Anarchic update news all over the world - 3.12.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, Bristol AFed: AN URGENT MESSAGE FOR EVERYONE
     JOINING THE EXTINCTION REBELLION (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #289 - Edito: The
      thickness of the revolts (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  STATE TERRORISM WILL NOT FALL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM 
     THE STREET
      OF 17TH NOVEMBER By APO [machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greese, FOR THE RANK'S EFFORTS TO ISOLATE THE 
     ANARCHY BLOCKS
     FROM THE ABSTRACT IN THE PATRA by dirty horse APO [machine
     translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, [Thessaloniki] Interventions at schools in western
     districts By APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, May 1 Michigan Collective: Haiti, Port au Prince was
     Burning this Past Weekend (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Surrey Anarchist Communists group ACG: No War but the Class
      War! -- Discussion meeting. ---- Sat 26th Jan. ---- 1pm - 3pm.
      ---- The Function Room. ---- Lincoln Arms pub. 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Greece, "Black & Red" APO: Strike 28/11 [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  US, Against Layoffs; Against General Motors By Miriam of the
      M1 Michigan Collective (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






This is written by me as a single AFed member, and whilst I've heard similar views from 
those I have spoken today in AFed (and in Rising Up/ Extinction Rebellion for that 
matter), I can't pretend it's the view of the ‘fed as a whole, and wouldn't want it taken 
as such. ---- TL;DR ---- Whatever your opinion on the Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaign, 
if you want to sign up, please, please, please, don't use their ‘pledge of rebellion 
form'. Especially not on the website. Protect your data! Send 'em an email, meet some 
folks in person, and be careful about what data is recorded. Not just for yourself, for 
all of us. ---- An Urgent Message for Everyone Joining the Extinction Rebellion
First off, I also don't want the governments and corporations of the world to continue to 
devastate it for the profit of the wealthy few, we certainly don't disagree on this. We 
may (or may not) disagree on many things, strategy, opinions, organisations, but I'm not 
writing about these. I'm writing about something far smaller, but still massively 
important. A single contact form, that puts you, me, and all of us miscellaneous rebels at 
significant risk, for little reward.

The Extinction Rebellion (XR) pledge of rebellion contact formis the cause of this danger 
- this screen shot was taken this morning, there have been some minor changes since. If 
you have joined XR, or been to their protests, do not take this as an attack on you. It's 
an urgent message, but I hope one that can be taken in a constructive and friendly manner, 
though this is always hard on the internet. If you're reading this and you're part of 
running XR, please get rid of that form ASAP! For those who haven't seen it I'll go 
through it now, and for those who have, if it's not immediately obvious to you, I'll 
explain why it is such a risk to us as individuals, and as a wider movement.

The form starts by asking for your name and contact details. Fair enough perhaps, they 
need to know what to call you and how to get in touch. Though it is a bit more than this, 
the contact form written as a ‘pledge' (encouraging you to use your ‘real'/legal name) and 
the form asking for (though not requiring) all your contact details, including full 
address and phone number. It's asking you to explicitly identify yourself in an easily 
traceable way.

Remember, this isn't just activists that are part of Extinction Rebellion you are 
identifying yourself to. It's google (who host the form), and by extension the police and 
intelligence services. Edward Snowden confirmed what many long held to be true, the state 
can, and does, extract massive amounts of personal data from corporate sources. Even 
without this, any centrally held data is a risk. Lapses in security may allow the state to 
access it remotely, Companies who spend millions on security have, almost routinely, had 
customer data compromised, if it can happen to them, it can happen to you. Such a large 
central repository would also be a definite priority for any informants or undercover 
operatives to obtain, even simple mistakes could lead to this data being leaked.

Ok, so many of you will already be wary just based on this. However if you were, you might 
not need to read this, things get much much worse however, both in the form and in the 
potential uses of the data. The latter will not be immediately obvious to anyone who 
hasn't studied and thought about how modern intelligence works when applied to protesters, 
activists, and quite literally everyone else.

The next thing you are asked on the form is if you would risk arrest and prison. Now, all 
of us risk arrest just by turning up at a demo, what with fair play and justice not being 
priorities in public order policing, but most people do their best to mitigate this risk 
one way or another. What is being asked here is if you would be willing to either commit 
an act of resistance that risks arrest, or, as is a main strategy of XR, deliberately act 
to get yourself arrest as a form of protest. This is of course useful information for XR 
to have, but it is also incredibly useful information for the police and intelligence 
services to have. Now they know if you're willing to disobey, if you are a direct risk to 
the current order.

Other questions, thankfully now removed, included, ‘Facebook Name', involvement in other 
‘Networks and Organisations', skills, capacity, what you might attend in the future and 
more. Whilst the removal of these questions makes the job of those looking to defend the 
status quo and stop meaningful change (that'd be the state and it's police and 
intelligence forces) harder, it doesn't make it *that* much harder. We need to do all we 
can reasonably do to make their job as hard as possible, because there job is to ensure 
that our movements are either crushed or pushed into ineffectual strategic dead-ends.

