Anarchic update news all over the world - 16.09.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire Tract AL, All micro-patterns
      ? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  brighton solfed: international Solidarity with Indonesian
      striking Uber drivers! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Dossier 1917:
      Anarcho-syndicalists in factory committees (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Catalunia, EMBAT: September 11th destitute - Debate on
      sovereignty (ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Los Angeles: AFTER DACA:
      AN OFFENSIVE STRUGGLE TO WIN LIBERATION FOR ALL MIGRANTS
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, anarkismo.net: The dead workers of our class by
      Libertarian Trade Union of Thessaloniki (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



The offensive carried out by Macron for the benefit of the bourgeoisie is global. Our 
response must be so too. Macron wants to abolish wage labor for the benefit of the 
bourgeoisie. We want to abolish it too, but for the benefit of the workers ! Class 
struggle in its pure state. ---- A coherent offensive ---- The Macron Orders carry an 
unprecedented attack on social and trade union rights. They deserve an extended strike ! 
Yet these ordinances are only one aspect of a global offensive aimed at destroying not 
only the achievements of the old power relations but the very idea of any compromise 
between capital and labor ... since we would soon be all micro-entrepreneurs . The 
breakdown of the last acquis on the pension plans following the closure of the RSI, the 
increase of the CSG to the decline of the ISF, the massive redundancies of jobs helped the 
suppression of 120,000 civil servants, public school to the establishment of faculty 
selection, Macron's program has the merit of a strong ideological coherence in favor of 
the rich.

All bosses ?

Let us take the example of a territorial official working in Parks and Gardens. Ringard 
privatization of his service and the waltz of the bosses according to tenders: 
self-entrepreneur, he will become, cutting here the trees of a municipal park and there 
mowing the lawn of a grandmother ! Let us take the example of a maintenance worker. 
Ringard subcontracting and competition from specialized companies: self-entrepreneur, he 
will become in fierce competition with his peers to win the contract.

In any case, it is the end of the contract of employment and long live the commercial 
contract ! No collective work, no more union, no more socialized wages (charges ...). They 
are all bourgeois, but there will be rich bourgeois and Uberized bourgeois ... The scam is 
obvious: at the very moment when the government is taking measures to develop the 
micro-enterprise, it is obliged to close their social security (RSI in bankruptcy) to back 
the "workers-its independent" to the general system conquered and financed long by the 
struggles of the employees !

Pdf flyer to download
Strikes and blockages !

After the defeats of 2010 and 2016, the weight of unemployment and the precariousness that 
hinder the spread of strikes, we must learn lessons. First, recognize that the big 
demonstrations and the days of repeated strikes are no longer enough to win. The next 
mobilization date, around September 20, must therefore be the starting point of a strike 
that can be renewed in as many sectors as possible, wherever the balance of power permits. 
Union unity will be our constant concern to achieve this. But for a movement that includes 
all the young people, the precarious, the retired ... general assemblies must be set up by 
locality, capable of impelling all actions that can slow, block or sabotage production and 
movement of goods.

The abolition of wage-earning will be gained by the expropriation of the bourgeois and the 
self-management of production by the workers themselves. Let's start by self-managed 
production stop !

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Tous-micro-patrons

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Message: 2



Solfed locals have taken solidarity action to express our support of Uber drivers in 
Jakarta taking strike action today 11.9.2017. Similar actions have been taken by 
anarcho-syndicalists on 4 continents as a result of a call by the IWA-AIT. Solfed members 
in London held a picket outside Uber's UK headquarters in Aldgate. Brighton Solfed had 
previously expressed their solidarity while members in Liverpool and Manchester have been 
spreading the word about the struggle of Uber workers in Indonesia in a flyposting 
campaign.  Uber drivers, organising with the anarcho-syndicalist PPAS, are taking strike 
action, demanding higher pay and an end to highly casualised working conditions. These are 
the same problems faced by Uber drivers across the world - our solidarity is as 
international as their capital!

Drivers around the world have protested against UberExploitation. In Indonesia, drivers 
organized in KUMAN, along with comrades from PPAS, have organized protests and a strike 
against the bad working conditions and more protests and strike actions are being planned.

On August 19, hundreds of drivers went on strike. A few hundred rallied at the Uber office 
in Jakarta while drivers in some other cities also joined in by turning off their apps and 
not taking any jobs. KUMAN sent a list of demands to Uber, concerning pay and conditions 
and met with the company, which did not allow it to bring legal representation. Among the 
demands are raised rates and not forcing the drivers to take free fares as part of Uber 
promos.

While Uber drivers are struggling to survive on the lousy rates, other drivers across the 
country have also been hard hit by Uber's practices, which drive down rates in the whole 
industry. Tens of thousands of drivers protested against Uber in 2016.

