Anarchic update news all over the world - 28.12.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, vogliamo tutto: Street Journal AZATRIS leaf # 40
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Czech, afed: Family album punk - Review of the book "44
      Stamps of Punk" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #289 - Highway: GCO,
      suspension of a key yard (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  anarkismo.net: High Schoolers Distributing Leaflets Against
      ‘Torture Custodies by Police' Were Taken Into Custody by
      Medyanhaber - Seninmedyan [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  anarkismo.net: Trump's Betrayal Of Ypg - Paris Commune Falls
      Again? by David Van Deusen* (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





Let the Philopappou Hill be open and alive for the inhabitants , not a fillet for the 
tourism industry, state planning and business interests ... ---- Dying at work (For 
Aleka): A conversation with colleagues and acquaintances of the "20-year-old" worker who 
ended up in an occupational accident at the hotel where he was working in October that 
passed to us in Chania. ---- Sleeping under the stars is our right (Free camping against 
their "development") ---- December brings back the same bet ... To lift our backs on the 
weight of a new world of equality of freedom of self-organization of solidarity ---- 
Editorial Among the many things that have happened since the previous issue to this day, 
in the present text we make the choice to refer to two important events ... ---- New 
Patriarchal Reality ... Abstractions Body self-determination is one of the most basic 
freedoms for a human being. And while battles are being fought against any attempt to 
undermine ...
Grandmothers of Chania (Hellenistic supermarkets), they are forcing their employees to 
work on Sundays for two years now. Employees, who have no desire to give their bosses and 
the day of rest that they have left, reacted vigorously and managed to close them by 
prefectural decision ...
Small major international news ... Germany: G20, 2017 -2018 Hamburg: Continued prosecution 
According to German media, a pan-European survey by the German authorities has begun. The 
research...
For Prisoners of 24 Workers in Turkey: There are 24 builders in Turkish prisons after the 
September 15 mobilizations against the working conditions of those working on the 
construction site of a new airport that will open in Istanbul.
Asylum: A history of confinement that never ends ... This radical transformation, in the 
direction of overcoming, is the only one that can ensure the emancipation of patients, the 
elimination of stigma and the creation of human-to-human relationships. It is important to 
question the role of scientific authority, and the reason for them to have themselves who 
experience their "madness", and society ...
A nationwide street newspaper

https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2018/12/21/apatris-40/#more-2048

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Though I have been on the punk scene for less than thirty years, with Vítko Formanek, I first entertained this year, when he also published a book of 
interviews with 44 punk stamps . He appeared in Prague at the Anarchist Book Festival, 
where he made several copies on the table just across the bar, and he did not have the 
need. There is no need to repeat that the modern anarchist movement in the Czech Republic 
came largely from the then punk subculture, and its vast part still accompanies anarchist 
ideas and DIY approach. And 44 punk stories, among other things, tells how punk was and is 
for the bands that made him sound. ---- The number in the title of the book is the number 
of conversations you find inside, accompanied by a brief history and discography of each 
band. However, I know from Vítka that he had more than seven dozen of them, but he was 
left with nothing more than a vote to publish, which he did not. The publisher finally got 
the Petrklíc publishing house and the book was accompanied by his partner Eva Csölle, who 
also released the punk fanzin Sex, fun and rock'n'roll. Eva contributed mostly to 
photographs. It's just that some of the published photos are too small to leave the right 
impression. But if you look at them, you will see a number of them from the author's 
couple when you think you are browsing through a family album. However, there is no 
manifestation of self-esteem. The enthusiasm with which Vitek considers the bands of the 
question and approaches the subject reveals the sincere joy of what he is doing and that 
he likes to share his joy and his result with everyone who is interested in it. Perhaps 
because he is so kind and friendly, he does not have an understanding for those artists 
who are not interested in making a photo shoot with fans at festivals (like Jello Biafra).

