Today's Topics:
1. Russia, avtonom: Pavel Nikulin at the Avtonom Lecture Hall
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. International of Anarchist Federations i-f-a: Overview of
repressions against anarchists & antifascists in Belarus in 2018
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. International of Anarchist Federations IAF-IFA: Solidarity
with Anarchist Women of Turkey - Appeal from Turkey:
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. anarkismo.net: The defeat of the United States in
Afghanistan by Rafael Poch de Feliu - Ctxt (ca, it) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Kate Sharpley Library update February 2019 - bulletin is up
on our website (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. From the Croatian Rijeka squat Graciani we send an anarchist
greeting to all the fighters of Turin, Trento (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Greece, dirty horse [APO]: Call for debate on the launch of
an 8 March mobilization (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Message to AWSM From Rojava -- hey friends and comrades from
the AWSM, (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Greece, Vogliamo tutto e per tutti: Impasse by Mamasubbeck
cops killed in AT Omonoia-Let's not leave any state murder
unanswered [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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The February lecture hall of Avtonom is dedicated to media. The journalist and editor of
moloko plus Pavel Nikulin will tell you what small media is and why it should be done. How
to create your own project, where to look for resources for this and how many times and
what rake to step on before your editorial board, relying on the principles of
self-organization and horizontalness, can debug its work.
Date: February 28
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Location: Sakharov Center, st. Ground shaft, 57, p. 6, Moscow
https://avtonom.org/news/pavel-nikulin-na-lektorii-avtonoma
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Every year ABC-Belarus publishes a report about repression of anarchists and antifascists
in Belarus. This year they have translated it into English. Here it is. ---- At the
beginning of the year everybody were shocked by "Network case" in Russia where anarchists
were tortured and detained. According to the FSB, a chapter of the "Network" also operated
in Belarus. The KGB hasn't publicly reacted to this statement, however, we noticed
increased efforts to recruit youth associated with the anarchist movement in different
parts of Belarus. ---- Winter ---- At the beginning of February 2018, the KGB started
investigating a regional educational organisation Critical Thinking. One of the volunteers
was summoned to an informal chat via phone - previously he had been detained together with
Russian anarchist Piotr Ryabov and sentenced to a fine for "public display of Nazi
symbols"[1]and the confiscation of his hard drive. At the same time, his mother was called
for an informal conversation. Several friends of this volunteer were
picked up by the police, questioned and later released. The police was
interested in the activity of Critical Thinking, as well as attempted to
force people to sign cooperation papers[2].
On February 8, the anti-extremist police in Mogilev visited parents of
an activist. They were asking about their child's activity, her
political interests and so on. The flat was searched with a warrant
issued under a criminal case initiated in 2017, when red paint was spilt
on Lenin's statue in the city. The raid happened in one more flat of
parents of another activist. This activist was considered a witness on
the same criminal case[3].
Anarchists Kirill A. and Igor M. were sentenced to 3 years of limitation
of freedom for burning down a billboard with police advertisement. A
third person in the case is still on the run.
In February, the police was also visiting activists who were detained
during protests against the law on social parasites in 2017. Officers
were coming to registration addresses and asking questions about the
current activity of people. Some were informed that the examination was
performed under a criminal case started on March 15, 2017[4].
On February 23, two policemen from Brest kidnapped a punk in Stolin,
brought him to the forest and started pressing him to give information
on local anarchists. At some point, they asked him for his last wish and
pointed a gun to his back. Moments later they were offering the person
money for information on local anarchists.
On February 26, a raid happened in Minsk in the flat of a social
activist. According to the police, they were searching for weapons,
explosives and other interdicted materials. Nothing of that was found in
the flat, however, cops confiscated a laptop, a phone, hard drives,
newspapers and leaflets. Apart from that, cops seized his father's
knife. The activist pointed out that several weeks before the raid
police had been calling and inviting him to come for a conversation - he
declined the invitation. He connected the raid with an attempt of the
police to punish him for that. The interest of the police can be
connected with his active stance on the developments in Ukraine.
Spring
On March 12, Svyatoslav Baranovich[5]was sentenced to 3 years for
attacking police officers during 15 March protest against the parasite
law. Baranovich was helping anarchists to escape the detentions and in a
scuffle punched one of plain-cloth cops.
On March 26, activist Ilya S. was fined 200 euros for ignoring calls to
come to the KGB for an informal conversation.
From March, information started appearing about anarchists getting
banned from entering Russia. Those bans are given to the people arriving
to the country through formalised borders where after the passport
control they are told about the ban. The logic behind these actions is
unclear. Among other things, it can be connected with the collaboration
with the Belarusian secret police or the "Network case".
