Today's Topics:
1. vrijebond: [Amsterdam] The NETWORK Documentary
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, afed: Another anarchist died in battle with the
Islamic State [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. liga rj: Call for indigenous women to RESISTANCE NOW. (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarquista - COMPA -- All services
stopped, all bodies in fight! -- In Defense of retirement! (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran: The Environmental
Challenge of Caspian Sea Caspian - Maryam Varyj Kazemi [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. anarkismo.net: Some Reflections on the Otautahi/
Christchurch Tragedy by AWSM - AWSM (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Please come to the Anarchist Library (Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16) on Saturday March 30,
18:00 to learn about this case, get updated from the last event and write your solidarity
letters to the prisoners! ---- In the run-up to presidential elections and the FIFA World
Cup, repressions against antifascists and anarchists started in Russia. In Autumn 2017, 6
people were arrested in Penza; several of them had weapons and explosives planted on them.
FSB officers then tortured the anti-fascists right in the detention facility: they applied
naked wires to the activists' various body parts and turned the electricity on, they beat
them up, hanged them upside down. While torturing them, the agents made the activists
learn by heart the story the FSB needed: they were supposed to be confess or have been
founded and belong to a terrorist organization called "The Network". In late January 2018,
three more antifascists were arrested in Saint Petersburg. They, too, were beaten up,
tortured with electric current,
This evening is organized by the Anarchist Group Amsterdam
https://www.vrijebond.org/amsterdam-the-network-documentary/
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Message: 2
On March 18, 2019, anarchist Lorenzo Orsetti died in a battle with the Islamic state. ----
It's just a few days (March 15) that we remembered a year after the death of the
26-year-old British anarchist Anna Campbell. She died during a rocket attack by the
Turkish army (ally of the Czech Republic in NATO) when she defended the city of Africans
alongside the Kurdish militia YPJ. ---- Now we bring another sad news. On Monday, March
18, 2019, the 34-year-old Italian anarchist Lorenzo "Orso" was killed by the so-called
Islamic State (IS) fighters. He also fought as an internationalist alongside the YPG,
where he adopted the name Tekoser. He died after his group in Baghuz, in the southeastern
part of Syria, near the border with Iraq got into siege. It is one of the last areas of IS
activity in Syria. Subsequently, the IS posted on the video the evidence of Lorenzo dead
with the message "Italian Crusader killed in clashes in Baghuz".
When Orso was about to fight against IS fascists about a year and a half ago, who embody
the idea of spiritual, political and economic defeat, and to support stateless autonomy in
Rojava, which, on the contrary, is the vision of a free society, he did not need to
return. Therefore, he left the following message:
Hi. If you read these words, that means I'm no longer in this world. But don't be too sad.
I do not regret anything, I died in what I thought was right - I defended the weaker and
was faithful to the ideals of justice, equality and freedom.
Despite my early departure, my life was filled and I was almost sure I left with a smile
on my face. I couldn't ask for more.
I wish you all the best in the world and I hope that you will one day sacrifice your life
for others (if you haven't already), because that's the only way to change the world.
Only by fighting against individualism and egoism can we achieve change in each of us.
It's hard times, I know, but don't despair, don't give up hope, never! Not for a second.
Though everything seems to be lost, when evil that plagues the Earth and humanity seems
insurmountable, you need to find strength, encourage strength with your friends. It's the
hardest time we need your determination.
And always remember that "every storm begins with the first drop". Be the drop.
I love you all, I hope you will appreciate these words in the coming times.
Serkeftin!
OrsoTekoser Lorenzo.
Lorenz's father said he was rightly proud of his son: "We are proud of him to help the
Kurds. He died for what he believed. (...) We are broken with grief, but also happy
because, despite all this, he has made an important choice. "Lorenzo came from the Rifredi
district of the Tuscan metropolis of Florence, born on February 13, 1986 and studied art.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6969/dalsi-anarchista-zemrel-v-boji-s-islamskym-statem
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Message: 3
519 years ago the lands located where today is Brazil were invaded, the original
population was enslaved and an international exploration model called capitalism was
imposed. Added to the enslaved natives were brought more men and women from the African
continent and enslaved. ---- Capitalism can be summed up as an economic, ideological, and
cultural system dominated by a few men and few women who use oppression and exploitation,
protected by state politicians and military, to gauge profits by paying for their luxury
without them working. For us Afro-descendant and indigenous workers, women and men, this
is racist and patriarchal injustice, inequality and exploitation. ---- The lands in much
of the territory belong to the indigenous peoples, quilombolas and rivers that live and
live on these lands and rivers. For 519 years they have resisted the people and have
continued to resist.
