Anarchic update news all over the world - 17.02.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Sardegna, Anarchist: SARDINIA: REPRINT OF "SARDINIA,
      ANARCHISM AND NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE" (it) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - No to the destruction of
      unemployment insurance (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, liberta salonica: Intervention at the German Goethe
      Institute - Immediate release of the noG20 prisoners (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Turkey, senin medyan: Anarchist Prisoner Sevket Aslan's
      Hunger Action Ended on Day 81 (tr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - What's the use of the
      school ? February 15 in Rennes, February 16 in Fougères by AL
      Fougères , AL Rennes (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, black rose fed: HOW DO YOU PRACTICE INTERSECTIONALISM?
      AN INTERVIEW WITH BELL HOOKS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The reprint of - "Sardinia, anarchism and national liberation struggle" is available with 
a new introduction and in appendix "Self-determination as a permanent revolt: against 
self-determination as a right" - by Costantino Cavalleri. Arkiviu Bibrioteka "T. Serra 
"Guasila.
Cost 10 euros per copy
For distributors: over 5 copies 6 euros each (40% discount)
For information and copies of SardegnAnarchica@tiscali.it

https://www.autistici.org/cna/2018/02/01/sardegna-ristampa-di-sardegna-anarchismo-e-lotta-di-liberazione-nazionale/

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Since the 11th of January have begun the consultations concerning the reform of 
unemployment insurance. This reform is the new stage of the government to destroy the 
rights of the workers and the social conquests of the labor movement. ---- Emmanuel 
Macron's policy is based on the premise that, in order to revive the French economy, the 
preferred solution must be to make employment more precarious and to punish employees who 
are unemployed. According to the government, the solution to the economic crisis involves 
a deterioration in the living conditions of the unemployed, even though they are already 
the first victims of the economic system. ---- We would like to believe that the 
unemployed are responsible for their situation and that the unemployment insurance system 
is one of the causes of the economic recession.

Even though alternative solutions, such as the reduction of working time and the 
ecological transition, would be effective means to fight against unemployment, we must by 
all means oppose the violence of ongoing reforms that will not other consequences than to 
impoverish and insecure, still and always, the millions of unemployed, as well as all the 
employees of this country.

MORE THAN HALF OF UNEMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE DO NOT ALREADY HAVE ANY UNEMPLOYMENT 
ALLOCATION !
Consultations with certain trade unions are only intended to give a semblance of 
legitimacy to what will undoubtedly be a new and unprecedented regression of the French 
social system. One of the characteristic elements of these consultations is to never give 
the floor to the first concerned of these reforms: the unemployed.

Against this violently antisocial policy, we demand:

widening access to compensation with reference to the SMIC for all unemployed persons,
maintaining the current system of unemployment insurance, with contributions based on the 
total value added of the company,
the democratic management of unemployment insurance,
the cessation of controls and sanctions against the unemployed and precarious.
BE ABLE TO HEAR, ALL AND ALL TOGETHER, UNEMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED, EMPLOYED, PRECARIOUS, WITH 
OR WITHOUT PAPERS
FEBRUARY 14, 2018 ? 11:30 am ? APEIS LOCAL ? SAINT-DENIS WORK SCHOLARSHIP ? 9/11 GENIN 
STREET ? LINE 13 STOP ST DENIS / PORTE DE PARIS

SUPPORT: SNU POLE EMPLOYMENT FSU, SOUTH EMPLOYMENT, FSU IDF, ECONOMISTIC LANDSCAPE, 
SOLIDARITY, CNT, JOC, REPUBLIC AND SOCIALISM, GDS, WOMEN EQUALITY, CGT, CGT POLE 
EMPLOYMENT, CGT UNEMPLOYED, ATTAC, DAL, WOMEN AGAINST PRECARITIES, UNION ASSO, ALTERNATIVE 
LIBERTAIRE, PCOF, PG, FI, PCF, TOGETHER

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Non-a-la-destruction-de-l-assurance-chomage

