Anarchic update news all over the world - Part 1- 3.03.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, vogliamo tutto: The fascists of the Golden Dawn with
      the gun to share pre-election brochures in Petralona [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  anarkismo.net: The Yellow Vests have shattered the old
      political categories by Jerome Roos - ROAR (ca) 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, afed: CHASE THE ARMS DEALERS - JOIN US ON MARCH
      28TH (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, anarchist communism: New ACG Pamphlets -- The
      Italian Factory Councils And The Anarchists, £2.00.
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Pierre Stambul - Macron, I am moved! (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  freedom news: Italian anarchist Federation (FAI-IFA) for the
      general women's strike (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Celebrating an anniversary: The 100 years of the anarchist
      newspaper A Batalha (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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This morning around 11am the paratroopers of the Golden Dawn attempted to share 
pre-election brochures in the Petralona area. Fast-tracked anarchists and anti-fascists in 
the region, aware of the presence of the fascists, mobilized to collect the 
garbage-leaflets they left in cars and apartment buildings and to expel them from our 
neighborhoods. ---- The two comrades who met first with the fascists after the first 
verbal recriminations and while they were two opposite six fascists were found to be 
targeted by one of the fascists with a gun. The first reaction of the fascists, when they 
heard that they were undesirable in our neighborhoods, was to fire a gun, target the two 
comrades, and threaten to shoot them. Then the fascists began moving away fast to Piraeus 
Street and were probably lost in the area of Gazia. At the same time, people in the 
neighborhood began to search for them and collect their pre-election brochures, which they 
ate the streets of Petralona and they ended up in the trash where their place is.

Fascists, in addition to fast and lucky ones, in our neighborhoods are unpleasant and we 
will do it in every possible way.

Fascists-paratroopers who understand that they are in an anti-fascist area like Petralona 
feel unsafe to distribute pre-election brochures without arming. Impression, however, is 
caused by their ease of making a weapon and marking the world. And we wonder if someone is 
gunning and "pulls" a gun so comfortable IF IT IS NOT BATSOS?

Who is the role of the fascists we know very well: partisan gangs, state reserves and the 
most loyal servants of capital. Let us also know that in the neighborhoods of resistance, 
self-organization and solidarity, as many as they come, anyone coming with weapons or 
knives, with or without clothing, will always run away and be hunted.

Neither in Petralona nor anywhere, the fascists in every neighborhood.

War on fascism and the system that nourishes and nourishes it.

https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2019/02/27/me-oplo-oi-fasistes-tis-chrysis-aygis-gia-na-moirasoyn-proeklogika-fylladia-sta-petralona/

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The French neoliberal order trembles with the revolt of the yellow vests that have broken 
the established political conventions. The new panorama presents as many dangers as 
opportunities. ---- The current order is the disorder of the future. ---- - Saint-Just 
(1767-1794) ---- As I write this (December 11, 2018), a real earthquake is shaking French 
politics and society. Four weeks after the most serious social unrest since the Banlieue 
riots of 2005, much of the country is still shaken by a wave of popular protests, road 
blockades and occupations. Last Saturday, the so-called yellow vests - a movement of angry 
and unstructured citizens named after the high-visibility yellow vests that all French 
drivers must carry in their cars in case of emergency - challenged an unprecedented 
security campaign to return hundreds of thousands of them to the streets of Paris and 
other French cities. The protests can only be described as a resounding repudiation of 
President Emmanuel Macron, widely despised,

Faced with a change in the tactics of the riot police, which was supported by dozens of 
armored vehicles and water cannons, the yellow vests were not able to overwhelm the 
security forces as they had during the two previous weekends, when some of the wealthiest 
neighborhoods of the capital were shattered in scenes of widespread disorder that had not 
been seen in the center of Paris since May 1968. However, not even the mobilization of 
89,000 riot police and the arrest of more than 1,700 protesters in The whole country could 
prevent the yellow vests from returning down the main avenues that lead to the Champs 
Elysees for the "IV act" of their massive rebellion. A spokesman for the police said that, 
due to the more dispersed nature of the riots, the general damages caused by the 
destruction of goods were much greater and much more generalized than in previous weeks. 
Other French cities also witnessed violent clashes, such as Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, 
Dijon, Nantes and Marseille.

What began four weeks ago as a national response to a Facebook call widely broadcast by 
two furious truckers to block local highways and toll stations on the highways in protest 
against a new "green" tax on fuel introduced by the Macron's government has now become a 
veritable popular revolt against the banking president and the rich corporate elite to 
which he so openly represents. While the movement of yellow vests - if it can be properly 
defined as such - is still incipient and contradictory in terms of its social composition 
and ideological orientation, there is no doubt that it has opened a great rift in French 
politics. The neoliberal center is under siege, and the political establishment does not 
seem to know how to respond. "We are in a state of insurrection, "lamented Jeanne 
d'Hauteserre, mayor of the 8th district of Paris." I have never seen anything like it. "

Four weeks later, the uprising continues to confuse journalists and experts of the ruling 
class." The yellow vests have shattered the old political categories , "said a media 
activist named ROAR, on Saturday night, after a long day of riots in the capital. "They 
reject all political leaders, all political parties and any form of political mediation. 
No one really knows how to deal with or deal with this movement, nor the media, nor the 
government, nor anyone else. What we are witnessing is unprecedented in the history of 
France . "While the outcome of these dramatic events remains uncertain, it is clear that 
France is currently experiencing a rupture of historic proportions, which has taken the 
country into unexplored territory. On the left, the emerging scenario presents interesting 
opportunities, but also a series of significant political risks: How can radical and 
autonomous social forces insert themselves in this unknown and uncertain situation without 
losing sight of the dangers that lie ahead?

