Today's Topics:
1. Coletivo Anarquista Bandeira Negra: CAB - With the word and
the fight of Alzira always! Unforgettable Libertarian Companion
of Classical Feminism (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - AL Tract,
Racism-xenophobia: countering the myth of the invasion (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, north east anarchist group: NEAG Introductory Talk
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Echoes of Africa,
Electoral masquerade in the DRC: alternation without change (fr,
it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. af london: Open meeting: Green Anti-capitalist Front - 23
March (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. cnt.es: The youth of Rojava have a message for Fridays For
Future (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In 1925, the seamstress and militant anarchist Alzira Werkauser took the floor and
presided over a session of the 3rd Labor Congress of Rio Grande do Sul. On this occasion
she served as a union delegate with a mandate from the tailors' union, seamstresses and
annexes. Alzira was an active militant of the resistance to oppression of women, the union
struggle of seamstresses and anarchist convictions in a daily and tireless struggle to
change the world with socialism and freedom. Her motion to the Congress to which we refer
led intuitively, through the miseries she suffered as a working woman and oppressed woman,
that strong and feminist notion that communist Louise Michel pronounced: "Beware of women
when they grow weary of all that the surround and stand against the old world. That day a
new world will begin. "
It had positioned the idea that women needed to have their own space for self-organization
and speak in their own right for their equals. That no one could accomplish this task but
their own. That the struggle of women was articulated with the set of emancipatory
struggles, against patriarchal oppression and capitalist exploitation. That the comrades
of movement had to change the social, daily and cultural relations that played the burden
of many days of work and care in women's lives. United against the boss and the state but
with the affective tasks and care, the home, the militancy, properly socialized from below.
Alzira is a reference that can not be forgotten, either by the absence of an image, a
photo that makes memory, nor by the dominant masculine character in the historical
narratives, much less by the actual companions of a fight that did not start today and
does not end soon there. It represents a type of feminism, embryonic perhaps, which has
been experienced and learned since the poverty and outrages of an era, which was nourished
with resistance and solidarity from below and gave new tones and colors to the libertarian
flag with its gender agenda . Together with the rebellion of Sisters Martins, Elvira Boni,
Dorvalina Ribas, Maria Lacerda de Moura and many other social fighters. In their own way,
in their time, they made initial course of struggles, dreams and hopes of a new world
where women are not subject body of the system of domination.
May I also take the floor this March, 2019, and let all the comrades speak. Participate,
fight, decide equally, today and forever. Our best tribute: continue your fight, our fight!
Motion of Alzira Werkauser to the 3rd Operational Congress of the RGS of 1925.
" In my capacity as a woman, and having to speak to you about proletarian women in
general, I must warn you that I do so in the certainty of much to be desired on the
subject. I do not just take the facts collected from the study books, but from the
experience itself, therefore, it may have some error, in particular matters.
But not so, in its general aspects, because as a worker I have the opportunity to observe,
living this life of woman producing. I will divide this problem into two phases: the
first, economic. The second, social.
I must warn you that it will only be a weak reflection of real life, because the
proletarian woman is doubly exploited as a woman and as a worker.
(...) Most of them have to support their children, mothers, sisters and themselves; the
companions and companions may imagine the difficulties, the struggles, and the terrible
conditions of food in which the proletarian women in general find themselves.
That is why we see them thin and dejected, without the courage to fight for their own
existence.
Even more when we take into account that the workday is eight hours and more, since there
are still cases where work is done from 14 to 16 hours, such as the work of hat makers,
tailor-made dressmakers,etc. We can also predict the state of mind in which our sisters
find themselves, who after a hard work and a meager salary, need to do their domestic
services; as I have said, most are mothers of families, who need to keep theirs and to
protect them against the miseries of life. We should not marvel at their lack of courage
and take interest in our companions who do not even have the time to think about their bad
situation and organize themselves to unite to make improvements in their lives. Therefore
it is urgent that the companion that all who are organized, pay special attention to these
slaughtered and exploited sisters, trying to raise them, to animate them and bring them to
the organization, thus fulfilling a duty to them.
