Anarchic update news all over the world - 20.09.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  SOLIDARIDAD OBRERA CONFEDERACIÓN ANARCOSINDICALISTA - THE
      STRUGGLE IS THE ONLY WAY.,RBC - www.redblack.org
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Coordination des Groupes Anarchistes - Patriarchal violence
      of 12 September: CGA press release Paris region (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  A-Radio Berlin B(A)D NEWS – Angry voices from around the
      world – Episode 4 (09/2017) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Dossier 1917: A
      Ukrainian revolutionary: Maroussia emerges from oblivion (fr, it,
      pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, apo: Poster for the 4 years since the murder of P.
      Fissa. (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  agamsterdam: Domela Nieuwenhuis-day November 19, 2017 at the
      Domela Nieuwenhuis Museum (nl) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Poland, Thousands of Volkswagen employees are demanding
      restitution for work released for union activity by INICJATYWA
      PRACOWNICZA - WORKERS' INITIATIVE [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




The Red and Black Coordination is created to internationally co-ordinate the actions of 
the unions following the tradition of self-management, anti-authoritarian, 
anarchosyndicalist and federalist internationalist labor movement. This link stands in 
exchanging informations and developing analysis and projects to strenghten the 
self-organization of workers; the co-ordination of strikes or any other actions aimed at 
achieving common goals. Doing so in order to facilitate not only the immediate granting of 
material benefits and social rights but also to promote class consciousness. The Red and 
Black Coordination does not belong or owe anything to any political party and claims for 
autonomy from parliamentary politics and the recovery of individual responsibility of 
workers in their emancipation from wage labor and exploitation, whether it be exercised by 
employers or the state.

The Red and Black Coordination supports all self-organized autonomous struggles of workers 
without putting limits on both the media as to the strategies used in the defense of their 
claims.

http://www.redblack.org

http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/2017/09/15/rbc-www-redblack-org/

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Communiqué of the group of the Paris region of the Coordination of the Anarchist Groups 
following the aggression of feminist militants by members of the service of order (SO) of 
the CGT on September 12, 2017 ---- The CGA-RP unambiguously denounced the collective 
aggression carried out by members of the CGT's security service against five feminist 
activists during the union demonstration on September 12 in Paris. Three comrades were 
injured, including one belonging to the CGA and the Antipatriarcal Front. Their only 
wrong: to have reacted to a sexist insult by a member of the SO of the CGT (1). Without an 
immediate feminist solidarity, the balance could have been much heavier. ---- These acts 
of violence are unacceptable and have no place in the trade union movement or elsewhere. 
Nothing can justify them. They recall that the militant spaces are not protected against 
sexist attacks; daily and massive violence to maintain the patriarchal order.

The masculine and anti-feminist solidarity of a part of the SO questions the organization 
and the methods used by it. We call for solidarity with the women concerned, including by 
calling on the militants and members of the CGT to disassociate themselves from these 
practices and act accordingly.

Against patriarchy: feminist self-defense

The feminist struggle is a constant struggle and must take place both within our militant 
frameworks and outside. Today as yesterday, we will continue to defend feminist 
self-defense as the first bulwark against male violence. No patriarchal, verbal or 
physical violence will undermine our determination to build a new society based on 
equality and solidarity, rid of patriarchy and all forms of domination.

Paris, 15 September 2017

(1) The exact words were: "I will eat you pussy"

http://www.c-g-a.org/content/violences-patriarcales-du-12-septembre-communique-de-la-cga-region-parisienne

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The Anarchist Radio Network just released episode number 4 (09/2017) of its international 
news show "B(A)D NEWS - Angry voices from around the world". „B(A)D NEWS – Angry voices 
from around the world“ is a monthly news program from the international network of 
anarchist and antiauthoritarian radios, consisting of short news segments from different 
parts of the world.As an international network of radio projects, we believe in the 
importance of international solidarity. And we also recognize the importance and the need 
to create and disseminate our own media and counterinformation. ---- You'll find the audio 
here: ---- 
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2017/09/15/bad-news-angry-voices-from-around-the-world-episode-4-092017/ 
---- Content: ---- * 98fm: action and repression in labor, student struggles, anti-fascist 
anniversaries around Greece

* 105fm: immigration struggles, resisting fascist attacks, gender
violence and other topics from Lesvos
* Radio Kurruf: resistance to and dangers of liquified natural gas
* Rosas Negras: violence against civil society and journalists in
particular in El Salvador
* A-Radio Berlin: the government ban of the leftist info platform
linksunten indymedia in Germany
* Dissident Island: resistance from the Campaign Against Arms Trade
(CAAT) to the London DSEI arms fair
* The Final Straw: autonomous Hurricane relief

Other audios from A-Radio Berlin in English (or Spanish) here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/".