A FEELING OF CRISIS EACH TIME DEEPER

For now, only one thing is certain: the explosion of popular indignation and the implosion 
of the old political categories has left a huge hole at the heart of French politics. The 
resulting sensation of crisis and confusion is palpable. For several weeks now, all the 
main news channels are constantly broadcasting images of roadblocks and burning 
barricades, while the main newspapers have constantly shown the yellow vests in headlines. 
During "Act III" of the Saturday 1 December uprising, live television images transmitted 
to millions of people from the Alps to the Atlantic showed how the police had effectively 
lost control over large parts of the capital.

In the rest of the country, hundreds of roads, roundabouts and toll stations, as well as 
several supermarket distribution centers and eleven fuel refineries were blocked by the 
protesters in yellow vests, while the port of St Nazaire was also occupied. Fearing a 
total loss of control, some government officials have begun to openly demand a state of 
emergency and the mobilization of the army to quell the popular revolt, or at least to 
help overworked police forces in the capital. The authorities of Reunion Island, a French 
dependency in the Indian Ocean with a population of about 865,000 inhabitants,

On Saturday, December 8, the French authorities, willing to regain control of the street, 
closed large areas of central Paris, blocked roads, closed subway stations and sent 
armored vehicles and water cannons to reinforce the police lines. In the morning, a 
disturbing calm descended on the French capital while thousands of shops and restaurants 
closed their doors and shop windows in anticipation of the resumption of violence. Early 
in the afternoon, it became clear that the government's unprecedented security operation 
had not - unsurprisingly - deterred the yellow vests, which once again invaded the streets 
surrounding the Champs-Elysees in large numbers,

Given the harsh police repression, which left at least 120 demonstrators in need of 
immediate medical assistance, the resumption of fighting was almost inevitable. With a 
proper irony, the situation was especially moved around Boulevard Haussmann, named after 
the reactionary urban planner of Napoleon III, who designed the iconic broad avenues of 
Paris specifically to maintain social order and prevent new popular uprisings after the 
revolution of 1848. Police fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and copious amounts of tear 
gas to prevent the yellow vests from accessing the Place de l'Etoile, where the Arc de 
Triomphe is located, but the repeated attempts to disperse the protesters failed, since 
the different groups simply met again in the main avenues. At night, small-scale 
skirmishes and isolated incidents of looting continued around the Plaza de la República.

In recent days, the political crisis has been aggravated by what seems to be a true 
convergence of social struggles. On December 1, ambulance drivers joined the race, 
demonstrating in front of the presidential palace with sirens on. On Monday, December 3, 
French students radicalized their struggle by blocking access to more than 200 secondary 
schools; On the following Thursday, an estimated 100,000 of them participated in a 
national strike against changes in Macron's university admissions procedures and an 
increase in administrative fees. The shocking images of several dozen students that the 
riot police placed in positions of stress over a long period of time soon became viral and 
served to further inflame the tensions and antipolicy feeling among the yellow vests. 
Then, last Saturday, thousands of ecologists in a climatic demonstration scheduled in 
Paris put on yellow vests in solidarity. Meanwhile, the main unions of French farmers, 
truck drivers and public transport workers have announced their intention to go on strike.

The paralysis of the government in the face of these events is further aggravated by the 
widespread support that the demonstrators have received from the public. Surveys indicate 
that more than two-thirds of respondents approve of yellow vests, which stands in stark 
contrast to the miserable 18 percent support for Macron. Curiously, despite the concerted 
campaign of disinformation carried out by the government and the establishment's media, 
which have constantly sought to open a gap between the "true" yellow vests and an 
"extremist fringe" of left and right agitators. , or "hooligans", the protesters 
themselves have so far largely refused to be divided in this regard, showing a relatively 
high tolerance for the destruction of property and physical clashes with the police, which 
gives the most militant elements significant room for maneuver. When several banks were 
smashed and several luxury cars burned on Saturday, the crowd could be heard roaring with 
approval - and later encouraging the firemen as they put out the flames.

AN INCIPIENT AND CONTRADICTORY MOVEMENT

Given its inherent complexity, until now the international media have largely failed to 
make sense of the puzzling phenomenon of the yellow vest, and many of the reports have 
become an uncritical regurgitation of the disdainful moralism offered by the French 
bourgeoisie . A Guardian columnist even wrote that " they had never seen the kind of 
gratuitous destruction that surrounded me in some of the most elegant streets of Paris on 
Saturday - a hatred so random and hysterical, directed not only to the riot police but 
also to the sanctuaries of the French republic itself, such as the Arc de Triomphe"To a 
large extent, the author added that" an extremist wing of yellow vests has been directed 
with nihilist hatred against democratic institutions and symbols of success and wealth. "

On Monday, the traitor to the recalcitrant of 68, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, also decided to 
intervene, condemning the yellow vests, faithful to the style of a reactionary Bourbon 
classic, for its "extreme" and "terrifying" violence, not to mention the notorious 
brutality of the French riot police. Some of the most horrible injuries inflicted by the 
CRS and the BAC (AntiCriminality Brigades) on Saturday were those of a young Parisian girl 
who lost her eyeball after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet, and a man from 
Nantes He lost a hand after he accidentally picked up a stun grenade thinking it was a 
tear gas bomb. The yellow vests, of course, have not yet deployed armored vehicles, shot 
guns or dismembered a policeman. Its "

