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vrijdag 23 maart 2018

Anarchic all over the world - 23.03.2018


Today's Topics:

   

1.  anf english - Afrin administration: The war has moved to
      another stage (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #280 - Read: Guerin,
      Harbi, "Algeria 1954-1965, an anticolonialist fight" (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  [Italy] On the Italian troops of Africa! By ANA (pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

4.  liberta salonica: Intervention at the Turkish Airlines
      Airlines counter at the airport of Macedonia for Afrin (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  About our participation in the anti-fascist /
      anti-homophobic gathering in Aigio courts on March 15 By APO (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

6.  US, black rose fed - Brazil: Interview on the Assassination
      of Marielle Franco (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

7.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Defend our public
      services, Let's raise our heads on March 22 (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

8.  Greece,  Who is the Anarchist Federation? (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Afrin Canton Democratic Autonomous Administration stated that they have decided to 
evacuate civilians from the city to avoid civilian massacres, and that the war has moved 
to another stage. ---- The Democratic Autonomous Administration of Afrin Canton held a 
press conference in Shehba and announced their decision to evacuate civilians from the 
city to avoid civilian massacres and a big humanitarian disaster. ---- Officials from the 
canton administration and spokespersons for YPG/YPJ were present in the press conference 
where a statement was read out by Eecutive Council Co-president Osman Sêx Isa. ---- Full 
text of the statement is as follows; ---- "The heroic resistance of Afrin against the 
Turkish army and its collaborators- remnants of ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra gathered under 
the name of "Free Army"- has entered its 58th day.

Attacks against Afrin began on January 20 with an alliance with Russia and silence of 
regional powers. Russia opened its airspace in order for the Turkish state to commit a 
massacre against our people with all its weapons, and sacrificed the people for its interests.

"MASSACRE AND FORCED MIGRATION IMPOSED IN AFRIN"

These attacks were carried out with the silence of international powers, the anti-ISIS 
coalition and United Nations Security Council.

Massacre and forced migration is being imposed in Afrin. Hundreds of civilians suffered 
all kinds of attacks. This fact shows that the mentioned powers did not fulfill their 
responsibilities for our people and fighters against ISIS and Erdogan that spread terror 
all around the world.

The pro-ISIS Turkish state is using gangs to change the demographics in Afrin and settles 
these reactionary forces and their families in the place of people. AKP has massacred 
hundreds of civilians trying to flee these attacks. Genocidal policies are being pursued 
against a folk.

"WE HAVE DECIDED TO EVACUATE CIVILIANS FROM THE CITY"

During 58 days of attacks, our people and fighters mounted great resistance against NATO's 
second largest army. The whole world should know that our people and fighters resisted 
this savage force with strong will. However, the invading Turkish army has continuously 
targeted civilians and during the past two days, many children and women were massacred, 
and the sub-structures of Afrin were demolished in a planned manner. In order to avoid a 
big humanitarian disaster, we have decided for the evacuation of civilians from the city.

"THE WAR HAS MOVED TO ANOTHER STAGE"

Our fight against the Turkish state invasion and dark forces using the name of "Free Army" 
continues. However, the war has moved to another stage with new tactics to prevent the 
massacre of civilians and deliver a blow to the gangs. Our forces are deployed everywhere 
in Afrin and they will inflict a blow to the invading Turkish army and its gangs in their 
own base. A declaration of victory by Erdogan and his partners has no value in the eye of 
Turkey- and world public opinion. Our forces will make everywhere a nightmare for them. 
The resistance of Afrin will continue until every inch is liberated and people of Afrin 
turn back their homes.

"WE SALUTE EVERYONE THAT EMBRACED THE RESISTANCE"

In addition to the people of Afrin, peoples of entire Northern Syria and Kurdistan stand 
up for Afrin. Besides, democratic forces all around the world have not left Afrin alone. 
On behalf of our people, we salute everyone that has embraced the resistance of Afrin. We 
call upon them to continue their support for our people against genocidal policies and 
press for our people to return home and for Turkish invasion forces to leave Afrin.

