Anarchic update news all over the world - 26.08.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  FORA-AIT: Apparition with life of Santiago! - PRONOUNCEMENT
      OF THE REGIONAL MEETING OF DELEGATES OF THE FORE 
      NEUQUÉN 19 AND
      20 AUGUST 2017 (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  wsm.ie: Resistance in the Age of Trump (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  Czech, afed - August 21: Somewhat unpleasant look in the
      rearview mirror [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

4.  Greece, Anarchist Federation: Nothing's over. Let's go to
      the counterattack! - TIF Route 9/9 18:00 Kamara (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - logbook, A Libertarian
      Communist in the YPG # 11: "I saw the great plunge come
      inexorably closer" (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

6.  A-Radio Berlin: B(A)D NEWS - Angry voices from around the
      world - Episode 3 (08/2017) (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





The disappearance of Santiago Andrés Maldonado has made visible the struggles of the 
native peoples for the recovery of their ancestral lands. ---- This conflict dates back to 
the military campaigns of the Argentine State that assassinated and displaced the original 
communities to auction people and lands among the landowners who financed the 
appropriation and genocide. This dispossession, which pushed the communities to the most 
hostile territories, was commonplace in different governments and continues under the 
control of the Macrista government. ---- State repression is becoming more acute as part 
of a state policy to defend the economic interests of large landowners. Detentions, 
torture and killings have become commonplace practices in conflict zones. Gendarmerie 
repressed and kidnapped Santiago Maldonado because he was in solidarity with the right of 
the native peoples to occupy and recover their ancestral lands.

As workers and workers adhering to the FORA, we solidarity with the Mapuche people and we 
appeal to the active solidarity of the working people for the urgent appearance with life 
of Santiago and the cessation of territorial robbery and repression of indigenous peoples 
and social movements.

REGIONAL
LABOR FEDERATION ARGENTINA[SROV Andean Region - SROV Neuquén - SROV Colón - SROV La Plata 
- SROV North Zone - SROV Capital - SROV Lomas de Zamora]
http://capital.fora-ait.com.ar/2017/08/aparicion-con-vida-de-santiago/

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Message: 2





You are invited to a public conversation on anti-fascist resistance with a visting long 
time anarchist and anti-fascist from the USA and a panel of other anarchists from the US. 
---- Teachers Club 35 Parnell Square, Dublin ---- 7:45 Thursday 24th August ---- The fight 
against fascism is happening now. ---- Across Europe, the US and elsewhere the all too 
familiar calls of racism, islamophobia, homophobia, sexism etc. continue to rear their 
ugly heads. ---- Nazis, white-supremacists, "Identitarians", and other fascists are 
organising, becoming more emboldened to attack members of our communities and spread hate 
speech online, in the media and on our streets. In the US, the election of Donald Trump 
has been heralded as a victory by right-wing reactionaries and racists around the world.

The establishment of "Identitarian" and "Alt-right" fascism and has given a new veneer to 
islamophobia, anti-queer and misogyny attracting young people to the ranks of the fascist 
right.

This is being met with militant grassroots resistance at every turn.

On Thursday August 24th, the WSM will be joined by American Comrades to discuss the 
situation on the ground in the US.

We will be talking about fascism and its relationship to Trumpism, the shape of 
resistance, the tactics and organisation of the Anti-Fascist movement, and structural 
white-supremacy, supported and embedded in the institutions of the state.

Please join us in listening to and participating in this conversation.

No Pasaran!

You can RSVP & invite friends via the Facebook event

Some readings & listenings recommended by our visiting speaker

1. Building Working-Class Defense Organizations: An Interview with the Twin Cities GDC
http://m1aa.org/?p=1316
http://m1aa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/GDC-Interview.pdf

2. The 4th Precinct: A Black Anarchist's Perspective on Struggle in Minneapolis' Northside 
Streets
http://m1aa.org/?p=1169
http://m1aa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4thPrecinctPamphlet.pdf

3. Social Struggle in the Coming Period: An Outlook and Action Statement to Guide Our 
Participation
http://m1aa.org/?p=1057
http://m1aa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/M1-Outlook-and-Action-Statement-Autumn-2015.compressed.pdf

