Anarchic update news all over the world - 6 January 2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, Enough with the dictatorship of insurrectionary
      Community by Organization for the asyntax of the anarchist
      Movement (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Freedom news: Interview: Anarchists talk about Den Haag and
      the 2015 riots (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  derry anarchists: Barricade Distribution - Arm yourself with
      ideas! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Czech, afed.cz: PF 2017 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre - Véronique
      Decker (teacher): "The objective of the school is emancipation"
      (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1


In our last text (which coup descended from Athens indymedia with groundless excuses) have 
highlighted the risk of reheating of insurrectionary, neomidenistikis putrid, on the 
occasion of the outbreak of a blind bachalistikis violence in the area of Exarchia on 15 
and 17 November. --- Had to mediate the events of December 6 in which the blind hatred and 
the murderous frenzy of nihilistic antisocial hooligans manifested in all its glory. --- 
Houses tents caught fire, marine flares pinned on balconies, burned tires created 
breathing in hundreds of residents who were transferred to hospitals. And all this to set 
up the same meaningless insurrectionary festival we see again and again happen in our 
neighborhood on the occasion of the murder of a young.

History has shown us learn anything, otherwise not explained p? Vs an entire movement even 
tolerate this apolitical carcinoma six years after the horrible murder of three 
unfortunate employees and an unborn baby in Marfin. So apathetically watching the same and 
identical manifestations of this nihilistic violence without doing anything until we and 
others dead. Only then it will be too late.

Responding to the desperate announcement of the People's Assembly Exarchia declare 
unambiguously that we are together and together with the inhabitants of this very 
distressed by the fascist exegertikotita, area. We will try as everything in our power to 
contribute as much as possible to address this gangrene that baptizes revolution burned 
stands, broken traffic lights, and card phones, the xilomenes bus stops, the 
pliatsikologima souvenir, and burnt trolley.

For us Moreover there are no sacred cows and paranoid manifestos some upstart nihilists 
prisoners urging attacks on public transport do not tell us anything. The problem must be 
addressed everywhere and as regards natural and as regards the instigators of this 
shameless reality. We call and we in our turn and other groups / collectives / 
organizations to take a stand and condemn these anti-social and cannibalistic practices 
and behaviors. Already collectives of anarchist space in Athens and Corfu are installed 
and we welcome the initiative to move boldly against abscess antikoinonismou.

Cannibalism will not beat.

For anarchy and communism against social cannibalism.

Organization for the asyntax of the anarchist Movement

https://oanakblog.wordpress.com/

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Message: 2



Den Haag in the Netherlands has gone through some of the deepest upheavals in the country, 
including riots in 2015 over the police killing of Mitch Henriquez, arrested on suspicion 
of carrying a weapon and then throttled, dying in police custody the next day. In this 
conversation with two anarchist comrades from the city, anarchist journal Avalanche draws 
out an overview of the context, struggle and projects of Den Haag's libertarian activities 
over the last few years. ---- Tell me a bit about the city itself. ---- A - Den Haag is a 
city of 500-600,000 people, it is both the home to poor neighbourhoods, such as the 
Schilderswijk, the poorest neighbourhood in the Netherlands, and of the biggest 
institutions of justice of the European Union. The motto of the city is "Peace and 
Justice". It is the host of some of the most important military, intelligence and justice 
institutions of the European Union ...  Europol, international summit centres, 
international courts, embassies.

B - There is also an international zone, protected by security delta, this is not only for 
the State but also companies, it attracts companies, capital. This city has all changed in 
the last 15 years, someone in charge, from one day to the next, decided to flip the switch 
...  and everything changed, all the dozens of squats were evicted, cleaned up, made the 
space for its new international role.

You mentioned before the Schilderswijk, this neighbourhood is quite famous, but mostly we 
hear about it from mainstream news, can you talk a bit about it from your perspective and 
what kind of presence you have there?

