Anarchic update news all over the world - 8.02.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, Class War: There's been a subtle shift in RULING
      CLASS thinking who are the potential rioters (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  London Anarchist Communists: London ACG public meeting on
      Feb 17th (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, "Black & Red" APO: SUPPORT CHRISTMAS IN PORT 21/1/19
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Belarus, pramen.io: New repressions and tortures against
      Russian anarchists (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  freedom news: IWA: Solidarity with Yellow Vests, for a
      general strike (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #291 - Yellow Vests: What
      the Revolt Has Already Changed (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Greece, liberta salonica: Solidarity in the striking strike
      of workers in automakers in Mexico [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Who are necessitating thousands of extra cops, evacuation of the queen et etc
As I said last week it is us! No not Tommy, ukip, the brexiteers...cant imagine these 
wrapped in the flag patriots attacking the queen. As the sunday times bluntly puts it 
today...........troops are being deployed in the event of a NO DEAL BREXIT leading to riots.
so it'll be us stoCking up on food or medicines....the BREAD SHOP QUEUES that the cops 
will do for looting and criminalise.
best not disappoint then.....
RIOT NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM FEB. 26TH
https://www.facebook.com/ClassWarOfficial/?notif_t=notify_me_page&ref=notif

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Free movement of solidarity! ---- With all the furore over Brexit, it is becoming 
increasingly obvious that all politicians care about is that we keep consuming-whether it 
be in or out of the EU. No one seems interested in opening up borders to refugees, 
fighting climate change or ensuring that workers all over the world are free from 
exploitation. What matters is ‘free trade'. This is what capitalism is all about- getting 
us to work, often in horrendous conditions, so that products can continue to be produced, 
shipped around the world, and consumed. And the less we look at what goes into these 
products, the better. As long as we keep working and consuming, all will be well- at least 
for capital! Of course we need to consume to live, but what is produced, by whom and how, 
should be decided by workers and communities.
The London Anarchist Communist Group invites you to participate in a workshop organised by 
the London Mining Network. Take a critical look at where are most cherished products come 
from and consider how we can promote free movement of international solidarity.
Sunday February 17th from 2pm at May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-movement-of-solidarity-blood-on-your-mobile-tickets-55752247473

https://londonacg.blogspot.com/2019/02/london-acg-public-meeting-on-feb-17th.html

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Message: 3





It's been a year since the state and its partisan groups took advantage of the opportunity 
given to them during the first rally for the Macedonian, they made their appearance once 
again, incinerating the occupation of Libertatia. During this time, the very same groups, 
very few times, took up the public life of the city, demonstrating on the occasion of the 
Macedonian, trying to diffuse their fascist illness into the - not particularly healthy - 
crowd of people responding to the nationalist and These patriotic calls. For our part, as 
anti-fascist anarchist and libertarian communists, we did not cease or stop, publicly 
oppose any form of expression of fascism cultivating the state, watering the flowers of 
the evil of the national torso with hatred and rage. We did not abandon or abandon our 
struggle for a society of freedom and mutual respect, as we did not lie in the face of the 
disastrous fascist fury one year ago. We will not let the state, its capital and its 
minions spoil us, delivering a few of the city's freedom places to their own aspirations.

We call on the anti-fascist-contra-course of solidarity in Libertatia and all occupations, 
Monday, January 21 (18:00), outside the occupation.

