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1.  avtonom: Interview with a participant of the protests of the
      "yellow vests" in France -- Xenia Yermoshina [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Libertarian Alternative Nantes: Despite a media campaign of
      fear to dissuade us from taking to the streets, more than 5, 000
      people have been demonstrating for hours in the rain and
      lachrymos! [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, Espero banner from the initiative of women against
      patriarchy Posted by dirty horse APO [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #289 - Post: Management by
      terror kills ... and stirs up anger (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Clash November-December,
      High school students, students, it's also our struggle ! (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  coordination des groupes anarchistes CGA-lyon - A little
      analysis at the moment T. on the current movement of yellow
      vests. (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The "yellow vests" movement (Gilets Jaunes) became one of the largest in recent years in 
France, which seemed difficult to surprise. People were outraged by the plans of the 
government of Emmanuel Macron to raise taxes on diesel fuel. The poor French, who for 
several years in a row actively urged to buy models on diesel fuel, came under attack 
first of all. ---- The protests began in the provinces and almost immediately escalated 
into street wars with the police and the accompanying burning of cars, barricades, broken 
windows of banks and expensive restaurants. And the demands of the economic quickly turned 
into political - the resignation of the president. As a result, yesterday, December 4, 
French Prime Minister Edouard Philip announced the introduction of a moratorium on raising 
fuel prices. But does this mean the end of the protests themselves? We talked about the 
reasons for the protests, participants of the "yellow vests" movement, decentralization, 
street fighting and ecology with a direct participant in the events in Paris, Xenia 
Yermoshina.

Yesterday in the media there was news that the French Prime Minister announced a 
moratorium on raising the price of diesel fuel. This is victory?

The fact is that the "yellow vests" movement really initially set as its goal the 
abolition of this fuel tax. But subsequently the demands grew. And since the movement is 
heterogeneous and includes very different people, many have put forward broader 
requirements, namely, they began to demand the resignation of Macron. Therefore, for some 
part of the movement, this is indeed a victory, but for the other - this is not the end.

So, the participants of the movement refused to go on negotiations with the government, 
which were to be held on Monday. The delegation of "vests" at the last moment stated that 
they were not going to go there. And one team from the province issued a statement that 
"we do not want any representatives, and we need to be decentralized" - in essence, 
continue the form of organization that was originally. There are no leaders in the 
movement, no trade unions, no middlemen.

Interestingly, due to the fact that everything is organized through Facebook, negotiations 
should be conducted with the moderators of these Facebook groups. The movement has no 
leaders, but the authorities need to communicate with someone. And this is a very 
interesting new figure. If before those were union representatives, now they are 
moderators. Although this does not mean that they are indeed leaders of the movement. 
Their names were simply known, and the authorities could figure them out from the crowd.

That is, the authorities agreed to make these concessions even without negotiations?

Exactly. I think that to achieve the introduction of the moratorium so quickly it turned 
out precisely because the protesters did not go to the negotiations. This way of 
organizing protests is completely unfamiliar to the French government. It is not 
accustomed to working with such movements. Indeed, over the past ten years, protests have 
developed in approximately the same way. When I studied student movements, the protests 
were extremely similar: everything starts as a grassroots movement, universities are 
mobilized, but unions gradually take over and set the tone for the movement. Negotiations 
are conducted with them. So, for example, in 2006, at the expense of backstage 
negotiations of trade unions and the socialist party, people were able to get people off 
the street. And there is simply no one to talk with. Therefore, the power and made 
concessions. This is the first. Secondly, because people went to violence. And thirdly - 
because the movement is very new in its demographic composition. Its main base is 
40-50-year-old men-hard workers.

Could you tell in more detail who became the backbone of this movement and what place in 
it was occupied by political forces - both left and right?

Geographically, it all started with the province. Small cities. The 18,000-strong city of 
Tyuir, where the prefecture was burned, may be indicative. The basis was made up of people 
from such cities and villages - farmers, workers, small entrepreneurs, railway workers. By 
the way, the railwaymen played a significant role, as they were the first to strike, 
blocked the roads and even broke down the rails leading to the northern station of Paris. 
That is, a demographically ordinary participant in the movement is a white French worker 
older than 40. And because of this, the rightists came there rather quickly.

