Anarchic update news all over the world - 1.04.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, afed: ORGANISE! MAGAZINE ISSUE 91 - SPRING 2019
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  awsm.nz: Christchurch: Some Causes, Official Reactions & An
      Anarchist Response by Pink Panther & LAMA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Holand, On The 9th of March, the Vrije Bond participated in
      the Women's March. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Ireland, Workers Solidarity Movement: Review: ‘Worshipping
      Power: an anarchist view of early state formation' written by
      Peter Gelderloos by Nic S (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  ANARCHICAL CAMPAIGN FOR INTERNATIONAL 
     SOLIDARITY - AGAINST
      STATE AND CAPITALISTIC WEIGHT OF WAR AND THE 
     MODERN INTEGRATION
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, anarchist communist group: Leicester Meeting, Sat 6
      April (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Organise! magazine is out for Ides of March 2019 with some 90 pages and for the first time 
it's colour throughout. Organise! 91 is free to download[PDF size 90MB]but please consider 
supporting us by buying a print issue or donating via Patreon. ---- NEW: Support Organise! 
http://patreon.com/Organise ---- Buy print copies from Freedom Press: 
https://freedompress.org.uk/product/organise-magazine-91/ ---- More AF press in print: 
https://dogsection.bigcartel.com/category/anarchist-federation ---- Contents:- ---- Theory 
and Analysis ---- Who's Arming Turkey? ---- Brexit and Workers - What's the score? ---- 
The Scare Cycle - Moral panics and national elections ---- How Does It Hurt? - 
Re-imagining violence outside of capitalism ---- How To Hack Into Bus Stop Advertising Spaces

International
The Yellow Vests: Statement by Fédération Anarchiste
An interview with the Bangladesh Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation
Statement From Brazilian Women Against Fascism UK
The Anti-Worker' Party Rage In Brazil: Progressive or Reactionary?

Knowledge Exchange
Getting A Crew Together
Secure Your Comms
Getting Social
The Principles Of Anarchism - Lucy Parsons

Culture
Chav Solidarity (plus Review)
Social Depravity - Ritchie Smith
An Interview with The Decolonial Atlas

Review Section
Burn After Reading
Red And Black Gamers

Comics
Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages
Assigned Male
Sidewalk Bubblegum

Announcements
North Earth Anarchist Group
Anarchist Party
Feed The Population
Stop The Arms Fair
Green Anti-Capitalist Front - A Letter To XR

http://organisemagazine.org.uk

http://afed.org.uk/organise-magazine-issue-91-spring-2019/

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Many have been shocked that a fascist walked into the two mosques in Christchurch, and 
gunned down 50 worshippers. In a world where terrorist attacks have become so common, they 
are losing the ability to shock, this one did. In part, it was because it happened in a 
place not noted for such attacks. In part, it was because it was live streamed on 
Facebook. ---- Since social media became very popular it is now possible to block out all 
contrary opinions and to surround yourself with people who not only reinforce your world 
view but who radicalise somebody in the process. In the media, the term most commonly used 
to describe this insulated world is "echo chamber". ---- The greatest strength of the 
Internet is also its greatest weakness: the fact anyone can say and do almost anything 
they want on it. There are few checks or balances on the Internet. This has allowed every 
misanthropic element from radical Islamic terrorist groups to white power hate groups to 
flourish, along with conspiracy theories which range from the merely bizarre (e.g the 
Earth is flat) to the downright vile (e.g mass shootings are false flag operations aimed 
at taking away guns from the people).

Ideas and ideologies, both good and bad, have been able to spread around the world and all 
of us are just a click away from being subjected to a rant peddling pseudo-history or 
Islamophobia.

In recent years various internet search engines have been using what search terms we look 
up to target advertising at us and also to determine what search results appear when we 
search for particular things. This is one way both Facebook and Google have become 
multi-billion dollar companies.

