Anarchic update news all over the world - 11.03.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Anarchist Group Amsterdam: IMS Group loot staff! (nl)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Repression: And if
      everyone really hated the police ? (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Anarchist Women's Message (Anarsist Kadinlar) from Turkey on
      8 March (tr) By APO (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  avtonom.org: Anarchist Nikolai Dedok arrested in Minsk for
      two days and fined [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Tract, Libertarians
      against anti-Semites (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Spaine, fel estudiantil: WHY GENERAL FEMINIST STRIKE? (ca)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Message from Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation-BASF
      on International Women's DaY-2019: (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  London Anarchist Federation: New group Green Anticapitalist
      Front (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Today, 8th of March, Inernational womans day we organized an action. ---- With 12 persons 
we picketed infront of the door of the office of IMS Group. We had banners, megaphone, 
black/red/purple flags with us. We distributed hundreds of flyers to the neighbours that 
were passing by. Also delivered the pamflets from door to door in every house on the 
street. Unfortunatly, there was no one in the office. The reason is there are probably 
more angry workers visiting the office to demand their pay. ---- The facade of the office 
was decorated with glue, pamfelts and some stickers. After 30 minutes of shouting slogans 
we stopped the picket and left. The neighbours where very interested in the matter and 
expressed their disgust of the praxis of the IMS Group. ---- For evrybody that is working 
or was working for IMS group that want to share information with us or want to demand 
stolen wages from them,please contact us at: aga@agamsterdam.org

This action whas organized by the
Anarchist Group Amsterdam - Vrije Bond.
https://agamsterdam.org

Below the text of the pamflet that we distributed.

IMS Group is exploitation!
Today on International Women's day we are doing our first action against
the abusive praxis of the company IMS Group in Amsterdam.

IMS group provides workers for several big hotels in Amsterdam to work
at kitchens, receptions and cleaning hotel rooms. They've been active
for several years in Amsterdam and they have their headquarters at
Agatha Dekenstraat 26 in Amsterdam Oud-West.

Since a few months ago, IMS group is not paying their workers and it's
providing bullshit explanations to the affected workers about why they
are not getting paid.

Our affected friend has worked for IMS for the last 5 months and in the
last month they didn't pay her salary. At this moment they owe her
1.000€ for several months already. After some attempts to get this
situation resolved, they still haven't paid her or made any progress
over this situation. IMS Group thinks they can get away with this
abusive behavior, but they won't!
We are aware of the fact that this situation is not a single person
problem. IMS attacks many of their other employees and their rights. We
call on them to stand up and fight back together for their labor rights
and their stolen wages.

The IMS group and the hotels it provides workers for, are disrespectful
and they just see them as anonymous numbers or as commodities that they
can just get rid of, exploit them, screm them over and kick them out.
Not this time! Not anymore!

For the record, this is just the very first action. We won't rest, as
many actions as needed will follow until this struggle gets resolved and
IMS Group pays every single penny they owe to their workers.

Pay the Workers!
Smash IMS group!
Stop the Amsterdam Hotel Monster!

Anarchist Group Amsterdam

https://www.vrijebond.org/ims-groep-buit-personeel-uit/

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Message: 2






The repressive violence that took place on the demonstrations very quickly changed the 
perception of the police in a part of the population. ---- Since the beginning of the 
movement of yellow vests, we have seen an explosion of police violence. Faced with the 
determination in the demonstrations, on the roundabouts and in the blockades, the State 
shows the teeth and leaves its repressive arsenal. In many cities, demonstrations are 
systematically drowned in tear gas, grenades and Flash-Ball shots. The policing strategy 
put in place by the government is simply hallucinating. The goal seems to terrorize and 
hit random: you are in a protest after 4:30 pm, you may suffocate, lose an eye or a hand, 
be picked up by the Anti-Crime Brigade and thrown in jail after a parody of trial. The 
number of mutilated by the police is more than a hundred: some in coma, éborgné.es or touched.

Police and justice are hand in hand to protect power and private property. After the phase 
of brutal violence in the street, the second repressive component is played in the courts. 
The expeditious trials are increasing, the sentences are very heavy and many people go to 
jail for several months for fearful reasons (presence at a gathering, intimidation, 
willingness to commit violence ...). For example, in Toulouse in two months of movement, 
the count reported 410 arrests, 115 deferrals before a court, 196 months of suspended 
prison, 121 months of imprisonment (including penalties), 10 500 euros of damage is 
interesting for some cops [1]... At the national level, in mid-February, Édouard Philippe 
speaks of 1,800 convictions and 1,400 pending judgment.

