Anarchic update news all over the world - 28.07.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  anarch.info: July 25, 2018 - Fourth Annual International Day
      of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Czech, afed: Before the excavator, behind the excavator ---
      Report from direct action in Bílina mine [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, [Athens] Solidarity course in the fight of Lefkimmi
      26/7/2018 By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 4.  anarchist communist group ACG: Mexico: Is It Business As
      Usual? (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  black rose fed: BOOTS RILEY: POWER IS NOT IN ELECTED OFFICE
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Video: In Athens, members of Rouvikonas attack Greek Foreign
      Ministry By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, anarchistcommunist group ACG: Radical Book Group -
      Leicester (30th August) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Since the last July 25th International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners, the 
worldwide struggle against the nightmare of fascism and the far-right has grown and 
intensified. The news bulletins steadily report the racist and bigoted attacks, the 
harassment of journalists, the demonization of refugees and migrants, and the increasing 
presence and violence of organized fascist and far-right groups. While the bigoted, 
nationalist imagination reproduces itself on a global scale, it also attempts to turn us 
all into prisoners of the border. ---- Originating in 2014 as a Day of Solidarity with 
Jock Palfreeman-an Australian man serving a 20-year sentence in Bulgaria for defending two 
Romani men from an attack by fascist football hooligans-the International Day of 
Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners aims to break down the borders and build an 
international response against fascism. By having an event, raising money, or dedicating 
an action to these comrades, we can simultaneously strengthen our local movements by 
ensuring that those who have acted to protect our communities against the fascist threat 
are never forgotten, as well as create the links of a powerful international solidarity 
which can transcend both the prison and the border wall.

This July 25th, we call on antifascists worldwide to act in solidarity with antifascist 
prisoners-the comrades who have been behind bars for many years, the friends who have just 
begun their sentences, the mates still awaiting trial-because they are in there for us, 
and so we must be out here for them!

No Pasaran!
Until All Are Free!

USE THE HASHTAG: #J25antifa

««««««Global List of Antifascist Prisoners»»»»»»

Below is a list of global antifascist prisoners who are currently imprisoned. Hundreds 
more have been arrested but have not been convicted; we encourage local groups to support 
the antifascists of their choosing who are in legal trouble. If you are not donating to a 
specific person, a good option is to support the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund.

Please contact us: if you know an antifa prisoner who is missing form the list (include 
their details, and what languages they can read); if you can help translate the call; or 
if you are planning an event that, so that we can help publicize it: nycantifa@riseup.net.

EUROPE

Belarus
Roman Bogdan

Roman Bogdan was arrested on April 15, 2015, as part of the long-going state repression of 
anti-fascists in Brest, stemming from a fight between anti-fascists and fascists on May 8, 
2013. In October, Roman was sentenced to 8 years in a penal colony and must pay 3500 Euro 
in damages. On December 15, 2015 a regional appellate court commuted his sentence by 2 years.

He can read Russian and simple English phrases.

Address:
Roman Bogdan
ul. Pervaya Zavodskaya, 8,
IK-17, otryad 12
213010 Shklov
Mogilevskaya obl.
BELARUS

http://abc-belarus.org/?p=6153&lang=en

Vadim Boyko

Vadim Boyko was arrested on March 22, 2016, on suspicion of participating in a fight that 
took place on June 29, 2014 between anti-fascist supporters of FC Partyzan and right-wing 
soccer hooligans from FC Torpedo. The arrests in 2014 were not followed up until 2016, 
when a special political department decided to start the case with a series of police 
raids on the antifascists who were alleged to have been involved. On March 10, 2017 Vadim 
Boyko was sentenced to 4 years of jail, and was re-arrested in July for transfer to a 
penal colony.

He can read Russian and simple English phrases.

Address:Address:
Boyko Vadim Sergeyevich
IK-17
ul. Pervaya Zavodskaya, 8
213004, Shklov, Mogilevskaya obl.
BELARUS

https://abc-belarus.org/?p=6874&lang=en

Tomas Kovinkski

Tomas Kovinski is an antifascist from Minsk who was detained on September 27, 2016 after a 
fight with a right-wing football hooligan. On January 25, 2017 was convicted of malicious 
hooliganism and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.

He can read Russian and simple English phrases.