"UN SHOULD END ITS HYPOCRISY"

Lastly, we call on the United Nations Security Council to not remain silent and to put 
pressure on the Turkish state in order for the war of physical, cultural and political 
genocide against our society to end. The UN should end its hypocrisy and make the 
necessary decisions regarding the bloodshed in Afrin and Eastern Ghouta.

"500 CIVILIANS AND820 FIGHTERS WERE MARTYRED"

Since the start of attacks, 500 civilians including children, women and elderly have been 
martyred at the hands of Turkish state fascism and more than 1030 others got wounded. 
Apart from that, 820 SDF fighters have fallen as martyrs.

We promise our people, our martyrs and the wounded that we will take vengeance for th

https://anfenglish.com/rojava/afrin-administration-the-war-has-moved-to-another-stage-25570

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Message: 2





Algeria 1954-1965, an anticolonialist fightis a compilation of the different articles 
Daniel Guérin has written about Algeria. They cover a wider period than the Algerian war: 
between 1945, year of the massacres of Setif and 1965, year of the coup d'état which marks 
the official liquidation of the revolutionary process in Algeria. This is not a historical 
work in the classic sense of the term: there is no real chronology of events. They are 
rather hot comments or analyzes of important moments. They relate to several particularly 
interesting topics. The first is a description of French colonialism. The abject state of 
domination in which the Algerians are held, their spoliation of all the lands, their 
exploitation make it impossible to think of emancipation by anything other than 
decolonization.

It is also the anticolonial movement that is described in detail, to understand its 
stakes. It is largely structured around the figure of Messali Hadj. However, because of 
internal quarrels and the strong presence of reformists within the MNA (the party of 
Messali Hadj), it will be another organization that will trigger the insurgency: the FLN. 
Many articles then deal with fighting with the French army, and then highlight the 
barbarization of the fight against insurrection: torture and summary executions become the 
norm, as is the case during the Battle of Algiers in 1957.

Guérin does not limit himself to describing the brutality of the French state, but 
denounces the troubled attitude of the French left. Thus the PCF, at first does not 
support the claim of independence, and leaves isolated the Algerians. A good example is a 
demonstration in 1954, where a block of two thousand non-violent Algerian demonstrators 
are very violently charged by the police, with several dead in the key. However, the 
procession of the PCF does not move, and even refuses to let the Algerians return to the 
demonstration. Similarly, the Socialists (the SFIO) are particularly repugnant in the 
repression, organizing the state of emergency. Only a few libertarian Trotskyists and 
communists save the honor.

Finally, Guérin is not Manichean. He also criticizes the FLN, while supporting the 
struggle of the Algerian people. He thus denounces the bloody war between FLN and 
Messalists, but also the excesses of the FLN in power. Leftists are slaughtered at 
independence, and very quickly the self-management sector of the economy is stifled. The 
coup d'état of 1965 deposing President Ben Bella sees the final liquidation of any 
revolutionary hope in Algeria ...

A very interesting reading to understand the issues that cross the struggle of Algerians 
for their independence.

Matthijs (AL Montpellier)

Daniel Guerin and Mohammed Harbi, Algeria 1954-1965, an anticolonialist fight, The Friends 
of Spartacus, 2017, 250 p., 14 euros.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Livre-Combattre-le-colonialisme

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Message: 3






We also go to the streets in Livorno against the Italian war in Africa, against the 
neocolonial adventure voted in the silence of the media before the elections. ---- War is 
the means that the state and capital use to maintain and nurture. ---- With the new 
military missions, the troops will be sent to Libya, Nigeria, Tunisia and other African 
countries, so that the Italian government with a new military strategy officially enters 
the confrontation between the imperialist powers for the partition of the African 
continent. ---- In the week between March 10 and 18 in various cities, anti-war 
initiatives will be held for the week of the anti-militarist struggle against the military 
missions in Africa launched by the Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI), so that we will 
also take to the streets in Livorno. ---- Via Grande (corner with Via del Giglio)

Saturday, March 17 4:30 p.m.

