Anarchic update news all over the world - 12.03.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - CGA: [March 8] In
      the face of patriarchy, let's impose equality by the women's
      strike! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  US black rose fed: FROM BELOW PODCAST: FEMINISM AGAINST
      CAPITALISM (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, ESE: Pan-Hellenic Announcement-Call for March 8 --
      EVERY DAY IS 8 MARCH! -- EVERY DAY WE WALK THE PATRIARCH!
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, anarkismo.net: Exuberant zeal by libertarian Union
      of Athens ESE [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - CGT: Travel between
      the lines of the 52 th Confederal Congress (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - BNF: The precarious
      at the tip of the beaded strike (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Poland, rozbrat.org: Food instead of a cut rozbrat.org
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - antifascism, Lyon
      facing the far right: hold the line (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  avtonom.org: Moscow anarchists will take part in a rally
      against the isolation of the RuNet [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





One hundred years ago, on March 8, 1917, the workers of St. Petersburg (Russia) went on 
strike and demonstrated to demand bread and peace, thus initiating a historic 
revolutionary movement. Today, in more than 50 countries, women are participating in an 
international strike. Initiated in 2017 by Argentinian feminists this international appeal 
was launched following the feminicide of a 16-year-old girl Lucià Perez, raped and 
murdered in Argentina. ---- " We women in the world are organizing a showdown and a common 
cry: the International Women's Strike. We stop. We strike, We put into practice the world 
in which we want to live. ". ---- Call to the International Women's Strike on March 8, 
2017 (Argentina)
The situation is historic for the struggles of women. There were tens of thousands in the 
street against sexual and sexual violence in November in France. In 2018, the call to 
strike was attended by millions of women around the world: in Spain, there were 5.5 
million strikers to parade in the streets; in Argentina, Chile, Poland, and more than 50 
countries, they were hundreds of thousands. The women's movement is the driving force 
behind social movements around the world: everywhere the women's movement is rising, 
massing and fighting against sexual and machismo violence. The uprising of women in the 
movement of yellow vests is indicative of this dynamic: when women get up the people advance.

Feminism is a question of life and death

Since the beginning of the year, the murders of women - feminicides - are multiplying in 
silence and indifference. Every two days a woman is killed, last year a woman was murdered 
every three days. Sexist violence is the leading cause of death and disability for women 
aged 15 to 44 (World Bank). Behind the feminicides stand the whole continuum of machismo 
violence: from insults to harassment to rape. 100% of women have already been harassed. 
230,000 women each year suffer sexual violence. One in 10 women suffered Does domestic 
violence. Beyond wars, cancer and car accidents, rape and domestic violence are the 
primary risk factors for women's health.

This violence because it isolates, vulnerabilises, inferiorizes women, is used as a lever 
to maintain and increase the exploitation of women at work and at home. They are one of 
the bases of the holdup on women's earnings: 26% of wages and 42% of retirements less than 
men. 80% of the working poor are workers. Racket does not stop at the boundaries of work: 
every day women perform 3 hours of unpaid and imposed domestic work. The patriarchal 
domination is summarized as: double day and half-pay for women.

If male violence affects all women, it hits even more violently those who combine other 
oppressions: trans women, racialized, proletarian, lesbian or bisexual, with a disability, 
etc. Indeed, male violence is not the work of a few violent individuals, but a way to 
maintain patriarchy, that is to say the domination of men over women. Lesbophobia, 
biphobia and transphobia are not separable from patriarchy, but form an integral part of 
it. They serve to bring in the ranks or eliminate women who do not follow the patriarchal 
model. It assigns individuals to a gender based on their birth sex and sets 
heterosexuality as the norm. In this model,

The state is not the solution but a big part of the problem!

It organizes a violent society that benefits a minority that of the ruling classes. It 
divides, isolates women, Faced with the scourge of violence suffered by women and 
committed by men, the "responses" of the state consist in:

* to submit women's support associations to the logic of calls for projects, thus opposing 
them to each other and reducing the means;

* reduce emergency shelter for abused women at risk;

* destroy the public services and the labor code, reinforcing precariousness, of which 
women are the first to suffer the consequences.

Throughout the world, colonial and imperialist policies in Western states are creating 
misery, exploitation, impoverishment and massive displacement of women and their exile.