PPAS, an anarchosyndicalist organization in Indonesia says that international solidarity 
would be welcome and the ASF, the Australian section of the IWA will be holding actions 
around Australia on September 9.

If you would like to support the drivers, you can do so by:

- sharing information about Uber's practices and the KUMAN protest
- organizing a solidarity picket or other type of action against UBER
- sending a letter or email to UBER offices saying you support the workers and won't use 
Uber due to its exploitation
--posting on Uber social media
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/solidarity-with-striking-uber-drivers

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Message: 3





 From the spring of 1917, a second libertarian pole competes with the Communist Anarchist 
Federation. Marked by the Western revolutionary syndicalist culture, it seeks to 
emancipate workers' organizations from social democratic tutelage. ---- For three months, 
the Communist Anarchist Federation (FAC) was the only serious libertarian grouping in 
Petrograd. But as of May, with the return of the exiles, a competing pole is formed: Union 
of propaganda anarcho-syndicalist (UPAS). ---- Daniil Novomirski ---- A leader of 
revolutionary trade unions in Ukraine in 1906-1908, he was the founding father of Russian 
anarcho-syndicalism and even the inventor of the term. In 1917, after returning from 
exile, he joined the editorial committee of Golos Trouda. ---- Its iniators - Efim 
Yartchouk (31), Bill Chatov (30), Voline (35) and Alexandre Schapiro (35) - are the heirs 
of the anarcho-syndicalist pioneers of the years 1907-1908 (see opposite) but their true 
common denominator is to have militated in the revolutionary syndicalist movement in the West.

Several of them were living Golos Truda ( "  The Voice of Labor  "), a body of the Union 
of Russian workers in the United States, which has about 10,000 members. Very inspired by 
the French CGT and by the American IWW, these militants have very little taste for 
spontaneism and insurrectionalism at all-vault of the FAC.

For them, the prospects are not encouraging. Voline is annoyed by the numerical and 
organizational inferiority of the anarchists in relation to the Bolsheviks. "  Our delay 
is irreparable," he confided to some comrades. It is as if we had to catch up on foot an 
express train which, in possession of the Bolsheviks, is 100 kilometers in front of us and 
100 kilometers an hour.  " It would take a miracle. "  Our duty is to believe in this 
miracle," concluded Voline, " and to work towards its realization.  " [1]

Bill Chatov (1887-1938)
As an activist of the IWW during his exile in the United States, this anarcho-syndicalist 
co-founded Golos Trouda in 1917. In 1918, he became one of the anarchist figures rallying 
to communist power.
So soon joined by veteran Daniil Novomirski, the anarcho-syndicalists embarked on the 
Russian edition of Emile Pouget's revolutionary syndicalist brochures, Fernand Yvetot and 
Christiaan Cornelissen, and went to meet factory committees. They recruit a young 
supporter who took part in the February Days and will soon play a pivotal role among them: 
Grigori Maximov (24 years). In August, they will launch a new series of Golos Trouda, 
which will have a significant impact on conscientious workers.

UPAS closely monitors the work of factory committees, in which it has identified a dynamic 
similar to that of revolutionary syndicalism: rootedness at the place of production, 
direct action, and a tendency towards self-management. This is where the most fruitful 
workers' activity is seen, in front of the Soviets and, above all, in front of the trade 
unions which the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks are rapidly building on the Social-Democratic 
model:

Self-management does not resolve marasmus

On 20 May, the Conference of Kharkov factory committees, where anarchists are influential 
calls to "  take control of the production, backup, bring it to its maximum  " [2]. It is 
followed, from 30 May to 5 June, by the conference of factory committees in Petrograd, 
which, with 236 companies represented [3], takes stock of the economic situation.

This is alarming: the shortage of coal is general, rail transport is erratic, productivity 
falls, the employers licensed and firm. In this critical context, most of the plants taken 
over by self-management vegetation. Worse, they compete for the little fuel available.

Only the anarchist delegates - Justin Jouk gives Schlüsselbourg as an example - exhorted 
to multiply the expropriations. The conference did not follow them and confined itself to 
advocating workers' control, without calling into question capitalist property. But the 
Mensheviks, who advocate "  state control  ", are also put in a minority. In conclusion, 
in order to encourage mutual assistance between enterprises under workers' control, the 
conference designates a Petrograd Council of factory committees. Maximov was elected 
there, surrounded by Bolsheviks [4].

Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)

In the folder:

February-March 1917: After the Tsarists, drive the capitalists
Minority but galvanized, anarchists advocate expropriation all the way
A tract of the Communist Anarchist Federation of Petrograd (March 1917)
The first libertarian wave (1905-1908)
April-May: The irrepressible rise to the social explosion
Anarcho-syndicalists in factory committees
June-July: Creating insurrection is not enough
The fiasco of the Journées de juillet
August-September: The counter-revolution digs its own tomb
The Other Components of Russian Socialism in 1917
October red (and black): The assault in the unknown
A Ukrainian revolutionary: Maroussia emerges from oblivion
November 1917-April 1918: From pluralism to the confiscated revolution . Four cleavage points:
People's Power vs. State Power
Socialization against nationalization
Popular militia against hierarchical army
On requisitions and expropriations
Epilogue 1918-1921: Resistance and eradication
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[1] Voline, The Unknown Revolution t. 2, Entremonde, 2010, page 18.

[2] Maurice Brinton, "  The Bolsheviks and Worker Control  ", Self-management and 
Socialism No. 24-25, September-December 1973.

[3] Marc Ferro, The Revolution of 1917, Albin Michel, 1997, page 956.

[4] Maurice Brinton, "  The Bolsheviks and Workers  ' Control ", Self-management and 
Socialism No. 24-25, September-December 1973.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Dossier-1917-Anarcho-syndicalistes-dans-les-comites-d-usines

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Message: 4





For us, the libertarias of Embat, on September 11 symbolizes a date in which we remember 
all those people who, in this country, have risen against oppression in defense of 
freedoms over the centuries fighting against domination structures. Thanks to these 
people, systematically repressed brutally and buried anonymously in pits today we can keep 
the flame of a free life. ---- This September 11, like those that preceded us, is framed 
within a great wave of popular mobilization that demands different political identities 
and traditions from higher levels of sovereignty. We defend as always the direct 
participation of the entire population in the issues that affect it and therefore defend 
the right of self-determination that our people must exercise on October 1. However, we 
want to be able to extend it to all areas of life based on the constituent process that 
must be opened on October 2. It will be a time to rewrite the rules that govern our 
society and to put different country models on the table.
However, this will depend on what happens this September, which will be crucial.

We have a scenario with a "regime of the 78" that is no longer able to govern in a 
peaceful and conventional way Catalonia. More and more social layers are increasingly 
believing in their legitimacy to dictate laws, to tell us what we have to do. The 
Generalitat and many town councils act virtually as institutions of an independent 
country. The middle classes, the youth, and part of the working class is no longer linked 
to the Spanish framework. This disaffection threatens to jump to the rest of Spain. The 
central government will try to reverse it by calling on the sacrosanct "unity of the 
country" and the "indivisibility of the Spanish nation", which unfortunately contributes 
most of the Spanish left and Catalan, instead of taking advantage of the situation to 
overthrow the monarchy and post-Francoism.

We will be witnesses to the confrontation between the Catalan and state institutions, the 
positioning of loyalties, the dispute between legalities, the adjustment of positions ... 
The Spanish state will not be easy to defeat and a dangerous demonstration of political, 
judicial and police We know that by voting there will be no independence. There must be a 
mass mobilization and disobedience in order to erode the control of Spain on the Catalan 
territory.

It is also a good time to open new fronts of conflict from the neighborhoods (AAVV, 
assemblies, housing groups) and unions, based on the development of housing policies, 
remunicipalizations, labor relations, which help define a popular stand against the 
constituent process ..

We summon and appeal to support all demonstrations in favor of the exercise of 
self-determination and against authoritarianism.

http://embat.info/embat-davant-un-11s-destituent/ 
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59:44 + 00: 00Commemorative communiqués and texts Debate about sovereignty 9N, anarchism, 
self-management, catalonia, struggle, popular power, rupture, sovereignty
For us, the libertarias of Embat, on September 11 symbolizes a date in which we remember 
all those people who, in this country, have risen against oppression in defense of 
freedoms over the centuries fighting against domination structures. Thanks to these 
people, systematically repressed brutally ...
equipembat jose@red-libertaria.net Administrator attacks

http://embat.info/embat-davant-un-11s-destituent/

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Message: 5






We are together in the fight to legalize all migration, to empty the deportation centers, 
to demilitarize and decolonize the borders, and to disband ICE. This is the same fight 
that existed before Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was enacted in 2012. 
This is the same fight that we were in during DACA, and that we'll be in after DACA. DACA 
has benefited hundreds of thousands of young people, but DACA has always been only a 
band-aid on a lifetime of wounds. In certain ways, DACA helps, but it does not heal. 
Though we would never turn down a band-aid when when it will improve the lives of some, 
and though we will continue to resist like hell against anyone cruel enough to try to 
strip away a hard-earned social gain such as DACA, we know that DACA is not enough. These 
temporary reforms are not what we fight for, then or now. We're fighting for freedom, 
nothing less.

