Today's Topics:
1. Solidarity in occupation of Libertatia By APO (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. awsm.nz: Housing: Rhetoric .v. Action By Pink Panther
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. wsm.ie Distrust politicians? - Vote for Repeal because we
forced them to call the referendum, we are the rebellion
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #282 - Nuclear: EPR: ever
more danger (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. FESTIVAL FOR INTERNATIONAL, SOCIAL AND TAX SOLIDARITY
FESTIVAL ATHENS | 5, 6, 7 and 8 JULY 2018 By APO (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Poland, rozbrat: On April 21, we went to the German town of
Ostritz to protest against the "Schield & Schwert" neo-Nazi
festival held there. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. [Spain] 1st of May: Taking the streets By ANA (ca, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Czech, afed: Anarchists First May - Invitation to May Day
events in Prague and elsewhere. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On 25/4, at 10:00 am , came to Libertatia a mixed step of the Ministry. Culture along with
the alleged owner. On the pretext that they should control the site because the building,
after the arson, could be a threat to public safety, they asked to enter the occupation.
Their companions refused entry. After several repetitions of the statement that we will
stay in the area, they threatened to intervene in a prosecution and so they left. ---- As
part of the process of rebuilding the occupation, solidarity engineers have confirmed many
times in the past, but also after the arson of the building, that it does not have a
static problem and its repair is possible. The declassification of the building as a
preservable is necessary to cut down and then "capitalize" on the plot.
Libertatia is not just a building. Libertatia houses the needs of people without paying
rent. It is a place of political fermentation, conciliation and meeting, a place that
hosts discussions and events about anti-fascism, anti-socialism, work. A space where the
occupation structure of occupation functions. At the same time, cultural activities and
groups are housed, such as the group of screenings, musical improvisation and the open
library. The common point of all the above is the kind of relationship that gives them
life. Anti-hierarchical relationships of respect.
For us, squats are not their dwarves. It is the relationships that are born and evolve
within them. They are structures of social and class struggle. They are housing structures
and open spaces for the promotion of libertarian ideas and revolutionary actions.
Because occupations mean everything we said above, and much more, the best response to the
state and the fascists is the reconstruction of the building, both symbolically and
politically. We want the rebuilding of Libertatia to be a symbol of anti-fascist struggle
and to remain a structure of resistance to state, capital, and fascism.
Despite the arson by the fascists, despite the efforts of the state to suppress us and the
capital to exploit our sites, we will continue to be here. We politically fortify our
occupation and defend it against any attack. That is why we are stepping up our action in
the field.
Action Program
Thursday 26/4
12.00 Microphone
21.00 Movie Show '' 9 Days at Roadblocks ''
Friday 27/4
21.00 Watching "Mimis Sideras" Movie
Saturday 28/4
15.00 Collective Cuisine and Rebetiko Feast
Solidarity Assembly every day at 18.00
RELEASE LIFE IN THE BUILDING AND STRENGTHEN POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF SOLIDARITY,
EQUALITY AND FREEDOM
Solidarity Assembly in Libertatia
Libertatia, Collectivity for Liberal Communism
http://apo.squathost.com
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Message: 2
With much fanfare the Labour-led government announced in its first budget major changes to
supposedly assist beneficiaries who are struggling with housing costs. On April 1st, 2018,
the changes, especially to the Accommodation Supplement, took effect but it quickly became
apparent the government had given with one hand and taken away with the other. ---- While
the maximum payments in the various Accommodation Supplement zones increased by an average
of $15 a week (more in some areas as they were moved to other Accommodation Supplement
zones) the majority of those people who had an Accommodation Supplement increase lost
their Temporary Additionary Supplement. In effect their payments only increased by the
annual cost of living adjustment. For many people that meant less than $5 a week extra in
the hand. $5 a week is hardly the major increase in assistance that the government hinted
at. Indeed, the actions of the Labour-led government to address the problem of housing
have been less than stellar.
When TVNZ revealed on April 12th, 2018, that the Department of Work and Income had issued
Advances of Benefit for tents for twenty families the Housing Minister Phil Twyford
stated, "It's not ok for the government to be supplying tents. It might have been
acceptable under the past government it's not under ours ... We're pulling out all the
stops with emergency and transitional housing, building thousands of extra state houses,
and if people are homeless and don't have anywhere to live we will do our absolute best to
find somewhere for them." That was a response that was full of the sort of bombastic
nonsense and rhetoric that would've made U.S President Donald Trump proud.
