Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Patras, anarchist group "dignified horse" APO -
Excerpts from the Declaration of the 2nd Conference of the
Anarchist Political Organization APO (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. New Zealand, awsm: Reclaim the Night - march for a world
without rape culture (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, Launch of the Libertarian Socialist Federation
(LSF) 8/11/2017 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Octobre - Documentary: The
Assembly (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - unionism, Four political
reasons to support Scop-Ti by Secretariat for External Relations
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
"The generalized crisis of the world of the state and of the bosses leads with
mathematical precision in a way unless a broad and international front of struggle and
resistance is established. In war-torn societies, the widespread and aggravation of
geopolitical antagonisms and war operations to the limitations of a great war and the
establishment of the emergency regime as an iron grid to control and suppress all aspects
of social activity." ---- " War and Fascism, this is the system's" response "to its total
and profound crisis, to its own contradictions, caused by the insurmountable conflict
imposed by its basic principle, the exploitation and oppression of man by man. ----
Excerpts from the Declaration of the 2nd Anarchist Organization of the Union
The recent Greek Prime Minister's visit to the US marked the most marked way for the
renewed Greek-US defense agreement signed on August 29, 2017. In addition to the Greek
government's commitment to upgrading F-16 aircraft worth 2 billion euros, with the
upgrading of Suda's NATO base and its role in the wider region, as well as the transfer of
"special weapons" (in military terminology) - nuclear weapons on the merits - at the base
of Araxos. Already, a few months have already begun preparations for upgrading the
specific base by enhancing the wire rope and working inside it. Recently a leaked
letter-letter from the NATO summit in Brussels to the Greek Ministry of National Defense,
The base of Araxos has been the site of sporadic US nuclear deposition for 50 years, while
the wider area of Western Greece (Araxos, Andravida and Aktio air bases, Patras and
Igoumenitsa ports) have been used as the base of the USSR for military operations in the
Balkans and the Middle East. Nuclear weapons eventually disappeared in 2001, following
long-term struggles of the anti-war movement, with NATO's secret enterprise, initially to
Italy and then in an unknown direction. Today, the B61 nuclear bombs are being restored in
Araxos, which are located in Incirlik, Turkey. After all, the base is, according to NATO
design, always on hand to welcome aircraft that load such bombs,
In addition, the Tsipra-Tramb meeting discussed the extension of the agreement on the use
of the Souda base and the possibility of creating a new base in southern Crete. The
official agenda of this meeting (similar to that of Obama's visit to Athens one year ago)
identifies its real extensions in the field of power management, enforcement and
competition: geopolitical correlations, refugee, economy, energy.
The turmoil in US-Turkey relations following the recent turn of the Turkish government
Erdogan to Russia and Iran in a number of areas has led to the upgrading of the role of
the Greek player in the wider region. This is evident from the planned transfer of
military equipment from Incirlik's base to Turkey to Souda's base in Crete, but also
through the undertaking of an active initiative by Greece on regional developments and the
upgraded co-operation it promotes with a number of neighboring countries. Proof of this is
also the tripartite (Greece - Cyprus - Israel, Greece - Cyprus - Egypt) and the four -
party (Greece - Serbia - Bulgaria - Romania) conferences and joint military exercises in
the Cypriot EEZ.
It is undisputed that the world's political and economic bosses are attempting an
unconditionally relentless attack on the peoples and areas of the capitalist region,
including warfare, dictatorial-theocratic regimes and overthrowing others, instigating
civil conflicts, destroying productive forces , control of wealth sources, economic
bleeding of entire populations, environmental destruction of entire areas and of course a
huge number of human beings n. A treaty that shapes endless "skull sites" ready to be
plundered and "reconstituted" with a view to controlling populations and areas,
Upgrading the military bases (in Greece and elsewhere) as well as upgrading the role of
Frontex and NATO is part of the preparations for the widespread warfare of sovereignty,
initially in the field where the most powerful power blocks , the Middle East and the
Southeast Mediterranean, as the bleak prospect of a global conflict comes back to the
forefront and planning of the military-political staff.