A - The Schilderswijk is densely populated and in the centre of the city it's a working 
class immigrant neighbourhood ... it's a quite impressive difference, it changes from one 
street to the next ... two opposite worlds living right beside eachother ...  a few years 
ago, particularly this neighbourhood was hit by lots of austerity measures, with many of 
the public cultural places shutting down, like libraries and social centres, at the same 
time there was implemented a zero tolerance policy, with many cameras being installed and 
frequent police controls.

B - A very intense stop-and-search routine. A the beginning it was a test ...  Police 
stopped trams, and take everyone out, like a hundred people, and id checks everyone, and 
could maybe find one knife, justifying this measure, they made it into a permanent routine 
...  this has definitively contributed to increasing the tension in this neighbourhood, 
with young people being stopped multiple times in one day.

A - Yes, a constant build up of frustration.

Can you talk about the role of religion in the neighbourhood? Would you say that with the 
disappearance of many social infrastructures, some religious institutions tried fill the 
vacuum?

A - Religious of structures were always present, but I have the feeling that a lot of the 
youth don't go there ... or just a very small part.

B - But these structures are very willing and eager to be in good contact with the city 
authorities.

A - This neighbourhood always had a bad name, but its mostly the work of journalists, like 
this one from "Trouw", who 3-4 years ago wrote an article talking about how in the 
neighbourhood exists the sharia triangle of the Netherlands - a name based on three houses 
that were apparently Daesh strongholds. At the time he wrote many many articles, 
"investigating" the religious fundamentalism. But some time later some of his colleagues 
made a counter investigation about his sources and his theories, and it turned out to be 
complete lies. Like people he supposedly interviewed didn't exist, etc. But by then the 
damage was done, the reputation was fixed.

But I do remember reading about two pro-Daesh demonstrations in the neighbourhood.

A - Yes there were two, but this was also very much distorted by the media. You have to 
see it like this ... The thing about this neighbourhood, is that there are normally many 
people on the streets, who show curiosity when things happen on the streets. Like when 
people get arrested, or an accident etc ... The people there for the demonstration were 
around twenty, with around them a lot of onlookers. Out of this the newspapers created 
something a lot bigger than it actually was ...  following the narrative "the onlookers 
were muslims, or looked like muslims, therefore they must be in support of Daesh" ...  The 
police obviously could use this really well, to further control and repression.

B - ...  In those years we were extremely present in the neighbourhood especially to talk 
about the problem of racism and police brutality, mostly spreading flyers, posters, 
pamphlets ... but also talking to people, really just having many conversations, getting 
to know them and them us ... They[the cops]tried to make it harder to make demonstrations, 
especially to break down these relationships that were building between anarchists and 
antifascists and people in the neighbourhood that were curious about our ideas, that 
wanted to support us, that wanted to act with us.

A - In 2013 we were mostly still talking about racism and police violence, at least these 
are the basis on which we started to have conversations with people ... listen to their 
stories and share our views ... Soon we started organising demonstrations, to not just 
talk with people but also act together. This was also the time when the police started 
noticing us, they would follow us around, id check us, and especially when we would talk 
to people from neighbourhood centres, the cops would immediately approach them, 
threatening to shut them down if they did not take distance from us. But people came to us 
to tell us that this was happening.

B - But other people didn't. There is this story of one neighbourhood centre that had a 
subsidy of €15,000 a year, and after they went to city council and publicly took the side 
of the police, their subsidy went to €170,000.

A - But yeah, generally this scared people, but most people didn't slam their door in our 
face, and still came to the demonstrations we organised, and were really angry about this 
police blackmail.

B - But towards us the police harassment continued quite heavy, taking of all our posters, 
arresting us while we were flyering at the market ... But the thing is that in this 
neighbourhood the anger towards the police was really boiling up. This is still 2013-2014.

You said before that you were mostly talking to people about racist police violence, did 
your agitation stay on these topics or did it expand to a wider critique?

A - Through all this experience and seeing how the police and mayor were really actively 
trying to buy people and threaten them, and seeing how the people were reacting, we could 
also find out better how all this power is specifically at play, the opportunists, the 
mediators, the pacifiers, the collaborators etc.

B - So we then started to also talk about this, expanding our critique against all forms 
of power, about the system that needs them, etc. We really wanted to agitate around how 
these people are being used by all forms of power, and propose our ideas of 
self-organisation, direct action and struggle.

