Anarchic update news all over the world - 9-12.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  wsm.ie: A critical history of WSM from a 2010 internal
      meeting by Andrew N Flood (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  vrije bond org: 2.Dh5 returns to Amsterdam in 2018 (nl)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, London Anarchist Federation - It has come to this:
      we have trademarked the word Anarchist™ (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Turkey, sosyal savas: Iranian anarchist writer and director
      Khashayar Mostafavi against the fetva (tr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  anarres info - Friday 1st December. Feminists and
      anarchists: history, paths, practices of yesterday and today -
      From Emma Goldman to the girls of the second millennium (it)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki: Anarchist
      Federation: For the arrest of DHKP-C fighters and the visit of
      Erdogan (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: We cut off the power plant and
      mine in Belchatów. Press conference and demonstrations [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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This audio history of the WSM was presented at a meeting in Cork in 2010 as part of a day 
of critical internal discussions. As it was originally recorded for internal use it's been 
edited so it is just the presenter and then his responses to questions and discussion 
points. For more on the history of the Workers Solidarity Movement see 
https://www.wsm.ie/wsm-history ---- 
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/a-critical-history-of-wsm-from-a-2010-internal-meeting/ 
---- Towards the start of the audio you will hear reference to a 'history of the first 3 
years of WSM'. ---- Photo; Dublin WSM taking part in a protest outside the Anglo Irish 
Bank HQ in 2010
Author: Andrew N Flood
https://www.wsm.ie/c/audio-history-wsm-to-2010

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2.Dh5 is back! After a year's pause, the 12th edition will take place in the weekend of 
February 9 to 11 in OT301 in Amsterdam, with a programme full of workshops, discussion and 
talks about strategies, campaigns and in-depth analysis. Focusing on the future, and 
searching for escape routes from this biting right-wing winter. But also a space to catch 
up with fellow world-changers and cook up some new plans together. ---- At the time of 
writing, the programme for the weekend is still under development. This year, we're 
focusing on struggles around feminism, queer, anti-racism, anti-fascism, decolonialism, 
anti-militarism, international solidarity, climate/ecology, labour, migration/no-border, 
internet freedom/privacy, right to the city/gentrification and all their intersections. 
The programme will also focus on the practicalities and problems that surround organising 
and activism, and there will be a cultural programme and a awesome party in the evenings. 
We will be announcing the first part of the programme halfway through December. Keep an 
eye on our website and our Facebook page.

The last edition of 2.Dh5 took place early 2016 in Maastricht. Over the past year, we have 
been reorienting ourselves by asking you what it would take for 2.Dh5 to make a better 
contribution to the movements in the Netherlands. The input we received resulted in 
several key points that we aim to integrate in this year's edition, namely: developing 
more representation and connections with people of colour and their struggles; better 
structuring of the programme; more in-depth discussions; and an extra focus on accessibility.
Please get in touch if you have a concrete idea for a workshop, or if you have any 
questions regarding accessibility. We will then see together how to best accommodate you. 
If there is enough demand, we will provide a children's programme. However, this will only 
be possible with enough requests, so sign up here: kinderprogramma@2dh5.nl. Also, there 
will sleeping spaces in Amsterdam at walking distance from the Venue OT30. Sign up here 
slaapplek@2dh5.nl.
https://www.2dh5.nl/en/

ps://www.vrijebond.org/6818-2/

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Although normally not down with copyright law, the Anarchist™ Federation feels we have to 
take drastic measures and has taken the unprecedented step of trademarking the term 
Anarchist™. In recent months we have been asked by many people ‘Why are so many 
Anarchists™ joining Labour?' or been told ‘So and so is an Anarchist™ and they're in 
Labour now'. To be clear: there are no anarchists in the Labour party. There are, however, 
some former Anarchists™ in the Labour party who are now social democrats. ---- Let us be 
sure on this: if you agree with the statement ‘The Labour party is the only way to affect 
meaningful change', you are a social democrat. ---- Fair dinkum. Just deal with that label 
if that's what you think. We can see why you went there- the revolution may not happen in 
our lifetimes, Labour could win the next election, Corbyn might (might) not lurch to the 
centre, you get to go on tv and host politico-celebrities at your talks, the glitz, the 
glamour... it has seduced many before you and I'm sure many after you. But please, do not 
use our brand name (Anarchism™) to identify yourself as one of the ‘cool' or ‘edgy' 
members of the Labour party. The last time Labour tried to be cool it did not end well. 
You don't even need to do do that anymore- Jezza is into jam, allotments and knitwear.

So please cease and desist from abusing our good name before we are forced to make more 
sassy memes about Tony.

