Anarchic update news all over the world - 16.04.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  anarkismo.net: [ZAD] For Immediate Release - Evictions Have
      Begun; the ZAD Calls for Mobilization (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: French Revolt - La
      Lutte Continue!* (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #282 - Edtio: The provoc
      'too much ? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, anarchist communist group: Cleaners eye up strike
      action (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Germany, fau, deliverunion: Over 150 Deliveroo-Riders Sign
      For Better Working Conditions! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Spaine, cnt.es: [#NoCaso14N] Three days of trial for
      something that did not happen (ca, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Alternative Libertaire - AL release, Violence and
      degradations in the ZAD: the power wanted this confrontation that
      nothing justified (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  liberta salonica: Anarchist Federation Announcement on the
      1st Regular Congress of the Anarchist Federation (gr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Kept at bay for years by the movement, a new attempt at eviction of the residents of the 
ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes has begun. Starting at 3 a.m. today, the operation began 
deploying in all its brutality: Interminable lines of blue police vans, armored vehicles, 
tear gas, the first injuries and the first arrests. Gendarmes announced that reporters 
were strictly forbidden "throughout the operation" and blocked their access to the site. 
They declared that the press was prohibited from taking photos and that the media would 
have access only to images supplied by the Gendarmerie. ---- The expulsions confirm the 
government's pretense of re-establishing the rule of law while in fact grossly flouting 
the law. The Prefecture has not even granted the inhabitants of the ZAD access to the 
minimum guaranteed by the law on the right to housing, in this case the right to 
individual procedures and the right to contest an eviction decision. Yet the residents of 
most areas within the ZAD have identified themselves by name on several occasions over the 
past few years.

The Prefecture's outrageous duplicity is visible today in all its hypocrisy: After 
announcing it would seek a "serene and peaceful evolution of the situation" it sends 2,500 
police/army to destroy residents' homes. We are told that a selection will be made on the 
basis of categories that are pure fiction and have no bearing on anything but the needs of 
the repressive storytelling the government has locked itself into. There is no false 
division here between radicals on the one hand and farmers on the other; what exists are a 
number of different and intertwined ways of sharing this land. Contrary to what Gérard 
Collomb[Minister of Interior]claims, in fact no one has been individually legalized over 
the recent weeks at the expense of the others. The movement as a whole has proposed a 
framework for a collective agreement involving all residents and all their projects.

But the government could not simply admit that the proposed airport was useless; they were 
bent on taking revenge against those who had forced the abandonment of the project. The 
land is dying, the most brutal forms of economic processes are atrophying our lives, and 
everywhere, people aspire to alternatives to that situation. On February 10 30,000 people 
had committed to supporting the future of the ZAD. But the government's political message 
is very clear this morning: It will allow no possibility for spaces where alternative 
experiments can take place.

Our anger at the terrible waste the destruction of the houses and living spaces we have 
built here represents is profound this morning. Our emotion at the idea that the 
collective experiment that is the ZAD can be endangered by a police/army assault is 
strong. But the ZAD will not disappear because of this. We live here, we have roots here 
in this countryside, and we shall not leave it. We salute the courage of the people who 
have already joined us on the site and have answered our calls. In 2012, the government's 
destructive arrogance ultimately turned against it. In the current context of widening 
strikes, demonstrations, and occupations throughout the country, we believe that the 
razing of Notre-Dame-des-Landes will become a new engine of a revolt that will take hold. 
This destructive operation will turn against its perpetrators.

We call on all those who can join us now or in the next few days to come to the ZAD. More 
than 80 assemblies are already planned all over France this evening, including in Nantes 
and Rennes at 6 PM. The response to these expulsions will also extend over time. A 
demonstration has been called in Nantes on Saturday and a convergence on the ZAD is being 
organized for this weekend.
Related Link: http://zad.nadir.org/

