Anarchic update news all over the world - 23.06.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  CONCENTRATION IN "AB VASSILOPOULOS" IN PATRA. WORKING
      "ACCIDENTS" ARE HAPPY OF THE AFFILIATES by denial horse, 
     APO (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #284 - LGBT: To
      Repoliticize the Pride Marches (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  [Greece] Dimitris Koufodinas: "Today, Solidarity won" By ANA
      (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  black rose fed: RUSSIA'S WORLD CUP HAS SYRIAN BLOOD ON ITS
      HANDS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Czech, afed: People like to be part of something successful
      -- Interview with a member of Antifascist Action on Racism and
      Neo-Nazism. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






WHEN THE WORK OF LIFE WORKS OF DEATH ... THE SOCIAL AND CLASSICAL RESISTANCE AND CONDUCT 
ARE ONLY ---- On Thursday, June 14, at a shop in the well-known supermarket chain "AB 
Vasilopoulos" in Patras, a 56-year-old worker fell from a height of 3.5 meters when he 
retreated the floor he had climbed to clean up the maintenance areas. The store's address, 
perceived only by the logic of profit, had neither the elemental "sensitivity" to close 
the shop after the tragic death of the worker, and the next day it closed only after 4 in 
the afternoon, so that the his colleagues go to his funeral. This incident is not an 
exception to the rule, but it is a daily condition in the workplace and is part of the 
long list of 'work-related accidents' resulting either in heavy injuries or in the death 
of workers, as safety is costly to employers.

It has been known for years that the "AB Vassilopoulos" (majority owned by the Delhaize 
supermarket chain) has a policy of recycling workers to reduce labor costs (wages, stamps, 
bonuses, etc.) and create conditions carter with intensified work, cuts of rights and 
humiliation.

Against the generalized terrorism and repression, in the conditions of slavery and 
impoverishment imposed by the state and the bosses in the workplace, there is another way. 
The way of workers' organization, resistance, demand and social-class struggle. Although 
this option may seem difficult, especially in today's circumstances, it is the only one 
that can give a chance to our struggles and make them victorious, breaking the wider 
climate of employer's arbitrariness and forbearance.

DO NOT LIVE DOLLS! DO NOT HAPPY DEATH!

ORGANIZATION ON THE BASE IN AND OUT OF THE WORK OF THE WORK

CONCENTRATION IN "AB VASSILOPOULOS" AT AMERICAN ROAD & NEW ROAD

THURSDAY 21 JUNE, 18.00

anarchist group "Dysenium Horse" / member of the Anarchist Political Organization - 
Federation of Collectives

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/

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Pride marches, organized during the months of May and June in many cities, are all festive 
and political occasions to draw up reports on the state of oppression experienced by LGBT 
people (Lesbians, Gay, Bi, Trans ) and to bring claims and move the balance of power. ---- 
LGBT people in France suffer from material discrimination: difficulties to obtain a job or 
housing, exclusion from certain social circles, violence. The SOS Homophobie association 
publishes each year a report on homophobic acts declared in France. In 2017, and for the 
second year in a row, they are rising ! Proof that homophobia is not going back in our 
country. ---- LGBT migrants at risk ---- Seventy-four countries in the world penalize 
homosexuality and / or transidentity. In some countries, it is even punishable by the 
death penalty. Migrants from these countries who arrive in France and need to acquire 
refugee status are abused by the French administration. The stories of the persecutions 
experienced are extremely painful, but always questioned by the authorities. This was the 
case for our Guinean comrade Moussa. He left his country after seeing his companion burned 
alive. However, the French authorities wanted to send him back ! It is only through the 
mobilization of militant networks that Moussa has been able to stay for the moment, but he 
is now preparing to be judged. It is unbearable that migrant and LGBT migrants, who, like 
other migrants, are subjected to bullying and violence in France, can not be accommodated. 
To send them back is to promise them death. We must welcome them all, like other migrant 
people.

Of course, as this homophobia is no longer invisible, the government and the reactionaries 
must give the hat to others than themselves. The year in which homophobic acts were 
highest is 2013, when the Manif for All was at its peak. And yet, those who are blamed are 
... the migrants ! Ludovic Pajot, MP FN, cracked a statement in this sense entitled " 
Massive immigration is responsible for massive homophobia ." This is obviously a gigantic 
masquerade that serves both to ignore French homophobia and to blame migrant women and 
men. This racist speech must be fought.

PMA for all
To resist reactionary attacks, it is not only a matter of defending oneself, one must also 
make offensive demands. The opening of the right to PMA (medically assisted procreation) 
for all is a major issue. Today, the PMA can only be carried out in France for a 
heterosexual couple. To open it to lesbian couples and single women is to accept that you 
can start a family without the participation of a man. Obviously, the Conservatives will 
stand up against this measure that is part of the Macron program. The fight will be 
fierce, and we must not expect much from this government that wants to spare the reactions!

