Today's Topics:
1. Vrije Bond: [Belfast] 11th Belfast Anarchist Bookfair
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. International of Anarchist Federations: FOR THE BALKANS OF
STRUGGLE AND SOLIDARITY (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation: Organizations at
work: Some basic principles, News by: akmshihab [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, rozbrat: The picnic "Not for open-pit parks in
Wielkopolska" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #287 - Psychiatry: In
Paris, the fusion of anger is underway (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The 11th Belfast Anarchist Bookfair is happening on the 3rd November in Catalyst Arts,
Belfast. ---- Main Hall ---- 12.00 - 1.00 Scattered Internationalists: Irish Anarchism
Between the Wars. Morris Brodie. ---- After the defeat of the anti-Treaty forces in the
Irish Civil War, the island of Ireland became a hostile environment for left-wing
radicals. Red Scares in the North and the South meant establishing a cohesive movement
became increasingly difficult. Irish anarchists sought to overcome this by finding new
places to organise, often moving to Britain or the United States in search of work. In the
process, they helped to build the anarchist movement in their adopted homelands. This talk
examines the activities of Irish anarchists outside of Ireland in the interwar period,
including Jack White, Pat Read and Mat Kavanagh, and shows how they contributed to
anti-fascism, labour struggles, and revolutionary politics, culminating in their support
for their anarchist comrades during the Spanish Civil War.
1.10 - 2.10 Anarchism and Anti-Imperialism. Gabriel Kuhn.
Anti-imperialism is often seen as a Marxist domain. But how have anarchists responded to
the brutality of global capital? This talk will provide an overview of historical
anarchist positions on imperialism and colonialism, compare them to Marxist perspectives,
and discuss the relevance of anti-imperialist struggles for anarchism today.
Gabriel Kuhn is an anarchist activist and writer based in Sweden. Placed on the "No-Fly"
list Gabriel has been denied a visa for a 3-month speaking tour in the USA. A member of
the revolutionary syndicalist union, the Central Organisation of Workers (SAC), his books
and publications include The Anarchist Football Manual, Life Under the Jolly Roger, Sober
Living for the Revolution, and Revolution Is More Than a Word: 23 Theses on Anarchism.
2.20 - 3.20 Ireland's Greatest Revolutionary? The James Connolly Reader. Shaun Harkin.
Shaun Harkin will be speaking about his book "The James Connolly Reader" (released to
coincide with the 150th birthday of the man widely considered to be Ireland's most
important revolutionary) and about the man himself. The James Connolly Reader has been
described as the most comprehensive collection of Connolly's writings and speeches
available. The book will be available on the day from the Haymarket Press stall at the
bookfair and includes an extensive introduction from Shaun. Shaun sees the collection as a
contribution to returning Connolly to his "proper place" in Irish and global history, and
to inspire today's activists with his vision of an Ireland and world free from empire,
war, and exploitation.
3.30 - 4.30 Mujeres Libres: Anarchist Feminism in Spain. Marta Romero Delgado
Marta Romero Delgado will be sketching an initial socio-historical approximation of
anarcho-feminism in Spain from the Mujeres Libres of the 1930s onwards. Marta sees this as
the first stage in the development of further in-depth research/fieldwork on
anarcho-feminism in the Spanish state.
Marta RD is a sociologist and researcher specialising in the fields of feminism, violence
and social movements. Marta has published work such as "Building New Realities: the
empowerment of women attending the Chiapas Centre for Women's Rights (Mexico)", Jan 2018;
"Prison Experiences: Physical, social and symbolic punishment against women of Peruvian
armed groups", Nov 2016, and "Rethinking Violence, Gender and War. Women in the Peruvian
armed groups", April 2013.
4.40 - 5.40 Reclaiming the City Dublin. Activists speak
With momentum growing behind a social movement pitted against slum landlords, corruption,
rent hikes, an attack on social housing and endemic homelessness activists from Reclaim
the City Dublin will be speaking about the strategies, tactics, and ideas behind their
fightback and the successes and problems they have encountered in their struggle.
5.50 - 6.50 Sex Worker Organising: Sex Workers Alliance Ireland
An activist from SWAI will be giving a first-hand account of their work at the 11th
Belfast Anarchist Bookfair.
Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) was established in 2009 to promote social inclusion,
health, safety, civil rights and the right to self-determination of female, male,
cisgender and transgender sex workers. Since it's formation SWAI has worked tirelessly to
promote these ideals and has campaigned for sex workers to be part of decision making
which impacts their lives. They believe that sex workers themselves should be at the heart
of any conversation on sex work and they campaign against legislation that makes sex
workers more vulnerable, disregards their rights and tramples over their interests.
Side Room
1.00-2.00 An Activists Tale: My Walk with Palestine. Book signing and talk with Fra Hughes
and Dr. Saeb Shaath.
Join us for a talk by Dr. Saeb Shaath (Khan Younis Gaza) and Fra Hughes (Belfast) on
Palestine and the wider regional conflict. Fra will give a short talk on his book My Walk
with Palestine an Activists Tale. Photos of Fra's solidarity work will also be on display
Everyone Welcome Book price £9.99.
Stalls:
AK Press | Barricade Distribution Derry | Belfast Palestine Solidarity | Derry Anarchists
| Haymarket Books | Hockey Putz Customs: Radical Badges and more | IWW | Just Art | Just
Books Collective | Justice for the Craigavon Two | Lunasa | Live Deliciously | Organise! |
PM Press | Radical Routes | Sex Workers' Alliance Ireland | Wee Crafty (B)witches
Anarchisme, anarchist bookfair, ierland
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
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Message: 2
STATEMENT of the participants of the 12th Balkan Anarchist Bookfair ---- Between the 28th
and 30th of September, 2018, many individuals and collectives from the anarchist and
anti-authoritarian movement of the Balkans and beyond came together in Novi Sad for the
12th Balkan Anarchist Book Fair. Coming from all across the region, we spoke many
languages: Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Bulgarian,
Albanian, Greek and others. Taking into account our heterogeneous backgrounds, our
gathering confirmed that the one language that we all share is the language of struggle
and solidarity. ---- During the days spent together, we shared many experiences of
struggle, updated and tested our analyses, and formulated some concrete proposals for the
future of our struggles. Through this we were able to recognize some common patterns that
are coming to the fore of political strategies of the ruling class everywhere in the
region. Once again, it employs nationalism as a tool of sowing divisions in order to
facilitate the attack on the oppressed and at the same time, creates a fake opponent in
the form of populist nationalism that pretends to oppose the truly destructive impacts of
the capitalist offensive while actually providing global capital with bloody opportunities
for its restructuring.
As usual, nationalism is combined with militarism, renewed religious obscurantism, and
patriarchy. All of this is clearly present in the new wave of tensions between various
state forces and in the rise of popular nationalisms (i.e. between Kosovo and Serbia, in
Macedonia and Greece, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Croatia, etc.). As a response to these
divisive efforts of the ruling class, the coordinated actions and Balkan-wide campaign
against nationalism, militarism, and any type of division between the oppressed were
expressed as an urgent necessity. This can only be achieved through the joint mobilization
of social forces. One of the next important moments when we can concretely act towards
this goal will be the mobilization against Lukov march in Sofia, Bulgaria in February
2019. Participants of Balkan Anarchist Bookfair express our full support for the
Anti-Lukov march and call upon everybody to build localized anti-nationalist mobilizations
and, if possible, to come to Sofia. We also stress both our commitment to protect our
structures from fascist attacks and the necessity of striking back.
Parallel to this, we recognize that the expansion of global capitalism is limited by the
finite nature of our planet. To compensate for these limitations, capitalism readily
employs deadly methods of direct looting and vulgar exploitation, most commonly and
continuously in the form of attack on workers' rights and the environment. It is thus no
coincidence that in recent years the Balkanshas seen the eruption of many struggles
against capitalist appropriation of nature: the goldmines in Chalkidiki, and Rosia
Montana, big hydroelectric projects on rivers of the Balkans, among them in Stara Planina
in Serbia, Mura in Slovenia, Valbona in Albania, fracking in Romania and Bulgaria, fossil
fuel extraction all over Greece, and in so-called ‘exclusive economic zones' by local
companies and energy giants like Repsol, Total, ExxonMobil, Edison to name a few. All
these are particular examples of how the extractivist sector of the economy, managed by a
few global corporations and covered by the legal and repressive apparatus of the State, is
taking over the territories in the Balkans, offering pollution and the destruction of
workers' rights as well as of communities in exchange.
