Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - Joint Statement: A
discussion process between AL and CGA (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, rozbrat: Solidarnie with the repressed after the
Black Protest - a chronicle of events. Call for support! [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran - Anarchist prisoner
Soheil Arabi was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment & his wife
Nastaran Naimi was sentenced to 1 & a half years
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Bangladesh: Anarcho-syndicalist activity (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. US, macc.nyc: Call to #Occupy ICENYC / Llamada a Ocupar ICE
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, CLASS WAR ANNOUNCES 'OPERATION NORIEGA' - LETS KEEP
TRUMP AWAKE ALL NIGHT (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Faced with the generalized hardening of the social and political situation, Alternative
Libertaire (AL) and the Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA) began a few months ago a
process of discussion of which one of the possible outcomes is a unification, with the
foundation of a new libertarian communist organization. For more than fifteen years our
two organizations have participated, separately or jointly, in many fronts of common
struggles, while keeping their specificities. ---- The capitalist attacks and the social
retreats they cause considerably weaken the camp of the workers. It is all the more
difficult, in this context, to mobilize against the reinforcement of the repressive and
security apparatus - permanent state of emergency, anti-terrorist laws, criminalization of
the social movement, police squaring of the popular districts -, against the hunting of
the migrants, or against the fascist and reactionary danger.
With the defeat of the movement against the labor laws in 2016-2017, and the difficulties
of this spring to counter attacks at the SNCF and the university, the social movement
seems to be out of strategy. Yet the class struggle continues, as evidenced by many local
and sometimes victorious strikes and struggles. But for the past ten years, these
scattered resistances have struggled to coalesce into a vast resistance movement capable
of reversing the balance of power with the state and capitalism.
The implication of social anarchists and libertarian communists in social struggles is
therefore more than ever necessary. Our task is immense, we can not be satisfied with
defeatist lamentations or, conversely, with triumphalist proclamations that would obscure
the importance of long-term political work.
Unity is strength
Even though it is currently in difficulty, the social and trade union movement remains a
key player in the construction of a possible counter-attack. Because it brings together
the most proletariat in all its diversity, whether in companies or neighborhoods. Because
it is the embryo of a possible collective appropriation of the means of production without
which there is no conceivable anticapitalist revolution.
This is why the libertarian communists and social anarchists make it the essential vehicle
of their revolutionary strategy. Without forming a maneuvering faction, they strive to
bring about federalist, self-managing and anti-patriarchal and anti-racist practices. They
and they defend a policy of building struggles by the base, away from the bureaucratic
routine of the dirigiste, the electoral illusions as the agitation of ultra-left
incantatory and no tomorrow.
However, the libertarian current can not be limited to act anonymously within the social
and trade union movement. He is also responsible for developing an organization that gives
visibility to the anti-capitalist and self-managing project we carry.
A delimited process
It is on these shared observations that AL and the CGA began, since February 2018, a
process of discussion with a view to a possible rapprochement of our organizations.
An endless discussion would turn empty. AL and the CGA have therefore developed a precise
roadmap with successive discussion points and verification points, each to ensure
collective control of the process. It should last about a year and, if it ends, lead to a
joint congress that will decide whether or not unification. A congress is the choice of a
transparent process, with the participation of everyone, far from "staff negotiations "
and underhand deals. AL and the CGA have behind them a history, a functioning, practices,
guidelines developed collectively ; only a congress has the legitimacy to modify them.
The process of discussion between AL and the CGA may be open to other libertarian or
revolutionary anarchist communist groups.
Libertarian Alternative (AL) and Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Declaration-commune-Un-processus-de-discussion-entre-AL-et-CGA
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Message: 2
All persons who saw the detention of Gosia C., Maciej H. and Jacek S. and / or those who
have evidence that can provide for the accused in the case for the Black Protest in
Poznan, please contact urgent - ackpoznan@gmail.com! ---- Below is the exact "chronicle"
of events: ---- BLACK PROTEST ---- 03/10/2016 ---- Between 14:00 and 18:00 on pl. A.
