Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #271 - Lyon: Fascist
gangrene progresses (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Elections: The
real alternative is social struggle (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Croatia: masari: Anarchists and parliamentary left
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, rozbrat - National Union of Workers newsletter:
Workers' Initiative #47 [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Mayday and Pikeville, KY by BD, member of First of May
Anarchist Alliance - Detroit Collective (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In Lyon, a city often described as a " laboratory of the extreme right ", fascism is
expressed more and more in an almost general indifference. Since the mobilizations against
the Congress of the FN more than two years ago, and after a period of relative calm, the
different groups of extreme right resume their activities, more intensely than ever. ----
As early as last spring, we witnessed multiple provocations by the fascists during the
processions against the " labor law ", until the assault of a professor of leaf
distribution. ---- In November 2016, on the sidelines of a gathering of Catholic
fundamentalists, it was the Libertarian bookshop La Plume noire, also local of the CGA,
which was violently attacked by more than twenty individuals armed with iron bars, Some
twenty people were present in the premises.
Since then, the fascists do not hesitate to take the banners from the demonstrations, to
provoke at rallies, or to attack the places hosting militant activities. Trying to extend
their obscurantism by censorship, they tried to prevent several times the holding of an
opera, Jeanne at the stake, on the life of Joan of Arc. Fachos invaded the Opera Hall to
protest against the work that did not praise their idol and assaulted a person that evening.
Six fascist places in the city
These actions, as well as the hateful threats disseminated to the attention of progressive
activists, activists and groups, are mainly carried out by four groups: the GUD (Union
Defense Group), the French Action, the French Nationalist Party and finally Generation of
identity.
Some of these groups already had premises to encourage their establishment, such as La
Traboule for Identitaires, or more recently La Maison bleue, held by the PNF. In October
2016, the GUD opened the bar Le Pavillon noir. The arrival in Lyon of Logan Djian, former
head of the GUD in Paris, is certainly not foreign. We now count six fascist places in the
city, tolerated by the public authorities, despite the various mobilizations that have
taken place.
However, the violence of the fascists is considerable, lately the collective of March 19
for justice and dignity organized a meeting that was to be held at La Maison des passages,
local associative. The GUD made a first attempt of intimidation by a collage around the
place. Then the fachos destroyed the window of this place the day before the meeting.
Faced with the fascists, the answers are organized: the Antifascist Group Lyon and
surroundings (Gale) leads a field struggle. The Libertarian Anti-Fascist Campaign (CLAF)
brings together locally AL, CGA, and CNT, but also all the broader convergences, such as
the mobilization of support for La Plume noire. Though promising and asking to be
developed, these isolated answers are far from sufficient to effectively fight the
fascists in Lyon. Only the union of the progressive forces and a popular anti-fascism will
make it possible to face this mortal danger. Antifascism is everyone's business !
Collectif AL Lyon
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lyon-La-gangrene-fasciste-progresse
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Message: 2
Le Pen or Macron ? Fascist risk or ultra-liberal capitalism ? Between these two evils one
can always choose the least. But whatever the outcome, we must oppose the new power with
the resistance of the workers, the workers and the whole population in its diversity to
hope to build another society. ---- Fifteen years after his father but this time
unsurprisingly, Marine Le Pen is in the second round of the presidential election. This
event is only the logical consequence of the policy of the parties of government since the
1980s. By managing the last crisis of the capitalist system with measures of austerity and
gifts to the employers, A European Union at the service of the market, by stirring up
racist hatred and pointing the finger at immigration, by trivializing the police state
with a " state of emergency", political leaders of the right and left unrolled the
carpet Red to the National Front and extreme right-wing ideas.
Fillon, the candidate of the Medef, the traditional right and the reactionary bourgeoisie,
caught up for several weeks by politico-familial tricks of which he certainly did not have
the monopoly, was swept away in the first round, in favor of Macron, Candidate banks and
winning oligarchies of globalization. Macron represents a redesigned straight affirming an
unbridled ultraliberalism which claims to make " the revolution " by destroying all the
barriers that curb the voracious appetite of the free market. Chouchou of the media, he
has seduced those who right and left dream of " ubiser " the whole society.