So, why should you care if the state knows you are wiling to take action, risk prison, and 
join with others to change things? After all, if you've said you are willing to be 
arrested then what more can the police do to you, and if you have said you aren't surely 
the police now know you aren't a threat?

Firstly. If you want to change the world, you are a threat. Movements aren't targeted by 
the state because of how criminal they are or how violent they are, but because of how 
effective they are. Pacifists have been beaten, peaceful demonstrations attacked by 
police, law-abiding citizens arrested on trumped up charges or released with none, entire 
protest marches have been subject to mass arrest, kettling, stop and search and more. You 
do not have to EVER commit a crime to end up on a state database of ‘domestic extremists'. 
The fact you have stated you aren't willing to risk arrest, far from a measure of 
protection from the police, may be seen as a vulnerability they exploit. Threatening you 
with prison when you have revealed you seek to avoid it. Likewise, if you are willing to 
be arrested and imprisoned for your beliefs (as a risk or certainty), being known to the 
police comes with plenty of other risks.

Whilst these risks may sound far fetched, literally all of them are things that have 
happened to myself or my friends after we were identified as activists. Police can show up 
at your door at any time, either for a friendly chat and the hope you'll give them more 
information, or as a campaign of threats and harassment. They may wake you up in the 
middle of the night, take your phone and laptop, rummage through your house and disturb 
you as much as possible. They can show up at your workplace, speak to your boss about the 
‘risk' you may pose as an ‘extremist' and attempt to get you fired. They might approach 
you when you are vulnerable after an incident of trauma, in order to pump you for 
information. They might stop you at the air port under counter terrorism legislation, and 
hold you for hours without the right to remain silent or to have a lawyer present. They 
may contact your friends and family, or even engage you in conversation in order to 
threaten them. They may approach you and try and ‘softly persuade' you to give them 
information, perhaps turn in the ‘bad apples' in your midst. They may approach you and 
attempt to persuade you less ‘softly'. You said you don't want to go to prison right, well 
maybe that is now a threat. Or you said you don't care about prison, but can those close 
to you say the same? Hey they just want your help, and they can certainly help you, maybe 
they've spotted the debt your in, or those pictures you'd rather be kept quiet...

   modern intelligence is all about connections

...OK I've probably done about as good a job as I can do in scaring you, or at least 
persuading you that it may be in your strategic interest to deny the state as much data as 
you can. (By the way, here's a whole guide on doing that in a more general sense). Big 
thing though, *this is not just about you*. The intelligence services do not rely on a 
simple list of ‘potential rebels'. They map out connections. Who do you have on Facebook, 
what other groups are you in, which places do you frequent, whose phone GPS is near yours 
a lot, who are their friends, where do they go. The result isn't a list, it's an all 
encompassing web. Now, I want you to think of that person who wants to join a rebellion, 
but can't risk arrest. You probably know someone who fits this description, if not do your 
best to imagine. Maybe they are the sole carer for a child or other dependent. Maybe they 
could loose the job they need. Maybe they are a migrant who could face deportation. Maybe 
they are a person of colour or trans and fear the additional violence from the police and 
prison system they risk as a result. Whatever their reasons, you respect them enough to 
not deliberately force them into a situation where arrest, or prison, is likely. But what 
if a number of people suddenly pop up in the web of data the state keeps, and these people 
are part of the same groups as them, go to the same places, talk to the same people. 
Through no action on their part, they may now find themselves with the unwanted attention 
of the state.

It's not just people you have direct contact with either. All of us who want to rebel, who 
to change the world, who just want to resist the destruction of our own lives, we're all 
put at risk. So maybe, just maybe, we should make this all a little bit harder for the 
state, and not present them with a Google hosted list of potential rebels to investigate.

If you want to find out more about policing head over to netpol.
If you want to know what AFed thinks about capitalism, the environment and how we can save 
it, see our new pamphlet.
Finally, if you'd like a longer analysis of how the state and media represses or co-opts 
protest movements, I highly recommend you pick up a copy of How Non Violence Protects The 
State.
To view the Pledge as it appeared earlier see this screen shot.
If you want to bring down capitalism and save the planet, get out into your community, go 
to a protest, plan a secret action, challenge those in power, talk to your friend, join a 
union, and maybe drop us an email.

http://afed.org.uk/an-urgent-message-for-everyone-joining-the-extinction-rebellion/

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Message: 2





Shortcuts are always comfortable. Thus the yellow vests would be a collection of " fachos 
" and "   beaufs   ". Billed with a simplified reading of revolutionary history, some and 
some would like the reality to be so simple. ---- The security of the militant self is 
powerful. However, each revolt has its own thickness, mixing social and political 
contradictions in a heterogeneous bubbling. This is so, and clarification is a difficult 
way to bring out class consciousness. But contemptuous attitudes towards popular anger are 
catastrophic and only reinforce "   false consciences  " and illusions. ---- The movement 
of yellow vests is a real popular revolt, with an obvious class dimension, but whose 
political coloration depends on local contexts. The worst is next to the best. That the 
fascist and nationalist leprosy infects several points of the mobilization and outcrops in 
the words of some of the yellow vests is not surprising given the current political context.

