Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - Europe: The
fortress is also a prison (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Catalunia, Embat: For a disobedience without fear -
Announcements and texts , Debate on sovereignty (ca, it) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Angers - To the west, but
still antifascists ! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire - Justice (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. US, black rose fed: MY SEPTEMBER ELEVEN: chile, Commentary,
Latin America By Cí Melosa (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Leicester ACG
Radical Reading Group - Council Communism 4/10/18
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Security policies that target migrant women and migrants do not apply only on the borders:
to strengthen the latter is to tighten the control of the entire population, throughout
the territory. The fight against these policies is in the interest of everyone, nationals
and foreigners alike. ---- Cédric Herrou, farmer of the Roya Valley, ---- He was subjected
to 8 police custody, 5 searches, 2 trials, administrative detention and a very strict
judicial examination, for having repeatedly offered a place in his van to refugees. ----
During his visit to Vietnam in July 2015, and while still British Prime Minister, David
Cameron spoke about the entry of refugees in the United Kingdom. The source of the "
problem, " he said, is that " people are crossing the Mediterranean in search of a better
life " ; he therefore called for treating the problem at its source " by making life less
easy for illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom ", because " all these measures, which
draw an internal border, count just as much as the external frontier " [1].
A few months after this meeting, following the attacks in France, police checks were
re-established at the borders between States within the European Union, and the European
Council authorized their extension the following year. But that is not what the former
Conservative MP had in mind. Neither were moral or informal boundaries marginalizing large
sections of the population of a country on the basis of their religion, skin color or
presumed origin. In fact, the frontiers he intended to erect consisted, among other
examples mentioned, in limiting to refugees the possibility of opening a bank account,
access to social housing and employment, and of course to intensify evictions. So many
measures that apply far from the coast, so.
A gigantic border post
The trouble with borders is that they have an unfortunate tendency to overflow inwards.
The refoulement of part of the population outside the national territory is not a simple
decree: it requires a whole criminal and police apparatus, which can only affect the
entire population. The control of some necessarily implies the control of others, and the
freedom of foreigners is also that of nationals.
One might have thought that the Schengen Agreement (1985) would rid EU residents of border
police. But if within the Union the frontier post as such has disappeared, the frontier
line where the States exercise their authority has been considerably enlarged, to become,
in France for example, a ten-kilometer band below the border line, where the police can
conduct random and mobile checks.
A quarter of the French territory concerned
The people who live on these border strips of course remained a minority ... until the
Anti-Terror Law of 30 October 2017, which amended the Code of Criminal Procedure and the
Customs Code to allow the identity check of " any person " within a radius of 10
kilometers around ports, airports and 118 border crossing points, as well as " near "
railway stations, where previously such controls could only take place inside. And, by
definition, it is because we can not say who is illegal or not that the police must also
control citizens in their own right - or even target people according to their skin color
or appearance.
The police grid of the border populations has since spread along a network of
infrastructures that mesh the whole territory: in its previous version, the bill envisaged
a radius of twenty kilometers, which ensured the coverage more than a quarter of the
French territory and two-thirds of its population, according to an estimate of the World
[2]. A map prepared by CIMADE shows France covered internal borders, in terms of the
identity check of the male and female migrants [3].
In the United States, border guards have recently been authorized to carry out checks,
arrests and searches of vehicles up to 160 kilometers below the border, without the
approval of the judicial authorities. To this unfortunate mapping, one could add that
dozens of administrative detention centers that dot the country.
There is also what is not printed on the territory: the legislative apparatus, certainly,
but also the procedures of registration, documentation, surveillance, the administrative
routine of confinement and expulsion, and especially a technology of diffusion of the
function of control, which the police is not the only one to endorse. Building effective
internal borders requires the dissemination of control at every level and in every sector.