However, despite all their bourgeois hallucinations, it must be clear that Cohn-Bendit's 
mockery of yellow vests is far from being an isolated event; but rather, clearly reflects 
the intense contempt with which the French ruling class has historically had the 
uneducated jacques bonhommes, the insolent frondeurs, the ill-mannered sans-culottes - in 
short, all the uneducated peasants and lúmpenes who in some way they were made with the 
presumption of insubordinate the king's divine authority. The widespread use of the term 
casseurs is proof of this, as was the statement of Interior Minister Christophe Castaner 
last week that "the movement has given birth to a monster".they represent a kind of 
Rorschach test for a large part of the bourgeoisie,[forcing them]to express their contempt 
for class and violence that they usually only indirectly express . "

The reality is that it is not the movement itself, but the neoliberal restructuring of 
French society that has given rise to a monster, the monster of a resurgent nationalist 
extreme right. It should not come as a surprise, then, that the phenomenon of the yellow 
vest began with the left foot, as a protest against taxes initiated by a number of people 
with known anti-immigrant views and previous association with extreme right groups. In the 
first weeks of the roadblocks, the media widely reported a series of disturbing incidents 
of racist, sexist and homophobic abuse, especially in some of the most peripheral areas of 
France. It is also undeniable that several ultranationalist, monarchist elements,

However, despite this problematic start and the continuous reference to symbols of 
national unity such as the tricolor and the Marseille, the removal of the yellow vest 
quickly overflowed the capacity of the elements of the extreme right or the National 
Association of Le Pen to claim movement as one's own As the protests spread like wildfire 
and overflowed into a widespread popular uprising against King Macron and his neoliberal 
sneaks, hundreds of thousands of self-proclaimed "apolitical" citizens - most of them 
demonstrators for the first time without previous experience in street fighting - they 
were dragged to roadblocks and mass demonstrations. As a result,

The result is that the yellow vests, although certainly not representative of the entire 
French population, can now be safely classified as a mass popular movement. As such, the 
social composition and ideological orientation of its participants reflect by definition 
part of the diversity that is found within society in general, which is a different way of 
saying that the movement contains many of the same contradictions and contradictions. the 
same pre-existing political fault lines that cross contemporary France in general. If the 
phenomenon of the yellow vest remains confusing and difficult to specify politically,

RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES

But even if we are not condescending with yellow vests because of the incipient and 
contradictory nature of their movement, we can - and certainly must - distrust the dangers 
of sharing a broader field of controversy with the extreme right-wing racist, sexist and 
homophobic. To some extent, it can be argued that such participation of the extreme right 
is inevitable in a highly heterogeneous mass mobilization like the yellow vests. The 
challenge for the wider left, then, would not be to denounce such "impurities" from the 
comfort of their chairs, but to prevent those elements of the extreme right from 
establishing a hegemonic position within the movement. As it does not seem that the 
popular indignation that gave rise to the insurrection will soon dissipate,

Fortunately, the left has a lot of "raw material" to work with in this regard. If there is 
one thing that unifies the yellow vests, it is their shared hatred of President Macron and 
his collective opposition to his virulent policies against the poor. As one protester 
explained, " Macron's first step in the job was to cut the wealth tax for mega-rich people 
while cutting the housing benefits of poor people."Seen from this perspective, the widely 
despised" green "tax on fuel is really just an attempt to compensate for the loss of 
income and impose the costs of the climate crisis on the working class, an integral part 
of Macron's political role as Robin Hood upside down for the capitalists: rob the poor to 
give it to the rich In an excellent work for the Jacobins, Aurélie Dianara clearly 
summarizes some of the extreme inequalities that lie at the heart of Macron's neoliberal 
project:

Immediately after reaching the presidency, Macron abolished the Tax on the Solidarity 
Patrimony (ISF), giving 4,000 million euros to the richest; and it has reinforced the Tax 
Credit for Solidarity and Employment (CICE), a program of tax cuts and exemptions that 
transfers 41,000 million euros a year to French companies, including multinationals. Soon 
after, with the budget bill of 2018, Macron established a single tax that allowed to 
reduce taxes on capital, delivering another 10,000 million euros to the richest .... To 
make matters worse, the new "tax" carbon "will weigh five times more in the budgets of the 
middle classes than in those of the upper classes. However, the Government has not taken 
any measures to counteract this evident inequality of treatment,

The challenge for the left in general, then, will be to build on the widespread popular 
resentment of Macron's total disdain for the working class while trying to steer popular 
anger in a more explicitly antisystemic direction, articulating a clear anti-racist 
discourse and pursuing a convergence broader with striking workers, protesting students 
and increasingly marginalized neighborhoods. The good news is that the comrades in France 
have already made some important advances on several of these fronts, organizing powerful 
rallies of anti-capitalist and anti-racist yellow vests from the St. Lazare train station 
during Acts III and IV,

Furthermore, in this new emerging phase, radical and autonomous forces will be able to 
take advantage of organizational legacies and the accumulated experience of several 
important struggles in recent years, including:

