Anarchic update news all over the world - 24.11.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  The thirteenth edition of the annual 2.Dh5 Festival will
      return to Amsterdam in February 2019, with the theme 'power' this
      year. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  US, black rose fed: SMALL BAND OF FASCISTS ATTEMPTING TO
      DISRUPT BOSTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ARE QUICKLY REPELLED
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, London Anarchist Federation: Write up of
      anarcha-feminism reading group (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, ipposd: MOBILIZATIONS FOR THE 45 YEARS SINCE THE
      POLYTECHNIC 1973 UPRISING, Posted by "dirty horse" 
      APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  CGT-LKN Euskal Herria: What is the G20? -- Andrés Gallego
      (ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, liberta salonica: Information & photos from the
      course against the Entrepreneurship, Development and
      Competitiveness Conference "Thessalonikiki Summit" 
      15/11 [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Greece, Concentration and promotion on November 25th of the
      Women's Initiative Against Patriarchy by dirty horse [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 - Sexual violence,
      Who benefits from the crime ? (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Are you interested in feminism, queer, anti-racism, anti-fascism, decolonisation, 
anti-militarism, international solidarity, climate/ecology, labour & class struggles, 
migration/no-border, internet freedom/privacy, right to the city/gentrification and all 
their intersections? ---- With dozens of workshops, discussion, and talks we will dive 
into these themes, with a focus on strategies and analysis. At the festival you can meet 
fellow world-changers, get organised, and cook up new plans on our way to a free and 
caring society for all. ---- The program will be announced shortly. Keep an eye on our 
website and Facebook page for updates ---- 2.Dh5
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/2-dh5-festival-komt-in-2019-naar-amsterdam/

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BREAKING - We will update this story as more information is known. ---- BOSTON - On 
Sunday, November 18, a small group of fascists attempted to enter, disrupt and intimidate 
attendees of the Boston Anarchist Bookfair but were quickly pushed out by attendees. The 
group of five to six men who wore matching clothing and face masks attempted to enter the 
bookfair at approximately 4pm and began chanting anti-immigration slogans. One of the 
chants was "Blood and Soil," which was a key slogan of the German Nazi party. The 
individuals are presumed to be members of the fascist organization Patriot Front, which 
uses fascist and Nazi symbolism, and which attempted a similar foiled effort to storm the 
Houston Anarchist Bookfair in September 2017.

Within minutes of the group entering, attendees and organizers quickly surrounded the 
fascists, began engaging them and chanting "Nazis out! Nazis out!" Never making it more 
than ten feet past the entrance and not entering the actual bookfair space itself, the 
entire confrontation lasted less than ten minutes as the group quickly backed down and 
made an exit. No physical altercations were known to have occurred.

Patriot Front, is a splinter group of American Vanguard which collapsed in the wake of the 
2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally. In the aftermath of the protest it was 
revealed that 20 year old James Alex Fields Jr., who murdered Heather Heyer and injured 
dozens of others by driving a car at high speed into a group of counter protesters, 
marched together with American Vanguard during the protest. Since then the group has 
worked to rebrand their fascist politics under the guise of patriotism and focuses on 
anonymous flyering and propagandistic attempts to intimidate left groups and social 
movements, such as several members vandalizing an "Occupy ICE" encampment in San Antonio, 
Texas in August.

The incident is an important reminder that organized security preparations and quick 
reactions are essential to protect the safety of our movements and organizations.

Video footage of the fascist being forced out of the bookfair venue.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1064263033919279105

http://blackrosefed.org/boston-fascist-disrupt-anarchist-bookfair/

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This month we discussed a number of different anarcha-feminist texts ranging from the 
early 20th century to modern day perspectives from the Kurdish feminist movement. As the 
group was so large, we split off into two smaller groups which each held their own 
discussions. Here are some reflections from each group. ---- Group 1 ---- We started the 
discussion with questions about what different types of ‘feminisms' there are and how 
anarchism ideally already includes a class conscious feminism; in contrast to liberal 
feminism limited to questions of the economic equality of privileged men and women, and 
radical feminism, focussing on patriarchy and gender norms. It seemed important to stress 
the intersectional approach of anarcha feminism (e.g. including questions of class and 
race) since this allows the inclusion of e.g. working class women into the traditionally 
middle class efforts of emancipation. We spoke about attempts to align all feminisms, to 
take out the best aspects of all struggles and the possibility of a shared movement - 
however, capitalism got in the way of that! The main issue here was that women struggling 
to simply become like male oppressors (as mentioned in one of the texts, where the 
liberated housewife is allowed to go to work now and subsequently hires a low paid migrant 
cleaner) are not feminists by our definition. The (neo)liberal and capitalist celebration 
of women, which focusses on the consumption of products that then define your identity is 
as questionable to anarchists as is the ‘all women are feminists' approach that leads to 
the likes of Hilary Clinton calling on female solidarity, while implementing policies 
against women's interests.