4. Claim No Easy Victories: A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action
https://anarchisthistory.noblogs.org/files/2015/01/claim_no_easy_victories-IMPOSED.pdf

5. Militant Tactics in Anti-Fascist Organizing

Interview audio:
https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-february-14-2017/

Interview transcript:
http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2017/04/militant-tactics-in-anti-fascist.html?m=1

https://www.wsm.ie/c/dublin-anti-fascist-resistance-age-trump

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Message: 3





The contribution of Jakub Polák from 1993 to the anniversary of the occupation of the CSSR 
by the "fraternal" armies ---- As a reminder of the events associated with August 21, 
1968, we bring an article written by Jakub Polák about the 25th anniversary of the 
occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies. We also want to remember the 
author of the following text, which is no longer among us, on our site. ---- "Sure, and 
the Museum was also ringing pigeons!" This saying was used in "normalization" times when 
you wanted to tell someone that you did not believe he was lying and distorting the 
well-known facts. ---- For years, the facade of the National Museum, shot on August 21, 
1968 with machine-gun batches, overwhelmed Wenceslas Square as a dumb, yet eloquent remark 
that there was something about the eighteenth. Something dangerous enough to call up half 
a million soldiers. It can not be ruled out that the repair has been deliberately 
postponed so that people have a reminder that threats of "unexpected consequences" may not 
be plausible.

Although it was hardly possible to talk about it, it was generally known that "brotherly 
help" was pretty bloody. The resistance against the occupiers was not just non-violent. 
According to incomplete statistics, about 90 people died on 21 August and in the following 
days only 15 people were shot or crushed in front of Prague Radio. For the first 
anniversary of August 21, tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of tanks and armored 
vehicles had to be deployed against large spontaneous demonstrations. And they were dead 
again.

What was most frightening of the power-holders at that time was not so much an individual 
demonstration as a spontaneous movement across the nation, a pressure from the bottom, an 
attempt at fundamental changes in society that had not been torn by occupational armies. 
This pressure has increased for a long time as the rising water before the dam. In the 
1960s he peaked. At the turn of the '67 and '68, a few people were found at the top of the 
power pyramid in Czechoslovakia, who, partly for tactical reasons, partly out of good 
intentions, somewhat opened the gates. However, the flood began to spread the hole very 
quickly and to destroy the entire dam. Politicians, even more progressive, such as Dubcek 
and Co., have been more or less in the lurch of events. The public debate "raised new and 
new problems", as they repeatedly reluctantly. People have regained the hope that they can 
influence their lives, they are intensely interested in all the events, They began to 
communicate with each other and to associate themselves in promoting common interests. The 
overall atmosphere in society was significantly different from the current. People did not 
end up in their private interests, but felt the need for solidarity with others. Though 
not much talk today, despite workplace discussions, labor productivity has generally 
increased and crime has fallen significantly. People saw that there was a chance for a 
fairer society, and they behaved themselves more honestly. And above all, criminality has 
declined significantly. People saw that there was a chance for a fairer society, and they 
behaved themselves more honestly. And above all, criminality has declined significantly. 
People saw that there was a chance for a fairer society, and they behaved themselves more 
honestly.

Today's critics of the eighteenth are right that it was not a coup in the sense of 
returning to capitalism. For Vaclav Havel, he was also socialist. The capitalist world was 
going through an intense crisis and hoping to look at our experiment. In the West, the 
criticism of the system culminated - storms and revolts shattered with established ideas 
and suggested ways to the future. It was just the outrage of US soldiers in Vietnam, and 
the American president today[Bill Clinton - Existence]. Capitalism was full of teeth, and 
it seemed that his last hour was near.

In such a situation, it has not occurred to anyone to seriously claim that private 
ownership of everything will also solve everything. No one has ever dreamed of demanding 
the return of property to nobles and churches. Nobody's been so much scared about the big 
fanatics and house lords. No one was robbed of the political parties and the ballot with 
the voices of the deputies. Real democracy was born on the streets, in public debates that 
everyone could attend. Nobody has played too much with the notions of nations and races 
more or less chosen - privileges and welfare - perhaps because the example of the terrible 
ends to which he is led was barely more than twenty years old.

