Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 - international, In
the face of competition, where is US imperialism ? (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 - AL of November is
available ! Content + Editorial, (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 - Webradio: On the
black screen of our ears (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Spain] Madrid: Inauguration of the Vallekas Libertarian
Athenaeum By ANA (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Greece] Video: Anarchists invade Argentine embassy in
Athens By ANA [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Association of Syndicalists of Poland ZSP-IWA: The Court of
Appeal dismissed the action of Pawel Spiewak [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, Brighton Solfed: We delivered a demand letter to a
large letting agency in the city (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Russian blitzes or China's rise to power must not blind anyone. While some military
equilibrium falters, the United States remains, by far, the main imperialist power, the
only one of global scale. We must denounce his actions ... without hushing those of his
competitors. ---- After twenty-five years of US hegemony, the return of Russia and the
rise of China herald a more multipolar world. Or, to be more exact: a less unipolar world.
Indeed, even embarrassed and jostled, the United States remains, by far, the most powerful
and deadliest of the imperialisms emerged winners of the Second World War. ---- Russia is
capable of conducting military operations in its neighborhood - Syria (since 2015),
Ukraine (since 2014), Georgia (2008) - including atrocious colonial wars, as in Chechnya
(1994-2004). But its economic fragility limits its claims to a small number of outside
theaters.
As for China, it is an economic hyperpower very little hawkish, which has not led a war
for almost forty years. It is concerned primarily with the internal order - colonization
of Tibet and Muslim Xinjiang -, dominating its neighborhood - the South China Sea - and
securing its trade routes to Europe and Africa. It is in this sense that she works to
increase her naval and military projection capabilities.
Against the coming of Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Paris, anti-imperialist demonstration
on November 11 at 2 pm, Republic Square
" Trump, Putin, Macron ... against all imperialisms ": Federal leaflet AL to download
Military bases and " lily pads "
The US hyperpower, however, soars far above these two challengers. According to researcher
David Vine, the US Army had, in 2017, 516 major bases and 271 small bases (so-called lily
pads, " water lilies ") in about 80 countries, to which was added 56 spaces rented or
lent to bases military from allied countries. [1]
This huge archipelago, which houses about 200,000 soldiers, represents 95 % of all
military bases abroad, all nationalities combined. This network is a permanent base for
airborne operations and the six US war fleets that crisscross the planet. Armed with this
unparalleled network, the United States has, for twenty years, led several major
interventions: war in Afghanistan (2001), occupation of Iraq (2003-2011), bombing in Libya
(2011), intervention in Syria (since 2014), to which must be added, since 2004, thousands
of drone strikes against al-Qaeda in Pakistan [2], Somalia and Yemen, resulting in
hundreds of collateral casualties.
The fact that some of these adventures have turned into a fiasco, however, reminds us that
the military hyperpower does not solve everything, even if the intoxication it provides
will lead, no doubt, to new deadly adventures.
The archipelago of US bases in the world in 2015.
Click to consult the detailed cartography (15 maps from the work of David Vine).
The US military system is complemented by a system of alliances. The most important is
NATO, which includes 29 European states some of which, like France and the United Kingdom,
are secondary imperialisms, operating in their own zone of influence - Africa, for France.
When he came to power, Trump had plagued the " burden " of NATO and demanded that his
allies contribute more. But there was never any question of leaving NATO. The " deep
state " of America [3]would never have allowed it: because of the security solidarity it
creates, NATO guarantees European consent to US domination.
Arms race
Despite the explosion of the Chinese military budget and the considerable effort of
Russia, the balance of power remains stable. However, technological advances could
redistribute the cards, striking obsolescence two of the strengths-masters of the US power.
Click to enlarge
On the one hand, Moscow has developed weapons that could call into question the
overwhelming US air superiority. For example, the world's most efficient S-400
anti-aircraft batteries are capable of targeting more than 80 aircraft at a time and
prohibiting airspace within a 400-kilometer radius.