An antifascist Y. who was planning to go to Moscow for work was detained
in spring. He was accused of publishing a Nazi propaganda video and
charged with incitement of ethnic hatred. The video was shared on his
private page and was actually accompanied with a comment ridiculing
Nazis. His house was raided and he spent several days in custody. He is
awaiting trial.
On April 19, anarchist Fyodor B. was detained by the anti-extremist
police on charges of distribution of pornography. However, the cops were
not interested in the video on his social networks, but rather in his
activity in the anarchist movement, his contacts and private life.
Currently he is under travel restrictions.
On May 3 in Stolin, three anarchists and anti-authoritarian activists
were raided and questioned by police. Cops were interested in anarchists
and punks - who is organizing concerts, how people from Minsk are coming
to the events and so on.
On May 6, Aleksandr K. was visited by the police who questioned him
about the action that had happened one day earlier in Brest, when the M1
motorway had been blocked shortly in a protest against the construction
of a battery factory. He refused to give any official testimonies and
only gave information on his alibi for that day.
In the early morning of May 16, the police broke into a flat of Ilya M.
conducted an inspection[6]of his place. They said that the raid was
happening because of the blockade of M1 motorway. Computers, mobiles
phones, flash drives and a photo camera were seized.
It is also known that police raided one flat in Baranovichi in
connection with the same action. Apart from that, in Minsk anarchist
Roman was raided as well.
Anarchist Vanya K. was raided on May 18 - cops were searching for
extremist materials. Clothes with the inscriptions "Animal Liberation",
"Anti-Globalism Marvin School" and "Destroy Capitalism" were seized.
Apart from that, they took hard drives, flash drives, phones and letters.
At the end of May in Brest, the police raided a flat of an activist
because of some graffiti painted in another town. They checked his
computer and clothes. They seized one book.
Summer
At the beginning of June, one of the antifascists fans of FC Viktoria
was arrested. He is suspected of distribution of pornography on the
internet. Similar cases against football fans were started in Gorodeya,
Ivatsevichi, Gorki. There were several similar situations in Minsk. It
seems to be a coordinated attack against active football fans.
On June 30, special task forces and anti-extremist police attacked an
anarchists camp in the forest next to Krupki town. After shooting into
the air all participants of the camp were forced to lay on the ground.
Then activists one by one were forced on their knees to speak out their
names on camera. All in all, the whole raid lasted more than 8 hours
with activists spending most of the time laying on the wet ground under
heavy rain. Police seized literature and called forest service. Two
activists were charged with illegal removal of plants and distribution
of extremist materials.
In July, at an anarchist conference "Pryamukhino Readings" in Russia
police detained a Belarusian anarchist Artem M. He was charged with
consumption of drugs (Artem refused to undergo a medical examination).
He was also told to leave the territory of the Russian Federation within
5 days on the grounds that he "posed threat to national security".
In July, anarchist Nikolay D. was detained next to his house. The same
day the court ruled to fine him 100 euros for the propaganda of Nazi
symbols. The case was connected with his anti-Nazi post on Facebook
several years ago.
The same day the court sentenced Maria R. to a fine of 110 euros for a
photo in a hat with "Class War" inscription that had been previously
ruled to be extremist.
At the end of July, police started performing inspections of flats of
those who had been detained in the forest previously. Relatives of some
were questioned as well.
In August, the police came to Vanya K. to question him about the raid
that happened earlier in May. The cops said that the charges were
changed from distribution of extremist materials to a hate crime. Vanya
refused to talk to the cops. The police told the parents of the activist
that he might be connected with the anarchist group Wave Belarus and
this was the main reason why repressions started.
On August 29, a presentation of the human rights initiative "Pravovoye
Deystviye" that supports antifascists and anti-authoritarian activists
was sabotaged - the owners of the place cancelled it at the last moment.
On August 30, the court ruled ACAB and ???? (Death to cops from knives)
slogans on the clothes of football fan Aleksei S. to be extremist.
Afterwards the police raided his flat claiming that they were searching
for evidence of hate crimes.
Autumn
At the beginning of September, in Grodno group of people saw a fire in
the woods. They called a fire brigade but on the following day they were
held for 8 hours in a police station where cops were trying to charge
them with the fire as one of the people in the group was an
eco-anarchist. In the evening, all the people were released.
On October 12, cops raided the flat of Aleksandr K. from Brest. He was
accused of putting a leaflet on one of the houses in the city. During
the raid, the cops were not interested in leaflets, instead they seized
a laptop, phones and other devices.
