Today's Topics:
1. Catalunia, embat: Local action comunalitzadora as the basis
for the construction of popular power (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. alter-ee: protesting in Belarus (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. freedom news - Turkey: It may be banned, but Meydan
anarchist journal is still on the streets (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Ireland, derry anarchists: Solidarity with Tony Taylor - One
Year On! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, anarkismo.net: Against wars of rulers by Assembly
anarchists and immigrants - Antiwar march March 18 Propylaea (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Today it seems we do not know where to begin to try to get out of the hole that pushes the
capitalist system, everything is a mess, do not know how to communicate and to understand
ourselves organized, we see amazed as most of people give up the injustices evident ... we
need more than ever recommence from small things, the relationships between people who
share the same territory, building from the ground up popular power that can restore
strength and confidence . ---- We can understand the state-patriarchal-capitalist
civilization as essentially a social disease that has separated us from each other, nature
and the environment in which we live, stripping us of the relations of mutual support and
belonging that are necessary a full life while establishing an insurmountable war wars
between parties (individuals, companies, states ...) towards a particular course profit.
We also understand history as the struggle from human communities to defend themselves
from this disease, which unfortunately has advanced and has been developed. Libertarian
socialism that we defend from Embat, then it could be understood as a summary and update
of this community struggle.
In the peripheral countries capitalist struggle for socialism can start the defense of
communities 'indigenous' because there are still communities, but we can do in those
countries where the level of colonization is so high that almost the entire community
culture has been deleted? It would be a huge contradiction in trying to build socialism
without a social base and culture community. Therefore, recovery and recreation of these
elements in our country should be at the center of our revolutionary action.
Find us means to focus and integrate our actions and relationships in space, and with
people with whom we share everyday with whom we share the lives and support the festa,
care, feeding, defense ... the world we want is based on relationships face to face with
our environment and the people who inhabit it, that determines our actions match and
solidify in the local. In addition, we find that concentrated power structures are
increasingly far from the people in the sense that no visible faces or specific areas that
are the "center". Capitalism is everywhere and is a global phenomenon, but you can not
pretend to destroy it from a global fight uprooted as this plan is always stronger;
autonomy requires a root.
Rooted in the territories allows us to deeply understand their society, understand what
moves and transforms people living from their diversity, avoiding view ourselves as an
"enlightened" or something similar, therefore deselititzant revolution. As we develop this
understanding can also connect with different people and open their doors to personal
transformation for them to become agents of social transformation also revolutionary.
Instead, pass it overlooked one of the factors that is leading to confinement in "ghettos"
affinity or identity with limited social impact, or "selling smoke" and populism, to
attract people based the surface of our proposals and not the background.
Understanding the processes of transformation to socialism are deep and want a long time
to locate ourselves means to commit long term with the territory, consolidate and insist
on persisting volatility versus individualism that reigns today. Join everyday life with
the construction of popular power, so that it can be sustainable throughout our lives. Not
activism separate from us, but the construction of popular power is part of building a
life worth living.
Focus our action a reality and a specific territory could provide us try, make mistakes,
correct ... at the same time to acquire knowledge of how to do it. Helps us overcome the
dichotomy between theory and practice. It also helps to overcome the dichotomy constructed
destroyed: what we are building in our region allows us to simultaneously defend ourselves
from the attacks of the state and was undermining capitalist dynamics and vice versa.
The popular power as we know it is built on strong communities that can defend. Examples
Rojava as we confirm this. The fierce defense of Kobane and other fronts would not be
possible without the feeling that what is being defended in the background is our
community, our way of life, as well as a model of social organization that puts on center.
It is therefore to build a lifestyle that can defend itself and defend a way of life worth
living.
We also take as a reference the villages and towns of Mexico being declared independent: -
Tila, Cheran, Nochixtlan ... do not know first-hand just what we read others that have
been there, but we think is another example that independence can only be declared from
territories from communities rooted in a specific physical space that are able to build
and defend this autonomy.
We believe that the role of anarchists and this is twofold: firstly, boost community
reality (popular power at the local level) our neighborhoods and villages, seeking aware
that this aggression is suffering by state of civilization, and moreover enxarxar and
organize with other anarchists who are promoting the same in their territories. Focusing
on the needs of these local projects: coordinating them so they can make synergy
connecting them and giving them consistency (other than mushrooms isolated but a serious
proposal for social transformation), seeking to promote new throughout the territory. We
believe that this is how it makes sense that pleases revolutionary organization.
Given the general perspective, the question arises: where to start? How do I live? Each
situation is different and every human group. We do not think there are recipes applicable
in all contexts, but we want to express certain ideas that we think are some suggested
ways to implement the change that we want to promote. The idea that moves us is to build a
way of life in which we can integrate the different aspects of it , to overcome isolation
and loneliness imposed, and that in turn becomes a front counter to the state-capitalist
system . Some of the ways we're working on or what we imagine the action at the local
level are:
Knowledge and take part in initiatives supporting mutual friendships and horizontal
organization that already exist where we live, feeling challenged by what affects the
region in which we live. From cutting works to participate in a football tournament from a
stall in the market have to organize ourselves for disobeying an institutional measure.