But to believe that the far right could monopolize a popular struggle of magnitude is an 
incredible admission of weakness. Many more numerically, union, associative and political 
forces should be able to propose a political clarification of this revolt. Instead of 
pointing an accusing finger, the social movement should extend a fraternal hand.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Edito-L-epaisseur-des-revoltes

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Message: 3






At this year's 17 November demonstration as an Assembly of Anarchists for Social and 
Classical Empowerment, we protested by supporting the block formed following the call of 
the Arodas Army and was a gathering point for hundreds of students, students, youth, 
anarchists and anarchists. ---- From the starting point of the route to Klathymonos Square 
and throughout its course, dozens of MATs moved alongside the anarchist blocks, creating a 
stifling police ring around them, repeatedly provoking the protesters. Immediately after 
the end of the demonstration at the US Embassy and the return of the world, MAT had 
unintentionally launched a violent attack, resulting in serious injuries and arrests of 
protesters and demonstrators, a move identical to the violent and unprovoked attack the 
anarchist bloc had on last year's demonstration on their return from Alexandras. The 
stifling limitation of the anarchist blocks during the course and the raid attack by MAT 
on the obscured Alexandra and the police station of Ambelokipi after the end of the 
demonstration are parts of an exception regime that attempts to impose on the anarchists a 
part of the overall repressive government planning for the terrorism of the struggling and 
radical parts of society. This plan came to be confirmed the very next day through the 
vulgar and provocative statements of the political chiefs of the police, minister and 
deputy minister of public order, who expressed their congratulations to the repression of 
the "self-restraint they showed" and that "the whole effort and business was done with 
respect for the rule of law, but also a strong symbolism,

This year's demonstration was a political and cinematic opportunity for us to commemorate 
the historic memory of the Polytechnic uprising on the streets and to point out against 
the predominant narrative that it was not just a democratic uprising against the 
dictatorship. It was a revolt that continues to remain an open plague for economic and 
political bosses and a reference point for the social and class struggles that are being 
developed today against state terrorism and capitalist barbarism. It was another 
opportunity to go down the streets and show that the Polytechnic and its proposals 
continue to inspire us that in the effort of repression to create a climate of terrorism 
with the police-centered center, the auras, chemicals, beatings and arrests,

Against the defeat, the frustration, the state repression and terrorism, take the lives in 
our hands, organize and strengthen collectively and from the bottom the struggle for 
Social Revolution, Anarchy and Liberal Communism.

WITHDRAWAL OF EVERY JOURNEY FOR THE COLLABORATORS OF THE DECLARATION OF 17 NOVEMBER

AGAINST THE MOUTH OF DEMOCRACY

THE EXPERIENCE IS ALWAYS LIVE!

AGAINST THE STATE, THE CAPITAL AND THE REMEDY ... THE GAME FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE, ANARCHY 
AND FREEDOM OF COMMITMENT WILL WIN

Assembly of Anarchists on Social and Classical Empowerment

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Message: 4





On the morning of November 28th, we participated in the strike demonstration in Patras, 
calling for a gathering from the annex and setting up an anarchist block along the way. 
 From there, along with student clubs, class initiatives, and political forces of the left 
and anarchy, we traveled to the Labor Center, where clubs and political organizations were 
gathering. Then we participated in the course that took place on the main streets of 
Patras. ---- As anarchists we chose to participate in this strike mobilization, trying, 
with all our strengths, to contribute to its success. Besides, it is our standing to 
actively participate in the class struggles with the aim of interconnecting them in a 
common direction that recognizes the state and capital as the main responsible for social 
inequalities and on the other hand the development of a mass, horizontally organized, 
emancipated class movement, which will strive for generalized social self-management 
through the social revolution.