Address:

Kovinski Tomas Sergeyevich
IUOT-55
ul. Sotsialisticheskaya, 7
220021 Minsk
Belarus

https://abc-belarus.org/?p=8745&lang=en

Vlad Lenko

Vlad Lenko is an antifascist from Ivatsevichi (Brest region). He was arrested on December 
27, 2014, and accused of taking part in a fight against local neo-Nazis earlier in 
December. Vlad was charged with group hooliganism and aggravated bodily harm, and in 
September 2015 was sentenced to 6 years in a penal colony.

He can read Russian and simple English phrases.

Address:
Lenko Vlad Igorevich
211300 Vitebskaya obl.
Vitebskiy rajon, Vitba, IK-3
BELARUS

http://abc-belarus.org/?p=6240&lang=en

Bulgaria
Jock Palfreeman

Jock Palfreeman is an Australian anti-fascist political prisoner serving a twenty-year 
prison sentence in Bulgaria for the rather mysterious death of a neo-Nazi football 
hooligan who was part of a group attacking two Romani men in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2007. Jock 
came to the aid of the Romani, and quickly found himself the focus of the attack. 
Bulgarian authorities did everything they could to ensure that Jock did not receive a fair 
trial, and after his sentencing have refused-in contravention of their own treaties-to 
transfer him to Australia to serve the rest of his time closer to his family. Jock wants 
donations for him sent to the Bulgarian Prisoners' Association, which he is part of.

He can read English and Bulgarian.

Address:
Jock Palfreeman
Sofia Central Prison
21 General Stoletov Boulevard
Sofia 1309, BULGARIA

http://www.brightonabc.org.uk/jock.html

Russia
Aleksandr Kolchenko

Aleksandr  Kolchenko was arrested in Crimea on May 17, 2014, along with several others, 
and accused by Russian authorities of participation in a "terrorist group" which planned 
explosions near the Eternal Fire memorial and the Lenin monument in Simferopol, as well as 
having sabotaged railway tracks and electricity lines. Aleksandr was also alleged to have 
carried out two arson attacks in April: against the headquarters of the Russian 
Unity-Party, and the Russian Community of Crimea. He was transferred to Moscow and kept in 
draconian conditions. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Russian authorities claimed that Aleksandr was a member of Right Sektor, a Ukrainian 
ultra-right nationalist organization, but he has no connection to the group-a fact 
confirmed by relatives and friends. Moreover, Aleksandr is an antifascist and anarchist 
who consistently opposed nationalistic movements in Crimea and faced constant fascist 
attacks for his activism. For example, after a film screening about murdered anti-fascist 
journalist Anastasiya Baburova, he was attacked by thirty Nazis with knives.

Address:
Kolchenko Aleksandru Aleksandrovichu, 1989
456612
Chelyabinskaya obl, Kopeisk,
ul.Kemerovskaya, 20,
IK-6, otryad 4
RUSSIA

Please note: Moscow ABC advises that letters in English are seldom accepted in Russian 
prisons, so please write only in Russian (try using a translation program), or just send 
photos and postcards.

http://avtonom.org/en/news/repressions-against-crimean-activists-political-context
http://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.php/Aleksandr_Kolchenko

Russian Torture Cases
There has been heavy repression of anarchists and antifascists by the Russian Federal 
Security Service (FSB). In October 2017, FSB officers arrested six antifascists who played 
airlift in the woods. The FSB planted weapons and explosives in some of their vehicles, 
and tortured them in pre-trial detention-beating them, hanging them upside down, 
electrocuting them, and threatening them with even worse. This torture was used to forced 
the arrestees to validate forged testimony professing that they are part of an alleged 
terrorist "network." At the end of January 2018, two more antifascists were arrested in 
St. Petersburg. They were also beaten, tortured by means of electrical shock, and forced 
to agree that they too were members of this invented "network."

As of now, seven anti-fascists are behind bars and another is under house arrest. All are 
facing up to a decade in prison. We encourage you to read more about the case in the links 
below. We have included addresses for those who have them listed.

