Today's Topics:
1. New Zeland, awsm: Burger Workers Strike (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, afed: Options click on the door. Let's face them as
always! Download, print and distribute the September issue of the
A3 wall paper! [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. wsm.ie: It was the X-case which politicised me - and I'll
march again on the 30th (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Spain] The Argentine state pursues anarchist groups that
fight against the "easy trigger" By ANA (ca, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki - Call to
Anti-fascist course 18/9 -- TO CLOSE THE FASHION AND
THE SYSTEM
WHICH BEGUN (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Dossier 1917: June-July:
Creating an insurrection is not enough (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) launched a strike in Portland, Oregon
at fast food chain Burgerville. The strike is the latest move by workers at the chain who
have been organizing for months and demanding wage increases, an end to harassment for
union activities, better schedules, and improvements of conditions. The group announced
the strike on Labor Day with a statement on their Facebook page: ---- The very first Labor
Day was a massive strike and parade organized by thousands of workers in New York City in
1882. The chance for millions and millions of people to spend time with family and
community this Monday was made possible by power wielded time and time again by striking
workers. ---- Ironically, we workers at Burgerville don't get to enjoy this day dedicated
to celebrating the power of workers. Working at Burgerville means we can't take proper
holidays, since doing so means taking a substantial pay cut or facing retaliation from
management. Working at Burgerville means that we spend our holidays working for minimum
wage just like any other day, fully aware of all the memories with friends and family we
are missing out on.
That's why we are going on strike today.
Instead of going to work for poverty wages while corporate bigshots take vacations, we are
taking a stand. We are taking back Labor Day for our families, our friends, our coworkers,
and ourselves. We are taking back Labor Day because we know that better pay, fair
schedules, consistent hours, and healthier work environments have only ever been won by
workers standing together and fighting for them.
We are the heart of Burgerville and we deserve a change!
The strike also takes place as fast food workers at McDonald's in the UK are also on
strike. Burgerville workers union writes:
McDonald's workers at two shops in England voted to go on a strike on September 4. These
workers are organized through the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), whose
demands include wage increases and more consistent scheduling (Sound familiar?)
Immediately after the announcement of a strike, McDonald's stated that by the end of 2017
they will implement a guaranteed hours contract to every McDonald's worker in the UK. The
BFAWU plans to carry on with their strike to push for their other demands and to hold
McDonald's to their word.
Victory to the strikers!
END
https://www.iww.org/
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/09/17/burger-workers-strike/
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Message: 2
At the end of the nineteenth century, a few inhabitants of the Czech part of the Austrian
monarchy fled to the United States. Some of them before misery, others before persecution
because of their political and trade union activity. It is no wonder, therefore, that a
great number of Czech anarchists were found behind the ocean, and that some workers have
come to the idea of freedom and self-government only after the experience there. ---- At
that time, a resident group of Czech anarchists published in New York, which was called
the Czechoslovak Free Letter, a Czech leaflet called "Crime of Election Fraud". His author
tries to reach out to all those who go to the polls in blind confidence, that they show
their free will, participate in the running of society, make decisive decisions about
something. And those who cast their vote will defend their interests. The leaflet is a
glimpse of how nothing has changed over the years, and the story of parliamentary
democracy continues to successfully enfold the heads and hearts of millions. Millions of
people who are on the edge of the abyss with an electoral roll to make their way. Millions
who do not let themselves learn and after a few years walk the same way - even if the gap
may have a different hue, the impact does not usually have much impact.
"Everywhere people are fed by the electoral hype and everybody is pounding as the savior
of mankind," wrote a leaflet, and he only recalls billboards along the paths and the
smiling faces of the saviors on all real and virtual walls.
The leaflet goes on straight to the voters: "You choose and you do not see yourself
cheating and falling victim to yourself. Did you not know from the experience that the
representatives and aliens you seek, and who are always your supporters, are liars and
know that even if they want, they are unable to do something good for you? " the central
idea of today's program electoral absenteeism, which holds a large part of anarchists and
anarchists. People, even though they know that they are choosing beasts, or are very well
aware that their positions will not change much by elections, and they are also
legitimizing the elections. The choice of change is forbidden from the beginning. The
capitalist regime is unmistakable in the bourgeois democracy system, as we know it. Only
those who choose, who will maintain it and ensure the operation of the system for the
protection of private property, the interests of the largest owners and speculators. "And
you know that, and you're laughing and choosing. Indeed, the rulers and representatives
always work and work for their own benefit and for those who help them to the glory of
well-being, "adds the author of the old leaflet.
