Today's Topics:
1. Britain, London, Anarchist Federation: Reading group #6
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - Anarchists and Jews
in the Russian Revolution (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Montreuil - National
Service: Are we cannon fodder ? October 6 in Paris (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Belarus, AG-pramen: How state intelligence works?
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, afed - A3: The World Through Police Sight [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. vrije bond: Info talk on repressions against Russian
anarchists and antifascists. -- How the FSB is Manufacturing a
Terrorism Case Against Antifascists in Russia. (nl)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Our next reading group will meet 7pm at Freedom Bookshop on the 16th October. This month
we will be discussing crime and justice with the following texts as reading material.
Chapter 5, Crime, from Peter Gelderloos' Anarchy Works available online here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works.pdf p.89 Crime
Normalizing judgement p.177-183 in Foucault's Discipline and Punishment, available online
here:
https://monoskop.org/images/4/43/Foucault_Michel_Discipline_and_Punish_The_Birth_of_the_Prison_1977_1995.pdf
The article on policing in edition 203 of the magazine Black Flag, available online here:
http://libcom.org/library/black-flag-203-1993 ---- At the beginning of the session someone
will need to explain to me how to pronounce Foucault. See you all there!
https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/reading-group-6/
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Message: 2
According to the anti-Semitic adage of the 1930s, " Jews rule the world, " whether they
are capitalist or communist. If many Jews and Jews were involved in the revolutionary
dynamic in Russia, it is first of all to get out of the situation of extreme poverty,
discriminatory measures, and pogroms orchestrated by the tsarist state apparatus. Many of
these Jewish and revolutionary Jews had chosen the libertarian camp and suffered Bolshevik
repression. ---- Russia begins to industrialize the turn of the XX th century, especially
in medium-sized cities Yiddishland. [1]Bialystock is the first home of libertarian Jewish
militancy, following a split in the Bund. [2]Advocating immediate social revolution, these
very young people are eager to do battle with the tsarist autocracy, religion and capital,
finding the Bund or the Socialist-Revolutionary Party too timid in their actions. At the
height of the revolutionary movement of 1905, there are several hundred Jewish libertarian
activists in this city alone. Libertarian groups then try to reach the borders of Yiddishland.
Even if this phenomenon remains a minority with regard to the vast majority of peasants,
the working class of these medium-sized cities, where social conditions are extremely
harsh, will be a driving force of a decentralized revolution. In the climate of latent
social war that follows the failure of the revolution of 1905, the Jewish libertarian
activists very largely choose the strategy " direct action, sabotage, propaganda by the
fact, expropriation ". In a logic of vendetta against the tsarist repression. They and
they practice the armed struggle against the ranks of the army and the police, and commit
attacks against the bourgeoisie. The passage to the act went as far as to throw a bomb in
the synagogue of Krynki which sheltered a meeting of Jewish patrons. These anarchists like
Samuel Schwartzbard initiate self-defense groups against the pogromists.
Riposter to tsarist violence
The reaction of the tsarist power is ruthless. Between 1906 and 1908, the libertarian
movement was eradicated in Russia, especially in Yiddishland. Several thousand activists
perish, others are imprisoned or sent to Siberia. The lucky ones flee to the West and the
United States, where they go to the revolutionary libertarian and syndicalist movement
until 1917, forming new practices of collective struggle and propaganda. It was at this
time that Daniil Novomirsky, very much influenced by Fernand Pelloutier, the promoter of
labor exchanges, in France, invents and uses, in 1907, the term " anarcho-syndicalist ".
The revolution of 1917
Back from exile, in 1917, in " Mother Russia " by the thousands, these Jewish libertarian
activists are numerically ultra-minority in the light of a revolution that engages six
million workers, and a hundred million muzhiks. [3]However, these seasoned activists will
become part of the Russian anarchist movement.
Stripped of the geographical straitjacket of Yiddisland, they joined in numbers Petrograd
and Moscow, animate soviets, including that of Kronstadt, unions, publish libertarian
newspapers, structure libertarian organizations. [4]Physically engaged on all military
fronts, many are those who perish weapons in hand. They are found in particular in
Ukraine, alongside Nestor Makhno.
Then again repression fell on the libertarian movement in April 1918 in Moscow, but this
time it is the Bolsheviks who do the dirty work mainly through their police apparatus, the
Cheka, and the Red Army. Anarchists are sent into exile in the gulags where abuse, cold,
disease and famine cause them to die slowly until the 1930s. In 1920, Olga Taratouta,
whose real name is Elka Ruvinskaia, writes " that a year and a half of Soviet prison " had
cost him " more life than the ten years of forced labor of tsarist times " . She was shot
February 8, 1938 " for anti-Soviet activity and anarchist " at 62 years.
