Anarchic update news all over the world - 20.07.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - Asylum and
      Immigration Law: A murderous policy to make refugees flee (fr,
      it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Ruptura Colectiva (RC): International solidarity with
      Indonesian libertarian comrades imprisoned for fight against a
      mega-airport death project! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  [Italy] Against Trump, Putin, Assad and jihadism. For
      libertarian communism and self-organization By ANA (ca, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  [Argentina] Mural painted by Santiago Maldonado will be
      placed in the Faculty of Fine Arts of La Plata By ANA (pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation: Workers Movement
      of Bangladesh by: akmshihab [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Iraq-Sulaymaniyah: Mass protest in central and southern Iraq
      by Zaher Baher (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





As the draft law was being drafted, parliamentarians confirmed the Interior Ministry's 
desire to introduce a xenophobic migration policy. The objective: to limit the entry into 
France and to set up an institutional mistreatment of foreign people to get them to leave 
the country by all means ---- Following its adoption in April in the National Assembly, 
senators began considering the Asylum and Immigration Bill on June 19. A large part of the 
amendments favorable to migrants have been swept away by the Senate, including those 
proposing the abolition of the offense of solidarity. Instead of removing this provision 
that criminalizes people in solidarity, the bill ultimately only makes cosmetic changes. 
And current trials show that the hunt for solidarity offenders is not about to end.

New measures, likely to affect a large number of people, have been added to the project. 
These include the restriction of family reunion (which is now the main reason for 
foreigners entering France), or the tightening of access to a residence permit for parents 
of a French child.

Imprisonment as a means of pressure
Senators also added to the project the reduction of state medical aid, to make it an 
emergency aid under certain conditions and with limited amounts. A particularly harmful 
measure, since it will apply to all people in an irregular situation, and very symbolic: 
State medical aid, which covers the medical expenses of undocumented migrants, is one of 
the traditional beasts of the right . The extension of detention in custody to 90 days is 
another attack: we validate the possibility of locking up up to three months of people for 
the mere fact of not having papers, in the hope (vain) of to see them resolve to 
expulsion. Imprisonment is thus conceived as a means of pressure, a physical and 
psychological violence intended to bruise, to discourage and ultimately force deportation 
of those who refuse to submit to it. The violence inherent in detention centers is thus 
the result of political will. It should be noted that children of undocumented parents may 
still be locked up in an administrative detention center (CRA) with their parents, in the 
name of preserving the family unit (it is believed they dream). Another serious provision 
of symbols and consequences is the use of videoconferencing for virtually all court 
hearings that foreigners may be forced to take. Here again, an exceptional justice system 
is emerging, since these measures provide for reduced rights for foreigners (no such 
arrangement exists for French nationals).

Lastly, surveillance and registration will now extend to foreign minors: the law provides 
for the creation of a national biometric file for young people who will be declared to be 
of age when they arrive in the country. It is still unclear how the data in this file will 
be used.

As we go to press, the text must be discussed in the Senate, without too much hope that it 
will return to its own positions. Given France's refusal to accept the Aquarius, regular 
evacuations of camps and police harassment at the borders, it is clear that this bill is 
in the direction of a murderous policy, against which it is not too late to mobilize.

Clem (AL PNE)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Loi-Asile-et-immigration-Une-politique-assassine-pour-faire-fuir-les-refugie-es

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Indonesia: "Prison is a milestone in the revolutionaries' path towards freedom. It's an 
intermediary stop, but not the end" ---- On the 1st May 2018, Yogyakarta, dozens of 
anarchist were arrested during a furious riot against the Sultan and NYIA mega-airport 
projectt which threaten the Kulonprogo coastal community. 11 anarchist remain imprisoned 
for the fight with the police and the thugs of the Sultan. Comrade Ucil is charged with 
molotov attacks on cops bikes. The Indonesian state has used this moment to repress 
anarchist movement on the Archipelago and some comrades are in hiding or under 
investigation. Let's light the spark of revolutionary solidarity and ignite the black 
international. Fire to Corporations, Investors, Tourists , and Banks operation in Indonesia.

