Today's Topics:
1. anarkismo.net: Greece, Lesvos, When the bosses talk about
war it smells of immigrants' blood! by Musaferat (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Against racism, For
migrant women and migrants, December 16 in Menton (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Collective Rupture (RC): The Day of the Anger and the
Palestinian insurrection after US interventionism (ca, it)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Spain, cgt.org.es: Statement on the capitalization of
Jerusalem (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. anarkismo.net: Anarkismo Network Statement of the general
meeting: We, anarchists and libertarian communists in the class
struggle in capitalist Europe (fr, it) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, afed: Right-wing ENF rulers are coming to Prague,
anti-fascists are waiting for them. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
However, against the blackness that spreads over the island and surrounds us, there are
these centers of resistance that continue to recall that the very first and the last
reason will always be claimed by the immigrants themselves. Hearts emerging from the
resignation and despair that many of them have driven. There are always some who will deny
passively to others to define their lives. ---- When the bosses talk about war ... migrant
blood smells! ---- Lesvos and especially Mytilene have been at the center of publicity due
to their transformation into a geographical exclusion point for immigrants arriving. The
expected continuing arrivals, at the same time as the Greek state chooses to encroach on
the five islands where hot spots operate, has turned them into supersaturated prisons.
Only on the island of Lesbos at the moment is estimated that there are more than 9000
immigrants, with 7000 of them in the Moria detention center. A center with the extensions
made to it is designed for less than 2500. It has already been said thousands of times
from the same number of mouths that the conditions in the detention center are squalid but
they are constantly getting worse and worse. With most trying to protect themselves from
cold and rain in summer scenes and improvised tents, the food is niggle and miserable
after lengthy waiting in queues and the procedures for examining asylum claims are too
time-consuming for some and almost non-existent for many nationalities, misery takes up
more and more land among the people who remain locked up. They remain excluded from the
public and social life of the city, except for a few exceptions, since their appearance is
treated with racist comments or attacks, as well as constant checks and humiliations by
the police. Meanwhile, delinquent-antisocial behaviors, as derivatives of the degradation
treaty, by a small portion of immigrants, are used as "irrefutable proofs" of the
extreme-right-racist demands for mass encroachment, deportations and deterrents of
arrivals of all migrants. Continuous references to the "disruption of social cohesion"
from the conditions that are shaped are simply a cover for the planned attacks on native
immigrants.
"... Gentlemen, we unlocked. Want war? You will have war. "
The frontal of the start of declared intentions was the call for a "general strike" by the
municipality of Mytilene on Monday 20 November. It is no coincidence that the announcement
of the date of the concentration was made by the Deputy Mayor of Mytilene, standing
between the police officers who protested about their working conditions outside the sic.
The point of gathering the "protest" of the municipality was pl. Sappho where for one
month the immigrants' struggle took place for the "opening" of the islands and their
escape from them. This point, a week earlier, the other Deputy Mayor of Mytilene, tried to
"clear" it from the immigrants, preemaking them and destroying their banners of protest.
The municipal authority playing the paper of tension comes at the same time serving many
purposes. On the one hand, it closes the eye to all the far-right, xenophobic and
conservative parts of the island. Tracks with which he had been in a distance meeting
governmental demands for a long time. On the other hand, he knows that creating tensions
and attacks will put even more pressure on the ministry and the government, forcing them
to transfer a large number of immigrants to closed detention centers elsewhere in the
country. A transfer (or "decongestion" as they call it) which will be charged as a
political victory.
But it is not just an attack on the municipal authority. For more than a week, various
professional and business clubs were preparing for the pogrom of the square. The messages
in their communication networks were clear. The square would "clean up the invaders".
