Today's Topics:
1. dieplattform anarcho-communist organization: "We have the
claim to build a third federation." Interview with the direct
action (de) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Ireland, Workers Solidarity Movement: Protesting racism in
Rooskey by Dermot Freeman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Photographs, Posters & Texts From The Demonstrations By The
8th Of March/Group against Patriarchy/APO/Greece [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Belgium] 18th International Fair of the Alternative and
Libertarian Book of Ghent By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Read: Vuillard,
"The War of the Poor" (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [Italy] From history to the future ... By ANA (pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
We are very happy to be able to show you this interview of the direct action , online
journal of the Free Workers Union! Thanks to the comrades of the direct action: ----
dieplattform.org - since the end of last year, this internet presence has surfaced. The
initiative "the platform" conveys the claim to bring new wind into the anarchist movement.
There is some dissatisfaction to hear with their current condition. As can be derived
quite simply, the initiators refer to the ideas of platformism and want to launch an
organization according to anarchocommunist principles. Can this be another dimension of
German-speaking anarchism alongside the FdA (Federation of German-speaking Anarchists) and
the FAU (Free Workers' Union)? At least within the FAU, there have been lively
discussions. The message was generally received positively.
HOW CAME THE IDEA "THE PLATFORM" TO CREATE A LIFE - THERE WAS A TRIGGER
The starting point was certainly dissatisfaction with the state of the anarchist movement,
which had built up over the years. We have also described this in detail in our text. In
the context of the escalating worldwide authoritarianism of different manifestations, it
makes us insane to be in a socially marginalized position at the same time. We urgently
need to position ourselves better in terms of organization and content. Because we still
live in comparatively quiet times in German-speaking countries. Only in this way will we
be able to cope with the tasks that will come our way in the future. And so that we can
influence where the society is going. In doing so, we came across the concept of
platformism and were enriched by it. It is important to emphasize at this point that we
regard ourselves as complementary to the anarchist struggle. We wish for a solidary
relationship with already existing anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups. Nothing is
further from our point of wanting to deny their justification to other approaches. Only
through a diversity of approaches and methods, we will reach broad sections of the population.
YOU RELY ON PLATFORM - AN ANCIENT FLOW THAT HAS HER ORIGINS IN THE 20S (NESTOR MACHNO AND
ERRICO MALATESTA). CAN YOU SHOW YOUR QUICKLY WHAT PLATFORM IS ACTUALLY?
Brief classification at the beginning: Errico Malatesta, whom you also mentioned, was a
critic of platformism at the time. He had a long correspondence with the platformist
Nestor Makhno, in which they exchanged on the design of the platform ("Organizational
platform of the General Anarchist Union ( Draft) From 1926). At the beginning of the
debate, Malatesta said that the "tendency" of the document was a bit "authoritarian". In
the process, however, he then acknowledged, "When I read what the comrades say ..., I am
more or less in line with the way they understand the anarchist organization ... and I
affirm my belief that behind the linguistic differences in fact conceal identical
positions. "(See: Black Flame, 329-330)
But only for correction. To get to the actual question: what is platformism? The core
ideas are:
Unity of theory and practice: All members of the organization share a common theoretical
foundation. From the common theoretical foundation the practice grows. And the practical
experience flows back into the further development of the theoretical foundations;
common goals and strategies derived from the theoretical basis;
federal structure of the organization. This means bringing together decentralized groups
that direct their actions towards achieving common goals of the Federation based on free
agreement;
Collective action with shared responsibility means that each member stands behind all the
activities of the organization. And that all members of the organization take
responsibility for the success and execution of each member's responsibilities .;
active participation in social movements and social struggles.
In addition, platformist groups share an anarcho-communist orientation. We have agreed for
our organization on a second equally important for us flow: the Anarchafeminismus. If you
want to go deeper here, we recommend the draft of the platform from 1926 (in which we also
have our points of criticism) in addition to our own text.
WHY DOES IT NEED AN ORGANIZATION LIKE "THE PLATFORM" STILL?
In our opinion platformism offers exciting solutions for the existing problems of
anarchism in our region and, of course, beyond. In the German-speaking world a purely
anarchocommunist organization is missing. Anarchafeminist approaches are equally
underrepresented and poorly developed. As we know, a concept as we propose has never been
tried in our region for a long time. Here, there is a lack of experience in the movement
and, of course, in ourselves, who dare this experiment. The question should therefore
rather be: Why has the concept of platformism never been tried out seriously?
