Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Police violence:
an AL wounded comrade and private care (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. black rose fed: AUDIO: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE
CHINESE REVOLUTION (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, Black and Red (A.P.O.) Information from the memory
path in Pavlos Fyssas (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. 1st International Conference of Anarchist Geographies and
Geographers (ICAGG) - Geography, social change and
anti-authoritarian practices (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - UK: Brexit
Brexit or not, that's not the issue (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Beaten, held down, private care despite a bloody wound, placed in custody ... Our friend
Eric decided, with other victims, seize the advocate. ---- Thursday, September 15, the
first demonstration against labor law after the summer was held in Paris and other cities.
---- As in previous events, it has had its share of police violence: tight shots of tear
gas, LBD at face level, violent loads, arbitrary arrests, searches and security checks at
the entrance to the event. An activist SOUTH Health lost an eye despite surgery to try to
save him. ---- Among the protesters and arrested demonstrators: Eric, Alternative
Libertaire 92. ---- He had until the middle of the night to be auscultated ---- While the
event had just begun starting from Bastille, riot police charged, trying to cut the
demonstration in two, recurrent practice now.
A helmeted pack and boucliée is taking a demonstrator
(C) Red Cathedral
Wounded by a truncheon blow to the back of the skull, Eric was arrested violently when he
was brought no physical interference with law enforcement.
Instead of evacuating, or at least to let medical teams treat, CRS were gassed to those
who offered help.
Despite his injury, they put in danger by giving him up, probably to calm the anger of
other demonstrators. They then forced him to walk with them for a long part of the journey.
Taken to the police for custody, he had to wait until the middle of the night for
treatment when he was asked to be auscultated in 17 hours to a bloody wound to the skull.
Fortunately, he was released less than twenty-four hours after his arrest, with the
charges dropped.
Refusing the trivialization of police violence, Eric will participate with several other
victims, referral to the advocate.
Alternative Libertaire supports the victims of police violence of the event this September
15 and earlier.
We call for continued mobilization against the labor law and against repression.
To participate Eric legal costs, as well as those of five comrades AL pursued as part of
the movement against the law El Khomri, subscription remains open .
Alternative Libertaire, 19 September 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Violences-policieres-un-camarade-d
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https://soundcloud.com/providenceiww/maoism-and-the-chinese-revolution-a-critical-introduction
---- We present to you this audio recording of a recently hosted and very engaging talk by
Elliot Liu of Unity and Struggle on his recently published Maoism and the Chinese
Revolution: A Critical Introduction published jointly by anarchist publishers PM Press and
Thought Crime Ink based in Canada. The event was hosted and organized by members of the
Providence IWW at their union hall. ---- The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the
twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it-often referred to as
"Maoism"-resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the
anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do
they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?
In this talk, author Elliott Liu gives a talk on his new book Maoism and the Chinese
Revolution: A Critical Introduction. Elliott offers a brief overview of the course of the
Chinese revolution and how it shaped what became Maoism followed by a discussion of how
Maoist politics have been interpreted and applied locally and in the U.S.
About the book:
Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers the novice reader a sweeping overview of five
decades of Maoist revolutionary history. It covers the early years of the Chinese
Communist Party, through decades of guerrilla warfare and rapid industrialization, to the
massive upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. It traces the development of Mao Zedong's
military and political strategy, philosophy, and statecraft amid the growing
contradictions of the Chinese revolutionary project. All the while, it maintains a
perspective sympathetic to the everyday workers and peasants who lived under the party
regime, and who in some moments stood poised to make the revolution anew.
http://www.blackrosefed.org/3860-2/
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Yesterday, Saturday, September 17 held the memory path of antifascist Pavlos Fyssas
murdered by Golden Dawn. Initially 450 people, which reached 600 responded to calls
anarchist, anti-fascist antiauthoritarians standing Kamenik, the Autonomous Figure Ataxia
students and Anarchist Political Organisation with the first start of Kamara and the top 2
of Venizelos statue. The process initiated by pulse to the offices of the ATHEX halted
from cages at the height of Antigonidon continued by St. Demetrius, Iasonidou and ended
Kamara. Fonachtikan slogans such as' Fascists and pit bosses stou the bottom, long live
the world proletariat ',' For immigrants, we are together, return to cops and nazis, ''
Neither f nor Oreokastro nowhere, crushed fascists in every neighborhood. " The murder of
an antifascist TANGIBLE bastards a fascist organization unites us, but our rages above all
remind us what fascist threat, Aptian neighborhoods and schools, in the streets and our
occupations. The struggle against fascism, a struggle for life itself.
The PAUL LIVES, THE NAZI Crushed
Collegiality for Conon anarchism Black and Red, a member of A.P.O.