In poor political leadership, people did not see a disadvantage, but the first signal of 
the final death of the state and its replacement by self-government and direct democracy. 
Gradually they were forced to leave incapacitated party crucifixes and dishonest civil 
servants. The villains started shaking for their posts and the channel. The privileges of 
privileges of all kinds of elites have been questioned on the very foundations. There was 
an alternative to a centralized bureaucratic system. Dangerous for power elite not only in 
the East but also in the West. That is why the West so willingly agreed to the occupation.

General strike as the culmination of resistance

For us, perhaps the most interesting are the first about ten days after 21 August. After 
the arrest of the so-called top officials and their removal to Moscow, the state 
administration without head was completely paralyzed. What followed was evidence that 
anarchy - a state of "without rule" does not mean chaos and disintegration, but on the 
contrary, it allows the mobilization of the best qualities and abilities of the people, 
and allows the most difficult situations to be managed. Even the greatest bureaucrats, 
state officials, when they found out they could not expect directions from above, began to 
act as free people. Practically, the whole nation refused to cooperate with the occupiers 
(the clergymen could be relieved by not having received the appropriate instructions). 
Opponents failed to achieve a major immediate goal - the establishment of the so-called 
revolutionary workers' government and the creation of the idea that troops came at the 
invitation of legitimate authorities and the will of most Czechoslovaks.

On the contrary, when they suddenly found themselves without their "leaders" and 
authorities and ceased to rely on their "proven wisdom", they managed to spontaneously 
organize very effective and effective resistance. Even though the occupying troops had 
tried to prevent it, improvised illegal radio and television broadcasts began. Similarly, 
newspaper publishing continued. People, often with the help of life, ensured the 
dissemination of information that helped to unite and consistently resist the occupants. 
The authors of the letter of invitation, instead of taking great glory as they imagined, 
were cowardly hiding under the protection of the occupying forces.

The culmination of the general strike was a general strike which for several hours 
paralyzed the life of the whole country. Even though the organizers did not dare to invite 
public rallies, the unified procedure of millions of people for the occupants had to be a 
real shock.

Active resistance did not have to be hopeless

What would be the next development if Moscow did not recognize its mistake with the 
removal of "representatives" in time, and after a week did not come back, properly 
processed, back? How would the situation develop if the resistance persisted and the 
occupying troops tried harder to intervene? A systematic analysis examining events in 
terms of the chances of active resistance, as far as I know, no one having access to all 
the materials and documents, did not try. Let me add a few notes to this topic.

Our army, though paralyzed by a pre-ordered warrant of resistance and cooperation, refused 
to cooperate in these days, forbidding foreign soldiers to enter their premises, and even 
being bodies where they declared combat readiness and were ready for active resistance. 
They have also found mobilization plans and technical means of Civil Defense, especially 
radio stations. Even the People's Militia stood this time on the side of the people. An 
elite paratrooper unit - our analogy commandos, which was then located at Holešov airport 
- was even preparing for the liberation of captives, but the intelligence service did not 
manage to identify exactly where they were detained.

At that time I myself lived in Holešov at the same time. I was 16 years old and I remember 
the stormy atmosphere of the Holešov Barracks, the crowds surrounding the Russian tanks 
and transporters, the mood of the people who overwhelmed the anger above disappointment 
and resignation. He was not directing the soldiers but against the politicians who sent 
them here. We have tried, often successfully, to bring the soldiers into discussion and to 
convince them of their ineligibility. At least, we have succeeded in significantly 
weakening their morale. It has been shown that the behavior of the occupied country is 
shocked. According to the instructions of their politruks, they were ready either to fight 
with the "counter-revolutionaries" or to the people cheerfully welcoming the fraternal 
help. A soldier is trained to think in simple categories of friend or foe, shoot or make a 
team. What about people, Who do not shoot after you, but they still ask for your departure 
and they tell you that you're the fool who fired? As soon as we find out how many units 
had to be dropped prematurely for unreliability, how many Soviet soldiers refused to 
execute orders and were shot dead without delay. The number will remain forever 
mysterious, but there is no doubt about such cases.