The suggestion that feminism can be like a lens through which we as anarchists look at 
issues of gender equality and the observation that men also suffer from patriarchal 
structures lead us to discuss anarchist practice with a feminist focus. In general it 
seems to be the case that looking at both anarchism and feminism through each other's 
viewpoint is most beneficial when it comes to any philosophy and subsequent action. 
Feminism with anarchism and an intersectional approach, as discussed in the texts by Audre 
Lorde and bell hooks, is necessary, otherwise it becomes too focussed on replicating male 
structures of domination with women - in an ideal world, women don't become like men, but 
everyone changes. We found that Dilar Dirik's discussion of socialist patriarchy 
especially captured problems of relations between the sexes in a politically sound 
environment - e.g. the antifascist who beats up his wife.

Looking at feminist developments in tbe UK we spoke about propaganda and stereotypes of 
women ‘in charge' of relationships/a family, that are merely caricatures laughing about 
the limited power of women by assigning being in charge of the household to them.

This lead to a more general question of stereotyping women and feminists, e.g. in the 60s 
and 70s where the ‘bra burning' feminist trope/propaganda spread a message of feminist 
antifemininity - at a time where women demanding equality at the workplace/access to 
university was the real problem, demands too antifeminine for some.

The idea of antifemininity seems still present today, also within feminism, which led us 
back to a critique of capitalism and the question on how feminine qualities are defined, 
also in relation to men and their experience of not conforming to masculine clichés.

With many more questions discussed, e.g. in relation to religion, faith, rightwing 
feminism, institutions in general and Emma Goldman's ‘external and internal tyrants' 
anarcha feminism seems to be a topic situated right in the middle if anarchist thought, 
impossible to disconnect from questions of capitalism, class, race and hierarchical 
structures and a highly important discussion to hold.

Group 2

What are the differences between liberal, radical and anarcha-feminism? Liberal feminism 
wants the benefits of capitalist exploitation to be open to women. As capitalism is based 
on colonialism and hyper-exploitation of labour in LEDCs, this is always inherently 
colonial- a woman in the UK can't become a capitalist without exploiting other women both 
in the UK and in LEDCs. You can't be a feminist and a capitalist. Radical feminism seems 
inward looking- viewing men as the enemy. The Dirik piece explicitly warns against a 
retreat into women's only spaces- ultimately we want to change all of society not just 
focus on ourselves. We need to learn more about different feminisms- Kuridish movement, 
Zapatista etc.

Critiquing the feminist movement can be difficult as a man- although I can clearly see the 
problems with liberal feminism it's not my place to tell feminists they're doing it wrong! 
Although it is possible for men to understand the structural/economic aspects of feminism, 
they are never going to understand the fear of walking down a street at night or the 
internalisation of patriarchy. Men are conditioned to expect their voices to be heard 
whereas women are trained to be passive rather than active in social movements. Capitalism 
characterises things which are valuable as masculine and things which aren't as feminine 
and this is still reproduced in left spaces. This links to primitive accumulation and the 
exclusion of women from paid labour to perform unpaid reproductive/domestic labour.

How do we make the anarchist movement more feminist? Valuing ‘feminine' skills within the 
movement, not fetishizing violence, deprogramming of internalised ideas, events like this 
where we discuss what anarchist feminism is to us.

How do we make the broader feminist movement more anarchist? Make feminism a threat again! 
Critique problematic feminism e.g. state feminism in Saudi where ‘good' women can join the 
army to oppress people next to their male comrades. ID politics has its uses as a 
transitionary tool to educate people who are not aware of others' oppression but it is not 
sustainable. The question is how do we increase knowledge/awareness in the movement whilst 
recognising difference?

Our monthly reading group continues on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. The next topic witll 
be ecology.

