Anarchic update news all over the world - 6-03-2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #280 - At the border of
      social relations (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Greece, liberta salonica Anarchist Federation Take your
      hands of the anarchist Konstantinos Yagtzoglou (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, Text on the occasion of the "Macedonian" that is
      shared in schools and tutorials by dirty horse APO (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Czech, afed: A3: Winning February? -- "Socialism" is not
      like socialism. That state is just another form of oppression.
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Czech, afed: Salih Muslim in court - Demonstrations in
      support of Kurdish policy, Salih Muslim, continue. [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  anarchist communism Group ACG: National Day of Action
      against Universal Credit 1/3/18 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






The society is crossed by conflicting relations which oppose antagonistic groups. But 
there are also social groups that occupy border positions. ---- In The Manifesto of the 
Communist Party, Marx and Engels write: " The history of any society to this day has been 
nothing but the story of class struggles.[...]However, the distinctive character of our 
era, of the time of the bourgeoisie, is to have simplified the class antagonisms. Society 
is divided into two vast enemy camps, into two great classes diametrically opposed: the 
bourgeoisie and the proletariat . " ---- Nevertheless, in his book Class Struggles in 
France, Marx distinguishes up to seven social classes. If, in reality, sociologically and 
historically there is more than two social classes, on the political plane, the capitalist 
class struggle opposes two main social classes. As a result, the other social classes do 
not have a truly independent political strategy and are thus led to ally with one of the 
main classes.

Middle classes, civil servants and proletarianized bourgeoisie

Several sociologists of the second half of the XX th century saw in the service sector of 
society and the growth of employees and intermediate professions, an averaging of the 
company that would eventually deny the existence of a class struggle. In the same way, 
some put forward, especially after the strike movement of 1995, the position taken by the 
public sector trade unionism in relation to that of the industrial centers. Still others 
see the precarious intellectual workers as the new revolutionary social avant-garde.

In reality, the existence of these groups and their numerical growth - middle classes, 
civil servants, precarious intellectuals ... - does not however contradict the existence 
of the class struggle and change the center of gravity of society. These groups have a 
borderline position in social relations and this is not an autonomous political strategy. 
They are thus susceptible according to the political balance of power and the state of 
class consciousness to ally with the capitalist bourgeoisie or the proletariat.

It is important to maintain in the revolutionary analysis the centrality of the 
proletariat at the risk of invisibilizing the working classes - workers and employees - 
who ensure the jobs of execution and, on the contrary, to over-visibilize the protesting 
discourse of social groups more endowed with cultural capital and thus more able to 
present themselves as mobilization entrepreneurs.

Border social groups

In particular, the notion of " frontier " groups has been developed in chicana feminism as 
a result of feminist lesbian chicana [1]Gloria Anzaldua. But the notion of a " frontier " 
group is not limited to the question of the struggle of capitalist social classes, but 
encompasses other social antagonisms.

For example, Queer people [2], such as trans * people, are groups that are bordered by 
social gender relations. Nevertheless, the queer theory makes the mistake of focusing 
their policies on these groups whereas the issue is rather that of the conditions of their 
alliance or not with the feminist movement.

Similarly in social relations of racialization, some groups occupy a border position. This 
is the case for some Métis people, whose white passing, may give them white privileges. 
This is also the case according to decolonial thinkers such as Boaventura de Sousa Santos, 
certain European migration groups, such as the Portuguese, who come from countries which 
in the capitalist world system are located in the semi-periphery. Ethno-racial groups that 
occupy a border position are thus also likely to ally or not, depending on the state of 
political power relations, with privileged groups or on the contrary racialized groups.

Specificities of border experiences and political alliances
Border social experiences are specific and may require special consideration.

For example, there are unions organizing workers in the public service. There may be 
commissions to develop work demands specific to each category. But the inter-categorial 
organization is important to be able to organize alliances between those who occupy 
positions of execution, technicians or managers.

Similarly, there are awareness groups for trans * or homosexual people, for example. This 
is justified to the extent that the participation of trans * people in non-mixed groups of 
cisgender women may expose them to transphobia. But this does not prevent trans groups 
from being able to develop a pro-feminist policy.

Similarly, border ethno-racial experiences may require a sharing of specific experiences 
and a reflection about discrimination, but also the privileges that benefit these groups, 
to develop a work of awareness that promotes alliance with socially racial groups.

Irene Pereira

[1] Chicano refers to people of Mexican origin living in the United States.

