Anarchic update news all over the world - 16.07.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  "If I can not dance, it's not my revolution" - Emma Goldman
      By A.N.A. (pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Spain] Eliminating the rotten apple we did not save the
      whole basket By ANA (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Indonesia, The Anarchist Black Cross: Free all prisoners of
      class war! [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Poland, INICJATYWA PRACOWNICZA - WORKERS' INITIATIVE:
      Protest of non-medical employees: higher pay and respect!
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - AL-Kurdistan tour:
      Three revolutionaries, 25 dates, a big success (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, Libertarian Communism 2018: Anarchist Communist
      Group ACG Day School in London 3/11/18 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, London Anarchist Federation: New podcast: Fuck the
      Bins (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG - 20 Years For
      Protest Against The Hijab (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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In the balls, I was one of the most joyful and full of energy. One night, a cousin of 
Sasha, a young boy, pulled me aside. With a grave expression, as if announcing the death 
of a beloved companion, he whispered that it was not proper for an agitator to dance. ---- 
Certainly it did not suit him with such abandon. It was not a decent attitude for anyone 
who was to become a force in the anarchist movement. My futility would only stain the 
cause. ---- I was furious at the boy's shameless interference. I told him to take care of 
his own life and said that I was tired of playing the cause all the time in my face. ---- 
I did not believe that a cause that defends such a beautiful ideal, anarchism, freedom and 
emancipation from conventions and prejudice demanded the denial of life and joy.
I emphasized that our cause could not expect me to be a nun and that the movement should 
not become a monastery. If that was it, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to 
free expression, the right of everyone to beautiful and radiant things!

For me, anarchism was that and I would live anarchism in spite of everyone - arrests, 
persecution, everything. If I can not dance, it is not my revolution.

Emma Goldman  (06/27/1869 - 05/14/1940)

anarchist-ana news agency

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or because the chain of some is not the freedom of all of us ---- The violence we 
experience every day can be direct, but also symbolic and structural. Institutional 
violence and its commitment are evident in recent cases, such as the La Manada  media case 
[the case of the collective rape of an 18-year-old girl during the San Fermin fiestas in 
Pamplona]. While denouncing the androcentric, and even misogynist, bias of many of the 
judgments, feminism does not ask for more years of imprisonment as a solution to our 
problems, as foreshadowed in most media, but tries to make it clear how scandalous it is 
not to consider these facts as a violation. ---- We do not want to reproduce the dynamics 
of the hierarchical structures of domination with which we are subjected, generating so 
many inequalities and, therefore, we do not believe that the judicial and penal path is 
the only alternative for women. In addition, in the case of women who have migrated, or 
with other types of difficulties or situations, access to justice may represent a problem 
in their administrative situation.

The construction of social problems in a delinquent key prevents the State from being held 
accountable for the consequences of its policies and facilitates its electoral use to 
combat insecurity. Punitive populism is a conservative political and criminal formula that 
emerged from neoliberalism and its applause comes largely from the distorted perception of 
the social functioning of the prison system and its imaginary relation to street safety, 
exploiting the insecurities of the collectivity. An example of this is the recent use of 
juvenile murders through a revisable populist jury defense speech. Today, rape of women 
enters the marketing strategy. We are concerned that so much emphasis is placed on 
punitive solutions rather than educational proposals as well as on the punitive obsession 
of institutional feminism.

"To adopt incarceration as a strategy is to avoid thinking about other forms of 
accountability," says Angela Davis. Sexist violence, social problems, are collective 
problems and, as such, must be addressed. Eliminating the visible tip of the iceberg 
instead of intervening in the whole structure of the Patriarchate, we ignore the fact that 
there is a whole social system that maintains and generates, even feeds on, and eliminates 
the problem. The heteropatriarchy works because it seems to be the natural state of things 
and pointing to certain individuals as "alien beings" or "non-people" who liberate us as 
society from any collective responsibility and blurred the need for revision for each 
person socialized as a man.

They are easy and quick solutions to complex phenomena that depoliticize the facts and 
eliminate the concept of "structural oppression" from discourse, little contributing to 
social transformation in favor of social control. Mª Luisa Maqueda criticizes this 
paternalistic discourse affirming that " legal colonization 'deprives us of controlling 
our needs and the autonomy of our decisions."

We believe in a feminism to stop socializing as victims and to put into practice the 
mutual support between equals and self-defense. We miss a self-organized structure that 
responds to the violence received, but at the same time and unintentionally, we generate 
another outrage: we invest a large part of our time in not dying. What we want is to live.

Valladolid, June 2018.