While the government has announced lofty plans to address the housing shortage, including
the announcement that 53 new state houses are planned for the Castor Crescent area in
Porirua (Stuff website, March 6th, 2018), nothing has been built up to now.
Housing shortages in most parts of New Zealand have become critical. The NZ Herald stated
in an article on November 3rd, 2017, that there was a nationwide shortage of 71,194 houses
(44,738 in Auckland alone) according to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and
Employment. That's disgusting in a country that once prided itself on its virtual lack of
homelessness.
What is even more disgraceful is that it's the most vulnerable groups in our society who
have found themselves unable to put a roof over their heads. Maori. Pacific Islanders,
youth and the mentally ill have been the most heavily impacted by the lack of housing.
With the median rent in Auckland and Wellington being $550 a week and $385 a week
nationwide (excluding Auckland) according to Nigel Jeffries, the head of Trade Me Property
(NZ Herald, February 26th, 2018), it's obvious why homelessness has become such a major
problem. Even if rental properties were available the rents are simply unaffordable.
The problem regarding housing isn't just because of the law of supply and demand.
Successive governments and local councils have been selling houses either to speculators
or to so-called "social housing providers" since the 1980s. This has created a critical
shortage of council and state housing to meet the growing need for housing nationwide.
Even though the current government has committed itself to building 10,000 state houses a
year to meet growing demand there has been no indication that any state houses have been
built or that the sale of existing state or council housing has been stopped. Instead, all
we are hearing are plans for new state housing developments.
The area of housing is one where we see the ugly face of the ruling elite, the state and
Capital. While the state pays lip service to helping those in need of a roof over their
head little is done about it. The private sector assures everyone it can provide
affordable housing but there is no incentive to build such housing and private landlords
openly state they will not rent to people they view as lazy, drug addicted boozers on
welfare - if comments on Facebook and Newstalk ZB are any indicator. The property-owning
classes oppose any attempts to construct housing intended for working class or low income
people if there is any likelihood it would lower their property values. This situation is
highlighted by for example, the opposition to a proposed low cost housing project in
Awatea Ave in Paraparaumu in which property owners opposed a proposal to build affordable
housing because it would create a "ghetto" though no explanation was offered as to how
this would be the case. (Paraparaumu ‘ghetto' plan opposed, Kapiti Observer, November
20th, 2014)
Having a place to live is not, and must not, be a luxury reserved for those deemed to be
‘deserving'. It is a fundamental human right. By "housing", that doesn't mean an
overcrowded converted garage or a tent in a camping ground.
Anarchist architect and town planner Colin Ward once stated in his book The Hidden History
of Housing (London: History and Policy, September 2004), "In the post-war decades popular
mythology held that every acre of Britain was precious in the interests of agriculture.
Farmers were free to destroy woodlands and hedges, drain wetlands and pollute rivers and
water supplies in the interests of increased production. Now that the bubble of
over-production has burst, the same people are subsidised for not growing and for
returning habitats to what is seen as nature. This results in golf courses and
publicly-financed set-aside.
"Unofficial settlements are seen as a threat to wildlife, which is sacrosanct. The
planning system is the vehicle that supports four-wheel-drive Range Rovers, but not the
local economy, and certainly not those travellers and settlers seeking their own modest
place in the sun. These people have bypassed the sacred rights of tenure, but still find
their modest aspirations frustrated by the operations of planning legislation. Nobody
actually planned such a situation. No professional planner would claim that his or her
task was to grind unofficial housing out of existence, and nor would any of the local
enforcers of the Building Regulations.
"But all these unhappy confrontations are the direct result of public policy. Something
has to be done to change it, and the hidden history of twentieth-century housing offers
some currently unconventional models."