We call on all solidarity people, all the workers who support the cause of indigenous
women, the freedom of peoples and justice to remain in their lands to occupy Brasilia and
put an end to the new attacks of Bolsonaro's populist, militarist and authoritarian
government .
We are the daughters of the earth and with the strength of our bodies we will be free.
Collaboration: Maria Bahia.
https://ligarj.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/convocatoria-mulheres-indigenas-para-resistencia-ja/
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Message: 4
In just over two months in power, the bolsonaro government is already marked by corruption
scandals, and in a great commitment to increase attacks on social rights, what has already
been done by previous governments. ---- In addition to the attacks on labour rights, each
day we receive news of measures that accelerate the unmount of public services, such as
cuts in health, education, social assistance, welfare, Historical achievements of women,
the LGBT community and the black / the are attacked in the most violent forms possible.
Educators / people suffer with censorship in schools through attempts to create a gag
culture, with projects such as the "school without party". the bosses work in unity for
the consolidation of the labour reform approved by fear, and the approval of the reform of
Welfare of Paulo Guedes, even harder than the proposal of the previous government. State
violence, which maintains bonds with militias, aims to ensure fear and repression of
austerity measures to further increase the profits and power of the bosses.
We must remember that security's first reform occurs still in Lula's first mandate. The
betrayal of the parties that dispute the bourgeois state can not find barriers in flag
colors. The same party that had as a historical flag the debt citizen audit, was, by
becoming ruler, the same party that opened the first concierge for the destruction of our
achievements. This act, long before indicate the real need for a reform of the security,
indicates the submission of the political state to the power of Elections delay our walk
to emancipation. There is no other way than the construction of the revolution
The above are mobilized to speed up attacks on bass. It is urgent that our class enters
the scene and shows that it will have fight so that the deterioration of our material
conditions is not even It is necessary to go to the streets and start the construction of
a general strike, even the proposal to reform the welfare This reform is the chief car of
this government, and its defeat will mean a great advance against the barbarity and
defense of our rights!
We won't work 40 years to get full retirement! Do not disappoint our elderly to misery! We
will not deliver rural producers to death by exhaustion! Let's not lower our head, nor go
back to slavery
We must organize the fight from the workplaces, to promote direct coping against reform
and resume control of our class entities for the hands of workers!
So, we, from the compa - popular mining collective anarchist - conclamamos to all and all
to paralyse their activities and be present in the square of the assembly, at 17:00 for
the beginning of the great march that will lead to the fall this monstrous Macabre proposal.
Against Any reform of the welfare that the bosses want to impose
For the construction of a general strike!
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Message: 5
Water has always been mentioned as the most basic need of any living creature, and if it
is lacking or lacking, life on earth will not be possible. According to experts, one fifth
of the world's population does not have access to safe drinking water and will definitely
increase as population grows. Arid and semi arid regions of Asia and North Africa are more
vulnerable to this threat. It is anticipated that water conflict in these areas is not far
off. ---- The Caspian Sea (Caspian Sea) is located between five countries of Iran,
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. It has a special focus on
geopolitics and geo-space issues of the major world powers and its peripheral countries
due to the availability of fossil energy resources and rich aquifers. Is. This sea has
been considered for several years as a water reservoir for the sake of being a blue
reservoir for the executive bodies of the five coastal countries of the sea to exploit the
sea and sweeten it (desalination) for drinking and farming.
Among the five coastal countries of the Caspian Sea of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, two
countries in the Central Asian region, due to the wide and dry deserts, the main sources
of water, seasonal and saline rivers, which are only in some seasons, are almost
impossible to construct dams. It has made governments to compete for the use of the
Caspian Sea as an accessible water reservoir for drinking and agricultural use, and to
compensate for their water shortages by sweetening the Caspian Sea.
