Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - SNCF: Trade
union sectarianism leads us right into the wall ! (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. awsm.nz: Wellington Rail Strike (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, afed: Revolution at the Clinic - Report from another
Existential Party, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the
Russian Revolution. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. About the expulsion of Patras from the 3 days of the
Polytechnic University in the annex., Posted by "dirty horse" APO
(gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, anarkismo.net: Anarcho-Communist Initiative Rosinade
- Against competition, solidarity (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. awsm.nz: October Revolutionb resources (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Parochialism and divergent calls for mobilization: it was a big deal, in October, on the
side of the railway union federations. There is still time to rediscover the meaning of
unitary action. ---- On September 12, railway and railway workers had responded to the
first day of mobilization against the Macron Orders, with a strike rate of around 30 %.
An encouraging start even if, like the other professional sectors, the mobilization has
been declining since September 21st. The action day of October 10 for the defense of
public service could have been a new springboard, and there was something to hope for a
call in unity ! Missed, completely missed ! Unsa called to parade with the officials but
without going on strike ; the CFDT, it, organized a rally on Paris but without joining the
demo. SUD-Rail has invented a call to " converge all on Paris While there was no national
demonstration, but demonstrations in all regions. And the CGT-Cheminots called for ...
nothing. On the other hand, she decided to call the strike alone on October 19th. Result
of the races: strike days here and there, with no other impact than to lighten the payroll
at the end of the month. Above all, a deplorable image sent back to our colleagues by our
unions, as to our ability to build a strong movement that can win.
Let's stop the fees !
Where there is a need for unity to give confidence to employees, our union federations CGT
and SUD-Rail oppose sectarianism to sectarianism. But the problem is not to shout as much
as possible " general strike ", but to prepare it, to organize it. At the point where we
are at present, the important thing is elsewhere: service by service, we must rebuild the
conditions for a strong movement, unitary, renewable and in relation with what happens in
other professional sectors.
Inter-professional unions are heading towards a strike day in mid-November. This is what
must be prepared now, for a massive strike and not limited to a protest of twenty-four
hours. It must be a strike to win, so a strike carried by the mass of railwaymen and
railway workers through general assemblies where they and they decide their movement.
Everywhere, let's push for unitary union calls in this direction. But above all, let's
organize ourselves to create and impose this dynamic !
AL railway workers
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?SNCF-Le-sectarisme-syndical-nous-conduit-droit-dans-le-mur
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Message: 2
Rail workers in Wellington went on a 24 hr strike on 16th November, in defence of
employment conditions, after negotiations with employers broke down. Members of the Rail
Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) took action which affected all commuter services on the
Hutt, Johnsonville, Kapiti and Wairarapa and Melling lines. This resulted in over 30,000
commuters having to make alternative arrangements. ---- The strike was called due to the
companies that own the Wellington system, TransDev and Hyundai Rotem demanding an end to
long standing terms and conditions in the collective agreement with RMTU. Salient among
these being the reduction of penal rates for weekend and night shifts and an insistence
employees work public holidays. ---- A strike is a rare phenomenon in today's working
environment in Aotearoa (see
https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/20513/number-of-strikes-1920-2007). For the past 30 years
in particular, workers in various sectors have had to deal with one piece of hostile
legislation after another, from the Employment Contracts Act to the 90 Day Act. In this
case, the strike is the first time since 1994 that the Wellington rail system has been
affected for longer than 2 hours. As such it is surely a step forward for those wishing to
maintain and extend the few gains workers have been able to achieve in this hostile
environment. We should definitely applaud this action, even a defensive fight is important.
On the other hand, there are disturbing elements in the rhetoric RMTU leadership have
used. For example, General Secretary Wayne Buston has tried to play a nationalistic card
by highlighting that the companies involved are foreign owned, one being French the other
South Korean. Buston was quoted as saying "And they[RMTU members]will continue to take the
action until we get Transdev and Hyundai to understand that multinationals can't bully
Kiwi workers." The fact the bosses happen to be domiciled overseas is irrelevant. No
matter which faction among the ruling class technically owns the railways, they are all
driven by the same imperative to make profits and to bully and pressure workers to conform
to their dictates. Rail workers in France and South Korea are pretty much in the same
economic position as the ones here. They have to pay rent, food and wonder how they can
get by while their bosses are doing fine thank you very much. A few weeks ago, rail
workers on the Korean bullet train went on strike in defense of their pay and conditions
(http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/09/29/0200000000AEN20170929003300320.html) and
on the same day as the Wellington strike, public transport workers, including rail staff
went on strike in France (http://anglophone-direct.com/general-strike/).
