Anarchic update news all over the world - 13.10.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Holand, vrije bond: Buses and mobilization for Ende Gelände
      October 25-29 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire - AL Tract, The electoral
      left is decomposed: dare the self-organization of the workers !
      (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Angers, AL Nantes - In
      Angers as elsewhere: for an antifascism of ground, unitary and
      popular (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - Was Nestor Makhno
      anti-Semitic ? (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  alas barricadas: [Madrid] Libertarian Fall 2018 -- Cultural
      Days of the Local Federation of CNT Madrid (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  anarchist communist group ACG: The below is a dialogue based
      on lots of different (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Ireland, derry anarchists: In the Spirit of 1968 - Fight the
      Power! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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This October 25th-29th, thousands of people will gather for the next Ende Gelände mass 
civil disobedience protest. We will be using our bodies and stand in the way of the 
gigantic coal machinery that threatens Hambacher Forest. This FB event is to share 
information on the buses that will be organized and all the mobilisation events in the 
Netherlands. ---- Buses will be leaving Thursday evening the 25th of October and return 
Monday morning the 29th. The costs are 30 euro per person. One bus will go from Groningen, 
Nijmegen to Ende Gelände. The other one will depart from Amsterdam and go through Utrecht. 
We expect them to be full soon, so register as soon as possible here. ---- Also, don't 
forget there will be a mass-protest and a call out for civil disobedience on Saturday 6th 
of October. There is a bus from the Netherlands going organized by Greenpeace. Click here 
for more information.
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Events:

7 Oct 17:00 Utrecht Code Rood debrief & Ende Gelände prebrief (Voorstraat 71, ACU)
9 Oct 20:00 Groningen Hambi & Ende Gelände + gas resistance info (Emmastraat 15, De Kapel/RKZ)
11 Oct 20:30 Nijmegen to Ende Gelaende info talk (Van Brouckhuysenstraat 46, De Klinker)
14 Oct 10:00-18:00 Actietraining in Rotterdam (sign up here)
19-21 Oct Local Conference of Youth Netherlands LCOY with talks, workshops on climate 
change and civil disobedience.
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Are you interested in organizing your own info-event about Hambacher Forest & Ende Gelände 
for your own organisation or network of friends? We can help and come give a presentation. 
Send us an email at endegelaendenl2018 (at) lists.riseup.net
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For more information about Ende Gelände 2018

For more information about the urgent situation in Hambacher Forest

https://www.vrijebond.org/bussen-en-mobilisatie-voor-ende-gelande-25-29-oktober/

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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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Point of view of AL comrades present at Angers for the anti-fascist demonstration of 
September 22nd. "We must therefore continue to build an anti-fascism on the ground, 
unitary and popular. Let's assume our disagreements in terms of strategy. But let's 
respect them so that our solidarities grow up to push back the extreme right." ---- In 
Angers as elsewhere: for an antifascism of ground, unitary and popular ---- We are several 
libertarian Alternative activists who took part in the anti-fascist demonstration in 
Angers on September 22nd. This event, organized by the RAAF (Angevin Antifascist Network) 
[1]as part of the local festival "  To the West but still anti-fascist  " [2], was 
announced as a festive and family event. Let us add that the context of anti-fascism in 
Angers is particularly complicated, because a bar / local fascist, L'Alvarium, opened a 
few months ago.

A first event was also called by the RAAF on February 24th. With the festival, it was a 
question of continuing to anchor the anti-fascist fight within the population, with the 
aim of enlarging it.

The protest on September 22 had been discussed in advance with groups from other cities, 
and everyone seemed to agree that the most visibly violent actions, if they were to take 
place, take place after the dissolution of the demonstration. filed. The Angevin social 
movement is not accustomed to the various demonstrations that now punctuate many parades 
in some major cities - broken storefront banks or other signs of the same kind, or fire 
starting in such businesses.

However, barely ten minutes after the start of the demo, the breaks of windows begin. They 
punctuated the whole route. In the dispersion, some groups wanted to continue towards 
L'Alvarium, despite a strong police presence. Comrades have been in custody and we can 
only hope that there will be no prosecution against them.

The RAAF canceled the evening of debates and concert scheduled for the evening to close 
the festival. This evening was to take place at the Etincelle, a self-managed place. It 
appeared to the RAAF that the security of the evening would not be assured. Indeed, the 
Angers cops are not used to such demonstrations in the city center, and a police raid on 
the local was likely. Identity checks and intimidation were to be expected, which would 
have endangered the people present, first and foremost the organizers and organizers.