In this situation, well aware of the consequences that this would have for all workers,
and particularly for women, immigrants and homosexuals, we understand those who will, by
all Means and without any illusion, prevent Marine Le Pen and the FN from getting their
hands on the state apparatus. But we also understand those who will refuse to endorse this
antidemocratic system that deprives us of our capacity to act. That is why Alternative
libertarian will not give electoral instructions for May 7.
What is important is to keep in mind and to repeat around us the real barrier to extreme
right ideas, we build it day after day in collective struggles, in our workplaces and our
places Life in our unions and collectives. It is by garnering new conquests for social and
territorial equality that the desire for a society rid of capitalism, patriarchy and
racism will emerge.
We call for a resignation and a descent into the streets, particularly on May 1 , on the
occasion of International Workers' Day, to make it clear that the real change in society
will come only from our struggles .
Alternative libertarian, April 24, 2017
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Elections-La-vraie-alternative-c-est-la-lutte-sociale
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Message: 3
These lines are formed in response to the parliamentary left political parties in Croatia
that are trying to anarchism and anarchists show up as "Action supplement" their "serious
politics". As valuable field workers who need parliamentary party when necessary to define
political goals, tactics and strategy. On the other hand rows are formed that as
anarchists we are visible, consistent and clear option, which is finished with the
parliamentary leftists and rightists, politicians, parties and parties. Thus continuing
and encouraging atmosphere among people of all profiles that are losing faith in
government solutions and participate in student and workers 'occupations and strikes,
non-partisan "citizens' initiatives", protests coming out of the legal framework, thus
preparing the ground for a form of resistance that relies on faith the self-organization,
direct action, mutual aid and solidarity.
Although as anarchists we share values with leftists for a fairer, freer and more equal
society towards the workers, we need to clearly underline that we are different from them.
When we say parliamentary leftists think of a group of people that wants parliamentary
elections to win state power and have gained control over state institutions (such as
schools, prisons, banks, police, military, hospitals, etc.). There does not differ much
from other political options that aspire to power and are interested in them to give them
the elections given their voice, and to get them must know a pragmatic and opportunistic
every promise on something.
Anarchists on the other hand do not promise anything to anyone and do not consider the
parliamentary elections at any level of the political arena, but the political struggle of
water in the streets, workplaces and communities. This is the reason because consulting
history and current struggles we see how the institutions of government, bosses and
politicians, of the oppressed requirements imposed collective resistance from the outside.
In the same way as workers on discipline and work forces fear of layoffs, hunger and loss
of the roof over your head, so the boss, the director, the mayor or the minister to make
concessions to organized peasants, workers, students or any other vulnerable social
groups, forces the fear of losing popularity, profits, assets and ultimately your safety.
Leftists say they want to and can take advantage of state institutions, including the
media for the welfare of all, if they can be made available to government money.
Anarchists on the other hand are building their institutions own effort (social centers,
squats, radio stations, publishing, website, school, sports, cultural and solidarity
projects, trade unions, etc.) By building a different world right now, without waiting for
the arrival to power in the media, financial injection from a government or non-government
fund. With this approach, strengthening society and reminding him that the older of the
church, state, political parties, NGOs and so has the tools more powerful and more
efficient than any government policy.
Hereby we do not want to call on the division between people who are part of our class and
who live from their work not exploiting others, but we want our proposals and values make
clear to society that we change by example. We want to reach out to those who, due to
their naivety to be just a cog in the machine that is hungry for power and control, rather
than to develop as an individual and collective better understand the world around them
and may modify it. What makes us anarchists is not merely direct action, but also the
belief that society is freer, more equal and more efficiently outside the state and
capitalist framework, functioning without coercion toward their own members, self-driving
their activities, be they workers, intellectual, artistic or scientific, unattended ,
control and censorship of some higher authority to the agreement of their own collectives,
individuals and common sense.
