Today's Topics:
1. RADIO REPORT FROM ANARCHIST MEETING OF STRUGGLE IN
THESSALONIKI, GREECE (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. New Zealand: awsm.nz - Labour – 100 wasted years
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - international, Turkey:
The state is the coup; the revolution is freedom (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. wsm.ie: Theresa May elected but there can be no such thing
as a feminist Tory by Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Information from the concentration camps in
Paranesti and Xanthi By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, afed.cz: Report of the Court of Appeals of Igor
Ševcova (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Comrades from Slovenia that participated at the Anarchist Meeting of Struggle in the
context of No Border Camp Thessaloniki 2016 reported from Thessaloniki in their radio
emission Crna luknja (Black Hole). They gave basic informations about the camp, activities
and the content and spoke with members of Anarchist Political Organization – Federations
of Collectives (APO) from Greece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKVhHo2_JQ
http://apo.squathost.com/radio-report-from-anarchist-meeting-of-struggle/
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Message: 2
We are in the midst of celebrations surrounding the birth of the New Zealand Labour Party,
but is there really anything to celebrate for the workers of New Zealand. The fact that
the working class of New Zealand face many of the same problems today as they did 100
years ago, in terms of poor housing, low pay, unemployment, and inequality, is perhaps
proof enough that the Labour Party has failed as the party of the working class. They
never transformed society, and the gap between rich and poor still remains today with the
richest 1 per cent of the population owning more than the combined cash and assets of the
poorest 50 per cent ---- Instead of being a party fighting for workers’ rights, the
history of the Labour Party in New Zealand, in fact, has been one of a history of
compromise with capitalism, and anti-working class action. Anarchist arguments of the
conservative and corrupting pressures that are bought upon labour representatives within
parliament have largely been observed to be true.
Jim Edwards, the son of the leader of the Unemployed Workers Movement of the 1930s,
described the excitement felt that accompanied the election of the first Labour Government
in 1935, when he described how he believed that, “The revolution was happening.” The
Labour Party immediately set about with plans designed to increase the lot of the working
class. The unemployed received a Christmas bonus, wage cuts were restored and state
housing and national health schemes were implemented. The excitement felt by Labour’s
first electoral victory in 1935 didn’t last though, and the drift away from socialism can
be viewed through one of its leading politicians, Peter Fraser.
In 1913, Fraser, New Zealand Federation of Labor leader in 1912-13 and Labour prime
minister 1940-49, wrote, “Industrial Unionism plus revolutionary political action, in my
opinion, provide the most effective and expeditious means of reaching [socialism].”
However by 1918 Fraser had begun to moderate his views. Instead of revolution he called
for “the peaceful and legal transformation of society from private to public ownership and
the increasing of democratic control over land and industry”. By the early 1930s Fraser
had divested himself of any previous revolutionary ideals and saw Labour’s main objective
as a simple one – “jobs for the unemployed.”
Even on the night of their victory in 1935, Michael Joseph Savage, the then leader,
assured the country that Labour was not going to represent any particular section but
would govern in the interests of all the people. One of the co-founders of the New Zealand
Communist Party, Alex Galbraith, later expressed his dismay at how the leaders of the
Labour Party had become a pillar of the capitalist system and were being used by the
ruling class to attack the working class. “From class against class to servile bootlicker
of the bourgeoisie,” he wrote.
The Labour Government struggled to control the workers, who, to the new managers of
capitalism, seemed to have a never-ending list of demands. In 1945, with the party coming
to the end of its first spell in power, a Labour Minister, Bill Parry, was driven to
remark that he didn’t understand why people were asking for more when “everything has been
done.”
The movement of the Labour Party away from their roots culminated in the Rogernomics of
Lange’s 1984 Labour Government. Nowadays, it is exceedingly rare to hear any member of the
Labour Party talk of socialism, instead they adhere to the ideals of neo-liberalism, and
the height of their political vision seems to be offering themselves up as “nicer”
managers of capitalism than National.
