Today's Topics:
1. Britain, Brighton Solfed: Today 28-10-18 was our third
monthly drop-in meeting. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Belarus anarchists pramen: Extremism non-stop!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. UNIVERSITY: ANOMIA, SAFETY AND DEATH ... THE ANTI-SENSITIVE
STUDY by dirty horse APO (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
It was, open to anyone looking for advice or support with the problems we all face at work
and at home from bosses and managers, landlords and estate agents. ---- We spoke to
tenants looking for advice on making sure they get their deposit back when they move out,
and helped a group of tenants submit a dispute via MyDeposits after they received a string
of dodgy deductions from a major Brighton estate agency known for stealing students'
deposits. We also began writing a letter to begin a campaign demanding compensation for
another group of students who've been strung along by an estate agency who at the last
minute told them that the house they were going to be moving into had been torn apart for
development work, leaving them temporarily homeless.
Our drop-ins are at The Phoenix Centre, 2 Phoenix Place (BN2 9ND), on the final Sunday of
every month. In the meantime, you can contact us on email at brighton@solfed.org.uk, or by
text at 07427239960
An injury to one is an injury to all!
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Message: 2
At October, 20th, we have found out that the page of our anarchist group in Vkontakte
social media was blocked on a Belarusian territory. ---- This step of state authorities
came as no surprise to us. This is the third (!) blocking of our group in Vkontakte (the
biggest social media service in post-USSR countries) since December 2015, when our media
team was created. ---- For 6 months 24 days since the last banning our group has attracted
more than 2000 subscribers. This means that our ideas are relevant, important, and most
significantly - dangerous for frightened cops, bureaucrats, censors and security officers.
We have been and remain a thorn in the eye of the nonentities, who fear the truth like
fire, who fear our radical criticism and our uncontrollable actions.
A whole pack of guards and chiefs of all stripes strained their last convolutions in order
to prevent the spread of our ideas, to block the path of our word to the masses. The
GUBOPiK (The Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption - a de-facto
political police) again sent a petition to the court, which through its "expert
committees" of pop-eyed old farts once again recognized material posted on our website as
extremism and sent them to the Ministry of Information, that in turn demanded from the
social network Vkontakte (owned by the pro-Putin oligarch Usmanov) to block our page on
the territory of Belarus. And if they are so afraid of us - then we do everything right!
Here we also need to mention that our website was blocked even earlier: at October, 2016,
just 10 month of creation. The procedure is the same: the materials posted there, were
acknowledged as «extremist» and therefore not allowed for Belarusians to read
There also were a case when our comrade was arrested and fined for distributing the
brochures with our website name on cover. The court labeled brochures as «extremist» just
having for «pramen.io» on them.
The censorship and repression are getting harder every day, the whole fucking state
apparatus: GUBOPiK, KGB, courts, Ministry of information, are against us, but nevertheless
we will never give up the struggle!
The new page of Pramen Vkontakte (vk.co/pramen_2) have raised up within few hours after
blocking. It now has more than 100 followers. This means that political radicalism,
disrespect for the authorities, hatred for civil servants, the idea of class war, calls
for revolution and anti-state activities, extremism - all this with even more momentum
will be kindled on our pages.
As you know, Vkontakte is not the most friendly place for anarchists so we have spread our
presence to the other platforms: Diaspora, Telegram, Facebook, Livejournal. Also we have a
mailing list.
If you would like to help us in our struggle you can do it with reposting our news
(pramen.io/en - for English-speakers, or check our Reddit) of for donating us, which will
help us to improve our infrastructure and resist the pressure of authoritarian system.
Bitcoin: 1GA6BbhWArCmJDkK7chD2yiD2TGeBREy7p
Paypal: pramen@riseup.net
TRUTH! ANARCHY! PRAMEN!
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Message: 3
Thoughts on the criminalization of the struggles on the basis of Paraskevopoulos' finding
---- On Wednesday 19 September it was published and handed over to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Education, the findings of the "Committee for the Study of Academic Freedoms and
Peace in Universities". It has also been sent to the administrations of the universities
who can comment. The three central issues with which the "Paraskevopoulos conclusion" is
concerned are: ---- violence within universities, the issue of squatting in campuses and
the issue of drugs. ---- In fact, this "new" finding has nothing new as it moves in the
same direction that the state has long ago. In fact, it is a variation of the broader
effort being made with particular intensity in recent years for the deepening of control
and surveillance and universities, for hitting the association and the criminalization of
social-class resistance. An attempt to sterilize the universities and discipline the
student body, either by suppressing and controlling, or by intensifying our studies. An
attempt on the part of the state to put everything that moves outside the institutional
frameworks that it forms and defines as acceptable and legitimate in its entirety.