Anti-parliamentary campaign
April 2017.
Network anarchists (MASA)
Federation for anarchist organizing (FAO)
International of Anarchist Federations (IAF)
https://masari.noblogs.org/anarhisti-i-parlamentarna-ljevica/
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Message: 4
It read, among others, the decisions taken at the tenth congress of delegates and
delegates of our union, association events and activities in the 2016 final compensation
that must be paid Amazon wrongly exempt employees and other ongoing trials. In addition to
the interview with fighting for many months IP trade union committee at the Polish Theater
in Wroclaw, also read about the situation in Malopolska tower crane operators and
employees of cultural institutions on the example of POLIN Museum in Warsaw. On the
following pages we publish an interview with the conditions prevailing in Poznan
gastronomy, as well as an article about how the upcoming reform of education already
affects the conditions of employment in education. Zwiazkowczynie IP talk about the
reasons why they take part in the protests associated with attempts to tighten abortion law.
We remind you that in addition publish the bulletin always condominiums on the pages where
they write and the author of the friendly with OZZ IP tenant organizations.
In the section of Journalism you read about health and safety at Amazon warehouses and
behind the scenes to organize protests against the tightening of the abortion law in Wroclaw.
On the pages devoted to the history we write about subsequent scenes of street fighting
Dabrowszczaków in Warsaw, as well as publish the position of the Warsaw committee on
so-called IP. decommunisation.
The section read a summary of last year's World International Affairs have engaged our
relationship, as well as an article about the biggest strike in the history of mankind,
which broke out in September last year.
At the end we invite you to extensive relations with the European Employee Meetings
Economics, which was held last year in Greece.
At press[@]ozzip.pl waiting for your texts, comments and thoughts.
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http://www.ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/download/282_8565fb009e353d8d4c6e4248f4143f22
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/ruch/4529-nowy-47-biuletyn-inicjatywy-pracowniczej-
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Message: 5
May Day is International Workers' Day ---- May Day, first of May, is International
Workers' Day. Fighting workers the world over stand together and in solidarity on May Day.
We remember May 1, 1886, the day workers across the U.S. went on general strike to demand
and to implement the 8 hour day. Hundreds of thousands of workers struck on that day.
Labor unions and central labor councils in many cities supported the strikes, and the
movement was strongest in Chicago. ---- Anarchists around the country, but especially in
Chicago, were in the forefront of this strike and the struggle for the 8 hour day. In
1881, workers from many countries had formed the International Working People's
Association (IWPA), known as the Black international, the anarchist international
Workers and anarchists from the U.S. joined the IWPA, but there were two currents or
approaches within the IWPA in the U.S. and other countries. One wing was Individualist
anarchists, who believed in propaganda by the deed and opposed participation in what they
described as reformist struggles. Another wing, including the Chicago anarchists, did
believe in participating in workers' struggles, in the developing labor movement and in
the struggle for the 8 hour day. Albert Parsons, Lucy Parsons, August Spies and others had
to convince some of their fellow anarchists that it was necessary for the developing
anarchist movement to be based in the working class and the struggles of the working
class. As a result, anarchists were in the forefront of the struggle for the 8 hour day in
Chicago and elsewhere. These anarchists, who we remember every May Day, urged workers to
organize, to strike, to use the general strike and direct action to win the 8 hour day,
and they urged workers to arm themselves and to defend themselves against police, employer
and scab attacks.
Chicago anarchists Albert and Lucy Parsons.
In Chicago, on May 1, Lucy Parsons and Albert Parsons and other anarchists marched with
40,000 striking workers to demand the 8 hour day. On May 2, Chicago anarchists joined with
the McCormick Harvester strikers. August Spies, an anarchist, spoke at the rally urging
the strikers and supporters to fight back and defend themselves against scabs and police
who were mobilizing to attack the strikers. The police and strikebreakers did attack the
rally, killing two striking workers and injuring many more. On the next day, anarchists
called a meeting at Haymarket Square in Chicago to protest against the police murders of
striking workers. Albert Parsons, August Spies and other Chicago anarchists spoke at the
rally. Toward the end of the rally, police charged the protest to break it up. A bomb was
thrown into the police; one policeman was killed, others were injured, and six more police
died from injuries.