Hundreds of arrest for scary reasons
At the beginning, some of the yellow vests could have "   police with us   " watchwords . 
Today, the discourse has changed and we hear more slogans like "   everyone hates the 
police   ". This movement is still surprising by its determination. The participants, for 
whom it is sometimes the first protests, arrive more and more equipped, with helmets, 
masks and goggles, learn about defense strategies, etc. Solidarity and collective defense 
are being put in place. It is a question of spreading the good practices to minimize the 
breakage in manifestation (to equip, to mass to prevent the arrests), in case of police 
custody (not to declare not to incriminate oneself) and in case of withdrawa

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Repression-Et-si-tout-le-monde-detestait-vraiment-la-police

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Message: 3





Solidarity keep us strong! ---- We are the women of Anatolia and Mesopotamia, ---- We have 
lived the dark days of history. For decades people in these places have been increasingly 
oppressed. We have seen poverty, we have seen those who escaped and survived the wars of 
states, but they were killed in the war of capitalism or patriarchy. We've seen our 
sisters tortured, stabbed, crawled naked, broken, burned alive ... we've seen our children 
crushed, we've seen Saturday mothers call for justice, and murderers try to silence our 
mothers, attacking or arresting them. We have faced many cruelties and resist all and we 
will continue to resist to the end. ---- We are the women of these places. We have 
witnessed the "fall" of many states, many monarchs, many sultans. While "human" history 
repeats itself, we discover and write a different story, ours, the story of rebellion and 
resistance. We know the women who fight against patriarchy, we know the women who put 
their hands in the middle, who are ready to tighten their punches. Why are we all these 
women, and while we are creating a different story, we are producing a culture. The 
culture of consciousness, understanding and solidarity. By excluding dominating and 
dominating relationships, we create a culture of responsibility, we take our lives in our 
own hands, we fight for our own freedom.

Sisters, comrades, our struggle is the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor. 
Wherever the dominant hierarchy appears, it is a field of struggle. Whatever the oppressor 
uses the tool of violence, we should not hesitate to resist and fight. Struggling against 
the visible and invisible aspects of power and patriarchy, we can make the revolution here 
and now.

Wherever we are, we recognize and understand one another as the same light shines in our 
eyes as our voices make the same cry.

Our struggles and solidarity give us inspiration and strength.

Continue your fight, so do we!

Anarist Kadinlar (Anarchist Women)

http://apo.squathost.com/

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Message: 4





Anarchist Nikolai Dedk was taken to the court of the Central District of Minsk after lunch 
on March 6. He is accused of an administrative offense under Art. 23.34 of the 
Administrative Code - "participation in an unauthorized mass event", for access to October 
Square on February 26. The case was considered by judge Victoria Shabunya. A witness 
called a riot police officer Edgar Kolosov. The second witness, policeman Primak, is ill. 
Nikolay Dedok admits that he participated in the ?? Freedom to Political Prisoners 'action 
on February 26 in Minsk, but doesn't admit his guilt, as he considers the law" On Mass 
Events "repressive. He also believes that his actions were not of a violent nature, 
however, "so much police forces were thrown at him that it was even absurd . "

Witness Edgar Kolosov informs the court that the management received information that the 
event was not coordinated with the Minsk City Executive Committee. He says that he did not 
stop the unlawful actions of the protesters, although he knew that by law he had to do it. 
Nikolay Dedok notes that during the event police officers were filming, there was not a 
single policeman dressed in uniform, and the activist himself did not interfere with other 
citizens and passers-by. Considers his detention illegal.

In addition, it turned out that the polling report was compiled with violations. The judge 
retired to make a decision. As a result, the court found Nikolay Dedk's guilt proven and 
fined the activist 25 basic values (about 260 euros). It is also known that two more 
protocols were drawn up for the activist for photos posted on the network from a flash mob 
against the law on extremism. When will the meetings on these cases is still unknown.

Recall that Nikolai Dedok was arrested on the morning of March 4, immediately after 
leaving the court building of the Frunzensky District. Then he was accused of distributing 
information products included in the republican list of extremist materials, and fined 50 
basic values. He spent more than two days at the Center for the isolation of offenders on 
Okrestin.