Based on all available information, the following conclusions can be drawn:
* Czechoslovakia's occupation was a perfectly prepared event from a military point of 
view. The classic political scenario with the establishment of the puppet government and 
the occupation administration did not work. He encountered a phenomenon that the occupiers 
did not appreciate in their plans - a spontaneous self-organization capacity.
* The classic power structures were paralyzed by a military intervention, instead they 
created light informal new structures, able to flexibly adapt to new conditions and put an 
effective resistance. Occupants soon found out that effective government administration 
with the help of a handful of collaborators is an illusion.
* From the operation of new organizational and information networks, it could be concluded 
that strengthening the pressure will also lead to increased resistance. Reports of 
possible repression will spread immediately, evoked passions will lead to violent 
escalation of violence.
* Because it failed to gain full control over the armed forces, the police and the militia 
- it can be expected that the occupation forces will not only become a defenseless population.
* The first-time units that came into direct contact with the population in the first days 
were severely demoralized and their applicability to more vigorous actions was 
problematic. The second combat sequence did not count, and possible replacement by other 
sufficiently prepared and combatable units is complicated and lengthy.
* The use of an army of ordinary soldiers in basic military service for civilian massacres 
is problematic and the troops will cease to be reliable. Due to the large area of 
resistance, there were not enough specially trained units. It is well known that in 
large-scale demonstrations, standard police methods such as batons, tear gas and water 
cannon cease to be effective (estimates of the critical figure are around 20,000). The use 
of the army leads to massacres, the impact of which is very problematic. In the case of 
Romania, the deployment of the army against demonstrators in 1989 proved to be a mistake 
that dictator Ceausescu was standing. Eventually, they were soldiers who stood up against 
him, captured and executed. Even the Chinese at Heavenly Peace Square in 1989 used the 
army only for a one-off event, done at night, Who mercifully masked the greatest horror of 
the eyes of not only the public but also the soldiers. They could also afford this because 
the protest movement remained so far only for a small part of society - especially 
students and intellectuals.
* From an international perspective, further escalation of military action was also 
undesirable. After the first relatively quiet days, the thesis of the ongoing armed 
revolution was unsustainable. (In the middle of Europe, there is a situation other than in 
the mountains of Afghanistan, where Soviet troops invaded ten years later.)

Dangerous anarchy - how for whom

The occupiers apparently soon realized that by removing "top leaders" they actually 
relaxed the spontaneous self-organization of society and created conditions for the growth 
of a broad-based resistance movement. The "Representatives" were vigorously processed and 
broken and brought back to the top of the power pyramid. Even in time, until it finally 
collapsed until the social system finally transformed. People have conceded that it is a 
concession of the occupiers and at least a partial victory of the resistance movement. In 
fact, it was probably the only way to eliminate it.

The principles of respect for the Authority, respecting the will of the superiors, have 
begun to function again for generations. Many, with relief, discarded the burden of 
responsibility for their decision-making, and handed their fates into the hands of the 
"callers" and did not even ask much about the callers? They have become loyal citizens and 
have ceased to be free people.

It must be said that not all, or at least not at once. The memory of an intoxicating and 
uplifting feeling when one took his fate into his own hands, despite the sharply loaded 
machine guns, remained alive for a long time. Perhaps it can be revived in years, maybe it 
can be passed on to future generations. The great demonstrations in 1988 began on August 
21st. If the coup in November 1989 did not meet our expectations, it is again because we 
too easily let the idea of having to be led by our "chosen" too easily.

The lesson for the next time is obvious. But if everyone does not do it alone, it is 
useless. The manuals issued by the Center have never been successful. Unfortunately, 
today's regime again has a tendency to bring about categorical judgments over the events 
of Orwellian history rewriters. The authors of the first "Lessons from Crisis Evolution" 
came up with the thesis of the 68th year as a game of dark political forces fighting for 
power. Every fox is judging by his tail. They have been in power for twenty years. 
Nowadays, the power-holders as an interpreter of the eighties use essentially a similar 
scheme - the welding of the two wings of the state-side.

Let's hope it lasts considerably less.
It depends on us, after all.
Or are we condemned for ages to be manipulated?

