Today's Topics:
1. Greece, COMMUNICATION FOR 2H CONFERENCE OF A.P.O.-C.c (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, ipposd: Student weekend July 7-8 in the occupation
Lela Karagiannis 37 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. US, black rose fed: 3 REASONS WHY WE NEED A MORE
REVOLUTIONARY JULY 4TH By Tariq Khan (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Anarchists of the Caribbean and Central America facing the
neo-liberal and militaristic "maturation" of chavismo By ANA o
(ca, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, Existence no. 3/2017: We need utopia [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The two-day 17 and June 18, held in occupation Lela Karagiannis 37 in Athens 2nd
Conference Anarchist Political Organization - Federation collectivity. On the first day,
in the open debate on the political and social context, the conference was attended as
observers and companions / compas by the Assembly anarchist social and class emancipation
and by the assembly of female pupils / students from the anarchist-antiauthoritarian
space. ---- In this first process, the groups members FROM held political positions around
a number of issues. The war conducted by the global domination, the Status of Emergency
and Modern Totalitarianism as a condition in which is expressed the attack of the state
and the bosses, the necessity internationalist resistance and solidarity towards the
establishment of international of the bottom, the question refugee and migration and
entrapment of thousands of people inside the Greek state, the isolation and the
confinement in concentration camps, the state-capitalist attack on society and the nature,
the development of social and class resistances of the base and interconnection prospects
of individual matches, the intensification of state repression against the spaces of
struggle and self-organized social and class resistances were some who occupied
collectives issues and contributed to a fruitful dialogue and a lot of interest in which
identified and deep political groups agreements.
In the open procedure of the first day they sent a written greeting and the companions of
the collective "Arfa circle" of Kefalonia and by written letter to the organization, the
anarchist group cumulonimbus from Corfu filed request participation in FROM.
Then, the procedures of the Conference continued with discussions within the collectives
of A.P.O. which reporting so far traffic, function of organs and special issue groups,
reassessed the policy framework and set the directions of movement of the organization for
the time horizon and the 3rd Conference to be held in late 2017, and the next Congress,
which is being planned for summer 2018.
H Anarchist Political Organization has a federal character, with collectives constitute
the cells and to function together in a horizontal structure. Established on coherent and
sufficient political agreements between collectives of anarchists, which jointly shape
their single movement nationwide through collective bodies that coexist equally.
The FROM seeks to contribute to the creation of a coherent, broad and emancipated social
and class movement. A movement that puts obstacles in any attempt at manipulation,
kapilefsis and mediation of social and class struggles and in their integration efforts by
reformism. Which puts clearly the question of social revolution as the only realistic way
out of the bottom of the definitive discharge from the domination of the state and capitalism.
INTENSIFY THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL EPNASTASI, anarchy and libertarian
communism
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation collectivity apo.squathost.com -
anpolorg@gmail.com
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Message: 2
Friday 7/7 18:00 ---- Event - discussion on the class war in education during the
capitalist crisis, the National Social Dialogue and education, comprehensive consolidation
of unpaid child labor and student movement.
PRESENTATION OF BROSOURAS
"LIVING ON THE AFENTIKAAPO THRANEIA to the grave"
The brochure in pdf .
Saturday 8/7 20:00
Rebetiko feast for the financial support of Assembly Studs / s from Anarchist /
Antiauthoritarian space
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 3
July 4th is a white supremacist settler colonial celebration: Three reasons to throw it
away ---- 1. The Declaration of Independence is a document based on settler colonialism
and genocide. ---- If we read the Declaration of Independence in high school or college we
know it to be a list of grievances by elite British-American landowners against King
George of Great Britain. A key one of these grievances is that the King hindered white
settlers taking over the lands of Native nations to the west of the then British colonies
("He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose
obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to
encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of
Lands"). The Declaration makes no secret about this when it refers to the Native peoples
of North America as "the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions" - which is some truly
twisted double speak given the reality is that it was the white settlers who were
merciless in carrying out campaigns of extermination against Natives!
