Today's Topics:
1. [India] Calcutta: anarchists protest against the genocide of
the Rohingya people By ANA (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. alas barricadas: Revolutionary syndicalism today: global
class and integral action by Rubén C. Batres (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - logbook, A Libertarian
Communist in YPG # 13: " Two Comrades Mowed by the
Daech Snipers"
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - September 12: High
schools in the street! by Youth Secretariat (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Success in the [syndicate] elections of 061 Seville: CGT has
the largest representation in Andalusia (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. rebeldiacontrainfo: A libertarian exit to the Kurdish
question By Juan Camilo Rodríguez Guerra * (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In Calcutta, last Monday, September 4, a demonstration was held in front of the Consulate
of Myanmar (formerly Burma) against the genocide of the Rohingya people. The demonstration
was convened by BSN ( Bastar Solidarity Network , a solidarity network). BSN members,
Antifa and anarchists participated in the protest carrying banners, banners, posters and
echoing screams of order. Despite the police presence, no serious occurrence was recorded.
---- Rohingya is one of the most persecuted people in the world. Although they have lived
in Myanmar for generations, the government of the country claims that they are new
immigrants, denying them, therefore, citizenship. About 1 million people form the ethnic,
linguistic and religious minority of the Rohingya people, Muslims discriminated against
and persecuted for decades. It is believed that the brutal repression against them has
provoked a diaspora of at least another 1 million in various parts of the world. In
Myanmar, they are prohibited from marrying or traveling without the permission of the
authorities and have no right to own land or property.
More pictures:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2017/09/07/india-calcuta-anarquistas-protestam-contra-o-genocidio-do-povo-rohingya/
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Message: 2
From one year to this part there is a lively debate by intellectuals and activists on the
state of revolutionary syndicalism. I would like to give my vision as a worker and
activist in the Port of Sagunto, based on my experiences and collective memory . I hope
that this reflection is useful in other local or regional realities and that it fits into
a more diverse worldview. ---- I will be direct, today the revolutionary syndicalism does
not exist . The defeat suffered by the industrial working class in the 1980s, capitalist
globalization and the cultural hegemony of neoliberalism, together with the restructuring
of production and reproduction of capital through the introduction of new technologies,
dissolved the collective subject that previously we called the "Working Class" .
But as in every shipwreck something is saved. For example, after the closure of the Hornos
del Mediterráneo in 1984, and thanks to the struggle of staff and citizens, the industrial
fabric did not disappear from the Camp de Morvedre. In this way, the CGT is able to
introduce combative trade unionism , with all the contradictions of the legal framework
LOLS , in the main production plants in operation ( ArcelorMittal , Pilkington , Ferrodisa
, Baux ), as well as establishing new trade union sections in large production services
companies ( Daorje ), in the stowage ( Sesasa ) and in the tugboats of the dock (
Remolques del Mediterráneo ).
Starting from this union base and with the experience acquired by the youngest and some
veterans of the union in the social movements ( Antiglobalización , 15M , Cooperatives,
etc.), we have come into contact with the most unprotected sectors of society and with
intellectuals of the middle classes who have brought us new realities and tools of
analysis. This dialectical union between youth and experience could become the catalyst
for union change, and not only on generational lines, but fundamentally in the
understanding of the new objective and socio-political conditions that surround us, which
serve to connect us with reality and intervene successfully. In this way we could consider
the constitution of a new revolutionary subject .
We have to be able to imagine the new working class . I think that this will have an
industrial foundation, but not of a hegemonic nature, but rather to offer the accumulated
experience of the class struggle. Certainly "the new class" may have a confused and
contradictory ideology at first, but its gestation and development process could be based
on an ethic of clear anti-capitalist, antipatriarchal, ecological and libertarian
character. The struggle in the neighborhoods for culture and living conditions will be the
link with the metropolitan working class arising from neoliberal restructuring, which is
already undertaking processes of self-organization (Las Kellys , Manteros Union) or
organized around combative syndicalism ( Telemarketing , Startups ). The spaces will be
very jealous of their autonomy and the confederation, as unity of equals, will make sense.
