Today's Topics:
1. Britain, AF, organise magazine: A Bewitching Revolution
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, afed.cz: Girls fight back - football against racism
-- Report from the 12th year of the popular football event
against football. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, ese, Participation of the sectoral trade of services
of the ESE-Athens in the Sunday strike on 5 May 2019 [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, AFED: Organised #91: Getting Social - A Mapping
Project (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Argentina, Why organize the fight against overtime? by Lomas
de Zamora / FORA-CIT (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #294 - antifascism,
Strategies: Overcoming the antifa (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. International of Anarchist Federations IFA: Statement about
the disappearance of two LGBT & anarchist activists in Havana
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. polemica cubana: A CAT AND GAY ANARCHISTS IN CUBA
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. ait-russia, 26th Yellow Vest Protest: "We will not back
down" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The world opens up before me a small functional apartment in a grey city, open sky above
me shows flying cars darting round a bleak cityscape. The apartment is illuminated by a
few dashes of colour in the form of incense sticks with drifty smoke rising up, flowers
dotted about, a square wheeled bicycle in the corner and the eyes of a black moggy, who as
I try giving it a pet tells me "If socialism does not stand unflinchingly for the
exploited and oppressed masses of all lands, then it stands for none and it's claim is a
false pretence"... ok then kitty! . I venture out into the streets and a moment later a
owl gives a hoot hoot and tells me "The police are afoot! But where are they going we've
no way of knowing"... a moment later two black clad fash come storming alone trying to
bash the innocent. Not to worry, I'm a which a with a quick burst of magic I've turned
the, into neon pink pigsa who run off... Welcome to A Bewitching Revolution, a short FPS
adventure about a communist witch who uses their power the ferment revolution.
This indie gem by indie game developer Colestia is available on Steam as a a free to play
game and Colestia's own site as as a pay as your feel download. You might recall Colesta
from the micro puzzle Post/Capitalism which did the rounds a spell back, their modus
operandi is simple... to create atmospheric games laden with seditious propaganda,
educational resources and gentle nudges for people to go out and make a better world. A
Bewitching Revolution does this like Marmite, you will love it or hate it. The politics
are right up front, the game oozes revolution and dissent. If you like that kind of thing
you're going to have a great time, if you don't then, well buddy, you're on the wrong
website. The setting manages to be both Kafkaesque and Whimsical at the same time. My head
canon immediately placed me as a young Granny Weatherwax transported through time and
genre to Ridley Scott's L.A. circa. Blade Runner.I don't know if that was intentional but
it certain felt fitting as I explored this dark, decaying city and went about injecting it
with a magic and life.
The game itself is a a short narrative set in a pseudo open world capsule of an bringing
social change to an Orwellian nightmare. You travel around planting seeds of change (both
figuratively and literally) using Tarot as a medium to share revolutionary propaganda
helping to crack squats, unionise the workforce and destroy advertising before taking on
and defeating the state. The music is a single track by NY Vice called "Smooth Steering"
that is very A E S T H E T I C and reminiscent of Stranger Things with it's mysterious and
etheral vibe. The soundtrack is infact very complimentary to the graphics which are smooth
mooted tones of grey and brutalist design, which adds to the oppressive environment and
made all the more interesting subsequently by being highlighted by flashes of neon colour
wherever the people have risen up.
The game works very well as a pocket of Communist propaganda in itself however I truly
hope Colestia takes it further and adds more environments for us to explore and rabble
rouse in. Perhaps playing focus to different aspects of the struggle as we go on and
exploring different branches of Communism, Socialism and Anarchism, entire sections given
aware to woodland occupations and the such? Eitherway it's five star, well worth an hour
of your time, it could do with a save function and Y Inversion (please) sure, but as it
stands you have a lush game that'll get your wanting to cook up some revolutionary action
in your cauldron and maybe bring some of that energy into the real world. Great little
game to sharing with gamer comrades who are a starting to learn more of the theory and the
hopeful message will be a hit with any radical. so get downloading and have fun taking
back the city!