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/write-up-of-anarcha-feminism-reading-group/

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The 1973 revolt in the Polytechnic school against the military dictatorship was much more 
than just a student turmoil and touched many more issues than opposition to the 
dictatorial regime. It was a social revolt that surpassed the limits of a demanding 
struggle, setting political issues that would always be important such as human freedom 
and dignity, issues of social justice and equality. ---- The presence and action of the 
anarchists in this rebellion, but also in all the events that followed in the 
anniversaries of the Polytechnic uprising, determined to a significant extent the 
development and the character of the anarchist struggle and the radical social-class 
resistances in Greece.
For the movement, the November 17th 1973 uprising is not just an anniversary of memory and 
honor. The struggle of the insurgents of the Polytechnic remains valid today, since its 
freedom contests are still topical. We are still facing the state's violence and 
repression against us, conquests and freedoms are still on state's target, the system 
moves towards total control and totalitarianism.

This year's mobilization involved a crowd of people in all major cities. The collectives 
participating in the Anarchist Political Organization carried out political intervention 
in the three-day memorial and struggle organized in the places where the revolt of 1973 
broke out (Polytechnic University of Athens and Thessaloniki, Patras University Branch 
"Parartima"), and they also supported the demonstrations in the afternoon of November 17.

In Athens and Thessaloniki there were calls by anarchist assemblies of students. In 
Patras, there was a call by the "libertarian form" of the university. In Athens, when the 
very massive demonstration of the anarchist blocks reached its end, police forces, which 
had a particularly challenging attitude, attacked without been provoked.

AGAINST THE "MYTH" OF DEMOCRACY THE INSURRECTION IS STILL ALIVE!

THE UPRISINGS OF THE PAST KEEP OPEN THE ROUTE FOR THE REVOLUTION OF TOMORROW!

ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION, FOR ANARCHY AND LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM!

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/9763/

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To spread what is hidden behind the Group of 20 we leave this didactic video of 
Confluencia Fuera G20FMI to spread what lies behind the Group of 20. Inform yourself and 
join the activities in the Week of Action against the G20 and IMF, 25/11 to 1/12.

For more info: noalg20.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UiZN-DFYoI

NOalG20 Assembly

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On 15/11, a tour was held against the Conference on Entrepreneurship, Growth and 
Competitiveness "Thessalonikiki Summit ", which took place at the Vellidio Conference 
Center. ---- Speakers at the conference were several representatives of the political and 
economic elite, mainly of the Balkans (and not only), as well as representatives of 
supranational organizations and imperialist formations. Among the main guests were the 
prime minister of the country, A. Tsipras, as well as the leader of the main opposition K. 
Mitsotakis. That is, the two main political representatives of local and international 
capital, both civilian politicians of rabid class absolution. ---- The course started from 
Kamara and moved to the Egnatia, Agia Sophia, Tsimiski streets, where it headed for the 
Vellidio Conference Center. Access to the building was totally blocked by MATs and 
platoons. The course continued from Aggelaki and was completed in Kamara. The 
anti-authoritarian block of the process was called by the Eleftherial Initiative of 
Thessaloniki, the College of Anarchists from the Eastern and the Free Social Space School. 
The blockade was also supported by other comrades and comrades. The process was framed by 
about 250 people and the block of about 100.

At the end of the course, the student clubs claimed and eventually succeeded in breaking 
the leg of the cops who cut access to the Polytechnic, on the Ancients, where the clubs 
had a planned event.

Some of the slogans shouting along the way:

WHERE THE CAPITAL IS TALENT FOR INVESTMENTS - RETURNED RETURNS AND PRIVATIZATIONS

THE BASIS OF NATO AND NATIONS GENERATED THE WARS IN THE WHOLE LANGUAGE

DEVELOPMENT MEANS LIFE - LOVE FOR LIFE, LIFE AND FREEDOM

FOR DEFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT MAKES PRIVACY AND NATURE DRAWN

FOR DEFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ALSO INDICATES POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT, RETURNS