Since the elections in 1990, we have a great deal of experience with pre-election
promises, slogans, political smiles and goulash. Likewise, we have experience of how a
tiny class of owners has grown up here, how we have become a cheap automotive carmaker,
and how the slogans of truth and love have mastered the "great transformation robbery."
And today, those who took part in it covered and grew rich, trying to continue to wonder
how only they are to rule. How long will it take? The still valid answer is, "As long as
the wicked people fail to understand the necessity of organizing their own production,
consumption, and lifestyle adjustment, as long as they are scrupulously subject to
authority, rulers and leaders, they support them and consider them necessary, MPs as
exploiters will live from your work and stupidity. "
Rising to ratios from voters can be a sign of hypocrisy. "You are still complaining, but
you are not trying to contribute to change, but you are directly perpetuating the state in
which we are dying. Sometimes you raise your neck and threaten the revolt, but you end up
with the establishment of new leaders and rulers. "It is claimed that power stems from the
sovereignty of the people, but the election is rather robbed of the sovereignty.
But who really needs politics? The leaflet turns to the working man: "You are the maker of
everything and you have nothing. Everything comes from you and you are nothing! "Policemen
need especially those who live from the work of others who own so much that thousands of
millions of people could happily live there. They need them to act as representatives of
the people, while protecting the present state of affairs.
The motivation to come to the election urn may be different: "ignorance and blind
sincerity"; the choice of lesser evil; fear of taking responsibility for and deciding on
one's own life; belief "that all of this slavery is more tolerable and safer than
disdaining laws and deprivation of all these trampolines and humiliation." If the voters
are impassable, they should stop "once more with whining and wailing". We do not treat our
anarchists and anarchists, we organize and try to take lives into our own hands. And
despite the elected representatives and their repressive machinery.
A3 ( September 2017) HERE to download.
Download, print, spread!
The A3 wall paper is published annually by the Anarchist Federation. They are intended
primarily for spreading through street lifts or posting in workplaces and schools.
http://www.afed.cz/text/6742/a3-zlocin-volebniho-podvodu
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Message: 3
Choice is a political issue. I emigrated to the UK in the 80's and when I returned to
Dublin it was the X-case which politicised me. It was incomprehensible to me as a 23 year
old that this young 14 year old girl who had been raped was not allowed to leave the
country. ---- I was not the only one who felt strongly about this, and there were massive
marches asking for the young woman to be let go to the UK to have an abortion. That was
1992[in the picture I am there holding the placard on the left]. I felt like I had to
leave this place to come back and see it with new eyes, and see how dysfunctional it truly
was, and remains. ---- Now 25 years on, we still do not have free, safe and legal
abortion here. We still have the 8th Amendment in the constitution and that has to be
repealed. That is the first step. People power is the only way that such freedoms are
won. Successive politicians, parties and governments have allowed this dysfunction to
continue, which has led to deaths, suicides and untold misery for thousands of women here.
This has to stop. We cannot trust the same powers that be, who have done nothing on
this issue, and have allowed it to continue to now draft a referendum on it. We need to
be on the streets, engaged in the struggle for reproductive rights and the repeal of the
8th amendment.
Anarchists have a belief in individual liberty, and whilst the 8th amendment exists here,
that individual liberty does not exist for women in this State. How we got here is a long
sad lesson in history involving the church and state dancing together to make us a model
little country. The battle for choice is integral to fixing the broken society that we
have. It requires us all to be engaged in that struggle. See you on the 30th of September.
Archive footage from RTE of the x-case march - the WSM banner can be viewed at about 4
seconds in
Subject: X-case, Repeal 8th, Pro-choice
Topics: Gender
Geography: Dublin
Multimedia: Images
Source: News alert
Type: News
Author: Dermot Freeman
https://www.wsm.ie/c/x-case-politicised-me
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Message: 4
All our support for the comrades of Cordoba! ---- From the Higinio Carrocera Group
(Asturias), we have expressed our solidarity with the Argentinian comrades who are
currently suffering persecution by the repressive forces and the State, as a police beat
in social spaces and persecution of anarchist organizations in Cordoba. ---- No espaço
social e cultural Ateneu Anarquista, em Bª Güemes, registrou-se a perseguição a familiares
de vítimas do "gatilho fácil"[assassinatos por parte da polícia]e há uma ordem de invasão
ao local da Federação de Organizações em Luta; no bairro Müller aconteceu o registro na
Casa Anarquista, Espaço Cultural San Martín, Villa La Maternidad, Casa Caracol (da FOB).
