Today's Topics:
1. Greece, APO, "Black and Red": Against the war, the border
and the oppression. SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN LAW (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Trump's Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's
Capital: Oil on Fire Burns Palestine by International Commission
- Coordination of Anarchist Groups CGA (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. [West Bank] Video: Arrested Palestinian activist Ahed
Tamimi, a 17-year-old girl, who has slapped two Israeli soldiers
By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Spain] CGT before the media criminalization of antifascism
By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, afed: Against the politics of fear - Report from the
Friday demonstration against the meeting of representatives of
the European Fascist Parties in Prague [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, "dignified horse" - APO: Announcement of the General
Strike of 14 December in Patras (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. US, black rose fed: TURKEY HOLDS ANARCHIST ISHAK TAYAK ON
FALSE CHARGES (tr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Greece, APO: Market intervention in by dwarf horse (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The world can move towards a very polar state of geopolitical relations, with various
forces being formed and being constantly reformed, especially in the capitalist region.
This, however, did not prevent US President Donald Trump from acting as a "planetary"
unilaterally recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, effectively triggering the
wound of the conflict in Palestine. ---- This move aimed at strengthening and upgrading
the American alliance in the region, in the context of the new situation that has been
shaped - (war in Syria, campaign against ISIS, bloc Iran-Russia-Turkey) gives the green
light to Israel intensifies once again his anti-Palestinian campaign with military
interventions added to the past, Palestinian isolation policies and their methodical
extermination. At the same time, the Palestinians are being forced into a dynamic reaction
by proclaiming a new Intifada to counter the popular uprising against the overcrowding of
the Israeli military mechanism.
The move of the US is nothing more than an impetus for the creation of new outcast victims
in Palestine, new tortures, arrests, disasters for the impoverished but proud Palestinian
people.
The right of the Palestinians to the struggle emerges as an integral part of the
international struggles we defend as anarchists, not because it is aimed at forming
another state in the region, not because we are taking sides in the religious divisions,
or because we are uncritically constituted on the side of armed Muslim organizations Hamas
or Hezbollah. This would obviously be unnatural to the anarchist revolutionary movement,
and we can not ignore the historical experience of anti-colonial and anti-racist
struggles, which concludes that the struggles for "national liberation," when not
expressed as a denial of it of the national narrative, that is, as social struggles with
internationalist horizons, end up simply changing the nationality of the oppressor.
The defense of the Palestinian people and their righteous struggle rests on the fact that
it is de facto also because of the overtly totalitarian / fascist policy of the state of
Israel and the indifference of the international community, a struggle for defending the
very life threatened by the miserable conditions enforcing an inhuman occupation and a
lasting isolation and alienation war from all the survival possibilities of the
Palestinian people
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT OF THE PALESTINIAN LAW
THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER 18:00 AGALMA VENIZELOU
Colloquy for social anarchism "Black and Red", member of the APO-OS
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Message: 2
On Wednesday, December 6, 2017, the fascist president of the United States of America,
Donald Trump, set fire to the scene by declaring Jerusalem / Al-Quds as the capital of the
State of Israel. This responds to a historic claim by the Israeli far-right and sends a
clear message of impunity to the most radical settlers. Since that decision, at least
eight Palestinians have died and hundreds have been injured in bombings of the Gaza Strip
and clashes with Israeli security forces. ---- Analysis of the International Commission
for the Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA), member organization of the Anarkismo
network. ---- This decision is part of a fundamental convergence between Israel's colonial
project and the nationalist, colonialist and racist currents in Europe and North America.
Zionism is a nationalism and a colonialism
Zionism, as the national ideology of the State of Israel, is largely inspired by
nationalism as it was developed by many peoples of Europe, and indeed from the nineteenth
century. As anarchists, we fight nationalism as an ideology that serves the ruling classes
by seeking to unify a people around a national narrative of an alleged history, culture
and common language (two languages at a pinch). Nationalism is therefore for us an
ideology which, in its essence, relegates the interests of the oppressed to those who are
supposedly the priority of the "nation" and which tends, moreover, to limit or even
eliminate any expression of cultural particularities. and linguistic.
On the other hand, nationalism regularly lays in a racist vision of the world in which the
members of the nation would be superior to the individuals outside (or rejected) to the
national community. This racist view is doubly useful for the ruling classes: it divides
the oppressed by opposing them to one another instead of ganging them against their
oppressors; it provides a justification for the many colonizing and expansionist projects
carried by different nationalisms, especially European nationalisms. In this context,
Zionism, defended and used by the State of Israel, although it is a "colonialism without a
metropolis", is a distant relative of nationalisms and colonial projects French, English,
Belgian and other . Indeed, it has incorporated a large part of the European colonial
imagination, as well as its brutal methods of expropriation, while presenting itself as a
"national liberation movement".
