Today's Topics:
1. [France] The anarchist Catalina Silva Cruz, the last
survivor of the "Casas Viejas" killing, died at the age of 100 in
Montauban By José Luis Gutiérrez Molina - By ANA (pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. [Cuba] ANARCH-CAPITALISM? NO THANK YOU! The Alfredo López
Libertarian Workshop speaks about Anarcho-Capitalism and the
Mises Institutes. By ANAl (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, London Anarchist Federation AF: Public Meeting on
Modern Spanish Anarchism (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, APO: Occupation of the Mesochora hydroelectric plant
by members of the Independent Match Meeting (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Poland, FA, Rozbat: Great peasant strike 1937 Stanislaw
Krastowicz [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Catalunia, embat: Hands out of Venezuela!!! (ca, fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The anarchist dies at age 100 without knowing where the remains of her sister Maria,
murdered 81 years ago. ---- Yesterday, eleven of August, passed away in his house of
Montauban Catalina Silva Cruz. It was 100 years and just over eight months old. With it
disappears the last living testimony of the killing of "Casas Viejas". Fortunately, he
left us his account in an interview of several hours whose "gross" will deserve even the
treatment of Well of Cultural Interest in that, never born, despite the repeated promises,
declaration of the year 2009. ---- Catalina Silva was always a fighter. Before January of
1933, in the feminine anarchist group Love and Harmony to which it belonged next to its
sister Maria and its friend Manolita Lago. During the Events, for daring to reach the hut
while harassed. Then, in 1936, after the coup, helping to flee the residents of Paterna
and escaping herself after the murder of her sister. Courage and struggle that kept him in
continuous flight to the French border and still in the neighboring country beset by Nazi
occupation and distrust of the French authorities in the thousands of refugee
anarcho-syndicalists in the south of the country.
Even in the worst of times, he said, he never forgot that winter night of January 1933
when the sun of revolutionary hope was replaced by the flames of the most heartless
repression. Night after night he remembered what he had experienced even though he had not
entered the present century when he left the anonymity in which he had voluntarily
maintained himself. It was during the preparation of the book that I wrote about Miguel
Pérez Cordón, the companion of Maria Silva. I had the immense fortune not only to obtain
his testimony but to open a time of friendship and affection with her, her daughter
Estrella and her children Augusto and Universo.
Catalina, like other Silva, had no luck with the country where she was born, and whose
nationality she never renounced despite living in France for almost eighty years. A
lifetime. He was not lucky because he was always in the group of losers, those who lost in
1933, in 1936-1939, in exile and after the death of the dictator when he became part of
the forgotten and those who did not like what they saw when they returned, in brief
Travel, their land and hometown. But she, like so many others, certainly did not care. He
knew that as long as this society is as organized, its place would be this. It would never
cease to be a reminder to the powerful, whoever they may be, that the worst thing that can
happen to them is that there are people who are conscious and struggling, like her, to
whom the farther the better.
However, and I will not be very original, the story has its ironies. This afternoon, when
Catalina's remains are deposited in the family tomb of Montauban's cemetery, only a few
tens of meters separated them from the last political leader of the murders of "Casas
Viejas": the then President of the Spanish Republic, Manuel Azaña . He who sacrificed the
collective interest of the country for the private person in whom he was in power.
Catalina, like other tens of thousands of Spaniards, goes missing without knowing where
the remains of her sister María who was murdered, in a few days will be 81 years. In
silence, without making a sound as he lived. Time passed by her, in spite of her 100
years, too fast for the rhythms of a society and an administration, at all her levels,
like the current ones of the Kingdom of Spain.
May the earth be light to you. You will always live in our hearts.
Source:
http://www.todoslosnombres.org/content/noticias/montauban-francia-catalina-silva-cruz-la-ultima-superviviente-la-matanza-casas
Translation> Sol de Abril
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Message: 2
The Alfredo López Libertarian Workshop (" Libertario Taller Alfredo López ") is a
collective whose purpose is to promote the libertarian self-organization of society on the
basis of autonomy, equity and the elimination of economic exploitation. ---- We believe
that full social freedom can only be based on common work, explicit agreement, and mutual
support and is not compatible with any monopoly variant on social decision-making or
sources of collective welfare, which Includes the incompatibility of social freedom with
the private appropriation of the work of others in the form of salary, whether in its
private business variant or that of anonymous corporations, or even of any kind of
"well-established state". ---- This means our explicit rejection of capitalism in any
form, the wage system, and surplus value.