Regards,

The Anarchist™ Federation

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/it-has-come-to-this-we-have-trademarked-the-word-anarchist/

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In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini remembers the world famous fathers given to Salman Rusthu, the 
writer of "Satanic Verses". ---- In 2012, Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper who has been 
given a fatwa by the preachers of the Islamic republic on the grounds that the country 
committed the crime of returning from the death penalty under the Sharia law, has become 
"Musical Salman Rüstü". ---- Ayatullah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani and Ayatollah Naser 
Makareme Shirazi, who were influential preachers who had countless followers, gave fatwa 
against Shahin Najafi. ---- Now, the ultimate goal of the fetish given by ruling preachers 
is Khashayar Mostafavi, Iranian anarchist writer and filmmaker. It does not even have to 
say that these barbaric fetishes are against liberty, democracy and freedom of thought. 
This is also contrary to the Universal Covenant on Human Rights and is therefore not to be 
accepted by those who believe in the civilized world and freedom.

According to a report published by the "Anarchist Era" website, Makarem Shirazi, an 
influential preacher, ruled the anarchist Kheshayar Mostafavi, the author and filmmaker of 
the story "In Hell" because he returned from the dhink.

Khashayar Mostafavi

Biography

In addition to directing several games in Tehran, he directed several short films and two 
feature-length political documentaries called "Cherry Bahçiziz" and "Fight Me".

Mostafavi also wrote books on the Birth of the Iranian Drama, Hell (a collection of short 
stories), Sex, Anarchism and Cruel Days at the Panic Theater of Mr. Arrabal (Three 
Scenarios). Mostafavi was accused of insulting the sacred functions of Islam and forced to 
emigrate from Iran to Germany under the auspices of the Iranian Intelligence and Security 
Ministry.[1]After the publication of the Book of Genesis of the Iranian Drama, Mostafavi's 
latest feature film debating the problems of refugees Being there (Varlik) was done in 
German. Being there was shown for the first time at the Shanghai International Film 
Festival, which was held in China in the 20th century.

Studies

* Slow Days (Three Scenarios), Postskript Publications, Germany, 2016

* Sex, Anarchism and Cruelty at Mr. Arrabal's Panic Theater, Postskript Publications, 
Germany, 2015

* Hell, Gardon Publications, Berlin, Germany, 2013

* The Birth of the Iranian Drama (Mirza Agha Tabrizi's approach to combine western theater 
with the Iranian traditional drama at the time of the extinction), Afraz Publications, 
Tehran, Iran, 2012

Source: AsrAnarshism.com

http://sosyalsavas.org/2017/12/iranli-anarsist-yazar-ve-yonetmen-khashayar-mostafaviye-karsi-fetva/#more-31663

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Friday, December 1 at 9 pm at the Anarchist Federation of Turin in Corso Palermo 46
There is a powerful intertwining between patriarchal domination and the violence of the 
state, of capitalism, of borders, of religions. We start from ourselves not to free "a 
genre" but to overcome them, so that each * can build his own path of freedom. ---- The 
feminist practice is proposed to everyone, to all to all *. ----  The anarcofemmists look 
at the world and struggle to change it knowing that the revolution will also be a party.
With Carlotta Pedrazzini from magazine A, editor of the dossier "The women are back" and 
of the book by Emma Goldman "A broken dream. Russia 1917 ", Patrizia Nesti, anarchist and 
feminist of FALIVornese and Maria Matteo author of the article" Feminicide. A political 
act " ---- https://anarresinfo.noblogs.org/

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Nine members of the Turkish / Kurdish revolutionary organization DHKP-C were arrested 
after a spectacular police operation in Athens. In a completely predictable way, the 
well-known Orthodox Trombone, which is always set up after the capture of any fighter, 
regardless of whether it is native or not, broke into the media. The narrative contained a 
supposed "hit" during Erdogan's visit, "foreign terrorists thawing", national dangers, 
generalized lawlessness ... ---- At a time when Greece is involved in war zones in the 
Eastern Mediterranean region, the US-Russia imperialist competition and regional forces 
(Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey) form camps in the face of geopolitical rearrangements 
already counting hundreds of thousands millions of refugees, incalculable disasters in our 
neighborhood, social vigilance and international solidarity is the only answer.

The same people, the same mechanisms that, until yesterday, spoke against the Fascist 
regime Erdogan, those who "gave it all" to protect the Turkish officers who fled to Greece 
after the failed coup in Turkey now scream against fighters every day they fight against 
this regime.
It's not weird. Behind the national crowns, far more behind the crowns for democracies and 
rights is the class and social position that determines who are enemies and what friends. 
A coup is an accepted way of resistance to a dictator, the mass struggle from the base is 
not. We received the message ..
A few days before Erdogan's visit, the Greek state, Syriza, chose to make a gift to the 
Turkish state, continuing the policy of the previous government when militants kidnapped 
from the middle of the road and sent a package to Turkey and death. And that was expected. 
The continuity of the state is given.
For our part, we stand solidarity with the arrested. We stand in solidarity with every 
struggling, internationalist force, first of all in our own geopolitical corner of the 
world. From DHKP-C to the PKK and the Turkish and Kurdish anarchists and other fighters. 
The ideological and political differences, in the current circumstances and with the 
present dangers that reach up to the war, are insignificant and luxurious. A net of 
solidarity must be set between the competitors. A net that is the only rival awe to the 
enemy. To the enemy in state elites, capitalists and power mechanisms, both in Greece and 
Turkey and everywhere. A net corresponding to what the enemy has, and which we once again 
saw with the capture of the nine fighters and their unprecedented abuse and torture by the 
persecution mechanisms and the vengeful policy of isolation and dispersal of those who are 
now jailed, in different prisons across the country.
So we stand on the side of the arrested. And because this story has just begun one thing 
we have to say to the Greek state and Syriza: Do not dare to issue them to Turkey, do not 
dare to send them to torture and death.
We will be back.

