Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Liertarian studenta initiative: For our targeting by
an academic fascist by Vectrum (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. WORKERS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT (IRELAND): Democracy - the art
of remaking society (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Octobre - The PMA for all:
it left for a ride? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Kurdish-Speaking Anarchist Forum (KAF) -- Immediate call to
all our comrades Anarchists and Libertarians wherever they are
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, afed: A3: Spanish lesson of democracy [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, Libertarrian Initiative of Thessaloniki: Update from
the solidarity course to the Turks Hunger strikes (18/10) (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. anarkismo.net: Santiago Maldonado Present! by FAR -
Rosario's Anarchist Federation (ca, it, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On Sunday night, 15/10, we performed sprays in schools and the feeding club of the
University of Patras. about stopping the distribution of free writings from Eudox. Within
the field of Polytechnic Schools, a state clerk hiding in the dark began to approach us by
videotaping us with his cellphone while threatening us that if we did not leave he would
call "security". There is a strong desire to violate asylum by the fascist logic of
neo-liberalism that messes up our university spaces. When we left at the end of our
activity, he continued to follow us by videotaping to the gate of the Polytechnic exit.
When we kept our temper "we informed him" that he had no right to videotape us, he began
to stutter and tremble. ---- Apparently this state lady believes that the University is
his landlord and tried to terrorize us to suppress our political speech and action. An
unscrupulous sheriff's supporter of the suppression of our ideas and claims, which makes
it clear to his bosses that he faithfully serves the policy of sterilization policy at
university campuses. This is an attempt to silence every voice that reacts and resists the
targeting of our rights, needs, studies, lives. Our universities are owned and not owned
by anyone.
When our needs such as free meals, housing, free books, transportation, accessibility (3
weeks our fellow students expect to repair the elevator in the Tholos building to attend
lessons), the our studies and our lives ourselves, come into focus We DO NOT LOVE and DO
NOT TREATING.
NO Tolerance to those who play with our lives. Our studies are not your game.
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Message: 2
David Graeber's excellent insider account of the occupation of Wall Street[1]offers us an
insight into what form the politics of resistance needs to take. It will be dual
purpose, having to both build resistance and also build anew. It will be about renewal,
hope and learning. Crucially, how you build resistance will inform and shape what is to
follow. It will entail democracy being built from ground zero. ---- During Occupy wall
street there was a electric hum that came from that community. People were actively
engaged on a social level, face to face discussions everywhere attempting to make it an
active space for direct democracy. In that electricity of building community, ideas
flourished, principles were applied, democracy was direct and actions flowed from the
place where decisions were reached, collectively. In short, politics has to became about
the remaking of society.[2] What is society if it is not about people? It can only be
rebuilt by people; people meeting, planning, discussing, deciding and acting together.
Politics has disintegrated to little more than a spectator sport for many. The most
recent iteration of that has brought about the Trump presidency. He is now a living daily
reminder of the failures of that system to deliver for people. He is the sad clown, the
punchline to the joke that is called democracy in the USA. The Democracy Project is a
book which can greatly help us to understand what is unravelling in the white house in the
most powerful empire on earth. This has to be a turning point. Trump has to be
punctuation point to a dismal history of how democracy became about the control and
manipulation of people, rather than delivering change for them.
CREATORS OF REALITY
A George Bush Junior aide speaking to a New York Times reporter shortly after Iraq had
been invaded by US Troops had this to say:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality- based community",
which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of
discernible reality."... That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued.
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." [Ron Suskind
"Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush, New York Times Magazine, October
17 2004.]
In one way the quote, over ten years later does much to explain the trajectory the world
now finds itself on. Trump is a man who has the knowledge of how to make ‘make-believe'
real. He was schooled through the medium of reality TV. Now he has managed to shape his
ambition to become President, into our present day reality. Many people are now
reflecting on how we managed to find ourselves living in times when our discernible
reality is, frankly, hard to believe.
The truth in that quote is that those aides to power, can effect our everyday reality,
because they advise the powerful. The powerful, can will and do regularly shape our
reality. George Bush and Tony Blair did start a war without any discernible reason, and
that affected the reality of the world.
