Anarchic update news all over the world - 10.04.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Clash April, School is
      over, welcome to the army ! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
2.  Turkey, anarsist faaliyet: Sirnak Election is Perpetuation
      for the State Suffering for the Peoples (tr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  London Anarchist Federation: Green Anti-Capitalist Front -
      15 April Call Out (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, Brighton Solfed: Worker Fights Back Against Wage
      Theft (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #293 - Israel: What we
      mean by anti-Zionism (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






In these times of heightened repression, the government chooses to keep teaching out and 
get us to work for free. ---- Skull stuffing and underpaid work ---- The National 
Universal Service tested in June and mandatory at the start of the season for 15/16 years, 
is first of all a period of safe skull stuffing , with uniforms and flag raising. Then we 
will have to engage in an association, a public service, a company via a civic service for 
example. Behind the rhetoric of national cohesion, the government wants to exploit us : 
for 3 months or spread over a year, it is less than 600 € per month, without labor rights, 
and no right to unemployment ! The government cuts public service budgets and then uses us 
to fill the workforce.

Prevent and break education
Precarization of posts, passage of classes from 30 students to 40, overworked teachers 
with always less resources. The Blanquer law, known as the " school of trust ", is an 
attack on the fundamental right of access to education for all. Added to this is the 
reform of the baccalaureate which accentuates the social inequalities between high schools.

The destruction of our public school is intensifying, while everything is being done to 
create a young generation going to war and nationalist. The longer our defense is put in 
place, the harder it will be to lead the struggle, the legislative arsenal to crush the 
social movements reinforcing at a speed rarely seen. Do not let our public school die 
without doing anything ! Refuse the SNU and work for free ! Let's fight for our future !

Download the leaflet in pdf

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?L-ecole-c-est-fini-bienvenue-a-l-armee

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Regarding last elections, discussions on Istanbul are going on. Sooner or later one of the 
mayoral candidates will win. We know the how AKP which talked about love and respect 
during its campaign, spreads hate in every statement and operation. We know as well, the 
CHP discourse about its votes "we don't violate due rights, we will not let our rights be 
violated", have never applied to workers of CHP municipalities. We also know that whoever 
wins, we will not win through elections. ---- Discussions on Istanbul will continue with 
all rowdiness. The small difference between the shares of votes will drive these 
discussions for some time. The discussions on critical cities like Istanbul and Ankara 
shows that the ever all-capable AKP couldn't do the poll busting it used to do. However 
the same AKP won the elections on another critical city, Sirnak due to an undisputed 
strategy. Sirnak which has never lost its importance for the Kurdish Freedom Movement, 
have been evacuated for almost four years with a depopulation strategy. The attaches 
ruined the sewer, water and electric systems.
While the vital needs were not met, the city was blockaded, all entrance and exit were 
prevented with controls. In addition, 4000 houses were ruined or demolished. The evacuated 
city was stacked with troops, police and partisans. AKP's Sirnak votes climbed from under 
20% in Mart 30, 2014 to 60% after the attacks of the state which started in 2015. The HDP 
votes at 35% in March 31, 2019 have been achieved by the ones who stayed in the city in 
spite of everything. The state could not prevent this 35% in spite of everything, even 
having the soldiers that were deployed to the city on temporary duty transfer their 
domicile to Sirnak and vote. The celebrations of the stack in Sirnak as if they are 
surprised to see the obvious results and "We won Sirnak" news of the partisan media show 
Sirnak's importance for the region.

The coup overtly staged in Sirnak, hidden by the discussion on Istanbul, is a move for the 
"perpetuation" of the State which is very important for Rojava, Basur and Bakur strategies 
of the Turkish State. For Turkish State, this move is as important as its move to disrupt 
the integrity the cantons of Rojava. This move disrupts the integrity of municipalities in 
Bakur. The Nation Alliance bloc's response to AKP taking the problematic of the 
perpetuation of the state into a discourse for elections, finding it irrelevant to mayoral 
elections with its "perpetuation is a problematic of general elections" approach, shows 
that the Sirnak coup, hidden by the current Istanbul discussions, will never be understood 
by the Nation Alliance bloc. Furthermore, Nation Alliance bloc supports this move for the 
perpetuation of the state. The ones who talk about democracy in Istanbul don't talk about 
democracy in Sirnak. Because the shares are undisputable. CHP talks a few times about the 
conditions of the electoral process, but never talks about conditions in Sirnak going on 
for four years, because what happens in the region before Sirnak is the perpetuation of 
the state problematic. Sirnak elections is a significant result of the perpetuation of the 
state discourse and strategy.