The housing models that have got Aotearoa to this dire point need to be abandoned. It is
time to start introducing some of those unconventional models of which Colin Ward spoke,
including squatting and collective ownership, into this country. If the homeless wait for
private charity or the government of the day to house them they will be waiting a very
long time. As of the December 2017 quarter there were 7725 people on the Housing New
Zealand waiting list - and they were just the most urgent cases. (Stuff website, February
1st, 2018.) Rather than waiting patiently for the government or the private sector to
provide the most basic of human needs, the homeless, those in sub-standard housing and
their allies in the community can co-operate together and undertake direct action to
achieve their modest goals.
http://www.awsm.nz/2018/04/24/housing-rhetoric-v-action/
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Message: 3
Trusting politicians does not come easy - distrust comes far easier. In the fight for
votes in the Repeal referendum the issue of distrusting politicians has been raised by the
anti-choice side. Politicians do have poor track record, tending to leave a litany of
broken promises in their wake. We all remember different promises broken - I remember the
one about ‘ to protect the vulnerable' when this battered ship sailed into the storm of
austerity. In Ireland, even politicians say things like ‘you can't trust politicians'. It
as if by saying that they are exempting themselves from being politicians, and saying, you
can trust us again. ---- Trust and distrust are flip sides of a coin. The answer you give
frequently depends on this. Are you dancing? Who is asking? On the bottom of some No
posters it says 'join the rebellion'. There is a gross twisting of the truth going on
here. It can be compared with Darth Vader stretching out his gloved hand and asking you to
join the rebellion. Essentially it is the empire of misogyny doing everything in its power
to gain a single no vote. Their mind trick here is that if the Government want you to vote
for something that you should vote the other way. It hinges on the inherent distrust factor.
In a campaign, just as in a war, the first casualty is truth. The Brexit campaign in the
UK was all about not trusting the government - Trump's election in the US was based on not
trusting the established political classes. Now in Ireland, the No campaign is attempting
to appeal to anti-establishment sentiment to defeat the Repeal campaign, which is gross
irony, given that the real rebellion has been the movement to remove restrictions to
women's reproductive healthcare from the Constitution. It was the old empire that brought
in the 8th Amendment - and the right-wing Catholic fundamentalists working to retain it
now portray keeping this miserable law on the books as an act of rebellion!
It is true that after being forced to call a referendum the Government is weakly backing a
Yes vote. And weakly is the word, Leo has said Fine Gael will spend 50,000, not even a
tenth of what Together For Yes raised in a single week of online crowdfunding that saw
over 10,000 people donate an average of 50 or so euro. They don't even intend to put up
their own posters. Our 30 year rebellion against the 8th forced the referendum out of them
and they've more or less told us to get it passed. Fianna Fail are worse, backing both Yes
& No camps with their deputy leader being a speaker at a No public meeting in Castlebar.
Of the mainstream parties only Sinn Fein and Labour are seriously campaigning for a Yes vote.
There has been consistent rebellion against the introduction of the 8th Amendment into the
Constitution in 1983, as detailed here[Workers Solidarity Twitter History thread on the
rebellion against the 8th Amendment]. Much of this opposition was based on people taking
to the streets in large scale demonstrations around attempting to allow young women to
travel to the UK for abortions. Generations have been mobilised around this issue, see
where this referendum came from[See previous article on 3rd April]
It has taken 35 years of public pressure around the forced travel that thousands of women
have been subjected to in order to acquire basic healthcare, to drag politicians towards
this referendum. The failure of related governments to legislate for abortion in very
limited circumstances following the 1992 ‘X' Case ruling, and then again since 2002, led
to continued protest and pressure which came to a head in 2012, when a young woman, Savita
Halappanavar died following a miscarriage at 16 weeks' gestation. Savita and her husband
had repeatedly begged for her pregnancy to be terminated but were refused because of the
presence of a foetal heartbeat and were famously informed by a nurse that this is a
‘Catholic country'. Savita's tragic death ignited the Repeal movement to push for the
final removal of the 8th Amendment.
Abortion in Ireland has been an issue consistently ignored and opposed by generations of
political parties in this country. The story of the 8th Amendment is the story of a long
struggle, by mostly women activists, to drag politicians towards this referendum. As we
approach the day of the referendum, it is highly disingenuous to suggest that voting NO is
rebellious or will hurt the government in some way.
Who a No vote will hurt, is the person who is pregnant and unable to get an abortion in
Ireland. It will hurt those who are pregnant and unable to travel. Now a young woman can
end up taking pills which they order online and take in unsupervised medical conditions.
It will prevent Doctors from giving the ultimate and safest caring and compassionate
healthcare. It will mean we continue the practice of sending or forcing women who can
afford it to travel abroad to get abortions. It will put people under huge amounts of
stress when they need to be supported, comforted, and helped. It will mean that some young
woman can end up isolated, alone, and suicidal. It will mean that we risk another woman
losing her life in an Irish maternity hospital.
