Anarchic update news all over the world - 26.10.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Octobre -
      Seine-Saint-Denis: High schools want to set fire to the plain
      (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Southern Africa, zabalaza: The Cheap Politics that Destroy
      Our Communities: Conflicts in Sebokeng by Nonzukizo Mute (TAAC,
      ZACF) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  WSM.ie, Audio - Anti-fascism in the age of Trump- a panel of
      US anarchists speak in Dublin (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  lasoli.cnt.cat: [REVIEW] THE "INFILTRATED" by Laia Mateu
      (ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





As often in Seine-Saint-Denis, the grumbling is strong in this school year 2017 in the 
educational world. A little more original, it is the lycées who lead the dance. ---- Since 
the beginning of September, many high schools of the 93 have been on strike for several 
days: Suger in Saint-Denis, first against the anti-union repression suffered by a staff of 
the establishment, head of work Pascal Stoller, office following its participation in 
major mobilisations last year. Utrillo (Stains) and Jean-Rostand (Villepinte) against the 
abolition of the posts of maintenance agents under a single integration contract (CUI) - 
and yes, the abolition of subsidized contracts does not affect (Jean-Zay (Aulnay)) against 
the overstaffing of high school students and the lack of supervisors, Mozart 
(Blanc-Mesnil) denouncing the material conditions of the high school,

300 more students without more resources

The demands are often the same from one secondary school to another and the observation is 
divided: the Rectorate does not put enough human resources (teachers, supervisors) at the 
disposal, and the regional council leaves the lycées rot, by disregarding the staff he is 
in charge of (the technical agents), allowing the building to be degraded (which he also 
has charge), and refusing to build in the department the necessary number of additional 
lycées, already saturated. The consequences of these austerity policies for students from 
working-class neighborhoods are immediately visible, so Mozart's Blanc-Mesnil high school 
saw its baccalauréat score drop by 10 points while its enrollment increased by 300 
students in two years without any additional means.

Faced with this, a mobilization with variable geometry, which poses different problems. On 
the one hand, the intersyndicale fishes by scattered initiatives and sometimes 
disconnected from the establishments. On the other hand, a framework of self-organization 
emerges with several coordination meetings of the lycées mobilized, called within the 
framework of the collective "   Touche pas à ma ZEP   ".

This framework resulted in more dynamic mobilizations, such as the morning of September 
21, with a demonstration of nearly 200 people ranging from Sciences Po to the Ministry. 
Nevertheless, the collective Touche pas à ma ZEP has become an exogenous framework for the 
mobilization in progress, and more a real framework of self-organization - the militants 
who animate it, well-known political activists of the North of 92 - have for them their 
participation in the fight last year, but their lycées are not mobilized at all this year 
! Under the guise of self-organization, the risk is not negligible that this collective 
works as an alternative direction, disconnected from the real stakes of unity of the 
personnel, and maintains in particular the division with the trade unions.

A dynamic that must be extended and amplified

In any case, this mobilization is very good news, and it is to be hoped that it will be 
prolonged, amplified in unity and will contribute to an enormous mobilization of the 
educational world, with the aim of reversing steam and build a vast movement for so much 
needed egalitarian and emancipatory education !

Maud (AL Paris North East) and Gyula (AL Montreuil)

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Message: 2





Published in "Tokologo: Newsletter of the Tokologo African Anarchist Collective", numbers 
7/8, November 2017 ---- Political fighting has destroyed the peace in Sebokeng township in 
the Vaal. Politicians are using government resources for private purposes, and parties and 
factions are fighting over which politicians get the most. ---- WARD 17 SPLITS ---- There 
has been no peace in the Emfuleni Local Municipality's Ward 17 since the August 2016 
municipal elections. Ward 17 is a ward in Sebokeng, and consists of Eskom Village, Hostels 
1and 2, the Masiza Flats and other places, as well as Zone 20. Emfuleni municipality is 
part of the Sedibeng District Municipality. ---- The African National Congress (ANC) 
controls the Ward, but is deeply split. ANC members vote against ANC members, complaining 
of a lack of accountability in the organisation. They claim that the people who represent 
the party and the local community in the Council do not represent the majority in the 
local party. This means the minority has the last say, with power and control over the 
masses through its positions.