To counter this system of domination, we must mobilize every day so that all violence, 
whether physical, psychological, sexual, is pointed out, denounced and fought in the 
public sphere (work, street, transport), as "private" (families, couples, relationships). 
The fight for the emancipation of women is an essential struggle of our organization.

The CGA stands alongside women's struggles, considering that the empowerment of women will 
be the work of women themselves. As anarchists, we believe that only self-organized 
struggles and self-management will enable us to break out of such systems of domination, 
against those who profit from them and who have every interest in preserving them. We 
defend and promote the principles of the non-mixed so that women can find themselves, free 
themselves, self-organize on the basis of their oppression: internally in the organization 
and in the rest of society.Because all systems of domination mutually reinforce each 
other, we engage daily in the fight against sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, state 
domination and capitalist exploitation, and bring our demands for rupture, for a 
libertarian society and egalitarian.

March 8, in France as elsewhere: ALL IN STRIKE!

http://www.c-g-a.org/content/8-mars-face-au-patriarcat-imposons-legalite-par-la-greve-des-femmes

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Message: 2





We are excited to present the premiere episode of From Below Podcast on International 
Women's Days. This coming week we will be releasing introduction episode to meet our hosts 
Markie and Pedro. ---- For our first episode, released on International Women's Day 2019, 
Markie and Pedro discuss two examples of anti-capitalist feminism. The discussion starts 
around the work of the Anti-Capitalist Feminist Coalition (ACFC) in Los Angeles with 
Markie speaking on her involvement and then interviewing Romina Green of Black Rose/Rosa 
Negra Los Angles on the background and roots of ACFC. Next is an interview and in-depth 
discussion with Alondra Carrillo of Santiago, Chile who is a vocera, or spokesperson, for 
the March 8 Feminist General Strike Coordination. Alondra is also a member of the 
libertarian communist organization, Solidaridad.

Be sure to subscribe and follow us on social media Facebook |Twitter so you don't miss our 
upcoming episodes on the history of anarchism and the left in Puerto Rico and with Mark 
Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. Visit the website and you can 
receive email updates.

http://blackrosefed.org/from-below-feminism-against-capitalism/

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Message: 3





March 8, World Women's Day, has been depicted in the minds of people around the globe as a 
day when men have to give gifts to their mothers and wives, while the market is filled 
with women's exclusive offer labels. In fact, however, this day did not start as a 
celebration of woman and consumerism. Instead, its starting point was bloody mobilization 
of workers, who in 1857 went to a textile factory in New York to a mass demonstration 
demanding better working conditions and wages equal to their male counterparts. ---- 
Undoubtedly, the conditions in which the conditions for the emergence of the women's 
movement matured were the wretched working and survival conditions. After two years, the 
same women created the first women's club, ---- So many years later, claims and conditions 
in the workplace have not changed much. Bosses try every day to grab and earn as much as 
they can at the least cost. We also include our salaries, the continuous reduction of 
which is combined with exhausting hours, precariousness and various types of threats, most 
notably dismissal. At the same time, in a world where state and capitalism are 
persistently trying to convince us that equality between the sexes has been achieved, for 
the so-called "weak sex" (another obvious devaluation), things are much worse. Women also 
have to cope with unemployment, lower wages than their male colleagues, but also sexist 
behaviors by bosses and customers,
For all of the above, it is not surprising that in 1977 the UN decided to declare this day 
as a world day for women and capitalism hastened to remove all the sporting features that 
accompanied it. This day is now carefully dressed with gentle gestures to women, creating 
the illusion of "gender equality" and the existence of mutual respect. As always, here and 
there, the system finds various ways to suppress struggles and movements that oppose it 
and what better way than to assimilate them. In many cases, as in this case, it also makes 
an immediate material gain, since the stores are filled with men and women who buy gifts 
and drink beverages by undercutting gendered oppression. Surely this is best understood by 
those of us,
All the above are mere examples of patriarchy that prevails in modern society and which is 
continually created and fed by capitalism, and is now one of the most powerful weapons - 
if not the most powerful - against the working class and those who resist its power . The 
image of a woman, as structured on the basis of the models built by the system, gives huge 
profits to the capital and makes all power even stronger. The separation of workers and 
workers on the basis of social sex can begin with those who dominate us but do not stay 
there. It penetrates between us creating internal tragedies, resulting in conflict and 
development of power relations between us, leaving state and bosses to their peace, while 
at the same time it becomes impossible to create a united labor movement that will be able 
to claim what is stolen and break the daily oppression that exists. This is perhaps the 
greatest gain that capitalism derives from such a deep and deeply rooted social segregation.
In order to be able to resist the exploitation imposed on us, it is necessary for us and 
everyone to understand that as long as we ourselves continue to reproduce the separations 
(racial, gender) that capitalism imposes on us to suppress us, we manage at best will be 
small temporary victories, which will not be all of us. We have to realize that only by 
collectivizing our needs and demands we will be able to be a compelling foe of the above. 
Only by organizing united and united in workplaces, unions, schools and schools can we 
hope to improve our lives.
IN THE HOUSE, ON THE ROAD AND WORKING
NO WOMAN MONASTERY AGAINST PATRIARCHIA
CONCENTRATION AGAINST PATRIAHKIA
PARASKEVI 8 MARCH 2019
Athens: Klauthmonos Square 18:00
Thessaloniki: Statue of Venizelos 13:30
Giannena: 18:00 Region
For contact with the EWC of Athens: ese-ath@espiv.net

