Anarchic update news all over the world - 26 January 2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  wsm.ie: Meaningless election looms at Stormont
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative -- Antifascist
      CONCENTRATION 21/1 (gr) [machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Against racism,
      Demonstration and social response by AL Ferns (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre - December
      1986-January 1987: The Longest Rail Strike (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  SOLIDARITY IN THOSE FIGHTING AGAINST STATE AND capitalist
      barbarity IN USA By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



With Martin McGuinness resigning as Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein declining to 
nominate a deputy first miniter an election is almost certainly going to be called and the 
electoral circus will once again come to town. ---- Please excuse this writer's election 
fatigue - with this being the third election in 12 months on this island - as I begin this 
short post off with a well used phrase: "Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to 
vote away their wealth". ---- The Green and Orange politics of the north almost guarantees 
us that we will be returned with a Sinn Féin - DUP government, meaning that, yep you 
guessed it(!), if voting changed anything here it would be illegal. ---- Stormont isn't 
set up to deliver change, it's set up to guarantee business as usual for the rich and 
scrapings for the poor. Voting creates the illusion of change while really reinforcing the 
same old tired structures.

Our dreams are bigger than their ballot box. As anarchists we don't believe you can vote 
the revolution in; Syriza is a very real recent example of this. Neo-liberalism has 
factored elections into its systems and processes, the state's tools will never bring the 
state down.

Instead we argue, and we fight for a complete hollowing out of the current system. For a 
bottom-up revolution founded upon the principals of solidarity, mutual aid, and direct 
democracy with the elimination of all forms of oppression as the key goal.

We will be expanding more on some of the topics and issues raised within this post over 
the coming weeks.

An injury to one is an injury to all - a victory for one is a victory for all.

Subject: Stormont, Elections
Topics: Miscellaneous
Geography: Ulster
Source: News alert
Type: News
Author: Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird

http://www.wsm.ie/c/election-looms-stormont-jan2017

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Message: 2




After numerous failed attempts by fascists of our city to call concentration, the 
neo-emfanistheisa "Nationalist Youth of Thessaloniki" calls in fascist concentration on 
21/01/2017 at the junction of Langada road of Agios Dimitrios. ---- The descendants of 
tagmatasfaliton that burned Hortiatis, the Oil Merchant and other black marketers who have 
become rich on the back of the multinational proletariat and the Jewish community of the 
city, those who have always been the loyal dog of the bosses, they once fortified the 
building of YMCA fearing the punisher hand rebel, they are not currently able neither the 
weight of their choices to take. ---- Today, more strongly than ever, anti-fascism is act 
on the road. ---- The oppressed of this world and we will always be at the forefront of 
the fight against racism and fascism, against the hatred for life.

So this is the anti-fascists and antifascist, employees / s, unemployed / s, immigrants / 
behavior shows, lgbtqi + people that we will stand against them Sunday.

LONG LIFE - DEATH fascism
NOR inch EARTH IN FASCISTS

FASCISTS AND BOSSES STOU wells Pato
LONG LIVE THE WORLD proletariat

antifascist CONCENTRATION

Saturday 21/1, 15:00, Papazolis with Ag. Dimitriou

Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative
lib_thess@hotmail.com

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/

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Message: 3




On the 20th of January, the FN came to Mass in Fougeres. Do not worry everyone will have 
for his rank: the foreigners, the precarious ones who lack work are then qualified as 
"assisted" ... Answer them by our mobilization and our solidarities, all in the street on 
the 20th January! ---- The FN is as a party "anti-system" and yet the "dynasty Lepen" is 
fully integrated: large fortune, position of elected officials and the shenanigans that go 
with ... ---- Like the others, they want power, as the others lie to have it, worse than 
others, they rise the poor against each other: the deserving ones and those who are not, 
the foreigners and the French, ... ---- The problem is not what affects the precarious, 
but the unequal distribution of wealth when 10% of the richest own 48% of the wealth 
(Insee), distributed there would be enough for all!

FOUGÈRES

Friday, January 20, 2017, at 19h
Place Aristide Briant

The event on social networks, to join and spread widely!

Page of Alternative Libertaire Fougères on social networks

To do this, Alternative Libertaire defends the construction of counter-powers to impose 
the distribution of power and wealth, the only answer according to us that would allow the 
precarious to live decently!

Finally, the FN, through G. Pennelle, wants to give Fougeres the image of a city acquired 
at the FN. That is why they organize a large meeting there. This picture is not the one we 
have of the city. The various collectives of inhabitants and active associations prove the 
local dynamism in order to make live the solidarity among all, despite the speeches of 
fear and the absence of commitment of the public authorities.

Since we refuse the idea that the extreme right is Fougeres, we call with other 
organizations to a demonstration on January 20 at 19:00 place aristide Briand!