MAYORS

The local ANC is divided into two groups and the conflict spills over into the community. 
The problem did not start in 2016. An ANC faction approached the Sedibeng mayor of 
2011-2015, Mr Simon Mofokeng, complaining a Ward councillor was employing his siblings and 
friends. The Mayor responded by dividing four projects in the affected Ward between the 
two factions.

Mofokeng became Emfuleni Mayor later in 2015. In 2017, he was accused in the media of 
spending nearly R2 million on KFC and Nando's fast food, and luxury hotels from 2011-2017.

RDP HOUSING

A public housing project was introduced by the provincial Department in February 2013. 
This involved a massive contract to the black capitalist firm Malgotamishe Building 
Construction.

In August 2013, when the project started, the Department of Housing established a Project 
Steering Committee with different groupings, so the project could run smoothly and the 
information flow to all stakeholders.

However, a section of the SA Communist Party (SACP) appeared on the scene, through the 
African National Congress (ANC)-led Alliance. The Alliance is made of the ANC, the SACP, 
and the Congress of SA Trade Unions (COSATU). It convinced the community that the 
project's Community Liaison Officer (CLO) was only employing his friends, also pressuring 
desperate women in need of jobs into his bed. They called a community meeting to complain 
about the CLO, saying that they did not want the CLO because he was stubborn. They 
complained about the employment criteria he used, without consulting the community leaders 
or the Steering Committee.

After the dismissal of the first CLO, the SACP group used the community to appoint its 
members the new CLO and the Local Development Officer (LDO). Then they forced new rules 
onto the Project Steering Committee, which resulted in the project stopping for nine 
months. Then the project started again, running smoothly for one year and six months, 
until violence and hate speech came back, dividing the community again.

THE HOSTELS

The fight is over the houses, the jobs and the positions. An SACP person involved in the 
fights said the old people in the area "must go back to the Eastern Cape" as they are 
"expired." These are former migrant workers; going back means losing access to the new 
housing in Sebokeng. The problems led to block committees disbanding, although block 
committees are independent structures not affiliated with party structures.

Major housing developments started taking place at Golden Gardens, close to the Golden 
Highway, around the Ward 17 area. The beneficiaries are mainly young people, who have 
access to the new subsidised "RDP" houses. Older people and workers are refusing to leave 
the old KwaMasiza Hostel, because it might be renovated and they want to benefit.

The Ward councillor is using his followers to fight for control of key projects: rival 
groups have ended in hospital, beaten up by his group.

Cheap politics destroys our communities. We need something better.

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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.[Audio] ---- 
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---- 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. ---- This audio is edited from a public meeting in Dublin in August 2017 featuring a 
panel of US anarchists, some who had travelled to Ireland, others who have been living 
here.  They talk 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.

Author: Andrew N Flood

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Message: 4





L. and g. of the ANC, Omnium and other similar entities that supposedly move the 
independentist process, as well as political parties for a referendum that are sure to be 
behind. What happened two days ago in Tarragona - and suppose that in many other places - 
is a shame, to put it mildly. ---- We recall that a general strike (not an arrest) was 
convened, to report especially police brutality and state actions. You who fill your 
mouths of transversality, inclusion and diversity within the independentist movement, are 
acting like true executioners, wanting to control absolutely all the expressions of the 
people. You plan to channel emotions, feelings and ways of doing things. This fact would 
not be new, it's been a long time since I try with your speeches of "democracy," 
"civility," "people of peace" and a few more nonsense, supported by the media, always next 
to Power. Not all independent people have this way of thinking or conceiving how popular 
responses should be. Luckily, the movement is very broad and not all are bourgeois who 
have joined the car in recent years. But what has happened in recent days, and that has 
materialized especially in the demonstrations of October 3, transcends the line of what we 
understand as tolerable.

Who do you think you are to decide how to be a rally? Remember that the demonstration has 
not been organized by you, or at least you have not organized it yourself. But, once 
again, you've joined the last minute. This general strike and this manifestation was 
called by trade unions, and especially combative unions, with the support of 
anti-capitalist social movements (yes, configured by people that you would call radical 
and unbelievable). and that has materialized especially in the demonstrations of October 
3, transcends the line of what we understand as tolerable. Who do you think you are to 
decide how to be a rally? Remember that the demonstration has not been organized by you, 
or at least you have not organized it yourself. But, once again, you've joined the last 
minute.