Mickiewicz in Poznan there was a protest against the tightening of the abortion law. After
the end of the meeting (around 6:00 pm), there was a spontaneous march of a group of
protesters (1500 people) on St. Marcin 43 to head office of the PIS deputy office. The
demonstrators were waiting for the police officers who were ordered to protect the office
of the ruling party. Several smoke candles were thrown out of the crowd and the protesters
stopped, laid out their banners and calmly shouted political slogans. After a while,
panicked policemen joined by support in the form of a larger number of officers, began to
blindly attack the gathered people, beat them with batons and helmets.
The police also sprayed pepper spray, which affected a very large number of random people.
As a result of these events, 3 people were arrested: Maciej H., Jacek S. and Gosia C. The
gathered demonstrators for a while peacefully demanded information about the detainees and
their release, and then they went to the Old Town police station on Aleja 18,
Marcinkowski. Although a lawyer appeared at the police station, who demanded the
possibility of talking to detainees, the police did not let her into the building. The
detainees themselves did not obtain information on the legal basis for detention. As a
result of police action, many people were more or less injured, beaten and burned with
pepper gas.
04.10.2016
After a night spent at the Police Detention Center, without access to a lawyer,
information on the reason for detention or even water, around 4:00 pm (after 23 hours),
detainees were
released with alleged violations of bodily immunity of officers.
07/10/2016 A
group of people injured during incidents at the PIS headquarters is trying to submit a
notice of police abuse. These people, with the exception of Joanna M., were prevented from
talking to the prosecutor on duty. During the submission of the notification (PR 1 Ds.
2795.2016), Joanna M. was treated in a scandalous manner by the prosecutor's office - the
prosecutor shouted at her, accusing her of wasting her time, humiliating her and
downplaying her comments and unkindly.
(Iwona J. and Julia H. also submit notifications on exceeding the powers - both cases are
immediately discontinued).
11/10/2016
We are notified that the Poznan Old Town District Prosecutor in Poznan has initiated an
investigation into the violation of physical integrity of police officers in Poznan.
12.10.2016
Appointment of the forensic laboratory of the Province Police Headquarters in Poznan - the
fingerprint lab in order to: reveal and secure on fingerprints fingerprints from evidence,
ie firecrackers in the amount of 2 pieces and smoke grenades in the amount of 4 pieces. On
clothes and no traces of pyrotechnic materials were detected in the detained bodies.
18.10.2016
Decision on appointment of an expert from the Forensic Laboratory of the Provincial
Headquarters in Poznan - physics and chemistry laboratory in order to answer the questions
- whether the remitted material contains residues of substances included in pyrotechnics.
There were swabs taken from the hands, hair and clothes collected during the arrest. Also,
material evidence was sent, including hats and jackets.
31/10/2016
Maciej H. complains about police activities to the Provincial Police Headquarters.
15.11.2016 The
prosecutor's office sends Joanna M. a decision refusing to initiate an investigation into
the matter of police abuse.
16/12/2016
Joanna M. complains to the court about the dismissal of the investigation against the
police. This case goes to the Ombudsman's report on abuse of power in the police.
23/03/2017 A
hearing related to Joanna M.'s complaint, on which the Court orders the prosecutor's
office to initiate an investigation against the police (reference number PR 1 Ds 1286.2017).
18/04/2017
The official initiation of the investigation (reference number PR 1 Ds 1286.2017) in the
case of abuse of power by the police.
23/05/2017
Hearing of Joanna M. at the Police Home Office for Kochanowski as an injured party in the
matter of exceeding the powers.
