Anarchic update news all over the world - 11.10.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, vogliamo tutto: Demo - Solidarity with total deniers
      of war ... War on states and bosses [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Deliverunion - delivery riders united for decent working
      condition -- Talk and discussion (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  MONTREAL'S 14TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE
      FESTIVAL SEEKS PLAYS!, 07 JULY 2018 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire par AL - The electoral left
      is decomposed: dare the self-organization of the workers! (fr,
      it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  US, Central Oklahoma Black/Red Alliance (COBRA) - writing
      your senator -> they crumple up your message and toss it in the
      garbage (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - Read: Birh, "The
      First Age of Capitalism (1415-1763)" (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





Concentration at the Ministry of National Defense / Friday 12 October / 18:30 ---- The 
total refusal of military service is the total opposition to the army, the refusal to 
serve the military or any alternative service. It is the constant denial of cooperation 
with the most violent mechanism of the state. The refusal to become involved in current 
and upcoming war operations, mass organized assassinations for bosses. ---- The 
totalitarian deniers, driven by political motives, refuse to serve a mechanism that 
internalizes indoctrination to nationalist ideals, militarism, and sometimes repression, 
and contributes abroad to the practice of mass violence, sedition and extermination of 
entire regions and populations . They even advance these refusals with public and 
political declarations.

Within a global landscape that compose the war, economic and military interventions, the 
exacerbation of intra-capitalist antagonisms for global control and hegemony, the 
conjuncture of the long-standing economic and political crisis, the looting of the natural 
environment and human societies, more understandable now than ever, that the only future 
that capitalism and every state form of organization have to offer is destruction and death.

The ruling classes seek with rage the national unity, the military preparation of the 
state machinery, and the diffusion of the climate of wartime preparedness to all the 
oppressed and exploited.

The state is punishing as much as anyone who is in it. In the case of total denials, it 
activates a double mechanism of repression: On the one hand, it provides for criminal 
prosecutions, while on the other it suppresses them financially by imposing successive 
fines of 6,000 euros.

In ever-stronger repression (with the final example of the 4th hexagram in Dimitris 
Dimtsiadis), we oppose solidarity.

No persecution remains unanswered

We must oppose the calls of the state and the authorities for national unity and for 
submission to the state and its murderous mechanisms. Against the massacre between the 
oppressed and the exploited who happened to be born on the other side of the border, 
oppose the common struggle against homelands, religions, states, and any fictional separation.

The only war in which we are prepared to fight is the war against oppression and 
exploitation, social revolution and social liberation. For a world without frontiers, 
states and wars. Without patriarchy and authority. Without exploitation and oppression. 
For anarchy ...

Concentration at the Ministry of National Defense / Friday 12 October / 18:30

in the framework of the three-day pan-Hellenic actions of solidarity with the total 
deniers of hostilities, against national unity, armies, wars

anarchist collectives, comrades and comrades

https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2018/10/06/allileggyi-stoys-olikoys-arnites-strateysis-polemos-sta-krati-kai-ta-afentika/#more-1977

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"Foodora, Deliveroo, shame on you!" shout around 80 delivery riders with pink and 
turquoise backpacks on their way through downtown Berlin. They demand better pay, taking 
on the cost of work equipment and a shift planning system that makes ends meet. ---- While 
most delivery riders are looking for a flexible and sporty job many are disappointed with 
the working conditions. Therefore, labor standards have to be fought for. Since 2017, the 
riders together with the labor union FAU have won some improvements in Berlin. Thereby 
they have made the situation of workers in the digital economy even more public. As part 
of the international Deliverunion campaign, they also gave an example for transnational 
workers' solidarity and cooperation.

Two colleagues from FAU Berlin who know Foodora and Deliveroo from the inside will talk 
about protests, negotiations and organizing under difficult conditions. They will address 
the following questions:

How did the "unorganizable" succeed in organizing?

What does the daily work on the bike actually look like?

How can working conditions in precarious areas be improved in the longer term?

What's next with Deliverunion?

After the talk possibilities to improve the working conditions at the delivery services in 
Freiburg can be discussed. The talk will be in German, English translation can be provided 
if necessary.

When? Saturday October 20, 2018, 8 pm

Where? Adlerstraße 12a, Freiburg (rooms of the Chaos Computer Club)

https://labandavaga.org/aktuelles/deliverunion-die-lieferdienst-kampagne-in-alle-stdte-tragen

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The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the 
world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is looking for plays, texts, monologues, 
dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, in English and French, on the theme of anarchism or any 
subject pertaining to anarchism, i.e. against all forms of oppression including the State, 
capitalism, war, capitalism, patriarchy, etc. We will also consider pieces exploring 
ecological, social and economic justice, racism, feminism, poverty, class and gender 
oppression from an anarchist perspective. We welcome work from anarchist and non-anarchist 
writers. ---- The 2019 edition of the festival will take place on May 22-23. ---- Are you 
interested in presenting your work during the festival? Send us the application form by 
November 7, 2018! ---- Email: festivaltheatreanarchiste@yahoo.ca