Or visit the new anarchist 24/7 online stream from the Channel Zero
Network: http://channelzeronetwork.com/

Enjoy!

A-Radio Berlin

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A charismatic activist who had passed through prison and exile, a formidable orator and 
warlord, she inspired terror for the whites and mistrust for the reds. Having become an 
interlope and folkloric character in Soviet culture, it has been rediscovered in recent 
years. ---- Maria Nikiforova (32) was arrested in April 1918, during the great repression 
of anarchism. But in Ukraine, libertarians weigh heavily, and escapes capital punishment. 
It was the whites who shot her in September 1919. ---- Nestor Makhno, who was the soul of 
the insurgent peasant army of Ukraine between 1918 and 1921, has not usurped its place in 
the memory of anarchism and the Russian Revolution. But it must be known that in the 
representation of the Makhnovshchina by the USSR, Makhno was often flanked by a female 
alter-ego: "  Banditka Maroussia  ". The Soviet collective memory has retained them as an 
infernal couple of highwaymen, thirsty for blood and rapine.

Sometimes depicted as a missed boy, sometimes as a trail of the countryside, enraged and 
violent, Maroussia really existed. Her real name was Maria Grigorievna Nikifirova, and her 
life is at the very opposite of her caricature.

 From terrorism to exile

Born in 1885 in Alexandrovsk, in the Ekaterinoslav region, she spent her childhood less 
than a hundred kilometers from Gouliai Polié, which became the "  capital  " of the 
Makhnovshchina in southern Ukraine. Daughter of a veteran officer of the war of 1877-1878 
against Turkey, nothing apparently predisposes her to become revolutionary. That is what 
she is doing, from the age of 16.

However, interpretations differ on this first commitment. Historians close to the 
libertarian trend [1]situate it within the bezmotivn anarcho-communism (ie "  without 
motive  ": practicing undifferentiated violence against the rich). The publications from 
the Russian Archives relate it rather to the socialist-revolutionary current [2].

One thing is certain: Nikifirova practices propaganda by the fact, and multiplies violent 
actions. In 1908, she was sentenced to twenty years hard labor for the killing of a 
municipal official Alexandrovsk, but she managed to escape from the prison of women of 
Moscow on the night of 30 June to 1 st  July 1909 .

The paths of escape will lead Maria, in stages, to flee the Russian empire by the east. A 
period of almost ten years of exile then opens, from the United States to France via 
England, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, as opportunities and encounters. In this 
discovery of the world, she forged her deep political convictions, becoming definitely 
anarchist. At the end of 1913, she participated in the conference of Russian 
anarcho-communists in exile, and gave a few articles to the Russian libertarian press in 
New York (Golos Trouda) and Chicago (Vperiod).

When the war broke out in 1914, it stood behind Kropotkin to defend the sacred union of 
anarchism with the Russo-Anglo-French camp against what was identified as the supreme 
danger: German imperialism.

An anarchist warlord

One can note in this choice what seems to be a characteristic feature of the personality 
of Maria Nikifirova: the taste for the armed action.

On her return to Russia in 1917, she was active in the Communist Anarchist Federation of 
Petrograd, and during the July days she went to harangue the sailors at Kronstadt to 
incite them to mutiny. After the failure of the insurrection, she returned to 
Alexandrovsk. It was there that she learned the putsch of October.

In the Ukraine, Maroussia, as she calls herself, sets up a battalion of anarchist 
partisans, the Volnaya Boevaïa Druzhina ("  Free and Voluntary Military Detachment  ") 
which has an armored train decorated with black flags, confronts the counter- 
revolutionaries and multiplies expropriations-redistributions.

Her qualities as organizer, speaker [3]and her bellicose character are spotted by Vladimir 
Antonov-Ovseïenko, who assumes the Bolshevik military command in Ukraine. He considers it 
Bolshevik-compatible and will intervene on several occasions in his favor during his legal 
setbacks. For his part, Nikifirova and his men allied themselves with the Red Guards to 
overthrow the Alexandrovsk pronounist soviet and substitute for it a revolutionary soviet.

In Soviet culture, Makhno is generally portrayed as a drunken  tyrant , and " Banditka 
Maroussia  " as his companion. This cartoon is from Pervaya Konarmia, an album on the 
Civil War published in 1937.
With Nestor Makhno

The divorce came in April 1918, when the Bolshevik government broke the anarchist movement 
. Her excesses - acts of looting - are used against her. She is arrested and the Red Army 
begins to disarm her supporters.

