Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Maintenance-river,
Restoring other perspectives to trade unionism by Redac (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. US, black rose fed: ICE RAIDS & RESISTANCE: AN INTERVIEW
WITH BLACK ROSE/ROSA NEGRA - AUSTIN (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. freedom news: Ursula Le Guin dies aged 88 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki: Call for solidarity
with the arrested 22/1 | PREPARATION 26/1 (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, solfed: Cambridge Radical Social #02 2018, Sunday
28th January 2018 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. cgt-lkn: Thanks, Paco; thanks, Pepe: performative universals
(Opinion article by Rafael Cid) (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: Work Calendar for 2018
rozbrat.org (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Union unity, unity in struggles, historical lighting ... An interview-river with four
revolutionary syndicalists - Theo Roumier (SUD-Educ), Christian Mahieux (SUD-Rail),
Jean-Yves Lesage (CGT-Book) and Guillaume Goutte (CGT-Correctors) - gathered by the
Autrefutur.net website. ---- Number 6 of the journal Union Syndicale Solidaires, Les
Utopiques, was devoted to the mobilizations against the labor laws. On this occasion, it
seemed interesting to question, with contributors from different trade unions, the
difficulties and possible prospects of trade unionism and social mobilization. ---- The
theme of unity has occupied many minds in recent months, both at the union and political
levels. But beyond the question of unity, or even union unification, it is the possible
place of trade unionism today, at the heart of a dynamic of emancipatory social
transformation, that has been questioned.
Interviewed by Fabien Delmotte
To read on the Autrefutur.net website
http://www.autrefutur.net/Redonner-d-autres-perspectives-au-syndicalisme-echanges-autour-de-la-revue-Les
Housewives strike at the Holiday Inn hotel in Clichy.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Redonner-d-autres-perspectives-au-syndicalisme
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In February 2017, Austin, TX was rocked by a series of protests over ICE raids that
resulted in over 50 immigrants being detained. Despite backlash from school
administration, students played an active role in the mobilizations as they staged walk
outs, highway take overs and street protests. The oppressive role of police goes beyone
killing black and brown people on the street. In this interview A World Without Police
(AWWP) explores the broader function the police and court system serve in their
collaboration with ICE in attacking immigrant communities. ---- Luis is a member of Black
Rose/Rosa Negra in Austin involved in immigration and worker organizing. He's been active
with ICE Out, an organization that seeks to end the Priority Enforcement Program and all
conflation of local law enforcement with Immigration in Austin.
Listen to the interview here
We also recommend checking out other podcasts with members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra:
Mark Bray, author of Antif
http://blackrosefed.org/interview-luis-ice-austin/
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One of the most influential writers of her generation, author of possibly the most famous
anarchist science fiction ever penned, Le Guin passed away at home after a short illness.
---- While many will remember her for the Earthsea series, The Dispossessed was perhaps Le
Guin's most enduring work for anarchists, a deep, nuanced and beautifully written
reflection on the potential of Utopia on the anarchist planet of Anarres and the nature of
collectivism. ---- Le Guin's interest in anarchist thinking grew out of reading a wide
variety of pacifist works, beginning with Ghandi and Martin Luther King before delving
into the thinking of Peter Kropotkin and the non-violent anarchist movements that had
grown up in the '60s. From the '70s onwards her writing, which embraced a huge range of
progressive topics, remained a lodestone for anarchist authors worldwide.
Never a noisy personality, Le Guin was an active campaigner for justice for much of her
life, particularly in the peace movement - she was nine when Germany invaded Poland and
all three of her brothers went to war. She marched against nuclear testing, for civil
rights and spoke out strongly against the Iraq War.
She noted toward the end of her life that she still loved the anarchist pacifists and
remained a committed peacenik, supporting Oakland protesters and once reminding an
interviewer that "my heart belongs to Anarres!"
https://freedomnews.org.uk/ursula-le-guin-dies-aged-88/
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On Sunday 21/1/2018 a rally for Macedonia was organized in our city. The rally was
advertised for 2 weeks by the media - almost daily newspapers - local shops (the patriotic
feeling of which is so pure that for every euro they gave for our "national question" they
were rewarded by posting their brand as "sponsor communication "in floaters and posters),
local cultural clubs, priests, Nazi groups, religious groups and various other
nationalists and commenders. The rally began at 14:00 with people gathering on the beach
earlier. And what we did not see in this far-right fiesta that filled us with "national
pride": Nazi subordinate MPs march in, right-wing, diverse national patriotism
self-identities that normally come out of their house first looking five times out of the
balcony to finally be somewhere acceptable, guys and princesses in traditional costumes to
dance traditional dances, other types of dressed carnivals, carrying shields and helmets!