It is the New Zealand government that has set the overall conditions here of course and
there have been times in the past when local workers have also had to take on the state
itself to defend themselves. Instances of this can be found going back nearly 100 years.
For example, during 1920 they struck during a royal visit and the government had to back
down. It's worth remembering such things before going down the path of an ‘us/them'
division based on which piece of soil somebody happens to be on, rather than the power
relationship operating in the situation.
To conclude, despite reservations regarding the way the strike is being officially framed,
we extend our support and solidarity to the workers who have embarked on this action and
hope it brings the desired results.
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/11/19/wellington-rail-strike/
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Message: 3
This autumn subsistence party was different in several details from the previous ones.
First, it did not take place at the Salé infoshop. We decided to move it to the Clinic and
support it by participating in its program while it is working in uncertainty about its
further fate as it can be expected that SŽDC, the current owner of the building, will want
to rid it of the free and self-governing spirit that is here has been ruling for some
years. Another novelty was the absence of a common dinner that always preceded the
existential parties in Salé. Still, hungry visitors did not suffer because the bar was
prepared with a sheet of baked sweets. ---- The subject of the party traditionally
coincided with the theme of the last issue of our anarchist revue, the Great October
Revolution. A few days ago, we remembered her centenary. It's been a long time, so it did
not bother to wait for an hour from the official beginning of the debate so that everyone
could come together to discuss what this historic event means to us today, whether it is
worthwhile to remind it and what the lesson may be . She interrupted the musical
recollection of the Wabi Danka who died that day.
There were talks about several aspects of the Russian Revolution. First of all, the
illusion that he could gradually die, assuming that the existing state structures are
taken over and that he will continue to operate under the new regime. Each state has a
tendency to confirm and consolidate its power, as was the case with the Bolshevik strategy
that led to unprecedented state terror and the exploitation of workers not by specific
persons but by the system with its newly created hierarchical structure. We also reflected
on the fact that a time-consuming moment can arise from the relatively chaotic and
accidental situation of the conquest of the Winter Palace. In one of the partial debates
we have partly switched to the theme of the following Existence, which we would like to
devote to "new patriotism". Specifically, why in certain historical stages when there is a
crisis of existing elites, We also asked how perceptible the revolution is perceived by
the different generations and what they mean to them. It has turned out that for those
attending high schools it is actually a taboo event about which almost nothing knows and
that teachers are afraid to express their own opinion today. Last but not least, we
discussed the extent to which the Russian Revolution made changes to the world and
inspired the workers' struggle for the years to come, as well as how the socialist idea
suffered due to the victory of the Bolsheviks and the subsequent domination of the
authoritarian directions of socialism. That is how we have moved to this day and a
situation where there is virtually no relevant left-wing project that would not resist the
demand for the elimination of capitalism, and was not merely the administrator of the
capitalist order, which perhaps takes a little more into account the needs of the working
people.
But that did not let us continue with the first tones in the next room of the band. The
Existential Party has once again confirmed that it makes sense and that it is important to
look for ways to make our publications interactive.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6761/revoluce-na-klinice
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Message: 4
the wreath of the garbage outside the Annex ... ---- About the expulsion of Patras from
the 3 days of the Polytechnic University in the annex. ---- To protect the social and
class movement from "gray" nationalist and racist groups ---- On Friday, November 17,
2017, after our collective decision, we prevented the members of the eparch Patras from
depositing a wreath in the annex area during the 4-day presence of memory and struggle for
the rebellion of the 1973 Polytechnic. ---- It was a clear political act, without a
symbolic but substantial dimension. We say it clearly: racist and nationalist groups such
as Kazakis and his companions who consider "benefactors who are in favor of the open
borders" 1 and "brothers and sisters" 2 do not fit either in the Annex or in the Movement.
