Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #272 - Highways: Vinci
tarry (and it is not the only one) (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Projection debate,
Rather than the elections: self-management ! On 27 May in Rouen
by AL Rouen (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #272 - Chiapas: A native
candidate for the 2018 presidential election ? (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: Communication
Coordination action against Sunday work and released schedules
for the strike on 17/5 (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - A Libertarian Communist
in the YPG # 07: On the Imperialist Support to YPG-YPJ (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, afed: The counterattack -- Review new numbers known
anarchist magazine. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Despite the saturation of French territory in this area, eight new motorway projects are
under construction, mainly motivated by the economic development they will create. But
this argument is contradicted by the facts. ---- Whatever their local objectives and
forms, the projects in question are based on an argument which is, in fact, only a belief:
who says great works and " mobility " means growth, job creation, economic dynamism.
---- This blind faith, and the determination of the elected officials to tarry everything
that is presented, remain in contempt of scientific knowledge showing that these long
awaited results are not necessarily at the rendezvous. ---- And not only is the argument
fallacious, but it masks the negative impacts of these projects on certain territories,
which will undergo the work without being serviced by the highway.
Some of these territorial projects have been in the pipeline for forty years, such as the
A355 motorway called " GCO " (Great Western bypass) in Strasbourg, or the A680 between
Toulouse and Castres. The two shipyards, originating from the Trente Gloriouses where the
state thought the reform in terms of investment, became investments taken by Vinci in
exchange for a (sustainable) concession on the territory.
Territorial development and other false prophecies
If current environmental consciousness leads to the challenge of these projects in order
to defend the living environment, land ownership, or pollution, and if the inhabitants of
these projects (inhabitants, inhabitants and inhabitants) compete against each other Their
interests, it seems that an organized struggle front is struggling to develop. While these
projects are of a structural nature and are part of the ideology of regional planning,
they do not go beyond the stage of isolated and isolated struggles. There is a political
and trade union vacuum there.
Yet, looking closely at the two cases of the A355 and the A680, we can identify several
common areas of struggle. In the first place, one must make a fate with the argument of
the creation of jobs. Economists and geographers have understood since the 1970s that
transport infrastructure does not create jobs, but rather contributes to their relocation
at ports of entry (see the work of F. Plassard or the article by J. -M. Offner [1]), and
the same applies to dwellings. Now in Castres, it is prophesied that the A680 will
engender a revitalization of the Castres-Mazamet employment area. The same is true of
Strasbourg, where we promise 2000 jobs and 450 new housing (already,
All this is very evasive. Moreover, a job in an industrial loading area just means a
driver's qualification and a Smic. It is far from requalification of the 900 jobs lost
during the closing of the refinery in 2011 ! No re-qualification but " relocation ", and
the elected represent this for progress. Lastly, the 450 homes will be built on 30
hectares of agricultural land today.
But these counter-arguments are totally absent from the struggles, probably because
blackmail at work calms the minds, and also because the inhabitants of this future
devastated territory are not yet there.
Beyond the question of employment, the so-called promised economic development has always
been based on a model of destructive creation since the 1970s. In Castres, at the time of
the first negotiations on the A680, elected officials and decision-makers had clashed over
the relevance of this road to Toulouse, due to stronger economic links with the
Mediterranean ports which Favored other axes. Today the situation has changed, the
leather, textile and textile industries have closed and the Castres-Mazamet conurbation is
turning more towards the metropolis of Toulouse, hence the return to the A680 project. But
whether the motorway fads are new or old, they still prevent to consider the reduction of
the networks to promote the local development, word yet dear to the decision-makers.
Eco-friendly varnish
That is why these " useless " projects are taxed because, from the point of view of
quality of life, the only certainty that can be given by the reinforcement of road
networks is that we will find work ... further on ; That we will have to own a car for
that. And that we will have destroyed additional natural and agricultural spaces for the
construction of zones of activities and pavilions near the interchanges (read on the
geographical Cafés of Toulouse, What is a motorway ?, Michel Cohou [3]). Creation
destructive, therefore, despite the contemporary ecologist vernis that boasts of "
responsible " sites thanks to the decontamination of sites and the management of waste
generated. All this is known,
The issue of highway prices is also a big chunk. How can we accept that
Toulouse-Castres-Toulouse will now cost 15 euros, to guarantee an annuity to Vinci,
concessionaire of the new axis ? The prohibition of transit to heavy goods vehicles only
increases their journey time, and therefore the final sale price of the products (but that
is not said).
