Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Information from the Anti-Lukovmarch Anti-Fascist
demonstration in Sofia, Bulgaria. By APO (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #280 - March for Mariama:
Anger breaks through the mourning (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. anarkismo.net: Fascism on the march by Melbourne Anarchist
Communist Group (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Czech, afed: Tenants in Warsaw against high heat prices
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Upcoming Meetings
and Events (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Holand, vrije bond: Money collection action Peike, G20
arrestant from Amsterdam (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. US, 1st of May Anarchist Alliance - m1aa: Solidarity With
the People of Syria (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. anarkismo.net: Fortress Australia means racist torture by
Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group - MACG
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The fascist parade in honor of the fascist General Lukov has been held for about 14 years
in Sofia. In recent years, an anarchist and anti-fascist initiative, headed by Antifa
Sofia, attempts to block the fascist presence on the streets of the city. ---- Thus, for
the second consecutive year, as Anarchist Political Organization, we participated in the
demonstration and supported our comrades in Bulgaria with the manifestation of practical
internationalist solidarity. About 35 comrades from Greece walked on the streets of Sofia
with a central banner " Internationalist Solidarity to Scan the Fascist Threat in the
Balkans - Solidarity in Libertatia Occupation" and we protested against fascism by
supporting comrades there who, in recent years try to set up mounds in the constant
promotion of fascism, create structures and fronts of resistance to the assault of state,
capital, fascists and mafias.
The anti-fascist course in Sofia surrounded and reinforced more than 250 comrades,
anti-fascists and anti-Fascists from Bulgaria and other Balkan countries, putting forward
internationalist solidarity, which is the only solution to scrutinize the fascist threat
in the Balkans and everywhere in the world.
The promotion of nationalism and racism, the exacerbation of transnational antagonisms,
the threatened warfare, the depth of impoverishment and the exploitation of the underlying
sovereign policies, the fascist and neo-Nazi bundling premiums are all we have to fight on
each side of the borders.
For our part, we ought to make it clear that beyond the world of power, who reserves to
the floods an ominous future, there is also the world of struggle which fervently fights
fascism, state and capital with compass building a society of equality, solidarity and
freedom.
Next rally meeting on March 10 in Thessaloniki, in the internationalist-Trans-fascist
anti-fascist demonstration of solidarity in the occupation of Libertatia. Congregation at
12am in Kamara - Concentration at 11am in front of the occupation of Libertatia (Army Avenue).
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY TO IMPROVE THE PHASE THREAT IN THE BALKANS.
FROM SOFIA TO THE KAMARA AND THE COMPETITION AGAINST THE FESTIVAL, THE STATE AND THE
CAPITAL FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION.
Anarchist Political Organization-Federation of Collectives-
Y.K. At the same time that we demonstrated in Sofia, a group of fascists, as we were
informed, attacked fans of the self-organized group "Progressive Toumba" in Stavroupoli,
Thessaloniki. Wanting to express our conviction that the anti-fascist struggle is
unceasing on all sides of the border, many comrades from different cities in Greece, who
were returning by bus from Sofia, just arrived in Thessaloniki, we moved directly to
supporting the anti-fascist night patrol in the area Stavropol. Fascist threats and
attacks will not be missed.
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 2
At the end of December, Mariama Kallo was killed by her husband in Montreuil. ----
Defenestrated after receiving many stab wounds, she extends the list of spousal murders.
The neighbors and neighbors met for a silent march in his memory on January 10th. ---- The
silent march, organized from the foot of the tower where Mariama Kallo lived and to join
the town hall, gathered around 300 people. People from all over Montreuil and beyond.
Neighboring neighbors, Montreuilloises and Montreuillois affected, but also feminist
activists. Sadness was on all faces, but also anger. ---- A large and dignified walk ----
A neighbor spoke vehemently, calling the mayor. A scramble took place between the elected
officials and the inhabitants of the city at the start of the event, to know who would
walk ahead of the event. In the end, the seconds won. The feeling was that Mariama's
distress calls were not heard by the police and social services. Neighbors had intervened
in the past to prevent her husband from hitting her. Alerted, the police put, as often in
such cases, 45 minutes to intervene. After the murder, his body remained ten hours below
the building, before finally the funeral services come to take care of it. All these
delays, this negligence, ? The inhabitants and the inhabitants have their opinion on the
question.