On the other hand, Russians and Chinese have successfully tested hypersonic ballistic
missiles, capable of exceeding Mach 5, even Mach 8. With the goal to exceed Mach 20 in a
few years. At these speeds, existing missile defense systems are caught off guard.
These developments are likely to question part of the Pentagon, to the point of being
tempted by the revival of a tactical nuclear arsenal.
In practical terms, this means that the United States would no longer be content with
strategic nuclear weapons - of mass destruction - but would also develop medium-range
missiles (500 to 5,500 kilometers) for more limited interventions on a conventional
battlefield. . It is in this sense that, on October 20, Donald Trump announced his
intention to withdraw from the Treaty on Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (FNI), signed
in 1987 with the USSR to limit tactical nuclear.
Is it bluffing ? Is it about pushing Russia into an arms race that it can not afford ? Is
it blackmail to get China to sign the FNI, as Trump asked ?
One thing is certain, between rival imperialists, competing for the control of global
resources, the arms race is in full swing, in a quest for unbridled technological innovation.
The people of the world have nothing to gain from this deadly competition, which is not
just about entertainment. It carries a permanent risk of skidding war, and it must be
denounced without weakening.
This is what we will do on November 11 in Paris, while Emmanuel Macron will host Donald
Trump and Vladimir Putin for the centenary of the end of the First World War. The message
will be clear: against all imperialisms, no war between peoples, no peace between classes!
Arthur Aberlin (AL Brussels), Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)
Military spending in the world in 2017.
Click to view the visuals of the SIPRI report.
CAMPISM, OR VOLUNTARY BLINDNESS
Should secondary imperialisms be supported on the grounds that they defy the principal
imperialism ? This policy that " every enemy of the enemy camp is in our camp " is
called " campism ". Commonly the far right, the conspiracy, the archaeo-Stalinists, and
even some and some anticolonialists are rightly opposed to Washington, but shamefully
uncritical towards Russian, Syrian, North Korean, Iranian or Chinese potentates.
For their part, the libertarian communists denounce all the imperialisms and rank
themselves on the side of the struggling peoples, in the East as in the West.
In the dominated countries, it is necessary to support the popular forces in fight for the
social and national emancipation, in spite of the calumnies accusing them of rolling for a
competing imperialism. As has been done for Algerian and Kanak independence activists ,
South American guerrillas, independent trade unionists from Poland and the USSR, and today
the Palestinian left and the Kurdish left in the Middle East.
[1] David Vine, " List of US Bases Abroad, 2017 ", from the book Base Nation: How US
Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World , Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, 2015.
[2]To visualize, on this subject the very eloquent infographic " Out of sight, out of
mind " .
[3] " Deep state " refers to the coalition of private and bureaucratic interests that
weighs on the political leadership of a country regardless of the government in place.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Face-a-la-concurrence-ou-en-est-l-imperialisme-americain
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Message: 2
Imperialisms ; United States ; China ; Antifascism ; Librism ; Catalonia ; Investigation
on two UL-CGT ; Psychiatry ; Migrant.es ; Fac Nanterre ; Wind energy ; Pollution ; ZAD of
NDDL ; Sexual violence ; Bund Jewish labor party ; testing ---- Editorial: Malfrats ----
Fighting: Imperialism, the contested US hegemony ---- Faced with competition, where is US
imperialism ? ---- United States - China, a trade war on the backs of workers ----
Anti-fascism policy: Is France a golf club ? ---- Libertarian alternative launches on the
free ---- A shelter, an activist canteen: solidarity ---- Parcoursup: Nanterre, its
sans-fac and its convicts ---- Chronique Ni god or schoolmaster ---- Paul Robin, a
libertarian pedagogue in the republic of black hussars ---- Chronic Echoes of Africa ----
Colonial symptoms for "overseas"
International
Emili Cortavitarte (Embat): " Linking self-determination and self-management "
Italy: Migrants lose their " divine protection "
Syndicalism
Investigation on two UL-CGT: With Francine, Souleymane and Leila, precarious and trade
unionists
Psychiatry: in Amiens, radicalization of the strikers and popular support
Charles Berthonneau (sociologist): " It is necessary to leave from their own experience
at work "
Ecology
Should we do without wind energy ?
