Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - fascism, Four years
after the death of Clément Meric, against all racism and extreme
right (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Turkey, anarsist faaliyet: The ones who haven't been eating
and surviving on sugar solutions for months ARE NOT HUNGRY! YOU
ARE HUNGRY! -- DAF Salutes Hunger Strikers; (tr)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #273 - history, A History
of International Antifascist Solidarity (1937-1939) (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - A libertarian communist
in the YPG # 08: "The Kurds have no friends but their mountains"
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Event of solidarity then manifestation Vérité-Justice for Clément on June 3 in Paris. ----
Four years ago, on June 5, 2013, our comrade, Clément Méric, a trade unionist and
anti-fascist, was murdered at the age of 18 by extreme right-wing activists. ---- At a
time when the National Front is once again recording important scores in elections, at a
time when racist and xenophobic discourse is spreading and the trial of its aggressors is
approaching, it is our duty to demonstrate, Again, our anger. ---- We will demonstrate to
pay tribute to our comrade, and to affirm the actuality of his fights. But this fight
against the extreme right is not reduced to this manifestation, it takes shape daily in
the struggles that we lead. ---- By carrying out a project of social transformation, by
fighting for a critical and open education for all, for emancipatory work, we are pushing
back the extreme right.
By fighting against redundancies, company closures, and the rights of employees, we are
pushing back the extreme right.
By developing international solidarity with peoples struggling for self-determination and
against colonialism, we are pushing back the extreme right.
By combating sexism, racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, all
forms of discrimination and the system of oppression, we are pushing back the extreme right.
By organizing ourselves to make our most powerful weapon live, solidarity, we are pushing
back the extreme right.
We therefore call on all those who share the values of progress and social justice to join
us during the day of mobilization and homage to Clément and his struggles.
Saturday 3 June
From 1 pm to 5 pm: Place de la République: workshops, debates, antifascist book village
At 5 pm: departure in protest
The FB Event
First signatories: Committee for Clément, Action Antifasciste Paris-Banlieue (AFA), Union
of Solidarity, Student Solidarity, Solidarity RATP Group, Alternative Libertaire (AL),
Association of Maghreb Workers of France (ATMF), National Confederation of Labor - Paris
Region (CNT-RP), Collectif Quartier libre, Sorbonne Antifasciste (SIAMO), The Horde,
Vigilance and Anti-Fascist Union Initiatives (VISA), New Communist Party (NPA), OCML-VP
Left Party (PG), Union of French Students (UEKF), Union Nationale des Etudiants de France
(UNEF) ...
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Quatre-ans-apre%CC%80s-la-mort-de-Cle%CC%81ment-Me%CC%81ric-contre-tous-les-racismes-et-l
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Message: 2
You are the ones who attack everything and whining "more and more"! You are the ones who
exploit everything without limit saying "I should have more houses, more cars, more
money"! You grovel for power, cringingly curry favor. You crush for power, with delight.
You fear to lose your gains, your world is full of this fear. You have you private
security, you police, military, laws, state, but you still fear. After all, your unsparing
hunger is because of your fear. Having this fear of losing, what you steal is never enough
for you. You fear the ones who want freedom, you fear the ones who question with freedom,
who want justice. You know that one day, the ones who resist for justice, real justice,
will demolish your world of abundance. You sic your police to attack, club, gas, beat,
torture, jail and murder. Despite you do everything, you fear and your hunger don't
alleviate. We are living with the passion of a world of freedom and justice, that we will
build on top of the ruins of you world which we will demolish.
We salute Kemal Gün in Dersim, Semih Özakça and Nuriye Gülmen in Ankara, hunger strikers
for Palestine incarcerated in prisons of Israel.
http://anarsistfaaliyet.org/sokak/the-ones-who-havent-been-eating-and-surviving-on-sugar-solutions-for-months-are-not-hungry-you-are-hungry/
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Message: 3
This book is the result of an original research, describing the structure, the work and
the controversies aroused by the SIA. To the editions of Alternative libertarian. ----
Exactly 80 years ago, in June 1937, the Spanish CNT promoted the International Solidarity
Antifascist (SIA), a highly politicized humanitarian organization, competing with the Red
Assault in Moscow. ---- Established on five continents, with its head offices in Paris,
Marseille and Barcelona, the SIA collected food, clothing and medicines, set up truck
convoys, chartered cargo ships in the Mediterranean. ---- In the service of militia and
anti-fascist militia, it managed hospitals, shelters, and orphans. In the service of the
revolution, it also spread a vast propaganda. ---- The French section of the SIA, one of
the most dynamic, had to count up to 15.000 members and adherents.