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On Monday, February 5, in the face of the international action week for the prisoners at 
the summit in Hamburg, banners, texts and triciks were performed at the Goethe German 
Institute by anarchist collectives and individual comrades. ---- Here is the text of the 
intervention: ---- Week of international solidarity and action ---- at the summit in 
Hamburg ---- Hamburg noG 20: welcome to hell ---- The Julius of 2017 for Hamburg has been 
a reference point for the end of kinematic defeatism and the questioning of the integrity 
of the German repressive strategy. The protests against the summit of the 20 economically 
powerful were evidence that the commitment and resolve of the resistance movements to 
globalization and liberalism were capable of perpetuating the alleged irredeemable 
governmental planning promised to the economic elite and peaceful households, classroom 
and safety. Mass demonstrations, direct actions, street clashes, battles behind St Pauli's 
and Schanze's flaming barricades, and decentralized attacks on state and capitalist goals 
compounded the image of Hamburg at the mercy of the fighters, The session, however, has 
left behind a huge wave of repression with unprecedented means.

Countless audits before and during the session have targeted more than 5,000 suspects in 
the conflict. Following are arrests and detention of fighters, house raids for 
inspections, computer and cell phone seizures, and crackdown on the linkstunten indymedia. 
In a demonstration of power and appeal to the compassionate feeling of reputable citizens, 
authorities publish more than 300 snapshots of conflicts asking for identification of persons.
 From Germany to Greece, solidarity with the imprisoned militants is an integral part of 
the resistance movements. At the same time that in the German prisons the fighters of the 
noG20 movement give their own struggle to regain their freedom, the Greek castles of 
democracy are boiled by the mobilizations of the prisoners against the new correctional 
code. From the edge of the earth, states create regimes of exclusion for their political 
opponents. We are here to overthrow any repressive design.
 From Greece to Germany, support the struggles of the prisoners.
Let's not let the events of Hamburg make a beautiful bracketing in the increasing 
oppressive barbarity.

Immediate release of the prisoners of the noG 20.
occupation of Terra Incognita, Solidarity Fund of Prisoners and Persecuted Fighters, 
Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki, Free Social Radio 1431am, occupation 111, 
Anarchist collectivity from the East, Free Social Area "School" for the Freedom of 
Learning, Anarchist

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/

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  Sevket Aslan responded with hunger action by the press and prison in Izmir 3 Nolu T Type 
Prison located in Aliaga Sakran not to be recognized as an anarchist. The lawyer who 
visited him on the 80th day of the hunger act stated that Sevket Aslan would translate the 
hunger act to the death toll on Monday if he did not accept the requests of the prison 
administration and this was reported to the prison administration. ---- Sevket Aslan, who 
gives information on the phone by telephone, calls the family today and ends the action of 
hunger on the occasion of the prison administration saying that on the 81st day he will be 
able to stay with another anarchist prisoner and that he will make love to Balikesir 
Bandirma for this reason. ---- Despite the fact that Leo informed his fax attorney about 
the situation, Av. Gökhan Soysal stated that he did not have a fax yet, he said that 
prison was faxed one day a week and that this could be covered as normal.

It is expected that the anarchist captive Sevket Aslan's love will be realized this week.

https://seninmedyan.org/2018/02/12/anarsist-tutsak-sevket-aslanin-aclik-eylemi-81-gunde-kazanimla-sonuclandi/

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In Rennes on Thursday 15 February at 20:30 at the bar Le Panama, 28 Rue 
Bigot-de-Préameneu. ---- In Fougères Friday, February 16 at 20:30, Birds of Storm, local 
self-managed, 14, rue de la Pinterie. ---- Organized by Alternative Libertaire Fougères, 
the cycle of reflection and construction on Education has already enabled the previous 
months to address a number of topics. ---- This month, AL joins forces with the Union of 
Education Workers 35 of the CNT to propose the screening of "The Tree and the White 
Shark", in the presence of the director Rafaele Layani, followed by a discussion. ---- The 
film presents life at the Freie Schule in Berlin, an associative school where learning 
processes are based on the real freedom of choice and movement of children, a principle 
that shakes up the traditional functioning of the schools we know.

