Today's Topics:
1. [Peru] Anarchist statement on the bombings of the world
powers on Syria By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #282 - Feminism: Domestic
exploitation, the basis of women's exploitation (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. yeryuzu postasi: Anarchist Vatan Budak Massacred in Suruc
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. anarkismo.net, Greece, About nations and nationalisms by
Initiative for Total Revolt Refusal - Part 1 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. MASA-FAO-IFA (Slovenia & Croatia): 10 years old Anarchist
Network [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [Canada] The 13th edition of the Montreal International
Anarchist Theater Festival By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. wsm.ie Fascist Party Openly Campaigns as 'Abortion Never' to
Keep 8th Amendment (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - international, Tour AL
2018: Kurdistan, Revolution, Self-management (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Greece, NO HUMAN WITHOUT HOUSE by dirty horse APO (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. US, black rose fed: ONE MILLION HANDS
FLOURISHING: NICARAGUA
AND THE NEVERENDING TASK OF PLANTING By Tanya H.F.
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
As is publicly known, last week the US government, led by ultra-right-wing Donald Trump,
bombed urban areas in Damascus and Homs, with the approval of Western governments such as
France, the United Kingdom and Canada, on the pretext of chemical weapons by the Syrian
government of Bashar Al Assad, whose family has been in power for several decades. This
bombardment led to the repudiation of much of the world's public opinion, given the
history of United States international policy, especially in the Middle East,
characterized by interventionism and greed for natural resources such as Syrian oil. ----
What has not sparked such indignation, much less the local and Latin American left, is
Russia's constant intervention in the internal war that Syria is experiencing. The Syrian
government, in its war against fundamentalist terrorists of the Islamic state, financed
and armed by the West, Saudi Arabia and Israel, bombarded the Syrian people, backed by
Russian aviation bombs, to stifle any outbreak of dissent.
Al Assad's desire is to eliminate any opposition in Syria to be shown as the only viable
option against the terror of the Islamic State. It is hard to forget the massacre of Hama
in 1982 when the father of current President Bashar Hafez Al Assad sent his army to kill
tens of thousands of Islamist civilians who rebelled against his autocratic regime. The
historical oppression suffered by the Kurdish people by the government of Damascus, which
attempts to destroy their cultural relics to forcibly Arabize them, restricts the use of
their language and even withdraws Syrian citizenship from large areas of dissident places.
Today, as Russian bombs fall on the Syrian rebel people, entry of international
journalists into war zones is impossible because of government restrictions, so all Syrian
news reports are biased both by the pro-American side and the pro- Russian. There are very
few Syrian journalists who can inform the real sense of fear of the people, which is
struck between both bombings, the Syrian and Russian military and the terrorists of the
Islamic State. A scenario very similar to the one lived in the 80's in the Peruvian
mountains with the Shining Path war.
The disinformation machine, both American and Russian, does not stop. Although the media
agenda of Westerners is known, they mark as terrorists any government and / or people they
dislike, especially if the Middle East, the Russian media, with RT and Sputnik News
directing, point to any opponent of Al Assad, also calling him an Islamic terrorist and /
or mercenary of the Americans. With glib opinions from "experts," who are often analysts
and opinion-takers who rarely step into the war zone, such as Britain's Vanessa Beeley, as
well as interviews with the Kremlin's own military, the Russian media and its like attempt
to disqualify any accusation of bombard the Syrian population, calling it "montage," "fake
news" or fake news, while the death toll continues to rise.
By far the largest media campaign of RT and Russian media is that used against White
Helmets. A civilian organization that emerged a few years ago in cities like Aleppo and
others that were the preferred targets of Russian bombs, was composed of Syrian civilians
opposed to the Al Assad regime, who organized themselves to be life-threatening victims of
the bombings. Since their work had exposed Russian and Syrian attacks, Western countries
and Turkey took advantage of their appearance to begin sending them advice, medical
training and funding, with the obvious interest of discrediting Putin and Al's side Assad.
This collaboration they received is the main questioning that has been done against them,
but putting in context, it stands to reason that a group whose priority is to save lives
of bombed citizens, accept the help provided to continue their humanitarian work, without
dislodging their work. It is not the first time that human rights organizations working in
countries with anti-US governments have received Western aid, which does not mean that
human rights violations by these governments are non-repudiating.