The aide counterposes the creation of reality with a flip side being the ‘judicious
study of discernible reality'. We, both like to think, and are encouraged to believe,
that the world works on the basis of solutions emerging from study of the facts. The
implication is that this is how our system works. That is the fallacy at the heart of
this spectator democracy. Solutions to the problems faced by people do not emerge via
the so-called democratic process in the USA, or anywhere else for that matter. Four years
on from this statement, in 2008 the first black president surfs in the white house on
waves of hope. There are the millions who fervently believe in change because they wish
it into their futures as they struggle to survive in the present.
SURVIVE NOT THRIVE
Judge him not by his poetic hope but by his prosaic actions. Eight years of continuing
the status quo, at a time when that was an achievement in itself. He had to use billions
of public tax dollars to bail out Wall Street. The very financial vampires who created
this monstrous market failure were saved by public dollars. The wars raged on for war is
another good servant to economy. People lost their homes, but the banks and insurance
companies were saved. The US Militarised police state continued to shoot, kill and jail
black and brown and poor people. Incarceration is another vital spinning cog in the big
market machine. The security industrial complex based on the incarceration of more than
2.3 million people[3].
Eight years of the black president and what the hope believers were rewarded with for
getting their man in the Whitehouse[4]did not appear to stack up to much. What we
witnessed was how ineffectual all those waves of hope were when they smashed into the
rocks of economic change. People continued to survive, but hopes were that they would
thrive. Solutions to the problems faced by the people who put Obama in the white house,
definitively did not emerge.
When hopes die what follows them? You have to give people are reason to participate in
this whole circus. You have to give them a reason to support one candidate over another.
Given the inability to deliver change, this is not an easy task. That is where the
propaganda units come in, from where the spin doctors and political advisers emerge[5].
They will supply you with a reason to get behind their candidate. These manipulators work
to convince you of the realities that they build, to channel you into certain direction.
Following the Obama presidency they had to work at convincing people to vote, to give them
a reason participate, to back someone. In 2016, over 90 million people choose not to vote.
TARGET THE SYMPTOMS
A batch of right wing power brokers, in the shape of Breitbart[6], got behind a man who
knows how to manipulate, knows how to appeal to the irrational. He used not message of
hope, but stirring up the heady cocktail of hate, spite, xenophobia, racism, selfishness,
and promised to deliver on that. Ineffectual on economics, potentially, but he was
appealing to those who have been systematically failed, and forgotten about. If you know
how television works, what greater reality TV show is there than the US general election.
Trump and his gallery of goons of the far right got to work "creating" their own reality.
Steve Bannon, who goes on to be Trumps chief strategist, creates a website that he called
a" killing machine'; a harvester of hate, which generates massive support for Trump. This
age of social media gave Bannon the tool to carve out a pathway towards being a kingmaker.
He is a man who went onto see himself as Thomas Cromwe[7]ll in the court of Tudors.
Inventing emotive enemies within, and without, and trading in the currency of hate. He
surrounded himself with the best pedlars of this bile, like Milo Yiannopoulous. They
painted targets on all the symptoms of neoliberalism. They shaped a ‘narrative' and
appealed. You shape the parameters of what the ‘election' is about.
Trump may not fix the economy, but by God he was going to keep the illegals out, kick out
the ones who'd snuck in, get jobs back, build walls, or whatever other bullyboy tactic
that appealed to the disenfranchised. People get disenfranchised because they saw their
hopes not being realised, they continue to be stuck in their own lives. The likelihood
is that you are poor and poor you shall remain. The theory of social mobility[8]in the
United States is a dinosaur, it existed at one time, but now appears so dead as to be near
mythical.
The other great trick that Bannon pulled was when he called out Hillary Clinton as member
of the established political classes who were aligned with the idea that the president and
government was there to enact ‘solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality'.
This has been the liberal lie of how democracy works. The clever trick of branding Trump
as outside of this political establishment was the greatest deceit. Now he could not be
blamed for the abysmal failure of the political classes to bring about any policy
solutions faced by the people. Trump could lambast Clinton as being part of the
administration that had just been through eight years of power, and delivered nothing.