Meanwhile, the Inter-LGBT chose as a theme for the Paris March: " Discrimination on the 
carpet, in sport as in our lives ! ". If discriminations in sport are obviously to be 
taken into account, we could have expected that more hot topics are mentioned.

The struggle for the PMA and for the rights of LGBT people is a political struggle. It 
will be on the street. You have to be on the offensive !

Adèle (AL Montreuil)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?LGBT-Pour-repolitiser-les-Marches-des-fiertes

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The following is a message from Dimitris Koufodinas after ending his hunger strike which 
began more than 10 days ago. He is currently in a hospital prison in Athens, and will 
receive a 48-hour leave to leave prison after his health has recovered. ---- " A big thank 
you to everyone. For companions, friends, progressive people who supported me. ---- Today 
Solidarity has won. ---- The Common Fight is a necessary and indispensable condition for 
small and great victories. ---- Dimitris Koufodinas ---- Athens Prison Hospital ---- 
Thursday, June 14, 2018 " ---- Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1588978/ ---- 
Related Content: ---- 
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/06/15/grecia-video-anarquistas-do-rouvikonas-estendem-leixa-na-acropole-in-solidariedade-ao-grevista-de-fome-dimitris- 
koufodinas /

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As the World Cup gets underway in Russia, we repost this essay by Sam Hamad, an 
independent Scottish-Egyptian activist and writer, criticizing the Russian State for its 
war crimes in Syria. Besides supporting Bashar al-Assad-Vladimir Putin recently declared 
that Russian troops are "testing and training" in Syria-Putin's regime is very sexually 
traditionalist, with the result that Russian fascists have threatened LGBTQ+ World Cup 
fans with violence. Moreover, Russia also recently decriminalized domestic violence. Essay 
originally appeared in The New Arab ---- by Sam Hamad ---- It has become a grizzly routine 
for me to browse social media and come across pictures of dead Syrian children on my 
newsfeed. Over the past seven years, from the safety of Edinburgh, I've seen severed 
limbs, charred remains, melting skin and, most recently, the lifeless body of a Syrian 
child who had been decapitated by a Russian airstrike.

This ought to make the heavens darken, so to speak. It ought to arouse so much outrage 
among us - the privileged - that we fill up the streets and demand this daily murder end.

But it will be met with silence and, most chillingly, indifference. For the violence in 
Syria, outside of small bursts of international attention usually sparked by chemical 
weapons atrocities, exists outside the consciousness of most of the world.

Come this Thursday, the genocide in Syria, driven so decisively by Iran and Russia on 
behalf of Assad's rump state, will not simply fall further down the rungs of the 
collective global attention span, but it will be actively normalised.

Putin's Russia is hosting the FIFA World Cup, which will draw around 4 billion global viewers.

If you thought the silence or indifference or active support that surrounds the Syrian 
genocide and Russia's role in it was bad enough, just wait until you get a load of the 
Russian state's propaganda assault for the next month. Robbie Williams, the lead performer 
at the opening ceremony, has said it will be ‘an unforgettable show', while gushing about 
how much he loves Russia.

The most obvious point of comparison of the World Cup being held in Putin's Russia, is 
Nazi Germany's 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The Third Reich had Richard Strauss, while Putin's Russia has ‘a fat dancer from Take 
That', or so went the infamous putdown of Williams by Oasis' Liam Gallagher.

In this sense, one might be tempted to conjure Marx's famous statement about historic 
events repeating first as tragedy and then as farce, but there is nothing farcical about 
the effectiveness of a propaganda coup like hosting the FIFA World Cup, regarding Russia's 
fascistic global ambitions.

        The silence surrounding Russia's genocidal intervention in Syria was always a sign that 
Russian imperialism was winning
The silence surrounding Russia's genocidal intervention in Syria was always a sign that 
Russian imperialism was winning, but Russia's World Cup will lead to a new level of 
normalisation for its brutally sinister geopolitical agenda.

Imagine the outrage of particularly the global Left, if this was any country other than 
Russia.

Imagine if the US had held the World Cup during the Iraq war. There would be rightful 
outrage - campaigns and protests. In fact, think of the rightful indignation when it was 
announced that Eurovision would be held in Jerusalem, given Israel's illegal occupation 
and annexation - or the logic of boycotting nations committing active human rights abuses 
in general.

Why is this not applied to Russia, which is one of the main participants in the first 
genocide of the 21st century and, domestically speaking an egregious violator of human rights?

Yes, there exists a host of international sanctions that literally have zero effect in 
terms of shifting Putin's policy, but what about organic solidarity or opposition to 
Russia's genocidal, revanchist imperialist machinations?