Jakub Polák

The article was published in the journal A-kontra no. 12-15 / 1993 and after ten years in 
Existence No. 4/2013 .

http://www.afed.cz/text/6728/21-srpen-ponekud-neprijemny-pohled-do-zpetneho-zrcatka

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Every year at the Thessaloniki International Fair, capital, through its civilian staff, 
sets the living conditions of workers, the unemployed, the retired, the bottom. ---- Every 
year the Prime Minister comes - always with regret (!) - to announce the new steps of the 
pervasive attack of state and capital on the workers' interests and social achievements. 
Every year, he promises that the measures are the last. ---- The worst that can happen to 
you with chains is to get used to them. Already, for seven years, at regular intervals 
state and capital "bite" and a new piece of the last means of survival of the world of 
work. It looks like a natural phenomenon every 1.5 years, after an "agonizing" period of 
supposed negotiations between the Greek state and its patrons, the EU and the IMF, the 
announcement of new cuts in wages and pensions, the loss of new labor rights, Our class is 
increasingly underestimated. Not even the phraseology changes from PASOK to SW and from SW 
to SYRIZA.

Year by year, the state and the capital are increasing the armies of poor, unemployed, 
homeless people who can not meet their basic needs, who have no access to health or 
education - with public schools and hospitals shutting down or underactive . Labor rights 
are constantly curtailed for the benefit of both local and foreign bosses. In the coming 
months, a new labor law will be tabled. This law is expanding and completing the scene of 
absolute misery and social disintegration.

With the abolition of the minimum wage, the 13th and 14th salary, by abolishing and / or 
bypassing collective labor agreements and replacing them with individual employment 
contracts - at each appetite of every small or big boss - with the right to strike (It is 
more difficult to declare strikes by increasing the days to alert the start of the strike, 
the 51% decision of the strike industry and the establishment of lock-out), the scene 
Recent years have become more and more dystopian. A form supplemented by new terms of 
precarious work, such as individual contracts or contracts via ... telephone, mini jobs 
(day or hour jobs), teleworking, hire of workers and others,
At the same time, social benefits and benefits are abolished, pensions are cut and cut, 
the retirement age is raised, insurance funds are abolished or merged.
As long as someone struggles not to see it, choices are now becoming narrower within the 
systemic framework, the illusion of social peace is cracking.
The downward trend in the rate of profit, the inherent contradiction of capitalism, which 
is the result of (and) the increase in labor productivity and the inability to capitalize 
on existing capital, has led to yet another structural crisis of over-accumulation. In 
these circumstances, state and capital carry out an all-out and coordinated attack on the 
social basis to make the deadlock. Social consensus on the regime is increasingly being 
shaken, so state administrators resort to emergency measures.
Within this critical environment, the state and capital have been stripped. Their 
barbarity is obvious. The power grid is exposed. The variety of related policy proposals 
is spread out on the table. First of all, we have the allegedly leftist democratic 
government, which, due to the demands of local and international capital, implements 
policies of austerity and social welfare. It is essentially about neo-liberal political 
policies that would be a craving for the broader liberal arc, with a dominant position 
within it being held by the main opposition. Qualitative differences exist only in 
relation to the increased (communicative) use of the brush that lasts over the last, That 
is, persecution and repression of those who struggle and resist the plans of sovereignty 
(for SYRIZA has also demonstrated in the local and international capital that it will 
joyfully suppress immigration riots, collusion demonstrations, evacuate occupations, 
continue the anti-terrorist crusade Etc.), but also in the rhetorical level, with the 
right to use the solvents of the class consciousness (for the benefit of the bourgeoisie), 
namely, personality, patriotism and the religious plus Observation. Smaller resonance 
seems to have traditional social democracy or a common "center-left", constituting yet 
another dusty urban pawn. Still lower is the Eurocommunist left - we could say the SYRIZA 
number 2 pre-election with a social reformist reformist, Continuation of capitalism with 
protectionist policies and return to the national currency. Regarding the revolutionary 
proposals enclosed in the ruling family, there is a wide range of revolutionary left. 
Pioneering parties, with the long-term goal of political revolution, the establishment of 
a centralized state, and the erection of state capitalism, as an intermediary of the 
supposedly linear course towards Communism. Finally, as a reserve of capital, fascism 
stands as the last mound for the bourgeoisie. Whether as a parliamentary force or by 
supposedly extraterritorial actors, its purpose is concrete: the attack on the world of 
the struggle, the diffusion of misanthropy, and ultimately the suppression of social 
resistance by an iron boot to the benefit of capitalism.