05/24/2017
Joanna M. is summoned to the prosecutor's office, where she is interrogated as a suspect
in an investigation against people detained during the demonstration. The prosecutor who
interrogated her attended while Joanna was reporting her evidence against the police (she
shared the office with the prosecutor who received the police's notice of abuse). During
the interrogation Joanna. M. testifies that she participated in a protest with her
partner, Pawel B. The prosecutor presents her allegations: participation in an illegal
gathering with the knowledge that its participants intend to perform a violent attack on
police officers and obstruct police duties by digging a police car, opening the door,
throwing a police car on the hood, standing in and sitting in front of a police car,
pouring on the glass of white powder of unknown origin and gripping the bars on the
windshield of the patrol car. The prosecutor indicated that on the basis of the evidence
gathered, she knew that Joanna M. did not commit all of her alleged offenses, but, in her
opinion, she bears "collective responsibility" for each offense committed during the assembly.
29/05/2017
Joanna M. receives letter of the previously made objections. Pawel B., whom Joanna M.
mentioned earlier as her partner and witness of events, also receives the accusation of
participation in the illegal gathering. Both of them are joined to the case against Maciej
H., Gosia C. and Jacek S. The case is also accompanied by Iwona J. who also previously
reported that the police had exceeded his rights.
06/06/2017 A
refusal to answer the prosecutor's office on the application of 05/06/2017 for access to
the files of the ongoing investigation. In the meantime, the prosecutor conducting the
case against the detainee at the demonstration and people who have reported the abuse of
rights by the police (Monika Rutkowska) gets a promotion.
22/09/2017
Hearing of Malgorzata C. and Maciej H. as suspects in the Old Town District Prosecutor's
Office in Poznan.
22/09/2017
Decision on presenting charges by the Prosecutor's Office Gosia C., Maciej H. and Jacek S.
on the offense under art. 222 couples 1 article and art. 157 couples 2 in connection with
art. 11 pairs 2 PC
and the offense under art. 254 couples 1 kk.
31/10/2017 The
prosecutor's office closes the investigation against the detainees.
06/11/2017 The
Poznan - Stare Miasto District Prosecutor's Office presents the indictment against:
1.Malgorzata C .:
- she violated the bodily immunity of the police officer David B in such a way that during
his duties he kicked his legs, tugged at the above . injuries in the form of twisting the
metacarpophalangeal joint of the finger and the right hand, superficial abrasions of the
finger and right hand, which injuries have affected the functions of the organs of the
body for less than 7 days (article 222 paragraph 1 of the Penal Code and Article 157
paragraph 2 in in connection with Article 11, paragraph 2 of the Penal Code);
- took part in a cloakroom in the area of building No. 43 at St. Marcin, knowing that his
participants, by common forces, commit a violent attack on police officers performing
their duties in this place (Article 254 (1) of the Penal Code).
2. Joannie M .:
- took part in a cloakroom in the area of building No. 43 at St. Marcin, knowing that his
participants, by common forces, commit a violent attack on police officers performing
their duties in this place (Article 254 (1) of the Penal Code).
- acting jointly and in agreement with persons of unidentified identity in order to force
police officers[...]to abandon legal activities and withdraw from detaining and
transporting people suspected of committing crimes in the area of St. Marcin in Poznan,
hindered the departure of the police car from the above in this way, she stood and sat in
front of the vehicle, tried to open the door, hit her hands and kick in his car body,
poured white powder of unidentified origin on the windshield making it difficult for the
driver to see, and put on the hood of the police car and grabbed the grates protecting his
front glass (article 224, paragraph 2 of the Penal Code, art.254, par.1 kk).
3. Iwona J .:
- took part in a cloakroom in the area of building No. 43 at St. Marcin, knowing that his
participants, by common forces, commit a violent attack on police officers performing
their duties in this place (Article 254 (1) of the Penal Code).
4. Jacek S .:
- that he violated the physical integrity of police officers[...]in such a way that during
official activities carried out by officers he kicked and legally repelled them (art.222
paragraph 1 of the Penal Code);
- took part in the gathering in the area of building No. 43 at St. Marcin, knowing that
his participants, by common forces, commit a violent attack on police officers performing
their duties in this place (Article 254 (1) of the Penal Code).