Solidarity fund - paypal.me/TobiVBonano
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"Unfortunately the dream we carry in our hearts is too great to avoid the risk of finding 
ourselves up against the monstrous wall of authority raised in defense of the state and 
capital" - Nicola Gai

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Message: 3





Let us set ourselves the chance to see before us five murderers, thieves, crooks, liars, 
sadists, and other things, together with our best friend whose moral correctness we are 
reasonably confident and who, even if he had a corpse in the closet, the other five 
masters mentioned, among which, as it would be said in Rome, the cleanest has mange. The 
six in question are locked in a room and locked in a deadly struggle with ephemeral 
alliances of varying geometry, while at the present moment our friend is in the sights of 
all. In a similar situation, the question of who to help should be rhetorical. But ... 
Let's get out of the metaphor and enter the real world of the confrontation between powers 
that has unfolded in Syria and the border areas; here the interpreters of the drama are as 
follows:

1. The United States of America, the principal capitalist nation in the world, as well as 
the world's greatest imperialist power, which supports genocide and an impressive number 
of military actions and invasions - direct or indirect, obvious or hidden - against the 
peoples of almost the entire planet.

2. The Russian Federation, a capitalist nation that, after a period of decline, is rapidly 
regaining the status of the second imperialist nation in the world and which, too, has a 
very respectable criminal record.

3. The Republic of Turkey, a capitalist country, the minor dancer, an official member of 
the military alliance dominated by the United States of America, and distinguished for 
some time by a policy of repression of internal opposition and ethnic minorities, while 
recently decided to stand out for their unswerved support for the Jihadist troops - the 
Daesh (Islamic State) in the first place - with a good deal of imperialist whims, even in 
a minor tone.

4. The Syrian Arab Republic, another minor capitalist country, which also pursues a policy 
of repression of the opposition and national ethnic minorities, as well as having a 
dictatorial institutional structure, and is a traditional ally in the region of the 
Russian Federation.

5. The various jihadi groups, organizations of mercenary cutthroats behind the best offer, 
all characterized, especially the Daesh, by the desire to create a capitalist nation in 
the Arab world, all of them with thousands of cruelties on their shores.

6. The various ethnic groups, political groups and individuals that have gathered around 
the political proposal of Democratic Confederalism, 1 who want to overcome both the 
reality of state political organization and hierarchical political forms of capitalism and 
who have partially succeeded in making these ideas a reality in parts of northeastern 
Syria. They are under fire or sidelined by all the subjects mentioned above, with the 
concrete risk that what is at this time the closest social experiment to the dreams of 
everyone who has a heart that beats to the left, is destroyed.

Neither here, in actual reality, should there be any doubt as to where to align itself to 
all those who - groups or individuals - declare themselves to be anticapitalists. However, 
things go the other way, at least for some. In the Italian anarchist weekly Umanità Nova 
we have documented how a defamation campaign was launched with Democratic Confederalism 
and its allies in the International Brigades, which was based on the fact that in some 
military operations against the Daesh, YPG and Allied formations would have attacked in 
parallel with the forces. Today, however, the fate of what, we repeat, is the closest 
social experiment to the hopes of the workers and socialist movements, it seems that in 
certain self-styled anti-imperialist areas they are in the background and can be 
considered completely sacrificial interests of the Russian Federation and the Syrian Arab 
Republic.

If a few decades ago these realities were called "socialists" and therefore could have, if 
not accepted, at least understood the logic of what is expressed above, today, when these 
states embraced the logic of capitalism, it assumes grotesque characters: political groups 
that wave red flags and make constant anticapitalist proclamations are reduced, in 
concrete practice, to become apologists and supporters of one group of capitalist 
countries against others. To close with another metaphor, today it is as if we were 
witnessing the demonstration of fervent militants for bourgeois legality, alongside the 
Italian mafia against Russian mafias, because these are now considered as the true 
"anti-state" and the Italian was rehabilitated as a example of total respect for the law.