The tragic reality is that Russian fascism navigates itself essentially unhindered through 
an ocean of blood in Syria, while it casts its menacing shadow over European capitals with 
little to no popular resistance.

It was the first country since Nazi Germany to annex part of another European country, 
when it reacted to the peaceful overthrow of Ukraine's pro-Russia puppet president by 
annexing Crimea, and waging a proxy war against the rest of the country.


  Children play football in front of a damaged building in a rebel-held neighbourhood of 
Daraa, southern Syria, 7 May 2018[AFP]
In fact, there exists, as has been covered extensively, a very deliberately cultivated 
distortion, woven through pro-Russia propaganda outlets, where Russia is cast as a victim 
of western aggression and a bastion of truth against western lies.

In the UK, the reaction to Russia's chemical weapons attack in Salisbury, the first attack 
by a foreign country on English soil since the Blitz, targeting a Russian defector, was 
muted to say the least. Conspiracy theories pumped out by formal and informal Russian 
propagandists, including one tacitly endorsed by leader of the UK opposition, Jeremy 
Corbyn, has diluted and obscured the discourse.

        Russian fascism navigates itself essentially unhindered through an ocean of blood in Syria
The news of Russian links to funding the Leave campaign are buried away in the minutes of 
select committees and articles that most people won't read. Similarly, the Sunday Times 
finding that 6,000 Russian twitter accounts had been mysteriously mobilised to support 
Corbyn's Labour at the last UK general election, has scarcely penetrated public consciousness.

Across all of Europe and around the globe, Russia is launching increasingly bold attacks 
on the already fractured liberal democratic order. This is not hyperbole. This is not 
‘Russophobia'.

Russia has, over the past few decades, not just begun to reassert itself after the 
humiliating collapse of the Soviet empire, but it is now actively attempting to shape 
world order in its own image. This is an order of authoritarianism and 
anti-egalitarianism, being sealed by the genocide in Syria.

It's in the killing fields of Syria, the devastated urban landscapes of East Ghouta, 
Aleppo and Homs - annihilated by Russian missiles, artillery shells, white phosphorus 
munitions and cluster bombs - that Russia is hammering out its new world order.

And it is winning on multiple different fronts. Russia is successfully degrading the mode 
of ethics that allegedly conditions world order. It is seeking to turn the world into an 
abode of monsters, of authoritarian tyrants, of which it is something of a vanguard.

Moreover, Russia's authoritarian order manages to unite left and right-wing forces in 
support of its endeavours. Though the comparison between Russia and the rise of European 
fascism of the 20th century is apt, in reality, there is much less resistance to Russia's 
authoritarian drive than there was to historic fascism.

The same social forces that opposed fascism in the 20th century seem likely to support the 
narratives of Russian imperialism, namely that it provides opposition to US imperialism 
and the western ‘neoliberal' economic order. The Left see liberal democracy as ‘bourgeois 
democracy' and thus see any chance of weakening it as a good thing, while Russia's 
propaganda outlets provide them with numerous platforms.

To the Right, Russia is a bastion of white Christian civilisation against ‘Islamification' 
and liberalism; it serves to unravel the egalitarian gains and order of liberal democracy, 
long hated by the Right.

This is not hyperbole. This is not ‘Russophobia'
Russia's hosting of the World Cup can only be seen through this context.

In fact, to those of us who oppose authoritarianism, racism, imperialism, homophobia and, 
most urgently, genocide, it must be seen this way. The fact that this is by and large not 
the case, is symptomatic of the fact that fascism with a Russian face is triumphing, and 
there is no coherent resistance to its advance.

The US, its allegedly ‘natural' counterbalance, is controlled by a president who is 
potentially in thrall to Putin, while he continues to help Russia's anti-EU crusade by 
weakening his alleged European allies and forcing them to rely more on Putin's Russia.

In addition to the political rise of pro-Russia forces, Europe itself has largely gone 
down the road of counterintuitive appeasement, terrified of escalation that is occurring 
regardless - the Salisbury attack was a result of Russia's triumph. It knows that its 
enemies are capable of nothing, it has balked at their limp response by so-called 
democrats to its imperialist assault on Ukraine.

It has seen that the world is willing to accommodate and green light genocide rather than 
risk even a remote confrontation with it, despite its bluff having been successfully 
called in localised circumstances.

There is unlikely to be any opposition from the compliant or terrified Russian populace. 
Internal dissent will be and has been crushed. We've already seen Mo Salah, a hero to 
millions, pose with Ramzan Kadyrov, the kleptocratic tyrannical head of the Chechen 
Republic, under whose watch brutal anti-gay purges have taken place. This is a glimpse of 
the process of normalisation.

If these basic progressive values can't be defended, what chance do Syrians have?