However, the Russian internet trolls and the daily RT news have begun to accuse the White
Helmets of terrorists, with a criminalizing spirit resembling the Fujimorist regime or
also the Israeli government which calls terrorists the human rights activists in
Palestine. Completely out of context videos and absurd memes are viralized on social
networks, such as the famous Mannequin Challenge video made by the White Helmets to raise
awareness, which has been used by the Russian press as supposed "irrefutable proof" that
Russian attacks on Syrian cities are supposedly assemblies. It is difficult to find
journalistic publications that criticize and / or defame this group of rescuers whose
original source is not RT. Doing a quick search on social networks like twitter,
Most pitiful is that many leftist political and activist organizations in Latin America
and Peru echo the disinformation of RT. Peruvian Fanpages of political and social activism
as Colectivo Dignidad and many others, replicate the disinformation stints of RT, with no
interest in actually seeking the opinions of the Syrians who receive bullets and bombs
from both sides, which far from expressing solidarity with the people simply denotes
ideological alignments. That sectors of the Peruvian and / or Latin American left are
supporters of Putin and Al-Assad are offensive to intelligence, since neither of these two
leaders is leftist nor Marxist, but rather has the Russian and Syrian Communists as
opponents in their respective countries.
It is noteworthy that, in addition to the pro-Russian press, criticism of White Helmets is
also shared by the far-right American media, such as Infowars. It is recalled that the
same network of disinformation of Russian trolls that now tries to cover up Putin's
aviation warfare in Russia, was the same one that favored with publicity in the social
networks Donald Trump in the last American presidential elections, where it defeated
Hillary Clinton.
With the war against terrorists in the Islamic state, being defeated by Al Assad and
Russia, the latest attack by the United States is a display of American desperation to
participate in the impending split of the Syrian oil cake, a feast for which civilians
will not be invited. Forcing public opinion to align with the pro-Russian side, as some
who paint themselves as leftists, with a more geopolitical criterion than internationalist
solidarity, are nothing more than a denial of Syria's social and political reality, that
is, it is as if in a country where there was a hereditary dictatorship since the
seventies, there had never been any protests, dissent or brutal repression.
Anarchism, unrelated to loyalties to governments of any sign and political polarization
between left and right and / or similar antagonisms between militarist factions that seek
only power, can only express their total solidarity with the Syrian people, the rebel
people who are victims and is also a warrior who is bombarded by all powerful countries
and is silenced by the media power of Western and Russian governments. The normalization
of the oppression of the Al Assad family is no guarantee of peace for the Syrian people,
but it will be only with its own organization that it will get rid of the dictator, the
religious fundamentalism of the terrorists of the Islamic State, and foreign interventionism.
Solidarity with the Syrian
https://perulibertario.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/pronunciamiento-anarquista-sobre-los-bombardeos-de-las-potencias-sobre-siria/
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Message: 2
If we cross the statistics on inequalities at work with those within the private area, we
see a very strong link between the two farms. No measure for more equality in the public
sphere will be effective without a profound challenge to inequality in the private sphere.
---- Women's domestic life has two main characteristics: women spend much more time
performing housekeeping and care work than men, and the work they do is very specialized.
---- Exploited at home ... ---- For a couple without children, the domestic task times are
respectively 3:28 and 2:07 (quiz: which is 3:28 ?) ; for a couple with three children
including one under three, we go to 7:14 and 3:26 (we talk about daily averages, including
people in activity or not). In the same configurations, the care times for children are
from 0h12 and 0h05 (without children) ; 3:29 and 0:55 (with three children). For the
cleaning and shopping part, 2:59 and 1:17 ; 3:42 and 1:19, it should be noted that men are
involved 2 minutes more in the household and shopping when they have three children than
when they do not have.
The last INSEE Time Use Survey of 2010, from which these figures are extracted, divides
the day into physiological time (eating, sleeping ...), work-training time, domestic time
and free time. But where is the time for caring for the elderly and the sick ? Since
almost all heterosexual women in a couple do almost all of these domestic chores and care,
so it's their nature, concludes the company. Where we feminists and revolutionaries
conclude rather than patriarchy, exploitation is well organized.
... so at work and in politics
The assignment of women to domestic chores is reflected in their concentration in few
trades. Half of women are in a dozen occupations (out of 86 listed), while in the ten most
masculine occupations there are only 30 % of men. And some trades are really very
feminine. Home helpers, housekeepers and maternal assistants are 98 % women, the same for
secretaries, 94 % of housewives are women (Dares 2011). Caregivers are 90 % women,
nurses and midwives 88 %.