The confidence generated by a gradually shared everyday opens multiple doors to discuss
and implement radical ideas, without having to use labels of any kind; identity should be
the most important belonging to the territory and the reality of this community.
Having access to the collective knowledge and material resources necessary to sustain us,
freeing up resources and techniques, and generate ways of relating to materially based on
trust and open federation, through the management of collective resources, infrastructure
sharing , machines or means of transport, planning joint production, etc. Insofar as
possible may be equipped with a physical space, that have not already. This space can have
an input function or the other: cultural associations or social spaces, points of supply
of basic goods production spaces for self-sustenance and / or to generate monetary
resources ... Following people they are, they have the skills and needs, projects that
exist in the village or neighborhood, etc. will be more viable place to begin or another.
Confronting the monopoly of violence by self-defense capability, individual and
collective, widespread. Conflicts are part of the common life. Part of our work is to
learn to deal with them, among which live in the same neighborhood or town, without
mediation or institutional regulations. We need to take the art of listening and support,
integrated political work and emotional work. Practical examples of how this can take the
form found in Kurdistan. Based on the idea that conflict is never between two individuals
but the whole community there is responsibility, each commune established between the
neighbors committee for conflict resolution, which is what makes mediation in the first
instance when there are conflicts in their territory, community measures proposed to
resolve and heal the impacts they may have, and together the parts of the community need
to implement them. In addition, each community organizes its own self-defense militias to
stop the violence, whether internal or external, in its territory
To start promoting it from a particular territory, committed to form groups of people can
be very few who pooled their resources and organize themselves to live together and
support each other, in order to promote the community perspective in its territory.
Grouped not used to be closed, but quite the contrary should allow more force to be
involved in the country and spread the community perspective is revolutionary. However, as
we are steeped in capitalist values many levels, it is normal at the start cost us
confidence and generate synergies that would be desirable, we must learn to be together.
It is not necessary that people live this core promoter in the same physical space, but if
you live in close proximity. We can begin to do so from now our villages or districts,
just wanted to get involved in it, wanting to meet and share our lives; and prioritize it.
Finally, in order to spread the possibility of reinventing forms of life around us which
local projects should also reproduce, s'enxarxin and articulated. As we consolidate and
stabilize our local projects, devote some energy to organize ourselves in wider regional
level can allow us to:
- jointly promote the emergence of new local revolutionary projects around the country,
providing better tools driving new groups and wanting to start successfully. - Also
favored the bonds of fellowship between the various existing projects, feeling stronger
and less alone to cope with the difficulties of the way, sharing experiences together to
create revolutionary wisdom, etc .. To delve into this issue so fundamental to us the
mobility to visit us, meet us in our quotidianitats not only in coordination meetings.
- Support our local action. Often many people who live in our neighborhoods / villages are
sympathetic but we do believe that while there are idealists who sadly have nothing to
deal with the powerful capitalist machinery. Tell us, locally, as part of a social force
for broader territorial scope also helps that our proposal is to be taken more seriously
as something with more chances of success, which encouraged to join them.
- Self us join forces for the multiple attacks with which we try to neutralize the
reigning civilization: judicial repression, economic pressure, media manipulation ...
In short, we may well be creating a whole body, as a confederation of local projects,
capable of spreading across the country, from the practical and proximity while from the
consistency and the ability to self-defense, our proposal society; a counter from which
undermine the rule of civilization that prevails, and where at the same time build a
civilization of democracy.
http://embat.info/accio-local-i-construccio-dun-poder-popular/
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Message: 2
In Belarus last weeks people took to the streets to fight the law against social
parasitism – law that was signed by dictator Lukashenko in 2015, but started troubling
population only at the beginning of the 2017. Thousands took to the streets in Minsk,
Brest, Gomel and many other smaller cities all around the country, to show their
discontent with the law and the current regime. The protests seems to have little
influence from “official” opposition- instead of that people previously not involved in
the politics are organizing together. In several places anarchist played quite a big role
in the protests. Last week belarusian government started repressions against those on the
streets – up until now over 48 people were detained and prosecuted for different violations.
Social parasites
Belarusian government started talking about social parasitism somewhere after 2010
elections. The idea was not new to the region – previously in soviet union people who were
not officially employed were always under threat of prosecution. This time belarusian
government was doing the same – Lukashenko wanted to punish those who are not working or
working but not paying taxes.
Slowly step by step through several ministries the idea have crystallized – the law was
written and presented to Lukashenko who eagerly signed it. Inside it was stated that every
person who is not working for more than 6 months in a year have to pay a “tax” to the
state to cover the “social” state – free public health care and education. The sum to pay
for many people was quite big – around 180 euro per year, with an average salary somewhere
between 200 to 300 euro per month depending on the region of the country.
This was done next to already existing humiliating quantity of 15 dollars per months for
those officially registered at the unemployment center – money that you would only get
after one day of work assigned by the unemployment agency.
