Today's Topics:
1. A-Radio Berlin: Anarchist Black Cross Czech: Presentation on
Operation Fenix and related issues (a-infos-en@lists.ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - history, 1976:
Between hope and disillusionment, the Spanish CNT rebirth (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@lists.ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, anarchist group "restive horse" (APO) December 2008
- December 2016 (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@lists.ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Student Meeting / three of Anarchist /
Antiauthoritarian space (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@lists.ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Dear all, In the end of November of 2016 we had the opportunity of recording a
presentation in Berlin by the Anarchist Black Cross in Czech Republic on the topic of
Operation Fenix. The talk comprised the following topics: a short review of what had
happened, the use of the term "terrorism", the topic of solidarity in Czech Republic and
in general, a reflection on mistakes and how to deal with repression and police
infiltrators, and finally the current development of the anarchist movement in that
country. ---- You'll find the audio (to listen online or download in different sizes)
here: ----
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/12/04/a-radio-in-english-anarchist-black-cross-czech-antifenix-presentation/
---- Length: 1:11 h ---- You can find other English and Spanish language audios here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/.
Among our last audios you can find:
* An audio version of Qiyas Ibrahimov's speech in court, an imprisoned
anarchist from Azerbaijan:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/11/01/a-radio-in-english-azerbaijan-state-repression-and-the-anarchists-speech-in-court/
* A presentation on the Prison Strike in the USA 2016:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/10/24/a-radio-in-english-presentation-the-prison-strike-in-the-usa-2016/
* An interview about the "flower holiday" in Azerbaijan and the
imprisoned anarchists:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/09/26/a-radio-in-english-azerbaijan-the-flower-holiday-of-the-dictator-and-the-imprisoned-anarchists/
* An interview on the repression against anarchists in Czech:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/09/08/a-radio-in-english-antifenix-interview-on-the-repression-against-anarchists-in-czech/
* Reflections on the NoBorder Camp Thessaloniki 2016:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/08/25/a-radio-in-english-reflections-on-the-noborder-camp-thessaloniki-2016/
* An interview about the ongoing defense of the Rog factory squat in
Ljubljana:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/06/17/interview-on-the-defense-of-the-rog-factory-squat-in-ljubljana/
Enjoy! And please feel free to share!
A-Radio Berlin
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Message: 2
In Spain freed from the shadow of Franco, a wind of freedom through the Peninsula. After
40 years of dictatorship, the anarchist trade union, the CNT out of hiding. Witness and
actor of this renaissance, Angel Bosqued, International Secretary of the Spanish CGT,
talks about those years of hope of a libertarian renewal in the land of Cervantes, its
highlights, its contradictions and failures. ---- Alternative Libertaire: What is the
social and political context of the Spanish state in the last years of the Franco regime?
---- Angel Bosqued: Fundamental changes have occurred in the years before Franco's death
on November 20, 1975. But until the end of 2000, there are traces of Francoism in
significant personalities Spanish society. ---- To stick to the 1970s, after a phase of
development started in 1957, the Spanish economy is experiencing a major crisis, with
inflation reaching 17% and unemployment rate between 9 and 16%.
In the geopolitical context of the Cold War, treaties of "friendship and cooperation" with
the US is renewed (installation of military bases against the supply of milk powder).
Politically, ETA assassinated the head of government Carrero Blanco in Madrid December 20,
1973. A series of new murders of police and military following.
In 1975, there was still some softening of the regime. For the first time, the Church,
exercising at that time an essential fact of power publicly in favor of the rights of
association and expression. That same year, Catalan, Basque and Galician are recognized as
co-official languages alongside Spanish. On 18 November the Cortes, a kind of parliament
appointed by the single party, decreed the end of the Spanish presence in Western Sahara.
Side against repression by the regime remains adamant and continues to murder its enemies.
Among the latest executions, emphasize those of Puig Antich (Withers 2 March 1974 with the
convicted common criminals Heinz Chez), Paredes Manot "Txiki" aged 21 and Angel Otaegui,
33, both of militants ETA, shot in Burgos. That same day, José Luis Sánchez Bravo, 22,
Ramon Garcia Sanz, 27, and Jose Humberto Baena Alonso, 24, members of the FRAP, were shot
in Hoyo de Manzanares. Do not forget that on 3 March 1976 in Vitoria, police launched tear
gas inside a church and shot those who came in, killing five people attending a trade
union struggle.