Women are, of course, over-represented in the household and personal care professions, as
well as at home.
Since authority is naturally male, women are also overrepresented at the lower end of the
hierarchy. Combined effects of the glass ceiling, which obstructs access to the highest
functions and the sticky floor, which attaches women to menial tasks. Including judges or
doctors of hospitals, or trade unionists.
The more women have children, and the smaller children, the more they give up their work.
The activity rate (at work or job search) for women is 83 % in 2015, compared to 93 %
for men. But only 63 % of married mothers with two children are working. For fathers in
pairs, it is always more than 80 %, regardless of the number of children.
The part-time (" chosen " to reconcile or imposed) are 80 % occupied by women, and 30 %
of them work part-time. That's good, it leaves time to clean up and take the kids to their
activities and shop on the way.
Women hold crucial jobs for society. Keeping and raising children, ensuring the
relationship in the shops, washing and feeding the sick in the hospitals, ensuring the
tasks that allow the maintenance of the dependent people at home are tasks whose social
utility is great and undeniable. Being part of the management of an agrochemical company,
speculating on raw materials, flying warplanes are useless and dangerous trades. But it is
not necessary to refer to the precise statistics to know that all the necessary " small "
trades performed by women are poorly paid, very poorly paid.
On average, women earn more than 25 % less than men. 15 % can be explained by part-time,
differences between occupations and sectors, places in the hierarchy and about 10 % can
not be explained. Women receive 20 % of the highest salaries compared with 80 % of the
lowest wages.
In all public areas, the distribution of missions assigned to women is also aligned with
their domestic missions (even outsourced to other women). Ministry of Home Affairs,
Ministry of Women's Health ; under-representation in elected bodies and in their direction
(16 % of mayors, 10 only at the head of a department, 3 at the head of a region). While
the attribution of these positions is not our battlefield, the fact remains that the
inequalities in this field show how much women are still assigned to the private domain,
the men in charge (with the success that we know) public affairs.
One solution: equal distribution
Domestic tasks are not all the same. The tasks of care must be recognized for their great
social utility and to be insured on a voluntary or salaried basis by everyone. And the
professions concerned must be revalued, recognized, well paid and exercised in dignified
conditions. The household tasks, they must be abandoned by women for the part made for the
benefit of men. Women no longer have to do the maintenance of men, nor the maintenance of
children who have a father. Unlimited strike ? Shared single share ? The future feminist
is to invent.
Christine (AL Sarthe)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Feminisme-L-exploitation-domestique-base-de-l-exploitation-des-femmes
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Message: 3
On the birthday of the anarchist Vatan Budak, who lost his life in the Suruç massacre, a
commemorative memorial was held by his family, friends and struggling friends. Murat
Budak, the father of Vatan Budak, in the memorial attended by the Suruç Family Initiative,
the Revolutionary Anarchist Activity and the ÖTSP, stressed that it is very valuable for
the families of those who lost their lives in the Suruç Massacre to be invaluable, while
the speeches made on behalf of the organizations participating in the remembrance reminded
that the struggle of Vatan continued today . (Source: Medyan Haber)
http://www.yeryuzupostasi.org/2018/04/18/suructa-katledilen-anarsist-vatan-budak-dogum-gununde-mezari-basinda-anildi/
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Message: 4
[The following positions do not claim the conclusion of a closed theory, which, moreover,
we despise. We are making a first contribution of our collectivity to criticizing,
deconstructing and opposing the nations, in a context of exaggeration of various
expressions of nationalist discourse. For the total refusal to engage in an illusion that
is constituted and constituted by states, capital, armies, borders and intolerance.] ----
1. ---- The nation is not just a imaginary community. It is a fantasy community created by
the modern state and capitalism, without which there would be a negligible, insignificant
and meaningful concept. It is a political religion that guarantees the coherence and
perpetuation of a society separated by class, gender, race, religion, and so on. The fact
that it was created in the context of innovation does not mean that it could never have
been created under other circumstances. But unlike the marvelous reversals of the
nation-wide, this also means that the nation has historically never been anywhere in any
other past condition.
2.