On the periphery of the global capitalist system, looting and war transform large segments
of the population who are turned into migrants and refugees; this process is not just a
theoretical problem to us in the Balkans, but a lived experience as well. As the diverse
and heterogeneous population searches for place to call home and to rebuild their lives,
they are targeted by capital and its political structures: the former directly integrates
them in capitalist economy as cheap labor, while the latter uses them as scapegoats to
justify increased social control of everybody. We witness an increase in surveillance and
repression of antagonistic segments of society, the feeding of the popular right, and the
undermining of solidarity among the oppressed.
Three years after the temporary breakdown of machinery of Fortress Europe, people are
being incarcerated in prisons because they dare to resist the regime of dehumanization
that they are subjected to. Cases like Harmanli in Bulgaria, Moria in Greece, and Röszke
in Hungary are just the most widely known that point to wider processes of repression and
criminalization. Through it, not only migrant resisters are targeted but the very ideas
and practices of transnational political solidarity as well. Now that the Balkan and
European states have, to a large degree, regained control of their borders, the more
silent, yet even more lethal tools of criminalization and racism are being used to push
people to the margins, often subjecting them to illegality and the most vulgar forms of
exploitation. We recognize that it is necessary to break the state of exclusion that is
imposed on migrants and refugees and to dismantle the dehumanizing European regime of
borders and concentration camps. We support all solidarity actions against detention
centers, hot spots, and the criminalization of migrants.
This year's BAB also hosted a meeting between the grassroots syndicalist initiatives from
Balkans from which we had a chance to get acquainted on recent struggles of shipyard
workers in Pula and Rijeka, Croatia, women workers of hygiene service sector in Kosovo,
struggle of workers of supermarket and coffee shop chains in Greece, logistic sector in
Bulgaria, and so forth. Seeing how these struggles share similarities and especially
taking into consideration the interconnectedness of capital in the Balkans, we agreed upon
the further strengthening of mutual support and information sharing. We established a
common information sharing platform and some other concrete steps were made that will
hopefully facilitate workers' solidarity across the Balkans. New communication channels
will facilitate workers' solidarity and allow efficient coordination of direct actions
across the region. Following that, present anarcho-syndicalist and radical grassroots
syndicalist organizations confirmed their position to focus on organizing workplace
struggles, helping workers to self-organize; and agitating for international class
struggle in the Balkans.
Finally we decided to meet next year in Sofia, Bulgaria for the 13th annual Balkan
Anarchist Bookfair. The anti-authoritarian and anarchist movement there will come together
to provide a space for the continuation of our struggles, and also to honor the 100 year
anniversary of the foundation of the anarchist federation in Bulgaria.
Against nationalism and capitalism! For the Balkans of struggle and solidarity!
No name divides us, no nation unites us!
Novi Sad, 30th September 2018
https://bask2018.noblogs.org/statement-of-the-12th-balkan-.../
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Message: 3
Sangathanah some basic principles at work ( Organising to have Red Hat work: some basic
principles ) ---- Below is a list of some basic principles for a successful organizer ----
Authorities question ---- Start organizing when people start asking questions to the
authorities. "What are they doing with us? Why are they doing this to us? Encourage people
to ask questions. "Who are those who accept the advice, they compel us to accept that
decision, and why do we have to follow this situation?" People should not follow such a
rule, Because the authorities accept all those decisions only. There is no involvement
with the people. Such authority can be the government, boss, union - or yourself An
effective organizer will always inspire his followers on their own power.
Talk to the man!
Any experienced organizer knows that "Personally talking to people is always more
effective". Leaflets need to be distributed, meeting is important, rallies and good, but
nothing is as effective as personal interviews. When you continually listen to your
colleagues and answer them as needed, it will be very effective for teammates. When you
talk to Nasima, his fear will gradually go away, his confidence will grow. Invite him to
join the meeting. You can tell him to come to the rallies - in this way continuous work
will be done.
Find the natural organizers!
There are some social groups or groups in each workplace. In each group, there are some
opinion makers, genuine organizers and some enthusiasts. Many of them do not simply say
that others speak and listen and respect them. If you can add them to your opinion, then
you have done a lot of work or have gone a long way.
Engage people in the work!