WOULD BE A CLAUSE IN THE FORM OF AN EVEN SENSIBLE?
So far we have not dealt with this question. Out of the guts, we would rather deny this
because we are opposed by the state offered forms of organization rather. And we see no
advantage in it that we could not reach by other means. Ultimately, we are thereby only
more easily criminalized.
HOW SHOULD YOUR PUBLIC RELATIONS APPEAR? ARE OTHER PRESS INSTITUTIONS PLANNED BY THE HOMEPAGE?
In our textWe have already expressed some ideas. Above all, we want to go here ways that
are rarely used in the anarchistic landscape: such as video projects to document and
disseminate our work, content and practice. The active use of social media also plays a
big role for us, because here is the mass of people on the move. And if you work
continuously and professionally in this area, you have a broad reach of our content. Of
course, we also rely on classic methods. For example, with our anarchocommunist pamphlet
series "Collective Intervention", we publish brochures on platformism. Of course, we are
still at the very beginning - as in the vast majority of areas. What ultimately arises
depends on the comrade * inside,
PLATFORM IS OFTEN SPOKEN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SYNDICALISM, SO YES TO YOUR SITE. ALSO,
WITH THE BLACK-DIAGONAL SYMBOLISM, YOU WANT YOUR YES TO ANARCHOSYNDICALISM. WHY DO NOT YOU
ORGANIZE AS A TRAINING AG, INSTITUTE OR CULTURAL ORGANIZATION WITHIN THE FAU, BUT OUTSIDE?
WOULD LAST LESS TRANSPARENTER?
Yes, right, we are connected to the anarcho-syndicalism and stand in solidarity with it -
even in terms of the shared goal of an anarcho-communist society. Although we share the
proposed path of anarcho-syndicalism, through militant grassroots unions, and are in part
even organized in the FAU, we see different benefits in a separate organization.
We think that our own common strategy with a theoretical basis is only possible in our own
organization. At least that's the way we imagine it. We think that otherwise, over time
within the FAU, contradictions would certainly arise if the platform occupies positions
other than the FAU. We have the stated claim of building a third federation alongside the
FAU and the FdA (Federation of German-speaking Anarchists). We also emphasize the
seriousness of our approach of building a living class-struggle organization.
In addition, we also want to work beyond classic union work. Surely that's what the FAU
does. But in FAU it will make sense to always focus on labor disputes. We can be more
diverse in this regard. This gives us the opportunity to expand the anarchist struggle
into areas such as education, neighborhoods and the environment. A new organization with a
different approach can then also be attractive to people who have been unable (for
whatever reason) to do anything with the FAU and the FdA - or at least not to the extent
that they have organized themselves in these contexts so far. That this calculation could
work out, we already noticed from the beginning by the great interest in "the platform".
In this context, we do not quite understand the question of transparency. In our
understanding, it is a normal process in our movement that gives it a living try,
cooperate and organize. In keeping with the Zapatista motto "Questioning, we move forward"
... We publicly state how we position ourselves, what our goals are and what our
relationship to anarcho-syndicalism and FAU looks like. We think for the moment that we
can do the most on an independent basis. Together, as an organized anarchist movement, we
are working together to fight as hard as possible for the social revolution!
We thank you for the detailed answers and wish you a happy success, for example through
lectures on your concerns.
Further information and the possibility of contacting lectures can be found at:
www.dieplattform.org
https://www.dieplattform.org/2019/02/09/wir-haben-den-anspruch-eine-dritte-foederation-aufzubauen-interview-in-der-direkten-aktion/
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Rooskey - when I heard the name, it triggered some flicker of recollection. A memory was
stirred. As it turned out, it is not far from where my mother's family come from. I had a
cousin who grew up in a nearby Longford village, I had actually cycled through this place.
So it vaguely came back to me, and I remembered the bridge spanning the Shannon, as that
great river flows onto Lough Ree and down towards Athlone. My mother's people grew up
around that Lough. I've spent summers listening to the wind whistling through the
telephone wires. Today I was on my way to an anti-racist protest. ---- Now on this Sunday,
I was drawn back towards this village because for the second time in six weeks an
abandoned hotel had been set on fire. This hotel, which has been empty for a couple of
years, has been earmarked to open as a centre for asylum seekers. That is what you and I
understand to be a direct provision centre. There hadd since been not one, but two
attempts to burn that building since the news spread of this development. There was an
anti-racist demonstration called for, and I was driving up from Dublin to show my support.