Enrico Voccia

Source: Tierra y Libertad, June-July 2018 | nodo50.org/tierraylibertad

Translation> Liberto

>> Note:

[1]Democratic Confederalism is the non-state, anti-capitalist, multi-ethnic, ecological 
and feminist organizational model being implemented in the Rojava region at this time. It 
is not a nationalist project and rejects representative democracy in favor of a democracy 
that is actually made by the people in their communities. It is this project that the YPG 
(People's Protection Unit) forces and the YPJ (Women's Protection Unit) defend.

anarchist-ana news agency

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Message: 4






Press release: ---- On completing one year of his forced disappearance followed by death 
---- Santiago returns to Fine Arts ---- The Santiago Maldonado Solidarity Committee will 
carry out the placement of the last mural painted by Santiago in La Plata. Will be placed 
in the courtyard of the Faculty of Fine Arts, diagonal 78 Nº 680. ---- On Friday, August 3 
at 5:00 p.m. , together with his family and friends, human rights organizations and social 
organizations, we will present the mural he painted at the Anulquist Guliay Polié Library 
in the city of La Plata. ---- Santiago Maldonado, the Lettuce , was disappeared by the 
Argentine state on August 1, 2017, after a brutal repression of the gendarmerie inside Pu 
Lof in Cushamen Resistance (Chubut). The repressive operation of the Macri government was 
in charge of the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich and his Chief of Staff Pablo 
Noceti. After 79 days Santiago was found dead.

The Lettuce , was an anarchist militant companion, committed to social transformation, who 
manifested organized solidarity with the popular struggles. Santiago, was 28 years old and 
was from the village of May 25. Since childhood he has been very curious about art, and 
because of these concerns, when he turned 18, he moved to La Plata to study Fine Arts at 
the Faculty of Fine Arts of UNLP, and went on to design, illustration, painting and 
tattooing. In addition, it developed a great artistic and militant activity, leaving its 
marks shaped in different places.

He participated actively in the Anarchist Library Guliay Polié , where he militated and 
praised the ideas of the libertarian camp, in which he believed and for which he ended up 
giving his life. There, on one of the walls, he left one of his murals.

The Library was located in the historic home of Rodolfo González Pacheco's family 
(anarchist playwright, contributor to the daily La Protesta , and founder of the newspaper 
La Antorcha ). After 10 years of activity it was closed in 2017 for its demolition. So 
from the Committee we decided that this mural should be preserved and collectivized as 
part of the recovery of the memory and the struggle of the companion.

We are waiting for you on Friday, August 3, at the auditorium of the Faculty of Fine Arts 
to accompany Maldonado's relatives and learn about the art of Santiago.

Press Contacts:

María Isabel Prigione Greco: 11 65442102 - HIJOS LA PLATA

Marcio Mancini: 221 5221455- Society of Resistance La Plata

Oscar Yohma: 221 6192957- House of Human Rights Hermanos Zaragoza

FB: HIJOS La Plata

Translation> Sol de Abril

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Message: 5





Workers' movement in Bangladesh has progressed with a bright and sometimes negative 
character. As there is such a big role in the labor movement in the garment sector, the 
CBA is considered to be the source of wealth , in banks and public service institutions . 
---- Every political party in Bangladesh now has labor wings. In the name of those parties 
there is a branch of labor organization from central to unit. Labor leaders are now 
ministers, have been there in the past. The labor organizations of jute mills were once 
very influential. Their leaders influenced national politics. Now the place has been 
transport workers' organization. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan is also the top leader 
of the minister and transport workers. Due to his influence, there are allegations that 
public transport can not be done with road transport.