Yuliy Boyarshinov

Boyarshinov Yuliy Nikolayevich , 1991
SIZO-6 Gorelovo
188508 Russia
Leningradskaya obl.
Lomonosovskiy rayon
MO Villozskoe selskoe poselenie
ulitsa Zarechnaya tupik 22
RUSSIA

Andrey Chernov

Victor Filinkov

Filinkov Victor Sergeevich, 1994
SIZO-6 Gorelovo
188508 Russia
Leningradskaya obl.
Lomonosovskiy rayon
MO Villozskoe selskoe poselenie
ulitsa Zarechnaya tupik 22
RUSSIA

Vasiliy Kuksov

Kuksov Vasiliy Alekseevich, 1988
SIZO-1
440039 Russia
Penzenskaya obl.
Penza, ulitsa Karakozova 30
RUSSIA

Dmitriy Pchelintsev

Arman Sagynbaev

Sagynbaev Arman Dauletovich 1992
SIZO-1
440039 Russia
Penzenskaya obl.
Penza
ulitsa Karakozova 30
RUSSIA

Ilya Shakurskiy

Igor Shishkin

Shishkin Igor Dmitrievich, 1991
SIZO-3 FSIN
191123 Russia
Saint-Petersburg
Shpalernaya str. h.25
RUSSIA

Please note: Moscow ABC advises that letters in English are seldom accepted in Russian 
prisons, so please write only in Russian (try using a translation program), or just send 
photos and postcards.

https://itsgoingdown.org/why-the-torture-cases-of-anarchists-in-russia-matters/
https://rupression.com/en/person/

Spain
Rodrigo Lanza

Rodrigo Lanza is an antifascist from Chile who is living in Zaragoza, Spain. In December 
of 2017, Rodrigo was out with friends at a bar when they were approached by a man who 
began insulting Rodrigo, calling him "sudaka" (a derogatory term for Latin Americans) and 
telling him to go back to his country. As Rodrigo attempted to leave the bar, Victor 
Lainez, a member of the fascist Falange group with many friends in the local fascist 
scene, pulled a knife. Rodrigo defended himself and in the ensuing fight, Lainez was killed.

Occurring during the movement for Catalan independence and the accompanying resurgence of 
hardcore Spanish nationalism, the press worked overtime to vilify Rodrigo as a 
‘foreigner,' squatter, and former political prisoner. They claimed that Lainez was 
attacked at random for wearing Spanish flag suspenders, and built a bogus narrative of an 
innocent Spanish citizen murdered simply for showing support for his country.

Rodrigo is currently in prison awaiting trial and faces a lengthy prison sentence as well 
as expulsion from Spain.

We are currently trying to determine if Rodrigo would like to receive letters.

https://itsgoingdown.org/spanish-media-side-fascist-former-political-prisoner-arrested-hate-crime/

http://anarch.info/2018/06/23/july-25-2018-fourth-annual-international-day-of-solidarity-with-antifascist-prisoners/

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Within Klimakempu 2018 (which was attended by members and members of the Anarchist 
Federation and many other anti-authoritarian and anti-authoritarians), a direct action 
took place (as last year ), where several hundred people decided to enter the Bílina 
surface mine and block the infrastructure there. ---- The following lines briefly describe 
the experiences of one of the participants, who, along with dozens of others, penetrated 
through the ranks of police officers into the mine and occupied the conveyor belt. ---- 
The announced action day began in the morning. With a friend, we drank well and prepared a 
snack - to take enough food and liquids into action, that was the basic lesson from the 
past Klimakempu. The skeleton of this year's direct action consisted of three "fingers" 
(if the reader participated in some coordinated direct action, he probably knows what he 
is talking about - an organized group of activists who together form part of the action 
and share a consensus on progress, confrontation with the police are willing to go and the 
like). With a friend, we joined the "purple" finger, who, together with the "golden", 
decided to enter the Bílina mine and block it for a while.

In the morning, we went into the "purple" part of the reported march and set out on the 
road from the camp toward the edge of the mine. The atmosphere was great, it was singing 
and chanting, and it was clear that a large number of people would attend direct events. 
We were all wearing white overlaps with a red stripe (marking a line for which mining can 
not continue) and a sprayed Limit logo. When we walked through Louka near Litvínov, we 
waved the inhabitants who looked curiously at this unusual promenade from the windows - 
and they waved us in most cases as well. Personally, I did not meet the negative reaction 
from the locals. Initially, the police presence around the march was not obvious - except 
for the helicopter crash that monitored us from above, during the first half of the march 
I did not even record one uniformed cop. Everything has changed with coming to the mine. 
Prior to (yet still legal and reported) entry into the mining area, Severoceská 
energetická employee was instructed how to behave on the spot. It was a rather fun 
scenario because the employee in question had only a loud speaker, and so everyone was 
"taught" (including foreign participants), we repeated each sentence in a loud voice - 
first in Czech, then English. It sounded almost like a prayer. "Entry is strictly 
forbidden in the marked area," a crowd of several crowd called into the sky. Amen, she 
would like to deliver. After mining the mining oath, we were instructed by a giant 
loudspeaker, attached to a police car, to the law men. Surprisingly, if we cross the 
marked area, they will be forced to intervene. Lessons learned and with rich police escort 
we go on - at the edge of the Bílina mine.