DO NOT LEAVE A LITTLE LAND IN THE NATIONAL BARRIERS OF THE WALES AND THE FALLS THAT MOVE

10, 100, 1000 BENEFITS AGAINST A ORGANIZED SENSOR WORLD

ORGANIZATION AND FIGHT AGAINST ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMEMORATION

Local Coordination of Thessaloniki Anarchist Policy Organization

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2019/01/30

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On February 1, in Moscow, Russian FSB has raided several flats and arrested 10 people 
under «conspiracy charges». All of them were later released, after all-day interrogations 
and physical tortures, except one person, Azat Miftahov. He is accused of «fabricating 
explosives» and being a member of a «radical anarchist organization Narodnaya Samooborona» 
(Peoples' Self-Defense). This organization has become, during last year, the main target 
of police repressions in Russia: several members of this group were arrested, tortured or 
threatened. Some of the members had to leave the country under a risk of long prison terms 
and tortures. ---- One of the arrested anarchists, Daniil Galkin, has reported about 
tortures. After his arrest, during 2-3 hours he was beaten up and tortured with 
electrochoc in the police car. Under torture, Galkin was forced to say that Azat Miftahov, 
was anarcho-communist and took part in anarchist actions. Galkin was forced to give an 
interview that was compromising anarchists, to a federal TV-channel «First channel» 
(Perviy Canal), and promise to «collaborate with the police by providing information about 
anarchist actions».

In the police station of Balashiha, Moscow region, Galkin saw Azat: he was threatened by 
the FSB officers, and his arms were wringed. According to Galkin, Azat «did not look like 
a human being» because of tortures. He also said he heard screams of one of the arrested 
women activists, who was kept in the room next to his. He also heard that one of the 
arrested anarchists cut his veins and took some pills in order to avoid further tortures 
and thus avoid giving any information about other comrades. According to other witnesses 
and journalists, this person is Azat Miftahov.
Azat was kept in detention in that police station until late night, he was refused to see 
his lawyer. At night he was guided out of the police station, right in front of his lawyer 
who had been waiting for him, and conducted in an unknown direction. We do not know 
anything about his actual location, as for February 2, 18:00. We think he's still tortured 
and forced to give information about his comrades and himself.
We ask for solidarity actions, informational and financial support.

For reminder: currently in Russia (and the recently annexed territories, such as Crimea) 
there are several penal cases against anarchists under «terrorist» charges. Here are some 
of them: the «Network» case, the case against anarchist Vyatcheslav Lukichev, the case 
against anarchist Kirill Kuzminkin, the case against Crimean anarchist Evgeniy Karakashev.

Financial support for Russian anarchists:

https://pramen.io/en/2019/02/new-repressions-and-tortures-against-russian-anarchists/

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Message: 5






The anarcho-syndicalist international has published a public call backing a general strike 
and supporting a statement on the Yellow Vest movement written by its French section, 
CNT-AIT. ---- The International Workers Association (IWA) would like to show its 
solidarity with the social protests occurring in France which are yet another example of 
resistance to the overbearing exploitation that working people around the world are 
facing. ---- Below we would like to publish parts of a text sent by the CNT-AIT and an 
appeal for solidarity. ---- Call for solidarity with the popular movement in France of the 
"Yellow Vests". ---- For more than two months, a social movement of a new type has been 
shaking France.
Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly working classes (poor or middle-class workers, 
unemployed, temporary workers, pensioners, ...), have been gathering to spontaneously 
occupy public spaces (and especially the "roundabouts " ones may find at the entrance of 
any city or village in France), to express their anger and to seek how to overcome the 
current political system. These thousands of people have been using the method of struggle 
which are familiar to anarcho-syndicalists: decisions in assemblies, refusal to have 
leaders or representatives, direct action (that is, action taken directly by the people in 
struggle, and therefore without political parties, without unions or any other 
organisations outside of the assembly which would be intermediate between the assembly and 
the Power / State / Government / Boss).

An autonomous movement with diversity of tactics and mobility. ("Auto" means self and 
"nomous" means norm, so an autonomous movement that defines its own rules for action, 
outside the regulatory and legal framework.) To identify themselves, people in struggle 
have adopted the "yellow vest", a universal symbol that makes everyone equal, and gives 
visibility to those whom those in Power do not want to see: the poor, those excluded from 
the economic system by capitalism and globalisation. The Bosses and Capitalists are 
worried about the impact of this movement on the economy. The cost for the French economy 
is already estimated to be in the billions of euros. In the two months of this autonomous 
agitation, the "Yellow vest" movement has already obtained more social progress than all 
trade-union representatives and political elections in the last 20 past years.