), something "levanto" - cavers from Crete (!): in short, declared neo-Nazis,
hidden-fascists, judeo-papadas and Christian-Lithuanians, sprawled, reputable far-right
politicians, what was more rotten and foolish about contemporary Greek "civilization",
next to the otherwise "peaceful" patriots. Although, as it turned out, a very small
portion of the latter had, for a while,
At the time of gathering the fascists of our city (and not only) found the opportunity to
do what they could not do for the remaining 364 days. Gangs of hot children who "live"
dangerously only on the facebook and normally not even tricky can not fly out of fear and
fall on the antifascists of the city (the notion of the city), having the aid of the same
dregs of the whole country and some of them like they found the opportunity with the backs
of a rally of thousands (who might not necessarily be friendly to them, but certainly not
willing to isolate them) made a series of attacks in kinematic spaces.
Initially they attacked the occupation of the ESC School. The team of fascists moved on to
Vas. Olga, where they attacked the building by shouting "Anarchists and Bolsheviks do not
belong to you". The attack was easily repelled by the patronage of the building, which was
flanked by comrades and comrades of various collectives, including ours. We should make
two comments here. On the one hand, regarding the attitude of the cops: while an entire
squadron was standing just a few meters away, he was "involved" after 5 minutes of the
war, making gestures together with the fascists and hitting them friendly on the back (the
classic "come mad arrives"). On the other hand, on the coverage of the event by SMEs that
have leaked recitals. The attack of fascists on a occupied building was transformed into
an "attack by the anarchists in the occupation of passers-by holding Greek flags, which
led to the assault of" protesters "in the building. We have no illusion about the role of
the media and their representatives, but this gepellized cutting-off of reality is
surprising even to us, which we have been accustomed to for years. Dear "journalists" of
this site (voria.gr and thestival.gr ), to say politely: it is a good idea to keep your
distances from the kinematic events from now on.
After the attack on the ESC School, another group of fascists attacked the occupation of
Libertatia on the Army. Having the banner of the Ideadopolis circle (another fascist band
of the plaque that does not dare to announce its seat) for Macedonia and shouting slogans
for "national resistance" attacked the fence of the building and fired torches inside it.
The comrades and comrades of the occupation, who were at the time of the attack on the
anti-nationalist concentration of Kamara, went to the occupation and restored the damages
of the building. Two hours later the fascists again attacked the occupation with molotov
and flares, causing a fire that led to the complete arson of the building. The first two
comments are the same: the cops, MAT and insurers, were standing at a distance from the
building at a time when the fascists flashed and whistled indifferently, while the media
(including ERT3) did not talk about fascists but "hooded" by depoliticizing the potential
assassination offensive. The culmination of the mercenary tragedy was the closing phrase
of the "reportage" telling us that "police are investigating the causes of the fire" (!).
There is also a third comment to be made here on Boutaris 'statements on the arson of
Libertatia: "The building was burned by two PAOKsides' opposing groups. Half were
ultra-nationalists, the others were anarchists, "said this policy giant. There is an eye
for the agony of every kind of cops, cops, journalists, mayors to depoliticise the Nazi
attack.
Conflicts - of these ... friendly ones that just keep the guys - were also made between
the fascists and the MATs in Navarino when the former tried to attack the anti-nationalist
concentration of Kamara. The fascists never reached the preservation of concentration.
During the day, other "interventions" were made by the fascists, such as the mention of
the words "Golden Dawn" on the Holocaust memorial in memory of Greek Jews and the
vandalism of the banner of the exhibition of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,
which had the symbols of 3 religions (of Christianity, Islamism and Judaism).
To put it simply, all kinds of fascist who are all year round excluded and chased by the
streets of the city, forced to gather without announcing the part of the concentration
from the fear of anti-fascists, and when, finally, with the many can manage to appear (and
the ... 30) on the road, they have to keep many of them from the same squadrons in order
not to flatter them, they found an opportunity with the rally for Macedonia to get out of
their holes. It is also characteristic that the Synod Coordination Committee felt the need
to make a public announcement condemning the attack on Zurari by saying that those who did
it had "nothing to do with the main body of the hundreds of thousands of people who have
demonstrated peacefully, but they did not feel the need to do anything analogous to the
attacks of organized and equipped fascist groups that either came out of the gathering or
went to it. The reason is simple: the covert fascists who organized the rally in no way
would condemn their brothers who once were able to act openly. So let us consider those
who went down to the rally but do not belong to the fascist space, what exactly do they
support, what phenomena give the space to grow.