* The fight against racist police violence in marginal neighborhoods, which led to a wave 
of unrest in 2016 and the subsequent preliminary work of the Truth and Justice Committee 
for Adama, a leading action group founded in response to the inexplicable death of Adama 
Traoré, 24, in police custody that same year. It was the Committee that requested the 
formation of an anti-racist bloc along with the yellow vests during Acts III and IV of the 
uprising.
* The mass resistance against the Loi Travail in 2016, which involved several months of 
strikes, mass demonstrations, violent confrontations and the temporary occupation of the 
Plaza de la República by the Nuit Debout movement, in scenes reminiscent of the outraged 
Spaniards, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the international occupation movement. Macron was 
one of the most prominent supporters of the widely despised reform of the labor law, 
establishing a direct connection between the resistance to the Travail Law and the lifting 
of the yellow vest.
* The defense of the ZAD, an autonomous area of the small western commune of 
Notre-Dame-des-Landes that has been successfully fighting for years against the 
construction of an airport in a nearby nature reserve, and that earlier this year defended 
a violent attempt to evict militarized by the French state after several days of battles 
against the riot police of Macron. Many Zadistas were present at the march of the yellow 
vest of San Lazaro on Saturday.
* The feminist movement #NousToutes, the powerful French equivalent of #MeToo, which has 
been organizing actions to protest against violence against women, including national 
marches on November 24. In Montpellier, the feminist march was received by the yellow 
vests with an honor guard.

The emerging areas of confluence between these ongoing social struggles and the mass 
mobilizations of the yellow vests present the possibility that the removal of the yellow 
vest, despite having begun as a fiscal revolt with conservative overtones, may 
nevertheless go in a more progressive direction. An exciting event in this regard is the 
recent call of the yellow vests of Commercy, in the northeast of France, to propose the 
construction of " autonomous local committees, direct democracy, a sovereign general 
assembly, delegates with a precise mandate, revocable in any moment, rotation of 
responsibilities ". On this basis, the local groups would federate "to avoid political 
recovery, self-proclaimed leaders or delegates without an imperative mandate from the 
grassroots . "As local organizer Pierre Bance says," the time of the communes still 
resonates! "

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE DOUBTS

However, despite these new opportunities and the widespread revolutionary enthusiasm, 
several serious challenges remain. When the mass mobilizations begin to gradually fade in 
the coming weeks -as will inevitably happen, especially with the arrival of the 
festivities-, popular resentment will remain latent throughout the country. While some of 
this popular energy will undoubtedly be channeled into new social movements and grassroots 
initiatives, the most isolated individual frustrations will find no immediate productive 
outlet. In the humiliation, therefore, broader questions will arise about the political 
legacy of the yellow vests, and the leaders of the opposition to the left and to the right 
will continue to push each other to be recognized as the legitimate "heirs"

In this context, the terrifying scenario of a presidency of Le Pen, reinforced by the 
impulse of a mass popular mobilization, is glimpsed on the horizon. The political 
consequences of the mass demonstrations in Brazil in 2013 and the Ukrainian revolution of 
2014, as well as the protests in Italy in 2013, clearly demonstrate that this risk should 
not be underestimated. Moreover, as we have the memory of May '68, we can not exclude the 
possibility that, even if the radical and progressive forces win the battle in the 
streets, the right win the war at the polls. This danger makes it even more important that 
radical social forces,

Despite these considerable dangers, however, it is important not to mix the underlying 
causes of a possible presidency of Le Pen with the role of lifting the yellow vest as a 
catalyst for the collapse of the neoliberal center. Ultimately, yellow vests are nothing 
more than a symptom of the deep crisis of legitimacy that has besieged the political 
class; they can act to accelerate their inevitable implosion, but they are hardly 
responsible for the current mess. Concerned citizens who now express their fear that the 
extreme right will try to take advantage of the protests are not necessarily wrong, but 
tend to overlook the fact that Le Pen was on the verge of winning the presidency 18 months 
ago, and that he had beaten Macron in the EU parliamentary elections last month, even 
before the yellow vests were blocked. In other words, if Le Pen becomes the next president 
of France, that is not due to the uprising of the yellow vests, but to the bankruptcy of 
the old way of doing politics after four decades of increasing class polarization. . In 
the absence of a credible and inspiring left, the crisis of the neoliberal center always 
pointed to the right.

At the same time, it is also important to note that the result of the current upheaval is 
not written in stone. Although the ongoing revolt could strengthen Le Pen's position in 
the upcoming presidential elections, it could also undermine it. After all, the leader of 
the far right is currently in an uncomfortable and increasingly unsustainable position. On 
the one hand, her carefully crafted image as an anti-establishment forced her to support 
the original anti-tax protests when the first roadblocks of yellow vests appeared. On the 
other hand, however, as these protests quickly became a mass mobilization much more 
antagonistic against economic inequality and the privilege of the bourgeois class, with 
widespread destruction of property and violent confrontations with the police, she has 
also had to defend her credentials as the preferred candidate of "law and order" of the 
traditionalist petty bourgeoisie. The result has been a series of contradictory statements 
that denounce some elements of the revolt and embrace others. This ambiguity potentially 
opens a door for the left to capitalize on the generalized feeling against establishment 
by profiling itself as the only force of authentic opposition. The result has been a 
series of contradictory statements that denounce some elements of the revolt and embrace 
others. This ambiguity potentially opens a door for the left to capitalize on the 
generalized feeling against establishment by profiling itself as the only force of 
authentic opposition. The result has been a series of contradictory statements that 
denounce some elements of the revolt and embrace others. This ambiguity potentially opens 
a door for the left to capitalize on the generalized feeling against establishment by 
profiling itself as the only force of authentic opposition.