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Manifestation-et-reponse-sociale

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Message: 4



The strike of November-December 1995 remains an example, sometimes mythical, of social 
movement in which the railwaymen and the railwaymen took a preponderant place. But that of 
December-January 1986/87 was undoubtedly more important, by the renewal that it brought 
and by its consequences in the trade union practices. ---- If the 1995 strike had existed, 
it was because the movement of 1986/87 prepared it, through all that it carried and found 
itself at the heart of the social movement during the following decade. "As a result of 
years of construction by CFDT and sometimes CGT militant teams, the strike of December 
1986-January 1987 marks an important turning point in terms of democracy in the struggle 
for trade union democracy by the place conquered by general assemblies. It is also a break 
with the litany of square strikes without prospects, a return to direct action by the 
occupation of roads and work premises, the establishment of a basic control over 
negotiations, Coordination, etc. " [1].

The movement that paralyzed the SNCF for almost a month is part of the direct result of 
the strike and demonstrations against the Devaquet bill. Many trade union teams relayed 
information about the movement and took part in the demonstrations; A not insignificant 
part of the railway population was there all the more because it had something in common 
with students: young people. The period 1973/83 saw a very strong renewal of SNCF staff.

Strike before the strike

The long inter-categorical strike is the direct result of a movement begun two weeks ago 
by SNCF salesmen and sellers. On the initiative of the stations of agents from Paris 
Saint-Lazare and Paris-Lyon, where the CFDT union teams[2]are particularly active, they 
and have built a strong movement, renewable and original: the strike of booking, The 
employers' decision to abolish them. The reservation, which became mandatory for the TGV 
but still optional for the other trains, was a different service from the "train ticket" 
itself. It was only for the latter that the commercial agents used the computer system, to 
which this indemnity was linked. Hence the idea: "because management wants to remove us 
before pay, we do not reservation" ; Unlawful action but whose massive nature allowed to 
postpone threats of punishment and ... to win the maintenance of the seizure allowance for 
(at least) 30 more years. During two weeks, the commercial agents meet every day during a 
general assembly held over an hour strike, decide actions complementary to their "strike 
of the resas", choose and mandate the delegations which meet the management, coordinate 
directly of Station to station: they exercise trade union and workers' democracy on a 
daily basis. In many areas, the movement will expand to some other services, also involved 
in the seizure of compensation[3]. As of 17 December, the CGT called for the cessation of 
the strike in several stations, a position confirmed by a federal leaflet l8; On the 
contrary, during the same period, GAs of sellers and sellers supported by the local CFDT 
unions, decided to move from the strike of reservations to the total strike. Because 
history is also built on the side of the drivers of Paris North ...

The union is the tool for workers ...

At the beginning of December, a group of driving agents from Paris-Nord launched a 
petition, taking up a demanding book rooted in reality and highlighting the will to go on 
strike to make it come to fruition. All trade union federations are invited to come and 
discuss this initiative at a general meeting. Only the CFDT federation will be present. 
Michel Desmars[4]takes commitment, not only to support the regional approach but the boost 
in the relaying to all local public CFDT, prompting the organization of General Meetings 
in all deposits as soon as The strike will have started in Paris-Nord. Claims[5]are 
nothing revolutionary, what is more is that their suitability think the vast majority of 
railway workers and railway workers on the one hand, the dynamic use made CFDT Railwaymen 
on the other hand.

On December 18, the strike began in Paris Nord, the action spread the same day over the 
entire North network. On the 19th, the depots of Paris Sud Est, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux 
and Toulouse went on strike. On the morning of the 20th, 70 out of 94 deposits were on 
strike; In the evening, 93. The extension to other sectors begins and generalizes as of 
Monday 22. Management plays the division, multiplies the meetings to reconcile the support 
of some federations (CFTC, FO, FMC, CGC) , Without responding to the demands of the 
strikers whose AGs repel these provocations. December 29 marks the strongest point of the 
strike; From then on, the movement will be strengthened in the institutions where it was 
not yet a majority, but will not touch the few services which did not really enter into 
action. During three weeks, the SNCF management will call on the so-called forces of the 
order, to evacuate the tracks, to disperse pickets, to put an end to occupations of 
workplaces.