You've probably seen the movies and the pictures of the clashes between the yellow vests 
and the anti-riot police every week-end since November. These images are certainly 
spectacular; we can even speak of insurrection in Paris on December 1st or in the city of 
Toulouse (where our main group in France is located) each weekend. However, we have to 
look further and avoid the hypnosis of images. In our point of view, what is really 
important in this movement is not so much these images of battles that are looping over 
the internet or on the TVs, but rather the fact that thousands of people have got used to 
meeting regularly in assemblies to decide by themselves, without political party or 
outside organization, developing their own policies and criticizing Capitalism and the State.

The Power (Capitalism, Class and State) is even more afraid of this momentum of mass 
awareness of the workers self-capacity for autonomous action, than they are afraid of 
spectacular violence. As the weeks go by, the revolt, which initially focused solely on a 
fuel tax issue, has spread and could lead to a complete challenge of the system. To break 
this movement, the Power tries all the weapons at its disposal: it first tried to say that 
it was a movement of the far right. In this ridiculous attempt to slander it, The State 
has been helped by the majority of libertarian or leftist organisations which are so 
cut-off from the working class that they are incapable of recognising the class nature of 
this movement. It is true that - in some cities - racists tried to manipulate the movement 
at first, but for the moment they have been put in the minority and even sometimes 
violently expelled from the demonstrations.

Then the government tried to calm the spirits by announcing some subsidies for those with 
the lowest wages. But this measure was so out of step with the social reality that it felt 
more like humiliation. So the State and Capitalists had to take off their masks and show 
their true face: that of violence. They remind us that "State has the legitimate monopoly 
of violence" and that Capitalism operates on a system of domination of the strongest over 
the weakest. Thus, since the beginning of the movement, several thousand rebels have been 
arrested and several hundred have been sentenced to very heavy prison sentences, often for 
the sole crime of having been present in the street to protest. Hundreds of people have 
been wounded, some have had their hands or feet torn off by explosive grenades, others 
have their eyes or cheeks pierced by rubber bullets.

CNT-AIT activists have been involved in the movement of yellow vests since the beginning. 
Initially we came to see and understand what was happening. Quickly it became clear that 
we were together with people who shared our organisational practice of Assemblies, without 
representatives, refusing political parties and elections, asking for more social justice. 
So it seemed natural for us to participate fully but always in the respect of our 
anarcho-syndicalist principles. Our intervention also aims to eject the fascists and other 
harmful political parasites who seek to use this movement.

In the immediate future, there have been many people arrested and sentenced to prison, who 
are mostly workers, with or without work, and most often without money and isolated. The 
duty of anarchosyndicalists is to express solidarity with these prisoners of the social 
struggle, to demand their release. That is why today we are launching an appeal for 
solidarity. Any solidarity action, even symbolic, is welcome.

On February 5th, a call to strike was launched by the Yellow Vests. The CNT-AIT calls to 
join the general strike.

Violence is the State and Capitalism!
Freedom for prisoners of social revolt!
CNT-AIT France

https://freedomnews.org.uk/iwa-solidarity-with-yellow-vests-for-a-general-strike/

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The movement of yellow vests has not only hit the government. He also jostled the entire 
social movement in his representations, codes and habits. It is however intended to 
animate and organize these popular layers in all their diversity, to allow them to block. 
---- This event not only surprises us because it is unexpected but also creates a break 
(always relative) in the sense that it introduces a before and after. This prevents one 
from returning to the status quo ante . This forces all actors to reposition themselves in 
relation to the event in question. ---- Under this double report, the movement of yellow 
vests was an event. Needless to recall how much he surprised everyone, including the 
yellow vests themselves and themselves. Let's focus here on the way in which yellow vests 
have changed the French political situation.