Within this political setting, SYRIZA did what it promised. Not to us. But in the regime 
that the left-wing and social-democrats always serve. It absorbed the dynamics of the 
social counterattack of the first monumental years, dragged it to the humiliation of the 
ballot box and then exchanged it with a position not only in power today, but also as the 
constant pole of the new bi-formalism in the years to come. Not bad for Eurocommunists of 
4%, very bad for all of us. Because the best way to get used to your chains is to promise 
you to tell them that it is ultimately necessary to give them. SYRIZA was the best gift, 
the surest solution for the state and the capital that, in the historical period we are 
living, has decided to "gather" everything.

Faced with the evolving dystopia of modern totalitarianism, we must organize a social and 
classical counterattack that will overcome the current political and economic structure of 
society, the world of state and capital. That is why it is imperative to build militant 
social and class-based movements. Organize into grassroots clubs, neighborhood assemblies, 
political collectives and anti-fascist co-ordination. We ourselves, from the bottom, know 
our needs and desires. We do not need any savior, any supposed external dispatcher of our 
will. One thing is left to do. Take our lives in our hands, not to live like slaves.
As anarchists, what we are calling for is to push for the social revolution and the 
radical transformation of society, collectively, unpretentious and from the bottom. It is 
the struggle for the destruction of the state and capitalism, for the elimination of each 
separate power and exploitative relationship, with the aim of creating a classless and 
extreme society of generalized self-direction, with solidarity as a coherent link. All 
these are shaped by means of the occupation of the means of production and labor 
self-management, without bosses, to serve the needs of the community, helping to organize 
production and distribution by everyone according to their capabilities to each according 
to their needs. With community-based issues being decided through horizontal community 
assemblies that will build a bottom-up federation of decentralized and self-governing 
communities, including voluntary associations and free cooperatives. Moreover, the 
struggle for universal emancipation ought to be internationalist and to demolish the 
frontiers that rise among the peoples.

For us, political freedom and economic equality can only be seen as inseparable in the 
empowerment of the stratum strata, hence the irredeemability and compatibility of anarchy 
with communism. The holistic self-realization of man and the experience of humanity find 
their full expression in the society that is built on the basis of libertarian communism.
We urge everyone to go down the road and join the TIF, to support and participate 
throughout the year in the mobilizations against the implementation of the memorandums in 
every sphere of our lives, taking action initiatives where they do not exist and taking an 
active part where there are.

The state proclaims in all tones that it has continued. Class and social struggles must 
also continue in all tones.

Working to make it impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. But if we do not 
do the impossible, we will be faced with the inconceivable.

Nothing's over. Let's go to the counterattack!

ORGANIZATION AND FIGHT AGAINST SOCIAL RESPONSE,
FREEDOM COMMUNICATION, ANARCHY.

PATRIA

SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER

18:00, KAMARA
Anarchist Federation
anarchist-federation.gr
info@anarchist-federation.gr
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"My biggest fear: not knowing how to react in time if an order was given, with my meager 
rudiments of Kurdish." ---- Alternative libertarian reproduces the blog posts 
Kurdistan-Autogestion-Revolution , a travel diary of a fellow committed to the YPG. ---- 
Over the course of the weeks, he will testify to the life of the fighting militias, the 
debates that take place there and the experience of democratic confederalism in the 
liberated zones. ---- Raqqa East Front, August 23, 2017 ---- Continued from my previous 
post. ---- On the 27th of May, in the night, we abandoned our relative defensive comfort, 
in a village near Mansoura, to prepare us for a night operation. ---- Several dozens of 
militiamen and militiamen gathered at the bottom of the village for the briefing, and I 
realized that the operation in question was nothing less than the assault on Mansoura. And 
that my group would be the first to enter.

Certainly, in terms of military experience, it was most interesting, but what a sudden 
anguish ... Would I be able to ? Crack ? Running away from me ? Not really had time to 
ruminate all that. As trapped on the summit of a Russian mountain, I saw the great dive 
approach inexorably. And our group has started.

