Anarchic update news all over the world - 16.12.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Czech, afed: Let's confront the far right congress! --
      Right-wing ENF rulers are coming to Prague, anti-fascists are
      waiting for them. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Décembre - The Chained:
      In the flesh of the precarious (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  anarres info: Benetton sweaters are stained with blood!
      Presidio at the shop in via Roma Friday, December 22 at 17 at the
      Benetton store in Via Roma 121 garrison (it) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Czech, afed: Everything you wanted to know about the
      affinity group ... [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The autumn election success of the Okamura SPD, which represents the 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 like to 
plunge the borders 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 extreme right-wing alliance of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) will take 
place 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, or 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 be held 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

#protipoliticestrachu #nacionalismusnenialternative # praha1512 # praha1612 #blockenf 
#fckenf #fckspd

https://www.afed.cz/text/6767/postavme-se-sjezdu-krajni-pravice

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In reporting on his two-year stint in five Hauts-de-France companies, the journalist 
Thomas Morel wants readers, many of whom will never feel it in their flesh, to feel a bit 
of the reality of the job. more precarious. And it's a success. ---- Thus work at the 
chain, for the chocolatier Cémoi, then in a huge Toyota factory, facing its organization 
of work ultra-parcellisée and ultra-standardized. It tells the infernal cadences and 
hardships that destroys slowly the bodies of workers and workers, like Armelle, that the 
destruction of the carpal tunnel will force to be operated, even if it continues to work 
in the meantime, because it has no choice. ---- At Toyota, the journalist experiences the 
difficulty of going on strike, a right he will use several times during the movement 
against the labor law of 2016, when he was working in the Japanese company, and who will 
be worth to him. not see his contract renewed.

The other sequences come out of the industrial world, to make us discover a tertiary 
universe about as nightmarish. The author brings us first in the Clictel call center, 
which works for the Boulanger stores. Under the nail of the start-up spirit, the employee 
quickly discovers the ubiquitous surveillance of which he is the object, like all his 
colleagues, and also the inanity of his side, whose added value is, to say the least, 
discreet.

Then, the journalist occupies a VRP post at Ranger, where he has to sign, door-to-door, 
contracts for GDF Suez. And a novelty, probably a future in our increasingly uberized 
society: no fixed salary, only commissions for each contract signed. This encourages 
sellers to put their ethics aside, for example by shaking the age of customers when they 
are over 75, with whom the law prohibits the conclusion of such transactions.

But it is ultimately his job in a subsidiary of Cofidis specializing in the recovery of 
consumer credit claims that will prove the most painful experience. In this "   nest of 
vultures   ", he finds himself compelled to show a cynical flawlessness to pay debts to 
families who do not have the means, to strengthen the precariousness of people who are 
already immersed in it. 'in the neck. Or how the world of modern work manages to get 
workers to work against their own side.

Julien (AL Paris-South)

Thomas Morel, The Chained, The Arena, 2017, 270 pages, 20 euros.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Les-Enchaines-Dans-la-chair-des-precaires

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Benetton jerseys are stained with blood ---- The Argentine government has decided to 
settle the accounts with the resistant communities of the Mapuche, who have recovered, 
occupying them, spaces in the traditional lands of the indigenous peoples, who did not 
have and do not intend to adopt private property. Those lands were sold in the 
mid-nineteenth century by the state to various multinationals, especially the English for 
the mining industry. Since the nineties of the last century, 930,000 hectares have passed 
to the manufacturing giant Benetton, which uses them to let you graze their wool sheep. 
---- Benetton is complicit in the harsh repression against the fighting Mapuche 
population. Despite several attempts to cover up, it is now clear the direct participation 
of Benetton's men in the attack on the Mapuche community on the Rio Chabut and in the 
disappearance and death of Santiago Maldonado.
Benetton plays the lion's share, but the good deals in the region are many others: gold 
mines, water, and mass tourism.
On 25 November, during an armed attack on a community recovered in the Villa Mascardi 
national park, the police killed
Rafael Nahuel, the seriously injured two other activists, kidnapped and made several 
others disappear.
Since 2009, Rafael is the 14th activist killed by the police.