5. Maciej H. for an offense under art.222 par. 1 kk; from art. 254 couples 1 of the Penal Code
- that he violated the physical integrity of police officers[...]in such a way that during
official activities carried out by officers[...]he kicked their legs and hit his chest and
police officer with his fists[...]in this way, that during police activities he was
tearing his uniform, he was pushing and hitting him with his hands (art.222 par.1 kk);
- took part in the gathering in the area of building No. 43 at St. Marcin, knowing that
his participants, by common forces, commit a violent attack on police officers performing
their duties in this place (Article 254 (1) of the Penal Code).
6. Pawel B .:
- took part in the gathering in the area of building No. 43 at St. Marcin, knowing that
his participants, by common forces, commit a violent attack on police officers performing
their duties in this place (Article 254 (1) of the Penal Code).
7/11/2017
Accusation file sent to the District Court Poznan - Stare Miasto.
24/11/2017
Appointment of the Forensic Medicine Department of the Medical University of Poznan in
order to verify the injuries suffered by the police.
13/12/2017 The
prosecutor's office interviews Malgorzata C. as a witness in a case of abuse of power by
the police.
19/02/2018
Prosecutor's Office discontinues investigation into the police's abuse of rights[reference
number PR 1 Ds 1286.2017]. Fragments of justification (original spelling):
"It should be pointed out, and what can not be omitted bearing in mind the facts of the
present case, that the circle of persons injured in the present proceedings include
persons who operate in the Poznan anarchist movement (Anarchist Federation Poznan,
Rozbrat) or are with the indicated movement in a different way connected. Members of this
movement take part in various protests, trying through their provocative behaviors,
offensive in the ongoing protest depreciate the actions of state organs - in particular
the Police.
The website of the Anarchist Federation includes a number of demonstration tips including
those referring to the need to put on face masks, bounce off arrested and others. In the
present case, it is possible to observe typical actions of this kind, in particular
provocative - as the use of masks, throwing stones and flares at officers, directing
vulgar and offensive words to police officers. Most of these behaviors are dangerous to
life and health.
[...]However, the testimony of the victims, in the context of the remaining evidence
gathered in the case - was considered subjective because they are inconsistent with other
evidence in the case, including collected documents and testimonies of other witnesses (we
remind you that other witnesses are police officers! note by the authors of the report).
In particular, it is also difficult to assume that the officers deliberately humiliated
and used unnecessary violence against unknown and strangers, having no personal interest
in it, and also risking their own life and health and loss of employment.
[...]In the opinion of the supervising prosecutor, police officers took urgent decisions,
important for the protection of life and health, in a dynamic and dangerous situation
which is undoubtedly a confrontation with over a thousand people. As well, they acted with
the risk of their own life and health in extremely stressful and imminent
life-threatening, healthy and disturbing situations. It should be emphasized that
uncontrolled crowd reactions are extremely dangerous.
You can not forget about this when assessing the behavior of police officers, because it
is easy to assess such situations in the privacy of your private office or private home.
Therefore, the issue of a call to comply with the law in the context of fulfilling the
conditions of art. 34 sec. 2 of the Act on coercive measures and firearms does not matter. "
26/03/2018
FIRST ROZPRAWA District Court Poznan - Stare Miasto.
16/04/2018
Notification from the prosecutor's office about accepting a complaint against the decision
to discontinue the investigation (reference number PR 1 Ds 1286.2017).
18/04/2018
SECOND ROZPRAWA District Court Poznan - Stare Miasto.
28/05/2018
Court meeting in the case of complaint against the decision to discontinue the
investigation (reference number PR 1 Ds 1286.2017). The court upholds the discontinuation
of the investigation.