Anarchist Group

Source: 
https://encellada.noblogs.org/post/2018/06/27/eliminando-la-manzana-podrida-no-salvamos-todo-el-cesto/

Translation> Liberto

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The Anarchist Black Cross (Anarchist Black Cross-ABC, formerly the Red Cross Anarchist) is 
an anarchist support organization. The group is renowned for its efforts in providing 
prisoners with political literature, but the group also arranges material and legal 
support for class struggle custody around the world. The Black Cross is in general 
contrasted with Amnesty International, which is primarily linked to detainees and refuses 
to defend those accused of promoting violence. The Black Cross openly supports those who 
have engaged in illegal activities as a revolutionary goal that anarchists accept as 
legitimate. ---- The Anarchist Black Cross began as an Anarchist Red Cross, an 
organization that broke away from the Red Cross Politics which was organized to assist 
political prisoners in the Russian Tsarist regime. Over the years, the origins of the 
organization are being debated, but new documents have reappeared. According to Rudolph 
Rocker, who was once a treasurer for the Red Cross Anarchist in London, this organization 
was founded in Russia during the "busy periods between 1900 and 1905." Most of the 
material that addresses the history of ABC points to this era as the birth of this group. 
This group became famous after the 1905 Revolution with the increasing anarchist 
imprisoned in Russia. Due to the rejection of the Political Red Cross and other prisoner 
support groups to support anarchist political prisoners, Russian anarchists in Russia and 
overseas exiled people created the Anarchist Red Cross to support their colleagues held in 
Russian prisons. Each branch of the organization is known by the region in which they 
operate (Latvia, Riga, Odessa, etc.). Within a few years, the organization spread beyond 
the Russian border to the United States and Britain, where the exiled revolutionaries had 
settled.

In 1905, the group changed its name, dropping the "Red Cross" from its name. In this era, 
the group used a variety of names including: Chicago Aid Fund, Society for Assisting 
Anarchist Prisoners in Russia, Joint Committee to Help Revolutionary Imprisoned in Russia, 
and finally, the name to be left, the Anarchist Black Cross.

However, according to Harry Weinstein, one of the two people who started the organization, 
the group's activities began after his capture in July or August 1906. After being 
released, Weinstein and others provided clothing for anarchists who were sentenced to 
exile in Siberia. Weinstein alleges that the group broke away from the early Red Cross 
Political in late 1906 when Weinstein and the other anarchists did not receive support 
despite the many contributions of the anarchist community. Weinstein continued his 
business in Russia until his arrival in New York in May 1907. Once there, he helped create 
the New York Anarchist Red Cross, which included members such as the Mother Earth editor, 
Louise Berger. In 1911, Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania section of Anarchist Red Cross was 
founded by Morris Beresin and Boris Yelensky.

In 1918, Nestor Makhno organized new parts of the Anarchist Black Cross in addition to the 
Ukrainian anarchist Revolutionary Revolutionary Army or Black Army in the territory of 
Ukraine which they controlled.

It is at this point that organizational efforts shift from inmate support to emergency 
medical and self-defense responses. With initial attacks from the Cossacks, White Guards, 
pogromists, and then the Red Army, the Ukrainian Black Cross took on a unique secondary 
role to prepare the city's defenses and organize the first urban army in the history of 
Ukraine. As a city militia, the Blackslave of Ukraine worked alongside anarchist Black 
Army units, but never became a mobile force, which was primarily based in the city's 
environment. Members do not wear formal uniforms, but are identified by wearing 
distinctive arm bands.

For a time, the Anarchist Black Cross was tolerated in Moscow and Petrograd by the 
Bolshevik government, although its activities in those cities were not large-scale. Cheka 
(Lenin's secret police) infiltrated the informants into the Black Cross, who regularly 
made reports on organizational leaders and activities. Outside Moscow, Petrograd, and the 
regions of Ukraine controlled by the Black Army there is complete oppression; pamphlets 
and anarchist books are regularly confiscated, and even Black Cross aid workers should be 
arrested and detained.

In September 1919, a grenade attack at a meeting of the Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik 
Party was used as a pretext for mass arrests of anarchists throughout Russia by the Reds 
of Bolshevik and Cheka Army. Anarchist militants arrested; even the Black Army and its 
general, Nestor Makhno, hunted on the orders of Leon Trotsky, are determined to rid Russia 
of all anarchists with an "iron broom". It soon became apparent that some types of 
anarchist prisoner-relief organizations had to be recreated once again to help anarchists 
in Bolshevik jails. In Moscow, Kharkov, Odessa, and many other small towns, Anarchist 
Black Cross and similar organizations were formed like the Anarchist Prisoner Relief 
Society, which mainly served food for anarchists and other dissidents on the left. The 
work proved difficult, even where food is easy to get, as it is often confiscated by the 
Bolshevik Red Guards encountered on the street. In 1922, even anarchist aid workers in 
Moscow and Petrograd such as Senya Fleshin and Mollie Steimer themselves were arrested by 
the GPU on the grounds of "assisting criminal elements" that violated the Soviet state 
security code.

