Anarchic update news all over the world - 7.09.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Liberta salonica: Concentration of solidarity in the total
      denial of engagement Demetris Dimtsiadis | Monday 3/9, 12:00,
      Courts of Thessaloniki (gr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - AL September 2018
      is on newsstands ! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  What we have fought is still here! -- Announcement of the
      Anarchist Political Organization on this year's TIF (ca, it)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  freedom news: Developing an Anarchist Theory of Activism
      while Encountering Academic Thieves: an interview with scott crow
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  [Argentina] Escracho during the premiere of "El Camino de
      Santiago" in Rosario By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 6.  [Italy] Anti-racist demonstration and banners against
      Benetton By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Greece, liberta salonica: Call of the Anarchist Federation
      in the course of the Saturday 8/9, 18:00, Kamara [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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This morning he was arrested on charges of insubordination, during his presence in the 
police station for prosecution concerning an earlier case, the total army deputy Dimitris 
Dimitsiades, who refused to pass the signing process, so he is being brought today to the 
courts for to pass self-defeating. At the end of August, the comrade was notified of the 
enforcement of the fourth fine of EUR 6,000 (each fine imposed on the prosecution for 
insubordination) in connection with the declaration of denial of conscription made two 
years ago, which describes it as inexorable. ---- Any prosecution for insubordination 
results in a fine of € 6,000, creating an enormous financial burden, which accumulates 
with material unbearable conditions for fighters who refuse to be classified in the army, 
especially if one considers that persecution of denial never ends and consequently the 
fines the 6,000 euros fall.

Indeed, because they have been criminalizing convictions (he was recently released again 
for the political persecutions he and other comrades in 2011) against him, comrade 
Dimitris Dimtsiadis no longer has the right to be suspended. This means that when the 
final decision of the military courts comes out, the partner must either be reinstated in 
prison or redeem his sentence by paying EUR 10.50 for each day of the penalty imposed on him.

Prosecutions and fines are the price of each fighter's decision to directly declare to the 
militants that he will not lift the weapon against any proletarian, regardless of 
nationality and religion. This decision disturbs every state mechanism in the world, as it 
challenges the basis on which its own existence rests: the "people" rallying around a 
national idea - always to cover up the class exploitation. Against this ideology that all 
he does is serve the interests of capital, we answer that there are no Greeks or 
foreigners. There are only proletarians, melting under the wheels of wage slavery, melting 
under the wheels of the tanks until they stand up and fight the world of the bosses.

As the partner himself states in the statement of his refusal to engage: "We recognize 
ourselves as a part of the struggling community of the exploited and oppressed class who, 
like the masters, has no specific origin and speaks all the languages of the world. We 
count as our own dead all the oppressed who were thrown into the front line of battles 
under the threat of death, all the exploiters dying all over the world from the miserable 
conditions of life offered by world domination and even more those who were assassinated 
in their battles social and class war. Our story is the world's story of the uprisings and 
revolutions that raised black and red flags, our anthem is the International. For these 
dead, for this story,

We did not nurture illusions at any moment that the SYRIZA-ANEL government would abolish 
compulsory engagement. We never believed that the Greek army and Hellenic Army would be 
democratizing. Left, right, centered, each government manages the state machine and with 
it all institutions of expansion and domination inside and outside, including the armed 
forces. And so the courts of the deniers of conscription continue as usual, and the sixth 
fines fall down.

In this context, the trial of his comrade Dimitris Dimtsiadis is not just a judicial issue 
of an individual with the armed forces, but a political question that goes beyond any of 
the governments and forms part of our class struggle with the deep state and the rotten 
institutions that incarnate it.

We express our unreserved solidarity with our partner and with all the deniers of the army 
that are at the forefront of judicial, military and state institutions. Their struggle is 
a struggle of our whole class.

STOPPING ALL TRACKINGS TO THE TOTAL STRUGGLE NEEDS

SOLIDARITY IN THE FOUNDER DIMITRI DIMTSIADI

WE DO NOT WANT TO FIGHT FOR THE INTERESTS OF OUR AFFECTS

NO NATIONAL - NON RELIGIOUS,
OUR OWN WAR IS TAXIC

CONCENTRATION OF SOLIDARITY IN THE TOTAL NEGATIVE STRATEGY DIMITRI DIMTSIADI:

MONDAY 3/9, 12:00, THESSALONIKI JUDGMENTS

Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki - member of the Anarchist Federation
lib_thess@hotmail.com

http://www.libertasalonica.wordpress.com

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Editorial: Work more, earn less ---- Spotlight: Unemployment insurance, the antisocial 
---- State hold-up: the announced case of unemployment insurance ---- Psychiatry: we 
tighten our belts, or we climb on the roof ---- Syndicalism ---- International 
Syndicalism: A panorama to see clearly ---- Social ---- High Schools: The chainsaw 
Blanquer ---- Antifascism: the far right kills ---- Chronicle Neither God nor 
schoolmaster: do Pará and the rationalist school ---- Internationnal ---- Sandinicaragua: 
power in the storm zone ---- When the Sandinista revolution aroused hope ---- Ortega, from 
the popular power to the liberal business ---- Italian: between financial crisis and state 
racism ---- Chronic echoes of Africa: The aid in question ---- Ecology ---- Alternative 
energies: Is hydrogen really the energy of the future ?  ---- Industrial wind turbines: a 
Zad in Aveyron ? ---- Biomass: From the alternative to the money pump !