Almost from the beginning of the movement there was a lurch in the right direction. But 
recently a discourse analysis of the Facebook group of "yellow vests" was held, conducted 
by a laboratory in Grenoble. The group has about 1.5 million members. The results of the 
analysis state that there is practically no racist language as such in posts and comments. 
Yes, of course, there are ultra-right elements in the movement that have taken root in the 
protests, and this can be seen at rallies. But in the general mass, according to research 
, there is no pronounced racism in the movement. As there is no left agenda. They 
themselves initially served themselves as apolitical.

I know for sure that the anarchists kept away for the first two weeks. Many anarchist 
blogs have made claims that the Rights are there and we don't want to walk the streets 
with them. But then they realized that the protest was much broader - it was a nation that 
was tired. Who believes neither left nor right, who does not know where to put himself, 
and who does not have his own political language or political culture. In the analysis, 
this Internet community is called L'internet des familles modestes - "The Internet of 
Modest Families". These are people with modest incomes who do not know where to go and who 
to rely on. As a result, the anarchists decided that they needed to join the movement, and 
on December 1 they were already on the streets.

Now anarchists are also trying to actively infiltrate the protests. There was even a wave 
of rumors that they did not go to the negotiations precisely because the anarchists made 
their way into the backbone of the movement and almost physically restrained those who 
wanted to negotiate. But for now this is at the level of rumors that need to be checked.

If I understand correctly, the bulk of the protesters at this time were people who usually 
do not go to mass demonstrations. Why did they perform this time? Yes, and put forward 
political demands - the resignation of Macron.

Why they performed was really interesting. I'm afraid there is no one answer. But it can 
be assumed that this was a consequence of a number of unpopular laws that Macron adopted. 
The same labor reform - it was very unpopular. The law on the reform of the labor code had 
to be pushed through a special provision - 49.3. This provision allows in case of an 
emergency1 to adopt any law without discussion. His adoption was accompanied by large 
protests, called "Night standing". There were other protests in the 17th year. But then it 
was a typical left and trade union protest. And the working people looked at it all: "Yes, 
the law is bad, but, probably, we will sit at home for the time being." But, apparently, 
raising fuel duties was the last straw of what happened with the budget sphere as a whole.

People came from very different sectors. After all, the reforms affected not only fuel. 
Due to recent reforms, low-cost railways were under threat, and the railway workers came 
out at about the same time as the "vests". The protests overlapped each other and 
eventually merged into one.

Macron reforms are extremely unpopular. He is called "president for the rich" or 
"president of startups" because he is actively promoting new forms of employment, such as 
those using Uber. Such a "uberisation" of labor. Therefore, by the way, taxi drivers also 
joined the protest. Many believe that at the expense of ordinary people, he is trying to 
solve the problems of the rich.

I wonder where the symbol of yellow vests came from. According to French law, such a vest 
should be in the car for everyone. That is, he became the one that symbolically united 
everyone, including the poorest drivers - those who have diesel cars and who should have 
suffered the most from raising taxes. The movement was immediately called "a black block 
in yellow vests," as they look the same - equally dressed people who smash and turn over cars.

Tell me please, so who did resort to violence? Are these young people from dysfunctional 
neighborhoods, "radicals", "vandals" or ordinary protesters?

"Yellow vests" very quickly moved to a physical presence in space and "work" with space 
and infrastructure. The railway workers broke the rails (they didn't just sit on them with 
placards, but they broke it). Immediately, the "blockade" began, burned tires, turned over 
cars, built houses at road junctions from improvised means and organized permanent camps 
in them. Even today, dozens of such "blockages" persist throughout the country. 
Confrontation from the very beginning was physical. The same prefecture in Tyuir burned 
adult men. Healthy white guys with rakes and shovels came out and beat them on the 
windshield of cars. There were also guys from poor areas or Bretons with their flags. 
Complete blend. So to say that it was done only by some dysfunctional teenagers, it is 
impossible. Such men also did not hesitate to set fire and turn over. At some point, 
everyone did everything together.

Yes, it's over, it is impossible to deny the fact that someone ran into the shops and 
pulled out something. But this is part of the popular anger, which is directly directed 
against the bourgeois regions. After all, the Paris protests unfolded in very prestigious 
areas with extremely expensive housing. If you live there, then you are already an enemy.

Even for an ordinary party protests? They also took part in attacks on elite neighborhoods?

Yes Yes. Initially, the place of the main demonstration was chosen Champs Elysees, which 
are not only close to the Elysian Palace, but are also a place of concentration of 
boutiques and banks. This is a financial district. And this choice was absolutely not 
accidental. The participants were fully aware, and anti-capitalist slogans were even 
advanced by right-wing political groups participating in the protests.