This is a world cup filled with Syrian blood. Russia's effective one-party state makes it 
impossible to separate this sporting carnival from Putin's global panoply of PR designed 
to normalise all its actions, including the Syrian genocide.

Where any criticism exists, from human rights groups and Russia's victims, it will fall on 
deaf ears as the world is mesmerised by the tournament.

As Russia continues to murder Syrian children, snuffing out the precious seeds of life and 
hope in a faraway land, as Russia continues to brazenly erode democracy, the world will 
have their games, and Putin will have his Olympia.

If you enjoyed this piece, we recommend reading our recent guest essay, "Fresh Bread in 
Jordan" by Mohammed Abdel Qader Alfar, our statement on the Gaza massacre, and other blog 
posts related to Syria and Rojava, including articles by Joanna Aziz (Alliance of Middle 
Eastern Socialists), "Syrian War in Year 7: The Age of Cyber Warfare," and Frieda Afary, 
also from the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists, "Victory of Assad Regime in Ghouta is 
Major Defeat for Those Fighting Racism and Capitalist Authoritarianism Globally."

http://blackrosefed.org/russias-world-cup-has-syrian-blood-on-its-hands/

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If the local anti-authoritarian movement can assess its achievements, it will most 
certainly find them in the field of anti-fascism. The Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) played a 
non-discernable role. What success in recent years has the AFA agenda come to first? ---- 
If I'm going to talk for myself, the first thing I'm thinking is AFA's participation in 
the release of Paul Polanski's Tomb of Death LET . And then the campaign "Gypsies can not 
for your fucking lives", responding to a wave of anti-Roma demonstrations. Polanski's book 
and the aforementioned campaign, as they say, fits into life, which was our primary 
intention. ---- What do you see the contribution of the Polan Book and the campaign? ---- 
The benefits of the "Gypsies can not be for your fucking lives" campaign have been viewed 
from the beginning in two levels. The first was one of our responses to anti-Roma 
demonstrations, in which frustrated nuns replaced the crowd of frustrated majority in the 
first lines. The second plane was the effort to make it clear on which side of the AFA 
barricade.

The publication of Paul's book had a meaning for us at least in three planes. The first is 
to contribute to the description of the modern, post-revolutionary history and the 
relation of the Czech society to the Roma. The theme of the book is Lety, but in the space 
of the feast case, something common to Czech society is showing. Polansky arrives in a 
country that raids racist murders and discovers a symbol that frames it all. It is a 
document that describes the research of a participating actor, and from this point of view 
it is also worthwhile for future generations that will be interested in the case.

The second plane is a revival of interest in the liquidation of the pighouse on the site 
of the former concentration camp. In the 25 years since the Revolution, Paul and others 
have succeeded in making the Roma the Holocaust and the role of the Czech authorities in 
it. When Tomio Okamura is devastating events in the summer camp today, the whole political 
scene will turn against him. That's a real success. We hope, however, that the book will 
contribute to the fact that it will no longer be left with words, but that it will finally 
be reversed in action and the pig will be abolished. We are convinced that it is such a 
great symbolic face in the face of all those who have the innocent victims of a criminal 
Nazi regime that there is simply no alternative for the pig to disappear sooner or later.

The third plane is then an experience for ourselves. In spite of all the difficulties and 
limitations, we have been able to translate and publish a relatively large and important 
book in cooperation with the Anarchist Federation.

There had to be a lot of work to publish the book ...

Not only work but also a dilemma. As you may know, Paul Polansky has a rather complicated 
reputation in Bohemia. For a long time, we have been thinking about the extent to which 
his criticisms have been made, and whether by publishing a book, the situation of the Roma 
in Bohemia may eventually worsen. After careful consideration, however, we came to the 
conclusion that whatever someone can think about Polanski, his contribution to clarifying 
what was happening in the Leths, and to open the topic to the general public is 
unquestionable. In his book he also presented a number of vital information that simply 
needed to be published, and it was clear to us that no one else would publish the book. It 
is now up to the public, experts and historians to confront the book.

The other thing is that the book was extensive, with lots of names that were not always 
registered correctly. Here an admirable piece of work was done by translators - several 
volunteers who worked (just like everyone else involved in publishing the book) without 
the right to a fee. Other great work was done by proofreaders, but also by graphic artists 
and by all those who spent time in the archives because of a picture attachment. At this 
point, we would like to thank everyone once again for their great work.

Collective work and effective organization should not be alien to anarchists and 
anarchists. Of your activities in this direction, the May Day festivals probably came out 
most.