Borders everywhere, solidarity nowhere
Passenger transport companies were quickly put to use - under the threat of heavy fines -
and developed a real competence in the matter: at airports, it is not the police that
controls passengers the most, but the agents and agents of the company. In coaches (at
Flixbus, Ouibus, etc.), travelers had to get used to having their passport scrupulously
checked by the drivers themselves, worried about the risk they would incur if they left a
passenger without papers aboard. .
This logic of border security penetrates the whole society, its administration but also
its citizens. The state might be entitled to demand that they do not collaborate with
undocumented migrants, that is, in practice, that schools and universities control their
pupils, doctors their patients, services their beneficiaries, the bankers their clients,
the inhabitants their neighbors, etc. That suspicion stifles any form of spontaneous
solidarity.
Marco (AL 92)
INDEPENDENT AND SOLIDARITY ... AND PROUD !
Article L622-1 of the Code of Entry and Stay of Foreigners and Asylum (Ceseda) defines
what has been called the " offense of solidarity ".
Although this law was originally intended to be used to prosecute smugglers, it was turned
against the citizens who helped refugees in need, sometimes simply by taking passengers on
hitch-hiking. Among these " joint delinquentes " are Cédric Herrou, a farmer in the Roya
Valley, who has been subjected to 8 police custody, 5 searches, 2 trials, administrative
detention and indictment under strict judicial control. , to have several times offered a
place in his van to refugees walking from the Italian border.
Pierre-Alain Mannonni, a teacher-researcher from Nice who had taken three injured young
Eritreans to the hospital while crossing the Alps, was sentenced to two months in prison.
Neither Valls, who had promised it, nor Collomb, in the asylum-immigration law, put an end
to this criminalization of elementary solidarity.
The other articles of the file:
Editorial: Security without the security
Judicial Reform: Towards court robotization ?
United States: Chained to Slave History
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] Matthew Holehouse, " Calais crisis ", The Telegraph, July 30, 2015.
[2] " The government is preparing a massive extension of border identity checks ", Le
Monde, 19 December 2017.
[3] Cimade, " Permanent state of emergency, facies checks everywhere, " September 11, 2017.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Europe-La-forteresse-est-aussi-une-prison-Marco
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Message: 2
On the occasion of this September 11, 2018 from Embat, Llibertària Organization of
Catalonia , we want to convey our commitment to the self-determination of our people. In
spite of this, the independentist political class has not applied the result of October 1
in any moment by fear, both to the repressive response of the Spanish State and to a
popular overflow, October in our territory. ---- As a libertarian organization, our
commitment is to the freedoms, as it could not be in any other way. Therefore, we send our
solidarity to colleagues represaliados in dozens of cases throughout the territory in
other causes, that majority independentism has not wanted to defend. In the same way we
solidarize ourselves with the prisoners and political prisoners and people who have had to
exile to not be imprisoned as a result of this process. Social movements in general, and
the libertarian movement in particular, have suffered many repressive attacks in recent
years - some of them with the Generalitat as accused party - and we know what it means to
be in the spotlight. We also want to express our utmost rejection of the normalization of
street proto-fascism, which has already committed several aggressions and that at any
moment can be strengthened, trained and armed to initiate and scale up a social conflict
in our towns and neighborhoods.
Regarding institutional policy, we note that a glass ceiling has been reached that
prevents any progress and shows its inherent limitations. As there is no progress, all are
backstage. There is no formal constituent process and what exists is what the CDRs are
doing in the towns and neighborhoods or the Charter of Social Rights, which obviously do
not depend on the government's instructions. There is no measure to implement social
policies and advances at the level of education, health or housing, much less any measure
to exercise a minimum territorial control. The Catalan institutions are subject to a
psychological 155, as Moncloa threatens. Even, and despite continuously filling the mouth
with the Republic, the independentist parties do not make any move towards her, but quite
the contrary, They move in reduced autonomy. We denounce that they want to make the people
fall into defeatism. Therefore, the people should demand their resignation and leave
voices to other people without fear of assuming the consequences of their own political
action. As a society, we need brave people willing to disobey.