Antipatriarcat
  IVG: a right (never) acquired
   Book: "All to gain, Twenty years of intersyndical activism", a collective work 
published by Syllepse Publications
  Courrier of a reader: Porn, capitalism and sexuality

History
   One hundred and one years ago: Anarchists and Jews in the Russian revolution
  Was Nestor Makhno anti-Semitic ?

Culture
   Book: "The First Age of Capitalism (1415-1763). Volume 1: The European Expansion "by 
Alain Bihr published by Syllepse.
  Roman: "Artana ! Artana !»Didier Daeninckx published by Gallimard.
  Book: "The Roads of Slavery. History of African Treaties "by Catherine 
Coquery-Vidrovitch edited by Albin Michel.
  Book: "Being a slave, African-Americas XV e -XIX th centuries" Catherine Coquery- 
Vidrovitch and Eric Mesnard Editions La Découverte.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?-AL-de-septembre-est-en-kiosque-440-

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The organization of the annual feast of the state and the bosses in Thessaloniki is the 
time for the political and economic announcements of the political management. 
Proclamations related to the main peaks on which the sovereign's attack will be launched 
for the coming period and form the framework for imposing new more onerous conditions of 
exploitation and oppression. ---- At this juncture, and without the flames of the recent 
state-capitalist crime of the destructive pyramids in Attica, which created a hundred-ton 
of dead people, the TIF is trying to identify itself on the part of the government with 
the exit from the memorandums, the transition to the period of development, the recovery 
of national sovereignty and the return to the "normality" of the state-capitalist way of 
organizing life. The above is part of the government's attempt to present its work so far 
as a successful and pro-Greek, appearing as the only guarantor for the course of the 
country (with progressive signaling, right and right-wing alternatives).  However, in 
fact, this year's TIF marks the entrance to a new round of antisocial assault by the state 
and the bosses.From its turn, the Prime Minister will announce the launch of a new 
camouflaged attack, this time being in the name of developing and exiting the markets. The 
Memorandum of Understanding and its implementing laws of previous years, which are now 
fixed and lasting laws of the state, the political and economic elites that continue to 
defy the country and their agreement with the Greek state for further intensification of 
the state and capitalist attack in depth decades, the continuation of trusteeship by 
transnational mechanisms and the commitment to the satisfaction of high economic goals 
have prompted the passage to this new phase of updated looting and bleeding of the public 
the ever-increasing poverty of the social base and the unhindered destruction of the 
natural world.

                 Still, the formulation of a framework of promises and promises to those 
parts of the population that have been hit most all the time, aims to cultivate new false 
hopes through the spitting of the same, supposedly proletarians, fairy tales on the part 
of the government. Besides, the present political management has many times demonstrated 
its ability to create delusions of landscaping of the existing system, weakening and 
detracting from class and social resistance, and then implementing all the criminal and 
antisocial policies of the state and capital. It is todaythe most trustworthy and 
effective manager and spokesman for the interests of the state and the ruling class, as 
the constant targets for state and capitalist restructuring are faithfully served. Thus, 
contrary to what has already been announced by government sources, the exacerbation of 
poverty and impoverishment, the plundering and destruction of the natural world and the 
local communities, the encroachment of refugees and immigrants in miserable concentration 
camps, the prize of fascist gangs , state repression and the persecution industry against 
those struggling are expected to continue with even greater intensity in the next period 
as they are key points in the overall assault by the state and the bosses.

         It is also noteworthy that in this year's TIF there are presently the USA. and 
their businesses. Another example of the ratification and enlargement of the relations 
between the Greek and American states and the confirmation of the attachment of the Greek 
state and capital to the interests of the dominant international political-economic elite, 
the leading power of which is the US state.They were preceded by Obama's visit to Greece, 
the visit of Tsipras to America, the announcement of the creation of new NATO bases in the 
country, the upgrading of the role of the Greek state in the wider region of the 
Mediterranean Sea through the constitution of the axis Greece - Cyprus - Egypt - .a. With 
an ideological vehicle the "war on terror", the US state attempted and succeeded in 
spreading its power by generalizing the attack on the poor and the endless at a planetary 
level. An attack is being carried out with growing tension on the part of the 
international political and economic elites, an integral part of which is also the Greek 
state. Their joint pursuit is to maintain the governing organization of societies, to 
exacerbate the conditions of modern slavery,

           In this way, the reappearance of the "Macedonian" issue in recent months has 
just emerged as another opportunity to confirm the inclusion of the Greek state in the 
chariot of the international sovereignty block by trying to resolve an alliance of 
different power needs. On the one hand, the country's bourgeoisie desperately wants the 
depth of relations with its traditional allies, ie the Euro-Atlantic axis, especially in a 
period like today, where geopolitical liquidity stemming from developments in the Middle 
East, but also in other fronts. On the other hand, the accession of the Macedonian state 
to the EU and NATO blocks serves the basic aim of widening the influence of world 
sovereigns in the key region of the western Balkans.