The " red terror "
Jewish libertarians are particularly targeted by the apparatus of Bolshevik repression
because they are quickly spotted as animators and animators of the movement. Their names
will list from 1922 the long lists of libertarian victims of Bolshevik power.
A certain porosity with the Judaic culture gives quite surprising results: the term "
anti-anarchist pogroms " is used to speak of libertarian victims of Bolshevik power.
At the same time, the presence of many Bolshevik Jews and Jews in the Soviet state
apparatus in the first months after the revolution, with the end of discrimination against
ethnic minorities, soon provoked an anti-Semitic reaction. When the extension of the
bureaucracy favors the massive entry of a new generation from the peasant popular strata,
it enters into competition within the Stalinist apparatus, with the " Jews of the first
hour ". These tensions perpetuate popular anti-Semitism that continues to this day in Russia.
Back in exile
Most of the libertarian historians of the Russian Revolution are of Jewish origin. These
intellectuals engaged in the action, Ida Met, Anatole Gorelik, Ephim Yartchuk, Voline,
Alexander Shapiro, or eyewitnesses such as Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, have never
ceased in their exile to give their vision -authoritary of the Russian Revolution to
denounce the Bolshevik exactions. Emma Goldman leaves a moving testimony in her memoirs of
her visit to a Ukrainian village in which Jewish and Jewish residents have just suffered a
pogrom. Their pertinent analyzes of the failure of the Revolution still shed light today
on how to lead our struggles and structure our movement. They are theorizing the Soviet
system as " state capitalism ".
From 1922, the situation in the Gulag and the Bolshevik repression (called " red fascism
" by Voline) is denounced by these activists. Many do not listen to them at this time
because they are anarchists. The right and its extreme can not arrogate to themselves the
monopoly of the denunciation of the Soviet crimes: the anarchists who claim themselves of
communism have all the legitimacy to proclaim loud and clear the horror of the gulags.
Moreover let Gorelik, Voline and Konov speak: " One day the historian of the revolution
will stop astonished and frightened at the pages recounting the persecutions that the
communist government subjected to the libertarian idea, to his followers, propagators and
activists ; he will turn away from these pages with a thrill. At first sight, he will not
believe them. And when he believes them, when he persuades himself of their overwhelming
veracity, he will describe them as the blackest pages in the history of statist communism.
And he will boldly seek the historical and psychological explanation of this bloodthirsty
epic. " [5]
A Jewish anarchist signs the last act of the Russian revolution, in 1927 in Paris: Samuel
Schwarzbard assassinates the Ukrainian pogromist Petlioura with a pistol shot in the
street in front of the restaurant from which he left. His act is considered by the French
justice as self-defense, which allows him to escape conviction. For the record,
Schwarzbard had obtained his weapon from a group of exiled activists of the Spanish CNT. [6]
Jean-Marc Izrine [7]
[1] Region in which the tsars had stationed the Jews of Russia (Lithuania, Belarus,
Ukraine, Galicia, Poland, Moldova)
[2]A specifically Jewish social democratic party and just as numerically important as the
Russian Social Democratic Workers Party.
[3] Peasants in Russian.
[4] See the case of Alternative Libertaire from July to August 2017 , where several Jewish
movement activists are cited.
[5] Brochure The repression of anarchism in Soviet Russia , June 1922.
[6] Juan Garcia Oliver, The Echo of Steps , The Poppy, p.98-99.
[7] Jean-Marc Izrine is the author of Les Libertaires du Yiddishland , editions of
Alternative Libertaire.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Anarchistes-et-Juifs-dans-la-Revolution-russe
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Message: 3
ARE WE FROM THE FLESH TO CANON ? Debate on national service. ---- Macron wants to set up a
National Service, so that young people go to the army or provide services for free ... The
contours of the project are unclear, but we suspect that it will be nationalist, and
perhaps even imperialist ! ---- First and foremost, you have to find out. The debate will
start with a presentation of the government project, as well as more or less similar
projects from other political forces such as France Insoumise. ---- We will then hear the
experiences of militants against military service in the 1970s, who were conscientious
objectors or who created soldier committees. And finally we will open the debate: for or
against the national service ? How to mobilize on this subject ?
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Montreuil-Sommes-nous-de-la-chair-a-canon
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Mikalai_Dziadok, repression, state intelligence
How does Belarusian state intelligence works against opposition? What are the aims and
reasons of political repressions? What are the strategies of KGB and Ministry of Internal
affairs concerning political radicals? You will know it after you watch the video by
Mikalai Dziadok. http://fb.com/happymikola
Do not forget to turn on subtitles!
https://pramen.io/en/2018/09/how-state-intelligence-works/
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Message: 5
The repressive folk from the very early age has been condescendingly showing where their
place is. Download, print and distribute the September issue of the A3 wall paper! ----
That's how the school year began. And somewhere there was a little smoke. In such Hradec
Králové, the poster and nursery doors appeared in action posters, for which no Rambo would
have to be ashamed. The three non-threatened figures (from left to right) offered infusion
from a medical doctor, a phrase full of firefighters and bullets in the head from the cop.