ACH Belarus

News , Anarchist Black Cross , Anarchist Opinion

https://avtonom.org/news/v-minske-anarhista-nikolaya-dedka-arestovali-na-dvoe-sutok-i-dali-shtraf

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Message: 5






The movement of yellow vests conveyed very positive things, and others significantly less. 
Anti-Semitic groups have tried to take advantage of this to spread their lies. The 
libertarian communists will oppose it, as they have always done. ---- Quenelles, 
swastikas, aggression or anti-Semitic insults, for free activists and activists is not a 
scoop. Because, for years, we regularly denounce and fight the anti-Semitic extreme right 
and its conspiracy corollary. ---- A bit of history that is not taught in official books 
---- In the Dreyfus affair, the anarchists were the first to rally Zola, the famous 
J'accuse . With their canes and their fists, they routed the anti-Semitic leagues that 
held the street, while at the same time the society " good thinking " remained in a 
neutral neutrality.

 From then on, the history of the libertarian movement is associated, throughout the 
world, with the fight against anti-Semitism and fascism: 1920, Ukrainian anarchists rout 
the Ukrainian white and nationalist armies responsible for pogroms. In the 1930s, in 
France, Germany, Italy and Spain, the libertarian movement fought Nazism and its other 
fascist allies. In Poland, during the Second World War, he engaged in resistance, and 
protected Jews. A similar network will also exist in France in connection with Spanish 
anarchists. After the war, the anti-fascist fight of libertarians moves to Latin America.

Even today, Greek, German or Swedish radical anarchists and antifascists clash with 
neo-Nazi militants who want to occupy the public space.

AL Tract for download in PDF
A little ethics
The very essence of libertarian ideology is the right for all human beings to live free 
and equal to others: it is in their political DNA. In fact, we can not tolerate any racist 
or anti-Semite in our ranks.

To treat us as anti-Semitic is also an infamy towards these thousands of anarchists of 
Jewish origin, whose historical affiliation we claim, who fought for this ideal and of 
whom some died, murdered. Danses in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps, see in 
the Warsaw ghetto.

We refute any sterile controversy that would call us anti-Semitic because we denounce the 
colonization of the State of Israel. We make a clear distinction between the anti-Semitic 
discrimination to be fought and the anticolonialist critique of the Israeli state.

During a workers' demonstration in the United States, in 1909.
Stop the nauseating amalgams
Anti-Semitism kills in France: the attacks against the Jewish school in Toulouse in March 
2012 and against the Hyper-Cacher in January 2015 are undeniable tragic facts. We fight 
him on a daily basis, even when he is infiltrating a social movement.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Libertaires-contre-antisemites

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Message: 6






We defend a mixed strike in the labor and educational, and non-mixed strike in the 
reproductive, care. However, we understand that it is a controversial issue that not 
everyone shares, so we want to clarify the reasons that lead us to make this decision. 
---- In the first place, it is essential to bear in mind that a symbolic strike is not 
enough to achieve our objectives. We need to exert maximum pressure so that our demands 
are met. That is why we advocate the general strike: stop production in the work and 
teaching centers. ---- If we also want the strike to be a success and achieve a majority 
stop, it is necessary that the maximum number of people join to achieve it. To this is 
added that the statistics regarding strikes are carried out at a general level and do not 
differentiate by gender or race. Consequently, it seems to make little sense to call a 
non-mixed strike, both at the strategic level and when evaluating its results.

In the workplace, although the right to strike exists and is guaranteed constitutionally, 
the reality is not always so clear, and the harassment that may suffer the people who 
exercise their right to strike is, unfortunately, usual. Given the power that employers 
have, only the union of the working class remains. The more people who support the 
convocation, the more power we will have to picket in front of the jobs, preventing the 
scabs who violate their class duty, and facilitating those comrades who may be pressured 
to join the strike. Likewise, in the face of these employer abuses we must remember that 
we have another fundamental weapon: the union struggle that ensures our labor rights.

In the educational environment, it does not seem useful that the strike is not general. If 
it is not mixed, the incidence would be much lower and it is likely that classes will 
continue normally, causing women who do strike to have to recover that work in their 
homes, or even lose the right to do exams, internships or other mandatory activities that 
may be that day. If a majority of the class is missing, it is easier to stop the operation 
of the classrooms and to make the impact of student support more obvious.

We also seek to question the subject of struggle of hegemonic liberal feminism. We want to 
emphasize that March 8 is the day of the working woman and not the day of women in 
general. Therefore, it makes more sense to build alliances with those who share our class 
oppression than with the bourgeois women who exercise it, and also, since we do not have 
to carry out reproductive work and exploit other women, we do not consider them allies of 
the feminist struggle, which has to be yes or yes also a fight against capitalism.

