Today's Topics:
1. US, black rose fed: GAZA MASSACRE MARKS 70 YEARS OF
AL-NAKBA: WE DEMAND JUSTICE! By BRRN External
Communications-International Relations Committee (EC-IRC)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #283 - Echoes of Africa:
Mayotte in crisis (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Spain: How they
succeeded the women's strike (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, anarchist group "dwarf horse" APO - Photos from the
solidarity course to refugees and immigrants (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greeece, vogliamo tutto: Intervention on free travel
Saturday 12th May at ISAP KATO PATISIA station (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 09:17:17 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) US, black rose fed: GAZA MASSACRE MARKS 70 YEARS OF
AL-NAKBA: WE DEMAND JUSTICE! By BRRN External
Communications-International Relations Committee (EC-IRC)
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Today, May 15, 2018, marks 70 years since the founding of Israel and the parallel al-Nakba
al-Mustamera, or "ongoing catastrophe," which this has meant for Palestine's indigenous
Arab population. The ethnic cleansing of between 750,000 and 800,000 Palestinians and the
destruction of an estimated 600 Arab villages required for the birth of Israel in 1948
continues to this day, as the Israeli military employs snipers to shoot masses of unarmed
Palestinian youth protesters in the open-air prison of Gaza who have joined the Great
March of Return to protest against their dispossession and oppression. Just yesterday, as
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner celebrated the Trump Regime's transfer of the U.S. embassy
to Jerusalem, an occupied city, the Israeli Army murdered fifty-nine Palestinians in Gaza,
wounding 2,700 others. This brings the total casualties borne by Gazan Palestinians since
the beginning of the Great March of Return on March 30 to 107 killed and 12,000 injured.
The list of names of martyred Palestinians shows that most of those killed yesterday were
teenagers and young adults, with few even in their 30's. As Al-Jazeera reports, "at least
six are below 18, including one female. Of those wounded, at least 200 are below the age
of 18; seventy-eight are women and 11 are journalists." These statistics alone show the
degree of dehumanization suffered by Gazan Palestinian youth due to Occupation and more
than a decade of besiegement. They go out to participate in the Great March of Return en
masse knowing well that the Israeli military will not hesitate to kill them for demanding
their rights.
Across Occupied Palestine, a general strike has been declared for May 15, Nakba Day, both
to commemorate and mourn those slain yesterday, and to lament and resist Israel's
accelerating settler-colonial project. Though the internationally accepted "two-state
solution"-which has been made impossible by the vast Israeli settlements which colonize
the West Bank and East Jerusalem-would leave Palestinians with less than a fourth of
historical Palestine, even this demand is too great for the Israeli ultranationalists led
by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. Israel's fascistic response to the protests in Gaza,
which recalls Selma, Alabama, in 1965 and the Sharpeville (1960) and Soweto (1976)
massacres in Apartheid South Africa, shows that the Jewish State, backed up by U.S.
imperialism, has no intention of allowing the Palestinians even the most basic of
concessions. This is the true meaning of Kushner's announcement that protesters in Gaza
are "part of the problem and not part of the solution." The future faced by Palestinians
at the hands of the U.S. and Israel amounts to worsening genocide and/or forcible transfer
to Egypt, Jordan, or elsewhere in the region.
Dr. Abu Rayan Ziara, @Medo4Gaza
The Middle Eastern region's ruling classes are also useless to the Palestinian cause. For
decades, they have preached a hollow ethno-religious solidarity with Palestinian refugees,
yet none have mobilized against Israel or the U.S. in a serious way; instead, they serve
their own interests for profit and repressive stability. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who recently agreed to a ten-year $350 billion arms deal with
Trump, and who imports three-fifths of all his weapons from the U.S., infamously declared
that Israel has "a right to its land" just days after its military carried out the Land
Day Massacre of 17 Gazans on March 30, the first day of the Great March. Land Day, or Yom
al-'Ard, is in turn a Palestinian holiday that observes a 1976 massacre by Israel of
protesters mobilizing against State expropriation of their lands. Though bin Salman's
enthusiasm for imperialism, as reflected in his war on Yemen and his war-threats against
Iran, can be considered extreme, it is hardly distinct from other regional Gulf
autocracies that increasingly accommodate the Jewish State; the Jordanian Hashemite
monarchy, which maintains friendly relations with Israel; General al-Sisi's dictatorship
in Egypt, which effectively coordinates with Israel in besieging Gaza from the Sinai
Peninsula; the Lebanese State, which systematically discriminates against Palestinian
refugees; and even and especially the falsely ‘anti-imperialist' Assad Regime of Syria,
which just weeks ago was massively bombarding the Yarmouk refugee camp for Palestinians
outside of Damascus.
