Anarchic update news all over the world - 8.02.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, glasgow anarchists: Glasgow Events Autonomy Update
      30/1/18 by fleabite | Leave a comment (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #279 - Colonial
      Chronicles: Macron in Africa: Beautiful Speeches and Pretenses
      (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - The May 68 of the
      workers, in Nantes on February 17 by AL Nantes (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, Anarchist Federatio: Jin, jian, azadi! Women, life,
      freedom! + Speech for the Anarchist Federation: -- We bring a
      report from the Sunday demonstration to support Afrin.
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Collective Rupture (RC): "Long live our community! Only the
      people can defend the people!": This is how the people of Tierra
      Colorada thank their Community Police by Demián Revart (ca)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  freedom news - Syrian Revolution: Anarchist initiative from
      Koridallos Prison in Greece (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Poland, Rozbrat: Can an official be greedy? Comment
      Stanislaw Krastowicz [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Greece, CULTURE IN INTERNATIONAL / ANTI-FOUNDATION
      CONCENTRATION AT 4/2 IN ATHENS By APO (gr) 
      [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Hello again everyone! Here is your Autonomy Update for the next two weeks. As always, 
email us your radical and autonomous events so that we can publicise them for you. ---- 1. 
Fair Food - Dignified Distribution ---- 31/1/18 ---- 2. Strathclyde University UCU Strike 
Support and Planning Meeting ---- 1/2/18 ---- 3. Banner making for No More Trans Deaths 
Noise Demo ---- 2/2/18 ---- 4. NEON Movement Building Application due ---- 5/2/18 ---- 5. 
WestGAP Stall ---- 5/2/18 ---- 6. Red and Black Song Club ---- 7/2/18 ---- 7. Lessons from 
the Russian Revolution: Anarchist Federation Talk and Discussion ---- 8/2/18 ---- 8. 
ACQuee Planning Meeting ---- 9/2/18 ------------------ 1. Fair Food - Dignified 
Distribution ---- Wed 31 January 2018 ---- 12:00 - 15:30 ---- Kinning Park Complex---- 43 
Cornwall Street ---- Glasgow---- G41 1BA

Glasgow Community Food Network's Seasonal Networking Event for January.

For this event we are focussing in on food sharing projects and organisations. If you're 
involved in sourcing surplus produce, community meals, feeding people, food distribution 
or any other kind of food sharing activity - this one is for you.

We'll have speakers from different aspects of community food sharing and surplus food 
work, discussing their learning and experiences. We'll have opportunites to discuss 
successes and challenges, talk through key issues and network collective action.

Coordinators, project workers, volunteers and participants all welcome.

Lunch will be provided by the Real Junk Food Project from midday.

Register for free online at: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fair-food-dignified-distribution-tickets-40801450236

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2. Strathclyde University UCU Strike Committee Meeting

1/2/18

12.00-13.00

UCU Office, Livingstone Tower

The UCU (lecturer and support workers union) is going out on strike on February 
22nd/23rd/26th/27th February over the attack on their pensions. There is a Strike 
Committee meeting which students wanting to build the struggle are welcome to attend. It 
is at the UCU Office, Ground Floor of the Livingstone Tower at 12.00-13.00 on Thursday 1st 
February.

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3. Banner making for No More Trans Deaths Noise Demo

2/2/18

18.30-21.00

Glasgow Autonomous Space

We're having a banner session for the No More Trans Deaths: Noise Demo down south! Come 
hang out with us and get crafty:~)

We'll be joining various Action for Trans Health chapters, Manchester No Prisons at HMP 
Doncaster on the 11th Feb to protest the state-sanctioned murder of trans people.

MAIN EVENT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/132321850902264/

https://glasgowanarchists.wordpress.com/

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Despite the French president's last speech in Africa, calling for a "  renewal  " of 
relations between France and Africa, acts are far from official speeches. The (neo) 
colonial domination of France is still present through the CFA franc or police and 
military cooperation to "  maintain order  ". ---- The French president made a small 
African tour at the end of November, during which he gave his speech to Africans in front 
of students from the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. The opportunity to present 
the "  renewal  " he claims to embody ... in words, but still not in action ! ---- For 
those who know Françafrique, Macron's oral shines through the omission or defense of the 
main institutional mechanisms of this system of (neo) colonial domination: the CFA Franc 
is justified by technical arguments [1], the military presence by the fight against 
terrorism (going so far as to assert: "  you must only have one thing for the French 
soldiers: applaud them !  " ), the impunity and the exfiltration by France of the former 
president-dictator Blaise Compaoré during the uprising of the Burkinabé people in October 
2014 passed over, etc.

