Today's Topics:
1. Photos and information from the march against the border
fence in Evros By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. wsm.ie: Why is DCC handing land over to developers? IHN
video seminar explains the land grab (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, Classwar, Womens Death Brigade to march on
Boris’s house! Meet 8pm Angel Tube Friday 5th August 2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. wsm.ie: Irish Housing Network stand with homeless residents
in protest of the eviction of twenty families from emergency
accommodation in Dublin by Sean Prior (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. TDs vote not to allow for abortion in cases of Fatal Foetal
Abnormalities by Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. SOLIDARITY! Newssheet of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity
Movement Issue 18 – August 2016 -- The fight for anarchism is
the fight for peace (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, Gallery: Boris, May and other back-stabbing
“friends” (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Saturday, July 23 held a protest against the border in the Evros fence. The Anarchist
Political Organisation invited and participated in the mobilization within the Anarchist
Meeting of Struggle against the border war and the modern totalitarianism. ---- In the
village of Chestnut, a few hundred meters from the Turkish border and the fence, heavy
police forces downed the street protesters from Greece, the Balkans and many countries of
western and central Europe, with a convoy of buses and IX had started the same morning
Thessaloniki. Follow conflict with the forces are using chemical repelled protesters
blocking their passage to the point where the murderous fence. ---- After a little time
stay in place and after pragmatiopoiithike demonstration in the village, comrades and
comrades returned to Thessaloniki in Aristotle, where the last ten days was a corner fight
and solidarity to refugees and immigrants.
Followed by the announcement of Anarchist Struggle Meeting, the occupied building of
Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on the expiry of the 10 days of
solidarity protests in refugees and immigrants and the seizure of the building U:
As mentioned in the political call as Anarchist Political Organisation: "In the framework
of our target audience, the days of holding NoBorderCamp in Thessaloniki (15 to 24 July
2016), we call for mobilization and have the political responsibility for the operation of
a space at the University of AUTH, an area fermentations, discussions and events,
participation and creation activities. "
Today on July 24 closed the events round of discussions and protests that we called within
the Anarchist Struggle Meeting. In the occupied building of the Philosophical we met with
comrades from Greece and Europe, created Balkan meeting (with the participation of
comrades from Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece) in which They
exchanged experiences and identified commonalities in our struggles against the regime of
exploitation and subordination, fascism and racism.
Within the MSW watched with great interest the event-presentation of the Anarchist
Federation of Slovenia (FAO), organized event - discussion on "The world of the state and
the bosses in absolute bankruptcy. The fight against Fortress in Europe, war and modern
totalitarianism, "participated in demonstrations in the camps around Thessaloniki in
assistance in the camps in Paranesti Drama and Xanthi, in a mass demonstration in
Thessaloniki to protest against the Fence Evros.
Within these broader solidarity mobilizations to refugees and immigrants proved the
importance of distinct anarchist political presence and action, drew conclusions about the
character and nature of international protests and met with refugees and immigrants in our
common fight against the Borders, the War and Fortress Europe.
The presence of fighters and fighters on the way, the events and the character of the
occupied area of Philosophy in practice gave the answer to the constant pressure of the
regime through propaganda broadcast on a daily level, media, enterprise to target the
solidarity match in refugees and immigrants, attempted to isolate and slander the struggle
against the dictatorship of the state and capital, modern totalitarianism.
We leave the building of Philosophy having before us open the way for the continuation of
the effort sharpening of social and class elements. Based on the firm belief that against
state and capitalist barbarity, the only solution is to organize the fight for the Social
Revolution, anarchy and libertarian communism.
Anarchist Struggle Meeting, July 24, 2016
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 2
This Irish Housing Network had a seminar on the land grabs happening on 3 major areas of
Dublin at the moment as part of the housing crisis. The seminar was to inform residents
and housing campaigners of DCC's plan, and to discuss how we can fight it together. ----
The Irish Housing Network consists of about 20 local Groups. In the video you will hear
an introduction to the excuses for the land grab plans which are rooted in the housing
crisis under which there were 6300 people homeless last month not including the hidden
homeless. There were also 92,000 mortgage in arrears and almost 2000 repossessions in
the last year. ---- Because local authorities can’t borrow the land grab has come into
being on the basis of ‘something is better than nothing’ But it was crafted by DCC and
65 secret interested parties. Secret because DCC but won’t tell us who they are, only
that they were mostly developers and others who stand to make profits from housing.