At the same time, the police raided the house of Dmitry L. seizing the
hard drive from his computer.
On October 14, both were questioned at the police station. After that
they were hold till the end of "pigeons feeding" action (weekly protest
in Brest against the construction of the battery factory).
On November 2, in Grodno a musician Ales D. was fined 250 euros for
reposting information in social networks from an anarchist group that
was ruled to be extremist.
Two weeks later antifascist Vladislav S. was fined 150 euros for a
similar act. Back then, Vladislav was serving a sentence in an open
penal facility (where he is allowed to leave prison for work). The
administrative case might have been an attempt of the police to start a
new criminal case against him for breach of conditions.
In the same city on November 20, Aleksandr G. was fined 300 euros for
propaganda of Nazi symbols and the distribution of extremist materials.[1]
And winter again
On December 2, six activists were detained for putting a funeral wreath
to the statue of 19th century policeman.
In Brest, at the beginning of December antifascist Dmitry K. was
sentenced to 2 years of freedom limitation (similar to a house arrest).
He was accused of a fight in the bar, where a drunk man attacked Dmitry.
Dmitry fought back, and 6 more people came to help the drunk. As a
result, Dmitry and several other fighters suffered minor injuries. Both
sides didn't want to press charges, however, the police charged only
Dmitry with the accident.
On December 11, an art-activist from a theatre laboratory Fortinbras was
sentenced to 110-euro fine for an action "Deconstructing militia" that
happened several days earlier. The action was held in support of the
LGBT community.
Three days later Dmitry Poliyenko was fined with 400 euros for avoiding
preventive conversations at the police station. One more court hearing
was planned on December 19, however, activists didn't go to it, so
results of the hearing are still unknown.
On December 27, Nikolai D. was fined with 400 euros for the propaganda
of Nazi ideology[1](another post in Facebook).
We are also aware of several more cases for shares on social networks.
Apart from that we got information of multiple raids and informal talks
with antifascists. Information on those cases is not public.
The good news
On April 25, antifascist Thomas K. who was previously serving a sentence
for a fight, got an improvement of serving conditions and was
transferred to serve the rest of the sentence at home.
On October 24, Dmitry Poliyenko was released having served 2 years in
prison for an attack on a road policeman during Critical Mass. During
his time behind the bars he experienced multiple problems in prison
caused by the prison administration.
Anarchist list of extremist materials was extended by 2 brochures, 3
leaflets, 1 sticker. 5 internet websites were blacklisted, including the
website of Anarchist Black Cross Belarus. "Class War", "Terror machine",
"ACAB" and "????" also ended up in the list of extremist materials. From
now on, distribution and storage of these materials can be prosecuted as
an infringement.
At the same time, cops from anti-extremist police are actively creating
fake pages in social networks, where they are publishing materials on
anarchists, including pictures and private information they got during
illegal raids. One of the pages is created in name of an anarchist who
was a suspect in an attack on the KGB building in 2017. On this page,
the police is publishing profiles of different anarchists and
antifascists with the description of their lives, interests and some
information that can be considered provocative inside of the anarchist
movement. And, of course, links to extremist materials from this fake
pages are not investigated.
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1: Currently, the police is using this article to prosecute antifascists
and anarchists for some pictures of Nazis or antifascist symbols that
include swastika (like crossed or broken swastika).
2: This cooperation papers make you an official informant of the police
or KGB. In 2015, a scandal broke out because it turned out that a number
of the right-wing opposition youth signed these papers, including top
activists.
3: The police usually performs raids at activists' places who are listed
as witnesses to charge them directly after the raid.
4: On that day, over 30 anarchists and their supporters were detained
after protest against the parasite law. During detention the police used
pepper spray in public transport to get activists out of the enclosed
space. Later on the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced initiating
criminal proceedings for an attack on the police with pepper spray.
5: https://abc-belarus.org/?p=11506&lang=en
6: Under Belarusian administrative law, the police can inspect living
places of citizens without any criminal case if they have enough reasons
to believe that there is something suspicious going on. This became one
of the favourite tactics for raids in the country as it doesn't involve
fabricating a case for raids.