Know where you are acting

These events posed problems for Libertarian Alternative activists present that day. It is 
obvious that each and every one, in the fight against the extreme right, must be able to 
appropriate organized events. But this can not be done in disregard of the local reality 
specific to each city, and even less in defiance of what local activists take years to 
build. For the activists who broke store windows in downtown Angers are not those who have 
held Etincelle for 21 years.

Etincelle is at increased risk of repression following this demo. Because activists who 
broke store windows in downtown Angers are not the organizers and organizers of the 
festival. However, they face an increased risk of phishing and repression by the cops.

Those who have made the choice to break bank windows in downtown Angers are not those who 
try to build an Ange- vian anti-fascism on the ground, on the street, rooted in the social 
fabric. However, this construction may be threatened by such actions bursts.

When we move in a city that we know badly, it seems to us elementary to respect the work 
of those who militate on a daily basis. They and they know the reality of the city and the 
region. Trusting them and ensuring their safety - including once they have left the city - 
is a prerequisite for coordinating anti-fascist action in good understanding between 
collectives in different cities. Which can only be desirable.

We will even add that this should be part of a basic militant ethic.

Respect collective frameworks
But it's not just that. The contempt of collective decisions is what we find most 
damaging, because it breaks the solidarities we want to build, that we must build in our 
common fight against the extreme right. Militating is a collective affair, and therefore a 
search for consensus. The existence of a deposed, festive and family demonstration, and 
possibly a second and more muscular demonstration, could be a way of resolving the 
contradictions of certain militant groups. Thus, anger can be expressed in different ways, 
in different places, because the diversity of tactics leads to the diversity of places. 
Once again, these events risk breaking down trusts and solidarities, and we can not afford 
this in this period of rising right-wing extremism,

Defend a plural antifascism
We think that it is normal that lively anger is expressed against the extreme right. " 
Break  " can be a gesture of anger. Others will express themselves differently. But when 
we come to revolutionary, thoughtful and assumed strategies, we must have a real debate. 
Our anti-fascism is rooted in the social movement. It is a class anti-fascist, anti-racist 
and anti-sexist, which wants to support and promote class solidarities. This is why we 
believe that it necessarily involves the construction of local and national structures 
able to gather widely. This is the case of the unions we are building, associations that 
we are strengthening on various fronts.

But our anti-fascism is also a fight front in its own right. Specific mobilizations are 
indispensable, such as those demonstrating the violence of the neo-Nazi militants who 
killed Clément Méric in 2013, or those demanding the closure of the Alvarium in Angers. In 
fact, closing down the places where the Fachos meet is trying to reduce their capacity to 
organize and develop. Demolishing amalgam speeches, of the type "  fascists and 
antifascists are violent in the same way  ", is to emphasize that some are fighting for an 
ideology of death and oppression, when others want freedom, equality and social justice.

We must therefore continue to build an anti-fascism on the ground, unitary and popular. 
Let's assume our disagreements in terms of strategy. But let's respect them so that our 
solidarities grow up to push back the extreme right.

AL activists from Angers, Montreuil, Nantes, Orléans, Rennes, Saint-Denis

[1] The RAAF website: raaf.noblogs.org . His twitter account: @raaf_angers .

[2] The Festival was held from September 7 to 22, the event concluding a week of 
anti-fascist debates and conferences.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?A-Angers-comme-ailleurs-pour-un-antifascisme-de-terrain-unitaire-et-populaire

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Recalling today the struggle of the libertarian-inspired peasant insurgency movement in 
Ukraine, the Makhnovshchina, is not trivial in a period when ideological confusion and 
conspiracy theses repeatedly infest the debate on anti-Semitism. ---- Ukraine is, in the 
first years of the Russian Revolution in a state of total instability, in the grip of a 
multi-faceted civil war. Pogroms make tens of thousands of victims. Nestor Makhno, 
anarchist and figurehead of the peasant uprising in Ukraine, accused of anti-Semitism by 
some detractors, is a child of the poor peasantry. He is impregnated with peasant culture 
and develops an unwavering confidence in the moujik  [1]that he considers the potentially 
revolutionary element, thanks to what we would today call his "   common sense peasant  ". 
The way he looks at all the other layers of the revolution is peripheral, critical, even 
confrontational. There is no anti-Semitism in his writings, but he sometimes develops a 
very harsh prose in the face of community approaches that he considers contrary to the 
ideals of the revolution. However, he knows how to discern the Jews opportunistic 
community leaders willing to cash the highest bidder the tranquility of the community. He 
has always frequented Jews, as a child, in prison in Moscow in 1911 or during his exile in 
Paris.