Finally, we want to highlight the role of a non-mixed care strike. Women are traditionally 
those who have assumed the role of caregivers, in homes and outside them. One of the 
historical demands is both the socialization of care and family and work conciliation. 
Therefore, it is especially important that no woman be hindered from carrying out the 
strike because of this double burden that she assumes individually. Given this, we 
advocate for the collective care of families, especially of children and dependent people, 
and we urge that men who do not assume the daily necessities of sustaining life, make them 
their own and that in a day like 8M completely discharge the women from them.

We can not forget that the demands of the feminist strike are not only beneficial for 
women, but for the working class as a whole. We can not continue to consider the demands 
of women as partial claims, but are part of the general demands of a society that fights 
for emancipation.

Up comrades and colleagues to the general strike.

Up those who fight!

https://felestudiantil.org/2019/03/por-que-huelga-general-feminista/

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Message: 7





A big part of Anarcho communism is the elimination of gender oppression. Women have been 
stomped on and trampled on by men for tens of thousands of years. In much of the world, 
women are treated as property. It is time to turn the tables. It's time for total 
revolution. However, we have to understand gender scientifically. Just as Anarchist 
thinkers wrote of the "split in the working class," there is also a split among women and 
oppressed genders today. Imperialism has changed the game. In general, contrary to 
Bourgeois World feminist dogma, bourgeois World women are now enemies of Proletarian World 
women. Let's explain. ---- In the bourgeois World, gender is not connected as it once was 
to biology. Due to the high standard of living made possible through imperialism and 
advances in technology, Bourgeois World women are less and less confined to traditional 
social and reproductive roles. Women are no longer stuck in the kitchen, barefoot and 
pregnant, in the Bourgeois World. Bourgeois World women have access to a high degree of 
life options that are not strictly limited by reproduction. For this reason, inequalities 
between Bourgeois World men and Bourgeois World women should not be confused with 
traditional-patriarchal oppression which is centered on biology and reproduction. Rather, 
these remaining inequalities should be considered a residual effect from 
traditional-patriarchal oppression. It is likely that over time, these echoes of 
traditional oppression will become less pronounced in the Bourgeois World.

The status of Bourgeois World men and Bourgeois World women is maintained at the expense 
not only of class and national oppression of Proletarian World peoples, but also gender 
oppression of Proletarian World peoples. In other words, Bourgeois World women benefit 
from the gender oppression of Proletarian World women. How do Bourgeois World women 
benefit from the patriarchal oppression of Proletarian World women? How can one group of 
women gain by the gender oppression of another?

The end of traditional-patriarchal oppression for most Bourgeois World women has been made 
possible by the enormous concentrations of wealth that imperialism has generated for the 
Bourgeois World at the expense of the Proletarian World. Bourgeois World women have gained 
the ability to enter the economy and earn super wages. This gives Bourgeois World women 
the option of opting out of the traditional role where the woman's survival depends on her 
husband as earner. Bourgeois World women have the option of living independently, without 
a male partner. Thus Bourgeois World women are freed from the traditional oppression 
connected up with their role in reproduction, i.e. motherhood. Their liberation from 
traditional male-centered conceptions of sexuality has also been made possible. Bourgeois 
World women have access to a greater range of life options open to them. Bourgeois World 
women are able to earn exploiter super wages alongside Bourgeois World men. Bourgeois 
World women are able to partake of the spoils of imperialism on a more and more equal 
basis with Bourgeois World men.

The increasing equality between the sexes in the Bourgeois World is a result of the 
capitalist-imperialist world system. A big part of maintaining the global system of 
oppression is the fusion of various aspects of feudalism and capitalism in some parts of 
the Proletarian World. Proletarian World women are some of the biggest victims of the 
capitalist-imperialist system. They tend to be locked into traditional, feudalistic 
oppression in agrarian societies. In industrialized areas, they find themselves the most 
exploited, working for more hours and for lower wages than their male counterparts. They 
increasingly find themselves enslaved, often by the global sex industry. The situation of 
Proletarian World women is a function of, among other things, their gender oppression. 
And, gender oppression in the Proletarian World aids the imperial system that channels 
wealth from the Proletarian to the Bourgeois World. Gender oppression in the Proletarian 
World props up the gender equality in the Bourgeois World. Bourgeois World equality is 
propped up by semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism in the Proletarian World.