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/05/12/a-bewitching-revolution/
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Message: 2
Even this year, there was no exclamation mark in any activist calendar for the first
weekend of May. The 12th year of the legendary sports and cultural event Football Against
Racism was held in Vežnicka near Jihlava. And because this is not just a fun-free event,
this year's political subtext was also missing: the 12th year's subtitle speaks quite
clearly: Girls fight back. The organizers and organizers said: "We would like to pay more
attention to women in sports this year. In many sports, women are disadvantaged because of
their gender. Whether it is the reduction of women to mere sexual objects, wage
differences or insufficient attention paid to women's sports in the media. Football and
sports generally do not interest us as performance and money-oriented entertainment for
the chosen men and women. We understand sport (and football and ping pong in particular)
from its subversive nature. We think that sport should not divide but connect people and
create a community regardless of skin color, nationality, class or gender. "In addition to
the traditional football tournament, the program also included political lectures or
workshops.
The weather forecast did not promise just burnt faces, which players and players took from
the last years - even threatened by night snow and persistent rain, which, while some of
the more sensitive visitors, discouraged, but still found brave, who were not afraid of
the renowned Highlands winter, and many of they even walked barefoot on the premises and
in five centimeters of mud.
Friday's program for impatient was composed only of the musical part, played by Emperor or
Hyenxxx.
Of course, the football tournament was at the center of the Saturday day. Most of the
teams this year have met this year, and after reaching a total of 24 sports teams, some of
them were unable to sign up for the tournament. The classic, stubborn little playground
has experienced unprecedented fights this year. At the outset, viewers and viewers could
watch an epic match between the Old Whores Feminist Team and the Demonstration for the
Death of Football. The old feminist whores were a bunch of old-time feminists who, in
ankle dresses and parapets, were dancing for women's right to vote. Their main playing
strategy was the transfer of a balloon over a playground in handbags. Demonstration But it
did not scare the death of football. They were more interested in the riot than the
football itself. They had police brutality when they organized a protest with banners and
pyrotechnics on the field. Before the poor protesters were able to hand out passers-by to
passers-by announcing that footballs had a soul, or that lawns should be in place, then a
police dog was already barking at them, and a cop of one of them pulled into the car.
Fortunately, they could say it in their team when they won vegan cake for best costumes at
the end of the tournament.
They weren't the only costumed teams, and there was a run for a balloon of Vodnany, a
bunch of socks and bathrobes, and a bunch of pirates. Even the names were worth recording
every year. In addition to Worms, you could fight with Morning Rush and watch the
performance of Sagvan Tofu on Mushrooms, FC Loss or Pope's Pits.
Among the teams was also the legendary purely female striker from Prague SK Trefa, who did
not have any costume and gave no goal, but played with a huge effort, she won at least one
draw and even lost matches left with honor and feeling of a well-played macho.
Throughout the day, not only players and players but also the fan base could be
strengthened by Zapatista coffee from the Black Seeds team (we brought the interview with
its members in the last issue of Existence ) and a wide selection of vegan snacks
including the Food Not Bombs Jihlava.
From noon, the accompanying program, which opened a workshop for the production of a
phonograph, carrot flutes, guns, rattles, bubblers... from everything that came to the
participants, began. Another was a self-defense workshop that focused on verbal ways to
defend against harassment.
There was a prediction around the second, and the rain shower drove most of the
participants to the big top. However, they did not have to regret it because there was
just a lecture on women in sport, where Vojtech Ondrácek highlighted some important
sportswomen and troubles and problems they faced. But besides contemporary world
"celebrities" like Sister Williams, he also mentioned those that are almost forgotten.
Thus he devoted himself to purely female football teams in England after the First World
War, whose attendance struggles exceeded those of men. But men decided that "football is
unsuitable for women" and banned women from playing football in 1921. Footballers had to
wait for fifty years to "kind" permission. This is, among other things, a good argument
for shutting the pub football connoisseurs out of the way that women will never play
football as well as a guy.
The group Limity we are also contributing to the program, which organized an action
training or talk about why to come to this year's klimakemp.
Concerts were also taking place from late afternoon, playing on two stages - the classic
podium in the pub was complemented by a spacious tent that was even heated. Saturday's
concerts were offered by musicians of different genres. From synth pop performed by Palma
musician or experimental music by Kolen through country from floor by Dingo to black-metal
Bahratal. The concert series was closed by the new Prague band Kurvy Ceši. Afterparty was
under the thumb of Mary C and was sure to dance until morning.