The people of the struggle, the exploited and the oppressed, all and all of us who have
not forgotten the brutality for which they are able to display these stones of the human
species, have just taken over their vital space, we must drastically curb any attempt to
develop Nazism / fascism and social cannibalism in the social-based world. We have to
crush fascism in the whole social field in which we move and live: in the streets, in the
work, in the schools and in the schools, in our neighborhoods. Do not let the earth go
into action free.
Against the reactionary and disciplined voices that defamatoryly (or ignorantly or
politically) criticize the bullet of violence from wherever it comes, we reply that
proletarian anti-violence is a means of social and class self-defense and counter-attack
to prevent social conditions generalized violence and enforcement. It is a response of the
oppressed to their oppressors, for which we now enjoy any "rights" - which in times of
crisis are rapidly abolished - such as the eighth hour and the right to strike (perhaps to
mention what characteristics). "We are sorry," but we do not intend to ask our oppressors
and oppressors what instruments they believe is "legitimate" to use in our attempt to shed
the yoke of capital and the state above us.
We have no illusion that the finishing blow to fascism will come through the legal way
from the hands of the state, since fascism is a weapon of the bourgeoisie itself. It is a
fatal error to consider fascism from the bottom as a manifestation of naivety and
graphicness, or as something of a kindness, let alone that it is perishable through
negligence and negligence. The historical experience is quite clear about this. Fascism is
inextricably linked to capitalism. It is the ultimate and the most aggressive reserve of
capital that is put to use when capitalism is shaken internally by its structural judgments.
The oppressed and exploiting of this world do not have to divide anything between us. We
are in the same class camp, despite the narrative narratives that want to perpetuate
political freedom and economic exploitation from the bottom. Our common enemy is the
state, their capital and their long hand, fascism, and not the people who are in the same
social and class position as us. We must not let the bosses separate us on the basis of
race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender, and any other dividing line (straight /
lgbtqia +, legal worker / paperless, woman / man, white / a.).
To create ties of international solidarity. To organize ourselves. To fight back.
Catch the fascists and those who make them back.
Fascists and bosses in the bottom well, lust the world proletariat.
Solidarity in occupation of Libertatia
FASHIONS, AS YOU WILL GREEN. YOUR DAY ENDED: BACK TO NORMAL NOW. BACK TO YOUR HOLES!
??. Both in the attack on the ESC School and in the occupation of Libertatia, people with
PAOK badge were leaders. During the arson of the second one, the slogan "PAOK 4.
Macedonian land Greek" was written on the outer wall of the courtyard. PAOK is a refugee
group, a group of hardliners, a group of refugee neighborhoods and poverty. It is very sad
to see the history, the cultural and social wealth of this association being used and
messed up by a few dozen fascists who are whipping them.
__________________________
The following day, Monday, 22/1, was called a reflection on the occupation of Libertatia,
which was flanked by nearly 2,500 people. Just a few meters further, at the junction of
Delphi and Paraskevopoulou streets, the cops had placed a crate in order to block the
road. The blocking of the road forced the movement to move from Paraskevopoulou, where it
was hit by the cops with chemicals and grenades of flashing, causing it to break into two.
At that point, five additions were made, later turned into arrests. The arrested went
through the autonomous procedure the following day (Tuesday 23/1) in the morning, when a
mass gathering took place outside the courts of Thessaloniki.
The message of the state is clear: On Sunday, the cops stand undone and look at the
fascists to attack cinematic spaces. Report: A burnt occupation and of course no arrested.
On Monday, cops hit the solidarity course in Libertatia occupation almost as soon as it
begins. Report: 5 arrested, criminally accused of attempted burning of a wheel of the cage
that eventually did not burn.
As long as the state tries to silence the anti-fascist movement, Monday morning dawned a
new day in the city, and all those who backed the fascist army to get out of
concentration, attack kimonotic racing sites and get back, are no longer on the road . We
are, as we have been for years. Dating in the street, then.
NO PARTNER ON THE HANDS OF THE STATE
CONCENTRATION OF SOLIDARITY IN THE 22/1 SALVIFIERS
FRIDAY 26/1, 09:00, THESSALONIKI COURTS
Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki - member of the Anarchist Federation
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
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1.30pm Sunday 28th January 2018 Devonshire Arms, 1 Devonshire Road, Cambridge CB1 2BH ----
Cambridge Radical Social is an initiative by members of Cambridge Solidarity Federation,
in an attempt to bring together those in and around the area involved in or just curious
about radical political organising and radical social movements. Regardless of whether you
are already involved in a local group, attending the university, or simply live in the
area and want to meet up with local activists, this is the event for you. ---- This is not
an activist meeting, in the sense that no one is expected to do or join anything by
attending. It is an attempt to create a friendly, relaxed and informal social platform for
local radicals as well as a welcoming environment for those new to, curious about or
sympathetic towards radical activism and social movements.