Compared to the previous year, when we basically reached the bottom of the mine, there is 
one big difference this year. The police are ready. Or at least try to be. The edge of the 
mine is surrounded by a number of heavy-duty workers and mine workers (who are happy to be 
able to feel important at the end), in the distance there are policemen on horseback (with 
whom many of us will get acquainted in the next few minutes).

Adrenaline rises and with a friend we are preparing for an event - it is clear that it 
will come at any moment. And it is clear that this will be more harsh this year than last 
year. If we want to succeed, we'll have to get through the deployed cops.

At one point, several dozen people are running ahead of the prepared cops, with a violet 
flag in the crowd's head. Here it is.

"We're running!" I'm hitting a friend and then it's all alone. The first cop in the cap. 
I'll get him. Two hard-boys battering batons and trying to push the ongoing activists to 
the ground. I do not know how, but I avoid the tonfam flying through the air and I get 
over them. And yet the biggest challenge of this year - cowboys on horseback. In front of 
me, I see how heavily thrashing the people who are trying to run between them, so I change 
the tactics, and together with others I decide to run the threshing horses on the big 
metal pipes, folded on my right side. It turns out to be a good idea, because we escaped 
not only the cops on horseback, but also the majority of the heavyweight. I will run over 
the pipes, jump to the ground and run on. The heavy-eyed screaming, "fucking sit on the 
ground", you're shaking, I think and continue on. (I recommend all players and computer 
games players to participate in direct events, this is a bit more fun activity, just fun). 
I open up a bottle of water and try to drink as much as possible and soak my hair as the 
sun roars and other cops are coming from the right. Oh yeah, it's time to go on, even if 
I'm on the brink of physical forces (my determination is not missing). And we have the 
novelty - the quiz on the quads. This is a fact from an action movie. In addition to the 
running crowd of activists in overblown overalls, bikes jump and their drivers scream at 
us about "the name of the law." I ignore it. Part of the people can not go any further, so 
they decide to decompose the big banner Limits, we are the ones that we have with us, at 
least for a moment they will entertain our "persecutors." I continue on. just funny). I 
open up a bottle of water and try to drink as much as possible and soak my hair as the sun 
roars and other cops are coming from the right. Oh yeah, it's time to go on, even if I'm 
on the brink of physical forces (my determination is not missing). And we have the novelty 
- the quiz on the quads. This is a fact from an action movie. In addition to the running 
crowd of activists in overblown overalls, bikes jump and their drivers scream at us about 
"the name of the law." I ignore it. Part of the people can not go any further, so they 
decide to decompose the big banner Limits, we are the ones that we have with us, at least 
for a moment they will entertain our "persecutors." I continue on. just funny). I open up 
a bottle of water and try to drink as much as possible and soak my hair as the sun roars 
and other cops are coming from the right. Oh yeah, it's time to go on, even if I'm on the 
brink of physical forces (my determination is not missing). And we have the novelty - the 
quiz on the quads. This is a fact from an action movie. In addition to the running crowd 
of activists in overblown overalls, bikes jump and their drivers scream at us about "the 
name of the law." I ignore it. Part of the people can not go any further, so they decide 
to decompose the big banner Limits, we are the ones that we have with us, at least for a 
moment they will entertain our "persecutors." I continue on. And we have the novelty - the 
quiz on the quads. This is a fact from an action movie. In addition to the running crowd 
of activists in overblown overalls, bikes jump and their drivers scream at us about "the 
name of the law." I ignore it. Part of the people can not go any further, so they decide 
to decompose the big banner Limits, we are the ones that we have with us, at least for a 
moment they will entertain our "persecutors." I continue on. And we have the novelty - the 
quiz on the quads. This is a fact from an action movie. In addition to the running crowd 
of activists in overblown overalls, bikes jump and their drivers scream at us about "the 
name of the law." I ignore it. Part of the people can not go any further, so they decide 
to decompose the big banner Limits, we are the ones that we have with us, at least for a 
moment they will entertain our "persecutors." I continue on.