Trump, managed to portray himself as the great anti-establishment politician. People
were encouraged to think that Clinton presidency would look a lot like the last eight
years of their lives under Obama, and they saw history repeating. They were going to stay
stuck.
The fallacy is that the powerful, the elected, are there to bring about solutions faced by
the general population. This belief does not survive, as soon as you take it out of the
shinny shrink wrap of campaign speak and expose it to the air of street. It decomposes
quickly. The experience of people's everyday lives bluntly informs them of whether or not
a solutions have been found. You are sick, can you afford the medicine and do you get
well? You are out of work, and poor. You get a job, but you remain poor because that's
the only work you can find. Your old job went away. They promised that they were going
to replace it. But they never did. Who did this to you? The established political class
answered the Trump campaign. Bannon was able to convince some that a vote for Trump was a
vote against this established lying political class.
People are misinformed all the time. This system does not deliver solutions to the
problems they face. Expert panels are convened, investigations are held, reports written,
solutions proclaimed that could be implemented on the back of recommendations, but that
is where it ends. Policy does not come from here. "The world economy is the most
efficient expression of organised crime[9]." That is what policy concerns itself with,
the global economy. Problems people face, remain a problem, for the people and
governments bear no responsibility for addressing them.
In fact the people's role in democracy is a problem for politicians. The voter has to be
carefully massaged through the process of selecting someone who can then go on to deliver
for powerful. Keep the wheels on whilst capitalism continues to deliver for those at the
top. This is democracy, so we have to involve the people, at least the idea of one
person, one vote. The job of the political advisers now, is to convince someone to
actually vote for someone, given the abysmal failure of the system to deliver change.
Democracy might have delivered a black President in 2008, but he went on to serve,
protect and save wall street through their years of crisis. Democracy[as practised and
as it has been carefully cultivated to be]is the status quo delivered. In this democracy
people might vote, but they sure as hell DO NOT COUNT. People are there to be sold a
‘version' of reality. That's where the arch manipulators, political advisers enter stage
right and ‘create' the reality. The ones who constantly talk of controlling the
‘narrative'. These are the political practitioners' of the dark arts who work to process
the voting populace through the mincer to deliver enough weight behind their candidate.
This is spectator democracy, and it works very well for the powerful. Meanwhile, people
know that their America is not great, it is broken.
From the origins of democracy in the United States, there has always been the fear that
majority rule, would lead to chaos. Majority rule, and the idea of progress for the
greater good, the idea that solutions are sought for the problems facing the people can
easily fit onto the idea of democracy. It makes sense and for that reason has been one of
the great marketing success stories. But from its origins in the United States, as
elsewhere, there was a fear that this majority rule would not suit the rulers. John Adams
feared the ‘vote of the majority' would bring "Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid
heavy on the rich, and not at all on others, and at last a downright equal division of
everything be demanded and voted."[10] Some people call these demands social justice,
but Adams feared that it would all end in ‘anarchy and tyranny'. Another Virginia
Governor spoke of the his fears of and the need for safeguards against "government
exercised by the people." Democracy became popular with people for this precise reason,
the idea that people were in charge of who was to govern, and also how they were to
govern, and in whose interests. But by 1820's - when we get to Andrew Jackson,
campaigning to be President, a political scientist, Dupuis-Déri says that "democracy was
akin to what today would be called political marketing."
THE PROBLEM OF BEING RELEVANT = ADDRESS OLD GRIEVANCES
People are smart enough to work out that voting is not going to deliver change their
lives, and I believe that this lesson has been learned everywhere, from North America to
the UK, from Spain to Greece. Everything is sub-ordinate to the economy, and this has led
to people remaining stuck or continuing to sink. All over the world people are getting
crushed and mangled in austerity, as all life is sub-ordinated to appeasing the economy.
So therefore in that context what purpose do politicians serve? Well, they can seek to
address old grievances that bubble below the surface, and appeal to you on an emotional level.
The Trump advisors created a reality where the consequences of this iteration of
capitalism, neoliberalism, were presented and packaged as targets that could be hit.
Trump may not fix the economy but by god he was going to get some payback. So illegals -
would be punished for ‘stealing jobs' and would be kicked out. The jobs that were long
gone, thanks to neoliberalism, would come back and would be given to the ‘right people'.