Basically, a democratic and unitary practice

Throughout the movement, the CFDT is at the initiative, while promoting democracy and the 
role of general assemblies. The federation circulates information in real time, both on 
the reality of the strike and on negotiations, local teams defend the primacy of general 
assemblies, often against the CGT, sometimes against political groups that claim to 
dictate to the strikers the march to be continued. It is not a long river in quiet in the 
CFDT: the tensions are strong with the General Federation of Transport and Equipment which 
defends a more moderate line and will try to impose it, via the press, over the Federal 
branch; When confederation, at the beginning of January, it will publicly denounce the 
continuation of the strike. The role of CFDT Cheminots, which includes many revolutionary 
activists, was very important. It has its roots in the activity that has been going on for 
many years, involving many local struggles, local, regional and national trade union 
structures, inter-union groupings and opposition within the CFDT. But the strike of 
1986/87 also results from unitary dynamics at the base. Jaques Hais, one of the organizers 
of the CFDT union in the Rouen region, testified: A unitary tradition existed for a long 
time on the Rouen conurbation, meetings, box ballots, actions were regularly carried out 
by railway workers unionized at the CGT, CFDT or non-unionized. This generation did not 
recognize itself in trade unionism as it was, it refused the trade union division as well 
as the categorial divisions.

In 1975 about thirty railwaymen created a modest 4-page bulletin "La Basse Tonne"; Shortly 
afterwards, the Unitary Committee for the Mobilization of Railwaymen (CUMC) is created; It 
advocates struggle other than by repeated 24-hour strikes and affirms the need for broad 
union unity; The CUMC is expressed in leaflets and petitions, its audience is about 500 
people on the Rouen conurbation. The 3rd attempt at unitary regrouping at the base will be 
around the newspaper "Rail Bol". Sold in 500 copies, it will be published from May 1985 
until mid-1986. The same people are impelling support actions at the international level: 
support for Solidarnosc, support for Nicaragua, support for English minors, etc. "

The CGT fights the strike and then its self-organization

The CGT federation opposes the renewable strike; To avoid the junction, she called on 
commercial agents to stop the move just before the start of the strike of the drivers. 
Especially, during the first days, it organizes anti-strike pickets in several depots and 
hinders any extension to other categories. Exceeded by the dynamic momentum, it must 
ultimately support the movement, but multiplies warnings on "the dangers of the strike at 
the time of the holiday season" . When coordination is created, instead of leading the 
debate, pointing out inadequacies, contradictions or even manipulations, the CGT 
federation is content to denounce them on principle. In many places, CGT activists are 
disconcerted by the practice of daily general assemblies: while it is a lively, 
interactive, creative place, they are content to read the federal communiqué of the day 
and s 'Arc-bout on positions sometimes totally foreign to the participants and 
participants in the general assemblies. The CGT will later take stock of this strike, 
learn from it, but this important episode is one of the elements that explain why the 
choice of this organization was impossible for the thousands of railwaymen and railroaders 
leaving the CFDT a few years later, in January 1996.

Coordinations

For the majority of the strikers, it was the general assemblies that decided and it was up 
to the trade union federations to coordinate the struggle. In Normandy, Rhône-Alpes, 
Midi-Pyrénées and Auvergne, local strike committees are organized on a regional scale. But 
two national coordinations are put in place: one concerning the agents of conduct, 
following the call of the strikers of Paris North; The other, inter-categorical, based on 
the Paris-Sud-Ouest region. The CGT denounces both. Within the CFDT, inter-categorical 
coordination is a controversial subject: the choice of its leaders, CFDT officials in 
Paris-Sud-Ouest, to denounce "unions" is for many, as well as the attitude of activists 
and Militants of Lutte Ouvrière who invest this national coordination without the mandate 
of their general assembly. The division on this subject will also affect the libertarian 
movement: the UTCL militants, strongly involved in the CFDT federation, are denounced by 
those of the OCL and the FA. If they were mediated and were undoubtedly one of the facets 
of the search for self-organization of the movement, coordination was not the decisive 
element: it was the general assemblies, organized daily and organized by working groups, 
which Played this role. Nevertheless, the phenomenon marked many struggles of the years 
that followed: in education, in health, until the coordination of the "yellow trucks" of 
the post which will lead to the creation of South PTT.

End of strike

On the evening of December 31st, the battle against the new wage grid project was won; The 
other claims are not satisfied. The strike is renewed. New achievements, insufficient, are 
gathered on January 8th. The strike continues, but fatigue, divisions, interprofessional 
weaknesses will eventually prevail. The recovery decided at the Chambéry depot on the 9th, 
marks the beginning of the ebb; but this is only the 14 that the national strike actually 
ends[6]. The Employer Wage Grid project was withdrawn; The one then in force remained so 
until the negotiation of a new one, applicable on 1 January 1992 (still in operation 
today). The seizure allowance is maintained, its application is extended, a new indemnity 
is created for salesmen and women who do not work on computers. Many articles of labor 
regulations are improved.