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: great maneuvers around the former ZAD
1791: polluters legislate, people pay
Antipatriarcat
Sexual Violence: Towards a Justice for Victims
Who benefits from the crime ?
And meanwhile, the reception places are closing
History
The Bund, a Jewish and universalist workers' party
Culture
Essay: Struggles and Dreams
Essay: Being Forest
Poetry: Beat
Roman Attitude: The Wooden Tips of God
Mail from a
Freinet reader and radical pedagogies
Editorial: Malfrats
It is therefore a new tax fraud that was revealed on October 18 by a journalistic
investigation called " CumEx files ". For years, shareholders and banks have " lent "
shares to avoid paying dividends.
Worse, some have even been reimbursed by the states, taxes they had not paid ! The fraud
is estimated at 55 billion euros over fifteen years. This new scandal is certainly a drop
in the ocean of tax evasion (in France it amounts to 100 billion euros annually), but it
is perfectly indicative of the spirit of organized crime which animates the capitalist class.
Because the racket continues. Public services are being crushed by violent management and
financial strangulation, pensioners are permanently shunned and social aid vilified. All
this for the benefit of a gang of thugs enjoying total impunity.
As such, the fight against economic crime is a perfect illusion. This is primarily the
product of the connivance between those who govern the states, those who run the
companies, and the shareholders. They are sometimes the same. The call for better
regulation is a joke. Because tax law is a perfect labyrinth made by those who use it to
better get away from it. So there is nothing to pull on this side. The only way worthy of
being taken in the fight against capitalist banditry is that of expropriation. Purely and
simply.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?-AL-de-novembre-est-disponible-
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Message: 3
On the very new radiowave association Radio M'S, " Radio Montreuil and Eastern Paris ",
the program Cinédrome, " monthly chronicle of cinema margins and deviation, films out of
the ordinary, rare, forgotten, unknown, invisible , missed or successful, bizarre, bis, or
outright Z " chose for his September return to honor the masterpiece of Kiju Yoshida,
Eros + Massacre. ---- Movie-monster of the Japanese New Wave, shot in 1969, released in an
amputated version of an hour in 1970 (that was it or the total censorship), it is finally
visible in DVD edition in a restored version (superb photo in black and white of Motokichi
Hasegawa) and almost complete, 9 minutes having been lost due to a degraded original coil.
{} Excerpt from the show: " September 16, 1923, in the wake of the terrible and dramatic
earthquake of Kanto, where the state imposed martial law to suppress all kinds of social
outbursts, the anarchist Osugi Sakae, his mistress Ito Noe and a child, the young nephew
of Osugi, are arrested by the military police. They will be beaten to death and thrown
into a well. The film starts from this atrocious historical fact that has upset much of
Japanese society. Osugi, anarchist, was also a fervent supporter of free love: Eros +
Massacre works his political and romantic relations, with his wife Yasuko Hori, a feminist
activist Masaoka Itsuko, and Ito Noe, also feminist and anarchist. But the film does not
stop there and constantly navigates between a fantasy past and the present of 1969, just
as unstable, obscure, elusive. When the film begins, Mako, "daughter or granddaughter or
great-granddaughter" supposedly of Ito Noe, is interviewed by Eiko, a design student. This
is the mistress of Unema, director of advertising, who pays for her sexual services, and
Eiko, suspected of prostitution, will soon be worried by the police. But Eiko is in love
with a friend of Unema, Wada, student, anarchist too .... Past and present will combine,
juxtapose and telescope, and Eiko will replay / imagine many scenes of the life of Osugi
Sakae movement, allowing itself to be penetrated by its transfigured history, recomposed
... who pays for her sexual services, and Eiko, suspected of prostitution, will soon be
worried by the police. But Eiko is in love with a friend of Unema, Wada, student,
anarchist too .... Past and present will combine, juxtapose and telescope, and Eiko will
replay / imagine many scenes of the life of Osugi Sakae movement, allowing itself to be
penetrated by its transfigured history, recomposed ... who pays for her sexual services,
and Eiko, suspected of prostitution, will soon be worried by the police. But Eiko is in
love with a friend of Unema, Wada, student, anarchist too .... Past and present will
combine, juxtapose and telescope, and Eiko will replay / imagine many scenes of the life
of Osugi Sakae movement, allowing itself to be penetrated by its transfigured history,