The anarchist Apollo Kareline defends the All-Russian Executive Committee of the Soviets, 
but it is mainly Antonov-Ovseyenko who protects it. In September 1918, after two trials, 
she was only sentenced to a mild sentence: the six-month deprivation of the possibility of 
exercising functions within the soviets.

Between January and spring 1919, in full red terror against the anarchists, she rejoined 
Makhno again for a few months, assuming various positions within the insurrectionary army 
he set up. The Russian Archives suggest that it could have played an intermediate role 
between the Red Army and the Black Army and that it should be used for secret and delicate 
missions.

It was during one of these risky missions in the Crimea, in preparation for an attack on 
the staff of Denikin, that she was arrested in Sevastopol on 11 August 1919. The whites 
took the time judge before shooting it, in mid-September 1919.

Maroussia is not, therefore, this harpy caricatured by Soviet propaganda ; she is 
doubtless not a saint (a "  Joan of Arc of anarchism  " as her English biographer calls 
it). In the light of the Russian archives, a thorough historical study is still to be 
carried out on Maria Nikifirova, an anarchist, speaker and indomitable warrior, tossed by 
the contrary winds blowing on the Russian Revolution.

Pierre Chamechaude (Friend of AL, Paris northeast)

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

[1] Malcolm Archibald, Atamansha: the life of Marusya Nikifirova, Black Cat Press, 2007 ; 
Mila Cotlenko, Maria Nikifirova, the revolution without waiting. The epic of an anarchist 
across the Ukraine (1902-1919), Mutines Séditions, 2015.

[2] Collective, Political Parties in Russia. Late nineteenth e -first third of the XX th 
century, Moscow, ROSSPEN, 1996 (in Russian).

[3] Makhno, in Memoirs and Writings (Ivrea, 2010), praises his charisma and his ability to 
win accession during his public speeches.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Dossier-1917-Une-revolutionnaire-ukrainienne-Maroussia-sort-de-l-oubli

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The lawsuit of the ASE is still in progress with the basic aim of imposing "democratic 
normality" and consolidating the theory of the two extremes. At the same time, the 
re-emergence of paratrooping battalion battalions, the murderer Roupakia is found in his 
home, while trying to de-monopolize and suppress the anti-fascist struggle on the streets 
through the strike of protests and the persistent persecution of anarchists and 
anti-fascists. ---- ... THE FASHION HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY EUROPE AS AMERICA ... ---- We do 
not forget the murder of Pavlos Fissas on September 18, 2013 in Keratsini. We do not 
forget the murder of Shehzad Luqman in Petralona. We do not forget the recent murder of 
Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, USA. We do not forget hundreds of murderous attacks on 
refugees and immigrants. Not even the dozens of rabid attacks on squats, self-managed 
spaces, and anarchist, left and anti-fascist fighters.

 From the anti-fascist gatherings in Oreokastro and the clashes at the Athens Court of 
Appeal with the fascist battalions, up to the streets of Sofia, Boston and Charlottesville ...
To co-ordinate the phasing by building a platform, horizon, and counterpart social and tax 
movement that targets the whole of the system that is generalized.

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

http://apo.squathost.com
FASHION IS CLOSED IN THE ROAD FROM THE WORLD OF THE GAME



Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities



ATHENA

Saturday 16/9 , anti-fascist demonstration of the Constitution, 18: 00.pm with the 
anarchist assembly block for social and class emancipation

Monday 18/9 , anti-fascist concentration 18:00 pm at the murder point of Pavlos Foussa and 
course with the block of the anarchist assembly for social and class emancipation

Initial collectivity O72 - member of APO Oriental societies circle of Fotia - member of APO

THESSALONIKI

Monday 18/9, Kamara, 18:00. ANTI-FOUNDATION-COLLECTION Concentration - Demonstration on 
the day of the murder of Paul Fusha

Collectivism for Social Anarchism - Black & Red

PATRA

Monday 18/9, Georgiou Square, 18:30. Anti-Fascist course

anarchist group "dwarf horse"

CORFU

Saturday 16/9, Georgaki Square, 12:00, Concentration-Microphone

cumulonimbus anarchist group

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Sunday, November 19th, the Domela Nieuwenhuis Day will be held at the Domela Nieuwenhuis 
Museum in Heerenveen again. This time it will be a special day, because then an exhibition 
will be opened dedicated to the commitment of the painter Melle. Below is more 
information. ---- The day looks like this: ---- 13.00 hours: tour of Bert Altena through 
the Museum ---- 14.30 pm: lectures to open the exhibition by Bert Altena about the 
political engagement of Melle and Koos Levy, the niece of Melle, about Melle as an artist. 
---- The exhibition has been opened. Why this exhibition is organized by the Domela 
Nieuwenhuis Museum and what is being discussed in detail is explained in the following 
press release. ---- Melle's engagement (1908-1976), visionary painter