We find this racist colonial logic behind the so-called "feminist" and "open" narrative
for the sexual and gender minorities of the Israeli state, which would be a refuge for
people oppressed by patriarchy and imposed heterosexuality. , which would be the preserve
of Arab-Muslim cultures. This is, of course, "pink washing" in the sense that the Israeli
state is using legitimate struggles of the oppressed to legitimize its colonial expansion
and the oppression it imposes on the Palestinians, whatever their sexuality or gender they
identify with. as well as its brutal methods of expropriation, while presenting itself as
a "national liberation movement". We find this racist colonial logic behind the so-called
"feminist" and "open" narrative for the sexual and gender minorities of the Israeli state,
which would be a refuge for people oppressed by patriarchy and imposed heterosexuality. ,
which would be the preserve of Arab-Muslim cultures. This is, of course, "pink washing" in
the sense that the Israeli state is using legitimate struggles of the oppressed to
legitimize its colonial expansion and the oppression it imposes on the Palestinians,
whatever their sexuality or gender they identify with. as well as its brutal methods of
expropriation, while presenting itself as a "national liberation movement". We find this
racist colonial logic behind the so-called "feminist" and "open" narrative for the sexual
and gender minorities of the Israeli state, which would be a refuge for people oppressed
by patriarchy and imposed heterosexuality. , which would be the preserve of Arab-Muslim
cultures. This is, of course, "pink washing" in the sense that the Israeli state is using
legitimate struggles of the oppressed to legitimize its colonial expansion and the
oppression it imposes on the Palestinians, whatever their sexuality or gender they
identify with. We find this racist colonial logic behind the so-called "feminist" and
"open" narrative for the sexual and gender minorities of the Israeli state, which would be
a refuge for people oppressed by patriarchy and imposed heterosexuality. , which would be
the preserve of Arab-Muslim cultures.
This is, of course, "pink washing" in the sense that the Israeli state is using legitimate
struggles of the oppressed to legitimize its colonial expansion and the oppression it
imposes on the Palestinians, whatever their sexuality or gender they identify with. We
find this racist colonial logic behind the so-called "feminist" and "open" narrative for
the sexual and gender minorities of the Israeli state, which would be a refuge for people
oppressed by patriarchy and imposed heterosexuality. , which would be the preserve of
Arab-Muslim cultures. This is, of course, "pink washing" in the sense that the Israeli
state is using legitimate struggles of the oppressed to legitimize its colonial expansion
and the oppression it imposes on the Palestinians, whatever their sexuality or gender they
identify with. which would be a refuge for people oppressed by patriarchy and imposed
heterosexuality, which would be the preserve of Arab-Muslim cultures. This is, of course,
"pink washing" in the sense that the Israeli state is using legitimate struggles of the
oppressed to legitimize its colonial expansion and the oppression it imposes on the
Palestinians, whatever their sexuality or gender they identify with. which would be a
refuge for people oppressed by patriarchy and imposed heterosexuality, which would be the
preserve of Arab-Muslim cultures. This is, of course, "pink washing" in the sense that the
Israeli state is using legitimate struggles of the oppressed to legitimize its colonial
expansion and the oppression it imposes on the Palestinians, whatever their sexuality or
gender they identify with.
Zionism is a Product of Colonial History and European Anti-Semitism
Zionism is a nationalist ideology that has been forged in the twofold context of the
emergence of the nationalist ideology in Europe and the rise of power of the modern
anti-Semitism that has emerged from this emergence. Rather than tackling the nationalism
fueling anti-Semitism, the Zionist movement has chosen to reproduce its conceptions,
considering anti-Semitic oppression as ineluctably linked to diasporism. This conception
was fought from the beginning by the internationalist Jewish labor currents, which
associated anti-racist self-defense and class struggle.
The persecution of Jewish national minorities, particularly in Eastern Europe, gradually
reinforced the idea among Jews and Jews that the solution to racism suffered by them was
found in the foundation of a state that would reunite and protect the Jewish people. This
idea has progressed every time the workers' movement has not been firm enough in the fight
against anti-Semitism, including within itself.
The extermination of Jews and Jews by the Nazi regime is only the most extreme and
dehumanized expression of a long and heavy trend in many European countries. Even now, the
different currents of Zionism present themselves as a response to anti-Semitism and
present support for the Israeli colonial fact as a necessity for Jews and Jews, as it is
presented as the guarantor of their security. This is what we saw during the massive
anti-Semitic attacks that took place in France in 2012 (Toulouse) and in January 2015
(Paris). The State of Israel presents itself as a refuge for Jews and Jews, who should be
constituted as a people on the "holy land", in a secure territory and rid of the
anti-Semitic scourge. This does not prevent the Zionist Right and Far Right from showing
regular complacency with anti-Semites, provided they are considered "objective allies" of
the State of Israel. So Netanyahu multiplied the outflows in support of Trump, minimizing
the influence of his neo-Nazi allies and the responsibility of the latter in the
anti-Semitic attacks, as he did with the Orban regime or of Putin.
It is also, in large part, the responsibility of the French colonial power and its work of
racist division, if the Jewish minorities of North Africa, among others, have gone en
masse to reinforce the Israeli colonial project after independence and Moreover, the
capitalist exploitation led by the ruling classes and the racist divisions that structure
the state have been clearly oppressed.