Trump might even bully corporations like he did contestants on his game show. Trump would
let no-one stand in his way, and walls would be built. Through his sheer force of will,
he was going to make the Mexicans pay for everything they had done, and he was going to
make them pay for that wall that he was going to be forced to build. All this emotional
talk from the bully, trying to make a connection with the voter.
The Brexit vote, inllustrated the insidious ability of these demons to market the TO
LEAVE vote as a mark against neoliberalism and its failure to deliver a decent living to
people. More trading on the currency of hate, and the harkening back to a time when
people were better off and counted in some way in society. A nostalgic time when voters
had to be accounted to in some way. Campaigning is now done to address old grievances, as
it carries a certain emotional appeal. The politicians stating that they will address
these in some way, and that they are the same as you.
Meanwhile in the background the business of passing polices and laws that actively work
against the interests of the majority of people, the general population, continues apace.
Noam Chomksy in a recent interview about Trump theatrics said this
"It's enough that attention is diverted from what is happening in the background. There,
out of the spotlight, the most savage fringe of the Republican Party is carefully
advancing policies designed to enrich their true constituency: the Constituency of
private power and wealth, "the masters of mankind," to borrow Adam Smith's phrase."
[An excerpt from Global Discontents: Conversations on the rising threats to Democracy,
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian]
DEMOCRACY TO BE DELIVERED HAD FIRST TO BE DISEMBOWELLED
When we see Trump elected to the White House, you can see that as a failure of democracy,
or you can see it as the inevitable end result of nearly 200 years of carefully
cultivating a system which is sold as being democratic, but is in fact the opposite;
Anti-democratic. Democracy was great marketing, but it was never about decisions being
made in the interest of the many and not of the few. That idea was disembowelled early.
It posed to much of a threat to the slave masters, the propertied, the wealthy. So it was
cut out, but the political marketing of the democratic idea remained important to them.
That in some way the people were making a choice, this was important in that it was a
mechanism to appease, the many. The whole apparatus was important for the status quo to
continue. It shows how we have reached the end of the line, and the end of the lie about
this ‘democracy'. Trump is the punchline, the punctuation point to this anti-democracy.
For so many reasons, not least people and the planet, the status quo cannot be allowed to
continue. Anti-democracy maintains our present course, and we already know how this ends
badly for all of us.
Occupy, Tahir Square, Gezi Park, Rojave, are examples of people reaching the conclusion
that we need to re-build our society within the corrosive ruins of this one. The
spectacle of the present day anti-democratic circus of western democracy will not deliver
any solutions. Catalonia's recent referendum for independence shows how a european
‘democratic' state can and will intervene violently when the voters dare to make democracy
about something other than the maintenance of the status quo.
We know we have a world that needs rebuilding. People are not yet ready to dispense with
the idea of democracy. Like ideas of freedom, fraternity, and justice, democracy has
survived the many mis-interpretations. It has survived precisely because we can easily
imagine a world where people come together, meet, discuss, plan and implement a way of
living based on the needs of the many. What would that look like? At it's heart it
would be truly democratic. We owe it to ourselves to try it.
NOTES:
[1]The Democracy Project, https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_D&data=02%7C01%7Ccreuzadema%40hotmail.com%7Cd482604595934055ab7f08d51ac77e0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636444366486659842&sdata=q1U1O3Gt%2FZt%2FOWxKZv5dY6XFEKDP3XFD%2BnjnpLquDn4%3D&reserved=0...
[2]That cannot happen in digital space. No matter how many times Zuckerberg, Google or
some silicon valley svengali says so. No matter how many times people hit a button with a
picture of an upturned thumb, or click on a frown to represent our misfortune, the remedy
lies off screen. It will not be clicked into existence. It cannot be ‘liked' into being.
This digital path will lead to the 2020 presidential race being one between Zuckerberg
and The Rock!
[3]https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prisonpolicy.org%2Freport&data=02%7C01%7Ccreuzadema%40hotmail.com%7Cd482604595934055ab7f08d51ac77e0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636444366486659842&sdata=kTqwr0gGEGJZ4EpCsG97YyR8q2B0R%2F8r9JcE%2Fd5VqOM%3D&reserved=0...
