Anarchic update news all over the world - 8.03.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  US, black rosefed: DO ALL ORGANIZING ROADS LEAD TO BERNIE?
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Humanitarian and repressive crisis in Venezuela.
      International solidarity anarchist campaign - Anarchists in
      Solidarity with Venezuela (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, northeast anarchist group NEAG Statement on
      Transphobia (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  cgt.org.es: CGT clarifies that its announcement of General
      Strike for the 8M is on its own and ignores the conditions of
      "calls" or "strikes" of other organizations (ca) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Information from the Anti-Lukovmarch 16 February in Sofia,
      Bulgaria By APO (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Russia, avtonom: Promotions March 8 in Moscow [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Yellow vests:
      Contestation and taste of the RIC (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Greece, women's initiative against patriarchy: MARCH 8: DAY
      OF RESISTANCE AND RACE CONCENTRATION-PERSIA: FRIDAY 
      8/3, 12m, pl.
      Georgiou [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





A Response to Eric Blanc's Interview on Dead Pundit Society From a West Virginia Teacher 
and Strike Leader ---- By Michael Mochaidean ---- On a recent interview with the Dead 
Pundit Society podcast, episode "Teachers Strike Wave 2019:  Denver Edition w/ Eric Blanc" 
writer and journalist Eric Blanc argued that the recent wave of education strikes are 
directly related to the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, and through this, DSA as a whole. In 
the interview Blanc reflects back on the February 2018 West Virginia teacher strike that 
have since sparked a wave of teacher strikes over similar issues.  ---- In the interview 
Blanc broadly connects the strikes to the Bernie Sanders campaign and draws a very direct 
connection to the West Virginia strike:
"... if you look at the Bernie Sander campaign and the support that it got in places like 
West Virginia or Arizona, where[Sanders]won handily, there was clearly an indication that 
significant sectors of working people, and young people, were looking for a different type 
of politics ... for whatever seemed like a viable alternative to politics as usual. And so 
the Bernie Sander's campaign ... galvanized a lot of people and some of the most important 
people that it galvanized were in fact the small group of socialists that launched and 
initiated the West Virginia strike. The core group of organizers that for months built up 
to the West Virginia strike first got involved organizing with each other through the DSA 
and that DSA was born basically out of the Bernie Sander campaign."[1]

Blanc's assessment of this relationship between the Sanders campaign, DSA, and the teacher 
strikes is his connection between the small group of socialists in the Kanawha Valley DSA, 
particularly one of the strike leaders, Emily Comer, and their political bridge-building 
between Bernie's campaign and DSA politics.

Assumptions on the Strike
Blanc assumes a number of things about the 2016 Sanders campaign in West Virginia. For 
one, during the Democratic primary West Virginia's 55 counties went to Bernie, with Bernie 
receiving 51% of the vote to Hillary's 36%. Trump would later go on to win all fifty-five 
counties, but this time at a rate of 68% to Hillary's 26%. Rather than viewing Sanders' 
success in the primary as indicative of a revolt against establishment figures such as 
Clinton, Blanc argues that this campaign reached the economic best interests of the white 
working class - but the numbers certainly complicate that narrative.

More critical to the narrative of the West Virginia strike is that Blanc attempts to draw 
a direct line between two teacher organizers, Jay O'Neal and Emily Comer. Both Jay and 
Emily are indeed DSA members and were politicized in many ways from the Sanders campaign, 
but what this narrative leaves aside is the countless others who were politically active 
but were not members of DSA or participants in the Sanders campaign.

Narrowing the Narrative
Nicole McCormick, an active union organizer and co-founder of the Facebook page where most 
of the initial West Virginia organizing took place, is not a member of DSA, nor are Erica 
Newsome, April Estep, or Alec Hunt - all moderators and original members of the page. What 
did make the West Virginia strike successful was less about ties to the DSA and Sanders 
and more about the necessity for an online platform to unite disparate and disenchanted 
union members across the state, many of whom were angry at the 2016 election results and 
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice switching parties from Democrat to Republican. To write 
the story and draw connection of the West Virginia teacher strike from the standpoint of 
simply one or two organizers paints a narrow portrait of the struggle and weaves a 
misleading picture that is more favorable to a future Sanders' campaign, which Blanc 
supports.[2]

Blanc also explains the 2018 walkouts in a way that covers up much of the organizing that 
took place in other states which were not tied in any way to the 2016 Sanders campaign or DSA.