This is a time for the growth of our movement, and to go on the offensive. To really 
express what we as working class people need right now; to bring us closer to knowing and 
feeling our own liberated power. What we think we need now is full legalization for all. 
Not one more deportation. An end to the militarized border and occupation of indigenous 
lands. The disbanding of ICE. Not to mention a fundamental change in this country's 
imperialist economic and foreign policy that drives displacement, poverty, and migration. 
Ultimately, we recognize that it will take revolution to achieve all of our demands and 
satisfy our needs.

In the next six months, maybe more band-aids that continue some form of DACA will be the 
most that we will get. But we are building a movement that has its eyes fixed on freedom. 
A movement that won't disappear if a DACA-like program is brought back, if Trump is 
impeached, if a Bernie Sanders becomes president, or if a non-profit's funding gets cut. 
Because when DACA came, it helped a whole lot of people who needed it, but it also left 
behind so many people who we love and care about, and who deserved its protections as much 
as anyone else: so many parents and elders, so many who were too broke to pay the 
application fee, so many high school dropouts, so many prisoners and folks with records, 
so many people who just fell through the cracks. Reforms like DACA have the effect of 
defining a split between the "good" immigrant and the "bad" immigrant; between the 
immigrant who "contributes" and is "productive", and the immigrant who is "a welfare 
abuser" and "lazy"; between student "dreamers" and their parents who were the ones who 
dreamt of a better life for their families in the first place. But nobody needs to prove 
their basic worth as a human being through their service to an exploitative economic 
system and a racist state - or through enlisting in an imperialist military like DACA 
encouraged immigrants to do. Equal rights and access to the fruits of our shared society 
are deserved by all.

Demands for "immigration reform" that pick some as worthy and some as not divide and leave 
many behind. And for the most part, the immigrant rights movement hasn't been there for 
those left behind. The big non-profits focused for years on the DREAM Act, putting their 
energy into compromising with the Democratic Party instead of building a united and 
militant movement that could force change from both Obama and Trump. Now a movement is 
coming back to life, and it's up to us to make sure that it's a movement that fights for 
the liberation of all, and not a movement that negotiates for partial reforms from the 
Democrats.

It is clear that Trump's order fits with his white supremacist vision for the future of 
this country and the world. Black and brown undocumented immigrants are targeted, while 
the tens of thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants and 100,000 Canadians who overstay 
their visas every year can live a relatively calm life without fear and paranoia. It is 
very scary that a government with a white supremacist agenda has the addresses, finger 
prints, and pictures of hundreds of thousands of DACA migrants.

Yet the millions excluded by Trump's vision are together with us in this fight, resisting 
for liberation, and now is the time to build a movement that won't settle, that won't 
compromise, that won't divide, and that will keep marching forward no matter what band-aid 
reforms or cruel repressions are thrown our way. Because we know that love will not fix 
this situation - it will take direct action, mutual aid, and solidarity.

We've won before and we will win again. We know our victories are often temporary - like 
with DACA or Arpaio - but that is precisely why we can never rest or settle. Now is the 
time to focus on what we really need to win our freedom, and keep fighting.

http://blackrosefed.org/daca-offensive-struggle-win-liberation-migrants/

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Message: 6





The profits of the bosses and the state ---- In capitalism, all of our employees are 
consumables, whether they are a period of "crisis" or economic "development". In the 
economic crisis, bosses rely on "reduced" earnings and, apart from wages, also eliminate 
all possible security measures, while in their long-awaited growth their growing profit is 
above every thought of protecting workers. ---- The dead of our class do not come only 
from the building and food sectors that have measured many deadly "accidents" last winter. 
This summer at the banquet of the billions of revenue that only the bosses measured by 
tourism, we measured dead from each branch. Cleaners, woodcutters, truck drivers, airport 
employees, clark operators, dockers were among the dozens of cases where workers never 
returned home, where for between 300 and 600 euros left their lives in ditches, streets, 
airports, harbors, factories and mines.

In capitalism, all of our employees are consumables, whether they are a period of "crisis" 
or economic "development". In the economic crisis, bosses rely on "reduced" earnings and, 
apart from wages, also eliminate all possible security measures, while in their 
long-awaited growth their growing profit is above all thought for worker protection. 
Companies are never even bothered to apologize, and their "deep sorrow" is less than the 
pain for the cost of worker protection.

We do not risk our lives for any boss and no growth

We claim with dignity and fidelity our working interests

Memory and anger for the dead of our class

Thessaloniki Eleftherial Union of Unions

https://www.facebook.com/ESEThessalonikis

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30508

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