Immigrants who dared to defy their invisible status and appear to struggle within the city
center would take their lesson. The same fortune would have those who dared to find
themselves on their side. The call from the municipality of "general strike" would be the
first episode of a milled line. With the blessings and encouragement of the authorities
now, the far right could claim its presence in the public space of the island. So, racist
mob rallies will be able to wear the mask of claiming "decongestion of the island" and
attacks on immigrants to express an inevitable indignation. And even if local sovereignty
does not succeed in choking off enough and eliminating even more, it can at least claim a
number of financial compensations for the safe reproduction of local capital (see
subsidies, maintenance of reduced VAT rates, etc.).
War in the War of the Bosses
However, against the blackness that spreads over the island and surrounds us, there are
these centers of resistance that continue to recall that the very first and the last
reason will always be claimed by the immigrants themselves. Hearts emerging from the
resignation and despair that many of them have driven. There are always some who will deny
passively to others to define their lives. Refusals to be expressed either by retaliation
of the violence they experience every day, as was the case with the minor revolt in the
unaccompanied minors' wing at dawn on Monday (21/11), where detained children flattened
what reminded them of the devaluation condition they are experiencing. Or refusals that
will take a more organized and long-term horizon, as is the case with the protest of more
than 30 immigrants of different nationalities, for more than 1.5 months in Sappho Square,
which has resulted in the occupation of SYRIZA's local offices. A struggle that managed to
break all divisions and lead immigrants together with the movements here in joint actions
with significant results so far.
And the story goes on ...
Musaferat
December 2017
Related Link: http://musaferat.espivblogs.net/
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30724
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Message: 2
At the call of La Roya Citoyenne, the Collective of Solidarity with Migrants of the
Maritime Alps, the Coordination 75 of the Sans-Papiers and the International Coalition of
the Sans-Papiers and Migrants, a demonstration will take place on December 16 in Menton to
open borders, freedom for all and solidarity with migrants ---- Go to the ---- Donner bus
event to support the event ---- Facebook ---- Signatories ---- As a prelude to the
International Migrants Day, let's meet again on Saturday, December 16th in Menton: ---- ?
to celebrate International Migrants Day and give visibility to all the initiatives that
will be taken in this context ---- ? because this border has become one of the symbols of
the inhumanity of the migration policies of the French State and the European Union and
the development of the police state
? because border deaths are compounded by the increasing number of detention and
deportation measures, the thousands of migrants on the street, including isolated children
and young people, police harassment and the hunt for undocumented migrants
? because the French government, through the registration of emergency measures in common
law further contradicts the right of asylum and that same government is preparing a new
law further tightening its migration policy in a liberticidal sense
? because this region has become the symbol of solidarity that exists throughout the
country with migrants. But it has also become, after Calais, the symbol of the repression
against this movement and the people in solidarity
? to say " that's enough ! To put an end to the persecution of migrants and the racist
and security discourses and policies that plague our entire society.
WE WILL MANIFEST FOR:
? the reception of migrants
? freedom of movement and residence (article 13 of the Universal Declaration of the
Rights of Man and the Citizen)
? regularization of undocumented migrants
? the repeal of the Dublin agreements
? s
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Pour-les-migrantes-et-les-migrants-le-16-decembre-a-Menton
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Message: 3
'Day of wrath' and 'first day of the new intifada', so this day has been baptized, which
coincides with the Muslim holy day. Thousands of young people from the West Bank and Gaza
participate in the demonstrations organized by the main organizations. ---- Thousands of
young people from the West Bank and Gaza participate in the demonstrations organized by
the main Palestinian organizations. ---- Tension and violence in the Middle East grows
with a new 'Friday of wrath' ---- The decision of Donald Trump to declare Jerusalem the
capital of Israel and move his embassy there has caused a difficult scale of tension to
stop. Yesterday the first confrontations took place in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron,
Tulkarem, Qalandia and the Gaza Strip and they were left with around fifty wounded .
Although the worst is yet to come in the day today, already declared as a new ' Friday of
wrath '.
Barring last-minute surprise, the Palestinian riots of yesterday were just a rehearsal of
what can come today. 'Day of wrath' and 'first day of the new intifada ', so this day has
been baptized, which coincides with the Muslim holy day. Thousands of young people from
the West Bank and Gaza participate in the demonstrations organized by the main organizations.