[4]Ta-Nehisi Coates writes eloquently about this. https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fnews%2F20&data=02%7C01%7Ccreuzadema%40hotmail.com%7Cd482604595934055ab7f08d51ac77e0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636444366486659842&sdata=ebOuPuxieH5wmUHWRBlnj8y9bvpI6yftMJkyptBSTiM%3D&reserved=0...
[5]See Irish Government's Strategic Communications Unit, a newspeak term for propaganda
unit, Cost €5m to public purse.
[6]https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fjosephbern&data=02%7C01%7Ccreuzadema%40hotmail.com%7Cd482604595934055ab7f08d51ac77e0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636444366486659842&sdata=zBZDaQlwfpjIJ%2BbxGQu8BkqYZVriMp9Y1%2FRiG1RuUXI%3D&reserved=0...
[7]Bannon to the Hollywood Report in Nov 2016 - https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%2Fne&data=02%7C01%7Ccreuzadema%40hotmail.com%7Cd482604595934055ab7f08d51ac77e0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636444366486659842&sdata=efFx9DgjJu8rJZ%2Fz%2F16Wplx3gr%2FaeO%2Bz3DJDfiAMnt4%3D&reserved=0...
[8]https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fbusines&data=02%7C01%7Ccreuzadema%40hotmail.com%7Cd482604595934055ab7f08d51ac77e0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636444366486659842&sdata=K0RBG42cv4rCV8ajcP86fpAACbeKcXJBSQeYLzJi0Eo%3D&reserved=0...
[9]Upside Down - Eduardo Galeano, p.6.
[10]pp. 165, D. Graeber, The Democracy Project
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Message: 3
The announcement by the government of the opening of the PMA in 2018 to couples of two
women and single women has already led to the media space being grabbed by the Manif pour
tous reacs. ---- Marlene Schiappa, Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men,
announced on September 12 that the government would open the PMA in 2018 to couples of two
women as well as to single women. Extending this right beyond the heterosexual couple was
a promise of Macron's campaign. Unfortunately, in 2012-2013, when Holland and her
government had timidly opened the marriage to all couples, all the conservative and
homophobic voices of the country had united under the banner of the Manif pour tous, which
had reached a certain capacity to weigh in the public debate. Already, the government had
promised medically assisted procreation (PMA) to lesbian couples, but had shrunk from the
aggressive lobbying of the Manif for All. The debate had opened a Pandora's box, and
homophobes believed they were allowed to pour their hatred into public space. How could it
have been otherwise? The debate had dragged on, the government had postponed consideration
of the law and many statements " appeasement " that actually served to strengthen the
reactionary [1].
Conservatives
A similar scenario emerges with Schiappa's announcement. Indeed, as soon as the
information began to turn, the Manif for all and his buddies took the media space to the
sound of arguments sometimes homophobic, sometimes supposedly protectors of women
(actually paternalistic). The breach is open.
Macron considers that the way in which debates on marriage for all have been conducted is
one of the " fundamental mistakes " of the previous quinquennium and wishes to " speak
and share disagreements " so as not to " humiliate " the opponents. But who is
humiliated ? Who is verbally and physically assaulted in the street ? Who is fired from
home or adolescent because his parents discovered his homosexuality ? Who is
discriminated against in hiring because of his sexual orientation ? The lesbian, gay, bi.
When it comes to breaking the Labor Code, Macron wants to legislate quickly but when it is
for equal rights, time is rather slow and free speech for all hatreds and intolerances.
There is no doubt that Macron wishes to grant the graces of lesbian, gay, bi, trans (LGBT)
people while sparing the Conservatives. The Manif for all said to hold him in horror,
having campaigned for Fillon during the presidential campaign, but they know that they
have powerful relays within the government. Ministers are close to the Manif for all
(Darmanin and Lemoyne for example).
Hindering social progress
Schiappa has already backpedaled, announcing that 2018 would be only the year when a
schedule would be set, while Collomb considers the topic " non-priority ". The
community has therefore had to suffer a new wave of insults from Manif for all to ...
nothing ! Macron will not give any rights for free, and this episode is only a foretaste
of the balance of power that awaits LGBT activists. As always, it is in the street that
new rights will be gained !