The trailer here .

The Facebook event for Fougères

The Facebook event for Rennes

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?A-quoi-ca-sert-l-ecole-le-16-fevrier-a-Fougeres

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This interview originally appeared in Northeastern Anarchist #15 in 2011 - In June of 2009 
bell hooks agreed to be interviewed. We met at a local coffee shop and, over bagels and 
espresso drinks, discussed her books, politics and thoughts on recent events such as the 
economic downturn. I found her as forthright in person as on the page and with a subtle 
wit not always apparent (to me) in her writing. For example, after the interview we were 
approached by a local lawyer who was curious what publication she was being interviewed 
for. She cut her eyes at me and said, "Tell the man who the interview is for." Upon 
learning I was anarchist, the lawyer mouthed familiar clichés about disorganization. 
hooks, a hint of a grin playing at the corners of her mouth, responded, "Yes, yes, it's 
all about license for the individual!"

Interview by Randy Lowens

Randy: We're interviewing bell hooks, author of Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; 
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations and numerous other titles. You're known to be a 
prolific author: do you have a personal favorite? Is there any one title that someone 
unfamiliar with your work should read first?

hooks: My work is so eclectic; it spans such a broad spectrum. I guess if you look at my 
children's books, I like Be Boy Buzz the best. If you look at the love books, I like All 
About Love the best. If you look at the theory books, Where We Stand: Class Matters is one 
of my favorites. It's a good thing not to have to choose one. I think part of Western 
metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other. I'm lucky. 
I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different 
ways.

Randy: You don't capitalize your name? Why is that?

hooks: When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there 
was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas 
behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of 
feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors-bell hooks 
is my maternal great grandmother-to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these 
unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women 
who'd gone before us.

Randy: The books of yours I'm most familiar with-the two I cited-are a work of political 
theory and, the other, a work of cultural criticism. Do you see those as distinctly 
different? Is there any clear line between the cultural and the political?

hooks: I would say one difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or 
class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; 
whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already 
there. For example, the contemporary movie Crash I thought was a very weak statement about 
race and class. That was already there in the film. What I did in having a conversation 
about it was illuminate why it was a weak analysis of race and class. "It's people; we're 
all racist." That's just another bullshit way of people not wanting to name the power and 
institutionalized strength of white supremacy. We all may have prejudices, but we're not 
all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our 
lives, systemically.

Randy: You mentioned your children's books. I think last time we spoke, you were preparing 
to publish a book, Happy to be Nappy?

hooks: Happy to be Nappy was my first children's book. I think when we saw each other I 
was in the production of Grump Groan Growl which was about anger.

Randy: I read that one to my daughter, by the way.

hooks: Oh yeah?

Randy: Do you have anything to say about the distinction? Are these books in any way 
political? We have a political audience.

hooks: They absolutely are. Both books were written to counter racism, patriarchy or both. 
Especially Be Boy Buzz was written to say, "We don't really live in a culture that loves 
boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole." I wanted to write a 
non-patriarchal book that would proclaim the love of boys.

Randy: (Pause) Some of my questions are written kind of wordy. (Laughter)

hooks: You shouldn't worry about that.

Randy: You're known, especially within our circles, for popularizing intersectional theory 
as opposed to reductionisms. Can you say a little bit about how intersectional theory 
plays out in practice? That is to say, your typical class reductionist at least has a 
priority; a Black Nationalist has something to prioritize. How do you practice 
intersectionalism?

hooks: Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in 
time. I used to say to people, if you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, 
patriarchy and male domination-even though you understand it intersectionally-you focus, 
you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation. I 
think that, again, if we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every 
day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, 
sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded? I think it's 
crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their 
lives at a given point in time. Like right now, for many Americans, class is being 
foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that 
race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many 
people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance. 
I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, 
racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. It 
doesn't mean that he isn't influenced by racism, but when he wakes up in the morning the 
thing that's driving his world is really issues of class, economics and power as they 
articulate themselves. I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a 
politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most 
oppressing us at a given moment in time.