The constituents of the nations may vary but do not differ in the social segregation they
impose, having a profound allergy to the social / class antagonism and the historical
truth it assembles. A nation can be constructed and built from a "language", a
"territory", a "culture", a "history" (or a "economic way of organizing" during communist
doctrines) and so on. but never by a suppressed social group or a class under
exploitation. Its existence did not come to erase the pre-existing and historical
relations of oppression and exploitation but to redefine them, modernize them, give them
feedback and redeem them. Whatever repressive and authoritative preceded (patriarchy,
religion, political power, army, etc. ) was renewed and repositioned within the nation by
finding new ways, forms and contents of social conduct and legitimacy. That is why
national consciousness is not only not understood without gendered oppressions, class
structure and any other social segregation, but in reality it could never have existed
without them.
The nation was not created in a test tube of experiments in many communities. The feneus
of selective brotherhood among various populations across the earth was another tool of
power to perpetuate sovereignty within an environment of social / political / economic
transformation, in the passage of feudalism and religious power to capitalism and the
secular power. Since the power relations are the constituent field of a nation, then any
collec- tion of "below" without their oppressors opposes the national constitution. Much
more, when any such collectivization is realized, emancipated and opposed to any power.
Only when the "below" becomes sufficiently sufficient for new authority and hierarchical
relationships, only when they are ultimately self-canceled as such,
3.
Power has the inherent tendency to reproduce and expand. Capitalism has not only succeeded
in surviving and spreading globally among other economic models, but survived because it
stood on any other model found in front of it. The imaginary / political community of the
nation could never survive if it was not imposed as such on a planetary scale.
Nevertheless, no nation - regardless of population size - sees itself as being identified
with humanity. Likewise, no nation could ever survive alone in an otherwise a-national
world. Thus, as much as an obsession with self-referencing, the nation is not meant by
itself, but presupposes that it is integrated into and interrelated in a continuous
interaction with a "League of Nations" ... The latter has a dual meaning: on the one hand
it resolves the contradiction of this " autistic coexistence "and on the other hand forms
a universal narrative for the world, a single fragmented world in nations. The
universality of this narrative, along with all the ideals that accompany each nation, give
the necessary validity to the nations to function as political religions. As a
cosmic-rational-political perception, while referring to irrational and existential
anxieties. This dual character of the nations is, moreover, the one who ratified them so
deeply in the institutional pillars of the modern world. If the latter stood up by
grabbing political power from the church, he had to find the new adhesives of his own
citizens at the same time. This transition, from the "flock" and the "inhabited people" of
the God of a kingdom or empire to the people of a nation-state, was made possible only
with a lot of national anthems, symbols and an excess of national ideology. If the latter
stood up by grabbing political power from the church, he had to find the new adhesives of
his own citizens at the same time. This transition, from the "flock" and the "inhabited
people" of the God of a kingdom or empire to the people of a nation-state, was made
possible only with a lot of national anthems, symbols and an excess of national ideology.
If the latter stood up by grabbing political power from the church, he had to find the new
adhesives of his own citizens at the same time. This transition, from the "flock" and the
"inhabited people" of the God of a kingdom or empire to the people of a nation-state, was
made possible only with a lot of national anthems, symbols and an excess of national ideology.
4.
To the extent that the national narrative is universal, it attempts to extend to past,
present and future. If the latter two are expressed through the national sovereignty of
political / state power, the past - in the absence of any ethnicity - needs the help of
historiographical reconstruction, counterfeiting, falsification and fiction.
The most important tool of the national struggle in the past is the anachronism, which
conveys with every arbitrariness the modern "national spirit" to past historical
conditions (in which the nation was simply non-existent). The first concept that was to be
nationalized was the word "nation": an insubstantial and scarce (if not non-existent) term
in pre-capitalist societies with multiple uses per places and times, some of which
terribly embody its present meaning: the word nation in various historical periods it was
synonymous with the alien, while elsewhere it is to mark a guild, the students of a
university or the "foreign" merchants of a harbor ...
The liquidity of the nation's concept is evident even after the "birthday act" of the
American and French Revolution, for example, as the monumental "nation of the
proletarians" indicates in the Communist Party Manifesto in 1848. An ever-diminished hence
the liquidity that needed the inconceivable carnage of two world wars to crystallize
completely. The anachronistic pillage and the neglect of the past in a spectacular
dimension is a permanent process for the construction of the national identity, in which
old and new methods, institutions and sciences were recovered: museums, maps,
historiography, ethnology, archeology, urban arts and many others have made a commitment
to speaking and settling past time for the sake of a nationally proud present and to
prevent any free future. People, communities, geographies, facts, meanings, are not
conceived and re-written into social consciousness within the narrow and predetermined
limits of each national destiny in the name of national integration. Since the past,
present, and future have been depicted by nationalist ideology, no historical background
or historical subject is left intact ...