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30924

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Message: 2





As we reported recently big struggles are taking place against the austerity programmes of 
the Macron government in France. ---- Last week railworkers began strike action that 
closed down most of the French rail network. They were joined on strike by Air France 
workers demanding pay rises and electricity workers and refuse collectors. Meanwhile there 
were occupations by students against the plan by the government to limit access to 
university educations. ---- This comes on the fiftieth anniversary of the May-June events 
of 1968 which resulted in occupations of factories, schools and universities, a general 
strike by 10 million workers and barricades and street fighting which threatened the 
overthrow of the regime led by President De Gaulle.
The Macron regime is determined to push through its austerity measures. What is different 
now is that the French Communist Party, which had a huge influence in the working class in 
1968 and was able to divert and sabotage the struggle then, has collapsed. This was partly 
due to what it did in 1968 but also to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Socialist 
Party, for its part (founded a year after the May-June events), has shown its true nature 
by successive governments that passed austerity measures. Workers' disillusionment with 
the Socialists could be seen when Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former Socialist bigwig and now 
leader of a new leftist party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), was thrown out of a 
demonstration last week to the cries of "Neither God, nor master, nor Mélenchon."

Macron himself emerged from the Socialist Party. An ex-banker and senior civil servant, 
and serving minister within successive Socialist governments; he plans to continue the 
anti-working measures of the previous Socialist government of Hollande. It should be 
remembered that when he was elected less than half of the electorate voted, disgusted by 
the socialists and seeing little choice between Macron and the far right party Front 
National of Marine Le Pen.

The struggle in France is vitally important. Workers, students, the unemployed and 
pensioners need to build links and to develop grassroots organisations and mass 
assemblies. They should not be deceived by any of the political rackets posing as the 
friends of the working class.

* La Lutte Continue - French for ‘The Struggle Continues'.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/04/11/french-revolt-la-lutte-continue/

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Message: 3






The Spinetta report on the SNCF is a classic of the kind: an umpteenth bourgeois cumulard 
(Air France, Areva) lays a pseudo-report taking up the reckless revenues of liberalism to 
justify the deconstruction and privatization of a public service. ---- End of railway 
status, opening to competition, removal of the less traveled lines, everything is there. 
Spinetta does not understand what he's talking about, because his life takes place outside 
the realities of employees and users and users of rail. He knows nothing of the 
prohibitive tariffs and daily difficulties of people exiled from urban centers that have 
become too expensive. But he undoubtedly knows the tactics of the planned degradation of 
public services to justify their privatization. And like his master's little dog, he 
understands what he is asked to do: bark in the right direction.

Selection at the university, privatization of the SNCF, reform of the ferry, the 
government is accelerating. Capitalists often confuse sneering and accession. It may be 
that things are not going as planned. Since February the mobilization is developing in 
some universities and March 22 a day of mobilization and strikes in the public service and 
the SNCF was positive.

The mobilization seems stammering but the cracks that are emerging in recent weeks, could 
open the way to a general anger.

Libertarian Alternative, March 31, 2018

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Edtio-La-provoc-de-trop

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Message: 4





The grassroots union Independent Workers of Great Britain has called for a strike ballot 
of cleaners at EY (Ernest and Young) . The cleaners are employed by outsourcing outfit ISS 
and work at the EY buildings at 1&6 More Place and 25 Churchill Place in London. The 
accounting firm EY talks about "Building A Better Working World". It had a global revenue 
of over $31.4 billion last year. Despite this, it treats its cleaners in an appalling 
fashion. They have no job security or the conditions that the directly employed workers 
enjoy. As a result of a consultation "to improve financial performance and cost 
effectiveness" cleaners will have to do the same amount of work with fewer staff. EY and 
ISS have intimidated workers. A flash mob protest took place last week outside EY offices 
at London Bridge.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/04/11/cleaners-eye-up-strike-action/

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Message: 5






Last Friday we handed in our petition signed by over 150 riders to the Deliveroo head 
offices - you should have seen their faces when they opened the pizza box and saw over 30 
pages of signatures! ---- We gave them until Friday 13th to reply with a negotiation 
meeting date, to discuss our demands: ---- * pay us for waiting time (4€ for every half an 
hour without an order) ---- * cover our compulsory statutory accident insurance ---- * 
reimburse bike parts expenses (0,35€/km) ---- * progressively raises riders' pay (an 
additional 0,50€ after 3, 6 and 12 months of working for Deliveroo) ---- Soon after we 
handed in the petition Deliveroo wrote their riders an email saying they want to work with 
riders and not with "third parties". Suggesting that 150 organised riders are a "third 
party" is a new low for the company.

