Today's Topics:
1. acracia.org: THE FILM "LAND AND FREEDOM" AND ANARCHISM (ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #257 January 2016 -
Content + Editorial (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire Tract AL - Assigné.es
resistance! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
First of all, and providing some historical legitimacy to what the film Land and Freedom
chronicles, regardless of its quality, say it should be known that the inspiration is
largely in George Orwell and his Homage to Catalonia . Orwell leads Spain in late 1936 and
in the book recounts his experiences as a militant in the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist
Unification)showing the anti-Stalinist repression suffered this political force by the
Communists. While staying within a Marxist party, Orwell professes his admiration for the
anarchist revolutionary work in the city of Barcelona; It will be a pleasant surprise when
the British libertarians in the real builders of socialism, not only in the economic
field, also in the daily habits of life and always considering freedom as the primary
consideration.
We insist that we talk about memories of such an important writer like Orwell, moral
reference point in his critique of totalitarian regimes; We have not yet entered into the
intricacies of a screenplay, as realistic as you like, but to fiction after all. Orwell
also narrate their avatars in front, from February to May 1937; May 20 will be hurt on the
Aragon front and sent back to Barcelona to be very different from that experienced months
earlier situation: the Stalinists have taken control of the city and has been returned to
the bourgeois privileges of yesteryear . We'll see how Loach's film, although very briefly
and incompletely, tells similar events.
David, speaking and film, is a communist militant Englishman who attends a conference in
his hometown in which external aid to the Republic in Spain is requested. We will see the
evolution of this character, a naive Original communist militancy and an absolute lack of
knowledge about the Spanish policy to a progressive awareness of what will be the real
revolutionary work. David, before the initial failure to find his Communist comrades, just
enrolling in a POUM militia; the film is to show a value equal coexistence between men and
women, and among people of various nationalities who have come to the aid of freedom
against fascism; this spirit of militia will be quite different, as expressed in a line of
dialogue, militarized People's Army controlled by the Communists.
Is known the respect he has Loach for giving as truthfully as possible and, indeed, the
chosen actors are of various nationalities (very unlike what we see so often in certain
products), so it is essential to see the original subtitled version a film in which we
speak in different languages. However, the desire to show Loach by a perfectly united
"heterodox" or if you like "anti-authoritarian" left is the less suspicious; drift of war
and revolution, more than any other factor, which was supposed anarchists and
anti-Stalinist Marxist finally walked together in some respects (especially being targeted
both of Stalinist repression), but not much less a common front which they could do before
these events, can not be simplified both in history and in politics.
It is perhaps much demand, a feature film, which we clearly explain the complex political
situation in the Spanish civil conflict. However, we believe that it is a fair criticism
denouncing the excessive romantic halo that follows the film, touching Manichaeism at
times, when you mostrársenos a revolutionary united front regardless of ideologies. The
sequence of assembly-decision on the collectivization of land, in particular people freed
from the fascists, is one of the most visible achievements of the film, is commendable and
moving in many ways; so it is said, the spontaneity of actors and extras will be sought,
sought between true anarchist militants today and also among people who could not
understand the development of the revolution, what gives greater added value. However,
this sequence is rather isolated in the whole work and the film suffers from greater
specificity and context; that is, in the end what is most weight is that it is a nice film
of oppressed taking finally the "promised land". We do not want to get too in what was the
real revolutionary policy the POUM as a force or actual disputes they may have with the
anarchists; however, it is very suspect in a movie obvious libertarian spirit of the
pervasiveness of this match especially when you do not want to detail in the narrative,
some political and yes show peasants and workers own the means of production taking to
manage their lives.
In Land and Freedom they appear fleetingly, known as events of May 37; these events
definitely faced in Catalonia, even with weapons, revolutionary anarchists and POUM with
representatives of the republican legality, especially with the Communists. Loach's film
shows us, without giving further explanations, the site of Telefonica in central
Barcelona, a stronghold of the CNT. It was a clear symbol of the revolutionary gains, the
Catalan Generalitat forces, along with the Communists and other members of the republican
legality, did not hesitate to attack. It was a tactic of the Stalinists and their allies
to seize power from the workers' committees, which strongly collided with workers in arms.