Though the Islamic Republic of Iran has financed and armed Palestinian resistance
movements against Israel for some time, and Hezbollah has posed as a regional
counterweight to the Jewish State, defeating it militarily during the 2006 "Summer War,"
both have mobilized to crush the Palestinians' brothers and sisters across the border of
the Occupied Golan Heights since the outbreak of the Syrian Revolution in 2011 by
intervening in favor of Assad. Indeed, among the few countries that attended the opening
of the U.S. embassy in West Jerusalem yesterday, one finds representatives from several
corrupt African states with which Israel has consciously developed military ties to
mitigate its international isolation; neo-fascist and Islamophobic central European
governments; U.S. client states in Latin America; and the Burmese dictatorship, which last
year ethnically cleansed over half a million Rohingya Muslims.
For these reasons, the Palestinian people's self-emancipation against the horrors of
al-Nakba-an urgent, burning task-can only proceed through global support for
mass-movements to dismantle and decolonize the imperial, settler-colonial states of the
U.S. and Israel. Palestinians have the right to resist colonization by any means
necessary, and it is not for us in the West to dictate how people facing genocide should
or should not resist. While Israel, Raj Shah, and Bernie Sanders would like to hold Hamas
responsible for the mass-murders carried out by the Jewish State, thus mimicking Putin and
the Assad Regime's long-standing tendency to blame the victims of each new bombardment and
chemical attack for staging their own deaths, we see this upsurge of resistance as a
manifestation of the collective will of occupied Gazans. From our vantage point in the
U.S., we see Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) as an important tool to support the
Palestinian struggle for decolonization. A two-way military embargo on the Jewish State
would be an important first step toward justice in historical Palestine.
Finally, we would like to clarify that these murderous attacks by Israel against
Palestinians in the Great March of Return and the protests against the embassy opening
expose the hypocrisy of those who lecture Palestinians on being non-violent. They ask,
"Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?", when the reality is that the overwhelming majority of
Palestinian resistance is nonviolent, and is still met with murderous repression.
Palestinians are better than Gandhi, who was racist and misogynistic, in the sense
that-being poor, brown, and mostly Muslim-they are despised by liberals internationally,
yet they continue to resist without any of the kind of encouragement Gandhi was given by
his moderate supporters across the globe, and against far worse odds. Even so, U.S.
liberals continue to advocate arming and funding the settler-colonial State that murders
Palestinians while hypocritically and condescendingly lecturing Palestinians about
nonviolence. Liberals in the U.S. demand that Palestinians resist non-violently, but then
won't condemn Israel when it guns down peaceful, unarmed Palestinians. Mainstream liberal
publications mention "clashes" and use the passive voice to report that Palestinians "have
been killed," or worse, that they just "died," as though inexplicably, or through "natural
causes." In essence, what these colonial-Orientalist commentators are really saying is
that Palestinians should passively let Israel exterminate them. We completely reject that
gross illogic. Palestine must be free!
http://blackrosefed.org/gaza-massacre-marks-70-years-of-al-nakba-we-demand-justice/
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 09:17:29 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #283 - Echoes of
Africa: Mayotte in crisis (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
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From the end of February to the beginning of April, Mayotte was in crisis: strikes, road
blockades and demonstrations ... A social, economic and security crisis quite covered by
the media, but whose neocolonial roots remain largely ignored. A small historical return
is needed to understand the real trap neocolonial at work in this island of the Comoros,
in 2011 became the 101 th French department. In the XIX th century, the four islands of
the Comoros (Mayotte, Anjouan, Moheli and Grande Comore) are colonized by France and
administered from Madagascar. The archipelago has a history, a language (with some
variations) and a common culture. ---- A referendum on independence was held in 1974. In
violation of international law, France took into account the island-by-island vote and
broke the territorial, cultural and historical unity of the Comoros. It remains present in
Mayotte, which has voted against independence, and subsequently confirmed its commitment
to France.
This result can be explained by the combined influence of lobbies created and supported
since Paris, and by the influence of local notables who benefit from remaining linked to
France. Despite more than 20 UN convictions for illegal occupation of territory , France
maintains its presence and organizes the massive adherence of the Maorais.es: it allows
them to enjoy a higher standard of living than that of independent Comoros, and secondly
it guarantees the non-Comorian development by a caricature neocolonialism: coups d'état,
assassinations, mercenaries, support for separatist movements ...
The living conditions of the Mahorais, although precarious, become much higher than those
of the surrounding islands and cause massive and uncontrollable migratory flows. Mayotte
is today " an island of poverty in an ocean of misery ."
Added to this is the Visa Balladur in 1995, which makes the presence of the Comorians in
Mayotte " illegal " ... and which is reflected, with the reinforcement of border
controls by a massacre of thousands of Comorian.nes drowned between Anjouan and Mayotte.
