Anarchic update news all over the world - 3.09.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  anarkismo.net: In the face of the economic and political
      crisis, the answer is from below! by Anarchist Federation of
      Rosario - FAR (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - Chronicle: Echo
      d'Afrique, "Tackling Symbols of Colonialism" (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  [France] The radio without God, without masters and without
      advertising for more than thirty years By ANA (ca, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Russia,  avtonom: Strike against pension reform! [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Chile, FALV-IFA, Contemporary Israeli anarchism (Acracia
      n79) (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  pramen.io: Philippino anarchists in solidarity with
      political prisoners,  (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






There are intense days in our country. In recent days, a currency exchange has taken the 
dollar to values that pulverize popular income and install a scenario of economic and 
political instability. ---- Given this situation, the government's response is subject to 
the meeting that Minister of Economy Dujovne will have in Washington on Tuesday. That is, 
the role of the government at this moment of being a simple messenger of the imperial 
powers is clear. The response that you will get from the northern leaders is predictable: 
it is necessary for the dominant sectors to carry out the adjustment in the most brutal 
and immediate way possible. The "market" is not enough, with the degradation of our 
salaries and the thousands of layoffs; nor is it interested, apparently, in the continuity 
of the political project of change.

The organization and popular mobilization are the only response to put a brake on the 
neoliberal onslaught. From our organization we will be promoting from our insertion spaces 
the unity and direct action as an immediate response to the adjustment that will surely 
take a double boost.

Anarchist Federation of Rosario
In the face of the economic and political crisis, the answer is from below!
Anarchist Federation of Rosario (FAR)
There are intense days in our country. In recent days, a currency exchange has taken the 
dollar to values that pulverize popular income and install a scenario of economic and 
political instability.

Given this situation, the government's response is subject to the meeting that Minister of 
Economy Dujovne will have in Washington on Tuesday. That is, the role of the government at 
this moment of being a simple messenger of the imperial powers is clear. The response that 
you will get from the northern leaders is predictable: it is necessary for the dominant 
sectors to carry out the adjustment in the most brutal and immediate way possible. The 
"market" is not enough, with the degradation of our salaries and the thousands of layoffs; 
nor is it interested, apparently, in the continuity of the political project of change.

The scenario that is taking shape in the region with high levels of political instability 
has its complexity and it is necessary to analyze it in light of the geopolitical disputes 
that are taking place in the region, with special attention to the commercial war between 
the US and China. .

However, below are expressions of resistance and struggle that are truly auspicious. The 
student rebellion throughout the country, the various mass and multi-sector marches that 
were expressed in defense of public education, the various regional initiatives to push 
the active national strike, as is the regional strike on September 4 , the intention of 
the two CTAs to carry out a stoppage of 36 hours, the cacerolazos in different points of 
the city and the country, realize that from below there is a will of resistance.

It is important for us / the specifist anarchists that at this moment the resistance 
arises from our class organizations, unions, neighborhood and student organizations, to 
give it an organized and projected component that overcomes the electoral disputes that 
look to 2019 as its primordial scenario. For those below, a century is missing by 2019!

The organization and popular mobilization are the only response to put a brake on the 
neoliberal onslaught. From our organization we will be promoting from our insertion spaces 
the unity and direct action as an immediate response to the adjustment that will surely 
take a double boost.

No more dismissals, adjustments and devaluation!
To resist organized and in the streets!
Related Link: http://federacionanarquistaderosario.blogspot.com/

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31122

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Message: 2






200 years ago, June 3, 1818, Louis Faidherbe was born in Lille. He would become a widely 
honored soldier, and a seasoned colonialist. Some even call him " the father of French 
imperialism ". On the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth, a Lille collective 
decides to lead a campaign entitled " Faidherbe must fall ". ---- The argument of the 
collective is effective: " Why tackle Louis Faidherbe today ? For one simple reason: 
because the monuments, buildings and streets that pay homage to him, celebrate - without 
always saying so openly - the colonial project to which he has dedicated his life. If man 
Faidherbe undeniably belongs to the past, his ideals still pollute our present. The 
perpetual celebration imposed on us by these statues and streets proves that colonial 
ideology remains alive and well. "

In Senegal, and particularly in Saint Louis, where Faidherbe ruled, the general is in the 
spotlight: a bridge and a square bear his name, as well as a statue bearing the 
inscription " grateful Senegal ".