What kind of concrete proposals were you making?

A - In this time we were making, on a regular basis anti-police demonstration, to which 
many people from the neighbourhood came, like we started with less than 100 people and at 
the last one we were 250.

B - This was important for us, because it was a way of organising with people, not just 
talking but also acting, and also to show ways of self-organisation, but propose ways to 
do something about the rage, and to also show that this could be done outside of the 
institutional frames.

A - It was good, because people were pissed off and when you would talk about demos, they 
actually came ... I mean as long as it was in their neighbourhood, they wont leave their 
neighbourhood ... haha

And why did these demonstrations stop?

A - After the pro-Daesh demonstration, and after an anti-Daesh demonstration by fascists, 
they banned all demos in the Schilderswijk. This was 2014.

B - It was clear that the State had a plan, they permitted a far-right group to 
demonstrate in the Schilderswijk, which they knew would cause problems ...  to then 
immediately implement the ban ...  it was the perfect excuse.

A - So, yeah then we didn't demonstrate anymore, but we still agitated, kept our connections.

B - Which also played a big role during the days of the revolt, the fact that people knew 
us, recognised us  ...

So, yeah the revolt.

A - Mitch Henriquez got strangled to death in June 2015 by cops at a festival in the 
neighbourhood, there were a lot of people around so everyone was filming it.

B - We didn't think there would be a revolt like this ... it showed that even here in 
Holland a situation of conflict and rage can exist, spontaneously ... we are told over and 
over that this is such a pacified country we end up believing it ... but none of us had 
expected it.

How do you think you presence in the neighbourhood played a role during this revolt?

A - We could understand the neighbourhood ... during the years we could feel the tension 
was rising, I would say we had a small influence in this, but it's impossible to measure 
...  repeating over and over it is up to the people themselves to step up and revolt.

B - We were there on a constant basis, for years, something also new for us, a focus, a 
consistency ... but this mostly paid off for us, an ability to understand something well, 
what's at play, a long term project ... for our
own development this was crucial, a learning process ... with the addition that in the end 
people did rise up for a few days, and we could live these moments together.

Can you tell a bit about how you and your comrades lived these days?

A - We got a message from the mother of a friend of ours, she's from Aruba[like Mitch 
Henriquez], she sent us a link to a news site from Aruba talking about what happened in 
our city that someone had been murdered by the police ... the media here were not speaking 
at all about it ...  so then we translated it and added our own views and critique. Then 
we searched on social media for more information and we found many videos from witnesses, 
we putted the videos on youtube. That day hundreds of thousands of people visited our 
website ...  not really the usual amount of people that visit our website ...  haha ... 
Then the Dutch mainstream media picked it up.

B - Then the public prosecutor put out a statement saying that he was just ill, and people 
got really pissed, because it was clear in the videos that he had died.

A - We need to remember that in 2012 the police had already killed a 17-year-old boy at 
the train station, shot him in the neck while he was running away ... The police heavily 
repressed the situation, even beating people up at the vigils and remembrance ceremonies, 
like young kids, his friends... People still remembered this, and were still pissed.

B - But yeah, with Mitch Henriquez, people immediately announced a demonstration in front 
of the main police station in the Schilderswijk, a bit the symbol of police racism and 
brutality ...  by 5 o'clock that afternoon there were already over 1,000 people in front. 
There were all kinds of people, some from the neighbourhood, some from other poor 
neighbourhoods, motorcycle gangs, anarchists, Black Lives Matter activists.

A - Then people stormed the station, the riot cops came out, and then immediately people 
broke open the street, and then it started raining stones ...  this clash lasted till four 
in the morning ...

Did it only stay in front of the police station?

B - It was also spreading to other parts of the neighbourhood ... attacks against the 
police lasted for hours ... They were not really prepared for this situation ...  it was 
really chaotic ...  but the neighbourhood has many small alleys for people to move really 
smoothly ... they used it well, during the revolt very few people got arrested.