Site:

www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com

Mail:

Montreal International Anarchist Theater Festival

CP 266, Succ. 'W'

Montreal, QC H2L 4K1

Canada

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Message: 4






Throughout Europe, the same policies of austerity and the retreat of social gains, led by 
right-wing or left-wing governments, have led to the rise of the far-right. To regain 
voters, both right-wing and left-wing parties adopt policies marked by nationalism and 
racism. Electoral democracy is broken down. ---- 35 years of social setbacks ---- In 
France, it is since 1983 and the "  turning point of the rigor  " carried out by the 
Mitterrand government that the bosses and the state are progressively cutting the social 
gains, destroying the jobs, destroying the public services without the struggles to 
permanently stop the ultra-liberal wave that overwhelms us. exactly the year of the rise 
of the National Front that the PS favored to divide the right. The stage is set. in 1997, 
the government Jospin (PS / PCF / Greens) completes to discredit the traditional left and 
that is how Macron is elected by saying neither right nor left ...

One of the extreme right progression in alarming Europe
Against a backdrop of massive abstention, the upcoming European elections signal a 
worrying rise, in almost all Europe, of far-right parties, including those who, without 
complex, claim to be fascists. their simplistic answers to social suffering mark points . 
It's so much easier to accuse migrant workers and civil servants ...

Faced with this, traditional parties and governments have only one answer: to hold 
nationalist and racist discourses and policies themselves. And that is how to win a few 
voters is allowed to drown thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean !

The leftist parties have discredited the trade unions they have used for a long time as 
electoral machines. and this is how, despite brave struggles in some companies or sectors, 
we are powerless to bring the general strike movement to the level that would be needed to 
stop Sarkozy, Holland or Macron and reconquer the ground lost in recent years.

Rebuilding class solidarities
Also our tasks are clear: to rebuild in the union deserts and to abandon the old electoral 
recipes which divert the workers from the essential: the democratic construction, 
self-management, daily struggles with the prospect of the general strike expropriatrice 
and the construction of a libertarian communist society.

In short, never has the program of the Amiens Charter been so timely !

download in pdf

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-gauche-electorale-est-decomposee-osons-l-auto-organisation-des-travailleurs

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"Except in very rare and specific circumstances, the only thing writing your senator is 
going to do is give one of their entry-level aides a slight arm workout while they crumple 
up your message and toss it in the garbage; if you are very, very lucky, the letter might 
be passed on to a more senior aide so they can crumple it up and toss it in the garbage 
with more authority behind the toss. ---- There's this depressingly common belief that the 
big problem in American politics is one of communication, that the reason people in power 
make bad decisions is because they don't understand that they're bad, that the reason they 
never seem to give a shit about the people's will is because they just don't know what it 
is. Positive political change is believed to come through convincing enough people in 
positions of power to personally believe that certain courses of action are correct or 
incorrect, and the primary function of social movements is seen as communicating with 
power in an attempt to make them listen to the movement's argument and hopefully sway 
their opinions through the power of logic and reason or a strong emotional appeal or what 
the fuck ever. It's the idealized theme-park version of American politics, where Martin 
Luther King Jr. saved America by politely but firmly telling everyone that racism is bad.

The problem with this is that it's completely wrong and badly misrepresents American 
history. Hardly anybody has ever won any concessions from power by politely asking the 
people in charge to do better. Politics is not a polite debate in an idealized free market 
of ideas where everyone presents their arguments and the most correct argument ultimately 
wins out. It is not about influencing opinions on an individual level or convincing 'our 
leaders' of the rightness of a cause. It's about power, dammit, it's all about power, 
power is all that matters. The people who have power make the rules, the people who don't 
have it get to suck it up and deal, and the only thing that can challenge or counter power 
is power.

For the sake of this discussion let's define power as 'the ability to compel someone by 
force to do something they would not otherwise voluntarily do', which is maybe not the 
best definition, but whatever, sue me, this is a Facebook post, not a peer-reviewed 
journal. This doesn't need to be literal violence and usually isn't - your landlord 
doesn't literally hold a gun to your head every time the rent comes due, for example - but 
the principle is the same regardless. It is the ability to make a demand, present 
consequences for failing to accede to that demand, and follow through on those 
consequences if the demand is not met.

If you want to convince the people in charge in the US to make a certain decision or take 
a certain action, the first thing you need to do, the very first fucking thing, once 
you've decided what you want them to do, is determine exactly what the consequences to 
them will be if they don't. If the answer to that question is 'absolutely nothing', you're 
wasting your time and effort, and you need to focus on broadening your support base and 
building strength. It can be whatever - maybe you're going to inconvenience them, annoy 
them, frustrate them, aggravate them, fundraise for their political opponents, vote them 
out, primary them out, generate negative publicity for them, impact their fundraising and 
revenue stream, or prevent them from conducting business and carrying out their duties. 
Maybe you're going to support and campaign for legislation and candidates they're opposed 
to - or withdraw expected support for legislation and candidates they favor. Maybe you're 
going to egg their house or shit on their petunias, I dunno, you do you. The point is, 
there has to be /something/. There has to be a reason for them to do it that isn't 'it's 
the correct decision' or 'it's the right thing to do' or 'your constituents want it'. 
Carrot-and-stick only works if you have a stick to periodically hit your legislator over 
the head with.