With an open flask in my hand, I turn towards the cliff in the mine, where I almost caught 
the cop by the sleeve. In the case of an evasive maneuver, an open flask falls out of my 
hand, leaving it behind me. I have two more. I'm sliding down the cliff. The shoes are 
full of gravel and sand and my lungs are burning, but fortunately, we get to a "level" 
where there are not yet any cops so we have a moment to relax and fill the fluids. Inside 
and on myself, I turn a 2 liter bottle of water and find out that I have probably lost a 
partner in the confusion. "Behind Horse" was still with me, but I can not find it anywhere 
after slipping down the floor. That's happening, at least it's out of the police station 
before - I'll see you tonight.

 From the "cliff" that comes up behind us, heavy-eyed people are looking at us who can not 
escape in their cosmonaut suits. We find out how much we are. I count twenty people. In a 
moment, another group joined us, with a part of the "golden" finger, which, unfortunately, 
seems to have been stuck in the beginning. In white covers and respiratory masks, I 
recognize another group of buddies and buddies, they also lose part of the affinity, so I 
add. We call fast-speed - about fifty us, fission will be here any moment, most of us can 
no longer, the closest "target" is a metal construction with a conveyor belt. To the next 
level, most of us will not arrive, so we decide to occupy this object, which is about 50 
to 100 meters away from us. In the distance, the police cars shine, we have to hurry. We 
move toward the metal stairs and go upstairs. Almost at the same time that we "sit down 
comfortably" at the very top, the cops come to us and fall under the construction. Ten to 
twenty people decided to run even further, to the next level. We look at them from our 
stand and congratulate them for success. And then there is only an endless wait. Before 
the cops are sorted. Before they decide to go up. Before the commander arrives. Before 
they count us (especially fun). After an hour (It was an hour? I do not know.) The 
interjected friars decide to act and they are the first miserable person. If he does not 
want to go, then he first tries to withdraw the metal stairs, then changes tactics and 
twists his hand behind his back so he has to stand up and want to go alone. The same 
situation is waiting for me - somewhat grumpy one fizh pulls forward, the other back 
(these will be probably the legendary shouts and gossip) I will then unintentionally get 
down the stairs down to where the paperwork begins. Most participants do not want to be 
legitimized, so the cops take everything three times longer. After properly writing all of 
the protocols, we each get a tape with a number - it's a bit like a concert. Everything 
except police officers and members oversees mining sekuritky who secured the activists 
trying to yell "shut up" and "hands on my shoulders" (cops decided that one of us will do 
"train"), but no one listens too.

And after another waiting, he will finally load us into borrowed off-road cars. The mood 
is still great, we're singing, we're talking to the cops and the crap. We know it will be 
a long day.

Suddenly, suddenly, the surprising action is interrupted by one of the participants - one 
of the participants gave up on the fugitive - he told the cops that he needed a toilet and 
took his feet at the appropriate moment at the appropriate moment. There was an absolutely 
amazing spectacle reminiscent of the old grotesque. The activist in the white overal with 
an unprecedented speed runs up the hill, behind him in a little impractical police armor 
runs a lot of raging cops and surprise miners of the mines. The activist runs away, the 
cops bump over each other and crawl in the dust. The rest of us who like something like 
"we do not have balls", at least from far away, are athletes from our team. The activist 
ran to the very edge of the quarry (where, besides the labored workers, unfortunately, a 
lot of cops were waiting), and decided to change direction. He went back, right down the 
hill to the center of the quarry. With this fictitious maneuver, he shakes another 
sneering man of law and securiti,

Activists and activists, laborers, and a lot of securitian workers are catching up on 
their bellies; it was an amazing spectacle. The overall impression is spoiled by the later 
finding that the cops, when caught, broke two ribs when they caught it and refused to give 
him medical help .

After this theater, only classical endless boredom followed. After being taken from the 
bottom of the photo shoot, then loaded into the bus (tastefully decorated with Ortel 
stickers and "This country is ours" with a crossed mosque) and a transfer to the police 
station. Another waiting. The cops do not know what to do with dozens of people who refuse 
to legitimize, they have their fingers stuck in a second and do not want to testify. 
Gradually, however, all of us (the threats of 24-hour arrests turned out to be bluffing, 
as well as the threats to take to identification in Prague - the lesson from this year's 
Klimakemp is to simply insist on its own and consistently to non-co-operation, the police 
seem to be clueless) . Outside, we have a great soup and buddies waiting for us.