* Reload from the Initiative on Total Rebellion Initiative blog
Related Link: http://olikiarnisi.espivblogs.net/
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30951
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Message: 5
We marked 10 years of "formal" activities in Istria and in Kvarner in Pula. A Decade of
Work as an Anarchosyndicalist Network (2008-2013) as the Local Group Pula and Rijeka, as
the Anarchist Network Rijeka (2013-2016) and the Anarchist Network of Istria (2015-2018),
thus rounding up 10 years of continuity of anarchist action Massa, the current
MASA-FAO-IFA, members of the Federation for Anarchist Activities (Slovenia & Croatia) and
the International Anarchist Federations. ---- We organized the event in Pula in two parts,
as an open section for the public in the form of an exhibition of photographs of 10 years
of work in Rijeka and Pula, dancers in the Klub Kotac accompanied by anarchist
distributions, activist projections and anarho dub collectives, and as a closed part for
the delegation of anarchists from Italy , Slovenia, Istria and Dalmatia as part of the
anarchist conference on which we confirmed and further explained our tactics and strategy.
Within the framework of everything we have issued the 8th issue of the Society of
Resistance and Pamphlets Istarski anarhisti.
A moment from the exhibition
We have found additional motivation and associates, and we are continuing to build a
movement in Istria and Kvarner, which could represent anarchism to the general public,
popularize basic anarchist ideas, support the culture of resistance and solidarity among
peoples, intervene in social conflicts from anarchist positions, and build anarchist
infrastructure as an essential part of the creation, preservation, education and mutual
solidarity of anarchist militants, sympathizers, and wider social movements.
Anarchist delegation from the Adriatic (Italy, Slovenia, Istria and Dalmatia)
https://masari.noblogs.org/10-godina-mreze-anarhista/
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Message: 6
The Montreal International Anarchist Theater Festival (FITAM) will return to its 13th
edition, on May 22 and 23, 2018, at 7:30 p.m., in Sala Rossa. ---- FITAM is the only
festival in the world devoted to anarchist theater. Inserted in the month of Montreal
Anarchy, FITAM offers a rostrum to troupes and artists with radical goals. After receiving
the Living Theater (2009), Pol Pelletier (2011) and Bread and Puppet (2014), we have
the honor of presenting seven companies from France, the United States and Montreal this
year. ---- Early tickets available online at Sala Rossa's website ( lasalarossa.com ), $
11 per night or $ 20 special package for both nights. Tickets on the spot: $ 13. For all
audiences. ---- The 13th edition of FITAM brings together original pieces with, among
others, an adaptation of "Esperando Godot", which sets two black women in the roles of
Didi and Gogo; the story of a shepherdess inspired by the letters of three dissident
prisoners; Tought Experiment Productions comes another year with a Wah Wah pedal piece,
radio frequencies and the power of the individual in the mainstream media channels; a
puppet play about violent gentrification and its effects on marginalized populations; and
the inspiring story of six anarchist women who resisted fascism between 1920 and today.
> Tuesday, May 22 | 7:30 p.m.
* Pisser dans l'herbe ..., Théâtre du Sable (France)
* Chansons anarchistes, Gwenael Kivijer (France)
* Trashlaga Puppet Crew, Trashlaga Puppet Crew (Montreal)
* No way! No way! (part I), Trees that Talk (Montreal)
> Wednesday, May 23 | 7:30 p.m.
* Didi and Gogo, MC Theater Troupe (USA)
* Chansons anarchistes, Gwenael Kivijer (France)
* The Wah-Wah Pedal, Thought Experiment Productions (Montreal)
* Darwin avait raison, Dire, Encore (Montreal)
* No way! No way! (part II), Trees that Talk (Montreal)
> More info: festivaltheatreanarchiste@yahoo.ca | www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com
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Message: 7
Seen any of these posters around recently? You may be interested to know they are a
product of the 'Abortion Never' campaign, an initiative of the anti-immigrant, far-right
National Party. The party is led by one Justin Barrett who is arguably best known for
leading Youth Defence from the early nineties until 2004. ---- In the past he has attended
several events hosted by the German NPD, a Neo-Nazi group, whose then deputy leader
confirmed that the NPD was 'friendly' with Youth Defence. Italian fascist group 'Forza
Nuovo' reported that Mr Barrett has also attended several of their events in the early
2000's. ---- Even after Mr Barrett's departure, Youth Defence still managed to grab the
headlines though. In 2013, a Youth Defence billboard truck parked outside the Dublin Rape
Crisis Centre carrying a billboard that read: "The abortion bill won't make women safer,
it will just kill babies". The company who owned the truck refused to carry any more Youth
Defence material after the wave of outrage that followed.