Another subject missing from this speech as any official word of the French government in 
issues of African diplomacy: police and military cooperation [2], including autocratic 
regimes and criminals.

Tintin in Burkina , titled Survival on the Macron conference in Ouagadougou

This practice of sending advisers to the armed forces of "  friendly  " countries was put 
in place during official decolonizations, and continued until today despite reforms and 
constitutional developments. Today, they are mainly justified by a double-continuum 
discourse between security and defense on the one hand ( "  the distinction between 
security and external security is no longer relevant  " [3]) ; and between security and 
development (the security of the citizens of a country is necessary for it to develop) on 
the other hand.

The speech also puts forward a "  technical  " approach that would train the police to 
suppress events less brutally ; sharing the "French  know-how  " mentioned by Michèle 
Alliot Marie in 2011 during the Tunisian uprising. Admittedly, our police officers make 
fewer victims than Togolese or Cameroonian armies (to take the last two examples), but the 
regimes thus supported are often even more illegitimate than ours, given their conditions 
of accession to power.

Diplomatic advisors from the shadows

The support, the provision of counselors and advisers, is often reinforced by the supply 
of so-called "  security  " equipment, and with the financing of private or parapublic 
French operators ... all this in the greatest opacity .

Thus, during demonstrations or uprisings in countries under cooperation agreement, French 
diplomacy often calls for the measure, dialogue, sending back the demonstrators and the 
power, while pursuing without blinking the support to the repressive apparatus of power 
via police and military cooperation.

Fortunately, protesters and protesters from Burkina Faso did not listen to France's calls 
for dialogue and restraint in 2014, while Blaise Compaoré wanted to tamper with the 
constitution to stay in power ... this one would probably still be in place and supported 
in the name of stability so dear to French diplomacy.

It is this same leitmotiv that, despite the rhetoric of renewal, justifies the French 
support for a number of "  sustainable  " dictatorships of Françafrique, as in Gabon or 
Togo (50 years of reign for the Bongo and Gnassigbe-Eyadema families respectively) . 
Change is not to be expected from France, but from the capacity of peoples to rise, 
despite the repressive forces that our country supports and strengthens !

Christmas Surge (AL Carcassonne)

[1] See in this regard Article Odile Tobner in the November issue of Alternative Libertaire .

[2] The Survie Association released a report on this topic in advance of Macron's Africa 
tour, available online at Survie.org.

[3] See the 2013 Defense White Paper.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Chroniques-coloniales-Macron-en-Afrique-beaux-discours-et-faux-semblants

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Popular education workshop: The May 68 of the workers, history of the general strike in 
Nantes. ---- Saturday, February 17 from 14:30 Nantes, Manufacture of tobacco - Room B. 
---- 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of May 68. Moment of revolt of student youth and 
sexual liberation, May 68 was also the largest general workers strike in France. While 
Emmanuel Macron claimed to officially commemorate May '68, and while the weekly magazine 
du Monde devoted a number to Romain Goupil, a 1968 high school student leader who had gone 
into neo-conservatism, it's a safe bet that a whole section of May '68 disappears. 
commemorations: the May 68 of the workers. It must be said that the macronism surrounding 
has little interest in celebrating a victorious workers' struggle which allowed the 
increase of SMIG of 35% and salaries of 10%, as well as a fourth week of paid vacation ...

Alternative Libertaire Nantes proposes a series of popular education workshops to revisit 
the history of the general workers strike of May 1968 in Nantes. These workshops are part 
of a broader perspective: they will serve as a support for the realization of an 
exhibition followed by debates on Saturday, May 26, 2018 on the stakes of the general 
strike, from May 68 to the present day.

Alternative Libertaire Nantes invites you to participate in a first popular education 
workshop on Saturday, February 17 from 14:30. This workshop will take the form of a 
collective and shared reading of an excerpt from Boris Gobille's work (May 68, Paris, La 
Découverte, 2008): it will be a question of allowing everyone to discover and share to 
take advantage, thanks to the tools of popular education and collective knowledge, the 
history of the May 1968 strike in France.