Unfortunately, the final defeat came and became a symbol of the decline of the libertarian
revolution. Although it is understood that it is impossible to explain everything in a
film, it's incredible conversion David; renunciation of military and enlisted in the
republican army for his communist convictions, so he is forced to attack the building of
Telefonica and only after exchanging a few shots with the besieged, and to exchange a few
words with an English fellow who is on the other side, finally sees the light, you
understand that it is a puppet of Stalin's plans and returns to fight alongside the
militia reconciling with White. To explain Stalin's policy in the Spanish war, we
explained at some point that the Soviet dictator wants to look good to the capitalist
democracies (which never helped the Spanish Republic), destroying the revolution and using
workers "as chess pieces "in order to achieve trade agreements. It is at least a good
basis for understanding the blackmail that came under the Republic and the growth of
minority forces such as the Communist Party and its regional version of the Unified
Socialist Party of Catalonia.
White's character, object of romantic interest of David, is paradigmatic. Has often been
referred to as an anarchist, but is it really? It seems more a figure that tries to
reconcile the heterodox Marxism, represented by a political party (the allusions White
POUM, their means and their leaders, are excessive for a libertarian character), with
anarchism; Significantly handkerchief bearing, although many times it has wanted to see
how rojinegro, is actually red and finish appearing at the end of the film become a symbol
for a new generation that sings ... International!
It would be unfair not to refer, without more, as an argument to criticize his work, the
political affiliation of Ken Loach, who has always said Trotskyist, but his film is
manipulative in many ways and ends a communist plot aspect that antiauthoritarian; to
respect the spirit of the film, greater respect for the anarchist aesthetic as obvious
symbol of the anti-authoritarian socialism (not of a kind of anti-Stalinist Marxism) would
have been necessary. White's death at the hands of the Stalinist Communists, now turned
into an army (including some former militia member who had previously used the official
Communist argument win the war first and then we will come the revolution), but is
impossible not to get excited by its symbolism, just to reflect, it also forced and
manipulative. It seems, by all accounts, a successful end to a valuable film, but
questionable in many aspects.
However, Land and Freedom had an unquestionable value. The premiere of the film in Spain,
in 1995, a country with many problems of historical memory, put it back in the limelight
issues that also had been silenced by the official left. It is no coincidence that the
film did not like anything ineffable Santiago Carrillo, former communist and Stalinist
leader at the time of the Civil War, and try to attack what she held in calling the
revolutionary protagonists of "irresponsible adventurers"; nothing new, the Stalinist and
hackneyed argument that fortunately can not stop the push of historical truth.
Fortunately, aside from controversies and film quality, the film had a certain depth in
the younger audience and guessed some strengthening to the hope of a libertarian
alternative to the economic and political system that we suffer.
Capi Vidal
http://acracia.org/el-film-tierra-y-libertad-y-el-anarquismo/
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Message: 2
Editorial: The sorcerer's apprentice ---- Full-Lights: Responding to the state of
emergency ---- Emergency state: The urgency is to cons-attack ---- Support against Kurdish
left Daech ---- Events: Stay canary face of repression ---- Terrorism: No reason, really?
---- Policy ---- Regional: The crisis is growing, yay! ---- Ecology ---- Cop 21: Social
Movement 1, managers 0 ---- Notre-Dame-des-Landes: General mobilization January 16th ----
Debate: current struggles and social project ---- Social ---- Edge: The need to adapt ----
Social benefit: Closures? Make Caf! ---- Digital, a new era of exploitation ---- Against
the beast e-world ---- Antipatriarcat ---- Brazil: Against the criminalization of
abortion, legalization! ---- Strife ---- Brazilian Gaucha Anarchist Federation: Twenty
years to root anarchism ---- Sunday work: the struggle continues
December 95, a milestone
History
There are 130 years Decazeville, the miners' strike in the major mode
Culture
Interview of the group "The Three Eight": "We are there to recharge the batteries of our
audience"
Book: "The building's Action League - Anarchism to conquer the Geneva sites in these wars"
Alexandre Elsig, editions of bottom & Labour College
Roman: "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, Babel Publishing
Book: "class of travel Seine-Saint-Denis students investigate in uptown" by Nicolas
Jounin, Editions La Découverte.
