Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #295 - History, 1919: Why
the failure of the Hungarian Revolution ? (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, Rebellion in Patagonia film on Tuesday 2nd July
7pm: London ACG -- At May day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London EC4
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, Class War News: (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. US, black rose fed: EMANCIPATION OF THE WORKING CLASS: THE
LEGACY OF THE IWW (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Belarus, nazism by acab, Mikola Dziadok [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, AGAINST STATE - REVOLUTION AND THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF
THE EXCLUSION STATUS - SOLIDARITY WITH G. DIMITRAKI
AND KASKA By
APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Holland, vrije bond: [Amsterdam] Italian Antifascist Cinema:
Paese Nostro (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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March 1919, the masses proclaim the Hungarian Republic of Councils, and pose "clearly the
terms of the construction of a non-monolithic and non-authoritarian society" [5]. In May,
the revolution is about to succumb ... Unrecognized, this short-term experience (133 days)
is nonetheless original and rich in lessons. ---- The butchery of 14-18 and its share of
horrors comes to an end, leading to the decomposition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ally
Germany, the Empire collapses under the blows of the military defeat and the international
extension of the revolutionary process initiated in 1917 in Russia. ---- In January 1918,
300,000 Hungarian workers stopped work to protest the war and the deterioration of living
conditions. The first Soviet workers are born.
In October, mutinies broke out and the soldiers, refusing to go up to the front or
deserting en masse, flocked to Budapest, arms in hand, and formed soldiers' councils. On
31 October, without practically firing a single shot, they overthrow the regime. The
monarchy is abolished. Forced marriage with Austria broken and the Republic of Hungary
proclaimed.
A two-headed power aggregates the new bourgeois and social-democratic government - headed
by Count Karolyi - and the workers 'and soldiers' councils. Act I of the Hungarian
Revolution opens.
The country is ruined by the war, strangled by the blockade imposed by the forces of the
Entente [2]. In the absence of raw materials, factories stop and massive unemployment
spreads. As in Russia, the people demand peace, bread and earth. Karolyi and his
government want to liquidate feudalism, establish a regime of democratic bourgeois type,
conduct agrarian reform and win the sympathy of the Western powers. He will fail on all
fronts. Agrarian reform is held back by the landed aristocracy, and the Western capitalist
powers have nothing to do with this Hungarian "democracy".
Faced with the threat of contagion of the Soviet Revolution, their urgency is to contain
the red danger, and their priority the establishment of a dictatorial power capable of
crushing any internal revolution. To this end, the Entente is pushing Romania,
Czechoslovakia and Serbia to invade Hungary.
Spontaneity of the masses
1919 is "the terrible year" for capitalism. For Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister,
"the existing social order, in its political, social and economic aspects, is questioned
by the masses of the population from one end of Europe to the other". In Budapest, the
demonstrations follow each other, the unemployed get organized and the soldiers demand
compensation. Peasants, students, neighborhoods organize themselves into soviets. Even the
Church, through its lower clergy, claims the integral separation of church and state and
the end of celibacy of priests. Everywhere, the example of the Russian Revolution is in
the minds and in the factories, the workers chase the administrators and elect new ones
from their ranks. Poor farmers share the land.
The spontaneity of the masses begins, fruit of the patient militant work of a combative
labor movement, influenced in particular by libertarian theses and syndicalist class
struggle. The practice of "revolutionary gymnastics" [3]of workers 'and peasants'
struggles takes on its full meaning here.
"The peasant claims movement developed, partly under the influence of a revolutionary
current animated by anarchists.[...]In 1905, the Union des Travailleurs Campagnards was
created. The originality of this organization rests on[a]grouping of anarchists and a
Tolstoyan sect widespread in Hungary: the Nazarenes.[...]In the city, is also constituted
a solid current libertarian. As early as 1895, appeared the newspaper Allam Nel Kul
(Without State) animated by Batthyany and Karl Krausz. The revolutionary Marxist
current[...]stemming from the social democracy, is found with the libertarian militants
within the USR (Union socialiste révolutionnaire)" [4].