Read also: " April 1939: The SIA does not give up the fight " , Alternative libertarian,
April 2009.
Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Louis Lecoin and John Andersson: in several countries,
leading libertarian activists were active. All under the auspices of an NTC that
encouraged this structure, sometimes to the dismay of its official international, AIT.
This book is the result of an original research, describing the structure, the work and
the controversies aroused by the SIA from 1937 to 1939.
Valentin Fremonti , International Antifascist Solidarity (1937-1939). A humanitarian and
libertarian action in the Spanish war , ed. Alternative libertarian, 2017, 156 pages, 6 euros.
To order on the online AL store
Headquarters of the SIA in Barcelona. Photo taken during the visit of Emma Goldmann in 1938.
© private collection Valentin Frémonti
Distribution of bread in front of a refugee center run by the SIA in Barcelona in 1938.
© private collection Valentin Frémonti
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Une-histoire-de-la-Solidarite-internationale-antifasciste-1937-1939
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Message: 4
"It's a matter of open discussion with YPG executives here. There is no illusion of any
kind about the reasons that led the US, France and Russia to support them in their
struggle." ---- Alternative libertarian reproduces the blog posts
Kurdistan-Autogestion-Revolution , a travel diary of a fellow committed to the YPG. ----
Over the course of the weeks, he will testify to the life of the fighting militias, the
debates that take place there and the experience of democratic confederalism in the
liberated zones. ---- YPG Training Academy for Foreign Volunteers, Canton of Cizérre, May
24, 2017 ---- It is an old proverb which means that the Kurdish people have never been
able to rely on themselves in their struggle against their oppressors, and I think that
sums up their perception of the aid provided by the imperialist states in their Fight
against Daech. This is a matter that is being discussed openly with the YPG executives
here. There is no illusion of any kind about the reasons that led the US, France and
Russia to support them in their struggle.
So why accept this poisoned aid ? I believe that, as I said in my previous post, there is
hardly any choice. Should the YPGs refuse this aid and see the revolutionary project being
annihilated to preserve any political purity ? Seeing their families being massacred and
their comrades falling under the bullets of Daech only to not be called " traitors " by
some theorists in the chamber ?
Interimly Converging Interests
Even today, air strikes have saved the lives of many YPG-YPJs. " What if the strikes were
to stop ?" We asked. The comrades replied, " Well, we will continue as we did before. In
the mouths of the comrades, there is no question in the least of any alliance with the
imperialists but only of temporarily convergent interests.
The Kurdish movement does not forget that the CIA and the Mossad were the first
instigators of the arrest of Abdullah Öcalan in Kenya in the 1990s. And that at the moment
the Western imperialist powers deliberately ignore deportations, massacres, Use of
chemical weapons in Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan), a few tens of kilometers from the border.
This duplicity of the imperialist states nourishes the Kurds' perception of the nature of
state entities. For them the nation-states are cold monsters that will never govern and
govern in the interests of the people. Buildings that are made to oppress and enslave.
They know full well that if they are forced to choose, the imperialists will privilege
their alliance with Turkey, the pillar of NATO, although Daech's godfather, to their
support for the brave YPG fighters.
Every minute earned ...
The YPGs have learned to play contradictions between imperialists - notably the US and
Russia - taking care not to choose a camp. These imperialists will certainly support us
until the fall of Daech, as they have supported other movements whose convictions they did
not share ; History is full of examples.
In the meantime, each revolutionary's life saved, each minute gained by this difficult
navigation, allows us here to deepen the revolution and prepare ourselves for the
inevitable abandonment.
I began my note with a quotation, and I will do the same with the end - with (once is not
customary ) a good word from Lenin: " The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we
will hang them. "
Arthur Aberlin
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Un-communiste-libertaire-dans-les-YPG-08-Les-Kurdes-n-ont-pour-amies-que-leurs
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