At this point, I would like to thank everyone without whom Klimakemp would not have gone, 
but whose work can not be seen in the media. All those who helped in the kitchen provided 
legal assistance, drivers and drivers who took us back to the camp.

This year's Klimakemp was at least once as big as last year. Let us hope that next year we 
will be one more. Ecological direct action has potential in our territories and provides 
scope for a wider anti-authoritarian movement. Many people have been involved in civil 
disobedience for the first time on Klimakemp and have been given the opportunity to try 
out politics in a "different way". Many people have come into contact with the police for 
the first time in this year's direct action and have a direct way of making decisions. The 
fossil fuel movement, which is gradually growing around Klimakemp, can also influence 
other struggles for a fairer world over time. For anarchists, it is also an opportunity to 
move from theorizing to deeds. The limits are we are the promising organization and the 
next Klimakemp great opportunity. Therefore, in conclusion, I encourage all readers to 
support either Limit Activityfinancially or personally involved .

https://www.afed.cz/text/6859/pred-rypadlem-za-rypadlem

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 From East Attica, Gerania & Penteli to Acheloos, Skouries & Lefkimmi ... Race for life, 
land and freedom, against the death and destruction imposed by state & capitalist 
development ---- SOLIDARITY TO THE RUNNING RESIDENTS OF LEFKIMMOS IN CORFU AGAINST THE 
ESTABLISHMENT OF SLAVE IN THE REGION ---- THE CULTURE OF POLYMER IS NOT CLEANED - 
ANTICIPATED! ---- We take part in the solidarity course:  Thursday 26/7/18, Athens, 
Monastiraki Square, 19.30 ---- which takes place within the framework of the Pan-Hellenic 
Day of Action called for the Lefkimmi Landfill Initiative ---- Ten years after the fiery 
disaster in the Peloponnese, Evia, Parnitha, we are overwhelmed, full of anger and sadness 
in the face of the new tragedy that has evolved in the last days of the fires in Gerania 
Mountains and Penteli that left behind burned earth and a hundred dead people people in 
eastern Attica.

These are fires occurring in areas of particular business and investment activity - areas 
where dozens of arson have occurred in the past - taking unmanageable dimensions this time 
in residential areas, with dozens of dead, injured and missing.

It is a state and capitalist crime that highlights the disastrous and murderous nature of 
the political and economic system, characterized by total deprecation for human life, 
hostility to the natural world and its exploitation and looting.

At the same time, a number of small and large plundering and destructive plans at the 
expense of the natural world, the local communities and society as a whole, are under way 
in many places in the country (Acheloos, Skouries, Agrafa, Epirus), thus forming a 
marginal condition and proving the worst in the years to come. And they must at the same 
time be signs of a radical awakening and fields of deeper and conscious radical criticism 
and struggle against the state and capitalism that sweep the human societies and the 
natural world.

Such a point is Lefkimmi in southern Corfu, where the inhabitants resist for more than a 
decade at the landfill site in Mesorakia, next to the village, which will turn the site 
into a dump all over the island, a destination for the tons of tourist industry rubbish 
rich resorts, polluting the aquifer and poisoning the air. A combat resistance currently 
faced with state terrorism, as expressed by the police occupation imposing dozens of MAT 
squads camped on the streets and the fields of Lefkimmi, with arrests, persecutions and 
injuries of protesters.

FROM THE ACHELOUS, THE ABRAFAS, THE SKURSES, THE ELEVIA AND THE LEFKIMMOS, TO THE GERANIA 
HORSE AND THE PELTLE, THE CHINESE AND THE EASTERN ATTIK - GAME FOR LIFE, LAND AND FREEDOM

AGAINST DEATH AND THE DAMAGE OF STATE-CAPITALIZATION DEVELOPMENT

Anarchist Colloquy Omicron 72
Anarchist Collecting Circle of Fire /

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The recent massive victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who headed up a left populist 
movement in Mexico was greeted with jubilation by the Left in this country and worldwide. 
----- Obrador is the leader of the left populist Movement For National Regeneration 
-Morena. He formed an electoral coalition with the Workers Party (PT) and the right wing 
evangelical Christian grouping, Social Encounter Party (PES).  This coalition is known as 
AMLO. Perhaps readers might cast their minds back to the election of the leftist Syriza in 
Greece who were in electoral alliance with the right wing nationalist Independent Greeks 
(ANEL). Syriza swept into power with massive popular support in the same way as Obrador 
and his party coalition have done. They then instituted the worst austerity measures, 
worse than those put through by previous governments. AMLO has a large majority in both 
houses of the Mexican parliament as well as controlling Mexico City. In addition, AMLO won 
in five out of the 9 elections for governors of the states that make up Mexico.