      At the same time, as a "national question" for decades, "Macedonian" is a field of 
convergence for forces wishing to politically impose the nationalist agenda of various 
state and parastatal factors. Their breadth is large enough, including clubs, party 
mechanisms of New Democracy and co-converters with SYRIZA, ANEL, ecclesiastical 
organizations, until the Nazi Golden Dawn and fascist striking groups. The new "vision" of 
domestic fascism is assembled in the attempt to digest the small Nazi groups together with 
their common matrix, the Golden Dawn, into a "mass" nationalist zombie, supposedly 
"anti-governmental" features that underpin their development, not of course in the 
classroom and against the oppressors of this world,

         In this context, attempts by local fascists to establish themselves socially as 
an "anti-systemic" force also include the nationalist rallies planned for the TIF as a 
follow-up to those that took place a few months ago, resulting in the arming of Libertatia 
occupation by a group of fascists acting together with football hooligans, given the 
police coverage. Concentrations drawn from the darkest pages of human history, which 
"prepare" and illustrate the bleak outlook of the warring societies where the floods 
should ideologically be identified with state war machines and intertwine.

     At the same time, the nationalist rallies of these days are also the "left" alibi of 
the government, which is the only force that resists nationalism, trying to conceal the 
criminal social and anti-labor policies it has implemented and implements while trying to 
legitimize socially using the bogey of the far-right government in a possible fall.

         Against old and new memoranda, against any attempt to renew the social legitimacy 
of the sovereign attack. Against poverty and impoverishment, terrorism and repression, 
nationalism and socialism, war, fascism and modern totalitarianism. To build a broad and 
international front of struggle and resistance. To support with all our strength the focus 
of social / class struggle and to contribute to their worship with the semen of the total 
questioning of the exploitation and oppression system.

We continue racing, fighter games from below, where the nationalist block and the fascist 
manhole that accompanies it are trying to get hold of. We send a message of international 
solidarity to our comrades in the Balkans and internationally. Only the strengthening of 
our common struggles can sweep the fascist threat.

        Faced with the attack of the decadent dominating world and the dystopia of modern 
totalitarianism, where the vast majority is impoverished and subdued, the only prospect is 
class and internationalist solidarity among the peoples, the organized counterattack of 
the exploited classes and the overthrow of the world of capitalism and the state and the 
creation of a society of prosperity, equality, peace and justice, without exploitation, 
transnational wars and disorienting antagonisms.

NO OTHER WORLD IS LONG AS SOON AND CAPITALIZATION

TO REMOVE A STREET TO EARTH

THE STATE INTEGRATION AND TO THE TEMPORARY CONFORMITY

ORGANIZATION AND FIGHT AGAINST SOCIAL RESPONSE,

ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNICATION

DECLARATION AT TIF: SATURDAY 8/9, 18.00 IN KAMARA

INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FOUNDATION BLOCK: SUNDAY 9/9, 11 AM IN KAMARA

Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectives

apo.squathost.com

http://apo.squathost.com

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Activist, anarchist, social commentator and political organizer, scott crow has over three 
decades of experience working across communities in order to foster liberation, autonomy, 
resistance to oppression, and self-direction. Summarizing his work does little compared to 
seeing what he has done; take a moment and check out his website. In sharp comparison to 
many philosophers, theorists, and academic radicals, crow develops his theory by 
synthesizing lived experience with texts, ideas, and ideologies drawn from multiple 
disciplines. Lived experiences that help remove real world oppressions have priority. 
Essentialisms and academic code talking do not. ---- While Gramsci's notion of organic 
intellectuals is perhaps one way to frame the kind of thinking and work that crow does, 
another is along the public intellectual lines of Edward Said. At a more fundamental 
level, crow's social and political work is centered on praxis: the only meaningful 
theories are those that lead to actions, whether personal or group. As such, they are the 
only ones worth pursuing. In and of itself, this positions crow mostly outside the scope 
or interest of many academic researchers, theoriticians, or practitioners. While many 
academics are interested in potential, possibility, or thought experiments, crow wants to 
focus on shifting and improving material experience for others if possible.

In his work as an activist, writer, and engaged intellectual, crow has encountered, 
collaborated, and participated with academic researchers and their projects. While some 
have value, either short term for the development of new radical intellectuals or 
documenting social movements, other projects and efforts have been parasitic, 
exploitative, dismissive, or condescending. The piece's point is not to denigrate the 
honest, intentional, and purposeful work of academics who are also activists, radicals, 
and movement members. Instead, as an outsider, crow can help academic activists understand 
some of the problematic tensions involved with researching radical social movements and 
people. Additionally, he can help us identify where and how our methods, assumptions, and 
behaviors continue to reflect and express colonialist, extractive, and elitist practices.

If social or poltical academic research and work is going to be relevant to more than 
themselves and their community of scholars, academics need to look to experienced 
activists from multiple cultures and communities and ask what their theories are, how they 
were developed, and then attribute the results-often after decades of costly financially, 
physically, and emotionally struggles-to those who have helped developed them. As crow 
indicates in the interview, it appears that many academics seem to be more interested in 
harvesting or extracting interesting content to pad their papers or support their theories 
and claims than they are in behaving in equitable, liberatory, and ethical ways. In other 
words, some scholars thieve from movements, convert into academic capital, and seek 
individual gain while ignoring, obfuscating, or denying that the majority of the labor was 
done by working people, working activists, who had few to none of the protections afforded 
many academic researchers.