After introducing the land grab there is a presentation on how it will impact the three
areas targeted and what residents and campaigners are going about this. You can skip to
these at
16 mins - Oscar Traynor Road
26.40 mins - O’Devaney Gardens
37.30 - St Michael’s Estate
You can find the Irish Housing Network at
www.facebook.com/irishhousingnetwork/
and
http://irishhousingnetwork.org
“The Irish Housing Network has been set up by a collection of housing and homeless groups
fighting this ongoing housing and homeless crisis. We believe in the basic premise that
housing is a right that should be provided based on need. We aim to share information,
resources and coordinate action with groups across the island. Any group can join if they
agree with the principles of the network below. The current members are
North Dublin Bay Housing Crisis Committee
Housing Action Now
An-Spreach Housing Action Collective
Social Workers Action Network
The Hub
Help the Hidden Homeless
A Lending Hand
Dublin Central Housing Action
Anti-Racism Network Ireland
Homeless Fightback
Connect the Dots
Wexford Housing Action
D8HAC
Ballymun-Finglas Housing Action
Housing Action Kildare
Fingal Housing Crisis Community
S.P.A.R.K (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of our Kids)
Blanchardstown Housing Action Committee
Clondakin-Lucan Housing Action”
http://www.wsm.ie/c/dcc-handing-land-developers-land-grab
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Message: 3
The Class War Womens’ Death Brigade will be leading the march on Boris Johnson’s house,
meeting 8pm Angel Tube EC1V 1NE on Friday 5th August in response to the vicious attack on
one of our sisters, Jane Nicholl, at the last demonstration. ---- We are fighting
capitalism and we are fighting patriarchy, and we oppose all forms of male violence
against women.
We are asking other women’s groups fighting male violence to join us under their own
banners or ours.
Class War Womens’ Death Brigade
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/march-boriss-house-meet-8pm-angel-tube-friday-5th-august/
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Message: 4
O’Connell St, July 22nd - amid Ireland’s worst housing crisis in decades, people gather
outside Lynam’s hotel to protest the eviction of five homeless families, including ten
children. Fifteen of the twenty families granted temporary shelter at the privately ran
hotel have already been pushed out by DCC, and now find themselves forced living off the
couches of friends and family. The remaining families who do not want to leave, deciding
to take a stand against the apathy and cruelty shown to them by the Irish state now find
themselves under huge strain and uncertainty as their quality of life hangs in the
balance. ---- The reason for the evictions was a decision taken by NAMA, the state owned
property fund established by Fianna Fáil in 2009, designed to nationalise the debts of
bankrupt bankers and property speculators at the beginning of the financial crisis.
NAMA who acquired 63/64 O’Connell St. as part of a portfolio is shutting down Lynam’s
hotel which rented the space in order to hand the building over to a new businessman who
will have a crack and making himself some profits. Lynams had been receiving payment from
DCC to house homeless families. The result of these executive decisions made at the elite
level, and a system dedicated to profit before all else will be pushing parents and
children from an already sub-par living space, further into uncertainty and
impoverishment, and making the 21 staff at the hotel jobless.
At all stages the residents who depend on this process to have a place to live, have been
kept ignorant of the decisions concerning their fate, and have been forced to live in
small and overheated rooms without access to cooking facilities. One woman with two
children with asthma had been living in a small basement room at the hotel outside a bus
stop where people smoke.
There are currently almost a thousand families living in emergency accommodation in
Dublin, at the same time as the Irish economy has purportedly grown 25%. Homelessness and
poverty have been endemic since the crash of 2008, the inevitable bust of a harsh form of
financialised highly profitable, highly destructive capitalism. Only a society which puts
the needs of the vulnerable before the needs of the elite to turn quick profits is which
will survive, and is one which is worth defending.