The government is distraught, its socialist ministers overwhelmed by their left wing while
Revolutionary Marxists and libertarian Communists USR gain more and more audience (from
5,000 to 70,000 members in one year). The USR disputed the control of the Soviets to the
Social Democrats. Its main demands hit the mark: workers 'control and nationalization of
the industry, expropriation of the big landowners, disarmament of the bourgeoisie and
armament of the proletariat, revolutionary alliance with Soviet Russia, handing over power
to the only workers', soldiers 'and peasants' councils .
Revolutionary Unity
The ashes of the German Revolution, the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl
Liebknecht push the Karoly government to suppress the revolutionaries. On 21 February,
police entrapment led to the arrest of leading USR militants and their leader, Bela Kun.
But the repression turns against the government. Under the double pressure of increased
mass movement, and the ultimatum sent by the Entente (March 12), Hungary should agree to
be cut off from vast fertile territories, for the benefit of its Romanian, Czech and
Serbian. For the bourgeoisie and the "democratic" and nationalist aristocracy , it is
panic. The government rejects the ultimatum but can not lead any armed resistance.
The libertarian movement divides
The situation is without a way out. Aware that only the labor movement can save
territorial integrity, Count Karolyi wants to achieve a homogenous social democratic
government and negotiate with the USR. But left-wing Social Democrats, under pressure from
the masses, intend to push the process further. They negotiate with Bela Kun in prison and
decide to unite the two parties: the Socialist Party is created to establish a genuine
workers' power and set up an army capable of defending Red Hungary.
Libertarians are divided on the attitude to follow. The Hungarian anarchist current had
hitherto assumed an organization with the revolutionary Marxists on a Bolshevik model. But
the unity achieved with the left wing of social democracy divides them into two camps. A
minority is constituted in autonomous libertarian movement around Szamuelly. Considering
that "the merger is a betrayal, which puts back in saddle a social democracy which
collapsed" , it predicts that this "new party would become the driving obstacle to the
development of the Revolution" . The majority of libertarians, however, remain in the
Socialist Party.
But history is moving forward. The revolutionary thrust is at its peak. The workers'
councils give full powers to the new Socialist Party to form a Council of People's
Commissars. On March 21st, the bourgeoisie bends. Karolyi abdicates with these words: " I
resign and I hand over power to the proletariat of the peoples of Hungary" ! The
Hungarian Soviet Republic is promulgated. Like the one in October, the March Revolution
takes place without violence. And, unique in history, the impotent bourgeoisie yields
power without resistance.
The hope provoked by this revolution spreads all over Europe, relieves Soviet Russia of
its isolation and forms the tangible sign that the world revolution has started.
In Hungary, the construction of socialism is organized. Political and economic power is
confiscated from the bourgeoisie, a land reform decreed. The army and the police are
dissolved and replaced by a red army of volunteers. Deep social and cultural upheavals are
validated: "Absolute equality of the sexes, in all fields, is proclaimed and applied
scrupulously. A series of measures confirms the existence of a practice that has long been
at the heart of the revolutionary movement's discussions: the Free Union. The Republic of
the Councils of Hungary was the first to establish this old proletarian demand" . Hundreds
of nurseries, summer camps, aerial centers flourish and sex education is put on the school
curriculum.
Triumphant counter-revolution
On April 20, after a month of existence, a cry of alarm echoes: "The revolution is in
danger" . Western imperialism, to contain the revolutionary threat to the west, is
launching its allies to attack the country. Romanian Armies in the East, Serbians in the
South and Czechs in the North. The new Red Army can not resist the shock. The 1 st of
May, the Romanian troops are now only a hundred kilometers from Budapest. The workers'
councils decree the resistance. 40,000 workers of the capital rise to the front: the
imperialist offensive is shattered and even reflected, especially in Czechoslovakia, where
a Slovak Soviet republic is proclaimed.