[2]A term used to refer to all persons who have gender, sex or sexual identity that 
escapes the norms of gender division.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Classes-sociales-A-la-frontiere-des-rapports-sociaux

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Message: 2





On Saturday 24/2, shortly before 7:00 am, the EKAM unit invaded the cell of the political 
prisoner, Konstantinos Yagtzoglou, at the 1st Prison of the Korydallos Prison, where he 
had been transferred to complete his legal obligations from another pending case . After 
beating him, he was kidnapped and kidnapped in the prison of Larissa, while he was 
half-hearted, depriving him of his personal belongings and his medication. ---- K. 
Yagtzoglou has begun a hunger strike since 21/2 and a thirst strike by 25/2, demanding his 
transfer from Larissa Prison to Korydallos Prison. His imprisonment in the prisons of 
Larissa is contrary to the legal framework itself, which explicitly dictates that those 
arrested in Athens are going to the Korydallos prison where prisoners are detained. Thus, 
besides the confinement treaty, he also faces alienation from his social environment and 
his defense advocates, as the kilometer distances and the associated financial costs 
eradicate for himself a condition of artificial isolation.

As soon as his violent and vengeful treatment by the EKAMs became known, immediate 
protests and protests broke out in many prisons across the country, including the 
Korydallos Prison. At the same time, on 24/2, the solidarity gathering held outside the 
Ministry of Justice was struck by the MATs, which made 5 adulterations, 4 of which turned 
into arrests of criminals.

On 28/2, K. Yagtzoglou suffered a faint episode in his cell and was hurriedly transferred 
to the University Hospital of Larissa. His health is particularly aggravated and his 
condition extremely critical due to the exhaustion nature. The Central Transit Committee 
did not meet on Monday, as the Ministry of Justice "promised", despite pressure from 
prisoners. In his communication with the Ministry of Justice, K. Yagtzoglou's attorney's 
lawyer was informed that Mr. Yagtzoglou's request for his transfer to Korydallos prison 
will be examined on Friday, as the committee responsible "fails" to meet earlier. The 
state plays with the life of a political prisoner, while it hangs on a fine thread. The 
physical extermination of K. Yagtzoglou is the state revival on the job,

The case of the treatment of Mr Yagtzoglou forms his affiliation to a special exemption 
regime, as even the legal provisions of bourgeois democracy themselves become ragged to 
bend the resistances and the mind of those who oppose the violence and injustice of the 
state and the capital, those who have decided to lift the glove against state power and 
its apparent omnipotence. The tales of the progressive left, the champion of democratic 
rights and humanism, are "stories about wolves", which can no longer be used for voting 
purposes either. We have no illusions about the institutional role played by the 
individual governor of state power, whether right-wing or leftist. Those who are the 
political staff of capital,

Prisons are the culprits of bourgeois democracy. These are the places where violence and 
the imposition of the dominant system are a daily routine for the incarcerated. They are 
the warehouses where all those who are left over from the productive design of capital, as 
well as fighters who are confronted with sovereignty, aim to overthrow it. In prisons, 
intensified processes of discipline, obedience and consolidation of sovereign social and 
productive relations are intensified. It is violent - or by using psychological and 
sometimes using physical violence - the detachment of prisoners' consent to the tyranny of 
the state and capital. At the same time, however, they are bullied out of the walls. They 
show them what awaits them if they think of putting them with their state, their capital 
and their auxiliary mechanisms.

Where humanity is leveled down there, in every prison there are the curtains of bourgeois 
democracy; there is the most obscene way of social Darwinism; there is the state showing 
power; the prisons of the prison are sometimes watered with blood. Already in the last 
month, 4 detainees were "found" dead in their cells by "strangers" of cause.

But we can not be silenced in the face of injustice, exploitation and oppression. We can 
not ignore barbarism. The outrageous and vengeful attack on the repressive mechanisms of 
our state is filled with rage. Our anger is channeled into the class and social clash of 
the downstream of the privileged and powerful. This conflict must be sharpened before the 
state and capitalist totalitarianism, before hardening repression and imprisonment.

Solidarity is the strongest weapon of the oppressed in their struggle against state and 
capital. We express our solidarity with both the prisoners in the penitentiary throughout 
Greece, fighting against the new prison and penal code, and the anarchist K. Yagtzoglou, 
who is avenged by state repression.

We have to declare, both to those sitting in their state hoards and to their judicial 
staff, that the cutting of the yarn that keeps K. Yagtzoglou's life will open the Aeolus 
bags. And it will be a difficult time for those who avenge the lives of political prisoners.