We need this to be a YES, so that we can move towards a full caring compassionate free
healthcare system which allows for abortion in Ireland. The voter counts, and the voter
will get listened too in a referendum. The answer should be loud and unequivocal, and it
should be yes.
Balance?
People are crying out for information. The referendum came about through a period of wide
ranging consultation - the Citizens' Assembly, followed by the Joint Oireachtas
Committee's deliberations on the 8th Amendment. People want to hear the arguments and the
state and other broadcasters have a vital role and a significant duty to perform in
relation to this. Alas we hold out little hope of it being able to do so. The Coughlan
judgment calls for ‘balance', or 50-50 coverage in radio and television coverage of a
referendum or election issue. What that has created is a policy where each side is given
access to the airwaves to state their position, and it usually is unchallenged. The
history of lobby groups like the Iona Institute taking legal action against RTE has
created an atmosphere where much of the coverage given to the anti-choice side remains
unchallenged. Therefore media coverage amounts to allocation of propaganda time to the
anti-choicers, allowing them to shape the narrative of the campaign with untruths,
exaggeration and base fear mongering. Thus, Repeal of the 8th Amendment has become the
‘abortion referendum', employing nurses who are not really nurses, doctors who are not
doctors, and facts that are not facts.
I have heard other concerns in relation to, when we vote on this, we will never get to
vote on it again. YES, but why should we continue to vote on something which should be a
basic part of healthcare in this country. This should not have been put into the laws of
this land in the first place, as you were then equating the life of a woman who happened
to be pregnant, as being the same as the foetus. That is a relegation or rights, a removal
of rights, a negation of rights, and that does not belong in the laws of a land. We should
never have been put in a position to fight for the removal of the 8th Amendment, because
this negation of rights should never have been put into the Constitution in the first place.
So yes, we will not have to vote on this again, if we vote Yes, but we will have to
continue to force the political parties and leaders, so that we win reproductive rights in
Ireland, and so that we ensure that we reinstate the rights of a woman so that she does
not have them relegated as soon as she becomes pregnant. The removal of the 8th amendment
will be another in a long line of victories against the establishment even if, of course,
they will subsequently want to pretend they were on our side all along. As they have
pretended with everything from marriage equality to access to contraception - we remember
their defeats even if they wish us to forget.
Author: Dermot Freeman
https://wsm.ie/c/distrust-politicians-vote-repeal-we-forced-them-call-referendum
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Message: 4
Government communication is in tune with the energy transition. In fact, the policy in
favor of nuclear energy continues in particular by the construction and multiplication of
EPR projects. ---- The expansion of the nuclear industry is the subject of fierce
competition between its various players. China has 19 construction sites under
construction and EDF intends to start its first EPR this summer in Taïshan. And what does
the French state do ? He supports his champion! ---- Despite all the setbacks of the EPR
site in Flamanville, among others, the French giant keeps smiling: his US rival is also in
the panade. Given the growth forecasts for electricity production, there is no question of
questioning the sector. Electric cars, servers for the Internet, " Data Centers ", ...
production must increase considerably to assume this capitalist " transition ".
The transition to all-digital is therefore much more important than the energy transition.
Because the Internet, as capitalism develops, will consume on a global scale the
equivalent of the production of one hundred reactors by 2030. The choices made require a
24-hour availability, for which nuclear has assets.
From the transition to the maintenance of the sector
The affirmed reduction of nuclear energy to 50 % of the electricity generated by 2025 is
constantly pushed back. Hulot is now positioned on 2035. Several elements of language are
put to contribution to make swallow the snake to the citizens. For example, the "
reduction of the share of nuclear power in the energy mix " is actually an increase in
the production of renewable energies (like the 1,000 Aveyron wind turbines), but certainly
not a closure of power stations. Fessenheim, whose closure has been decided, will remain
open at least until the commissioning of the EPR. The message is clear: no decrease in
nuclear production.
" Nuclear power is clean energy ." To try to justify this untruth, the State uses a
carbon equivalent calculation base and continues the closure of thermal power stations.
But the calculations do not take into account the extraction of uranium or its enrichment,
any more than the question of waste.