In this context, the US State is the leading force of the Western block of sovereignty
taking the lead in the campaign to establish modern totalitarianism internationally. In
the same direction, the powerful "defensive" bloc of which the US, NATO, - the ideological
vehicle the "war on terror" - attempted to expand its power and expand its "vital space"
by constantly putting "Fire in powder stores" with more typical examples of the two wars
in Iraq, the war in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, and the creation of the state of modern
apartheid in Israel.
War operations in the capitalist region, as well as the deepening of control and
repression within western societies, the aggravation of the plunder of the great social
majority and the destruction of the natural world are the result of the long-term pursuits
- and the unresolved contradictions that they entail - state-capitalist system.
In this enterprise of colonizing every aspect of social life from the dominating
barbarism, the American state has been leading for decades having a central role in
strengthening the global processes of restructuring the state-capitalist world through the
creation and upgrading of supranational power mechanisms, standard "repressive lab. The
"anti" terrorist crusades that have caused thousands of deaths and massive uprooting of
large populations, the massive killings of black Americans, the institutional shielding of
the regime through special laws, prisons and militarized suppression bodies, are joints of
the generalized war declared by the American state within its territory and
internationally as a pioneering part of world domination,
An attack is being carried out with growing tension on the part of the international
political and economic elites, an integral part of which is also the Greek state. A common
basis for this unequal alliance is the preservation of the governing organization of
societies, the exacerbation of the conditions of modern slavery, the denervation and
suppression of social and class resistance, as well as the preservation of the primacy of
the Western block of sovereignty and the strengthening of its power in the field of
international geopolitical competition. The military, political, economic, and cultural
expansionist of the Western Powers Bloc is attempting to derive legitimacy and consensus
from the misery it produces globally: war, uprooting, poverty, social cannibalism, are at
the same time derivatives of the state-capitalist system and the fears of the impoverished
masses. The ideological aspect of this expansionism involves the promotion of the
state-capitalist world as an inevitable reality within which there can be only
bourgeois-democratic pseudo-dilemmas of the management of generalized authority septicemia.
The Greek state, as a member of the European Union and of NATO, is firmly oriented towards
the aspirations of the dominant political and economic elite of which it forms an integral
part. Today's government (like all the previous ones) has fulfilled and continues to
fulfill its mission in its entirety, which is no less than a continuous effort, in its
part, for the unimpeded imposition of the modern dictatorship of the State and Capital,
Modern Integration. This common pursuit, which unitely unites the Greek and American
states, is the basis of every ruling alliance.
The complete alignment of the directions of the international economic and political
elites with the locals outlines the bleak reality of the oppressed: poverty and misery,
the constant longevity of human life, either as a mute suicidal death in the metropolis or
as a blatant drowning in the open air of the Aegean concentration camps, unemployment and
unpaid slavery for them, wage slavery with hours of galley to pentecost for the rest.
Within this reality we have a duty to organize our resistances. Putting mounds on the
plans of world leaders who promise only death, poverty, wars, refugees, misery and misery.
Grasping the thread of the anti-war mobilizations of the past years and drawing
inspiration from them, to build a strong internationalist movement from the bottom up
against the war against modern totalitarianism. In the direction of building this
movement, the resistance to nuclear weapons at the base of Araxos, as well as the wider
attempt to upgrade the role of the Greek state in the international warfare, will be
another important battle to be given.
This is the time when we must politically engage with comrades and fighters
internationally in order to deal with the common assault we accept. Together, all the
exploited and oppressed of this world can resist the murderous plans of the state and of
capital. To build a broad and international front of struggle and resistance against war,
fascism, poverty, impoverishment, racism, state and partisan terrorism.
Faced with the attack of the decadent power world, we have to contrast the solidarity of
our common struggles. Faced with the dystopia of modern totalitarianism, where the vast
majority is impoverished and subdued, we contrast the libertarian society, organized by
the federal social councils "for the Freedom of Everyone and Equality of All."
AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALISTICITY,
DOCTORS AND NON-MIDDLE AFFECTS
ORGANIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL GAMES AGAINST WAR AND MODERN INTEGRATION
FOR THE SOCIAL RESPONSE
TO ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNICATION
CONCENTRATIONS - PROCESSES
MONDAY 6/11 - 18.30 - PL GEORGIOU
SUNDAY 12/11 - 11:00 - IN ARAXO
anarchist group "dignified horse" - a member of the Anarchist Political Organization
Patras, November 3, 2017
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Message: 2
Young Asian Feminists Aotearoa (YAFA) are organising a Reclaim the Night march in response
to #MeToo. The march will be on Saturday the 4th of November at 7pm gathering at
Britomart, and marching to Aotea Square in rejection of a culture of sexual violence
experienced by marginalised communities globally. YAFA are mobilising in demand of the
right of all peoples to live in safety and dignity. ---- The hashtag spread rampant on
social media in the the recent weeks through people posting and tweeting #MeToo as a
disclosure of their experience of sexual violence, demonstrating the extent of a worldwide
problem of misogyny. ---- "It has been devastating and heartbreaking to watch the news
feed on Twitter and Facebook with the #MeToo. We will translate it into action now," says
Mehwish, a rally organiser.
Me Too, a phrase coined in 2007 by Tarana Burke to give visibility to the issue of sexual
violence recently resurfaced in response to a notable male figure in the US entertainment
industry being accused of rape and sexual harassment over the span of his career.
"It is disgusting the manner in which rape culture is normalised. We will not stand for
men in positions of power who are accused of sexual harassment to continue going excused
by pathetic narratives which minimise their repulsive and violent actions," says Nishhza,
YAFA spokesperson for the rally.
"The normalisation of toxic behaviours which dehumanise trans and intersex peoples, queer
peoples, incarcerated persons, people of colour, women, and children is utterly
unacceptable, and we call for an end to this. We witness the violence that peoples in our
communities endure, and we want survivors to find strength and empowerment in knowing that
they are not alone," Nishhza continues.
The problem of sexual violence is one which Aotearoa must confront. The 2013 Roast Busters
scandal, the systematic sexual assault of incarcerated persons in the New Zealand prison
system, and the lack of consequences faced by notable male figures whose flippant comments
sexualise, dehumanise and marginalise women, people of colour, and queer peoples are all
instances which bring to light the severity of this issue.
Amongst the speakers at the rally are Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman, activist Sina
Brown-Davis, Mengzhu Fu from Shakti Youth, Tal Eyal from Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP, Hala
Nasr, Vira Paky, Kiran Foster from People Against Prisons Aotearoa, as well as local poet,
Aiwa Pooamorn. The rally will conclude with a performance by local band Imugi.
"We want to bring all our voices together to assert our right to a safe and violence-free
world, wherever, whenever and whoever we are," says Mehwish.
ENDS
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/11/03/reclaim-the-night/
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Message: 3
The ideological current which emerged from the now defunct Collective Action three years
ago to form the Libertarian Communist Group in Wales has rebranded as Libertarian
Socialist Federation (LSF). As a specifist project the aim of the Britain-wide LSF is to
focus on the key aspects of effective working class organisation which ultimately lead
towards a libertarian socialist society. These include workers' self-management of the
economy, grass-roots control of our communities, and a genuine commitment to
internationalism. For such a society to arise out of the future ashes of today's
crisis-ridden system a fresh approach to theory and practice is required. As a part of the
burgeoning nexus of freedom, all our efforts will be concerned with building proletarian
counter-power.
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Message: 4
A year later, how to speak of Nuit debout ? The 18 of October in the cinemas came out The
Assembly, a documentary of Mariana Otero who intends to testify of which it was Night
standing in the capital. The film, chronological, begins with the first major occupations
of the Republic Square and ends with the slow extinction of the movement, three months
later, and it tries to capture all the diversity of what this experience could be. ----
Its first strength is to blow up all the obvious reductions in the movement, because, as
the filmed participants say, Nuit debout is sometimes the people who are here tonight to
vote, sometimes the front of a demonstration. wild, for some a constituent process and
citizen, for others an elusive unity, or also a tool, even a state of mind.