In its 100 years, the Labour party has, instead of holding a vision of the world’s wealth
for the workers, settled merely for piece-meal reformism. Capitalism has been viewed as
something to manage and work with, not overthrow. The result has been the collapse within
the party of any sense of the class struggle that challenges the legitimacy and values of
capitalism. The one thing we can take away from a waste of 100 years is that the interests
of the working class cannot be protected by parliament. If we are to achieve meaningful
and long lasting change we need to turn our backs on the ballot boxes and political
parties and take action in our places of employment and our communities, with our weapons
being strikes, demonstrations, and other forms of direct action, and not a voting paper.
http://www.awsm.nz/2016/07/22/labour-100-wasted-years/
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Message: 3
After the failure of the military coup, the sultan Erdogan I triumph. Social movements and
the radical left remained neutral in this struggle of clans at the top of the state.
Anarchists DAF tell the reactionary wave in the street. ---- The coup, which was a latent
dimension of the state policy in our country since the 1980 putsch, openly resurfaced
after thirty-six, on the night of July 15, 2016. ---- ?Many public buildings were blocked
for several hours, during military sedition in Istanbul and Ankara. It all began with a
demonstration of combat aircraft in Ankara and by blocking bridges in Istanbul, then
continued with the taking hostage the Chief of the General Staff, the roar of tanks and
shots fire in the streets. Many buildings were hit by F16s and helicopters, including
Parliament and the headquarters of the secret services. There were exchanges of fire in
many places between the army and the police. Public Television programs were interrupted
by the reading of the declaration of the "Council for peace in the country", responsible
for the coup.
At the end of five hours lasted this attempted coup, more than 100 soldiers, 80 police
officers and 80 protesters who were opposed were killed. In response, 2,839 soldiers,
including many high-ranking officers, were detained.
??During the last thirty-six years, the Army has more than once threatened a coup tool of
oppression, violence and repression. No doubt that for us, the oppressed, it means
torture, repression and massacre of the people. Obviously, a structure whose power depends
on these massacres will continue in the name of "safeguarding the indivisible unity of the
country."
"Holy Day" in defense of democracy
The attempted coup of July 2016 is the result of a power struggle between different
factions within the state. Maybe there as there are foreign forces in the game. Anyway,
those who leave are strengthened the government and its administration.
It was the night of the coup a "sacred day" defense of democracy, while government power
increased further. The party Erdogan, the AKP gets a renewed legitimacy for having "pushed
the coup."
All night, the TV stations broadcast programs celebrating victory, in the service of
propaganda RecepTayyip Erdogan. They not only made up his mind, but they have helped to
get people on the street. Just as the media, the opposition parties in Parliament, which
supported the AKP in the event, fell into his trap, which is "to prevent others from doing
politics." Their position "to side of democracy against the coup" evil mask their
political naivety. Clearly, in the short term, they will call for anything but the
strengthening of political and state power. They fill the air with their slogans in favor
of the death penalty while boasting of being "pro-democracy" is not that a sign of the
impasse in which the opposition parties found ?
The reactionaries are in the street
?With the defeat of the coup, the AKP now has the ideal configuration to perfect the
ideological transformation of society. "50% who tremble with indignation at home," and
that Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened the protesters from Taksim Square in 2013, are this
time the streets.
Fascist culture, important part of the ideology that the power shall endeavor to spread in
society, has awakened among those that the State has mobilized the street, presented as
defenders of democracy ... It is not difficult to guess that this "democratic movement"
will serve to knock the oppressed. Already short noise lynchings against those conestent
strengthening of state power. This power struggle within the state, in addition to the
rising economic and political injustices, not lead to nothing but the perpetuation of the
oppressive authority of the oppressed.