The new working class will be global . If capitalism colonized all aspects of life,
commodifying and extracting more value and enjoyment of it, it will be necessary to fight
capital integrally, on all fronts that are possible. Experience shows us that where there
is oppression there is a liberating force, even if it is only present as potential.
Capital has been reinforced by other existing oppressions: statism, patriarchy,
productivism , etc. so that the new subject will not arise from the industrial worker, but
of the mestization of the latter with women and migrants, declassed, precarious,
unemployed in perpetuity ... a new class that gives us back the desire and initiative to
rationally transform what surrounds us instead of consuming it until extinction .
Obviously all this means a break with the classic revolutionary syndicalism and the
abandonment of those that were once immovable principles but which today are only
meaningless dogmas.
From the Camp de Morvedre we will try to contribute our grain of sand to the building of
this global revolutionary syndicalism by participating and constituting initiatives of a
cultural, feminist, cooperative nature from a class perspective, together with combative
trade union action in companies.
http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/38849
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Message: 3
"I finally fell asleep in a corner of this icy roof, covered with a piece of cardboard. I
was still alive ! " ---- Alternative libertarian reproduces the blog posts
Kurdistan-Autogestion-Revolution , a travel diary of a fellow committed to the YPG. ----
Over the course of the weeks, he will testify to the lives of the fighting militias, the
debates that take place there and the experience of democratic confederalism in the
liberated zones. ---- Raqqa East Front, 6 September 2017 ---- Continuation of my previous
post. ---- Mansoura, by night. After investing two buildings successfully, our team had to
take a third. After a nervously trying progression - we made a mistake of goal, had to
start again - we finally reached the coveted house. Again the roof, the low wall, the
chisel, the hammer, the loopholes. I finally fell asleep in a corner of this icy roof,
covered with a piece of cardboard. I was still alive !
Waking up at dawn, our group split up. With three other comrades, I was occupying a
neighboring building. The activity of enemy snipers was reported.
In case you are wondering, no, the day progression is neither easier nor more reassuring.
Perhaps at least death will be seen opposite . It is on these morbid reflections that we
have invested the roof. First round of guard: RAS: explosions in the distance, some
scattered shootings. When my turn came, I fell asleep. Curious routine: perhaps things
were easier than I imagined ...
But when I was awakened for a new turn of guard, I met the look of my comrade downcast,
eyes fogged with tears. During my sleep, two comrades in our unit had been mowed by the
snipers of the Islamic state, and two others seriously wounded by a mine.
I was now on the same footing in the war.
Arthur Aberlin
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Un-communiste-libertaire-dans-les-YPG-13-Deux-camarades-fauches-par-les-snipers
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Message: 4
The Macron government and the bosses are on the march to destroy our social conquests, to
make more and more profits. This summer they prepared " ordinances " to pass a new "
labor law " without even going through the debates in the Assembly. That is our future.
---- Like the Valls Labor Act of 2016, that of the Macron government will destroy the
protections that the labor code provides to employees. This means laws that regulate the
relationship between employees and employers in order to prevent employees from being
exploited or dismissed at the discretion of the employers. ---- What is the labor law ?
---- Currently, employees are elected in several Representative Staff Bodies to defend the
rights of all employees of a company. The Macron government wants to consolidate them into
one. They will become weaker. For example, for the time being, the Health, Safety and
Working Conditions Committees (CHSCT) may file a complaint if the law is not respected.
Except that by losing their own existence, the prosecution of employers may disappear.
The objective is also to reduce the number of delegates, the number of hours available to
them to defend the rights of employees, in short, there will be fewer means to defend
themselves !
As for project cd, this is the equivalent of construction site contracts, this means no
severance pay or limitation on the use of this type of contract.