At one time Adamjee Jatal became a regular incident of clashes and killing among rival 
labor organizations. But the leaders were not found when the Adamjee jute mill was closed. 
The governmental banks of Bangladesh have CBAs.

There are allegations that the bank's top administration is helpless to the CBA leaders of 
those banks. The officials have to remain in the face of pressure and pressure. Even the 
same condition of the Bangladesh Bank. There are allegations that they do not care for the 
governor. Even some unpleasant incidents have failed to take any action against the CBA 
leaders. And why or why not? Recently in a case of Sonali Bank, a minister Kam workers 
leader took the position of the CBA leaders. He advised the authorities to sit in the bank 
without any permission and settle the issue.

WASA, DESA , Power Division , Titas Gas , Biman , CBA or Employee Welfare Association in 
each sector. There are allegations , CBA leaders did not really matter for the welfare of 
workers are busy , more busy packing their sugarcane. And everywhere, the 
government-backed CBO has a strong hold. The opponents have cornered The situation changed 
even when the government changed.

Organizations and movements of the garment factories of Bangladesh are now the most 
discussed. Since the collapse of Rana Plaza, there is international pressure to build 
labor unions. But there are five thousand garment factories, but only 6 hundred factories 
have labor unions.

In June 2006, garment workers were able to create pressure on the government with the 
first major movement in their rights. They protested against fixing the monthly salary of 
only 1, 662 and 50 paise. No labor union did not pay the wages. Then they started a 
movement demanding a minimum wage of three thousand rupees. After the collapse of the Rana 
Plaza government, they set a minimum wage of five thousand taka.

Columnist Shah Md. From the writings of Ziauddin, it is known that May Day is observed in 
the camps of freedom fighters during the great liberation war in 1971 with respect to the 
rights and demands of the workers. After Independence, May Day gets state recognition 
After independence in 1972, on the occasion of the great May Day, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 
declared May Day as National Day in a speech to the nation.

After independence, the country's labor movement was divided into several divisions. In 
1973, workers' displeasure arose in Karnaphuli Complex. Many workers were injured in this 
labor unrest. There were conflicts between the Sramik League and the Labor Federation in 
the Tongi Industrial Area at that time. Labor organizations are divided into several 
groups. In 1973, there was a conflict between the competing trade union. Many workers were 
killed in Barbarcund industrial area of Chittagong due to the conflict. In 1973, 
Bangladesh Trade Union Center became a member of the World Trade Union Center. After the 
formation of BAKSAL in 1975, a labor organization was formally established throughout the 
country. That was the single national labor organization. It is named after the National 
Workers League.

The researcher Altaf Parvez said, " Labor organizations play a big role in the war of 
liberation in 1971. After the workers 'rights movement, the workers' union Oikya Parishad 
(SCOP) took part in anti-government movement in the 1980s. They give parallel programs to 
the political party. Because , they thought that if the country does not have a democratic 
environment then it is not possible to bring the rights of workers ,Labor movement is not 
possible But after the fall of Ershad government, the political government became the 
leader of the workers 'movement and workers' leaders. As a result, workers' movement 
became confused and became a leopard of the political party. Workers work in the interest 
of the workers with the scope of the workers and their interests. Work for the 
government's sake. At the same time, the labor organization goes to some leftist leaders. 
Independent labor organization loses existence. The government and the industrialists , 
seeing profit industry. The factories are developed in the eighties , yet is clearly 
anti-labor organizations. And some workers' leader was seen as negative because of Labor's 
anti-people work. ''

He said, " During Ershad a group of labor leaders worked for Ershad. There was often a 
clash between workers in Adamjee Jute Mill area. At that time many workers were killed due 
to conflict of labor leaders. Adamjie Jute Mill is then compared to the Arsenal. " At that 
time, the leader of the discussion, Kazi Zafar Ahmed, joined Ershad as minister.