Neither the dictatorship, visible or invisible, either civilian or military structures nor
the coup, nor the election of political parties who are the enemies of the people, have to
do with the will of the people. For us who believe that emancipation can not be achieved
either by a coup or through the ballot box, the existence of the state is a permanent coup
d'état against freedom, and our revolt will not stop as an it has not led to a free society.
The state is the coup; the revolution is freedom. We expect nothing of the struggles
between clans state, our hope is in the revolution for freedom.
Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet (DAF Revolutionary Anarchist Action), July 17, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Turquie-L-Etat-c-est-le-coup-d
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Theresa May has just become the UK’s latest Prime Minister and the second ever woman Prime
Minister. She’s certainly a decent orator paired with a comedian of a speech writer who
wrote a statement filled with faux concern about making the “UK a country that works for
all and not just the privileged few” – it’s as if she thinks we don’t know she’s a member
of the privileged-few-loving Conservative Party, or as she reminded us, Conservative and
Unionist Party (I’m not sure that’s supposed to make us feel better about the Tories…).
---- For a woman who only a few weeks ago voted to repeal the Human Rights Act she had no
problem spitting out some crap about how she’s going to protect black men who are treated
more harshly by the criminal justice system, not to mention her bringing up other
statistics that highlight an intersection of oppression that she has mentioned as if she
is appalled by them (despite belonging to a party that perpetrates them). She didn’t seem
too concerned about the criminal justice system acting too harshly – or any other
mechanism for the Tory reign of terror – when she was giving off about Human Rights
Legislation getting in the way and limiting the powers of government.
What else is in her record as an MP that goes against all the talk she talked today about
“a union of citizens, whoever we are, wherever we come from”? Oh yeah, those racist
billboard vans that we saw a few years back that drove around the UK telling people that
wherever they come from to go home (obviously people that don’t belong to the “precious,
precious union” for those who are confused by the outrageous contradiction). This does go
hand in hand with her in 2013 voting against a law that would have made it illegal for
people to discriminate against others on the basis of “caste” (as the legislation put it).
Her speech writer was clearly told to ignore her actions and everything she has done up
until now and to tap into the latest trend of feminism – she is a woman after all, it
should be easier for her to pretend she’s a feminist than it was for Cameron et al. So, as
expected, she mentioned the gender pay gap. How very good of you Theresa, you’re only a
member of the party that is responsible for mothers skipping meals to feed their kids.
You’re a member of the establishment that has seen women queuing in food banks for
sanitary towels – not to mention that the use of food banks is at a record high.
You’ve made cut after cut against the public sector of which women comprise 65%. Your
party has seen that women will be hit twice as hard than any other group by your austerity
measures – that’s right, they’re your austerity measures; you are currently fighting a war
against women. Of £26 billion you have saved in “Welfare Reform” (read: welfare
destruction), £22 billion of it has been from women’s pockets, that is a deliberate
gendered attack.
You’ve made mothers, the primary carers of children, pay through the nose for the
carelessness of your class. You’ve cut tax credits, reduced housing benefit and frozen
child benefit and you have wrongly sanctioned thousands of single mothers. Yet you think
you can parade about in a “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt. You think you’re
off the hook because you took 3 seconds of your speech to highlight the gender pay gap;
not on our watch.
This is not feminism.
There can be no such thing as a “feminist Tory” – it’s an oxymoron, one term contradicts
the other.
Feminism isn’t just about ending the pay gap; it’s about class war. It’s about dismantling
capitalism, racism, homophobia, disablism, and of course sexism. These systems of
oppression do not exist on their own, however, each one reinforces the other, and in
examining them and seeing where and how they connect we can see how to tear them down.
No Theresa May, and no other Tory is ever going to dismantle the very system that they
benefit from. A Tory can’t eradicate sexism, because sexism cannot be eradicated without
destroying the environment it lives in.
