Today's Topics:
1. LIDAP - new version of the List of digitized anarchist
periodicals (3.4) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, "Black & Red" (APO): SOLIDARITY GATHERING OUTSIDE
THE 1st PRIMARY SCHOOL OREOKASTRO (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #268 - Answer: Affinities
all the same (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. freedom news uk: Belgrade Six finally cleared of terrorism
after eight-year court battle (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Turkey, sosyalsavasSolidarity Kermess for InfiAl (tr)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Dear friends,
the new version 3.4 of Lidiap (List of digitized anarchist periodicals)
totalling 700 entries in 21 languages is now online:
http://www.bibliothekderfreien.de/lidiap/eng/index.html
We'd welcome your suggestions for further additions
as well as corrections, please feel free to forward on
for that purpose.
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Message: 2
LOST BATTLE against fascism BATTLE IS NOT UP TO NEVER ---- Lately we are still fans of
soap opera that is evolving in front of the courtyard of the first elementary Oreokastrou.
Of '' race '', in other words a group that goes by the name Patriotic Movement Oreokastrou
prevent refugee children studying in this school. Chained the door to not let UV children
to get inside. ---- Although not dwell in Oreokastro recognize the phenomenon is a
familiar story .Prospatheia '' indignant '' and good parents that slowly turns into an
organized movement missalodoxon fascists to disperse their racist poison against the
oppressed, refugees and immigrants. To those who are defined as different ...
So we refuse to abandon the degrees of these people to the discretion of each cabinet nor
the appetites of every Gavotsi and nationalist rabble Patriotic Movement
We open schools for all and must jointly fight for it, locals, immigrants, refugees .
To fight against the devaluation of our lives by government policies, according to
whatever we are only numbers in notebook, against the fascists filled the world fear for
the other and the arm with hatred. Hate and fear for children who want to go to school.
No. We can not tolerate.
That is why we are here because we believe what the locals and immigrants should pay with
the struggle for life and dignity. Match in our cities, our neighborhoods, the camps,
schools, our workplace, everywhere. Unite. We have to fight together, because the enemy is
common, it is the State that manage such wants the lives of all are bosses who exploit our
sweat and get rich are the fascists and racists filled the hearts of hatred the world even
for small children who claim to be educated, are the cops and their informants.
Those that are not human. Because we are a man and fight for a world of equality, freedom
and dignity.
Schools open to all, locals, immigrants, refugees.
Common local and immigrant struggles for life and dignity.
Oreokastro, Monday 20/2, 13:00
access OASTH buses (line 56)
Collegiality for social anarchism "Black and Red",
a member of the Anarchist Political Organisation
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2017/02/19
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Message: 3
A review of the book by René Berthier Non-elective Affinities appeared in Alternative
Libertarian of December. It has allowed our readers to hear some misunderstandings,
particularly about Marx and his relationship to the state. Back on a controversy more than
a century. ---- It is not appropriate for a newspaper article to regulate definitively
Marx's report to the State. However, a brief review of the writings of Marx and Engels on
the state should at least encourage caution when Marx is called "statist". His writings
intended for publication (theoretical works and newspaper articles) can be distinguished
from his writings not intended for publication (his correspondence) and his political
practice (within the AIT). That tensions cross these different sources, it is the
characteristic of the great authors. Thus, we will be careful not to establish the "truth"
of Marx's relation to the State, but to show its complexity.
Marx never thought that the state could be an end for the proletarian revolution. But he
could think that the working class could seize the state for its own account during a
revolutionary transition. In drawing up a (too) brief sketch of this report, we do not
seek to clear it of its responsibility towards its posterity, but it is important for us,
libertarians, what can be drawn from Marx .
The state, a multitude of frozen bureaucratic minds
As early as 1843 Marx criticized the state theory of the most influential German
philosopher of the early nineteenth century: Hegel. Marx saw in the latter the apology of
the Prussian State and the idealization of this form of power, as though Reason was
incarnated in History through the advent of modern States. He particularly criticized his
idealism (the State happen because it is rational, as an ideal is realized) and contrasts
his materialism: "The spirit is only the abstraction of matter. " The state that happens
because the material conditions have made it necessary (discussed: the division of society
into classes). This state that claims to represent the interests of the company is in
reality a "multitude of bureaucratic minds fixed, connected only by the subordination and
passive obedience."