The ex-Youth Defence leader's re-emergence into public life as the President of the
far-right National Party should be highlighted by pro-choice campaigners. There exists,
both in Ireland and elsewhere, a close relationship between the wealthy 'pro-life'
movement and local fascist organisations who co-operate in campaigns to extend the
jurisdiction of the State into women's lives. These far-right and pro-life groups
invariably also share anti-immigrant and Islamophobic viewpoints. Comically, the National
Party is both pro-life and pro-death penalty. That is, they wish to give the Irish State
total control over women's bodies and the power to execute people.
While the National Party tends to keep a low profile due to the inevitable anti-fascist
attention that public far-right gatherings attract, pro-choice campaigners in all parts of
Ireland should be advised of the origin of these posters and the nature of the fascist
organisation that erected them. Such groups, however small, must be challenged at every
opportunity and ultimately completely destroyed, as they are an enemy of both the
interests and the organisations of the working class.
While the 'Abortion Never' campaign does their modest best, we in the pro-choice movement
will continue to organise, leaflet & canvass for a Yes vote in the upcoming May 25th
referendum which will hopefully take us one step closer to ensuring that people in Ireland
have access to the healthcare we need.
https://wsm.ie/c/fascist-national-party-abortion-never-8th
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Message: 8
From May 27th to June 23rd, Alternative Libertaire is organizing a round of debates with
one (or even three) revolutionary volunteers in the YPG. The opportunity to meet friends
who roamed the Rojava in 2016-2018, and can give their point of view on the emancipatory
dynamic, its limits, its potential, and the indispensable international solidarity. ----
Since 2014, its role as a bulwark against jihadist atrocities in the Middle East has put
the Kurdish left in the limelight. ---- What is less well known is that in the areas it
controls, and especially in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), it has fostered the rise of a
counter-society on feminist, social, democratic and in a way, secular. ---- For this
reason, it scares the tyrants of the region: the Turkish, Iranian or Syrian regimes. ----
This unprecedented situation calls for the support of all sincere revolutionaries and
anticolonialists.
Acritical support ? Not because, like any revolutionary process, it runs risks: an
authoritarian drift is always possible, as well as instrumentalization by foreign powers
(United States, Russia, France ...). That's all we want to talk about.
IN THE PROGRAM
Screening of the film by Chris den Hond and Mireille Court, Rojava, a utopia in the heart
of Syrian chaos (45 minutes) ;
Presentation of the book Kurdistan Autogestion Revolution , ed. AL, March 2018 ;
Intervention of Arthur Aberlin , French libertarian communist activist engaged in the YPG
in 2017.
Intervention (subject) of two other revolutionary activists engaged between 2016 and 2018.