In the aftermath of the election Obrador put together a cabinet that was top heavy with 
politicians from the previous reactionary governments of the Institutional Revolutionary 
Party (PRI) and the Party for National Action (PAN). AMLO has huge backing among the urban 
working class and among young voters.

The election came in the context of a Mexico plagued by massive gaps between rich and 
poor, with "mafias" running rampant. The murder rate is one of the highest in the world, 
thanks to the ongoing grip these criminal gangs have over the county. Because of worsening 
conditions in central America, both economic and political, many from states south of 
Mexico have flooded into Mexico. As a result, the previous right-wing government of Peña 
Nieto imprisoned 138,000 Central American children in collaboration with the 
anti-immigrant policies of the Trump regime.

Obrador came to power as a result of the above concerns and the general view that the 
appalling corruption that grips Mexico needs to be halted.

It might be surprising then to some that members of Obrador's cabinet included Esteban 
Moctezuma, a former PRI minister who implemented harsh measures against teachers. In 
response 80,000 teachers went out on strike only to be sold out by union bureaucrats who 
then recommended a vote for AMLO. He was also implicated in attacks on the Zapatistas in 
southern Mexico. Another nasty piece of work in the cabinet is Olga Sanchez Cordero 
Davila, a strong supporter of the Mexican secret police. Another ex-member of the PRI in 
the cabinet is Alfonso Durazo who also served with the PAN government of Fox. This law and 
order merchant in a mirror image of the Trump regime pledges to stop immigrants come 
across Mexico's southern border. The economist and World Bank consultant Carlos Urzua is 
another member of this cabinet who argues against increased spending on social welfare 
programmes.

But perhaps worst of the lot is Manuel Mondragon, who was responsible for the attack on 
demonstrators in 2012 which left one dead and many injured.

To their credit the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has refused any dialogue 
with the Obrador government in waiting. They recognise the reactionary nature of this 
incoming regime, hardly surprising when they recognise faces in the AMLO cabinet who were 
involved in previous repression against them.

Obrador has already met with employers' organisations and received their backing. He 
assured them: "we are not going to impose anything, we are going to argue and convince.... 
nothing by force, everything by reason and right. We are going to act with a lot of 
responsibility ... We are in a time of reconciliation and national unity." Whilst before 
the bosses might have had a few doubts about Obrador, now they have no fears. He will not 
move against them and it's business as usual in Mexico.

Obrador was elected on a radical populist groundswell. It remains to be seen how soon 
those who voted for him will see AMLO for what it is, a movement to demobilise unrest and 
discontent. Perhaps apart from the Zapatistas, the first will be the teachers, who have 
engaged in bitter strikes and who are very likely to be the victims of further attacks on 
their pay and conditions. The election of AMLO repeats the phenomena of Obama, Syriza and 
Podemos in Spain. The left and extreme left act as cheerleaders for these movements and 
prepare the working class for more betrayals. With AMLO as with Corbynism, the real 
alternative is not such electoral cons but the developing of movements preparing for 
social revolution.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/07/20/mexico-is-it-business-as-usual/

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The following are excerpts from an interview by Patt Morrison of the LA Times published on 
July 18, 2018. ---- PM: There are many people who, like your character Cassius - Cash - 
who say, "Look, I agree with you, but I need to pay the bills, and if I have to cross a 
picket line to do it, so be it. I'll take whatever they pay me, and I'm happy to get it." 
What makes these people feel they have any power? ---- I think that people end up 
realizing, in those situations, that they are just pawns as well, and they're by 
themselves. You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - 
and it took hundreds of people to make it happen - I can say that. And any movement that 
we see, any big change, does take other people. ---- I actually don't think most people 
would make those decisions[like Cash]. I think some would relate to what he's saying.