Víttek introduces how he met punk rock in the early 1980s and failed to follow the brief 
history of punk itself and its roots in the Czech Republic. And that punk We did not lose 
its subversive potential with the end of the Bolshevik era, confirms in a short preface 
Karel Bouša (Telex): "I Survived Communism dark and full of euphoria I him on his way by 
history greeted finger. I greet him in the joyous expectation of democracy, justice and 
truth. It was a naive wait waiting for Godot. We still wait, even though hope is 
diminishing. That's why punk is still needed, so punk can not die. "

The red thread stretching out the whole book is Vítkova's attempt to cope with the essence 
of punk and as if to confirm his earlier knowledge that "with the exception of the punks, 
they are comfortable people with a clear view of good and evil, with clear resistance to 
violence, war and torture of animals and good heart ". It is not unusual that much in the 
interviews expressed in the attitudes of life revolves around being kind (Adicts, 
Subhumans), living with respect (Anti Nowhere League), living and letting live (Antiseen) 
instead of great gestures doing what You feel like it is Conflict, be Discharge, Charge 
69, and be honest (One Way System, TV Smith), do not hurt anyone and make someone happy 
(Eddie and the Hot Rods), behave to others , how do you want them to behave to you (Left 
for Dead, Oi Polloi), cause the least damage (Skeptix),

The book is proof of the variety of punk and the attitude of its protagonists. Some bands 
want to play the music they love and earn something (Professionals), others want to have 
fun (Peter and the Test Tube Babies), run away from psychedelic reality (Toy Dolls) or are 
interested in "more what they were (Cock Sparrer), and others feel the need to send ideas 
into the world that would make him a better place to live (Barackca, Conflict) or play at 
Benefit Concerts (DOA). It is good that Vitek left space for even the xenophobic speeches 
(Age of Chaos). It is not about legitimizing such opinions, but rather to show the 
plasticity of punk, which is not a narrowly defined box, but we can occasionally encounter 
in its wide frame things that simply do not scream. Even though at some point of view punk 
would have had the foundation: "I think the main criterion is not to be a complete idiot. 
And people who are racists and fascists are fucking idiots. "(Gin Goblins)

But the punk radicality of the young people is not much in the conversation. It's not 
because it was out of punk but rather because most of the interviewees are usually over 
fifty. Therefore, even Vítek, the year 1963, is among them as a fish in the water. You 
will learn more about what the bands of both the first and the second punk waves shaped, 
both musically and opinionally; what problems did they have with work, unemployment, 
record companies, drugs, relationships ...; and how they succeed after the long years and 
what kinds of activities are involved.

Of those not mentioned above, we will name a few other bands, such as Damned, Exploited, 
GBH, Kud Idijoti, MDM, Nasty Rumors, Pankrti, Ramones, Restarts, Subway Sect, Vibrators, 
Vice Squad and Zero Point. Next to them, you'll also find an interview with Ian Glaspeer's 
"punk historian" or Permaculture magazine publisher Tony Rollinson.

Punk is not dead and still has its place, not as a co-opted product of the show business, 
but in particular in its DIY similarly to "UK Subs" for "Underprivileged, Undeaded and 
Scared People."

Vítek Formanek, Eva Csölle: 44 punk stamps . 360 pages. For 252 CZK you can order at 
kosmas.cz .

https://www.afed.cz/text/6917/rodinne-album-punku

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The great west bypass of Strasbourg suffered a paralyzing legal setback: the 
administrative court suspended the completion of an indispensable interchange to this 
useless highway. ---- On the site of the Great Western Bypass (GCO) of Strasbourg, while 
since Tuesday, November 20, the hunger strikers, faced with a deterioration of the health 
of some of them, had ended their action began a months earlier, [1]a court decision has 
upset the situation: " By order made today, the Administrative Court of Strasbourg 
suspends the derogatory prefectoral order allowing Sanef to destroy the protected species 
to build the access ramp North. Work will not resume until the substantive judgment has 
been reached. " [2]
Remember that behind the " ecological " pseudo-arguments to justify the project, " the 
only certainty that road reinforcement can give is that we will find work ... further ; 
that we will have to own a car for that " . [3]In full movement of yellow vests, this 
judicial decision takes a particular color.