Likewise, we reject and reject the helplessness of those who work in private companies
nowadays in Cuba, which emerges in the current transition to private capitalism, promoted
since the officialdom, the explicitness of the various discriminations detrimental to
human dignity, and the absence Of social-political guarantees for the exercise of protest
and of the strike by those who work in any sector of the economy.
Private capitalism is not the remedy for the problems of Cuba and the problems of the
world today, as no other variant of capitalism is.
These positions were explained by our Workshop on numerous occasions, in the most diverse
media and spaces.
In addition, our Libertador Oficina Alfredo López is proud to have been one of the
founding members of the Anarchist Federation of Central America and the Caribbean, to
which we honor ourselves to belong and in the heart of which we act together with other
collectivities and free people, Capitalist and anti-authoritarian, from many corners of
our Continent.
Our concepts of anarchism and anti-authoritarianism include respect for any philosophical,
political, and economic views, and we firmly uphold the right to freedom of expression.
But the exercise of such a right implies the duty of transparency, and we must clarify
that those who are part of this Workshop have a consensus on the foregoing, which makes us
completely unrelated to any anarcho-capitalist proposals, that is, those that presume
Compatibility between the possibility of a stateless society and the permanence of the
economic regime of private appropriation of collective labor in the form of surplus value.
We do not believe in the fatigue of such a "company," and make clear our distance from
anarcho-capitalism in any of its forms, especially those promoted by the Ludwig von Mises
Institutes and - in Cuba - by the so-called Cuban Libertarian Party Jose Martí, of which
we are not part.
The most radical anti-capitalism is and will be one of the critical and constructive
pillars of our collective and its proposals for Cuba, the Americas and the planet.
FOR CUBA FREE AND LIBERTARIAN!
Alfredo López Office Libertária
Source:
https://observatoriocriticocuba.org/2017/08/10/anarco-capitalismo-no-gracias-el-taller-libertario-alfredo-lopez-se-pronuncia-on-anarco-capital-ismo-y-
The-institutes-mises /
Translation> Sol de Abril
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Message: 3
Next public meeting of London Anarchist Federation:
The Anarchist Movement in Modern Spain
Report back on factfinding tour of Spanish anarchist movement by AF member
7pm Thursday August 31st at Common House, 5e Pundersons Gardens, London E2 (nearest tube
Bethnal Green. Plenty of time or discussion, refreshments
https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/london-af-public-meeting-on-modern-spanish-anarchism/
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Message: 4
Following the decision of 2 August 2017 by the Deputy Minister of Environment of Famelos,
who announced the new destruction of the Acheloos River as a new Heroastrat, following a
series of political and cultural events in the Messochora, as well as the course of the
competing village residents and solidarity against the dam Of the PPC, on Sunday, August
13, members of the Independent Match Meeting defending the river and the village from its
rocky destruction, with a number of continuous mobilizations for over 10 years A, we
understood today August 14 at 3 pm The hydroelectric plant of PPC in Glystra. ---- Our
movement is aimed at the widest possible information and the consequent awakening of
consciousness about the silent fact that here in the mountainous valley of Ano Acheloos,
on the one hand, a gigantic dimensional destruction of the natural environment and the
local society takes place through pharaonic technical works, while on the other A
long-standing and multi-faceted resistance of the local people and solidarity from across
the country.
We are opposed to the government's announcement of the destruction of the Acheloos
mountain valley, the riparian forests and the entire ecosystem with the obstruction of the
river and its replacement throughout its remaining freewheel in southern Pindos with a
series of successive artificial reservoirs Which leads to the subsidence and destruction
of Messochora village and, in the medium term, to the diversion, privatization and sale of
its waters to Thessaly where, for many decades, ears and main state wasted irrationally
and thoughtlessly pollute its natural resources.