Livorno Anarchist Federation

Collective Anarchist Libertarian

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/2026531607360441/

Translation> Liberto

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Message: 4





On the morning of Monday 19/3, we made a symbolic interference with banners and triciks in 
front of Turkish Airlines' offices, as a minimal sign of solidarity in the struggle of YPG 
and YPJ rebels and rebels, as well as internationalist anarchists, anti-authoritarians and 
communists fought through the ranks of the International Freedom Battalion, the IRPGF, and 
the USSR, with the gun in hand for defending the liberal revolutionary struggle at Rosawa. 
At present, the Turkish army, with the help of the Free Syrian Army, and the assistance of 
Islamist extremist armed units from the al-Nusra and al-Qaida branches, and with the full 
tolerance of the powerful (see below). NATO, US, Russia) and the more regional forces (see 
Assad regime in Syria, Iran), ---- The genocide of the opposing Kurdish people in 
Afghanistan is at hand, as the plans of Erdogan's totalitarian regime make it clear that 
they are seeking to put a bloody end to the development of the democratic confederation in 
northwest Kurdistan and the Middle East in general. The Turkish state and capital have put 
the Middle East region in search of the exploitation of energy resources, while aiming at 
their general strengthening on the world scale of sovereignty. As a frontrunner of Turkish 
capital and an organic part of the Turkish state mechanism, Turkish Airlines has only won 
in any militarist intervention by the Turkish army. For this,

800,000 people in Afghanistan are trapped without water, electricity, food and medicines. 
Against them lies NATO's 2nd largest war machine. Noteworthy, the greater part of both the 
canton and the whole of the city of Afrina is no longer under the control of the Syrian 
Democratic Forces. It is true that the Turkish army and its allied powers outweigh the 
Kurds and internationalist rebels both at the level of the human potential and the field 
of military equipment. Afrin has been encircled by the forces of reaction, but it is not 
alone. Where we are internationalists, we are together in the Kurdistan / Israeli / 
Israeli struggle and express our solidarity with our small forces,

WINNING IN THE GUNS OF THE CURRENCIES / ISSUES AND INTERNATIONAL ANTITRANS / ISSUES IN 
AFRIN INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AGAINST TIRANA OF THE STATE AND CAPITAL

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/

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Message: 5





On March 15, a gathering took place in the Aigio Courts because of the trial that had been 
set there for the homophobic and sexist comments of Metropolitan Ambrose against 
homosexuals. The lawsuit was made by 8 people from Athens. ---- We made our own call to 
the gathering and found ourselves at the Aigio Court of Justice, responding to Patras 
Pride's college call, realizing that we need to intervene in every field where racist, 
sexist and homophobic propaganda of the state and patriarchy occurs. ---- The gathering 
was flanked by about 100 people from various collectives from Patras, Aigio and Athens. At 
8.30 am the central gate of the court house was occupied, and there was a clear signal 
that the presence of fascists, sexists, neo-Nazis, and other cleaners would not be 
tolerated on our part. A fact that was confirmed in practice as a little time later he 
"ate a few groans" and was hunted by the goldsmith, a former MP, Michalis Arvanitis, who 
ran to hide behind the police, while fights followed with fascicles, with and without 
garbage the duration of the concentration, among them the well-known fascist 
agro-syndicalist of Aigio Paraskevas Spyropoulos.

Inside the site, besides a common banner of collectives and comrades from Patras, which 
wrote "against fascism, sexism and homophobia - on the way to fight for freedom" there 
were also the banners of patras pride (for every sexist and transphobic there is a place 
in the patriarchal), the initiative of women against patriarchy (against religious 
obscurantism, fascism and homophobia ... for emancipation and freedom) and the anarchist 
group "dwarf horse" / APO. (State-Media-Church-Neo-Nazi all the wrecks work together).

Then around 2 pm there was a demonstration on the main streets of Aegio, during which 
slogans were written, tirkays were thrown and the initiative text was shared. The 
demonstration ended in the Metropolis of Aigio. There was a subduction of the 
Christian-Lithuanian flag of Amvrosiou and the flag of the community of LAKKI was posted.