recomposed ... " That's the pitch. But the film resists any summary and any
simplification, Yoshida resolutely turning his back on all forms of realism and historical
reconstruction, combining political and philosophical issues of lawlessness and Japanese
feminism of the early XX th century, those of his era, those of the multiple challenges of
the 1970s, which echo them in a flamboyant aesthetic. To revisit or discover, therefore: a
work of art, undeniably, and a revolutionary film, in every sense of the word. [1]
Pim Paoum
Eros + Massacre , box two DVDs, Carlotta Films, average price 10 euros
[1] You can listen to or podcast the show and all the previous ones on the internet:
cinedrome.unblog.fr or radioms.fr
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Webradio-Sur-l-ecran-noir-de-nos-oreilles
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Message: 4
" Have you organized in groups? Do not wait any longer. Occupy the lands! Organize so that
there are no bosses or parasites between you. If they do not, it is useless for us to keep
moving forward. We need to create a new world, different from what we are destroying. "-
Buenaventura Durruti ---- In these times of generalized apathy, political opportunism, new
contestatory fashions coming directly from the university, of iphone and misery
coexisting, finally, in these times in which it seems that the molecular development of an
amoeba is easier than any kind of social change, we follow what fits us. ---- Fighting
against capitalist modernity, reformism and, of course, the state. Unlearning their values
and practices, and working to build free people.
For this reason, we are pleased to announce the opening of the new
Ateneu Libertario of Vallekas
It will be located in Rua Padre Don Emilio Franco, nº 59, next to the subway station Nueva
Numancia and the renfe of Entrevias. We are aware that we take possession of a space with
a process of eviction near its end. This circumstance only reaffirms our refusal to cease
our efforts.
This new project aims to build a comprehensive training space, at all levels: manual,
intellectual, emotional ... for which we will use different tools, such as workshops,
courses, lectures, debates, round tables, conferences ...
On the other hand, we also intend to form as a group to participate clearly and actively
in the social and political life of the neighborhood from a revolutionary perspective:
showing the injustices of the system, encouraging self-management, direct action,
solidarity among the oppressed, individual and collective awareness, and self-organized
social action.
We believe that only starting from below and acting in the daily life can we change
society in a profound and radical way. For no party, chief or enlightened, will fight for us.
We encourage you to come and meet us and to participate in the inauguration event that
will be held on November 3 and 4, 2018. Where will we present the project, at the same
time as a fanzine about the Athenaeum and we will listen to an interesting lecture on the
ateneismo vallekano and another on the problems of the neighborhood on video surveillance
and social control. The journey will be accompanied by rich artisanal beer, juices, vegan
dinner and live music.
Health and Freedom.
https://ateneolibertariovk.noblogs.org
anarchist-ana news agency
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Message: 5
Rouvikonas anarchists invaded the Argentine embassy in Athens on Friday (02/11) in memory
of Santiago Maldonado and in solidarity with the Mapuche struggle against the
multinational Benetton and the protests of the Argentine population against his government
and the IMF. Demonstrators hung a banner on the balcony of the building and dropped
leaflets. ---- An extensive statement was posted on the Athens Indymedia portal explaining
in detail the motives for direct action. ---- >> Watch the video here:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=slj9z_1541154462 ---- Source:
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1592695/ ---- Related Items:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/09/06/grecia-video-rouvikonas-ataca-sem-group-company-mytilinaios/
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Message: 6
On 19 September 2018, the Warsaw Court of Appeal dismissed Pawel Spiewak's claim against
Jakub Zaczek in connection with the "Worst Employer of the Year" competition conducted by
the Polish Syndicate Association. He changed the unfavorable verdict of the District
Court, which was made in October 2016. ---- The suit concerned the publication of the
Polish Syndicalists' Union about the results of the Worst Employer 2013 contest , in which
Pawel Spiewak received the second place. Employee reports quoted in the justification of
the competition results indicated, among others, for breaking employee rights and mobbing.