ALL DATES
May 27 at Rouen (76), at 3 pm, at the Cloth Hall, 19, Place de la Basse-Vieille-Tour,
co-organized by AL and the FA
May 28 in Orléans (45), in the evening, in the auditorium of the media library, 1 place
Gambetta
May 29th at Angers (49), in the evening, at L'Etincelle, 56 Boulevard du Doyenné,
co-organized by AL, Kedistan and the bookshop Les Nuits Bleues
On May 30 in Rennes (35), in the evening, at Bar Babazoula, 182 avenue General Patton,
co-organized by AL, the CDK and the Kurdish Friends of Brittany
May 31st in Lorient (56), in the evening, at Cité Allende-Maison des associations, 12, rue
Colbert
On 1 st June in Nantes (44), in the evening at the House of Unions, 1, place de la Gare
de-State
On the 2nd of June in Fougères (35), in the evening, at the local self-managed Les Oiseaux
de la tempête, 14 rue de la Pinterie
On 4 June in Bordeaux (33), in the evening, at the Athénée Municipale, Place
Saint-Christoly, co-organized by AL, the CDK and the anti-fascist group Pavé brulant
June 5th at Millau (12), in the evening, at Café Loco, 33, avenue Gambetta
June 6 in Toulouse (31), evening, at the Chapel, 36, Casanova Street
June 8th in Nîmes (30) (venue to come)
June 9 in Montpellier (34), evening, at the Center La Gerbe, 19, rue Chaptal
June 10 in Draguignan (83) (venue to come)
On June 11th in Marseille (13), in the evening, at Mille Bâbords, 61, rue Consolat
On June 13th in Brioude (43), in the evening, at Café La Clef, 53, rue de la Pardige
On June 14th in Lyon (69), in the evening, at the Maison de la Mesopotamie, 11, rue
Mazagran, Lyon 7 th
On June 15 in Dijon (21) , at 7 pm, at the self-managed space of Tanneries, 37, rue des
Ateliers
June 16th in Strasbourg (67) (venue to come)
On June 18th in Nancy (54), at night, at the MJC des Trois-Maisons, 12, rue de Fontenoy
On the 19th of June in Paris 10 th , in the evening, at the Academy of Arts and Culture of
Kurdistan, 16, rue d'Enghien
On June 20 in Montreuil (93) , at 7:30 pm, at the open house, 17, rue Hoche
June 21st in Saint-Denis (93) (venue to come)
June 22 at Amiens (80), the evening, Maurice-Honeste room, 67, boulevard du Cange,
co-organized by AL and the anarchist collective of Amiens
On the 23rd of June in Lille (59), in the evening, in the autonomous area Les
Dix-Huit-Ponts, 38 rue de Treviso
EQUIPMENT
Campaign poster to order here
Sticker to order here
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Tournee-AL-2018-Kurdistan-Revolution-Autogestion
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Message: 9
For months, we have been gathering every Wednesday afternoon in front of the Patras County
Court to prevent our fellow-house auctions. Together with other fighters, student clubs,
collectives and organizations, we have managed - at the present time - to put down mounds
in the attempt to get the first home from the state and the banks. Respective
mobilizations were carried out by a number of people at county courts throughout the
country. Mobilizations that have occasionally been targeted by state repression and
resulted in the persecution of several fighters. ---- The inability of the state and
capitalist system to draw consensus on its plans has led to the adoption of the method of
electronic auctions through the relevant online platform. Electronic auctions are
conducted with the care of local notary offices on various days and hours. In many cases,
fighters attempted to block electronic auctions and found themselves impatient with the
repressive state fury.
Until Wednesday, April 18th, no Patras notary had undertaken an electronic auctions. On
Wednesday morning, it became known that Athena Ravazoula's notary would auction houses of
the city of Agrinio. After the intervention of several fighters, no auctioning eventually
took place.
On Tuesday evening, 24/4, it became clear that the notaries of Papageorgiou Vasiliki
(Botsi 21) and Mitropoulou Irini (45, Kanari) will attempt to launch 7 online auctions
tomorrow.
For our part, we call the world of the race vigilant for tomorrow's mobilizations, and we
declare that we will stand in every way towards the state and its mechanisms in every
attempt of looting the people's home. Any notary attempts to contribute to the realization
of the most anti-social plans of the state and the capital must know that he should also
bear the cost of his choices. This is the moment when the movement is organized,
structured and fought to stand and give the answers it needs.
The only way to be able to respond to this attack we are experiencing is the road of
social and class struggles. Employees, the unemployed, the youth, the locals and the
immigrants, knowing their real needs, must take their lives, organize themselves and
fight, collectively, self-organized and uninvolved, in every social and workplace, schools
and schools, workplaces, neighborhoods and streets, away from any party and syndicalist
manipulation that inevitably leads to the weakening and degeneration of the social and
class movement. It is now perceived that people from the bottom of society, they can no
longer have any confidence and can not wait for anything from the various aspiring
managers and mediators of social anger. The only way to abolish exploitation and
oppression is self-organized, uninterrupted, unbridled social and class struggles, for the
total rupture and overthrow of the state and capitalism.
To link the few and demanding struggles for permanent and stable work, access to the
social goods of housing, care, education, for the defense of labor and social rights, with
the comprehensive and timely social and political demand to overthrow the rotten world
power and libertarian transformation of society.