 From this point of view, the most immediate risk for the left seems to reside in the next 
state repression of some of the most radical tendencies within the movement. After a 
strategic reorientation following the disastrous handling of Acts II and III, the contours 
of the government's new approach clearly began to emerge in Macron's televised address to 
the nation on Monday night, in which the humiliated president - speaking from a golden 
desk in the golden hall of the Elysée Palace - declared his intention to take into account 
the grievances of ordinary citizens, while promising "zero tolerance" for violent 
troublemakers. These statements are clearly part of a broader attempt to co-opt the 
"apolitical masses"
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The DPRTE arms fair pulls together the UK military, weapon manufacturers, and arms dealers 
and exporters. Not only does it support our own military industrial complex, but it 
involves companies like BAE systems who supply some of the worlds most repressive regimes, 
such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey. ---- On March 28th, we'll be joining with a host of other 
people, from members of faith groups to trade unionists, to confront those who profit from 
death and abuse. If you want to take a stand, scroll down for the practical info, if you'd 
like to know more first, read on for our DPRTE FAQ! ---- What is DPRTE?  ---- DPRTE, 
stands for Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability. I know, catchy 
right? It brings together multinational arms companies, smaller companies involved in 
research or production, and organisations that want to buy or help export weapons. It 
first took place in 2012, and has happened almost every year since. The organisers often 
like to claim ‘it isn't technically an arms fair!' as contracts aren't signed at the event 
itself. No one really buys that though, even the police just call it an arms fair!

Every bomb that is dropped, every bullet that is fired, has to be made somewhere. Wherever 
that is, it can be resisted.

Why oppose it?
The UK arms trade exists for two reasons. To make a bunch of already rich people richer, 
and to allow our government to act tough in front of their international rivals. The cost 
of this is immense. Perpetual war, something any rational person would want to avoid, is 
quietly pushed for in order to drive up stock prices. The fires of conflict are kept 
burning with the supply of British made weapons, regardless of the human cost. Brutal 
regimes are kept in power by British missiles and aircraft. Business as usual for the arms 
trade can be disrupted, if its profiteers are exposed and it's political supporters 
challenged.

What about the economic benefits?
Whenever the UK's role in the international arms trade is brought up, there is talk about 
the ‘job creation'. For most of us the human cost of these jobs is simply too high, even 
those whose lively hood depend on them have in the past fought against the arming of 
authoritarian regimes! Even if you only cared about income, once you factor in tax payer 
funded subsidies, the government research handed over, and the free assistance and 
promotion given by the civil service we pay more than £18,000 a year for every single one 
of those jobs. Any sector would be successful with that backing, and the support could be 
given to anything from education to environmental protection.

Protesters surround one entrance at Cardiff DPRTE

A History of Resistance to DPRTE - In Which They Run Away A Lot
In 2013 students at the University of the West of England (UWE) discovered an ‘exhibition' 
being hosted on their Frenchay campus was in fact an arms fair. Anarchist Federation 
members studying at UWE were amongst those who disrupted the set up, marched through 
campus, blockaded the gates, and got inside the event itself. The day was a shambles, with 
most of the arms dealers stuck in traffic. At this point DPRTE ran away to Cardiff.

A further four DPRTE events took place at Cardiff's Motorpoint arena. From the start they 
encountered resistance, organised by Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair, South Wales Anarchists, 
The Anarchist Action Network, Campaign Against the Arms Trade and more! Cardiff's DPRTE 
events saw an occupied roof, red paint on their expensive suits, marches, communications 
blockades and increasing numbers of protesters surrounding the venue for the entire day. 
The police attempted to intimidate and arrest protesters at random, but this just led to 
dropped charges, payouts for wrongful arrest, and an even more determined resistance. By 
2018 the protest had grown much larger, aided by groups such as the Kurdish Solidarity 
Network, and members of AFed from as far away as Cornwall. The arms fair was even being 
condemned in the Welsh Assembly. At this point DPRTE ran away to Birmingham.

Putting some distance extra between DPRTE and the committed anti-arms activists of South 
Wales and Bristol probably seemed like a good idea to the organisers. However a coalition 
of people in Birmingham soon made it clear that there would be just as much trouble for 
the event near their city. By the start of 2019 pressure was mounting on the venue and 
local government, and packed out meetings representing unions, faith groups, anarchists 
and others were putting plans in place for a number of demonstrations. At this point DPRTE 
ran away to Farnborough.

Changing venue with little time to spare couldn't have been an easy (or cheap) decision 
for the DPRTE organisers. In Farnborough perhaps they think they have made themselves ‘un 
protestable', with a secure venue owned by the industry itself, nestled in between an air 
field and the premises of arms companies. The creative, resourceful and committed movement 
against them begs to differ. Do they have anywhere left to run?

The entrance to the DPRTE event at UWE

What you need to know!

The loose coalition of groups that has formed to confront DPRTE, is planning a static 
protest near the entrances of the event. There will be a diverse mix of folks present, and 
at these events it is common for small groups to launch their own actions throughout 
proceedings. Keep an eye out if you want to support these, or of course plan your own.

The Arms Fair takes places for one day, Thursday the 28th of March. Most of the set up is 
completed the night before, so delegates begin to arrive before 9am. This makes early 
morning the key time for any protest that wants to make its presence known, and we'll be 
kicking things off from 8.30am.