Estas medidas são uma claríssima intenção de amedrontar e criminalizar as organizações
anarquistas de Córdoba por causa das manifestações ocorridas na segunda-feira passada
contra o "gatilho fácil".
On 28 August the National demonstration against the "easy trigger" was held. Several
relatives, friends of the victims and human rights organizations have spoken out against
police repression and demanded justice for all victims. The social organizations through
these demonstrations intend to stop the brutal adjustment, the rates of increase and the
thousands of layoffs that have generated an unacceptable situation for the working
classes, that undergo even more the repression of the State and the police. The state
invests more and more in the police presence in neighborhoods throughout the province (860
people per 100,000 inhabitants, or one policeman for every 122 people), criminalizing the
youth, repressing workers who fight for their rights, repressing workers who defend their
jobs, as for example in PepsiCo.
Grupo Anarquista Higinio Carrocera (Asturias)
grouponline.com
Translation> Rose and Cinnamon
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Message: 5
On the evening of 17, at the dawn of September 18, 2013, antifascist musician Pavlos
Fissas is murdered in Keratsini by the knife of G. Roupakia, an active member of the
Golden Dawn. Paul, defending his friends, has faced up to 60 down-to-date Fascists, in the
presence of DIAS clubs. This murder is added to that of Shahzat Lukman a few months ago,
which in turn was the culmination of hundreds of attacks, beatings and beatings that
fascists have been doing in recent years. They found defenseless immigrants, trade
unionists, anti-fascists, communists and anarchists. Their inflammatory action is also
known in immigrant homes, places of worship, but also hangouts, occupations and social
spaces, known for their subversive reason.
In the wake of the economic crisis, growing social disapproval towards the political
system and the intensified anti-immigration policies implemented by the state, a
multidimensional movement of controversy was born, reinforced by the December 2008
uprising, as well as by the swiftly democratic movements of the indignant plaza . The
fascists of the Athens Stock Exchange, the organized partisan who has always been on the
sidelines of political developments, alongside the MATs, have come to exploit the system
as another obstacle to popular struggles and demands. As of 2011, with the help of regime
media, the "small" neo-Nazi gang of the AS began to turn into a new "alternative"
political party to enter parliament a few months after. The thugs cutlery of yesterday,
"transformed" through parliamentary seats and state funding, they parade on TV panels,
scraping their racist poison everywhere and being enchanted by lifestyle broadcasts. They
were heroic with staged reportages, supposedly helping defenseless grandmothers,
organizing hatreds and donations only for Greeks.
At the same time that the well-timed journalistic propaganda produced constantly
xenophobic reports, constantly highlighting the fascists, they themselves in Parliament
have been zealous in proving to their bosses how useful they are. The "anti-system" ATHEX,
in exchange for promises, voted in favor of shipowners' tax cuts, the debts of the FCA,
supported a number of privatizations (eg Agricultural bank), public companies and public
real estate beaches, islands, etc.), supported layoffs in the public and private sector,
and created atypical labor offices "only for Greeks" with a salary of € 15! All these
striking examples have proven beyond all the role of the ATHEX, which, of course, did not
collide with big capital but supported it and supported it,
With the fascists of the Athens Stock Exchange. to act provocatively undisturbed for a
long time, the tragic event of the assassination of Paul Fissa caused the world's anger to
overflow and the anti-fascist movement to shake. The political system, frightened by the
massive reaction and with the tacit acceptance of the journalists who fascinated the
fascist beast, imprisoned the fascists to calm the spirits. Shortly afterwards, through
parody riots, the Nazi gang is massively released and charges are "overwhelmed." Courts
that exhaust their righteousness by exterminating militants with years of imprisonment,
exhaust 18-month prison sentences, and invent indictments against our comrades, are the
same courts that release fascists and slowly and steadily create the "new clean" Golden Dawn.
We, as anarchist-anti-authoritarians, do not expect any judicial decision. We are and we
will always face the ASE. and all fascist constructions. Fascism is an integral part of
the exploitation system we are fighting. The contestants will be the ones who will go like
a roller over the fascist threat, spoiling our cities, villages, neighborhoods and
thoughts from the fascist poison. Blooming antifa-assemblies everywhere, and finally
defeating fascist danger.