Book: "To end the economy" by Serge Latouche and Anselm Jappe, editions Free & Solidarity
Book: "The Adventures of the goods" by Anselm Jappe, Denoël editions
http://al-moselle.over-blog.com/2016/01/alternative-libertaire-de-janvier-est-en-kiosque.html
Editorial: The sorcerer's apprentice
When President just elected, asks to be judged on the fall in unemployment, and promises
not to run if he fails, how can he do to save his place when failure is overwhelming, with
almost 700,000 more unemployed since 2012?
But is it really useful to ask the question when you only have to present itself as the
rampart FN to keep a majority in five metropolitan areas in twelve? When dams any
challenge thanks to the state of emergency? When we play warlord of a suffering people by
terrorist attacks?
By choosing to harden his increasingly authoritarian and war policy, the duo Holland Valls
course aims to divide the right, FN became wedged between a creep and a PS who hopes to
become a centrist party empty and hollow republican discourse.
But it will also lasting change that regime. The draconian state of emergency is made to
last. Obviously, to marginalize the environmentalist and anti-capitalist left, reducing
the anti-liberal left to the sole role of timely electoral support, you must first forget
the hard questions: austerity, layoffs, destruction of the labor code, racism
institutional, generalized flicage ...
It is for us to impose these themes in the landscape. The struggles abound.
From Notre-Dame-des-Landes in Calais, the fight remains class against class!
Alternative Libertaire, 1 January 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Edito-Les-apprentis-sorciers
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Message: 3
Valls The government knows that its austerity policies, destruction of solidarity and job
destruction will eventually cause explosions of popular anger as in Greece and Spain. So,
he took advantage of the terrible attacks in November to harden repressive laws and
strengthen police powers. ---- As always, it is the neighborhoods and "disruptive" (trade
unionists, environmentalists) who are the first affected by this security climate. For
terrorists, police and legal arsenal is already in place but would it address social
causes of terrorism rather than only manage dramatic consequences. ---- Holland strikes
three times ---- 1. The rulers do not like the independent justice: already in 2009,
Sarkozy tried to remove the investigating judges, that is to say the most independent
judges of political power. Today, Holland would be fine control over the police judges
(listens, searches, etc.) and give more power to prosecutors and prefects are the orders
of the Interior Ministry. What was supposed to be exceptional so may become permanent ...
2. Similarly, Hollande wants to make the state of emergency a lot easier to use by
including it in the Constitution. The FN is quite agree and quietly announced that it will
suffice to broaden its scope ...
3. Finally, deprivation of nationality for binational, everyone sees as totally
ineffective in practice, will only serve to further strengthen prejudice against
foreign-es and will fuel racism that corrodes our country. Again the nod to the voters of
the National Front is throwing up.
Leaflet in PDF for download
Union treaties as criminals
House arrest of dozens of environmental activists at COP 21 is proof that terrorists are
clearly not the only target of the government. The state of emergency, and the law of 2015
was intelligence, and the new law on police practices, are all weapons that will be used
to continue to intimidate and punish union.
The conviction of former employees of Goodyear Amiens-Nord in the prison shows what one
should expect. The fury against the Conti and charges of employees of Air France are going
in the same direction.
The bosses and government expect it to amplify the crackdown. With these new laws, nothing
prevents today to set up without control by a judge, wiretapping and internet, night
searches, prolonged detentions of trade union activists preparing a strike considered
dangerous by the government .
January 26: strike for wages!
Against the continued blocking of salaries of civil servants, against the spread of
premiums modulations, against the implementation of the PPCR protocol (mostly rejected by
the unions in September but Valls plans to implement "the letter"), the strike on January
26 should be an opportunity to break the shackles of fear imposed by the government and
the media after the attacks.
We encourage wage earners whose private business or branch negotiations conventional stick
with that schedule to massively join the strike and demonstrations. No fear ... PS!
PSA workers, ArcelorMittal, Renault and Goodyear are trying to force the doors Auto World,
October 9, 2012.
JMB cc / red Photo
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Assigne-e-s-a-resistance
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