SOLIDARITY IN ANARCHICHOS KONSTANTINOS YAGTZOGLOU

TO TURN YOUR REQUEST FOR CHANGE IN THE CORRIDAL WARRIORS

NO JOURNEY TO 4 SLAUGHTERERS OF 24/2

AGAINST THE NEW PENALTY AND CRIMINAL CODE

NO TOLERANCE IN THE STATE PROPOSAL.
RACE FOR THE TREATMENT AND THE LAST WARRANT.

Anarchist Federation

anarchist-federation.gr
info@anarchist-federation.gr
twitter: witter.com/anarchistfedGr
fb: facebook.com/anarxikiomospondia2015 /

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2018/02/28

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Message: 3






Draft notes on the "Macedonian issue" ... ---- The nation is nothing more than a built-in 
"imaginary" community that creates a sense of belonging to people based on fake criteria 
such as the common origin (the soil), the common blood, race and language (the homonym, 
and homoglossus). ---- The nationalism is the ideology of nation identification with the 
state, which implies the recognition of people as national subjects that make up the 
nation states. The attempt to impregnate people with national consciousness is a 
foundation stone for the maintenance of the state and the promotion of the geographic and 
economic interests of the people above and not of the people. The constitution of nation 
states opens new ways for states to implement their aggressive and tendency-expanding 
policies, as they now acquire all those qualities that display territorial expansion as a 
"national right" as a necessity for the purposes of the imaginative community of the 
nation. Thus, hatred for "others" is promoted on the basis that they do not belong to "us".
The expansive policy of the Greek state towards the north on the occasion of the 
"Macedonian question" is the result of precisely this separation based on a cultivated 
hatred for others who must cease to exist. About one in three inhabitants of Greek 
Macedonia had Slavic Macedonian in 1912 as their mother tongue. In 1965, service reports 
estimated 130-150,000 Slav-speaking residents of only three prefectures (Florina, Kastoria 
and Pella). At the beginning of the 21st century, "locals" are still spoken in much of 
Northern Greece. The eradication of this Slav-language was considered to be - and has 
remained so far - the major "national target" in the region because it prevented the 
formation of a Greek national identity.
The internationalism is the meaning and the political position that opposes the "community 
of the nation" community of proletarians. That is, the community of people based on common 
material interests and common meanings, ideas and feelings that flow from the common 
reality they live in. Exploiting and oppressing the peoples is an unfathomable argument 
for the constitution of a community of people who can not divide them from metaphysical 
quests of historical and geographical origin. As a result, internationalism will 
emphatically promote the cooperation of the peoples on the basis of solidarity, respect 
and mutual assistance.
The issue of naming and self-determination is an inalienable right of every person and 
group. As the state and the bosses put it today, it does nothing else than serve specific 
geopolitical interests and NATO-based plans in the wider Balkan region, eastern Europe and 
the southeastern Mediterranean, at a time when the clouds of a world war are thickening 
and state competitions are increasing. It is not the name, but the conditions of slavery, 
unemployment, poverty, war and refuge that plague the peoples. And these must unite us and 
mobilize us to take them away.
The nationalist rallies for Macedonia mobilizing the most conservative reflexes of 
society, is a picture of the future they want to impose on us, from the warring 
communities fear will dominate, misery, death. It is yet another push to find tomorrow the 
nation states to continue the wars against humanity worldwide. It is another opportunity 
that the fascists will find today to attack and suppress the action of social and class 
movements
The only answer on our part must be the anti-fascist struggle on the streets, in schools, 
in schools, in neighborhoods, in the work to keep the prospect of creating a better world 
without fake divisions, without frontiers and states, a world of justice , equality, 
solidarity and freedom.
Against nationalist wars, poverty, state totalitarianism and capitalist barbarism ... the 
constant struggle for social revolution, anarchy and libertarian communism.

No nation unites us! No name separates us!