Mariama, like so many women
It's the Bondy Blog that tells us who Mariama Kallo was. Arrived a year and a half ago in
France, she has, according to neighbors and neighbors, quickly been the victim of violence
from her husband. She worked, she cleaned up hotels. One can imagine the harshness of
one's life, without any space of freedom, exploited at work, exploited and abused at home.
Her murder extends the long list of women killed each year by their spouse in France.
These women, victims of what is called a feminicide, come from all social categories. They
have in common to bear the brunt of the domination of men around them. Let's pay homage to
Mariama Kallo, and remember that the violence of men is what allows them to keep us in the
domestic and economic exploitation. Let's pay tribute to Mariama Kallo,
Adèle (AL Montreuil)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Marche-pour-Mariama-La-colere-perce-sous-le-deuil
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Message: 3
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group believes the best immediate response to Fascism is
an internationalist working class movement of resistance in the form of a united front.
Within this, we can put forward a libertarian communist solution to the many crises of
capitalism. We participate in the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism because, although it
has severe flaws, it does some good work and is the only working class united front
available to us at the moment. We hope to contribute to solving its problems, most
importantly its isolation from the union movement, and fight for a world where Fascism is
consigned permanently to the dustbin of history. ---- Fascism, in various guises, is on
the march in most advanced Western countries and some underdeveloped countries. The extent
of its rise is related to the history and the state of society in each.
The situation is most severe in Europe, where liberal capitalists' illusions about the
"end of history" have been shattered most cruelly. Mass Fascist parties have risen in
Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands,
Sweden and Ukraine. In Austria, they have even entered the government, while in Ukraine
they were officially part of the government for a time after the Euromaidan protests. In
addition, the governments of Hungary and Poland are hard Right wing national
conservatives. They share some of the features of Fascism and are implementing parts of
the Fascists' program. Meanwhile, the Russian government openly collaborates with Fascists
both at home and abroad.
Two factors have been driving this. Firstly, Europe is a more accessible destination than
Australia, Canada and the US for migrants from the Third World fleeing poverty and
oppression. It has traditionally been a source of emigration, not a destination for
immigrants. Accordingly, many societies are experiencing challenges to deep seated
nativist currents for the first time. The capitalist class cannot resist using cultural
anxieties about immigrants to divert popular anger so they do not become targets
themselves. The Fascists are able to take the capitalists' racism to its logical
conclusion, arguing forcefully for what the capitalists usually only imply.
The second factor is the failure of the European Union. The EU is a utopian project,
aiming to solve the fundamental problem of Europe - the fact that the forces and relations
of production there have far outgrown the suffocating confines of the nation state. While
the problem is intractable under capitalism, there is no law of history that says you
can't try. Thus the EU.
What has occurred in Europe is that the project of economic and political integration has
become trapped half-way. The capitalists have found they cannot drive it further, while a
return to unco-ordinated national autonomy would produce economic ruin. On the other hand,
the current shape of the EU is dysfunctional, producing both neo-liberal austerity and
pointless bureaucracy. The Fascists advance a solution - to cut the Gordian knot of the EU
and make somebody else pay the costs of its break-up. This is a recipe for war against
both the enemy without and the enemy within. The parties of the political Centre,
meanwhile, are like kangaroos in the headlights - doomed if they stay where they are, but
frozen into immobility.
In the United States, an entrenched two party system has prevented the emergence of a mass
Fascist party, but there is a plethora of new Fascist groups trying to take advantage of
the social toxins released by Donald Trump. The US has its own cultural anxieties around
immigration. In particular, racists are agitated by demographic trends indicating that at
some future date, white people (a category subject to moveable and conflicting definitions
anyway) will decrease from being a majority of society to being merely a plurality. Once
again, in a society founded on genocide, slavery and violent racism, capitalists use
immigrants and ethnic minorities as lightning rods for discontent and Fascists take the
capitalists' racism to its logical conclusion. While the growing Fascist current is yet to
take clear organisational form, there are worrying signs that the Republican Party may be
vulnerable to Fascist colonising.
