Anarchic update news all over the world - 22.01.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, SOLIDARITY IN MADE OF PALESTINE By APO (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, Leicester Communist Anarchism: Front line in the
      class war -- Child Poverty in Leicestershire & Rutland and
      Leicester City (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  CNT-Solidarité Ouvrière: Rally solidarity strike Holiday
      Inn Clichy (94 days!) (fr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, solfed: Join the Smash IPP March on the 14th Feb
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Factory Occupations in Australia by ASF Melbourne North
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  .Murray BOOKCHIN, The next revolution: from popular
      assemblies to direct democracy (it) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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  "My name is Ahmed Tamimi, I am 16 years old, Palestinian. I have been kidnapped by the 
Israeli authorities since December 19, invading my house, hitting my mother and brothers 
because I have been struggling against a military occupation from a child. " ---- "My name 
is Ibrahim Abu Turaya, and I was executed by an Israeli army sniper on 15 December, 
because although I lost my feet in their attack a decade ago, I have never lost the 
courage to protested even with my wheelchair.» ---- My Name Is Resistance! ---- In early 
December, the US president proclaims Jerusalem the capital of the Israeli state, stating 
at the same time that Israel is one of the most "successful democracies in the world". 
East Jerusalem is under Israeli military occupation after the "Six Day War" in 1967 and 
the US President's declaration. is a clear challenge that seeks to cancel the recognition 
of East Jerusalem as occupied territory and to ratify for decades the practical challenge 
of the "international character" of the city by the State of Israel.

It is a continuation of a plan that practically aims to expel the Palestinians from an 
area with huge symbolic displacement for themselves - as for the peoples of the whole 
region. This plan is being implemented on a long-term basis through the Israeli 
settlement-rich fundraising and large land acquisitions on the eastern side of the city, 
at the same time as putting permanent obstacles for the Palestinians through the 
imposition of a "conditional" residence regime for people born and they grew up there as 
their ancestors. A modern Apartheid that has imposed one of the "most successful 
democracies in the world," a state that is a model of militarization and enforcement,

The embargo on Gaza and the wall built around it, leading to huge food and drug 
deficiencies, a ban on travel and military control venues, land abandonment, house 
shuffling, child arrests, massive imprisonment, murders by snipers, the bombing, are not 
images of the future dystopia of modern totalitarianism, the depraved dictatorship of the 
state and capital. It is the reality that it is already imposing on Palestine, where 
governance through the normalization of terror is articulating methodically and steadily 
at the expense of millions of people. From this point of view, the Israeli state is indeed 
a model state for Western democracies, a pioneer of modern totalitarianism,

At the same time, with regard to the geostrategic aspirations of the Western bloc of power 
whose motive power is the US state, the Israeli state is a stable ally in the Middle East 
region. An area which, in order to control, proceeds to decay social life, prizing 
theocratic dictatorships such as that of Saudi Arabia, creating feudal zones of influence, 
imposing the law of expansionist war. The proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of 
Israel is a message with many recipients. Towards the Turkish state whose expansionist 
aspirations and pursuit of upgrading its power in the Eastern Mediterranean region go 
through "high risk" movements that act as an unpredictable factor. Towards the state of 
Iran - a traditional rival of the Israeli state in the region - which is in constant 
economic growth after the lifting of the sanctions in 2015, sanctions which the new 
president of the United States he suggests that he can reinstate. It is also a message of 
strength to the whole international community, the arena of states and transnational power 
blocs, as "recognition" is an obvious violation of the UN's decisions on the military 
occupation of East Jerusalem. A violation in which a state of pariah does not, but once 
again the leading power of the world power system, emphatically proclaiming that there is 
only one "law" in the world of state and capitalism. That of the powerful that is 
forcefully imposed on the weak.

In this power arena, the people of Palestine are a pendulum to be settled, a population 
struggling to be able to simply exist. And the Israeli people are a value of use, a 
society that must be eternally at war and militarized in the same way as the state. The 
centuries of coexistence of different national and religious groups in the region must be 
eradicated in a war of interdependence, where undoubtedly the role of the powerful imposed 
by all means is given to it by the state of Israel.