Of course in 2015 there was already a certain level of discontent, but it never turned
into real protests – the law promised to start working only in 2017, and a lot of people
were expecting that the government would back off. Instead of that by the end of 2016,
beginning of 2017, people began to receive something that got nicknamed “letters of
happiness” where it was stated that due to their “financial inactivity” in 2015 they have
to pay a tax to the state. And that was the moment when it stroke a lot of people – by the
official state media around 450 000 people are affected by the law (with the working
population around 5 000 000 people).
You could avoid paying the tax if you go to the governmental commission and explain
yourself and your bad financial situation. This is one of the most humiliating procedures
that belarusian people facing financial troubles has to go through.
There is a punishment as well – those who are not capable of paying the law can be
sentenced up to 15 days of forced labor or to pay a fine together with the tax.
Marches of nonparasites
First march against the law took place on 17 February 2017 in Minsk. It gathered around
2000 people on a demonstration not allowed by authorities. After a short symbolic march
from the palace of republic (main square in Minsk) to the parliament the demo was over and
the organizers from the opposition were calling people to go home and come back in one
month, giving time for Lukashenko to cancel the law. One of the most organized and loudest
groups during the demonstration were the anarchists – and they were the only group that
was shortly attacked by the police after demonstration – one banner was stolen, however
people were unarrested and left home. Huge support for the anarchist came from usual
people that were also resisting the police, escorting participants of the anarchist block
to the safe place.
During next week the demonstrations in Gomel and Brest took place, with several thousand
participants all together. They were the biggest protests outside Minsk in the whole
history of Belarus. In Brest small group of anarchists took over the demonstration from
opposition, that was trying to organize a meeting with the local mayor. Instead of that
people occupied the streets and went through the city chanting “No to decree #3,
Lukashenko go away” (Decree #3 is the official registration number of the law). After the
success of the march in Brest several anarchists were arrested at home and sentenced to 5
days in jail. Later on protests moved to smaller cities all around the country with
hundreds to thousands participating in different places: Orsha, Bobruisk, Kobrin, Luninec
are among those – probably places that you have never heard in your life. Those small
towns haven’t seen any demonstrations over decades, and now people are protesting against
the law together.
Under the pressure of the protesters Lukashenko had to back off – he officially announced
the freezing of the law for 2017, and the return of the money to those who have already
paid the tax, but just if they are currently working or will find a work in 2017. This
didn’t stop protesters, who are now demanding not only the cancellation of the law but
also the retirement of Lukashenko and his government.
Raisins in the bread rolls
Last week on Monday the belarusian state TV has issued a propagandist movie where the
whole protesting movement is split into two parts – those who are genuinely affected by
the law and deserve compassion, and mere “provocateurs”. The state TV is pointing these
“provocateurs” as people who are there to create another Maydan in the region and destroy
the country stability. The film explains that among those “provocateurs” are the
anarchists who are considered to be chaotic foot troops of liberal nationalists. The movie
makes clear that the government is not going to back off under the pressure of the
protesters and will repress those who are not conforming.
Lukashenko made a statement as well last week to address the problem. Apart from long
tirades from the good king about the bad bureaucrats who understood the law wrongly, he
also made a statement saying that there are “special” elements inside of the protests that
have their own agenda and are not interesting in the prosperity of the belarusians. Those
are again anarchists and opposition activists. Trying to make a metaphor he called those
people raisins in the rolls – obviously Lukashenko doesn’t like raisins.
First arrests were made even before the movie was done – several people from Brest were
caught after the demonstration by the civil cops that hunted them all around the town.
Later on, arrests of some famous opposition members also took place. Last days
demonstrations in several towns also ended up with prosecutions again journalists and
participants
By now over 48 people were detained and prosecuted for different violations: starting with
violating the law on public gatherings and ending up with accusation of immoral behavior
on the streets. Different activists got from 5 to 15 days in jail and some of those who
were already sentenced to 5 days were rearrested and prosecuted again for swearing in
public in front of the prison gates – common tactic of police forces that are rearresting
people inside of the prisons without even letting them out.
Map of people arrested can be found here – http://www.svaboda.org/a/28365086.html
The next march is planned on Wednesday 15.03. and people are expecting different scenarios
– Lukashenko can freak out completely arresting everybody showing up, or attacking and
arresting people after the demonstration. At the same time everything can go smoothly and
police will not escalate the conflict. The second is less likely.
Taking into account the recent statement about raisins and anarchist role in destabilizing
the whole situation, we out here expect an increase of repressions, and more people
detained/arrested than it was in last years.
More Information about repression in Belarus: https://abc-belarus.org
If you feel like supporting anarchists repressed in Belarus you can always donate money to
Anarchist Black Cross
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> News are reporting on protesting in Belarus against the new tax on
>> "non-working" people. What about that? Are any perspectives ion that?
>> After the protesting do people keep on organizing stuff? And mostly,
>> what about the politcal power? do they consider taking the tax back?
>>
> Hi, just a few theses on that.
> - indeed the protest started on February 17 and was called by a
> Belarusian National Congress (part of the opposition). The other part of
> the the opposition boycotted the day because they wanted to make their
> own protest on March 15 (the day of the constitution) and because they
> are competing for the electorate.