Take Katie Hancock for example, a Kentucky social worker and founder of the secret online 
Facebook page ‘United We Stand.' Hancock initially created the page in the summer of 2017 
after becoming irate at Governor Bevin's attempts to privatize and overhaul the state's 
pension program. Not wanting to be as openly political as others, Hancock chose to create 
a page that would go on to connect thousands of social workers across the state to fight 
this reactionary piece of legislation. This was the precursor to the organizing tool - KY 
120 United - that was started by Hancock's comrade, Nema Brewer. Neither Nema Brewer nor 
Katie Hancock are members of DSA, nor is it clear that either of their organizing goals 
were influenced by the 2016 Sanders campaign.

This is the case, too, with Rebecca Garelli, an organizer with the Arizona Educators 
United Facebook group that inspired a statewide strike there. Garelli was a teacher in 
Chicago during their famous 2012 strike. In many ways, the Chicago Teacher Strike (2012) 
was the culmination of various strands of organizing - Occupy, social justice unionism, 
anti-privatization - that were occurring at the time. Yet, their success was not tied to 
any one socialist organization or political candidate, but a decentralized and politicized 
base of militant activists. Garrelli took this experience with her to Arizona, where the 
story of struggle against the dual forces of racism and privatization stood with her as 
this strike progressed.

What's at Stake?
What appears to be more at stake here is laying the groundwork for Sanders' current 
presidential run. By tying the recent upsurge in militant unionism to Sanders, it will be 
easier for those who advocate within the left for backing the Sanders campaign in the 
Democratic Party primary - and a critical junction for this is the current debate within 
the DSA to throw its weight behind Sanders early on.

After all, if history remembers these strikes as the result of Bernie's unsuccessful yet 
inspiring run, then his current run should be backed whole heartedly by the left as 
promoting future waves of strikes and class struggle. This historical revisionism is 
dangerous in that it both obfuscates the reality of these struggles and is, in many ways, 
a move to isolate Bernie from meaningful left criticism.


Michael Mochaidean is an organizer and member the West Virginia IWW and WVEA. He is 
currently co-authoring a book detailing the 2018 education walkouts, their triumphs and 
limitations one year later.

For further reading on teachers struggles and left electoralism we recommend "Strike To 
Win: How the West Virginia Teacher Strike Was Won" and "The Lure of Elections: From 
Political Power to Popular Power."

Notes
[1]The respective quotes can be found approximately between 17:00 - 18:00 in the recording.

[2]See Eric Blanc, "Socialists, Democrats and the Dirty Break" Socialist Worker, August 6, 
2018 and for a more detailed discussion see Blanc's piece "Red State Strikes and Electoral 
Politics" in Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, A Report, Verso Books, 2019. Here 
he makes the claim: "Broadly speaking, the victorious work stoppages in early 2018 
demonstrate that class struggle at the ballot box and at the workplace can be mutually 
reinforcing components of a resurgent working-class movement. Both the Bernie Sanders 
campaign of 2016- which inspired and cohered many of West Virginia and Arizona's key 
rank-and-file leaders- and the 2018 teacher walkouts posed a power alternative to the 
union officialdom traditional reliance on electing and lobbying mainstream Democrats."

http://blackrosefed.org/teacher-strikes-bernie-eric-blanc/

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Message: 2






We can no longer hide the very serious humanitarian, political and social crisis that is 
ravaging Venezuela. Nobody who has seen the floods of families that walk on foot Latin 
America, with its few possessions, can deny the evidence. Not when there are almost three 
million people who have embarked on that long road, perhaps with no return. The children 
who cross the border, following their parents, on foot through the cold Colombian moor or 
through the stormy Brazilian savanna, do not know about politics. Only of hunger and lack 
of basic resources. ---- Meanwhile, state repression is intensifying. Fueled by the false 
dichotomy between "revolution" and right-wing opposition, the government of Nicolás Maduro 
clings to power. He knows that he is interested in reducing any criticism to a tantrum by 
aspiring neoliberal managers of the country. That is why he can not allow opposition from 
truly revolutionary sectors, workers, trade unionists, indigenous people, etc. It is true 
that for a long time, demonstrations of all kinds against the government have been 
answered with live ammunition. But also that a number of trade unionists and militant 
workers, indigenous activists, human rights defenders have been brutally persecuted and 
detained, and sometimes extrajudicially executed.