---- The annex area (old branch of the University of Patras) is historically charted as a
point of reference for the social and class struggles that broke out in Patras for 44
years. It was used as the center of struggle for the first time in 1973 when it was
occupied by students, leftists, anarchists and other pieces of society amid the November
uprising against the junta. It has been a stronghold of dynamic mobilizations,
demonstrations, conflicts against the then domestic fascists, and has been recorded in the
consciousness of local society as the main center of anti-dictatorial action. Over the
years, it has been the focus of various and polymorphic social resistances (used as a base
for the events that followed the killing of Kalteza, reunified large parts of the student
and workers movement against the closure of factories such as those of Ladopoulos and
Piraiki Patraiki, was a center of disinformation and propaganda in relation to the events
of Tiananmen in China, hosted the first anarchist congress, directly connected with the
insurgents events that followed the Tembonera assassination), and to this day it continues
to be an occupied combat center and is directly connected to the kinematic memory as an
area of resistance and struggle of the people and the youth.
This particular hidden-nationalist group called the ephemus appeared in the Annex on the
morning of the 17/11, with an organized political presence, thus claiming equal
participation in the social and class movement that was there to commemorate the November
uprising in this multiform, but also a delimited race of combatants who resist the
policies of plundering and plundering the social base.
There are not only a few times when this particular party has become known for its racist
and disruptive positions for the working class. With an alibi, the "defense of the
homeland" calls on the working class to take action against immigrants who, according to
her, not only are not part of it but threaten it directly. For the hemisphere, immigrants,
as a future cheap workforce, threaten the formation of the "local" working class, its
rights and its conquests, turning Greece into a "rubbish dump" of Europe. Also known is
the recent vulgar attack on 3,000 refugees destined to settle in Crete whom they targeted
as terrorists and criminals 3
For them, it is not the whole of immigrants' illegal and criminalizing policies, racist
ideologies, political party nationalist agendas, concentration camps, and human
trafficking circuits that compress the labor force of migrant workers for the benefit of
the state and the bosses but , on the contrary, their human being itself.
Their aggression is not exhausted for immigrants and refugees, as several times the
embassy has turned openly against the movement itself, talking about a possible "internal
enemy" attack by the army 4 , of "undermining the image of the country" by the
demonstrations - "turbulent" - culminating in the characterization of the great social
conflict against the second memorandum that broke out on February 12, 2012 as episodes
made by gangs working for real estate companies . It seems that the army and the church
are now more resentful to the resistance than the forces of social transformation and
social revolution.
As if this was not the case, lately the organized political presence (banners, badges,
etc.) and other manifestations of the movement, and especially in a major social struggle
in progress, the attempt of the obstruction of the auctions at Patras County Court.
For us, it is clear that the fight against popular housing and property auctions as a
forum for social and class self-defense is part of the struggle against the total attack
by governments and capital against social majority against the locals and foreign workers
and we have no willingness to consent to his transformation into a crucible of our
co-existence with nationalistic and racist groups that have worn the mantle of the
"anti-memoir", while in essence they are rolling out a new deal with the lenders to move
to the drachma, in co-operation with the local bourgeoisie.
We therefore call upon all the fighters who recognize the class dimension of the movement,
whatever the spectrum of the struggle they come from, those who have long been giving a
joint meeting each Wednesday in front of the Peace Tribunal to isolate those who try to
separate people in rubbish or not based on their ethnic origins. Those who consider
immigrants to be welcome and part of the labor movement to guard our struggles from those
who undermine them by sucking their half-poisonous poisons. To do everything in the
direction of building a subversive social and political stream of social emancipation,
united by the working class, local and foreign.
Especially when the government is launching a new round of attack against the anti-auction
movement, legislating the criminalization of resistance to peacemaking and launching
electronic auctions, any attempt to re-emerge of this particular nationalist group but
also other aspirations will be considered a challenge.
The history of the garbage can be distinguished by the bosses and the fascists.