At AFA, we agree that May Days has certainly been one of the culmination of our activities 
in recent years. Without joint work and, as you say, an effective organization would be to 
realize them to the extent that they were, unthinkable. From today's point of view, it 
would seem that the idea of replacing the traditional media-grateful street fights of 
anti-Fascists with skirts that marked every year on the first day of May, as a political 
and music festival with the visit of many thousands of people, was the idea of a PR 
agency. The truth is that the first year of the festival in 2008 was extremely demanding 
for us and, moreover, a step into the unknown. We knew that we could do a good concert of 
a big foreign band, but the festival is something else. Moreover, we had to solve such 
things as the performance of part of our activists from the shadow and other problems, 
such as providing an action against Nazi provocations or the police. Hard work, however, 
eventually carried its fruit and we rejoined the May Day festival during the next three 
years. Our reward was to follow the gradual decline of the Nazis' interest in the 
processions of the First of May, when the very fact of losing the possibility of violent 
conflict with anti-fascists reduced their participation in their demonstrations by the 
order of tens of percent. Furthermore, their unsuccessful attempts to copy our 
political-musical-festival strategy. Watching the police, who suddenly did not know how to 
respond to our actions, and bored and stupid questions from journalists who did not have 
anything to write about was a great experience. The transition from the demonstrations 
against the Nazis to the positively conceived anti-fascist festival was as much a 
challenge as a strategic step. We eventually decided to give the stop to the May Day 
festivals at a time when anti-Roma demonstrations did not seem to end soon. Time has 
sought to find a new field of action, and in the end we have decided to direct our energy 
completely elsewhere. First-century festivals have had their importance not only outside 
our traditional political opponents, but in my opinion, primarily in the anti-fascist 
movement itself. We managed to successfully climb out of the activation box and breathe in 
the fresh air. We have benefited from the new contacts we have gained during the 
preparation or the organization of individual festivals until today. We dare to say that 
the Anarchist Movement also had a great opportunity to share and meet face-to-face with 
people who would not have been able to do so because of their limited opportunities. May 
Day festivals I personally look at one more glance, as a reward. The reward for our 
continued work, the purpose of which was to evaluate hundreds of people who were actively 
involved in organizing the individual festivals, and to note that they were free and free 
of charge.

Can it be said that the May Days contributed to maintaining or increasing the high level 
of intolerance to the manifestations of racism in subcultures and to prevent the Nazis 
from penetrating them?

Undoubtedly. A great role in the approach of subcultures to the manifestations of racism, 
in extreme cases the effort of the Nazis to penetrate them, plays the very fact of what 
subculture it is and from which positions it is based, or what ideals are reported to. The 
big difference is in the approach of mostly anti-racist subculture such as punk, hardcore, 
but also hiphop, emerging from African-American roots on the one hand, and on the other 
hand, skinhead subculture, which in the eastern bloc after the fall of Communism was 
famous for its xenophobic wing and intolerant. The advantage of May Day festivals in 
connection with the sub-cultural environment was that they became a platform that allowed 
individual sub-cultures to subscribe publicly to their anti-racist and anti-fascist ideas. 
This need to "delineate" grew with each of the following years, and it was felt most 
strongly after the wave of anti-Roma demonstrations that Genoa launched in the second half 
of 2008. It was nice to see how many people from different subculture wanted to make 
publicly clear that they did not agree with the wave of primitive and nowadays 
anti-antiquarianism.

A separate chapter is the reaction of a part of the subcultural musical scene, which, with 
the arrival of the already dying wave of autonomous nationalism, has begun to cope with 
the specific effort of the Nazis to "occupy" the subcultural space. These were the tactics 
of the nazi, which they refused to accept to our delight of the individual subculture. As 
a practical outreach, it was great to take over the ideas of the GNWP campaign, which 
originated in the German hardcore scene as a reaction to the infiltration of the Nazis 
into this subculture, supported by the AFA. Individual hardcore, punk, metal, techno and 
hiphop performers, as well as various festivals, tattoos or writers, all started using the 
GNWP logo in many different designs. In this context, the experience of the AFA as an 
organization that also includes some form of militancy is very useful. If individual bands 
and music promoters started seeing the growing presence of the Nazis at their concerts as 
a problem, AFA appeared to be a suitable partner for solving the problem. And it can be 
said that the problem, which has been growing since 2008, has been managed within 
acceptable limits. But the main role of AFA was to uncover such efforts of neo-Nazis right 
in the embryo, to provide subcultures with information and to leave them on their own to 
tackle the problem.

Outwardly, the power of the AFA seems to be just the information it has gained. The media, 
and in a few moments paradoxically, the state took antifa.cz as a reliable and funded 
resource. What successes do you value most in the field of monitoring?