 From the very first moment, part of KKE-PAME's defense was developed right in front of 
us, at LAAS's leading block, with a clear aim to isolate the two anarchist blocks (that of 
the Dyskineion Equine & Equine Soccer and that of SAKTA) from the rest of the course. 
Those comrades we were in the block made it clear that we would not tolerate this, trying 
to break the barrier of the RNAs and stay united with the rest of the course. At the 
height of the courts, and after a long time of each other's controversy, the PAME-KKE 
conservatism appeared in front of us, forming a chain, calling us "provocateurs" and 
exposing vulgar sexist expressions to the detriment of escort companionship - who then 
attacked in concert with punches and kicks trying to extract their flags - with a clear 
intention to stop us from continuing the course. All the anarchist protesters who 
participated in the two anarchist blocks clashed together with the rabbits of the RNAs and 
PAME, claiming our presence in the street in every way and breaking the blockade. The 
result was the injury of a companion by kicking a bully of a worker and her transfer to 
the hospital for first aid. After the clashes, the anarchist blocks continued their 
journey to the annex, where they broke up. with a clear intention to stop us from 
continuing the course. All the anarchist protesters who participated in the two anarchist 
blocks clashed together with the rabbits of the RNAs and PAME, claiming our presence in 
the street in every way and breaking the blockade. The result was the injury of a 
companion by kicking a bully of a worker and her transfer to the hospital for first aid. 
After the clashes, the anarchist blocks continued their journey to the annex, where they 
broke up. with a clear intention to stop us from continuing the course. All the anarchist 
protesters who participated in the two anarchist blocks clashed together with the rabbits 
of the RNAs and PAME, claiming our presence in the street in every way and breaking the 
blockade. The result was the injury of a companion by kicking a bully of a worker and her 
transfer to the hospital for first aid. After the clashes, the anarchist blocks continued 
their journey to the annex, where they broke up. The result was the injury of a companion 
by kicking a bully of a worker and her transfer to the hospital for first aid. After the 
clashes, the anarchist blocks continued their journey to the annex, where they broke up. 
The result was the injury of a companion by kicking a bully of a worker and her transfer 
to the hospital for first aid. After the clashes, the anarchist blocks continued their 
journey to the annex, where they broke up.

This is not the first time that the KKE / PAME is trying to impose itself on other 
fighters, excluding them from the demonstrations. After his victory in the Municipality of 
Patras and the most recent assumption of the Labor Center's administration, the effort to 
enforce it in the labor and the wider social movement of the city is intense. It is 
characteristic of his attitude to the strike course of December 14, 2017 when he placed a 
municipal garbage truck between the blocks of unions and those that started from the annex 
and then closed chains protecting the conference center where the president of democracy 
was the speaker, P. Pavlopoulos, preventing the protesters from approaching it in addition 
to a delegation of its executives. A recent example is the attitude that the KKE held in 
this year's Polytechnic course, where it launched a propaganda that would envy all urban 
media, presenting the course that started from the annex (the 1973 revolt site and the 
point of reference for the class-social movement in Patras) as "provocations set up by 
anti-authoritarians". Indeed, at the meeting called by the City of Patras on the course 
that would be carried out by the workers' center on the same day, they did not hesitate to 
say that "if the anarchist-marginal groups appear, they will be isolated and evicted." 
This logic came to materialize PAME a few days later. presenting the course that started 
from the annex (the 1973 revolt site and the point of reference for the class-social 
movement in Patras) as "provocations set up by anti-authoritarians." Indeed, at the 
meeting called by the City of Patras on the course that would be carried out by the 
workers' center on the same day, they did not hesitate to say that "if the 
anarchist-marginal groups appear, they will be isolated and evicted." This logic came to 
materialize PAME a few days later. presenting the course that started from the annex (the 
1973 revolt site and the point of reference for the class-social movement in Patras) as 
"provocations set up by anti-authoritarians." Indeed, at the meeting called by the City of 
Patras on the course that would be carried out by the workers' center on the same day, 
they did not hesitate to say that "if the anarchist-marginal groups appear, they will be 
isolated and evicted." This logic came to materialize PAME a few days later. these will be 
isolated and evicted. " This logic came to materialize PAME a few days later. these will 
be isolated and evicted. " This logic came to materialize PAME a few days later.

Their particular attitude, of course, is not a peculiarity of Patras. Their respective 
practices are known throughout the country, where they exclude and target militants, 
especially those who refer to the self-organization of workers, students and students, and 
participate in the social and class movement of the base, promoting the unstable and 
bottom-up resistance, and collectivities bases, autonomous-libertarian schemes and 
horizontal assemblies. We do not have to reach the distant 1998 where MAT and the RNAT 
collaborated impeccably for the capture of anarchist and inexperienced youths in the 
course of the Athens Polytechnic. Recently the incident where KNE forces attempted to 
silence anarchist students at a general meeting of students at the Panteion University in 
Athens, as well as the mud and slander campaign against the inter-branch and 
bottom-organized strike that was called by base clubs on November 1st and was 
characterized by massive participation. Whatever they can not control, they first slander 
it and then suppress it.

On the other hand, we can not fail to point out the consensus - with the practice of 
blocking the anarchists from the course - of other protesters' blocks (with few 
exceptions). Continuing the demonstration as if nothing happened, they legitimized on the 
road the possibility of PAME / KKE to sell davantziliki on the paths, defining who fit in 
those and who does not. If today it was the anarchists, no one guarantees that tomorrow 
the KKE / PAME will not do the same and worse to themselves.