In general, the protesters did the same thing that the black block usually does, but this 
time there were too many of them, and the police turned out to be completely unprepared 
for this. Protests took place in different places, people constantly moved in small 
groups, and in order to cope with this, it was necessary to isolate half of the city. 
Today I heard that in one day about 10 thousand grenades were fired, and at some point the 
police simply began to lack an arsenal.

There is another interesting contradiction. After all, a tax increase on fuel was filed as 
an environmental measure to reduce emissions into the atmosphere, and it looks like a 
rather progressive measure. Does it not happen that the "yellow vests" are fighting 
against progressive environmental initiatives?

In this case, it turned out that the environmental measure was taken at the expense of the 
poor. Instead of taking taxes from large enterprises that pollute the environment much 
more than cars, they decide to put the problem on the shoulders of the people. That is 
what people did not like. People are not against ecology, not against saving the planet, 
but they understand that they are being deceived. After all, at the same time, those who 
are really responsible for pollution pay either as much as they paid before, or do not pay 
anything at all.

In addition, in 2015, the climate summit was held in Paris, where no effective measures to 
reduce carbon dioxide emissions were taken. For example, it was proposed to reduce the 
cost of trains, making them cheaper than airplanes. But this decision was never made: 
monopolists do not want to reduce the cost of train tickets. A new law will only raise prices.

Everyone understands this problem. Everyone would like to live on a clean planet with good 
air. But people do not understand why they, and not large enterprises, should pay for this.

If you believe the authorities, the decision on the moratorium should be officially made 
in the next couple of days. Will this end the protests? Which of the protesters will 
satisfy such a decision, and who will continue to fight for political demands?

It is difficult to say unequivocally, but those who have already come out with slogans 
against Macron - and there were a lot of those - probably will. Although, of course, not 
all. Anarchists will definitely participate to the last. Indeed, there is a fear that the 
protests will decline. But the result can be unpredictable. In addition, new lyceum 
protests have begun. They are blocking their high schools all over the country, and this 
may be a sign of a new round of events. Everything will be clear this Saturday, which was 
scheduled for the next big wave of protests. I would say that the protest may subside in 
its present form, but something new may begin.


https://avtonom.org/news/intervyu-s-uchastnicey-protestov-zheltyh-zhiletov-vo-francii-kseniey-ermoshinoy

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The march for the climate and the union rally joined the march of the yellow vests arrived 
in front of the prefecture. The procession was blocked by the police and had no choice but 
to turn back. While the compact crowd stagnated in front of the prefecture, the 
discussions and meetings going well in a friendly atmosphere, the police launched, in full 
crowd, the first salvo of tear gas. ---- But this free repression, aimed at frightening 
and dissuading is ineffective in the face of such anger! The level of determination of 
those present was revealed again, the crowd remained present and did not hesitate to 
return to challenge the cops. They were several times in difficulty in the late afternoon 
facing thousands of people still present around Commerce and apparently having no desire 
to give ground in the face of police violence. For many people met, however, these were 
their first manifestations. A very nice party atmosphere, no doubt, Christmas is coming;)

In the morning, a dozen small filter dams were set up in different places to make 
themselves visible and inform the population of the demonstration of the aftermath.

In Saint-Nazaire, the four round entry points of the freight port have been blocked and 
are still blocked!

The atmosphere is electric and the anger that arose a few days ago seems well rooted. The 
lead chip is finally cracked and a gap is open. It's up to us to rush in to win and 
restore confidence and awareness to our class!
We have 4 days left to prepare for December 14th strike. At work!

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THE CALENDAR OF THE CLEANING IN VOLOS, THE STUDY OF THE STUDENT IN RHODES AND THE RISKS OF 
THE SILVES IN ALL THE WORLD, DEMONSTRATES THE STATE, CAPITALISTIC AND PATRICARIAN EQUALITY 
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AND TRIAL WARS FOR LIFE AND DIGNITY ---- (...) The intensity of the 
assault and the violence we accept at all levels can not be different from what we accept 
in the field of discrimination because of our sex or our sexuality. The dozens of rapes, 
humiliation and further assault on female fighters in repressive operations, the special 
working conditions of women, slavery and forced prostitution are just some of the examples 
as they are crystallized in the modern world. Because we recognize that freedom is neither 
granted nor granted, but is conquered through the struggles themselves, we can only 
organize, collectivize as women and resist all together, with the workers, the unemployed, 
the students, the students, THE LOVE people, to unite our voices and our action against 
our daily dynasties, with a vision of a society of equality, dignity, freedom and 
solidarity. Because the day of eradicating violence against women will be the day that we 
will shatter the rotten world of patriarchy, state and capital together and build that of 
women's emancipation, social self-management and anarchy.