For those interested in the paths of the Anarchist Federation of Turin
meetings every Thursday at 21
course Palermo 46 - right in the courtyard -

https://anarresinfo.noblogs.org/

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An affinity group can consist of two people, but it may well be fifteen - depending mainly 
on the nature of the action. However, the affinity group should not be so large that there 
is no informal discussion of important issues. If you have more, you can always split into 
two or more groups. ---- The affinity group is not a permanent grouping. It is the kind of 
structure that suits you. Variable, composed of a handful of interested and trusted people 
working for the duration of a particular project. Once it is "established," it can calmly 
decide to end if it is needed, for example, for security reasons. This means that 
everything that is happening within the group is not spoken outside of it, even when it 
has already fulfilled its "mission". A certain group of people can work together again and 
again, but members and members can be calm in other affinity groups, they can be divided 
into smaller groups or work outside the affinity group structures.
It is possible that you already have an affinity group, even if you have never taken any 
direct action and this is the first "radical" text you read. The affinity group is the 
most well-established structure for guerrilla actions of all kinds. The Affinity Group is 
simply a circle of friends who know each other's strengths and weaknesses, life history, 
who have found common ground and healthy internal dynamics and have chosen to achieve a goal.
The affinity group can be virtually invincible. She can not be infiltrated because all her 
members know and associate them with intimate friendship. No one outside the group needs 
to be informed of their plans or activities. The affinity group is more efficient than any 
of the most professional military units: members and members of the group can freely adapt 
to any situation, not necessarily having to go through a complicated approval process; 
each individual can act and react without waiting for orders, but with an overview of what 
others can expect. For mutual admiration and inspiration on which the affinity group is 
based, it is almost impossible to demoralize it. In contrast to any capitalist, fascist or 
communist structures, an affinity group functions without any hierarchy or coercion: 
participation in the affinity group can be fun and effective. Most importantly, members 
and members of such a group are motivated by common desire and loyalty, not profit, duty 
or other compensation or imagination. Nor is it surprising that small affinity groups 
managed to keep all police cordons under control, and only the cans of tear gas shot by 
the cops.
Affinity groups work through consensus: decisions are made collectively, based on the 
needs and desires of each individual involved. Democratic choices in which the majority 
and the minority are successful must hold their tongue, are affectionate in affinity 
groups: if the group is to work well and hold together, each participant must be 
satisfied. Before each event, members and members of the group set out collective goals, 
explore how they are prepared to risk (both individuals and groups) and what they expect 
from each other. This is the plan.
Because the situation at the event is always unpredictable and the plans rarely follow as 
expected, the affinity group usually has a dual approach to their preparation. On the one 
hand, its plans are created for different scenarios: if case A occurs, we will inform each 
other about X and move on plan B; if X means of communication are not possible, we will 
meet at point Z at time Q. On the other hand, it will prepare structures and plans that 
will succeed even if what happens does not resemble any of the contrived scenarios. They 
share tasks among themselves. Identify means of communication (for example, radio, secure 
Internet chat, encrypted passwords for secret information or instructions). He will 
prepare his main strategies (how to keep a quiet head, how to hold each other in a 
confusing environment, to be fined by the police, etc.). They map escape routes. It will 
prepare legal support if someone is taken from the group. After the event, the affinity 
group will reunite (if needed, in a safe place) to discuss what works well, what could be 
improved and what to do next.
The affinity group is only responsible for itself, which is its strongest side. The 
affinity group is not burdened by the procedures and practices of other organizations, it 
is not expected to be difficult to understand by strangers or the limitations of 
responding to someone who did not participate directly. Just as members and members of the 
group are trying to reach consensus among themselves, each affinity group should also 
strive for a considerate relationship with other individuals and groups, or at least 