Source - https://abc-belarus.org/?p=12124&lang=en
http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/2019/02/23/overview-of-repressions-against-anarchists-antifascists-in-belarus-in-2018/
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Dear comrades, We are writing from Revolutionary Anarchist Action – Anarchist Women
organization - from Turkey. Just like the last years, we have been preaparing a women’s
issue for our newspaper Meydan; focused on women issues and struggles, considering the 8th
of March. ---- For this issue of Meydan, we are asking for a short solidarity note from
anarchist women organizations/ struggles, from all around the world. ---- These notes are
very important and inspiring for us and for our readers; in order to see that, we are
being oppressed by the same institutions, and with similiar tools of the state and
patriarchy, while we are fighting for our freedom, with similiar tools, such as self
organization, solidarity etc… ---- For this reason we have a lot to share and learn from
eachother and grow our struglles all around the world. ---- As a result we will be happy
to publish your solidarity note. ---- Text can be short, up to 200-300 words.
The deadline will be 24th of February.(regarding the translation and page setting). Please
note the name of your organization and the name of the country/region (that you are
struggling) at the end of your note.
Here you can see the last women issue/last year (in Turkish):
https://meydan.org/gundem/2018/03/dunyadan-anarsist-kadinlarin-mucadele-mesajlari-2/
With communion and solidarity.
Anarchist Women
http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/2019/02/23/solidarity-with-anarchist-women-turkey/
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Forty years ago the Soviet army entered Afghanistan. That December, 1979, five months ago
that President Carter and his security adviser, the anti-Russian fanatic of Polish origin
Zbigniew Brzezinski, had started, with his Saudi friends, a multimillion-dollar aid to
foment, finance and build a Sunni fundamentalism in Afghanistan. The famous mujahideen,
"fighters for freedom". ---- In Paris, some of those who were then enthusiastic supporters
of those dark characters of the eighteenth century and elevated them to the title of
positive heroes, I am today specialists in its consequence: the fundamentalist terrorism
that reaches its cities as a result, among other things, of that anti-communist crusade
All without mediating the slightest self-critical consideration.
Until the mid-1970s, Afghanistan was an atavistic country that hippies crossed on their
route to India. The rifles of the 19th century British invaders that were loaded by the
cannon, the hunting shotguns and the trabucos, were the usual weapons in their rural
world. The East / West conflict transformed that into a universe of automatic weapons,
armored vehicles, helicopters, antipersonnel mines, mortars and portable anti-aircraft
missiles "Stinger", creating a biblical disaster with more than two million dead and the
destruction of a society that counted (and it counts) among the poorest in the world.
The money of the CIA and the Saudis and the cadres of the Pakistani secret service, the
ISI, introduced Islamic fundamentalism in the republics of Muslim tradition of the USSR,
and also some commandos in actions of sabotage near the border in the then republics
Soviets of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In Paquistán the CIA and the ISI organized a network
of training camps for Afghans, whose commandos entered the country accompanied by
Pakistani military supervisors in sabotage actions.
"The missions went from blasting oil pipelines to rocket attacks to an airport or
ambushes," Mohammad Yusaf, head of the Afghan department of the ISI, explains in his
memoirs (The Bear Trap). "Between 1981 and 1986, 80,000 Afghan guerrillas passed through
those camps," the soldier remembered proudly.
The Soviets entered calls by the Afghan philo-communist government, divided into
irreconcilable factions, following a dizzying succession of internal coups and
assassinations. They believed that it would be a mission of a few months to pacify the
country and bring order to their regime, but they found themselves bogged down.
"I wrote to President Carter telling him that we now had the opportunity to give the USSR
his Vietnam," Brezinski said in one of his last interviews. The Soviets remained in that
trap for a decade, until Gorbachev's will to defuse relations with China and the West
prevailed. By then (1989), the USSR lost 15,000 dead soldiers, 50,000 wounded, but the
bill for Afghanistan was much worse: 1.3 million dead, 2 million internally displaced, and
4.5 million refugees in the neighboring countries.
The Soviet war managed to establish a stable government in the country - with all its
horrors, the best that that unfortunate country has had, as the Afghans valued, by a very
large majority in a 2008 survey - and organize relatively efficient armed forces. When the
Soviets concluded their withdrawal in 1989, that government and that army still held for
three years, controlling all the cities and roads that linked them. The government only
fell when Yeltsin's Russia ceased all supply in 1992. There followed a decade of chaos and
civil war between factions in which, over a panorama of ruins and obscurantism, the
Taliban ended up being imposed from 1996, without the war I'll stop in the north.
Ten years after the Soviet withdrawal, the Americans arrived. Officially to fight Bin
Laden and his organization, which was one of the disasters incubated by his own policy
against the Soviets during the previous two decades. Nor was there any self-criticism.