A - The next day the streets were really tense, you could smell it in the air, and by the 
evening there were again many attacks on the police and fires everywhere.

B -  ... but a little less than the day before.

A -  ... on the third day the police admitted to having lied in their statement[saying 
that M.H. had just fallen ill]. This was another spark.

B - A demonstration was again announced at the police station, the police immediately 
tried to push people back, and the riot started again, and this was the most hardcore day 
...  people were better organised, in groups, with materials.

A - There were lots of really heavy fireworks ...  constant heavy fireworks, we really 
don't know where such a quantity came from ...  then there were molotovs, to which the 
police responded by shooting live ammunition in the air ...  there were lots of undercover 
cops, the really nasty ones that usually arrest people quite brutally, on that day the 
table turned and they got properly beaten up ...  anyways, all cops were running that 
night ...

Was there only attacks on the police or did the riots expand to other forms of power?

A - There were also many banks that got completely trashed, and the main supermarket was 
looted ...  but people didn't attack the small shops of the neighbourhood ... you know 
they all know each other.

B - Then on fourth day everyone just got mass arrested, and the main mosque send out young 
people in yellow vests to convince people to go home ... but they were mostly ignored... 
it was people from a radical mosque, but they took the opportunity to ally themselves with 
the mayor, to become friends ...

It sounds really angry ...  was it also joyful?

A - It depends on the moment I guess, sometimes it felt like people were blinded by rage, 
while in other moments it felt like they were playing... |21|

What happened after those days?

B - After the revolt many people got arrested ... many people weren't masked, and they 
released all this footage and pictures, lots of raids.

A - These arrests went on for a year, some people stayed a long time, but most of the 
people we didn't know, and we didn't really know how to deal with it, we supported a few 
people that we knew.

B - Then we made an anarchist newspaper, a wall newspaper, speaking of the revolt how it 
should continue, and against this rhetoric that the media pushed saying that the only 
people there were thugs and hooligans from other cities and anarchists.

A - They especially blamed anarchists for organising the riot, this was not fair, in the 
sense of disrespectful for the people of the neighbourhood, who rose up themselves.

B -  ... of course it's typical, they want to find their small group of people to focus on 
and separate from the rest, the bad apples ...  but they also continued the narrative that 
the people of the neighbourhood, poor, marginalised people are not capable of taking 
matters into their own hands ...  it keeps portraying them in this helpless role.

A - So they started to really focus on us ...  they arrested one person putting up a 
newspaper, at first he spent three days in prison and then got charged with eight weeks 
for incitement to violence and discrimination.

B - Hundreds of posters were put up during a few days ...  Then we made an other poster 
... the amount of attention they put on this is pretty crazy, it was on national news.

Why do you think they are so scared of a poster?

A - It's hard to say if they are just paranoid that our ideas become contagious, and that 
people rise up, or if it's just a tactic to put all the blame on the anarchists to avoid 
and deny talking about the fact that actually it is an entire neighbourhood that is angry 
and is capable of doing something about it.

B - I mean I don't think it's just paranoia, it's a strategy ... because it's just a 
poster ...  a revolt does not start just from a poster, that would be great ... I mean if 
it did our job would be a lot easier.

A - But anyways the neighbourhood was a bit quiet, there was an intense manhunt, people 
laid low.

Can you talk specifically about the kind of repression that hit the anarchists since the 
revolt?

A - Since then there has been a lot of repression ... eviction of our social centre, 
arrests, area bans for the neighbourhood ...  I suppose it also made us quite tired ... 
still determined but repression was working.

B - The mayor is on a quest to get rid of us. He is furious ... he used all his weapons 
... from our files we know that he called out this special meeting to discuss about the 
anarchist problem. This meeting is called CTER (Counter terrorism, extremism and 
radicalisation) in which he sits at the table with authorities with different repressive 
functions, like national secret services, local secret services, prosecutors, tax agency. 
Then all these institutions accumulate their information about a certain group and put it 
in one file, called the CTER file, they do mapping of the group, pick people out, and then 
they strategise together on ways of building the repression from different angles. So we 
had a lot of surveillance, harassment, evictions, controls, bans, arrests, fines, court 
cases. Eventually this might lay the ground for charges like "criminal organisation" or 
"terrorist organisation," but yeah, nothing is sure ...  And all the individuals in this 
file get a different treatment, and they experiment with their arsenal of repressive 
measures to see what works best.