An additional goal of this interview is to work to center and platform the voice of an 
activist and theorist who offers radical and revolutionary visions of how our world could 
change and why we need to change. Quite possibly we, as academics, might stop trying to 
prescribe or define how social change should take place, or what the best means are, and 
instead listen to what communities are asking for, provide as much support and resources 
as we and our institutions can, and then continue to revise our views and understanding 
based on the lived experience of oppressed communities as well as our own experiences.

Would you discuss your view on, your relationship with, theory?

I grew up working class poor, and I have always worked for, and through, the developmental 
ideas that I have created whether it was art, business or politcs. I've always muddled 
through ideas and experiences, even if I didn't have the answers. I was driven by 
questions towards a true praxis - action, reflection, and then action. A synthesis of 
theory and action- with warts and all.

Even though what I have been developing can be considered non-traditional and possibly 
very impoverished "theory." I have been consciously reflecting and building on all of 
these ideas for decades - taking disparate ideas and putting them together novelly, and 
framing it in a language for that speaks to us all in developing new synthesis of old 
histories and thoughts. It's been a fucking lot of practical work, not just theoretical. 
My theories have ONLY come out of practical applications and a lifetime of mistakes I am 
always learning from.

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) used to say, just do the organizing work first and then 
later you can develop the theories around it. I would add that all of us at some levels 
engage in activities that aren't completely thought out, then later we construct the 
narratives about how, why and what ways we engaged or reflected on them. And of course 
adding a lot of learned lessons along the way. My experiences through cooperatives, 
business, music, activism and organizing have echoed that. An interviewer recently told 
me, "You know, you're a very American anarchist, the way you look at these ideas." It is 
true, because that is what I know, because that's what I am raised and lived in and there 
is still validity in that praxis. I understand when I talk about this it's from my limited 
world view.

What's your experience been with academics?

For the last nine years I've been interviewed by a lot of academics of all types, which 
for me was a crash course on learning about academic subculture and institutions. It's 
been ironic since I'm a high school dropout. I didn't know shit about any of this insular 
world before, like how tenure , chair-ships or fucking any of it worked! Adjunct 
professor? These are words that were never-ever in my vocabulary because it didn't 
intersect in my life with meaning or context except as an outsider who read journal 
articles and books until the last decade.

But now, because of those interviews and meeting so many more people in those fields, when 
I became serious about writing, all of a sudden real writers or academics wanted to talk 
to me! (laughs) I was meeting people who were getting their PhDs or Master's, or whatever. 
I've probably been interviewed 30 times for academic thesis- often as an anonymous source- 
I found out later which was very frustrating, but also cited as a source too.

Would you be interested in discussing the periIs of academic parasitism in the field of 
anarchy or anarchism?

I think that some people approach the engagements in a more parasitic way. It's all about 
extraction and arranging of information for them based on others' ideas, work and lives. 
I've found it in all research disciplines including wide ranging subjects like: anarchy, 
animal rights, radical environmentalism, decentralized disaster relief, activism, guns and 
violence, or other leftist kind of subjects. The overall approaches by aspiring or tenured 
academics are very parasitic and less than helpful. I say this even if I have seen some 
really good analysis or history pieces come out of these methods. ??I can only think of a 
handful of examples where if I didn't fight for recognition of my ideas and work that the 
academics would claim as their own. I think Dr. David Pellow's book' Total Liberation' or 
Dr. John P. Clarks ‘ The Impossible Community' are pretty watershed in being transparent 
and letting people have their own voices and recognizing the contributions. And I'm not 
just saying that because I appear in these books. Had I not been in them I'd still think 
they were both watershed books in these approaches in lookng at the other voices in them.

The part I have a problem is when a student or researcher is doing that ethnographic 
survey or whatever, and they fucking interview me and they use my work as a longtime 
organizer, as a thinker, as a philosopher or any of those things, and don't quote me or 
cite my writing. They don't give proper credit, but they just say "an activist said," or 
"this is what an anarchist was thinking about this," or some other vagaries in the 
descriptions.

I'm like, fuck that! I developed this - it's my life's work, this is my life, you're just 
going to school to create yourself. It's infuriating, you know. Or, if they barely even 
cite what they've taken from my books, essays or interviews. It's not just because I think 
I'm so personally important, but I think that it becomes dishonest. It erases the person, 
and how they got to those ideas. It's kind of a neo-colonial mentality. I know 
marginalized people have had this critique, rightly so, for decades too. I am in no way 
unique in this treatment, but I continually engage within some academic subcultures so I 
continually see it repeated. It's definitely a more ethically challenged part of academia.

What do you think that does to other people who are doing the same kind of work? Do you 
see this as a form of - is this theft, is it laziness? Does it incentivize, 
dis-incentivize activism? I'm just curious what some of the impacts are on people who look 
at this, or they witness this going on.