Government spokesmen insist that any criticism of their actions is "imperialist" and 
"rightist". The right-wing opposition is delighted with this argument, because it is 
practically presented as the only alternative. These rhetorics feed each other. In this 
perverse way, those who seek to justify the Venezuelan government, despite the undeniable 
humanitarian crisis, do precisely the game to the neoliberals, the aspiring supporters of 
the people.

It is necessary to escape this trap, to break this bipolar cage. It is necessary to 
undertake the construction of a true alternative, worker, trade union, indigenous, LGBT 
... and above all, in freedom.

About us?

We are some and some anarchist comrades from different parts of the globe who are working 
to set up a fund to support the libertarians and libertarians of Venezuela, in the face of 
the serious crisis of subsistence and repression that the country is experiencing.

Why individualities and not organizations?

Because we understand that the Venezuelan political process has generated endless 
discussions that do not allow agreements, nor sufficient consensus, to provide support as 
organizations. In this way, people who wish may offer solidarity directly to the 
anarchists who resist in the country.

How I can help?

You can collaborate in different ways:

1.-Sharing this message with your contacts and encouraging them to participate.

2.-Making translations to the language that you handle of the material that we take out.

3.-Contributing to the Solidarity Fund for the Venezuelan anarchists. They have decided 
that they will allocate it to:

a.-Trade unionists arrested b.

b.-Purchase of food for striking workers and workers

c.-Purchase of medicines to pregnant women; boys and girls; people of the Third Age.

d.-Indigenous

e.-Transgender people in a street situation.

Who is in charge of the solidarity fund?

The initiative is based on libertarian individuals from various parts of the globe. The 
management of the fund corresponds exclusively to Venezuelan comrades who will decide, in 
view of the needs on the ground, the distribution of the funds among the aforementioned 
groups. It has made a first collection of resources with direct contributions, to have 
what to start, and now the intention is to ensure a monthly amount to sustain the fund. 
For this, we will resort to the Patreon platform (see below).

What responsibility will Venezuelan anarchists have?

In addition to making the aid of the Solidarity Fund to the aforementioned groups, as 
necessary, they commit to inform about each activity that is carried out and to follow up 
on each case. They will present and render accounts of the aid received to all those who 
wish to do so, in addition to making public the accounts to the sponsors and sponsors of 
the fund.

How does it work? That I have to do?

We have decided to use Patreon, a digital platform of patronage, to guarantee regular 
contributions that keep the fund alive. In this way, anyone who wants to join as a sponsor 
or sponsor can set the amount you decide, however small and without commitment, which will 
automatically leave each month of your account and reach the fund of solidarity.

To participate you just have to go to www.patreon .com, click on Sign up (top right) and 
follow the instructions to create a user. In the process an email and a credit card or 
bank account are associated. Then, with the session started, look for the profile of the 
Countercultural and Self-managed Space La Libertaria at 
https://www.patreon.com/lalibertaria . By clicking on the red button on the right, Become 
a Patron you can choose one of the suggested levels or, select Make a Custom Pledge to set 
the amount you will contribute monthly to the fund, from 1 euro or dollar, to whatever you 
want . No help is small! Solidarity always adds up!

What will I receive in return?

In gratitude for the solidarity given, the Venezuelan anarchists will send:

* The Indymedia Venezuela digital publication: Elbow (A) Elbow

* The digital edition of the booklet tribute to Nerio Casoni: The Elegance of Direct 
Action , (compilation of articles on Latin America and other topics).