Universities have always been the center of the issue of "lawlessness" and security, with
key players in this perception of reactionary forces such as the DAP-NDFK and various
prominent academics. Obviously the well-known parrots of the Mass Media they did not miss
the opportunity to either muddy every racing mobilization under the pretext of the
"lawlessness", or to pave the way for repression, to increase control and surveillance.
What is characteristic is that in the broader context of "lawlessness" are the occupied
and self-managed spaces within the universities, the occupations that take place at times
to create a center of struggle, as well as mobilizations concerning the student clubs and
their action. Besides, for decades squats, with the different character that each one can
bring, have been at the forefront of repression (from occupations that for years have been
a part of conscious and self-organized resistance, being the focal points of struggle and
fermentation, to the student occupations that several times with the mass and their
combat, have blocked state plans in education). Today, their repression comes back in an
imperative, expanded and upgraded way on the state agenda: have blocked state plans in
education). Today, their repression comes back in an imperative, expanded and upgraded way
on the state agenda: have blocked state plans in education). Today, their repression comes
back in an imperative, expanded and upgraded way on the state agenda:
" Academic functions and free dialogue are constantly disrupted", "confrontation of the
assertive character of temporary occupations of universities by students or other groups
with or without deterioration", "review of the system of guarding the Universities", "in
the event of an offense serious crimes (felons, crimes against life), public power
intervenes on its own initiative, and the question of the functioning of an asylum
committee does not arise ".
It is obvious from the "findings" (typical of the extent of each issue and the
over-analysis of the response to the mobilizations) as well as from the "general
preventive measures" proposed, that the government's great desire is to hit the resistance
and upgrade of the custody regime. In this context, security is proposed in the schools,
control of every activity (even the tax evasion parties), while the asylum goes for walks
(as it has already been done with the Gavroglu law) as any references to it are in the
sense of the academic .
The report proposes the creation of an "Asylum Committee" to construct the institutional
framework for police intervention in the event of a misdemeanor, but at any time it judges
(in the case of a felony, the police intervenes on its own initiative), but also other
committees (which may include representatives of students ) in order to prevent and deal
with squatting. The report also states that the government, in co-operation with
university administrations, is in a position to allocate space to students or to "groups
in which the majority of them are students" but always "to a strict institutional framework".
We observe for another moment the "cheese" of student participation in the committees and
thus in the decisions. This move attempts to create a supposed treaty of democracy and
student participation in decisions. In essence, it seeks to distract the students'
consensus and legitimize decisions directed against the achievements of the struggles that
have been given for decades under the pretext of "participation" and "dialogue." In
addition, the finding, at the opposite of the self-managed sites, suggests the creation of
recreational spaces that will operate under the strict supervision of jewelery. Those
places that will be stripped of anything radical and subversive,
Just a few days after the publication of the findings, on the occasion of the occupation
of a room in the Philosophy by the anarchist collectivity "Rubikon", rectoral authorities,
media and various reactionary forces started a delirium, turning the issue into its
"hottest" and "most important" current situation. Initially, a series of announcements
were made by the Rector's Office, PEDDEP, as well as statements by the Dean of Philosophy,
condemning the occupation and saying that these movements "impede the academic and
educational function and therefore there must be direct intervention by the state ". On
17/10 a group of teachers decided to expel Rubikon from the school by "guarding" and
"reopening" the room. The movement of teachers, the declarations of civilian personnel and
the media misleading following about "lawlessness" in philosophy can only be perceived as
signs of an attempt to ban political expression and action within the universities. An
attempt to challenge even the possibility of a political group within the universities.
After the lock-out of the Philosophy on Thursday, 17/10, the Senate also proceeded to
lockout out of the ASOEE on the occasion of the "presence of addicted people inside and
outside the premises of ASOEE" by asking "the competent authorities to solve the problem"
An attempt to challenge even the possibility of a political group within the universities.
After the lock-out of the Philosophy on Thursday, 17/10, the Senate also proceeded to
lockout out of the ASOEE on the occasion of the "presence of addicted people inside and
outside the premises of ASOEE" by asking "the competent authorities to solve the problem"
An attempt to challenge even the possibility of a political group within the universities.