The venue itself - Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre - has multiple 
entrances, and prior experience tells us that if there is a protest at one, organisers may 
attempt to hide this from attendees by instructing them to enter by a different entrance. 
As such the location of the main bulk of the protest may vary, so make sure to check back 
here just before the day, or keep in touch with Campaign Against the Arms Trade or 
Birmingham Stop the Arms Fair. For now, aim to get to Queens Roundabout, Farnborough GU14 6AZ.

There are groups travelling to Farnborough from Bristol and Birmingham. If you would like 
to join them contact Bristol Anarchist Federation or Birmingham Stop the Arms Fair. There 
are several train stations near the venue, (Farnborough Main, Farnborough North, 
Aldershot) with regular services from London Waterloo, Guilford and Reading. If you are 
coming by car, you'll need the A325 which is off the M3 and A31. More travel details can 
be found on the venues website, or by studying your online map of choice!

Unfortunately we can't control what the police do. Whilst it is completely legal to take 
part in a static protest, the police will possibly see fit to give you trouble anyway. 
This is a risk at any and all public protest, and we highly recommend you read up on your 
legal rights, make sure you stick with a group of fellow protesters, and keep a look out 
for each other.

We'll finish off by letting you know what you should bring. Beyond the basics for any day 
outside (an extra layer of clothing, water, snacks), we want to be seen and heard. So 
bring placards, banners, megaphones, loud voices, or quiet plans!

When: Thursday 28th March 8.30am onwards
Where: Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre
Venue Info: farnboroughinternational.org/
Keep an eye on: Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Birmingham Stop the Arms Fair, and Stop 
the Cardiff Arms Fair / Na i Ffair Arfau Caerdydd

Bristol Anarchist Federation are hosting an anti arms fair discussion and planning session 
on Sunday the 3rd of March.

Campaign Against the Arms Trade are hosting two days of workshops building up towards 
actions against DPRTE's bigger brother DSEI,. they take place on Saturday and Sunday the 
9th and 10th of March in London.

http://afed.org.uk/chase-the-arms-dealers-join-us-on-march-28th/

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The history of the Italian factory councils of 1920-1921 deserves to be more widely known 
outside academic circles and revolutionary groups. That's why we have brought out this 
cheap pamphlet. We believe that the events surrounding the factory councils should be 
highlighted for a number of reasons. They point to alternative forms of organisation that 
appear at times of revolutionary ferment and Outside of Turin the movement was 
predominantly driven by Anarchists and Anarcho-syndicalists- something which our "friends" 
the Leninists don't want you to know about. ---- Towards A Fresh Revolution- The Friends 
of Durruti £3.00 ---- The May Days in Barcelona 1937 brought the Friends of Durruti group 
to the fore as they fought to save the Spanish revolution from the attacks of the 
Stalinists and the "anarchist " ministers. This pamphlet includes important texts from the 
Friends of Durruti as well as an examination of their ideas and a look at their 
membership. "The Friends of Durruti's analyses...link up with what could be described as 
the libertarian communist pole in the realisation of a need for a specific revolutionary 
organisation, developing a theory and programme. The balance sheet is by and large 
positive-the Friends represent an important moment in the construction of libertarian 
communism".

Land and Liberty. £1.00

The slogan ‘Land and Liberty' has long been an anarchist slogan. It is not surprising that 
land is a key demand. Campaigning on land should be a priority for anarchists and all 
those who would like to overthrow the current society.Land issues underlie so many other 
issues, the environment, biodiversityfood, leisure and recreation, housing, work and 
livelihood, and social and community spaces. This little pamphlet examines the 
interconnections between these issues,

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/02/24/new-acg-pamphlets/

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I'm moved! ---- "Anti-Zionism is one of the modern forms of anti-Semitism." It is luminous 
! How did I not understand earlier? Thank you sir Macron, I am moved! ---- I believed, as 
all historians say, that there had been in 1948-49 a premeditated ethnic cleansing of 
800,000 Palestinians, with many war crimes and crimes against humanity. I thought Israel 
had knowingly violated UN Resolution 194 on the return of refugees Palestinians at home 
and destroyed hundreds of villages to erase traces of Palestine. ---- Thanks to you, I 
know that such thinking is anti-Semitic. First, Palestinians, that does not exist. God 
gave this land to the Jewish people who come in at home after 2000 years of exile. This 
country was a land without people for a landless people, the Arabs are gone of their own 
and IDF is the army the more moral of the world. As for the refugees, wanting their return 
would doubt the legitimacy of the Jewish state and is therefore anti-Semitic. I 'm moved!

I naively believed that colonization was illegal, that the presence of violent settlers in 
Hebron pouring their garbage into the Palestinian street and raising their children to 
stall Palestinian school children under the eye The debonair of the soldiers who protect 
them was an infamy. I thought the wall that scarred the West Bank had been condemned by 
international justice. I believed that 850,000 Palestinians had been in prison for 50 
years, that very young children were languishing there and torture was practiced there.
Thank you, Mr. Macron, for making me understand that such thoughts are Semitic. Israel is 
the only democracy in the Middle East. She has the right to defend, since they are 
terrorists who surround him and wish that the West Bank is "judenrein". Moreover, as 
explained very aptly ---- Mr. Goldnadel, the Jews are at home in Judea and Samaria. It is 
in Seine-Saint-Denis that there are settlements.