> - a lot of regular people came to protest (around 2-3 thousands in
> Minsk, which is a lot for Belarus), nobody expected that. Anarchist came
> to support the demo.
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1122729071178770/permalink/1210370935747916/
> Only plaincloth police were present, they didn't detain anyone, but
> tried to catch a few anarchists in the end.
> At that demo the politicians called the people to come again on March 25
> which is the Day of Freedom (the date of first announcement of
> Belarusian republic in 1918) and clearly they want to co-opt the social
> protest and channel it into their political march. Note that they didn't
> call people to come to March 15 actions organised by other opposion.
> - On February 19 in several regional cities the same Congress called for
> meetings on the same topic. The most mass attended was in Gomel with 3-4
> thousand people. In other cities nobody from the opposition actually
> cared to organise anything and people started to self-organise - just
> shouting how their life is fucked up. Again, nowhere police interfered,
> only later a few politicians from Gomel received papers for
> non-sanctioned protest.
> - On Feb 26 protest happened again in Vitebsk and 3 more cities. This
> time Vitebsk was the most attened - 2-3 thousands, ans again nobody care
> to even bring them some loudspeaker. People were deciding themselves
> where to go and shouted different things.
> - In some cities they want to hold another protest on march 5.
> - Meanwhile, the other opposition prepares meeting countrywide on march
> 15, but it's not clear if they are actually not late for the protest.
> - And also, they all expect a lot of people on they celebration of March
> 25th.
>
> So generally the protests are used for letting the steam off where
> people share bad things that the authorities done to them and it's
> enough. Many really enjoy this feeling of being a bi potent crowd as
> they never felt it before. This is made possible by the lack of
> repression. Some people collect signatures against the law, some burn
> papers from the lax office, some claim they are 'giving the authorities
> 2 weeks to change the law, otherwise..." they probably meet again and
> collect more signatures. Generally people call not to pay the tax and
> ask Lukashenko to go and provide the space for the youth.
>
> The power meanwhile is organising meetings with people explaining them
> the law and changing the law a bit to exclude most sensitive social
> groups. To have the tax anulled, people in bad situations should come to
> a special commission, explain how fucked up their life is and ask for
> mercy to a range of officials. People are very ashamed of that, here is
> the viral picture of a woman crying in from of the officials
>
https://scontent-otp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16864138_1239393156114138_298980823764561271_n.jpg?oh=629e167144c23f3bdb8844001494603b&oe=593E0FBF
>
> Generally, the feeling is that they will have to call off this tax and
> too many people are not ready or even able to pay it.
here are a public overview about the recent development in Belarus we would like to share
and also raise awareness, as the situation might get more tense.
https://abcdd.org/en/2017/03/14/groesste-proteste-in-belarus-in-den-letzten-10-jahren/
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Message: 3
Even with its editor jailed and a ban on circulation from the Erdogan government,
anarchist journal Meydan is refusing to kneel and activists are continuing to sell it on
the streets. The paper put out a scorching call to arms in its January issue and has
continued the trend since. ---- Its March issue has for several years been put together
entirely by women and is released a few days before International Women's Day. This year
includes powerful critiques of everything from the trend in advertising to insist that
particular products are what make "strong women" to a harrowing piece on a State massacre
being perpetrated in Koruköy ---- In an editorial statement, the Meydan team said: ----
Even with circulation banned by the Turkish government, activists from the Anarsist
Kadinlar Collective (Anarchist Women) took to the streets of Istanbul to distribute the
new edition (37) of the anarchist newspaper Meydan Gazetesi. In this issue, prepared
entirely by women, different themes are dealt with, in particular the International
Women's Day celebrated on March 8th.
Recall that on December 22nd the editor of Meydan Gazetesi, Hüseyin Civan, was sentenced
to one year and three months' imprisonment on charges of "making propaganda for the
methods of a terrorist organisation, constituting coercion, violence or threats through
legitimation, exaltation, or stimulation of the use of these methods." The authorities
also banned the circulation of this newspaper.
More photos here.
Follow Meydan at:
meydangazetesi.org
@MeydanGazetesi
https://www.facebook.com/meydangazetesi/
https://freedomnews.org.uk/turkey-it-may-be-banned-but-meydan-anarchist-journal-is-still-on-the-streets/
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Message: 4
Anarchists in Derry, once again joined with the relatives, friends and comrades of Tony
Taylor, a local republican activist from the city who has been interned by the British
State for one year. ---- During Saturday's demonstration activists from a number of other
political organisations and none also helped mark the anniversary of Tony Taylors
detention in support and solidarity with his partner Lorraine and family. ---- The
occasion was also used to highlight the current situation across the six countries in
which activists can be selected by the state and removed from their loved ones and
community simply because they hold an opposing pokitical opinion to what they would like
you to have. ---- No matter what the views of Tony Taylor are, as anarchists we will
continue to support him and his family's ongoing fight for justice by demanding his
immediate release as this fight, above all else is a human rights issue of which everyone
should be concerned about.