FOR EIZ, THEIR PROFITS, RELIGIONS AND PATRES - WHEN NEVER WE WILL MAKE MEAT FOR WATERS

AT THE DIESEL OF THE EZZ AND THEIR OILS - WE DO NOT WANT FOR OUR INTERESTS

POTENTIAL EXERCISE AND MILITARISM IN THE VALLIDIO IS THE BORN

TO SEND THE CONGRATULATORS TO PIGADI TO PATO - ZITO TO THE WORLD PROLETERATE

GREEK MILITARY MILITARY OFFICIALS OF NATO AND AFFILIATES

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/

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THE DAY OF ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SIGNS ---- RACE DAY FOR THE ERADICATION 
OF THE WORLD OF PATRIARCH, STATE AND CAPITAL ---- November 25 is set by the UN as the day 
to eradicate violence against women. It was established in 1991, following the demands of 
women's organizations, almost 30 years later, when the three Mirabla sisters were 
tortured, beaten and strangled to death on the orders of the dictator Trujillo of the 
Dominican Republic. ---- The solemn establishment of such days can not hide the 
innumerable examples of daily, brutal, institutional or otherwise, violence against women 
and all those who are at the bottom of the social and class hierarchy. It is not distant, 
in fact, the examples of the confusion and incarceration of HIV positive women in 2012 in 
a period of zero tolerance for the state, the condemnation of the 22-year-old woman in the 
adjoining Corinth who defended herself against her rapist, the encampment in thousands of 
stackable camps immigrants and immigrants or the wild assassination of Zak Kostopoulos, a 
community activist, seropositive and user, at noon in the center of Athens, in whose face 
they were frantically rushed All those antisocial,

Viewing the film: "Black Aphrodite" Saturday, 24/11, 19:30, in the self-managed area On 
the Face (Patreos 87)
* Following the promotion will follow an economic aid bar.

CONGRESS: KIRIAKIS 25/11, 12:00 m ESPEROS (Pl. Georgiou)
women's initiative against patriarchy | Patras

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2018/11/19

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Patriarchy is a system of domination of women by men. Even for those who do not directly 
experience this physical violence, no woman escapes everyday sexism. ---- All violence 
against women, from street harassment to domestic violence, serves only one purpose: to 
reinforce the domination of men over women. All this violence is the most visible and the 
most terrible part of this domination. They are there to remind women that they are 
dominated. All this violence is part of a system, that is to say, they are not isolated, 
they are not independent of each other. All this violence is interconnected and works 
together. The system in which they return is the patriarchal system.
Patriarchy is a system of domination of women by men. It is a set of laws, rules, 
traditions, imposed or inculcated habits that serve to preserve the dominant position of 
men in society. Women's struggles have made it possible to name and challenge patriarchy 
but, despite the advances, this system remains firmly anchored and men continue to enjoy it.

Some figures: all working time combined, men earn 23.5% more than women  ; on average, 
women spend 3 hours 26 per day on domestic tasks, compared with 2 hours for men  ; there 
are only 27% women in the National Assembly and 25% in the Senate  ; 78% of part-time 
employees are women.

Rape, an unpunished crime
How can such an inegalitarian system continue to exist  ? Because laws, court decisions, 
media discourses, customs, etc. continue to guarantee the domination of men. And when all 
this is not enough, violence against women is the last resort and tool men have to assert 
their domination. There is a real tolerance for this violence, even though there is still 
too little change in the seriousness of the convictions and the increase in complaints.

The judicial system, for example, guarantees impunity to the aggressors. The "   Context 
of sexuality in France   " survey conducted by Inserm and INED reveals that 20.4% of women 
aged between 18 and 69 have suffered violence. during their lifetime. Similarly, the State 
estimates each year that 84,000 women aged 18 to 75 are victims of rape in France. 
Nevertheless in 2014, only 5,558 complaints were filed and of these, only 1318 resulted in 
a conviction. Such figures show that rape is an unpunished crime.

But even for those who do not directly suffer this physical violence, no woman escapes 
everyday sexism. The threat of potential physical violence hangs over all women on the 
street or at home. No woman is immune to an abusive partner, unwanted sexual intercourse, 
sexual harassment at work, insults or touching in public spaces and these perpetual 
threats emancipation, the ability to take risks and to have confidence in oneself. Women 
must collectively emancipate themselves from this fear and implement the necessary means 
to guarantee their safety.

What are the interests of men in patriarchy ? At work, women serve as an adjustment 
variable for bosses (who are mostly men) and are therefore more often part-time or on 
precarious contracts. The male employees also benefit from the situation since the female 
employees will progress less quickly and will do less shade. At home, men benefit from 
women's free domestic work (childcare, cleaning, cooking). They can also enjoy free sexual 
services in the name of an alleged marital duty. In society, men feel all-powerful in the 
public space (in the street, on the terrace of cafes, etc.) and they completely dominate 
the political social life, whether in the institutions (on the benches of the Senate or 
the National Assembly) or in the media.

Since violence against women is part of a system, the only way to really stop it is to 
dynamize this system, that is, to blow up everything that keeps up patriarchy: the sexual 
norms. , moral norms, family norms, the precariousness imposed by capitalism ... In the 
meantime, we can of course reduce this violence. And you have to do it. But we must keep 
in mind that the fight will not stop until the foundations of the patriarchate have been 
destroyed.

It is a daily struggle in which the weapons are solidarity and sorority.

AL anti-patriarchy commission

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?A-qui-profite-le-crime-7983

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