Repulsive beliefs are also great clickbait and generate billions of dollars worth of 
advertising for Facebook and Alphabet (Google's owners). There's nothing like a headline 
like "Joe Bloggs MP, calls for ni****s to be deported back to Africa!" to guarantee 
thousands or millions of clicks - even if an MP of that name never said anything of the 
sort or that the MP concerned is only a figment of my imagination. Each click generates 
revenue for the hate site and for Silicon Valley shareholders and owners.

That is the key reason why technology giants have not cracked down on hate speech unless 
they have been forced to by outside pressure: hate sells.

Another aspect of the Christchurch terrorist attack that has been picked up more by the 
U.S media rather than the New Zealand media is that the election of Donald Trump has 
emboldened white nationalists in both the United States and across the world to take more 
extreme actions. According to the San Francisco Chronicle of November 14th, 2018, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that in the first year of Trump's Presidency 
federal hate crimes based on race and ethnicity went up from 522 in 2016 to 603 in 2017, 
religious hate crimes went up 21% and sexual orientation hate crimes went up 19%. 
Anti-Semitism went up 37%.

Indeed the fascist terrorist who carried out the Christchurch attack specifically named 
Trump as a person who inspired him as a white nationalist leader. This is one aspect of 
the attack that should make people aware that it took place in a wider context than that 
of a single country at the bottom of the world. Despite the fact such attacks are not 
common here, there is no value in the kind of smug national exceptionalism evident in 
media and government commentary that sees this country as fundamentally different to the 
rest of the planet.

Aotearoa has not been immune to Islamophobia. Many, if not most, Muslims have encountered 
discrimination or hostility at some point: a point raised by news sites in various 
articles(see for example Stuff, 3/22/19) in which Muslims spoke about being victims of 
discrimination. There have also been elements among the political parties that have 
spouted such views at times, for example Richard Prosser wrote while an MP for the 
populist NZ First Party "If you are a young male, aged between say about 19 and about 35, 
and you're a Muslim, or you come from a Muslim country, then you are not welcome to travel 
on any of the West's airlines" (NZ Herald, 12/2/13).

The aim of the terrorist was to provoke an over-reaction from Muslim immigrants so that 
whites would rise up and drive these so-called Muslim "invaders" out of the country. It 
didn't happen.

Vigils have been held and more are scheduled for the following weeks. The government 
announced tighter gun control laws on non-state actors on March 22nd which resulted in a 
ban on semi-automatic and automatic rifles and parts that can convert other weapons into 
these sorts of weapons. While largely received positively, such bans will do nothing to 
deal with the racism that provided the motivation for the attacks.

 From an anarchist perspective the gun ban, the role of the intelligence agencies and 
internet censorship are all problematic. Anarchists in this country are not out and about 
regularly doing arms practice. At this stage, the emphasis has quite rightly gone into 
propagating our message and quietly working on positive projects (such as bookshops, 
websites, community activism and so on) demonstrating our co-operative approach in 
practice. That does not mean the bulk of us are pacifists. We are aware of the need for 
the working class to come to its own defense should the need arise in the future. As such, 
we should be wary of any moves by the state to restrict the ability of our class to defend 
itself in the long term.

As for the intelligence agencies such as the GCSB, SIS, and Police, they indeed have 
failed to prevent the recent attack and no doubt they will receive some mainstream 
criticism for this. On our part, we stand completely against the actions of fascists. Our 
opposition is fundamental and begins wherever and whenever they organise and regardless of 
their numbers. This position does not mean we should aid or encourage the actions of the 
official agencies though.

It is highly likely that such state organisations have been monitoring and continue to 
watch our own groups. They exist to uphold the current ruling system and should the 
revolutionary movement here ever grow in strength, any legislative, financial or material 
increases the agencies receive now, would swiftly be turned against us.

Anybody who thinks that scenario is a paranoid fantasy should bear in mind that this state 
like all states is founded on violence. The one here is the successor of a brutal colonial 
regime that killed numerous Maori in pursuit of land. True, it has mostly subsequently 
altered the location of its violence to more distant geographical locations, as a junior 
partner in shifting imperialist arrangements. Sometimes this has involved actual use of 
troops and at other times the provision of intelligence for others to use.