As this is not enough, the arguments of capitalist ecology can enter the battle. In
Strasbourg, the current motorway could become a national again, with red lights, etc. The
city council promotes well-being in the city, reduced traffic ... In fact, the friled
driver will join the paying GCO, while the prolo will be on its new national full of
trucks, with fewer vehicles but Always at the stop. It seems completely illusory to see a
four voices deserted, just as much as pollution dissipate.
The first opponents of weight to all these projects are the mayors, they are also the
first informed like the 18 mayors against the A680, the sequel will come or not. They are
also the ones who can hinder, as the mayor of Reichstett who supports the GCO and musele a
magnificent knot of protest. In Alsace several centers of zad-ification emerge against the
highway, a newspaper is created, Concrete and biftons. But the centers of struggle,
remote, do not manage to concretely globalize their contestation.
Paul and Reinette Noyée (AL Tarn and Aveyron)
[1] See Persee.fr, « The structuring effects of transport: political myth, scientific
mystification ».
[2] See on Alsace.alternativelibertaire.org, " The wasteland of Reichstett, as we are
told ".
[3] See website Cafe-geo.net.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Autoroutes-Vinci-goudronne-et-il-n-est-pas-le-seul
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Message: 2
At 3 pm, at the Halle aux toiles, place de la Basse-Vieille-Tour, in Rouen. Event
organized by the Rouen groups of the Anarchist Federation of Alternative Libertarian.
Debate with Paul Boino: " Abstention, a path to emancipation ? "
A video by Johan Verhoeven: Cecosesola or total self-management
Cecosesola is a cooperative in Barquisimeto (northeastern Venezuela), operating totally
self-managed. More than 1,200 workers, no manager, no manager, no hierarchical structure,
enormous participation, trust and learning, constant rotation in all workplaces ... and
much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihDoZ5dYapw
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Plutot-que-les-elections-l-autogestion-le-27-mai-a-Rouen
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Message: 3
The Indigenous National Congress is expected to present an indigenous woman candidate to
the Mexican presidential next year. A challenge to the patriarchal and racist society.
---- From October 9 to 14, 2016, the Fifth National Indigenous Congress (CNI) [1]was held
in Chiapas , which decided to enter a process of nominating a woman candidate indigenous
to the 2018 presidential election This nomination shall be made by a Native Council of
Government whose members shall be appointed by the organizations belonging to the INC.
This decision of the INC has made a lot of talk. Would the Zapatistas give up autonomy for
the institutional race to power ? ---- Deputy Commander Galeano ---- On January 23, 2017,
the EZLN published a lengthy explanation by subordinate Galeano (formerly Marcos) and
subcommandant Moises, noting that the candidate would not be a " Zapatista " candidate ,
much less " Of the EZLN ", but rather a candidate of the National Indigenous Congress
(although they specify that it was the EZLN that proposed this idea to the CNI).
Why did the INC accept to embark on this process ? A video put online by the CNI to
explain this process gives a response. One delegate said: " The CNI has become the wall
of lamentations. "One might think that the CNI was entering into a deleterious routine,
and that the dynamics had to be revived by a strong initiative.
In 2006, the Zapatistas had already mobilized in the context of a presidential campaign.
But then it was a matter of building a " new campaign ", going to meet all those "
bottom left " across the country, fiercely refusing any attempt at political recovery,
notably by the Party of Democratic revolution (PRD). It was therefore far from a
candidature supported by the Zapatistas. And in practice, it is far from the power of
state that the Zapatista autonomy was built. Beginning in 2001 and the constitutional
reform in indigenous matters, which completely betrays the San Andres agreements signed in
January 1996 and which they were constantly demanding, the disappointed Zapatistas Have
committed themselves.
Is this nomination a renunciation of Zapatista principles ? The compasses of the Sexta
[2]present at the congress as observers seem to have taken the proposals of the Zapatista
delegates with circumspection. In the international supporters of the Zapatista movement,
criticism that the Zapatistas would play the institutional game are well under way. Let us
just recall some elements about the current process. On the one hand, the INC, in
accordance with its statutes, has not taken a decision but has made a proposal which is
currently being debated in the communities represented. On the other hand, in the initial
proposal of the Zapatistas, there is no illusion about the institutional outlets: They
remind us that they have no chance of winning, and that even if they win, they would not
be allowed to take power. They consider that this candidacy is both a forum and a lever
for remobilization for the " many below that exist in Mexico and in the world ".