Against the timeless policy of the State and the constant imperatives of Capital for total
control and plunder to the exhaustion of the natural world and its resources, we call
every freely thinking person here in the villages of Aspropotamos and throughout the
country to contribute by any appropriate means In the struggle for the defense of Acheloos
and the rebellious Messochoras for 30 years, threatened with destruction due to the
political feasibility of archilpari statists and the economic interests of speculators of
capitalists.
AGAINST THE NATURE OF THE GAME OF LOVE FOR GREEN AND FREEDOM
AHELOOS WILL WIN!
THE MESOCHORA WILL LIVE!
BREATH THE BAR
LIVE THE VILLAGE
FREE to Run
FOR ALL WATER
Solidarity with the struggling residents of NE Chalkidiki
With racing greetings from N. Pindos,
The squatting from Athens, Patras, Arta, Karditsa of the Glystra Station of Trikala
https://ipposd.wordpress.com
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Message: 5
The current displacement, or rather the attempt to erase from the history of the events of
1937, proves that the post-elite elites - both from PIS and PO / Modern - glorifying the
times of the Second Polish Republic, do not want to admit that sanacja and endecja were
responsible for the pacification People's prison, torture and political murders. Among the
victims of repression were, among others. Peasants, workers, Jews, Belarussians and
Ukrainians. ---- The Great Peasant Strike on 16-27 August 1937 culminates in the
authoritarian work of the Second Polish Republic, from which official statistics of the
1930s show that more than 170 peasants were killed in the clashes with the police and
army. ---- The general strike preceded the tragic events of April of the same year in
Raclawice at the commemoration of the next anniversary of the Battle of 1794. The ceremony
was attended by several thousand participants. The intervention of the police was allowed
by Prime Minister and Interior Minister Felicjan Slawoj Skladkowski, who just before 18
April 1937 banned the celebration. Three peasants were killed.
The August strike was a universal one. He took over a large area of Poland, inhabited by
millions of revolted peasants. Something similar has not happened yet. The strike was a
roadblock, Stop food delivery to cities and resign from purchases for 10 days. In addition
to economic demands, the most important of which was agricultural reform, the strikers
also demanded the restoration of the March 1921 constitution, the democratic parliamentary
elections, the restructuring of the country's defense and the resignation of the Pilsudski
camp from power. Today's sanctioned pedestrians have suppressed protest by force.
Officially, 42 peasants were killed, 5,000 were arrested, and 617 convicted. The victim
was probably more.
Information about the strike was censored. "Gazeta Polska" (the then governmental tuba)
described the events as "the unnatural cynicism of the perpetrators, the warchols of the
tumult" and blasphemously called "a shameful idea of fighting between the Polish
countryside, And the Polish city on the anniversary of the historic victory of the Polish
nation on a foreign invasion "(the so-called miracle on the Vistula).
Prime Minister Konstantinovsky on the pacification of protests devotes his speech at the
sitting of the Sejm's budget committee on January 24, 1938, showing the shoe of power: "I
find quite honestly, as I did in the Sejm plenary that the government of this situation
did not foresee, On the other hand, I will defend the very methods of mastering the riots,
and that is because a whole series of stories and objections have arisen in this context.
Poland, we will have such figures: in 1932 - 141, in 1933 - 145, in 1934 - 118, in 1935 -
143, in 1936 - 157, in 1937 - 114. In these 114 are 42 tragically killed in Central
Malopolska.
