Anarchic update news all over the world - 12.09.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - fascism, The trial of
      Clément Méric's killers began, the mobilization in memory of
      Clement too (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Spain] Madrid: Anarchist bloc against climate change,
      September 8 By ANA (ca, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  anarkismo.net: The battle of Idlib Province in Syria is
      decisive and crucial for the future of Rojava by Zaher Baher
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - United States:
      Chained to Slave History (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - Psychiatry: We
      tighten our belts, or we climb on the roof (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - International trade
      unionism: A panorama to see clearly (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Poland, rozbrat: A judge in the trial of people accused of
      the Black Protest is prejudiced against the Anarchists? [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 8.  avtonom: An action of solidarity with political prisoners
      anarchists took place in Nizhny Novgorod (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






The trial of the murderers of our comrade Clement, therefore opened on Tuesday, September 
4 at the Assises de Paris. One of the defendants arrived a few hours late, thus prolonging 
the session during the day. The day before a first gathering in tribute to Clement had 
already taken place Saint-Michel. Until the closure of the trial on September 14, 
initiatives will take place throughout the hexagon to honor the memory of Clement and 
recall the daily violence of extreme rights. ---- The defendants yesterday played the card 
of the mistake of youth, the forgotten past ... Vichy tattoos erased, new look for a new 
life and repeated memory holes for Esteban Morillo, who published Mein Kampf on his 
Facebook page, just to be seen by his fascist friends, but supposedly without reading it...

Serge Ayoub alias "Batskin", leader of the group Third Pathway transmitted on Tuesday a 
medical certificate indicating that he could not be present at his convocation as a 
witness on September 6, by sending a letter to the court which was read at the hearing . 
He evokes the "risks of disturbances to public order" related to this trial, fearing the 
violence of anti-fascist activists ... "It is out of the question that the drama is 
repeated ... and that once assaulted, I am obliged to defend myself, "he writes, thus 
suggesting that the facists would have simply defended themselves on the day of Clément's 
death.

The next appointments:
Friday, September 7: public meeting in the Belleville Green Theater at 7 pm
Tuesday, September 11: appointment at 18:30, gathering on the bridge of the Carrousel 
(where Brahim Bouarram was killed). Happening as a tribute to the victims of the extreme 
right.
Friday, September 14 (day of the verdict): demonstration 18:30 in Republic. Until 
Ménilmontant through the avenue of the Republic, Parmentier and Oberkampf.

A plaque to display in all cities:
   September 7 in Montreuil (place François-Mitterrand, at 17:30)
  September 8 in Nantes (Place de la Bourse, 15h)
  September 12 in Orleans (Place Charles-de-Gaulle, 17:30) )
  September 14 in Rennes

But those who know this sinister neo-Nazi know what his word is worth. The video excerpt 
below says a lot about this:

The involvement of Serge Ayoub in the murder of Clément Méric (assembly of the Committee 
for Clement on the YouTube channel Alternative Libertaire)

On the evening of this first day of trial, several hundred people gathered on rue 
Caumartin, renamed rue Clément Méric on the occasion:

The trial, which will last until 14 September, may be an opportunity to shed light on the 
murder of our comrade, the violence of the extreme right and his lies. However, we remain 
wary of bourgeois justice, it is not ours. Let us not leave it, alone, to tell the story 
of the murder of Clement, But it is not bourgeois justice that will push back in the heads 
and in the street extreme right and their thugs. Only our struggles, class solidarity and 
popular education will do it. There is not a minute to lose.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Le-proces-des-assassins-de-Clement-Meric-a-debute-la-mobilisation-aussi-7919

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Saturday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m. >> Reina Sofía Museum Square, Madrid ---- Climate 
change is a product of industrial society born two centuries ago in Europe and violently 
imposed on the rest of the world. It was two centuries of continuous poisoning through all 
kinds of harmfulness that brought devastating consequences: deforestation, 
desertification, droughts, floods, famines, violent storms, extinction of millions of 
species ... In this situation there are many who seek a solution. ---- - Statist and 
leftist solutions: reforms that only lead to an intensification of misery beyond what we 
can imagine. The solutions of the leftists not only do not criticize the industrial 
society but place it in a privileged place in every process of change. Any solution to 
climate change has to emerge from its technologies, when we saw that it was the 
development of industrial or complex technologies that caused climate change, is the 
escape beyond the logic of the ideology of progress. Creating the illusion that there are 
technological shortcuts without taking into account the root causes of climate change: 
mainly the emission of greenhouse gases. One of these technological "solutions" is the 
manipulation of the climate through geoengineering, which poses great risks to ecosystems, 
since it is based on an excessive consumption of land, waters and other natural elements 
that some are striving to call resources. Those who see the solution in technology do not 
stop going blind: transgenics would end the hunger of the world ... green energy with 
contamination ... all this so that the techno-scientific system continues to work but 
increasing the misery of those who have to survive in it . They promote statists and 
leftists to regulate harmfulness, try to hide that regulating them is accepting their 
existence, promoting treaties that regulate the emission of greenhouse gases. It is a 
distraction maneuver. Reducing emissions means increasing the amount of gas but in a 
slower way. The climate changes depending on the amount of carbon or methane, not annual 
emissions, into the atmosphere; therefore reducing emissions continues to cause climate 
change.