Participation in this popular education workshop is entirely free and free. Simply 
register by writing to n antes@alternativelibertaire.org

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Le-Mai-68-des-ouvriers-a-Nantes-le-17-fevrier

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Message: 4






On Sunday, 28 January, organized the Initiative of No Racism!, Socialist Solidarity and 
the Young Green Assembly called Afrin Not Self: Demonstration Against Turkish Aggression 
Against Rojava. At Palacky Square in Prague, almost 150 people met in the windy Sunday 
afternoon. Participants, almost half of whom were Kurds living in the Czech Republic, 
created a varied crowd decorated with YPG and YPJ flags, depictions of the leader of the 
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, as well as banners expressing support for 
African residents or Solidarity with Rojava - Against all fascist aggresion (Solidarity 
with Rojava - against any fascist aggression). ---- A series of speeches came after the 
demonstration began. The first representatives of the Kurds were present. He emphasized 
that let Erdogan justify the attack on Afrin, its main target being the Kurds in the long 
run. He stressed that, although the PKK is considered a terrorist organization, the Kurds 
do not fulfill their definition of terrorism. Their only goal is to gain the right to 
their own existence and to gain freedom. Murad emerged as Socialist Solidarity. In his 
English speech, translated into Czech, he stated that the people in Afrin are not and will 
not be alone. He stressed that we should put pressure on the Czech government not only to 
stop the supply of weapons. German tanks, which are largely used by Turkish units, are not 
the only material manifestations of the attitude of the European Union or the US to the 
Turkish offensive.

The Young Green member, in her speech, calculated violations of the Erdogan regime, 
suppressing basic human rights. She reminded, for example, that there are a large number 
of transgender people in Turkey, and they, like the entire LGBT movement, face major 
repression. Women and women are the same, and the government also focuses on journalists.

He could not miss the speech of another organizing organization - INR. Their 
representative, among other things, called for actions to promote Afrina, to write letters 
to the relevant authorities, or to appeals to the Czech political party. The INR, 
according to the INR, should seek to avoid extra weapons in Turkey, should finally start 
helping, as promised in the context of alibitic excuses, why not accept any refugees. 
There was also a call for the relevant politicians to resolve the situation of Markéta 
Všelichová and Miroslav Farkaš, who have been rotting for a year in Turkish prisons for 
their support of the Kurdish emancipation efforts in Rojava.

The conclusion was the present Kurds. At first, one of them expressed their deep gratitude 
to all those present for their solidarity and stressed that the warriors and fighters in 
Afrin were also fighting for us. Speech in Kurdish had Mehmed, who has long been engaged 
in the struggle for the rights of the Kurds. The last words, the shortest but most 
succinct, said a small Kurdish girl against the killing of children in Afrin: "Children 
deserve life!" Before crying, she managed to say only a few sentences, but you had more 
strength than all previous speeches.

The event was supposed to end at the moment. After a joint photo of participants with 
banners and flags, the organizers warned that they would not be satisfied with a mere 
gathering, so people started to make a short march.

The procession headed for a moment in the direction of Jungmannovo Square. On the way 
through Karlovo námestí and Spálená we were really heard. The majority of the Kurds, who 
chanted passwords like Bijî berxwedana ypg! (Glory of Resistance YPG!) Or Jin, jian, 
azadi! (Women, life, freedom!). In addition to passwords, there were a few words about why 
we are marching. A little vicious I imagined how a xenophobic looking at a parade, mostly 
made up of skulling men of darker skin, dressed in colorful flags and accompanied by 
reproduced oriental music, takes his legs on his shoulders and runs to warn patriotic 
souls that the jihad has already arrived in Prague!

The march ended at Jungmann Square, where several Kurdish songs and short speeches were 
heard before the event was officially over.

We thank the organizers for organizing this important event. We have come to express our 
solidarity to the Kurds, and the Kurds have not missed it! Afrin is not alone!