Finally, the proposal, which the Zapatistas insist on, is indeed a form of challenge to
the Mexican patriarchal and racist society. They consider that this candidacy is both a
forum and a lever for remobilization for the " many downsides that exist in Mexico and in
the world ". Finally, the proposal, which the Zapatistas insist on, is indeed a form of
challenge to the Mexican patriarchal and racist society. They consider that this candidacy
is both a forum and a lever for remobilization for the " many below that exist in Mexico
and in the world ". Finally, the proposal, which the Zapatistas insist on, is indeed a
form of challenge to the Mexican patriarchal and racist society.
We will know sooner, as the INC has announced the completion of the consultation process
by May 26th. In the meantime, and bearing in mind that the current situation in Mexico is
of unprecedented violence, let us beware of any hasty judgment on the process.
The CNI was founded on the appeal of the EZLN in January 1996, in the context of the
negotiations which led to the San Andrés agreement, which was signed shortly thereafter.
The EZLN felt that it was not legitimate to speak on behalf of all indigenous peoples,
hence the constitution of the CNI in this context. La Sexta is the diminutive of the "
sixth declaration of the forest of Lacandone ", launched by the Zapatistas in 2012, and
which has joined many organizations.
See the article " The EZLN and the Sixth e declaration of the Selva Lacandona " in the
Journal September 2005
Gyula (AL 93-center)
[1] The CNI was founded at the call of the EZLN in January 1996, as part of the
negotiations leading to the San Andrés agreement, signed shortly thereafter. The EZLN felt
that it was not legitimate to speak on behalf of all indigenous peoples, hence the
constitution of the CNI in this context.
[2] La Sexta is the diminutive of the " Sixth Declaration of the Forest of Lacandone ",
launched by the Zapatistas in 2012, and which have joined many international
organizations, including Alternative libertarian.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Chiapas-Une-candidate-indigene-a-la-presidentielle-de-2018
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Message: 4
NEVER WORK ON SUNDAY ---- 81 years after their struggles for leisure time occupation for
workers and decent working conditions we again give the same games. The new memorandum to
be passed within the month, including (reducing tax free, slashed pensions, wages,
benefits, facilitating mass dismissals etc.) -and returned symfonithike- opening of stores
for 30 Sundays a year. The the objective remains of course the shops are every Sunday off,
with the aspiration to open so the road to abolish the Sunday holiday and for other labor
sectors. The consequences for all of us is obvious. ---- 30 Sundays we will not have time
to rest ---- 30 Sundays you will not have time to spend with our families, to see our
friends, have fun, do a walk, go for a trip ---- 30 Sundays you will not have time to
live. ---- On Sunday, May 7 in Tsimiski given an initial response to the decisions of the
commercial capital and its political
staff. From 10.45 till 12.45 held strike
blockades-guard so many shops were opened despite
the strike of the trade association, to lower blinds, which for
several stores applied throughout the day.
MAT, Bershka, Doca, 2 H&M, Loft57,
MAC, VICKO, ATTICA, WIND, Edward jeans, 2 ZARA, 2 Massimo Dutti, Anel,
Pin up, Marks & Spencer, Stradivirus, Benetton, BsB, Public, Nottos
Galleries
We must recognize our weaknesses ...
We must recognize that the bosses and their governments
earn as much space we have left them. Whenever we look at
how you to pull everyone clean itself every time silent
before the fear of unemployment, whenever drowned us
their humiliation whenever you assign others to solve
our own problems, problems of our class, our bosses
are getting more aggressive, more and more avidly.
... to discover our strength
As has been shown many times in the workers' struggles of the past,
as shown by this small victory Sunday, May 7, is to own
up to us to prove them that their conceit may at any moment to
come to sour. It is up to us to remind them of what is
capable of doing the organized, conscious working class to
defend its interests.
So we renew our appointment in the strike of May 17 without
illusions about the effectiveness of a 24 rifle in the
air. We continue to struggle with organization from below, through
unions and workers' initiatives, building communication networks,
solidarity and struggle in any commercial shop but wider at each
workplace, with guard strike, demonstrations, militant
actions. We continue to fight for leisure, for decent
working conditions and remuneration to cover all our needs, to
not work and to not live as slaves.