- Green capitalism, social control and acceptance of living conditions: The climate crisis 
will not destroy capitalism, we will not face a collapse but a restructuring of living 
conditions. Industrial capitalism is adapting the end of the existence of fossil fuels and 
following their logic of efficiency and effectiveness has become green and ecological 
promoting and developing alternative energy sources so that the world can continue working 
exactly as it is now, the so-called green energy perpetuate existence of capitalism, and 
more, there are no green and / or clean energies in industrial society. Green energy 
continues to cause devastation from solar energy, whose silicon solar panels (whose 
extraction poisons areas near the mine with devastating consequences in the lives of those 
who populate nearby areas) to wind energy with the same materials happens exactly the same 
. Nothing is green in the industrial society, the production of cars (or any other 
industrial artifact) ecological creates hundreds of nuisances from the extraction of 
materials that form, the energy required for its operation, through the manufacturing 
process of the same, not to mention of the social relations that all this generates. The 
green world of green energy will lead us to the same nightmare that produced the "green 
revolution" of the last century.

Faced with the devastation that is causing climate change, Capitalism is developing 
measures of social control, since millions will flee from places where climate change will 
become uninhabitable. Europe is already protecting itself with numerous measures: from 
militarized borders, strict measures of internal security, biometric surveillance, DNA 
tests and a long, etc. All this is for the control and repression of those who have no 
place in the European fortress and those of its inhabitants who rebel against the imposed 
living conditions. It is then necessary to attack the root of the problem: the industrial 
organization of the world, the techno-scientific society and its world without delegating 
anything or anyone. Only then can we end a catastrophe that is already under way.

Source: 
https://contramadriz.espivblogs.net/2018/09/04/bloque-anarquista-contra-el-cambio-climatico-8-de-septiembre/

Translation> Sol de Abril

>> ANA note :

Next Saturday, September 8, 2018, there is an international mobilization called "Rise for 
Climate" to demand a world free of fossil fuels, where people and social justice are above 
profits. The protest is organized by several NGOs.

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This article is a brief analysing of the future of Rojava in Syria in Line with the attack 
of Assad's forces on Idlib's Province . The battle of Idlib can be a crucial one for all 
sides who are involve especially for the regime and the Kurdish in Rojava . There are few 
scenarios that the Kurdish forces there and its self rule administration are facing . 
There is also a strong possibility after this battle the Kurdish question there can be on 
the top of Assad and Russia's agenda to be resolved either way. -- Zaher Baher ---- "We 
are at the final stage of solving the crisis in Syria and liberating whole territory from 
terrorism", stated Walid al-Moualem, Syria's foreign minister when he met Sergei Lavrov, 
his Russian counterpart, in Moscow. ---- The Assad Regime and its allies are preparing 
themselves for the upcoming battle for Idlib. The military launch might start this month, 
September, or the beginning of October. The war will likely bring victory to Assad and 
catastrophe to the 2 million citizens of Idlib where 1.6 million are already in need of 
humanitarian aid.

Idlib, near Aleppo, Hama and Homs, is a stronghold of over 60,000 anti-regime rebels and 
over 10,000 jihadists. To justify attacking Idlib, Assad often claims the province is full 
of terrorists.

Although the battle of Idlib looks rather small with any parties like the US, Russia, 
Turkey and Assad and their other allies' involvement directly or indirectly, it will, no 
doubt, be a big battle. Each of these parties has their own stake in Idlib and the region. 
Assad is trying to control the whole country by defeating opposition rebels and terrorist 
groups. He also wants an open hand over the Kurdish in Rojava either to suppress or 
negotiate with them on his own terms and conditions. Turkey, which has supported 
anti-Assad forces and terrorist groups throughout the war for many reasons, has its own 
interests too. The US and Russia have been the major powers in the region and are arch 
enemies. Their intervention and involvement in Syria only serves their own interests 
economically, politically and financially and protects the power of their friends in the 
region.