I think it can be OK if you're doing ethnographic studies or mapping, and you don't want 
to quote new or low-level activsts, or someone just beginning in what they do, because 
they haven't developed their work, or analysis,-unless it's around something that happens 
to have significance or immediate impact on others-that might be open to circumstance that 
need the reflections of that particular time; for example, writings right after a disaster 
or major event. But if you're talking to people who have been around for 10, 20, or 30 
years, or have written literature and you don't quote their work, you would never do that 
with anybody else! If it was Ursula Le Guin or someone like that, you would quote her! 
You're not just saying that "this American writer thought this one time."

Again, not seeing all activists, communities or societies as resources to be extracted, or 
not seeing every activist's engagements on the same levels, I think are steps towards 
moving past the colonizing mentality. It's a beginning to recognize that there are 
different levels of engagement and expression in it. Sadly I'm not the only person that 
has this discontent with it. I've had other friends-and of course read lots of essays 
critiquing these problems in academia from anarchist academics who want to challenge these 
issues; it's still a problem for other activists who may not be published in their work, 
but they've written a few things or made videos instead, and they have developed analysis 
and praxis from decades of engagements that they often don't get credit for in journals 
and papers.

The other piece that I want to bring up is the disrespect of people's time often 
happens-from either lack of experience or unrealistic expectations of the researchers, or 
because they only see the subject as a resource for their research: which makes us almost 
disposable as subjects. I've done hundreds of interviews in the last 35 years, so when I 
see a list of interview questions I have a pretty good idea how long it could take from 
experience, but most people don't. Too often I see researchers thinking ‘ I'm gathering my 
theoretical work, so I want to get as much information as I can.' So they end up asking a 
lot of irrelevant questions or going down series of questions far outside of the scope of 
the initial project only to use a paragraph or a sentence from the multi-hour interview.

But my time-and other interview subjects'- is valuable, even if only to us. These days to 
take three or four hours I would need to see deeper value in the research to block the 
time out. But if they don't even ask me or even say ‘Hey, I think I'm unrealistic in my 
research goals..."

All of this is to remind researchers and academics that these realities of extraction and 
not of giving credit rooted in others' lives, works, or ideas to make their own academic 
careers is unethical at the least, but is largely theft and erasure of us developing valid 
theories outside the towers of academia at the least.

Do you think these issues are inherent, or isolated within academia?

I think it's inherent. It's the model. I think it's more institutional, backed up by the 
rules of academia, but it's also cultural, it's transmitted and reinforced subtly by deep 
channels already carved out in the past, so others follow the same paths. I wouldn't blame 
individual researchers; I think it's the cultural model to produce within academia 
specifically. And if I could note this is funny to talk to me, because I'm totally outside 
of this world except for this one little space where I intersect with it as a subject. I 
fully understand that to get their degrees to get tenure, to get professorships, academics 
and professors have to publish; which is the crux of it all. It's ironic to me that while 
many academics are developing novel or innovative theories they are not using novel or 
even liberatory approaches to their research. Instead, they're using capitalist models of 
seemingly efficient information extraction and perpetuating the social orders they may be 
writing about challenging in social or political movements.

Could you talk about other approaches to developing theory, other ways to use language 
when doing theory?

One easy step is to stop using the obfuscated words, the internal language that happens 
within academia that is fucking just outside of the rest of the world. Of all the 
subcultures I've paid attention to, academia is literally littered with such a 
subcultural, ossified language. Everybody tries to pile on more complicated phrasings and 
concepts to impress their peers, to sound more legitimate or because ‘them's the rules.' 
All of which are bad ideas for perpetuating bad ideas as far as I'm concerned. There are 
far more words than necessary to explain everything in these papers. And secretly I think 
everyone in it knows, but just continues anyway. But the reason I hate the language is 
because it has no connection to any reality outside of that academic subculture of obscure 
journals. It has no relevance to everyday people. Those theories don't mean a fucking 
thing to me or anybody around me, or to people like my mom or the brother and sister on 
the block, nobody! And that is the biggest issue I have with it all, is that it's 
in-and-of for itself. You know, it's like the whole culture sets it up, the extraction, 
and just so it can self-perpetuate without giving back or supporting those who are written 
about.

I would credit people within the Institute for Anarchist Studies, like Lara and Paul 
Messersmith - Glavin and Kevin Van Meter - for helping me with recognizing this part about 
the isolation from the rest of social movements that comes from obfuscation of language in 
academia, and to really think about it and differentiate liberatory approaches to 
research. The IAS really helped me think about having theory that has practical 
application to it, whether you've done the actions first and you develop a body of theory 
around it, or whether you develop theories and you put it into actions. But the 
recognition that almost all social or political theories need to have practical and 
concrete understanding and outcomes for real people or situations. It can't just be in an 
academic's head in an institution somewhere or locked away in unaccessible papers.

I can, for example, sit around all day and theorize whether we're part of a computer 
simulation-which seems to be really big in pop science philosophy these days. Sure it's 
fun, but that doesn't have anything to do with feeding people, stopping oppression, or 
trying to build towards a greater sense of autonomous and resilient, networked 
communities. It doesn't change anyone's material life in any real or meaningful way, yet 
academics and philosophers are building careers on ideas that have no application. There 
is a place for that type of imaginative thinking that has no practical impacts, yet, and 
it's needed, but it can't be the overarching method across all disciplines-especially ones 
that involve social or political philosophies.

