Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - Book: Manuel
Sirvent Romero, "The Shoemaker of Alicante" (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poster and text of the libertarian shape of the University
of Patras by dwarf horse (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Through his memoirs, edited recently thanks to the work of his granddaughter and the
CNT-RP editions, the course of Manuel Sirvent Romero challenges us. ---- In the first
place because this militant (aged 20 years in 1910), cobbler and self-taught worker, was
one of the many almost anonymous craftsmen, although very important, of the Spanish
libertarian movement, from its infancy to work in exile. His precious account literally
plunges us into the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Spain and helps us to grasp the extent
of the construction work carried out by the activists of the CNT and the FAI who, like the
author , allowed to build powerful political and union tools in a very short time despite
the innumerable round trips in prisons and the deportations imposed by monarchical and
later republican authority. ---- Then, because its author, worker and self-taught gives us
over the pages of many reflections, clear and powerful, from his daily work both in terms
of the mechanisms of exploitation that the relationship to religious morality.
From fascist uprising to exile
Finally, it helps us to understand in a precise way the sometimes complex political and
international problems that arose in Spain, from the fascist uprising to the exile in the
French concentration camps. More than a testimony, this autobiography is certainly an
excellent way to approach the revolution and the Spanish war, while teeming with powerful
demonstrations very accessible on capitalism, the state, the clericalism, the relation to
the production and in power. In addition, it provides valuable information on the manner
of action of the libertarians of the time, at the union, political and cultural levels.
Titou (AL Fougeres)
Manuel Sirvent Romero, The Cobbler of Alicante. Memoirs of an activist of Spanish
anarchism (1889-1948), Ed. CNT-RP, 2017, 290 pages, € 15.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Livre-Le-Cordonnier-d-Alicante-Memoires-d-un-militant-de-l-anarchisme-espagnol
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Message: 2
The Eleutherique of the University of Patras is a structure made up of students from
various faculty departments based in the University of Patras. This scheme was formed by
people who are a little familiar with each other, whose racing career has met several
times in the past, through collective struggles that took place either in the university
or in the metropolitan center. Our choice to set up this scheme was the result of some
reflections, needs and desires that each of us had in his university-and not only-everyday
life. The weakening of the student movement and the wider kinematics of the current
period, the de-isolation and the depreciation of the processes within the university
(General Meetings, mobilizations, etc.) the deafening absence of a libertarian proposal
for organization and struggle - in the context of horizontalism - by active and solid
shapes that can cope with fist and consistency to the challenges posed by the conjuncture,
the overcoming of our needs, the wider depreciation of our lives and the awareness that
the atomic path of apathy is de facto redundant has led us to this move. Collectivization
to obtain better correlations in the struggle (through their sharpening, association and
radicalization) to meet needs, fulfill our desires, and promote our interests, as a
libertarian form starting with the university. the shifting of our needs, the wider
depreciation of our lives, and the awareness that the individual path of apathy is de
facto paid off, led us to this move. Collectivization to obtain better correlations in the
struggle (through their sharpening, association and radicalization) to meet needs, fulfill
our desires, and promote our interests, as a libertarian form starting with the
university. the shifting of our needs, the wider depreciation of our lives, and the
awareness that the individual path of apathy is de facto paid off, led us to this move.
Collectivization to obtain better correlations in the struggle (through their sharpening,
association and radicalization) to meet needs, fulfill our desires, and promote our
interests, as a libertarian form starting with the university.
Eleftheria because we are proposing the horizontal and uninterrupted form of organization
and action both inside and outside the university institutions. We choose honest, equal
and anarchiarchy relations, putting forward self-organization and solidarity amongst the
bottom. We want the structures we set up to carry out our struggle to be the precursors of
tomorrow's society that we want to build on the shell of today's aging society. We
understand that problematic vehicles only in problematic destinations can lead us, so we
are fighting here and now, within and outside our form, discrimination based on racial,
gendarmes or any other power framework. The nature of institutions and bodies such as
boards of directors, boards of directors and student elections, is in contrast to our own
physical characteristics and the forms of intervention and struggle we have chosen. Such
institutions think we cultivate reasonable assignment and representation, create illusions
about better management, which undoubtedly reduce the pulses of self-action and
uninterrupted action and only promotor can not function for the struggle. We explicitly
and categorically declare enemies of client, ruse and power relations (trade in notes and
prizes in night clubs), developing various systemic and reactionary factions that not only
have nothing to do with their clubs, struggles and claims but stand open against them,
trying to break them,
Figure because as students we are seeking a flexible and competitive structure of
intervention and action within the university, student associations and General
Assemblies, for their empowerment, massification and radicalization. A scheme that will
have a regular presence in the university area will compete with students and employees
(cleaners, administrators, etc.) claiming to belong to them and rebuilding embankments in
any form taken by educational restructuring as well as any other change it comes down to
the conditions we are studying and living with.
Students because the people who formed this structure share the student's common
identity. An identity which, although it does not define us exclusively, has some
particular effects on our daily struggle for survival. This identity, given within the
framework of educational restructuring (as part of the wider capitalist restructuring),
places us in charge of the intensification, discipline, intensity of class barriers and
economic impoverishment.