The first law wrote by the Continental Congress after winning the War for Independence
against the British King, before even writing what would become the US Constitution, was
the Northwest Ordinance. This law opened to settlement what was called "Ohio County" -
Native territory that was previouly off limits to settlement by order of the British King
with the Proclamation of 1763. As President Thomas Jefferson said in 1801, his stated his
vision was for "when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits and
cover the whole northern, if not southern continent, with a people speaking the same
language, governed in similar form by similar laws."
2. U.S. independence meant freedom for white landowning elite men and was wholly dependent
on slavery.
The newly independent United States was largely made up of slave labor camps (often less
accurately referred to as plantations) where Black people were forced to labor for the
profit of rich whites. Most of the well known founding heroes of the United States were
owners and operators of large and profitable slave labor camps themselves - from author of
the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson to "Father of the Nation" George
Washington as well as principal author of the US Constitution, James Madison. These slave
labor camps were sites of systemic torture, rape, and humiliation of black people. Not
just the South, but the entire U.S. economy developed and depended on this system.
3. Patriotism is a weapon of white supremacist capitalist imperialist social control.
Historically, the rich class of parasites who own this nation have used patriotism to
undermine working-class consciousness and convince whites that they share a common
interests with wealthy elites. For example, during World War I, the patriotic white
leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) supported U.S. militarism by agreeing to
ban strikes during wartime and push the anarchists and socialists (who were the backbone
of a strong labor movement) out of the unions. Working class children are made to recite
the pledge of allegiance every day in school. Military recruiters target young people in
economically marginalized communities for military service. US militarism runs on the
labor and sacrifice of the class of people who do not benefit from the murderous US
imperialist project. Indian novelist Arundhati Roy recognized the danger of patriotic
social conditioning when she wrote, "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use
first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
The owners of this nation know that patriotism was a useful way to make the working class
internalize the values of the ruling class. This is precisely why it has become customary
for amateur and professional sports events to begin with the patriotic ritual of standing
for the national anthem. The Star Spangled Banner, written by a slave owner and white
supremacist, is an explicitly anti-Black song which celebrates the US military killing
Black people who escaped slavery and fought for their freedom against the United States:
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave.
Yet millions of working-class U.S. Americans at ball games every year stand reverently,
some with hands over hearts, while this murderous music plays. Black quarterback Colin
Kaepernick was unofficially banned from the NFL for, in protest of police violence,
refusing to stand for this vile anti-black song. The U.S. state department pays the NFL
and other professional sports associations millions of dollars a year to promote
patriotism and militarism.
Overthrowing the unjust social conditions of white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism, and
the state requires building transnational, multi-ethnic, and multi-racial radical
movements. The chauvinistic meanness and small-mindedness that patriotism generates
undermines the kinds of global revolutionary connections oppressed groups need to make. As
internationalists, anarchists do not call for people just to be passively unpatriotic, but
rather actively anti-patriotic. Settler colonization, white supremacy, patriarchy and
slavery are nothing to celebrate. The blood-stained 4th of July is not for us. The task in
front of us is to organize a revolution truly worth celebrating: One that liberates us all!
Further readings on patriotism and the founding of the US colonial state
"An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as
peoples-not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide as
contrasted with premodern instances of extreme violence that did not have the goal of
extinction. The United States as a socioeconomic and political entity is a result of this
centuries-long and ongoing colonial process. Modern Indigenous nations and communities are
societies formed by their resistance to colonialism, through which they have carried their
practices and histories. It is breathtaking, but no miracle, that they have survived as
peoples."
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" by Frederick Douglass
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him,
more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the
constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy
license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and
heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty
and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with
all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception,
impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of
savages."