These symbols are particularly cringe teeth of those, more and more thanks to the actions 
of sensitization on social networks, who know with what violence he imposed colonial 
domination on their ancestors. There is a worldwide movement aimed at many symbols of 
slavery or colonialism in South Africa, USA, Canada, Spain as well as in the French 
overseas territories. The statues of Gandhi, an apostle of non-violence, Cecil Rhodes, 
Leopold II, Horatio Nelson, among others, are strongly contested. Just recently, in 
Barcelona, the statue of Antonio López, a businessman who was enriched by the slave trade, 
was withdrawn.

In France, the symbols of colonialism are still numerous, witnesses of a past of which 
many are still nostalgic. The problem is also that these symbols help to validate an 
embellished narrative of an adventuresque colonization, with its heroes, its builders, its 
visionaries ... the memory of the settlers in short. The French generally do not know who 
were the Faidherbe, Bugeaud, Lyautey, etc., and we are often indifferent to the names of 
the streets that surround us.

But the consensual celebration of these criminals is an insult to the people they have 
martyred and a daily spitting in the face of their descendants. Of course, these symbols 
will only fall if people mobilize against them.

For Khadim Ndiaye, of the Senegalese Collective against the celebration of Faidherbe: " 
The time has come to listen to the voice of these organizations and movements of citizens 
who, all over the world, dispute a certain conception of history that gives pride of place 
tormentors, racists, actors of colonization and engraved in the stone or bronze 
controversial historical figures. "

Christmas Surge (AL Carcassonne)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Chronique-Echo-d-Afrique-S-attaquer-aux-symboles-du-colonialisme

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Message: 3






History of Radio Libertaire , the voice of the Anarchist Federation ---- An anarchist 
radio on FM waves? The bet might have seemed like a challenge ... And it still is! On 
September 1, 1981, Radio Libertaire , the radio of the Anarchist Federation (FA), first 
issued its voice in Paris and in the suburbs. ---- True to its original commitments, Radio 
Libertaire never stopped fighting for the freedom of the waves, claiming its autonomy in 
relation to the State and refusing to enter into the system of commercial radios, of 
well-endowed radios. ---- Thanks to the help of her listeners, she was able to remain a 
true free radio "without god, without masters and without publicity". ---- Nothing, 
however, has been won in advance, and Radio Libertaire will have to earn its right to 
issue amidst thousands of difficulties and despite the repression and maneuvers of the state.

It was the Congress of the Anarchist Federation that, in May 1981, signed the birth 
certificate of Radio Libertaire . After long and contradictory debates, this congress 
unanimously accepted the idea of launching a radio that would be the organ of the FA. This 
radio still did not have a name, no call sign, no real project, no host and, for its 
launch, a budget of 15,000 F! No congressman at this time could have predicted the 
sequence of events, except that, at first, anarchy would again be in the air. As in 1921, 
when the Kronstadt insurgents launched radio messages; as in 1936 in Spain with Radio 
CNT-FAI, or when the anarchists participated in the free-to-air movement in France in the 
late 1970s, including Radio Trottoir (Toulon) and Radio Alarm whose animators were members 
of the Anarchist Federation.

It was on September 1, 1981, at 6:00 p.m., in a humid basement on the Montmartre high that 
the radio adventure began. And in a very rudimentary way, in precarious conditions, 
defying the laws of the radio: a 12-square-meter studio with a paraphernalia of recovery 
equipment, a mini-team of six people. First calls from listeners, letters from first 
listeners ... and the first interference!

Meanwhile, many ex-prisoners of free radio were setting up high-end studios to conquer the 
future cake of FM waves. The spirit of free radios has already begun to agonize, victim of 
the financial appetite of some officials of radios ex-pirates. In August 1983, the 
Socialists put an end to "wave anarchy", confiscating many transmitters, including Radio 
Libertaire . On August 28, at 5:40 am, the CRS (Republican Security Companies) appeared in 
front of the facilities of Radio Libertaire . They broke through the door, picked up all 
the material. The animators were questioned and arrested, the antenna cable and the pillar 
were cut. Neither the armored door, nor the numerous listeners present, could impede the 
taking of our radio. The Socialists, then in power with their allies of the Communist 
Party of France, certainly did not fairly evaluate our resolve, much less the solidarity 
that thousands of listeners have shown us over the last two years. Two years of building, 
day after day, solid and friendly links between Radio Libertaire and its public. The 
answer was immediate. It's impressive. Its most important aspect was, on September 3, 
1983, a manifestation of 5,000 people and the re-broadcast of Radio Libertaire .