" Nuclear energy is competitive ." This is forgetting to say that the EDF caisses are
constantly bailed out by the taxpayer. It is to be forgotten that research and development
are largely carried out by the army. As a result, large volumes of financing come out of
EDF's accounts and deceive on the real cost. Propaganda is running at full speed to
justify that the exit of the nuclear or even a simple reduction of the park is not on the
agenda.
EPR project in Olkiluoto, Finland
In 2007 AL's Ecology Commission wrote that the nuclear industry was in bad shape. And it
was true ! This industry is now seeking to be reborn from its ashes by becoming a player
in the " energy transition ". After the inauguration of the Taïshan reactor, EDF will be
able to proclaim the opening of the first EPR in the world. A big winner, she will seek to
restore her legitimacy by finishing Flamanville and Olkiluoto (Finland) and thus erasing
the slate of setbacks. Will come next Hinkley Point (United Kingdom) ...
This leap forward pushes us even further towards a probable major accident ! Because the
EPR can use the MOX fuel, which, remember it is the main cause of the ecological disaster
of Fukushima. Nothing is said either about the difficulties of dismantling the future
EPRs. Already there is the existence of sixty stationary reactors of which we do not know
what to do. Nothing on the accumulation of waste. The dustbin of Bure would serve to make
forget that they exist, but their production will continue.
Reinette Noyé (AL Aveyron)
An aging nuclear fleet
The map established by the network out of the nuclear age of the age of nuclear reactors
in France: the park of fifty-eight reactors that we know today was built between the 1970s
and 1990s. The map mentions only the park in operation. It does not include either the
Flamanville EPR under construction or the old Brennilis experimental plant. Recall that it
has been dismantled since 1985, dismantling regularly suspended and still incomplete
because it is an impossible task.
Click to enlarge
All the plants in red on the map (more than 30 years old) are nearing completion, which
was estimated at 40 years old. EDF is in negotiations to bring them to 50 years before the
end of 2018, and has in the viewfinder a life of 60 years. It is not Macron who will say
the opposite.
According to the official rules, two reactors are already illegal. In five years
twenty-one will be. In ten years this number will be forty-six ! Compliance with safety
rules or summary calculation of profitability ?
The government does not seem to hesitate. Moreover, the dismantling of power plants is
pushed back to " in 50 years " for the French fleet. In any case EDF has not provisioned
the sums needed for these gigantic projects.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Nucleaire-EPR-toujours-plus-de-danger
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Message: 5
Against the bleak prospect of the establishment of modern totalitarianism. ---- At a
planetary level, the state and capitalist machinery is attempting to increasingly
exacerbate inequalities, oppression and exploitation. With a view to increasing power and
control, modern totalitarianism does not hesitate to form warfare in the region while
continuing to strike against the rebellious strata in the West. ---- The bankrupt
political, value and economic status, no longer promising anything beyond wars, exclusions
and impoverishment, is shielded from the prospect of the dynamic expression of generalized
social dissatisfaction, both locally and internationally. The generalized crisis of the
state of the world and the bosses leads with mathematical precision in a way unless a
broad and international front of struggle and resistances is formed: in warring societies,
the generalization and exacerbation of geopolitical antagonisms and warfare operations to
the limits of one great war and in the establishment of the emergency regime as an iron
grid to control and suppress all aspects of social activity.
In this treaty, racist and intolerant narratives are found to be the territory of
development through which the counter-revolutionary far-right and fascist facet of modern
totalitarianism is formed to become the ultimate barrier to the evolution of social
history that advances through the unceasing struggle for freedom and equality . War and
Fascism, this is the system's "response" to its total and profound crisis, to its own
contradictions, caused by the irrepressible conflict imposed by its basic principle, the
exploitation and oppression of man by man.
The state and capitalist restructuring in Greece in recent years has the character of a
total sweeping attack on society and its resistances. The aggravation of poverty and
impoverishment, the plundering and destruction of the natural world and the local
communities, the encroachment of refugees and immigrants in miserable conditions in
concentration camps, state repression, the fascist gang premium, and the persecution
industry against those who struggle points of the total attack by the state and the
bosses. The present left-wing government has proved to be the most trustworthy and
effective manager and spokesman for the interests of the state and the ruling class, as
fixed targets for state and capitalist restructuring are faithfully served.