As for Rojava's situation, its future within the Idlib battle scenario is quite 
complicated. In my opinion, Rojava's position has been weak since Jul 2015 when Erdogan 
launched a brutal attack on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) forcing them to become 
involved in war. On the other hand, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has been aligned with 
the US in the war against Islamic State (IS), and has committed many deadly mistakes 
mentioned in my previous article.

The battle of Idlib will happen sooner or later. It will be decisive and crucial for the 
major powers and their allies in the region and also for Rojava. At the moment, US opposes 
the attack because it would lead to a "humanitarian catastrophe ". The White House warned 
on Tuesday 04/09 that the US and its allies would respond "swiftly and appropriately" if 
Assad used chemical weapons. The question here is why the US and its allies were not 
concerned about a "humanitarian catastrophe" when Turkey invaded Afrin and massacred 
hundreds of innocent people? In Idlib,the US is probably concerned with defeating the 
terrorist groups rather than innocent people because they want the game to last longer to 
achieve completely what they planned in the first place.

Rojava and its self-rule administration and the SDF cannot be ignored during the attack on 
Idlib and after the battle as well. It cannot be left as it is. The Rojava question and 
its future must be resolved either way. Rojava is facing many possible scenarios. If Assad 
prevails in this battle, as commonly predicted, the position of the Kurdish in Rojava will 
be weaker. Assad will be in a very strong position, securing his hold on power for a 
while. In this situation, he can impose his terms and conditions on the PYD and SDF while 
they are in a weak position. There is also the possibility of the SDF joining Assad's 
forces for the battle of Idlib while the PYD is negotiating with the regime. As we can 
see, the PYD and SDF are in a very complicated situation. The SDF may join Assad's forces 
against the rebels; an action which is opposed to US interests. In this circumstances the 
PYD and SDF might be abandoned by the US which, in the near future, may encourage a 
Turkish attack on Rojava or, at least, Turkey may try to occupy the towns on its border 
currently under control of the SDF.

If Assad fails to defeat the rebels in Idlib, it won't be in the interest of Rojava 
either, because Assad's defeat will also be a Turkish victory who will then be in a better 
position to attack Rojava as happened to Afrin.

However, whatever the outcome of Idlib's battle, it will be critical for Rojava as its 
future is tied to the battles between the forces mentioned above. The situation may become 
so complicated in Rojava that it will become difficult for the Kurdish to maintain their 
principal aim of Democratic Confederalism.

What keeps Rojava alive is the continuing war with Isis and other terrorist groups and, 
also, the economic embargo imposed by regional powers. Saying this does not mean that 
Rojava's movement will collapse. In my opinion, the Kurdish have proved themselves and 
resolved many questions positively so they cannot be ignored or marginalized by any sides 
of the major powers and Assad's regime I believe that, in the end, there might be some 
compromise between the US and Russia over Syria and its regime. The power struggle between 
them and their allies to reach their own aims forces Assad, or a future government in 
Syria, to offer cultural autonomy and some cultural rights. These rights would be far 
short of building Democratic Confederalism.

Zaherbaher.com

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31124

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In the United States, criminal policies and prisons continue to sing the slavery air. 
Legally and morally justified, with its sources of supply, its modern slavers, its 
defenders and detractors, modern American slavery is a circular, private trade that begins 
with relegation and culminates with prison as a place of production. ---- The Whole Foods 
chain of stores is a big consumer of forced labor (" penal labor "), still legal in the 
United States. ---- The social forms and representations of a culture generally 
crystallize from its founding moments. A paradigm is a vision of the world that determines 
the decisions, tastes and criteria of a society and forms a fold in the cultural fabric 
that is imprinted even in mentalities, in the unconscious. Slavery in the United States is 
such a paradigm: economically and historically based on the ultimate exploitation of the 
labor force, socially organized on a Whites-Blacks division, psychologically rooted in 
community fear and mistrust, the United States remain this place of the world where 
slavery is actualized, although in disguised forms.

The American Civil War and the 13 th Amendment
A fatal and structuring ploy, perhaps sociologically insurmountable despite past struggles 
and recent police horrors, the United States maintains productive slavery - in new forms - 
because it still goes through political, police and political logics. economic.

One could believe oneself on the eve of the American Civil War. We are in 2018. Four 
million slaves were " liberated " at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. However, 
the same psycho-sociological schemata remain, and no model replaces the 
puritanism-capitalism couple, or the perception of a " difference in nature " of African 
Americans. How to solve the contradiction of a state founded on principles of freedom and 
equality with a reality of lynchings and misery, fundamentally divided socially ?