No one was ever charged with throwing the bomb, but Albert Parsons, August Spies and six
other Chicago anarchists were charged with conspiracy and put on trial for murder. The
state didn't claim that the Chicago anarchists had thrown the bomb; they put anarchism and
anarchist organizers on trial for being revolutionaries. All eight anarchists were
convicted and five were sentenced to death. Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer,
George Engel were hanged by state of Illinois in 1887. Louis Lingg, also sentenced to
hang, committed suicide on the night before the scheduled executions.
The ruling class killed the Chicago anarchists and attacked anarchists' offices and
newspapers and organizations. The rulers feared anarchism and the influence of the
anarchists and the revolutionary approach of the anarchists as part of the working class
movement, the growing union movement and the struggle for the 8 hour day. The ruling class
killed the Chicago anarchists, because these anarchists were dangerous. The anarchists
understood that revolutionaries could not stand aside from the workers' struggles, could
not stand aside from the movement for the 8 hour day. The anarchists understood that the
way to build the revolutionary movement and the international anarchist movement was
through direct participation in the struggles of working people. They understood that
anarchists could not look down at reformist struggles, but instead should build and
participate in these struggles and convince workers of the need for anarchism and
revolution by the lessons learned in these joint struggles. The anarchists were in the
forefront of the fight and the strikes for the 8 hour day. The anarchists were in the
forefront of the growing union movement and were urging workers to defend themselves and
to prepare for revolution. This is why the ruling class killed them.
Louis Lingg, 21 year old Haymarket Martyr, said this in his final statement to the court
which had ordered his execution: " I repeat that I am the enemy of the ‘order' of today,
and I repeat that, with all my powers, so long as breath remains in me, I shall combat it
... I despise you. I despise your order; your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me
for it!"
The rulers killed the Haymarket anarchists in 1887, 130 years ago. It's important that we
understand, today, the lessons that Haymarket teaches us. Revolutionary anarchists should
participate in and be in the forefront of the struggles of working people and in defense
of communities under attack, whether these struggles are revolutionary or reformist,
whether it's a general strike for shorter hours or the struggles to build unions and
workers' organizations or the defense of a Mosque or to oppose a deportation raid or join
in struggles against police attacks. As working people and as revolutionary anarchists, we
must organize to defend ourselves and our communities.
There is another important lesson we learn from the Haymarket martyrs. The anarchists in
Chicago and in the International Working People's Association (IWPA) organized all
workers: skilled and unskilled, women and men, Black and white, recent immigrants and all
nationalities. They opposed white supremacy and urged a united working class struggle and
built united working class organizations and unions. The Chicago anarchists were active
members of the IWPA, the anarchist international, which united workers and anarchists
across all borders. This, too, is why the rulers killed them. These were dangerous and
effective ideas, and broader sections of the working classes were taking up these ideas
around the country and throughout the world.
Pikeville
There is today a fascist named Matthew Heimbach, , of the "Traditionalist Workers Party,"
who is calling for fascists and white supremacists to gather in Pikeville, Kentucky the
weekend of April 28 and for "white workers to take back May Day." Heimbach has no
knowledge of or denies the actual history of May Day as International Workers Day. He
claims white workers should support white supremacy and beg the rulers for blessings
because they are white. Heimbach also claims white workers should look out only for
themselves and attack Muslims, Jews, immigrants, Black workers, Latinx workers, Indigenous
peoples and Asians. These fascists say women are inferior to men and that being gay is an
abomination and white people cannot date or marry anyone other than another white person.
These fascists oppose freedom and believe they have the right to impose their vision of
white supremacy and patriarchy on the rest of us.