In conclusion, it is good to thank the organizational team for a great event (which is
already customary). Although the weather was not exactly the best, it was possible to
survive and we will go again next year. And we are looking forward!
https://www.afed.cz/text/6990/girls-fight-back-fotbal-proti-rasismu
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Message: 3
On Sunday, May 5, 2019, the sectoral trade of services of the ESE-Athens took part in the
strike in the book industry and the strike in public at Kolonaki, organized by the
Association of Book and Paper Employees of Digital Media in Attica.
The banner wrote: Race until the vindication until Sunday to re-celebrate will be
strike-Eleftherial Trade Union -Rail Trade Service.
https://ese.espiv.net/2019/05/11/symmetochi-tis-kladikis-emporioy-ypir/
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Message: 4
There is something deeply magical about social centres, for that matter any space utilised
primarily for the community without any underhand purpose. In this capitalist society we
are so used to our social space being a soulless void that only cares while you can pay.
---- Social Centres change all that. They are the hubs of their communities and the
gathering points for rebels and revoltutionaries. These bastions of liberty provide an
inestimable service to the people who use them. They should be supported at every turn,
utilised and enjoyed, ---- Some these venues are also resources centres, art houses, cafes
and even cinemas, with their voluteers and staff using their labour to build and maintain
vital centers of culture for their communities. others act as critical points of protest
and mutual aid, truly existing at coalface in the ongoing conflict with the capitalist state.
Many of these centres liase through the Social Centres Network (SCN) who aim to provide a
portal to the world of social networks and aligned spaces as they inevitable ebb and flow.
The SCN helps to keep the members and organisers linked in and communicating, in turn
helping to keep these spaces alive and thriving.
Together with The Anarchist Party and Punx UK we are developing a global Anarchist
Initiatives Database to help foster new links and build a stronger international culture
of resistance. The first stage or this is developing the technology using British
datasets, namely building a map of Social Centres.
For the purpose of testing we have kept a very strict definition of what a "Social Centre"
is tho we have included the SCN database and venues with a specific Social Center remi. If
we've missed one out, please add it via the website below.
Very shortly we shall be adding community cafes, solidarity centres, protest sites, co-ops
etc until we have a full and robust map of our revolutionary community. ?
To see the WIP map for social spaces check out:-
organisemagazine.org.uk/social-centres
Categories: Articles, Edition 91
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/03/18/getting-social-a-mapping-project/
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Message: 5
Overtime is designed by employers, the State and all Capitalism in general, so that the
working class (we clarify that for us the unemployed, precarious, registered, "in black"
are the same class) "alive" less, and spend more time of our lives to survive the economic
adjustments or, in the case of a lower adjustment economy, get to give us "tastes" to
those who do not arrive when we work the normal day. ---- We believe that we have to
generate organization and plan together with our work colleagues how to stop doing
overtime and, after a construction that is not done in the short term, start to raise the
value of our work hour, removing need to work more and opening the possibility to another
job by reducing hours of our work day.
It is a difficult plan to carry out, requires time, perseverance, perseverance in the
organization, convince not to take the extra hours (always respecting the process of our
compas, but looking interpelarlxs) play it and collectively go for a completely superior goal.
For fewer hours of work.
For more jobs for our unemployed compañerxs.
For more hours of life.
Organized we are stronger!
Resistance Society Oficios Varios Lomas de Zamora / FORA-CIT
http://oficiosvarios-lomasdezamora.blogspot.com/2019/05/por-que-organizar-la-lucha-contra-las.html
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:32:34 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #294 - antifascism,
Strategies: Overcoming the antifa (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
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While far-right ideas tend to gain influence in society and are increasingly taken up by
almost all the institutional parties, a critical analysis of the strategy of the " antifa
groups " seems necessary today. ---- With the digital recession and the loss of influence
of the traditional organizations of the labor movement during the last decades, we can
note for several years a strategic vagueness around the anti-fascist fight, exercised by
fewer and fewer people and tending to reproduce actions and events. more out of habit than
by imagining a relevant construction of antifascism among the masses. ---- If it is not a
question here of going against what is happening with the specific antifas groups
(concerts, militant bars, watch and information blogs), we can estimate that there exists
a tendency to the inter-group: some groups prioritize the organization of cultural events
around concerts and stereotypical "antifa" looks, focused on the process of
"resuscitating" the tradition of a former community group (antifascist skinheads) to
strengthen the the affinity and minorizing side of the milieu, by not allowing those who
are far from this culture to have their place there.