04/06/2018
TRZECIA
http://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/kontrola-spoeczna/4624-solidarnie-z-represjonowanymi-po-czarnym-protescie-kronika-wydarze-apel-o-wsparcie
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Message: 3
Just three weeks ago, the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, under the direction of Judge
Moghiseh, sentenced anarchist prisoner Soheil Arabi to 5 years imprisonment for blasphemy
& 1 year for propaganda against the state ---- His wife, Nastaran Naimi, was also
sentenced to 1 and a half years in prison ---- Anarchist political prisoner Soheil Arabi
has been tortured in Evin Prison, suffering severe beatings that left him bruised & his
nose broken ---- On June 1, when he was taken to surgery, soldiers beat him in the
Khomeini Hospital. Soheil is now under quarantine ---- Soheil Arabi born August 21, 1985,
is an Iranian blogger who has been sentenced to death in Iran on charges of insulting the
Prophet Mohammad in his postings on Facebook
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) agents arrested Arabi at his home in Tehran in
November 2013. He then spent two months in the IRGC's Ward 2-A in Evin Prison. During
interrogation, he was pressured into confessing his alleged crimes. He was then
transferred to Section 350 of Evin, which is under control of the Iranian judiciary. On 30
August 2014, a five-judge panel of Branch 76 of the Criminal Court of Tehran sentenced
Arabi to death for "insulting the Prophet of Islam" in eight Facebook accounts allegedly
belonging to Arabi
On 4 September 2014, Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court also sentenced Arabi to
three years in prison on charges of "insulting the Supreme Leader" and "propaganda against
the state" in his postings on Facebook
In late September 2015, his sentence was commuted to "reading 13 religious books and
studying theology for two years
https://asranarshism.com/1397/04/14/anarchist-115/
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Message: 4
Comrades from the Bangladesh Anarcho-syndicalist Federation held a conference. Workers
from various tea gardens attended to learn more about the ideas behind anarchosyndicalism,
self-organization and international solidarity, with a focus on how this can be put in
practice. More information to follow shortly. The General Secretary of the IWA was honored
to speak at this conference and expressed full support for the workers' struggle to put an
end to their dreadful exploitation.
Solidarity with workers in struggle and live!
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Message: 5
MACC is calling for an emergency occupation starting today, June 22nd, at 5 pm at the ICE
processing center (201 Varick Street) in downtown Manhattan. Join us as the resistance
from below mobilizes to #OccupyICE and sound the call that "No one is illegal!" ----
Friday, 6/22, 5 P.M. ---- 201 Varick Street, Manhattan ---- Follow @OccupyICENYC for
updates ---- MACC hace un llamamiento para una ocupación de emergencia comenzando hoy, 22
de Junio, a las 5 pm en el centro de procesamiento de ICE (Cumplimiento de Inmigración y
Fronteras, la Migra) en 201 Varick Street, en el centro de Manhattan. Únete a nosotros y
forma la resistencia desde abajo mientras nos mobilizamos para #OcuparICE y hacer sonar el
grito de "Ningún ser humano es ilegal!" ---- #OccupyICENYC ---- Viernes, 22 de Junio, 5
P.M. ---- 201 Varick Street, Manhattan. ---- Sigue a @OccupyICENYC para mantenerte informado.
STATEMENT
Seeing parents ripped from their children, children from their parents, friends from their
friends - human beings from their freedom - tears through our hearts and fuels our rage.
The Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council stands against every ICE agent who takes
children from their families, every politician who empowers them, every police officer who
participates in this same racist and xenophobic project, every Republican who cheers for
this brutality in public, and every Democrat who condemns it in public and does nothing
whatsoever to stop it.