Unfortunately, an important part of the social and class movement continues to be guided 
by logic that leads to compassion and compromise, and it shows that it is impossible to 
reconstruct itself and to determine its own destiny, transformed into a "queue" of Percy's 
party bureaucracy, in a conjuncture so crucial to it and at a time when so serious issues 
are at stake at the social, class, trade union and political levels. Their responsibility 
for where to get things from now on is important.

If something worries us more, it is the small presence of a collective, organized on the 
base and intransigent with the institutions and the state, a subversive, class pole on the 
road. A shortcoming that certainly prevents the strengthening of the social and class 
struggle and is a brake on our constitution as a powerful movement that will put the 
question of the overthrow of the state and capitalist dictatorship, the question of the 
social revolution, in realistic terms. In this direction, we must all work even harder in 
the coming time, while the delusions of reformist management are being demolished, and the 
sold out party and trade union leaderships are incorporated with the expectation of 
forming another inter-systemic power pole. After all, the history of social and class 
struggles shows us that proletarians have nothing to expect from institutions, 
parliaments, elections, bureaucratic trade union leaderships, and class struggle mediators 
who deal with the bosses pleading for their charity. All they have to win will be the 
result of their widespread, organized, militant and radical struggles.

As far as we are concerned, we can only say that any attempt by PAME / KKE to isolate us 
from our physical space, the way and from expressing our solidarity in the struggles of 
the workers, will fall into the void. Any attempt to render anarchist blocks to an 
exception regime will take the answer. We are not going to leave the streets to the 
unsubscribed bureaucrats, the class struggles fire extinguishers.

We will continue to fight against state and employers' terrorism and the depreciation of 
trade unionism. We will continue to struggle to make the strike again a weapon in the 
hands of the workers, in order to make trade unionism dangerous. We will continue to 
struggle to form a militant base trade union that will put our interests and needs in the 
spotlight.

The proposals of the bottom-up organization and social emancipation are inextricably 
linked to the struggle for Freedom, political and economic equality and justice, and for 
them we will continue to be wandering everywhere.

In the streets, clubs, neighborhoods, demonstrations, schools and schools, we crack down 
on state and internal repression.

We organize the struggle for the Social Revolution, for an endless and non-class society 
of self-organization, equality and solidarity. For Anarchy and Liberal Communism!

anarchist group "dwarf horse" - member of AP

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Message: 5





With the beginning of the week, we performed a series of text, sprays and tricky speeches 
in the face of nationalist squat squads and forthcoming outcomes for Macedonia (Thursday 
29/11 and 1/12). More specifically, we gave more ground to the school complex in the area 
of Stremeniotis, Neapoli (1st-2nd GEL, 1st echel, 1st-2nd-3rd Gymnasium, Experimental) in 
1st-2nd Gel Sykeon, 1st GEL and 2nd EPA Stavroupoli, 3rd Gymnasium and the 1st GEL 
Polichnis, due to the appearance of various fascist groupings that attempted to reach out 
to the student community. It is also worth noting that the schools that are being occupied 
for Macedonia - at least the aforementioned ones - do not have any night shelter. After 
contacting students from various of the above schools, we perceived the need to support 
and encourage some students who felt and often expressed their opposition to the 
occupations of Macedonia. A discussion at the door of the school reminds us of the 
necessity of the existence of anarchist language and anti-fascist culture on a daily 
basis. We believe that these interventions were the kick-off of a series of actions that 
come to respond to the whole range of nationalist propaganda spread since the beginning of 
the year and that it is disorienting the youthful layers from the real problems of today. 
Our aim to restore the values of class consciousness, historical memory and human dignity 
against national rhetoric, forgetfulness and lie reproduced in the classrooms of today, 
through nationalist groups. Let us not say in irredentism and hatred, to show the way of 
struggle against states and bosses while promoting the concepts of solidarity and equality.

THE NAME IS NOT SIGNIFICANT

THE DEATH IS BANKS AND MINISTERS

(and it is the same of whatever color, until the social revolution)

Colloquium for Social Anarchism "Black & Red", member of APO-OS

http://apo.squathost.com

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Message: 6





Limited media reports on what is going on in Haiti. We are sharing news and pictures being 
sent to us to let people know what is happening. ---- Port au Prince was burning this past 
weekend. Working people and poor people in Haiti have been in the streets against the 
government and the elites for more than a week. General strikes by workers and small 
business owners have been effective. Conditions in Haiti have become unbearable. Clean 
water and basic food supplies and adequate housing have been in short supply for years. 
The people of Haiti demand an end to corruption and an end to the corrupt government and 
politicians. ---- News reports from Haiti have been limited as the government there 
controls most media. The on the ground reports and photos from people in Port au Prince 
give a clear idea of the nature of the uprising and the brutal response by the police and 
government militias.

Port au Prince is burning. People are building barricades and setting fires to block roads 
and shutdown the country.