Sirnak endures suffering. Even if you bring down in ruins what's over the ground, even if 
you level it with the ground, even if you demolish homes, even if you murder people one by 
one, even if you drive families to exile, what's under the ground is enough for Sirnak to 
live. Our people who lost their lives in the struggle for freedom against the attacks of 
the state, our people who became earth is enough. Their stories are told from mouth to 
mouth, heard from ear to ear. And don't forget; Cizre is Sirnak. Silopi is Sirnak. Idil is 
Sirnak. Roboski too is Sirnak. Tomorrow's joy, in spite of all the suffering today, will 
be the peoples' in struggle. It will be Sirnak's.


https://seninmedyan.org/2019/04/06/devrimci-anarsist-faaliyetsirnak-devlet-icin-beka-halk-icin-cefa-secimidir/ 


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We are calling for a broad anti-capitalist front to take part in environmentalist actions 
starting on Monday 15th of April in London, outside St Paul's Cathedral, meeting at 12 
noon. We will be assembling at St Paul's Cathedral for a tour of the heart of global 
extractive finance, also known as the City of London. We support the efforts by groups 
like Extinction Rebellion to build large movements, but we also support the many working 
class, immigrant, anti-borders, socialist, anarchist and communist groups which have been 
working to dismantle the capitalist roots of climate change, species extinction and 
extractive industrialism. Unlike Extinction Rebellion, we are not asking you to get 
arrested but we must highlight the fact that capitalism is the root cause of this crisis 
and bring this message to the workplaces of the people profiting from environmental 
destruction.

The Green Anti-capitalist Front is not a group, but rather a banner to bring together all 
of us who want to join the struggle against climate change, but who see that the only way 
of doing that is by digging up this threat by is roots - capitalism and state violence. We 
are calling for all anti-capitalists to join us on the street and show that London is both 
red and green.

Bring banners, flags, flares and noise!
Climate struggle is class struggle!

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/green-anti-capitalist-front-15-april-call-out/#more-1407

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Message: 4





A worker organising with Brighton Solidarity Federation has won a dispute with their 
seafront employer, the Harbour Hotel. The worker was employed over the Christmas period in 
the kitchen of the hotel. In the space of one month, the worker was not paid for 3 days 
worked, did not receive a contracted gratuities (tips and a bonus) payment and did not 
receive any holidays. These totaled up to over £1000 - quite an amount for just over a 
month's work. ---- Wage theft in the hospitality sector in Brighton is rife, and missing 
holiday entitlement is particularly common. Holiday entitlement starts accruing from the 
moment you start work and there are useful calculators online that can work out if you are 
owed any: https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement.

Along with the worker, we handed in a letter spelling out what was owed. After one brief 
picket, management from the hotel came out and agreed to hold a meeting to discuss the issue.

The meeting was long and the management of the hotel came up with a series of offers, but 
the worker was resolute with us by their side and demanded that they were paid the full 
amount that was owed. In the end the management paid out more than we had demanded as it 
turned out that the worker had also worked an unpaid trial shift.

This shows what can be achieved when you stand up to your boss. Organising in your 
workplace is the best way to stop exploitation. Brighton SolFed run training courses to 
help with workplace organising, if you are interested or need some help with an issue at 
work, contact us on brighton@solfed.org.uk

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/worker-fights-back-against-wage-theft

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Message: 5






The anti-Zionism carried by the libertarian communists is anticolonialism. It does not aim 
to "  throw the Israelis overboard  " but to replace colonial apartheid with a secular and 
egalitarian society. ---- The desire to penalize anti-Zionism in the name of the fight 
against anti-Semitism is regularly at the center of the political debate in France. As the 
latest initiative, a group of parliamentarians (mainly The Republic and March and 
Republicans) want anti-Zionism to be included in the legal definition of anti-Semitism, 
which is punishable by law as an incitement to racial hatred. ---- Zionism is an ideology 
and a political project to which adherence, as for any other opinion, does not imply any 
particular religious or ethnic affiliation.
One can be Zionist without being Jewish and many Jews are anti-Zionists. There is even in 
the United States in the entourage of Donald Trump a current of the Christian far right 
favorable to Zionism as the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy, whose leaders, pastors 
John Hagee and Robert Jeffress writers anti-Semites were present at the ceremony 
celebrating the transfer of the US embassy in Jerusalem alongside Benyamin Netanyahu.

As a revolutionary current and libertarian communist, our rejection of the State of Israel 
is the rejection of a "  Jewish  " ethnic state that is maintained by racism, colonial 
expansionism, spoliation and enslavement. Palestinian people. The meaning and purpose of 
our anti-Zionism is to put an end to this colonial system of segregation and denial of the 
rights of the Palestinian people and to work for the formation on the land of Palestine of 
a single, secular country whose citizens whether Jews, Muslims, Christians or atheists, 
would live free and equal in rights, which implies building a society without privileges 
related to ethnicity or religion as benefit the Jews in Israel currently and not to expel 
those who live on this territory.

It is undeniable that anti-Zionism can be a false nose for many truly anti-Semitic 
political currents - extreme right-wing, fundamentalist religious, conspiracy - or be 
carried by individuals or states that behind this term and opposition to Israel profess 
the hatred of the Jews or hear the eradication of their presence in the region. These 
expressions can be found in demonstrations for Palestine and LA is fighting them firmly, 
as is the vast majority of the solidarity movement with the struggle of the Palestinian 
people.

The successive criminalization of anti-Zionism clearly targets the support of the 
Palestinian people and more specifically the BDS campaign (Boycott divestment and 
sanctions) against the State of Israel, already condemned as "  anti-Semitic  " by 
Emmanuel Macron and before him Manuel Valls .

Clement G (AL Paris Nord-Est)

Also read: "  Against colonialism in Palestine. For a secular and democratic Palestine  " 
(AL Congress 2002)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Israel-Ce-que-nous-entendons-par-antisionisme

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