This is a question that should be directed to our boys and girls from the monitoring 
section. Yet there is no reason not to tell you your subjective opinion. One thing is 
getting information, the other is their meaningful processing and use. The idea of 
building a system in which you will collect thousands of information about each bite is 
certainly tempting. However, if you are not able to pick the important thing in the flood 
of information, you can never be successful. If AFA has done something over the last 
decade, it is just a systematic activity to separate the noble grain from the husk, 
important information from the unimportant, and properly handle it. This very fact of 
information exclusivity was the reason why AFA has become a widely cited source in all 
kinds of media. Yes, one of the advantages of AFA is strategic thinking and working with 
its resources.

What specific achievements in monitoring I appreciate myself? The success of the Nazis in 
the army was certainly a success, leading to dozens of cases that ended with the release 
of the Nazis from the Army and the overall change in the system of recruiting new 
recruits. I consider this to be a success despite the fact that there are still dozens of 
Nazis working in the army. They are the ones who have survived the initial earthquake in 
the army, or new recruits who have managed to circumvent the network, but in the future 
they will come to them. With this case, we went out especially in connection with the then 
problem of easy armaments and training of the militants' natives, their contacts in the 
army. We decided to adopt the solution on a flat basis, and we can say that the Nazis in 
this direction lost very important backgrounds. I also consider the successful 
introduction of members of various neo-Nazi, ultra-nationalist and fascist associations. 
The most "bita" is in this respect regularly the Workers' Party, which has completely lost 
its judgment and is so deeply embarrassed in the neo-Nazi scene that the stickers of a 
neo-Nazi organization will never be able to get rid of it. Their own tragicomic chapter 
would deserve five completely different people, variously operating in the Czech and 
Slovak neo-Nazi scene, about which we have brought detailed articles in the past. They are 
Tomáš Kebza, Kamil Cech, Dušan Stuchlík, Martin Píša and vocalist Zone A Konýk. The first 
is a nestor of Czech neo-Nazis, a multiple-stricken person with a personality disorder 
and, worse, with Jewish roots whose significant part of the family ended in World War II 
in the Auschwitz crematorium. The other is a former activist of National Corporatist and 
Gay. The third is the journalist and editor of the police officer portal. cz co-operating 
with prominent figures of the neo-Nazi scene. Martin Píša is a prominent figure of a 
neo-Nazi scene, a thief and, moreover, a paid police confidant. And the last named, singer 
of the well-known punk band Zone A, has been doing the court-dress of the Slovak neo-Nazi 
scene for years. We all wrote articles with detailed and irrefutable evidence. For us, one 
of the most valuable findings of these specific personal failures was that we saw that the 
Czech neo-Nazi scene does not have any "security" mechanisms that could be used, as in the 
case of Keb, Czech or Píše. And when he uses them, so usually, today we can say it 
publicly, exactly with the opposite effect. Even many of the Nazis are right to suspect 
that Filip Vávra, the head of the head of the National Resistance, has served a long-time 
police confidant. Martin Píša is a prominent figure of a neo-Nazi scene, a thief and, 
moreover, a paid police confidant. And the last named, singer of the well-known punk band 
Zone A, has been doing the court-dress of the Slovak neo-Nazi scene for years. We all 
wrote articles with detailed and irrefutable evidence. For us, one of the most valuable 
findings of these specific personal failures was that we saw that the Czech neo-Nazi scene 
does not have any "security" mechanisms that could be used, as in the case of Keb, Czech 
or Píše. And when he uses them, so usually, today we can say it publicly, exactly with the 
opposite effect. Even many of the Nazis are right to suspect that Filip Vávra, the head of 
the head of the National Resistance, has served a long-time police confidant. Martin Píša 
is a prominent figure of a neo-Nazi scene, a thief and, moreover, a paid police confidant. 
And the last named, singer of the well-known punk band Zone A, has been doing the 
court-dress of the Slovak neo-Nazi scene for years. We all wrote articles with detailed 
and irrefutable evidence. For us, one of the most valuable findings of these specific 
personal failures was that we saw that the Czech neo-Nazi scene does not have any 
"security" mechanisms that could be used, as in the case of Keb, Czech or Píše. And when 
he uses them, so usually, today we can say it publicly, exactly with the opposite effect. 
Even many of the Nazis are right to suspect that Filip Vávra, the head of the head of the 
National Resistance, has served a long-time police confidant. singer of the well-known 
punk band Zone A, is doing years of the court jail of the Slovak neo-Nazi scene. We all 
wrote articles with detailed and irrefutable evidence. For us, one of the most valuable 
findings of these specific personal failures was that we saw that the Czech neo-Nazi scene 
does not have any "security" mechanisms that could be used, as in the case of Keb, Czech 
or Píše. And when he uses them, so usually, today we can say it publicly, exactly with the 
opposite effect. Even many of the Nazis are right to suspect that Filip Vávra, the head of 
the head of the National Resistance, has served a long-time police confidant. singer of 
the well-known punk band Zone A, is doing years of the court jail of the Slovak neo-Nazi 
scene. We all wrote articles with detailed and irrefutable evidence. For us, one of the 
most valuable findings of these specific personal failures was that we saw that the Czech 
neo-Nazi scene does not have any "security" mechanisms that could be used, as in the case 
of Keb, Czech or Píše. And when he uses them, so usually, today we can say it publicly, 
exactly with the opposite effect. Even many of the Nazis are right to suspect that Filip 
Vávra, the head of the head of the National Resistance, has served a long-time police 
confidant. For us, one of the most valuable findings of these specific personal failures 
was that we saw that the Czech neo-Nazi scene does not have any "security" mechanisms that 
could be used, as in the case of Keb, Czech or Píše. And when he uses them, so usually, 
today we can say it publicly, exactly with the opposite effect. Even many of the Nazis are 
right to suspect that Filip Vávra, the head of the head of the National Resistance, has 
served a long-time police confidant. For us, one of the most valuable findings of these 
specific personal failures was that we saw that the Czech neo-Nazi scene does not have any 
"security" mechanisms that could be used, as in the case of Keb, Czech or Píše. And when 
he uses them, so usually, today we can say it publicly, exactly with the opposite effect. 
Even many of the Nazis are right to suspect that Filip Vávra, the head of the head of the 
National Resistance, has served a long-time police confidant.

