Anarchic update news all over the world - 13.05.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: Collection and
      march in defense of Sunday holiday | 7/5 (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, SolFed in Liverpool streets for May Day
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Slovania, safed: II. edition of the North anarchist May 1 by
      Johny(J) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  US, black rose fed: SUPPORT ANARCHIST RESISTANCE IN TURKEY!
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain, London Anarchist Federation - Snooper's Charter
      Self-defence (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, "Black & Red" (APO) - Notice of call for
      collegiality Social Anarchism Black & Red on Sunday at Strike
      Trade on May 7. (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




When the European union and the local trade chapter require to work 52 Sundays ... ---- 
The ardent desire of large retail chains and serving local trade associations returns to 
the fore: the new memorandum, the government is asked to sign (which says without shame 
that he would do if get in return anything crumbs extension of debt repayment) returned 
the requirement for opening of shops on Sundays. ---- They want to impose on us to work 7 
to 7 to stop to have free time. Forget our families, the concept of relaxation, leisure. 
To retake forth the profit-making machines for the bosses, every hour of our life should 
be to turn profitable or give them as wage workers or as consumers. ---- When civilian 
personnel chapter establishes each of command ... ---- In the same proposal from 
institutional terms, reference is made to continue the system of collective redundancies, 
that will not conclude new collective agreements, in that it allowed improvements in 
industrial relations (wages, etc. hours) compared with those brought earlier memoranda, 
and the new tax system will impose taxes and even to most of us who live on pensions and 
salaries in the range of 500-600 euros. At the same time privatized a number of services, 
infrastructure, public spaces. And while wages increasingly diminish, and unemployment 
does not say to retreat, the already high cost of life of the working class and the broad 
lower strata to grow by a series of social goods more and more difficult to access (water, 
electricity, housing, food , health, transport).

We understand the passing of working Sunday to 52 times a year as a further measure is to 
carry the burden of the capitalist crisis on the backs of its own capitalists, the 
workers' backs, as another measure that wants to ftochopoiisei us, impoverished us to 
further enslave us to the dictates of the bosses. Besides, is not the first, nor like all 
show the last: Petsokommenoi wages, flexible hours, black friday and white nights of the 
shop assistant, unpaid overtime, uninsured work, insecurity, layoffs, right in the bosses 
lockout, criminalization of trade union action to limit opportunities to strike, increase 
retirement age and how many other seen and will see us come to head back the country "in 
development" ...

Is the order of the working class to speak

the only way that can be heard and enforce the right of

The local and foreign bosses and their governments earn as much space we have left them. 
Whenever we look at how to pull everyone clean itself every time silent before the fear of 
unemployment, whenever drowned us their humiliation whenever you assign others to solve 
our own problems, problems of our class, our bosses are getting more aggressive, more and 
more avidly.

It is up to us to prove them that their conceit may at any time to get the sour. It is up 
to us to remind them of what is capable of doing the organized, conscious working class to 
defend its interests.

By organizing from below and through unions and workers' initiatives, building 
communication networks, solidarity and struggle in any commercial shop but also more 
widely in every workplace to strike sakes, demonstrations, militant actions put forward 
our own interests against defeatism and the "realism" of the bosses and fight for leisure, 
for wage increases to cover all our needs, not to work and not live as slaves.

WANT TO WORK AND 52 - THERE GIVES THEM OR TO 8

NO SHOP OPEN ON SUNDAY

Strike CONCENTRATION (10.00) AND PATH (12.00)

Sunday 7 MAH TSIMISKI WITH SAINT SOFIAS

Coordination of action against Sunday work and released hours

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/

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Message: 2



Although Liverpool-SolFed is still a small a very recent group, we were present in the May 
Day demonstration in Liverpool. A few comrades join the parade from Toxteth Library to St. 
Georges Hall alongside with different unions and groups active in the area. The march was 
quite well attended and developed in a festive and protest atmosphere.SolFed group marched 
showing a banner and giving out leaflets about our different campaigns. We informed 
particularly about the situation of Deliveroo riders and their disputes across the 
country. ---- Once the march finished, we joined the comrades of the IWW to hold a picket 
outside the shop Blacks in Liverpool One. The action was part of a national campaign 
against this and other companies which benefit from prisons labour.