The resistance of the Palestinian people to military occupation is a constant thorn in the 
timeless plans of world powers. Poor and excluded from the elementary Palestinians despite 
crippling policies brought against them are not delivered, fighting for freedom and 
dignity. These elements of the game we want to highlight as anarchists, the ability to 
fights conquered the mighty conqueror, the ability of the poor and the excluded to revolt 
and under the most brutal conditions. International solidarity we want to create rifts 
within the ruling attackers bringing attention to our own history, the history of the 
struggles from below against at all times,

SOLIDARITY IN THE PALESTINE AGENDA AXENT TAMIMI

AGAINST THE MODERN INTEGRATION OF STATE AND CAPITAL

DECLARATION IN THE AMERICAN EMBASSY: SATURDAY 20/1, 18:00 CONSTITUTION

Anarchist Collectives "Omikron72" and "Circle of Fire"
- members of the Anarchist Political Organization

http://apo.squathost.com/

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Leicester Anarchist Communists note from an article in the 11th January Leicester Mercury 
that Leicestershire County Council, in order to save £3.8 million, is set to shut down 
over half of the county's Children & Family Centres - that's 25 out of 40 of those 
facilities used by those families most in need. In a county where at last estimate (Dec 
2015) at least 12,700 children (that's over 15% of those under 18) were deemed to be 
living in poverty, it's hard not to be appalled by the level of callousness. ---- Tory 
austerity and Tory County Council though, innit, some might say and while we would agree 
that Tories are indeed a vile, callous bunch, at some point or other, councils of whatever 
political stripe have all been guilty of similar behaviour at various times - and 
Leicester City Council (Labour) has been no stranger to making cuts to services for the 
most needy. Incidentally, more recent research on child poverty within the City 
boundaries, according to the Leicestershire Child Poverty Commission, states that "26,000 
children and young people are growing up in poverty in Leicester." That's more than a 
staggering 30% of children and young people.

This all becomes even more obscene when you realise that not only is Leicestershire far 
from being one of the nation's poorest counties (Uncle Wikipedia says it's actually the 
18th richest), it's also home to people like (sorry Foxes fans) Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, 
currently worth £2.8 billion; John Bloor (of John Bloor investments), worth £1.45 billion; 
Will Adderly and family (Dunelm Group), worth £1.2 billion... and then there's a veritable 
shitload of millionaires in tow, starting with Peter and Sir Roger De Haan, worth a cool 
900 million quid. We say 'worth' but in terms of their contributions to the general 
betterment of humanity, this lot really aint worth shit.

The problem, of course, is not whether it's Tory, Labour or some other chumps running the 
council (or central government, for that matter), the problem is capitalism itself. And 
the shutting down of such centres is just all part and parcel of a system that exploits 
workers and shits on the poorest most. We're talking about an ongoing class war, and this, 
coupled with things like continual wage restraint, massive rent rises, the lack of social 
housing, the introduction of Universal Credit and general attacks on those receiving 
benefits... these are all battles in this war that only one side appears to be fighting at 
the minute: them, the rich, the government, the boss class. But we really need to wise up 
and start defending ourselves by coming together at work, in our communities, with our 
fellow tenants to organise and fight back.

By the way, in a final messed up irony, to save that £3.5 million, Leicestershire County 
Council might end up having to pay back £5.8 million of grants already received from 
central government as a result of shutting down these centres! You really could not make 
it up.

Sources:
Leicester Mercury on children centres closing
End Child Poverty website - poverty in your area
Leicester Child Poverty Commission
Richest counties - Wikipedia
Mercury - Leicestershire rich list 2017

https://communistanarchism.blogspot.co.il/2018/01/front-line-in-class-war.html

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Since 19 October, chambermaids, housekeepers, divers and crew members of subcontracting 
with their union CNT-SO and with the support of the CGT-HPE are on strike at the Holiday 
Inn Paris Porte de Clichy (92 ). This conflict is emblematic of the fight against 
outsourcing and the breakage of workers' rights. ---- To show our solidarity with the 
strikers and increase the pressure against IHG, the owner of the Holiday Inn brand, let us 
gather in front of the hotel Intercontinental de Marseille, palace of the same group. A 
delegation of strikers will be present in parallel to another action in Geneva. ---- Rogue 
subcontractors, IHG complices!  ---- HOLIDAY INN as INTERCONTINENT AL is one of the brands 
of the British hotel group IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group, the world's largest hotel 
group in terms of the number of rooms.
Based in London, this 400 million profit multinational has 4400 hotels worldwide and 6 
brands: Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, InterContinentalHotels & ResHoliday Inn, Orts, 
Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo and Staybridge Suites.
IHG derives some of its profits from the frenzied exploitation of outsourcing employees 
but refuses to intervene in this conflict with its subcontractor HEMERA. This gathering 
will be an opportunity to remind them of their social responsibility, in Clichy as in 
Marseille!