Finally, it was because the French and English powers shared the remnants of the Ottoman
Empire at the end of the First World War that the State of Israel was able to see the
light of day in a territory already inhabited by other populations. Indeed, the Treaty of
Sèvres shared the territories of the former empire in "mandates" French and British. While
France inherited the current Syria and Lebanon, Britain controlled Iraq and Palestine
(which included the current territories of Palestine / Israel and Jordan). >From this
moment, the latter sought to maintain its hold by supporting in turn the ambitions of
Zionist settlers and Arab nationalists. At the end of the Second World War, European
imperialism, marked by both anti-Semitism and racism,
Trump's decision, its causes and its repercussions
Donald Trump was elected with the particularly strong support of the neo-fascist
"alt-right" currents, spreading a racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic ideology. His
election resulted in a wave of violence against the black minority, Jewish and Muslim
minorities in the United States. In the face of anti-Semitic violence, the Netanyahu
government and its supporters of the Zionist right in both the United States and Israel
have repeatedly trumped the Trump Government's responsibility for the situation. While
regularly presenting alignment on their politics as a necessity to fight against
anti-Semitism, they sacrificed the American Jewish minority considered too left, too
diasporic, too critical of Israeli politics.
The recent decision to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv (Israel's
internationally recognized capital) to Jerusalem / Al-Quds, and thus to recognize Israel
as the capital of the State of Israel , testifies to the unwavering support of the US
state for the Israeli colonial project and may well be a major step in the expansion of
the state of Israel. Indeed, Jerusalem / Al-Quds is so far a city with a specific
international status, supposed to guarantee the access and protection of the holy places
of the three great monotheisms, which crystallizes even more the tensions related to the
colonization and the expropriation of the historic inhabitants of the city that has lasted
for decades. By supporting a historic claim to the most extreme currents of Zionism, Trump
implicitly validates the settlements (planned by the state of Israel or not) that reduce
the already ridiculous territory granted by international treaties to the state's abortion
state that is the Palestinian Authority, which oscillates on its side between impotence
and collaboration. These colonies have also multiplied since the announcement of election
results in the US, last January. The West Bank is no more than a bundle of confetti,
separated from each other by military checkpoints, walls and barbed wire. The Palestinian
population is a captive market and a significant part is forced to work directly for the
Israeli bourgeoisie. Settlers enjoy a multitude of benefits to settle on Palestinian
lands, including tax, energy and land.
Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel is therefore part
of a fundamental convergence between two far-right currents, one headed by the United
States, the other by the State. Israel. It is also part of a very specific local timing
since the two main Palestinian movements (Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Fatah,
which represents the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank) were in a phase of
rapprochement. . Putting fire to powder can be used to undermine the possible
"reinforcement" of a reunified official Palestinian interlocutor.
What we defend
The Coordination of Anarchist Groups supports all peoples in the struggle against
colonialism and, as such, defends the right of self-determination of the Palestinian
people and its legitimate resistance against the Israeli occupation. We do not believe
that the long-term political solution lies in the creation and recognition of a
Palestinian state that will only reproduce the inherent flaws of this hierarchical and
authoritarian form of social organization. We believe that only the abolition of
capitalism, patriarchy and the system of racist domination, which build on one another and
reinforce each other, can provide a solid foundation for the region. In the meantime, we
support popular initiatives to resist the occupation of the Palestinian people and the
actions of Israeli anti-colonialists. We support all those who struggle in this region for
equal rights and even more for real equality. It is in the social and anti-colonial
struggle that favorable conditions are created for the development of harmonious and
peaceful coexistence, based on the necessary social and economic equality.
It will in all cases, to begin with, stop the colonization and expropriation of
Palestinians, the right of return of refugees, the full equality of rights, the cessation
of the blockade of Gaza, the end of apartheid for the Palestinian people of 48. It is in
the social and anticolonial struggle that favorable conditions are created for the
development of harmonious and peaceful coexistence, based on the necessary social and
economic equality. It will in all cases, to begin with, stop the colonization and
expropriation of Palestinians, the right of return of refugees, the full equality of
rights, the cessation of the blockade of Gaza, the end of apartheid for the Palestinian
people of 48. It is in the social and anticolonial struggle that favorable conditions are
created for the development of harmonious and peaceful coexistence, based on the necessary
social and economic equality. It will in all cases, to begin with, stop the colonization
and expropriation of Palestinians, the right of return of refugees, the full equality of
rights, the cessation of the blockade of Gaza, the end of apartheid for the Palestinian
people of 48.
While Nethanayu met Macron on December 10 in Paris, we oppose any form of commercial or
military cooperation with the State of Israel, especially as long as it violates
international treaties with impunity. At a time when Trump appears to support the most
extreme currents of Israeli colonialism, this official visit that serves to strengthen the
French president's international stature legitimizes the Zionist leader's aggressive policies.
Israeli colonization must stop!
Down with Zionism and its Western allies! Down with colonialism in all its forms!
the International Commission of the CGA,
Coordination of Anarchist Groups,
December 18, 2017
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30738
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Message: 3
Ahed Tamimi, was arrested shortly after seen in a viralized video where she slapped two
soldiers. ---- Ahed Tamimi is one of the many Palestinians who can withstand Israeli
occupation of their territories. She came to fame in 2010 as a child and was registered
standing in front of a soldier with a raised fist. In 2016 she repeated a similar image in
front of a military woman. ---- This week Tamimi has returned to world news because of a
video in which she is seen slapping, pushing and even kicking two soldiers in Nabi Saleh
near Ramallah. ---- After the images were released, she was arrested by the Israeli
Defense Forces on Tuesday (19/12), who took her for questioning, according to the Haaretz
newspaper. The same media quoted a statement from the army as saying that "several
Palestinians crossed with the soldiers to carry out provocations." However, the military
acted "professionally" by not responding.