Blacks must remain slaves to allow the system to maintain itself. Now the 13 th Amendment 
to the Constitution provides that slavery and involuntary servitude can not exist ... 
except for criminals. Paradigm again: it is not a question of depriving of liberty only, 
but of making produce, of making work - the capitalist imprint gives " the black man " in 
his place of slave who does not belong to himself [1]. That's it. It suffices to 
criminalize African Americans under the thinnest pretexts (vagrancy, lurching ...) to 
populate the prisons and " state farms " with an inexhaustible workforce [2]. This is done 
by the usual legislative and police means, but also by a throbbing and daily propaganda, 
distilling the image of black people handcuffed, arrested: guilty. Today, the US prison 
population is the largest on the planet: 2.3 million, or one in four prisoners in the world.

Repression and private actors
As early as 1975, Nixon and then Reagan declared the " war on drugs ", targeting 
anti-system activists on the one hand, the black population on the other. The equation " 
Black = drug = criminal " is symmetrical to the addition " judiciarization + repression + 
privatization ": the two balance perfectly. Foucault's " watch-punish " couple becomes " 
shut up and produce " in the United States .

In the 1980s and 1990s, large private prison management groups came into play. Corrections 
Corporation of America, for example, a member of the powerful American Legislative 
Exchange Council (Alec), provides a slave labor force to companies (Walmart, Boeing, AT & 
T) whose supply is guaranteed by the states to keep the prisons well filled. The lobbies 
prepare the laws for the legislator and have them supported by the politicians. Private 
interference in legal production goes as far as designing bail, so as to prevent the poor 
from getting out of probation and defending themselves.

The pressure on the people who feed this modern slavery is constant. And the pressure does 
not stop at the end of prison, all their civil rights are not returned to former 
prisoners, who remain administratively and socially stigmatized.es - voting rights, 
parental, access to education ...

The cost is moral and psychological: it results in a structurally fractured, mistrusting 
society, where apartheid is inscribed in mental patterns and continuously updated. 
Massively deprived family units of male partners marked as criminals, with reduced 
incomes, having access only to schools, hospitals and second-rate jobs, and where mental 
disorders are 20 % more more frequent than for the rest of the country, especially in 
relation to violence - urban, police, marital. Statistically, one in three African 
American people will go to jail in her life.

Predictably, the American society wants to make the whole social field an opportunity for 
profit, The next steps ? Perhaps home incarceration with geolocation, so as not to cut off 
prisoners from consumer channels. But in this case, how can the mass production potential 
of millions of incarcerated workers be preserved, this other name of the slave ?

Cuervo (AL Marseille)

THE THREE STRATES OF HERITAGE
The Civil War (1861-1865) contrasts the model of agricultural South, slavery and 
neo-aristocracy, to that of the North, industrial, urban, bourgeois, where it is the 
immigrant proletariat of Europe that is exploited. In the aftermath of the war the 
question arises: " What to do freed slaves ? "

At first, the Blacks remain " hidden ", relegated by contempt and vexations, by a founding 
Puritan mythology (the black man rapist of white women) keeping them away from any trade 
with the world. rest of society, and of course by terror (exerted notably by the Ku Klux 
Klan).

Secondly, the end of the XIX th century in the 1940-1950 years, population pressure and 
the attraction of the northern states are overflowing African-American population of the 
destitute rural South. It is the great exodus to the north, from agriculture to factories, 
from fields to big cities. The exodus concerns four million former slaves, and is like a 
flight ; African-Americans, at the time, are truly internal refugees.

In a third time, from 1873 to 1964, the establishment of segregation by the laws Jim Crow 
founded in law a society divided into two parts juxtaposed " by nature ".

The other articles of the file:
Editorial: Security without the security
Judicial Reform: Towards court robotization ?
Europe: The fortress is also a prison
Big Brother: A real public-private partnership
History: Police sometimes, justice nowhere
Rojava: Security and local justice
Chiapas / Zapatistas: Repairing rather than Closing
Practices: Dealing with gender-based violence in a militant environment
Treat the sexual abuser through feminist education
And the " dangerous fools " ? And the " psychopaths " ?

[1] See Ava DuVernay's documentary, 13th (100 min., 2016), and the American Civil 
Liberties Union's report on mass incarceration: " Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and 
Mass Incarceration, " on www.aclu.org .