One the one hand, many movements have put being involved in social justice as an 
extracurricular activity, as something you do when you're off work or on Saturdays or 
whatever. And people say, I can't be involved in it - I got to pay the bills. And we 
haven't been organizing in the way that helps people pay the bills.

If there is a different kind of movement, where it is organizing around those things, 
organizing around putting food on the table, I think we'll have a whole different look at 
these movements. People shouldn't have to get involved after work; they should be able to 
get involved at work.

PM: If we were to update a movement anthem - maybe from "We Shall Overcome" - could you 
write one? What would it sound like? What would it say?

It would probably be a song from my last album, a song called "The Guillotine." It's a 
metaphorical guillotine because[if]you use the guillotine for real, just more of them pop up.

It's talking about the idea that we have the ability to have a society where the people 
democratically control the wealth that we create with our labor, so we don't have someone 
ruling us in that way.

PM: Is this a system you'd ever take part in by running for office?

Nope. Here's the thing: I know where the seat of power really is. And it's not in the 
elected office.

PM: Where is it?

It's in the ruling class, the folks that have the money. For lack of a more understandable 
thing, the 1%, you know. Those are the puppeteers. The folks in office are the puppets. If 
we can make a movement that can get to the puppeteers, then the puppets will do whatever 
we want.

Think about it like this: Affirmative action came in under[President]Nixon, and it's not 
because he just had one contradiction where he had some progressive idea and was like, 
"Hey, let's do this." No, it's because the ruling class was afraid of this movement that 
was building.

Let's take it back to even the New Deal. It's the biggest liberal reform we've had in the 
20th century - that and the civil rights bill. But that didn't come because of a big 
campaign to get FDR in office. That came because all throughout the South, and places like 
Alabama, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, there were mining strikes, shutting down mines.

In the Midwest at the same time, in the '20s and '30s, there were people occupying 
factories. On the West Coast, at that time, there were the longshoremen who were shutting 
down the ports to create there, for the first time, a union.

In that milieu, with revolutions going on all around the world, the ruling class was 
afraid of an actual movement, perhaps a revolutionary movement happening, and because of 
that, we've got the New Deal, specifically because that's what the left focused on - 
movements that were able to withhold labor.

So if we're looking for extreme changes like that, and we want elected officials to make 
big changes like that, we've got to stop focusing only on elections because then we're 
going to get caught in this cycle.

Right now, the next time a Democrat gets in office, all they have to do is be two inches 
to the left of[President]Trump.

The evil genius of Trump is that he's already got the Democratic Party and people who want 
him out to move to the right in order to get him out. You got people cheering on the CIA 
and the FBI, this false nationalism where people are cheering, "Let's only use politicians 
that only take U.S. billionaires' money."

There are people that are doing this that know better. But the opportunism of electoral 
politics makes people lie to each other.

Trailer for "Sorry to Bother You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=XaBGcorkzpk

http://blackrosefed.org/boots-riley-power-elected-office/

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Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas threw stones and paint at the Greek Foreign 
Ministry in central Athens late Sunday afternoon, just over 12 hours after breaking 
windows at a tax office in the Athenian subur. ---- In an internet posting, the group 
claimed that the suit against the Foreign Ministry was a demonstration in solidarity with 
the Palestinian people and in opposition to Greece's ties to Israel. ---- >> Watch the 
video (00:35) here: ---- https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=79l_1532292203
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/06/13/grecia-julgamento-dos-12-Ativistas-do-rouvikonas-and-addition-to-February-de-2019/
anarchist-ana news agency

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Leicester ACG is holding its first radical book group this August. ---- They will be 
discussing "The organisational platform of Libertarian communism " by the Dielo Truda 
group and the following debate between Makhno and Malatesta (links to content below). It's 
a genuinely interesting and important debate about how radical groups should organise 
effectively to change society. ---- Everyone who is interested in radical politics is 
welcome. You don't need to confirm in advance if you are attending but if you have any 
questions please get in touch via  leicesteraf@gmail.com ---- Radical Book Group details 
---- When: Thursday 30th August, 7:30-8:30/9 ---- Where: The Snug, Exchange Bar, 
Leicester, LE1 1RD, (http://www.exchangeleicester.com/contact/)  ---- Reading: The 
organisational platform of Libertarian communism

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dielo-truda-workers-cause-organisational-platform-of-the-libertarian-communists

And the following debate between Malatesta and Makhno

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-and-nestor-makhno-about-the-platform

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/07/25/radical-book-group-leicester/

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