For his part, Israeli Education Minister Neftali Bennet said "images are hard" and he
hoped that "the incident will be investigated, lessons learned and activists who attacked
the prosecuted."
However, the Israeli version does not coincide with that of the Palestinians. Ahed's
father, Bassim, posted on his Facebook account that his daughter's reaction came because
soldiers had shot at a 14-year-old boy. Then, during detention, they entered his house
stealing computers and video cameras. In addition, he reported that the young activist's
mother was also arrested.
The Solidarity Network with Palestinian Prisoners Samidoun denounced Tamimi's arrest and
clarified that it is "the last of more than 450" carried out by the "Israeli occupation
forces after US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel ".
> Video: https://www.facebook.com/TheShadow69/videos/10155694250135255/
Translation> Liberto
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Message: 4
In the wake of the referendum in Catalonia, a deterioration of the civil rights and
freedoms of political prisoners has been experienced throughout the state, with an
increase in the repression and rise of the tolerance of fascism in all spheres. ---- With
the recent event on Calle Heroísmo, treated in a very partial way by the media, which
judged and convicted one of the detainees before even knowing the police report and the
statement of that person, the situation in Zaragoza worsened; the media criminalized all
of the city's alternative social movements, especially the anti-fascist movement and the
squat movement, marking places and concrete spaces such as the CSO Kike Mur and various
places in Madalena. With this irresponsible attitude of the media was put in the point of
sight of violent neo-Nazi groups to certain spaces, as can be proven this same Saturday;
where a score of neo-Nazis concentrated, without the relevant permissions, before CSO Kike
Mur.
These days in Zaragoza is not a coincidence, media pressure around the Catalan conflict
has led to a peak of fascism, where extreme right-wing groups such as the Falange have
called for demonstrations in the streets of our city, where they persecute politicians,
citizens and citizens, with constant threats. This attitude has been tolerated and
supported by repressive measures since the State.
The CGT regrets and condemns the persecution and criminalization of social movements. The
CGT is an anarcho-syndicalist, anti-fascist, and feminist organization struggling for a
necessary social change, even more so these days. From the CGT, we congratulate the
residents and residents of the neighborhoods of Madalena and Torrero who are suffering
media persecution these days and are responding with integrity, taking to the streets and
facing fascism.
Source: https://www.cgtaragon.org/cgt-ante-la-criminalizacion
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Message: 5
Okamura's SPD picked up the votes of most of the other xenophobic projects that have been
bidding for voters' favor in the recent elections, which hears well on the argument that
refugees and Islamists are particularly vulnerable to their problems, regardless of
whether or not they are at all. So that after the partici- pation came to Parliament, no
one left in doubt, with whom she was honored, was invited by her chairman to Prague, a
representative of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) faction, which brings together
right-wing populist parties in the European Parliament. In addition to the French National
Front , based on an open fascist tradition, the Dutch Freedom Party, the Austrian Freedom
or the Italian League of the North are associated.
Such a meeting of fascist prominent people could not be resolved. And so an anti-fascist
coalition of Christian feminists, young greens, anarchists, socialists and others summoned
two protest actions. One on the eve of the conference, 15 December, in front of Prague's
InterContinental Hotel on Parížská Street. The aim of the action was to point to two
things. On the one hand, these parties (and in their gratefulness of their politics, they
are in favor of many traditional political parties) use a policy of fear and hatred on the
political scene, which in turn leads to the denial of racist violence, systemic exclusion
and stigmatization of minorities. Another intention was to point out that there are still
people who do not want to tolerate such a policy and are fully aware of its consequences.
Thus, in the evening after six hours, the InterContinental held 450 people. The mood was
relaxed and the sound of the mobile sound system and the samba band contributed to the
atmosphere. Six o'clock arose from one of the organizers to briefly present the reason for
the event and the subsequent program. Then, with a very good sound, she read out the
organizers' speech, inter alia: "Right-wing populism has become a major threat in recent
years. These are not easily dispersible, and homogeneous movement, while individual groups
from each other on different bases differ significantly - some are neoliberal, other
social (albeit only for those who know how to be born in the right place with the right
skin tone). Some are anti-Semitic and the other, on the other hand, are protecting the
Jews from Muslim evil. But they have one important link. To gain the power they use the
fears and uncertainties brought about by the crisis of modern society. Their policy is a
policy of exclusion. They are building false alternatives based on nationalism, racism,
Islamophobia, or sexism. However, current events are not a manifestation of barbarity that
has a source outside of our society, as right-wing populists claim to be. On the contrary,
it is a product of the antisocial capitalist forces that formed a modern Europe. Not by
chance, the leaders of these movements are often associated with capital and the business
environment. Their policy is not really social - focusing on all those who need help. "She
further emphasized that the current boom of right-wing populism is in particular a
response to the crisis of modern society. Finally, she offered a completely different
alternative - liberated from the rule of man over man: "We strive for a society organized
by the bottom of the social self." Their policy is a policy of exclusion. They are
building false alternatives based on nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, or sexism.