Despite controls and mass evictions, the flow of Comorians considered " foreign "
remains important ; and they would represent 40% of the island's population today.
In 2011, France proposed to the Mahorais to become a French department, raising ever more
hopes, and prohibiting any return in the process of attachment of Mayotte to France.
In addition to the legitimate demands of equality of rights with the metropolis, the
social movement of the months spent in Mayotte has strong xenophobic hints, designating
the Comorians as the cause of all evils: insecurity, saturated and failing
administrations, economic activity at half-mast.
Here again is a great result of colonialist practices: to raise the poor against the poor
and to push them to kill each other.
Christmas Surge (AL Carcassonne)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Echos-d-Afrique-Mayotte-en-crise
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Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:19:28 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Spain: How they
succeeded the women's strike (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
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This year, the day of March 8 was particularly followed with millions of women on strike
and demonstrating. Back on the context, the dynamics and the progress of this mobilization
by activists of the Spanish CGT. ---- Sources such as the Spanish National Institute of
Statistics (INE) and the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security (Ministerio de
Empleo y Seguridad Social) show the real situation in Spain around gender inequalities:
women's average annual wage is 23% lower than that of men ; 26.6% of women employed with
a child have a part-time work contract compared to 5.7% of men, and 97.3% of people on a
part-time contract to care for children under 14 years of age are women. In larger
companies, the lowest echelons are held by women, and only 20% of positions of
responsibility are accessible to them. More than one million women reported having already
suffered harassment at work.
As for the general pension scheme, the proportion of women with access to it is almost
half that of men. The average amount of retirement for a man is 1,188 euros, while that of
women is 733 euros. Unpaid domestic work accounts for 32.4% of GDP in the Basque Country
and 23.5% in Catalonia. These situations were to be regularized by the application of the
" measures for equality " (Planes de Igualdad),whose adoption and development is
mandatory for companies with more than 250 workers However, the government has not
implemented any controls on these measures, and has acknowledged that it has no
information on the number of Spanish companies with more than 250 employees having adopted
them. Despite their compulsory nature, there is therefore no data on measures for equality
at the INE.
The antecedents of this mobilization
In January 2017, we received a call for international mobilization from our comrades in
Argentina, who through the mobilizations Ni una menos against asesinatos machistas
(against feminicides), organized in 2016 a national march of millions of women. This call
for a " women's strike " has joined the Women's March in Washington (Women's March on
Washington), in reaction to the election of President Donald Trump, and its reactionary,
racist, macho, liberal and bellicose politics ... However, in Spain, the internal
mechanisms and the response time at the union level have not made it possible to to
develop a large-scale mobilization that year ... Since March 9, 2017, we have started to
meet at the local and provincial levels to organize our feminist mobilization in 2018, on
the basis of days of strikes and protests. large scale in the streets. This is to demand
effective equality between women and men, the end of machismo killings, sexual violence,
the pay gap and all the other inequalities women suffer. Throughout the year 2018, in
addition to organizing us on feminist bases, we have tried to bring together collectives,
organizations, and all women wishing to participate. Commissions were formed, which
developed militant material and prepared national meetings. The latter made it possible to
decide the axes of a feminist strike, student, domestic work and consumption.
In our union the CGT, it is as anarcho-syndicalists that we participated in social
movements ; as of March 8, 2017, we saw clearly the need to support and support this
mobilization and its process. The CGT therefore promoted an argument to claim the general
strike for 8 March 2018. These reasons were added to the demands for the improvement of
women's working conditions and the end of wage and social inequalities.
Development and claims
When, in January 2018, part of the Spanish feminist movement called for a unitary strike,
the government and the majority unions quickly responded that this was not the time to
talk about wage inequality. According to them, if for equal work women are paid less and
if we receive less retirement, it is because we are less well trained and because we do
not want to work. Moreover, for these people, if we called for a 24-hour general strike,
the precariousness of the job would not allow many people to participate, and the latter "
could pay for it ". So, the best way to make inequalities visible would be to
continue with partial strikes rather than just a women's strike ...
Finally we received from the mass media, political parties and majority unions, what we
expected, a demobilizing manipulation in place to support the just demands of feminists.
Answers up to the patriarchal system
An argument was therefore made to explain the interest of a 24-hour general strike, rather
than a 4-hour strike, which was proposed by some unions. It is unacceptable for them to
ignore feminist claims. Can women stop being female one hour a day ? Is it possible for
them to go on strike to fight the Patriarchate for a few hours, to stop the exploitation
and the violence in just 4 hours ?
In the first place, on March 8, mobilization throughout the country was historic. More
than 6 million people went on a labor strike, but many also participated in the student,
domestic and consumer strike. In some cities such as Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao,
concentration and demonstrations exceeded one million people.
But more important than the numbers, the process of developing this mobilization, like the
March 8 general strike itself, has been successful in various fields.
