Anarchic update news all over the world - 2.05.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, Anarchist Communist Group ACG stalls and meetings
      at coming bookfairs (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #282 - Fougeres: Genesis
      of a feminist group (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, Anarchist Communist Group ACG: Jackdaw No. 2 Out
      Now! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, Anarchist Political Organization APO: ANARCHICAL
      PROTOMAGA AGAINST THE LOST WORLD OF THE STATE AND 
      THE AFFILIATES
      by dirty horse [APO] (gr) [machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  ANARCHICAL PROTOMAGA AGAINST THE LOST WORLD OF 
     THE STATE AND
      THE AFFILIATES, By APO - May 2018 (gr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  awsm.nz: Anarchists You Should Know #10: He Zhen
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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London Anarchist Communist Group will be running a bookstall at the London Radical 
Bookfair at Goldsmiths University, 81 Lewisham Way, London SE14 on Saturday 2nd June. In 
addition it will be holding the following meeting at the Bookfair. ---- Land and Liberty
‘Land and liberty' has been a key anarchist slogan through-out the world. This is because 
without land, one cannot survive, and without liberty, we cannot live. Though often 
associated with peasant struggles, the struggle for land is as much as issue today in 
urban areas as it is in the haciendas of Latin America. All our struggles in the city are 
arise because we do not have control and access to land. Houses, food, community and 
social spaces, parks and open spaces all are at the mercy of whoever owns the land. And 
this is extremely unequal. Although a majority of us have a small stake in the 5% of UK 
land upon which our housing is built, the majority of land (70%) in the UK is owned by 
just 0.6% of the population. But even land owned by the government is not land controlled 
by us. Think of Grenfell and the lack of control residents had over their homes that were 
meant to be in public ownership. Think of the land owned by the Forestry Commission and 
the Ministry of Defence.

This talk will discuss why demands for land justice need to be at the heart of our 
struggles, both to have common ownership but also liberty to organise how we use the land 
for the benefit of all. There will be some historical and international examples as well 
as examples from London.

Norwich and Cambridge too
The ACG are also having a stall at Norwich Anarchist Bookfair on Sunday 6th May from 2pm 
at Bedfords Crypt, 1 Old Post Office Yard, Bedford Street, Norwich and at Cambridge 
Radical Bookfair 1pm to 5pm Sunday 17th June at Portland Arms, Chesterton Road. See our 
EVENTS PAGE for more info. https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/coming-events/

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/04/27/acg-stalls-and-meetings-at-bookfairs/

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In Fougères as elsewhere, the will to work around feminist issues is increasing. ---- A 
group of fifteen people, composed of residents and activists of LA and insubordinate 
France, had organized last year an action to raise awareness of the issues of sexism. We 
had renamed the streets, since only 10  % of them had a woman's name. This action allowed 
that many streets are then named by the names of women in the town of Fougères. Certainly, 
the activists we put forward have not been selected, in favor of sports ; but the streets 
are today a little more mixed ... ---- On Fougères, as on many cities of this size, the 
actions of March 8 are often carried by institutions that focus primarily on a cultural or 
historical side, and depoliticize this day. The current aspects (wage inequality, violence 
against women and harassment, reactionary pushes, questioning of the right to abortion 
...) being then little discussed, and the feminist demands nonexistent. This is why 
militant groups have their place, in order to bring political questions and prevent this 
day from becoming a commemoration, tinged with some contemporary aspects.

Forty people, mostly women, participated in the organization of 8 March 2018, with a goal 
of prevention around sexist issues through a street vendor reporting testimonials. Actions 
supported by forty people during the day, which took place in three different places.

Collective recovery
This year, the desire to have a feminist speaking space and organization on the city was 
also named by several members of the group. If 8 March is part of the objectives of the 
feminist group, it evolves into a permanent group and allows to organize awareness-raising 
actions (against sexist ads, to make some institutions rename, such as kindergartens, 
maternal and child ...). It also aims to develop prevention centers that are not 
institutional, such as family planning, or to organize conferences.

