leaves us everyday routine. It deals
with important historical shifts in the field, from which gradually transformed the
"Science" brilliantly combining economic interests with the latest psychological findings
- human resources management. The publication contains arguments against the system work,
which in its present form grew out of the need to rationalize, streamline and intensify
exploitation. It contains examples resistances at workplaces and also outline the
principles on which to base a free society has transformed the nature of work in a
creative, liberating, productive and fulfilling activity.
"It will sacrifice the best part of our productive lives To survive, ie those of
employment. It's like a drug. Desensitize us and obscures our minds payment, which will
allow us to indulge, benefits', which provides consumer economy. As a hired servants we
are forced to, gainful employment ', which falls within the framework of an ideology
designed to convince us about the personal and social necessity to have a job'. If you do
not work and refuse to be humiliated Labour Office for kapesnému ridiculous, it is left
with only one thing - to eat. "
It must be understood that "we do not need the capitalists, that they need us to work for
them," and lead their struggle "for liberation from work". Indeed, when capitalism would
be destroyed, we can seize the exciting work, the purpose of which will be the fulfillment
of individual potential and creating a new community.
The final part of the booklet then form two appendices: texts Marie Trigony (Resistance
and government workers: Strategic Lessons from Latin America) and José Antonio Gutiérrez
(workers without bosses - government workers in Argentina) bring differing viewpoints on
how to approach an autonomous projects in Argentina.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6583/prace-ke-stazeni
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Message: 4
RTE Drivetime engaged in some shameful clickbait trolling on Twitter last night to try and
get a few more listeners. While they have congratulated posh schools for engaging in token
sleep outs they decided to directly attack the occupation of Apollo house and its bringing
into use as an emergency shelter for homeless people. ---- And boy did it fall on its
face. Normally far far more people will like a Tweet than reply to it. In this case though
201 people have posted angry replies and only 19 liked it. A far stronger message though
had already been sent out when the occupiers Home Sweet Home Eire page attracted over
27,000 followers in 6 days and over 1500 people have actually volunteered to help keep the
shelter open. Likewise so many donations of materials were received that within a couple
of days out had to be announced that there was no room for more.
Of course nothing better is to expected from regime radio. It has always confined its
favourable reporting to a very narrow spectrum of opinion judged respectable. Anyone who
dares to step out of that spectrum quickly becomes the target of hostile coverage and
scorn. The Apollo house occupation, the latest in a series of similar actions all of which
have so far been shut down by legal threats and force, implicitly suggests that ownership
deeds should not be placed above human need. And that RTE can't tolerate.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/rte-drivetimes-click-bait-apollo-house
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Message: 5
In October police were demonstrations in several cities of the Hexagon, following the
Molotov cocktail attack on police officers in a vehicle. Without organized labor and
making largely echo the arguments of the extreme right, these demonstrations are a sign of
an increasingly authoritarian evolution of the current regime. ---- Should we start with
the recall? Police wounds, maims and kills. Regularly, associations and international
organizations, little suspicious of "leftism" or being a supporter of the slogan "ACAB"
denounce police violence in France. Daily because of their skin color or their attire,
people are harassed, humiliated, insulted, injured or killed by the police. At best, these
killings are buried by the courts, at worst, they are justified. Thus the murder of Adama
Traoré: the prosecutor in charge of the investigation referred to a "very serious
infection," although no autopsy reports speaks, they forward the result of a "syndrome
asphyxiation. " Meanwhile, thousands of people were sent to court for "contempt" or
"rebellions" imaginary. This will enable the police to collect juicy allowances and buy a
cheap impunity.
The "unloved" police?
But now the police feel "unloved" and complained that "people no longer respect them."
Take a moment seriously their complaints: the police is the instrument of the ruling class
to defend its interests. In this context, it is used to suppress salarié.es struggling for
survival or environmentalists who are fighting against an unnecessary airport project.
Moreover, the figure of the policy imposed on police officers to focus on petty crime or
delinquency road, easily exploitable reprehensible and electorally. These actions expose
the police some unpopularity or, very rarely, to violence. But where the police should
take action against those who exploit them in their interest, they claim a headlong rush:
a penal policy harder, more powerful weapons. What will the result of this policy? What it
produces for years of tension with its implications as violent consequences. And while the
political legitimacy of the ruling class is reduced to almost nothing, we understand that
teachers cajole their watchdogs.
Le Pen to Mélenchon, politicians continue to proclaim their love to these brave soldiers.