Class unity and counterattack - Block in auctions and nationalism
anarchist group "dignified horse" - a member of the Anarchist Political Organization
contact: every Tuesday 19: 00-22: 00 in the self-managed area On the wall (Patras 87),
mail: d_ippos@hotmail.com | blog: ipposd.wordpress.com
Notes:
1https://youtu.be/Q_0Lnj7Kaag
2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjeBNFy1Ec&feature=share
3http://dimitriskazakis.blogspot.gr/2016/09/blog-post_14.html
4 Speech Kazakis in the Independent Union of the Armed Forces Employed
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 5
The image released by Natasha Tsoukalas's heavy injury leaves no room for doubt: these
groups operate with total indifference to human life, the measure of every libertarian and
insurgent perception, in order to practice exercises of power, imposition, sovereignty and
power. These groups do not contradict the State, they act as a potential state that claims
the arbitrary authority on their behalf. ---- Against competition, solidarity: To throw
away from the movement what reproduces the world of power and enforcement ---- Natasha
Tsoukalas, a lawyer found for many years by the oppressed and the victims of repression,
is fighting for her life in Evangelism . Even if you win her, she is very likely she will
not be able to save her leg. ---- The strike received by Natasha Tsukalas was not a
vengeance hit by a policeman, it was not the result of an ambush set up by right-wing
fascists. It was the result of a flare that fell straight into a residential area by a
member of these groups who for some time have been attempting with the tolerance of a
large part of the movement to evacuate anarchism from all humanitarian solidarity and
social and libertarian content of.
We would be disingenuous if we were showing that we were falling from the clouds. It is
several years now that groups that define themselves as anarchists operate in opposition
to every principle of libertarian and anarchist thought:
Where anarchism proposes solidarity, they tend to compete.
Where anarchism puts forward sociability, they advance individualism.
Where anarchism prefers synthesis and creation, they advance blind violence and militarism.
Where anarchism puts forward freedom and life, they predict cynicism, conspiracy,
"efficiency" and worship of power.
We saw them act in September 2014 in Keratsini, when they came to kill comrade KK,
striking her with a crowbar on her head because she disagreed with the breakage of ...
KEP. We saw them attacking events and parties of anti-capitalist organizations, hitting
women, comrades and comrades to get the fund. We saw them attacking comrades and comrades
who set their tables at the Polytechnic of 2015. We also saw them in the three days of the
Polytechnic, to exclude the other tendencies from the place and to throw stones to anyone
who approached their camp.
We have seen them primarily, to defend their pride by acting the next day. As yesterday
and today, with the Nazi origin and bottomless suicide argument of "collateral loss" or
with the merciless attempt to present Natasa Tsukalas as a police colleague.
The image released by Natasha Tsukalas's heavy injury leaves no room for doubt: these
groups operate with total indifference to human life, the measure of every libertarian and
insurgent perception, in order to practice exercises of power, sovereignty and power.
These groups do not contradict the State, they act as a potential state that claims the
arbitrary authority on their behalf.
There is absolutely no excuse for continuing the tolerance of the movement towards these
groups. Their practice offends, slanders, weakens and shames the social and libertarian
movement and every struggle for a society without imposing. Their only contribution is the
relativisation of repression, like the one we saw deployed by the police forces on Friday
night, against demonstrators returning from the path to Alexandras Avenue and towards the
neighborhood of Exarheia, which, in addition to the defamation of the media and political
parrots are all confronted with the invasion of the RTAs as an occupying army.
The Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Rosinante calls on every libertarian and
anti-capitalist organization, every human being who fights for freedom, in coordination
for the self-defense of the movement, both against the state repression that remains the
same, whether the "Right" or the "Left" against the phenomena of antisocial violence,
contempt of human life and attempt to substitute social processes for an endless blind
militarism.
We are at the side of Natasha Tsoukalas and each of the hundreds of victims of Friday's
police violence. 17/11 -
Anti-competitive, solidarity.
-We take care of the libertarian and social principles of the movement, from attempts to
divert power to worship and militarism.
-We are dealing with poverty, repression, and any kind of enforcement and domination.
-We are looking for the horizontal libertarian organization of the oppressed in every
space of work, every amphitheater and every neighborhood.
-For everyone's freedom and equality.
Anarcho-Communist Initiative Rosinade
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30683
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Message: 6
As a follow up to the recent article on the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and Ukraine,
we offer below a few links for anyone interested in looking more at the role of anarchists
in the event of the period: ---- http://nestormakhno.info/index.htm
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/search/?q=russian+revolution
http://libcom.org/search/node/russian%20revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin
https://anarchyinaction.org/index.php?title=Anarchists_in_the_Russian_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volin
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/11/21/october-revolution-resources/
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