During the trial, former employees of the Jewish Historical Institute testified that Pawel
Spiewak fully deserved the "prize" in the competition .
The plaintiff claimed that the publication infringed his personal rights and demanded the
removal of materials from the network, apologies and remedies. The court in the first
instance acknowledged the plaintiff's claims and ordered the publication of an apology and
the payment of 10,000 compensation. As a result of the appeal written by the lawyer Jonasz
Zak, the lawsuit was dismissed.
In the justification of the verdict, the Court of Appeals wrote:
"it was necessary to state, contrary to the position of the Court of First Instance, that
naming someone" the worst employer of the year "should not be assessed in terms of fact,
it was a typical assessment ... Meanwhile, the truthfulness of value judgments is not
verifiable. it is impossible to implement and violates the freedom of expression protected
by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, for it is undoubtedly the
freedom to express an opinion whose importance in today's society has undeniable value and
which justifies relying on an important public or private interest. In addition, no one
may require other people to affirm himself or to do anything[...].
[...]
The very form of the assessment was also not particularly severe or drastic, it did not
contain offensive terms, which in this respect could result in the recognition that there
was a violation of public goods in the form of even the occurrence of intensive excesses.
It was also worth noting that in the present case the plaintiff was a public figure. The
framework of freedom of expression concerning persons involved in public activities is
broader, including the scope of acceptable criticism, and thus the extent of the need for
such persons to tolerate negative statements about themselves, and greater. People
conducting public activity inevitably, and at the same time aware and voluntary, put
themselves under control and reaction from the public.
[...]
Since a public person can not demand silence and refrain from expressing marks by those
who are interested, he must agree to subject his activity to open criticism. Taking the
above into consideration, it was necessary to assume that the plaintiff as a public figure
should accept calling him the worst employer of the year as acceptable criticism, which of
course did not mean that he had to agree whether to approve such an assessment.
[...]
Although it often turns out to be difficult to set a boundary between an acceptable
formula and one that must be considered unacceptable, it certainly does not follow the
appeal of the appellant. If you follow him, you should only allow statements and positive
evaluations, rejecting everything that contains critical and negative elements. Such a
concept of the limits of freedom of speech is impossible to defend, and opinions and
critical courts fall under the legal right to express a negative assessment.
[...]
Even if the District Court's argument was accepted that the publication contained
information about the fact in the form of providing the results of the competition for the
worst employer of the year, such information would be difficult to regard as unreliable.
None of the parties to the proceedings had questioned that the competition had indeed
taken place, was carried out by the Union of Polish Syndicalists, and among the winners
there was a reason. Therefore, the information understood in this way was based on factual
circumstances. On the other hand, the result of the competition itself was an expression
on which, as indicated above, the scope of freedom of expression is much broader than in
the case of statements about facts. "
The verdict is final.
http://zsp.net.pl/sad-apelacyjny-oddalil-powodztwo-pawla-spiewaka
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Message: 7
Yesterday, with a group of tenants who were informed five days *after* they were supposed
to move into a house that the landlord had changed his mind and that they could no longer
move in. This left these tenants homeless and out of pocket. In the rush to find a new
place, they had to take one with a higher rent than they could really afford. We're
supporting the tenants to demand that this agency pay the difference in rent for the year
between the original property and the one they ended up having to move into. Watch this
space ?
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