We should demand more from researchers and academics, to shift the culture away from 
appropriation , and obfuscation of peoples' lives for the researchers own academic gains, 
but to express them in realities that are supportive and build power for others, and to 
make them available for everyone to gain insight and shared knowledge from. To me those 
are steps towards academic theories, processes, and approaches that are liberatory.

Interview & introduction by Luther Blissett

https://freedomnews.org.uk/developing-an-anarchist-theory-of-activism-while-encountering-academic-thieves-an-interview-with-scott-crow%e2%80%a8/

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The following is a pamphlet distributed by comrades and companions of Santiago Maldonado 
during a protest against the debut of the film "El Camino de Santiago" in the city of 
Rosario, last Thursday, August 30. ---- FOR THE REBEL MEMORY OF SANTIAGO MALDONADO! ---- 
Once again the Argentinean progressivism continues to crumble the memory of the companion 
Santiago Maldonado. As they did last year, they want to reduce it to a victim of Macri for 
the sole purpose of adding votes. ---- The Witch was not killed only by Macri or a 
policeman. He assassinated the Argentine state, within the framework of a new advance 
against Mapuche territory, which has been taking place since the nineteenth century, 
government after government. The directors of this film belong to those who accept the 
state machine, they are the same ones who accused of infiltrating the companions of 
Santiago, who called us to stay in our homes when they planted their corpse on the banks 
of the Chubut River.

Since the Kirchnerism dare to say that Santiago was the 30,001[disappeared]. Let them warn 
you of Calfullanca or Lucinda Quintupuray, of Daniel Solano, Luciano Arruga ... Of the 
3000 women disappeared by the traffic. Of the 5,000 children murdered by state forces from 
1983 to today.

Santiago lives in all anti-capitalist and anti-state struggles. We will continue to claim 
the witch anarchist, sensitive, supportive, fighter, hooded on the barricades. We will not 
allow it to be used by the partners of those who murdered it. Whatever you say in this 
movie can not wipe the blood from your hands.

Santiago Maldonado and Rafael Nahuel Gifts!

Solidarity with the Autonomous Mapuche Movement of Mapuel!

Freedom for Facundo Jones Huala!

Terrorist is the State!

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Message: 6





We had an intense journey today (August 29) in Trieste. In the afternoon, an anti-racist 
demonstration took place in the Central Unità Square, opposite the City Hall and the 
Palace of the  Regione. The demonstration had been organized by various leftist 
associations and parties and had considerable success with several hundred people present 
(perhaps a thousand). ---- There was a visible presence of the Germinal Anarchist Group 
and the Isontino Libertarian Coordination with three bands and the diffusion of the 
newspaper  Umanità Nova . The comrades chose to stand by the square (and not officially 
join the initiative) to mark the difference between our anti-racism and those present in 
the square, in particular with the Democratic Party, unfortunately present with its flags. 
however he was attacked during some microphone interventions). Despite the success of the 
day, it is clear that anti-racism can become a daily practice of conflict and try to 
attain the mechanisms of exploitation and exclusion or will be destined to be defeated.

In the evening a banner appeared in front of the "Salone degli Incanti", where the 
Benetton Foundation set up the exhibition "Join the Dots / Uning Distance". Someone wanted 
to remember the blood shed by the Mapuche community to defend their lands from the 
Benetton group speculation.

Source: 
http://www.umanitanova.org/2018/08/29/presidio-antirazzista-e-striscione-contro-benetton/

Translation> Liberto

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Message: 7






Every year at the Thessaloniki International Fair, capital, through its civilian staff, 
sets the living conditions of the workers, the unemployed, the retired, the lower. Every 
year the Prime Minister comes - always with regret (!) - to announce the new steps of an 
all-out attack on state and capital on labor and social achievements. Every year, he 
promises that the measures are the latest. ---- This year, at a purely demagogic level, 
the country's prime minister will officially showcase the new communication invention 
embodied by the SYRIZA government. - ANEL, the famous "exit from the memorandums", hoping 
in this way SYRIZA. to extend his term of office to state-owned parties through the 
attempt to retrieve the pro-government's social-democratic profile of the party, even with 
the words of the air. All of this construction, besides cynical, is also extremely 
fragile. Quite simply, because it is negated by the very material reality of the downward 
class devaluation, which has been steadily increasing over the last 8 years. The new 
austerity measures may not be called "memorandums", but will continue to intensify the 
predatory transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top of the social pyramid. Capitalist 
barbarism spreads like dense darkness, condemning to poverty and submissiveness, in the 
long run, from the bottom. International financial supervision is to continue at least 
until 2060. Surveillance is not going to expire before 75% of the public debt is repaid, 
resulting in bloody surpluses that the working class itself is about to bear in its 
entirety. In addition, the privatization of public property or more simply privatizations 
will be held through the Hypermarket until 2114. Neither one of the 700 memorandum laws 
passed has been revoked or abolished, nor one of the 60,000 memorandum provisions nor one 
of the 300 . 000 ministerial and implementing memorandum decisions. Let us not forget, 
however, that all the austerity measures of recent years have been passed by both hands 
and other aspiring contenders of the governmental ladder, competing with each other for 
the unimpeded service of the interests of capital.