In single file, we crossed the fields towards the buildings I had observed the same 
afternoon. Particularly vulnerable to the moonlight and uncovered but, again, I was the 
only one to worry about it. The other comrades ? As a tourist hike.

 From Building to Building, Groping

After ten minutes of walking, we reached the precincts of what turned out to be a bombed 
factory. After the shooting, I now feared the mines or other traps that Daech has the 
secret. Inside: ruins, atmosphere at the Fallout, famous video game postapocalytpique. We 
have deployed. From building to building, groping: every door, every dark corner, every 
pile of rubble could hide a sniper or an explosive trap.

My biggest fear: not knowing how to react in time if an order was given, with my meager 
rudiments of Kurdish. To stay in the videoludic metaphor, it gave the impression of 
starting a game at the highest level of difficulty, without being able to modify the 
options, nor to hope for a second chance in case of error.

The factory, which was ultimately totally deserted, was in fact only the initial stage of 
the operation, with the first blocks of Mansoura being 500 to 600 meters away. Our next 
objective: a multi-storey building under construction, which would be a good base to 
dominate the city.

I understood that I had to keep the bottom of the building, alone ...

Again, brisk walking uncovered. Again, the fear of mines or the sniper, which hugs the 
stomach. And suddenly, the night darkness torn by flashes: the city was bombed. The 
building we visited was now clearly separated from the light of the explosions.

It was time to get in. The heart tight, I thought that's it, it's gone. One knee on the 
ground, the Kalashnikov on a piece-by-piece basis, narrowing my eyes to discern the 
slightest movement in front, I covered the comrades who entered the building. From outside 
we could follow with their eyes the beam of their flashlight progressing from room to room.

A few minutes later, a signal commanded us to join them. Most hevals (comrades) have won 
the roof, but not me. The team leader put me on the first floor. I understood that I had 
to keep the bottom of the building, alone ...

What to do ? Shoot ?

A staircase under construction, almost in the dark, rising stress, fatigue, the weight of 
equipment that hurts. Outside, in the night: shadows, only shadows, here and there, more 
menacing than the others. And the silence, oppressive, broken without regularity by air 
strikes in the distance.

After a moment that seemed cruelly long, silhouettes began to move, a hundred meters, in 
my field of vision. Friends or enemies ? No one had warned me of anything, but these 
shadows seemed to follow the same path as ours.

What to do ? Shoot at the risk of hurting comrades ? Let them approach to try to recognize 
their uniform, at the risk of being shot at ? Fortunately, before I could make a bad 
decision, my team leader drove down the stairs to tell me not to open fire.

The timing was really tight for the shot. It was indeed another stool on approach, of 
which I could discern soon after the friendly faces. Big relief. And less stress for the 
two or three units that followed.

When I got up from my post, I dragged my body to the roof of the building, found a small 
corner sheltered from the wind and closed my eyes hoping to be able to decompress a little 
... The order to get back in motion fell to that time.

Arthur Aberlin

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Un-communiste-libertaire-dans-les-YPG-11-J-ai-vu-le-grand-plongeon-se

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Message: 6





Dear all, ---- Episode number 3 of "B(A)D NEWS - Angry voices from around the world", a 
monthly news program from the international network of anarchist and antiauthoritarian 
radios, consisting of short news segments from different parts of the world, is now 
online. ---- Length: 37 min ---- You'll find the audio here: ---- 
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2017/08/21/bad-news-angry-voices-from-around-the-world-episode-3-082017/ 
---- Content: ---- * Radio Kurruf: Government social care projects ---- * 98FM: Update on 
resistances to state repression of political activists ---- * The Final Straw: Grand 
juries in the US ---- * A-Radio Berlin: The disappearance of Santiago Maldonado and the 
---- Mapuche struggle in Argentina to reclaim Benetton-owned land ---- * Dissident Island: 
Issue of abortion on the island of Ireland + update from anti-fracking protest in Lancashire

Other audios from A-Radio Berlin in English (or Spanish) here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/".

Or visit the new anarchist 24/7 online stream from the Channel Zero
Network: http://channelzeronetwork.com/

Enjoy!

A-Radio Berlin

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