In the first place, because the development of horizontal coordination structures,
assemblies, and the free association of women and collectives, have not been limited to a
few months of preparation for the annual events on abortion, against the macho violence or
for the 8th of March. These structures become permanent, responsive all year long,
welcoming more women, and working in a self-managed way. As an example, we can cite a
group of more than 7,000 women journalists, who continue to identify and denounce the
machismo violence in the media, after relaying and showing their support for the March 8
mobilization. Then, it made public opinion visible during a few months of real feminist
demands. Debates have been launched, vocabularies have been able to spread gradually,
experiences have been shared ... An equally important point is that social mobilization
has taken place in neighborhoods, suburbs and villages. It was not a mobilization that
came out of impulse from big trade union centers or identified movements and political
groups. It is a global mobilization, which takes place in an international context.
Finally, as women, we have been at the forefront of social and trade union action It was
not a mobilization that came out of impulse from big trade union centers or identified
movements and political groups. It is a global mobilization, which takes place in an
international context. Finally, as women, we have been at the forefront of social and
trade union action It was not a mobilization that came out of impulse from big trade union
centers or identified movements and political groups. It is a global mobilization, which
takes place in an international context. Finally, as women, we have been at the forefront
of social and trade union action ; this has led us to lose our fears, gain experience and
trust each other to speak in the first person, for ourselves, together. We have been able
to agree on our own agenda, our time, our actions.
The recent official government response to the presentation of the general state budget
makes our own demands even more valid. In an attempt to stifle rising mobilization, in
September 2017 they signed a national pact against gender violence, with an annual budget
well below the amount required by the parliamentary committee. For the 2018 budget they
largely limited this budget line, despite the mobilization of millions of people who
joined on March 8.
Historical results ...
On the other hand, the communication media continue to show a sexualized image of women,
and thus encourage and legitimize sexual and macho violence, which has not decreased in
early 2018.
In contrast to the laws for equality and co-education that exist in Spain, patriarchal
justice has recently ratified segregated education, subsidized by public money, in public
educational institutions.
Thus, one month after the popular and massive mobilization of March 8, feminist claims and
demands are still as topical. Our mobilization in front can only be so !
Comrades of the Spanish CGT
Translation: Lisa and Adrien
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Espagne-Comment-elles-ont-reussi-la-greve-des-femmes
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:19:40 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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Subject: (en) Greece, anarchist group "dwarf horse" APO - Photos from
the solidarity course to refugees and immigrants (gr) [machine
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On the morning of Tuesday 15/5, with a large-scale police operation involving 380 cops,
the impoverished refugee and immigrant camps were evacuated to the former factories of
Avak and Ladopoulos in Patras. About 600 refugees and migrants were led to concentration
camps across the country. ---- That same afternoon a gathering and march was held in
Georgiou Square. A total of 100 people participated. The anarchist block was found in the
head (following a call from the anarchist group "dwarf horse"), followed by Antarsya,
Kefera, Kar, OEN_EEK. ---- The devastating effects of war crises and the tension of the
plunder of the capitalist region are the dismantling of every concept of social life and
existence in the Middle East where the war has swept the local populations. It is
precisely these results that have resulted in millions of uprooted and desperate people
attempting in any way to flee and enter Europe.
Today's civilian management in Greece, having stepped on the cheap trade of hope to
continue to impose the plundering policies of the social base, like all previous
governments, has just moved to the same anti-immigrant policy exercise in co-operation
with international mechanisms (NATO, frontex, EU). Having ramped concentration camps for
refugees and immigrants everywhere in Greece, he continues to stack them there, even
attempting to reverse the reality by propagating the suitability of living conditions in
places where they have been imprisoned, seduced, humiliated.
As anarchists, we are consciously standing next to every oppressed and oppressed of this
world and struggling together for life and dignity. We stand against the borders, war and
modern totalitarianism and solidarity with refugees and immigrants uprooted from their lands.
SOLIDARITY IN REFUGEES AND REPRESENTATIVES
FOR A WORLD OF EQUALITY OF SOLIDARITY AND FREEDOM
anarchist group "dense horse" APO
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/author/maxno/
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:19:54 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) Greeece, vogliamo tutto: Intervention on free travel
Saturday 12th May at ISAP KATO PATISIA station (gr) [machine
translation]
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Intervention on the free movement of Neighborhood Assemblies, Stechios, Squats, Anarchist
Groups of Athens and Piraeus took place on Saturday, May 12, at the ISAP KATO PATISIA
Station, with the exclusion of bars and cancellations, as well as a microphone in the
surrounding area of the station. They were preceded by dithering at the Piraeus and
Petralona railway stations.
FREE MOVEMENTS FOR ALL AND ALL!
http://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2018/05/16/
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