About the story: In December 2015, the Metropolitan of Aegialia, Ambrose, published on his 
personal website the following, referring to the homosexuals: "Well, those who are stoned, 
spit on them! Discard them! They are abodes of nature! Mental and spiritual suffer! They 
are people with intellectual disorder! Unfortunately, these are three-worse and far more 
dangerous than some living in mad collections! Do not hesitate, then! When and where you 
meet them, spit on them! Do not let them lift their heads! They are dangerous! "

Within the courtroom, among the various pearls that worshiped his preaching, his racist 
and homophobic delirium, he did not hesitate to refer even to the intention of executing 
homosexuals by himself using a weapon. To reward him, civil justice has acquitted him. We 
have no illusions about its role, as well as about the inextricably linked relationship of 
the church and the state, about their antisocial nature and their criminal action at the 
expense of humanity.

We will continue to fight against them. Any attempt to diffuse their racist, homophobic 
and sexist discourse into the public domain will find us facing them.

On Thursday 15/3, we all stood together in the streets of Aigio. Collectively and 
compounded against fascism, sexism and homophobia. And so we will continue to deal with 
everyone who lives and lives. We'll crush them!

AGAINST THE STATE, THE CAPITAL AND THE PATRIARCH ...

ENANTIA IN RELIGIOUS SCOTTISH, PHASE AND MODERN INTEGRATION

TO DISASSEMBLE DISORDERS AND MANAGEMENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEES: WOMEN, LGBTQI +, 
WORKERS AND MIGRANTS

ABOUT HANDLING AND FREEDOM

Women's Initiative Against Patriarchy

Contact: Every Tuesday 19: 00-22: 00 in the self-managed area On the walls (Patreos 87) | 
mail: enantiastinpatriarxia@gmail.com

CALL AT THE CONCENTRATION AT THE AEGEAN COURT, ON THURSDAY 15/3, FROM THE WOMEN INITIATIVE 
AGAINST PATRIARCHIA
  "God and Homeland are an unwritten group. Break all record of oppression and bloodshed "

Luis Bunuel

In December 2015, the Metropolitan of Aegialia, Ambrosios, published on his personal 
website the following, referring to homosexuals: " Well, those who are stoned, spit on 
them! Discard them! They are abodes of nature! Mental and spiritual suffer! They are 
people with intellectual disorder! Unfortunately, these are three-worse and far more 
dangerous than some living in mad collections! Do not hesitate, then! When and where you 
meet them, spit on them! Do not let them lift their heads! They are dangerous! "

Following these statements, some people decided to move lawfully against Ambrosios by 
filing a lawsuit for incitement to violence and public incitement to hatred and for 
misappropriation of ecclesiastical office. The hearing of the case is scheduled for 
Thursday 15/3 at the Aigio Court of Justice.

At the time of the takeover of the state and the bosses, the main pillars of the assembly 
of the world of power attempt to exacerbate the rottenness of the state, capitalist and 
patriarchal way of organizing society. As the crisis deepens and the attack that we 
receive in all fields is intensifying, the attack on the field of separations is 
intensified on the basis of sexuality and / or gender. There is a framework in which 
dominance determines who is inside or outside the one defined by the same "normality", 
with the direct effect of imposing the doctrine of zero tolerance on whoever is left over. 
The diffusion of racism, sexism, the promotion of socialism and cannibalism comes as a 
continuation of the institutionalization of the state of exclusion for the evildoers and 
sinners,

The social consolidation of this framework is also strengthened by the church, fulfilling 
its negligible role within the state / capitalist system. The diffusion of one speech in 
the Patris-Family-Religion model reproduces specific patterns for the woman as a mother 
and man within the family by further consolidating the existing gender roles. Metropolitan 
Ambrosios is no exception to this institutional expression. On the contrary, through the 
cruelty of his words, he highlights the essence of his antisocial nature, permanently and 
inseparably linked to the very antisocial nature and constitution of the Greek state. In 
the most vulgar way, it not only condemns and isolates those who differ on the basis of 
sexuality, but also urges violence against them. This does not impress us, since he is 
also a loyal to his institutional role, he is a well-known fascist of the region. His 
recent entrances with the neo-Nazis of the Golden Dawn in the Macedonian nationalist rally 
organized by the island in the city of Aegio are recent. Older, but not forgotten, are the 
hymns in the junta, which served as a gendarme from 1968 to 1976, with the modern remains 
of which, continues to maintain excellent relations.