[2] The 13 th Amendment states: " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as 
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within 
the United States or in any place subject to their jurisdiction. "

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Etats-Unis-Enchaines-a-l-histoire-esclavagiste

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In Seine-Maritime, health workers understood that nothing would be gained without 
extraordinary, even dangerous, actions. Always in unity, and perfectly self-organized. 
---- The entire hospital sector suffers neoliberal breakage, but if it is a discipline 
that suffers particularly, because of its specific field of activity and the originality 
of its organization, it is psychiatry. Conditions are deteriorating terribly. For lack of 
space, it is not uncommon to put mattresses on the floor, or to take in minors in adult 
services... ---- On March 22, anger broke out in the Rouvray hospital (76), the third 
psychiatric structure in France: it calls for 52 additional positions and the opening of a 
reception for adolescence. But after two months of strike, the management did not give an 
inch. Exasperation wins: eight employees start a hunger strike and camp in the lobby. 
Bluffing ? Not at all. After eighteen days, four are hospitalized, others take over. The 
media are relaying, support is growing, especially among railway workers and dockers in 
struggle.

On the nerves, the prefect requires the director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) to 
sit at the negotiating table. Result: the ARS sells 30 positions and the creation of 2 new 
units, including one for adolescence. In the current context, it is a historic victory.

Contagious Victory
In a perfect democratic unity, the fight was animated at the same time on the inter-union 
CGT-SUD-CFDT-CFTC, by a committee of strike counting unionized and non-unionized, and by a 
collective of employee They are named Black Blouses. Decisions were always debated and 
decided by the General Assembly, which controlled the delegates at each stage of the 
negotiations.

Is this the task of oil ? Still, on June 16, it is the psychiatric center Pierre-Janet, Le 
Havre, which in turn goes on an unlimited strike, with an inter-union CGT-SUD-CFDT. 
Claims: 50 additional nursing stations and the opening of a new unit. Interpele.es, the 
elected officials of the Region make vague promises - to visit the strikers, " firmly ask 
" the ARS to unlock resources ...

And, again, the action is out of the ordinary. After ten days, 7 employees camp on the 
roof of psychiatric emergencies day and night, in the heat, with the support of 
colleagues. Social networks and the local press echo Janet's perch . MP Ruffin is moving. 
All this forces the public authorities to negotiate and, on July 10, after twenty-six days 
of strike and sixteen days on the roof, the management concedes an agreement to the 
inter-union, validated the same day by the general meeting of staff. The strong 
mobilization, the union unity, the youth of the movement and its inventiveness made it 
possible to snatch the creation of 34.3 full-time equivalent positions.

These struggles will be a milestone both in their duration and their modes of action and 
their victorious conclusions. Let's not hide it: we were afraid for colleagues who put 
their health at risk, especially since we felt that the camp opposite was not ready to 
give up. But now, everyone knows that other victories are possible if you put the price. 
In health, only a general movement of the entire sector can stop the killing of the public 
service. In this year of professional elections in the hospital public service, the unions 
must federate the struggles in the sector ... but nothing will be done without the 
self-organization of the workers !

Eric (AL Rouen, link Eure)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Psychiatrie-On-se-serre-la-ceinture-ou-on-grimpe-sur-la-toiture

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International syndicalism: this is a mysterious object for most union members ! Unsung 
acronyms, distant structures, linguistic Meccano with misidentified action beyond 
traditional internationalist slogans ... How are the different trade union movements 
organized at the world level ? What are they doing concretely ? This month, a complete 
panorama to better understand, before tackling next month, the question: " What to do in 
there ? " ---- Christian (AL Paris-Southeast suburbs) ---- International Trade Union 
Confederation ---- REFORMIST MASTODONTE ---- Founded in 2006, the ITUC is the organization 
with the largest number of union members to date: 331 organizations in 163 countries, with 
207 million members. But this covers very different realities depending on the country ; 
in France, for example, the CGT, the CFDT, FO and the CFTC are members of the CSI.

The ITUC provides support to member organizations facing repression and denial of trade 
union freedoms. It supports " generalist " campaigns on themes that revolutionaries can 
share - climate justice, the elimination of slavery ... - but it does not organize direct 
actions such as strikes, demonstrations, etc., considering that it is the responsibility 
of national member structures on the one hand, and international sectoral federations on 
the other. The latter are not members as such of the ITUC, but they work with, notably 
through the Global Unions grouping (Global-unions.org).