Brzezinski even got angry when they asked him a couple of years ago if he did not
recognize his mistake: "How can I regret it? It was an excellent idea, with it we put the
Soviets in the trap ...! "
The American specialists - and after them the parrots of the western media complex -
explained that autumn of 2001, why now nothing would be the same as in 1979 when the
Soviets entered. The army of the USSR was composed of inexperienced recruits, was poorly
equipped, its administration was disastrous, with terrible food rations and low levels of
hygiene that caused huge sick leave, they said. "Nothing allows to establish a parallel
between the anti-terrorist operation now and the Soviet invasion of 1979," wrote La
Vanguardia until the ill-fated Xavier Batalla, without a doubt the most competent
international commentator, glossing that general forecast.
In a dirty hotel on the Afghan border that autumn I attended the arrival of the first
contingents of the CIA, types who spoke Uzbek with an accent of Oklahoma and who carried
in their backpacks toilet paper, solutions to purify water and all kinds of technologies
and who claimed to work for obscure "humanitarian" or "non-governmental" organizations.
His knowledge of the country was lousy. Putin's Russia offered them all their cooperation
in matters of Afghan intelligence, which did not serve much for the improvement of
relations that the Kremlin was looking for then in exchange for a minimum recognition of
their interests in Washington. On October 8, 2001, the bombings began. A few weeks later,
more people had been killed than the number of victims in the twin towers of New York. Two
months later, with the fall of Kandahar,
Eighteen years later, the war continues. There they are bogged down, with all their
military technology, aided by European vassals (Spain spent 3,600 million in that
campaign), without a superpower to finance its adversaries but with everything else so
similar. The simple reality is that under much more favorable conditions, the Americans
have multiplied the disaster of the Soviets in Afghanistan and have lost the war.
Last January a large military convoy was attacked by the Taliban in the province of
Faryab. More than thirty military and transport vehicles were destroyed in that border
province with Turkmenistan that passes for quiet. With few days of difference, the attack
to the courtship of the governor of another province, Lowgar, killed to ten of its escorts
and an action against a base of the brutal special troops trained by the CIA, caused the
death of about 200 soldiers of that body .
In the whole Afghanistan / Pakistan this second war has caused 1.2 million deaths,
according to the accounts of Nicolas JS Davies. The Afghan government and its mentors only
control about half of the 407 districts in the country. Drug trafficking, that traditional
business to pay for the black boxes of the CIA, is at ease. Afghan opium is creating
serious problems of drug addiction in Russia. The dimension of the fiasco is such that
negotiations and talks with the Taliban have been opened. With 18 years of delay there is
talk of "moderate Taliban".
The problem of the military withdrawal announcements formulated by Donald Trump (and it's
the same for Syria) is that the Pentagon does not like to withdraw from a base that is
important to keep an eye on its real adversaries, China and Russia. The Chinese want to
use a pacified Afghanistan to expand the connections of their "silk routes" throughout
central and southern Asia. The American military will look for a way to stay in one way or
another.
The United States has lost the war in Afghanistan in a way not unlike its predecessors.
Obviously, that defeat has not been a victory for the Afghans. The war of the forty years
that brought, encouraged and amplified foreigners, has been for them a biblical calamity.
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31306
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The latest issue of KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library is out ---- KSL: Bulletin
of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 97-98, February 2019[Double issue]has just been posted on
our site. The PDF is up at: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/k0p452 and the contents
page is at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/0cfzsx ---- Contents ---- Osvaldo Bayer is
Dead "He showed up at every protest by workers, peasants and native communities.
Championship of ethics and human rights was his forte." (Portrait of Bayer above by
Eduardo Montes-Bradley) ---- Osvaldo Bayer 1927-2018: In Memoriam by Frank Mintz "There is
no separating Osvaldo Bayer's output from the annals of Argentinean and world anarchism"
---- Alan MacSimoin 1957-2018 "Coming from Irish Republicanism to anarchism in the 1970s,
he belonged to the Murrays Defence Committee, the Dublin Anarchist Group, the Anarchist
Workers Alliance and helped found the Workers Solidarity Movement in 1984."
Anarchy: A Definition by Stuart Christie "Whatever the immediate prospects of achieving a
free society, and however remote the ideal, if we value our common humanity then we must
never cease to strive to realise our vision."
A beautiful idea: history of the Freedom Press anarchists by Rob Ray[Book review]"Rob
Ray's book begins with the disarming confession that he imagined writing a ‘relatively
short pamphlet' (p3). 300 pages later you've been given a whistle-stop tour of Freedom's
history"
Statement by the Black Flag Group to the Liverpool Conference of the Anarchist Federation
of Britain, Sept., 1968 "Anarchism is a revolutionary method of achieving a free
non-violent society, without class divisions or imposed authority."