We totally reject the disappearance and imprisonment of all political activists and will
continue to do so by taking to the streets along with others equally concerned with human
rights, just as we have done so countless times before for Tony as well as other activists
in the past. It is vital that everyone and anyone interested in human rights must speak
out against Tony Taylor's imprisonment and demand an end to this and other States practice
and use of internment. Demand justice and freedom for Tony Taylor!
What follows is a statement issued by Lorrine Taylor yesterday on the anniversary of her
partner's imprisonment:
"I can't believe its a year today my husband Tony Taylor was illegally taken away from us
by the PSNI without any explanation while were out on a shopping trip with our children in
our home town .we are told his arrest was based on unaccountable intelligence supposedly
provided by the security services. And that is all we know .I believe this is an abuse of
power and an infringement of Tony's human rights .And yet that has been enough to deprive
a citizen of this citizen for a full calendar year .Shocking yet over the past year my
family have been kept under constant surveillance by the police .They know I'm not a
political activist but I will fight for my husband's human rights and I won't stop until I
get justice for him .please help us fight for Justice my children need there daddy home
.love and miss him loads xxxx"
#freetonytaylor
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U2edkhQbVk4&feature=share
http://derryanarchists.blogspot.co.il/2017/03/solidarity-with-tony-taylor-one-year-on.html
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Message: 5
We stand in solidarity critically battling rebellious pieces of any Syrian people though
is their momentum at that stigmi.Stis still existent self-organized dissident communities
and neighborhoods what strikes you have received. To those who daily struggle, refusing to
surrender to the criminal regime and the butcher Assad, in imperialist forces and those
rulers ravage the tortured Syrian territories nor inch of land. To those who are
slaughtered daily for the sake of power and profit. ---- Against wars of rulers ----
Solidarity in rebellious Syrian people ---- Call the Antiwar march of March 18 Propylaea
---- On 18 December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor set himself on fire in protest
confiscation of goods by police Tunisia with the excuse that he did not have permission .
This incident constitutes the pivotal moment of the outbreak of mass protests and
widespread riots, resulting in the overthrow of the dictatorial regime and the flight of
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali out of the country, about a month later, on January 14,
2011.
In a short time erupt uprisings and civil wars and other North African and Middle East
(Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Oman [1]).
Although the slogan of the struggle is common "the People wants to drop the regime [2]" in
all regions, practices and movements objectives differ case. The period 2010 - 2012 will
be reflected in public discourse as Arab Spring and will summarize each form of reaction
to pressure long dictatorial authoritarian constructs, censorship, the poverty and
deprivation of basic human rights. However, this process will differ in targeting, the
realization and the spearhead of the outbreak colored and varies by region and time, not
making it practically a whole.
At the same time, the environment in which it is happening all the above subject to
intense social and class conflicts within these countries, fueled by the competition
between the Great Powers over aftes.I capitalist restructuring of the States economy
strengthens social instability and while deconstructing the power schemes in the social
consciousness.
With the abandonment of the French colonialists political power in 1946, the
administration of Syria transferred to the national capitalist elite. After various
political processes, failed and successful coups in 1963 the power occupied by the Baath
party and in November 1970 passed into the hands of dictator Hafez al-Assad. Since then
and up to the outbreak of the revolution of 2011, the country is run by the family
Assantiki. Building totalitarianism will be supported instrumentally and ostensibly the
ideological vehicle of Pan - Arabism and maintaining the Islamic identity of the country
as social homogenization means and manipulation. Both the Baath party, and the
administration of the country are governed by extreme prosopokentrismo and complete
intolerance.
Under dictatorship
Primary goal of the dictator and his regime's cycle was originally reorganization of the
economy, which was assigned to the dictates of the capitalist elites of the country,
prominent members of which were consistently people of Assad family. From the family tank
of Hafez al-Assad was staffed and the military leadership. The warm rhetoric of pan -
Arabism advocated regime dictates strained relations with Israel and support Palestine
although military operations in this direction are missing. Crowning the hypocrisy of the
regime is to prevent Palestinian leftist victory in battle in Lebanon in 1976 and the
massacres of Palestinian militants in camps in Lebanon.
The state of war with Israel - which never really developed into such - seems only favored
the maintenance of the emergency regime in which Syria was in 1970 and the imposition of
martial law. The objective was essentially never an external enemy, but the complete
exercise of power inside. The implementation of these measures continued throughout the
Assantikis dictatorship until it breaks in practice in 2011 with mass demonstrations
throughout the country.
Within the operation of the country under military law, he has for decades the prison
routine. The propaganda has been leveling with the press prey on loyalist advice. Large
industries passed into the hands of Assantikis family, management and senior positions in
the army staffed largely by Allaouites [3] .The economic disparities were enormous and a
large proportion of Syrian -mainly in rural areas- lived in absolute poverty and total
oppression.
The army suppressed the decades 1970 - 1980 numerous insurrectionary attempts culminating
in the massacre of more than 20,000 people in Hama in 1982 and the destruction of most of
the ancient city. Detentions, abductions, disappearances, executions, torture and rape
have consolidated the dominance of dictatorship and dissolve every thought and hope for
change. The most extreme face of power imposed absolute silence.