Let's see if Deliveroo decides to listen to the 150 riders who demanded a negotiation 
meeting, or decides to ignore them completely.

https://deliverunion.fau.org/2018/04/12/over-150-deliveroo-riders-sign-for-better-working-conditions/

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Message: 6






A picture is worth a thousand words. The image that summarizes these three days has been 
contributed by Fernando F. Beneite, who was the head of the National Police device during 
the strike of 14N, who without much reflection has spoken about the "video that I have in 
my head". And nowhere else. The dramatic images of this film, composed of dramatic images, 
typical of a warlike scenario, could not be seen during the sessions. The only evidence he 
has presented are his words; To believe them is, therefore, a matter of faith. ---- That 
the police version is a queue has barely disturbed the prosecutor, who has simply lowered 
Paul's request for jail in a year to not see the crime of injury. In truth, this cause is 
a grotesque. The recognition by the person in charge of the Superior Police Headquarters 
in La Rioja that he has not investigated the destruction of the graphic documents obtained 
by his subordinates during the loading, would have made Don Ramón delighted, especially 
since he could leave the court without his incompetence having any repercussions.

The real victims of the show are our partners Jorge and Pablo. His tenacity and courage is 
titanic. They have endured this moment for six years, collecting all the existing 
evidence. They have endured an accumulation of falsehoods and indignities with integrity, 
listening that hundreds of hooded men, animated by soflamas, dedicated themselves to 
throwing paving stones and stones to the policemen. They have had to listen that CNT is 
composed of "not normal" people, violent people who are dedicated to bursting the 
demonstrations. And all this they have lived without being allowed to even outline a 
complaint.

They have been judged for something that did not happen. Now that the cause has been seen 
for sentence is when they and those people around them need our support and affection. If 
they touch one, they touch us all: JORGE AND PABLO ABSOLUCIÓN.

Permanent Secretariat of the Confederal Committe

http://cnt.es/noticias/nocaso14n-tres-d%C3%ADas-de-juicio-por-algo-que-no-sucedi%C3%B3

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Message: 7





The movement against the airport, however, has expressed its intention to seek a 
compromise solution for the future of land site Notre-Dame-des-Landes. We can read in this 
attack the will of revenge of the government and the choice to give pledges to the 
reactionaries of all sides who did not digest this anti-capitalist victory. ---- On 
Monday, April 9, 2,500 gendarmes launched their offensive to destroy the homes of 
occupants of the ZAD. The power is revenging today actors and actresses of the fight 
against the project of airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL). ---- Since 3 am this 
morning the gendarmes began their aggression against the inhabitants of the site of the 
abandoned airport project. In their luggage they brought the necessary gear to destroy the 
houses, but also armored vehicles.

The occupants of the site oppose a determined resistance against the rogue cops: 
barricades of "  vigilant tractors  ", more conventional barricades possibly inflamed to 
hinder the progression of the forces of the disorder, human chains ... The diversity of 
the tactics of resistance vis-a-vis the invasion is part of the realities of the ZAD.

Despite the determination of the occupiers, the disproportion of the forces and especially 
the military equipment brought and the tear gas that drowns the ZAD under a cloud of toxic 
gases allow the gendarmes to gain ground. But the power must recognize that it will remain 
complicated for them.

Gérard Collomb, the sinister is obliged to announce "  we will maintain, as long as it is 
necessary, forces of the order so that there is no new occupation  ". Journalists are 
blocked by cops who do not want witnesses to do their dirty work.

 From 5.30 am an arrest and an injured are reported. From 10 am the cops begin to destroy 
houses.

Read also: " Notre-Dame-des-Landes: the ZAD defeated, the ZAD must live ", January 17, 2018.

Photos: Christophe Jaunet via Twitter

Although the movement against the airport has unambiguously expressed its intention to 
seek a compromise solution for the future of the lands of the NDDL site, the government 
wanted this confrontation that nothing justifies ... except the will of revenge of the 
government and the choice to give pledges to reactionaries on all sides who have not 
digested this anti-capitalist victory.