The intense and warm moments were so numerous, the twists so frequent that it is 
impossible to report in an article: the galas, the congestion of the "money-radios", the 
problems with the power, obtaining the derogation, the manifestations ... one can draw , 
through these events, the chronology of important dates in the history of Radio Libertaire 
. The most important, in fact, can not be written. This is the daily and collective 
history of Radio Libertaire , which we all have, hearers and animators, from the plots. 
These are tens of thousands of hours of transmission, of telephone communications, that 
have generated correspondence, exchanges and meetings. Radio Libertaire was built over 
time. They all brought their stone: their voice, their knowledge, their competence, their 
energy. Radio Libertaire , is also this listener who brings a microphone (can be useful to 
them); this one leaving your business card (I'm an electrician, if you need ...); this 
retired (I'm sick, and you know my retirement is lean ... but come and eat someday.); this 
blind man who, thanks to the ads of mutual support, can walk tandem (bicycle of two 
places) in the field with a young woman ... and brings back flowers to the seat of the 
radio; All these letters reach 145, Amelot Street, to support, ask a question, encourage, 
suggest, inform, criticize. When a magazine, an association, an individual, a union, the 
Anarchist Federation, these phones are exchanged, the meetings that are marked, these 
networks are created and reinforced.

The cultural identity of the station was built over time. The first animators brought 
their albums to the studio and made known to thousands of people, artists such as 
Debronckart Fanon, Servat, Gribouille, Jonas, Utgé-Royo, Aurenche Capart and many others. 
In 1982 came so naturally in our waves another song that we heard in the squats , at the 
margin of the system: alternative rock. Then other songs naturally found their place on 
Radio Libertaire: jazz, blues, folk, industrial music, rap, reggae. Obviously, other 
artists met the radio that opened for many forms of expression: comics, visual arts, 
theater, literature, cinema ...

Radio Anarchist Radio Libertaire , however, opened its microphones to its friends: 
anarcossindicalistas of the CNT or other unions, Free Thinkers, Pacifist Union, 
Esperantists, Human Rights League. And once again it is in daily life, in struggles and 
encounters, that the whole natural opening of Radio Libertaire to the social movement is 
constructed: striking workers, the unemployed, the homeless, squatters, antiracists, 
ecologists, refractories, exiles, ex-convicts ... Seizures of the crisis occur, and the 
daily work of Radio Libertaire is disturbed by the exigency of the moment. It is the 
student movement of 1986, and Radio Libertaire becomes the radio of the movement: reports 
on the streets, round tables in the studio, antenna open to witness police violence, 
agit-proppermanente . The Gulf War explodes, and Radio Libertaire becomes the "anti-war" 
radio echoing all the RL, which announces rallies, rallies, neighborhood committee 
meetings hour after hour, while proposing debates and analyzes. Just as naturally, it is 
in these hot moments that Radio Libertaire finds its true dimension of radio of struggle. 
At Radio Libertaire , there are also a thousand reasons for listeners to bother, attack, 
protest against technical imperfections or comments they find to be incongruent, 
provocative, too reforming, or too radical. But it is especially, we hope, reasons to 
discover the pleasure of debate, struggle and libertarian ideas. Disputes ... Fascinations 
... And that's good! In a mercantilized, dehumanized, spectacularized world, where 
triumphant ca

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Message: 4






In early September, a new wave of shares is planned against raising the retirement age. 
Anarchists are not supporters of the state even if it is "social", but we also take part 
in the protests: because this is an obvious robbery of the people, and words about a 
shortage of budget funds do not cost anything, while in Russia such a level of social 
inequality and corruption as now. ---- Raising the retirement age is not supported by the 
absolute majority of the population, because the shares promise to be interesting. Going 
out on them, it will not be superfluous to have anarchist agitation. For example, you can 
download and distribute a new leaflet from Antijob.net with a call for a general strike. 
We are convinced that in our realities, if something is worth doing, then it is to this.

https://avtonom.org/news/zabastovka-protiv-pensionnoy-reformy

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Message: 5






Our anonymous interlocutor traces the prehistory and development of contemporary Israeli 
anarchism, touching on the origins of punk and the movement for animal rights in Israel 
and presenting a critical analysis of the Anarchists' trajectory against the Wall. He 
concludes by reflecting on the role of the rhetoric of nonviolence in the conflict between 
Israel and Palestine. We strongly recommend this interview to anyone interested in the 
conflict between Israel and Palestine or, for that matter, in the strategic challenges of 
formulating an anarchist opposition in adverse conditions. ---- Is there any continuity 
between the contemporary Israeli anarchist movement and the currents that preceded the 
countercultural rise of the early 1990s? ---- None at all, unfortunately. On the other 
hand, it may not be so unfortunate.