We support anarchists and revolutionaries going to Pikeville at the end of April to oppose
these fascists and to commemorate May Day, International Workers' Day. And we go to
Pikeville to organize with working people in Pikeville and from surrounding communities to
oppose fascism and to build a united working class struggle for freedom and revolution. We
honor the heroic struggles of coal miners and their families in Pikeville and Harlan
County and Mingo and Logan counties in West Virginia and throughout the region. From the
1890's through the early 1900's through the battle of Matewan and the struggle of
thousands of armed miners at Blair Mountain in 1921, through the battles to build the
union in the 1930's and up through the Harlan County strike in the 1970's and beyond,
miners and miners' families throughout the coal fields of Eastern Kentucky and West
Virginia have participated in some of the most militant struggles in the history of
workers in this country.
Cops attack West Virginia miners strike 1975
The ruling class, the capitalists, and their agents are attacking the entire working class
in the search for more profits and to defend and protect their power and wealth. These are
attacks on working people around the world. Austerity, growing fascist movements, attacks
on "the other," are not just in the U.S. but are worldwide. And in the U.S. cities are
under attack, schools are under attack, poor people are under attack. There are attacks on
Muslims and immigrants and Latinx communities. There are increased police attacks on Black
communities. And for all us, it's fewer jobs and lower wages and cuts in benefits and
failing health care and ongoing attacks on the planet. These attacks hit all working
people in the U.S., including white working people and all poor people.
These attacks also hit folks who considered themselves to be middle class or who had
skilled jobs and earned enough to live what was considered a "middle class' lifestyle.
These folks, many of them white, also are under attack and losing ground and worried about
the future. The ruling class hits the middle class and better off workers and grinds us
all down. Trump tells these folks to stick with him and make America great again by making
America white again and attacking the "other." Heimbach says these white folks should join
the fascists and present themselves to the rulers as a force to oppose and attack the
working class and to divide the working class and to attack the fighting organizations of
the working class and the oppressed. Heimbach says white workers should be loyal to the
rulers and the system and put their lives on the line to protect the wealth and the power
of the ruling class, protect the very system which grinds them down and act as the
ultimate scabs on the rest of the working class.
We say white workers and all workers should face reality. There is one working class, and
we are all in it. We are under attack by the rulers and the capitalist class and their
system. They are moving to broader wars and more dangerous confrontations. They are moving
to increasing nationalism and patriotism and authoritarianism. The rulers and the
corporations double down on destruction of the environment and the planet in order to
protect and increase their power and privilege and profits. And the rulers use their
government to deflect anger away from the billionaires and their system by scapegoating
and attacking Muslims, the Latinx community, immigrants, refugees, the Black community and
poor people and marginalized communities. It's deportation raids, and attempts at Muslim
bans, and build the wall and militarized, multi-jurisdictional police attacks which bring
armored personnel carriers to the streets of our cities. And it's more jails and more
prisons and more detention centers and more prisoners and detainees.
In this atmosphere and in this time, the fascists and the base for fascism are growing.
Fascists and white supremacists move in and around the Trump supporters and call
themselves patriotic and defenders of free speech and nationalists. Fascist movements are
gaining strength in Europe, the U.S., in Canada and in many areas of the world. The danger
is real. The fascists urge white folks to join with them to defend the system of white
supremacy and patriarchy and capitalism and to direct their fear and anger against other
workers and people of color and anyone who is not white and is not a racist and to attack.
The fascists want power and control and domination. They stand for death and genocide.
Are you on the side of the wealthy few and their government and the fascists or on the
side of the working people, the international working class and all oppressed people?
"Which Side Are You On?" Florence Reece wrote that song in nearby Harlan County in the
bitter struggles for the union and against the coal operators and their thugs in the
1930's. That's the question of Pikeville. That's the question of May Day.
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
My dady was a miner,
And I'm a miner's son,
And I'll stick with the union
‘Til every battle's won.
They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there.
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J. H. Blair.
Oh workers can you stand it?
Oh tell me how you can?
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?
Don't scab for the bosses,
Don't listen to their lies.
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize!
http://m1aa.org/?p=1433
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