Labor Union
(Athens, Thessaloniki, Rethymnon, Ioannina) / ICL (International Labor Confederation)
In the framework of international coordination of anarcho-syndical organizations
Category: SSR Articles , International , Marches / Tags: March 8 Strike , Greek National 
Action , Feminism

https://ese.espiv.net/

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Message: 4





Paraphrasing the nationalist creeping "let us get upset" by Athens from the stench of 
police arbitrariness and police, "let us get out" Omonoia from the man-murder ant named 
A.T. Omonoia, let's get out of the question by those experts who disguise them certifying 
false causes of death of AT prisoners. Omonia. ---- ET Omonition: As we say exaggerated 
zeal for the sake of homogeneity ---- In early February, Empuka from Nigeria dies under 
unclear conditions yet in the hands of cops serving at CT. Omonia. His partner and mother 
of his two underage children sought him from the very beginning, since admissions for 
identification are part of the daily lives of many immigrants. --- Even though they knew 
from the very first moment what had happened to her partner, they referred her to AT. 
Kypseli and from there back to Omonia, where they advised her to submit a declaration of 
extinction. --- If there was no lawyer, the woman would probably never know where she is. 
--- It is most likely that his pile remains in a morgue as a man of unidentified elements. 
--- It has not been six months since Kostopoulos was murdered and police violence is at 
its peak.

The not-too-accidental "deaths in AT Homosexuality has not surpassed either the Ministry 
of Finance, neither the media nor the news agencies have become headlines or tributes to 
high-emittance broadcasts. Let us not get accustomed to death around us because 
destruction and social cannibalism will not delay to spread the rot of the system even to 
the seemingly healthier parts of this society.

These deaths are from the body of our class, allegedly as "security" and citizen 
protection bodies, relying on public "order" and "security" to neutralize undisturbed and 
without impact those who do not meet the requirements of compatibility with the regularity 
they have set. Omonoia belongs to the inhabitants of Athens regardless of race, sex, 
sexual orientation, origin, religion, nationality.

Paraphrasing the nationalist creeping "let us get upset" by Athens from the stench of 
police arbitrariness and police, "let us get out" Omonoia from the man-murder ant named 
A.T. Omonoia, let's get out of the question by those experts who disguise them certifying 
false causes of death of AT prisoners. Omonia.

Hand raised on immigrants, refugees, LGBT people and every oppressed, our class will take 
care to eradicate it. Regularity and perseverance for maintaining "security" smells human 
flesh.

We want self-management, multiculturalism and free expression of all kinds of sexual 
preference.

The Athens Eleftherian Union of Trade Unions calls for a concurrence with the struggles 
for the vindication of the Empyx

Solidarity family to his companion Empouka, who vigorously battles

Solidarity with migrants in this city.