We know that the woman is considered to be inferior and weak because of certain religious
influences that causes them to consider themselves without the right to fight for their
claims. We see in every industry the arm of the woman exploited miserably as a producer of
cheap labor by the capitalists, and we realize that no one but herself can and should
fight for her own welfare. But we have the hard need to incite them and encourage them to
defend themselves against the tyranny of the exploiters.
This responsibility weighs on the workers' organizations.
That is why I propose that the Congress take a resolution to remind every working
organization of the need to be part of its activities, the organization of women. Only in
this way can the plight of the large masses of women workers be improved.
As I have already said, my words can only be a weak reflection of real life ... only with
your organization, with your union can one day improve your bad situation.
We have to add that they can not and should not expect from any political party or
government their economic, physical, or moral defense, because the State has not recorded
facts of this nature, and they have registered, they are nothing but crumbs thrown to calm
irritated moods in a certain when the misery has been unbearable, I therefore propose:
1. That the Workers' Federation, as well as all the trade unions adhering to it, and
especially those who, in their class, have women as comrades in the workshops, should
devote special attention to organizing them;
2 ° That in the periodicals, as in bulletins, lectures and conferences, they should
dedicate themselves in a special way to raise the spirit of the proletarian woman. "
Long live the women's fight!
Alzira Werkauser, gift!
https://www.cabn.libertar.org/cab-com-a-palavra-e-a-luta-de-alzira-sempre-companheira-libertaria-inesquecivel-do-feminismo-classista/
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Message: 2
Locking the borders is the project of both fachos and liberals. Why ? To protect the West
from the " great replacement " according to the first. For economic stability according to
the second. Both arguments are completely wrong. But the interlocking of borders has a
consequence: it forces tens of thousands of people to go underground, to work in the dark,
to prostitution, to the deprivation of rights. ---- FIRST IDEA RECEIVED: Immigration "
costs " expensive. Not at all, it's been years since calculations reveal the opposite ...
Immigrants work, contribute to Social Security, consume, pay taxes (only VAT = 45 % of
state revenue in 2018 ). ---- It is not the migrants who carry the burden of social
security, it is mass unemployment and the growing exemption from employer contributions.
If in France the unemployment rate is close to 9 % according to the ILO, it is a direct
consequence of the law of the market, nothing else.
Stop speeches that stigmatize migrants to hide the real profiteers, the real parasites:
speculators, politicians, capitalists.
SECOND IDEA RECEIVED: Migrations will upset the demographic balance. The figures belie all
this: about 130,000 people outside Europe (0.002 % of the population) come to live and
work each year in France, half provisionally (INED figures). The " big replacement " is a
racist myth and fantasy based on no statistical reality.
Recall that before 1974, when the borders were open, no invasion took place. All the
antimigratory laws voted since 1974, more and more ferocious and inhuman, have, on the
other hand, sad consequences: they throw tens of thousands of people into hiding ; they
legitimize the police violence and the grid of the popular districts, with a mentality of
army of colonial occupation. The revolt against police insecurity, in the Mistral district
of Grenoble , is another reminder .
Regularization of all and all undocumented migrants ;
Freedom of movement and settlement ;
Justice and truth about police crimes ;
Abolition of the racist hierarchy in society.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Racisme-xenophobie-contrer-le-mythe-de-l-invasion
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Message: 3
Our first public get-together will be held at The Britannia Inn, Darlington on 30th March,
at 2pm. ---- We'll introduce the NEAG, what we are all about, why we formed and what we
want to achieve. We'll also discuss Anarchism, going over briefly what it is, why we think
it's great and how we can look to apply it to the world around us. ---- The talk will only
be short and we'll open it up so everyone can ask any questions as well as have a drink
and a general chit-chat to discuss the world, politics, work, whatever, and how it affects
us as members of the working class. ---- We will also be giving some details on reading
material for our first reading group, where we'll read through some classic Anarchist
texts and discuss them!