In these times of crisis, Makhno played a moderating role, continually tempering the 
anti-Semitic temptations that were going on in the peasant and working world of Gulyai 
Polié and its surroundings: "   Nestor Makhno proscribed all discrimination and he strove 
to fight against antisemitic tendencies of the peasants, which proved to be about as 
difficult as preventing them from drinking and looting.  " [2]  When the news of an 
exaction reaches his ears, it is immediately punished.

The Jewish agricultural colonies, under the geographical control of the movement, receive 
weapons for their self-defense, even though they are sorely lacking on the front. Coming 
from exile where other Russian provinces, many Jews and Jews join the movement. Some of 
them take up important positions in the Makhnovshchina. In Karkov, a propaganda group in 
Yiddish language is set up.

Stalinist slander
Following the break with the Makhnovist movement in November 1920, the Soviets seek to 
dirty it rather than fight it politically. Soviet historians will construct narratives 
with approximations denouncing acts of anti-Semitism perpetrated by Makhnovist groups. The 
historian Ilia Cherifkover, recognized specialist in the history of pogroms in this 
region, will exonerate the Makhnovshchina of these accusations.

Makhno will refute this persistent rumor until his death. Thus he writes in 1927, in the 
newspaper Dielo Trouda No. 30-31: "   Thus, the Makhnovshchina, throughout its existence, 
will observe an uncompromising attitude towards anti-Semitism and pogromists, because it 
was a truly laborious and revolutionary movement in Ukraine   " .

When Léon Shapiro met Makhno in 1930 and questioned him on the subject, he did not deny 
certain abuses but explained that he had not managed to control everything. He denies 
being personally involved  [3].

Jean-Marc Izrine

[1] Peasant in Russian

[2] Paul Avrich, Russian Anarchists , AK Press, 2005.

[3] Paul Avrich, Anarchist Voices , AK Press, 2005.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Nestor-Makhno-etait-il-antisemite

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 From October 26 to November 25 we will splash Madrid with a series of cultural events 
that aim to generate debate around various issues related to this hostile society in which 
we live. ---- The contemporary society understands, mainly, either culture as a product of 
the consumer society (circulating, in this way, for our world as a commodity) or as a 
select production of an elite. That is why we can choose between being caught between pop 
culture (the so-called commercial cinema, the music of the major record companies, 
conventional television, etc.) and its degrading (est) ethic and the high culture that 
pretends to make us believe that it is only culture the products generated by a small 
group of "highly qualified characters", something like a small group of experts.

The libertarian Autumn is a space of opposition to all these forms of culture: because it 
is free and free (nobody pays and nobody charges) breaks with culture understood as a 
commodity of the consumer society, because it is critical to break with the lie of the 
supposed apoliticism and impossible neutrality (because every act is political) of the 
culture of power, because it is a collective question the forms of bourgeois culture that 
deify everything individual also the spheres of cultural creation and, moreover, it is 
popular, because they are inserted activities in life and starred by people on foot like 
you and us.

This year will have special prominence the first weekend that will revolve around the 
struggles of the people of the Rif (and the repression that has been suffering, especially 
in the last two years).

Do not miss it. You are all invited.

Tags:
Cultural Days
CNT
anarchism
Related links / Source:
http://otonolibertario.cnt.es/

http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/40797

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conversations, Facebook comments and arguments. It is not a record of any one individual 
conversation but is rather an aggregate of different debates that anarchist communists 
have had with Labour Party members and supports. ---- Why not join the Labour Party? ---- 
Voting for any government is a leap of faith. Right now, people are hoping that the Labour 
Party will work in the interests of working people and not the rich. Anarchists are not 
willing to make that leap for many reasons. At a theoretical level we don't believe that 
the individuals in positions of power make much different as they are controlled by 
institutional constraints. We have also studied our history and we know that Labour 
leaders, with much more left-wing rhetoric and more structural and popular influences 
pressuring them from the left have sold out the working classes. Ramsey McDonald, Attlee 
with the violent suppression of the 40,000 strong squatter movement and the passing of 
austerity budgets, Wilson and the betrayal of the National Union of Sailors. The list goes 
on and on...

What institutional constraints would hold back the Labour Party in government?