* Press release and images of each activity carried out.

* Organic Coffee produced at the Culture Center La Libertaria.

* The satisfaction of mutual support is also included, even if it does not arrive by mail!

I still have doubts, it has not been clear to me how it works or I want to report any problems

https://gargantas-libertarias.blogspot.com/2019/02/crisis-humanitaria-y-represiva-en.html

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Message: 3






All members of North East Anarchist Group have collectively agreed to highlight our 
complete and unconditional condemnation of transphobia and bigotry. ---- We maintain a 
strict policy of zero-tolerance towards trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs). We 
stand proudly in solidarity with trans women, trans men and non-binary people in their 
struggle to obtain the ability to declare their own gender (or lack thereof) without 
enduring a humiliating and Kafkaesque legal and medical obstacle course set up by the 
state. ---- We support all trans women and are repulsed by misogynist abuse, doxing and 
violence. ---- Trans women are women, and no amount of propaganda and lies from these 
alleged feminists will ever affect a person's validity.
Attempting to define gender and gender roles as being determined by biology is sexist, 
reductionist and dangerous. There is no danger to come of helping trans people obtain the 
same basic human rights and dignities that already exist for privileged members of 
society, and we reject the malicious lie commonly spread by TERFs that claims trans women 
are covertly attempting to abolish women's rights and find the idea that predatory men 
need to pretend to be women in order to abuse and assault women utterly ridiculous, as 
there are already enough opportunities for them to do this (and for them to get away with 
it) without going to the trouble of changing their identity. These abuses are already 
enabled by the state, and by the police.

TERFs will allege that they are speaking in the interests of "free speech". However, it is 
very revealing that they consistently and repeatedly use this free speech to attack, 
demonise and dehumanise trans and non-binary people, rather than to add anything 
constructive or original to public discourse. How many more times are we to have the same 
monotonous ‘open debates' and ‘rational discussions' about whether or not trans people are 
real people deserving of the same human rights as everyone else?

To clear up any potential confusion, we would additionally like to take this opportunity 
to stress that we are in no way associated with a now-defunct Facebook page known as 
‘North East Anarchists', which was often condemned by other anarchists for the transphobic 
and class-reductionist content of its posts.

North East Anarchist Group is 100% committed to fighting TERFs and all other peddlers of 
hatred and intolerance wherever they can be found, and will always be welcoming to trans 
and non-binary comrades. There is no place for TERFs in anarchist circles, or indeed 
anywhere in society.

It's sisterhood not cis-terhood! Please give @NotCisterUk a follow on Twitter and sign 
their statement by sending an email to sisternotcister@protonmail.com or sending a message 
to them via Facebook.

https://northeastanarchistgroup.org/2018/12/05/neag-statement-on-transphobia/

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Message: 4






CGT calls alone for the reasons agreed at its last Extraordinary Congress and in line with 
the demands of the Feminist Movement. ---- PRESS OFFICE OF THE CONFEDERAL COMMITTEE OF THE 
CGT ---- The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), has explained in a press release that 
its call for General Strike, presented a few days ago in the Ministry of Labor and Social 
Security, is on its own. This clarification follows the latest statements made by the 
organization OTRAS, on the call for a General Strike for next March 8, in which they say 
that they have called "together with the CGT and other unions a 24-hour strike". ---- CGT 
states that its call for General Strike is individual, does not call with OTHERS or with 
any other union or organization, and therefore does not know the details of the "strike 
notice" of OTRAS and the conditions or reasons why from this training receive this right.

The anarcho-syndicalist organization once again underlines the reasons why they have 
called the General Strike for the International Day of Working Women, reasons agreed at 
the VII Extraordinary Congress held at the end of January in Mérida, and states that this 
decision is in line with the demands of the Feminist Movement, both national and 
international.

CGT reminds that the call for a 24-hour General Strike for next March 8 is addressed to 
the whole society as a whole. It will affect all working people, from all sectors, public 
and private, civil servants, as well as companies and bodies responsible for public 
services, without distinction of employment status, sex, age or social status.