I'm moved!
I foolishly believed that Gaza was an airtight cage, by land, by sea and by air, where two 
million people were withdrawn from the world. I thought that the blockade of Gaza and its 
consequences (dramatic lack of water, electricity, medicines, basic necessities) was a 
crime. He is seemed like the big waves of massacres against the people of Gaza were 
horrors and that the images of soldiers shouting for joy after having mortally wounded 
unarmed civilians deserved punishment.
You made me understand that such thoughts are anti-Semitic. Gaza is obviously led by ugly 
bearded terrorists who want to throw the Jews to In Gaza, people use children as human 
shields. The soldiers are forced to shoot to prevent an invasion and they are just getting 
defend. Moreover, France has shown on every occasion its support for Israel. It's the 
Israelis the victims and the rockets that leave Gaza are anti-Semites.

Thank you, Mr. Macron, although it is not always easy for you understand.
I 'm moved!
I thought superficially that with the law on "Israel-nation-state of the people 
"apartheid" that had existed since 1948 had been legalized. Between the sea and the 
Jordan, there are as many Israeli Jews as there are Palestinians. It seemed to me that the 
fact that the former have everything (wealth, political and military power, the earth ...) 
and that others have been fragmented into different statuses of domination belonged to 
apartheid. It seemed to me that apartheid was considered a crime and that against him, the 
boycott was advocated.
You helped me understand the anti-Semitic nature of such an assertion. Yes the villages of 
the Bedouins of the Negev are destroyed, it is of course to help them to have houses in 
hard. Elsewhere. We bring them progress. If the Arab is not official language is so that, 
in a Jewish state, the Arabs speak the language of the country is progressive.

How did I not think about it?

Thank you, Mr. Macron, I abjure.

I deeply believed that the racist, fascist and anti-Semitic friendships of Mr. Netanyahu 
with the Zionist Christians or with Mr. Orban reflected the true nature of the Israeli 
leadership. These dating reminded of old events: Theodor Herzl explaining to leaders 
anti-Semites of Europe that he had the same goal as them, to drive the Jews out Europe. 
Ben Gurion signing in 1933 with Nazi Germany the agreements of Haavara (transfer of German 
Jews to Palestine) or Yitzhak Shamir collaborating during the Second World War by 
murdering British soldiers.

You made me understand that such thoughts are anti-Semitic since you yourself have a 
friend of a Bétar elder, Mr. Kalifat (President of the CRIF) and that you give "dear Bibi" 
to Mr. Netanyahu, even when he just asserted that "Hitler did not want to kill the Jews, 
and that's the great mufti of Jerusalem who blew him the idea. " These people are doing 
everything to save Zionism, it is anti-Semitic to criticize them.
I 'm moved!
Son of a Resistance Manouchian Group tortured by the French police, I did not understand 
what anti-Semitism is. Thanks again sir Macron to have explained it to me. And at the same 
time to have made me understand what can not be a gypsy boxer.

I 'm moved!

Pierre Stambul

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The Italian Anarchist Federation writes on why it will be mobilising for the global strike 
initiative on March 8th, amid an atmosphere of reaction which has been driving repressive 
reforms. ---- The Italian Anarchist Federation supports the general feminist strike that 
will mark March 8th in many countries of the world. ---- Rather than being any mere ritual 
and done out of purely testimonial logic, the strike is a necessary moment of rupture to 
reinforce and highlight the struggle against all forms of discrimination, against all 
forms of domination that would subject our lives and our bodies. ---- Today more than 
ever, reactionary forces are raging against those who claim freedom and self-determination 
through initiatives and political measures under the banner of sexism and "defending the 
family" - the actions of a patriarchal culture rooted and constantly renewed through its 
roots in and benefit to the logics of exploitation.

Wage differences for the same job, unemployment, underemployment, precariousness, cuts in 
social spending. The social war strongly attacks women by reducing their economic autonomy 
and exalting the role of the family as the best method of survival. A family that rests on 
the consolidation of traditional roles, on sexist morality, on hierarchy, on the 
subordination of women. A family that, the chronicles and the statistics offer us 
merciless testimony, is the first place of violence. This is the traditional family that 
is so dear to priests, fascists and all those who want to impose, as well as poverty, even 
total control of lives and choices.

The family is the fortress around which these forces continually re-found a hierarchical 
and exclusive social and political order. On the left, as on the right, from those who 
would like it extended to homosexual couples to those who want it modeled on the "sacred" 
family. "An institution that is a guarantee of stability for governments.

Familial sexism is the common denominator of many measures and interventions undertaken by 
the Italian government: from the citizenship income welfare scheme, and similar schemes, 
which operate on a family basis, to the budget laws applied to rural families; from the 
review of maternity leave, to the Pillon Bill to fight divorce; from the disinvestment on 
anti-violence centers to the closure of the consultors, to attacks on abortion.

Measures and processes that, in large part, the previous governments have anticipated and 
initiated and which now, with the current government, are being expressed in particularly 
reactionary and repressive terms. Now more than ever it is necessary to develop a lucid 
and attentive debate that tackles the issues of the question and individuals, in addition 
to the articulations of oppression and the strategies that make it possible to overcome 
them, even the contradictions that patriarchal culture can nurture in the sphere of our 
relations.

Today more than ever it is necessary to support the struggles and the self-managed 
experiences that want to counteract the sexist policies and affirm the practices of freedom.

For these reasons, as anarchists, we will be present in the streets of the eighth of March.