Human life is not just a school but only. Come to a meeting, after reading a leaflet,
everything will be learned. When people see a general change, they become interested in
learning when they happen. Beautifully ask - have you read this leaflet? Your colleague
has given it to you? Have you signed this petition? Job can originate from these small
questions. And the workforce is developed through the workforce.
We are union
It is not necessary for people to combine, but they need to create a complete awareness
about the ideal relationship between them. We want an organization that all members think
of themselves as a family. Meet yourself in the meetings and keep on meeting with the
buses and maintain that unity.
The activities should be expanded over time
Everyone should say that everyone needs to be self-employed in whatever work is going on
in front of everyone. Ask whether you want to wear a badge of union? How would you be in a
strike? Whether it is ready to picketing during the strike. If you do not agree to be
arrested? There are many unions who are ready to go to jail if needed. Those who prepare
themselves, they can once again propose the path of great revolution. The first question
might be "Did you read this leaflet?"
Engage with managers
The purpose of organizing is to change power. Changing the relationship between the
manager and the workers. Dispute the issues with the employer. If the workers go bravely,
they will be afraid. And in the final stage, the workers will have to win the victory.
Take away small victories
Conflicts with small claims in small factories and look forward to winning. Those
victories will gain our courage and experience. It will once serve for social change. A
victory can be very convenient to achieve big victory. With the conquest of the new
people, it is easy to move to the movement. Believe in them that "we can defeat Basrs"
Actually everyone wants to lose the class of class. So the victory plays a huge role in
raising people.
Be ready to follow in time
Life is not easy to find in any way. So it is not okay to expect anything in the
organization and everything will be forwarded as planned or planned. Do not be frustrated
if you do not win a job. Of course, it has to be done with patience. The time is shifted
all the time. The owner may do something or your spouse might discover some strategies
that will give you greater mobility to struggle and claim your fight. So we have to wait
and be ready for the right time and opportunity.
Do not forget the world outside
Clashes between workers and their employers have a great impact on other workers'
confidence. Linking workers to other companies and industries, and building networks, they
can fight together in our interest. Which can increase the power of more control over our
lives.
Strengthen your own media
In this paragraph, there is an effective mechanism for reaching out to others. But in
order to make the message, all the people of all races must be involved.
Need to maintain light mood in the message:
There is no need to maintain seriousness at all. There is no harm if the organized work is
in mood. Cartoon, comedy, story plays etc. can be used to spread the message. But not to
bewildered anyone. It will be the inspiration of social change.
Everything will be well organized
All the activities will be beautiful and well organized. You need to collect the address
for the members list, telephone, email and mail. The names of assistants will be addressed
and saved. It can be used like time. All works will be democratic. The last days of the
voyage and the cost will be stored in written form. Those newcomers need to discuss those
issues with them. So that the experience and experience of them are energized. It is to be
remembered, "Neither Melo works any fruit".
Do not go alone to organize
Try to contact local organizations. If you try, you will definitely get some organizations
or people. Those who might be your partner. Many people can give you many types of
material and non-physical assistance. It is easy to remember that it can not be done
easily, it can be done easily.
http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news/
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Message: 4
On Friday, 12 October 2018, a spontaneous picket against the proposed form of the Spatial
Development Plan of the Wielkopolska Province was held at the Marshal's Office. Within its
framework, it is planned to include special protection of 3 deposits of lignite deposits:
Oscislowo, Deby Szlacheckie and Piaski, which belong to a private investor, which is
ZE-PAK. Despite the very short mobilization time, 40 people took part in the picket. It
took place at the moment when the possibility of sending comments to the project as part
of public consultations was ended. Thus, the participants showed that the public has many
comments and there is no possibility that the document will enter into force silently.
During the picket, attention was paid to the problem of local communities, which persist
mainly thanks to agriculture and tourism. The creation of new pits would completely
destroy those sectors of the economy in the region. One of the most interesting speeches
was the speech of an inhabitant of endangered areas, who emphasized that all the time
people talk about taking a job to miners, but no one mentions what to do with the work for
people living in this area in a different way. The protection of deposits is presented as
the protection of the jobs of the local community, while the community is, as he
emphasized, against opencasts. In the Babiak commune, where the Deby Szlacheckie mine is
to be built, 90% of the residents voted against the investment in the referendum in 2015.