Memoranda not only did not go away, but the reality that we are living in the whirl of the 
global capitalist overaccumulation crisis requires that a situation be imposed on a 
continuous memorandum, intensifying the exploitation of labor and the looting of natural 
wealth for the purpose of ever increasing profits for our bosses. In June, the "Mid-term 
Financial Strategy Framework 2019-2022" was passed by the governing majority, aiming to 
secure surpluses of € 42 billion by 2022 (3.56% of GDP for 2018, 3.96% for 2019, 4 , 15% 
for 2020, 4.53% for 2021 and 5.19% for 2022). Between 2018 and 2022, direct taxes are 
projected to increase by 6.1%, while indirect taxes are projected to increase annually by 
1.3%. Over the same period, pensions will be cut by a total of € 12 billion (2, 882 
billion in 2019, 2,967 billion in 2020, 3,115 billion in 2021 and 2,918 billion in 2022). 
The cuts in so-called personal disputes in supplementary pensions will amount to 232 
million euros per year. From 20/1/2020, the tax-free allowance will be reduced from 8636 
to 5686 euros, not leaving even the most underprivileged parts of our class in cloud. The 
Hellenic Holding and Property Company SA (Hypermarket), which manages all participations 
and government assets, has been lent to lenders to repay up to 25 billion of the 86 
billion loan which the Greek state took in 2015 from ESM (European Stability Mechanism), 
since the Greek state can not pay the amount. As expected, the repayment of the amount 
required by the ESM entails a new round of privatizations. Finally, auctions will be 
extended to debts to the state, and with changes in bankruptcy law, the way for the 
redemption of redemption loans to speculative funds opens and the protection of the first 
home, together with a series of protective provisions for debtors, is lifted. On the other 
hand, not respecting pretensions, banks will be recapitalised with aid of EUR 10 billion.

This year's honorable country is the USA. How else could it be once again ratified, the 
deeper engagement of the Greek state in NATO and the programs of economic support (support 
for the local bourgeoisie in reality) the IMF, where both US agencies are the most 
important and keen power? Greece ranks second in the ranking of the NATO countries with 
the largest military expenditure proportionally to their GNP. Every year, Greece's 
military spending is estimated at 2.4% of GDP (surpassing the 2% threshold set by the 
Alliance at its 2006 summit), amounting to 4.5 billion dollars. Costs for armaments are at 
the top of the state budget's priorities, at a time when the social majority is being 
exterminated by the austerity policies mandated by the memorandums. As a member of NATO 
and as an organic part of the chariot of Euro-Atlantic imperialism, the role of the 
overseer (the second after Israel) of the respective interests in the eastern 
Mediterranean and the Balkans has been indicated in the Greek state. This, however, means 
that, albeit in the alternative, the Greek state will be involved, to the extent that it 
owes it, to the geopolitical rivalries and warfare involving its patrons. It is certain, 
however, that the domestic bourgeoisie will seek to get as much as possible from the pie 
shared in its neighborhood. Currently,

NATO-led plans seek to "plant" military bases in the Greek territory, preparing for the 
upgrading of conflicts in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. At the same time, 
the militarization of the NATO countries is also a demonstration of power in order to tear 
the teeth to the Russian agent, who is the main enemy of the United States. from the BRICS 
axis (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). The instability of US-Turkey relations 
(recently Turkey has announced that Incirlik's base will cease to serve NATO) is upgrading 
Greece's geostrategic importance for NATO, because NATO is now called upon to find new 
points for its military activities. The Andravida airbase (which took place in March 2018 
in the "Iniohos") and the Araxos counterpart (there is a possibility of nuclear 
resettlement) will be upgraded. In Larissa, a drones base will be created, while in 
Alexandroupolis the construction of a helicopter base is planned. For Syros, NATO's design 
stipulates the conversion of the port of Ermoupolis to a strategic point where the US Navy 
ships will be repaired and refitted. In his recent visit to Greece, US Ambassador Jeffrey 
Paith said that shipyards in Neorion of Syros should be purchased by a company belonging 
to a NATO member state, which is why there is also interest from the US .. At the same 
time, talks are being made to rebuild the port of Ermoupolis to allow large ships of the 
armed forces of the United States to be moored. Lastly, the Ministry of Defense issued a 
proposal to the US Embassy to promote the construction of a large heliport in a flat islet 
near Kalymnos, which will serve the parking and supply of American helicopters. It is now 
clear in the most obvious way that the Greek state provides generous edification to the 
suggestions dictated by US military plans. and NATO, with the country becoming the base of 
the military interventions of Euro-Atlantic imperialism. the Department of National 
Defense has made a proposal to the US Embassy to promote the construction of a large 
heliport on a flat island near Kalymnos, which will serve the parking and supply of 
American helicopters. It is now clear in the most obvious way that the Greek state 
provides generous edification to the suggestions dictated by US military plans. and NATO, 
with the country becoming the base of the military interventions of Euro-Atlantic 
imperialism. the Department of National Defense has made a proposal to the US Embassy to 
promote the construction of a large heliport on a flat island near Kalymnos, which will 
serve the parking and supply of American helicopters. It is now clear in the most obvious 
way that the Greek state provides generous edification to the suggestions dictated by US 
military plans. and NATO, with the country becoming the base of the military interventions 
of Euro-Atlantic imperialism. It is now clear in the most obvious way that the Greek state 
provides generous edification to the suggestions dictated by US military plans. and NATO, 
with the country becoming the base of the military interventions of Euro-Atlantic 
imperialism. It is now clear in the most obvious way that the Greek state provides 
generous edification to the suggestions dictated by US military plans. and NATO, with the 
country becoming the base of the military interventions of Euro-Atlantic imperialism.