Speech for the Anarchist Federation:

We strongly condemn Turkey's offensive of Afina as anarchists and anarchists, whatever the 
goal is.
Is the attack the result of long-term hatred of the state towards the Kurds as a 
nationality? We condemn nationalism!
Or is the operation driven by an effort to turn with Rojava's emancipation, which many 
anarchists see as a new hope for revolutionary events? We condemn the state violence 
against any attempt to live freely!
Does the Turkish state want to expand its territory, take up border areas and subject the 
local population to the proto-fascist Erdogan regime? We condemn imperialism!
Does Turkey try to take another piece of land in the war on energy? We condemn the 
capitalist efforts to monetize everything you look at!
Turkey convinces its citizens that the attack is leading to their security. To get rid of 
so-called terrorists from the PKK. Even in our case, we saw in the Fénix case how easy it 
is to abuse the "terrorism" sticker. Turkey's fake effort to maintain state security is 
used to divert attention from opposition to the opposition. Against this, neither 
anarchists nor other left-wing groups have resigned. There are no reports about some 
anarchist groups from Istanbul or Ankara. Some comrades and comrades are missing, they are 
probably imprisoned without trial.
Turkey is justifying the fight against terrorism, but in reality it just removes all the 
people who are against it. All the people they hate. He wants to get rid of those who 
threw him a few months ago to help clear the Daesh world.
Friends fighting in YPG and YPJ have a better-armed and hateful enemy against each other. 
However, volunteers fighting for Coban came to their aid, and their sympathizers and 
sympathizers around the world express their support. But their most powerful weapon is a 
legitimate desire for freedom.
As our friends from the Turkish anarchist group DAF told us: No state can defeat people 
fighting for freedom!
The people of Afrin will win!

https://www.afed.cz/text/6786/jin-jian-azadi-zeny-zivot-svoboda

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At the cry of "Long live our community!, only the people can defend the people!", 
Residents and a group of organized women from the communities that make up the 
municipality of Juan R. Escudero in the state of Guerrero, created an entire environment 
of celebration and remembrance on Friday, February 2, in honor of the Community Police of 
Tierra Colorada, the municipal head of the region, which belongs to the confederalist and 
autonomous security project FUSDEG ( United Front for Security and Development of the 
State of Guerrero ). ---- With a caravan of trucks -some of which have been expropriated 
from the now inactive municipal and state police- some 160 community members made a tour 
among the towns of the demarcation. Curious were the messages and greetings that were 
shared between residents and community, as unlike the state police, the Community Police 
is made up of humble people and recognized by their peers, so their effectiveness is to 
emerge from the breast of the own town. It's not unusual among people that someone has a 
family member comunitari o!

On March 26, 2013, the people decided to take up arms to expel the various cartels and 
their criminal cells - or colloquially known as "la maña" - for the reason that "there was 
a lot of outrage of organized crime against citizens ( ...) they were kidnapping, 
extorting and taking charge, "says Commander Maximino, who without leaving a long weapon 
that is " more like a symbol because we expropriate the bad guys " , received various 
groups of community members - as if they had not. seen for years- that congregated in the 
community base of Tierra Colorada for the celebration.

The positive results of this project of autonomous security are so visible to the state 
horizon to the degree that "we were already in Petaquillas in Chilpancingo and Xaltianguis 
in Acapulco to shake hands with the people affected to extreme levels by crime, however, 
the cartels they met to expel us because they were not going to lose their territories of 
conquest overnight. "

Today, having these two key cities of Guerrero as the most violent in the Top 10 of the 
country, assessing this type of movement is a social responsibility regardless of flags or 
ideologies.

"They have ambushed our comrades, a few months ago they came to attack the community base 
with grenades," says Maximino, without feeling indignant at this event.

"This fight is arduous, continuous and very dangerous, but it has been worth it," says one 
of the teachers, who from an early age began to do the integral cleaning and clean about a 
hundred chairs of the community base to receive their children. companions in the best 
conditions.

The FUSDEG has presence in La Palma, Las Piñas, Omitlan, Palo Gordo, Potrero, Tlayolapa, 
Tlachocouite, Villa Guerrero, Garrapatas and another ten villages, providing the "service" 
of security (in quotes, since the community tells us that it is rather a voluntary 
resistance and with all the taste of the world) both at the head of a more urban court and 
in rural areas.

"We do not make incursions as other armed groups do that are linked to the government, it 
is done with due respect together with the peoples and taking into account their local and 
democratic authorities so that they defend themselves autonomously (...) it is just to 
throw the hand, is mutual support. "

Currently, both the coordinators and commanders -all of them elected in an assembly and 
public manner- have thought more about " this is not about acronyms, but about the people, 
that little by little the idea of community self-defense expands nationally but not for 
the already formed groups, but for the organization to be of the peoples, of the 
territories and that way we advance to the dignity that we deserve so much here, as in 
Chilpancingo, as in Acapulco as in Mexico City ".