Fake gender "liberation" in the Bourgeois World has meant that Bourgeois World women have 
increased access to the traditional privileges and lifestyles enjoyed by men in the 
Bourgeois World. This "liberation" has gone beyond Bourgeois World women. Bourgeois World 
gays, lesbians, bisexuals, queers, trans-gendered persons have more and more access to the 
traditional power and privileges of Bourgeois World heterosexual males. However, this 
social democratic opening up of Bourgeois World society is based on continued gender 
oppression of the Proletarian World. For this reason, there is less and less reason to 
consider Bourgeois World women as separate from Bourgeois World males from the standpoint 
of global power analysis. This also explains why traditional conceptions of "manhood" and 
"womanhood" are breaking down in the Bourgeois World. And, there is more and more reason 
to consider Bourgeois World women as separate and distinct from Proletarian World women. 
It is correct to see Bourgeois World men and Bourgeois World women as having more in 
common. This state of affairs is borne out by material analysis and the historical record. 
Almost all Bourgeois World people are enemies.

Revolutionary, proletarian feminism rejects the lie of the universal sisterhood. Such lies 
only serve imperialism at this point. This lie tells Proletarian World women that their 
true allies are Bourgeois World women, not the Proletarian World men fighting alongside 
them against imperialism or fighting alongside them for Anarcho Communism. This lie tells 
Proletarian World women to put their futures in the hands of benevolent pink imperialism. 
We need to recognize the great division between the Proletarian World and Bourgeois World 
affects gender too.

This doesn't mean that sad inequalities do not remain between Bourgeois World men and 
Bourgeois World women. Nobody likes to see domestic violence, rape, and other cruelty that 
affects women disproportionately. However, on the whole, we have to use our brains here. 
It is obvious that Bourgeois World women as a whole are not going to support communist and 
anti-imperialist struggles. We need to understand this fact and deal with it. We should 
all seek to be egalitarian and just in our personal interactions. We should live the 
revolution. We should stand for right and wrong. We should be good people. However, the 
only real feminism is proletarian feminism, Proletarian Worldist feminism, Anarcho 
Communism. Real, proletarian feminism is feminism that supports the destruction of the 
Bourgeois World. It does not seek alliances with the Bourgeois World so-called "working 
class" or Bourgeois World women. Revolutionary, proletarian feminism recognizes that the 
contradiction between Bourgeois World women and Proletarian World women is antagonistic. 
Revolutionary feminism identifies Bourgeois World men and Bourgeois World women as the 
enemy. Revolutionary feminism is the feminism of the Global People's War waged by the 
global countryside against the global city, waged by the Proletarian World against the 
Bourgeois World, the Global Proletariat against the Global Bourgeoisie.

Our revolution will come from the darkest, most oppressed places. Proletarian World women 
and children will lead the way to a better world. Mothers. Daughters. Sons. They will play 
a key role. Real revolutionaries, Anarcho communist, unite with Proletarian World women. 
We unite with Proletarian World men and women against Bourgeois World men and women. We 
support the New Democratic revolution to create basic rights for women and men in the 
Proletarian World. We support the Global People's War waged by women and men in the 
Proletarian World against the Bourgeois World. We support socialist revolution. We support 
true, Anarcho Communism, total liberation. Anarcho Communism is a revolutionary strategy 
that accounts for the real world, not the world as we imagine it. All real feminists stand 
with the vast majority of women in the Proletarian World. All real feminists are Anarcho 
Communists!

http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news/message-from-bangladesh-anarcho-syndicalist-federation-basf-on-international-womens-day-2019/

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Message: 8





This is something members have been working on as a response to Extinction Rebellion's 
positive, if flawed, impact on the environmental movement. ---- As we all know capitalism 
is killing the Earth. We have been observing the rise of the Extinction Rebellion movement 
and, while we are glad to see a growing interest in fighting climate change, we do not 
think their critique goes far enough and believe a specifically anti-capitalist critique 
is needed. ---- As such we are calling for the formation of an anti-capitalist block to 
tap into this rising interest in radical politics and to fill the vacuum of a green and 
anti-capitalist movement in London. We plan to loosely work alongside Extinction 
Rebellion's actions, especially their week of actions planned from April 15th, while also 
developing our own unique approach.

The Green Anti-Capitalist Front is intended as a broad coalition of groups with varying 
ideologies, but with a common interest in tackling environmental problems at their social 
roots. While we have already drawn up a manifesto, this is not set in stone and we plan to 
hold a meeting within the next two weeks.

You can read our manifesto and our open letter to Extinction Rebellion below.

Follow us on Twitter (@FrontGreen) and Facebook.

Manifesto: https://greenanticapitalist.org/
Open Letter: https://greenanticapitalist.org/.../open-letter-to-extinctio.../
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GAfront/

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2019/03/06/new-group-green-anticapitalist-front/

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