Against religious obscurantism, patriarchy, fascism, and every form of oppression imposed 
by the state-capitalist system, we respond with fighting resistances. All of us, the 
fighters of this world, should not allow anyone to throw his racist poison undisturbed. 
The world of freedom, a world that will fit all the worlds, will pass over them ...

AGAINST THE STATE, THE CAPITAL AND THE PATRIARCH ...

ENANTIA IN RELIGIOUS SCOTTISH, PHASE AND MODERN INTEGRATION

TO DISASSEMBLE DISORDERS AND MANAGEMENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEES: WOMEN, LGBTQI +, 
WORKERS AND MIGRANTS

ABOUT HANDLING AND FREEDOM

CONCENTRATION: THURSDAY 15/3, 9 AM, AEGEAN COURTS

Women's Initiative Against Patriarchy

Contact: Every Tuesday 19: 00-22: 00 in the self-managed area On the walls (Patreos 87) | 
mail: enantiastinpatriarxia @ gmail . com

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Message: 6





Brazil has been rocked this past week over the political assassination of Marielle Franco, 
a prominent Black, feminist and socialist activist in Rio de Janeiro. Franco was also an 
elected councilor in the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro and having grown up in a 
favela neighborhood, the dense informal settlements of the poor and often marginalized 
that surround major cities in Brazil, she was seen as a prominent organizer and voice 
against the poverty and police violence directed against the largely Black residents. ---- 
We conducted this interview with our Brazilian comrades with the Rio de Janerio based 
political organization Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (Anarchist Federation of Rio 
de Janeiro or FARJ), which is a member of a alliance of similar organizations across 
Brazil, the Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (Brazilian Anarchist Coordination or CAB). 
We discuss Marielle Franco's legacy, Black struggles in Brazil, and the political context 
of her assassination.

-The Black Rose/Rosa Negra Social Media Team (BRRN)

Interview on the Assassination of Marielle Franco
BRRN: Can you tell us about Marielle Franco, her activism, and what she was known for?

FARJ: Marielle was a council woman of Rio de Janeiro, a member of PSOL (Socialism and 
Freedom Party), a party that was created as a split from the Workers Party (PT). She was 
elected in 2016 as the fifth most voted for councilor of the Rio de Janeiro municipality. 
However, first and foremost, she was a Black lesbian woman, born and raised in one of the 
biggest favelas of Rio, who had a long time story of rooted militancy and struggle. She 
was highly involved in human rights struggles, mainly around women's rights (specifically 
abortion rights and against sexual violence) and Black struggles (against police brutality 
and black genocide). More recently, she was named the rapporteur of the Intervention 
Commission of the Municipal Councilor of Rio created to follow up the federal intervention 
in the security of Rio de Janeiro. In her last days, she was actively taking part in the 
denunciation of police brutality in Favela de Acari, a favela that has been a target of 
violent police operations, often resulting in fatal victims, and for months before the 
military intervention. She was very respected among Rio de Janeiro's militants, even by 
the ones that don't believe in electoral strategies, due to her story and combative practice.

BRRN: Tell us about the political context of her assassination. We understand that the 
military and federal government intervened and took over policing in Rio de Janeiro last 
month. Marielle was from a favela neighborhood and a vocal critic of the military's 
involvement in policing.

FARJ: Rio de Janeiro has a long story of military intervention after the end of the 
Military Regime (1964-1985) since the 90s, especially in favelas. However, these 
interventions became more common after 2007, during the second PT government with Lula de 
Silva and during Dilma Rousseff's two administrations. In 2008, the Pacification Policy 
Units (UPP) project started to be implemented in several favelas of Rio. The objective was 
to occupy the favelas with police, expel drug traffickers and, according to them, bring 
along social improvements to the neighborhoods. However, this never happened and since the 
beginning the only thing that occurred was many reports of human rights infringements, 
people being murdered, disappearances, houses being invaded and occupied by the police 
force, while drug trafficking continued to take place, but on the down-low.