Eleftherian union union of Athens

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31321

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Message: 5





The 51 st Congress, in 2016, had stabilized a legitimate direction after the mistakes of 
the last years Thibault and the parenthesis The Peacock. But he had not settled any 
strategic debate. To the trouble to win victories, paralyzed by the revolt of yellow 
vests, the CGT will she stay half way between accompanying trade unionism and unionism 
struggle ? The congress will be held in Dijon from May 13 to 17. ---- During the first 
weeks of the movement of yellow vests, an episode had marked, dramatically political float 
prevailing at the head of the confederation CGT. On December 6, 2018, a poor unitary 
communiqué, co-signed with the CFDT, condemned "  all forms of violence in the expression 
of demands  " and welcomed the opening of "  real negotiations  " with the government [1]. 
On the same day, in another much more pugnacious communique, the CGT denounced the " 
government which responds by the only violence to the legitimate requirements  " and 
announced that it refused " all consultation  " with him ! [2]

It was not until the national strike of February 5 that finally a convergence takes place 
in the street between red vests and yellow vests.
The differences left unresolved at the Marseilles congress remain at work, between a 
right-wing current that wants to stick to the CFDT, a central reformist current that 
oscillates between class struggle and accompaniment, and a current class struggle far from 
being homogeneous, which goes from stalinostalgics to revolutionary syndicalists. Note 
that none of these currents is truly structured.

Curious quotes from the Amiens Charter
No doubt obsessed by his re-election - and perhaps with the sincere concern to maintain 
the unity of the apparatus - Philippe Martinez will have blown hot and cold throughout his 
mandate. The texts for the 52 th  Congress are marked by this balancing act. Thus, when 
the preamble of the new statutes claims fidelity to the Amiens Charter of 1906, it is not 
by reference to revolutionary syndicalism, but by obscure "  humanist values  " ... The " 
double task  " of trade unionism, inscribed in the Charter is mentioned, but it is to 
replace the original "  expropriation capitalist  " by ... a " participation in the 
transformation of society  " ... If documents can quote the word"  revolutionary  "it is 
only to condemn an "  unequal and unjust sharing of wealth  " and to wish for a "  just 
society  " . As for the general strike, at the heart of the Amiens Charter, it is reduced 
to "  transforming work  " by penetrating "  break-  in " into the preserve of employers.

A rhetoric designed to please everyone is the opposite of strategic clarification, it is 
tinkering and it will explode in the next difficult fight.

However, let us note, in positive, the affirmed will to bring the necessary battles in the 
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and in the European Trade Union 
Confederation (ETUC), and to work with the combative union forces outside the CES-CSI 
tandem. Let us also quote the position radically in favor of the reception and the access 
to the rights of all and all the migrants.

Put all the CGT back on
Absence of a readable strategy, demoralization of the teams at all levels (including in 
the companies), atomization of the work ... to put the CGT in order of march is a 
necessity whose documents recognize the urgency. In the same way it is emphasized the 
weakness of union teams which are summarized too often to the few elected officials of the 
company. And the question of isolated trade unionists (over 70,000!) is reaffirmed as a 
priority. It is pleasing to see the usefulness of local unions reappear, albeit 
fleetingly, that is to say, grouping the employees of an industry not by enterprise, but 
by locality. Formerly, it was the norm. The document explains how we switched from one to 
the other, but without a real balance sheet. However, the scarcity of large factories 
renders the model of the enterprise union ineffective today. So much so that it is 
envisaged that small business unions will be led by an outside activist! The local 
industrial union, on the other hand, would be a living home for union members scattered in 
the small businesses that now form the bulk of the industrial fabric. Local trade unions 
that would probably increase the number, very low at this congress, of workers and workers 
candidates for the Executive Board ...

Since the defeat against Labor laws, disarray prevails in the union teams. Getting back on 
track is the priority of the Dijon congress.
The place of the regional committees, an unfinished debate in Marseilles, is here clearly 
specified. It is about adapting the organizational chart by sticking to the 13 new 
administrative regions. There is concern, however, that regional secretaries will not be " 
  super-prefects  " ? Moreover, by authorizing the creation of "  antennas  " respecting 
the 22 former regions, will we not create one or even two more bureaucratic echelons ? 
When putting activists on the ground, should the internal structures and the meetingite be 
increased ? Note that the recent charge of Martinez against the institutionalization of 
trade unionism  [3]is singularly absent from conference documents. But the problem of the 
permanent is not only the time lost in institutional meetings rather than to the 
employees, it is also the time lost in their offices ...

