Anarchic update news all over the world - 7.05.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: PRICE TO
      WORKERS WHO EPANASTATES won WAR THAT TODAY WE 
      Hanuman IN PEACE
      (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #271 - policy, A response
      from AL to the fans of Asselineau-UPR (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, freedom news: Scotland: Action Against Austerity
     kicks off new campaign to protect welfare (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  US, black rose fed: A HISTORY OF MAY DAY: THE STRUGGLE FOR
     THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY AND POPULAR POWER By Black Rose/
     Rosa Negra
     Burlington (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




The story of insurgent workers of the 1886 Chicago marked the conscience of the 
international class movement that their rights, the workers and the workers conquered 
after aimatovamenous struggles and revolutions against the bosses and their dogs. ---- In 
today's attack and the state capital and it is in this very consciousness of the working 
class. The SYRIZA-ANEL government and local and foreign bosses playing the economic crisis 
paper aim at a voluntary surrender of our industrial achievements. We ask us to stoop and 
head do "patience until the economy back on track" to put up with the misery and 
devaluation of our lives, reduced wages and exhausting hours, work Sunday without any 
protection and social security. ---- In recent years -from 2012 started the crisis until 
today was cloudless for the ruling classes, without social unrest and antistaseis.Poly 
quickly without discontinuity between illusion capturing the SYRIZA program (and any 
similar social democratic capitalist continuation program brutality with "human face") 
with the reality of modern capitalism revealed. Failure to confirm the only truth that can 
arise effortlessly from the facts: on the territory of today's global capitalist crisis 
opened two paths, either to accept the terms of the global totalitarianism or the Social 
Revolution. Average road there.

For our class, these years were recession year. The attack was not turned into the "past 
centuries" and "Middle Ages" - unlike engraved and emphasized the image of the future. A 
future tunnel boring state attack and capital to work, security, social liberties, 
environmental and social goods. Following the reductions in salaries and pensions, cuts in 
all public benefits, the phasing out of the Sunday holiday, the tax increase, the price 
increase in commodities came the change in the pension system, came smashing to pieces of 
social security, the auctions primary residence and the new labor bill that prevents the 
right to strike and deny the collective bodies of the workers.

Workers and employees have a historic debt to the rebels of May Day: the duty to remind 
the state and the bosses that you will always find us opposite them, until the total 
overthrow of the current operating system. The Labor Day -from 1880 to Chicago and 
Thessaloniki in 1936 is not simply a mosaic of labor demands and revolutions, but a 
constant struggle against oblivion and power, as the relentless struggle of the working 
class for its final liberation from the shackles of capitalism.

For us, Labor Day is a reminder that this battle begins from the social base of the 
exploited against the exploiters, the left and right bosses, big and small, socialist and 
right states, judges, cops and anthropofylakon. It is even the reminder that in this 
struggle we are not alone. Next to us, locals and migrant workers in Greece, stand the 
Turks and Kurdish fighters, the rebels of Stantingk Rock, the antifascists Bulgarians, the 
Zapatistas, Palestinian hunger strikers, anarchists located within the walls of the 
prison, those in each corner of the world realize that the struggle ends where begins the 
classless society.

ONE IS THE ROAD TO LABOR NIKAS
to a new fighter, ADIALAKTO, self-organized LABOR THEORY

STRUGGLE FOR A SOCIETY WITHOUT STATE, FOR A WORLD WITHOUT EXPLOITATION
communism and anarchy

ATHENS
Museum Path 10:30

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/04/28

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Message: 2



The publication of a modest article  mocking the "  blue-white-red trickery  " of 
Patriotic candidate François Asselineau scalded his groupies, which bombarded AL with 
dozens of indignant, insulting, complotist emails, sometimes accompanied by death threats 
! After a laugh, a comrade took his pen for a measured answer. ---- Hello, ---- You were a 
few to write to us following the publication of an article in the newspaper Alternative 
libertarian about the program of the UPR and Asselineau. The speed with which we received 
these messages prompts us to think that you probably have a "  Google Alert  " set to " 
Asselineau  " or "  UPR  " and that you react quarter-turn to the slightest criticism 
emitted on the web at About this party and its leader.

Even though we are surprised by this militant practice, we are even more surprised at the 
content of some messages, which suggest that you have not bothered to find out about our 
organization and that you just send a stolen Of criticism and insult to all those who 
choke a little the figure of Asselineau.

But as we respect the debate of ideas, we nevertheless wish to offer some answers to your 
criticisms, hoping that you will bother to read them.

On the Munich Charter and Journalism

No, we are not professional journalists. We are political activists, trade unionists, 
committed to the voluntary sector, who write in the journal of our organization to defend 
points of view, to talk about social struggles And carry a libertarian communist voice.