The memorandum seeks to highlight the negative environmental impacts of over-exploitation
of the Caspian Sea, and suggests that although these plans have a positive impact on human
societies in the short term, they have a disastrous environmental impact, and if they do
not control the situation There is evidence of climate change in the region, the
elimination of aquatic organisms, and if this process continues, the drying up of the
Caspian Sea will not be distracting, and will bring about the consequences of immigration
and political-security tensions for all five coastal countries as well as other countries
in the region.
Operation Caspian Sea Caspian
The Caspian Sea covers an area of about 371,000 square kilometers along the Aral Sea,
Mediterranean, Black and Pars Bay, the remains of the Great Tethys Sea in ancient times.
At present, the Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed water tank that covers about 44
percent of the land bounded by water.
The Caspian Sea, where 80% of its water is supplied by the Volga River (in Russia), flows
through the Vologda Channel to the Black Sea through the Channel to the Baltic Sea and
connects the Caspian Sea ports to the northern and southern European ports. he does.
In terms of resources, the sea does not only have significant fossil fuel reserves but
also rich aquatic resources, with about 90% of the world's caviar being mined from this
sea. The sea also has a special scientific ecosystem, with nearly 850 aquatic species and
more than 500 marine species living in the sea. Although the waters entering the Caspian
Sea are sweet, the water is relatively salty. The sea water salinity varies and now
reaches 12 to 13 grams per liter. The extent of this permanent sea is changing. The
surface area of this sea varies from 10 to 20 percent depending on the fluctuation in the
water.
Currently, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are sewage-water utilizing a sewage
system on the Caspian coast. It should be noted that sweetener is a device that takes salt
water and can be drunk. In fact, desalinators are distilling machines that work with
electricity or other fuels. The water desalting device, by pumping the sea water into a
large boiler, evaporates and evaporates, and vapor drips into embedded sources and can be
consumed.
According to the Asian Development Bank, due to a shortage of water in Kazakhstan, the
volume of drinking water consumption has decreased by 3 to 5 percent, and has forced the
country to build large desalination complexes in the port of Aktau on the coast of the
Caspian Sea. It has the largest nuclear plant in the world. Turkmenistan, on the orders of
the President of the country, is also building a desalination plant on the Caspian coast,
including the Turkmen Bashi port. The main priority of the volume of desalinated water is
considered to be transferred to the cotton fields of the country. The Republic of
Azerbaijan, by implementing desalination projects from the Caspian Sea in one of the oil
companies, is trying to get 1,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day from these centers.
Brought up The country is currently facing increasing population growth and the use of the
Kura River can not meet the growing demand for its population, hence the country has plans
to exploit the Caspian Sea, which is being handled by European countries. Is executed
Iran also plans to transfer water from the Caspian Sea to its central plains linking
seawater to the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, in which case we will see the extinction of
rare plant and animal species in northern Iran and In general, the state of the art is
considered to be the northern coastline of Iran, and despite the many criticisms and
disapproval of this destructive plan, unfortunately, the budget for the construction of
the channel is considered. Russia has not made any concrete exploitation of the Caspian
Sea, and only in times of irrigation of its vast plantations it prevents the arrival of
water from the Volga River to the Caspian Sea.
Negative Environmental Impacts Extraction of Caspian Sea Caspian
Considering the geographical location of the five coastal states of the Caspian Sea in the
dry and shallow waters, the countries of the region are attempting to construct a dam on
the rivers entering the Caspian Sea, thus reducing the volume of sea water. One of the
major destructive effects of this is the storm of salt, which has a direct impact on
people's lives on agriculture, agriculture, horticulture, livestock, environment and
health in the countries of the region. According to researchers, the long-term effects of
salt storms on the health of the inhabitants of the region are affected and the occurrence
of a variety of pulmonary and blood diseases is inevitable.
Another negative consequence of the exploitation of the Caspian Sea is the gradual decline
of marine fish. In this sea, the most unique sturgeon and poppy fish live in the Caspian
Sea, which will be a serious threat to the habitat and life of these aquatic fishes by
reducing sea water and rising salt levels.