In particular, the cost of attendance is constantly increasing and passing on the backs of
the students. The ever-narrower economic criteria for students who are entitled to care,
the extremely low number of rooms at the campus for eligible students, the enormous cost
to transfer to the university, the daily checks of tickets, passports and boarding cards
by auditors buses and clubs, paying a school fee to anyone who is not entitled to a food
card, cuts in free books, and the imposition of postgraduate fees in several schools
nationwide, advocate that the university was fortified at the highest level towards
cheimazomena walks and intensify the class barriers. Another aspect of educational
restructuring is the intensification of studies, which further complicates our daily
lives. The boundaries of the declaration of courses, the chains of courses imposed in
several schools, the burden of workshops and work, and the constant hunting of
qualifications and papers that certify our value as a "luxury" workforce in future
workplaces, shape methodically, a model of a flexible, disciplined and disciplined student
who will be in line with the boss's aspirations and orders tomorrow.
The university is transformed into a battlefield between students, where winners are the
ones who manage to scratch the stairway of social development, to which a very small
number of them will climb. which makes our daily routine even more difficult. The
boundaries of the declaration of courses, the chains of courses imposed in several
schools, the burden of workshops and work, and the constant hunting of qualifications and
papers that certify our value as a "luxury" workforce in future workplaces, shape
methodically a model of a flexible, disciplined and disciplined student who will be in
line with the bosses' intentions and orders tomorrow. The university is transformed into a
battlefield between students, where winners are the ones who manage to scratch the
stairway of social development, to which a very small number of them will rise. which
makes our daily routine even more difficult. The boundaries of the declaration of courses,
the chains of courses imposed in several schools, the burden of workshops and work, and
the constant hunting of qualifications and papers that certify our value as a "luxury"
workforce in future workplaces, shape methodically a model of a flexible, disciplined and
disciplined student who will be in line with the bosses' intentions and orders tomorrow.
The university is transformed into a battlefield between students, where winners are the
ones who manage to scratch the stairway of social development, to which a very small
number of them will rise. the chain of courses imposed on several schools, the burden of
workshops and work, and the constant hunting of qualifications and papers that certify our
value as a "luxury" workforce in future workplaces, form a methodically flexible model of
a flexible student , disciplined and disciplined, who will be in line with the aims and
orders of the bosses tomorrow. The university is transformed into a battlefield between
students, where winners are the ones who manage to scratch the stairway of social
development, to which a very small number of them will rise. the chain of courses imposed
on several schools, the burden of workshops and work, and the constant hunting of
qualifications and papers that certify our value as a "luxury" workforce in future
workplaces, form a methodically flexible model of a flexible student , disciplined and
disciplined, who will be in line with the aims and orders of the bosses tomorrow. The
university is transformed into a battlefield between students, where winners are the ones
who manage to scratch the stairway of social development, to which a very small number of
them will rise. the burden of workshops and work, and the constant hunting of
qualifications and papers that certify our value as a "luxury" workforce in future
workplaces form a model of a flexible, disciplined and disciplined student who will
tomorrow is in line with the aspirations and orders of the bosses. The university is
transformed into a battlefield between students, where winners are the ones who manage to
scratch the stairway of social development, to which a very small number of them will
climb. the burden of workshops and work, and the constant hunting of qualifications and
papers that certify our value as a "luxury" workforce in future workplaces form a model of
a flexible, disciplined and disciplined student who will tomorrow is in line with the
aspirations and orders of the bosses. The university is transformed into a battlefield
between students, where winners are the ones who manage to scratch the stairway of social
development, to which a very small number of them will climb.
Our non-exclusive definition of student identity states that the educational restructuring
we are experiencing is part of the wider capitalist restructuring. This means that the
violence we receive daily is multifaceted and expressed in various ways. Through the
narrowing of our family budget (wages and pensions of our parents), through the wider
attack on every social and labor acquis, through all the antisocial measures promoted by
the respective governments, etc. Therefore, we could never see the university as an area
of equal opportunities that eliminates every meaning of a class sign within it. We, we
perceive the university as part of the capitalist construction, which as such can only
reproduce ideas, perceptions, its values and serve its needs. That is why we do not think
that the current problems are a dysfunction of the educational process or an unfortunate
moment of the system that can be corrected and treated through reforms. Today's university
belongs to the physiology of the capitalist system, it is a structural feature of it and
in no case can it change as long as we live in it, as it would cease serving the intended
ones for which it was created.
And a few simple and unambiguous words about the university and its historical role ....
The university, like any other level of the educational system, can only be seen as a
product of the capitalist system, in its historical phases, which performs the
reproduction of the conditions of capitalist production relations. This means that the
university being tied to the aims and objectives of capital contributes to the formation
of the necessary conditions for reproduction, profitability and sovereignty of the latter.
Its role is therefore to produce that model of a graduate, who will be one of the experts
in the field to form the scales of production and on the other will be forged under the
values and ideals of the system, namely personalization, competitiveness, cannibalism,
blind obedience, nationalism, We understand the university as an institution with a dual
role which is the reproduction of capital in logistical terms and the ideological
legitimization of the exploitative nature of the capitalist mode of production on the
consciousness of students / future workers. Another equally important aspect of the
university, which makes it an ideological mechanism of the state, is its contribution to
the assimilation and reproduction of science-academia by the student body. An ideology
that is expressed through the blind and unbiased acceptance of all the knowledge that the
university translates us into. Knowledge is presented with a character of autonomy and
neutrality, detached from the subjective position of the transmitter that propagates it.
Instead, we must regard it as an element of the sovereignty that is cut and sewn to the
measure itself and accomplishes its own purposes. It is a deficient knowledge that does
not contribute to the elaborate development of human skills, but it forms one-dimensional
people who perform a function profitable for capital.
AGAINST ASSIGNMENT AND SUCCESS
RESISTANCE - AUTOORGANIZATION - SOLIDARITY
ORGANIZATION AND COMPETITION IN AND OUT OF UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONS
Libertarians of the University of Patras
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