However, current events are not a manifestation of barbarity that has a source outside of
our society, as right-wing populists claim to be. On the contrary, it is a product of the
antisocial capitalist forces that formed a modern Europe. Not by chance, the leaders of
these movements are often associated with capital and the business environment. Their
policy is not really social - focusing on all those who need help. "She further emphasized
that the current boom of right-wing populism is in particular a reaction to the crisis of
modern society. Finally, she offered a completely different alternative - liberated from
the rule of man over man: "We strive for a society organized by the bottom of the social
self." Their policy is a policy of exclusion. They are building false alternatives based
on nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, or sexism. However, current events are not a
manifestation of barbarity that has a source outside of our society, as right-wing
populists claim to be. On the contrary, it is a product of the antisocial capitalist
forces that formed a modern Europe. Not by chance, the leaders of these movements are
often associated with capital and the business environment. Their policy is not really
social - focusing on all those who need help. "She further emphasized that the current
boom of right-wing populism is in particular a reaction to the crisis of modern society.
Finally, she offered a completely different alternative - liberated from the rule of man
over man: "We strive for a society organized by the bottom of the social self."
Islamophobia or sexism. However, current events are not a manifestation of barbarity that
has a source outside of our society, as right-wing populists claim to be. On the contrary,
it is a product of the antisocial capitalist forces that formed a modern Europe. Not by
chance, the leaders of these movements are often associated with capital and the business
environment. Their policy is not really social - focusing on all those who need help. "She
further emphasized that the current boom of right-wing populism is in particular a
reaction to the crisis of modern society. Finally, she offered a completely different
alternative - liberated from the rule of man over man: "We strive for a society organized
by the bottom of the social self." Islamophobia or sexism. However, current events are not
a manifestation of barbarity that has a source outside of our society, as right-wing
populists claim to be. On the contrary, it is a product of the antisocial capitalist
forces that formed a modern Europe. Not by chance, the leaders of these movements are
often associated with capital and the business environment. Their policy is not really
social - focusing on all those who need help. "She further emphasized that the current
boom of right-wing populism is in particular a reaction to the crisis of modern society.
Finally, she offered a completely different alternative - liberated from the rule of man
over man: "We strive for a society organized by the bottom of the social self." On the
contrary, it is a product of the antisocial capitalist forces that formed a modern Europe.
Not by chance, the leaders of these movements are often associated with capital and the
business environment. Their policy is not really social - focusing on all those who need
help. "She further emphasized that the current boom of right-wing populism is in
particular a reaction to the crisis of modern society. Finally, she offered a completely
different alternative - liberated from the rule of man over man: "We strive for a society
organized by the bottom of the social self." On the contrary, it is a product of the
antisocial capitalist forces that formed a modern Europe. Not by chance, the leaders of
these movements are often associated with capital and the business environment. Their
policy is not really social - focusing on all those who need help. "She further emphasized
that the current boom of right-wing populism is in particular a reaction to the crisis of
modern society. Finally, she offered a completely different alternative - liberated from
the rule of man over man: "We strive for a society organized by the bottom of the social
self."
After that, a parade led by the transparency "Against the Fear of Politics! Right-wing
populism is not an alternative. " There were also other thematic banners and pickeys. The
whole march, which led the street on November 17, Krížovnická and after Smetana's
embankment to continue with Národní trída at the National Theater, was accompanied by loud
chanting and singing songs with texts adapted to known melodies. In order to get everyone
involved, song lyrics have been handed out, and it has to be said that the whole event has
been greatly revived, not counting the endless rhythms of samba bandu.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6770/proti-politice-strachu
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Message: 6
On Thursday, December 14, a General Strike in the public and private sector was scheduled,
following a call by GSEE-ADEDY. A strike of "customary" character, from the now known
"rifles in the air" that call out the sold out and employers' unions, since every year it
almost systematically calls up the period before the Christmas holidays. In spite of the
growing attack on the part of the government on job vacancies, a strike without much
preparation in the workplace and without the time to propagate it into broad social
groups, was doomed to have little involvement and to end up with a stupid strike
demonstration. ---- As anarchists, we chose to participate in this strike mobilization,
recognizing its many problems, trying, with all our strengths, to contribute to its
success. Besides, it is our standing to actively participate in the class struggles with
the aim of interconnecting them in a common direction that recognizes the state and
capital as the main responsible for social inequalities, and on the other hand the
development of a mass, horizontally organized, emancipated class movement, which will
strive for generalized social self-management through the social revolution.
For many years, in Patras, an independent appraisal has been convened in the annex by
forces and militants participating in racing student clubs and associations, class
associations and initiatives, organizations of the Left Party and assemblies, groups and
initiatives of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement. It then follows a common
course with trade unions and organizations gathered in the Workers' Center, which most of
the time isolates its outdated leadership, preventing it from being at the head of the
demonstration. We support this particular call by considering that it is very important
for today to increase the class struggle to create an autonomous and distinct class
movement, consisting of grassroots organizations and grassroots initiatives,Such a
movement must stand against the bureaucratic, party-controlled and top-organized trade
unionism, which is a fundamental devotee of class cooperation and "social peace".
About what happens at the Patras Labor Center
In the last period, there is a lot of work going on in the EWC. Associations adjacent to
PAME have carried out sequential squabbles on the site by blocking the rigors of the
election campaign, which its leadership tried to impose two weeks ago to regain the
majority. With the capture and constant mobilizations, they have managed to show the sold
out and employing role of the EWC's leading, cohort and employers' team, presenting with
evidence the existence of ghost clubs with an indeterminate number of members, without
registers, and with choices made in the dark. Their existence is solely due to the
leadership's expediency to acquire more representatives in the election of the EIC and is
in no way related to trade union action that they have never developed.