Author: Sean Prior
http://www.wsm.ie/c/irish-housing-network--protest-eviction-july2016
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Message: 5
TDs voted against Mick Wallace’s bill July 7th to allow for abortion in cases of Fatal
Foetal Abnormalities. This is the second time that TDs have voted this way when Clare
Daly’s bill was shot down last year. The vote comes less than a month after the UN Human
Rights Committee declared Ireland’s abortion laws to be a violation of human rights. ----
Not to mention that the majority of people in Ireland want the 8th amendment scratched,
with eighty-seven percent wanting abortion access expanded and seventy-one percent wanting
abortion to be decriminalised according to a recent Red C poll. The vote has taken place
just days after Belfast saw the 10th Annual Rally for Life be outnumbered by the first
ever pro-choice march in Belfast organised by Rally for Choice.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who voted against the bill, has described it as “bad for women”. His
comments have been made in the middle of a homelessness crisis for which he is responsible
that has seen in January of this year alone, one-hundred and thirty four families
including two-hundred and sixty nine children presenting themselves to homelessness
services. It is quite clear that Kenny and all others who voted against the bill will
provide every protection possible to the fetus before birth but after, they are on their own.
At this stage it is important to emphasise that no reason is ever needed for an abortion
other than someone is pregnant and does not wish to be.
Abortion rights activists will continue to look after those in need of an abortion while
this cowardly, misogynist government carries on with their war against women. If you need
an abortion please visit www.womenhelp.org for an online consultation.
Author: Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird
http://www.wsm.ie/c/tds-abortion-fatal-foetal-abnormalities
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Message: 6
ANZAC DAY ALWAYS seems an appropriate occasion to restate the anarchist opposition to war,
and reiterate that it is never in the interests of the working class to support war. ----
The anarchist case against war arises from our analysis of, and opposition to, capitalism.
Capitalism is the cause of modern war. The insatiable hunger for profit generates a
relentless search by the various capitalist powers for markets and sources of raw
materials. Modern war is in reality an extension of “business under capitalism” carried to
an extreme of violence, where the economic rivalries between the various national sections
of the capitalist class can no longer be peacefully resolved or controlled.
Despite the story that the First World War started because of the assassination of the
Austrian emperor’s nephew Archduke Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists, the reality was that
it was the outcome of years of conflicting capitalist interests. British and French
capitalism was being challenged by the rising expansion of Germany, both in Europe and
abroad. When Germany showed in 1911, by sending a gunboat to the city of Agadir, that they
intended to get a foothold in Morocco, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK,
Lloyd George, at once reacted with a speech threatening war.
In this tense international environment the crisis that would produce war on a Global
scale was probablyinevitable. The “Austria-Serbia dispute” was merely the spark that
ignited the conflagration.
Anyone who preaches peace and disarmament without calling for an overthrow of capitalism
have yet to demonstrate how these objectives can be realised, or how trade and export of
capital can expand without violence being the outcome.
The abolition of war, and the threat of war, will only be realised with the overthrow of
capitalism and the restructuring of society on the basis of common ownership and
production solely to meet human needs. Such a society would unite the human race without
economic classes, or national barriers dividing us.
Whenever war is fought, for whatever false reasons that are presented to us, and whichever
side is declared the victor, one side is always the loser, and that is us, the workers of
the world.
As workers we need to realise that our enemy is not the worker in other lands; rather it
is the capitalist class at home, and this is a far more important division than that
separating nation from nation.
The fight for anarchism is inseparable from the fight against war. The only way to fight
militarism is to fight capitalism and the state.
The fight for anarchism is the fight for peace.
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Message: 7
Second march on Boris Johnson’s house, meet at Angel tube @ 8pm Friday 5 August
Gather at ANGEL TUBE EC1V 1NE at 8pm on Friday August 5th to march to nearby Boris
Johnson’s house. Bring banners, noise, smokes and join in the fun!
After the unacceptable violence against a woman on 15 July, the Class War Womens’ Death
Brigade will be leading the action. Fuck patriarchy! Fuck male violence! Fuck Boris!
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/boris-gallery/
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