Licensing more easily
The Macron government claims to reduce unemployment when it is the reverse, it wants to
encourage layoffs, so to put more people unemployed ! For example, the time limit for
challenging a dismissal for economic reasons will increase from 1 year to only 2 months.
The damages will be capped and there will be a scale for industrial tribunal in case of
unfair dismissal. The employers will be able to calculate in advance how much it costs
them a dismissal, it will be easier for them to transfer us. They call it flexibility, for
us it is precariousness !
Pdf flyer to download
Reduction of branch agreements
The branch agreements give rights and protection to employees in a particular sector. With
the ordinances, priority is given to the company agreement, which can take steps below
those of the branch. But at the level of the company the employers have a better balance
of power, the collective challenge of the employees is more difficult. The company
agreement may for example refuse leave days or reduce premiums provided for by the
industry agreement. It is the bosses who will make the law, company by company according
to their interests and for their profits.
The only way to prevent these attacks that will pre-empt our lives is to push back the
government by mobilizing massively. High schools, colleges, businesses, public services:
block the economy, occupy the street, that's how we can win. Let us gather in our lycées
to discuss and organize to be numerous and numerous on September 12 and after !
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?12-septembre-Les-lycees-dans-la-rue
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Message: 5
CGT HAS BEEN AWARDED THE TRADE UNION ELECTIONS AT THE TELEPHONE MANAGEMENT CENTER OF 061
SEVILLA AND BECOMES THE UNION WITH GREATER REPRESENTATION IN THE COLLECTIVE IN ANDALUCÍA
---- The candidacy of CGT has obtained 41 votes and 5 members in the Works Council by 29
ugt with four members ---- The work is bearing fruit and the 061 telephone emergency
management group has been endorsing it with its support in the electoral processes and
with the incorporation of new colleagues to the defense, without fissures, of the dignity
of the working conditions in emergency services in Andalusia. ---- Yesterday was an
important day for the collective, but many are coming, tomorrow begins the process of
union elections in 112 Seville, next 13th we are cited in the Andalusian Parliament, the
next 27 and 28 in Brussels in the European Parliament ... THERE IS NO RETURN, CGT
committed to the Andalusian emergency group to get out of the ostracism and work day by
day with new colleagues in the struggle to dignify the profession and working conditions,
end the subcontracting and enforce the will of the Andalusian people, manifested through
the political representatives, demanding to the Junta de Andalusia the internalization of
the telephone management of 061, 112 and Health responds to be absolutely Justice.
We congratulate the chosen companions and the staff of the 061 of Seville for their
election, HAVE CHOSEN WELL, time will prove it.
CGT IN DEFENSE OF THE PUBLIC, OF THE COMMON
CGT-A FATyC
https://cgtsevilla.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/cgt-ha-ganado-las-elecciones-sindicales-en-el-centro-de-gestion-telefonica-del-061-de-sevilla-y-se-convierte-en-el-sindicato-con-mayor-representacion-en-el-colectivo-en-andalucia/
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Message: 6
Kurdish question is the generic name given to a reality that suffers not only Kurdistan
but hundreds of peoples in different latitudes, who share cultural, linguistic and
historical aspects but who, despite themselves, were left out of the division of the world
into nations. In other words, no: Kurdistan is not a country. It is called a people
divided into four frontiers (Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran) that has suffered the
imposition, exclusion and barbarism under the complicit silence of the international
community. ---- The beginning of the Kurdish question was traced in 1923, when the signing
of the Lausanne Treaty artificially divided Kurdistan into five parts (the Soviet Union
also had its share). At that moment a struggle for the unification is consolidated that
will be systematically counteracted by any of the States where the separatist flame sprouted.
In 1945 an ephemeral Republic of Mahabad, of socialist court, was proclaimed that without
support of the Soviets is defeated to the few months by Iran. What is interesting is not
what happened there, but what is being done in the Zagros and Anatolia mountains: a
coalition of Kurdish Marxist guerrillas who are now considered the germ of the most
important anarchist revolution of the 21st century, in my opinion.