Fuck decorum, civility, politeness, the 'high road', and whatever shreds of respect for 
the American political process you've somehow managed to hold on to - the politicians 
elected to govern you care nothing for any of those things almost as a rule, and will 
freely adopt or discard them at will depending on what is most advantageous at any given 
moment. By forcing yourself to abide by a set of rules your opponents do not, you are 
allowing them to dictate the terms of the engagement, and starting any fight at a 
disadvantage. Be polite and civil, absolutely, when it is beneficial to do so. Be rude, 
hostile, and confrontational, when it is beneficial to do so. Disrupt their dinners and 
their social functions. Follow them home and demonstrate outside the gates. Make your 
attacks deeply personal if necessary. Appall them with your temerity.

The point here, the end goal, is to close off every available option except 'do what we 
demand', or make the other options so unpalatable that only the most spiteful diehards 
will choose them. When only one viable choice is presented, the personal beliefs or 
opinions of the leadership become irrelevant. If they want to keep their jobs, they'll 
cave. Do you honestly think every person who voted to pass the Civil Rights Act was a 
committed anti-racist, or that every person who voted the 8-hour day into law gave a shit 
about poor people, or that every person who ratified the 13th Amendment really thought 
black people were human? No, they did it because they felt like they had to, because they 
had been left no other option.

If you're concerned about being 'divisive', don't be, the country was divided already, and 
the people complaining about 'division' are just sad that they can't ignore it anymore.

"If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, 
that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power." - 
Kwame Ture"

- Mitch

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Message: 6






After twelve years of research, Alain Bihr publishes L'Expansion européenne , the first 
volume of a trilogy on the development of capitalism. ---- How is capitalism possible  ? 
This question is not rhetorical. Capitalism is defined by a process of capital 
accumulation that requires two conditions: on the one hand, there must be a mass of poor 
proletarians - even poor, depending on the case - having no choice but to sell their labor 
power . On the other hand, there must be a minority with economic capital guaranteed by a 
coercive power (a state) that allows these proletarians to work. The problem posed by Marx 
is that it constitutes a logical circle: to accumulate capital, one must already have some 
... How did this "   primitive accumulation   of capital"  occur even before capitalism ?

The great innovation of Marx was to show that this was a violent extortion and not a 
peaceful accumulation by simple hoarders. It was first necessary to impoverish masses to 
enrich capitalists. The different stages of this process are known: the enclosures (the 
expropriation of the peasants from their lands, then the rural exodus transforming former 
peasants from the countryside into proletarians of the cities)  ; the various laws 
confirming the disappearance of the "   commons   " (the young Marx, then a journalist, 
had studied a law prohibiting the collection of wood)  ; the appearance of the 
manufactures (and their break with the old cooperations in the work) ; the domination of 
the industrial capitalist mode of production at European and then world level.

Conquest and expropriation
Alain Bihr's book, which goes back to the history of this "   primitive accumulation   ", 
shows how the development of industry required, beforehand, the submission of part of the 
world to the great European states. Capitalist economics and nation-state development went 
hand in hand, and were imposed on the world.

How  ? This is the question that the book tries to answer, analyzing all the forms that 
this expansion has taken, from the less brutal (trade) to the more violent (colonization). 
What resistance did the other companies have  ? To understand it, it is necessary to study 
the way in which "   the attack   " occurred (development of the ports and the maritime 
trade, the national armies etc.), but also the social conditions of the "   defense   " of 
the companies. Abyssal work of magnitude.

In The Prehistory of Capital (2006), Alain Bihr examined the conditions for the formation 
of the emergence of capitalist relations of production within feudalism. He concluded then 
that "   feudalism, as it was formed in Europe at the end of the first millennium and in 
the Japanese archipelago in the course of the first half of the second millennium, is the 
most favorable, at the limit the only favorable, to the formation of this report of 
production   " . But feudalism alone was not a sufficient condition. It also took " 
globalization  ". Not the one fantasized as a natural extension of the exchanges between 
human beings on the Earth and condition of a perpetual peace between the States, but the 
violent globalization of the conquest and the expropriation, the one which was nourished 
of the blood and tears, in the mud of battles.

Bernard Gougeon (South-Educ 81)

Alain Bihr, The First Age of Capitalism (1415-1763). Volume 1: The European Expansion , 
Syllepse / Page 2, 2018, 700 pages, 30 euros.
Interview with the author of the book on the website Le Comptoir
Reading report by Michel Husson in the journal Politis.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Le-Premier-Age-du-capitalisme-1415-1763

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