Today as before, the 1st of May is an important date for the workers. It is a day to pay 
tribute to those who fought and fight for freedom and social justice and an opportunity 
(as good as any other) to show our anger, hang out together and celebrate the solidarity.

We carry a new world in our hearts!

http://www.solfed.org.uk/liverpool/solfed-in-liverpool-streets-for-may-day

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Message: 3




We have had another year of renewed north Bohemian anarchist May 1, which was marked by a 
memorial spirit. Also this year, we met in the ring buddy over the graves of old 
anarchists, our predecessors, which for us in many ways an inspiration and a lesson. ---- 
 From the meeting in Teplice, we got to stop and drove into the center of the former 
mining town Duchcov anarchist. Shortly after 15 o'clock we arrived at the cemetery 
Duchcov, through our historic alliance member Zádruha showed a povyprável the places 
connected with our movement in this city. And we began to work. We cleaned around the 
graves of "our anarchists," washed tombstones, planted a few bulbs and glasses and finally 
lit candles, laid a wreath on the graves and hung red and black flag. The graves of the 
old participants in the movement: Bohuslav Holubová, Hynka Holuba, Aloise Šefla, Václava 
Krampery and Thomas Kašeho, said a member of the SAF 's last words before his death 
Kašeho: " Greetings to all and to all hand prints with the desire to remain rigorous 
anarchists genuine Northern Bohemian, plot what action . "his words were uttered in 1910 
at his funeral at the cemetery Duchcov his friend Václav Draxl. Zádruha Historical 
Association is currently trying to find his grave in Prague, to be transferred to his 
friends in Duchcova.

During informal call, we have within the team SAF agreed that we will continue the 
tradition begun, and every year we meet at the grave of "our Anarchists," and in the 
future the May Day event at the foot of the Ore Mountains strive to enrich the 
accompanying program.

 From the various discussions that we have at our meetings conducted, we conclude that it 
is necessary to organize the next joint meeting organized and unorganized anarchist, 
because our movement urgently needs to meet and discuss, we therefore strive, in 
cooperation with other teams and organizations establish for the first anarchist 
conference in Most and organize anarchist summer camp.

https://safed.noblogs.org/post/2017/05/05/ii-rocnik-severoceskeho-anarchistickeho-1-maje/


Another Report from the second year of the North anarchist May 1

Besides the much larger May Day events in which they participated anarchists in Brno and 
Prague, would certainly not fit in a meeting organized by the North Anarchist Federation 
(SAF) in place of its sphere of activity.

Group of local anarchists gave a meeting in Teplice, which was convened by the beginning 
of the second year of the North anarchist 1st May. From there, they transported by bus to 
the center of the former activist of anarchist miners in Duchcova. Shortly after they 
arrived in the afternoon, participants at local cemetery. On the way here their historical 
association member Zádruha showed a closer places connected with the anarchist movement 
the 19th and 20th centuries.

The cemetery is all set to work. Cleaned up around the graves of anarchist leaders, they 
washed tombstones and planted some flowers. When the place was ready, lit candles and laid 
a wreath hung over the graves of black-and-red flag. On the last resting place of Bohuslav 
Holubová, Hynka Holuba, Aloise Šefla, Václava Krampery and Tomes Kašeho representative 
reiterated SAF Kašová last words: "Greetings to you all and all hand prints with the 
desire to remain rigorous genuine anarchists Northern Bohemian, no matter what."