Over the past hundred years, Israeli anarchists played a role in some successful efforts, 
but always at an expensive price: the subjugation of the political to the social, which 
was basically BuberSpeak for trying to build new worlds around the existing one, in on its 
burning ashes. The kibbutzim (Jewish socialist agricultural settlements) serve as a 
warning tale - another story of this kind should be necessary - of anarchists becoming 
pawns in authoritarian projects through tentative collaborations based on the "temporary" 
commitment of our confrontational and political rejection of the hierarchy.

As strange as it may seem today, many European secular Jews at the beginning of the last 
century saw a tacit link between Zionism and anarchism. Ghettoized and excluded from the 
national ethos of their own countries, they gravitated towards tendencies that in their 
personal lives, if not in the eyes of history, offered opposing magnetic polarities with 
which to retreat: anarchism, Marxism and Zionism. Ironically, as documented by anarchist 
writers such as Volin in Russia, much of the Jewish ghetto perceived Zionism as the most 
insane and utopian of the three.

Thus, in what could be seen as a precursor to the pitfalls of modern identity politics, 
the ties that bind the old anarchists to their Jewish identity allowed their Umanità Nova, 
their vision of a new humanity, to be bent and replaced. by the vision of Zionism of a new 
Jewry, the "muscular Jew" of Israel, ready to replace the scared one of the ghetto. On the 
ground, one of the ways this substitution took place was the rapid transformation of 
egalitarian kibbutzim communities into strategic colonial instruments at the hands of a 
nascent state bent on expelling indigenous populations from the land.

In this sense, it is not surprising that in 1994, the first vinyl record of the first 
Israeli anarchist hardcore band was titled, simply, "Renouncing Judaism."

With the establishment of a Jewish state, the anarchists of worker Zionism discovered that 
the operation had been successful and that the patient had died; like his contemporaries 
in the October revolution, the May 4 Chinese movement and Madero's Mexican uprising - and 
perhaps yesterday's Occupation movement - his only reward was having been the forgotten 
players in giving birth to the entity that considered them irrelevant.

The end of World War II and the subsequent immigration of more European Jews to the newly 
established Israeli state, with some anarchists among them, further galvanized the tension 
between the political and the social, between the freely chosen identities and the born 
identities, " Anarchists "and" Jews "- a tension nowhere so critical, of course, as within 
the borders of a Jewish arche.

Leaving directly from the Polish ghettos, they proved that they did not want or could not 
get the ghetto out of themselves, and instead of flying the defiant black flag, they 
simply surrounded the wagons; In your defense, however, surviving the Holocaust could do 
that to you. They were organized in historical societies, cultural associations, 
philosophical discussion circles and literary study groups, communicating mainly in 
Yiddish, a choice that strangely resembles that other closed Jewish medium and dressed in 
black who turned his back on society - the Jews orthodox jasídicos - and in stark contrast 
to the first anarchists of the kibbutzim, who spoke Hebrew.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Freedom Seekers Association, Israel's main anarchist 
group, produced a monthly bilingual publication called Problemen along with several books, 
and maintained a library of classical anarchist literature (again, mostly in Yiddish and 
Polish). as well as a large room in the center of Tel Aviv, attracting hundreds of 
non-threatening conference attendees where anarchy was theorized to death along with 
Hasidic parables.

Naturally, introverted and autonomous cultural meetings took place at the expense of 
agitation, reach and organization, which reminds us of certain punk rock scenarios that we 
know very well. In fact, it does not seem that there has been even an attempt to build an 
anarchist political movement.

An anecdote from that era illustrates this perfectly: an agent of Shin Bet (Israel's 
internal security service) came to an anarchist meeting one day. "I heard they have been 
discussing the possible ramifications of assassinating the prime minister," he said worriedly.

"That's right," came the reply, "but we were talking about the prime minister of Poland." 
The agent left and never bothered them again.