Solidarity in the occupation of Libertatia who was armed by fascists

We support the Trans-fascist-Transnistrian anti-fascist course in Thessaloniki

  Saturday 10/3 - Concentration at 11am in the Libertatia occupation

ANTI-NATIONAL / DEPARTMENT:

THURSDAY 1 MARCH FROM THE APPENDIX (KORINTHOU K ARATOU) TO 6 AM

anarchist group "dignified horse" / A.P.O.

comrades and companions

contact: every Tuesday 7-10 pm in the self-managed area On the Front (Patra 87 on the stairs)

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Message: 4





This year we are reminded of several so-called eight-year anniversaries. The first one 
refers to a 70-year-old event, when the Communist Party won the elections and subsequently 
seized nearly 40 years of unlimited power. February 1948 was victorious in Czechoslovakia 
perhaps as the victory of a party reporting to the ideas of socialism and communism, but 
it was the beginning of the end of these thoughts - thoughts that floated in the hearts of 
unprivileged layers since the beginning of the so-called workers' movement. Against this 
background, we now have a good opportunity to look at the fate of these ideas. ---- Dying 
of feudal order, the emergence of a new rising layer - the bourgeoisie, the industrial 
revolution. And, on the other hand, the growing number of industrial proletariat looming 
on the edge of the social divide, creating its own vision and gradually realizing its 
common strength. From this awareness, the first workers' organizations are born and their 
interconnection is also international. There are strikes against bad pay, working and 
living conditions. Similarly, their cruel repression and repression.

On the theoretical level, different directions of socialism are born which, unlike the 
capitalism of the struggle against all and the maintenance of social inequalities, 
promotes social equality, ie the elimination of class divisions. Socialism promotes a 
system that takes into account the needs of all people instead of defending the interests 
of a narrow, privileged group. On this basis, two basic groups of supporters of socialist 
ideas are formed, which we can simply designate as authoritarian socialists and 
anti-authoritarians.

The first group was formed by social democrats whose leaders exchanged revolutionary 
incendiary for warm chairs in the parliaments, and cared for the workers to not get too 
badly into the capitalist regime they were interested in maintaining. Besides them, the 
authoritarian socialist camp has begun the parties with a more revolutionary rhetoric, but 
they adhere to the fact that only their leaders know best what is best for the working 
people, and they must unconditionally submit their command. These authoritarians 
subsequently came to power in Russia and after World War II in many other countries, 
including Czechoslovakia.

The anti-authoritarian wing of socialism was mainly anarchists who rejected the idea that 
it is imperative to grasp the state power. It was this acquisition of power that led 
exactly to what they had predicted from the very beginning, namely to create new forms of 
oppression, division of society and social inequalities. And it was just the anarchists 
who destroyed the Bolsheviks among the first, whether during the Russian Revolution, in 
the case of the Spanish Civil War or later in the coup in Cuba. In Czechoslovakia, the 
anarchist did not meet such a fate for one simple reason - at that time no anarchist 
movement existed.

Those who try to maintain the current unjust order have used the anniversary of the 
"victorious February" to further the toothless scare of the communist to hide the fact 
that we are living in the totality of another kind, in the totality determined by the 
unreachable "market." While Communists in parliament together with modern fascists support 
the oligarchy of Babis and his business project ANO.

The fact that the previous regime was repressive, authoritarian, and often stupid, does 
not mean that we will ignore the nature of the present system. A system that is based on 
generating profits for corporations, owners and managers regardless of the needs of people 
or the environment. The anniversary of "victorious February" is an eternal remark to us 
that socialism should never look like, reminding us that the state is oppression in 
itself, regardless of who is holding his reins. This anniversary is a reminder to us that 
frustration, the atrocities to the present state, and the pursuit of dignity can easily 
lead to the blind streets. And how to avoid it? It is necessary to have a vision of a free 
society that does not function on the principles of hierarchy, artificial authority and 
profitability, but on the contrary on the principles of solidarity, equality and mutual 
assistance. It is necessary to go for this vision and try to fulfill it in partial ways 
now and now. And above all, to be critical and not to believe too much to those who 
promise glowing tomorrow in return for giving them power.

A3 ( February 2018) HERE to download. http://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2018-02.pdf

Download, print, spread!

The A3 wall paper is published annually by the Anarchist Federation. They are intended 
primarily for spreading through street lifts or posting in workplaces and schools.

https://www.afed.cz/text/6799/a3-vitezny-unor

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Message: 5





Even on Tuesday morning, the Kurds and their friends continued to protest against the 
unjustified repression of Salih Muslim, the former president of the United Democratic 
Party (PYD), led by the Czech state at the request of a proto-fascist Turkish regime. ---- 
At ten o'clock in the morning, more than 100 people gathered in front of the Municipal 
Court in Prague in Spalena Street. Demonstrations were organized by the Kurds and Kurds 
from the Czech Republic and from abroad, and the initiative called No racism! The action 
was also supported by members and members of the Anarchist Federation. ---- Though in the 
morning there was a cold winter, there was an energetic atmosphere on the spot, and it was 
already a long time to hear the constantly chanting of slogans in various languages - 
whether in support of Salih Muslim itself, passwords marking the resistance of the YPG and 
YPJ Kurdish groups or expressing solidarity with Afrin, precisely in those moments the 
Turkish army is attacking.