After the death of Hafez in 2000 and his death - originally intended to take over the
reins of the regime - the eldest son, the power passed to the second son Bashaar al-Assad.
O young dictator promoted as more westernized and cosmopolitan. Launched a series of
neoliberal economic reforms (privatization etc.) with 60% of national wealth to pass into
the hands of Assantikis family. From the outset it rejected the idea of a more western
democratic model, as inappropriate for "the democratic way of Syria thought." Despite
declarations about a welcome constructive criticism and inclusivity of citizens in the
modernization of the country, censorship, propaganda and political persecution continued.
After the communication type reforms of the Syrian state, and under the "changed" profile
promoted systematically chunk of repression was entrusted to numerous national secret
services [4] and the effect of para-launched both propaganda level and hundreds of
political persecution (kidnappings, intercepts, mysterious disappearances, torture, etc.)
Also the regime despite the opportunist support in Kurdish movements in Iraq and in Turkey
within the Syrian Kurds stripped of any kind of national characteristic and systematically
and brutally suppressed.
In a demonstration extroversion attempt, the regime has allowed a very small but catalytic
importance of the internet in 2000. The first political content blogs made their
appearance. Their main theme was the withdrawal of martial law and the Emergency regime.
This stream, which peaked in 2009, was called Damascus Spring. Although slightly
radicalized, in fact it has been the source of the first open political debate and the
repopulation of a small but important space crammed limited public discourse. Alongside
the first movements on the emancipation of women made their appearance as a woman's place
was institutional terribly degraded in a series of issues [5]. Kurdish communities
participated in the Damascus Spring, founding their own blog and to 2004 attempting a
Kurdish Intifada would violently suppressed [6]. They created various organizations for
the protection of human rights and support of thousands of political prisoners rotting for
years in the dungeons of the neoliberal dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad.I Damascus Spring
quickly suppressed by Assad and turn into deep winter.
Despite adversity, by 2011, social processes within Syria intensified. while the outcome
of rebellions that occurred at the same time in other parts of the Arab world have shown
that the rulers of each other, despite invulnerable is known thirst for freedom is
extremely contagious.
The revolt
The first calls of February 2011 was relatively anemic. Product of thirty political
paralysis and fear. They suppressed directly, while most participants were imprisoned. At
the same time Kurds and Syrian prisoners began a hunger strike with key demand the fall of
the dictatorship. The first neighborhoods that are more intense microbe sociopolitical
claims are those where Sunnis live in economically weaker classes and Kurdish minorities.
Also in the metropolitan conurbations special role played by social groups with diverse
koinonikotaxika characteristics (students, unemployed, youth, economically privileged
backgrounds pieces, progressive movements, activists etc.) but with a common element
radicalism (or in thinking either way action ) and of course the intense spirit of change
in the political process.
In a burst authoritarian arrogance, March 6 arrested and jailed fifteen children
dissidents wrote slogans on the walls of the city Daraa. H police response to requests
from minors families for their release are: "They forget. Will you deliver more. ". The
police response will be massive demonstrations. Daraa, Homs, Damascus.
On March 15 in the city Daraa world descends in a body on the road in response to the call
that calls it as "The day of rage" [7 ]. Followed by the city of Damascus on 17 and 18
almost all the inhabitants of Daraa demonstrating in the streets and occupy them. The army
takes command to open fire and turning the guns on protesters. Report dead four.
This act in conjunction with the statements of the dictator on troublemakers motivated
Aptian foreign intelligence services will be the event horizon on the Syrian issue.
The reaction will spread directly across Syria. The demonstrations held in the capital of
the first slogans of liberation of minors and conciliatory demands reform content, will
soon be replaced by the request of the fall of the dictatorial regime and oust Assad the
country.
The regime repression
The regime under popular pressure, organized a punitive grid, based mainly on three axes.
Initially, unleashing extreme propaganda. Protesters emerged from the media and the press
from rioters as terrorists, agents of foreign interests and dangerous fundamentalist
Islamists. Due to heavy political persecution and silencing each insurrectionary
discourse, the counter-structures were absent.
The second axis based on which the Assad regime tried to suppress the uprisings was a
cleavage logic within the religious sectarianism. 75% of the Syrian population is Sunni
Arabs [8]. A small percentage of 10-12% is Allaouites, Christian Arabs, Orthodox, Oriental
Catholics, Armenians, Assyrians, etc. and the remaining 10% is shared by Shiites, Turkmen,
Druze, etc. Due to its rich ethnography Syria had shown great tolerance in religious
identity in conjunction with a more libertarian faith perception compared to other M.
East. Tolerance to other religious beliefs was a structural component of social balance.
It is worth noting that until the war religious identity was not a cause of friction.
The scheme was dedicated devoutly to break the rebel people with vehicle religion. They
made dozens of coordinated attacks in neighborhoods with common religious identity while
the news presented as responsible heterodox groups. The regime fostered fear and wariness
between these different groups bombardment false news of the manipulated media. [9] At the
same time an important role in the evolution of the revolution played leading members of
fundamentalist and Islamist organizations which were released in an amnesty conceded by
the Assad regime a few years earlier.