In March, AL Fougères also carried out numerous awareness-raising activities, through 
public meetings, on gender and education, and on women and self-management. The existence 
of the feminist group allowed to go beyond the militant framework, as well as inhabitants 
and inhabitants to get involved.

The spontaneous birth of this feminist group is indicative of a desire to take collective 
control of these issues and to advance them, particularly by women. When one can 
legitimately be concerned about the visibility of reactionary groups, this effect is 
counterbalanced by the fact that many women want to become involved in feminist issues today.

AL 35 North-Fougères-Saint-Malo

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Fougeres-Genese-d-un-groupe-feministe

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Blast from the past - May Day Special
Contains articles on:
the anarchist origins of May Day
state, police and capital
France, May 68
other revolts in '68.
Posh printed version available on demos, street distros, in various shops and social 
centres. Or download the cheapo version from here:
Jackdaw 2 Web version
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/04/27/jackdaw-no-2-out-now/

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The world of state and capitalism can not respond to real social needs and has nothing to 
promise but more misery, poverty, oppression, cannibalism, war and death. ---- The warfare 
in the capitalist region and the involvement of more and more forces radically change the 
geopolitical map of the region. The warring societies, fueling regional nationalisms, and 
the idea of a great war that is approaching ever closer to the establishment of the state 
of emergency and upgrading social control and repression in Western societies while the 
very Treaty of War destroys and murders the Middle East ---- 132 years after the rebellion 
of the Chicago workers, the project of linking the few and demanding struggles with the 
overall social and political demand to overthrow the world of power and the libertarian 
transformation of society remains always up to date.
To build a new emancipated society based on dignity, justice, freedom, solidarity, the 
debris of the world of power, state, capital.

NO WAR BETWEEN PEOPLE, NO PEACE BETWEEN TAXES
ORGANIZATION, RACE AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION

Anarchist Political Organization (Federation of Collectives)

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The world of state and capitalism  can not respond to real social needs and has nothing to 
promise but more misery, poverty, oppression, cannibalism, war and death. ---- The warfare 
in the capitalist region and the involvement of more and more forces radically change the 
geopolitical map of the region. The warring societies, fueling regional nationalisms, and 
the idea of a great war that is approaching ever closer to the establishment of the state 
of emergency and upgrading social control and repression in Western societies while the 
very Treaty of War destroys and murders the Middle East ---- 132 years after the rebellion 
of the Chicago workers, the project of linking the few and demanding struggles with the 
overall social and political demand to overthrow the world of power and the libertarian 
transformation of society remains always up to date.

To build a new emancipated society based on dignity, justice, freedom, solidarity, the 
debris of the world of power, state, capital.

NO WAR BETWEEN PEOPLE, NO PEACE BETWEEN TAXES

ORGANIZATION, RACE AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION
Anarchist Political Organization (Federation of Collectives)

CALLS

ATHENA
May 1 at 11.00, Museum
Concentration and demonstration with the Anarchist Assembly Assembly on Social and 
Classical Charity and the Student Assembly from the Anarchist / Anti-authoritarian Area

THESSALONIKI
KAMARA, 11am

PATRAS

http://apo.squathost.com

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He Zhen was an early 20th century Chinese Anarchist, noted for her contributions to 
feminist thought in that part of the world. ---- She was born He Ban in China in 1884. She 
married Liu Shipei, described as one of the two most important Chinese anarchists by 
historian Peter Zarrow. In 1904 they moved to Tokyo, where she then took the name He Zhen 
(Thunderclap). ---- She was a mainstay of the Chinese anarchist group in Tokyo and a major 
contributor to the journal Tianyee (Natural Justice), which published in the two years 
1907-1908, as well as to the weekly Paris journal, Xin Shiji (New Century or New Era), 
which was produced to introduce Chinese students in France, Japan, and China to the 
history of European radicalism. ---- She and her husband both wrote under pen names, and 
many of her articles were misattributed to Liu, although in fact she is considered to be 
more radical than her husband. He Zhen also founded the Women's Rights Recovery 
Association (Nüzi Fuquan Hui), which called for the use of force to end male oppression of 
women as well as resistance to the ruling class and capitalists and promised that it would 
come to the aid of any member oppressed by her husband or attempting to resist male 
domination in any way.