The UPP project was a clear preparation for receiving future big events, like the Olympics 
and the World Cup. During these events, military forces were used in favelas to transmit a 
sense of security to the population and tourists, while favela dwellers, formed mostly of 
Black people, kept suffering and dying. Rio went through other federal-military 
interventions, always focusing on operations in different favelas and this long-term 
intervention has not been different. Military forces occupied different favelas, are 
filing dwellers (by taking pictures of their ID and their faces) and several reports of 
human rights infringements had been made. Only in January of 2018, 66 people were murdered 
in Rio during police operations, almost all of them in favelas. The excuse of the "war on 
drugs" have been used for a long time as a blank check for the police forces to kill and 
jail black people in Brazil.

Marielle has always been an opponent of the militarization of city and acted firmly 
against police brutality in favelas and the periphery of Rio. Recently she has been 
denouncing cops from the 41st Police Unit, which conducts operations in Favela de Acari 
and is the most lethal police unit in Rio. Only in 2016, cops from this police unit killed 
117 people. The killing of Marielle is a clear response to her actuation against the Black 
people genocide and being a Black woman herself, she was, as usual, the chosen target.


BRRN: The media is reporting street protests in response to the assassination. What has 
been the response so far both from the government, in the streets and from social movements?

FARJ: So far there has been huge demonstrations all over the country for two days straight 
and there are several others already planned. Marielle was a member of a political 
organization, member and supporter of social movements and previously worked for several 
NGOs. So, very quickly a network of support was formed and demonstrations were organized, 
but they have been more mourning rallies than anything, protests to ask for the end of the 
military intervention and for investigation of the incident. For us, Marielle's murder has 
strong involvement of the police and is directly related to her denunciations of police 
brutality.

The government, along with corporate media, is trying to use the case as one more excuse 
for military intervention, as her case there was nothing to do with it in the first place.

The investigation has already revealed that the bullets used to kill her were from a batch 
sold for the federal police and which was already used in other crimes by the police like 
the slaughter of 18 people in São Paulo three years ago.

BRRN: One aspect of Marielle's political work that has been highlighted was her rising 
prominence as a Black activist and her criticism of the historic and embedded racism in 
Brazil which is rooted in anti-Blackness. For those in the US who may not be familiar can 
you briefly talk to us about what Black movements and struggles look like in Brazil today? 
And can you also discuss some of the influence in Brazil of US based civil rights and 
Black Power movements as well?

FARJ: Here in Brazil, the Black movement are very connected to favela movements, as 
favela's dwellers are mostly Black. So groups and collectives from favelas, even if they 
are not completely formed by Black people, have connections to struggles for Black 
people's rights. Today we can see a few different kinds of groups that are active in 
favelas. Most favelas have a strong presence of NGOs and most of them are very limited in 
their objectives as they are funded by international capitalist organizations and are 
formed by professional activists. Also, there are several autonomous and independent 
groups that make community work in favelas focusing in police brutality and Black 
genocide. They work with families of victims of police brutality, with children, cultural 
activities and popular education helping people to get into college. There is still not a 
prominent Black national movement as Black Lives Matter there, but there are several 
groups and connections are being made.

Black people in Brazil have a long history of resistance, from the quilombos during the 
period of slavery from riots in the favelas when someone is killed by the police. US based 
movements and figures are certainly an inspiration for the organizations here, but 
Brazil's historical formation have very strong differences from the US and things can't be 
simply transported. Although in general the problems Black people suffer here are pretty 
similar to the ones there, there are lots of singularities that make organization 
different. For example, in 2016 in the US there were 913 (2.8 people per one million 
inhabitants) people murdered by the police while in Brazil there was 4200 (20.2 people per 
one million inhabitants). So, Black movements here in Brazil have a strong history of 
organizing long term struggles as everyday there are people dying, innocent people being 
jailed, and they must always react to something made by the state.