Randy: I'm reminded of Murray Bookchin and the analogy of society to ecology. Were you at 
all influenced by that?

hooks: No.

Randy: Do you have any opinions of the modern day anarchist movement, globally or here in 
the USA? It's almost nonexistent here in the South.

hooks: Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it 
because people associate it with reckless abandon, which we both know it's not. I think we 
have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is. 
I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use 
that term.

Randy: It's clear from your books that you oppose capitalism. Do you think capitalism can 
be reformed, or must it be overthrown? Do you consider yourself a revolutionary in that sense?

hooks: I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic 
socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, 
which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any 
system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the 
world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world 
than capitalism. Capitalism is fucking up the planet, we know that. But let's say, 
imperialism and capitalism together... I mean let's face it, war in its essence is another 
form of capitalism. Wars make people rich-and they make a lot of people poor, and they 
take a lot of people's lives away from them. We know that so much of the war that is 
happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

Randy: Competitive economics taken to its logical extreme.

hooks: Exactly.

Randy: I was taken to task by a feminist anarchist for taking the liberty of referring to 
you be your first name. The criticism was: had you been a male I wouldn't have been so 
quick to have done that.

hooks: I think this is the kind of trivial personal stuff people focus on that has very 
little meaning. I don't think it matters. To me, I think if someone read my work, they'd 
know I don't have issues around how I'm identified. Even when people capitalize my name, I 
don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice. I'm not attached to it, and in 
that sense I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to 
trust that. You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive 
to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are 
behind calling me "bell." I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways 
that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the 
obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be 
concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in. Or race... 
ending racism. It's like, I was talking about Cornell West once, and somebody was saying 
to me, "Cornell is not a preacher; he's not ordained"-and another preacher friend of mine 
said, "I don't know about the importance of his being ordained. I saw him give a sermon. 
Lots of people joined the church and that would seem to be what being a preacher is all 
about." We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow. Is it more 
important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? 
I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to 
transform your life and your thinking in some way. Now I do get a little pissed at people 
who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

Randy: I have read, from someone else, that your work is influenced by postmodernism. Is 
that true? Do you have an opinion about the end of history, in particular?

hooks: No. If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work. My work is 
mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives. To the extent that we 
live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I 
would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work. But in general, I don't 
spend a lot of time thinking about postmodernism.

Randy: The final question that I wrote down, I think we've already touched on to a certain 
degree. Some political groups say they are against classism, and that often sounds to me 
like they're saying they avoid prejudice on the basis of class, but don't oppose 
structural capitalism. I think you've already talked about the personal versus the 
systemic aspects of...

hooks: One of the things my work Where We Stand: Class Matters tried to do was say, "We're 
a country that would rather talk about race than class." I think what's so amazing about 
this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about 
the nature of work and hierarchy. When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one 
of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other 
places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the 
agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, 
and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other 
migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits. All of this stuff 
is amazing in terms of forcing people in this society to think more openly about class and 
about the intersectionalities.

The whole thing with Joe the Plumber-and then to find out that so much about Joe the 
Plumber was just fake-was the use of class (of white supremacy and class) to awaken old 
prejudices, to allow for a denial of the true impact of intersectionalities and class. The 
white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the 
displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are 
determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not 
college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure. See the way credit 
cards have exploited the working class and the working poor? I think it's going to be an 
interesting next ten years for the United States. For people like me, what is important 
and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, 
so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look 
holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual 
preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural 
world we live within.

Randy: That's all of my questions. Do you have anything to say to our audience, off the cuff?

hooks: Dare to look at the intersectionalities. Dare to be holistic. Part of the heart of 
anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our 
realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

This interview originally appeared in Northeastern Anarchist #15 in 2011. Randy Lowens, 
the pen name of Don Jennings, who passed away March 8, 2012, in Richmond, Kentucky. 
#RestInPower Randy was a supporter of NEFAC (North Eastern Federation of Anarchist 
Communists).

http://blackrosefed.org/intersectionalism-bell-hooks-interview/