NO LAKE OF LAND IN THE PHASES
anarchist-federation.gr
info@anarchist-federation.gr
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https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/09/16
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Message: 6
During the month of June, when an offensive is being prepared on the front to " re-solve
the nation, " exasperation rises in the garrison and in the factories in crisis. On
several occasions, the anarchists try to foment an insurrection against the provisional
government, even if it means defying the congress of the soviets. The Bolshevik Party
disapproves and retains its troops. ---- Demonstration of 18 June 1917 in Petrograd. ----
While the Soviet Congress called for a great popular march to reaffirm confidence in the
Provisional Government, a large majority of demonstrators passed under the Bolshevik
banners: " Power to the people, peace in the world, land to the people " to g.) and "
Down with the Capitalist Ministers " (on right). cc The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Library ---- The First All-Russian Congress of the Soviets, which met in Petrograd from 3
to 24 June, opened in a fairly tense atmosphere. On the one hand, the government,
trampling hopes of peace, is preparing a summer offensive on the Austro-German front,
which exasperates the soldiers barracks in Petrograd, who have no desire to return. On the
other hand, since the end of April, the conservative forces on one side, the extreme left
on the other, are increasingly vindictive.
There are 1,090 delegates representing 519 Soviets of workers, soldiers and peasants. The
left (Bolsheviks, Mensheviks internationalists and a handful of SR), weighs less than 15 %
of mandates against the moderate SR-Menshevik majority. A national body, the All-Russian
Executive Committee of the Soviets (VTsIK) is elected, which preaches appeasement in the
name of the country and the revolution.
The FAC, on the contrary, believes that reactionary provocations must be countered. It
hopes to oblige the congressmen to approve its radicality, by making a coup d'éclat.
Two days after the opening of the assizes, on June 5, 80 armed anarchists, led by Asnine,
invested the printing of the reactionary daily Rousskaya Volia. The idea is to publicly
raise the question of the requisition of the means of expression of the bourgeoisie for
the benefit of workers' organizations. But the majority of the Soviet congress condemns
this initiative and demands evacuation. In the busy printing press, Asnine then changed
his gun and invited the typographers to seize the machines to form a cooperative. Missed.
At most they agree to draw a leaflet for the FAC. The same evening, the anarchists
evacuated the building of the Rousskaya Volia and retired on the Datcha Dournovo.
The incident could have been limited to this failure. But the government, anxious to prove
its authority to the bourgeoisie, made a mistake. He issued an ultimatum to the FAC,
urging him to evacuate the Dourna Dournovo within twenty-four hours. The popular reaction
was immediate: strikes broke out in 28 factories in Vyborg, whose streets were suddenly
populated by red guards. About fifty sailors from Kronstadt rush to defend the dacha.
Again, the Soviet Congress is called upon to react. Again, the majority seeks appeasement,
sends emissaries to the FAC and to the government, invites the workers to stop the strikes
and the red guards to store their rifles.
The FAC is trying to push its advantage. On the evening of June 8, she demanded from the
Soviet Congress not only her retention in the dacha, but the socialization of three
right-wing newspapers ( Novoïe Vrémia, Rousskaïa Volia and Retch ). The Left of the
Congress, including the Bolsheviks, supported these demands.
123 delegates vote the demonstration in arms
The case of the Datcha Dournovo created an electric atmosphere in Vyborg and Kronstadt,
while several regiments - including the 1st Mitrailleurs - are standing upright against
their sending to the front. In Moscow, it is the whole regiment of Dvinsk, commanded by
the anarchist Gratchov, who mutinies and refuses to go up to the front. The situation is
ideal to shatter the contradictions before the congress of the soviets, jointly estimate
the FAC and the federation of Petrograd of the Bolshevik Party.
On 9 June in the afternoon, at the Dourna Dournovo, an assembly gathered 123 factory and
regiments delegates and voted for the following day an armed demonstration on the slogans
" against the war " and " all power to the soviets, "calling to drive the bourgeoisie
out of power. A " Provisional Revolutionary Committee " is formed, including anarchists,
Bolsheviks and SR maximalists, whose secretary is the anarchist Gavrilov [1].