We stand not only against the cruel policy of family separation - which hasn't been
resolved by the recent Executive Order - and the abuse of youth and adult immigrants in
detention centers, but also against militarized border regimes that allow money and elites
to travel freely while rejecting and dehumanizing the poor and working class. The
criminalization of poverty and migrants is nothing new and crosses party lines. More than
2.5 million undocumented people were deported under Barack Obama. Every day, more than
30,000 people sit in cages, imprisoned because the nation they are in does not match where
they were born. Our politicians are invested in this system of exploitation and all that
it entails: the erosion of democracy by technocrats, mass incarceration, colonial
mentalities that target our own citizens and indigenous peoples as "foreigners," the
systematic abuse of undocumented workers, and the racist ideas that provide them
justification to profit off of this cruelty.
We recognize that, if change is going to come, it must come from ourselves - from below.
We are inspired by ICE occupations in Portland and elsewhere, and call on all New Yorkers
to stand in solidarity with immigrants and against ICE.
Until every cage is empty. Abolish ICE prisons and all prisons; no borders, no states!
#OccupyICENYC
Press inquiries: press@macc.nyc
DECLARACIÓN
Ver a padres y madres apartados de sus hijxs, hijxs de sus familias, amigxs de sus amigxs
- seres humanos de su libertad - desgarra nuestros corazones y alimenta nuestra rabia.
El Consejo Coordinador Anarquista Metropolitano (MACC) está en contra de cada empleado de
ICE que separa a niñxs de sus familias, cada político que los empodera, cada policía que
participa en el mismo proyecto racista y xenófobo, cada Republicano que aplaude esta
brutalidad en público, y cada Demócrata que lo condena en público y no hace absolutamente
nada para detenerlo.
No solo estamos en contra de la cruel política de separación de familias - que no ha sido
solucionada por la reciente Orden Ejecutiva - y el abuso a inmigrantes jóvenes y adultos
en los centros de detención, sino también de los regimenes con fronteras militarizadas que
permiten al dinero y las élites moverse libremente mientras rechazan y deshumanizan a los
pobres y la clase trabajadora. La criminalización de la pobreza y los migrantes no es nada
nuevo y atraviesa las líneas de los partidos. Más de 2.5 millones de personas
indocumentadas fueron deportadas bajo el mandato de Barack Obama. Cada día, más de 30,000
personas esperan en jaulas, encarcelados porque la nación en la que están no es la misma
que en la que nacieron. A nuestros políticos les interesa este sistema de explotación y
todo lo que implica: la erosión de la democracia a manos de tecnócratas, encarcelamientos
masivos, mentalidades coloniales que atacan a nuestros propios ciudadanos y gentes
indígenas como "extranjeros", el abuso sistemático de trabajadores indocumentados, y las
ideas racistas que les proporcionan la justificación para aprovecharse de esta crueldad.
Renonocemos que, si va a haber un cambio, tiene que surgir de nosotros - desde abajo. Nos
inspiramos en las ocupaciones a ICE en Portland y otros lugares, y llamamos a todos los
Neoyorquinos para que vengan a solidarizarse con los inmigrantes y oponerse a ICE.
Hasta que todas las jaulas estén vacias. Acabemos con las prisiones de ICE y todas las
prisiones; sin fronteras, sin estados! #OccupyICENYC
Consultas de prensa: press@macc.nyc
https://macc.nyc/blog/
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Message: 6
The cowardly cur runs from the LONDON MOB - but will stay one night in LONDON to prove he
aint no cowardy custard.
He will stay at WINFIELD HOUSE in REGENTS Park home of US ambassador, So lets do what the
CIA did to drive general Noriega the Panamanian stooge out of his sanctuary - they blasted
noise 24 hours a day for months till he cracked and came out So lets do the same with
Trump - all night noise.
Besides PANAMA by VAN HALEN the CIA played 'I fought the law' by THE CLASH.
H OW BRILLIANT TO SEE THOUSANDS OF CLASH FANS PLAYING THE SAME TRACK TO TRUMP - JOE WOULD
LOVE IT CALLING ALL CLASH REBELS - DRIVE TRUMP OUT - WHO SAYS MUSIC CANT BE RADICAL -
THURSDAY 12TH JULY - BE THERE
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