Our aim is to create a recurring fortnightly event which would foster closer ties between
groups and individuals, and make it easier to exchange ideas, share experiences, engage
new people, or just kick back and enjoy the company of anarchists, libertarian socialists,
feminists and other radical activists.
Please help us out by sharing this event and spreading the word, if you know anyone that
might be interested. If you have any questions, write in the event or PM Cambridge SolFed
here on Facebook and we will get back to you asap.
We will bring along a small red and black flag so that you can easily spot us at the venue.
Hope to see you all there!
http://www.solfed.org.uk/cambridge/cambridge-radical-social-02-2018-sunday-28th-january-2018
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"I will always be behind you, or in front or next, I do not care. Thanks, Paco"-- (Mariano
Rajoy to Francisco Camps) ---- The hegemonic dynastic duopoly in Spain is not only
characterized by becoming a machine to defraud public money from power as soon as it
obtains an absolute majority. His other currency, consistent with the nature of that
unstoppable instinct, is the omerta with which he backs the politicians of the house who
fall at the end of the breach of justice. An example of a book is all that concerns the
Gürtel plot, which in its caloret version has just offered us its most pestilential
spasms. ---- Those leaders and businessmen who denied by active and passive the existence
of what was clearly a plot to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayers' sweat,
just turned round like rogues to intone the rescued "where I said, I say Diego " People of
blunderbuss wholesale as "the whiskers" or the mannered Ricardo Costa have ended up
confessing that they are compulsive thieves and jetas. Although this last I do not think
that affects them the least, given his usual mental onanism. Steal either, because the
fraud and embezzlement reach among those of his ilk category of fine arts.
From that vantage point that is supposed to the parties that reach the climax of
impunity, the constellation of characters worthy of any suspicion knows no limits. And in
that the Turia clan means a paradigm difficult to match, although if to imitate taking
into account the trace of previous experiences. Because here also what is not tradition is
plagiarism. We have had a Juan Cotino, the pious president of the Valencian Parliament who
used to place a crucifix on the table of the parliament, as if it were an Opusian
theocracy. Or the reversible case of a Rafael Blasco, leader of the FRAP during the
dictatorship, circumstance for which he even suffered imprisonment, working for himself
the budget of the NGOs that his department, that of Social Welfare!, destined to tasks of
International Cooperation.
That is why, in view of what is falling, the toast of Rajoy to Camps when the misdeeds of
those who are now accountable in the courts were already visible on the horizon, is an
x-ray that identifies the "bipedal brotherhood of 135 and 155 "as a whole. Because the
oath of eternal love of the president of the government to his Valencian colleague seems
like a drop of water to another drop to the embrace of Felipe González to Pepe Barrionuevo
and Rafael Vera at the door of the jail, or to that other show of devotio Ibérica de the
president of the Junta de Andalucía Susana Díaz on the eve of the trial of Manolo Chaves
and José Antonio Griñán for the huge fraud of the EREs.
The only difference between these two schools of mangancia that forms the prevailing
bipartisanship is that the order of the factors continues without altering the product.
When, as now happens, the PP finally bites the dust of political discredit and social
repudiation, it turns out that the PSOE, both mounts so much, is preparing to pick up the
scepter of alternation. It will be because the Spaniards have weak memory or because we
are unable to graze outside the herd. But we must not resort to the philosopher Austin and
his concept "performance" (How to do things with words) to realize that with the PP-PSOE
tandem the trap is to make us believe that the simple statement determines the reality it
expresses. Because it is still to prove that the PP are popular or those of the socialist
and workers PSOE. As in theory proclaim their respective acronyms.
Rafael Cid
https://www.cgt-lkn.org/blog/archivos/4934
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Continuation of last year's publication of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza and Brotherhood
Trojka. The staff calendar for 2018 contains 52 new historical texts popularizing the
history of the labor movement, peasant revolts, anti-colonial uprisings and other social
struggles against exploitation, oppression and authoritarian power: from the first strike
in Egypt in 1155 BC to the National Strike of Women; from the Wielki Chlopskie Strike in
1937 to the blockade of the Cable Factory in Ozarów Mazowiecki; from the slave uprising in
Haiti to the Palestinian Intifada and revolution in Rožava. ---- What does the calendar
contain? ---- * 52 new, longer, "weekly" texts on characters and events from the history
of the labor movement, ---- * over 200 short, "daily" information notes about characters
and events from the history of the labor movement
* description of the principles, strategy of operation, history and organization of OZZ
Employee Initiative
* list of useful websites: trade unions, public institutions, publishing houses as well as
cooperatives and cooperatives
* new weekly layout and additional place for notes
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/publikacje/4595-kalendarz-pracowniczy-na-rok-2018
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