This has included the war in South Africa (where concentration camps were used against 
women and children), World War One (with the invasion of Samoa and Turkey), World War Two 
(where anti-Japanese racism was a factor), to Korea, Vietnam (again, where a general 
racism pervaded and massacres of civilians happened), Iraq and Afghanistan (where the SAS 
has been active and drone strikes have been carried out against Muslim populations).

There have also been times such as the major strikes in 1913 and 1951, the treatment of 
conscientious objectors during the World Wars, the Anti-Apartheid struggle in 1981 and the 
invasion of the Tuhoe Nation in 2007 which included actions against Anarchists, in when 
the state has added draconian legislation to the books and/or used all sorts of force and 
dirty tricks to beat back progressive movements.

The implication of the above is that our class needs to undertake the very difficult one 
of re-doubling its own efforts locally to be eternally vigilant against the activities of 
fascists and other authoritarians. We need to do this in our own right as an independent 
social agent, rather than weaken our strength by supporting the government which has a 
differing agenda for dealing with the aftermath of the Christchurch attack. We also need 
to continue to develop links with others transnationally who are suffering from and trying 
to combat the same phenomena of racism, fascism, nationalism and economic exploitation. 
This will not be easy, but it is even more necessary now than ever before.

Kia Kaha!

http://awsm.nz/2019/03/27/christchurch-some-causes-official-reactions-an-anarchist-response/

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About 50 people responded to a call-out for an intersectional, anticapitalist block, among 
which the autonomous feminist collective Kattenkwaad. A radical block that shouted radical 
slogans, to make an explicit anticapitalist, antisexist, antiracist and at the same time a 
solidary statement. The Black-Purple flags were proudly waving that day. Especially we 
wanted to show solidarity with our feminist comrade in prison: Joke Kaviaar. As 
Kattenkwaad already wrote: United, We'll never be divided! ---- We thought it important to 
connect the different forms of oppression people experience. Within a system where almost 
everything is about making a profit, behaving normatively, and where people are 
increasingly seen only as individuals, it is important to show solidarity to everyone who 
is discriminated and oppressed.
Especially women and non-cis-men suffer from the current system. For profit, the wages for 
women are smaller, and the wages for women of colour are even lower. Starting from 
childhood, people are forced into a binary system. Girls and boys are made by us telling 
them how to act and what to wear. When you don't fit in one of the boxes, you're 
discriminated against. This system can only be abolished if our anarchism is explicitly 
feminst and queer. So bring all your purple-black and pink-black flags! To break this 
system we have use a diversity of people and tactics; working together and solidarity are 
our strongest weapons.

https://www.vrijebond.org/zwart-paars-op-womens-march/

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This book unapologetically does away with many tired myths about the origin of states, 
their alleged utility and the so-called social contract. For far too long these myths have 
led many to accept authoritarian institutions as necessary for the coexistence of human 
beings in large scale societies, allowing a tiny minority to enslave exploit and murder in 
plain sight, under the protection of a legitimizing discourse. But that shit is going 
away. ---- Rather than providing a full description, below are listed some of the many 
things this book taught me: ---- - All states are founded on a patriarchal culture. 
Patriarchy seems to be a necessary precondition for any state to emerge. ---- - All 
states, whether democratic or tyrannical exist to coercively reproduce the power of a 
ruling class through slavery, colonization, genocide and war.