Revolutionary Transition
First theorization of what would later be known as the "dictatorship of the proletariat",
the Communist Manifesto (1848), written with Engels, provides a transitional program as
the State réappropration by the working class. The two authors list the various measures
which they consider most generally applicable. It would be wrong for the first time to
regard this as purely "statism", but not its final form of communism, but its
revolutionary transition. One can of course - and this is all the more so in the light of
our historical knowledge and experience - criticize this strategy which should ensure a
transition to a classless society free of political power. But this transition is not the
last reason of "Marxism", the two authors already stating that "political power in the
proper sense - mean by that state - is the organized power of one class for the oppression
of another ". Thus, after this period of revolutionary transition, communist society
should be freed from the state and turn into an "association in which the free development
of each is the condition for the free development of all."
Measures drafted for this "state" transition in the Manifesto, Marx and Engels say in
their preface of 1872 (one year after the Commune) that "in many ways this passage would
be drafted otherwise" and that the implementation of measures concrete revolutionaries
drawn from the reporting and analysis classes "will depend always and everywhere given
historical circumstances." What historical circumstances have influenced the strategy of
the two authors? The 1871 Paris Commune, Marx commented live (see The Civil War in France,
1871), and in which he sees the Parisian proletariat to be massacred by the army of
Versailles commissioned by Thiers, reconciled for the occasion With Bismarck, the enemy of
the day before. Then he explains that "the working class can not simply take as is the
machine of the state and wield it for its own account. The political instrument of its
enslavement can not serve as a political instrument of its emancipation. " A circumstance
antistatism as claimed by René Berthier? It is nevertheless coherent with the whole of his
work. This is not the place to decide who is the most "Marxist" between Rubel who saw it
as a libertarian bifurcation of Marx (see Marx, theoretician of anarchism ) or Lenin who
sees the theorization of the dictatorship of the proletariat (see the State and Revolution
). But let us admit that we libertarians can derive on our account anything other than a
state Marxism.
Comrade Marx?
One could cite many other works, The Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) to the book
Engels The Origin of the Family (1884) through a publication the posthumous single
evocative title: from the abolition of the State to the constitution of human society
(1845, Marx never having published Berthier will conclude perhaps he sought to persuade
his night table Its anti-state).
Can one be a libertarian and find in Marx a great source of living inspiration? It is more
than ever true for his economic work, of which Bakunin himself recognized the immense
importance, but it is no less so to think of a consequent criticism of the State. Rather
than induce libertarians to mislead Marxists, it is better to encourage Marxists to
appropriate Marx's anti-state.
In these times of social regression, we need more than ever to unite our forces on a sound
basis. Let's give the last word to Engels, taken from The Origin ... to put the mouth
water libertarian: "The state does not exist for all eternity. There have been companies
that have gone out of business without him, who have no idea of the state and the power of
state. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily linked to the
division of society into classes, this division made the State a necessity. We are now
approaching at a rapid pace a stage of development of production in which the existence of
these classes has not only ceased to be a necessity, but becomes a positive obstacle to
production. These classes will also fall inevitably as they arose in the past. The state
inevitably falls with them. The company, which will reorganize production on the basis of
a free and egalitarian association of producers, will relegate the entire machinery of the
state to where it will henceforth belong: the Museum of Antiquities, next to the spinning
wheel and the bronze ax . "
Alain (AL Alsace), Benoit (AL Montpellier), Bernard Gougeon (AL Tarn), Wil (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Reponse-Affinites-tout-de-meme
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Message: 4
Serbian anarchists were celebrating yesterday as the Belgrade High Court finally cleared
six people of trumped-up "international terrorism" charges after an eight-year legal
battle. ---- Belgrade's Higher Court's ruling means that members of Serbia's
Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI) and several other activists have been formally
exonerated of guilt for an attack which took place against the Greek embassy in Belgrade
in 2009. ---- Sanja Dojkic, Ivan Savic, Ratibor Trivunac, Nikola Mitrovic, Tadej and Ivan
Vulovic were first arrested on September 3rd 2009 on suspicion of participating in an
action against the embassy in support of arrested Greek comrades and initially charged
with "causing public danger." ---- The attack on August 25th, which saw two Molotov
cocktails thrown at the building and a circled A painted on a wall, was claimed by
anarchist group Black Elijah in solidarity with imprisoned Greek comrades on hunger strike.