BRRN: In Brazil there is currently an ascendant neo-liberal right-wing in power which 
deposed the social democratic Workers Party President Dilma Rousseff in a parliamentary 
coup of sorts in 2016. We also understand that for many on the left in Brazil the recent 
intervention by the army into policing is reminiscent of the dictatorship that lasted over 
20 years until 1985. FARJ recently wrote a piece analyzing the role of the intervention of 
the military in policing and the current political situation in the country ("A 
intervenção federal no Rio de Janeiro e o xadrez da classe dominante" or "The Federal 
Intervention in Rio de Janeiro and the Chess of the Ruling Class"). Can you briefly 
summarize your analysis there and whether you think Marielle's assassination and the 
outrage it has generated may change the balance of forces?

FARJ: In recent months, we saw unified actions from the government and corporate media to 
pass to the population a feeling or narrative that violence rates (assaults, stealing, 
general crimes) have been increasing with massive news during all day about assaults, 
especially during Carnival, when we have a lot of people and tourists in the streets. This 
excuse lead to the implementation of the federal/military intervention which started about 
a month ago and, initially, is scheduled to last until the end of the year.

We don't have any doubts that the intervention is a method of social control and that the 
main target, as always happens, is Black and poor people. The capitalist white supremacist 
state will use any tools they have to ensure that their neo-liberal plan will move along 
without problems.

The intervention means a false sense of security for the middle and ruling class at the 
cost of more death, suffering and loss of the few rights that Black and poor people have 
in this country. Rio de Janeiro has always been a laboratory for the rest of the country, 
as we saw with UPP project which has been implemented in other states and with the recent 
neo-liberal reforms on public services. The intervention here is a clear test on whether 
it can be used in other places around the country.

Also, the murder of Marielle seems to be a clear message to social movements because of 
it's clear connection with the state ‘paramilitary' forces. It means an increase in the 
level of political repression and, although it's not something exclusive of current Temer 
administration, it is certainly connected to it. The killing of militants and social 
movement leaders is a consolidated practice in Brazil and is very common reality outside 
of the big cities with peasants and indigenous movements. In 2017, 65 people were killed 
and 4 massacres were registered and in 2016 there were 61 killed. The work of collecting 
this data by different organizations, including the work conducted by Marielle, is very 
important because it helps social movements and people not only to have someone who claims 
attention and denounce all this violence, but also to give legal/juridical support. We do 
expect that the murder of Marielle can generate something bigger and massive, but its 
still soon to say what will happen. However, it is extremely necessary that anti-racist 
and anti-capitalist groups, social movements and left political organizations answer this 
attack by organizing, mobilizing and taking the streets with combative direct actions, to 
fight back against the crimes committed by capitalism and the state on the body of the 
marginalized sectors of Brazilian population.

We also recommend taking a look at a solidarity statement on the assassination of Marielle 
Frano from the CAB "Marielle Franco, Presente! - Political Murder and State Terrorism in 
Brazil." Other articles related to Brazil are "Domingo Passos - The Brazilian Bakunin" a 
short, biographical piece on the renowned Black Brazilian anarchist Domingo Passos; an 
article on the struggle and strike of municipal workers; and the theoretical piece "For a 
Theory of Strategy" by the CAB.

http://blackrosefed.org/brazil-farj-interview-marielle/

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Unprecedented social attacks, scattered but real resistance, will spring 2018 offer us the 
opportunity for a powerful social movement to stop Macron and regain lost ground in recent 
years ? The powerful are only strong in our resignation. ---- Emmanuel Macron is a student 
of Alain Juppé. He is straight in his boots like Juppé in 1995 but they are boots of seven 
leagues ! Where others broke the social gains with caution, Macron promised to break 
everything at once and he keeps his word: students affected by the decline of the LPAs and 
by the selection ; unemployed and unemployed people affected by the Unedic reform ; 
precarious affected by the disappearance of the subsidized contracts ; pensioners are 
attacked on their pension ; untenable situation in the Ephad ; workers are blighted by the 
orders destroying the Labor Code, the reform of vocational training, the stone-to-stone 
demolition of social security and public services.; austere civil servants (blockage of 
salaries, removal of 120,000 posts ...) ; The list seems endless ... Despite all his 
arrogance, Macron rejected the pension reform in the spring of 2019 ... as he is afraid of 
the drop that would break the camel's back. .