The ITUC is both the locus of an agreed and highly bureaucratic unionism, and a means of 
meeting with unions from all over the world, some with radical orientations and practices. 
For the 4 th World Congress of the ITUC, to be held in December 2018 in Copenhagen, the 
French CGT supports the candidacy to the general secretariat of the current head of the 
CGIL (Italy), Susanna Camusso, whose election would be presented as a " turning left " ... 
The libertarian communists of AL / FDCA (Italy) and many other trade unionists of this 
country could explain with forceful examples how the eventual turning point would be 
moderate, with this worthy bureaucrat, also conciliatory with the bosses that untractable 
with its internal oppositions.

www.ituc-csi.org

European Trade Union Confederation
INNOVATED IN THE TECHNOCRACY

The ETUC is not organically linked to the ITUC, which has its own regional sector for 
Europe. Its creation in 1973, its existence and functioning are in fact closely linked to 
the European Union. His policy is to accompany the capitalist system, to regulate it, 
without questioning its existence. Claim action is not at all a priority. " Little by 
little, there is a drift of the ETUC towards a trade union practice that is more of 
lobbying and representation than concrete and action, " regretted Philippe Martinez before 
the Confederal Executive Committee of the CGT, the 3 July. The report is correct ... but 
contrary to his words, there is nothing new !

The ETUC has some organizations in which libertarian communists intervene, such as the CGT 
in France or the CGIL in Italy. Our current, and more generally the revolutionary 
syndicalists, do not weigh in the national orientations of these union confederations, but 
are influential in some unions or inter-professional structures that compose them.

ETUC affiliates 85 organizations from 36 countries, and 10 European professional 
federations are formed. Some are both the sectoral federation of the ETUC and the European 
structure of a professional international. For example, ETF is the transport federation of 
the ETUC, but also the European structure of ITF, an international federation of transport 
that is much older, and combative, than the ETUC.

www.etuc.org

Platform of the unions of stateless nations
ANTICOLONIALISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE
This network brings together class unions, independent of the parties, fighting against 
capitalist globalization, and associating social liberation and national liberation. So 
much reason to be interested, for libertarian communists, and to seek to promote the 
dialogue between these organizations and the unions in which we are invested.

A dozen affiliates - all from regions dependent on European states - participated in its 
last international meeting in 2015 in Italy. There was the LAB of the Basque Country, but 
also majority unions in their geographical area such as the STC in Corsica, the UTG in 
Guyana, the UGTG in Guadeloupe, the USTKE in Kanaky, or others like the Intersindical CSC 
(Catalonia) and the CUT (Galicia) also members of the WFTU, and a few more weakly 
established unions.

The network of social forums, the Global Labor Institute
HERITAGE OF ALTERMONDIALISM

If the European Social Forum (ESF) process has broken down since Istanbul in 2010, that of 
the World Social Forums (WSF) continues. These large gatherings are of real interest to 
the unions only if they are part of a long-term international work, regular, both 
professional and professional.

In Europe, the main trade union forces invested in the social forums are Solidaires 
(France), FSU (France), CSC (Belgium), ESK (Basque Country), IAC (Catalonia), 
Confederacion Intersindical (Spanish State). Other organizations participate, such as the 
CGT (France), the FGTB (Belgium) and several unions in Eastern Europe in search of 
international contacts. At the European level, networks such as Altersummit or Blockupy 
bring together substantially the same organizations.

At the intersection of international union structures and networks, we can locate the 
Global Labor Institute (GLI), whose link with popular education is another feature. The 
GLI project is also based on the search for greater efficiency for international sectoral 
federations. Solidaires and the CGT were stakeholders in the 2017 French meeting.

www.globallabour.info/fr

International union network of solidarity and struggles
AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE COMBATIVITIES

The RSISL exists as such since March 2013. Its creation is the result of a joint work 
between the Union Syndicale Solidaires (France, " alternative " trade union ), the 
Centrale Syndicale and popular Conlutas (Brazil, very related to currents Trotskyists, 
including " Morenoites ") and the CGT (Spanish state, anarcho-syndicalist), 3 e union 
strength in the Iberian Peninsula.

The Network is open to confederations and inter-professional unions as well as 
professional federations, local unions or trade unions, as well as trade union trends. 
This makes it possible to take into account combative currents existing within trade union 
centers which are almost unique in certain countries.

Participation in the Network is based on a call whose anticapitalist, ecologist, feminist, 
self-management, anti-racist, anticolonialist, etc. content is very clear. It is signed by 
some 60 organizations including CUB and SI-Cobas (Italy), Batay Ouvriye (Haiti), UNT 
(Salvador), RMT (transport, Great Britain), CGSP-FGTB (rail, Belgium), CGATA (Algeria), 
Sinaltrainal-CUT (agribusiness, Colombia), CUPW-STTP (Post, Canada), CGT (Burkina Faso), 
FGPTT-UGTT (Post, Tunisia), PPSWU (Post, Palestine), KPRI (Indonesia ) ... In France, in 
addition to Solidaires, CNT-SO and CNT-F, trends like Émancipation and CSR are members.

RSISL membership is not exclusive. Thus, one finds within it organizations also members of 
the CSI, the WFTU, the Red and Black Coordination, or without any other affiliation.