This road is familiar to me. It was the road to the north-west, and I'd spent many years
driving it, when the campaign against the gas terminal in Rossport was active. You could
go out the road towards Sligo and turn off and take that road to Ballina and then onto
Erris or you could go via Strokestown to get there. In fact on this very morning outside
Mullingar I remember stopping on the road as I saw the long march of local people from the
Rossport community who were taking their protest to the Dáil. In that struggle I was not
local, but I knew which side I was on. That is how solidarity works.
When I got to Rooskey, I parked on the Leitrim side, near to the closed hotel of the now
infamous double arson attacks. I could see some people sheltered from the wind beside the
river on the far side. It looked like there was a PA being set up. I took a stroll over
the bridge. It was a bright sunny day, with the majority of people if they were anywhere,
up in the church at twelve o'clock Mass. When the wind picked up, it was a chilled one.
But for now, it was pleasant. There was a RTE satellite van with the local correspondent
hanging back. I went into the local shop to pick up a coffee. The butcher was looking out
the windows out towards the side of the building over towards the river. He said to me
"That protest is not happening in my car park. I tell ya" and I said "that's the side of
the river that they're setting up on." The butcher turned away from me, muttering
something and dialled someone up on his mobile phone. I was guessing that it was the
guards. As I came out of the shop with my coffee, I saw a cop Paddy Wagon go over the bridge.
The crowds were gathering, but it was not that significant. I would say that there was
about 40 people there and there must have been about a dozen media, cameras, video shoots,
journalists with recorders. I was asked to keep a bit of space in front of the PA
speakers, so that people could gather there to hear the speeches and the musicians who had
agreed to play. The distinctive sound of Neil Young was lending an atmosphere to the
gathering.
‘Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you.'
Mass must've ended because quickly there was a got a lot more activity in the car park. A
woman drove in and wanted to park in the space right in front of the speakers. I asked her
to not do that. There was a space across the car park which was available and she said
that it was for the public and that she did not want to park there. After being obviously
annoyed she did park in that spot.
I recognised some faces in the crowd. People had come from Dublin to support this. But
there are people that I know who'd moved to this area of the country years ago. They
decided to get out of that city, and had built lives for themselves here and in Leitrim.
These people are good people, the kind of people that any community should welcome and
treasure. They are active and get stuck in trying to improve things for all.
The anti- racist demonstration started with the first speaker, Izzy Kamikaze, and she had
not been speaking for very long when a woman in a brown coat and sunglasses came striding
up to get into her face and started to shout about ‘People coming here, outsiders to
blacken the name of Roosky.' Who's from Roosky here?' How do you know it was arson?' You
can't say it was arson. How do you know it was racist?'. It was just a swirling
vocalisation of emotions in the guise of disruption. I know logic has little to do with
anything that was said, but I thought it ironic that Roosky's reputation was being
‘blackened' by an anti-racism protest taking place. The reputation of Roosky has been
damaged by repeated arson attacks on that hotel across the river. Roosky went from
anonymous to infamous. But eventually this disruptor moved off and managed to hold her own
press conference, unchallenged, with the media hanging on her every theory.
Luke Ming Flanagan - MEP showed up and was anxious to speak - as he had to return back to
Europe later that day. He addressed the lack of information that is provided when direct
provision centres are being set up. He said that he knew that the people of the area were
welcoming, but it was the policies of government, direct provision and dispersal that led
to issues.
I am uncertain as to whether or not Ming had finished speaking when another distraction
waltzed aggressively into the centre of the crowd and pushed his camera into people's
faces. This Gemma O'Doherty sidekick called Tan Torino came swaggering into the crowd. He
was calling himself a citizen journalist and complained that as he was being surrounded by
people, who used placards to block his cameras view, that he was being assaulted. He
proclaimed that he would call the guards for these various 'assaults' that were being
carried out upon him. He was aggressive and it proved difficult for people to speak, such
was his presence in the crowd. He was presumably despatched by his leader to do her
bidding in this crowd, and be the provocateur.