This doesn’t mean we elect someone as Prime Minister who has feminist principals; the
master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Women’s participation in the very
system that has furthered our own oppression will not be the source of our liberation. We
need to build a feminist society from the bottom up, and that doesn’t start in parliament,
because feminism is completely at odds with the state. The state: the exploitative,
oppressive, patriarchal and male dominated state, whose very foundations are our
servitude, will never be used for our emancipation.
So, Prime Minister, you can take your tokenism and shove it. Don’t you dare call yourself
a feminist while you wage a war on women and the entire 99%. As we’re as we’re concerned
this is Thatcher round 2 and neither of you are what a feminist looks like.
Subject: Intersectionality, Feminism, Conservative party
Author: Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird
http://www.wsm.ie/c/theresa-may-elected-feminist-tory
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Message: 5
On Wednesday, July 20 we demonstrated together with comrades from Greece and many European
countries to immigration detention centers and refugees in Paranesti Drama and Xanthi. In
the concentration camp at Paranesti, strong police forces had blocked all access to the
site and only a small number of demonstrators managed to get into the room and comes into
contact with refugees and immigrants, who moved that face many food and medical care
problems. ---- Then we headed to the concentration camp in Xanthi which also guarded by
riot squads and YMET. In this camp, on May 22, after the anarchist solidarity
concentration, the cops had beaten those immigrants and refugees have responded positively
to this move to interrupt the communication channels of the prisoners with the solidarity
movement and cemetery silence to cover all miseries of power occurring in the camps. The
safeguarding of A.P.O. block along with other protesters, he arrived at the entrance of
the camp, where they were lined repressive gangs torturers, he tried to break the cordon
and to reciprocate a little bit of social counter-violence towards generalized violence of
the state and uniformed guards. The demonstration After leaving drafted, regrouped and
stood on the other side of the camp, shouting slogans for solidarity hour as there was
visible contact with the inmates.
Tomorrow Thursday, July 21 call at solidarity demonstration to refugees and immigrants in
Thessaloniki, at 6 pm from Kamara.
SOLIDARITY TO REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS
COMMON FIGHTS FOR LIFE AND DIGNITY
Anarchist Political Organisation
Federation collectivity
Related Posts:
SOLIDARITY TO REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS
Political call to Struggle Anarchist Encounter
Poster Anarchist Struggle Meeting
Solidarity with refugees and immigrants
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 6
There is no reason to rejoice. Prague High Court today ruled on the appeal of Igor
Ševcova. ---- According to Igor judgment forbiden to attend sports, cultural events and
manifestations (demonstrations, marches) and other events organized by anarchist movement
for three years. Most people that judgment appears to be milder than expulsion for two
years, but what is not clap. We have prepared a report on the process yesterday. ---- The
smaller room have? ---- Long we talked about how it will proceed Court of Appeal and now
it's here. Since morning runs around the screenshot Ovcácková networks Facebook profile,
where presidential spokesman Milos Zeman calculates a list of personalities and
institutions that support the left-wing extremism. He listed there anyone who dared to
argue about Igor's guilt, including the departments of Czech universities and former
presidential candidate, philosopher Jan Sokol. It can be seen that using our slogan "we
are all terrorists," whereby we take so seriously the importance of this absurd term used
to intimidate society, we are closer to the truth than we ourselves think.
With the approaching fourteen hours grew outside the courtroom people and they came to the
woman who was going organizationally in charge to let us know that the room is only 25
seats, and therefore will go one by one under the coordination of judicial guards. True
capacity pews were 16 tumors. It can not say anything other than, "You're doing the ass,
is not it ?!" What are you afraid that more people saw with their own eyes as well as
Czech justice? Or perhaps came the "social bonds" that's Igor Why do I (and several dozen
of them and had to wait at the door) ?! To "Igor ties" to shorten the time, they went
around the corner, where a change in custody for another anarchist Martin Ignacák to greet
him loudly. There they expect none other than good old captain Kavka. The most secret of
all tajnejch.
