Anarchic update news all over the world - 7.01.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Ireland, OUT NOW!! Barricade Bulletin #5 from Derry
      Anarchists! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  freedom news uk: Argentina: An open letter against
      repression of the Mapuche (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Décembre - Read:
      Chuzeville, "A short revolutionary moment" (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, af london: Event: Meeting on future of London AF
      group (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





OUT NOW!! Barricade Bulletin #5 from Derry Anarchists is now available online and in hard 
copy format at selected venues locally in Derry and from members. Make sure you pick up 
your copy!

  Join the Anarchists!  Clic
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q77gK-1ZK38-sFPxH9EP6Tk4KnH6vfTu/view

http://derryanarchists.blogspot.co.il/2018/01/out-now-barricade-bulletin-5-from-derry.html

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Message: 2





The below statement sees progressive groups explain how Argentine security services, which 
recently set up taskforce to tackle what they call the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance are 
deliberately conflating many different campaigns to justify political repression. ---- On 
December 27th a 180-page report entitled RAM, prepared by the Ministry of Security of the 
Nation in conjunction with the provincial governments of Río Negro, Neuquén and Chubut, 
was officially released and once again criminalised, demonised and persecuted the Mapuche 
peoples who organise and resist; along with left and anarchist social militants. ---- 
Through intentionally unfounded characterisations and based on elements of judicial 
investigations that have not yet been closed but are regardless presented as evidence of 
"violence and danger" of the so-called "RAM group," the unforgiving fascist and Education 
Minister Esteban  Bullrich declares it is "a movement that promotes the insurrectionist 
struggle and that does not recognise the Argentine State nor the legislation of the 
provinces."

This report links several groups as if they had some kind of direct relationship and as 
if, a priori, they had committed some crime when their only actions were to show 
solidarity in the face of the brutal repression of Mapuche communities that have already 
left a balance of two dead: Santiago Maldonado and Rafael Nahuel. In the Reference Report, 
96 legal cases are linked from 2010 onwards, all open or even closed for lack of merit, 
and various popular rallies and public activities, as if they were developed as part of 
the framework of a campaign by this group they call RAM; confusingly mixing anarchist 
political organisations and alternative means of communication. These judicial assemblies 
were also driven by the State in Brazil, Spain and Chile towards libertarian sectors and 
other fighters.

The State, again, tries to demonise and divide diverse popular movements with the 
objective of creating an internal enemy, a scapegoat that justifies the vertiginous 
increase of repression against social protest before the permanent anti-popular measures 
that it carries out. They try to imply that criticising and organising against the unfair 
murders that their troopers caused is, in itself, a criminal act. It seems that solidarity 
with the Kurdish movement, which faces the worst of ISIS, implies terrorism. They want a 
national consensus that those who fight for better working conditions, or for education, 
or in solidarity for the rights of all, are criminals.

At the same time, as the State tries to soil the image of the Mapuche people, the report 
accuses them of "ethno-nationalists" for fighting against the historic colonialism that 
the Argentine and Chilean States unleashed on the indigenous peoples in campaigns of 
extermination and in the dispossession of territory, given without regard to powerful 
businessmen and international capitalists, hoping to sow confusion and reinforce existing 
racism. We reject, in all respects, the unfounded and malicious accusations of the 
Ministry of Security and the provincial governments of Chubut, Río Negro and Neuquén and 
we sympathise with the organisations and people from different sectors of the people 
mentioned above.

This report and its political intent is a trick of the government of Cambiemos in the face 
of enormous mobilisations linked to the disappearance and death of Santiago Maldonado, by 
the request of justice for the murder of Rafael Nahuel and for the legitimate self-defense 
that he exercised in this hot December and on the streets by the most vulnerable working 
people. Pensioners and women who receive the Universal Allowance for Children. Police left 
a balance of at least four popular activists with the loss of the vision of an eye. Where 
is the confrontation? It is what they bring us because they do not know how to deal with 
the dignified organisation and repudiation of their conduct by these peoples who, little 
by little, begin to say ¡Basta! and to put a brake on adjustment policies.

And this repressive plan goes hand-in-hand with the reforms package and the measures 
they're taking to try and cheapen the workforce throughout the Latin American region.

The headline of the Report is that it suggests the "RAM" is guilty of violence, showing 
the August 1st solidarity actions for jailed Mapuche activist Facundo Jones Huala where 
they have a photo showing Santiago Maldonado. Also appearing as proof are photos of work 
tools such as saws, screwdrivers, stones - a gross mockery.

About the Report and who this aims to criminalise
Their list of people and organizations directly or indirectly involved with the RAM is 
long and tedious, outrageous because every day we put our strength to build a world where 
patriarchal, racist, capitalist injustice does not reign, extractivist, from the original 
communities as from piquetero, union, feminist, human rights, union, and social organisations.