Eventually he was surrounded and moved back from the crowd. There were more speakers, a
man from the locality who said that people had short memories in this area, when so many
people have left to emigrate to make new lives for themselves in London and New York.
Another local man got up and said that he too wanted to say that he was in favour of
people coming into the area, and condemned the actions of whoever set fire to the hotel.
Mehmet from United against Racism spoke but I must confess that I was very distracted with
the antics of our far-right 'citizen journalist' and peddler of hate.
A guitar man sang a great song about the search for liberty.
Terrence Conway - from the Shell to Sea campaign got up and addressed the crowd. He said
that he didn't want to see refugees coming here, but it was important to know that
refugees were created thanks to western imperialist policies. Refugees should not be
blamed or targeted for who they are? If you have a problem with refugees then you should
protest outside the US embassy.
Saj Hussain, the barber from Ballaghaderreen, spoke with passion and eloquence about how
love is the way forward. He came from Pakistan over 18 years ago and spoke about how he
still remembers the welcoming smile that he received from people back then. These small
kindnesses mean the world to the newly arrived person. He said that in his town of
Ballaghaderreen, the Syrian refugees are making huge contributions, involved with the tidy
towns amongst other things. He implored people to open their hearts to these people. He
said that when you hear their stories, ‘you're heart would cry.' Love is the only thing
that can conquer hate.
Lucky Khambule spoke from MASI - the Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland and called for the
ending of direct provision. He also called for an end to deportations. What we are working
together for is freedom. This game of divide and conquer which makes incidents like this
happen is as a direct result of policies.
Dave Lordan recited from his poem ‘The Lost Tribe of the Wicklow Mountains'.
One of the organisers, Leah, spoke about how they had to organise when they'd heard about
the second attack. She encouraged people who were interested in working with the local
activists who had arranged this anti-racist demo, because she recognised that they were
operating in a hostile environment, and they wanted to be able to work and support the
asylum seekers when they were moved to Roosky.
Finally a young girl got up and said that we had to respect people's views even if we
didn't disagree with them. I believe that it was a reference to the various forms of
distraction that had been aimed at this protest.
I also remember some fellow as he drove away from the car park, looking like he belonged
on a golf course, shouted at the crowd ‘You should to go back to where you came from'.
That old line being used again. The Travellers in Ireland have been told that
continuously. Finally two years ago the Irish state recognised Traveller ethnicity,
recognised that Irish Traveller come from here, and yet they still await the provision of
decent homes.
Because those who want us to be some where else, see people as a problem. We see people as
the solution and the system that oppresses, exploits and divides us as the problem. My
mother's people came from such a place as this, beside this mighty river. So too did the
Traveller family who worked as tinsmiths and came through the area every summer camping in
the dry turlough. So too does Saj belong here, the passionate barber who came here nearly
twenty years ago to make a new life for himself and still remembers the smile of a
stranger from those early days.
We all need to come from a place a love. The place of hate holds no answers for us as a
people.
Words: Dermot Freeman
Ahead of the protest the organisers said;
"We will gather again on Sunday 17th Feb at 12.30 to address the most recent racist arson
attack on the proposed Direct Provision Center in Rooskey. We call on the people of
Roscommon and Leitrim generally, and the people of Rooskey in particular, to come out and
stand with us on Sunday. Vigilante racist attacks like this need to be faced down. They
have no place in our society and communities.
"We want to give people an opportunity to say that - despite our many legitimate
criticisms of the Direct Provision system - if asylum seekers are placed in Direct
Provision in Rooskey - they will be safe and welcomed.
"We call particularly on our representatives and local community leaders to attend this
event. They need to clearly reject the hate fuelled and racist motivation and logic behind
these vigilante acts of arson. We call on them to draw a clear line in the sand by
strongly condemning the attacks.
"We also call on them to reject the state-sanctioned torture that is the Direct Provision
system. Asylum Seekers must be allowed to work and live in dignity. They should not be
isolated and segregated from our communities. Refugees should be made welcome in this country.
"The far right is on the rise nationally and the hate fuelled and xenophobic attacks on
the proposed DP centres in Moville and Rooskey are symptoms of that. Only by solidarity
and vigilance can we hope to build a safe and tolerant society for all."