SAF On this occasion, during informal discussions decided that in the coming years will 
continue the tradition and meet the graves of Duchcov anarchists that would be good this 
May Day

https://www.afed.cz/text/6668/duchcovska-vzpominka

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Message: 4



Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) faces arrests, court cases, and state violence as 
they stand up to the dictatorial Turkish state. In a situation of an unending "state of 
emergency" and civil war, resistance is necessary, and our support is critical! ---- The 
anarchist movement in Turkey is a growing, vibrant, and strong force. Just a few small 
collectives and papers ten years ago, anarchists are now organized across Turkey and North 
Kurdistan. With their increasing impact and visibility, anarchists have now become a 
target of repression as Turkey has slid into war and dictatorship. The Black Rose 
Anarchist Federation is asking for your support for their struggle for freedom in the face 
of violence and repression! ---- Please donate to our solidarity campaign for 
Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) here!

On December 23rd, our comrade Huseyin was sentenced to one year and three months in prison 
for being the managing editor of the anarchist newspaper Meydan, which was banned by state 
for "terrorist propaganda". On May 1st two DAF members were arrested as they marched in 
Istanbul. Earlier this year the anarchist cafe Kolektifi 26a in Istanbul was the target of 
police harassment. Multiple investigations against Revolutionary Anarchist Action 
(Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet - DAF) and their members remain open, while their comrades are 
frequently being arrested at demonstrations and labor actions. Six anarchists have been 
killed in ISIS suicide bomb attacks in Turkey since July 2015.

The repression against the anarchist movement is just one small part of the war and state 
terror that is taking place in Turkey and Kurdistan now. Entire Kurdish cities in Turkey 
have been decimated and laid to waste by the government's military sieges. Across the 
border in northern Syria, Turkish troops are facing off with Kurdish and allied militias, 
and Turkish jets have been bombing Kurdish cities and military positions - killing 
American IWW member Michael Israel among many others. The leadership of the leftist 
pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (Halklarin Demokratik Partisi - HDP) has been 
arrested. HDP co-mayors in Kurdish cities have been arrested and replaced with appointed 
rulers. Almost all opposition media, whether it is leftist, Kurdish, liberal, or even the 
wrong kind of conservative Islamist, has been shut down. The country has been ruled by 
President Erdogan through a state of emergency decree since the failed coup in July, 
meaning that the country is effectively under a dictatorship. With the recent passing of 
Erdogan's referendum giving him even more dictatorial powers, it is clear that the threat 
of state terror is increasing.

Black Rose encourages everyone to donate to support DAF because we believe that the 
strength and organization of a broad opposition movement is what can bring peace to the 
peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan. Despite the arrests, firings, and killings, resistance 
lives as anarchists and thousands of others continue to take to the streets to challenge 
the state. Our comrades in Turkey and North Kurdistan are putting their freedom and lives 
at risk to bring the working and oppressed people together to fight for liberation against 
Erdogan's murderous dictatorship.

Please donate to DAF to help them fight against repression and win this struggle!

- Black Rose Anarchist Federation, International Relations Committee

Information about DAF:

DAF is a revolutionary anarchist organization that is organized in several cities across 
Turkey and N. Kurdistan. DAF is the largest anarchist organization in Turkey (although 
there are certainly other anarchist groups in Turkey that we also support, like the 
platformist group Taçanka in Ankara). They describe their politics as being rooted in the 
classical social anarchist movement of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and especially Malatesta, 
combined together with the specific lessons of revolutionary struggle in Turkey and North 
Kurdistan. DAF participates in different struggles against oppression and exploitation 
through a number of "self-organizations", such as Anarsist Kadinlar (women's struggle), 
Patika Ekoloji Kolektifi (environmental struggle), and others. There are separate 
autonomous collectives that DAF participates in for organizing specific projects, like the 
newspaper Meydan, or the Kolektif 26a that manages two anarchist cafes in Istanbul.