In Australia, the Fascists are still marginal, having their political space largely taken
up by the hard Right half-way house of Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Hanson has worked hard
to keep open Fascists off her candidates' list, though one or two have slipped through and
it's clear her party is infested with them at the grassroots. Organisationally, Fascists
in Australia have proven a disaster, a pantomime on the theme of "Everybody wants to be
Führer". It would be a serious error to be complacent however, because a talented leader
could come along tomorrow and unite them. Further, even disorganised Fascists can be
dangerous for Muslims, Jews, African immigrants and others.
One thing holding back the development of Fascism in Australia, though, is the fact that
the capitalist class here is conflicted about fomenting racism. While all the usual
minorities still function as attractive lightning rods for internal discontents, there is
an external constraint. Australia, being a European settler outpost on the edge of Asia,
is vulnerable to being denounced as racist by Asian governments and locked out of trade
with the region. This would be a disaster for Australian capitalists and they have so far
been much more careful and targeted in their racism than in Europe and the US. There are,
however, no guarantees that this will endure in the event of an economic crisis.
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group believes the best immediate response to Fascism is
an internationalist working class movement of resistance in the form of a united front.
Within this, we can put forward a libertarian communist solution to the many crises of
capitalism. We participate in the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism because, although it
has severe flaws, it does some good work and is the only working class united front
available to us at the moment. We hope to contribute to solving its problems, most
importantly its isolation from the union movement, and fight for a world where Fascism is
consigned permanently to the dustbin of history.
*Article published in "The Anvil" which can be found and downloaded at
https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/anvil-201802-v-web.pdf
Related Link: https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30862
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Message: 4
The under-organized association of tenants forced the town hall to negotiate and
concessions. ---- Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw
Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw The
hottest initiative came from a group of tenants in South Prague. Many of these women are
single mothers who are home-grown, have a poorly paid job, and just come out with money.
---- Over 70% of Warsaw city dwellings do not have central heating, so about 50,000
families are drowning in the most expensive way. Since they are low-income households who
have difficulty in leveraging rent, food and clothing costs, they have to take loans
because of high heat prices, sometimes up to twice the rent. Over the past few months,
these women have put a lot of energy into organizing protests. There were banners around
the boroughs, and leaflets were distributed to neighbors. Eventually, he managed to force
the town hall to concessions and to set aside money to build more energy-efficient
heating. Authorities have not been able to break collective effort this time and make the
issue of individuals an issue. The Warsaw Tenant Association calls for central heating for
all city dwellings. Until it has been built, the City Hall must stop picking up the rent
from the people who are heating the heaters,
Five-minute video Polish with English subtitles:
http://en.labournet.tv/tenants-warsaw-organize-against-high-heating-costs
Zdroj:
http://libcom.org/news/tenants-warsaw-organize-against-high-heating-costs-28022018
We wrote:
https://www.afed.cz/text/6769/polsko-vsechny-nas-upalit-nemuzete
https://www.afed.cz/text/6801/najemnice-ve-varsave-proti-vysokym-cenam-tepla
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Message: 5
Leicester Anarchist Communist Group Meeting 21/3/18 ---- What is Anarchist Communism? ----
Monthly libertarian socialist discussion meeting in Leicester. This month's meeting is a
back to basics, ‘what's it all about this anarchist communism lark' discussion. Wednesday
21st March at 7.30pm at the Regent Sports & Social Club, 102 Regent Road, Leicester LE1
7DA. More info from Leicester ACG. ---- London Anarchist Communist Group Public Meeting
25/3/18 ---- London in Struggle ---- Current struggles in London with speakers on
campaigns against Universal Credit, on Land Justice and on initiatives to organise workers
in west London. At 1pm on Sunday, March 25th, at May Day Rooms 88 Fleet St, London EC4Y
1DH. All welcome. Refreshments provided. Nearest tube Blackfriars. More info from London ACG.