A number of racist attacks have taken place around Ireland following the high profile
platforms the media has provided over the last year to a range of racist chancers from the
openly fascist to those who hid their real intentions while trying to trick people into
supporting them.
These fascists have at least partially succeeded in undermining the focus on landlord
greed and the lack of public housing that saw significant actions last summer. Instead
their hate talk has led to the creation of meaningless division around who gets housed
where letting both the government and the landlords off the hook.
Following what looks like 2nd arson attack on what is to be a Direct Provision centre in
Rooskey Leitrim and Roscommon United Against Racism missed a statement saying they "would
like to take this opportunity to condemn what appears to be a second racist arson attack
on the hotel.
We are shocked and saddened yet again by this latest incident. We want to send out a clear
message that the tiny minority of people who were involved in these attacks, on the hotel
and those who support them, by no means reflect the vast majority of the people living in
Leitrim or Roscommon.
We ask that all public representatives come out and stand united with us and others
against racism & publicly condemn this second attack. We also ask that public
representatives also start to work and take actions to end racism wherever it raises it's
ugly head, be that online, in our communities or state sponsored."
Subject: Asylum
Topics: Migration / racism
Geography: Connaught
Source: Opinion
Type: Analysis
Author: Dermot Freeman
https://wsm.ie/c/protesting-racism-rooskey-report
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Photographs & Posters from the demonstrations by the 8th of March in Athens, Patras and
Thessaloniki | Group Against Patriarchy - Anarchist Political Organization (Greece) ----
8th of March - A Day of Class Memory, Resistance and Struggle ---- From the workers'
strikes of immigrant women and girls at the beginning of the 20th century in the US to
today's struggles ---- From the rebel Zapatista communities and the Mapuche resistance, to
Turkey and Occupied Palestine... ---- ... the emancipation of women: ---- - will always be
an inseparable part of the struggle from bellow for social liberation against any form of
humiliation, inequality and authority ---- - opposingits assimilation into the state,
capitalist and patriarchal system, which distorts the very essence of emancipation,
presenting it as a request for "co-managing power", in order to perpetuate and beautify
the system itself.
Against the systemic institutional and physical violence targeting women who struggle all
around the world
Against the State, the bosses, the police and the fascist gangs
Against gender violence being recycled within the body of society as part of a process of
fascistizationand social cannibalism, with murders, rapes and abuse of women and LGBTQI+
people
Against labour exploitation, unemployment, layoffs, sexist harassment and discrimination
in workplaces
Against the modern form of slave trade through trafficking women
Against the incarceration of refugees and migrants in concentration camps
FROM MEXICO TO TURKEY - WOMENS' STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM
FIGHT THE STATE, CAPITALISM AND PATRIARCHY - FOR EMANCIPATION AND ANARCHY
MARCH 8 - DEMONSTRATIONS:
Patras
Thessaloniki
Athens
MARCH 9 - PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE MEXICAN EMBASSY IN ATHENS
Group Against Patriarchy - Anarchist Political Organization (Greece)
SOLIDARITY WITH THE REBEL ZAPATISTA COMMUNITIES AND THE STRUGGLES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF
MEXICO
One year after the 1st Encounter of Women who Struggle in the Caracol of Morelia, the
Zapatista women are sending a message to the women of the world, informing them that they
are now facing a state of siege: The Mexican State, capitalist businesses and paramilitary
groups are re-planning to loot and plunder native land and to devastate the indigenous
peoples of Chiapas.
"Maybe we don't know which feminism is the best one, maybe we don't say "cuerpa"[a
feminization of "cuerpo," or body]or however it is you change words around, maybe we don't
know what "gender equity" is or any of those other things with too many letters to count.
In any case that concept of "gender equity" isn't even well-formulated because it only
refers to women and men, and even we, supposedly ignorant and backward, know that there
are those who are neither men nor women and who we call "others"[otroas][...]
What we do know is that we fought for our freedom and now we have to fight to defend it so
that the painful history that our grandmothers suffered is not relived by our daughters
and granddaughters.
We have to struggle so that we don't repeat history and return to a world where we only
cook food and bear children, only to see them grow up into humiliation, disrespect, and death.
We didn't rise up in arms to return to the same thing.
We haven't been resisting for 25 years in order to end up serving tourists, bosses, and
overseers.[...]