Adele, (AL Montreuil)
[1] For the chronology of the law known as marriage for all and all: Yagg.com
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Message: 4
A direct and special call to our comrades Anarchists and Libertarians Arabic-speaking
No to State, No to war. Yes for self-administration and the Social revolution
We are asking for support and solidarity from our comrades anarchists to protest, making a
statement against this war, show their anger against the war and solidarity to Iraqi
people. ---- We ask all our anarchist comrades to support and have solidarity with us to
prevent this war. It is true that your opposition to the military and nationalist war in
Iraq, if happens, may not as effective as our opposition, however, your solidarity will be
crucial and greatly appreciated. ---- We again are calling our whole comrade anarchists
especially Arab, Persian, Turkish and Assyrian speakers to raise their voices and act to
stop this viscous war that is not in the interest of working class and poor people in Iraq
and "Kurdistan". Being silent and not be serious about it, is directly or indirectly
serves the politicians, the big corporations and the capitalist system.
No to war
No to State
No to nationalism and patriotism
No to capitalism system
Yes to solidarity and unite against the war
Yes to self-organise
Yes to the social struggle
Yes to social revolution
Yes to social uprising
Yes to self-administration
Kurdish-Speaking Anarchist Forum (KAF)
15t Oct 2017
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Message: 5
That elections are a holiday of democracy? When it is needed, the state lets entertain the
ballot boxes and beat the voters. Download, print, and distribute the October issue of the
A3 wall paper! ---- On October 1, 2017, a referendum on the independence of Catalonia in
Spain took place in Catalonia. The shots that followed the world could have falsified
many. They could have confused those who still believe that Western countries are
democracies, where the sovereign people are deciding their fate through election ballots.
They could have confused those who still believe that the state is here for the citizens;
those who think the police are helping and protecting; those who live in the notion that
if they behave peacefully, nothing can happen to them.
The guards of the Spanish state order harshly intervened against the referendum
participants, smashing school entrances, seizing ballot boxes and tickets, as well as
voter rolls, blocking networks to make the referendum as difficult as possible, but above
all to beat the voters. They murdered anyone who had come to their way, including retired
and women, or firemen, defending others against the wrecked police force. Hundreds of
people had to seek medical treatment, no one was expected to have a lighter injury. Human
chains face this violence with the chanting of "No Passan" (Not Proceed!) - the slogan of
the Spanish anti-fascists of the 1930s. The police, behind which the Papal Archbishop of
Madrid was hiding, at that moment, behaved like the dark times of Spanish history under
the hands of the fascist dictator Franco, or a typical occupation power that would ensnare
every call for independence and freedom.
Catalans to state repression responded with mass protests and a general strike. A real
struggle arose. And what exactly? They call it independence, but the only real goal will
be the exchange of the power elite of a foreign nationality for the one who will be
ethnically appropriate. Just as the Spanish state now has to protect its existence, even
if it had killed the citizens of Spain so far, then it would be a desperate Catalan state
to protect its existence against ... anyone.
It has nothing to do with fighting for self-government or autonomy for ordinary people.
Anarchists are clear. "We will never engage in struggle between workers because of
patriotic motives that are of benefit only to those who rule us," the Catalan
anarcho-syndicalists have said to make it clear on which side it stands. The starting
point is clear and unambiguous: nationalism as well as the state have not yet made anyone
free. Not only according to the anarchists, the concept of nation and country can unify,
but also divide. For someone it is about heroic patriotism, for others about violent
centralist imperialism. And what one can understand as anti-classical separatism is for
another higher expression of national identity.
In Catalonia, the desire to have their own country because of the local bourgeoisie and
the so-called left materialized in the effort to establish a new state - the other, with
more military, more police, more bureaucracy, etc., but with a different flag and a
different name. It is all the more absurd that the economic power today still lies in the
hands of multinational corporations. Who can benefit the new state, especially when
copying a bourgeois parliamentary democracy that does not give any power to the
non-privileged new citizens? This has already been said at the beginning. Therefore, the
anarchists (not even the social-revolutionary Catalans) did not support either the
requirement of Catalan independence or the referendum that should have justified it. For
anarchists there is the only legitimate concept of the country that Errico Malatesta once
said: "My homeland is the whole world."