And when they are in power, they join the action to the word. As part of the austerity
policies of the police means are unintentionally reduced? Do not worry, the next
government will restore them. A candidate promises' identity check receipt "to limit
police harassment? Do not worry, it's only a quick campaign promise "forgotten". An
environmental activist is killed during a demonstration? No worries, the government will
lie instead gendarmes and bury the case. Here and there, the municipal police want the
pie? Mayors will give them new uniforms, more warriors, and arm themselves. And if, as at
Beauvais, the population rejects by referendum arm, the police will take revenge for PV
stroke. Everywhere reign of impunity, reward for the dirty work.
Police officers who showed hundreds, sometimes armed and hooded, well know. And basically
what they want is not simply additional means or less workload. Their desire goes beyond:
it is part of a political project. Witness the very forms of mobilization: the central use
of the symbols of French nationalism ( Marseillaise, tricolor flags, tribute to Joan of
Arc) to the far-right slogans heard in certain events ( "the guys in prison" or even
"French wake up, you're here with you"). Certain identified leaders are also reputed to be
close to the extreme right as the famous Rudolph S. (which is not even police) or Robert
Paturel former Raid.
State of emergency, police state
What want these officers basically it is an extension of their impunity, that is erasing
the Republican legalistic rhetoric euphimises violence by the police on the population.
They want to end this painful form of legalism that prevents them from fully assume what
they are: an armed force in the service of the powerful. The last locks must jump. And if
they were able to demonstrate by breaking all the legal rules of their profession that
they felt entitled to do so because the context allowed them there.
This context is that of the state of emergency, in force renewal, no longer exists. It's
an ongoing state. No government withdraw it, or because it is convinced that it is
"useful" or by fear of condemnation of éditocrates. This condition involves the
strengthening and consequent empowerment of the police power: driving bans or residence
may be imposed by the prefect as searches, day or night, without the approval of a judge,
dissolutions association and house arrest can be decided. Is it in combating terrorism?
Certainly not. 4000 on administrative searches ordered in the context of the state of
emergency, only five resulted in anti-terrorist court proceedings.
The actual function is to increase the police power over parts of the population
especially on popular categories of immigrant or activists and political activists.
Acceleration of a security logic that is not new and is produced for years by all
governments without exception: destruction of some civil liberties torn by social
struggles, militarization and police weaponry, development of monitoring and confinement.
This logic derives its legitimacy from mendacious politicians and media rhetoric. Those
who claim that the serious violence then increase that they have never been so few, those
who speak of "thugs"; "Riots" to refer to "violence" policies yet have never been as
little violent, those that distill fear at length reports on crime or on police,
distorting reality and spreading insecurity among those who do not yet live in their
overwhelming majority, this insecurity. But if insecurity and violence which progresses,
it is that state-orchestrated. Political repression and control of populations merely
move. And that is not party to reverse. In 2017, politicians promise us many surprises:
massive construction of prisons, concentration camps for "stuck S", more police and fewer
freedoms. Russian or Chinese models are not very far, unless it is the Turkish model that
is targeted.
A creeping authoritarianism
For it is indeed a general evolution of capitalism and not a parenthesis disaster. Of
course, capitalist societies have never been democratic since they have worn them
authoritarianism, exploitation of people through labor, crushing excluded or colonization.
But social struggles have often led to conflict and power relations have not always been
the same. However, the current period is marked by the decline of these struggles, for a
variety of reasons, which contributes to the reinforcement of the authoritarian tendencies
of capitalism. These are reflected in security policies implemented by political freedom
and the application so more and more authoritarian (without the burden of the "democratic
form") of the anti-social policies: use 49.3, will to govern by order, political
impositions by unelected bodies, etc.
There can therefore be no struggle for civil liberties and against authoritarianism
without a revolutionary anti-capitalist perspective. But here we perceive the difficulty
to mobilize on these issues. Since the beginning of the emergency, the stands have been
published in the press, calls have been made and some events were organized but they
regrouped a few thousand people at most. So there is an ideological battle to fight:
expose the lies of the police discourse, demonstrate the mechanisms and reasons for
authoritarianism. But also destroy the last illusions of those who by naivety and because
they and they are not directly exposé.es, do not perceive the reality of police abuse. In
this sense, video montages, the testimony viral power on different social networks.
But the heart of the battle is to first ensure class unwavering solidarity with those who
suffer police repression. A solidarity that can be financial, technical but also political
independent strategic disagreements that must certainly assume, but that should not be a
pretext for the division to face police repression. Finally, important is the necessary
adaptation of political practices in a context where the share of illegality thereof will
be growing.
Tristan (LA Toulouse)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Antisecuritaire-La-police-deteste
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