We call on the people to frame all racist protests against Erdogan's visit, breaking the 
bans of the Greek state in practice.

Deliver a message of international solidarity and a practical community of the 
contestants. Give a message against the war plans in our region, against the fascist 
regime Erdogan, alongside the Turkish and Kurdish militants fighting it.

Anarchist Federation

anarchist-federation.gr
info@anarchist-federation.gr
twitter: twitter.com/anarchistfedGr
fb: facebook.com/anarxikiomospondia2015

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com

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Due to the action organized by our colleagues from the Inter-Enterprise Trade Union of 
Workers 'Unions' in Elbest Sp. Z o. O. We would like to invite you to the press 
conference, which will take place on Wednesday, December 6 at 12:00 at the main entrance 
to the Marshal's Office in Lódz (Aleja marshal Józef Pilsudskiego No. 8). Detailed 
information at the end of the text. ---- According to Ms. Zofia Kedziak (phone no. 733 654 
323) with MZZP. United: ---- - In spite of very great efforts to reach an agreement, we 
are forced to conduct demonstrations on the access roads to the Belchatów Power Plant and 
Mine on 6, 7 and 8 December 2017 Previous mediations in Belchatów as well as conversations 
held in Warsaw with representatives of PGE, or our intervention at the Ministry of Energy, 
have not been successful. Unfortunately, Elbest's Management Board and Elbest Security are 
avoiding conversations by dragging mediations. The employees say enough, we are going out 
onto the street.

In Elbest Security sp. Z o. O., A collective dispute continues. The postulates of the 
employee side are:

PLN 1,300 increase for all employees of Elbest Security sp. Z oo Profits from the 
company's activity, which could contribute to the improvement of the salary conditions, 
are taken over by the owner of this company, which is the Polish Energy Group. We demand a 
change in the distribution of profits so as to enable the increase of the wage fund.

2. Raise the basic wage so that it is equal to at least the minimum wage for all 
employees. At present, gross basic salary even for guards and convoys, possessing gun 
licenses and protecting strategic objects such as Mines, Power Plants all over Poland 
employed by this company can amount to only PLN 1390 and in real terms it is usually about 
PLN 1650. The amount of allowances for overtime and other benefits dependent on the basis 
of recruitment is calculated from this basic rate. They receive monthly payments to 
compensate them for wages to the minimum wage.

The employees of Elbest Security sp. Z oo are divided, because to some of them there is a 
collective labor agreement from the time when the company was still part of the ELBEST Sp. 
z o. o. This system still provides basic wages at a level not lower than the minimum wage. 
Unfortunately, as a result of the division of ELBEST into several separate branches and 
then their partial consolidation in the form of Elbest Security sp. Z o. O. It turned out 
that some of these employees - at least according to their bosses - lost their 
application. Therefore, people employed in the former "Rogowiec II" branch perform the 
same tasks (janitors, receptionists, porters or guards, etc.) as other employees of the 
company for smaller wages.

Possibility of "cutting off" the power plant and the mine by organizing public gatherings 
on the access road, the trade unions announced earlier. After this announcement, the 
management board of the company (on November 8, 2017) agreed once more to consider the 
demand for compensation for wages and their further growth. This is the end, and from 
January 2018, the wage differences between employees of Elbest Security will deepen again.

OZZ Employee Initiative together with MZZP "Zjednoczeni" fights for decent and fair pay 
conditions for all employees, regardless of what they do at the power plant or its 
environment. High wages in the energy sector is a myth. The sector is characterized by 
large stratification of wages. This is favored by the fragmentation of employers and the 
phenomenon of outsourcing.

If the demands of our colleagues from Belchatów are not met, further actions are planned 
with the participation of our trade unions.

Press conference on protest (LÓDZ):
December 6, 2017 (Wednesday)
hours 12:00
The main entrance to the Marshal's Office in Lodz (Aleja Marshal Józef Pilsudski, No. 8)

In the matter of the course of the demonstration, please contact the following people below:

MZZP "Zjednoczeni" in Elbest sp. Z o. O.
Https://web.facebook.com/search/top/?q=mzzp%20-%20zjednoczeni
www.zwiazekzjednoczeni.pl
Zofia Kedziak, tel. 733 654 323

OZZ Employee Initiative
www.ozzip.pl
Piotr Krzyzaniak, tel. 663 586 559

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/pilne-akcje/item/2326-odcinamy-elektrownie-i-kopalnie-w-belchatowie-konferencja-prasowa-i-demonstracje

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