As a result of the scattering of crowds in other disagreements and other political events,
12 people were killed ... " After the strike ended, the security services embarked on a
final pacification of the village. By the arrest of the activists of the people and
express court hearings. The number of detainees is estimated at 5 thousand, which has
radicalized the mood in the countryside. As a result, the congressmen in March 1938
decried another strike. The government reacted immediately. As early as April 1, 1938,
Prime Minister Konstantinovsky issued a decree recommending the demonstration marching
troops of the Border Protection and Police Corps by the most threatened strikes of the
districts of Cracow and Lviv. Next to the arrests, ostentatiously for intimidation,
"In front of the village, where one or more inhabitants are to be pacified, the car will
be transported by a criminal expedition consisting of several cars carrying police
officers. Some cars stop in front of the village, others go to the village and go under
the house to be pacified. Police officers run into the house, removing the household
members and commence the destruction work. Some get onto a roof that is completely
destroyed. If it is covered with tiles, the holes in the roof are struck, and the tiles
are dropped to the ground and shattered. If the roof is covered with straw, the plating is
broken. At the same time, furniture is destroyed and the whole interior of the apartment
is destroyed, furniture and furniture are broken, windows, dishes and bottles are broken,
paintings are dropped from the walls and they are torn down with other objects. Then
proceed to destroy food stocks. The flour is poured and mixed with sand and ash. The
seeded seed is put into mud or scattered along the road and in the yard. Pets are not
lucky too. There were cases that horses and cattle were breaking their legs with the
flanges and the pins. Once the work of complete destruction has been accomplished, the
criminal expedition goes to another home or to another village. The impression of such
pacification is simply unbelievable. Neighbors come back to the ruined house, followed by
neighbors. They see a picture that will always remain in their memory. " Once the work of
complete destruction has been accomplished, the criminal expedition goes to another home
or to another village. The impression of such pacification is simply unbelievable.
Neighbors come back to the ruined house, followed by neighbors. They see a picture that
will always remain in their memory. " Once the work of complete destruction has been
accomplished, the criminal expedition goes to another home or to another village. The
impression of such pacification is simply unbelievable. Neighbors come back to the ruined
house, followed by neighbors. They see a picture that will always remain in their memory."
(description of the Archives of Modern Records)
distorting the history of the Second Republic is routine both politicians PiS and the PO /
Modern. We thoroughly eradicate the stories of social resistance by changing the names of
streets and imposing on us ordinary murderers as national heroes such as Konstantinski.
This was the case in Turku, where Lieutenant General and Lieutenant Konstantinski replaced
General Swierczewski. So is the power that creates its identity.
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Message: 6
Before and after the referendum was held by the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela, the
Latin American country has been carrying newspapers and minutes of news programs in
Catalonia and throughout Spain. It is difficult for someone in our country who does not
receive information about Venezuela. With the overwhelming machinery of massive
disinformation, with all the major media attacking the Venezuelan process, we are trying
to present a Venezuela led by a tyrannical government that lives chaos, whose inhabitants
would need the urgent intervention of humanitarian weapons Of NATO ---- The attack, here
also by land, sea and air against the Venezuelan process, seeks to discipline a dashboard
of the Latin American and world-wide board, and also discipline all the people who want to
walk on their own. Venezuela has become a cover for unemployment, corruption, the
precariousness of our lives and the Catalan question. It should be added that in the web
of criminalization of the Venezuelan process all political forces have contributed,
including the so-called "new policy".
It is not the defense of the weak or the minorities that moves this "solidarity" with the
opposition, who does not question our friendship with Turkey. Nor is the least respect for
democratic rights, while our king visits the Saudi allies. Not even the defense of freedom
of information, while our State is leading media closure and arrests for opinion crimes.
From Embat we will not fall into equidistance. The liberation processes are complex and
often contradictory, but our position is and must be with the people of Venezuela, the
people of low, black, Indian and mixed, poor worker and peasant, with the new unions,
fronts and Common, with the women and men of the people who today defend all this with the
arms. Arms, we recall, the Venezuelan oligarchy, the United States and Spain and the EU
want to get out of the streets to return the country to those who consider their
legitimate owners, not hesitating to fill the Caribbean Sea again. We do not support
"popular rebellions" suspected of being copies of the Ukrainian Maidan or the Syrian Arab
Spring.
Right now we are experiencing a change in the cycle of progress, and this has reached its
limit. The oligarchic rights have been reorganized and have gone through the offensive to
win many victories. However, its main objective is Venezuela, because this was the
government that opened the way for others. Popular movements have to reverse this
situation, not to return to progress, but to complete their historical task, which is none
other than the establishment of free and egalitarian societies.
We do our best to prevent it.
Just imperialist interventions.
Embat, August 2017
http://embat.info/les-mans-fora-de-venecuela/
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