"Patriotism: a Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman
"Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too
narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time. The centralization of
power has brought into being an international feeling of solidarity among the oppressed
nations of the world; a solidarity which represents a greater harmony of interests between
the workingman of America and his brothers abroad than between the American miner and his
exploiting compatriot; a solidarity which fears not foreign invasion, because it is
bringing all the workers to the point when they will say to their masters, "Go and do your
own killing. We have done it long enough for you."
http://blackrosefed.org/3-reasons-need-revolutionary-july-4th/
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Message: 4
FROM WHERE AND WITH WHO WE ARE ---- For us anarchists who inhabit lands near Venezuela,
what is happening in that country does not seem distant or indifferent to us. Our
dependent economies have received, for almost two decades, the fuel subsidies of
PetroCaribe agreements. That is why almost all the states and most of the actors of the
civil society of the Caribbean region now offer their complicit silence in the face of the
neoliberal, authoritarian, repressive and militaristic apotheosis that ultimately derived
the government of Nicolás Maduro Moros. ---- We will not deny the value of such covenants
to our societies, but let us not close our eyes to the immense contradictions on which
they rest. The international projection of the Bolivarian revolution favored sensitive
sectors of our countries, we are not unaware of the benefits of the services that were
generated under the agreements such as ALBA-TCP, but we are not only clients of
governmental assistance, -imperialists; We also feel anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist,
anarchist, proletarian, and people of the people. This is how we do not want to be
accomplices to a silence paid for with oil.
Our affinities and sympathies are for the Venezuelan anonymous people who did not wait for
"favorable objective conditions," nor did they take the so-called "end of history"
seriously, and in 1989 carried out the Caracazo, the first great popular revolt in the
world against the consummation of Neo-liberal policies that would soon be implemented on
all sides.
When in the early 1990s Movement V Republic emerged in the market for political
representation offers, their spokespersons spared no compliments and gifts to the
rebellious, self-organized people. But today, when Chavismo has reached its optimum
neoliberal, militaristic, repressive maturation, that same people are disqualified with
epithets of "terrorist", "criminal", "ultra right"; Accusations that seek to hide the
grotesque mutation suffered by all the professionals of revolutionary politics in power.
We are with the protagonists of mobilizations in popular neighborhoods like El Valle,
Coche, January 23, Baruta and July 5 in Petare, Caracas; With the general survey that took
place in the southern zone of popular and working Valencia. Our hearts are in the
occupations and recoveries of supermarkets,
We are against the Bolivarian National Police, the Bolivarian National Guard, and the
Bolivarian Military Intelligence Service, which, by incorporating the adjective
"Bolivarians" into their names, are still essential supporters of the authoritarian and
murderous state. We are against the paramilitary "collectives", monsters created with the
Zamora Plan, fed by the degradation of the authentic popular movement of the 90s, by the
hand of bureaucracy and Chavez militarism. We are against the media violence of the
opposition politicians, who only seek to stir up the polarization between the political
machineries to force a simple exchange of oppressors as a supposed exit from the current
crisis.
We are with the thousands of detained without legal protection who are sent as terrorists
to military courts and to super crowded prisons. The Bolivarian Constitution of 1999
establishes that military justice is limited to crimes of a military nature, but as we see
it is a dead letter, like all legal regulations, it tries to sustain dominant interests.
We are with the families of the dozens of dead, mostly young people, or the more than
1,000 wounded. We are with the student and popular youth of the neighborhoods who have set
up their own instances of self-defense on avenues and in the streets of the neighborhoods.
We are with these young people who in Maracay unfurled a banner that said "Ni MUD Ni PSUV,
We are the ones from below that we come from the top", because only with a change of
government does not solve the situation.