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2016/09/18
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Reggio Emilia (Italy) - Centro Studi Cucine del Popolo, via Beethoven 78/e, 21-23
September 2017 - http://www.cucine.arealibertaria.org/ ---- In the last years, an
outstanding international and multilingual rediscovery of anarchist geographers has
occurred at the level both of academics and of grassroots movements, drawing at the same
time on a renewed interest for historical figures like Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921) and
Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), and on the contributions of anarchist and antiauthoritarian
ideas and practices to present-day struggles for social liberation worldwide. Special
issues on anarchism and geography have been published by outstanding international
journals, such as Antipode and ACME, leading to a flourishing of recent papers and books
on these topics, including the organisation of successful sessions on anarchist
geographies at the most widely attended geographic international conferences, such as the
RGS-IBG, the AAG and the IGU, and for the international conferences of the Anarchist
Studies Network. An international mailing list of anarchist geographies has also been
inaugurated.
In the French-speaking circuits, a flourishing of grassroots initiatives and scholarly
research has likewise taken place, leading to the foundation of a network of anarchist
geographers (Réseau de géographes libertaires), which organises a number of periodic
conferences and workshops in France and Switzerland, and contributes to two important
annual festivals targeting the communication between scholars and wider publics in France.
The first, Les Reclusiennes, takes place in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, the town of origin of
Elisée Reclus, and the second, the Festival International de la Géographie in
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, includes an anarchist-driven Forum of Critical Geographies. In South
America, conferences and public courses on anarchist geographies are periodically
organised, mainly in Brazil, by the networks of Rekro/Território Autônomo and the
Anarchist Library Terra Livre, in collaboration with universities like UFRJ and USP. This
list could continue, but it is just a sample of the rich and cosmopolite field in which
the present-day debates in anarchist geographies are developing.
In light of the flourishing of anarchist geographies, we propose to organize an
independent international conference, to be repeated in different countries every 2 or 3
years, to create a space for scholars and militants interested in these topics to enjoy a
deep and fruitful exchange, and present an opportunity for those interested in anarchist
geographies and rooted in broader social movements internationally to exchange ideas and
make meaningful connections'. The choice of doing the first conference in an Italian small
town like Reggio Emilia, where an established local anarchist movement already promoted
events and publications on anarchist geographers is instrumental to the capital tasks of
continuing a discussion among scholars and militants from different linguistic and
cultural areas, and ensuring discussions involve grassroots movements and militant
situations outside the academy.
This conference is not only for "card-carrying" anarchists. We welcome contributions
dealing critically with anarchist geographies, histories, concepts, and interventions from
grassroots movements, militants, and academics.
We invite especially, but not exclusively, critical anarchic geographical contributions on:
What are anarchist geographies and what are their tasks?
Which relations between anarchism and the most current critical/theoretical approaches
used in geographical scholarship, i.e. postmodernism and post-structuralism, critical
modernities, post-colonialism, more-than-human geographies, actor-network theory,
non-representational theories, feminism, gender and queer theories, Marxism, critical race
theory, intersectionality, qualitative and quantitative methods etc.
Problematizing the relations between anarchism, rationalism, Enlightenment and modernity,
Anarchist geographies and counter-cartography. Maps and spaces of liberation.
Anarchist geographies and Indigenous movements.
Anarchism and the environment: mesology, natural philosophies and the idea of progress.
Anarchist geographies in practice: experiences from grassroots movements, local and
international struggles, histories and geographies of resistance.
Anti-statist, post-statist and not statist geographies: anarchism and the idea of territory.
Anarchism, federalism and the concept of geographical scale: cities, regions and the global.
Anti-racist, anti-colonial and internationalist geographies.
Anarchist geographies, cosmopolitanism and multilingualism: which challenges to
nationalist and parochial academies?
Anarchism and geographies of war and peace.
Anarchism and geographies of violence and non-violence.
Anarchist geographies of education and de-schooling.
Geographies of secularisation and free-thinking.
Anarchist geopolitics.
Historical geographies of anarchism.
Anarchist geographies and geographers in the history and philosophy of geography.
Historical figures of anarchist geographers and their interdisciplinary connections:
histories of transnational anarchism, anarchist anthropologies, political theory and
political philosophy.
To attend the conference, please send an abstract of maximum 250 words at the
addressscientific_committee@icagg.org by February 1st 2017. The preferred conference's
language is English: if you feel especially uncomfortable with presenting in this
language, please write to the organisers in order to arrange some specific solution.