The policeman is camouflaged and the machine gun goes down (the target is children). The
poster invites to the safe-water recruitment and recruitment action. The action was taken
care of by the county governor and promised children to see how to properly preserve them
in crisis situations: in dynamic demonstrations, the police will intervene against a group
of protesters. It interfered. An impressive spectacle. Whoever stood properly stood on the
same side as the riflemen and held their thumbs kneeling at the disgraced protestors.
Damage, that the famous seven-million-yard umbrella cars with a black skull do not appear
dynamically on your face as the car lifts you to the road. Teachers and schoolchildren
could also caress police weapons when they lectured that the police are good and the
demonstrator is evil that the safest for life is to sit at home and leave the armed
policemen in the streets. A good citizen does not have to protest, dear children. We have
anti-Communist capitalism.
We have the least possible evil. So he can protest and demonstrate in our country a
little. By law, it is now mandatory to announce a protest action, not to wait for her
gracious permission, but there are, of course, a lot of vague reasons why the authorities
can ban it, or to dissolve the cops. Just normal as any other regime. The greater the
prospect of invoking historical public protests, which were, of course, unlawful,
anti-governmental. The law always protects the power handle and its truths. Only
repression in their name is sometimes fatal and sometimes just formal.
The symbol of liberty of philosopher Henry David Thoreau once called for us to be alert
when the powers are trying to challenge the law of our humanity. "No state will ever be
completely free and enlightened until it recognizes the individual as a higher and
independent power from which all the state power and authority originates and will not act
accordingly", he wrote in the famous essay Civil Disobedience .
But instead of educating ourselves to create our own judgment, free attitude, and natural
distrust of the power holders, our children are led to "civic obedience." The heads of the
Interior Ministry probably figured that when a child looks at a demonstrator or at least a
figurine who replaces him, through the sight of a police weapon, he will probably recall
in this adulthood and move him quickly. He will not be so willing to go out into the
streets and be afraid of raising his miserable salary, which just keeps him on the debt
trap. He will not point to the practices of exequatur or the deepening climate crisis. And
most importantly, he will not question the sacrament of police weapons directed at his
colleagues and neighbors.
According to the repressive forces, the citizen must be obedient and obey their calls, no
matter how absurd, arbitrary, and even unlawful. As a civic virtue, then the policies that
defend "law and order" are preferred by adaptability. Otherwise, you are among the
so-called "non-adaptive", a stigma that overcrows you, including your descendants,
condemning to life on the edge of society, making you the supposed originator of most
social problems, and hence the great hate of all "adaptable". And there is no joke at the
edge: their children will be forbidden to mate with your children, you will be mocked at
your post office, and you will be able to mock your language in the street. At least in
safe Hradec, these promising results can already be recorded.
If you want your children to be obedient and adaptable puppets, allow them to visit
similar police presentations to know what they are waiting for in the future when they are
out of line.
A3 ( September 2018) to download HERE .
https://www.afed.cz/text/6883/a3-svet-skrz-policejni-hledi
The A3 wall paper is published annually by the Anarchist Federation. They are intended
primarily for spreading through street lifts or posting in workplaces and schools.
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Message: 6
In the run-up to presidential elections and the FIFA World Cup, repressions against
antifascists and anarchists started in Russia. In Autumn 2017, 6 people were arrested in
Penza; several of them had weapons and explosives planted on them. FSB officers then
tortured the antifascists right in the detention facility: they applied naked wires to the
activists' various body parts and turned the electricity on, they beat them up, hanged
them upside down. While torturing them, the agents made the activists learn by heart the
story the FSB needed: they were supposed to confess of having founded and belonging to a
terrorist organization called "The Network". In late January 2018, two more antifascists
were arrested in Saint Petersburg. They, too, were beaten up, tortured with electric
current, and forced to incriminate themselves by confirming they were members of the
"Network".
Right now 11 people are under arrest, 2 of them indicted in organizing "Terrorist
Community". According to Russian laws, this is punishable by 15-20 years in prison
Please, come on Saturday the 6th of October to the Anarchist library (address Eerste
Schinkelstraat 14-16 Amsterdam) at 18:00 to learn more about this case, how you can help
and to write solidarity letters to Russian Anarchists and antifascists!
Library opens at 14:00
Soup & bread at 17:00
Talk starts at 18:00
For more info about repressions on the repressions against Russian anarchist movement,
check out: https://rupression.com/en/
This is organized by the Anarchist Group Amsterdam: https://agamsterdam.org
anarchisten, repressie, Rusland, solidariteit
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/info-talk-on-repressions-against-russian-anarchists-and-antifascists/
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