On June 10, the Entente makes a proposal for peace in Budapest: withdrawal of the Red Army
in exchange for the withdrawal of the Romanian troops. Bela Kun tackles but eventually
refuses the offer on July 20, and wants to revive the revolutionary ardor by a new
military counter-offensive.
This is because the revolution is in crisis. The masses are weakened and disorientated by
privations, the errors of the regime and the growing division within the Socialist Party.
The inner counterrevolution raises the head and aristocrats and bourgeois plot and provoke
attacks.
Despite some initial successes, the Red Army is defeated and at the end of July, the
Romanian troops are again on the threshold of the capital. The right-wing social democrats
supported by the powerful trade union bureaucracy, get the resignation of the Council of
People's Commissars. A "union" government is formed to restore social order, establish a
bourgeois "democracy" and reassure imperialism.
But this "alternative" leads to the bloody dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. On August 6,
the government is overthrown by the counter-revolution. Horthy, the former admiral of the
Austro-Hungarian fleet, is at the head of a fascist regime, and the repression is terrible
- 5,000 executions and 75,000 arrests in a few weeks and massive exile.
The causes of the failure of the Hungarian Revolution are many, but above all internal.
For beyond an imperialist aggression facilitated by the failure of the German Revolution,
it is the management and politics of the new regime of revolutionaries (libertarians
included) that must be blamed for its failure. While Bela Kun understood that agrarian
reform, opposition to the reformists and peace negotiations with Germany went hand in
hand, he decided "that we should not give the land to the peasants, that we must at all
costs do the same. war and at the decisive moment, the revolutionaries must conclude an
alliance with the reformists. "
For Roland Bardy, the Hungarian Commune "was an incomparable experience[...]Faced with an
adversity much more agonizing than that which threatened Russia, it did not have like this
the resource of a huge territory, a reservoir inexhaustible human being" . Despite its
total isolation and the extent of adversity, "the Hungarian workers showed the world in
1919 that socialism could have a human face. "
The strategic mistake of an alliance between revolutionary and libertarian Marxists with
the social-democratic left will put an end to the hope of a red (and black) dawn. "The
Revolution, to conquer, could not be content with half measures. Without understanding it,
the revolutionaries tied their hands"
A fatal error, which will be repeated two decades later, in similar terms, by the Spanish
Revolution. The story stutters.
Jérémie Berthuin (AL Gard)
[1] Roland Bardy, 1919 The Budapest Commune , The Leaf Head, 1973.
[2] The Triple Entente includes, in 1914, the United Kingdom, France and the Russian
Empire of Tsar Nicholas II.
[3] Emile Pouget, The direct action , Editions The buccaneer, 2008, Paris.
[4] to 8. Roland. Bardy, op. Cit.
[5] Roland Bardy, 1919 The Budapest Commune , The Leaf Head, 1973.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Pourquoi-l-echec-de-la-Revolution-hongroise
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Rebellion in Patagonia- Film show followed by discussion ---- Workers in Patagonia,
influenced by anarchist ideas, demand improvements in pay and conditions. After employers
at firstagree to workers' demands, which are supported by workers in other sectors and
areas, the regional governor, under pressure from local employers, ordersthe paramilitary
police to intervene to crush the movement. In response a general strike is declared,
paralyzing the ports and wool production for export. The government backs the landowners,
and soldiers arebrought in to crush the strike.This dramatised account of the events
directed in 1974 by Hector Olivera was banned by the Videla dictatorship in Argentina.