In addition, CGT stresses that the General Strike next March 8 will be based on 4 
fundamental axes, labor, consumption, care and domestic work in order to highlight the 
important role played by women in the maintenance of life.

28 · 02 · 2019 · redaccion

http://cgt.org.es/noticias-cgt/notas-de-prensa/cgt-aclara-que-su-anuncio-de-huelga-general-para-el-8m-es-en-solitario-

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Message: 5






The fascist parade in honor of the fascist General Lukov has been held for about 15 years 
in Sofia. In recent years, an anarchist and anti-fascist initiative, headed by Antifa 
Sofia, attempts to block the fascist presence on the streets of the city. ---- For the 
third consecutive year, as Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of 
Collectivities, we participated organized with our own block in the demonstration by 
supporting anti-fascists in Bulgaria with the manifestation of practical internationalist 
solidarity. We crossed the streets of Sofia with a central banner "Internationalist 
solidarity will sweep the fascist threat to the Balkans - For the social revolution, 
anarchy and libertarian communism" and protested against fascism by supporting the 
comrades there who have been trying in recent years - under difficult conditions - to set 
up mounds in the advance of neo-Nazi groups gathered there from all over Europe, while 
attempting to create stable structures and fronts of resistance not to attack state 
capital, fascists and mafia.

The anti-fascist course in Sofia surrounded and reinforced more than 400 anti-fascists and 
anti-Fascists from Bulgaria and other Balkan countries, putting forward internationalist 
solidarity, which is the only solution to scrutinize the fascist threat in the Balkans and 
everywhere in the world.

The promotion of nationalism and racism, the exacerbation of transnational antagonisms, 
the threatened warfare, the depth of impoverishment and the exploitation of the "bottom" 
due to the antisocial policies of the sovereigns, the premium of fascist and neo-Nazi 
groupings are all we have to fight on each side of the border.

Beyond the world of power, besides the dystopia of modern totalitarianism, which reserves 
for the more poverty, misery, war and death, there is the world of struggle which 
fervently fights fascism, the state and the capital with the horizon of building a a 
society of equality, solidarity and freedom.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WILL BETTER THE PHASE THREAT IN THE BALKANS.

FOR STRENGTHENING THE JOINT INTERNATIONAL GAMES. FOR THE BALKANS OF EQUALITY, SOLIDARITY 
AND COMPLIANCE.

FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE, FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION AND ANARCHY.

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

Y.K. The apparently deliberate effort (from a site adjacent to the KKE) to completely 
distort the characteristics of our - politically and organizationally - structured 
presence in the anti-fascist / internationalist demonstration in Sofia, serves the purpose 
of covering and legitimizing attacks on the anarchist struggle, a recent attempt to 
violent isolation of the anarchist bloc in the strike demonstration in Patras on November 
28, 2018.

http://apo.squathost.com

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Message: 6






On March 8, 2 actions will take place in Moscow, in which representatives and 
representatives of anarchist-feminist, anarchist and leftist groups will take part. ---- 
The first of them - For women's rights and social justice! - will start in Sokolniki Hyde 
Park at 11 o'clock , will be attended by the Left Socialist Action (Union of Democratic 
Socialists), LeftFem, Narcprosvet, the Revolutionary Workers Party (Avant-garde), the 
Russian Socialist Movement, the Left Resistance, anarchists and independent feminists. 
---- "For us, the struggle for women's rights is inseparable from the struggle for social 
justice and a classless society. We believe that only a society with public ownership of 
the means of production, universal self-government, freedom of association for the 
implementation of any public projects will create the conditions for the final eradication 
of all types of discrimination.

Despite the fact that we set ourselves the ambitious goal of a fundamental change in the 
structure of society, we are already demanding from the state legislative and practical 
measures to achieve equal rights and opportunities for women and men, to prohibit 
discrimination against women, and to protect women from any kind of violence, "the 
initiator writes rally.

Meeting in Facebook.
Meeting in contact.
Channel in the telegraph.

The second action - Resources for women! - will also be held in Sokolniki and will begin 
at 16.30. In it are going to participate MFI Rosa, LeftFem, Fembband, RFO SHE, as well as 
independent feminists.