The Network works on three axes:

solidarity to support struggles or against repression ;
the strengthening of sectoral networks to anchor internationalism in everyday trade 
unionism (rail network without borders, call centers, health, Amazon, automobile, etc.) ;
reflection on subjects deemed to be priorities: self-management, worker control ; women's 
rights ; migrations ; repression against social movements ; colonialism.
www.laboursolidarity.org

Red and black union coordination
THE ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REFERENCE

This coordination brings together organizations claiming anarcho-syndicalism: CGT and 
Solidaridad Obrera (Spanish State), SAC (Sweden), USI (Italy), CNT-F (France) and IP 
(Poland). All - apart from SAC - are also members of the International Union Network of 
Solidarity and Struggle. There is also the ESE (Greece) or the BIROC-IWW (Great Britain) 
which, de facto, hold more affinity group than the trade union organization. The Spanish 
CGT carries most of this coordination.

The Red and Black Trade Union Coordination sometimes publishes common material in several 
languages, but the weak implementation of most of its member organizations in companies 
limits its capacity to lead real international campaigns or to weigh in the European 
social movement.

www.redblack.org

World Federation of Trade Unions
CURIOUS COUPLING SYNDICALO-ETTATIST

Founded in 1945, the WFTU was once the trade union international in Moscow. Already 
weakened by the crises of the communist bloc (exclusion of the Yugoslavian trade unions in 
1950, Chinese in 1966, departure of the Italian CGIL in 1975), it is greatly diminished in 
the 1990s by the breakup of the Soviet bloc. It then suffered the defection of the state 
unions which, in the East, formed the backbone, and pro-communist unions of the West 
which, like the CGT, then reposition themselves.

Today, the WFTU has three types of organizations.

First type, the most solid: the official unions of dictatorial states (Iran, Syria, 
Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea ...) who have a union that the name, and are in fact class 
supervisory bodies worker in the service of power.
Second type: organizations marked by nostalgia for the USSR, such as the PAME trend 
(Greece), BTC (Brazil) and, in France, the CGT federation of agribusiness.
Third type: organizations that join the WFTU mainly by rejection of the International 
Trade Union Confederation (and ETUC for Europe), such as Cosatu (South Africa), LAB 
(Basque Country), some federations of the CGTP (Portugal), USB (Italy) or RMT (Great 
Britain). In France, the CGT federations of Chemistry and Commerce, the UD 13 and 94 for 
example, are part of the structures that have joined the WFTU for this reason or have 
launched the process to do so.
The situation of the WFTU is therefore paradoxical since, within its ranks, authentic 
class struggle unions are associated with class collaboration organizations supporting 
exploitation regimes that deny trade union freedoms.

At the next confederal congress of the French CGT, in March 2019, the rattle of the " 
return to the WFTU " could be agitated by the Stalinist oppositional currents, in the 
absence of a real alternative orientation to the Martinez leadership.

www.wftucentral.org

International Workers Association
AUTODESTRUCTIVE SPIRAL

The AIT was founded in 1922 by robust revolutionary syndicalist organizations (and 
subsequently, anarcho-syndicalists) refusing Soviet tutelage. Among them: the CNT (Spanish 
State), the FAUD (Germany), the USI (Italy), the SAC (Sweden), the Fora (Argentina) ... 
Most were broken by fascism in the 1930s and have survived in exile.

After the war, the AIT played a role in the reconstruction of anarcho-syndicalism in the 
world but, in the 1990s, it experienced a dogmatic and sectarian drift, linking schisms 
and excommunications. So much so that it exists today only around small anarchist groups 
in Norway, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, Portugal and Great Britain. The only 
organization worthy of the name is FAU-IAA, active in social movements in Germany, albeit 
on a modest scale. Even the historic CNT (Spanish State) has been excluded from the AIT 
for any doctrinal deviation, and is now considering rebuilding a new AIT.

www.iwa-ait.org

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Syndicalisme-international-Un-panorama-pour-y-voir-clair

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October 3, 2016 in Poznan, some of the participants in the so-called After the end of the 
main demonstration, the black protest headed for the PiS office to express its opposition 
to the government's plans to tighten the anti-abortion law. On the spot, the demonstrators 
found the policemen in whose direction someone from the crowd threw a few smoke candles. 
In response, the officers began to press on the gathered and beat them blindly with 
batons. They also used pepper spray, which affected dozens of random people. As a result 
of the intervention of the officers, three people were detained, subsequently accused of 
violating the bodily integrity of the policeman. Another 3 people were accused of 
participating in an illegal gathering - it happened when they reported that the police had 
exceeded their rights. However, the case of the police officers was discontinued.