It seems that these new bad governments think that since we're women, we're going to
promptly lower our gaze and obey the boss and his new overseers. They think what we're
looking for is a good boss and a good wage. That's not what we're looking for. What we
want is freedom, a freedom nobody can give us because we have to win it ourselves through
struggle, with our own blood.
Do you think that when the new bad government's forces-its paramilitaries, its national
guard-come for us we are going to receive them with respect, gratitude, and happiness?
Hell no. We will meet them with our struggle and then we'll see if they learn that
Zapatista women don't give in, give up, or sell out..."
[From the letter of Zapatista Women - EZLN - February 2019]
SOLIDARITY WITH ZAPATISTA WOMEN AND WITH ALL WOMEN FIGHTING AROUND THE WORLD AGAIST
OPPRESSION, EXPLOITATION AND REPRESSION
NO WOMAN STANDS ALONE! THE FLAME OF REBEL DIGNITY IS EVERYWHERE!
MARCH 8 - DEMONSTRATIONS:
Patras
Thessaloniki
Athens
MARCH 9 - PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE MEXICAN EMBASSY IN ATHENS
Group Against Patriarchy - Anarchist Political Organization (Greece)
Slogans shouted at the demonstrations
From Mexico to Turkey-Womens' struggles for freedom
We stand together with Zapatista women, against the state and oppression
Gaza, Afrin, mountains of Mexico, revolt will happen everywhere one-day
Against state and patriarchy - For Emancipation and Anarchy
Gender violence is the status quo, as long as state and capitalism exist
Revolutionary women's struggles - Social revolution in the whole world
Police's gender violence shows dominance's "feminism"
Refugees, workers, the wretched of the earth, the right belongs to those who fight.
Group Against Patriarchy - Anarchist Political Organization (Greece)
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Dozens of independent publishers and distributors, NGOs and action groups from Belgium,
the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom, among others, will present their
publications at the fair. ---- Access to the book fair is free. Several booths will
present books in French! ---- Doors open at 10am and the fair continues until 6pm at the
De Schuur / Timelab, Meibloemstraat 86, Ghent. ---- This year, Ghent's Alternative and
Libertarian Book Fair will (of course) also welcome its traditional afterparty . ----
After the book fair this year, we will have the opportunity to shake our legs to the sound
of: Nice Guys (Ska) and Black Vortex Engine (Dub). ---- One of the rare anarchist events
in the country! ---- On Saturday, March 23, 2019 , from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ----
Location: De Schuur / Timelab ---- Address: Kogelstraat, 34, Ghent, Belgium
info@alternatieveboekenbeurs.be
alternatieveboekenbeurs.be
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2017/04/19/belgica-16-feira-internacional-do-livro-alternativo-e-libertario-de-gand/
anarchist-ana news agency
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The 14th of July had already been a dazzling account of the taking of the Bastille,
experienced by the most proletarians among the proletarians, in short, a struggle led by
the people and a work that restored its centrality. Once upon a time, Éric Vuillard, in
The War of the Poor , continues to explore the story made by children and young people,
those we forget and yet who have risen up against injustice. ---- In this little book we
witness the revolt, intellectual and verbal First, a preacher of modern Germany, in full
Reformation in the XVI th Century. Down with the middlemen between God and humans, from
which comes a revolt ... against those rich who fatten themselves on the backs of
religious belief. Thomas Müntzer proclaimed only the " master " of the consecrated formula
" neither God nor master ", but it was already powerful enough at the time to send the
armed troops of the ruling power.
Eric Vuillard thus emerges from the rubble of the collective memory a character certainly
exalted, but irreverent, revolted and kind of " anarchist " before the hour (" anarchist "
in the sense that he challenged all powers and proclaimed that we could to do without it),
and above all, landed entire lands of exploited peasants and peasants. Thus, the history
of this distant uprising is inhabited by many insurrections that punctuated the
Renaissance, in England and Germany today. The writing is often metaphorical, in any case
chiseled, and the narrative is wholly directed to the present. Indeed, how not to think
about the news and the yellow vests, religiosity aside ?