The attitude of the Palestinian forces can be decisive
The big question at this time is whether or not Palestinian forces will prevent
protesters from reaching Israeli settlements or military checkpoints. Most likely, the
Palestinian police choose to step aside and that will be assumed the outbreak of violence.
It remains to be seen how the protest progresses during the weekend. It will be decisive
to see if on Saturday and Sunday the Jerusalem revolt is going on and becomes, as it
happened in the past, a long-term uprising. The attitude of the Israeli army and if there
are fatalities in the streets will also be key.
Several supporters of the Pakistani party Jamat burn Israeli and American flags during a
protest in Karachi (Rehan Khan / EFE)
Some Arab media, including the Al Jazeera channel, accuse the United States of America. to
have finished with the peace process and to take the Palestinians to a second Nakba ,
the exile to which they were forced in 1948 when the State of Israel was created.
Ismail Haniye, Hamas political chief , yesterday called on the Palestinians to show their
rejection of the American announcement. Hamas called for violence , quite the opposite of
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who supports peaceful and unarmed civil protests.
Although even clearer has been Naser the Kidua, nephew of the historical leader Yasir
Arafat: Express our anger, yes; use violence, not ".
Israel has reinforced its security forces in the face of Hamas calls for a Friday of
Palestinian anger and the declaration of Islamic Jihad. Many of the protesters who staged
riots in the streets of Bethlehem yesterday were in favor of the third Palestinian
uprising, just as the 30th anniversary of the creation of Hamas and the first intifada is
commemorated.
http://rupturacolectiva.com/el-dia-de-la-ira-y-la-insurreccion-palestina-tras-intervencionismo-de-ee-uu/
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Message: 4
Today, December 6, 2017, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has undone the
traditional policy of that country with respect to Palestine and has announced the
recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the state created in 1948 by Israel
and has ordered the transfer of the embassy of his country to this city. In this suicidal
and provocative act, it strips the Palestinian people of all their rights to give them to
the genocidal state of Israel. ---- PALESTINE TEAM - SECRETARIAT OF INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS OF CGT ---- This irresponsible decision, taking into account the situation of
extreme gravity (blockade, new settlements, settlers, repression, militarization, state of
siege, arbitrary arrests, land theft, unemployment or economic ruin) in which the Occupied
Territories of the West Bank are located and The Gaza Strip will undoubtedly provoke an
unprecedented upsurge in the actions of Palestinian resistance that will lead to a
voracious and bloody spiral of violence, which has already begun.
For 70 years, the United States has allowed Israel to steal Palestinian land (even when
it intended to hide it by signing Resolution 2334) and ethnic cleansing. This Trump
decision represents a new phase in the aggression against the Palestinian people.
The 'Great Jerusalem Law' of 1980 includes the expulsion of Palestinian "residents" from
their hometown with a thousand tricks, and since then it is illegally under the
jurisdiction of Israel.
The status of the eastern part of the city, conquered in 1967 by Israel, is disputed,
since in this sector - usually referred to as East Jerusalem or East Jerusalem, which
includes the Old City - is where the State of Palestine seeks to establish its capital.
Israel discusses the Palestinian claims and, after the Six Day War, considers the city as
a unified whole and the same municipality, declaring it as its "eternal and indivisible"
capital. This annexation has provoked widespread rejection in the international community,
materialized in resolution 478 of the UN Security Council, which considered it contrary to
international law, and as a sign of protest for this unilateral act the member states of
the United Nations ended for transferring their embassies to Tel Aviv, as requested by the
resolution.
Although the international administration that the UN itself ruled in its Resolution 181
of 1947 never came to be applied, there was an international consensus not to recognize
Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.