What the documentary reveals is, in fact, above all a set of contradictions, and it is
remarkable in this respect: a contradiction between enthusiasm to substantially change
social relations and the formalism of much of the debate, infinite deliberation on the
very modes of deliberation ; contradiction between the aspiration to collective work in
peace and friendship and the violence of police repression ; contradiction finally between
the universality of the claimed inclusion - to leave the word to everyone, especially to
those to whom it is never given - and the particularity of the social position of the
majority of night-stand-ups (peculiarity exaggerated, undoubtedly involuntarily, by the
poster of the film, in which only whites appear).
In the commissions, in the debates, these contradictions are everywhere visible, and
sometimes even reflected and explained. The other strength of the work of Mariana Otero
and her team is also to say many things by the senior administrator.
There is a lot of debate in Nuit debout � Paris, and that is where the camera turns,
allowing a meeting between the two assemblies, a demonstration under the gas, the police
arbitrariness and a few blows of the baton, the strikers too, which we are talking about.
many times but rarely seen, as if all this was at the margin. Without being quite a
bubble, Night standing went next [1]. By what he shows directly as well as by the gaps he
leaves, the film reproduces with a certain fidelity what was at the heart of the movement.
Marco (AL 92)
Marianne Otero, The Assembly, 99 minutes.
[1] We can take a good look at Medialien's documentary on Nuit debout, which made the
opposite choice to focus on the margins of the phenomenon.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Documentaire-L-Assemblee
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Message: 5
Libertarian Alternative responds to the call of Scop-Ti workers. And why not the entire
libertarian movement and the network of militant, alternative and self-managed places ?
---- Why, as libertarians and revolutionaries, support Scop-Ti ? ---- 1. To support a
combative and self-managing workers' collective. ---- The story is known: from 2010 to
2013, the workers and workers of the Fralib tea factory in G�m�nos (Bouches-du-Rh�ne),
fought against the multinational Unilever who wanted to relocate to Poland. A long fight
against the dismissals and the closure of the site. In 2013, at the Montreuil
Self-Management Fair, a delegation from Fralib came to explain its project of recovery.
With lucidity, she had expressed her hopes for the transformation of labor and production
that would allow, despite the limitations imposed by the capitalist market.
2. So that their failure is the joy of Unilever.
Until the end, the multinational will have done everything to break a collective that only
wants to live from its work. In 2013, after the blockage of three layoffs, Unilever
finally throws in the towel, but retained the Elephant brand, whose reputation would have
facilitated the activity of the cooperative created by his former employee. es. They
created two new brands: Scop-Ti and 1336 (for their 1336 fight days).
3. To strengthen the solidarity between social movement and self-managing cooperatives.
The vast majority of cooperatives, despite their status, are companies " like the others
". A few dozen - including Scop-Ti - strive, on the contrary, to make workers' democracy
live, to deconstruct hierarchies, to respect the environment. They should not depend, for
their outlets, but traditional trade channels, but link their interests to the social
movements with which they are in phase.
4. To encourage ethical production.
Since it was taken over by its employees, breaking with the low-cost drift imposed by
Unilever, manufacturing has been reoriented towards quality and organic farming, by
reorganizing a short chain with local producers and producers.
In July 2017, the former Fralib factory, renamed Scop-Ti, launched a call for help to "
pass a difficult course ". It suffers from a lack of investment in traditional commercial
channels and, in the meantime, has launched a " social finance " campaign . But it also
hopes to be able to count on the entire social movement: associations, unions, works
councils, militant places ... This network is far from negligible.
Already 1336 and Scop-Ti teas are available in the federal premises of Alternative
Libertaire, 92, rue d'Aubervilliers, Paris 19 e .
Libertarian Alternative, October 28, 2017
HOW TO HELP SCOP-TI ?
For individuals:
By ordering directly from the online store of the support association, Fraliberth�.
For militant places, unions, associations, works councils ...
The best is to contact the support association, Fraliberth� , who has available a specific
order form.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Quatre-raisons-politiques-de-soutenir-Scop-Ti
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