8th March Working Group of the Italian Anarchist Federation

https://freedomnews.org.uk/italian-anarchists-for-the-general-womens-strike

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We share below, in translation, a text that appears on the portuguese website, Portal 
Anarquista, marking the one hundredth anniversary of the anarchist newspaper, A Batalha. 
We do so for the newspaper's historical significance, as a testimony to a tradition in 
anarchism of publishing as an intrinsic part of political struggle. ---- With numerous and 
violent interruptions throughout its history, A Batalha is today among the continent's 
oldest anarchist newspapers. ---- A Batalha: 100 years of struggle for a world without 
exploited and exploiters, without oppressed and oppressors! ---- The 23rd of February 
marks the centenary anniversary of the first number of the newspaper A Batalha, "voice of 
the organised worker" and from September of 1919, date of the foundation of the CGT, organ 
of the anarcho-syndicalist labour union. Alexandre Vieira, tipograhper, was its first 
director.

Alexandre Vieira

For 8 years - until the 26th of May of 1927, the date of the last legally published 
edition - it will be a daily newspaper, firm in the defense of workers' rights and voice 
of the necessity of a social revolution that will establish a society without exploitation 
and oppression. It is estimated that its circulation will be in the order of 20-25 
thousand copies daily, being the third (sometimes the second) most widely sold newspaper, 
after the Século and the Diário de Notícias

During this period, A Batalha saw on many occasions its offices invaded by the police, 
editions seized and its journalists arrested, but it will continue to publish until the 
27th of May of 1927, when the police invade its head office (on the Calçada do Combro, in 
Lisbon), ransack and destroy all the equipment, after which the newspaper is prohibited. 
Its last principal editor is Mário Castelhano, who years later, will die in Tarrafal.

Mário Castelhano

MBetween December of 1923 and January of 1927, A Batalha also published a literary and 
illustrated supplement where many of the most noteworthy intellectuals, writers and 
journalists of the time collaborated (see below).

Though independent of the newspaper, between the 2nd of July of 1925 and the 15th of June 
of 1926, the bi-weekly magazine Renovação, sub-titled Revista Quinzenal de Arte, 
Literatura, e Actualidades, was also published. It belonged to the workers' newspaper A 
Batalha, and was closely tied to the ideals of anarchism, defending the revolutionary 
sindicalism advocated by the Confederação Geral do Trabalho (C.G.T.). Many of its 
collaborators also collaborated on the Batalha and, among them can be found important 20th 
century literary figures of the country, such as Ferreira de Castro, Rocha Martins, Emílio 
Costa, Julião Quintinha, Ladislau Batalha, Mário Domingues, Augusto Pinto, Nogueira de 
Brito, Jaime Brasil, Bento Faria, David de Carvalho, Eduardo Frias, Cristiano Lima, 
including illustrations by Stuart Carvalhaes and Roberto Nobre.

During fascism, A Batalha was published for long periods in the decades of the decades of 
the 1930's and 40's, in clandestine printing shops (namely, in a cave in the Lisbon 
neighbourhood of Alcântara), calling for the re-organisation of militant revolutionary 
syndicalists and anarchists in the struggle against the Salazar regime. In the National 
Library, there is a record of the following clandestine editions: nº 1, Apr. 1934- a nº 
10, Jul. 1937; nº esp. Dec. 1944; nº 1, Jan. 1946 a nº 21, Dec. 1949.

A Batalha - III Série (clandestina) Abril de 1934 (jornal)

A Batalha - III Série (clandestina) Maio de 1934(jornal)

A Batalha (clandestina) Junho de 1935 (jornal)

A Batalha (clandestina) Junho de 1935 (2 folhas por página)

A Batalha - IV Série (clandestina) Junho de 1937 (jornal)

A Batalha (clandestina) Dezembro de 1944 (jornal)

A Batalha V Série (clandestina) - Nº 2 de Novembro de 1946 (jornal)

A Batalha - V Série (clandestina) nº 19 de Agosto de 1949 (jornal)

A Batalha - V Série (clandestina) ) nº 21 de Dezembro de 1949 (jornal)

A Batalha began to appear legally once again after the 25th of April of 1974, at the 
initiative of a group of militant anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, headed by Emídio 
Santana and other old activists of the CGT (some of them had also been responsible for 
some of the clandestine editions of the newspaper). The first edition of the new series of 
A Batalha came out in September of 1974 as a bi-weekly, with Emídio Santana as its 
director, becoming then a monthly, and today it is published every two months, with João 
Santiago as director, no longer as an anarcho-syndicalist or revolutionary syndicalist 
newspaper, but a newspaper of anarchist expression.

In the period after the 25th of April, A Batalha had its head office, just after the 
military coup, on Angelina Vidal Street, in the Graça neighbourhood, moving then to D. 
Carlos I Ave., in São Bento, and, later to Álvares Cabral Ave., near the Largo do Rato. 
Currently, its office is located in the Olivais neighbourhood of Lisbon.

On this anniversary, it is important to emphasise the necessity of making available the 
totality of the A Batalha collection between 1919 and 1927 (already digitalised by the 
National Library), along with the clandestine editions, on the internet, to all activists 
and researchers. It is a common heritage, fruit of the labour and dynamic of many men and 
women, and not something to be restricted to a half-dozen academics.

https://anarchistnews.org/content/celebrating-anniversary-100-years-anarchist-newspaper-batalha

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