 From the nothingness of being
And first from their own point of view. By suddenly bursting in mid-November, the yellow 
vests first made visible a whole part of the French society which was then largely 
invisible organizations and institutions supposed to be representative. These popular 
layers, which no longer interested them, any more than they did not interest the dominant 
media, are mostly composed of members of the proletariat in its diversity (statutory 
workers, under permanent workers, precarious, self-employed and self-employed, unemployed) 
but also include members of the petty-bourgeoisie (artisan and tradesman) alongside 
representatives of the small capital [1], almost exclusively concentrated in peri-urban 
areas or in the deep rural areas, as a result of the liberal policies of recent decades, 
which are synonymous with wage austerity, the deterioration of employment conditions, the 
widening of social inequalities, " Move " from the territory to degradation or even 
disappearance of public facilities and services. Who had heard of these small Vosges 
valleys where yellow vests will arise in dozens of roundabouts Saturday, November 17, 
except for the ninth rebound of the Gregory case ?

Act VI of the movement in Paris, December 22
By making themselves visible to others and thus immediately posing a problem to them (who 
are they ? What do they want??), by challenging the public authorities, demonstrating 
their capacity for harm and their determination in the face of power, the yellow vests 
have not only recalled the existence of these popular layers but made them aware of their 
social power, their capacity to intervene in the balance of power, as the mobilization 
brought them out not only of anonymity but of atomization, loneliness and the feeling of 
helplessness. They turned an apparently amorphous mass into a sociopolitical actor with 
which everyone had to rely overnight. And to these despised beggars, they and they 
rendered a dignity that was immediately expressed in a salutary irreverence with regard to 
power: each of his servants will have taken for his rank, starting with Macron.

Power in the deadlock
So, the situation has changed for power too. He who managed to pass almost as a letter to 
the Post his abolition of the ISF, the sustainability of the CICE, its Labor XXL law, the 
reduction of housing benefits and the increase in the rate of CSG pensioners, its reform 
of the status of railway workers, the Parcoursup system for the selection of high school 
and university students for entry into higher education, here it is for the first time 
obliged to report a measure - the rise in taxation of hydrocarbons - and to make 
concessions to attempt to calm a social movement.

Without achieving it. Because - new disappointment - the bulk of yellow vests were not 
fooled by the nature and scope of the concessions: scoops on the Smic barely worthy of 
alms and the powder of snake a " great national debate ". Especially since, in the 
meantime, the movement had gained in determination and clarity, demanding a general 
increase in the standard of living of the working classes (and thus direct and indirect 
wages), a reduction of inequalities in income and wealth. through taxation, the 
recognition of structures of direct democracy by the representative bodies and the end of 
the contempt with which the popular layers are treated by the economic, political and 
media elites.

That these requirements, still vague, yet go against the direction of the current 
government - as precedents - is illustrated by the fact that it has nothing else to oppose 
for the moment vests yellow as a club more and more heavy. But this signifies precisely 
how weak he is: he has lost all that hitherto allowed him to govern by counting on the 
consent, even passive and resigned, of the popular classes he now sees against him. And 
who will continue to stand up as long as it has not yielded a little bit to their own 
requirements, suddenly having to give up its own orientations, enslaved to the interests 
of transnational big capital.

The radical left arrested
However, the awakening was not painful only for the power. It has also been for its 
radical opponents in principle. Needless to point out that, apart from a few activists, 
all the radical left's trade union and political organizations shone by their absence 
during the first two weeks of the mobilization of the yellow vests. That some (LO, AL, 
NPA, LFI) have acted quickly or that others (certain federations of the CGT, 
SUD-Solidaires) have quickly recovered themselves does not prevent to note that the main 
ones of them ( starting with the CGT) continue to sulk the movement.

Act III of the movement in Paris on 1 st December
No doubt the yellow vests are partly responsible. From their previous experience, they 
concluded that there is nothing to expect from organizations that have abandoned or 
ignored them for ages. Their forms of action (outside of the companies) and their demands 
(aimed at the government but seeming to exonerate the employers) have also contributed to 
distance union and political organizations. Not to mention the presence in yellow vests of 
elements and themes of extreme right.