It is a fact that the degenerate treaty in the EIC is the same as what has been happening
for decades now in the trade union movement - the first and best GSEE - whose leadership
consists of state-run workers, late MPs and bosses of the bosses. Even bosses, owners of
housing companies, appear as members of the board of directors of the Patras labor center,
forming a condition that is a duty of the working class to overthrow it.
On the other hand, as much as we recognize the correct intentions to overthrow the sold
out leadership, we can not overlook the fact that this initiative of the PAME trade unions
simply wants to reverse the situation for its benefit, being fully party-controlled and
seeking to impose a new formula coup d'etat on the workers with the ultimate goal of
denervation and encroaching of the class resistances on partisan partisans, the
exploitation of the races, the distortion and the defamation of the combatants and the
care of the combatants of the forms of struggle.
As anarchists, we think that Workers' Centers must be open to all struggling workers.
Within them, processes of aggravation of the struggle in the workplace and in the society
at large must be carried out, processes horizontal, far from any attempt of mediation and
manipulation by party and bureaucratic trade union mechanisms. For us, Labor Centers must
go into the hands of those who really belong. In the hands of workers, the unemployed, the
precarious, the retired, the immigrants, the students. In the hands of all of us, who are
daily confronted with the systematic bleeding of our lives from the state and capital.
Faced with the bleak future that the state-capitalist system holds for us, we choose not
to remain mere spectators.
To make labor centers a starting point for the creation of struggle communities, folk
assemblies, squares, neighborhoods, labor and youth councils in workplaces, schools and
schools outside rational assignment, on the basis of self-organization.
About what happened in the strike demonstration
Given the treaty described above in the EWC, the clubs adjacent to PAME decided for the
first time to call in a strike gathering in front of the Workers' Center at 10 am rather
than at George's Square, as they are used to. In turn, the student clubs calling for an
independent pre-concentration in the Annex, wishing to support the challenge of the
leadership of the EIC by these unions and without wanting to under any circumstances be
forced to make their course behind the current leadership (whose call was at 10.30 at the
same spot), transfered their call for 9 am in the Annex so that later, around 10, meet in
a joint demonstration with the clubs at the EIC.
Naturally, we did not have delusions about what the clubs would be in the head, nor about
the inherent weaknesses that the attempt to jointly merge an independent merger with them
would have. A party, in fact a course, has no mood to interact with subjects alien to it
and would show it on the road.
However, as we said in a statement from Wednesday, "considering the interference and the
joint demonstration with the forces that constitute the independent concentration from the
Annex to General Strikes (student clubs, class, political organizations and unconquered
fighters) we decided to move our call for 9 am in the same spot. "
The responsibility of those who took the decision to transfer the call is important. On
the one hand, the achievements of the independent class gathering in Patras and the
creation of a third class pole in the strikes were undermined, and without achieving any
osmosis with the demonstration of the EIC, the concentration of the Annex seemed to be the
poor and undesirable relative as it attempted to isolate itself, initially by placing a
municipal garbage truck in the middle of the road and then clear chain closures between
PAME and other protesters. And one can not claim to be unaware of the hegemonic role that
PAME wants to have on the backs of workers and demonstrators.
As if this did not happen, the PAME Davavail of the concentration was even more explicit
when the course arrived at the new harbor near the venue of the Regional Congress of
Development and Production Reconstruction with central speakers the President of the
Republic, the Deputy Prime Minister and many ministers. At the sight of the police forces
that had blocked vertical Akti Dymaion Street with cages and five MATs, PAME's security
guarded a barrier so that no protester would be able to approach the police blockade. At
the same time, they conducted "negotiations" to allow the course to come closer to the
conference. In fact, the necessary guarantees were given by PAME to ensure the "smooth"
conduct of the concentration "without opening a nose". This statement is a movement of
controlling and demarcating demonstrators and suppressing those who are not subdued.
Operating as an informal, internal, repressive mechanism, the KKE, with PAME vehicle,
attempted to impose its hegemony on the road, to predetermine the extent and content of
social and class resistances by bringing them to measure.And one can not claim to be
unaware of the attitude of conciliation and the provision of guarantees that the PAME and
KKE forces often give to the police and the role of internal repression in the movement
they play. October 20, 2011, and keeping the House from PAME in place of MAT is not that far.
It is, therefore, even greater responsibility for those who have decided to stand behind
PAME and continue the demonstration when it is restarted after the "necessary" guarantees
have been provided. Because the rationale of reconciliation with police forces was
legitimized in the street, the meaning of intervention in the conference area was
distorted and all the prospect of conflict and rupture with the state and its
representatives at that time were in the area. So the decline of the MATs every other
advance meant for the movement. On the contrary, what happened was - we want to believe
moments - to retreat to the dangerous path of fatalism and the futile acceptance of the
hegemony of a party party mechanism on the road, through the imposition of a narrow
ideological framework of controlled protest.
As far as we are concerned, refusing to get behind the PAME concerts and from the
fatalistic view of the rest of the course, we walked out of the block where the police
block was set to the center of Patras.