And so, with a meal, music to light the atmosphere and the raffle of a cake of three 
milks, people thanked him with this simple and subtle detail to all those people who daily 
sacrifice their breaks to provide rest for their families.
https://www.facebook.com/ElFaunoAtonal/videos/10211534939826104/?t=54

http://rupturacolectiva.com/vivan-nuestros-comunitarios-solo-el-pueblo-puede-defender-al-pueblo-asi-le-agradece-la-gente-a-la-policia-comunitaria-de-tierra-colorada/

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As events as such write the modern world history, all revolutionary movements need to 
process the information available, discuss and come to conclusions and eventually choose 
sides and fight without failing to take the context of this historical reality into 
account. ---- The text on hand does not set out to provide an exhaustive historical 
narrative. Yet, it does set out to open a discussion that will look into all the critical 
issues raised. Also, our aim is to turn our ideas into action, thus we choose to go 
against the widespread inertia that surrounds the subject matter. ---- A historical period 
as such requires much more than a mere theoretical analysis. As the hotbed of war keeps 
spreading and is now reaching Europe, it is urgent that we create an anti-war movement 
which will fight for and demand an end to the international military interventions, put 
forward ideas on horizontal self-organization, empower the oppressed and ultimately stand 
up against the rise of totalitarianism.

We know well that we can achieve nothing and nothing will be spared for us unless we fight 
at all levels and to all directions in order to intensify and expand our horizontal, 
grass-roots self- organization.

For the war against state and capitalism.

Korydallos Prison, November 2016

Introduction

The uprising in Syria, following that in Bahrain (which was drowned in blood by Saudi 
Arabia), was the last link in a chain of uprisings in the area of Maghreb between '11-'13. 
The western mainstream media called this series of uprisings ‘'The Arab Spring'', implying 
that the demand of the revolting populations was the replacement of their political 
systems with a regime of representative republic, namely a western-type democracy.

However, there are further decisive contributory factors underlying these uprisings. 
Firstly, it's the international neoliberal agenda promoted by state governments which 
serve the corporate interests of chiefly the western, Russian, Chinese and Arabic economic 
elites. Actually, the privatizations launched by the states triggered an escalating 
popular dissatisfaction as large parts of the population were turning poorer and poorer. 
Secondly, it's the violence that even the most peaceful demonstrations were treated with. 
Well before the spark (set by Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation) spread from Tunisia to 
Syria, demonstrations had come with death tolls on protestors. Moreover, the structural 
similarities of these regimes, the similar social stratification of their populations as 
well as the shared characteristics of the human geography in the wider region constitute 
altogether yet another factor that played a major role in the spread of the uprisings from 
Tunisia to Libya, Egypt, Syria and Yemen. Finally, it's worth noting that the fast speed 
in which these regimes were overthrown solidified the protestors' conviction that 
dictators were, in reality, not at all untouchable.

Although all these factors co-existed in Syria, the situation evolved differently. For the 
moment, the geopolitical situation in Syria is a global puzzle without solution. All the 
imperialist rulers -global or regional- are caught in a vicious circle of conflicts, 
opportunistic alliances and unclear strategic goals as part of their presence in the area. 
The situation seems to have reached a dead end, but meanwhile the blood keeps flowing.

What has been going on for roughly four years now in Syria - meaning since the early 
spontaneous uprising began to weaken and gave its place to hostilities among various 
competing parties- indicates that the interference and direct intervention of the global 
powers and their agents have expanded the battlefield and, with it, the market and economy 
of war.

The rifts in the society are too deep and nobody can lead the situation out of this chaos. 
The so-called ‘'negotiations'' and ‘'peace agreements'' are nothing but plans on paper as 
long as they can't generate binding solutions. It's now impossible for Syria to go back to 
its pre-war/uprising state. While the negotiators (government, unsolicited opposition 
representatives, the USA, Turkey, Russia) insist on drawing transitional plans that let 
Assad remain in power, a great number of opponents is by no means willing to conform.