How did you react on this? Or better usually when people are hit by repression they just 
react, it's hard to build a perspective.

A - We discussed about it, wrote about it, spread it, put it into context, not to just say 
that these are random incidences, but to say that they have an agenda, this is a strategy.

B - But every time a small thing happened we acted, we made a spontaneous demonstration in 
the Schilderswijk after the person got arrested for the newspaper, after the area ban we 
did a flyering action at the city hall, with quite some disturbance ...  but these were 
small things.

A - The accumulation of all this bullshit and also seeing that we were not the only 
anarchists facing repression in this country gave us the idea of calling out for a big 
demonstration[Fight Repression, November 2016]. The "Fight Repression" demonstration of 
November 2016, right? What was behind the idea of making an open call out? I mean it is 
quite a big risk in the Netherlands, anti-authoritarian demonstrations are heavily 
repressed since years in this country.

B - We wanted to make an open call out, we wanted many people to come, to show that we are 
not alone, and that we are supported, to include different stories of repression, in fact 
to talk about the fact that everyone faces repression, and give the opportunity even for 
those who are not organised to fight against it.

A - At the starting point there was lots of police, they immediately kettled us in, said 
that we were not allowed |22| to wear masks, closed it up even more and arrested everyone, 
one by one, it took them hours.

B - People got released a few hours later. 25 people managed to remain anonymous, to not 
be identified.

A - It was really shit how it went, but we are not defeated, people there were motivated, 
were up for it. We were really impressed that more than 250 showed up...I mean these days 
it does give a lot of strength and courage to see that you are not alone, and that many 
people are angry about repression, feel it on their own skin, want to fight it, but we 
also need to find new ways of expressing this fight, ways of being more unexpected, a new 
imagination.

What projects do you have for the future?

A - We need to build some new points of reference for ourselves and for people interested 
in our ideas, to gather and discuss, organise. A lot has been taken away from us and to 
continue to struggle with some kind of consistency we need to have some points of 
reference. We are building a social space, where we will have a bookstore and a meeting 
space for a little bit of stability. This will be on the edge of the Schilderswijk. But we 
want to especially continue the struggle in this neighbourhood, it would be a pity to let 
all this effort go to waste, so we will continue to agitate, act, be present.

Why did you agree to this interview?

B - It's a way to confront ourselves with an experience of struggle, to talk about it, so 
we can share it and think about it ... the problems we are facing, how we and others can 
learn from them, sharpen ours and their struggle ... and perhaps there are some elements 
of our situation of the last years that can be interesting and helpful for other comrades.

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Message: 3



Barricade Distribution is a new initiative by anarchists in Derry, in an effort to spread 
and share anarchist ideas to a wider audience locally. ---- Discussions over the last few 
months have centred around creating a grassroots independent social space in Derry as it 
is felt it is badly needed. A place to organise and to socialise from as well as to 
educate and create ourselves collectively. ---- This is of course a long term goal and 
obviously requires greater participation with like minded people. It is our view that by 
creating an outreach project such as Barricade Distribution in which activists intend to 
be present on the streets holding regular information stalls with a view of having our own 
social space, centre, local in the year ahead. ---- Our first outing will be at this 
year's Derry Radical Bookfair on Sat. 28th January 2017 at Pilots Row community centre.