1952: Barcelona executions, global protests (Case number 658-IV-49) including material by
Miguel Garcia Garcia (above, photo by Federico Arcos) "Every one of the resistance
organizations - with only a few exceptions - had been smashed. Some had shot it out, some
had been taken by surprise, some had been shot down."
The Invisible Dictatorship[a short history of Anarchy magazine (second series)]by Philip
Ruff "Humbled as I am to be awarded the position of Great Helmsman of the Anarchy
Collective, the historical facts are rather different."
News from the Kate Sharpley Library, February 2019 (more books on the way!)
David Porter "David was a fine man and a fine historian."
The Massana Gang by Imanol (with material by José Ester Borrás) "his was possibly the only
group of any vintage that suffered no losses and that was a real rarity; his life was also
spared because after he had disarmed some customs officers in France, he was charged and
was then banished far from the French-Spanish border and was not deported."
Thoughts on ‘What everyone should know about state repression' by Victor Serge "The book's
an evocation of the Russian revolutionary tradition which gives it a certain amount of
derring-do"
See also
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/doc/february-2019-kate-sharpley-library-bulletin-online
for the extras that didn't get into this issue:
Photo of eight Nabat Confederation anarchists (above) with notes by Malcolm Archibald and
Anatoly Dubovik
The Funeral of Sazhin-Ross by A. Alekseyev, Translation and notes by Malcolm Archibald.
Bolshevik Concern for the Individual by V.T., Translation and notes by Malcolm Archibald.
The Lost Memoirs of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Isaak Tarasiuk, Translation and editing by
Malcolm Archibald
Ivan Alekseyevich Yudin by G. P. Maximoff
And two poems:
The gods are dead by J. William Lloyd
The Disinherited by J. William Lloyd
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Italy, in which the strengthening of fascism is again felt (as the crisis of capitalism is
everywhere), and the repressive apparatus is more often used to silence the voices of
resistance, has decided to persecute prominent individuals and social centers of the
anarchist movement. ---- The self-governing social center L'Asilo (1995), which also has a
kindergarten in its "offer", was hit by a state repression that aroused anarchist and
wider resistance, which in Turin, across Italy. The action is led by police chief Torino
Francesco Messina, mayor Chiara Appendino and prison director Domenico Minervini. People
are detained with fabricated charges of terrorism, so that the state can freely carry out
its repression.
Repressive actions spread to Trento, Rovereto and Bolzano, where raids were conducted in
private houses of anarchists and social centers of Tavan, Palestro Popolare and
Katakombenstube. The number of detainees continues to grow. From the Rijeka squat Graciani
we send an anarchist greeting to all the fighters of Turin, Trento, Roveret, Bolzano and
beyond, with their slogan "Freedom for All!".
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Kd lesma a discussion to organize mobilization in view of the 8 th March ---- Friday 1/3
at 7:00 PM ---- in the self-managed area "on the face" (Patreos 87) ---- March 8:
Resistance and Match Day! ---- March 8 was established in 1910 to honor the women's
fights. The solemn establishment of such a day attempts to unbundle every militant claim,
any historical stock and collective memory that can inspire and promote the struggle for
female emancipation. A struggle that sovereignty is constantly trying to put forward as a
"demand for equality in the administration of power". The attempt to incorporate the
various movements and alter their characteristics is a common practice of sovereignty to
assimilate every effort of resistance and reduce its radicalism. For us, March 8 is a day
of resistance and struggle, not a "feast" for the woman, which in fact is all about
confirming and reproducing the imposed gender roles.
Patriarchy is one of the foundations of the world of power and a key element of its social
reproduction. As women, in addition to the exploitation and oppression imposed globally on
the bottom, we are experiencing oppression also in the field of gendered segregation, as
yet another form of repression that derives from the structure of the dominant system. At
the time of the aggravation of the attack on the state and the bosses, the basic pillars
of the constitution of the world of power attempt to transfer the rotting of the state,
capitalist and patriarchal way of organization into society. As the crisis deepens, the
attack we take in all fields is intensifying. With it, modern events of patriarchy are
intensifying.
Against patriarchy and every form of oppression imposed by the system, we respond to
intensified self-organized and counter-institutional action. We keep the flame of the
struggles of the past alive and we continue collectively and from the bottom to the
liberation struggles of the future. We learn and draw inspiration from women's struggles
all over the world, from the mountains of south-eastern Mexico and Zapatista women who
send this year a message to the women of the world announcing the assault they accept
globally as a revolutionary movement from the state and the capital, our comrades on the
other side of the Aegean that resist the fascist-patriarchal state of Turkey,
We continue the struggle for women's emancipation, the struggle for the freedom of all
against every relationship of power imposed on us. Recognizing that freedom is neither
granted nor granted, but is conquered through the struggles of the exploited and the
oppressed, we choose to organize and collectivize - as women and as anarchists - and to
fight together, with the workers, the unemployed, the students, the students, the people
of the WORLD, to join our voices and our action against our daily dynasties all over the
world, keeping alive the vision for a society of equality, dignity, freedom and solidarity.