This is, of course, a free and inclusive talk, so whether you know all about Anarchism or
are a complete newcomer, we'd love it if you came along and if you like what you hear,
maybe consider joining us and helping us try and create a movement to organise, educate
and agitate, here in the North East.
Check out the event on Facebook
https://northeastanarchistgroup.org/2019/03/15/neag-introductory-talk/
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Message: 4
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has once again proved to the world that it is
democratic only by name. Yet, on paper, there was a good point: the outgoing president had
not represented ! ---- Indeed, after eighteen years of rule including two years of
presidency outside the mandate, national and international pressure had dissuaded Joseph
Kabila to apply for his own succession at the head of a failed state. Since at least
December 2017, social movements demanded the organization of these elections, during
demonstrations usually resulting in a few deaths and hundreds of wounded, results of a
repression exerted by the police or the army ... whose France has trained executives
thanks to its " security and defense " cooperation !
France was not the most virulent to push Kabila to the exit. On the contrary, it wanted to
preserve its interests (or rather those of the Total group at Lake Albert) by delaying or
blocking European sanctions against the regime's leaders. In addition, the DRC benefits
from French know-how in " law and order " through military and police cooperation agreements.
Felix Tshisekedi receives the presidential scarf of former Congolese President Joseph
Kabila on January 24, 2019, in Kinshasa (Jerome Delay / AP / SIPA)
After an electoral process tainted by numerous irregularities (disqualification of some
candidates, violence, closures of polling stations), the Independent National Electoral
Commission (in reality under power) has appointed Felix Tshisekedi as victorious with 38.6
% of the votes cast. voice. However, his main opponent Martin Fayulu would have, according
to several serious observers, collected more than 60 % of the votes but is finally ranked
2nd with 35 % of the votes.
France, as well as many other states (including the African Union), had questioned the
results announced in the first announcements of results, apparently coming from
tripatouillages. This reaction was surprising because many other African electoral
masquerades have recently been endorsed in general indifference (Togo, Cameroon, Gabon,
etc.). This challenge has raised many hopes in the Congolese population, very mobilized
not to be robbed once again of elections. Unfortunately, the constitutional court, by
validating the election, cut off the African Union's attempts to mediate, and everyone
eventually recognized the legitimacy of Tshisekedi.
Sad news for all the Democrats of the continent, but a result recognized by the Quai
d'Orsay, who immediately " took note " , and by Emmanuel Macron, who wrote to the new
president and " assured of determination France to strengthen our relationship in all
areas . " What better still, if possible, the image of the " country of the rights of the
man " with the African militants and their supports !
Christmas Surge (AL Carcasonne)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Mascarade-electorale-en-RDC-l-alternance-sans-changement
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Message: 5
The Green Anti-Capitalist Front is a new movement supported by radical groups and
individuals across London and the UK which aims to support the surge of actions being
carried out by Extinction Rebellion while also offering a radical alternative for those
who see the abolition of capitalism as the only real means of avoiding complete ecological
catastrophe. We also recognise that many of us would like to be involved in actions which
do not include asking to be arrested or collaborating with the police. We are calling for
an open assembly where we can decide how we wish to interact with Extinction Rebellion and
what alternative actions we can pursue. ---- We will be holding this meeting at The Common
House, Unit E, 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green London, E2 9QG from 3 - 6pm on the 23rd
March 2019.
Please read our preliminary manifesto here:
greenanticapitalist.org/2019/03/06/our-manifesto/
and our open letter to Extinction Rebellion here:
greenanticapitalist.org/2019/03/01/open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/
Find us on Twitter (@FrontGreen) and Facebook facebook.com/GAfront/
https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2019/03/14/open-meeting-green-anti-capitalist-front-23-march/
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Message: 6
International Rojava Video
In Rojava, the West of Kurdistan, and the whole region of northern Syria since the
revolution in 2012, people are organizing without a nation state. Within an alternative
system called Democratic Confederalism.
The youth of Rojava has a message for Fridays For Future.
https://vimeo.com/323924417
http://cnt.es/noticias/la-juventud-de-rojava-tiene-un-mensaje-para-fridays-future
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