This act can only trigger more ethnic-religious conflicts in the region in compliance with
the Project of the New Near East, making it impossible to create a Palestinian state, and,
in passing, expand the business of militarization of the area, and thus fulfill the "
"Zionist dream of possession of the territories between the Nile and the Euphrates, as its
flag marks. Another purpose of this recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel may
be to force the Palestinian Authority to accept the so-called "Peace Initiative" of Jared
Kushner that proposes to forget about the "Palestinian state" and the return of refugees,
to achieve autonomy with the sovereignty of Israel over the borders and airspace of the
West Bank,
It also implies that EE. UU it no longer considers the Israeli presence in East Jerusalem
an occupation, nor the illegal Jewish settlements built after the 1967 War, which violate
the Geneva Convention which establishes that an occupying power has no sovereignty in the
territory it occupies. Thus, the US breaks with its formal commitment to comply with
international law.
This reckless act has ended decades of international consensus on the state of the city.
Even the European Union, Washington's main ally, has left Trump alone in this dangerous
adventure.
It will also provoke the intifada of people who not only today have nothing to lose, but
see how they hijack their hope for a different future. Situation that will also promote
the leadership of organizations such as Hamas .
This feat of Trump is doomed to failure . The issue is the number of victims that will be
left in its wake and that is why, from the Palestine Team of the Secretariat of
International Relations, we call on the affiliation of CGT to be alert to the immediate
evolution of the events in occupied Palestine and, If possible, participate in the acts of
support for the Palestinian people that take place in our cities.
From this Team we have no doubt, Palestine is an occupied land.
We consider every State as a direct enemy of the self-government of the people.
We see religions, atheism included, as a legitimate individual decision, but never as a
justification of aggression between people.
The free federation of people must allow the people to self-determine their way of
governing and coexisting.
For all of this, we are clearly manifest in the total and absolute condemnation of this
new gesture of war by an Empire towards a people that claims their right to exercise
government in the land where they always lived.
http://cgt.org.es/noticias-cgt/comunicados/comunicado-sobre-la-capitalidad-de-jerusalen?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Message: 5
The European organizations which are part of the Anarkismo network met on the 18th and
19th of November in Genoa. We discussed and exchanged, thought and reflected together,
attempting as a network to plan a strategy for forward movement. ---- Delegations from
Wales, France, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland - with a warm solidarity statement from our
Catalan comrades of Embat - expressed the need to clarify and deepen our common work. ----
Where are we? ---- The phase that we are currently living in is without doubt one of
systemic crisis and strategical transformation. Capitalism in crisis is looking for a new
model of regulation while the political left is stuck in its own heavy crisis - a lack of
any clear perspective or will. ---- Social-liberalism is an active part of the State and
of the European management of capital. It has evolved as an instrument of domination and
exploitation. Another section of the political left claims a reformist ambition which is
based on a pro-State strategy but to date hasn't managed to formulate an alternative along
the lines of genuine social emancipation. There is also a relatively large milieu which
struggles to bring to life meaningful resistance at grassroots level, but nonetheless
refuses to abide by institutional frameworks.
Through the process of Fordist-type liquidation sales, capitalism brings us back to forms
of exploitation which are reminiscent of the beginning of the 20th century. The
traditional proletariat is being transformed and enlarged - it is re-produced through new
forms of exploitation like autonomous work and new structures of wage labour in a push
towards generalised precarious conditions of life.
The world, and particularly the EU, is facing new contradictions, with relative
potentialities for them to explode, such as Brexit or the rise of the far-right movements
towards national power. With huge internal tensions, the geostrategic European bloc is on
the edge, and in the near future it may either become a coherent imperialist pole, or risk
facing the pressure of other centres of power throughout the world.
The lack of a social movement able to check the dominant bloc's offensive must be
redressed to better depict the situation. No movement amongst the oppressed is able to go
forward to new social conquests and organise a combative working class under the current
dominant social conditions.
This in a situation when the far right is everyday more aggressive and the bourgeoisie is
leading an offensive against every right and social conquest that was accumulated through
struggles in the last 150 years.