A closer look at the course of events will allow us to understand how the situation 
evolved to this stalemate as we know it. The initial protests in March 2011, which 
demanded reforms rather than a change of regime, flared up in all big cities and Assad's 
security forces responded with excessive violence, killing dozens of protestors, torturing 
and orchestrating the "disappearance" of hundreds. As a result, lots of people took a more 
radical stance and demanded the fall of the regime.

Governmental authorities abandoned several cities and self- organization emerged as the 
prime coordinator of everyday-life organization: health-care, water supply infrastructure 
etc. were created in villages and neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the same thing did not 
happen in the field of self-defense and this was a detriment to the preservation of the 
initial character of the uprising. Part of the army, including generals and commanders 
with their forces, joined the anti-regime side and shortly later formed the FSA (Free 
Syrian Army). At that moment, the involvement of the international powers became apparent. 
The western powers (the USA, the EU, NATO etc.) armed the anti-regime nuclei while the 
Russian state armed Assad's allies. At the same period, the Kurdish areas of north Syria 
were the poorest in the whole country and predominately controlled by PYD (a party 
affiliated with PKK). At the same time, PYD followed a model of communal management in the 
economy and social life in the areas under its control.

Under social pressure, Assad gave amnesty to many political prisoners and this event 
complicated the situation even further. Lots of the released political prisoners were 
Kurdish and Muslim fundamentalists(3). The latter broke away from Iraq-based Al-Qaeda and 
eventually formed ISIS, which proclaimed a territorial establishment for Salafism. The 
totalitarian monarchies in the Gulf (especially Saudi Arabia and Qatar) supported the 
fundamentalists with lots of money and equipment in order to increase their manipulative 
influence in the region. This support strengthened ISIS as well as Al-Nusra, which is yet 
another Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, that took a dominant role inside the opposition, 
compared to the (undermined and poorly equipped by the western block) FSA.

The expansion of ISIS to the west throughout 2014 found no obstacles. Neither the western 
powers nor Russia considered the presence of ISIS a threat to their interests. Only after 
the heroic and determinate fight of the Kurds and the international fighters against ISIS 
in Kobani did the American and Russian states understand that the empowerment of the Kurds 
could possibly serve their interests in that area. This development did not satisfy the 
Turkish state, which has long had its own reasons to oppose to the Kurdish self- 
determination mainly because of the attitude of their US allies. Using the war against 
terrorism as a pretext, the Turkish state first attacked the Kurdish-populated areas of 
southeast Turkey and later the Kurdish cantons in Syria. By mid-2015, Assad's regime had 
lost control of many territories and was chiefly established in the capital and few 
adjacent areas in the west. Russia's decisive air-force intervention prevented a further 
contraction of the regime and enabled it to reoccupy some regions.

Today, -long after the initial uprising and a revolution that turned into a bloodbath - we 
stand in the middle of a chaotic war. It's obvious that any geo-strategic guesstimate is 
risky. On the one hand, sociopolitical stability seems to be of importance to the 
international economic trades. On the other hand, instability and destruction of 
infrastructure appears to facilitate the economic interests of certain blocks of power. 
Such rearrangements intensified the conflicts orchestrated by the transnational alliances 
and their agents. The "war economy" is integral to global capitalism that these power 
blocks promote. Initially, the USA armed the FSA amply enough to merely defend but not 
curb the governmental troops. Similarly, the Russian state overtly intervened on behalf of 
Assad's allies. This intervention, though, was not timely enough to help him prevail. 
Instead, it reached him when he had nearly collapsed. Weapons, telecommunications, food 
and fuel markets are large markets that can maximize their profit margins during wartime. 
Trade- legitimate or not- (mainly of petrol) between the opposing sides may seem 
contradictory at first sight but this is how war works in the era of advanced capitalism. 
Another major hindrance to the stability is the fact that a large part of the belligerents 
do not respect the agreements of the dominant powers and continue a war in conditions of 
full extremity. Evidently, the war could have ended in the absence of all these intricacies.