Libertarian Alternative denounces the government's all-repressive policy and this violent 
and cynical class war, which it embodies.

In the face of these brutal thugs, facing the repression that is coming, it is important 
to react immediately. Already 77 gatherings are planned everywhere in France .

Alternative Libertaire calls all those who can answer the call of the ZAD at a 
demonstration in Nantes this Saturday and a convergence on the ZAD this weekend. Against 
Macron and his policy, it is the whole social movement that must unite.

Libertarian Alternative, April 9, 2018

Demonstration Saturday, April 14
in Nantes, 15 hours, place du Cirque

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Violences-et-degradations-a-la-ZAD-le-pouvoir-a-voulu-cet-affrontement-que-rien

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Message: 8






On 19 & 20 May 2018, the 1st Regular Congress of the Anarchist Federation will be held at 
the Eleftherios Self-Governing Theater, Embros, in Athens. ---- But before we go into the 
details of the conference and its themes, we will make a brief reference to the political 
figure of the Anarchist Federation. ---- The Anarchist Federation is a horizontally 
organized federalist organization of anarchist collectivities. It was established in 
October 2015 as a result of a long process of discussions and anchorages between anarchist 
societies that had begun in March 2013. We choose to operate with a non-centralized model 
offering to the collectives of the AO. a substantial autonomy of action and reason - an 
autonomy that builds the Federation from bottom to top. In this way, it releases itself 
and its cells from the inhibiting-action-element of the "stamp" in every single move and 
initiative. The Federation operates primarily as a coordinating, fermenting and strategic 
design body. Wanting its growth with the entry of existing collectives or the targeted 
creation of new ones,

So far it has the following collectives:

Athena:

Anarchist college of N. Philadelphia
Anarchist collectivity of Rubikon
Eleftherias Assembly Empty Circle

Heraklion:

Anarchist college Octana

Thessaloniki:

Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki

Ghoul:

Assembly of anarchist-antiauthoritarians of Lamia

We are anarchists, part of the wider social, class and revolutionary movement, the 
exploited and the oppressed, and we strive for social and individual liberation through 
the social revolution. We recognize the necessity of another model of anarchist 
organization, taking into account the organizational deficits and problems so far. The aim 
of this organizational effort is to create a structure that will strengthen and strengthen 
the struggle for social self-management based on commonly agreed political and strategic 
goals.

We consider that the precondition for the social revolution is the development, 
massification and organization of both the wider collective and horizontal social and 
class struggles of the exploited as well as the anarchist movement. Therefore, our main 
goal is to promote and maximize the diffusion and influence of revolutionary, 
anti-authoritarian and libertarian ideas, practices and values within these struggles. We 
are looking for the A.O. to play a catalytic and promotional, but not hegemonic, role in 
the birth and development of these struggles. The means we use to achieve the goals are in 
inseparable agreement with them.

In January 2018, believing that time had come for us, the Anarchist Federation published a 
public presentation of the assessment of its creation and operation. The reason he 
suggested this was double. On the one hand, it was a necessity based on the political 
ethos and libertarian culture that we are trying to have as anarchists. On the other hand, 
the ownership, both by us and by the rest of the movement, of the experience that has been 
painfully conquered by the course of the organizational struggle so far is an essential 
necessity. We therefore have, after years of procedures, to define successes and failures, 
denials and victories, inevitably as well as reckless mistakes. This valuation text 
signaled for us the completion of what we defined in our founding conference in 2015 as 
the "experimental period" of the Anarchist Federation, a period, that is, de facto each 
and every movement, our every structure, our every initiative would be experimental, just 
because neither and none of us had done it again, none and none of us had a ready recipe. 
With this text, we have announced the results of this "experiment" and based on the new 
reality we are now proceeding to the 1st regular conference of the AO. which will 
determine its definitive physiognomy. With this text, we have announced the results of 
this "experiment" and based on the new reality we are now proceeding to the 1st regular 
conference of the AO. which will determine its definitive physiognomy. With this text, we 
have announced the results of this "experiment" and based on the new reality we are now 
proceeding to the 1st regular conference of the AO. which will determine its definitive 
physiognomy.