The Spanish State continues to threaten the intervention and with an imminent escalation
of aggression, with which it tries to hold us accountable. We have lived a year of Catalan
mediaphobia to the extent that, in the eyes of the population of the State, the Catalans
are a new enemy to whom to hate. The story of the social rupture of the population of
Catalonia is being created between "Catalans" and "Spaniards" and we believe that the
consequences can be extremely serious. Meanwhile, we do not think that the socialist and
sovereignist social base has expanded to include those who did not participate on October 1.
We are aware that the bases of independence and sovereignty are embedded in the situation.
Even so, we do not see that independentism and popular sovereignty have managed to have
their own voice in everything that is happening in the country. Let's go pretty far behind
the entities that already convened crowds before October. We fully support the calls for
independence and basic sovereignty and popular in the key of disobedience and rupture with
the Spanish State, but we believe that we must go a step further. That is why we encourage
this independentism and popular sovereignty to create new platforms and entities and to
strengthen those that are already giving voice to rupturingto build a more just and
egalitarian society. Who is to speak is the people and no one else has to speak in their name.
This Day the message must be clear: The unilaterality must be resumed. It is necessary to
overcome the paralysis caused by the self-appointed parties of independence. Breakdown
forces are needed to help start real-bank counterpower routes, which require local
councils and the Generalitat to apply the result of October 1, to release all prisoners
and all political prisoners kidnapped in Catalan prisons, which make out the occupation
forces ... and if the current institutions do not want or can not carry it out, the
institutions of the popular counter-power will have to build a new fairer society.
This is the power of the people. Independence is only one step towards real sovereignty.
Without effective sovereignties, we can not build socialism. Let's repeat what we said
last year: the breakup and creation of a new society is vital for a better life.
Live the freedom!
We build popular power!
http://embat.info/per-una-desobediencia-sense-por/
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Message: 3
In Angers, an anti-fascist festival will take place from September 16th to 22nd. The
opportunity to recall all the violence committed by the far right every day. And
unfortunately, in the west too there have been. ---- To the west, but still antifascists !
---- The trial of Clément Méric's assassins is an opportunity to recall all the violence
perpetrated by the far right every day. And unfortunately, in the west too there have
been. While Angers young fachos opened a local, the Alvarium, in Nantes the GUD was trying
hard to reform. Nevertheless, in both cities, their implementation seems more than
laborious and their recurring attempts are still confronted with the obstinacy of
antifascists.
A year ago, the newspaper Ouest-France, published an article listing without being
exhaustive, some violence committed by the extreme right on Nantes and Angers: Far right.
Between Nantes and Angers, a long serial of racist violence
All the information on the festival is on the website of the Angevin Antifascist Network
(RAAF) and the Facebook event
For many, the words " fascism " and " fascist " refer to a past and past historical period
- that of the 1930s - from which we would now be immune.
For us, relegating these words to the past only hides and masks a reality where the
foundations of this nauseating ideology are increasingly present in our daily lives.
Video announcement of the festive event of 22 September
If at each election, the majority cries victory for having prevented the fascist danger -
namely the FN - from gaining power, few seem to realize that some of its ideas are present
- and have been for a long time - in the institutions. For several decades, one can only
note a hardening of the policies, which have nothing to envy to those proposed by the FN
and the groups of far-right.
How can one describe, other than " far-right policies", the policies pursued for several
years to welcome exiles ?
How can one describe the repression suffered by the activists of social movements other
than " far-right policies " ?
Moreover, right-wing extremist institutions and militias are very good at working together
- or at least the former know very well how to close their eyes in the actions of the latter.
There are many examples, but we can cite this expulsion at the University of Montpellier,
at the end of March, during the recent student movement, by a far-right militia supported
by the Dean of the Faculty of Law.
We can also mention the very media operation Generation Identitaire, April 21, wanting to
stop the arrival of exiles at the Col de l'Echelle with impunity, despite the illegal
nature of the thing, while anti-fascist activists, are found guilty of helping migrants
continue their journey in France.