Police and government militias, regular and irregular, are shooting at demonstrators, 
opening fire on people who are on the streets in opposition to the government and the elites.

These photos are horrific and show that police and government militias have attacked the 
poorest neighborhoods in Port au Prince and murdered, executed many people. Estimates are 
that police and government militias have murdered nearly 50 people in the neighborhoods 
and have left the bodies in the streets to attempt to intimidate those involved in the 
uprising.

The people of Haiti are fighting for their lives against their government, against the 
elites and politicians and against U.S. imperialism which supports the government and the 
elites and the corruption.

 From the streets and neighborhoods of Port au Prince, to the U.S. border at Tijuana, to 
the border and the fences of Gaza, people are rising up against the violence and brutality 
of governments and police and politicians and imperialism. We are solidarity with the 
international workers of the caravan, with the fighting people of Gaza with the uprising 
of working people and poor people in Haiti. Against governments, against politicians, 
against borders and against imperialism. For revolution of the working classes worldwide. 
For anarchism.

-BD, M1 Michigan Collective

  http://m1aa.org/?p=1620

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Message: 7






Next to Dorking Main station and only 2 minutes from Dorking Deepdene station. ---- There 
will be introductory talks by an ACG member and a CWO member.  ---- Hosted by Surrey 
Libertarian History Society. ---- A hundred cruise missiles were launched against the 
military installations of the Assad regime on 14th April 2018. In the aftermath the US 
Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, stated that the United States was "locked 
and loaded". Together the US, France and Britain engaged in bombings that will be of no 
benefit to the Syrian masses suffering under the murderous regime of Bashar Assad. ---- It 
can be seen that all three regimes in the USA, France and Britain have their own domestic 
problems, and that a military adventure is always a good ploy to divert attention.

Trump is wrestling with the ongoing Muller investigation, the revelations of ex-FBI 
Director Comey, and ongoing legal wrangles with porn star Stormy Daniels and polls that 
show his lack of popularity and the mid-term elections where the Democrats wrested back 
the House of Representatives. The ruling Conservative Party in Britain is faced with 
serious divisions in its own Party, with deepening problems over Brexit. Macron in France 
faces increasing unrest at home.

Trump was elected President on a populist programme, but part of that programme was that 
he would withdraw troops from Iraq and not be involved in military adventures in the 
Middle East. This was in stark contrast to Hillary Clinton who maintained an aggressive 
stance towards Russia and calls for a no-fly zone over Syria that would have caused 
confrontation with Russia, Assad's ally. Now Trump has betrayed his populist base, to the 
horror of some of his previous conservative backers. Haley has stated that the US would 
maintain its troops in Syria and would start sanctions against Russian firms doing 
business with Assad.

Some of the most virulent critics of Trump have been papers like the Washington Post. In a 
lead editorial just after the bombings it criticised the joint US, French and British 
attack as inadequate and attacked Trump for saying that he had been ready to withdraw 
American troops from Syria. Similar views were aired in anti-Trump paper the New York 
Post. It is clear that a substantial part of the US ruling class wish to pursue a more 
aggressive attitude towards Russia and its allies. They are concerned by the new alliance 
between Russia, Turkey and Iran and the weakening US influence in the Middle East.

For the last quarter of a century, the US and its allies have been engaged in constant 
warfare, using fabricated excuses like the bogus weapons of mass destruction to dismantle 
the regime of their former ally Saddam, overthrow Gaddafi in Libya because of an 
‘imminent' massacre of civilians and now the gas attacks by the Assad regime.

The attacks on the Syrian regime were not a last minute response but the result of plans 
prepared over many months as can be seen by the high level of coordination between the 
three state powers.
Large sections of the US ruling class including the leaders of the military have little 
confidence in Trump being able to oversee moves against Russia and its allies. That is why 
the campaign against Trump is increasing in intensity at the same time as aggressive moves 
by the US and its allies. This has been explicitly stated by neo-conservatives who link 
the removal of Trump to the expansion of war moves.

In the USA, France and Britain there is widespread anti-war feeling and this has been 
aggravated by the bombing attacks. In Germany, sections of the ruling class there have 
expressed the need to re-arm and, at the same time, pursue foreign policies less dependent 
on the USA. This turn is justified by lauding German "high moral and humanitarian standards".

Assad is a bloody dictator and it is highly possible that he used gas attacks against the 
Syrian population. However those who condemn Assad are the same States that justified mass 
bombings of Hamburg and Dresden and two atom bomb attacks on Japan during World War Two, 
the use of the chemical Agent Orange in Vietnam, as well as the deployment of napalm there 
and previously in Greece, and the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah by the US Army in 
November 2004, or the deployment of chemical weapons in 1988 in Halabja by the Iraqi Baath 
regime, then the ally of the West. More recently, the British government has had few 
qualms about providing the weaponry used by the Saudi Arabian military to kill numerous 
civilians in Yemen.