Rebuilding trade union democracy
For this congress, the preparatory documents do not evoke the opening of discussion 
forums, which would be a regression. Febrile ? Willingness to control ? Many signs suggest 
it. Thus the document denounces, without mentioning precise facts, actions carried out " 
by certain structures, which must not, should not more, serve as element of division  " . 
The statutes reinstate the preamble of 1936, which prohibited "  fractions  " . In the 
context of the CGT-CGTU reunification, this was aimed at infiltration by the PCF but 
today, who is targeted ? It is very hypocritical to stigmatize those who want to "  bend 
The trade union guidelines when this congress is already put together. When we see which 
candidates for the Confederal Executive Committee have been criticized by the ad hoc 
committee , it is quite easy to read that certain "  fractions  ", precisely, have agreed 
to share places. The serious things being settled, the debate can open ... Unions have 
until April 15 to table their amendments.

Jean-Yves (CGT-book activist)

[1] "   Declaration of the Trade Union Organizations of December 6, 2018   ", CFDT, CGT, 
FO, CGC, CFTC, Unsa, FSU.

[2] "   The government plays the social incendiary: it's irresponsible  !  ", CGT, 
December 6, 2018.

[3] Philippe Martinez, "   We must think differently   ", Politis, January 30, 2019.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?CGT-Voyage-entre-les-lignes-du-52e-congres-confederal

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Message: 6





At the National Library of France, it can not be understaffed and the management's 
contempt ! For nine months, the activity is disrupted by a mobilization that has its 
highlights every Saturday, and which particularly involves colleagues in fixed-term 
contracts. ---- Since the spring of 2018, the visitors to the François-Mitterrand site of 
the Bibliothèque nationale de France have not been able to miss, almost every Saturday, 
the picket line at the entrance of this huge building, well known in Paris 13 th . This is 
the " Saturday strike " which brings together about sixty agents, many of them precarious. 
---- It has been ten years since the understaffing at BNF, with more than 300 positions 
removed since 2009, especially in category C, for storekeepers and storekeepers. The 
understaffing means a continuous deterioration of working conditions, fewer services for 
readers ... and the return of ultra-precarious contracts.

The CGT-SUD-FSU staff and inter-union demand the filling of the missing positions by the 
call of all the complementary list of the last direct recruitment of storekeepers and 
storekeepers, of the passage in CDI for the CDD called " on permanent needs ", and the 
stop of the reorganizations-crafts that make believe to the public that all is well.

In the inter-union, even if unity prevails, there are different approaches to how to lead 
the struggle. Among the most invested are the precarious. It is mainly they and they, who 
were supported by SUD-Culture, launched this " Saturday strike " started on May 26, 2018. 
Piquet well visible at the reception, distribution of leaflets, demonstrations on the 
site, blocking of the crates ... After several Saturdays of action, CDD extensions were 
won and some positions created.

Saturday strike continues
Management nevertheless persevered in its aggressive policy. During the summer of 2018, 
she announced a reorganization of the " public service " for staff, with an increase in 
the number of Saturdays worked, the use of short student contracts, Saturdays on overtime, 
a new work cycle from Tuesday to Saturday, etc.

As of the beginning of September, the strike of Saturdays was thus revived. The management 
of the BNF, it, no longer responds. It was under the pressure of the agents, and the 
unions that boycotted the representative bodies of the staff, that in the autumn they were 
holding up on pseudo-negotiations. The guardianship authorities, arrested, either return 
the ball to the establishment, or explain without blinking to 200 agents who invaded the 
board of directors on November 29 that it is now time to make efforts ! That's it ? The 
Saturday strike continues.

After contempt, blackmail. The management has tried a deal: the establishment of a few 
precarious, in exchange for abandoning the fight by all and all others. Unacceptable ! 
Saturday, February 16 was held the 27 th day strike since the beginning of the movement.

Charline (AL friend)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Les-precaires-a-la-pointe-de-la-greve-perlee

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Message: 7





Food Instead of Bombs ---- Camp for the Vistula Spit ---- On March 3, while issuing warm, 
vegan meals, we expressed our firm opposition to the construction of the canal connecting 
the Vistula Lagoon with the Gulf of Gdansk. #MierzejaBezPrzerwy is not only a matter of 
Kryniczans or residents of northern Poland. Money that the government wants to drown in 
the cut, all Poles and Poles will lose. ---- This time, apart from a plate of soup and 
slices of bread, leaflets with information about the newly established grass-roots camp 
for the Vistula Spit, made up of people who work socially, were there to help protect this 
beautiful and valuable area from a senseless investment. Samba Halastra also took part in 
the campaign, thanks to which it was possible to pay more attention to passers-by on the 
problem.