Abdullah Öcalan, a political scientist at the University of Ankara, moved by the tragedy
of millions of separated and persecuted families, founds Party 1 of the Workers of
Kurdistan - PKK in 1973, 2 of Marxist-Leninist line. Created in informality, its
anti-fascist and nationalist positions were well received by the student movement as well
as the Turkish secret police, which infiltrated and commits the murder of Haki Karer in
1977, a young Turk in solidarity with the Kurdish question.
Before this, the PKK soon becomes related to the mentioned guerrillas and in 1984
initiates the armed struggle. His performance is not noticeable until five years later,
when a turning point is formed by two events: the first that Öcalan, ideological leader of
the PKK, ordered the first organization of Kurdish women to be created in Germany; the
second that this year to '92 is a period in Turkey known as the lead years , where the
guerrilla struggle reaches the cities and repression is accentuated. It is when the PKK,
with approximately 1% of female armed presence, delegates a co-protagonism to the
neighborhood-led struggles of women. By 1992 it is estimated that its presence in the
guerrilla arm went from 1% to 25%.
An uneasiness began to spread in the ranks of the party. The men carried out boycott
campaigns to counteract the appearance of women in the Kurdish struggle and Öcalan, before
this, reflects and writes The question of women and the family; book that when socializing
with the guerrillera breaks with the Marxist-Leninist theory 3 . This is followed by an
internal theoretical tension against the established patriarchal mentality, which saw
women as weak and vulnerable subjects who delayed the revolution, and who therefore had to
be relegated to a sexual object of the PKK commanders.
Before this Öcalan, in 1992, ordered to create an army of guerrilleras that exists until
today, known like the Protective Feminine Units - YPJ, that in 2016 counted on
approximately 13,000 fighters.
At the end of century XX the ideological leader of the PKK is imprisoned by Turkey and
sentenced to life imprisonment. This is no obstacle for Öcalan to continue to reflect and
write. From prison, he sympathizes with the theory of the American anarchist Murray
Bookchin, who proposes the creation of horizontal political organizations that gradually
take away the functions to the States. This theoretical relationship between Öcalan and
Bookchin explains why in the 2002 Congress the PKK adopts democratic Confederalism as a
political project: a cantonal system where decisions are taken from the neighborhood
assemblies and, if necessary, then discussed in cantons, then cities and provinces. This
implies a materialization of direct democracy, also called organization from the bottom up
orbottom-up.
The rest is history. The armed triumph of the PKK in Rojava, Syria, in 2012, before the
forces of the Islamic State, initiates a project to materialize democratic Confederalism.
This project, which not only works in Rojava but in much of northern Syria, recalls what
happened in the Spanish Civil War when the CNT, an anarchist union, defends Barcelona of
Francoism and establishes direct democracy. And this Kurdish departure, which does not
advocate a national state but for political, economic and military autonomy vis-a-vis
Syria, has the capacity to encourage those hundreds of homeless peoples of the world to
self-organize under the black banner of anarchism.
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1 ) The term party should not be understood from the connotations of liberal democracy,
but from those of Marxism-Leninism. Thus, there was neither an electoral aspiration nor an
interest in participating in the Turkish political-partisan contest.
2 ) The official foundation of the PKK is in 1978, however, since '73 Öcalan worked
informally in organizations that are perceived as predecessors to the PKK. Sterka Sor (Red
Star) was the group probably infiltrated by the Turkish secret police.
3 ) Although this issue provokes discussion, many feminist theorists explain that the
Marxist project was never interested in the sexual and gender issue, which considered that
after the victory of the proletariat and the arrival of communism, all kinds of
inequalities would disappear.
* Student VIII semester Political Science - University of La Sabana - @SiembraNada -
juanrodgu @ unisabana.edu.co
https://rebeldiacontrainfo.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/una-salida-libertaria-a-la-cuestion-kurda/
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