- Democracy and dictatorship are not two different systems, but two phases of the same 
system, the latter ensuring the continuity of the former in times of political crisis.
- In their efforts to consolidate their power and control the population that they exist 
to exploit, states routinely engage in ecocidal practices.
- Agriculture doesn't automatically lead to state formation, nor is its practice an 
irreversible step in the history of a society. Some societies have moved away from 
agriculture because the disadvantages can outweigh the advantages it provides depending on 
the context.
- States have been resisted everywhere and at every epoch, they have arisen and been 
overthrown. States are not a necessary stage in the history of a society.
- large Stateless egalitarian societies endowed with grand-scale infrastructures have 
existed. They aren't a mere fantasy that exists only in the heads of starry-eyed utopians.
- Anti-authoritarian cultures are often characterised by multilateral kinship systems 
tracing lineage in as many directions as possible, across as many ethnicities as possible, 
and not restricted to merely genetic kinship
- Religion often reflects the organisation of society, Anti-authoritarian cultures tend to 
have either a spirituality that is non-religious, or a religion that doesn't rank 
divinities, doesn't view divinities as superior beings, and isn't monotheistic. These 
societies also tend to have an egalitarian access to spiritual production (they don't 
professionalise the practice of rituals or gatekeep divine experiences)
- Anti-authoritarian cultures tend to not rank skills and recognise a multiplicity of 
skills in every individual. This emphasises interdependence, prevent the emergence of 
hierarchies, and allows to oppose the power of certain people to determine how and when 
other people's skills are put to use.
- peaceful coexistence with states isn't possible, states must be destroyed, and our 
cooperation with their institutions should be minimal.

https://wsm.ie/c/review-worshipping-power-anarchist-view-early-state-formation-peter-gelderloos

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The so-visible aggression of the state-capitalist system, built on the basis of contempt 
for social and class oppression and promising nothing more than refugees, wars, looting of 
nature and societies, is the result of its deep disintegration into social , political and 
value levels. This disintegration and the complete bankruptcy of the state of the state 
and capitalism is causing the intensification of intra-imperialist contradictions and 
bringing to the fore the threat of a generalized war. ---- Upgrading the role of 
transnational military mechanisms is part of the preparation of global sovereignty for 
generalizing the war. The military bases of these mechanisms are the places where death 
machines are used to exterminate thousands of people in the "capitalist region", it is a 
constant repressive threat within the western societies towards those who refuse to submit 
to the bleak prospect of modern totalitarianism. In the key region of the Balkans and the 
southeastern Mediterranean - and given the bindings of the Greek state and the bourgeoisie 
to the interests of the sovereign international political and economic elites - these 
military bases are an important part of NATO's broader plans for expansion sovereignty and 
control,

At the time of the constant turbulence of systemic political constants, the great 
potentialities of revolutionary emancipation are born. From the revolutionary Rotzava and 
the defeated Palestine to the resistance against the fascist regime Erdogan and the new 
battle that the rebellious Zapatist communities in Chiapas are preparing to give ... From 
the mobilisations of internationalist and class solidarity against war, fascism, 
concentration camps, nationalism and intolerance ... the world of power is at risk only 
from the flame of international struggles for equality and freedom. And we will keep this 
flame alive by organizing the struggle for the cause of the global social revolution, the 
only realistic prospect of humanity "for everyone's freedom and equality"

ORGANIZATION AND RACE FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE TO ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNICATION

SATURDAY 6 EXPRESSLY DISCOVER
ATHENS - 13.00 KLAFTTHONOS SQUARE PATRA - 12.00 APPENDIX THESSALONIKI - 12.00 KAMARA

SATURDAY 13 APRIL
PATRA - DISCUSSION ON THE AIRPORT AIRPORT

Concentration at 12.00 in the Trio Allied Square

ALEXANDROUPOLI - 12.00 NATO-BASED DECLARATION

Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectives

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Saturday 6th April, 2pm - Leicester - No War But the Class War Meeting
Open discussion meeting with speakers from the Anarchist Communist Group and the Communist 
Workers' Organisation. Takes place Upstairs at the Regent Sports & Social Club,  102 
Regent Rd, Leicester LE1 7DA. Ask at the bar for "LibSoc". Venue is 5 minutes walk from 
Leicester train station.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/03/26/leicester-meeting-6-april/

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