At this time, the Black Cross was formed in many countries. In the United States, 
intensive anarchist attacks left the Black Cross born organically in various cities, which 
later joined the Anarchist Black Cross Federation. The Indonesian Black Cross was formed 
spontaneously to respond to comrades caught in Mayday 2018 riot in Yogyakarta.

https://palanghitam.noblogs.org/

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In connection with the upcoming protest of workers and non-medical employees in Poznan, on 
Monday 16 July, at 14:00, in front of the hospital on ul. Dluga 1/2 we publish the 
position of the Factory Committee of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza at the Clinical Hospital 
of the Transfiguration and we encourage you to participate in the protest! ---- Statement 
---- We demand higher wages and respect for the work of non-medical employees ---- The OZZ 
Factory Committee The Inicjatywa Pracownicza at the Clinical Hospital of the 
Transfiguration of the Lord associates primarily non-medical staff in its ranks. Who we 
are? It is a medical recorder that sets your visit to a hospital or clinic; a room that 
cleans the hospital, spills pots and serves dinner; IT specialist, without whom the doctor 
will not fill the prescription, and the computer tomograph will not do the diagnosis; a 
medical secretary who will enter the records of your stay, plan your next visit, enter 
your settlements so that the NFZ will pay for your treatment; accounting employee, without 
whom the hospital is unable to function, will not buy medicines and will not settle 
accounts with the NFZ; there is also an electrician - everything works on electricity; 
painter and locksmith; and all this is supervised by a doorman who watches over the clock,

We also work for the hospital, we organize work for doctors, nurses who do not clean 
themselves, they do not take care of the patients themselves, nor do they repair the 
electrical system.
In the meantime, we feel treated and treated as if we were unnecessary. This is most 
evidently demonstrated by remuneration which, irrespective of our education and 
qualifications, is invariably low. It is assumed that we are to earn much less than other 
professional groups employed in healthcare as if from our work, dedication and commitment, 
human life, quality of services provided by the Hospital and comfort of patients and their 
families did not depend on.

Some of us do not earn even a statutory minimum salary of PLN 2,100 gross, and the 
Hospital must pay compensatory allowances periodically to many people. Our wages are 
invariably low at only PLN 2,000 per hand. We earn a lot less than other professional 
groups, even if we have higher education. We do not get any pay rises, so realistically 
the hospital staff's salaries have decreased, instead of rising.

Today, as a non-medical team, we are a group of people determined to claim worthy earnings 
and respect for our work. There are a lot of young people in the hospital who come to gain 
work experience, but because of low wages they quit working here. There are also long-term 
employees of the Hospital, who, due to negligence, lack of any increases and, 
consequently, starvation wages today also want to leave. Let us not let them go! We also 
create this hospital.

We demand respect for the work of non-medical employees!
We demand higher wages!

Work Commission of the OZZ Employee Initiative at the Clinical Hospital of the Transfiguration

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2398-protest-pracownikow-niemedycznych-wyzszych-plac-i-szacunku

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 From May 27 to June 30, Alternative Libertaire organized a round of debates with the 
French Arthur and Siyah, and the American Arges, ex-combatants in the YPG in Syria. A very 
positive assessment. ---- Big success and great satisfaction for the meeting of rallies 
organized by Alternative libertaire this year, in solidarity with the Kurdish left. From 
May 27 to June 30, three former international volunteers in the YPG, accompanied by a 
driver, traveled the roads of France to hold 25 meetings in all regions of the country. 
Our comrade Arthur Aberlin, who held the Kurdistan-autogestion-revolution.org blog in 
2017, was there with two other revolutionaries engaged in the YPG between 2016 and 2018: 
the French Siyah and the American Arges. ---- Almost everywhere, the rooms were well 
filled , with peaks to more than 200 people, Toulouse, Nantes and Montpellier: 
libertarians, anticolonialists, revolutionaries, trade unionists, curious ... The Kurdish 
diaspora was also very present, welcoming several dates of the tour in its premises. It 
has often been the occasion of a warm rapprochement with local AL activists.