Against the outsourcing system that overexploits and pressurizes workers: rally at 14:30, 
Saturday, January 20 before the Intercontinental hotel (1 place Daviel - Marseille 2 °)

The leaflet: http: //www.cnt-so. org / 13 /spip.php? article253

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Jion the smash IPP march and protest  on the 14th February meeting outside 12 Minshull St, 
Manchester M1 3FR ( Probation Office ) This March is to get IPP sentences abolished 
retrospectively. The government have said its wrong yet 4000 prisoners still remain, 
including Ian Hartley, a prisoner at HMP Risley. His family need him home! ---- More than 
4000 people are serving IPP (imprisonment for public protection) sentences in British 
prisons. Six years since the sentence was abolished, thousands still languish in jails 
with no release date. Parole board delays, prison overcrowding and sheer neglect is 
leading unprecedented rates of prisoner suicides and mental health problems. 80% are over 
tariff and desperate to be free ---- 
https://m.facebook.com/IPP-prisoner-campaign-Free-Ian-Hartley-358380207932223-- 
Http://smashipp.noflag.org.uk -- Http://www.facebook.com/smashipp
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/15/ipp-prisoners-james-ward-jail-sentences-parole
https://howardleague.org/blog/ending-the-injustice-of-ipps/

http://www.solfed.org.uk/manchester/join-the-smash-ipp-march-on-the-14th-feb

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Sunday, January 28 at 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM UTC+11 Next Week ---- 62 St Georges Rd, Northcote 
VIC 3070, Australia ---- This presentation examines the history of factory occupations in 
Australia with a focus on the seminal but largely ignored episode in Australian labour 
history. In 1979, the Altona Petrochemical Complex was the scene of a historic 
materialisation of class struggle, when 52 workers occupied the Union Carbide plant for a 
period of 51 days. It was, and remains, the longest factory occupation in Australian 
history. Occupations, generally, represent not only a challenge to the immediate party 
involved but a fundamental critique of the existing social, political and economic order, 
and in that sense must be understood within a broader milieu of resistance to the 
imperatives of power. Furthermore, the act of occupation is an occurrence that can be 
designated as a "weapon of the weak." Factory occupations are the highest and most 
audacious form of occupation as they, like all occupations, challenge the supposed 
inviolability of property, but transcend the potentialities of other occupations by 
challenging the property and privileges of the ruling class. The Union Carbide Sit-in 
Strike constituted one such challenge.

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These days will be available the new book published by the publishing house of the Franco 
Serantini Library (BFS editions): ---- 188 pp.: ill.; 21 cm ---- "Marginal" necklace. € 
18.00 ---- ISBN 978-88-89413-91-3 ---- Preface and care of the Italian edition of Martino 
Seniga ---- Introduction by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor ---- Afterword by Ursula K. 
Le Guin ---- Murray Bookchin's essays, published in this book, start from the merciless 
analysis of the desolate scenery of the capitalist society of the twenty-first century, 
from the ecological disaster to the increase in social inequities and injustices, but have 
the courage to propose a new, revolutionary path and democratic, for all those who believe 
that progress can be associated with social justice and collectivism.

Without imagining, in an unrealistic way, of overthrowing globalized society, Bookchin 
proposes a feasible strategy for the international left, a strategy that re-launching the 
relationship between citizens and local communities finds in the direct democracy and in 
popular assemblies the tools to relaunch social policies , democratic and progressive in 
the era of global capitalism.

That proposed by Bookchin and a libertarian and glocal democracy that aspires to change 
for the better the future of mankind and the planet in which we live. A utopia that has 
already inspired the Kurdish people who, also from Bookchin's thesis, drew the ideological 
impulse to create in Libya and in Turkey new libertarian and egalitarian communities 
united in the Confederalist democratic project. A political and social project that in 
Rojava contributed to the victorious battle of Kurdish men and women against the army of 
cutthroats and rapists of the Islamic State and in Bakur supports resistance to the harsh 
repression of the Turkish state in Kurdistan's cities and free municipalities of the north.

Books without frontiers for a critical culture

Franco Serantini Library (BFS Editions) will be available in these days:

Murray Bookchin, the next revolution: from popular assemblies to direct democracy.
188 PP.: ill.; 21 cm
Margin necklace ". € 18.00
ISBN 978-88-89413-91-3

Preface and care of the Italian Edition of Martino Patras

Introduction of Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor

Books without frontiers for a critical culture

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