The third pillar was the violent and totalitarian repression of rebel crowd. The army was
back on the road following the implementation of martial law and after March 18 most
performed massively in every demonstration. The Allaouites soldiers withdrew from the
battlefield, following orders of superiors them to safer theseis.Antitheta Sunnis placed
strategically in the most degraded areas.
But the refusal of soldiers to their mainly Allaouites- generals to execute citizens, the
vast most exegertikotita demonstrators and the coveted, yet so deprived feeling of change
in the sociopolitical landscape, leading to mass defection from the army. The Syrian
people rebelled.
The Syrian Revolution
The soldiers in possession of their arms fled to safer perioches.I answer was
sfodrotati.Oi families of deserters were expelled, imprisoned and interrogated with
torture. Snipers and soldiers now performed indiscriminately rebellious.
The people continued to descend en masse on the street and loyalist forces withdrew from
the entire perioches.Mazi and the state apparatus. Self-organization as a reflex reaction
from below came to fill gaps in structures and services procured every aspect of social
life from the feeding and care as the self-organized media counter-information that
appeared and gave another impetus to now liberated areas. The vision of the anarchist Omar
Aziz [10] for self-organized and antiierarchika pragmatothike local councils in a district
of Damascus with Barzeh name. They spread from city to city and adopted by many liberated
communities as a form of organization.
But when violence is upgraded to a level similar to a severe military treaty and
self-defense now takes the form of armed resistance as the only way of survival, adequate
equipment and experience of using it is able to judge the outcome of the war.
As a result of both the weakness of the revolutionary people to organize military and
civilian, keeping the libertarian challenge to construct both self-defense and to
establish a strong armed resistance front and the other in the absence of strong and
organized political structures and groupings (that would be the yeast ) after 30 years of
complete political paralysis in the dictatorship and unable to capitalize on the original
spirit of emancipation, the brunt of armed resistance has either a religious or a
military-style organizations and formations.
The fronts of the war
Much of the military defected and organized into brigades scattered under the name FSA
(Free Syrian Army) and taking advantage of the gaps in self-defense of dissidents lines
took the custody of some of them. But the mixture of strains is highly eteroklito.Oi ways
of each brigade operation covering a wide range of analogue of diversity, which extends
from fascist practices and extreme militarism to milder military management methods. It
can be seen as a united front and set and in many cases the relationship of the base with
the leadership is weak which will play an important role in achieving agreements that get
occasionally leaders.
The imperialist forces come into play taking advantage of the extremely unsettled
conditions in the country. The US entered the targeted building a relationship of
dependency with many dissidents fronts equipping the while eroding without nevertheless
enable to provide air cover. Thus feeding into a controlled degree of civil conflict.
Strengthen "both-as" even competing fronts together (brigades of the FSA, Kurds, possibly,
ISIS) to an extent which constitute the considerable force but are never prevail.
Essentially attempt diversion of any real revolutionary apopeiras.Oi many goals and in
different directions. Feeding a highly profitable military treaty and the maintenance of
the war economy, the attempt to weaken Russia, the creation of a new controllable system,
and achieving energy independence of Europe from Russia. Root of all the gain and the
integral control.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar reinforce the offshoot Al-Qaeda's Syria at the Al-Nusra. The
equipment of the Al-Nusra converts a consistent and considerable military power compared
with other Islamist armed organoseis.Ferei strongly Islamist element and the religious
totalitarian katichisi.Eno is fundamentalist, military power is also quite influenced by
libertarian elements of the Syrian culture Simultaneously indicative of the hardness is
the crime of indifference to civilians.
The surprisingly strong resistance in the troupe and its international recognition, the
formation of resistance, participation in decisive processes of councils and committees,
are among the most active and radical pieces in Rozava.To Kurdish movement because of the
long-term action, the central role women on the battlefields of communitarianism and of
libertarian imperatives supported by numerous organizations and networks, and sparked a
wave of international solidarity.
It did the same with the other self-organized communities in Syria. The solidarity of the
West mainly restricted to the track migratory roon.Simantiko role in the attitude of the
wider radical and libertarian movement in the Western world played the absence of
information especially in the early days of the revolution (because of the absence of
counter-resonant structures) in connection with the bombing propaganda of the Assad
kathestos.Taftochrona the particular cultural and sociopolitical characteristics that make
up the revolutionary condition of Syria and chaotic then landscape fronts of the war made
the reading of the Syrian issue in a very difficult problem for strong solvers. Failure of
adequate information and analysis essential difficulty of the war in Syria denatured in a
substantially inert attitude of the West which is merely a generalization suing and
humanitarian type political discourse. The absence of anti-war movement was ichirotati and
potentially disastrous for the outcome of the war.
The importance of having a strong anti-war movement is as follows:
Brings the counter-offers and direct transfer of viomatos.Afti will be first-time
theoretical and necessary tool of policy analysis and strategy development.
Creates practical solidarity networks vital for the fighting revolutionary subjects both
because of the aid in the battlefields and because the necessary fermentation and policy
interaction and psychological support.