I must point out that at that time not everything was so calm on the Middle East front. 
The famous sailors' strike, for example, the most radical and violent one in the history 
of Israel, which for 40 days paralyzed the country's only commercial port, took place in 
1951. By the way, it was run by a young sailor whose grandson would become in a key 
organizer of Israeli anarchism from the 90s. In 1962 there were a series of wild attacks 
following the devaluation of the Israeli pound. Through all this, serious disturbances 
against ethnic discrimination erupted, led by Jews from the Middle East and North African 
countries who lived in Ma'abarot, refugee camps. In 1949, during one of those riots, 
Furious mobs broke the windows and hinged doors in the temporary building of the Israeli 
Parliament; The following year, a leader of similar protests by Yemeni Jews was the first 
citizen to be killed by the bullet of an Israeli policeman. This, of course, without 
mentioning the various forms of resistance in which the Palestinian Arabs were immersed at 
that time.

None of the above, as far as I know, provoked the participation or material support of the 
exiled anarchists of Israel, who seem to have been more in tune with the Yiddish labor 
struggles in the Lower East Side of New York than in their new surroundings.

Leaving aside Zionism and Judaism, another key issue in which the anarchists of the 1990s 
separated from the old guard was our blasphemous attitude towards the IDF, the Israeli 
"Defense" Forces. The American painter of anarcho-syndicalist houses Sam Dolgoff, who 
visited Israel in the early 1970s, captured the prevailing attitude of the veterans (as 
well as his own, apparently):

"... Israeli comrades are forced, like other tendencies, to accept the fact that Israel 
must be defended. In the discussion with the Israeli anarchists it was emphasized that the 
unilateral dismantling of the Israeli State would not be anarchist at all. On the 
contrary, it would only reinforce the immense power of the Arab States and accelerate 
their plans for the conquest of Israel. The need for Israel's defense - freely recognized 
by our comrades - depends on the implementation of the indispensable military, economic, 
legislative and social measures to keep Israel in a permanent state of readiness for war. 
The Israeli anarchists[...]know very well that restricting the power of the State in such 
circumstances offers no real alternative.

https://periodicoacracia.com/2018/09/01/anarquismo-israeli-contemporaneo-acracia-n79/

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Message: 6






The capitalist-imperialist state has to constantly repress people in order to exist. 
People, mostly wage workers, are "terrorized into being consumers"(1) . Success is now 
measured according to how much we spend and what we can buy. Those who are defiant to this 
"order-of-things" are dealt with violence and deprivation of freedom, in form of prisons 
and death sentences. ---- A month ago, a comrade who volunteers for the Food Not Bombs 
movement in Bulacan, Philippines was shot to death for allegedly possessing drugs and 
resisting arrest. The perpetrators were not condemned and are probably still wearing their 
uniforms of power. The case is now one with the tens of thousands of judicial and 
extra-judicial killings executed by the messianic administration starting in 2016.

In Indonesia, earlier last month, seven demonstrators against a cotton factory in 
Sukoharjo, Central Java that expels toxic wastes were sentenced to two to three years of 
imprisonment (2) . This was after two months in jail without clear charges. In another 
case, random arrests were conducted after protesters during the Labor Day Parade in 
Jogjakarta, set fire on a police outpost (3). Comrades who face other struggles such as 
the gender struggle and the resistance against the displacement of Kulon Progo farmers for 
the building of an airport, were accused of being linked with the said action. They are 
still to face trial as of today . An earlier case happened in 2012, condemning Anarchists 
who sabotaged a mining company in solidarity for Lucio Tortuga of Cuba and the 
mine-workers in the site. These said arrests of Anarchists Eat and Billy started a huge 
campaign and gathered global mileage and support. (4)

On the other side of the globe, Anarchist Informal volunteers were arrested during a 
picnic-meeting in a forest park. There were no clear charges given as the men and women 
were tied to the ground for hours. They were later charged with various petty charges and 
were fined sinificantly. (5) Accusations of illegal arrest were denied by the police 
claiming that "everything was done according to law."

We are in solidarity with those comrades who acts against the system and now faces such 
threats. We extend this solidarity to the families and friends of those critical thinkers 
who sought for significant systemic change. We recognise the diversity of tactics of the 
various groups and individual, to achieve freedom in societal and individual level, 
towards social consciousness and self actualization, against the domination of man over 
other beings.

August 23, 2018 marks the Global Solidarity Week for Prisoners. Let us make them feel that 
they are not alone in this struggle freedom and equality.

"Everything will fall when the free man is born." -Renzo Novatore

Etniko Bandido Infoshop
Safehouse Infoshop

Source: https://hindiakositaks.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/we-are-in-solidarity/

https://pramen.io/en/2018/08/philippines-anarchists-in-solidarity-with-political-prisoners/

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