Where do we want to go to and what should we do?
In the present phase and the one yet to come, we must and will have to deal with a hard
and difficult situation to build our intervention, but we won't be afraid and we will not
step back.
The end of capitalism and the self-management of the whole of society are needs that
cannot and should not wait any longer. As such, they are historical objectives. They are
the goals that lie at the heart of our practice within the organisations of the exploited.
We learn and prepare tomorrow's values in today's struggles.
We do not believe there is any shortcut to that. Our daily duty is to build step by step
the struggles and social conflicts in our neighbourhoods and our workplaces. We must
accumulate the strength in order to gather and mobilise the whole part of the society
which resists and creates dissent, refuses to comply with capitalism and defends the only
possible alternative: organization from below and the destruction of every form of
domination and exploitation. Our politics are one of emancipation, direct grassroots
action and the construction of popular power.
We've seen that Europe, despite its contradictions and internal conflicts, is not only a
supranational union of States, but also a system of transnational power which has a proper
capacity to intervene to guarantee the fundamental interests of the dominant bloc.
We believe in, and therefore we work to build, a common culture and strategy within our
respective organizations and our network, in order to reinforce social struggles and
strengthen class-struggle and emancipatory organised anarchism. We aim at building an
international network in the common area that will be able to fight back against the
processes we are facing. By identifying the potentialities of struggle, we plan to
generate an alternative and a balance of power that is more favourable to us.
We are determined for as long as necessary to bring our collective contribution to the
movement of social struggles in Europe and throughout the world.
Go forward, fight, build popular power!
We carry a new world in our hearts.
Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA - Italy
Alternative Libertaire - France
Coordination des Groupes Anarchistes - France
Libertarian Socialist Federation - Britain
Organisation Socialiste Libertaire - Switzerland
Workers Solidarity Movement - Ireland
https://anarkismo.net/article/30712
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Message: 6
The autumn election success of the Okamura SPD, which represents a new populist extreme
right, has only officially confirmed the trend that has long been evident. Every moment we
receive reports of a new racist attack, other anti-social politics celebrating successes,
a new manifestation of primitive and fascist nationality, what would once again placid the
border and send all those "others" behind bars or fences. Those Others are, in the end,
all of us who do not fall into the dream of a "decent White Bohemian" - workers who defend
their rights, unemployed, homeless, leftists, anarchists, queers, feminists ... ----
Because we know very well what destiny the new fascists want us to do, we do not care that
the far-right alliance of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) will be held on 15 and
16 December. This includes not only Okamura, but also much larger fish such as Marine Le
Pen from French Front National, Dutch nationalist Wilders, and the president of the
Austrian Free Strache.
ENF wants to cope with Friday's dinner in Prague's TOP hotel in Chodov, the main program
of the populist conference will come on Saturday. Because it is a two-day right-wing
action, we have decided to be active in both days and set up ENF with several counter-actions.
On Friday, we meet at six o'clock in front of the Faculty of Law and walk through the city
to warm up, transfer the theme to the streets of the metropolis and mobilize Prague for
Saturday. We call on all anti-fascists and anti-fascists to block the ENF congress and
support all possible counter-actions. It would be good to get up and head for a rather
remote TOP hotel in the morning or in the morning - and of course to watch as many
channels as possible. So soon, more information will be available.
In addition, we would like to remind you that the ideal form of involvement in the event
is the formation of the so-called affinity group with a bunch of friends, with whom you
will agree in advance on the extent and the way of engagement.
Whether you come to a group or yourself, you will definitely be here. It is high time for
action against fascists of all shades.
Facebook and Nyx action page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1400290696749356/
https://www.nyx.cz/?l=events;l2=2;id=32183;pr=0
Few affinity groups:
https://www.afed.cz/text/2370/organizujte-se-pro-vlastni-bezpecnost
https://www.afed.cz/text/6767/postavme-se-sjezdu-krajni-pravice
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