According to the objective observations of the researcher, this article has increased
sharply over the past five years on the Caspian Sea, as shown in Fig. 1 (1), iron bars
that have once been hidden in the sea are now visible. In Fig. 2, coastal stones, which
are often found in shallow sea areas, are a habitat for the life of edible shellfish,
which make fish and aquatic food, due to the resumption of seawater. Life on these stones
is eliminated due to land and sunlight, so aquatic food is facing a sharp decline.
As already mentioned, five coastal countries of the Caspian Sea have been using seawater
for a number of years, which, with the continuation of this process and the lack of proper
management of the sea, can cause many problems for human settlements, plant species and
livestock, habitats Sea and coastal economy created five Caspian coastal countries.
Increasing demand for water due to population growth and changing patterns of consumption,
water mismanagement, mismanagement of resources, including surface water and underground
water resources, droughts caused by global warming, land abandonment, drying of dam
reservoirs, process The growing desertification and migration of villagers, the
development of salt and salt storms, the severe pollution caused by salt and harmful
substances and the development of various diseases, including blood and lung problems, as
well as genetic changes and the birth of defective infants, a significant decline in crops
, Political, economic and social anomalies, etc., will be threats to public order And
disrupted the Caspian region with major challenges.
With these interpretations, it would not be possible for the Caspian to suffer from the
fate of the Aral Sea, which was once between the two countries of Uzbekistan and
Kazakhstan. The Aral Lake was destroyed due to the construction of a dam on the rivers
entering it, as well as its exploitation and transfer to cotton fields.
The effects of the drying of the lake on the health and migration of a huge number of
people have affected the international scientific and medical centers to respond to the
increased mortality rates in the region. The issue of drying the Aral lake and its
negative consequences would undoubtedly be predictable for the Caspian Sea if there were
no proper and scientific management and control solutions for controlling the exploitation
of seawater and inlets entering it.
https://asranarshism.com/1397/12/17/the-environment-2/
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Message: 6
To really understand the nature of the occurrence of racism and white supremacy then the
present system we live under, capitalism has to be examined, and how it has used racism
and continues to use it, to its own benefit for controlling and dividing workers. --- Just
over one week ago two New Zealand mosques were attacked by a white supremacist carrying
four firearms. 50 people were killed, another 50 injured. The gunman lives streamed the
attack on the internet and the resulting video was quickly shared. He also issued a
78-page manifesto giving a glimpse into his mindset and why he carried out the act that he
did. ---- Since then much discussion has been held around about New Zealand's colonialist
past, its own far-right groups and the existence of racism in New Zealand society at
large. All important conversations that need to be had, but cannot really explain what
happened in this instance and why. This was an international event that just so happened
to have been in New Zealand.
To really understand the nature of the occurrence of racism and white supremacy then the
present system we live under, capitalism has to be examined, and how it has used racism
and continues to use it, to its own benefit for controlling and dividing workers. It also
requires a careful analysis of who benefits from racial oppression. Simply labelling the
recent fascist attacks as something unusual, or as the act of an ‘evil' individual is not
enough.
Capitalism is intertwined with racism. As an idea, it was developed and used to help
justify colonisation and slavery. Its use as a form of discrimination and oppression was
used to create and justify high levels of exploitation and was an important factor in the
development of capitalism. The end of the more overt racist structures of slavery and
empire have not buried racism.
Racism survives as an idea and as a practice, as it continues to serve two key functions
under capitalism. Firstly, it allows the capitalists to secure sources of cheap,
unorganised, and highly exploitable labour, for example, immigrants and minorities.
Secondly, racism allows the capitalist ruling class to divide and rule the working class
as it is used to foster divisions within the working class at home, classically in the
scapegoating of immigrants and refugees for "taking away jobs and housing"; and abroad by
bolstering the image of the nation-state by being used to create a sense of superiority
over other workers of other nations, creating an appearance of common interest between
workers and capitalists of a race or nation, with whom in reality workers have nothing in
common.
It goes without saying that we need to counteract these ideas. Racism does not benefit any
workers. Even workers who are not themselves directly oppressed by racism lose out from
racism because it divides the working class.