THE HALL OF ANTI-IMPERIALISM PARTNER SHEET
The anti-imperialism that today wields the Chávez media machinery is a crude red vine leaf
that seeks to conceal very concrete facts:
Large vultures from the energy and mega-mining sectors (Chevron, Schlumberger, Halliburton
and Barrick Gold) already have succulent concessions for 40 years in Venezuela, which will
give them a crucial role in the design of the new Constituent Assembly. President Nicolas
Maduro instructed his media not to criticize the elected Donald Trump whom he described as
"friend" and "comrade." Through the state-owned Citgo, Maduro donated half a million
dollars to open bridges of dialogue with the new Yankee administration. The Venezuelan
government has paid as a matter of priority the immense foreign debt of the country to the
international financial capital and remain as faithful partner of the National Council of
Productive Economy, whose maximum expression is the intimate relation with the media
oligopoly Organization Cisneros, Assurance of support from most private media. It is a
government that dresses better every day to the interests of Wall Street, but does not
want them to stop cataloging it as "Bolivarian," "Left," and "Anti-imperialist."
Again, these are the frustrating limits of the revolutions of "national liberation,"
"socialist," "participatory," "anti-imperialist," etc. based on the ups and downs of
international commodity prices. It is again the crisis of "Saudi Arabia", now with a
Bolivarian face, from which again a dark trail of hunger, communal disintegration,
inability to generate autonomous means of life, existential chaos of millions of people,
violence among the lower. And all this was promoted by the combination of nationalist oil
fetishism ("Venezuela power"), political patronage, messianic caudilhismo, macho cult of
the strong man, able to do magic from the top of the pyramid of the land, which always
inhibited popular solidarity, Coexistence, fraternal work and celebration among the lower.
PEACE BETWEEN THE BELOW, SOCIAL WAR AGAINST THE UPDATES
Nenhuma Assembleia Constituinte será solução para tão graves e profundos problemas
sociais, culturais e psicológicos que afetam a nossos povos. Entre a fumaça tóxica, o fogo
aterrador das armas, as ações de destruição e reabastecimento popular violento, as
auto-defesas dos bairros para enfrentar os corpos repressivos, os milhares de feridos, a
morte e a dor pelos seres queridos, emerge algo muito mais útil e liberador que uma nova
Constituição do Estado venezuelano. Algo que os ideólogos da não-violência e os
incondicionais do pacifismo não querem ver: a possibilidade prática de uma compreensão
vivencial e intelectual sobre quem são nossos antagonistas e nossos aliados na luta por
uma vida sem opressões, que permita a paz entre os de baixo e sustenta r a guerra social
contra os de cima e seus cúmplices.
Whether anyone in power in Venezuela in the immediate future, whether Chavez or
anti-Chavez, will have no choice but to reissue the path of the "Economic Package" of the
government of Carlos Andres Perez 1989 and indicated by the IMF, the proven formula to
save expenses in domination And to maintain the essentials of the state: its undergarments
of pyramidal corruption, authoritarianism, militarism, and repression of those below.
Behind Venezuela the governments of our region will follow, with slightly different
rhythms and dynamics, the same path. Solidarizar with the Venezuelan government of turn
now would be the announced chronicle of a betrayal to our companions.as and to ourselves.
Neither PSUV, nor MUD: neighborhood organization, worker and popular.
The fight goes on!
Central American and Caribbean Anarchist Federation (FACC) and autonomous individuals
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Translation> Sol de Abril
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Message: 5
Another world is possible. Do not be afraid to dream about it, do not hesitate to go to
him. Inspiration can be the summer issue of our anarchist revue. ---- Summer number
anarchist revue, Existence is devoted to a topic that is unduly neglected by us, as if we
had kept impose its inappropriateness, confirmation of "common sense" and "need to be
realistic." Only two concepts are mere constructs tributary its time and ruling ideology.
We called the theme "we need utopia" and we want him to point out the indisputable
importance of imagination in the process of resistance against authority, and in the
struggle for a better society. ---- Anarchists are berating into dreamers and utopians. It
is not about anything, what we should be ashamed. In fact, it is our priority, that must
not be taken under any circumstances. It will be necessary always and everywhere, even in
the event that we have reached such proportions of which we dream today. It is never
closed and nothing is still room for improvement and where to go.