For unitary campaigns of the social movement
On the other hand, there is an important tendency to delegate antifascism on the ground to
the specific antifascist groups, reserving a few people the day before on the extreme
right, the actions punches against the fascists and the information given to them.
population. The latter is sometimes very little achieved and we find ourselves in
situations where anti-fascist actions are very disconnected from the concerns of the
population, which unfortunately remains dubious about these actions.
The fact that a significant number of antifa activists are not part of other struggles
structures (unions, ecology, antipatriarcat ...) is not to fix this situation.
If the diversity of the social movement (wrestling unions, associations and collectives of
struggle) took much more in charge the fight against fascism, it would be possible to
envisage a renewal of this one: in a context of reactionary push all over Europe, it It is
urgent that resistance to it be anchored in the masses and especially be understood by
them. A popular anti-fascism of the XXI th century should it not go through such practical
solidarity among réfugié.es well as large-scale construction struggles to bring down the
racist government measures ? Finally, it is necessary to massively popularize our
arguments of deconstruction of hate speech against scapegoats, and this may involve
unitary campaigns of the anti-liberal social and political movement, in order to anchor
the idea that resistance to policies liberal and antifascism go hand in hand. Thus we will
be able to counter the general idea, very media but anchored in a good part of the
population, that fascists and "antifas" would be worth.
Ayla (AL Toulouse)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Strategies-Depasser-l-entre-soi-antifa
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Message: 7
Statement from our friend and comrade Mario, on the disappearance of two LGBT & anarchist
activists in Havana following state repression of the annual march against homophobia.
---- " My name is Mario. I’m making a statement to inform of the possible detention by the
Havana police of Isbel Torres and Jimmy Roque, activists from the Taller Libertario
Alfredo Lopez, El Guardabosques, and LGBT issues. Everything indicates that they were
detained in the morning on their way to Vedado [neighborhood] for the last activity of the
Jornada Primavera Libertaria. They called at 8am saying they were ready to head out and
it’s now close to 1pm and they haven’t appeared and their phone is blocked. It’s probable
that they arrested them for their connections to the march against homophobia that’s
happening today, which was prohibited by the Cuban state, and which various people have
promoted, including Isbel and Jimmy. In their desire to deny reality they have evidently
arrested Isbel and Jimmy. We want to denounce this and call attention to this,
particularly the police apparatus that continues intact here, and we want people to know
about this act so that our comrades are not isolated. " (Statement transcribed by members
of Black Rose / Rosa Negra)
Solidarity with our comrades, and with the LGBT communities in Cuba fighting against
repression from the Cuban State and the Evangelical-Right.
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Message: 8
Saturday morning, early in Havana. Near the Place de la Revolution, biologist Isbel Torres
arrives by bike bringing a basket of vegetables. He will prepare a vegetarian meal for
everyone. Optometrist Jimmy Roque, Isbel's companion, is waiting for us in the house where
they live together. An anarchist and gay couple living in a busy building, perhaps it does
not take more to displease the Cuban government. Then comes the historian Mario Castillo.
All are members of the anarchist libertarian Atelier Alfredo López, a Cuban
anarcho-syndicalist. Since 2010, the group has organized debates, demonstrations and
direct actions on the island. The interview must be done in a tone of voice a little weak,
---- VICE: When the Libertarian Atelier Alfredo López was born and what are you doing there?
Mario: Our first activity took place on April 25, 2010 to organize our participation in
the march of May 1st. We organized a meeting to talk about the May 1 anarchist origins and
then prepared posters for the march. We had a group of affinities about libertarian
issues, we were born from there.
Isbel: We have organized several meetings to try to influence the community and to inform
on part of the history of the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movement in Cuba. To
recover, for example, the history and the place where Alfredo López disappeared. At
school, nobody tells us that he was an anarcho-syndicalist leader, we are told that he was
a leader of the workers or that he was a communist.
How to be anarchist in Cuba?
Isbel: I think the most interesting thing is to have to invent it. Many countries have
anarchist traditions, but in Cuba, anarchism has been totally eradicated from the
political imagination, references to anarchism are almost nil. Here, when we talk about
anarchism, people do not know what that means.
Jimmy: It's hard, it cost me my job, I was fired because I was anarchist.
And how do you know?
Jimmy: They told me.
Where were the anarchists in the revolution? With Fidel Castro?