The USA realised it has lost influence in the Middle East. It and its allies initially 
backed the Islamist militias in their attempts to overthrow Assad. Now ISIS is a shadow of 
its former self and Assad controls 75% of Syria. Russia had been warned before the bombing 
attacks with the hint that its own forces and bases there would not be touched.

Nevertheless it was implied that the USA was still the only surviving superpower and that 
Russia should not overstep the mark.

Russia will not easily abandon its ally, Syria. It needs the Mediterranean ports that 
Syria provides. On the other hand the USA would like to confine Russia to the Black Sea 
and is seriously concerned about the new alliance, temporary though it may be, between 
Turkey and Russia and the increasing strength of the Shiite axis in Iran, Iraq and with 
Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israel launched its own attacks on its old enemy, Syria, obviously with the approval of 
the USA. For its part, Turkey is looking to increase influence and presence in Syria and 
has moved against the Kurdish controlled enclave of Afrin, exploiting the tensions between 
the great powers.

Whatever the outcome, it is clear that the different world and regional powers are gearing 
up for more armed conflict. In Syria over 400,000 people have been slaughtered and many 
more have been displaced. The situation is the same in Iraq. The masses there have nothing 
to gain from the murderous and barbarous depredations of the different armed gangs, 
whether they be Russian, American, Turkish or Islamist etc. Only revolution to overthrow 
all these regimes offers any alternative.

For now, we call on all internationalist and class conscious workers, communists, 
anarchists and revolutionary socialists to come together under the ‘No War but the Class 
War' banner to promote working class resistance to the bosses' war machine.

https://surreyanarchistcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/2018/11/no-war-but-class-war.html

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Message: 8





Four years after the 2015 winter elections, our current treaty faces a situation 
increasingly bleak in the social and class fields. The government of SYRIZA-ANEL, having 
fulfilled much of its obligations as regards, domestic and non-capital, has managed to 
pass all those measures that previous governments have not been able to face as they have 
been confronted with their claims and struggles from below , the dense political period 
following the revolt of December '08. ---- The framework of the onslaught of state and 
capital attacks on the slaves includes the abolition of Sunday's holiday, the 
implementation of consumer institutions such as White Nights and Black Friday, the strike 
on collective labor agreements, the spread of flexible forms of work with the triumphs of 
the fictitious reduction in unemployment that accompanies this elasticization of work, the 
attack on workers' retirement and insurance and the increase in labor "accidents", for the 
which is now the responsibility does not fall on the employer. The last shot in this 
crescendo is the first-time auctions and the reduction of the right to strike by the 
clubs. A move that puts obstacles and virtually eliminates the strike,

Co-ordinarily with regard to the policy of sovereignty, which is handled by the political 
personnel of the SYRIZA-ANEL government, is the attitude and the action of GSEE-ADEDY 
workers-sold trade unionists. The creation of the new structure of the so-called "Social 
Alliance", ie a vehicle of employers with a project of class cooperation between the 
exploiters and the exploiters, aims to interrupt the strikes, which clearly highlights the 
GSEE's role as a prostitute. It is clear that following its attitude to the 2015 
referendum, GSEE is moving on to another level, that of its clear and openly hostile 
attitude towards the social and class movement. In this context, the general strike of May 
30th was launched, together with the bosses (employers' organizations and chambers)

On the other hand, the dominant class moves to enhance the Greek state's involvement in 
transnational competitions by increasing its attachment to NATO's chariot, both in the 
Balkans (the peak of the Macedonian solution) and the south-eastern Mediterranean 
(sharpening the confrontation with the Turkish state in view of the exploitation of the 
sources of resources in the Aegean), thus composing the overall context of the attack on 
sovereignty in our lives. The fugitives are invited to align with the aspirations of each 
state and to give their lives for the interests of bosses, locals and multinationals. 
Inside societies, internal enemies are built, through nation-state premiums and capital, 
to fulfill their interests. What is reserved for sovereignty for those who resist 
capitalist barbarism is an ever-increasing repression of persecution, limitation of 
rights, and the targeting of both the official state and its long hand, the fascist 
partisan (fascist minions in the service of bosses in labor mobilizations, such as COSCO 
in Piraeus, etc.).

It is obvious that after the experience of four years of power management by her left 
crutches, the bottom-ups have nothing else to expect from another assignment of their 
interests, expectations, and needs to another aspiring spokesperson. As brutal growth as 
they promise, as long as the memorandums are torn, the question remains: Capitalism or 
Social Revolution.

An initial response to both the sovereigns, the state and the capital, as well as the 
reformist and bureaucratic unionism, was the organized by the lower inter-branch strike of 
the base clubs and first-level clubs of November 1. The strike and rally strikes in Athens 
and Thessaloniki were particularly massive and pulsating, leaving on the one hand a very 
important stock of struggle and experience and, on the other hand, highlighting the 
dynamics that can be developed within the social and class movement as a practical 
proposition of struggle for the next battles come.