Informed of these preparations, the congress of the soviets is alarmed and, in
catastrophe, makes a call not to manifest, explaining that it would be a provocation to
unleash the reaction. Great pressure was then exerted on the Bolshevik leaders to call
their troops to order. In extremis, the central committee of the party, anxious not to
defy the congress of the soviets, decided to cancel everything.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, he informed his militants that the party was withdrawing from
the Provisional Revolutionary Committee. Intimidated, the maximalist SRs announce that
they are also withdrawing. The UPAS anarcho-syndicalists also believe that it is a
miscalculation to defy the Soviet Congress - there will be a public hang-up in Kronstadt
between the Arkhuk and Bleikhman [2].
The FAC, isolated, then prefers to renounce the manifestation. Nevertheless, it sends
emissaries to all factories and regiments to prevent the demonstration being postponed.
On 12 June, delegates from 150 factories and regiments [3]- a number of Bolsheviks,
despite the boycott of the party - found themselves again at Durna Durnovo and voted for
an armed demonstration on 14 June.
That same evening, the Soviet congress announced the holding of an unarmed public
demonstration to symbolize popular unity around the slogan " By the Constituent Assembly,
towards a democratic republic "and in support of the offensive on the front.
Is it necessary to maintain an armed demonstration which would immediately be accused of
sabotaging the offensive for the benefit of the Germans ? The Bolshevik Central Committee
believes that it is better to demonstrate legally on 18 June, but on its own pacifist and
revolutionary slogans.
Feeling the failure of his initiative, the FAC throws in the towel.
The turn of 18 June: the Bolshevik ascent
Anatoli Jelezniakov (1896-1919)
This sailor is a figure of anarchism at Kronstadt. He will enter history by evacuating the
Constituent Assembly in January 1918 on the grounds that the guard was " tired ."
Defeated in battle against the white army of Denikin, he was promoted to a " Soviet hero
" (passing his anarchism in silence). He will have several streets in his name, statues,
and a film will be dedicated to him in 1985.
Mencheviks, Bolsheviks, SRs, anarchists ... everyone is preparing for this day of June 18,
which will give the temperature of the situation.
The day said, scrutinizing this demonstration, all observers understand that something is
tipping into the revolution.
In a tense atmosphere - the so-called military offensive begins the same day - tens of
thousands of people march in Petrograd. But there are very few processions behind the
Menshevik banners and SR supporting the action of the government. The bulk of the
protesters is found under the Bolshevik slogans: " Down with the capitalist ministers six
", " All power to the soviets ", " Down with the offensive ," " Long live the
workers' control of production " ... The leaders of the Petrograd Soviet and the majority
of the congressmen are shocked: the disavowal of their policy is scathing.
Is it the microclimate of Petrograd, or the index of a more general trend ?
The assault on the Durna Datcha
If the anarcho-syndicalists marched on 18 June, the FAC judged that it had better things
to do. Taking advantage of the diversion, she led a troop of 2,000 armed people to the
Vyborg prison, from where several political detainees were released. This time, it's the
last straw. In the night, the government had the Datchovo datcha surrounded by loyal
regiments, and assaulted. Asnine and killed, and some 60 workers, soldiers and sailors -
including Anatoli Jelezniakov - are arrested.
Again, Vyborg protested. While six factories go on strike in the vicinity of the dacha, a
parade of inhabitants and inhabitants comes to pay a final homage to Asnine, whose body is
exposed. Anarchists from the Rosenkrantz factory send a delegation to the 1st regiment of
machine-gunners to propose a demonstration.
An agitation similar to Kronstadt, where a GA decides to release the detainees by force if
necessary. Delegates from the Vyborg factories will protest at the Petrograd Soviet, where
they receive the support of the Bolshevik deputies.
Faithful to himself, the office of the Soviet temporized, called for the cessation of
strikes, made release the persons arrested without accusation and diligent an
investigation. Only Jelezniakov remains under lock and key. Sentenced to fourteen years in
prison, he escaped after a few weeks.
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
[1] Alexander Rabinovitch, Prelude to Revolution, Indiana University Press, 1968, p. 71.
[2] P. Gooderham, " The Anarchist Movement in Russia, 1905-1917 ", Bristol University,
1981, p. 243.
[3] Marc Ferro, The Revolution of 1917, Albin Michel, 1997, page 495.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Dossier-1917-Juin-juillet-Provoquer-une-insurrection-ne-suffit-pas
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