As we know, all these antisocial policies are fertile ground for the propagation of
far-right ideas. Playing on the fear of exclusion and / or differences, some speeches aim to
divide individuals. Employees and unemployed workers are thus returned back to back and
the president does not hesitate to do the same between chemists and farmers in a perpetual
hunt. to the " privileged ".
Rather than divide us, we rely on a real solidarity between those from below, wherever
they come from, and on a broad anti-fascism including the fight against racism, for the
equality of women and men. men and more generally against all forms of domination and
oppression.
To show that this antifascism is able to mobilize, we invite you to Angers on September
22, 2018 for a big event ! Fascism is nowhere ! Neither in the streets, nor in power !
Program : - Tuesday 18/09 - 20h - L'Etincelle When the extreme right attacks the abortion
Screening of the documentary " Abortion, the crusaders counterattack " Alexandra Jousset
and Andrea Rawlins-Gaston conduct a thorough investigation of the European networks
opposed to abortion, their leaders, their lobbyists and their support. Follow-up of a
debate in the presence of activists of Family Planning 49.
- Wednesday 19/09 - 20h - L'Etincelle The links between police and extreme right in a safe
state.
The issue of police violence is one of the issues of our time. It does not happen a week
without the repression is inviting in the actuality, in our lives, in our struggles. In a
racist and capitalist system, the police is the armed arm of the ideas of power, which
applies far-right ideas. It expels exiles, who conducts facies checks, suppresses
protests, kills and mutilates immigrant sons and daughters in outlying areas. On the
electoral front, more than one police officer out of two votes for the National Front. In
recent weeks, an armed group, which was planning attacks against Muslims, has been
arrested. It was composed of police and military. Part of the forces of the order is
radicalized. This evening will explore the links between the police and the extreme right,
and evoke the enslavement of repression and state racism. Hosted by our comrades from Nantes.
- Thursday 20/09 - 20h - L'Etincelle Racism, a structural system.
Racists, racism, racism, a societal evil, a structural system based on social control,
domination, oppression and inequality. Testimonies of residents and activists from the
working-class neighborhoods of Angers, questioning this context. With the participation of
the Collectif Interquartier 49.
- Friday 21/09 - 18h - L'Etincelle Anti-repression evening in the presence of the Legal
Team and Street-medics of Nantes.
Legal self-defense workshop What room for maneuver vis-à-vis the police and justice ?
Self-defense workshop in dem Who are the street-medics ? Investigating and dealing with
weapons and major injuries caused by the police, as well as ways to guard against them.
- Saturday 22/09 - 14h Festive event
Departure from the place Imbach for a festive event in the streets of Angers.
- Saturday 22/09 - 19h - The Etincelle Conference " Understanding the Far Right "
Understanding the extreme right to better fight it here is the program proposed by our
comrades of The Horde, malignantly anti-fascist portal, who will come to make a
presentation of the different galaxies to the right of the right. concerts
Skalpel (Conscious Rap - Paris) HPS (Rap - Bressuire) Capsized (Emo Punk Hardcore - Nantes
Death or Glory (Punk Rock - Rennes)
- All events are offered at Free price L'Etincelle - 56 Bd du Doyenné - Angers
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?A-l-ouest-mais-toujours-antifascistes
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Message: 4
How could be treated collectively the violence or the crimes in a libertarian communist
society ? How to avoid reproducing the monsters of capitalist society like prison ? How to
think about the safety of all and all without the security ? There is no ready-made
answer, no pre-established schema. A selection of articles of reflection published in
Alternative libertaire. ---- Justice file in Alternative Libertaire from July-August 2018:
---- Editorial: Security without the security ---- Judicial Reform: Towards court
robotization ? ---- Europe: The fortress is also a prison ---- United States: Chained to
Slave History ---- 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 " ?
Prison record in Alternative Libertaire of June 2007
A society without a prison ?