Here are some examples of DAF in action:
Action in solidarity with Greek anarchist prisoner
May Day 2010
May Day 2014
Protests against the killing of Berkin Elvan by the police
Some of the struggles that DAF participates in:

Women's movement

The Anarsist Kadinlar group organizes to push for an anarchist-feminist perspective within 
the women's movement. Here are some videos that they made for different International 
Women's Day marches that show some of their activities:
8 March 2015 Video
Video of several March 8 actions

Kurdish movement

DAF participates directly within the Kurdish freedom movement.
Participation in Newroz Kurdish demonstration
Solidarity with Kobane resistance, on the Syrian border and in Istanbul
Victory march in Istanbul to celebrate the Kobane resistance

Student movement

Lise Anarsist Faaliyet is a collective specifically for anarchist high school students to 
organize their struggle with. This is a march that the Lise Anarsist Faaliyet held against 
the state testing system:

Labor movement

DAF organizes with the Insaat Iscileri Sendikasi, an independent construction workers 
union. Here is a video showing some of the union's activity over the past couple of years.

Environmental movement

DAF works within the anarchist Patika Ekologi Kolektifi to support struggles to defend 
land and the environment. This video shows a protest against a dam builders' conference 
(dams are a key tool that the state uses to displace and control the rural Kurdish 
population). This was a march organized against a proposed nuclear power plant that was to 
be built on the Black Sea.

Youth movement

The Anarsist Genclik group organizes young people to resist conscription and support other 
struggles that affect university students and young people in Turkey. This is one of their 
conscientious objection actions. This is a demonstration in support of Kobane at Istanbul 
University that DAF participated in.

More information about DAF can be found in the interviews that they have done with other 
anarchist groups, such as their interview with Umanita Nova, this interview with Corporate 
Watch focusing on the Kurdish movement, or this audio interview with The Final Straw Radio.

What the money will be used for:

The funds raised will go to legal expenses for defending cases against DAF and Meydan, for 
printing newspapers and propaganda, and for the general expenses of organizing. The money 
will be sent to DAF through the International of Anarchist Federation's ongoing solidarity 
campaign for DAF.

http://blackrosefed.org/support-anarchist-resistance-turkey/

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Message: 5



The Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the Snooper's Charter, went into force on 
December 30th, 2016, supported by both major UK political parties. The state, including 
the Metropolitan Police, the Home Office and the Department of Work and Pensions can now 
gain access, without a warrant, to the record of all the websites you visit (browsing 
history) from your Internet Service Provider. NSA whistle-blower Ed Snowden calls it "the 
most intrusive and least accountable surveillance regime in the West". Jim Killock from 
the Open Rights Group says "it is the most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a 
democracy." ---- Even before the Snooper's Charter was passed, corporations were already 
doing the state's dirty work by collecting data on their unsuspecting users and handing it 
over to the authorities on request. Thankfully, the hard work of some very tech savvy 
people means there is a lot we can do to protect ourselves. None of this requires you to 
be tech savvy yourself, and none of it will hurt your productivity online. In fact, once 
you have followed the steps below you can use the internet just as you do now, but without 
big brother looking over your shoulder.

Step One: Browser

Use Firefox on your phone, tablet and laptop/desktop:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Install the ‘uBlock Origin' add on in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Install the ‘Privacy Badger' addon in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/

Install the ‘HTTPS Everywhere' add on in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/

Unlike Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Apple's Safari, Firefox is 
developed by a not-for-profit foundation and respects your privacy. These three ‘add ons' 
to Firefox improve your browser's security by blocking ads, preventing websites from 
tracking where you go after you leave their site, and by forcing your browser to use 
HTTPSecure instead of the standard HTTP. Once you have installed Firefox and the three 
addons, make sure to use Firefox as your default browser.

Step Two: VPN

A VPN is a service to hide your location. You should use a VPN on your phone, tablet and 
laptop/desktop.  For less than a fiver a month a VPN will hide all your traffic from your 
Internet Service Provider (BT, Sky, Vodaphone etc). This works by routing your internet 
use through a third party, so instead of your service provider seeing a list of all the 
different websites your computer/phone has connected to, they only see you connecting to 
the third party server. VPN servers are usually hosted in countries with less oppressive 
communications laws than the UK and US.