"Now in Russia, women are limited access to resources in all spheres. Most women are poor, 
and even those who are in the middle class have no equal opportunities with men because of 
sexism."

Physical, psychological and sexual abuse are constant companions of our lives.

But we - and you too! - let's not dwell only on the identification of problems, We will 
propose solutions on how to seize access to resources, how to increase female power! "- 
the organizers report.

https://avtonom.org/news/akcii-8-marta-v-moskve

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Message: 7






Social and democratic issues have become central in the movement. The citizens' initiative 
referendum is at the center of the debate. While clearly stating that there can be no 
genuine democracy in a capitalist framework, we must join the debate on the Ric to advance 
an idea: the imperative mandate. ---- For years, and still today, successive governments 
have valued the use of the individual car and integrated it into the territorial 
organization. As a result, distances have increased: habitat, workplaces, supply and 
recreation have moved away from each other. The lengthening journeys make it necessary to 
choose the fastest means. For anyone not living in a territory rich in public transport, 
the use of the car is necessary. These are the same areas far from large urban centers 
that are closing their public services one after the other (communication, justice, 
health, transport, administration, finance, etc.). Car addiction continues to increase due 
to political and not individual choices. And it is in this context of organized dependence 
that the government has chosen to tax more motorists. Despite the efforts of some bosses 
who came to support the movement hoping that it remains confined to the question of taxes, 
the confrontation of individual issues and the difficulty of meeting daily needs despite 
work have allowed the progressive re-emergence of a consciousness of class, inhabited by 
an improbable heterogeneity of interests.

On the roundabouts, in the blockades, it did not take long for the destruction of certain 
territories to be denounced and, from the second week, the demands were expanded, 
defending in particular the increase of the wages and the defense of the public services.

A breathtaking representation
With yellow jackets, we build demands that are broadly articulated around social justice 
while being cut off from most decision-making: we do not have access to institutional 
powers and we are confronted with them. We are confronted with the rhetoric of breathless 
representation, which offers the possibility of political expression only in the theater 
of elections where the best choice, when we still believe in the relevance of this choice, 
is to designate the least worst of the candidates. The feeling is that we also do not have 
access to the usual counterpowers considered as ineffective or even complicit (media and 
unions in particular).

Thus, when yellow jackets gather spontaneously and outside the framework of existing 
political organizations, they completely open the field of slogans and claims, while 
closing the door to traditional representations and symbols. In spite of everything, the 
massive reinvestment of union structures and the strike form a perspective defended by a 
growing part of the social movement. It remains to be found other ways of collectively 
formulating claims, discussing them, making them known and putting them in place.

A simple claim
The citizens' initiative referendum (Ric) is a popular means by many and many yellow 
vests. The Ric is a simple claim that seems to be able to fit into the current political 
system, without necessarily having to rethink everything. If the conditions for its 
implementation are adapted, it is supposed to allow a significant part of the society to 
put its own subjects on the political agenda. Following which the entire population is 
called upon to express themselves and, in the event of validation, the proposal initiated 
and validated collectively must thus be able to take the force of law. Faced with 
representative institutions hermetic to popular power, the Ric is a breath of fresh air.

The problem is that this proposal does not directly challenge the privileged status of 
elected officials. Incorporating this possibility, a more detailed form of Ric has 
emerged: the referendum of citizens' initiative with constitutive, repealing, revocatory 
and legislative nature (Ric Carl). This is the referendum with a significant scope of 
action, which, by proposing to amend the Constitution, to dismiss elected representatives 
and to legislate, directly targets the foundations of the representative system. Once 
applied, the Ric Carl would be a form of counter-power that would allow the exercise of 
democracy outside elections. But in the meantime, even though he claims to have the 
potential to diminish their power, he does not question the existence of the elected 
representatives and the institutions that carry them. There remains an individual 
response, and the collective dimension necessary for democratic construction is not 
developed. It is therefore likely that elected officials would do everything to reduce the 
scope of these citizen initiatives, preserve their privileges, and that organized groups 
of influence would seize them to bring their own demands.