NO RELIGION FOR THE WORLD OF PATRIARCH, STATE AND CAPITALISM
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AND TAX WELFARE FOR MANAGEMENT AND FREEDOM, LIFE AND DIGNITY
Women's Initiative Against Patriarchy
enantiastinpatriarxia@gmail.com
Contact: Every Tuesday 19: 00-22: 00 in the self-managed space On the walls (Patreos 87)
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Message: 8
we want to say thanks to all the people who helped to make the Global Days of Action on
the 27&28 to #defendrojava possible. Together we send a clear sign of solidarity and that
the revolution in Rojava stands not alone against the fascist regime of Erdogan. ---- Here
you find a small summery in pictures from all the different places around the world where
people expressed their solidarity.
https://internationalistcommune.com/riseup4rojava-photo-gallery-from-the-global-action-days/
---- we want to say sorry that we did not sent this mail earlier to you, but we just found
your statement to the Action Days. If you do any actions or statements in solidarity with
the kurdish struggle, please send the thinks also to us, and we will help spreading it
also in the Kurdish structures.
we would like to stay in contact with you.
Best greetings from Rojava
Internationalist Commune
PS: we would like to point you on our new published book about the ecological situation in
Rojava and the works that has been done so far.
https://dogsection.bigcartel.com/product/make-rojava-green-again
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Internationalist Commune of Rojava
https://internationalistcommune.com/
internationalistcommune[a]riseup.net
http://awsm.nz/2019/02/23/message-to-awsm-from-rojava/
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Message: 9
Ebuka Mamasubek from Nigeria was 34 years old, father of two children. He was working
selling colored bracelets in Omonia. She was nominated at 11.30 in the morning of Friday,
February 8, at Omonoia, in the well-known pretext of verifying data. An hour later, the
EKAB biker who was called confirmed his death.The identification of data is a constant
tactic of abduction of people from uniforms in the metropolitan field. Controlling people
and extending the public spaces is a lasting bet for the state for decades. Fears, punks,
"wild" youths, poor peddlers, addicted drug addicts, and scribes have long been at the
forefront of suppressive forces. They are an obstacle to the smooth commercialization of
public space and the transformation of the city into a sterile reproduction space of
capitalist regularity. Since the 1990s, Greek cities have begun to host migrants as well,
the control of public space has been "widespread" by a state racism as it is manifested
through "sweeping operations", mass additions, pogroms by cops and fascists, the "zero
tolerance". And the murder of Empus Mamasubek in obscurity would remain if it were not
someone who shared it with alternative media.
Immigrants are the land plundered in the world of bosses, we are all foreign
It is important to refer to the particular state of the state in the migrant vendors.
After initially removing their ability to work legally (2006), by legislating the racist
provision through the commerce, which considers the number one condition for the work of
someone in a public market to be Greek citizenship or homogeneity, he established in the
urban a peculiar status quoys of persecution and hunting of vendors on the streets of the
metropolis.On August 18, 2007, Nigerian Tony Onua, a CD vendor in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki,
attempted to escape from insurers trying to get out of a café window, resulting in his
deadly fall, possibly by pushing his persecutors. A sample of the growing racism was the
attack of an ATHEX stadium on the market of immigrant pros on the Mesolongi public market
in September 2012. At the same time, the last ten years are targeted by the media and are
repeatedly attacked by gangs of various kinds, outside the ASOG. On December 20 and 21,
2018, cops are carrying out business operations in Athens and Thessaloniki against
immigrant smugglers, who are lobbied by selling their treasure outside ASOEE and within
the Aristotle University. In total, 36 people were arrested and persecuted while the cops
seized all their merchandise. In October 2018, cops invaded Pakistani cigarette smokers'
homes and tied them with plastic bundles and gagged them to rip off a quantity of cigarettes.
It is obvious that the state mechanism seeks to keep them under a regime of illegality as
this makes them more exploitable than bosses.The vendor's tank is unlimited. Anyone who is
tired of the chases and the no-win and withdraw or arrested is immediately replaced by
someone else who will simply be in a weaker position. At the same time, state and bosses,
seeking to preserve their privileges and increase their profits amidst a severe capitalist
crisis, made the weaknesses of the Greek society responsible for the economic weaknesses.