It would, however, be a serious mistake and a political mistake if these organizations 
persisted in their ostracism. For a long time, they would cut themselves off from a 
section of the popular strata that they nevertheless intended to animate and organize in 
all their diversity, to enable them to make a bloc. They would not allow the potential for 
political radicalization that still exists in yellow vests, on both the programmatic and 
organizational levels, to be updated. And, above all, they would take the risk not only 
that the movement weakens and ends but that at least a part, by resentment, turns to the 
sirens of the extreme right.

Alain Bihr (AL Alsace), January 19th, 2019

[1] These tiny bosses whom Marx called " formal capitalists " or " nominal capitalists " .

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Gilets-jaunes-Ce-que-la-revolte-a-deja-change

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Since January 12, 2019, 70,000 workers and workers in the automotive industry in 
Matamoros, Mexico, have been on strike by shutting down 50 factories. They struggle to 
claim a 20% wage increase, a 3,200 peso bonus (a $ 1,700 bonus), a shorter week of work 
(return to 40 working hours a week) and a 4% to 1% reduction in their trade union 
contributions. Thousands of workers demonstrated in the streets of Matamoros, sensing the 
anti-capitalist features of their mobilizations. ---- The remarkable in these 
mobilizations is their unmistakable anti-capitalist character. Workers and workers in the 
automotive industry turned their back on bureaucratic unions and organized their own 
factory committees, of which two representatives from each unit are appointed by the 
general meeting of factory workers to participate in secondary coordination meetings.

The government and the bureaucratic unions, which are controlled by it and have entered 
into peace with the bosses, are trying in every way to acquire the consensus and retreat 
of the strikers, sometimes with promises and sometimes with the threat of repression and 
defamation of the struggle their. The Mexican Labor Ministry issued a statement in which 
it blatantly accused that assailant strikers "blackmail" their colleagues to strike. As in 
Greece, as in Mexico, a seemingly social-democratic government implements tough anti-labor 
and anti-grassroots, neo-liberal policies, destroying every possible illusion of 
normalizing capitalism through the state administration of reformist governments. Mexico's 
populist-reformist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,

The mackerel, as they call the assembly plants in Mexico, operate under a regime of human 
labor abduction, with laborious rhythms of work in the standards of the fornical model of 
capitalist production. With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement 
(NAFTA), signed between the US, Mexico and Canada in 1994, major US multinationals were 
allowed to do so. to produce extremely cheap products in Mexico, without tax and duties, 
paying Mexican workers the 1/6 of the money they would give to workers in their industrial 
units in the US. In addition, the mackerel are known for the status gender discrimination 
in workplaces where, in addition to the pay gap between female workers, they are forced by 
the bosses to take a pregnancy test when they apply for recruitment and are forced to do 
hard work and overtime when they are pregnant so that they can then resign as a result of 
their physical deterioration without receiving compensation. Gender violence and sexist 
incidents are also part of the working reality for women working in mackerel.

In mackerel, the government is spreading the iron arm of power to control workers through 
directly appointed state-run bureaucrats. Of course, these bureaucrats are the long hand 
of the state and the good associates of the capitalists. Not only do they have nothing to 
do with the defense of labor interests but they themselves are nothing more than stingy 
rumors of the state and bosses who paranoia both the state wage transfers they receive and 
the subscriptions made to the union by the colleagues their. Employees complaining about 
the mackerel are in danger of being fired or included in black lists to be excluded from 
other jobs. Also,

So far, however, the strike in the automakers has cost companies at least $ 900 million in 
profits. Also, the strike has affected General Motors and Ford's factories in the US, 
where the Mexican automaker supplies spare parts, causing production to stop at Michigan's 
Rock Flag.