What separates this year's TIF from the past is certainly the imminent massive appearance 
of the national torso on the road, due to the nomenclature of the neighboring country, at 
a time when the Republic of Macedonia is preparing to join NATO and the European Union . 
In the ranks of this admittedly heterogeneous nationalist crowd, he has found the 
opportunity to nest a discrete and organized portion of fascists, awaiting the drawing of 
political capital from all the masses in which they have managed to impose their political 
framework. The fact is that the re-emergence of the Macedonian issue has been a rare 
opportunity for every kind of nationalist and fascist situation to take a place in the 
public discourse and to try to promote its murderous political plans. The nationalist 
rallies in Thessaloniki and Athens served this very purpose. It was also obvious to the 
most naive, that the supposedly uncomplicated and non-political character of the rally, 
advertised with so much diligence by the media, was just a sheep that under the beast hid 
it - and as it turned out, it did not take him much to feel certain and to reveal his real 
face. Somehow, the useful idiots turned into dangerous idiots. It is obvious that several 
tendencies of the far right and nationalist space consider it time for a parliamentary 
party of the far right beyond the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. It is also obvious that from the 
ideology of national unity, which seeks to instill reconciliation with class and social 
inequality and oppression,

The end of the total movement of the national torso and fascist frontman has so far 
recorded attacks on combat venues (the arrest of Libertatia occupation, attacks on the ESC 
School, the Free Self-managed Theater, on fans and players of the self-organized football 
team Progressive Toumba, the occupation of a former PIKA), deportations of the Holocaust 
Monument of the Jews and the Jewish cemetery, and attacks on immigrants. We can see now 
clearly that the organized core of these rallies is the epitome of the black reaction, 
especially if we take into account the anti-Semitic actions they have undertaken, the 
chauvinist-racialist rhetoric they are stating, generalizing it generously with conspiracy 
theories, but also the overt fascist anti-anarchist and anti-communist slogans that shout. 
All of this simply complements the overall fascist (hence incompetent enemy of the 
proletarian masses) profile of the organized front of the rallies, trying to take root in 
the public sphere. It is worth mentioning, however, that aiders in the theme of 
nationalism, as shaped by rallies for the Macedonian issue, are amongst others bourgeois 
parties that oppose the search for votes within a conservative-reactionary audience, the 
church, the Russian factor (see bribery right-wing and metropolitan bishops by Russian 
diplomats) and various pieces of the local bourgeoisie, thus confirming,

In this year's TIF, it is imperative to set up collective resistance class defenses 
against all the aggressive peaks of the urban camp: state and capitalist barbarism, war 
and fascism. The oppressed and exploited, in whatever part of the map we are, do not have 
to divide anything between us. We must perceive the community of our class interests and 
on this basis organize our counter-attack against those who oppress us and live by our 
labor. We are not going to fight for the interests of local and international bosses, we 
will not fight for any homeland nor turn the gun barrels to the proletarians of other 
countries, from which they try to divide us with any artificial means the masters, 
employing every available solvent of class consciousness (nation, border, religion). In 
the event of war the world proletariat will be what will be forced to initiate the war 
machines of the capitalists by paying the price to the lives of people in our class. 
Today, it is necessary to set up an anti-war movement on the basis of internationalist, 
class solidarity.

We recognize that at this stage social and class resistances are anemic and unrelated to 
the circumstances. We definitely look for the causes for the decline was the posting of 
social consensus from the reformism of SY.RIZ.A. in micro-urban mentality of delegation 
and trust to parliamentarianism in diataxiki retreat that constitutes the narrative of 
national unity, but also to the weaknesses of the anarchist / anti-authoritarian itself, 
as well as the wider labor movement. It certainly can not accept as anarchists, is the 
"end of history", the final victory of the market economy, the triumph of capitalism, 
which propagandize the establishment voices of urbanism at every opportunity, like war 
slaughterhouses are preparing sovereigns, but also the fascism that it has,

We therefore have to change the power correlations in the present social and class 
conflict. Our global response to the increasing state and capitalist barbarism, the war 
plans of the sovereign and the fascist threat, must be the global social revolution with 
the aim of unleashing the slave layers from the slumber of state power and the capitalist 
exploitation of human labor. Collectively and unconditionally, we must fight for the needs 
of the oppressed and exploited, for the extreme and non-class society.

WE OFFER COLLECTION AND REPORTING, CLASSICAL DEPARTMENTS AGAINST THE COMPLETE LOST 
ATTACKING OF MAJORITY

AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALISTICITY, WAR AND NATIONALITY

ORGANIZATION AND RACE FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE, FREEDOM COMMEMORATION, ANARCHY

WE WILL NOT FIGHT FOR THE INTERESTS OF OUR AFFIDENTS - WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM

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