Further information will be provided by e-mail and through the site www.icagg.org
Practical information: For information on travel, accommodation and any other practical
query (need for childcare, dietary requirements etc.), please write to icagg2017@icagg.org
Scientific and Promoting Committee:
Lorenzo Coniglione; Adriano Skoda; Amir ElHakim de Paula; Anthony Ince; Béatrice
Collignon; Fabrizio Eva; Federico Ferretti; Francisco Toro; Gerónimo Barrera; Gian Maria
Valent; Joanne Norcup; Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg; Marcelo Lopes de Souza; Patricia
Wood; Patrick Minder; Philippe Pelletier; Richard White; Simon Springer; Vanessa Sloan Morgan
Local Organization Committee:
Andrea Ferrari; Arturo Bertoldi; Eliana Bartoli; Fabio Dolci; Gian Maria Valent
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UK voters came out in June for the release of their country in the European Union. A blow
to Europe and a dilemma not easily resolved for the left, between interpretations in terms
of xenophobic withdrawal or slap to the liberal right. Lighting. ---- After the referendum
on the Brexit UK, Holland proclaimed that it would go quickly to make an example, block
the contagion. And the new English Premier Minister (anti-Brexit) repeats tirelessly
"Brexit is Brexit" to reassure English voters. But, pushed early 2017, negotiations could
wait for the end of 2017 to start major causes of elections in France and Germany ... ----
A divided country ---- The referendum was promised by the traditional right to win the
support of the xenophobic right but David Cameron was sure to win. The defeat cost him his
job. The vote is decided: against the Brexit, employers, most of the traditional right,
the majority of the media, the London elite, student youth, Scottish and Irish
nationalists, most of the union leaders, the leadership of Labour party, the radical left
around Ken Loach (close to the NPA and Ensemble). For Brexit, the xenophobic party (Ukip),
the press group Murdoch, some unions whose combative RMT (transport), both large
Trotskyist groups (SP and SWP waged a Lexit campaign for a left exit from the EU) and
community associations of Indian and Pakistani workers. Mathematically the case was folded!
Left, anti put forward the social protection provided by European laws, the risk of
recession and unable to vote as xenophobic. The pro accused them back to vote as employers
and the libertarian right and wanted a popular slap against capitalist Europe would cause
a powerful political earthquake. Note that our libertarian communist comrades of the Irish
group WSM were anti-Brexit denouncing alignment with xenophobic forces and kéneysienne
illusory vision of returning to the past greatness of the United Kingdom.
Nevertheless a tidal wave of popular vote offers a wide Brexit victory after a campaign
dominated by a sometimes delirious xenophobia. Despite these detestable aspects, consider
that this is a class vote in the sense of revolt, even confused, against the ultra-liberal
policies pursued by the right as by the British and European left. And we must put the
nationalist aspect including that Europe is nothing for English classes. They do not come
on holiday and do not drink wine or table wine sometimes an Australian, New Zealand ...
The feeling of belonging to the Anglo-Saxon era is much more powerful than that of
belonging to the continental Europe. It is built on long-standing remnants of the Empire,
the Commonnwealth, which includes wider than the EU 53 countries and more than 2 billion
people which must be added a particuière relation to the United States. An Englishman who
watches television knows better politics in Nigeria in Belgium!
pro-European leadership of a liberal
The results have detonated Europe, the right and the English left. In Brussels paralyzed
by snowball risks, each moves and calls for a re-orientation of economic policy and more
democracy. Scottish and Irish nationalists demanding their independence to stay in Europe.
Ireland particularly the restoration of border between North and South raises explosive
questions. The Conservative leadership explodes and the bourgeoisie requires the
leadership of a pro-European liberal. The Labour Party is him on the edge of the split.
Its general secretary, Jeremy Corbin, a local Mélenchon, was directly elected to the
surprise. long Eurosceptic, he is accused by the majority of management not to have led a
good campaign and be responsible for the defeat, which is partly true. And it accelerates
the construction of its own network (Monumental), one that made him win the primary open
internal election with many young and popular activists, who nevertheless refuse to
include the old socialist party totally discredited. Corbyn has the support of eighteen
Labour MPs. This crisis could revive a true reformist left that alone will not make us
happy but would still, after the open era by Thatcher, a positive sign!
In Brussels, the reformers elk were quickly extinguished. In late August, the French,
German and Italian leaders birth vague promises meant to calm the profound rejection of
authoritarian political, military and austéritaires: enhanced border security and the
fight against immigration, youth employment, investment revival (but without changing
monetary and fiscal policy that is no money to do it, even from a capitalist point of view).
The English and European bourgeoisies have obviously decided to move slowly and seek to
avoid the referendum. There are two options: renegotiate the economic agreements that
nothing changes in the field of business; find a reason to repeat the vote in two to three
years expecting a different result. Meanwhile, the English everyd
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