Thousands of migrant women who have been uprooted from their homes as a result of economic
and military wars are treated as the new "inner enemy," stacked in concentration camps and
are constantly targeted as guilty of poverty and impoverishment.Immigrant hunting is a
witch hunt that serves state demagoguery and anti-fascist gangs, seeking to impose a civil
war among the poor in every way.
Cops pigs murderers
It is the widespread violence and the declared hatred against everything that does not fit
into the patriarchal, orthodox, ethno-normanism, as a result of the timeless targeting and
depreciation of immigrants. And this violence is expressed bloody in the metropolitan
field. In modern times, the upgrading of the "public order" counts victims with their
surname. From the "praetores urbanus" and the jargonies, the special nervous guards, the
DELTA-dependent drug groups, to the battalion battalions and the self-rule of the bosses
we may have become accustomed to violence and death. With this, and with that, we add
another name to the modern and well-known macabre list that forms the monopoly of state
violence and its fascist reserves:Alexis Grigoropoulos, Lambros Fountas, Sahitz Lukman,
Pavlos Fissas, Zak Kostopoulos / Zackie oh!, Petrit Zifle, Angeliki Petrou, Embuka Mamasubek.
But who forgets the smuggled immigrants from Greek ports in Pharmakonisi? Who knows the
name of the 46-year-old from Bangladesh who "lost his life" in Nov. 2011 in AT Agios
Panteleimonas? Who remembers the young immigrant from the Ivory Coast which was "hanged"
in AT Grevena in July 2013? How did they say the two kids who released videos that showed
their humiliation by cops of AT Omonoia in June 2007? What happened to those children of
the children's theatrical group of occupation of the "2nd Hospitality" (5 children aged 12
to 14 years and two adults aged 20 and 22) who were hurt and tortured in AT Omonoiain
2016; Who remembers the two minors who were beaten in AT New World in August 2016? Who
remembers former prisoner Pëllumb Marnikollaj, 29 years of Albanian origin, who was
presented to police at Patission to give the established "present" and was tortured and
murdered there in 2016? We know that Mohammed Kamran Atif was murdered in October 2009
after torture in AT Nice; We know that on February 8, 2019, in Larissa, two workers from
Pakistan were brutally hit by their boss and two Fascist beasts because they demanded
their accruals? Are we aware that on the evening of February 18, 2019, was an incendiary
attack on a refugee home from Iraq in Thessaloniki? And how many other stories about state
killings, torture and fascist attacks we will never know!
We remember the murder of Zackie Oh from bosses and cops, as proof of the absolute victory
of "precious" property against the ludicrous human life. We remember the rape and murder
of Eleni Tofaloudi in Rhodes because she refused to be sexually contagious with her
rapists. We remember the murder of the Albanian land worker, Petrit Zifle , from a golden
bullet in Dragotena Lefkimmi, because he dared to question the murderous nationalist
delirium. We remember the assassination of Angeliki Petroufrom her father, because she did
not follow his "orders" and chose an Afghan immigrant as her life partner. And how many
more immigrants, women, workers / tribes, members of the community have tasted the "public
order" and fascism produced and imposed by power and diffused in the metropolitan field.
The murders by cops or fascists are not isolated incidents, and certainly Omonia is not an
exception. The police as one of the main state enforcement and suppression mechanisms has
always been a murderous mechanism and the police departments of humiliation and torture.
The Empouka Mamasoumpek has today named because the United African Women Organization
mobilized and sought him, in spite of the efforts of cops to disguise the "disappearance"
and murder. But there are many and many who will never know their name, murdered at the
border, concentration camps, police stations.
And yet it is not the numbers and the frequency that make sense, but the arrogance of
power that holds every garbage or non-garbage and allows it to easily remove a life. The
extinction of the human being is borne by every fascist, racist, rapist, boss, boss.
We must keep the names of the victims in the collective memory. We have to resist the
death that state, capital, patriarchy, racism offer us generously. We must express our
solidarity with immigrants in practice, demand and liberate the urban space from control
and commercialization, fight for multicultural neighborhoods and open faculties against
state and capitalist barbarism. Why the battle for urban space is another expression of
class antagonism!
To fight through collective and self-organized processes, to trust our forces, to
re-establish our stature, to break the vernacular divisions imposed by power, to respond
violently to the violence we accept and to fight all together for a world equality,
solidarity, justice and freedom.
Do not get used to death - Do not leave any state murder unanswered.
anarchist collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2019/02/25/empoyka-mamasoympek/
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