20 years later, Jean-Michel Dauvel who in 1986 worked in Sotteville depot and was 
moderator of the CFDT union and the national coordination of conduct of agents, summed up: 
"What will remain in the imaginary railroad, more than the The idea of victory is the 
conviction of a renewed pride: in the long run, we have equaled and surpassed our 
ancestors in the great strike of 1920. We have known against government and management, in 
spite of certain union federations, Build a control tool from bottom to top. This model 
will be taken up during the struggles of teachers in 1987, then nurses in 1988. Twenty 
years later, the unions have (somewhat) evolved, the general assemblies have become 
unavoidable. For all that, revolutionary trade unionists still have to fight for the 
maximum of autonomy and initiative at the base. They still have to promote the need for a 
permanent organization (it is called a trade union) managed from the bottom up. They still 
have to struggle for the self-management of struggles, "gymnastics" prior to the taking 
over of the working tool, a prelude to the self-management of the whole society! " . 10 
more years have passed, the observation and the hopes remain.

Christian (AL Southeast Suburbs)

[1]"Strike of railway and railway workers in 1986 and 2016; And if we were talking about a 
recallable strike? "; This file, with contributions from Mathieu Borie, Jacques Hais, 
Christian Mahieux, Frédéric Michel and Julien Troccaz figure in number 3 of the journal 
Utopian, published in October 2016 (reflections of Cahiers de l'Union syndicale 
Solidaires: www. editions-lesutopiques.org )

[2]In January 1996, the CFDT union of the Region of the Gare de Lyon will be the first to 
found SUD-Rail, by voting its disaffiliation 94% of the mandates of its 700 members; That 
of Paris-Saint-Lazare will mostly follow a few days later.

[3]The Centers Information Triage centers and Living Information, responsible for 
monitoring the wagons and train cars across the national network.

[4]Michel Desmars then one of the secretaries of the federation of CFDT railway, where it 
is responsible of Conduct Agents National Technical Group. The federal team CFDT had been 
widely renewed during the congress held two months earlier. Several members, particularly 
present in the 1986/87 movement, will be among the founders of SUD-Rail in January 1996.

[5]They concern the refusal of the employers proposed salary structure that significantly 
reduces the part of promotion by seniority, on the improvement of career development, 
bonuses and working conditions, and on the information of Repressive medicine.

[6]In some sites, it will be 15. From there, local situations also bring the activists to 
be in "unauthorized absence" ... unlike any previous period, counted "strike" so that 
There was no notice legally validating this strike! Like what, the balance of power ...

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Decembre-1986-Janvier-1987-La-plus

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Message: 5



"In all of the U.S., from urban centers to the rural areas, is imperative anarchists and 
anti-authoritarians seek to create organizations to cope with the extreme right 
apothrasynomeni, support through militant action needs labor and communities to fight 
against state repression. (...) it is time to take this task to find new mates ready to 
fight, and to fight. Nobody is going to save us - we can not use the electoral system to 
effectively deal with the extreme right. It's time to stop waiting for the hour to defend 
each other out in the streets! " ---- Anarchiki Alliance "1Mai", November 2016 ---- In 
recent years the struggles from below US They grow and strengthen constantly. The mass 
strikes of workers because of starvation wages and rebellions against the murderous racist 
violence of the repression mechanisms, struggles of prisoners against the prison industry 
and mobilizations of immigrants keep alive the flame of social resistance.

  From struggles against evictions and the Occupy movement, the BlackLiveMatters the 
NoDAPL the FightFor15 $ etc. by massive and dynamic demonstrations that followed the 
presidential elections last November in the US where thousands of people came out fighting 
in the streets of the metropolis to express their opposition to the fascist, racist, 
misogynist, anti-worker rhetoric of the new president N.Tramp. It is important to 
highlight this racing grid ever erupt, interconnected and reinforce each other, because he 
just kinematic unrest grows in the center of the state-capitalist system.

After the presidential elections and attacks against Muslims, blacks, Latin Americans, 
LGTBQ and women are increasing, more and more social groups and competitors see the need 
for collective defense and combative defense of themselves and the structures of their 
race. It also seeks to prevent the dissemination of racist speech within universities and 
the concert cancellation by fascist bands. Alongside the actions and mobilizations carried 
develops through the struggles of the project organization.

 From our side as Anarchist Political Organisation stand in solidarity with those who 
struggle from below against state and capitalist barbarity and the anarchists comrades who 
organize or participate in demonstrations on January 20th '17, the day of inauguration of 
US President, against all exponent of state capitalist plans and interests. We seek 
international solidarity and continuity of resistors, connecting racing and synolikopoiisi 
their imperatives, the radicalization of consciousness and instilling the belief that a 
world of solidarity, equality and freedom is attainable.

In authoritarian rot and attack by international and local sovereign antiparatassoume 
social and class organization of the oppressed. In overt decline of aged world of the 
state and the bosses, antiparatassoume the youth of the Social Revolution, the only real 
way for the great social majority.

ORGANIZATION AND internationalist GAMES FOR THE WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTION

FOR ANARCHY AND libertarian communism

Anarchist Political Organisation - Federation collectivity

http://apo.squathost.com/

http://apo.squathost.com/1749-2/

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