The shipping channel through the Vistula Spit is to enable sea transport to the port of 
Elblag. Shorten the waterway by more than 90 kilometers one way, and transport time by 
almost 12 hours. The investment is to be built by 2022, and its cost is estimated at 
approx. PLN 880 million. In addition, significant police, border guards and private 
security forces were mobilized to protect the devastation of this precious ecosystem. 
Taking into account the money spent for the construction of the channel, it turns out that 
the costs will pay back in 450 years. It is one of the most controversial infrastructural 
investments of recent years. Its aim is to be the economic development of the Elblag 
region and the strengthening of the strategic aspect, above all independence from Russia. 
According to prof. Wlodzimierz Rydzkowski from the Department of Transport Policy of the 
Faculty of Economics at the University of Gdansk, the spit of the Spit from the economic 
point of view, has no justification. There are no loads that it would be rational to carry 
this way.

Eco-friendly issues are a big problem of the undertaking. The matter of the impact of 
construction on the environment raises many objections. First of all, it will deteriorate 
the quality of the waters of the Lagoon at the stage of construction and exportation of 
the canal and will cause the release of pollution from sediments. The result will be the 
death of water and rush vegetation. The living conditions of people will deteriorate, 
especially recreational values, due to the intensification of ship traffic. The 
construction of the excavation will disturb the natural process of beach reconstruction, 
which causes great concern for the residents of Krynica Morska.

The number of people who are excluded, whose living conditions could be permanently 
improved, if the authorities decided to spend 2-3 billion to fight social inequalities 
instead of devastating nature, can not be imagined; the additional cost of increasing 
international tensions.

Camp for the Vistula Spit - contact, write, visit, act obozdlamierzei@gmail.com Food 
instead of bombs - we are a social initiative and are invited on Sunday at noon. 12 on 
Rozbrat for cooking together. Let us show that while the authorities spend money on 
unnecessary investments, many people starve and live on the street. We invite all hungry 
every week, on Sunday at 16, next to Old Marych. DECK EXTRA! CAPITALISM PRECISION!

http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4660-jedzenie-zamiast-przekopu

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Message: 8





The choice of Lyon to hold a union initiative against the extreme right was imperative in 
view of the strength of fascist networks in the city. The day ended with the prospect of a 
new unitary day in April. ---- This Thursday, February 14 was held at the Labor Exchange 
of Lyon a union meeting, as part of the unitary campaign " against the extreme right, his 
ideas, his practices " CGT-FSU-Solidarity-UNEF-FIDL-UNL . ---- Let us first recall that 
this unitary campaign was initiated on January 29, 2014 at the Paris Labor Exchange, with 
600 unionists then meeting a few months after the murder of Clément Méric, a young 
antifascist at Solidaires Étudiant-es. A documentary film " Today as yesterday, fight the 
extreme right. The crossed history of unionism and the extreme right " , produced by the 
Social History Institute of the CGT, was then projected in this day's introduction to 
reappropriate the involvement of unions in the history of the anti-fascist struggle .

A unitary union campaign since 2014
The inter-union then launched a " national observatory of cities run by the extreme right 
", with, since 2015, several meetings of union teams in Beziers, a laboratory city managed 
by Robert Ménard ; near Hayange where former CGT trade unionist Fabien Engelmann became FN 
mayor ; in the Vaucluse, where the Bompard clan of the Southern League has taken root in 
several communes; in Courrières, a neighboring municipality of Hénin-Beaumont, which 
became a FN / RN municipal showcase run by Steeve Briois. Each time, more than a hundred 
trade unionists met to get out of the stagnation and isolation, to establish an inventory 
of the various anti-social policies led by the mayors of the far right, which allowed to 
unmask their pseudo-social imposture and to highlight the local union and associative 
responses. These meetings then gave rise to written reports relayed in particular on the 
site of the association Vigilance and anti-fascist trade union initiatives (Visa) [1], 
systematically associated, and which publishes parallel since 2014 regular columns " 
Lights on brown town halls" ".