Kronstadt in the courtroom
Thus, the trial could begin. The policeman, who was grinning as if he ate four lemons,
admonished the people in the corridor around them do not hear anything. She forgot scold
President of the Court of Appeals, Judge Peter PÍŠOVÁ to stop whispering and began to
speak, so that he heard it. The whole process went fairly quickly. The judge summed up the
prosecution and judgment of the lower instance. Igor's testimony read and quoted the judge
Bedrichová the expulsion of two years is the lowest possible sentence, and again did not
forget to emphasize Igor anarchist jurisdiction and perhaps membership in the "Company
Alert". When the grounds for appeal, Igor's lawyer Kožoušek pointed out on several
fundamental aspects, which according to him, the municipal court erred or wrongly decided.
First, it said that the court still acts as if Igor could attack the defense minister, a
court "unfortunately" did not obtain enough evidence for it to prove it. Whole resolutely
he pointed out that it transpired that the accused had no relationship with the minister
nor his family did not even know who is the Minister of Defence. The indictment did not
have any direct or indirect evidence except strangely (without the participation of
defense counsel) demonstrated conformity scent. But Igor had cameras record the track
record of the logs on the Internet profiles, etc. Kožoušek said that the entire case could
easily be staged, or he could choose to run someone in the family. Further he pointed out
that the accusation of involvement in the destruction of foreign matter came up five
months after the event itself, which is sprayed. Police probably knew from the beginning
it was filmed Igor, but only when they started to disintegrate the case of terrorism, it
teamed up with shooting spraying.
He also stated that the court talks about the whole event staged Luke Borla, as if he was
convicted for, and as if the whole thing had to change something. The court also misjudged
the trips, he wrote that Igor travels through Europe to base guerrillas. He explained that
it was a study trips, where Igor was with my parents. The judgment says that once
Barcelona got on the plane and there ends his tracks. At Igor's wittily responded by
saying that it sounds as if vaporized the entire plane with passengers, but it would be
enough to look into his waist, to determine where and when he came and how long they
stayed there. But it would Holt does not cause so conspiratorially. Defending Kožoušek
then pointed out that the widespread use of the slogan "Resistance lives, the struggle
continues," is hardly can say that the accused is a member of the Association Alerta.
Moreover it argued that the tattoo is difficult to prove that someone else prepares
radicals to clashes with the police and ask for someone to be in the courtroom and showed
vysvlékal next tattoo is more than humiliating.
In another respect, the lawyer pointed out that deed is not a criminal offense, and hardly
anyone can shoot at the same time watch and additionally express psychological support. In
addition, the video has been edited and the time of the shooting had anything Igor
chanting. As rightly pointed out: "Who's filming, he can not watch." Moreover, it was
Igor, who put the video together and published. In the last point of defense he said that
the court should not be much politicized and it should not use belonging to the anarchist
movement as an argument of social harm. For the actual sentence still Kožoušek said that
Igor is not for the lowest possible punishment, but rather a very stringent for such a
marginal offense. "Two years of living here, he learned Czech perfectly, excellent
student, stood behind him University in Pilsen and Prague's Charles University and intends
to stay here and continue studying. His mother often come here for business travels and
because of his age, you have created a lot of good acquaintances and friends."
In the case of the sentence suggested condition or community service. Igor had two time
lawyer and his second lawyer, Paul Cižinský, he added that such a sentence for a political
activist from the Russian Federation is inadmissible, and even the deed itself is on the
edge of the offense and the offense will not be considered. He added that "for Igor
expulsion would be the end of the study of social and political life and activism." Igor
still said they did not agree with Judge BEDRICHOV which he recalled that after two years
they can return and continue their studies. According to Igor, it is clear that after two
years he had nobody gave a visa, studying him flee and pointed out that the judge does not
realize how difficult it is for foreigners to the Czech Republic legally get here and
start studying.