To all the popular fighters we offer our solidarity against the government's demonisation 
and we call on the social organisations to repudiate and stop this miserable scenario that 
they are preparing. As a way to contribute to the information, we disseminate what appears 
in the Ministry of Security's Report:

Link

Freedom to Facundo Jones Huala!
Justice for Santiago Maldonado and Rafael Nahuel!
Up those who fight!

The Mapuche flag, pic by M MG
Signatories
Socialist Libertarian Action
Black Antenna
Solidaridad Obrera Trade Union Confederation (Spain)
<snip>

https://freedomnews.org.uk/argentina-an-open-letter-against-repression-of-the-mapuche/

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In 1920, at the Congress of Tours, the Socialist Party broke up in two. The majority, 
inspired by the Russian Revolution, became the French section of the Communist 
International. The minority, behind Leon Blum, retains the name of Socialist Party. The 
split is consumed. ---- There is, however, a lot of uncertainty about the identity of this 
very young PC, a pluralist formation that looks nothing like the monolithic Stalinist 
party it will be ten years later. His leadership is in the hands of ex-socialist, 
social-chauvinist parliamentarians from the previous day who aspired to regain virginity 
under Lenin's banner. But there are also real internationalists who resisted the war, like 
Fernand Loriot and Boris Souvarine. Soon, they will receive the support of revolutionary 
syndicalists and former anarchists, like Pierre Monatte. For four years, these very 
different tendencies are tearing themselves apart on the political line and the mode of 
operation of the party ... but none is very eager to convert to Bolshevism, which Moscow 
tries to inculcate in them by means of committing missives.

Julien Chuzeville recounts the unfortunate childhood of the Communist Party, which had 
nothing heroic, quite the opposite: in the grip of centrifugal forces, in a context of 
strong ebb and flow of workers' struggles, under the constant beatings of Moscow. The 
party will survive only at the price of an authoritarian stiffening, by systematizing the 
collective exclusions and the language of pseudo-Leninist wood. Result: a massive flight 
of members, and their replacement by much smaller but much more disciplined recruits.

 From this excavated book, two shortcomings will be missed. First, protagonists just 
sketched out: Marthe Bigot, Amédée Dunois, Pierre Monatte, Boris Souvarine, Fernand Loriot 
or "   Captain Treint   " were real personalities, who deserved to be more incarnated. 
Secondly, a focus on internal PCF debates without context illustration. Thus, the book 
says almost nothing of the trade union and political struggles of the years 1920-1922, of 
the role that the Communists play there, and of the deterioration of their relations with 
the socialists and the anarchists. Yet all of this necessarily plays a role in the 
mutation of the PCF. For example, the fierce - and sometimes bloody - fight against " 
anarcho-syndicalists"  In the CGTU will encourage, within the PCF, sectarianism and a use 
of slander at levels hitherto unknown in the French labor movement ... but characteristics 
of Stalinism in the making.

William Davranche (AL Montreuil)

Julien Chuzeville, A short revolutionary moment. The creation of the Communist Party in 
France (1915-1924), Libertalia, 2017, 536 pages, 20 euros.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Parti-communiste-Un-court-moment-revolutionnaire

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Message: 4






The London Anarchist Federation is in a period of flux as in the last six months some long 
standing members have moved out of the city and most recently three members resigned from 
the national organisation. As such we're putting a call out to any anarchists who want to 
organise in London. As we're building the group up this is a great time to help shape the 
future direction, bring new ideas and projects and get involved with other anarchists. 
---- We're holding a meeting at the Common House on 6th Jan 12:30 -3.30 to discuss what we 
want to do- all welcome! ---- Things we've done in the past: ---- Host public meetings- 
these have been on everything from current affairs to history and anarchist theory. They 
were a mixed success. The ones we promoted well had 50 people come, the ones we didn't 
promote only had 5!

Publish Rebel City- this is an anarchist newspaper in London with 4,000 circulation and 
published every three months. We publish this with a collective of other anarchists and 
hope to continue. Help needed writing, editing, formatting and distributing.

Help with national publications- the national anarchist federation publish a magazine, 
Organise, and a newspaper, Resistance, which we've helped write, edit and distribute.

Campaigns: radical assembly, radical housing network, antifascism, housing and workplace 
struggles...

What we could do in the future: any project you want help from other anarchists to pull 
off! Could be putting on gigs, inviting high profile speakers to London, helping with the 
antiuniversity or keeping the bookfair going. Bring some ideas!

Aims and principles of the organisation are here: http://www.afed.org.uk/about/

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/event-meeting-on-future-of-london-af-group/

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