Lyon: a laboratory city for the far right
The choice of Lyon was essential in the pursuit of this unitary union dynamics, because 
this city has become for years a real laboratory of the far right, firmly established and 
regularly operating. Several facts relating to the particular context of Lyon have been 
usefully recalled: several figures of the far right have gangrenous Lyon's university 
community, such as Bruno Gollnisch, Pierre Vial, Bernard Lugan and Robert Faurisson ; the 
influence of traditional Catholic networks in Lyon and the region, and the offensive of 
the proponents of the moral order, culminating in the Manifs pour tous in 2013 ; the 
congress of the FN in Lyon in 2014 and the prevention of the anti-fascist demonstration by 
the prefecture and the municipality of Gérard Collomb, which slowed down the attempt to 
remobilise and coordinate anti-fascist networks at the national level ; the opening of 
many premises in the historic center of Lyon by the French Action, the PNF, the GUD, the 
Identitaires: bars, tattoo parlors, boxing clubs (see the complete cartography prepared by 
the CGA-Lyon and the Committee Vigilance 69 on the Horde site) [2]; the proliferation in 
recent years of fascist, racist, homophobic attacks by right-wing activists in Lyon ; the 
opening in September 2018 of the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences 
(ISSEP) by Marion Maréchal Le Pen in the district of Confluence.

The recent news in Lyon gave a particular relief to this meeting: fascist attacks of 
premises of the CGT, the CNT, the PCF ; closure of the local " Social Bastion " ; Violent 
attacks of trade unionists and antifascists by fascist groups in the context of the yellow 
vests demonstrations in February in Lyon ...

Perspectives of antifascist struggle
The Lyon Labor Exchange therefore welcomed on Thursday 14 February more than 150 CGT, 
Solidaires, FSU and UNEF trade unionists from Lyon, the South-East (Var, Marseille, 
Hautes-Alpes, Savoie ...) and the Île region. -de-France, with union militant press 
tables, Visa, La Plume black bookstore.

Several themes were then discussed in the plenary: reception of migrants and migrants, the 
extreme right in Europe, the school of Marion Maréchal in Lyon, the " social strongholds " 
and identity groups, the fachosphere and social networks, the struggles feminists face the 
extreme right.

Several testimonies of trade unionists and migrants have focused on local mobilization of 
concrete solidarity: squats of Amphi Z of the house Mandela in Villeurbanne ; Solidary 
union maraudes in the Hautes-Alpes bringing together Solidaires, CGT, FSU, CFDT and the 
peasant Confederation.

The debates also focused on attempts by the extreme right to infiltrate the mobilization 
of yellow vests and the necessary organization of progressive and antifascist processions 
in Lyon and Paris, in order to face the fascist attacks and to wear demands for equal 
rights and wealth sharing in the face of austerity and social breakdown policies.

 From words to deeds, in Paris as in Lyon on February 2 and 9, the fachos did not have the 
right of city in the yellow vests demonstrations. Thanks to the determined and united 
mobilization of the anti-fascist forces.

Finally, the debates focused on the massive feminist struggles and mobilizations in France 
and Europe for the rights of women and against the moral order. The day ended with the 
prospect of a new unitary day in Lyon in April with Pinar Selek, a sociologist and Turkish 
feminist activist living in exile in France.

With the approach of the European elections, the popularization and the massification of 
the fight against fascism imposes itself with an international networking, articulated 
with the social struggles.

Gabriel L. (AL Paris North East)

[1] https://www.visa-isa.org

[2] http://lahorde.samizdat.net

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lyon-face-a-l-extreme-droite-tenir-la-ligne

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Message: 9





On Sunday, March 10, at 14 o'clock in Moscow on Akademik Saharov Avenue (entrance from 
Kalanchevskaya Street) a rally will be held against the isolation of Runet. The 
participants and participants of the action will oppose the adoption of a law on isolating 
Russia from the international Internet network.
Anarchist \ you and libertarian left plan to join the event. Bring anarchist and "pirated" 
flags, posters and banners against isolation and state censorship of the network space! 
Let the State Duma, Roskomnadzor and the FSB isolate their own resources!
Meetings of an anarch block in social networks:
https://avtonom.org/news/moskovskie-anarhisty-primut-uchastie-v-mitinge-protiv-izolyacii-runeta

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