 From local to global

To respond, we need convergence, a general strike. But this solution will not emerge, 
miraculously, from nothing. We are learning from the 2016-2017 sequence. This general 
strike is the only way for workers to stop the government and employers' offensive. To 
build it, it is necessary to start from the base, the local demands, professional, of 
company. To make struggles converge, it is still necessary to make them live ! They do not 
miss: Air France, Ephad, hospitals and even the undocumented temporary workers of 
Île-de-France !

Succeed on the 22nd and its aftermath

The attack on the railwaymen and the public transport service could be the famous drop of 
water, the beginning of the overflowing vase. To restore collective confidence to 
employees, the March 22 national day of action must already be a success in the public 
service and SNCF. So we must make the 22nd a rallying date for all the struggles in 
progress: students, unemployed and unemployed, pensioners, employees. All together, we can 
stop the destructive arm of Macron by building, following the 22, the continuation of the 
fight towards the generalization of the strike without which we will still be losers! The 
stakes are clear, the responsibilities of the employees, the activists and the unions are 
clearly identified: in the unit, built in general assembly of the personnel and in general 
assemblies of cities, we will make fall Macron !

Tract in pdf

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Redressons-la-tete-le-22-mars

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The organization, which above all means simply co-operation and solidarity in practice, is 
a physical state essential to the functioning of society; and this is an indisputable 
truth admitted by everyone, either to the human society in general or to any group of 
people united for a common purpose. -- Errico Malatesta ---- The Anarchist Federation is a 
horizontal organization of anarchist societies. It was founded in October 2015 as a result 
of a long process of discussions and anchorages between anarchist societies that began in 
March 2013. It consists of the following collectives: ---- Athena ---- Anarchist college 
of N. Philadelphia ---- Anarchist collectivity of Rubikon ---- Liberal Collectivism Empty 
Circle ---- Heraklion ---- Anarchist college Octana ---- Thessaloniki ---- Eleftherial 
Initiative of Thessaloniki ---- Ghoul ---- Assembly of anarchist-antiauthoritarians of Lamia

We are part of the wider social, class and revolutionary movement, the exploited and the 
oppressed, and we are struggling for social and individual liberation through the social 
revolution. We understand that the core of the social question lies in the hierarchical, 
authoritative and exploitative way of organizing society by the state and the capital and 
the exploitative and oppressive relations generated by them and by the economic and 
political inequalities. We recognize the need for another model of anarchist organization, 
taking into account the organizational deficits and problems so far.
At the threshold of the new millennium, at a time of new totalitarianism and exploitation, 
the arsenal of sovereignty is renewed. From the bombing of the Middle East and the 
establishment of neo-Nazi and totalitarian governments in eastern Europe, the 
militarization of the repressive forces within the Western States, the concentration camps 
of immigrants, global panoptic control, preventive bombing, brutal military interventions 
and institutionalization precariousness and the middle ages, the chapter confirms its 
relentless struggle towards work. Within this emerging dystopia, the forces of resistance 
have not been silenced. From the incendiary European south, the movements of the American 
continent, the mass workers' resistance in China, the struggles for land in India,
True to revolutionary internationalism and to the organization of domestic revolutionary 
political and class forces, we are trying to create a political body that will strengthen 
and strengthen resistance, help interconnect individual struggles, and aggregate some in 
the direction of the social revolution. We declare ourselves in the blatant class war, 
united against statehood and reformism, staring at the teachings of the past and the 
legacy of historical anarchism, hoping to contribute as much as possible to supporting the 
anarchist communist program. Against the plurality, oppose organization and struggle, to 
get out of the monster's belly and face the light of social liberation.

Why Leviathan will be killed by the slaves' spears ...

Organized, Anti-Constitutional, Anti-Parliamentary
for the Social Revolution, Freedom and Communism
for Anarchy

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