COLLECTING OUR RESOURCES AGAINST WHO, WHAT WE COME

WOMAN FOR WOMEN'S HANDLING AS AN INCORPORATIVE PLAY OF THE COMPETITION AGAINST PATRIARCH, 
THE STATE AND THE CAPITAL

(from Nov. 2018) an
initiative of women against patriarchy

enantiastinpatriarxia@gmail.com
contact: every Tuesday 19: 00-22: 00 in the self-managed area On the Front (Patreos 87)

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Humiliation, placardisation, isolation of "  strong heads  " ... the successive suicides 
of two letter carriers, in the Dordogne, are not isolated events. Hierarchy makes us war ? 
War on the hierarchy. ---- This autumn, in the Dordogne, two letter carriers committed 
suicide at an interval of fifteen days. In sickness for months following daily pressures, 
they have been victims of zealous cadres who have multiplied medical checks to push them 
to the irreparable. ---- These dramas are not isolated events. They are the climax of a 
violence suffered every day - the same day as the first suicide, an activist SUD-PTT for 
example was removed from his car and thrown to the ground by three supervisors following a 
verbal altercation with his director.

In 2012 and 2016, several postmen and women had ended their days, including in the 
workplace. There followed a report of "  experts   " and two agreements signed by 
reformist unions but rejected by SUD and the CGT ... In reality, these agreements have 
mainly helped the Post to carry out its harmful reforms of work organization and breakage 
public service.

Hunger strike and epileptic seizure
In all services, these are humiliating daily remarks from executives who act with 
impunity, as in this financial center where a framework requires that we choose between " 
the Postal Bank and his children  ". It is the mail carriers, who are hit hard by a change 
in their job and their schedules, who are under the greatest pressure from management. In 
Savoie, a factor pushed to the end began a hunger strike ; the regional manager accused him of

Follow the Franchise Postale , blog of LA activists working in the postal sector
to eat in secret, then threatened to take care personally of his case ... La Poste ended 
up dismissing the postman. This same frame is not at his first attempt: while he was 
giving a hate speech to the staff of a striking establishment, a letter carrier had an 
epileptic seizure, without him moving ... even before the arrival of firefighters !

Humiliation, placarding, isolation of "   strong heads   " ... La Poste theorized all this 
a few years ago by designating some and some postal workers as "   doormats   ", like 
Orange, whose former leaders will soon be judged in correctional for their management, 
which has led dozens of employees to depression and suicide.

We are postmen and postmen who have never had any illusions about the direction of a 
company that, every day sinks a little more into ignominy. As a union says, "   now you 
have to stop them   . " This can only be done through a collective response by agents. The 
colleagues of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, demonstrated this by asserting their right of 
withdrawal. They and they did well: their action resulted in the eviction of executives 
who sowed terror in the services  !

Hugo (AL Orleans)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-Poste-Le-management-par-la-terreur-tue-et-attise-la-colere

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A little everywhere in France, the same anger, the same determination and the same desire 
not to let it go. Everywhere, wild protests that defy the police. Everywhere blocked roads 
and workers on strike. This revolt, which crosses the country, is also that of lycenes and 
students. We too, the government attacks us ! In the universities, more and more general 
assemblies, while the blockades of high schools multiply. Let us continue to organize 
ourselves and amplify our mobilization to fight alongside the workers against the State 
and the bosses. ---- The government is attacking youth ! ---- The government has announced 
a massive increase in registration fees for foreign students. The latter must already 
often work in addition to their studies, and pay at least 2000 € before studying in France 
because of visa fees, French lessons ... It is a racist measure, which wants to hunt of 
France the foreign students, especially African and South American. Faced with the rise, 
these students organize general meetings as in Rennes, Saint-Denis or Paris 1. The 
government also attacks the lycén.nes. With Parcoursup, he has already shown that he wants 
to exclude young people from the lower classes from the university. Now, he continues with 
the new baccalaureate, organizing the competition of the chests between them and 
reinforcing the social sorting. He also announced that he wanted to reinstate mandatory 
service for young people as young as 16, to lock us under the surveillance of the military 
and stuff our skull with his authority, uniforms and discipline. Against these measures, 
many high schools are blocked throughout the country, despite police attacks. The cops are 
unleashed. They beat up, mutilate, lock up and even nearly kill a high school student in 
Orleans. In the face of repression, let's organize solidarity. They will not make us go 
back shut up and nearly killed a high school student in Orleans. In the face of 
repression, let's organize solidarity. They will not make us go back shut up and nearly 
killed a high school student in Orleans. In the face of repression, let's organize 
solidarity. They will not make us go back!