We do not therefore feel bound by the Munich Charter , which concerns professional 
journalists, but we try to check our sources and not publish false information.

About the financing of our newspaper

No, we do not get funding from billionaires, oil magnates or other European technocrats to 
write our newspaper. Our newspaper is only financed by the donations of our militants and 
sympathizers as well as by the sales in the kiosks. We are not bound to any press group 
and we write independently what we think.

About the European Union

We know very well that the leitmotif of Asselineau is the exit of the European Union, the 
exit of the euro zone and the exit of the NATO ... but it should not be believed that all 
those who criticize Asselineau are Fierce "  Europeanists  ". For our part, we are very 
critical of the capitalist institution of the European Union .

In 2005, Alternative Libertaire has also conducted an internationalist, anti-capitalist 
campaign for the "  no  " in the referendum on the European Constitution ( see in 
particular our argument here ).

Concerning the criticism of free trade and the return to the franc, we are critical of 
capitalist globalization, but we are not, however, in favor of a return to national 
capitalism, since the losers are always the same: the Popular classes.

See in particular here the criticism that we make of both free trade and protectionism

About NATO

Alternative libertarian denounces NATO's military alliance, and actively participated in 
the preparation of the NATO counter-summit in Strasbourg in April 2009.

If we are hostile to NATO, it is primarily because it is an imperialist alliance, and AL 
denounces all imperialisms - that is, European, American or Turkish, but also Russian, 
Chinese or Iranian ... a subject that prefers to avoid Asselineau, moreover, very 
complacent with the colonial past of the French State.

On the Republican People's Union

We had already written about the UPR in February 2015 to denounce its nationalist 
discourse behind the social screen.

This is undoubtedly where we have the greatest divergence with the UPR: although we are 
also fiercely opposed to the European Union as it was constructed and to capitalist 
globalization, we absolutely do not believe Not a return to the nation-state, which, as 
history shows us, has always been equally hostile to the demands of workers, except when 
they and the latter are in a position of strength (In 1936, in 1945, in 1968 ...).

"  The history of any society to this day has been nothing but the history of the class 
struggle.  " We do not believe the French national novel that would have us swallow to 
convince us to fall back on the"  homeland  "against the European Union.

We do not believe in French republican institutions any more than in European 
institutions: both are primarily tools in the hands of the capitalist class to frame the 
market, to build the infrastructure necessary for the capital to flourish, to take charge 
The losses (as we saw in the last economic crisis), and so on.

On the history of France seen by Asselineau, do not hesitate either to consult this 
article , written by a true historian.

Unlike the UPR, AL is determined to choose its camp: we are in the camp of the workers, 
regardless of their country, and we do not believe in any national reconciliation between 
employers and employees. If you would like more details about the positions of AL, see 
here the Manifesto for an alternative libertarian

On the UPR, do not hesitate to consult this excellent video  made by Usul.

About elections

As for what nourishes all the debates at this moment, here is what we say: Act is better 
than to elect !

Benjamin, for Alternative libertarian

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Une-reponse-d-AL-aux-inconditionnels-d-Asselineau-UPR

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Dozens of posters have appeared on Edinburgh's Leith Walk insisting the Scottish 
government must stop the reassessment process being used against Disability Living 
Allowance claimants. ---- The posters are part of a buildup towards a Week of Action which 
has been called by libertarian socialist-backed coalition Action Against Austerity from 
June 12th-17th June to demand Holyrood act to protect disability benefits. ---- Recent 
figures show 45% of claimants are losing benefits in this process, and the campaign comes 
as, south of the border, Westminster was forced to admit it is formally investigating 
dozens of likely suicides as a result of reassessments over the last five years. ---- The 
decision for a June week of action came out of AAA's general conference held earlier this 
month. In a statement, a group rep said:

We have decided to picket MSPs' (Holyrood MPs') offices across Scotland on the issue of 
welfare powers. Namely the process of transferring folk from DLA to PIP, and the 
importance of scrapping the assessment procedure to deliver this benefit.

We see this as a winnable action and would encourage ALL groups to take part in this 
event. Prior to this we have local council elections, and have anti austerity candidates 
standing. Again we would encourage all group to support anti austerity, anti cuts candidates.

As the current political climate is in a flux, we decided that the next AAA conference, 
may be called at short notice. The main aspect of the conference was solidarity, and this 
remains the core of AAA.