Mario: The Cuban anarchists know from the beginning the true face of Fidel. Many of them
knew about Castro's political intentions and his nationalistic and megalomaniac mentality;
he was someone who was willing to make any type of alliance to gain power.
And after the revolution, what happened to the Cuban anarchists?
Mario: they were repressed. Anarchists were one of the favorite front lines of the
revolutionary government. There were executions, arrests and some went into exile.
In the 1980s, there was information circulating about a libertarian group called Zapata,
some of its members would have remained in prison until they died. What happened to them?
Mario: I looked for their families, I have their family names and I know some of them were
from San Cristobal and Los Palacios, but I could not find anything more. It seems like the
consequences of fear, for a moment I thought it was just an invention of people doing
research on the history of anarchism in Cuba. In more than ten years of research, I am
still at the same point, without information. After the revolution, the Communists took
control of the apparatus of culture and education, and they created a new historical
memory in Cuba, of which they are the only protagonists. This caused havoc because it
erased any memory of the social struggle in the country.
Since the government can tell the story in its own way, you are not afraid that in 20 or
30 years the same thing is going on for the Libertarian Atelier Alfredo López?
Isbel: We are talking about different circumstances. Now we have the opportunity to talk
about our daily history and part of our work is to document all of this, to make ourselves
visible in other countries like Brazil, France, Germany, so that they know our existence.
And how does a young Cuban anarchist know anarchism when he has never read books on the
subject and knows only the official story?
Mario: Anarchism was discovered only by pure chance. It is possible that new technologies
have helped us. On the internet people can also find some of our work.
The Cuban press is tightly controlled, as is it to have one voice in the country?
Mario: It's just a tool of the state in the process of nationalization of the social
imaginary. Watching television has become a political attitude in Cuba. For young people
this means that you are part of the system and you indoctrinate. People ask, "Why are you
watching this shit? ".
I see that the Cuban youth today has more proximity with Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar than
with Fidel. Why ?
Mario: I personally think that those who control the country know that myths, symbols and
references to the past are now worn out. They channel this crisis to other myths that are
less harmful to them, I think we are well aware of this symbolic crisis that we are
experiencing.
Isbel: The system is meaningless for the future of youth. Where are the codes of beauty
and success? In capitalism. The rulers have created a society so boring that all the
images of success and beauty that fascinate young people are extracted from what they see
abroad, because this society does not have the capacity to create such references.
Mario: The references that young people are looking for are harmless to the status quo,
they do not pose a problem for the government. Young people think in the short term and do
not care what will happen in Cuba in 20 years.
And what will happen in 20 years?
Mario: It will be a "normal" capitalist country, with ultra-rich, gentrified
neighborhoods, racism, a destroyed environment.
What is your opinion of the changes that will be made possible by the end of the US
economic embargo?
Isbel: The US government has changed its strategy to return to the same situation before
the revolution. This relationship helps to convert Cuba into what it was before the
revolution - an island for recreation and tourists. This means a huge impact on the
environment, for example. The entire coast is now ready for further exploration and more
cruises. Tourism will destroy Cuba.
After the revolution, all Cubans had a home, health and education for free. How is this true?
Isbel: The housing problem is one of the most serious. There are people who lost their
homes because of a cyclone in 2005 and are still homeless, they are in hostels. In
addition, the normal is to live three generations under the same roof, which generates
great family conflicts. Imagine for the LGBT community, how hard it is to live in homes
where others do not accept you.
Mario: And there are already slums in provincial capitals. When traveling by train to
Camagüey, passengers must organize and close the windows as they may be attacked during
the night. Education has been universalized, everyone has access to it, but has also been
fully nationalized and subordinated to the interests of a ministerial elite. Education is
authoritarian with a lot of propaganda.
Jimmy: In terms of health there is a lot of bureaucracy, it is very difficult to get a
specialized consultation because you have to provide a lot of papers.
Mario: The most important source of capitalization of the state today is Cuban doctors who
work in other countries like Brazil and Venezuela. This creates a national process of
compression of the health system.
Isbel: The priority is to export doctors, for that so many health centers here do not work
with professionals. It's not that Cuba is motivated by a humanitarian sentiment, it just
sends doctors to countries where they have more money.
Sometimes you do not feel close to the right in his claims?