We are not alone !

While spending time giving gifts to large corporations and the rich, the government has 
once again chosen to charge the people by taxing gasoline ! The yellow vests movement, 
launched to fight against this tax, has greatly expanded its demands and now requires the 
salary increase or the resignation of Macron. This vast popular revolt must be supported 
by the youth: it echoes our own demands. The high school students who massively blocked 
their schools on December 3 understood this well: many were those who wore yellow vests 
while claiming the end of Parcoursup and abandoning the reform of the baccalaureate. It is 
the unity of the people against the attacks of the state and the bosses that we must 
devote ourselves to.

Long live direct democracy ! Long live the strike !

The government hopes to see our revolts run out of steam. But everything starts. Now that 
a wind of insurrection is blowing across the country, how is the movement going to 
organize ? On all fronts of the struggle, in the lycées as in the facs, we defend the 
direct democracy. This means that everything must start from local assemblies and that 
self-proclaimed "representatives" should not be seen parading with politicians and 
negotiating crumbs. In all the movement, it is the base that must keep control. But that 
will not be enough if the youth remains isolated from the workers who are fighting all 
over the country. With the help of the unions of struggle, build a mass strike, to block 
once and for all the country and to bend this government !

Download the leaflet in pdf

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lyceen-nes-etudiant-es-c-est-aussi-notre-lutte

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For several years the struggles against the cost of living, for wage increases, in 
Metropolitan France as in Martinique, Guadeloupe, the meeting are increasing, often far 
from the eyes of the media. Business struggles for wages, precarious and jobless struggles 
are growing because it is becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet. ---- The rise 
in fuel was the detonator of a wider movement, the movement of yellow vests. It has, 
particularly in rural areas, particularly mobilized a fraction of the proletariat hitherto 
kept away from the struggles in the boxes. The increase in fuel has made living conditions 
even more untenable. However, right from the beginning of this movement, claims that are 
far removed from the interests of working men and women have been mingled with just social 
demands, particularly by the bourgeois and reactionary factions: the demand for a "fall in 
employers' expenses" which means in suppressed the socialized wage and social security, 
claiming the "end of the assistantship" which means one more attack against the unemployed.

The initially unclear and interclassist character of the claims has allowed, in a number 
of places, fascists to spread their racist xenophobic and anti-Semitic poison, with 
dramatic consequences in some places (assault, xenophobic blockage of a company, migrants 
delivered to the police). Anti-union discourse has also favored the dominance of employer 
claims in the media, which initially provided important support for the movement, as no 
social movement has experienced in recent years.

However, the evolution of the forms of struggle towards economic blocks carried by the 
proletarian components of the movement, the development of the strike carried by trade 
union federations has accentuated the class contradictions within the movement. Two lines 
are in conflict: one, carried by the fascists and the reactionaries, who try to deflect 
the worker's anger towards a racist and xenophobic discourse, of the employers' demands. 
The other, which raises the question of wages, pensions, expensive living.

The trade union movement, through the experience accumulated by years of struggle, was 
right to point out at the same time that the revolt against the expensive life was 
legitimate, but that it should not be done on confused bases that leave the door open. to 
the fascist and that the bosses draw the chestnuts from the fire of a movement in which 
the proletariat pays the price of repression. The situation is changing day by day, and it 
is fundamental now that the organized labor movement, the trade union movement returns, 
collectively, visible and organized in the struggle, to converge on its own bases with the 
working sectors of the yellow vests that defend social demands and reject the fascists of 
their movement, and so fight the reactionary and fascist sectors of yellow vests that try 
to steer the movement towards racist, anti-Semitic, reactionary objectives in the 
localities where they are present.

It is this affirmation of the trade union struggle movement, with its red and purple 
vests, on a class basis, which will not only allow the fight against the expensive life to 
be won and won, but to marginalize fascist and employer trends.

On clear and collective bases, let us develop the fight against the dear life, to wring 
from capital the fruits of our work!

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