A good VPN provider will give you step by step instructions on how to get the VPN working 
on all your devices and should take no more than five minutes to be up and running. If you 
can't follow the provider's instructions on their website, go with another provider.

https://www.mostsecurevpn.com/ is a roundup by the https://www.internetdefenseleague.org/

Alternatively: Tor

If you don't want to pay for a VPN, Tor is a free way of hiding your traffic. It works in 
a similar way to a VPN, but instead of routing your internet use through one big server 
abroad, it routes your traffic through many small servers all over the world, making it 
impossible to trace back to you. One caveat: Tor will only work (by default) when using 
the Tor browser, which does not have all the features of Firefox. Websites may also load 
slower with Tor than they would with a VPN.

Use Tor on your laptop/desktop:

https://www.torproject.org/

Use Orbot and Orfox on your Android phone and tablet:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox

Use Onion Browser on your iOS phone and tablet (limited functionality at present):

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448

Step Three: Search Engine

Use ‘Startpage' search engine instead of Google on all your devices. Make it Firefox's 
default search engine:

https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/startpage-https-privacy-search/

To make it your default search engine, look for ‘options' or ‘settings' in the top right 
of your Firefox browser window, then click ‘search' and look for ‘Startpage HTTPS'.

Why not just use Google? Because Google collects data on you every time you search for 
something. "You might like these so-called free services[Google and Facebook], but we 
don't think they're worth having your email or your search history or now even your family 
photos data-mined and sold off for god knows
what advertising purpose", said Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Ironically, Apple also collect huge amounts of data on their users. Google, Facebook, 
Apple and Microsoft are all guilty of selling out the people who use their services and 
should not be trusted with ANY of your personal information, especially not records of 
your internet use.

The above steps are the bare minimum we should all be doing. Tell your friends.

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/

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Message: 6



Confirmation of the opening of stores at least 30 Sundays a year - and already talk of 
opening and 52- demonstrates in the most eloquent manner what the 4th Memorandum on 
plebeian layers, workers and the unemployed. ---- The SYRIZA-ANEL government from driver's 
position serves more apochalinomena exploitation plans of big business, the "red lines" 
are longer comic stories with tragic results but for the world of work. Pensioners and 
unemployed come again under attack, as pensions are reduced main and auxiliary, while the 
tax-free limit is emblematic indicator of progressive impoverishment. ---- The ease with 
which not only defended the conquest of the Sunday holiday -as was anamenomeno- but 
instead justify its abolition in the name of "modernization" simply shows that it is 
capable to reach the civilian personnel of the capital in a joint effort to enforce 
one-way exploitation and oppression to the plebs. The new middle ages baptized again 
"development" and upgrade the "new language" of modern totalitarianism.

We are entering a new period of liquidity at multiple levels and this should start with 
the compass massification and strengthening social and class resistances in order to 
reverse the economic and repressive state and capital projects. It's time to give back 
battles one by one in a single, but social self-organization plan, which -must be 
understandable concern that extensive portions of the bottom. Young workers, unemployed, 
students, students, pensioners should give uncompromising and akidemoneftes battles to 
cancel in practice faces old and new mortgage instruments both the present and the future.

The organized anarchist movement, as the only force that can, want and also knows how to 
establish resistances and movements without guardians and mediators, the only work of 
which is to sell them at the first opportunity, should actively give these battles from 
the first line, consistently targeting to generate confidence among the exploited to 
cultivate further the understanding of social self-organization, the political 
establishment antierarchikis grow aversion to institutional and parliamentary Advisory 
Opinion. The next period will be critical to gain significant ground since as the crisis 
progresses and new forms impasses for the oppressed, the question of state and capitalist 
barbarism, and ekfasismos war or social revolution will put more and more urgently.

First stop fighting, the strike Sunday in Commerce on May 7, 10:00 a.m. Tsimiski & Ag. Sofias

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2017/05/05

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