On the spot are mostly flags of the Kurdish organizations and YPG / YPJ units, as well as 
the Antifascist Action or the black-red flag of anarchists.

About eleven o'clock, near the parked car, the heavy-haired men with the helmets and the 
batons pulled out, so the Colonel with the arrested politician will probably arrive soon.

As long as the sound of police horns sounds from a distance, heavy crows hit the crowd to 
create a passage of approaching cars. In a rather indiscriminate way, they are pushing to 
the side, waving telescopic batons and screaming about "repeated calls".

However, the present are not interested in escalating the situation, so apart from a few 
bruises and scratches, nothing more serious happens to anyone, and the ripping of feathers 
has no more serious consequences for anyone.

The colony with the arrested politician will quickly pass through the open door of the 
city court and the police theater for today ends. The law men return back to the van 
(which we understand because the outside temperature is around -10 degrees below zero) and 
we are impatiently waiting for the court verdict.

Waiting is filled with continuous and loud chanting and singing songs. About half an hour 
later, the crowd gets enthusiastic - people are cheering, dancing and crying with joy. We 
learn that the Salih Muslim City Court has "released" for "freedom" for now (the 
extradition to Turkey will continue, the law is the law).

In addition to dancing and jumping, warm teas can also be warmed up, which is available on 
site. Unsurprising joy goes, of course, to send the cops who are complaining that the 
fence that is in front of the court building is hanging on banners, but that does not 
spoil our mood.

A moment later, Salih Muslim (this time no longer having handcuffs) drove the column from 
the courthouse away.

About twelve (we are getting very cold) we get into heat. Today brought a partial victory, 
but not a win. The police once again proved that they only "follow orders" and "obey the 
laws", whatever they are and the worst. By the side of our Kurdish friends, we will stand 
up for every next action that will happen. Our weapon is solidarity. Salih Muslim is not 
alone! No one is free until we are free.

Links:

Our first activity report: https://www.afed.cz/text/6797/svobodu-pro-saliha-muslima

DR: http://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/27134-kdo-je-salih-muslim

TZ INR to today's event: 
https://nerasismu.noblogs.org/tiskova-zprava-k-protestum-za-propusteni-saliha-muslima/

https://www.afed.cz/text/6798/salih-muslim-pred-soudem

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Message: 6





Thursday 1st March ---- There will be a national day of action to call for Universal 
Credit to be scrapped on March 1st. We hope local groups will be able to support this and 
please send details of any planned events to mail@dpac.uk.net ---- Day of Action against 
Universal Credit - local protests ---- Brighton - March 1st Clock Tower, Brighton, 10.30 
am - 1pm information handout https://www.facebook.com/events/327263861014031/ ---- Bristol 
- March 1st at Broadmead Shopping Centre 12 - 2 pm all meeting up in the middle. Please 
wear black if possible. ---- Ceredigion - March 3rd 11am - 1pm Guildhall, Cardigan      SA43 
1JL ---- https://www.facebook.com/events/1725015990888709/ ---- Edinburgh ---- Thurs 1st 
March 1pm (till approx 2.30pm) ---- Leith Jobcentre, 199 Commercial St, Edinburgh EH6 6JF 
---- Edinburgh action called by Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty - grass-roots 
anti-austerity and disability rights groups invited to participate with their banners and 
stalls.
https://www.facebook.com/events/437482893334245/
Falmouth - March 1st 8-11am at Penryn Jobcentre, Penmarin House, Commercial Rd, Penryn 
TR10 8SB
https://www.facebook.com/events/560750934288894/
Manchester- March 1st at 13:00-15:00
St Peter's Square, Manchester,
https://www.facebook.com/events/382322465513090/
Norwich - Norwich City Hall 12.30 - 2pm
More 
infohttps://dpac.uk.net/2018/01/national-day-of-action-to-stopandscrap-universal-credit-march-1st/https://dpac.uk.net/2018/01/dpac-position-statement-and-motion-for-union-branches-on-universal-credit/

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/02/16/national-day-of-action-against-universal-credit-1-3-18/

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