RAG Birmingham "Homeless Voice" 31/3/18
RAG (Revolutionary Anarchist Group) Birmingham are planning an anticapitalist homeless
solidarity rally for the end of March. This will include homeless speakers,
anti-capitalist poetry and arts, and contributions from speakers across the revolutionary
left. Saturday 31st March, 4.30pm, Victoria Square, Birmingham. For more info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/410411849403358/
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/03/03/upcoming-meetings-and-events/
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Message: 6
In solidarity, the Vrije Bond has offered a bank account for collecting donations to
support Peike, the G20 arrestee from Amsterdam. ---- Donations can be transferred to the
following bank account: ---- VB SOLIDARITEITSFONDS ---- NL25 INGB 0007 6604 36 ---- o.v.v.
G20 ---- At the moment, little is known about the exact situation. It is clear, however,
that a lot of money will be needed to pay of legal costs, etc. Peike also needs money to
buy things like food, stamps, etc. More information will follow at a later stage from the
support group that supports the arrestor. ---- See Free Peike website. ---- And this
article ‘First NoG20 court verdict & Linksunten Ban: Banana republic Germany shows its
ugly face' on Enough is Enough! ---- Or this article ‘G20 protest and state repression.
Solidarity with Peike and other prisoners!' on Anarchistnews.org .
Actie, amsterdam, G20, geld, geldinzameling, Peike
https://www.vrijebond.org/geld-inzamelingsactie-peike-g20-arrestant-amsterdam/
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Message: 7
Hello- my name's Patrick, from the First of May Anarchist Alliance ---- We're
revolutionary anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian network, and we're proud to stand in
solidarity with the revolutions in Syria and Rojava. ---- As anarchists, one of our core
values is solidarity with other people, without caring what side of a border they stand
on.That's why anarchist volunteers have been working from around the world to help the
revolution in Rojava. It's also why anarchists have been trying to help the refugees from
Syria make new lives in Turkey, Europe, or here in the US. Where governments are sending
working people to war with each other, or closing our borders against people who need
safety, anarchists are saying that we don't need borders and governments telling us who we
stand with. We stand with oppressed people everywhere.
We stand with Syrians and with Rojava because it's the right thing to do- because those
lives matter. We also do it, because we know that our liberation and the liberation of
other people is tied together. The saying goes, "An injury to one is an injury to all". So
people in Syria, Rojava, or anywhere else in the Middle East are unfree, it keeps us from
being free. That's more than a saying. Here in America, where our government says we can't
afford universal health care, where we can't fund access to higher education, where we
have the highest infant mortality rate of any developed nation, our government spends
almost 600 billion dollars a year on the US war machine. That military isn't there to
defend us. It's there to keep American business interests around the world- to give
corporations access to oil, to mines, to cash crops, and to workers whose labor is kept
cheap because of poverty, desperation, and oppression.
They call these business interests our "national interests"- but after they kill in our
name, the Department of Defense turns around and sells that military gear to the cops, to
terrorize our neighborhoods here at home. After the Pentagon and State Departments install
"friendly governments" overseas, business moves industry to the countries where strongmen
dictators bust up unions. Then, with the factories moving out, our public services getting
cut, and us getting taxed out of our wages to pay for war, those same politicians tell us
to be afraid of refugees. We know we have more interest in common with working people
fighting against this new colonialism, than we have with Trump, Putin, Erdogan, or Assad.
Divide and rule is how governments have always kept power, whether it's with racism here
in the US, or with sectarianism or nationalism in Syria. The Assad regime has always tried
to play the people of Syria against each other, and governments in the Middle East have
kept Kurds oppressed by dividing them between four states. As long as they keep using
these divisions, not only can the Kurds not be free in Kurdistan, but Syrians, Turks,
Iraqis, and Iranians can't be free- and neither can we in America.
The battle in Afrin is a perfect example. Erdogan is sending volunteers from the Free
Syrian Army to fight and die against the Syrian Democratic Forces in Rojava. Erdogan
doesn't care about democracy in Syria- he's just trying to crush the Rojava revolution. In
fact, by attacking Rojava, he's helping Assad. Not only is he sacrificing the FSA for this
attack and pulling them away from the front with Assad- but he's giving Assad the excuse
he needs, to come in an "save" Rojava, forcing the Kurds to ask for his help to survive.