NO PEOPLE WITHOUT HOUSE
TO ORGANIZE SOCIAL SELF-MADE AND CASUAL COMPETITION!
anarchist group "Dysenium Horse" / member of the Anarchist Political Organization -
Federation of Collectives
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Message: 10
The indigenous neighborhood of Monimbo in Masaya, Nicaragua has a long legacy of
resistance. Masaya is located less than an hour Southeast of the capital, Managua. In
1978, the people of Monimbo barricaded themselves, used makeshift weapons and prevented
the National Guard from coming into the city, winning the first major victory for the
Sandinistas as they were able to take control of an urban city. Forty years later, the
people of Monimbo barricaded themselves with paving stones and were able to prevent riot
police from entering. The next day however, they had lost most of the city to riot police.
Masaya, the city where I am from, has become a battlefield where police attack citizens.
---- The Unrest ---- The latest civil unrest has had many university students from across
the capital city of Managua protesting against the government's social security reforms
this past week. These students hail from various universities like the Universidad
Centroamericana (UCA), Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (UNI), Universidad Nacional
Agraria (UNA), Universidad Autónoma Nacional de Nicaragua - Managua (UNAN), and
Universidad Politécnica de Nicaragua (UPOLI). The proposal was to increase social
security contribution from both workers and employers and reduce retiree benefits by 5%.
Last week, students barricaded the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua which serves as a
refuge for protesters. There, they collected donations and distributed provisions such as
water and had student doctors help tend to the wounded. Police and pro-government
Sandinista youth eventually surrounded the cathedral and held them hostage until prominent
Catholic church official, Monsignor Silvio Jóse Báez, who has been critical of Ortega and
supportive of protesters, aided and helped assure the release of the students.
Sandinista Legacy
When the Sandinistas (FSLN) overthrew the Somoza regime in July 1979, they had to work
toward reconstructing the social, political and economic structure of the country. They
implemented agrarian reforms for redistribution of land, launched vaccination campaigns to
open access to healthcare and created literacy campaigns that reduced illiteracy from 80
percent to 12 percent, among other reforms. This was only possible because of the work
everyday people put in day after day.
Over the last five days, more than 30 people have died, many of them students as well as a
journalist. Over 100 are being held prisoner, around 50 remain missing and the overall
count of those injured is unknown.
On April 22nd, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who rose to power as a prominent leader
of the Sandinistas, revoked the proposed changes to social security. After he pulled the
reforms, riot police entered a prominent symbol of the student resistance, UPOLI, which
students had barricaded. Five students were shot in the process and two were killed.
Ortega also attacked the student movement as "delinquents" who were backed by right-wing
parties and funded by the CIA. The student movement does not allow political parties to
participate though. But many Nicaraguans know this is an issue greater than social
security. They are tired of corrupt governments and want the current government out.
I am an anarchist. So when I say "I am a Sandinista" to me it means I believe in the
popular movement that rose up to overthrow capitalist imperialism. The movement that
fought for freedom. The movement that dared to dream of bringing a just and equitable society.
The current government of Ortega does not represent the values of Sandino nor of the
Sandinistas who spilled blood to break free from their chains in previous decades. The
Sandinista Youth of today is not the same one that my mother joined many years ago. It is
not the one that participated in literacy campaigns to teach the people to read and write,
nor is it the one she joined to help pick coffee and rebuild Nicaragua.
The Demands of the Students
The future is uncertain and it is unclear where this is all heading but there is much work
to be done on the ground. Today, students from the Movimiento 19 de Abril, who embody the
spirit of liberation are undertaking the never ending task of building a new world, one
from the bottom up. Approximately 500 students continue their barricaded occupation of
UPOLI and their organizing against Ortega. They are currently working on establishing a
coordinating body to represent students from different universities across Nicaragua. Some
of their demands include:
The immediate resignation of President Daniel Ortega, Vice President and First Lady
Rosario Murillo, President of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) Roberto
López Gómez, and First Police Chief Aminta Granero.
The release of students, doctors, journalists, and civilians and dropping of all charges.
Prosecution of the entire chain of command involved in the death of the civilians with
transparency.
Suspension of all chief of police officers involved in the murders of civilians.
Permanent representation of youth in any national events.
Reconstruction of the infrastructure of Universities that were damaged during the repression.
Reinstitution of student grades which were erase from the databases of universities.
Nicaragua is in need of material support. Please consider donating to organizers in
Nicaragua so that these brave students can continue their work.
Tanya H.F. is Nicaraguan-American and based in Los Angeles, CA. She is an integrating
member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra and organizing a fundraiser to collect funds that will go
directly to student organizers in Nicaragua.
http://blackrosefed.org/nicaragua-one-million-hands/
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