Utopia as a literary genre dates from the same famous works of the English humanist
Thomase Moora. It is a literary tendency depicting imaginary social structures in other
parts first, and later at other times of the world. Much of the work that can pigeonhole
this into place, but constructs a fixed and immutable order, often driven by an
enlightened authority. However, they are interested rather they utopia, which is
characterized by freedom, openness and casual work. In our main topic ie mainly follow the
line of anti-authoritarian utopia and try to explain why it is so important for us, what
should not be ignored and which way should proceed. Shortly we reflect on the meaning and
dystopia that warn against various forms of totalitarianism, and antiutopias to convince
us that a better world is not just possible, whether he should present any flies.
Dystopia illustrate our presence that is more than anything else characterized neoliberal
hegemony governed Thatcherite slogan "There is no alternative". Is the motto of
neoliberalism kills dreams, offering instead a consumer substitutes, and announced the end
of history. Therefore, it is important to squeeze out from under the paving password
Parisian revolt of 1968, which proclaimed, "All power to the imagination" and shouted:
"Let's be realistic, enter impossible." Our ideas and actions have standing because they
have the magic power to push the boundaries of the possible. Utopia past is a reality
today. The ruling ideologues are aware of, and to eliminate effective resistance must
atomize society and get rid of social imagination.
Anarchists do not tend to design detailed plans of future society. Our principles are the
foundation of freedom and equality. Since that depends on a variety of organizational
procedures, structures and approaches. Utopia is for us first of all attempt to formulate
collective aspirations and desires, as well as the classics of the genre means criticism
of the existing oppression and inequality. It is necessary to adhere to these principles,
discuss them and expand the space of freedom. Their application allows many ways, adhering
to the one we are no different from our ideological opponents.
We decided to dismantle the three literary and theoretical work, which can serve as a
starting point for further ideas, discussions and screenings own. First, we book News from
Utopia (1890) by Williama Morrise, the concept of exempt work influences acting upon it,
and also what influenced those who came after him. Then we transfer to Latin America,
where faith in the Argentine anarchist Pierre Quiroule issued in 1914, his utopian work of
the American city of anarchists . Newer view of utopian thinking approach brings books
Utopistika (1998) by the sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. The development on the basis of
previous estimates, what are the possibilities for the future. The theme complements the
search for the utopian genre of ancient culture and a few observations from the work of
famous anarchists who likes relying on science, Petra Kropotkina.
For a utopia among others fighting near the European area. Kurdish militia which supports
in place a group of anarchist "interbrigadists" bravely facing the Islamic state and the
hostility of the Turkish state. At the same time on the territories that are under their
protection, they implement democratic ideas konfederalismu. Its foundations are read in an
older interview (2011), led by Janet Biehlová Kurdish environmentalist and social activist
Ercan Aybogou.
And what else? The history of the anarchist movement resembles a thorough description of
the international anarchist congress, which took place in Amsterdam in 1907, and attended
by two representatives z Cech, Karel Vohryzek and Ladislav Knotek. Vadim Damier
theoretical text explores the relationship between anarchism and nationalism. A
conversation with Mikola Dziadokem closer to the anarchist movement, resistance and
repression in Belarus. At the interview follows an excerpt from his book Parallel world in
color depicting the punishment of solitary confinement in Belarusian prisons.
Three reviews acquainted with feminist magazine Audacity , a new number anarchist magazine
A-counter and a book by David Graeber Utopia rules . And of course there is the texts of
the last three numbers of wall papers A3 , newsletter Anarchist Federation and the list of
events of local anti-authoritarian movement for the last three months, which is dominated
by a report from this year's May Day, a description of actions to support Squatting or
looking back for the fifth year Anarchist Book Festival.
We wish you inspiring reading.
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