Work ? On the finger and the eye
Gabriel Mouesca (OIP): " Abolition does not take utopia "
What detainees claim
Should we believe in a god to be reintegrated ?
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Justice
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Message: 5
The month? September. The day? Eleven. ---- The year? Oh! The year. 1973. ---- You thought
I would say 2001, right? Yeah, this time we'll talk about another September 11, the one
that happened in 1973. ---- I'm not afraid of backlash. I'm a writer. I'm an anarchist. I
got used to being attacked because of my positions, I'm used to be attacked because of
what I write. What can I do? Writing is the way I present myself to the world. However, to
anticipate the backlash, let me explain a few things. ---- The date of September 11, 2001
makes me very, very sad. By principles, I think (with exceptions) that lives matter. I
value life and I become upset about every abrupt interruption of it. I mourn for the
immigrant woman who worked as a cleaner in World Trade Center who died that day. I mourn
for the Black doorman, from the Bronx, who left behind three children to raise. I mourn
for the paralegal who had just graduated from law school who jumped out of the window as
the building was collapsing. I mourn for the thousands of deaths. For the thousands of
dreams and projects that were interrupted. I sympathize with the pain of dozens of
thousands of people who didn't die but who we will never hug their beloved ones again.
You need to understand, my dear friend, that I care for everyone who were inside of that
two towers on that fateful September morning. I was only a child, twelve years-old. I came
back from school earlier, because our classes were interrupted. I stayed with my family
with our eyes on the TV, our hearts in our mouths and the phone in our hands, waiting to
hear from our dear relatives who lived in NYC at that time. After that, I came back to NYC
several times, and I never had the guts to visit Ground Zero. I did not forget. I will not
forget. Neither will you. In fact, no one in the whole world will forget.
September 11, 2018 - Photo of Salvador Allende memorial statue in Santiago, Chile with
wreaths and flags surrounding the base.
We will not forget it because it was a huge tragedy. But, also, I need to tell you
something - we will not forget it because the WTC was the place where the money was.
Because there were white lives there, lives that were born and raised in the Global North.
Neither should we forget the lives of the Afghans who died in the subsequent years, but we
have already forgotten. There is no monument with a waterfall and their names engraved in
stone for the dead Afghans. We did not sympathize with their mourning.
We do not forget the lives that went away when the planes collided with the towers, but we
already forgot about the mowed lives in the mountains of the Middle East. We became
accustomed to telling the story of the winners. Walter Benjamin warned us that Western
society does not shape its social and political memory from the memory of the vanquished.
The vanquished die not only once, but twice, if not many more times. Physiologically they
died under the sight of a weapon of a well-intentioned soldier who left his beloved wife
in American soil, to fed the powerful war industry. After being killed by a bullet, the
vanquished dies in anonymity, in silence, in forgetfulness.
If I just tell the story of Global North, I would be killing mis hermanos from the Global
South, again. If, when I mention September 11, I only remember the one that happened in
2001, I would be murdering, once again, my people, from Latin American countries,
countries that were sacrificed for decades by their military dictatorships financed by
blood-stained gringo dollars.
I respect all lives. I cry for all the lives unjustly killed. But, I know that the war of
narratives is real. So, I'm here not to tell you what you've already seen on NBC, I'm here
to tell you the story of my people. I'm here to tell you about the blood that flows in
Latin America, to tell you how the madres and the abuelas weep without the bodies of their
children and grandchildren to bury. I'm here to tell you about the youth who were born in
guerrilla wombs but were kidnapped from their parents to be raised by torturers. I'm here
to tell you about the crimes against humanity that were committed in my country and in the
neighboring countries to mine to ensure that the Soviet ideal would not spread through
Central and South America.
So, let's talk about September 11th. But, the one that happened in 1973.
Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected socialist president in Latin
America. This means - even if I think that every election is bullshit - we still live
under a representative pseudo-democracy, and I need to recognize that. The system that our
countries have decided to live in is the one in which a president is elected by vote. And
in the 1970s the Chilean people voted, playing by the rules of the game, for Salvador
Allende, a socialist, as a president.
The context? Cold War. Europe was divided, Germany was split in half by a wall. Asia and
Africa were also a chessboard where the Soviets and the Americans moved their pieces at
their own will. Cuba, in Latin America, was a rat with the power of a lion threatening the
plans of the powerful neighbor located above it. Nothing scared Uncle Sam more than the
possibility that socialism could grow in Latin America. The solution? Providing funds to
nationalist groups, linked to the Armed Forces, in Latin American countries to accomplish
authoritarian coups that could guarantee the maintenance of the established order. Yes,
Latin American nationalism has the colors of the American flag.
In each country, the dictatorship began at different times, in Brazil, for example, it
began in March of 1964, nine years before the beginning of Chilean dictatorship. So, why
do we need to remember September 11, of 1973, when we talk about Latin American military
dictatorships?
First of all, as I said, Allende was the first officially socialist president to be
elected by vote. It became clear as water who was the enemy: leftists ideologies. Second,
because the Chilean dictatorship, under the baton of Pinochet, was one of the most bloody
dictatorships in the history. It is a relevant milestone to understand the history of the
Great Latin Motherland. Even today Chile lives under the reminiscences of the dictator. If
you go to a protest in Chile, you will definitely hear the students shutting out loud: "Se
va a caer, se va a caer. La educación de Pinochet! / It will fall, it will fall. The
education of Pinochet!"
Until the 1970s, Chile was one of the most developed countries in South America, and it
had a stable economy. In the 1960's there was an intense mobilization of the popular
sectors. The workers' movement of Chile was an example to the whole continent. This
effervescence led to the election of Allende, who advocated for agrarian reform, free
universal education, public health system, labor rights, among others flags, but always in
conformity with the current institutions. If he was a socialist, no doubt he was, but it
was a moderate socialism, which could not really achieve structural changes in society.
But it had the power, however, to disturb the elites and bourgeoisie. The bosses' lockout
of 1972 may have been one of the greatest stoppages of the bourgeoisie in the history of
humanity. They tried to avoid the election of Allende in Congress, through his
impeachment, but the bourgeoisie did not reach the necessary two-third vote of the
Congress. Allende ran in the elections, was elected and and became the president. But even
so, the media, the judiciary, the boss and middle-class institutions were trying to do
everything they could to stop him.
The Armed Forces joined the opposition to Allende. In June of 1973 tanks surrounded the
Palace and killed more than two dozen people. The attempt of a coup was there for those
who could see, hear or feel. On one hand, there were the Chilean national bourgeoisie, the
Armed Forces, the institutions and the dirty money that came from North America, as well
as extreme right-wing terrorist and paramilitary groups like Patria y Libertad. On the
other hand there were an idealistic and dreamy people and a president with no support in
the Congress or the Supreme Court. The coup was completed on September 11 of the same
year, despite all the heroic resistance.
The Chilean Armed Force arrived in Valparaiso on the morning of September 11, escorted by
United States war vessels - at the ready in the border waters of the country. A WB-575
plane - a telecommunications center - of the American area force, piloted by the US
military, flew over Chile. Simultaneously 33 fighters and observation planes of the
American Air Force landed in the air base of Mendonza, on the border of Argentina with Chile.
The following hours were terrifying. President Allende went to the Palacio de La
Moneda[the National Palace of Chile], where he believed he would find Pinochet, whom he
considered to be in his confidence. Some people may say that things that happened inside
of the walls of the Palace were different from what have been told, but the official story
says that, around two o'clock, Salvador Allende took a bullet to his chin, sparing himself
of seeing his people being killed, being missed, and being tortured. Allende did not see
the horrors of the following years in our continent, while the United States quietly
plundered our lands.