This decision will have an immediate and important impact on the work in progress. Without 
an exchanger, the GCO no longer makes sense. Barring a rapid rebound, deforestation should 
not occur during the winter of 2018-2019. The deadlines for a further examination of the 
appeal on the merits by the Strasbourg court are of the order of several months or more. 
The calendar is now based on a decision in mid-2021.

Mobilization must not relax
But the suspension remains fragile. In their decision, the magistrates reproached the 
prefect for asserting that " the imperative reason of major public interest " is justified 
in particular by the compensation measures. However, the general interest must, according 
to the Environmental Code, be assessed without

these measures. But they did not indicate, unlike another judgment in September, that the 
situation is " easily regularized " . However, in the field, Sanef no longer began work 
once the interim was filed on October 26, after some face-to-face with opponents.

The decision of justice comes to consolidate a mobilization which never stopped: for 
Michael Kugler, one of the animators of the collective GCO No thanks, " the decision gives 
us reason in the sense that one did not go to oppose every morning for nothing " . [4]In 
the field, several scattered actions continue, including planting plants where earthworks 
have been started.

AL Ecology Commission

[1] " The strikers put an end to their hunger strike but not to the fight " , on the site 
gcononmerci.org.

[2] Communiqué of 23 November 2018 of Alsace Nature

[3] Libertarian Alternative of May 2017.

[4] Reporterre , November 24, 2018.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Autoroute-GCO-suspension-d-un-chantier-cle

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Message: 4






High schoolers,which made action against school reports and exams in June with the 
statement, "School reports are yours, future is ours!", were taken into custody with 
torture. ---- High schoolers,which made action against school reports and exams in June 
with the statement, "School reports are yours, future is ours!", were taken into custody 
with torture. ---- High schoolers who were distributing declaration leaflets in Kadiköy 
Khalkedon Square for the trial on December 25, Tuesday at Kartal Anadolu Courthouse, were 
again taken into custody by police with torture. ---- 
https://twitter.com/medyanhaber/status/1076860359888306178 ---- The riot police which 
provoked and tried to prevent the distribution of declaration leaflets, attacked under the 
pretext of ‘pictures showing police torture'. During the attack, took 10 high schoolers 
into custody, including from Highschool Anarchist Action(LAF).

The police didn't let any lawyer to enter the police station untill they left for hospital 
controls. Lawyers were only be able to talk with them during testify. Lots of people were 
waiting outside for solidarity before and after testify procedure.

When their testify was finished they were taken to hospital for last controls and released 
afterwards.

‘Highschool Anarchist Action' announced that;

"Torture Once Again, Custody Once Again to High Scoolers

We, high schoolers who made action against school reports and exams in June 8 in Kadikoy, 
were taken into custody with torture. We came together at Kadiköy Khalkedon Square to 
distribute declaration leaflets calling for the trial on December 25. While we were 
distributing our leaflets as high school youth organisations with "Judge Torturers, Not 
Highschoolers" banner, police attacked and took into custody more than 10 of our friends.

We high schoolers will continue to be on the streets against police torture and state 
oppression. We will continue to expose the police who torture us. They will not be able to 
silence our voice which they try to suppress!

We are calling everyone to Kartal Anadolu Courthouse C Door on December 25, 9.00 to grow 
solidarity.
Related Link: 
https://seninmedyan.org/2018/12/23/high-schoolers-distributing-leaflets-against-torture-custodies-by-police-were-again-taken-into-custody/

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31239

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Message: 5





The YPG/YPJ have also held the dictatorship at bay (and they have brought a relative 
stability to this region of Syria). But what deserves our respect is not simply their 
military prowess, but rather the type of society which they seek to create in liberated 
areas. They hold socialist tendencies, but what sets them apart is their desire to 
organize their world according to directly democratic means; something like a secular, 
decentralized, Town Meeting system where all the people have an actual voice and an 
unabstracted vote concerning the issues that face them as a people and as a community. 
Here they take political influence from the anarchist Vermont sociologist Murray Bookchin. 
Their vision, similar to that espoused by the EZLN & the Zapatistas (Chiapas, Mexico), is 
as far reaching as that which was dreamed of on CNT/FAI barricades in Spain from 
1936-1939. Their fight has parallels to Mahkno and his brigades in the Ukraine in 1919. 
They do not fight for an ethic Kurdish state, but rather for a new social formation 
whereby the individual and the community collectively control the world in which they 
live. Their dreams, perhaps, are not dissimilar those who manned the walls of the Paris in 
1871. And to this very point in time, remarkably, they have been winning.