If something worries us more, there is a small presence of a collective, organized and
intransigent with the institutions and the state, a subversive pole on the road. A
shortcoming that certainly prevents the strengthening of the social and class struggle and
is a brake on our constitution as a powerful movement that will put the question of the
overthrow of the state and capitalist dictatorship, the question of the social revolution,
in realistic terms. In this direction, we must all work even harder in the coming time,
while the delusions of reformist management are being demolished and the sold out party
and trade union leaderships are embedded in the hope of forming another inter-systemic
power pole.
Besides, the history of social and class struggles shows us that the proletarians have
nothing to expect from institutions, parliaments, elections, bureaucratic trade union
leaderships and class struggle mediators who talk to bosses for their charity. All they
have to win will be the result of their widespread, organized, militant and radical
struggles. Only the total overthrow of the state and capitalism, the social expropriation
of the wealth that we ourselves produce and pours out a caste of rulers, the organization
of the underground social and class counter-attack, the revolution for a new society of
communal, solidarity,
... until the overthrow of the world of state and capital, anarchy and libertarian communism!
anarchist group "dignified horse" & comrades, comrades
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Message: 7
Translated and edited from Sosyal Savas with additional edits from the Black Rose/Rosa
Negra Social Media Team. Anarchist activist Ishak Tayak has been arrested and accused of
being a member of the Islamic, pro-capitalist Gülen movement linked to the 2016 failed
coup attempt. In the pre-dawn hours of October 2, special ops police raided his Istanbul
home, where they beat him before taking him into custody. Ishak, a Kurdish self-identified
anarchist and atheist, was later charged with downloading a messaging app used by the
movement called Bylock in 2014. ---- Charges denied, lack of evidence ---- Ishak denies
the charges, as well as any ties with the Gülenists, and allegedly, the state has yet to
present substantial evidence supporting its claims. ---- "I am an anarchist, an atheist, a
person who defends the rights of nature, people, and animals," Ishak said in a statement.
Under the state of emergency, he says the rule of law has been suspended and any semblance
of justice discarded: "I'm being tried as a Gülenist-despite the fact that I'm an
anarchist and have no connections[to this or any organization]."
The Turkish state accuses the Gülenists, led by the US-based Muslim cleric Fetullah Gülen,
of orchestrating a July 15, 2016 coup attempt and considers it a terrorist organization.
In the months after the coup, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has
aggressively attempted to link dissidents-left and right-to the Gülenists, an effort to
both consolidate its power and justify heavy repression of the opposition. Over 50,000
people have been jailed in post-coup purges.
Pro-government media complicity
In the days after Ishak's arrest, pro-government media dubbed him "the most secret civil
Bylock user," making unsubstantiated claims about his alleged links to several opposition
groups.
"If you look at the news, you would think he's James Bond," Ishak's brother told Turkish
news site OdaTV.
The press says Ishak, an anarchist, actually infiltrated the anarchist movement and
spearheaded a 2012 May Day action. At the same time, it made unfounded claims about his
supposed connections to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Revolutionary People's
Liberation Front (DHKP-C), respectively a key political group in the freedom struggle of
Rojava and a Marxist political organization. By claiming a Gülenist has infiltrated the
anarchist movement-and trying to link that person to other major dissident movements-the
state shows it is prepared to carry out operations against anarchists, as it has against
Gülenists, PKK, DHKP-C and opposition political parties.
Ishak's actual history
But Ishak's personal history makes it equally clear he has no ties to any organization,
let alone a religious one. He was imprisoned for two and a half months after the 2012 May
Day action, and the case was dismissed in June for lack of evidence. As a university
student, Ishak found himself constantly in conflict with pro-Gülen/religious students as a
result of his atheism, according to testimony he gave during his arraignment. In 2011, he
even successfully applied to have "Islam" removed from the "religion" box on his ID card.
Ishak, who works fifty-plus hour weeks as a bartender and has time for little else, says
his lifestyle is incompatible with a conservative religious organization whose members
tend to be the well heeled and powerful. Ishak, aside from being an atheist and
anti-authoritarian, has long hair and beard. He also drinks alcohol and has tattoos and
multiple piercings, all prohibited by traditional Islam. As his brother told OdaTV, "All
of Ishak's beliefs and ideas are fundamentally opposed to[the Gülen movement]."
Remains in custody
Ishak is being held in Silivri Prison, a high-security facility, alongside others accused
of links with the Gülenist movement. While in custody, he has been harassed by prison
personnel demanding he cut his hair or else have his visitor rights revoked.
After two months of waiting-during which his lawyers were unable to see the contents of
his case file or learn the exact charges against him-Ishak has been given a February 13
court date.
In a court statement, he says was not taken to the hospital for rib pain resulting from
the beating he received from police.
For more background on the attempted 2015 coup in Turkey we recommend reading "The Coup in
Turkey: Tyranny against tyranny does not make freedom" by a member of Black Rose/Rosa
Negra and "Turkey: The Coup is the State, the Revolution is Liberty" by the Turkish
Anarchist group DAF.
Read more of our articles related to solidarity with struggles in Turkey.
http://blackrosefed.org/5768-2/
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Message: 8
This morning we took part at Market in Patras, Iroon Polytechniou Street. For more than
half an hour we stood in front of the store and distributed informative texts to
passers-by. We also threw tikki and we were writing down the front of the shop. Yesterday,
there was a temporary decision of the court that justifies the former employees of
Karipidis in Giannena and imposes their re-entry at Market in and the payment of accrued.