Collectively formulate claims
Even within the yellow vests, questions arise about the Ric and its dimension of " 
individual vote  ". The importance of collective frameworks is beginning to emerge in some 
general assemblies, and the limits of the Ric are questioned. This is where we come to 
articulate it to another resource: the imperative mandate. It is a simple tool: any 
assembly wishing to interact with another organization prepares a mandate and sends a 
person to carry it out. Mandate conditions can be very variable but remain, and this is 
important, the prerogative of all concerned. Revocability and collective definition of 
mandates respond to the democratic aspirations of a growing part of society. This is why, 
in addition to being an essential constituent of the self-management practices of 
Alternative Libertaire,

AL Fougeres

The meeting of Commercy
On January 26th and 27th, the first assembly meeting was held in Commercy. At a time when 
more and more people are claiming to represent yellow vests for electoral purposes, this 
initiative has been a great success (more than 90 groups present, and 75 mandated groups). 
A word of the movement was necessary, and even more so a democratic word, so that the 
fight is not confiscated.

Read also: "  Commercy was motivating, structuring, bringing perspectives  "

Place of convergence, Commercy has helped to emerge a clear call and claims both general 
and specific, worn by yellow vests gathered around several themes (women, teachers, 
housing ...). The need for a strike was consensual, although convergence with the unions 
remained a matter of debate: the need not to be confiscated was again the main concern. 
Real time sharing, Commercy came to give new perspectives to some local groups. 
Encouraging initiative, it will be followed by a new assembly meeting in Saint-Nazaire in 
April.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Gilets-jaunes-Contestation-et-gout-du-RIC

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Message: 8





March 8 was established in 1910 to honor the women's fights. The solemn establishment of 
such a day attempts to unbundle every militant claim, any historical stock and collective 
memory that can inspire and promote the struggle for female emancipation. A struggle that 
sovereignty is constantly trying to put forward as a "demand for equality in the 
administration of power". The attempt to incorporate the various movements and alter their 
characteristics is a common practice of sovereignty to assimilate every effort of 
resistance and reduce its radicalism. For us, March 8 is a day of resistance and struggle, 
not a "feast" for the woman, which in fact is all about confirming and reproducing the 
imposed gender roles.
Against patriarchy and every form of oppression imposed by the system, we respond to 
intensified self-organized and counter-institutional action. We keep the flame of the 
struggles of the past alive and we continue collectively and from the bottom to the 
liberation struggles of the future. We learn and draw inspiration from women's struggles 
all over the world, from the mountains of south-eastern Mexico and Zapatista women who 
send this year a message to the women of the world announcing the assault they accept 
globally as a revolutionary movement from the state and the capital, our comrades on the 
other side of the Aegean that resist the fascist-patriarchal state of Turkey,

We continue the struggle for women's emancipation, the struggle for the freedom of all. 
Recognizing that freedom is neither granted nor granted, but is conquered through the 
struggles of the exploited and the oppressed, we choose to organize and collectivize - as 
women and as anarchists - and to fight together, with the workers, the unemployed, the 
students, the students, the people of the WORLD, to join our voices and our action against 
our daily dynasties all over the world, keeping alive the vision for a society of 
equality, dignity, freedom and solidarity.

In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was one of the largest womenswear manufacturers 
in New York City, and its owners who had set up the company in 1900 were haunted by the 
brutal exploitation of their workers.

On Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the 
factory. Almost everything in the room was flammable, like textiles, papers and wooden 
tables. The fire took uncontrollable dimensions and any attempt to extinguish it was 
futile as the fire hoses did not run out of water.

Many employees based on company policy were locked in their workplaces to avoid being 
unnecessarily removed and trapped behind the closed doors.

View Documentary about fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

on Tuesday 5/3 at 8:00 pm in the Up (87)

CONCENTRATION:
FRIDAY 8/3, 12m, George
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AND TAX WELFARE FOR MANAGEMENT AND FREEDOM, LIFE AND DIGNITY

women's initiative against patriarchy

communication: every Tuesday after 7:00 pm, in the self-managed area on the front (Patreos 
87) | enantiastinpatriarxia@gmail.com

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