The picket participants also pointed to the fact that since ZE-PAK's authorities have
earned just over PLN 2 billion on this investment, at least part of this money should be
donated to the region and local tourism, so as to create alternative, unrelated with coal,
work places.
During the picket, the participants of the Climate Camp took part in last holiday on the
affected areas. 500 people took part in it. They stressed that society would not passively
watch political decisions, but would protest in every possible way to prevent the
destruction of our future.
The publication of the PZPWW coincided with the publication of the report of the
Intergovernmental Group on Climate Change at the UN, which shows that we have only 12
years left to the ecological disaster and the only way to save the planet and block
irreversible climate change is to move away from fossil fuel production. The Polish
authorities ignore this problem and are still planning to extract it. Poland is also
threatened by the effects of climate change, as described in the document "Ecological
policy of the state 2030" issued by the Ministry of the Environment. It is expected to
include a greater number of hurricanes, droughts, heat, landslides in Malopolska and
desertification of the Lodzkie Voivodship, even in 90%. These losses will reach hundreds
of billions of zlotys.
PZPWW assumes, among others:
- blocking of investments in selected areas
- development of tourism based on the values of post-excavation excavations
As you can see, artificial lakes are more important for the marshal, than beautiful
natural lakes that exist in this area and which threaten the emergence of outcrops and the
depressive funnel associated with them. Such a hopper can cover and deprive the area of up
to 100 km from the planned investments.
Lignite must stay in the ground.
You will not burn our future!
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4641-pikieta-nie-dla-odkrywek-w-wielkopolsce
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Message: 5
The bowl of contempt, scarcity, grueling cadences. After the radical struggle in Le Havre
and Rouen, the staff of Sainte-Anne, Maison-Blanche and Perray-Vaucluse took over. ----
Psychiatric hospitals Sainte-Anne and White House (Paris) and Perray-Vaucluse (Essonne)
will merge on 1 st January 2019 as a single entity called University Hospital Group (GHU)
Paris psychiatry and neuroscience. ---- If the mobilizations of the employees had not been
able to prevent the merger and the restructuring of services, the " social protocol "
presented by the management set fire to the powders. ---- The agents risk losing 5 to 12
days of their rest according to the hospitals and the years, the hospital crèches are
sacrificed in favor of structures unsuited to the staggered schedules, the social works
reduced, the premiums threatened.
From the end of June, general meetings were held at the main sites, with highlights at
Ste. Anne, where the negotiation sessions were systematically invaded by the staff.
Rapidly, young colleagues have invested in social networks, and the unified Paris
Psychiatry Facebook page has served as a speaker on the dozens of sites that make up the GHU.
The GA holds the united union
This channel has maintained pressure throughout the summer, including the organization of
a streamer competition between the various services. At the side of the inter-union the
goal was, all summer, to organize a day of strike and demonstrations on September 6th.
This joint work and the popularization of the fight made this day a success beyond all
expectations. More than 1,200 employees of the GHU marched to the city hall, future
supervisory authority, joined by delegations from other psychiatric hospitals struggling:
Rouen, the " perched " of Le Havre ( read AL of September ) and Amiens (read AL next month).
This event, historic in its magnitude, allowed the renewal of the strike and the
continuation of the negotiations that the management wanted to close on September 10th.
Despite differences in cultures and positions, the inter-union (3 sections SUD, 3 CGT, 2
FO, 1 CFDT, 1 CGC) manages to maintain a common front. An agreement to maintain the
balance of power seems to have been found. But the search for consensus and the clash of
practices may have slowed down unitary work and the dissemination of information.
Event of September 24, 2018 during the negotiation with the management
The success and combativeness of the struggle owes a great deal to a new generation of
colleagues, whether unionized or not. Thanks to a variety of militant experiences, they
have put the MAs at the center of decisions and go beyond the old inter-union idiosyncrasies.
However, it is now a question of diversifying the forms of actions. Can we act when the
assignment forces us to work ? Should we mimic other collectives and start occupations ?
What coordination with the other hospitals in struggle ?
What is certain is that any union that signs an unfavorable agreement will have to explain
it to the GA. At three months of professional elections, even the most reformist think twice.
Brassac (AL Paris North East)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Psychiatrie-A-Paris-la-fusion-des-coleres-est-en-cours
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