---- Solidarity with market in ---- Solidarity in the SSE of Ioannina, which received an
arson attack on its site ---- Organization and struggle in the workplace against
employers' self-esteem ---- Here is the text that was shared in the intervention. ----
SOLIDARITY IN EMPLOYEES ---- THE MARKET IN AND THE FORMER KARPIDIS ---- Mergers,
acquisitions, supermarket transfers made in the commerce area and the negative impact on
employees are well known. Such is the case with the Market in which, on 9/1/2017, they
bought 110 out of 130 supermarkets of Karypidis SA with the obligation, as provided by a
law, to hire all Market in and pay off the accrued of the 1400 employees in Karypidis SA,
who were unpaid from February 2016 (to remind us of the suicide of a 42-year-old worker in
Giannitsa because of her unpaid work in the company for a long time). Instead, the "MARKET
IN" employers obviously reduce salary operating costs in order to achieve the desired profits,
Following this proposal and its rejection by the union, strike and wider strikes started
on the part of the workers with the aim of re-employing all the redundancies and the
immediate payment of the accrued. In this context, a series of gatherings took place
outside Market In in Ioannina (always in the presence of strong police forces), beginning
on October 13, the inauguration day of the supermarket where the employers publicly said
that in a short time will re-hire all employees in that store. After that, and there was
no new thing about re-employing, on October 26 at the time of concentration outside the
supermarket,
On November 26, again, on the order of the employers, 2 workers were arrested (through the
process of self-defense) through their homes on the ground that they were participating in
the previous day's mobilization to claim their accrued income. At the same time, an entire
police operation was set up to capture the remaining workers and other fighters.
The culmination of employers' arbitrariness and terrorism, intimidation and repression
came on 14 December, a day of strike strike, where the employers, in order to break the
strike and terrorize the struggling world, recruited henchmen (some of them belonging to
the Athens Stock Exchange ). There was a struggle with the strikers, who made it clear to
the fascist heroes that any move attempts to stand against their struggle and their
claims, would also take the corresponding answer.
At the dawn of December 15th, one day after the heroes' challenges to the strike, the
goldsmiths of the owner of Market In in Ioannina, they attacked Molotov at the offices of
the Liberation Union, at the Unconventional Trend Trade Union, hoping that they would
terrorize those who support the workers' struggle.
On the morning of December 15, a vigorous and secure gathering took place outside Market
In, with the henchmen licking behind the downstairs shutters of the next arcade, with
hidden crannies and fire extinguishers, some of whom appeared cocooned in front of the
supermarket shelves.
The situation in Market In (as in many workplaces) does not
are unfortunate moments and isolated incidents in an otherwise different treaty. They are
the rule of a working jungle that is shaped piece-by-piece jointly by governments and
employers. They are an integral part of the modern working middle age that is established
day by day and is built with blood and over the bodies of the working majority. Accidents,
redundancies, over-devoted labor, deadly hours, abusive working conditions, double and
triple posts, inadequate security measures, unpaid and uninsured labor, low wages, wage
and pension cuts, the abolition of collective bargaining, the constant blackmailing of
unemployment with armies of the unemployed and under-employed in conditions of poverty and
social exclusion, the abolition of Sunday's holidays, employers' arbitrariness and
terrorism make up the brutal reality that we are experiencing today all workers. A reality
that is complemented by the overt violation of any labor and social acquis and by the
frantic assault on any form of unionism (such as the new law on strikes, the arrests of
workers claiming their accruals, the persecution of your union members Waiter Waiter, the
dismissal of a worker at Vicko for claiming his accruals and targeting Mass Workers for
their action).
For our part, we can only say that we stand by the side of the workers who claim their
rights and strive for a life of dignity. We stand beside all the fighters who, despite
repression, intimidation, arrests and terrorism, are not bending and continue their fair
fight against employers' arbitrariness and terrorism, but also against the fascist bosses
of the bosses. We stand beside those who try to break the climate of defeatism, fear and
frustration, standing up against the attack of the state and the bosses.
Against the generalized terrorism and repression, in the conditions of slavery and
impoverishment imposed by the state and the bosses in the workplace, there is another way.
The way of organizing workers, resistance and social-class struggle. Employees themselves,
the unemployed, the youth, the locals and the immigrants, knowing our real needs, have to
take life in our hands, organize and fight, collectively, self-organized and uninvolved,
in every social and working space, schools and faculties, workplaces, neighborhoods and
streets. With grassroots clubs and employee initiatives to shape the militant union of the
base and to claim that we belong to it, away from the trade union elites which have a
complementary role in terms of employability.
TO RETURN THE DEPRECIATION OF WORKERS IN KARYPIDI
IMMEDIATELY BE LOSSED
SOLIDARITY IN THE FREE UNION OF IOANNINA, WHO INDICATES THE ATTACK OF THE BENEFITS OF THE
AFFIDENTS IN THEIR AREA (CONDUCT)
BATTLE FASHIONS DRAWN LOWER HANDS FROM MARKET IN RACE
ORGANIZATION AND COMPETITION AGAINST ERADODOTIC AUTHORITY AND TERRORISM
anarchist group "dense horse" / FROM
comrades and companions
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