Owners of the car industry and the state respond by blocking workers and workers at 
factories by placing bars to prevent them from going out. Demonstrations are now 
threatened by armed police and army men. In addition, the statutory media of Mexico, as 
the bourgeoisie of the bourgeoisie and the state, have totally silenced strike 
mobilizations, trying to cut off every connection of the struggle of striking workers with 
the rest of the working class.

Up to now, 23 companies have pledged to meet the demands of the strikers. However, their 
commitment quickly proved to be a defensive, reflexive means of decompression and 
inhibition of racial class mobilizations, as in some cases the bonuses were paid only to 
employees with specific years of service, while in others they are supposed to be paid 
only in the long run as workers they received instead of money only certain payment 
coupons, which are taxed at a rate of 16%. These maneuvers of the bosses, however, have 
even furioused the workers, who have begun to increasingly question the dominant economic 
and political regime. It is certain that with the support of bureaucratic unions and the 
government, companies will try to re-establish any concessions granted on the first 
available opportunity, just as they did when they dropped the workers' bonuses after the 
minimum wage increased in December. Already, many automotive owners are threatening to 
move their businesses abroad and throw workers into unemployment and poverty because of 
the loss of earnings on the strike. The bosses are trying to terrorize the striking 
laborers threatening massive layoffs that will reach 25,000 workers if they do not return 
within 24 hours to their jobs. They are trying to force the government to declare the 
strike illegal, as has already happened in 13 factories. The local government, on the 
other hand,

While the bosses, the state, and the bureaucrats of trade unionists are trying to weaken 
the struggle, the workers and workers in the automotive industry coordinate their 
subsequent mobilizations and guard their strike by helping the social base against the 
cops' recently happened at the Candados Universales industrial unit. The factory 
committees call on all workers to go together in a general nationwide strike, which they 
propagate as a "Day Without Workers", and call for internationalist class solidarity in 
their struggle.

In Matamoros, more and more workers require improvement in their working conditions. More 
than 1,500 employees of Spellman's medical provider started a strike to claim their own $ 
1,700 bonus. Workers at the Coca Cola plant in Matamoros also made a strike, organized 
outside the bureaucratic union.

A little further north, General Motors employees in the US and Canada have been frustrated 
by the company's decision to close five factories and blackmail 140,000 US workers. to 
sign labor contracts that are devalued for their class interests. That's why they launched 
a strike on February 9th at General Motors headquarters in Detroit to claim their labor 
rights and express their solidarity with their striking colleagues in Matamoros. A few 
days ago, some 13,000 Audi Hungarians started a strike, and workers at the Taubaté plant 
in Brazil decided to cut off production by opposed to job cuts. In Argentina,

For our part, we express our unparalleled class and international solidarity to the 
struggling workers and workers striving in the Mexican automobile industry (and not only). 
We welcome their struggle, which, in our opinion, must be an inspiration for the working 
class on a global scale as it demonstrates that unprecedented class initiatives, lasting 
general strike strikes and sabotage on the line of production are the best means of 
promoting labor races today. With our weapons of class mutual aid and proletarian 
internationalism, the world working class can make significant steps to change existing 
class power relations.

In the war that states and capitalists have proclaimed us, we must at last get our 
fighting position. In a period of violent capitalist restructuring, we have a duty to 
exacerbate social and class struggles, to consolidate collectively the classical struggles 
of class struggle, to link the partial and fragmentary struggles with the overall struggle 
of the social revolution for individual and collective emancipation, libertarianism 
communism, anarchy.

SOLIDARITY / STRIKERS IN WORKERS / TRIES TO AFTOKINITOVIOMICHANIES IN MEXICO

NO COMPROMISE WITH THE STATE, THE CAPITAL AND THE BUREAUCRACY AND LABOR urbanized

, class GAMES IN HANDS OF WORKERS AND worker

Anarchist Federation
anarchist-federation@riseup.net
anarchist-federation.gr

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2019/02/05

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