WEDNESDAY 17 MAY STRIKE AND PARTICIPATE IN APERGIAKES
PERIFROURISEIS
CONCENTRATION TSIMISKI WITH HOLY WISDOM IN 9:00
OPEN MEETING FOR THE COORDINATION ACTION AGAINST THE SUNDAY
PAPER WEDNESDAY 24 MAY AT 17:30 IN given (Koromila 51)
Coordination of action against Sunday work and released hours
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/
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Message: 5
"Why this reversal ? The Kurdish Movement by the US Capitalists ? An access of humanity to
the Pentagon ? Promises to use the rich resources of Rojava by US multinationals ?" ----
Alternative libertarian reproduces the blog posts Kurdistan-Autogestion-Revolution ,
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 areas. ---- YPG Training Academy
for Foreign Volunteers, Canton of Cizérre, May 17, 2017 ---- It would seem that coming to
risk his life in Rojava is to play the game of US imperialism but also that I would be
paid over 5,000 dollars a month by billionaire George Soros ...
What answer to the conspiracyists who think that ? That as an anti-fascist militant in
France, I was already militiaman in the service of the government and paid by the same
Soros ? That I benefited from a promotion and am now directly under the orders of the "
Empire " summit: the US ?
Well, obviously I have nothing to answer the trolls of extreme right who pass their life
to criticize and discredit all the emancipation movements to be able to wallow in their
own mediocrity militant.
On the other hand, I will try to answer for the sincere militants that this imperialist "
support " to the YPG-YPJ questions the authenticity of what is happening here.
First of all a little contextualization.
This objective alliance was established during the second battle of Kobanê, besieged by
the Islamic state and defended by the YPG-YPJ. The former were over-armed - largely thanks
to the huge stockpile of American weapons seized in the warehouses of Mosul, Iraq - and
the latter had only a light weapon recovered here and there, or smuggled to Rojava before
the civil war. Although defending themselves fiercely thanks to the revolutionary ideals
that animated them, faced with the superiority of fire, they had to yield ground.
An American plane on the Turkish base of Incirlik.
Daech was preparing to seize Kobane. When the YPGs were cornered in two parts of the city,
the US decided to support their heroic resistance even though they had skillfully ignored
the Kurdish movement by loyalty to their Turkish ally. Their aviation destroyed Daech's
heavy equipment, rebalancing the balance and allowing the YPGs to snatch an expensive victory.
Why this reversal ? The Kurdish Movement by the US Capitalists ? An access of humanity to
the Pentagon ? Promises to use the rich resources of Rojava by US multinationals ? No,
this one is of course already reserved for the Greater Israel ! (joke)
To the great displeasure of Turkey
The only explanation is the interests of US imperialism. His main enemy at the moment is
Daech. And as the saying goes: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It is the same logic as
when the German Reich allowed Lenin to return to Russia ; Or when the Soviet war effort
was supported by the USA against the Nazis. The Americans give us limited support. If
Kobanê fell, they knew very well that it was certainly not their " faithful " Turkish
ally who was going to stop the trafficking of arms, merchandise and men in the direction
of the Caliphate.
The Kurds, by their resistance, have gained the respect of the great imperialist powers,
who judge them the most able to get rid of their most pressing problem: Daech. And this to
the great displeasure of Turkey, whose main enemy remains and will always remain the
Kurdish left.
Why did not you support the mercenaries of ASL, armed by Turkey against Daech ? Just
because they were fleeing from the slightest attack by the Islamic state - perhaps
rightly, because they are formidable fighters but that's not the issue - and this allowed
jihadists to recover even more Weapons ! It is not for pleasure that the imperialists give
us their support but out of necessity, because they consider us to be their best tool
against Daech.
Arthur Aberlin
One of our feline companions at the Academy.
And democratic confederalism applied to animals. Even between dogs and cats, it works !
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Un-communiste-libertaire-dans-les-YPG-07-Sur-le-soutien-imperialiste-aux-YPG
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Message: 6
Not to the fifth annual Anarchist Book Festival so poor on the news, waiting for its
visitors pleasant surprise - after a long time appeared a new number once established
anarchist magazine A-counter . I did not hesitate a moment and one tangle upraised fists
on the envelope I was in the lobby of the Clinic, where he found ákontrí stand taken. For
this I title since the early 90s, weakness, so there was no problem. ---- When I thought
about how when you review the new build number, I realized that what irritates me about
it, I'm on the other side really comes good, and vice versa. Its main theme is "anarchism
of everyday life." If I had not read it but at the beginning, I would not tell. The link
could be more fragmentation in a way, that resonates content and form. Graphic design has
on one side of his irresistible charm, the other torment the reader in search of
beginnings and ends of paragraphs, reckoned on the letters and words beneath a layer of
fine dirt and search what is in talks to question and what answer. It's a change from a
visually succinct and straightforward existence . Although she informs asking questions,
looking for answers, discusses specific topics from different angles, but lacks that
little bit more personal dimension that breathes a new Kontra , even if it's just a cough
creature that is stored for a long period of hibernation.