Full text in pdf here (108 pages)

via Act For Freedom Now! 
https://actforfree.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/syria-eng.pdf

https://freedomnews.org.uk/syrian-revolution-anarchist-initiative-from-koridallos-prison-in-greece/

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Message: 7





Last week, the Poznan press revealed that the current director of Miejskie 
Przedsiebiorstwo Gospodarki Mieszkaniowej SA (MPGM), Pawel Kaczmarek, changing his 
position in power structures in the city (previously he was the head of the ZKZL), for 
three and a half months took two salaries: from his previous company and from the new one. 
ZKZL did not request from him - upon termination - the performance of work. In total, for 
this period he collected an additional salary of 75,000. Golden. ---- I do not conceal 
that this fact is shocked for many reasons. First of all - for many employees, pensioners, 
the amount is very high. Many employees and employees working under the city would have to 
work for 2-2,5 years (such as in libraries or crèches). In addition, in December 2017, it 
turned out that they will not get the expected pay rise, because the city can not afford 
it. How can they accept the fact that the same city has said goodbye with the equivalent 
of over two years of their earnings?

For pensioners struggling with the problem of high rents and rising living costs, the 
situation is even worse because the "additional" 3.5-month remuneration of the director. 
Kaczmarek is the equivalent of the average pension for a period of three years. And what 
about those who collect minimum pensions? What about pensioners or those earning minimum 
wages?

Tego typu sytuacje podwazaja wiarygodnosc wladz miasta, które mialy przyniesc zmiany. W 
tym konkretnym przypadku narazona na szwank zostala wiarygodnosc nowej polityki 
spoleczno-mieszkaniowej forsowanej przez wiceprezydenta Tomasza Lewandowskiego. Ludzie, 
którzy sa jej twarza (w tym szefowie MPGM i ZKZL), nie powinni jawic sie spoleczenstwu 
jako technokraci do wynajecia, którzy zrobia wszystko za pieniadze, ale okazywac pewna 
wrazliwosc spoleczna i elementarne poczucie egalitaryzmu.  Nie powinni byc pazernymi i 
dzialajacymi dla prywaty urzednikami.

Changing policy in our city means not only newly built communal flats or bicycle routes, 
it is also acting in accordance with the principles and sense of social justice, which our 
city is so lacking today. Therefore, I expect the director. Kaczmarek will return 
additional money to the city coffers (or ZKZL).

http://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/sprawy-lokalne/4596-czy-urzdnik-moe-by-pazerny-komentarz

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Message: 8





AGAINST THE NATIONAL PARTICIPATION -- TO REMOVE A DEMAND IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 
STATE INTEGRATION AND TO THE COMPETITIVE CONFORMITY ---- On Sunday, 4 February, a 
concentration in Syntagma Square is being organized in Athens by forces that attempt to 
socialize the nationalist political agenda of the state on the basis of the "Macedonian", 
following a similar concentration in Thessaloniki. Forces including the clubs, party 
mechanisms of New Democracy and the co-rulers with SYRIZA, ANEL, ecclesiastical 
organizations, until the Nazi organization of the Golden Dawn and slaughter fascist 
striking groups in their ranks, in a move that objectively acts as a diffusion belt 
intolerance and as a pole of gathering and mobilizing reactive reflexes.
The aggravated transnational antagonisms and Nato designs are nothing more than war 
conflicts and extreme conditions of impoverishment for the peoples of the region. 
Meanwhile, there are gatherings that "prepare" and illustrate the bleak outlook of warring 
societies where the floods should be ideologically identical to state war machines. 
Against state mythologies and nationalist narratives aimed at separating the class and 
social oppressed of this world, we oppose the common struggle against war, their misery 
and exploitation by the dominant local and supranational elites.

As Anarchist Political Organization we call for a cluster of social-class anti-fascist 
forces to put barriers to the pursuit of modern totalitarianism. Anti-fascist vigilance 
and defense of combat venues, which are targeted by state forces and sub-state gangs. In 
an internationalist-anti-fascist concentration to bring the anarchist project into the 
central political field, the solidarity of the peoples against their common oppressors. To 
express our anger over the streets against the arsonist attack by fascists who accompanied 
MAT squads, the occupation of Libertatia, the attack on the ESC school and the 
anti-fascist concentration and resolve against the state repression that hit the massive 
anti-fascist demonstration of solidarity in Libertatia Monday.

SOLIDARITY IS THE LAW OF THE LAW

THE LIBERTATIA BECOMING WE ARE ALL OURS

TO REMEMBER THE ROADS AND THE STRUCTURES OF THE RACE AGAINST THE FASHION MARKETS OF SUPPLY

REAR FASHION-FRONT FOOTBALL

Anarchist Political Organization-Federation of Collectivities

http://apo.squathost.com

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