For several months, a trial of six people has been taking place in the court in Poznan. 
All are associated with the anarchist community. Only policemen have been interviewed so 
far. In all, almost sixty (!) Officers are to be testified against by the court. In most 
cases, their testimony did not bring anything to the matter - many were unable to 
reproduce the course of the event, others claimed to be involved in too many interventions 
to know if they were there at all. In the meantime, the search for defense witnesses who 
took part in the protest at the PiS office continued. At the last hearing, August 20, the 
judge refused, however, to accept the list of these witnesses - she demanded to describe 
exactly where each of them was during the protest and clash with the police, what he was 
doing, who he was, etc. Although writing a short explanation for the evidence and the 
witnesses being called is a rule (which the attorney's lawyer has fulfilled by sending a 
list of witnesses to the judge), the expectation of such detailed information is not a 
customary court proceeding. The judge justifies his decision by the fact that he does not 
want to allow a deliberate prolongation of the trial and decency. From our perspective, 
this is a curious situation in which defendants are assumed to be ill-willed and defense 
is impeded.

We informed you about the very specific approach of judges Agnieszka Cabrery-Kasprzak to 
the list of witnesses submitted by us after the last hearing. Out of curiosity, we checked 
whether in the past she had had contact with the anarchist community. It soon turned out 
that the judge had long ago discontinued a loud case about the use of a private paralyzer 
on duty by a police officer during a lecture on gender in Poznan. We dug up to the article 
in which excerpts of the justification for such a decision and its criticism are quoted. 
We are troubled by the hurtful, unjustified, very vague and stereotypical approach of the 
Judges to those identified with the anarchist community. We hope that this time the 
similar situation will not happen again.

"The court dismissed the case. We have reached the justification. Judge Agnieszka 
Cabrera-Kasprzak states that the crime took place, and by taking a private stun gun to the 
lecture, the policeman "acted with a prior intention" and "knew that he was acting in 
violation of the law." However, she discontinued the matter because of ... negligible 
social harm. This statement of guilt, but formally the policeman will remain unpunished 
and will not lose his job.

The judge claims that the policeman had the right to feel threatened because he was in 
civilian clothes, without a vest or helmet. He also expected the lecture to be interrupted 
by anarchists because the police warned the organizers about it. "He certainly knew the 
typical behaviors of this type of professional experience," says Judge Cabrera-Kasprzak. 
And he adds: "He had to know from office that such people often carry dangerous tools and 
have taken attacks on persons who
are public officials in the past ."

The judge does not explain what his opinion about anarchists is based on. In recent years, 
anarchists have often been tried, but in most cases they were acquitted. One of them was 
convicted only for fencing the policeman's uniform leg.
[...]
- I am not convinced by this argument - says Dr. Piotr Kladoczny, a lawyer from the 
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. And he asks: - Why does the court assume that every 
anarchist is aggressive and what does it matter if the policeman consciously takes a 
private taser and then exceeds the
powers? "

The entire article, written by Piotr Zytnicki, can be found here 
http://poznan.wyborcza.pl/poznan/1,36001,19604731,policjanci-sprawdzili-na-sobie-pa%20ralizator-jest-bezpieczny.html

http://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/kontrola-spoeczna/4632-sdzia-w-procesie-osob-oskaronych-po-czarnym-protecie-jest-uprzedzona-do-anarchistow-

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On September 1, 2018, Social Action activists conducted a series of solitary pickets in 
the framework of the Week of Solidarity with Anarch-Prisoners 201 8 . The action took 
place on the main street of Nizhny Novgorod. In the "Day of Knowledge" we decided to make 
our contribution to the enlightenment of the people and remind him of the situations in 
which life activists who are disliked by the regime are loyal to their ideas and views. 
Through our posters, we wanted to convey to people the problem of political repression on 
the part of the powerful, through which every year more and more different opinions are 
discouraged from the course of the state. ---- The activists recalled the "Network" case, 
in which there are more than 10 people involved, about the fate of Yevgeny Karakashev, 
Alexander Kolchenko and other social activists against whom the cases of extremism were 
fabricated. We also wanted to recall that friends of the working class suffer reprisals in 
any state - so in Brazil, social activist Igor Mendez and 22 others are imprisoned in 
prison for speaking out against the government's arbitrariness.

It is impossible to close eyes to the ongoing lawlessness around, it is necessary to 
struggle with it as much as possible, overcoming all kinds of information barriers. 
Knowledge is power, but only when it is reinforced by actions. "

https://avtonom.org/news/v-nizhnem-novgorode-proshla-akciya-solidarnosti-s-politzaklyuchennymi-anarhistami-0

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