Altaf Parvez said, " At one time the labor movement was in Tejgaon , Tongi and Chittagong. 
But that situation is no longer there. And workers' movement is not very much under the 
control of the workers. ''

Shah Md. In Ziauddin's post, " After the change of 1975, the practice of party political 
ideology became larger than the ideological practice of establishing the rights of working 
people in the working class organizations. The politics of liberation and rehabilitation 
of multi-party democracy in 1979, Ziaur Rahman began to reflect on his sangathanagulote 
workers , party ideology , " Workers Welfare Federation , the labor union was formed. In 
this way, labor organizations are involved in the lease of various political parties. As a 
result, instead of protecting the interest of the working people, the labor organizations 
are busy keeping political leaders in the cushion and fighting for the mattress. As a 
result , the leadership of labor politics and the working class are not in the hands of 
workers. ''

Shah Md. In Ziauddin's post, " After the change of 1975, the practice of party political 
ideology became larger than the ideological practice of establishing the rights of working 
people in the working class organizations. The politics of liberation and rehabilitation 
of multi-party democracy in 1979, Ziaur Rahman began to reflect on his sangathanagulote 
workers , party ideology , " Workers Welfare Federation , the labor union was formed. In 
this way, labor organizations are involved in the lease of various political parties. As a 
result, instead of protecting the interest of the working people, the labor organizations 
are busy keeping political leaders in the cushion and fighting for the mattress. As a 
result , the leadership of labor politics and the working class are not in the hands of 
workers. ''

President of Garments Workers Unity Forum Mosherefa Mishu told Deutsche Welle, "In the 
sixty , seventy and eighteenth century, the jute and textile factory-based labor movement 
and treau union were positive. The owners were not too opposed to it. After the 
independence of Bangladesh, the debate on the trade union or CBA of the bank and the 
service sector was created. But in the eighties when it began to develop in the garment 
factory , since this sector was a strong trade-union attitude. It may be a reason to be 
100% export oriented. But the attitude of the owners that are so negative , the factory 
trade union initiatives , the cropper , cases and tortured. ''

He said, "After the Tazreen Fashions and Rana Plaza accidents, the garment factories come 
under international pressure from the trade union. The government accepts it. But the fact 
is , there is no labor union in 79 percent factories. ''

Mishu said, " Like the garment factories, the anti-worker attitude of workers is now clear 
in other industries , which were not in the past. This situation is especially in the 
re-rolling mill , construction industry and many other industries. ''

Bangladesh is not a worker under the amended Labor Act of 2013, no one can take part 
directly in the labor union. As a result, there is a crisis of educated people by 
organizing workers. After all political parties have their own workers' organization, they 
work in the party's decision. Especially those who are in power , their workers' 
organizations work to protect government's interests. As a result, the independent 
organization for the workers was nearly extinct.

Altaf Parvez said, " Independent labor organizations are helpful for the industry. If 
there is no labor organization or bargaining agent , there may be unregulated labor 
movement in the industrial establishment , which is harmful to the organization. The 
government can understand the matter gradually. Hope the owners will understand " And 
Musharraf Mishu said ," The labor force is also a part of production , so to speak with 
the workers and ensure the welfare of the people, the production process must be continued. ''

[The true picture of Bangladesh's labor movement is a kind of confusing situation in the 
form of a bourgeois ideology that is based on the Bolshevik ideology. If it is not 
possible to establish a productive class in the control of the production process, then 
production and real development can not be possible. The conventional labor movement is 
being used as a chess in the political party. Workers' organizations now have the means to 
go to power and the right to the state. And workers' tender parties are busy sharing their 
sugarcane in the name of the so called welfare of the workers. The workers' organizations 
and federationes have to overcome all sorts of influences and avoid nationalistic and 
capitalist paths and move on to the path to changing the situation in anarcho-syndicalism. 
Otherwise, there will be no man's freedom, including workers, workers.]