respect for others' access, if possible, even if others do not realize it value of action 
taken. People should respect and sympathize with affinity groups, not refuse or fear them. 
They should be aware of the value of the affinity group model and try it out by organizing 
it. They should come to the conclusion that,
An affinity group can interact with other affinity groups in what is sometimes called a 
cluster. The cluster allows a larger number of individuals to deal with the same benefits 
as a single affinity group. If the situation calls for speed and confidentiality, 
representatives or representatives of each group can meet well in advance, which is more 
practical than if members and members of all interested groups met. Where coordination is 
crucial, groups or representatives of these groups will agree on communication methods 
directly to the action. After years of collaboration, the different affinity groups know 
each other as well as they know each other and feel better and more capable within this 
structure.
If several clusters of affinity groups need to coordinate a particularly large action (for 
example, a large demonstration or blockade), it is possible to convene an assembly 
(sometimes referred to as a plenum or "fast-paced" if time is available). Experience says 
that the most effective gathering is one that confines itself to providing space where 
various affinity groups and clusters can inform each other (to the extent that is strictly 
necessary) about their intentions, rather than trying to drive the activity of others or 
dictate them principles. This organizational format is not suitable for lengthy 
discussions. Independence and spontaneity provided by decentralization are our greatest 
advantages in combating the enemy, which has all the other benefits - so why surrender them?
The affinity group is not just a means of changing the world. Like any good anarchist 
behavior, it is also a model for alternative, better worlds and the seed from which these 
worlds can germinate. In the anarchist economy, decision makers and management do not make 
the decisions to be carried out by the masses of workers without thought. Even affinity 
groups, circles of friends who share common needs and interests, decide and act together. 
The model of affinity groups / clusters / gatherings / etc. is simply another incarnation 
of communities and workers' gatherings that shaped the past successful (albeit only 
short-term) anarchist revolutions.
The model of affinity groups is the best thing to do, but it is almost inevitable. Without 
a structure that allows you to turn ideas into action, without friends, with whom you can 
invent ideas and create history, we would be paralyzed, depriving much of our potential. 
Never doubt that a small group of convinced, considerate people can change the world - on 
the contrary, that's the only thing that ever did! If every individual in every action 
against the state and the status quo were part of a tightly afflicted, fierce affinity 
group, the revolution would end in a few years.
You do not have to look for a revolutionary organization to join in to be active. You and 
your friends are part of one! You can change the world together. Stop thinking about what 
will happen or why nothing happens and start to decide what will happen.
Do not go to another demonstration, protest, concert, work in a passive viewing style, do 
not wait for directions what you have to do, or when somebody thinks of fun. Begin with 
others to exchange crazy ideas that should happen on these occasions - and start 
transforming ideas into reality!
The affinity group may be a sewing ring, a bicycle maintenance team, or a group of clowns 
traveling; can get together to set up a local group of Food Not Bombs to figure out how to 
turn a bicycle onto a gramophone or force a multinational corporation to leave the market 
with a carefully prepared sabotage program. Affinity groups set up and defended communal 
gardens, firing, building and squatting, organizing a program for children in the 
neighborhood and wild bets; affinity groups began to revolutionize visual art and popular 
music. Even your favorite music band has been or is an affinity group. It was an affinity 
group who invented the plane. Another, composed of disgusted enthusiasts in the work of 
philosopher Nietzsche, was almost successful during the Second World War, executed by 
Adolf Hitler.
Let the five girls and boys meet, and if they are committed to action rather than a quiet 
agony of survival, despair ends and tactics begin.

AUTONOMY, COMPETITION, EMPLOYMENT - ALL MUSIC AFFILIATES!

Links:

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afinitn%C3%AD_skupina

https://www.afed.cz/text/2370/organizujte-se-pro-vlastni-bezpecnost

https://greenaction.noblogs.org/post/2017/01/31/afinitni-skupiny/

https://www.advojka.cz/archiv/2012/8/armady-rovnych

https://www.afed.cz/text/6768/jak-vytvorit-afinitni-skupinu

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