September 11, 2018 - Pictured is the "Cueca Sola" Collective outside of the Casa Moneda,
the national palace in Santiago, Chile, which performs the Chilean national dance, known
as "cueca," which is always done with a partner. In remembrance, the performances is done
alone, "sola," for one or more of the disappeared, often a friend or family member.
September 11 of 1973 is a milestone in Latin America story, specially in the South America
story. It is the concretization of the plans of imperialist domination. On September 11 of
1973 a terrible terrorist attack occurred against the lives of the Global South, also it
was a frontal attack against the sovereignty of Latin America. But, usually, we don't call
terrorists those who wear uniforms and army boots, or those who have protection from the
institutions of power.
In the next years, in Latin America, the silence reigned in the streets and our art and
voice were censored, while in the basements of military battalions we could hear the
screams of pain. Inside the houses we could hear the sounds of the muffled cry of the
mothers who did not hear from their children since they were last seen attending a
protest. Those who were lucky went into exile. Those who had the courage, went to the
clandestinity.
But, our people are brave, and they kept fighting, even if they needed to face death and
torture. All sorts of horrors were committed so that leftist beliefs could not flourish.
But, our hearts are red and nobody can silence the desire for a new world. Nobody can
silence a people who insist on resisting, nobody can stop a clenched fist that dares to rise.
When we look at the numbers related to all Latin dictatorships we can account for hundreds
of thousands of deaths. There are thousands of bodies that we never had the chance to
bury. There are thousands of survivors who will never forget the torture, the rape, the
nightmare. There are hundreds of children that were kidnapped from their parent's arms.
There are countless missing people. We still wait for them, we still want them, ALIVE!
Books were burned, newspapers and songs were censored. We swallowed our poems, we left
paintings unpainted.
It was not one single day of terror. It was almost three decades, below and above the Equator.
In the late 1980s the dictatorships had ended, but the capitalism of dependency always
reinvents itself. Now, we call it by the name of globalization. And, well, they are still
killing us and shutting up our voices when we try to stop them.
We were tortured and killed. Our families still cry for us. But our story, through, the
years, has been less and less remembered. Even in our countries, we almost don't talk
about this anymore, nor imagine if those who live in the Global North continue talk about
this. In high school, I studied, exhaustively, about the attack against the Twin Towers.
So, let me ask you something. How many of your teachers told you about the siege of the
Palacio de La Moneda?
Well, I'm going to keep crying for your beloved ones who died on that fateful September
11th. The whole world will continue crying your deaths. You do not even need to ask for
it. But, I'm asking you. Can you cry for our deaths too?
Cí Melosa is a Black Rose/Rosa Negra member active in New York City. She is originally
from Brazil where she first became active in the anarchist movement.
Originally published in El Coyote, translated from Portuguese by the author.
http://blackrosefed.org/my-september-eleven/
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The next meeting for Leicester ACG's Radical Reading Group takes place on Thursday 4th
October, upstairs at the Regent Club, 102 Regent Rd, Leicester LE1 7DA ---- This month,
we'll be looking at ---- Council Communism by Mark Shipway ---- Council communism was an
influential and historic anti-state communist tendency which developed mostly in the
Netherlands and Germany, where for a time it became a significant force within the working
class movement. Notable council communist theorists and supporters included Anton
Pannekoek, Herman Gorter, Otto Rühle, Sylvia Pankhurst, Paul Mattick and Reichstag fire
starter, Marinus van der Lubbe. Lenin dismissed it as an "infantile disorder" but council
communist ideas have since influenced a range of more libertarian left-marxists as well as
non-marxist groups such as the Anarchist Communist Group. Essentially, council communism is:
a theory of working-class struggle and revolution which holds that the means that workers
will use to fight capitalism, overthrow it, and establish and administer communist
society, will be the workers' councils.
The Mark Shipway text is available HERE
http://libcom.org/library/council-communism-mark-shipway-1987
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/09/11/leicester-acg-radical-reading-group-council-communism-4-10-18/
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