In recent months, with the stir of the so-called "Macedonian issue," according to NATO's
orders, SYRIZA continues to appear to be the most effective trafficker of the
bourgeoisie's pursuits and international organizations. At the same time, an enlarged
public rallies around nationalistic and intolerant delusions motivated and directed by the
deep state, which attempts to build the fascist backbone of the system, both in the
prospect of collapse of the imposed but precarious social peace within, fluid geopolitical
environment of the Balkans and the southeastern Mediterranean. The entire political system
builds on the advanced nationalism the appropriate profile that will allow the power of
the author of the arc,
The social and class struggles of the oppressed all over the world open the way for total
social empowerment and give inspiration to the constant struggle for the social revolution.
Through organized political presence and action on the real fronts of struggle and through
the formation of young people, we strive to build bridges between real social needs and
moods and anarchist worldview and practice so that the resistances become the spurts of
social and class emancipation.
The bleak prospect of the establishment of modern totalitarianism is only endangered by
the flames of the social and class struggles of the floods, the excluded, the oppressed of
the whole world, struggles which must be strengthened through their interconnection and
the development of strong bonds of solidarity, from their aggregation in the direction of
total overthrow of the state and capitalism, with a vision of a new world of equality,
justice and freedom. From these struggles of our time, from the momentum of resistance we
draw inspiration to continue.
From the solidarity mobilizations to refugees and immigrants against concentration camps
and the exception regime, the racist and murderous policies of Europe - the fence, the
border and the war.
From the struggles of internationalist solidarity against states, nationalism, war and
fascism, and the building of kinematic dikes against nationalist rallies.
From anti-fascist mobilizations and actions, to "territorial battles" in the
neighborhoods of cities against the sub-state battalions.
From the struggles to defend the natural world and the survival of local communities (as
in Slag and Achelous) toward plunder plans of the state and the bosses in the name of
development or "green" development.
From strikes, demonstrations against the continued plunder of social majority, and
struggles to defend class gains such as Sunday's Day, in generalized employer terrorism,
and in building the class and militant trade unionism of the base.
From the struggles against social exclusion, commercialization and control of MMMs, the
obstacles to homeless auctions.
From the militant mobilizations against narcotics, state and social cannibalism in the
neighborhood of Exarheia as a field of kinematical culture and historical symbolic
significance for the struggle.
From the struggles to defend occupations and self-organized struggles against state and
sub-state attacks, as integral points of reference to the anarchist and anti-authoritarian
movement and the struggle for the social revolution.
From the struggles against patriarchy, which is one of the foundations of the state and
capitalist system and a key element of its social reproduction, and against its
contemporary manifestations - such as the outbreak of gendered violence and exploitation
in workplaces, trafficking and treaties that women refugees suffer in the upbringing and
their enclave in concentration camps.
From the protests against the local and international masters and the mobilizations for
May Day, the uprising of December and the Polytechnic to the mobilization of
internationalist solidarity to all those who resist the state and capitalist barbarism in
Mexico, Chile, Argentina, France, the US, Palestine, Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan.
The struggles in every corner of the earth indicate that the international attack from the
bottom, the International of Races and Anarchy is being sought in the face of the
international attack on the state and capital.
Eleftheria Festival of internationalist, social and class solidarity in Athens, 5-6-7-8
July 2018.
The organization of the Eleftheria Festival by APO aims to create a public and open
political and cultural venue for meeting, communicating and fermenting between the social
and class struggles developed from below and the intervention of the anarchist and
libertarian precursors within them .
The themes on which political events and presentations will take place will have to do
with the whole range of social competition: labor struggles and major strikes,
internationalist solidarity struggles, anti-fascist struggles and solidarity with refugees
and immigrants, resistance the state repression and the Emergency, the struggle against
patriarchy and sexist violence, the struggle against the pillage of nature. At the same
time, we aim to create a space where as many as possible can come into contact with the
anarchist struggle for a society of equality and freedom through discussions and updates,
book presentations, photo and documentary exhibitions, theatrical performances and concerts.
Thus, we will have the opportunity to create another ground where the anarchists'
perceptions, practices, proposals, positions and struggles will emerge from a series of
issues that run through the political and social reality of our time. A public field of
dialogue where we will have the opportunity to get to know and present battle experiences
and political conclusions from resistances that erupt both in Greece and internationally,
far away from each other, but they are common fronts of struggle against common enemies
with common prospect of social liberation.