Every day that the fighting around Afrin continues, the revolutions get weaker, and both
Assad and Erdogan get stronger.
Imagine if people who wanted freedom stood with each other, and didn't let states take
over our struggles or tell us who to fight. Imagine Rojava supporting the Syrian struggle
against Assad, and the Syrian revolution supporting the Kurdish fight for independence.
Imagine revolutionaries around the world supporting each other's struggles. We want to see
a Middle East, and a world, free from the dictatorship of states and the dictatorship of
business. None of the world's powers- not in Washington or Moscow- are going to support
real popular sovereignty for people in Syria or in Rojava. Change won't come from above-
it will come from each other.
Solidarity with revolutionaries!
http://m1aa.org/?p=1492
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Message: 8
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group supports the struggles of refugees, who are simply
demanding their legal rights to asylum. We call on the union movement in Australia,
sections of which have quite reasonable refugee policies, to act on them and come to the
refugees' defence. We look forward to a workers' revolution which will create a single
federal world community with freedom of movement for everyone. And in the meantime, we
support the work of the Close the Camps Action Collective:
https://www.facebook.com/Close-the-Camps-Action-Collective-1741130979474102/---- Late
last year, the Manus Island Detention Centre was closed. Nominally run by the Papua New
Guinea Government, it was in reality operated by the Australian Government using remote
control. Inconveniently, in April 2016 the PNG Supreme Court found that the centre
violated the PNG Constitution by imprisoning almost 900 people who had not committed any
crime. Instead of releasing the refugees imprisoned there, the governments conspired to
keep them locked up while taking their time coming up with alternative arrangements.
The Manus refugees have been protesting their treatment for years. In the run-up to the
closure, they escalated their protests greatly, getting wide publicity in Australia via
social media and then breaking into the mass media. The new accommodation is located in
the town, rather than on the isolated naval base that housed the Detention Centre, and the
PNG citizens on Manus are deeply divided over the refugees. Some are very hostile and have
issued threats.
As the closure deadline approached and centre management became more desperate, the vast
majority of refugees refused to move. They maintained their non-violent stance in the face
of escalating violence from the PNG police and military, directed by the PNG Government,
and the security guards at the centre, ultimately directed by the Australian Government.
Their struggle sparked widespread sympathy and a series of demonstrations by the refugee
support movement in Australia. The Government was at last paying a small price for its
policy of systematic cruelty.
In late November, a brutal police assault succeeded in removing the 600 remaining
protestors. While protests have since died down, news continues to trickle out. The centre
was closed while much of the new accommodation was still under construction and
uninhabitable. While technically the refugees are not "detained" there (they can come and
go), their lives are still highly regulated and closure has been a pretext for cutting
back and removing services. Fears about the hostile reception awaiting the refugees in the
township have been validated, while conditions in the new accommodation are poor. One
block even has raw sewage running down the street - just the thing to make the neighbours
happy!
The torture of the refugees on Manus and the similar torture visited on the refugees on
Nauru are things that the Australian Government would like everyone to forget. Triumphant
rhetoric about "Sovereign Borders" is a little harder to maintain when the struggles of
refugees force the human cost of those policies into public view. A Fortress Australia
policy necessarily means racist violence against those the policy seeks to exclude and the
treatment of refugees on Manus and Nauru amounts to torture on a grand scale. Both major
parties in Australia stand condemned over this.
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group supports the struggles of refugees, who are simply
demanding their legal rights to asylum. We call on the union movement in Australia,
sections of which have quite reasonable refugee policies, to act on them and come to the
refugees' defence. We look forward to a workers' revolution which will create a single
federal world community with freedom of movement for everyone. And in the meantime, we
support the work of the Close the Camps Action Collective:
https://www.facebook.com/Close-the-Camps-Action-Collect...4102/.
FREE THE REFUGEES
LET THEM STAY
BRING THEM HERE
*Article published in "The Anvil" which can be found and downloaded at
https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/anvil-20180...b.pdf

Related Link: https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30864
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