But let's turn. Bohumil confesses of having worked in a corporation. Yes, it's work sucks,
how would Graeber said, but everyone kurvíme with capitalism, because we have no other
choice, and as long as there will not be different. Maybe it's not even necessary to
apologize for the fact that "the running of corporations to participate just by that we
use the goods". By Bohumil way out is through remorse, without which we are doomed, and
"our freedom[is possible]hidden in the conscious experience of everyday life with all its
consequences." But is it really freedom, "that true friends will always be there" or just
one variation on the theme, nowhere to run eight or more hours in a corporation. If you
should be so conceived "freedom and remorse" absolution, it is not surprising that a man
struggling through regularly shit everyday prefer to choose a variant without remorse. '
Post consensus appropriately combining some of that theory (what and when is a form of
good decisions, what are its pitfalls) is very specific experience in plenums at the
Clinic. You then results in a series of informal advice. If you do not have much
experience with the collective decision-making, definitely seek advice.
Mate Igor theme of the question veganism behind bars. He describes his experience in
catering during his detention and offers various workarounds. And with the openness
inherent notes that the goal is not to get vegan diet for the prison walls, but the walls
torn down.
The poem "Little black boy" wonderfully demonstrates the functioning of global capitalism
and the exploitation of the developing world. But when the intoxication wears off verses,
turn left just appeals to the conscience of Western consumer satisfied, while the poet and
poetess wrote / and probably on your laptop, from which dripped blood, a little black boy'.
Comment conversation with young Christians, I'd rather not. Just where they stand on guard
the faith, there remains a sense stand at the gates. Anarchy is definitely not the
"Kingdom of God" because it is not a kingdom 'and is not, God.' A subsequent interview
with the team second, which is interested in the history of the Czech anarchist movement,
it does not expressly mention but our comrades from the 19th and 20th centuries by
societies in their bezvereckých shaking their heads about why someone off the corpse of
God, instead of trying to beside him bury the corpse of capital. The third issue is the
interview conducted with former editor of the magazine and current councilor in Prague 7,
which, as obstacles to the successful struggle defines the culture of submission and
sacrifice.
Reasoning that teknari today are like gypsies once, seems a bit out of date due to the
fact that one year of techno-street-carnival party called DIY bore the motto "We are all
gypsies". I do not see techno scene, but apparently it is necessary to some of its
supporters still remembered. For subculture they are willy-nilly just a reflection of the
culture, which consists of a subset. And if it happens everyday authoritarianism 'norm,
then somehow those leaks can not not really surprised. Now this issue is dedicated to
shorter theoretical text that shows fascism "as cancerous growths, which takes place in
the smallest scale, ie at the level of families, schools, communities and individuals."
The conclusion is logical, not only on the one hand, we must be able to stand up to
fascism, while we have to deal with "creating their own peculiar environment and social
relations in which authoritarianism failing to settle."
Finally, you can read a review of the chapter on anarchism and Squatting in the book
Tribes 90 . Perhaps the only complaint fell towards Budvar sponsorship book. But is it a
problem? Needless to today subculture characteristic that is largely left to their own way
of co-opting capitalism? Personally, I'd rather complications of the classification of
anarchism as an squating and subculture anymore because the circuit activists are
recruited from various subcultures and sometimes beyond, but did not create any specific
subculture, is just simply associate a particular political stance, whether declared or
practiced.
I always read after A-Kontra , not counting the poster edition, he knew that one of the
texts will sooner or later return. That happened to me this time. This however does not
imply that the new number was not beneficial, but it reflects the different expectations.
And given the fact that not much anarchist magazine comes out, I have no doubt that
without the problem of a wide range of satisfied readers find.
32 pages A5, 23 CZK. To fetch on the usual distribution points, or ask questions by e-mail
anna.kontra[and]safe-mail.net.
http://www.afed.cz/text/6680/a-kontra
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