This general strike and this manifestation was called by trade unions, and especially 
combative unions, with the support of anti-capitalist social movements (yes, configured by 
people that you would call radical and unbelievable). and that has materialized especially 
in the demonstrations of October 3, transcends the line of what we understand as 
tolerable. Who do you think you are to decide how to be a rally? Remember that the 
demonstration has not been organized by you, or at least you have not organized it 
yourself. But, once again, you've joined the last minute. This general strike and this 
manifestation was called by trade unions, and especially combative unions, with the 
support of anti-capitalist social movements (yes, configured by people that you would call 
radical and unbelievable). You have added at the last minute. This general strike and this 
manifestation was called by trade unions, and especially combative unions, with the 
support of anti-capitalist social movements (yes, configured by people that you would call 
radical and unbelievable). You have added at the last minute. This general strike and this 
manifestation was called by trade unions, and especially combative unions, with the 
support of anti-capitalist social movements (yes, configured by people that you would call 
radical and unbelievable).

In the face of the unavoidable and normal escalation of indignation and displeasure that 
many people feel for the events that occurred in recent weeks (street identifications, 
intimidation by the police, militarization of towns and cities, fires by the state ... ) 
and culminating on October 1st (theft of ballots and ballots, verbal and physical 
aggressions, accumulated tension ...) you wanted to appease your spirits, you have decided 
that the town begins to be uncontrolled, that there may be reactions that They do not fit 
your social peace discourse. Before that, instead of accepting that the people are 
sovereign (what you like to say), and that the reactions of the population must take the 
course that this same population feels and decides, you have wanted to control everything 
, once again. As if your mantra of peaceful people, from "hello Europe" - by the way, a 
murderous Europe that once again ignores us - and not confrontation, it was the only valid 
and accepted speech and vison to deal with the current situation.

The messages and communications that have been made by mobiles and social networks 
repeatedly have to go peacefully, that the State seeks any excuse to charge against us, 
that it should not fall into provocations, they have inevitably ended Sleeping among 
people, many of them as you know very well and with that you play, unaccustomed to social 
response and protest. And you intentionally put fear in people; People who, in recent 
days, have been losing precisely this fear, have become empowered. Rarely have we seen 
images of older people resisting the police, People outside of the revolutionary groups 
facing repression, ordinary people cutting streets and shouting what is happening. But 
this seems to be that you can not allow it, you can not allow these people "for good" to 
radicalize, and begin to look like what I deeply love and fear so much. So you have taken 
a step further, and you have started spreading the toxic message that anyone who does not 
act according to your directions can be an "infiltrated", a "stirrer". We have been 
receiving dozens of messages repeating this shit. Messages without any foundation. Running 
photos of people cutting roads and saying that we take into account, surely they are 
infiltrated, when this workshop roads and burning tires is the minimum and the normal in a 
general strike. Criminalizing such normal actions in a rally like doing active pickets so 
that the shops close the doors, stick posters in glass or paint the windows of a bank. 
Arriving at the ill point of saying that no slogans are called against the police, that 
this is also provocation. All the people who show these attitudes can be infiltrated who 
want to bust the calls.

We have received indications of how to act if these infiltrates are detected - obviously 
according to the criteria you have decided yourself - and even by passing a telephone 
number so that the people who attend the calls can report the supposed infiltrated, just 
like a witch hunts. This has led to such deplorable situations that the people of the 
manifestation themselves believe themselves with the right to make you silent or pretend 
you stick a poster. Let him point to you not to follow the slogans of going in silence and 
raising your hands or showing any dissonant attitude with the marked one. Say you have no 
respect; but respect for who? How can you be so perplexed that people themselves demand a 
respectful respect, when they are not respecting that there is a diversity of ways of 
expressing themselves and denouncing what is happening? And to finish the topic, there 
were still messages from a supposed curfew after 9:00 p.m., to let the infiltrated alone 
on the street. Perverting such strong expressions as a curfew seems deplorable to us, and 
use them randomly and for their own benefit quite disgusting. In the case now, does anyone 
believe himself with the power to decide when people have to leave home?

If there are people who believe that the way to respond to brutality is to walk silently, 
wear white shirts in a peace sign or distribute carnations to the same ones that open our 
heads, we will not share their methods, but we will never impose how they have to do 
things, to attack them in the event of not doing them as we think, or lick them socially.

Do not expect that we all keep the smiles in front of the porras.

Infiltrated

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