(the text of the report is here )

The two-day 19 & 20 May 2018, therefore, will be the 1st regular meeting of the Anarchist 
Federation. This will complete and validate the changes in the statutes regarding the 
structure, internal functioning as well as the positions to be filled in with the 
synthetic texts for the topics of the pre-congress dialogue to be discussed.  These themes 
are: Tax Issue, Epilogue Issue, Imperialism, Substance Issues. Pre-conferences are under 
way. Here, let's make clear that there is no single model of dialogue for all the themes, 
nor does each group commit themselves to a specific way of expressing its position. Thus, 
for some thematic issues, the Federation's final position is the result of a dialogue that 
took place on comprehensive contributions, written positions in bullet form and / or oral 
placements in the various pan-Hellenic meetings of the AO. Therefore, it is not 
technically possible to make all pre-conferences dialogue public. What is feasible to file 
publicly is the comprehensive collections texts for some of the themes. For the question 
of the structure there were no written positions, as the proposals for change of the way 
of operation were made in the living procedures of ?.?. based on the shortcomings we all 
encountered and for which we were looking for ways to improve together.

In the same context have been announced events under the responsibility of the clubs of 
?.?. with the aim of public debate on the positions under discussion in Athens, Thiva and 
Lamia.

Following is the agenda of the weekend:

1st Day:

The first days of the dialogue will be the collectives of the Anarchist Federation, as 
well as specific invited collectives and individuals. The final modifications will be made 
to the synthetic texts for the themes and the changes and additions will be validated. 
Collectives will be placed on each of the first day thematic. The invited collectives and 
individuals will be able to position themselves on a topic-by-theme basis and their views 
will be taken into account in the composition of the Federation's final position, which 
will be recorded in its statutes.

The themes are:

A. STRUCTURE

Changes in the structure and operation of AO

B. POSITIONS

B1. Position on the class question,

B 2. Position on the giant question,

B3. Position for imperialism,

B4. Position on the issue of substances

Day 2:

a. Presentation of the new political / information portal members and not just the 
anarchist federation

b.  Open public debate on the theme " The current conjuncture at the time of the decline 
of social struggles over the SYRIZA-ANEL government, the political reconstruction and the 
response of the anarchist movement ".

The subject is deliberately wide. Its possible but not exclusive or necessary spikes, as 
it has been shown by its own collectives, can be:

- The new conjuncture as formulated after the 4th Memorandum.

- The tactics of the movement on new measures, first-time auctions, abolition of Sunday 
holidays, local-community struggles (eg Squires), base clubs, student trade unions, class 
self-defense structures.

- Organizational dualism. The need for the simultaneous organization of anarchists in 
political collectives and classifications. The distinction between these two 
organizational forms. What the federal organization of anarchists has to offer and why it 
is considered imperative.

- The rise of nationalism in the Balkans and the anarchist response.

- The Macedonian issue.

- Social welfare in Greece.

- The rise of far-right in Europe.

- The immigration issue.

- The anarchist attitude in the event of a war of local or more enlarged dimensions

etc.

The 2nd day of the conference is open to anyone who wants to attend collectively or 
individually. This is a public debate in which everyone and everyone will be able to 
position themselves, while the Anarchist Federation's collectives will do their own 
positions without any common suggestion from the federation.

The goal of this conversation, and dedicating this second day of our conference, is the 
up-dated enrichment of our ongoing collective reflection and movement, on the development 
of a capable revolutionary strategy at the juncture. The Anarchist Federation will 
endeavor to capitalize on the debate and political considerations that will be put to it 
as a starting point, as a raw material and a driving force for defining its political 
priorities in its post-conference political agenda and its presence.

The aim is also to meet and fertilize with collectives and individuals who choose to place 
themselves, hoping that any process of dialogue, regardless of wider political agreements 
and disagreements, will bring us closer to creating a background of co-modality, 
co-existence and mutual respect.

Anarchist Federation

anarchist-federation.gr
info@anarchist-federation.gr
twitter: witter.com/anarchistfedGr
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