http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news

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It looks like the US and Western Countries’ propaganda, and the illusions of religion and 
nationalism, are no longer working for the people in central and southern Iraq. It might 
be that the time has arrived to end the sectarianism between Shia and Sunna.  It’s fifteen 
years since the collapse of Saddam Hussain and there has been thirteen years (2005) of 
Shia government. The failure of the election process and parliamentary system should have 
given both Iraqi Shia and Sunna the lesson that the real changes cannot happen through 
this process and establishment. This was probably also the main reason only 38% of the 
electorate participated in Iraq general election in May this year. ---- During this period 
the real winners were the politicians, businessmen, government ministers, heads of 
government departments and the foreign companies. The loser are the ordinary people who 
has lost everything - even the little they had under Saddam Hussein’s regime.  In 
addition, people has been suffering badly at the hands of corruption, privatisation, 
injustice, unemployment, a sectarian war, the widening a gap between rich and poor and 
lack of gas, electric and clean water.

People in central and southern Iraq obviously don’t want to continue living this kind of 
life. For almost a week the people of Basra (a city rich from oil and gas and controlled 
by the central government and foreign oil corporations) have been fighting the 
authorities. The oil companies employ thirty thousand people - none of them from Basra.

Basra is the 3rd most important city in Iraq after Baghdad and Mosul where over five 
million people live. They have suffered terribly at the hands of the local authority and 
foreign companies. They have no decent health treatment or education.  According to one 
Iraqi report 48% of Basra’s residents have been diagnosed with a type of cancer whose 
cause has been linked to depleted uranium.  Because of all this, the people of Iraq, 
especially those in the south and central area had no choice but to fight back against 
both local and central government.

Protesters in Basra have occupied many government’s buildings and offices and are involved 
in street fighting with the police and security forces.  People have also set fire to 
offices and the headquarters of political parties in the city.

Since Friday 13th July protest have spread to many other towns and cities including 
Nasiryah, Maysan, Qadisiyyah, Karbal, Thi Qar , Babil and Najaf. In Najaf, the most Holy 
Shia City in Iraq, protesters managed to occupy and take control of the airport. In Basra 
they are trying to take control of the oil fields and refineries to stop oil being 
exported. On Saturday afternoon further protests started in four neighbourhoods of Baghdad 
very close to the Green Zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Zone) – a hugely 
sensitive place in Baghdad.  It seems that the central government has now imposed a night 
curfew in certain areas of Baghdad.  Other reports talk about the cutting off of the main 
road by the government  between Baghdad and Kirkuk.

The situation is so tense that Haider al-Abadi, the Prime Minster of Iraq, shortened his 
visit to Brussels so he could return to Basra on Saturday to have a meeting with the 
authorities, politicians, and the heads of police and security in Basra.  Protesters tried 
to occupy the meeting hall but they were crushed by the police and the security.

We do not know the exact numbers of people killed or injured as there are many different 
reports. Some reports confirm over twenty protesters killed, more than 240 injured and 
over 1000 protesters arrested. In the mean-time central government doesn’t want the news 
of protesters and their activities reaching other cities. From Saturday morning until 
Monday morning Facebook was down and form Saturday 6pm until after 11am on Sunday there 
was no internet.

We do not know what the outcome will be, but so far political parties haven’t managed to 
restrain or control the protests. And, at present there are no religion demand, slogans, 
anthems or shouting “God is Great” from the protestors.

However, if people do not organise themselves in non-hierarchical independent groups in 
every work places, streets and neighbourhoods to coordinate their actions it is difficult 
to be optimistic about the situation. There is also the possibility that protesters face 
the dirty policy of the government  and the bloody tactics in killing of the state that 
push protesters to defend themselves with weapons. This could change their mass struggle 
through peaceful demonstrations and protests to a civil war. Recent history of the “Arab 
Spring” shows that civil wars only really benefit those in authority, the rich, the 
corporations and the system in general.

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31071

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