There are many. The Parliamentary Labour Party and the media will attack the Labour 
leadership from the first seconds of a Labour government. Furthermore capital will 
probably fly from the country and cause an economic crisis, right wing groups are likely 
to increase their activity in service of the wealthy. The reason that this is such a 
problem is because a significant number of those who vote for the Labour Party do not vote 
for radical change and are not ready for a conflict between capital and labour. There are 
those in the Labour Party who like to pretend that a parliamentary victory for the Labour 
Party constitutes a victory for socialism. This is not the case and many Labour voters 
will abandon the party during an economic and political crisis. The very compromises and 
tactical evasions which are required for a left wing party to win power make it impossible 
for it to wield this power once in office.  Its also worth noting that it's not at all 
clear how radical Jeremy Corbyn's politics are.

There are other constraints on the party that can't reasonably be called institution 
constraints but could possibly be called structural limitations. Parliamentary politics 
suggests to us that the general will of the public can be quantified via the ballot box. 
This isn't true, the idea of a "general will," is an intellectually useful lie but it is a 
lie. The public does not have a collective will, individuals and groups have opinions, 
views and interests and these tend to conflict. People change their mind and the framing 
of a question will illicit different responses. This means that no government can be said 
to have a meaningful mandate for radical change (or for maintaining a status quo) and 
therefore can only legitimate their claim to rule with violence. This in turn leads to 
governments having to oppress minority interests in a manner that divides their supporters 
and weakens their ability to make change. The strains which Brexit is putting on the 
Labour Party even whilst in opposition is a good example of this.

Even if the Labour Party cannot introduce socialism surely aren't they better than the 
conservatives?

This question is based on a false premise. That is that wealth and security of the working 
class is dependant on the charity or good will of parliament and not the class' strength 
and unity as a political force. Recent political history tells us that often the 
difference between Conservative and Labour governments is minimal (Wilson/Heath- 
Major/Blair- and do you really think that if Brown had won the 2010 election he would not 
have implemented austerity?). When governments have been able make significant changes, it 
has been after conflicts with the working class. That's not to say that the exact 
individuals in power cannot have some influence on events, but this is largely due to the 
weakness of the working class as a political force.

Voting is a form of gambling. No one who voted Labour in 2001 could possibly have 
predicted how the party would react to 9/11 or to Bush's invasion of Iraq, at best voting 
is calculated risk, often with other peoples lives as the stake.

What is the alternative?

The Anarchist Communist Group call for a revolution that abolishes private property and 
the state. A society that is based around free agreement and mutual aid...

But that isn't going to happen!

What happens or not is not ordained by fate, but is the result of the decisions of 
individuals or groups. As such  what is politically possible is dependent on the choices 
you make. But you are right that the political situation looks bad. The planet is on fire, 
capital is crushing the working class and the far right is on the rise. This is why it is 
vital that the radical left doesn't invest its time and effort in a project that is 
doomed.  Things change rapidly in politics and the Anarchist Communist Group aims to 
ensure that the next time crisis hits it is anarchist ideas which working people turn to. 
That's why we create propaganda and organise.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/10/08/shut-up-and-vote-labour/

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This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement in Derry on October 5th 
1968. Those historical black and white television images of unarmed peaceful civil rights 
protesters being baton-charged off the streets of their city for attempting to challenge 
the Unionist masters in Storming created shock-waves. ---- Amongst the clambering, 
infighting and drama as to who did what and when on the day, the various political parties 
lambasted one another over who exactly are the rightful inheritors of that day, anyone 
would be forgiven that there was some type of election in the offing next year. ---- 
Little do they know that after all their self-righteous ceremonies, speeches and honours 
that it was actually the people of the city who had taken to the streets and brought the 
events that faithful day to a head. It is the people themselves who truly deserve credit 
for their dignity and strength of courage against the state and its forces.

But whilst the great and the good gathered in the Guildhall, several hundred people 
rallied outside to remember the struggle of 1968 and the struggle that continues to this 
day which is why anarchists in the city took part. If there are lessons which can be 
learned from the events of '68 be in Paris, Chicago, Rome, Washington or here in Derry it 
has to be that is real change can only come about from below, by the people and in the 
streets and in our workplaces alone, not from within their chambers and halls of power.

For our class the division of sectarianism, housing, jobs, health and education have 
reached depths not witnessed since the sixties however many communities are already 
mobilising in the streets in an effort to fight the power, drawing on the lessons of the 
past. Together, without the politicians we can win!

The Spirit of 1968 - Lessons from the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement:

https://www.wsm.ie/c/1968-lessons-northern-ireland-civil-rights-movement

http://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/2018/10/in-spirit-of-1968-fight-power.html

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