Meeting convened by London Anarchist Communist group. Free. ---- Eventbrite booking
here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebellion-in-patagonia-tickets-61091765114
https://londonacg.blogspot.com/2019/06/rebellion-in-patagonia-film-on-july-2nd.html
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BLOCK BORIS - CHANGE OF DATE - NEW DATE JULY 24th ---- Boris Johnson was set to become PM
on July 22nd when tory leader ballot result will be announced BUT as a sop to a begging
THERESA MAY she has got her way to do one last PMQ's on Wednesday so we can then have the
tragic pathos of her tearful journeys round Whitehall and the palace. ---- WHAT A FUCKING
WAY TO RUN A COUNTRY -NO ONE'S CRYING BUT YOU THERESA...BUT IT DOES MEAN THIS NEW DATE
-SPREAD THE WORD
Class War ---- The dishevelled anarchist outfit Class War went further: it held an actual
protest outside Ms Symonds' flat. It stood on the steps to her flat with a massive banner
saying: ‘We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live.' Its members waved placards
that said: ‘Fuck Boris. Fuck the government.' ---- Brendan O'Neil The Spectator
I love the incredulity in Brendan 'O'Neils voice...the one time free speech advocate
demanding arrests. Surely the left are supposed to stick at A-B marches........Rees Mogg
says the same, Boris runs away AND HIDES....THIS TORY GOVERNMENT ARE A PAPER TIGER.....A
FEW PUFFS OF WIND AND THEY WILL COLLAPSE.......BUT YOU DO HAVE TO PUFF
COMRADES..........YOU DO HAVE TO PUFF
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Founded over 110 years ago on June 27, 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW,
created an iconic legacy and rich history of militant unionism in the U.S. The union was
founded by radical unionists and currents within the labor movement with the purpose of
building an alternative to the conservative trade unionism of the American Labor
Federation (AFL) which promoted harmony between workers and capital and practiced
exclusion in their organizing along the lines of race, gender and skill. Today the IWW
continues to organize as an alternative to mainstream unions and we celebrate it's vision
of a labor movement committed to the emancipation of the working class. ---- William "Big
Bill" Haywood ---- William "Big Bill" Haywood was a veteran unionist and Secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners prior to the founding of the IWW. He would go on to become a
key early figure of the IWW and was expelled from the executive of the Socialist Party for
his advocacy of direct action. Here in his opening address to the founding convention on
June 27, 1905, he elaborates in one simple paragraph the radical vision that inspired the
what the IWW attempted to create.
Fellow Workers: In calling this convention to order I do so with a sense of the
responsibility that rests upon me and rests upon every delegate that is here assembled.
This is the Continental Congress of the working class. We are here to confederate the
workers of this country into a working class movement that shall have for its purpose the
emancipation of the working class from the slave bondage of capitalism. (Applause).
There is no organization, or there seems to be no labor organization, that has for its
purpose the same object as that for which you are called together to-day. The aims and
objects of this organization should be to put the working class in possession of the
economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and
distribution, without regard to capitalist masters. (Applause).
The American Federation of Labor, which presumes to be the labor movement of this country,
is not a working class movement. It does not represent the working class. There are
organizations that are affiliated, but loosely affiliated with the A. F. of L., which in
their constitution and by-laws prohibit the initiation of or conferring the obligation on
a colored man; that prohibit the conferring of the obligation on foreigners. What we want
to establish at this time is a labor organization that will open wide its doors to every
man that earns his livelihood either by his brain or his muscle.
Lucy Gonzalez Parsons
Lucy Parsons organized with women textile workers and was a prominent anarchist who gained
international renown for her campaign against the execution of her husband and Haymarket
Martyr, Albert Parsons. Her speech at the convention, given on June 28, 1905, articulates
a key distinction in the early 20th century left between electoral reform efforts
("political socialists") versus those who emphasized the collective power of workers to
take control of means of life ("revolutionary or industrial socialists").
Now, what do we mean when we say revolutionary Socialist? We mean that the land shall
belong to the landless, the tools to the toiler, and the products to the producers. Now,
let us analyze that for just a moment, before you applaud me.