However, we support the utmost autonomy of the smallest units, because they can ensure
maximum participation in decision-making. These units can be organized in various ways -
economic, local, pet ... So on what unites people on common social and economic interests
on common visions. It is also possible to combine the national aspect with the owner and
his staff, but the result is still the same unequal relationship of subordination,
oppression and exploitation. Solution, not just "the Catalan problem", is a federation of
autonomous communities, communities and production units where solidarity is not limited
by ethnicity and where there is no room for discrimination and oppression of one by the
other. We, without the states and economic elites, are going around, while they have to
"precede" us with a system of never-fulfilled promises, consumer gildings,
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Message: 6
On Wednesday, 18/10, a solidarity course took place between the two Turkish teachers who
were on hunger strike on 9 March 2017. Academician Nuriye Gülmen and teacher Semih Özakça
have now surpassed the 200-day hunger strike. As early as 9 and 23 November 2016
respectively, the two teachers began sedentary protests in front of the Human Rights
Monument on Ankara's Yüksel Avenue. They call for their resumption, the lifting of
legislative acts providing for the dismissal of civil servants who are not in the Erdogan
regime or suspected of it, and the cessation of the general regime imposed on Turkey in
Turkey after the failed coup d'état in July 2016. ---- The journey started from Kamara and
moved to Egnatia, Venizelou and Agios Dimitriou streets, from where he moved to the
(former) Turkish consulate, which was once again blocked by powerful cops. The course was
framed by about 250 people. The anti-authoritarian / anarchist bloc that participated in
it was called by the Solidarity Fund of the imprisoned and persecuted fighters of
Thessaloniki, the Free Social Space School and the Thessaloniki Eleftherial Initiative.
Some of the slogans that were called were: "Listen to the well-fascist assassins, the
Turkish fighters are not alone," "With the two Turks we are together, bourlot and fire in
every prison" and "The solidarity of the people's weapon, victory in the struggle of the
Turkish strikers ".
IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION OF THE 2 SLAUGHTERED HUNGARIES TO ACCEPT HIS REQUESTS
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IS OUR COMBINATION
Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki - member of the Anarchist Federation
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Message: 7
We share now with you the recent note from the comrades of the Anarchist Federation of
Rosario (FAR), Argentina on the confirmation of the death of the militant anarchist
Santiago Maldonado. ---- SANTIAGO MALDONADO PRESENT! ---- In these last days, it has been
completed three years of the appearance of the body of Luciano Arruga, seven years of the
murder of Mariano Ferreira and today October 20th,it is confirmed what we all intuited,
the body found on the Chubut river, is Santiago Maldonado's. ---- A neighborhood boy
disappears because he does not want to steal for the police, one dies at the hands of a
pact to fight against labor precarization, and another one was disappeared for fighting
for the autonomy of the Mapuche people. In all of them there are elements in common, the
repression of the state points to those who are dangerous because it is part of a youth
that does not submit, does not bows its head and does not assume the mandates of the system.
Against repression in the neighborhoods, against precarious labor and for the
self-determination of peoples, for all these urgent demands will continue to fight.
The state showed its most terrible and voracious face, the mechanism of enforced
disappearance is a methodology that the dominant classeswith their peculiarities, maintain
in the different conjunctures.And also appear the media operations, desperate to install
in society a discourse that demobilizes, and seek from below the responsibility of what
has been happening.
Even so, they have not been able to stop the gigantic popular mobilizations of various
sectors in all this throughout, and they fear for the magnitude of the displeasureand the
indignation of our people, that before such an offense to their dignity will appear sooner
than later in the streets of all country.
THE ONE WHO DIE FIGHTING LIVE IN EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR COMRADES!
SANTIAGO MALDONADO PRESENT!
THE ONE WHO DIE FIGHTING LIVE IN EVERY PARTNER!
MALDONATED SANTIAGO GIFT!
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