Doriane (AL Var)
Eric Vuillard, The War of the Poor , Actes Sud, 2019, 80 pages, 8.50 euros.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Vuillard-La-Guerre-des-pauvres
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In the name of Bakunin, Malatesta, Berneri, and even Gino Lucetti ... The FAI[Italian
Anarchist Federation], as an autonomous, federalist, self-managed, non-salaried assembly,
is the heir of the Italian Anarchist Union, 1919-20) and of varied associative experiences
of the antifascist exile, the Spanish war, the confinement and the armed resistance. It
was created in 1945 in Carrara, where the first national congress was celebrated with the
participation of numerous delegates from all over Italy. The greetings of the democratic
parties arrive, also present with their own observers (Sandro Pertini is part of the
socialist delegation). Meanwhile, "Umanità Nova" - a journal that is still published today
- glorious daily newspaper is silenced by fascists.
The Federation was born in a euphoric mood of great hope. The points of the political
struggle are related to the problems of the reconstruction of the country, the union
action and the organization of the movement. Specifically, in the reconstruction, the
following objectives are indicated: neutrality of Italy and rejection of military
expenses; equality for women; direct action against landowners; study for the application
of new production systems in collective management; financing for the reconstruction of
locally managed buildings; school free of charge. Certainly, however, for the movement, it
is a traumatic transition from the mass protagonism of the pre-fascist period to a reduced
role of witness.
The divergent internal events of Italian anarchism in the decades following the end of the
war are characterized by a number of salient episodes: the bitter contrast between the FAI
and the new Anarchist Groups of Proletarian Action in the early 1950s; the FAI division in
the mid-1960s of the Anarchist Initiative Groups; the confrontation is with the
"culturalist" wing (GAF) or with the communist-libertarian wing. Between bold attempts at
cultural renewal and defense of identity and principles, between class struggle and
classism, organization and individualism, the movement comes down to strategic issues of
great importance whose success remains bound by the unresolved contradictory dialectic
relationship with the new "progressive democracy ".
The development of juvenile libertarian movements, the long cycle of social struggles that
began with the end of the 1960s, marks a renaissance of the Federation which, at the
organizational level, also realizes its "planetary" dimension by promoting, in 1968, the
International Federation of Anarchist Federations.
It follows a difficult and exciting period, at the same time, beautiful and tragic, where
the hope of 68 and the shadowy plots of the state massacres (from Fontana Square and the
murder of Pinelli), the creativity of the 77 and the so-called " years of lead. " From the
anarcho-punks to the metropolitan Indians, from the feminist battles to the ecological
battles against nuclearism, from self-managed social centers to grassroots syndicalism,
the FAI marks presence and attention in all the antagonistic movements that characterize
the last decades of the twentieth century.
Also during the G8 of Genoa in 2001, marked by the murder of Carlo Giuliani, Federation
anarchists are visible protagonists of the protests against the "eight great men of the
world" and their ultra-liberal policies and liberticidas. The great European Social Forum
in Florence in November 2002 clearly shows its strong libertarian impact.
In the Global is the general name of this new movement that joins black and rainbow flags
and, with its active presence, distinguishes the public scenario at the beginning of the
third millennium. That is organized in an unprecedented network of global, transnational
and "anarchist" social Forum; which is capable of representing opposing practices of
considerable media impact, of elaborating radical critiques and intelligent analyzes of
the so-called "globalization" system.
Starting in 2007, a global banking financial crisis is unleashed, whose domino effects,
tragically social, refer to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In this context, the
Federation commits itself, together with the antifascist and libertarian social movements,
to contrast the "Western" extreme right, xenophobic and sovereign.
These mass mobilizations quickly ended with the defeat of alter-globalization reformism
and the radical movement No Global , but even so some resistance groups still persist.
Although there is undoubtedly a general rediscovery of cultural and scientific anarchism
on the other, it is seen almost as an obsolete political phenomenon considering the old
libertarian traditions. However, it's still a story that continues, though. From a
history, such as that represented by FAI (founded in 1945), which accepted the challenge
of "connecting anarchism and radical thinking". Even in the 21st century.
Giorgio Sacchetti
Essential bibliography
U. Fedeli, G. Sacchetti (a cure di), Congressi e convegni della Federazione Anarchica
Italiana. Atti e documenti (1944-1995), Pescara, Samizdat, 2001;
G. Sacchetti, M. Varengo, A. Senta, M. Ortalli, Conl'amorenel pugno. Federazione Anarchica
Italiana. Storia e documenti (1945-2012), the cure di G. Sacchetti, Milan, Zero in
Condotta, 2018.
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