Finally promotes lobbying west metropolitan cities exactly where that is deemed the
outcome of the war.
The existence of a potential anti-war movement is a matter of utmost importance, it
realizes international solidarity and is an integral part of imperatives and our policy
targeting.
As a first assembly attempt a dual analysis with emphasis on sociopolitical and class
features but taking into account the extremely complex and geopolitical implications of
the Syrian issue, in order to adequately cover in the first time the wide range of
information and our self-education on the subject. It is obvious that our identification
with any of the fighting fronts is difficult to adynati.Parolafta we can only recognize
the class characteristics of the revolution, the crude while sincerely law sense of social
assertion of the right to self-determination and of course the large track shift the
bottom to self-organization and social solidarity, concepts perfectly interwoven with
anarchy. Keeping always this, the political sign of anarchy and therefore the antikratiko,
anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian perspective, avoid falling into the trap of an
exclusively geopolitical Cold War and analysis. This would lead to a dangerously
incomplete anagnosi.Poso rather conciliator in any ruler.
We stand in solidarity critically battling rebellious pieces of any Syrian people though
is their momentum at that stigmi.Stis still existent self-organized dissident communities
and neighborhoods what strikes you have received. To those who daily struggle, refusing to
surrender to the criminal regime and the butcher Assad, in imperialist forces and those
rulers ravage the tortured Syrian territories nor inch of land. To those who are
slaughtered daily for the sake of power and profit.
Against any kind of power, away from hegemonic tendencies and practices against would-be
saviors.
Beyond borders and religions.
Battling the only law in humanity war. Him against state and capital.
For complete freedom.
For Anarchy.
On Wednesday, March 15, the day designated as the anniversary of the Syrian uprising,
invite a rally outside the Ministry of Immigration Policy in Klafthmonos Square at 11:30.
Saturday, March 18, remembrance day for the first casualties of the Syrian uprising in
2011 by the Assad regime, we call on concentration and anti-war march in solidarity with
the Syrian people in the Propylaea at 17:00.
Meeting anarchists and immigrants for international solidarity in the rebellious Syrian people
Sources:
a) Forms
1.Syriaki Revolution-Initiative Anarchist prisoners (pamphlet, 2016)
2.Burning Country (Syrians-In, Revolution and War) - Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al- Shami
(2016)
3.The Sect as Homeland-Monzer Al-Sallal (essay, 2014)
4.A discussion paper on Local Councils-Aziz Omar (paper, 2013)
b) Sites
Wikipedia.com
Theguardian.com
Aljazeera.com
Cnn. com
Bbc.com
Rt.com
Middleeasteye.com
Syria.liveuamap.com
Syriancivilwarmap.com
TahrirICN.wordpress
Northern Syria Observer / facebook
c) Evidence of Syrian immigrants / three and Anarchist comrades
[1] Smaller protests took place in Djibouti, Kuwait, Lebanon and Mauritania.
[2] Ash-sha'b yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām (Arabic: الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام). With decolonization
and the removal of foreign forces from the administration of these areas, the powers
assigned to totalitarian regimes.
[3] Religious sect of Islam, with a minority presence in Syria (less than 10% of the
population). In this sect belongs the Assad family.
[4] Mukhabarat (مخابرات, muhabarat / mukabarat)
[5] Eg the divorce, the marriage age and the extremely lenient treatment and protecting
rapists from judicial exousia.To feminist movement that unfolded had large conglomerate
and expelled enormously from Assad with hundreds of women to be found in the regime prisons.
[6] 2,000 Kurds were imprisoned, 36 people were killed by the dictatorial regime (mostly
Kurds) and 5 prisoners succumbed to their injuries after vehemently torture
[7] The second in the series called in this way. The first call to this name became 4-5
Fevrouariou.Paroti no one responded to protest the military presence was strong, a sign of
the zero tolerance regime on protests.
[8] arbitrarily separated from the Sunni populations in B. Iraq.
[9] "Before laughed with the desperate propaganda the regime spoke for fundamentalist
gangs and Islamist Emirata.Ystera the regime created the conditions so that to happen I
really ..) Monzer Al-Sallal - The Sect as Homeland
[10] The anarchist Omar Aziz also known as Abu Kamel was born in Damascus. He returned to
Syria from exile in Saudi Arabia and the USA, in the early days of the Syrian revolution.
Through his writing and acting of promoted local self-government, horizontal organization,
cooperation, solidarity and mutual aid as a means by which people cheirafetountan from the
tyranny of the state. The example of Barzeh spread throughout Syria, and with him and some
of the most promising and enduring examples of non-hierarchical self-organization, which
emerged from the Arab Spring countries. The Aziz believed to continue to defeat the
revolution, the revolutionary activity needs to permeate all aspects of people's lives. He
was a supporter of radical changes in social organization and relations in order to negate
the institutions of a system based on domination and repression. The vision of Omar was
the dissemination of these practices and believed that the way to achieve was to create
local symvoulion.Pethane on the regime prison in 2013 at the age of 63rd years.
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