Faced with the brutality of the war and modern totalitarianism manifested on a global
level (restructuring, emergency, exception regime, pillage of nature, war operations and
constant preparations for new ones) as anarchists, we have the forefront of the weapons of
social, class and international solidarity recognizing that it is now more imperative than
ever to connect the struggling internationally and the common struggle against the common
attack we accept. In every open front of the social and class struggle, where the
aggression of the state and capital manifests itself, attempting the radicalization of the
struggles through their connection with the universal social vision of social and class
emancipation, proposing the only realistic outlet of the oppressed ,
THE GLOBAL SOCIAL REVOLUTION GAME WILL WIN!
* to contact anpolorg@gmail.com
April 2018
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities
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Message: 6
Getting to the place was difficult - on the way we went through thoroughly checking police
and searching our stuff. ---- Neo-Nazi cars were also stopped, so we had a good
opportunity to see who is going to celebrate the birthday of Adolf Hitler next day. The
cars on Polish and German plates were filled with people in T-shirts with Nazi emblems.
Men and very few women, almost all tattooed in Nazi slogans and symbols, also crossed the
border on foot - they slept in Poland. On the website of the neo-Nazi event, it was
officially announced that it is worth coming to Poland, and the Polish neo-Nazis will help
in organizing accommodation etc. In our country there is no shortage of "businessmen" who
have no scruples - on the Polish side, someone set up a booth with beer and on Saturday
morning, crowds of neo-Nazis gathered there.
The event organized by the "Recht Rockt Nicht" initiative turned out to be too "peaceful."
It was above all a large square where the stage stood, surrounded by stands with drinks,
water and tents, under which one could shelter from the burning sun. Everything is tightly
surrounded by the police. At the beginning, we were convinced that it was impossible to
leave the fenced area and we felt a bit like a cage. After a while, it turned out that the
"cage" could be approached on the "catwalk" - a small town square, where the "Peace Day"
prepared by the city authorities was held. Tents with beer and food, attractions for kids
and many other stands enjoyed considerable interest of local residents. There was no entry
for neo-Nazis here. Nonetheless, groups of supporters of national socialism have passed us
over and over again, and all confrontations were dispersed by the ubiquitous police in a
few seconds. From time to time, a group of people, seeing Nazi passers-by, decided on some
peaceful form of objection, e.g. sitting, but usually it did not last long. After a few
hours of walking and listening to the concerts, one of the representatives gave a short
speech (his text below) from the stage and we began to prepare to return to Poznan.
Both the Ostritz authorities and the "Recht Rockt Nicht" decided for a peaceful but also
very passive form of opposition that did not interfere with the Nazis at the same time. It
boiled down to simplifying lying on the grass and drinking / eating in a separate area
protected by the police. Although the main space of Ostritz was not accessible to the
Nazis and they could not walk freely around the city, we lacked a loud statement of clear
opposition against their hatred of ideology. Such a form of protest, elevated to the
pedestal by liberal milieus and gaining the approval of the so-called civil society does
not change anything. As a result, the inhabitants of Ostritz gave their city over to the
police, and the Nazis could celebrate dozens of meters from the center without major
obstacles.
Still, it's important that we were there. We can not allow us to turn a blind eye to any
manifestations of Nazism, fascism, racism, etc. We will always be where the nationalists
show up and run. A trip to Ostritz was also a great opportunity to see how the German law
on assembly works in practice, which will certainly be useful to all of us in the future.
The most important thing, however, is that once again we have managed to mobilize people
for joint action! Solidarity with our weapons!
The content of the speech:
"We are here to protest against the Nazis Festival. We are aware of the problem with
racism, fascism, sexism and are not the only problem in Poland, Germany or Czech Republic.