As an American, as a Vermonter, and as a Labor leader I have marched many times against US 
lead wars. However, I do not oppose wars and US military action because I assert war as 
always unjust and always unnecessary. I am not philosophically a Kantian; this is not a 
moral imperative for me. I am also no liberal. If truth be told it was only through war 
and armed conflict that Vermont and the United States became republics free from the 
British Empire. And like the US, Ireland would still be an exploited outpost in the same 
empire if it were not for the force of arms demonstrated by the IRA. Cuba, today, without 
their victorious 1959 revolution, likewise would remain an economic colony of America. And 
further, it was only through the Allied war effort that Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy & 
their murderous ideologies were crushed for generations. But since my birth, from the 
Vietnam War, to armed interventions against Latin America, up through the invasion of 
Iraq, I am hard pressed to find a US military intervention that, by purpose or accident, 
carried with it an intrinsic moral clarity; rather contemporary US military action time 
and again has been launched to serve the interests of corporations and a tiny minority of 
wealthy elite.

For these reasons I was proud to serve as a Vermont AFL-CIO officer when we were aligned 
with US Labor Against The War, and when our Unions called for the rapid withdrawal of all 
American troops from Iraq. I was also proud to have helped write the Vermont AFL-CIO 
resolution stating our solidarity with the Longshoremen when they conducted a one day 
strike, shutting down West Coast ports as an act of resistance against the Iraq War. And 
even now I am supportive of calls coming to finally end the generation-long war in 
Afghanistan. But again, I do not condemn such military actions because I am a pacifist or 
because I am rejecting the notion of war in and of itself. I do so because I judge the 
conflicts which the US engages in, much more often than not, as wrong and immoral based on 
the specific facts and specific interests being served by these imperialistic conflicts.

For some years now the United States has provided arms and limited Special Forces support 
(now 2000 boots on the ground) to the Kurdish lead YPG/YPJ in Syria. The YPG/YPJ has used 
these arms to extend their control over most of northern Syria. They have effectively 
engaged ISIS, driving them out of the north. They have also held the dictatorship at bay 
(and they have brought a relative stability to this region of Syria). But what deserves 
our respect is not simply their military prowess, but rather the type of society which 
they seek to create in liberated areas. They hold socialist tendencies, but what sets them 
apart is their desire to organize their world according to directly democratic means; 
something like a secular, decentralized, Town Meeting system where all the people have an 
actual voice and an unabstracted vote concerning the issues that face them as a people and 
as a community. Here they take political influence from the anarchist Vermont sociologist 
Murray Bookchin. Their vision, similar to that espoused by the EZLN & the Zapatistas 
(Chiapas, Mexico), is as far reaching as that which was dreamed of on CNT/FAI barricades 
in Spain from 1936-1939. Their fight has parallels to Mahkno and his brigades in the 
Ukraine in 1919. They do not fight for an ethic Kurdish state, but rather for a new social 
formation whereby the individual and the community collectively control the world in which 
they live. Their dreams, perhaps, are not dissimilar those who manned the walls of the 
Paris in 1871. And to this very point in time, remarkably, they have been winning.

The historical significance of what they have been achieving in Rojava (northern Syria) 
has not been lost on those in other nations who also can imagine what a truly democratic 
and equitable society could look like. Presently hundreds, if not thousands, of regular 
working people (Americans included) have made the difficult journey to Syria in order 
stand with them, rifle in hand, to fight for this common dream. And many have died 
defending this dream from ISIS, from Turkey, and from those who instead seek the 
domination and brutality of a misguided & twisted Islamic state or the repression which a 
dictatorship or new form of fascism brings in its wake. And still they fight, and still 
they organize a direct democracy, composed of Kurds & Arabs, in the lands which they have 
freed.