Isbel: I think so, but it's a question of perspective. Cuban national dissent from the
right is an opposition that does not have many proposals. They respond in a common sense
to very simple requirements on human rights and democratic freedoms, essentially trying to
normalize Cuba, to make it like other countries in the world. There are many elements that
we also claim such as freedom of expression, human rights, but the problem is the country
you imagine for the future. For the right, there is talk of creating a "standard" country,
but for us it means a radical paradigm shift in development and emancipation. Dissent
criticizes the pace of change, they want more speed. For us, the problem is not speed,
What's the worst for Castro, a Yankee capitalist or Cuban anarchist?
Jimmy: A Cuban anarchist, obviously. Because the other has the same thought as Castro.
And what is worse for a Cuban anarchist, a Yankee capitalist or a communist like Castro?
Mario: Neither is useful for the society we dream of.
Isbel: The way you ask the question assumes an alleged dichotomy, but all that does not
exist. In the anarchist perspective, the two options are equal. The Cuban state is already
creating spaces where it is being pulled back in order to give investment opportunities to
large foreign capital. For example, the port of Mariel, built with investments from Brazil
and which is precisely a future space of direct exploitation of workers.
Mario: There is no conflict between them, they are similar. They are perfectly allies. To
open a small capitalist enterprise, here you go to a municipal body and it gives you
permission. But to create a cooperative, one must obtain the authorization of the Council
of State, the highest authority of the government, which generally does not grant it to
you. In other words, the Cuban government has more confidence in a capitalist than in the
self-management of workers.
And how is the repression of the Cuban government?
Isbel: We have no experiences of strong repression, what we have is a constant monitoring
of our homes, our phones, our emails. Not because we have suspicions, but because we have
evidence. In 2009, we organized a march against violence in Havana and the following year,
using just our phones, we called for another march on the same date. But all that was
wrong, it was just a matter of making fun of the security of the state. We went to the
place where the meeting was supposed to take place and we saw all the security equipment
that occupied the place.
Mario: After 50 years of institutionalizing fear, there is no need for explicit
repression. The fear is already installed in the society, that is enough. Like the police
in Brazil, they have batons and pepper spray, they also have the same things here, but we
know they do not have a great need to use them.
What happens if the police find us here, three anarchists and an international journalist?
Isbel: Today, nothing is happening.
Mario: It can happen a lot of things.
Jimmy: They can put us in jail, maybe.
Isbel: Precisely because we do not know what can happen, it already gives an idea of the
kind of country in which we live. The structure of power does not function exactly in
legality, they have processes of their own, they act as they see fit.
Gabriel Uchida
For the magazine Vice of Brazil
Photos: Libertarian Workshop Alfredo López
http://www.polemicacubana.fr/?p=11342
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Message: 9
While the bourgeois media continue to regularly announce that the protest movement is
"drying out", more than 37,500 people once more, for the 26th time took to the streets of
French cities. Nantes and Lyon were chosen as the venues for the "nationwide"
demonstrations, where battles with the police broke out. However, many activists of the
"yellow vests" chose to sit at the intersections of highways and block traffic. ---- In
Nantes, thousands of demonstrations moved from the square of Brittany around 13.00, in
front were hundreds of people dressed in black, who carried a banner with the inscription
"War of Thrones." After 2 hours, the first gas grenades flew at the intersection of the
tram tracks. Then the clashes with the police grew and multiplied around the "50
hostages", the Circus Square and the Feydo Square. Protesters set fire to a bus stop. Then
the collision spread to the embankment of La Foss. Shortly before 4 pm, the demonstrators
overturned garbage cans, built barricades and brought down hail of stones, bottles and
other objects on the capitalist forces. At times, the police had to retreat, snarling with
tear gas. A few minutes later, the situation at the docks exacerbated: the police drove
away the protesters with gas; according to the testimony of journalists there were many
wounded. The police blocked the demonstrators on Commerce Square near Buffe, where fierce
battles with numerous police forces took place from 5.30 pm. Shortly before 6:00 pm, the
police used water cannons and gas and pushed the demonstrators back to the embankments.