We struggle with poor social conditions. Nationalism is a child of capitalist system. The
natural consequence of capitalism is growing class, exploitation and poverty of people who
work for a few rich people in charge. Capitalism make people feel week, frustrated and
full of hate. Capitalism makes people fight against others to survive. In the end -
capitalism is strongly connected with social Darwinism. The Therefore, fight with
nationalism. always go with fight against capitalism. We can not keep our shutters, but
also other social group are broken. We are in this fight. Solidarity is our weapon! Fuck
nazism, fuck racism, fuck sexism and fuck capitalism. Allerta allerta antifasista! "
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/miedzynarodowe/4613--tumy-neonazistow-kontra-wito-pokoju
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Message: 7
For ten years we have lived in this crisis of the capitalist system, a crisis that is
nothing but another tool of the great employers, the multinationals and the bankers, with
the complicity of a corrupt political system, to increase their enormous profits always at
the expense of the rights of citizens, and especially the working class. This crisis is
really a big fraud. ---- We have been in a situation of social emergency for 10 years,
where not only are people without work below the poverty line, but that more than 14% of
people with work are poor as a consequence of the precariousness of the new labor
contracts, with partial contracts and survival wages, which is the new labor reality of
indignation. Added to this is the decline in the purchasing power of pensions, with one
out of three retirees below this poverty line, while increasing the gender pay gap, both
in wages and pensions.
We face an ideological and strategic attack that claims that what until recently were
rights are now business: education, health, pensions, etc. In short, everything that is
ours, of all, is becoming a dividend for the big business corporations. In return, we are
forced to rescue banks and roads, paying a debt that is not ours, which is illegitimate,
and which largely comes from corruption. They are cheating us.
Since the CGT (General Confederation of Labor) we say that we will not resign ourselves to
the fact that banks are more important than people; since the CGT we have rejected the
growing privatization and precariousness of public services; since the CGT we will not
allow the dismantling of the public system of pensions; in the CGT we do not accept that
the working class has reduced their rights every day with new labor reforms.
It is time to do a division of labor by reducing the work day, ending the overtime and
advancing the retirement age so that everyone can have work. Public services that have
been privatized must be recovered, where the most important is their efficiency in order
to have social protection that is public and universal. It is imperative to distribute
wealth through a tax reform that makes large fortunes and corporations bear most of the
expense, since it is they who have benefited from this crisis-fraud. We have to stop fraud
and tax havens.
For the CGT resignation is not an option, it is time to reoccupy the streets, it is more
necessary than ever for CGT to be present where social injustice takes place, a permanent
mobilization of the CGT against this corrupt system is necessary , summoning and
participating in all the mobilizations that are possible to achieve a self-organized,
antipatriarchal, ecologist, non-racist or xenophobic ... libertarian society.
FRAUD CONTINUES
We follow in the streets
Viva 1º de Maio
Source: http://cgt.org.es/1%C2%BA-de-mayo-hay-que-tear-las-calles
Translation> César Antonio Cázarez Vázquez
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Message: 8
After the somewhat controversial First May, we decided to leave room for a wider
initiative. So we will organize only a smaller traditional event on Strelecký Island in
Prague. There we meet around noon, listen to music, discuss, discuss new publications, and
think about what to do with the day. ---- The possibility of being active on May 1 is
unreadable. ---- The biggest events far away will undoubtedly be the May Day
demonstrations in the turbulent France, commemorating fifty years since the 1968 uprising
. Specific information can already be found on related sites. If you are going to France,
surely do not forget about the security rules and the fact that all the Czech law bodies
will try to watch who is going to the hot French First May.
Even in Prague, he will find himself. Those who do not mind the mainstream policy are
offered by the Demonstration for Affordable Housing and Decent Salary organized by
Socialist Solidarity and Alternative from the bottom. Manifestation begins at two in
Jungmann Square.
Birds on the rooftops are also grabbing that people will meet in the afternoon on the
occasion of twenty years since the legendary Milada in Holešovice, with all squat parade .
Another place to visit in Prague is the French embassy in the Buquoy Palace in Lesser
Town. There they are impatiently waiting for messages that those of us who do not reach
Paris would like to send to the French streets at least as follows. It is also possible to
"thank" the French repressive agents for a few weeks in a massive campaign against our
friends in the autonomous area of La ZAD.
It's not just Prague. In Pilsen, they are going to unpack the old "good" NSSS / DM and
Bartoš's National Democrats in a strange alliance with the Bloc against Islam and the
Hive. At the same time in the same place - ie, at 2 pm at Republiky Square - there is also
an avowed counter-act. Considering the unity of time and space, be sure to keep your back
on the way to the event (and especially of it).
Besides, it may not be difficult to do anything less in the place where you live, or at
least think about the possibilities with which something could be done, and put the
subject to speech.
All too much imagination, I'll see you in the streets!
https://www.afed.cz/text/6830/prvni-maj-anarchistu-a-anarchistek
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