November 20, 1975 Franco's death is accompanied, according to the people, a few days of
celebration, silences, doubts and changes within the state apparatus. A new king,
previously appointed by Franco, exercised monarchical power despite the temporary survival
of the old institutions that provided totalitarian control. Thus, Juan Carlos I will be
head of state but not head of government. It was not until June 15, 1977, having paved the
way for the legalization of political parties, qu'auront place the first parliamentary
elections to a parliament "democratic". December 6, 1978, a new constitution still in
force, was adopted by referendum.
Can you go back to the early years of the reconstituted CNT?
Until 1951, the CNT and libertarian groups have maintained a very active clandestine
action, including a wildcat strike tramways in Barcelona.
March 27, 1976, the act of rebirth official CNT occurs during a public meeting in San
Sebastián de los Reyes to Madrid. However, the highlight of this revival is especially
July 2, 1977 in Barcelona, Montjuic meeting, which attracted more than 300 000 people. A
meeting that impressed everyone and which marked the official return of the CNT in the
Iberian social landscape.
Despite the success of Montjuic meeting, the reconstruction of reality of our plant was
less obvious. The CNT activity was fragile. Like besides all the social movement
organizations in the post-Franco period. We came out of a dictatorship forty years and the
desire for freedom were huge. At the same time, we faced a major violence of the extreme
right who did not wish to lose his prerogatives.
The creation of trade union branches, local unions, the presence in the assemblies,
demonstrations, like street fighting against the police and the fascists were continuous.
From scratch, CNT quickly counted no less than 300 000 members and adherent, including
100 000 in Catalonia.
Faced with this dramatic growth of our workforce, the fact is that we were not prepared to
digest so many people who came from various traditions. In the back there: class struggle
trade unionists, attache're the generation of the 1936 veterans at their historical
heritage but also from es comrades struggles around themes more related to the world of
1970, namely: homosexuality, nuclear power, feminism.
The first congress of the CNT in Madrid in December 1978, gave rise in this context to a
sudden break. It materialized a real generational clash between the old guard and the new
generation, especially around the debate on the question of union elections. Generation
1936 intended not to derogate from the refusal of dogma union elections. As for us, we
were convinced that it was in connection with the new regulation of the right, the only
way to build and consolidate a mass anarcho-syndicalist organization in touch with reality.
Another event was the cause of our decline, since it provoked the departure of much of our
affiliate-es is the Scala case. On the sidelines of an event organized by the CNT in
Barcelona January 15, 1978, against the Pact of Moncloa that would, with the support of
reformist unions (UGT, CCOO) flexibility in the labor market, Molotov cocktails are thrown
against a theater la Scala. Fire it represents and four employees of the theater die, with
among them a member of our organization. The CNT is accused of being the cause of the
fire. It is stigmatized by the press who beckons. In fact, after investigation and trial,
he was a police operation aimed at discrediting the libertarian movement, expanding then.
It allowed, in any case, to justify repression against us. The damage is done: internally,
the CNT tears.
What relationship she had the CNT internationally in the 1970s? And what was, in effect,
the qu'apportèrent support sister organizations to rebuild it?
International relations were primarily related to the CNT in exile as well as sections of
the anarcho-syndicalist International: the International Association of Workers (AIT). The
support that received the CNT during the years of dictatorship were many. They were from
the CNT in exile, from its branches in Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, England and Canada,
who sent us money, books, newspapers.
But the most effective support from outside came the closest exile with nerve center for
Toulouse and his numerous Spanish libertarian colony. The CNT in exile in this city
especially provided support in strategic and ideological level.
This support of the CNT in exile was decisive: it allowed us, young libertarians who
militions here in Spain, rebuild the thread of our history through this link with comrades
who had lived 1936 revolution With them, we became convinced that it was possible to
reconstruct the Peninsula something.
We also receive support from the small French CNT as anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian
sectors militated in CFDT, FO and the CGT.
Another critical support was that of the Swedish libertarian union center: the SAC.
Stockholm sent us a lot of money for propaganda (leaflets, newspapers, posters), without
asking us in return. SAC taught us the modernist ideas of the ideological paradigm point
of view, including a very constructive vision of what was to be internationalism. An old
tradition of support also from our Swedish friends, and as they were many and many to come
and fight with weapons in hand in the libertarian militia 1936.