Against the mockery of employers' and bureaucratic unionism, we advocate the organization 
on the basis of equality and freedom. Against the devaluation of our lives, we can make 
the strikes again dangerous for the state and the bosses. Through grassroots and class 
initiatives, self-organized and anti-lingual, along with students, students, workers, 
unemployed, give the workplaces, schools and schools the struggle of class and social 
struggle. With a compass building a world of equality, freedom and solidarity.

AGAINST CAPITALIZATION AND STATE BARRIER

FIGHT AGAINST LIFE AND FREEDOM
TO THE ATTAXIC, ANARCHICAL, COMMEMORATIVE SOCIETY

OFFENSES AND WORKERS THE WORLD OF WORLD WILL GIVE OUT YOU

PRESENTATION 10:00 | Grampola Pedestrian Stream
- Pathia 10:30 | ARCH

Collectivity for Social Anarchism "Black & Red",
member of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2018/11/27

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Message: 9





While workers were enjoying their Thanksgiving weekend, General Motors announced its plans 
to close auto plants in Lordstown, Ohio (1600 workers), Hamtramck, Michigan (1500 workers) 
and Oshawa, Ontario,Canada (2500 workers), along with two transmission plants, one in 
Warren, Michigan (my former workplace, now with 250 workers) and one near Baltimore (about 
400 workers).  Over 8000 salaried workers will also lose their jobs. This represents over 
10% of GM's North American workforce. ---- This does not include workers, in plants and 
businesses who service these plants, who will be without jobs as well. ---- Stocks have 
soared as investors plan to make more money off the planned misery facing these workers 
and their families and their communities.  There are no jobs waiting for these soon to be 
unemployed workers and unemployment compensation only lasts a short while. Businesses and 
services that make up the communities supported by these workers will face the results of 
this dramatic loss of income, as well.

The company says it has to keep up with the times, and put its money and investment into 
electric and driverless vehicles.  It wants to be in the market when these vehicles are 
used for delivery and taxi purposes. It has also announced the end of its line of sedans, 
promoting instead the more profitable trucks and SUVs.  These larger vehicles are also 
worse for the environment, using more fuel and materials, requiring more repair to the 
roads they travel.

The state shakes its finger and says, oh, bad timing.  Trump promised these jobs would 
stay and they are not staying.  He threatened to end tax breaks enjoyed by the 
corporation. Stocks dropped for a hot minute, then when the emptiness of this threat 
became apparent, began again to rise.  Detroit mayor Duggan says oh this will be bad. No 
one and nothing, however, stands in their way or stops the corporation from doing whatever 
it wants, regardless of the hurt it plans to put on our communities.

The union says, oh its contract time, that's why they did this and we will fight them. 
Like they've been fighting them? Like not at all! The union has maintained a class 
collaborationist, we are all one family rhetoric for most of its history, promising a 
fight to its union members and keeping the promises of labor peace they give to the employers.

The Hamtramck plant, in particular, was built on broken promises.  An entire neighborhood 
was razed in the 1980s to give GM the land to build this plant.  Generous tax breaks were 
given this billion dollar company, taking the money from impoverished Detroit. 
Infrastructure plans were re routed from the needs of neighborhoods to ensure GM would 
have the rail and street access it needed.  A community struggle, including workers, 
neighbors, churches and businesses was defeated in order for this plant to be built, on 
the promise of secure, good paying jobs that would benefit the community.

And the workers?  They are furious. "Workers walked out of the plant in Oshawa, Ontario, 
into a driving rain, waving red flags and clad in ponchos bearing the logo of their union, 
Unifor, they began blockading truck entrances." (NY Times, 11-27-18)  The Detroit Free 
Press reported workers asking, "why did I have to hear this from the news?" They didn't 
even tell us.

This is an attack on our whole class.  It is rooted in a neoliberal politic that looks for 
global resources to increase capitalist wealth.  It is based in a disregard for working 
people, their needs and the necessity for a relatively well paying job to support 
themselves and their families.  These jobs, primarily union jobs, were fought for and won 
through decades of organization and struggle. They are being taken away because our 
working class organizations have ceased to struggle and have refused to stand against the 
capitalist system.  They have spent millions of dollars and decades of years propping up 
the automobile industry, telling activist workers to shut up and let us take care of you, 
that nothing good will come from wildcat (unauthorized) strikes and stoppages. In fact, it 
is strikes and stoppages that gave the UAW its power to begin with.  Strong organization, 
workers for themselves, in alliance with the rest of our class, is the only thing that can 
prevent these plant closings. General Motors still needs workers; they want compliant, low 
paid workers. We need to give them active, militant workers, fighting for justice for 
ourselves and the whole working class.

http://m1aa.org/?p=1623

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