Perhaps this conversation would not be complete if I did not ask for successes that 
logically keep the anti-fascists under the lid. Did the practice confirm the well-known 
assertion that fighting against neo-Nazis can not without a certain degree of physical 
confrontation?

In the first place, something has to be said about the very fact of using violence. 
Violence is one of the means of combating fascism for us, but we are not at all 
identifiable and we do not underestimate the role of violence. Often, however, this is the 
only thing many of the Nazis understand. The fact is that we do not recognize the state's 
monopoly of violence, which we have never even denied. We do not see why the violence used 
by police is, in principle, to be perceived as the one that is the only, right, acceptable 
and justifiable for society. In such a way we can easily get into a dead end. Examples of 
history show history abundantly. And now to your question. If AFA had reacted to violence 
in the past, it had its own reason. One reason I can mention is the defense of our own 
spaces, such as anti-fascist concerts, which in the past have been the target of neo-Nazi 
attacks. The police, although her presence on anti-fascist concerts was usually more than 
obvious, had never obviously been interested in actually preventing any problems and 
attacks from the Nazis. After the AFA had taken their concerts in their own hands, the 
Nazis were forced to retreat from this strategy.

When I turn to the AFA's internal success, I can not help remembering the transformation 
of the organization around 2006.

AFA has undergone two transformations over several years. First, there was a 
transformation, let's say, anarcho-autonomous AFA into the structures of the Federation of 
Social Anarchists (FSA), so that after a short time the transformation of another, this 
time back to the autonomous direction of the organization. I consider two things to be 
positive and successful in this respect. In the first case, this was a substantive debate 
that accompanied these two transformations. In the second case, it is positive that AFA 
eventually emerged as a strong, confident and workable organization from the whole process 
that had its specific reasons. AFA, in my opinion, was able to overcome the obsolete, 
ideologized organization model, criticize its past successes and failures, and mainly 
began to speak in a new, more readable and publicly acceptable language, which in turn 
attracted a number of new activists and activists. If someone feels that such a 
transformation must necessarily be painful and full of personal non-constructive attacks, 
then it is probably disappointing for AFA. The new face of our organization, linked to the 
transformation into autonomous structures, came from a substantive debate that has led new 
sympathizers, senior militants and existing members of the AFA, who have remained as the 
only functional group of the FSA and felt a certain need for change. Some well-proven ways 
of working from the past have been preserved, but we have also decided to find new paths 
that can reach out and out of anti-fascism. A concrete example of such a successful 
activity was the campaign "Something Better Than the Nation", which in plain language 
suggested that in a person's life, priorities are much more important than a construct 
called a nation. that such a transformation must necessarily be painful and full of 
personal non-constructive attacks, so it probably disappoints AFA. The new face of our 
organization, linked to the transformation into autonomous structures, came from a 
substantive debate that has led new sympathizers, senior militants and existing members of 
the AFA, who have remained as the only functional group of the FSA and felt a certain need 
for change. Some well-proven ways of working from the past have been preserved, but we 
have also decided to find new paths that can reach out and out of anti-fascism. A concrete 
example of such a successful activity was the campaign "Something Better Than the Nation", 
which in plain language suggested that in a person's life, priorities are much more 
important than a construct called a nation. that such a transformation must necessarily be 
painful and full of personal non-constructive attacks, so it probably disappoints AFA. The 
new face of our organization, linked to the transformation into autonomous structures, 
came from a substantive debate that has led new sympathizers, senior militants and 
existing members of the AFA, who have remained as the only functional group of the FSA and 
felt a certain need for change. Some well-proven ways of working from the past have been 
preserved, but we have also decided to find new paths that can reach out and out of 
anti-fascism. A concrete example of such a successful activity was the campaign "Something 
Better Than the Nation", which in plain language suggested that in a person's life, 
priorities are much more important than a construct called a nation. The new face of our 
organization, linked to the transformation into autonomous structures, came from a 
substantive debate that has led new sympathizers, senior militants and existing members of 
the AFA, who have remained as the only functional group of the FSA and felt a certain need 
for change. Some well-proven ways of working from the past have been preserved, but we 