If you would like to get involved, take part in any of our activities then we would urge 
you to make the next step and get in touch.

http://derryanarchists.blogspot.co.il/

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Message: 4



We wish the new year to all anarchists and anarchistkám and free spirits in general a lot 
of success in the struggle for a better world and a dignified life for all. ---- Five 
years ago, we said goodbye to 2011 full of hope. She brought with it an unprecedented 
outbursts of revolt in different parts of the world. The past year 2016 was almost the 
opposite and almost materialization saying that action comes after the reaction. Reaction 
forces really raged at worst. Other compaction repressive screws further expansion of 
working poverty, others hate speech against people of different religions, skin colors or 
those who just fleeing wars and poverty. On the political scene across countries absent 
left, so the only alternative to the neoliberal elites from the half-truths to the absurd 
fictions masírovaným electorate has the right-wing, xenophobic and populist political 
projects, for which often costs again and again by those who have so far participated in 
the political or economic power . To lead the US administration sits dollars bloated 
monster that lavishes unsavory remarks and distributes authorities and to strengthen the 
position of the largest players in spite of the economic interests of the people and the 
environment. On the opposite side of the planet unlimited Kremlin leader tried to pass him 
even without any real resistance massacre of civilians and targeted bombing of hospitals. 
Authoritarian rulers fully started their show in Turkey, Hungary, Poland ...

What does all this mean for us?

Rise!

How to begin?

What about the question? - I want to watch angrily shit he gave me roll, let him tote and 
watch as diminishing freedoms, rights, and security options? If not, you have no choice 
but to lift the butt and start doing something. Organize. Develop your own initiative. 
Accept responsibility. Being solidary. Realize that if their lives not stand for 
ourselves, it is nonsense to expect that for us, someone else will.

What to ask more questions? - I just want to rescue the gains, which amounted generation 
of workers before me? Or I want to go straight to the dreams of many of them - dreams of a 
world where no oppressor and oppressed, no one is discriminated against just because they 
have a different skin color, gender, sexual orientation, age, etc.? Yes, our alternative 
is in our dreams. But we are already materializing here and now - in our teams, in the way 
as anti-authoritarians and antiautoritárky organize in solidarity approach to fighting 
other underprivileged.

What do you need? Necessary weapons each - the head and the heart. Just add the will for 
real change and half the battle is won.

Year 2017 may not be next year when "everything goes to shit." It may be a year boom 
movement whose aim is human emancipation, freedom and self-government structures to ensure 
the needs of all people without discrimination and, not least, a planet whose fate will 
associate us better vision than those apocalyptic.

It depends on each of us.

https://www.afed.cz/text/6586/pf-2017

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Message: 5



Véronique Decker, professor and activist schools in Seine-Saint-Denis, published in March 
a book, too class!, On her teaching experience in this department. Meeting with a combat 
teacher. ---- Alternative Libertaire: In Too class! You prepare a lucid portrait and 
disturbing to the school in the state 93. Do you think the situation is hopeless? ---- 
Véronique Decker: No, we must keep an optimistic hope in life to educate children. Nothing 
is hopeless, but the balance of power between the advocates of a reactionary school, 
elitist, which selects the children of the people instead of supporting them in their 
emancipation is clearly against us. We need to realize that. All public services were down 
and the first victims are always the weakest: children, the elderly ... ---- What do you 
think of the movement "not touch my PTA" taking shape in high schools?

Véronique Decker: I do not know. For now, this is a movement that is especially in the 
secondary. In primary schools, I do not go refusal to simmer. However, the resources 
allocated to schools were down everywhere, even in REP +[enhanced priority education 
network, note "]

Your school is a Freinet school and you participate in the exchange of Freinet groups. 
According to you what are the interests of this approach for children?

Véronique Decker: Alas, no, the school where I work is not a school "Freinet". This is a 
regular school, with teachers who are like me for some activists and activists Freinet. 
But anyone can be appointed to the schedule, even if he does not want to imagine a better 
world through teaching. But still, there is a "cooperative spirit" which gives a special 
atmosphere.

Are there a story that you have not reported in your book and you want to deliver to our 
readers?

Véronique Decker: A news terrible occurred in Aubervilliers, near Bobigny. Young, who 
thought stupidly that the Chinese are rich, assaulting and killing a Chinese to steal. He 
is dead. A large demonstration of revolt of the Chinese community took place.

Obviously, the implications reach us. We in the school some children of Chinese origin. 
They are ten in a school of over 260 students. One of them happens to us this year, 
following a move, is struggling to leave his mother.