AAA was founded in 2015, bringing together local grassroots groups including Edinburgh 
Coalition Against Poverty, Industrial Workers of the World, Dundee Against Welfare 
Sanctions, Perth Against Welfare Sanctions, Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh and the 
Anarchist Federation.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/scotland-action-against-austerity-kicks-off-new-campaign-to-protect-welfare/

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Message: 4



When the industrial age began, working people had no protection against exploitation by 
their employers. Ten, twelve, and even 14-hour days were common, and a six-day week was 
the standard. Economists at the time stated that it was a matter of nature that wages 
would tend towards the bare minimum necessary to support life and that child labor was an 
inescapable fact of the world. While capitalists would love for us to believe that it was 
their innovation and generosity that changed all this, they do so to obscure the fact that 
it is mass movements of working people that have been responsible for every major 
improvement for workers. ---- In 1884 a group of the largest trade unions set May 1, 1886 
as the day by which they would aim to have won the eight hour workday. In addition to the 
mainstream unions, socialists and anarchists joined in. Anarchists are well known for 
being critical of reformism in the political sphere, but they supported the struggle for 
the eight-hour day because they saw it as a revolutionary step forward on the road toward 
building a movement that could end class society once and for all.

Capitalists live off the work they don't pay us for - where else does profit come from? 
They gain their social power by owning the wealth, machines, and land the rest of us are 
deprived of. The rest of us can only survive by selling our labor however we can. The 
value of the wages that our bosses pay us is always less than the value our work creates 
for them. That extra value, stolen from the sweat of our brow, is the profit that fuels 
the entire system.

For capitalists, the most reliable way to increase their profits is to reduce their labor 
costs. They can automate production, reducing the skill needed to create products and 
making workers more easily replaceable. They can move factories to new locations where 
wages are lower: that's why we saw factories move from northern cities like Chicago to the 
deep South, where the cost of living was lower and there were few unions, and eventually 
to Mexico and overseas. And for businesses that can't easily move overseas they rely 
heavily on workers who have the least ability to stand up for better wages and working 
conditions: undocumented immigrants.

One of the most ingenious tactics capitalists developed to keep their profits high was to 
divide workers and pit them against each other. Starting with chattel slavery in the 17th 
century pitting Black workers against white workers, the owning class has always sought to 
split up working people by race, gender, language, national origin, and sexual 
orientation, hoping workers would fight each other instead of their common enemy.

But such tactics weren't working against the eight-hour day movement, which knit together 
people of all nationalities and industries, including skilled and unskilled workers who 
typically did not organize together. Massive strikes spread across the United States on 
May 1st in 1886. Some of the largest crowds marched in Chicago, home to thousands of 
radical immigrant organizers. The strikes continued for the next few days, when on May 3rd 
several striking workers were killed by police, leading to a massive rally at Haymarket 
square the next day. At this rally, an unknown person threw a bomb into the lines of 
police, leading to the death of seven policemen and four protesters killed by the police's 
ensuing gunfire. Afterward, eight anarchist organizers were tried for conspiracy. They 
were convicted even though there was no evidence linking them to the crime: it was their 
beliefs that were on trial. The state wanted to make an "example" of them, to hurt the 
radical social movements the capitalists feared so much.

Four were sentenced to death by hanging, despite worldwide calls for clemency and outrage 
at the unfairness of the trial. One of condemned, August Spies, told his executioners at 
the gallows: "the day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you 
strangle today!" May 1st, also known as "May Day" and "International Workers' Day" is 
celebrated to commemorate the Haymarket affair and the struggle for workers' rights.
The American working class was once one of the most militant in the world, and we still 
enjoy the fruits of their struggles. But there has been a war on our historical memory to 
erase our radical heritage. That is why nearly every nation celebrates May 1st as "Labor 
Day" except the United States, the very nation where the day earned its meaning. That is 
why we must struggle to rebuild the labor movement here and across the world. The 
never-ending attack on organized workers has left us with unions that are reactive, 
bureaucratic, and largely unable to maintain the victories they had won decades ago. We 
need the spirit of 1886 now more than ever.

Immigrants, and especially undocumented immigrants, bear the worst brunt of exploitation 
by our economic, political, and white supremacist system, so it's inspiring to see Latinx 
workers organize to fight back using a day linked to the struggle of immigrant workers so 
many years ago.

The hour is late. Capitalism continues to spin a web of chaos across the globe that 
connects such disparate problems as climate change, poverty, war, and terrorism. We need 
democratic, grassroots unions in our workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. And above all 
we need social movements that connect diverse communities and political struggles and are 
strong enough to wrest power from those at the top and return it to the people.


Black Rose/Rosa Negra is a nationwide federation of anarchists working to do just that. We 
are an organization of active revolutionaries who share common visions of a new world - a 
world where people collectively control their own workplaces, communities and land and 
where all basic needs are met. Learn more at blackrosefed.org.

Twitter: @BlackRoseBTV / Facebook: @brrnburlington

http://blackrosefed.org/history-may-day/