The support of the SAC, in any case, been important in our rebuilding process. Ongoing
support as it extended until the end of the 1980s.
If I had to finally detach a personality whose support was invaluable is Rudolf De Jong.
Head of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, he played an important
role in consolidating and preserving our archives, especially those related to the role of
the CNT during the period 1936-1939.
The CNT crisis born of those years the CGT. What, for you, the CGT today she is the
heiress of the CNT?
CNT founded in 1910 were born at the dawn of the 1970s militant cadres that go far beyond
the single 1976 A CNT CNT barely reconstituted but who knows a real break three years
later. The CNT, following its internal conflicts, imploded in 1979. This implosion leaving
a CNT-called "orthodox" (dominated by the generation of 1936) and the CNT called
"renovated" (scope, it essentially the new generation activist). CNT renovated in 1984,
will become the CGT. This symbol change will not be our fault: it is the result of a
process that we have damaged the Orthodox sector. One can nevertheless wonder how far
bourgeois justice did not deliberately fostered by the ruling orthodox sector was in fact
the least likely to develop in unions. For behind this symbol of history, there was a real
issue around, including the return to the CNT what we call the historical heritage, namely
trade union premises confiscated at the libertarian union center by the Franco regime 1939.
CNT origins, the CGT boasts of its historical and ideological affiliation. Similarly, we
are inspired by its horizontal operation: where the adherent and adherent build and make
decisions at the base. We continue further the idea of expropriation of the means of
production and self-management by workers. We wear, finally, the crazy idea that the
emancipation of the exploited-es will be the work of exploited es themselves, without
intermediate or advanced who speaks on his behalf. Emancipation which can only exist by a
radical break because, for us and for our ancestors, capitalism can not be reformed.
Interview by Jérémie (AL Gard), translation of Jeremiah and José
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Il-y-a-40-ans-entre-espoir-et
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Message: 3
... For the passage from the spontaneous revolt in an organized and continuous struggle
for social revolution - The December uprising of 2008 deposits shows that the social
revolution is possible, that the social and class counter attack - as opposed to
integration, resignation and exatomikefsi- is the only realistic prospect of victory of
the exploited and oppressed. - The December uprising is now living as a social project,
not the repetition, but to overcome by themselves struggling at the prospect of social
revolution. ---- In order to pave the way for social revolution are insufficient
spontaneous, temporary and unorganized outbursts of our just wrath. It requires political,
social and class self-organization on the part of the oppressed for the design,
development and continuity of the race. It is necessary for competitors to set up barriers
to the efforts of assimilation and manipulation attempts kapilefsis, mediation of social
and class elements. With our weapon solidarity to fight the direction of the organization,
the interconnection, meeting and continued struggles from below to create new fronts for
the spread of conflict in every aspect of state and capitalist barbarism.
Our utopia does not stop the outbreak of spontaneous uprising. Not justified by anything
less than a social revolution, the absolute subversion of the state and capitalism and
build a new classless society of equality, solidarity and freedom.
... FOR ANARCHY AND libertarian communism
CONCENTRATION-COURSE: TUESDAY December 6, 12 m. FROM THE ANNEX
anarchist group "restive horse" - a member of the Anarchist Political Organisation
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Message: 4
FROM THE REVOLT TO CLASS ORGANISATION ---- On 6/12 2008 E cop. Korkoneas shoots and
murders in cold blood the 15 year old student Alexis Grigoropoulos. The massively clashing
subsequent events left in history and our collective memory as one of the greatest
contemporary revolts, both in Greece as well as the European space. Thousands of people of
all ages, with the participation of youths and students to be massive and remarkable found
in the streets across Greece towards terror-hysteria and the police state. Squatting term
in school and universities, dynamic demonstrations and gatherings, mass clashes with the
forces of repression, constant attacks on capitalist and government targets, composed the
scene of the uprising, leaving an important legacy kinematics.
8 YEARS AFTER
What year they go through the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, and all of the fallen of
the class war, the task of the movement will still maintain and uphold the memory of the
dead. The cheap and vulgar attacks on their persons, ethics, personal life and continuous
mendacity about their political beliefs and circumstances of their death are consistent
practice of bourgeois propaganda in an effort to undermine the spontaneous rage events and
collective resistance that erupt in response to these killings. Narratives that talk about
"jerk", "problem families" and "irresponsible parents" meet the most deep-rooted,
conservative characteristics of Greek society, managing indirect political blows across
the broader competitive movement and its practices.