Because of some precedents, there was fear, here and there, a fist action of pro-Erdogan 
nationalists. It has not happened. A conspiratorialist here, a Soralian there: nothing 
serious. In Orleans, an attempted raid by the Action Francaise came to a halt (or rather 
Azincourt) for the royal junk, which promptly disengaged.

On the content side, the evening was generally introduced by the film by Mireille Court 
and Chris den Hond, Rojava, a utopia in the heart of Syrian chaos . This 45-minute 
documentary, produced in a semi-professional way, has the great advantage, over many other 
productions, of not focusing on the military aspects and avoiding the clichés about the " 
valiant Kurdish fighters ": it paints a A quick but well-documented overview of the 
different aspects of the revolutionary process in northern Syria, ideal for people with 
little knowledge of the issue.

Then, the speakers answered directly to the questions and objections of the room, or gave 
a conference in six points : the question of the emancipation of women ; the architecture 
of pluricommunity democracy ; the question of anticapitalism in the revolutionary process 
; the alternative to the state model ; the life of every day in the revolution ; the 
revolutionary structures that allowed this revolution to be born.

Report France 3 Kurdistan May 29, 2018 from Alternative libertarian on Vimeo .

A small report from France 3 on the occasion of the passage in Orleans of the Kurdistan 
Revolution self-management tour. Politically, the talk by the journalist is several 
notches above what is usually done on TV on the volunteer fighters in the YPG. It does not 
speak of warrior romance, but of revolution, political project and emancipation.

On the bottom, it was rich and dense, with political analyzes intertwined with things seen 
and lived sometimes unexpected.

At each stage, the AL groups who hosted the event recalled that the libertarian communists 
provide critical support to the Kurdish left: an authoritarian drift is indeed always 
possible (the democratic system of the communes coexists with a leading party, the PYD, 
who has the upper hand on the military command), as well as instrumentalisation by foreign 
powers (United States, Russia, France ...).

One subject has only been touched on: Afrîn . This cruel defeat has not been digested. The 
most advanced and prosperous Kurdish canton is now occupied by the Turkish army and 
Islamist militias of the ASL. Beyond the thousands of civilian and military deaths in the 
Turkish bombings, nearly 200,000 people were driven from their homes, now occupied by Arab 
or Turkmen displaced by Ankara, as in the good old days of the Ottoman Empire. The ethnic 
cleansing enterprise is thus confirmed and, as in Palestine, the question of the right of 
return of refugees will arise. We will have the opportunity to talk about it again.

Commission newspaper

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Tournee-AL-Kurdistan-Trois-revolutionnaires-25-dates-un-gros-succes

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3rd November 2018 at the May Day Rooms London
Libertarian Communism 2018: Advancing the Class Struggle
Workshops on...
the NHS
What is effective organisation?
Neither Party nor Network
All those interested in the ideas of libertarian communism are welcome.
More info to follow...
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/07/12/libertarian-communism-2018-acg-day-school-in-london-3-11-18/

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Our long awaited, much hyped podcast is now available for you auditory delight. This 
episode we're covering Ulrike Meinhof, news from Indonesia, a review of Peter Gelderloos' 
book The Failure of Non-violence and an antifascist call out in London.

Listen on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/user-223844795/episode-1-july-2018

Or download via archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/FuckTheBins-Episode1

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Shapark Shajarizadeh was one of 29 women who undertook individual protests against the 
wearing of the hijab in Iran in February. Last month her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who 
specialises in human rights and also represented other women involved in the protests, was 
arrested. ---- It appears that 42-year old Shapark was subjected to beatings and torture 
after her arrest. Another 31 year old who took part in the protests is also rumoured to 
have been arrested. ---- Penalties for women revealing their hair in public in Iran range 
from the equivalent of a £19 fine to a prison sentence. ---- Shapark was sentenced to two 
years in prison and 18 years suspended prison sentence. On Instagram she said "This means 
that I will have to be silent for 20 years and not get involved in any activities." She 
has rejected this and has fled the country.

Aggravated by US sanctions, Iran's currency, the rial has plunged 15%, resulting in 
protests in late June, after previous protests in January and February. Some of the chants 
include against Iran's involvement in Syria "Let go of Syria and think about us" as well 
as direct challenges to the theocratic regime "Down with the dictator". These protests 
originated in the bazaar quarter in Teheran. The regime is feeling threatened by the 
increasing confidence of Iranians to protest as the economic situation worsens. They will 
use brutal force to crush any protests, but that might not be enough to save them, As we 
said before, the Shah was swept away by mass action before, and now the odds are 
shortening of the Rouhani government and the supreme leader Khameini being similarly swept 
away.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/07/12/20-years-for-protest-against-the-hijab/

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