Despite this many working class people often support racism because of the capitalist
control over ideas. Capitalists do not simply rule by force, they also rule by promoting a
capitalist world-view. They feed the working-class ideas of national and racial
superiority and pride through the education system, the media, and literature. The impact
of the drip feed of this propaganda throughout life cannot be underestimated.
Another factor is the material conditions of the working class itself. Poverty leaves
people open to ideas of being able to take pride in their superiority over another when
their own economic-social status is low. Working class people are also locked in
competition for a limited amount of jobs, housing and other resources, and it easy to take
advantage of any privilege that you may perceive.
With the increasing loss of many jobs to technology, the increasing precariousness nature
of work, and stagnating and falling wages, many members of the white working class have
lost the security they once took for granted. The resurgence of white-supremacy represents
anxiety about a descent into conditions that capitalism and racism had earlier let most
whites escape.
If, as we claim, it is capitalism that continually generates the conditions for racist
oppression and ideology, then it follows that the struggle against racism can only be
consistently carried out by overthrowing the capitalist system. The overthrow of
capitalism, however, requires the unification of the working class internationally, across
all lines of colour and nationality.
This is not to argue that the fight against racism must be deferred until after the
revolution. Instead, we are arguing that only a united working class can defeat racism and
capitalism and that a united working class can only be built on the basis of opposing all
forms of oppression and prejudice and winning the support of all members of the working
class. It is in the interest of all workers to support the struggle against racism.
Banning assault rifles, asking internet providers to block access to certain sites,
demanding the spies spy on the right will not end racism. Neither is looking to
politicians for solutions when they have themselves have often been responsible for
helping lay the foundations for the attack. This has to be the work of the ordinary people
of New Zealand.
Anti-racism should occupy a high priority in the activities of all anarchists. This is
important not simply because we always oppose all oppression, but also because such work
is essential to the vital task of unifying the working class, a unity without which
neither racism nor capitalism can be ended. The world we need to create is one without
racial categorisation, without "whiteness", and without capitalism. One crucial way of
working toward such a world is defending the marginalised in the here and now. Communities
must come to the defence of people of colour.
The dangers of white identity politics must be explained to white members in their
community and workplaces. Any hopes of building an anti-racist movement require white
radicals educating other whites to identify that progress for other groups means that all
workers benefit and that their rise does not mean another's fall. We need to challenge
those that say "maybe immigration is too high" or "Muslims are different". We need to stop
politicians and media commentators using their platforms to abuse Muslims and migrants for
political point scoring.
Without these kinds of actions the far-right will continue to gain footholds amongst the
white working-class as they present themselves as the alternative people are looking for,
and the answers to the changing world around them.
We need to combat any fascist organising in public, without any exceptions. When fascists
feel free to organise in public their discourse becomes normalised and supporters can gain
strength and confidence from this. Furthermore, fascist organising is a threat to the
lives of the people they scapegoat. Don't be swayed of arguments for free speech, these
people aren't interested in debate, they are already convinced of the correctness of their
ideas, and they just want power.
However, it must be remembered at all times that racism cannot be fought by anti-racism
alone. The fight against capitalism and the struggle against racism are two sides of the
same coin. Neither can succeed without the other. The right has been good at presenting a
vision of an alternative to the discontented, we need to do the same, and we need to do it
better, after all our vision of an all-inclusive, egalitarian future is more rewarding.
One more thing to reflect on is the common cry since the shooting has been "this is not
who we are" but we have to remember there is no "we" that encompasses the whole people of
Aotearoa New Zealand. This country, like every other in the world, is a class-divided
society, made up of opposing classes, with conflicting class interests, and only one of
those classes rules, the capitalist class. That is the class who Jacinda Ardern
represents, and amongst all the glorification of the Prime Minister, this has to be
remembered. While we can look for the common values that represent us as exploited workers
and the response of the New Zealand public in coming together has been heartwarming, there
are no common values between the ruling class and ours. Jacinda Ardern, despite the way
she has handled the tragedy, as a representative of the ruling class and their
institutions that lead to the white-supremacist that carried out this attack is part of
the problem, not the solution.
Related Link: http://awsm.nz/2019/03/25/some-reflections-on-the-christchurch-tragedy/
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31357
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