The state prosecutor, she declared that the judgment of the lower instance is in line with
its proposal and that we must take into account the fact that Igor is a member of the
anarchist scene, and the offense occurred in addition to the "unauthorized demonstration".
It has therefore found the appeal as unfounded. The judge dismissed the subpoena a witness
who was talking about the fate of political activists and deportation to Russia. The only
witness was summoned Associate Professor Marek Jakoubek, who question whether Igor were
sometimes problems, he said Igor is the opposite of violent student. Kožoušek eventually
suggested the complete abolition and acquittal. State Attorney contrary, insisted on
retaining the judgment and sentence. Judges and lay judges were dressed coat, former
members of the Communist Party, and so the process against anarchist rather like Kronstadt
in the courtroom.
You're in Bohemia, so do not jump too!
At half past three was reported by the verdict. The room looked as if the teacher stopped
playing the piano and who has no chair, must out of business. But there was no chair more
people than those who are received. And the verdict? Igor cobblers three years may not
attend or participate in any sports or cultural events or rallies and other events
organized by anarchist movement, such as demonstrations, marches, benefits, etc. What does
that mean exactly, we do not know. Neither the lawyers were unsure. It is necessary to
wait for the written observations and study section.
But in practice, this means that whenever undercover cop or netajnej see Igor in what they
assess as one of the prohibited, Igor is guilty of obstruction of official power and can
go sit for three years. Additionally, obviously he gets the prosecutor, in which it will
have to report in the days of big events, mobilisations and demonstrations. The judge said
the destruction of foreign property exceeds the freedom of speech, Igor is still a
supporter of the anarchist movement (the greatest crime and the only thing that can unite
alleged assault filming graffiti), plus it was undeclared manifestation. So what is there
what to shoot, knave one.
As the "correct" the judge said, came from a foreign land, and yet here committing crimes.
But it has become a tool! "We evaluated the circumstances of the accused properly studying
high school and is a very good student, which is a significant factor. If they were
deported, it would represent a big hit to his life and was the big question whether he
could continue studying. "By Peter Judge Píša upheld the sentence. Judgment has not
changed, only punishment. In other words, he said he understands Igor's ties to the Czech
Republic, but: Well, Study, work, consume and Latin Mow, otherwise you'll see! Just one
lot of bonds Igor can not continue to have, because it would be an informer could see and
say that playing football or taking a stroll with a friend is one of the many activities
that are not involved.
There is no reason to rejoice
The judgment is definitely nicer than expulsion, but it's still a prison. Inability to
participate in political and social activities, organize, the threat of punishment lurking
around every corner, it is for every person who does not intend to settle for the
ubiquitous hierarchy utter degradation. The punishment that literally uždíbne tweak and
holds convicted under total control. Moreover, in a world that increasingly resembles a
prison. Punishments such as house arrest or helping to create the impression that
everything is somehow okay and more people accept such prison or even such a judgment seen
as a success, with which should be condemned reconcile.
Extending prison for prison walls but just helping these walls painted over the color that
is near invisible or acceptable. What the dictatorship of the people he sees as
unacceptable repression and generally oppose it with disgust, that democracy is perceived
as something progressive and consider it to be fair. This invisible sebefízlování
penetration, ubiquitous and invisible control of the prison into our lives creates so
successful, and people accepted system. We'll see if Igor will try to do something with
the judgment, he makes it or is it simply abandoning the tour, he will follow my heart and
see what happens. Hard to say, anyway, it has our full support and solidarity.
If you want to support Igor, negratulujte him to "success" and rather ask him how he can
help you cope with this difficult situation. But most importantly, change your
surroundings in a world where no place for borders and prisons, whether they are visible
or invisible. The environment in which Exclusion Act will be replaced by solidarity.
Taken from:
https://antifenix.noblogs.org/post/2016/07/21/report-z-odvolaciho-soudu-igora-sevcova/
https://www.afed.cz/text/6493/report-z-odvolaciho-soudu-igora-sevcova
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