The forces of "order" with the water cannons stopped at 18.00 at the bridge of Anna
Breton. By evening, chaos was preserved; the police did not allow demonstrators to break
back into the city center. The protesters stopped on the waterfront Plant, blocking
traffic. Part of the "yellow vests" was blocked at the bridge, the other - on the
embankment of La Foss. A small part of the remaining "yellow vests" dissipated in the
evening ( Shortly before 6:00 pm, the police used water cannons and gas and pushed the
demonstrators back to the embankments. The forces of "order" with the water cannons
stopped at 18.00 at the bridge of Anna Breton. By evening, chaos was preserved; the police
did not allow demonstrators to break back into the city center. The protesters stopped on
the waterfront Plant, blocking traffic. Part of the "yellow vests" was blocked at the
bridge, the other - on the embankment of La Foss. A small part of the remaining "yellow
vests" dissipated in the evening ( Shortly before 6:00 pm, the police used water cannons
and gas and pushed the demonstrators back to the embankments. The forces of "order" with
the water cannons stopped at 18.00 at the bridge of Anna Breton. By evening, chaos was
preserved; the police did not allow demonstrators to break back into the city center. The
protesters stopped on the waterfront Plant, blocking traffic. Part of the "yellow vests"
was blocked at the bridge, the other - on the embankment of La Foss. A small part of the
remaining "yellow vests" dissipated in the evening (
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/gilets-jaunes-des-tensions-a-nantes-20190511))
During the protests in Nantes, demonstrators broke windows of local employment agencies
and the Youth Economic Chamber of France ( https://ria.ru/20190511/1553420270.html ). The
total number of injured was, according to various estimates, from 34 to 70 people,
including journalists. 26 people were arrested (
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/gilets-jaunes-des-tensions-a-nantes-20190511)
In Lyon, clashes with the police also resulted in damage and serious material damage.
Broken storefronts and smashed tram stops remained on the battlefield. 10 police special
forces were injured, 8 people were arrested.
Thousands of demonstrations in Lyon initially took place quietly, but after 2 hours,
clashes broke out on the Claude Bernard Rhone Embankment. The demonstrators used bottles
and stones, the police - tear gas. The tram stop on the embankment was completely crushed.
The prefecture stated that the police were attacked by "highly violent" ultra-left-wing
activists; 10 policemen were injured. After that, the police tried to prevent the
demonstrators from moving further along the planned route. For some time, the
demonstration was split in two in the ion of the Gallieni Bridge, and then began to
dissipate little by little. Several hundred people still lingered on the embankments and,
clashing with the police, gradually retreated to Gerland (
https://www.lyoncapitale.fr/actualite/gilets-jaunes-2500-manifestants-et-de-nombreuses-violences-a-lyon/
Demonstrations of "yellow vests" were held in other cities. In Montauban, thousands
gathered on the streets chanting "Revolution!". In Toulouse, more people gathered for the
traditional Saturday march than a week ago. The column moved at 14.00 from the metro Jean
Jaures. After 2 hours, the first clashes with the police took place. After 3:30 pm, the
demonstrators tried to walk down Alsace-Lorraine, but the police stopped them. For several
hours clashes with the police, the attacks and retreats of the parties continued. At 4:15,
an acute situation arose around Arnaud-Bernard; the police used a large amount of gas and
2 water cannons. Calm reigned only by 18.00. According to police, 20 people were detained (
https://actu.fr/occitanie/toulouse_31555/acte-26-gilets-jaunes-beaucoup-gaz-quelques-echauffourees-interpellations-toulouse_23688051.html
About 200 people gathered in Boulou, near the French-Spanish border. They organized
filtering pickets and passed the people who were scolded across the border free of charge
(there is a toll road there). Later, when most of the "yellow vests" began to disperse,
the demonstrators in masks, ski goggles and gas masks fought with the police and gendarmes
at the crossroads of the D900 highway a few hundred meters from the checkpoint. Both sides
were injected with tear gas capsules (
https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/05/11/lacte-26-des-gilets-jaunes-a-commence,8194376.php)
In Cana (Normandy), hundreds of demonstrators managed after a march through the city
(including to the local prison where the arrested "yellow vests" are located) to break
into the "forbidden zone" in the city center (
https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/gilets-jaunes/manif-caen-les-gilets-jaunes-contournent-le-perimetre-interdit-6345983)
In Paris, the demonstration began at 13.00, in the rain and with the singing of the
unofficial hymn of the movement of "yellow vests": "On est là, on est là" ("We are here").
from Jussieux, a gathering place chosen to support educators protesting against neoliberal
reform in the industry.
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