The six, who had no prior links to Black Elijah, were detained for six months before
acting Public Prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic got personally involved in the prosecution
and changed the charges to "international terrorism." In a statement, ASI-MUR said:
It soon became clear that the intention of the prosecution that the case would be used for
settling of accounts with our organisation and have ASI declared a "terrorist organisation."
Although all the arrested are not members of our union, the prosecution notes in the first
version of the indictment claimed just that, trying to prove that our organisation, as
well as a phantom Greek Association of ASI were involved in the alleged attack.
Of course, one of the key reasons for raising the indictment was the fact that ASI during
this period was performing the duty of Secretariat for the International Workers
Association (IWA), thereby contributing to the international coordination not of
"terrorists" but fighting union organisations from around the world.
Among those arrested was Ratibor Trivunac, who at that time held the post of Secretary
General of the IWA, and a friend who at that time held the position of International
Secretary of ASI.
The jailing of the Belgrade Six sparked an international campaign for their release,
including from academic groups within Serbia which strongly criticised the authorities for
failing to provide any strong legal arguments for conviction.
In 2010, after a hard-fought campaign and amid a collapsing State legal effort, the six
won their first acquittal. However a year on, as 2011 protests took place against NATO in
Belgrade, the government allowed the prosecution appeal and the trial was re-opened. ASI
notes:
Due to the proverbially chaotic justice system, and with the obvious intention of keeping
our organisation under pressure, trials continued for the next six years!
This judgement puts an end to nearly eight years of harassment of our comrades, and this
form of State pressure on our organisation. ASI continues to fight for the creation of
mass direct democracy and a revolutionary workers' movement without compromising with
bosses and the State. Our message to the enemies of the liberation of the working class
remains one and unchanging: Death to State and capitalism!
https://freedomnews.org.uk/belgrade-six-finally-cleared-of-terrorism-after-eight-year-court-battle/
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Message: 5
As a living space that is built on the ‘do it yourself' principle, where anarchist and
anti-authoritarian individuals and groups can meet, organise events and meetings, come
together without the obligation of spending money; infiAl is feeling the need to stay
standing and to build solidarity in every field more than ever in the ‘Emergency State'
conditions that we have been through. ---- Since its day of opening in 2015, both the
abusive and threatening policies that the state implements through its ‘control' mechanism
and the economical bottleneck that is encountered will negatively influence every
individual and group that shows solidarity with this collective. Closing of a space like
infiAl means that all the imagined and realised anti-authoritarian activities, all the
states of coexistence, discussions, projects and all the tea we drink together would end
up placeless.
The value that we give to the relationships we build with each other in this space is not
limited either with this place or with people we have met and decided to be together here.
The essential principle that we agreed upon is, of course, to bring our struggle to a
point where it does not reform the system but impair it as much as possible, through
actively dispersing in different fields as a collective.
This is our call for everyone who built relations with infiAl;
Due to the Emergency State conditions that increased the abusive ‘control' and oppression
mechanisms, the threat of sealing off and evacuation that this place is under and the
economic hardships we have been experiencing, lead us to create alternatives. When we
moved here, we were aware that the oppression mechanisms would not leave us free and that
we should take precautions. Accordingly, we will be organising series of solidarity events
in order to protect the ground for our activities, projects and relationships and to deal
with the economic difficulties. Either moral or material, any act of solidarity is
critical for this place that we can breathe and act together in these dry and tight
political climate.
In this context, as comrade collectives who experience InfiAl as an significant base, on
February 25, we will organize a fair of solidarity in order to contribute to the
sustainability of this project. In this fair, there will be drinks and food and handicraft
prepared by us, fanzines, journals, publications and books and many other stuff that can
contribute to the solidarity for InfiAl. Also there will be live music. Detailed info will
be posted in the following days.
With solidarity..
Etkinlik Sayfasi
http://sosyalsavas.org/2017/02/infial-icin-dayanisma-kermesine-davet-solidarity-with-infial/#more-30883
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