Depending are the blows received by the memory of the mass uprisings of the past. The
class enemy knows how valuable lessons can be done to the oppressed, the conflict
situations. For this care either to suppress or to assimilate the "wake" them, trying to
be ingrained in the collective memory of the bottom as a palpable proof that social
disobedience and resistance is possible, despite the superiority of repressive mechanisms.
A typical example of this aponoimatodotisis process is the (almost) full longer
assimilation of the Polytechnic Uprising from the dominant narrative. A militant
occupation government, namely university, space after several days of dynamic paths and
conflict, now presented as a peaceful protest. The participation of the class movement
tracks (anarchists, anarchists, communists, etc.) at the University of events artfully
concealed under the general description of the participants with "students against the
junta." The law anti-imperialist and anti-war sentiment that characterized the movements
of the time baptized today "widespread anti-Americanism of those days" as part of the
effort to appear as a transient and now obsolete ideology that could not find a raison
d'être in the current context . Of course the brutal police repression of the course of
the Polytechnic anniversary on 16.11.1980, which resulted in the murder of James Koumi and
Stamatina Kanellopoulos, there seems to be a fact worth mentioning on school holidays or
TV specials that "honor the dead of University ", since it would spoil the rosy, giggly
image so painstakingly been built.
FOR kinematics EPANANOIMATODOTISI OF DECEMBER
I wonder how long is a corresponding future and the uprising of December '08? How unlikely
is massive clashes and attacks on the forces of repression of the underlying narratives
for peaceful protests and presented as excesses of these, the furious counterattack, after
a state murder and tromolagneia that followed, to be baptized "healthy reaction against
police violence, to defend democratic values, "the participants in the revolt simply
named" youth ", the December 6 to become another" celebration of the Republic "on the
corpses of dead class war? It is obvious that the power takes care to rewrite history when
it feels threatened by it. In this case well aware that in December, as the most
"impressive" revolt that has lived modern Greece, can not so easily be forgotten or buried
in the dustbin of history, at least not yet. It is natural, therefore, to try to
aponoimatodotisei him, stripped him of his political life, to assimilate it to the
dominant narrative and, in short, to make it harmless. Can the right time for this has not
yet come, but until then we can not remain impassive.
To avoid this we need the political upgrading of the movement's effort to keep his legacy
alive in December. The commemorative marches and clashes in Exarchia district is
definitely a part of this political "puzzle" we have to compose, but in any case is not
enough. No recycling now reaches into the movement of "past glories" of, being once more
completely cut off from the social conditions and needs, both emotionally charged and if
the memories that they offer. Unfortunately, the memory of society are often short and
spectacular images in extraordinary news the evening of 6/12 not arrive To combat this
deep problem.
It is necessary, now more than ever, the project of rebellion and conflict to cease
intended for "internal consumption", to be updated within the social fabric, against
apathy and submission. Must To combat by all means of struggle, the bourgeois propaganda
halting plans even before they enter into force, to put the lessons of the revolts of the
past in the context of our class policy to use as radicalization and empowerment tools of
class organization . To overcome the insurgents in December ourselves, realizing his
weaknesses, keeping only the useful lessons. Let us not wait anymore some "special" months
of time or other occasions to rebel, let alone so tragic as the murder of a man. The
uprisings of the past can either be weight holding us back, as "ghosts" who constantly
chase trying in vain to repeat or to become important tools in the movement arms for the
passage from the spontaneous and reflex on class organization, responsible and continuous
struggle of the forces of the oppressed to the social revolution.
Do epananoimatodotisoume in December, and all the revolts of the past, before the class
enemy managed to make their heritage safe, before we reach the point of having to
epanoikeiopoiithoume them. To enrich the heritage of social resistance today.
Keep alive THE HERITAGE OF OUR PAST uprising
Pass the SPONTANEOUS REVOLT IN CLASS ORGANISATION
ON SOCIAL REVOLUTION, THE ANARCHY AND libertarian communism
We call on the morning student / student march on 6/12 Propylaea, 12:00
Student Meeting / three of Anarchist / Antiauthoritarian space
http://www.provo.gr/anarchist_students_text_for_06_12_2016_demo/
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