After the lock-out of the Philosophy on Thursday, 17/10, the Senate also proceeded to
lockout out of the ASOEE on the occasion of the "presence of addicted people inside and
outside the premises of ASOEE" by asking "the competent authorities to solve the problem"
The "Paraskevopoulos conclusion" comes shortly after the Gavroglu law (a natural extension
of older drafts, such as the framework law). A law that expands legal and repressive
arsenals on a number of issues (eg asylum) and on the other hand enhances the attack on
universities and not just institutions as part of the educational restructuring that has
taken place in recent years. A law that succeeded in the merger - the abolition of TEI
departments, tuition fees for postgraduate students, classed "academic" asylum, introduced
the economic autonomy of universities paving the way for their further connection with the
market and created "biennial courses" or "certificates" of 120 ECTS.
While the rector of the University of Patras celebrates the completion of the famous fence
(cost only € 590,000!), While the cameras are placed in many sections, the security
patrols are stepped up and the constant control (even with drone! ) to anyone who enters
the area, in the Architecture Department there are no teachers to teach (last year there
was a suggestion from the chairman of the department to create an annex with tuition fees
in Athens for Athenian students), the workers in the halls remain simple eradicators and
mobilize, the cleaners are unpaid and under a work galley. At the same time, many students
stay out of the halls as the number of places is not enough to meet needs,
By means of a series of methodologies, regulations and bills, the state is gradually
withdrawing from any student care provision by passing the cost of attendance on the backs
of students and turning student care into rewarding. Last year, we saw the university
textbooks being suspended, the outbreaks of INDI- ABIM being closed, and the number of
students who have access to housing and food has fallen further. A few days ago, the Board
of Directors of the AUTh Club announced the application of a fee to those who are not
entitled to a diet card (something that has been achieved in other universities). After
the direct reactions of the students, the Board hastened to withdraw by saying that this
is only a rumor. Still,
Against this gloomy reality, we must organize our resistance, we must catch the thread of
the races again and claim that we belong to it. Faced with the disorientation of the
student - and not only - body - from the real problems, let us bring our interests and
needs back to the fore. Against the slander of the struggle and of the collective claim
against the dispersion of fear and terrorism towards the culture of defeatism and
frustration and the logic that nothing changes, to draw inspiration from the struggles of
the past and to take life in our own hands . Against the fake dilemma of "academic freedom
and peace" and "lawlessness", we must fight for social and class emancipation. Against the
efforts of the sovereigns to cut off the struggles from every social-workplace, we can
respond with their empowerment and interconnection. Faced with attempting to sterilize
universities from every sense of struggle and collectivity, against the criminalization of
all forms of resistance, we re-establish the university by turning it into a living race,
fermentation and politicization cell. To make universities, workplaces, schools and
neighborhoods of resistance, claim, solidarity, disobedience and disobedience in the plans
of the rulers. against the criminalization of all forms of resistance, to reorganize the
university by transforming it into a living race, fermentation and politicization cell. To
make universities, workplaces, schools and neighborhoods of resistance, claim, solidarity,
disobedience and disobedience in the plans of the rulers. against the criminalization of
all forms of resistance, to reorganize the university by transforming it into a living
race, fermentation and politicization cell. To make universities, workplaces, schools and
neighborhoods of resistance, claim, solidarity, disobedience and disobedience in the plans
of the rulers.
To collectivize in autonomous / libertarian schemes within schools. Organize our
intervention so generally in the university area, and especially in the general assemblies
of the departments. To set up a libertarian proposal for organization and struggle within
the university institutions, which will be able to cope with the fervor and consistency of
the challenges posed by the conjuncture, the exaggeration of our needs, and the wider
depreciation of our lives. Linking and radicalizing struggles to meet our needs and
promoting our interests. To exaggerate the small but very important student class denials
that are being developed in the university everyday life. Strengthen collective struggles
within the University (General Assemblies, Mobilizations, etc.).
Through organized, collective and unpretentious struggles and far from any logic of
leadership and assignment that only disturbs and weakens the struggle to bring to our
forefront our interests, needs and desires. With a weapon of class solidarity, let us
connect with the struggles of the workers, organize and resist every attack we take. We do
not claim anything less than everything, we want them all and for all!
AGAINST THE CONTROL, DISCHARGE AND CONTROL OF RESISTANCE
SOCIAL AND TAX GAMES ARE NOT LEGAL - NOT ILLEGAL. YOU ARE LAW!
AGAINST TAXIC BARRIERS, RUNNING AND TREATMENT
RESPONSE AND COMPETITION IN AND OUT OF SCHOOLS
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