She published a number of strong attacks in anarchist journals on male social power and 
argued that society could not be free without the liberation of women. He Zhen advocation 
of women's liberation was a particularly pressing concern in China, where foot-binding and 
concubinage were still common practices.

Her essay "On The Question Of Women's Liberation," which appeared in Tianyi in 1907, opens 
by declaring that, "for thousands of years, the world has been dominated by the rule of 
man. This rule is marked by class distinctions over which men-and men only-exert 
proprietary rights. To rectify the wrongs, we must first abolish the rule of men and 
introduce equality among human beings, which means that the world must belong equally to 
men and women. The goal of equality cannot be achieved except through women's liberation."1

He Zehn wanted more than the gains that she saw women in the West demanding and obtaining 
such the right to vote. She wanted revolution not reforms. For her liberation for women 
was only achievable by the liberation of society as a whole.

She firmly linked women's liberation to the notion of revolution, and the remodelling of 
society in terms of economic and class. She saw women were uniquely oppressed and 
recognised that there were cultural forces as well as economic forces at play in the 
oppression of women, but she considered that these would be solved in the course of the 
anarchist revolution. For her the roots of oppression lay in the economic system, and the 
solution was to be found in the anarcho-communist doctrine of "To each according to need".

She detailed this idea more in a work entitled "What Women Should Know About Communism".2 
Here she wrote:

"My fellow women: do not hate men! Hate that you do not have food to eat. Why don't you 
have any food? It is because you don't have any money to buy food. Why don't you have any 
money? It is because the rich have stolen our property. They have forced the majority of 
people into poverty and starvation. Look at the wives and daughters in the government 
offices and mansions. They live extravagantly with no worries about having enough to eat. 
Why are you worried every day about starving to death? The poor are people just as the 
rich are. Think about it for yourselves; this ought to produce some disquieting feelings...

"I have a good idea that will exempt you from relying on others while still finding food 
naturally. How? By practicing communism. Think of all the things in the world. They were 
either produced by nature or by individual labor. Why can rich people buy them but poor 
people cannot? It is because the world trades with money. It is because people seize the 
things they have bought with money for their exclusive use. If every single woman 
understands that nothing is more evil than money, and they all unite together to cooperate 
with men to utterly overthrow the rich and powerful and then abolish money, then 
absolutely nothing will be allowed for individuals to own privately. Everything from food 
to clothes and tools will be put in a place where people - men and women alike, as long as 
they perform a little labor - can take however much of whatever they want just like taking 
water from the ocean. This is called communism. At this time, not only will we be free of 
depending on others for food to eat, but also the food will all be good to eat. It will be 
possible to have good things to wear, good things to use, and good things to play with. 
Think about it: will this be a better future or not? I am not lying to you. If we only 
unite together, with this method[communism]we can naturally have a good future. There is 
no doubt about it. As we say colloquially, "the good times are coming." This is what I 
have to say today."

The last years of He Zhen's life are a mystery. He Zhen and Liu had returned to China in 
1909, but following Liu's death from tuberculosis in 1919, she was rumored to have become 
a Buddhist nun and ordained under the name Xiao Qi.

1 He Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in China, Peter Zarrow 
https://libcom.org/files/He%20Zhen%20and%20Anarcha-Feminism%20in%20China.pdf

2 Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, compiled by Wm. 
Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University 
Press, 2000), 389-392.

Anyone interested in reading further there are more translation of He Zhen's works here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/769777/2de034344a3906fc41afa4d12b842a7d.pdf

http://www.awsm.nz/2018/04/29/anarchists-you-should-know-10-he-zhen/

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