have also decided to find new paths that can reach out and out of anti-fascism. A concrete 
example of such a successful activity was the campaign "Something Better Than the Nation", 
which in plain language suggested that in a person's life, priorities are much more 
important than a construct called a nation. The new face of our organization, linked to 
the transformation into autonomous structures, came from a substantive debate that has led 
new sympathizers, senior militants and existing members of the AFA, who have remained as 
the only functional group of the FSA and felt a certain need for change. Some well-proven 
ways of working from the past have been preserved, but we have also decided to find new 
paths that can reach out and out of anti-fascism. A concrete example of such a successful 
activity was the campaign "Something Better Than the Nation", which in plain language 
suggested that in a person's life, priorities are much more important than a construct 
called a nation. who were probably the only functional group in the FSA and felt a certain 
need for change. Some well-proven ways of working from the past have been preserved, but 
we have also decided to find new paths that can reach out and out of anti-fascism. A 
concrete example of such a successful activity was the campaign "Something Better Than the 
Nation", which in plain language suggested that in a person's life, priorities are much 
more important than a construct called a nation. who were probably the only functional 
group in the FSA and felt a certain need for change. Some well-proven ways of working from 
the past have been preserved, but we have also decided to find new paths that can reach 
out and out of anti-fascism. A concrete example of such a successful activity was the 
campaign "Something Better Than the Nation", which in plain language suggested that in a 
person's life, priorities are much more important than a construct called a nation.

Can not it be certain that the anti-fascist agenda's preference for the anti-authoritarian 
movement is given, among other things, by the fact that it is an area where partial 
successes are visible, unlike the anarchist demand to overcome capitalism?

Of course, it is natural that people like to be part of something successful and 
meaningful, in which they can reach and rejoice in their achievements. Nobody, on the 
other hand, wants to be part of unsuccessful activities and does not want to participate 
in projects that lack tangible results in the short term. The problem, however, occurs 
when any activity begins to miss sense or start moving away from a real social reality. 
Just as, on the one hand, the anti-fascist agenda would not shrink to the simple, but 
successful, fight against street stunts, it would be pointless to become a purely 
theoretical, anti-capitalist organization that can think of itself as being right, 
nevertheless never guaranteed will not get it, because it is most likely before it falls 
apart under the burden of burnout and the fall of most members. In my opinion, the key to 
success is to take into account the organization's own survival and survival, to secure it 
from a certain point of view as a form of sustainable development. At AFA, we always take 
this fact into account, and we have critical debates about the direction of our 
organization. We make decision-making on concrete steps in the form of horizontal, 
democratic decisions. This is, by the way, an absolutely wonderful means of involving 
individual activists in decision-making. As for the activist burnout that every activist 
has probably encountered in his life, we try to prevent him in several ways. Besides the 
mentioned participation of a wide range of activists in the decision-making and 
consolidation of personal relationships outside of the organization, we use the success of 
short-term goals, which is used retrospectively for us to apply our theoretical outcomes. 
In this way, we move from one short-term goal to another, we try to think critically and 
strategically and individual short-term successes connect and lead to projects in the long 
run. It is, in general, a very liberal and democratic process. And it has to be added that 
much more fun than waiting in the cellar with the machine gun in hand for the 
anti-capitalist revolution and the awakening of the masses that do not come and not come.

Do you want to finish something?

We have been successful in our conversation. However, it is important to admit that it is 
normal to make mistakes. And wise to learn from them. I would also like to say that AFA 
has no monopoly on anti-fascism. Everyone can take the initiative as he sees fit and as 
his options allow. For me, for example, I was greatly pleased with the activity of Brno 
blocking, which came from the civic and non-profit sector of Brnans themselves. A great 
example of free thinking and initiative. Who would have thought five years ago that Brno, 
which was traditionally considered to be a hatchery of radical Nazis, is now embarrassing 
Prague with its anti-fascist activities. The last thing I would like to mention is the 
emphasis on cooperation and critical thinking. Time and society change rapidly and 
dramatically. It is up to each of us to begin to balance the pressure,

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