He knows no one, he has no friends, he would like to stay a little with mom as during the 
summer. Then he tells him that the others are all bad, it is constantly attacked, and in 
the classroom he states that "it does not like blacks," which does not allow him to make 
friends ... Mom wants to see me, but she did not speak french, and I do not speak Chinese.

I asked him to come to my office. I pick up the phone for the translation service, the 
school enjoyed for years. Surprise, the prefecture decided to cut it and neglected to warn 
us. So bring out the mom of my office, and I see on her face that she does not understand 
why I did enter, to bring out ...

For four days, the child will come to school, until one night at the time of the study, 
the mummy comes accompanied by a sister of the child. Fortunately, the big sister speaks 
French well, and she agrees with me, the child is struggling to separate from his mother. 
She also thinks that it "adds" a little. I enter the mother in the yard, and I called 
several Chinese children so they can say in their language they have friends, there is no 
violence, and all is well. I feel the mom relax.

So I ask the children to become friends of the young newcomer, and already with four new 
friends, it can be integrated into the games of the playground. I told the elder sister 
laughed: Here the "gang of four"[1]which will help your brother ... She had to hear about 
the history of the 1970s in China, as it laughed good heart.

The final word?

Véronique Decker: Emancipation. The aim of the school is emancipation, that is the promise 
made to every child he can meet people he would not have met with his family, he will 
visit places in which it would never have gone, he can discover stories, books, 
techniques, disciplines, sports he has never heard of. Every time you replace the 
collective emancipation by personal success, they are mistaken path.

Interview by Lucie (AL Saint-Denis) and Aurelian (AL Paris-Sud)

BOOK TOO ... CLASS AGAINST CLASS!

Books 9-3 of the teachers on the 9-3, this is not what is missing. This department and its 
original residents feed the most varied fantasies, especially among those who do not know him.

But the book Véronique Decker will not be placed in the long series of complaints, 
mockery, or pamphlets that bloom regularly. Already, because even if we wish it the 
success it deserves, this book is not motivated by the desire to make a "coup" shopping. 
Also, because its author is not a young teacher just arrived thinking have all seen and 
understood in three years and is quick to make a book often caricatured as soon as she was 
able to escape and mutate also book that often resembles a war reporter as a teacher.

No, Véronique Decker has worked for over thirty years in different cities of the 
department and lives there. She also campaigned there, if indeed one can fully 
differentiate his work from his activism when one has to fight for his students can all 
have a roof over his head. But this experience will never lead to a preachy tone. It would 
be a shame to Veronica who is anxious to build knowledge with his students and create 
"little republics of students" in his public school REP + because it is obvious that it is 
the children of the people that his work makes sense.

On the contrary, the beginning of the book gives us the opportunity to observe his first 
schoolteacher, his discoveries, his mistakes too. It consists of short slices of life, 
enabling easy reading when the light and often funny style of Véronique Decker does no 
harm. It would be possible to open it at random and read one of his short stories or adopt 
a more chronological approach.

In any case, it devours since a bus ride from one end to the other of a subway line that 
runs through the 93 and incidentally my high school pro connects to my local union, almost 
enough to finish it. Some subway stations Line 13 allowed to swallow greedily the last pages.

When talking about easy reading and lighter style that does not hide that it sometimes to 
tears by reading the lives of some children, no higher than three apples, which are 
largely lie the assertion that we naîtrions all equal. Fortunately, far from the clichés 
about the widely conveyed servants, we also see the ingenuity and commitment made to allow 
arming the best students. But the will is not enough to fully offset the glaring 
deficiencies of public service.

We well remember why we fight and why indifference is impossible when one discovers what 
abandon the state and national education leave the most vulnerable populations. We highly 
recommend this book more successful the challenge of becoming himself a pedagogical tool. 
In reading we already imagine what French study objects CAP can match. We never change!

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Véronique Decker, too class! Teaching in the 9-3, Libertalia, Montreuil, 2016, 128 pages, 
10 euros.

[1]The "Gang of Four" is the name of a group of leaders of the Chinese Communist Party 
were arrested and removed from office in 1976, during the purge that followed the death of 
Mao.

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