On 19 November, the Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis Museum in Heerenveen opens an exhibition 
about the artist and painter Melle (1908-1976). Melle is often seen as a surrealist, but 
himself he called himself a visionary painter. Melle's work puts many people in front of 
riddles, even experts. His visions, the references to his youth in the Amsterdam armory 
district of Wittenburg, ships involved, countless animals and minutely drawn or painted 
plants, fallussen and vagina's. What did that mean, also offset by the time he lived? Did 
experiences from his youth play an important part?

To find out more about his young years and development of his work, the Ferdinand Domela 
Nieuwenhuis Museum opens the doors for an exhibition of the artist. Melle's work is in 
place. Melle's father was a fervent supporter of the social anarchist Ferdinand Domela 
Nieuwenhuis. Anarchist ideas got Melle and his two sisters were poured into the pots. In 
their puberty, those ideas were further formed by the anarchist youth group around the 
magazine De Moker. The drawings made by Melle for this group's magazine have always 
remained in the shadow of his postwar work. This also applies to the countless political 
drawings he made in the 1930's. Anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, pacifism and love for 
nature, which were strengthened during his maturity,

The exhibition specifically looks at what these pre-war views can be found in Melle's 
post-war work and how the pre-war commitment after 1945 has undergone a transformation. To 
this end, the artist's large and varied artist's work is done: drawings, charts, 
watercolors, paintings and embroidery. The pre-war work that had less attention until 
recently is emphatically present.

Melle himself has spelled the constituents through statements such as, " My work will be a 
big charge, which is presented in a well-arranged romantic way. '

The exhibition runs until March 5, 2018.

Where: Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis Museum, Minckelerweg 11, 8442 CE Heerenveen. Phone: 
(0513) 62 34 08
Period: 19 November 2017 to 5 March 2018

Literature: Koos Levy-van Halm, Melle could not be called Jesus (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij 
Tienstuks 2016)
Further information: info@ferdinanddomelanieuwenhuis.nl
https://ferdinanddomelanieuwenhuis.nl/

http://www.agamsterdam.org/domela-nieuwenhuis-dag-19-november-2017-in-het-domela-nieuwenhuis-museum/

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Today (14.09.2017) another press conference was held in the center of Poznan with 
employees dismissed for taking action to improve working conditions and pay at Volkswagen 
factories. Yesterday, more than 2,000 signatures were filed on the company's board of 
directors on the reinstatement of workers kicked off in August. All employees who are not 
afraid to sign us thank you. We want the management to know that the crew disagrees with 
such treatment of the people who make up this establishment and that this situation will 
not happen again in the future. ---- At the conference, unionists informed the media of 
the support the commission has received lately from other unions in Poland and abroad. 
Passers-by was given a leaflet reminding the influence of companies such as Volkswagen on 
the development of local employment relations and encouraging workers to work together to 
improve their lives. We publish the leaflet below:

05.09 Three employees of Volkswagen Poznan - Andrzej Sobok, Sebastian Humski and Lukasz 
Jasinski - were dismissed. This demonstration of the company's management strength had to 
close the mouth of its employees. Reliefs, however, did not stop the VW crew from 
establishing the ZZ Worker's Committee.

According to a spokeswoman for the company, the reason for the layoffs was "unethical 
comments in social media." These are calls for self-organization of employees to end the 
ongoing deterioration of working conditions. These entries are not unethical in terms of 
generally accepted ethical standards. The absurd reasons for the dismissal of three 
employees by the company confirm that the real reason for this was the desire to set up a 
trade union.

In 2016 the Volkswagen factory in Poznan was awarded the "Employer Friendly Employee" 
certificate, which was received by President Andrzej Duda. The certificate indicates that 
the company is concerned about the stability of employment, compliance with health and 
safety regulations and the right to trade unions. The current management activities, 
however, deny this. In Poland, dismissing employees for union activities is not uncommon. 
VW confirms this, and worse yet, being one of the largest employers in the region has the 
effect of undermining employment standards in other compan

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2298-tysiace-pracownikow-volkswagena-domagaja-sie-przywrocenia-do-pracy-zwolnionych-za-dzialalnosc-zwiazkowa

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