And now, our own (so called) President Donald Trump has announced his intent to withdraw 
the 2000 brave American troops currently deployed in this region (and who by circumstance 
fight with honor alongside YPG/YPJ). And even tonight, Turkey stands in wait, sharpening 
their swords...

But given the long history of the US imperialism and economic subjugation, why has the US 
supported them? Some would argue that the very presence of US guns mark the YPG/YPJ as no 
more than pawns of a morally questionable US foreign policy. Some would say they are dupes 
of the CIA. After all, why would the US elite support a revolution which seeks to topple 
the exploitive American capitalism which underpins the old world order (and which 
continues to sell out American and foreign workers alike)? How can this be? The answer is 
simple... The United States has supported this revolution because YPG/YPJ are fiercely 
opposed to ISIS and are effective fighters. The US therefore has acted on the premise that 
the enemy of my enemy is my friend (at least for a time).

No one should be under any illusion that the US ruling class has supported the YPG/YPJ 
because they approve of the cooperative democratic society which they seek to create. The 
ruling elite of the US (Republican & Democrat) would be perfectly happy supporting an 
authoritarian dictator as long as such a strongman would support America's perceived long 
term economic and strategic interests. But as it turns out, few in northern Syria were or 
are willing to engage in a protracted fight just to see the deck chairs of authoritarian 
politics rearranged. But the people have been willing to fight (and die) for something 
much more far reaching. And this has transformed the YPG/YPJ into something far more 
significant than a regional militia; it has made them into a multi-ethnic force capable of 
constantly beating back ISIS and other reactionary elements in Syria. And for America, the 
short term aim was always to diminish ISIS. Here, as the YPG/YPJ was compelled to face 
existential enemies on all fronts, they were glad to accept guns and logistical support 
from wherever they would come. When a man's house is on fire he does not stop to ask the 
politics of the one who hands him a bucket of water. If that bucket comes from a 
Republican, it does not make him a Republican. Thus the US support for the YPG/YPJ was 
nothing more than a temporary marriage of convenience, and the YPG/YPJ are not defined by 
the politics (and motivations) of those that offer them material aid.

But now, after the YPG/YPJ has diminished ISIS and pushed them into more remote areas, 
Trump has grown tired of this marriage and his Administration's true face has begun to 
look up to again reveal its twisted contours. Trump would have American troops evacuate in 
order to turn their attention to other more sinister projects (such as those transpiring 
on our southern border). And no matter that the second largest army in NATO (the 
increasingly Islamic-Fascist Turks) have announced their desire to launch invasions of 
northern Syria with the sole aim of crushing this experiment in direct democracy, the 
United States of America is preparing to look the other way. The reactionary government of 
Turkey views the YPG/YPJ as a treat in that they represent an alternative not only for 
Syria but also for Turkey. And they view YPG/YPJ as having close links to the armed PKK 
(which operates within Kurdish Turkey and which shares similar politics with their Syrian 
cousins) further driving their genocidal ambitions. What gives the Turks pause, now, is 
the presence of American troops. Once this deterrent is removed, it is hard to envision a 
chain of events which does not include a devastating invasion of this island of hope, this 
city on the hill overlooking the chaos that is the Middle East. And no matter how America 
got there, once America leaves Trump will own the history that follows. If the Paris 
Commune must fall again let it be known that the invaders were enabled by a country which 
once called itself great.

In Solidarity with the YPG/YPJ & The Struggle in Rojava,
* David Van Deusen, District Vice President of the Vermont AFL-CIO
***
What follows is a link to the resolution passed by the Green Mountain Central Labor 
Council of the Vermont AFL-CIO in support of the YPG/YPJ and the struggle in Rojava. This 
resolution was passed in February of 2018:
https://vt.aflcio.org/green-mountain-labor-council/news/solidarity-struggle-rojava

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31238

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