First, the land belongs to the landless. Is there a single land owner in this country who
owns his land by the constitutional rights given by the constitution of the United States
who will allow you to vote it away from him? I am not such a fool as to believe it. We
say, "The tools belong to the toiler." They are owned by the capitalist class. Do you
believe they will allow you to go into the halls of the legislature and simply say, "Be it
enacted that on and after a certain day the capitalist shall no longer own the tools and
the factories and the places of industry, the ships that plow the ocean and our lakes?" Do
you believe that they will submit? I do not.
We say, "The products belong to the producers." It belongs to the capitalist class as
their legal property. Do you think that they will allow you to vote them away from them by
passing a law and saying, "Be it enacted that on and after a certain day Mr. Capitalist
shall be dispossessed?" You may, but I do not believe it.
Hence, when you roll under your tongue the expression that you are revolutionists,
remember what that word means. It means a revolution that shall turn all these things over
where they belong to the wealth producers. Now, how shall the wealth producers come into
possession of them? I believe that if every man and every woman who works, or who toils in
the mines, the mills, the workshops, the fields, the factories and the farms in our broad
America should decide in their minds that they shall have that which of right belongs to
them, and that no idler shall live upon their toil, and when your new organization, your
economic organization, shall declare as man to man and women to woman, as brothers and
sisters, that you are determined that you will possess these things, then there is no army
that is large enough to overcome you, for you yourselves constitute the army. (Applause). ...
My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out and starve, but to
strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production. If any
one is to starve ... let it be the capitalist class. They have starved us long enough,
while they have had wealth and luxury and all that is necessary.
A YouTube Video on the life of Lucy Parsons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=m1AOZlUflgo
http://blackrosefed.org/emancipation-of-the-working-class-iww/
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Belarusian cops pretend they are fighting with neonazism, when arresting subcultural
nazis, or imposing the laws, banning swastika.
But in the same time the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is well-known by its
homophobic and racist statements, following the cult of the Lukashenko and defending the
authoritarian state.
Here our comrade Mikola Dziadok proves that Belarusian cops, or "militia" are the real nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=YpK9MOrsdKI Do not forget to turn on
English subtitles!
https://pramen.io/en/2019/06/cops-and-nazism/
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On 12/6, the anarchist comrades G. Dimitrakis, K. Sakkas and D. Syrianou are arrested for
attempted expropriation of the money transfer to AHEPA. Directly, with the disclosure of
the arrested and arrested person, a media-style propaganda attempts to link the case to
"terrorism," under the auspices of the anti-terrorist agency, with the aim of forming a
more upgraded indictment. A process in accordance with the state's broader repressive plan
against anarchist militants that seeks to address them through specific criminal
provisions by applying an exception regime aimed at the physical, moral and emotional
extermination of those who fall into his hands, ---- From the very first moment, the
comrades are confronted within the GADT detention centers with an attitude that shows the
intention of designing a state squatting against them while a special detention regime is
applied on them because they are an integral part of the world struggling for the social
revolution. They divide them, forbid the communication between them, they are standing for
hours, with their hands tied and with hoods on their heads.
After their passing by the investigator and the prosecutor on 18/6, D. Syrianou's
comradeship is released with a financial guarantee and restrictive terms, which highlights
the inability of the state apparatus to devise a more upgraded indictment, and comrades C.
Dimitrakis and K. Sakkas, are transferred to the prisons of Komotini and to the
"closed-type" prisons of Nigrita, respectively, as a result of the revenge of the state
and the judicial authorities. against anarchist fighters, sending them away from their
place of residence, their families, their companions and their attorneys, which prevents
their preparation for the trial, while G. Dimitrakis is still unintentionally detained in
the discipline, at wretched detention conditions, instead of a normal ward,
We stand in solidarity with our political, moral and material comrades, against the
vengefulness and attitude of the state repressive mechanism against them, against the
upgrading of repression and the exception regime that is attempted to apply to the world
of struggle. We are ready to give the battles of our time for the dismantling of every
prison and the aging world of power and exploitation for the social revolution to build
the world of solidarity of equality of freedom.
AGAINST THE STATUTE OF THE STATE AGAINST THE RELATIONSHIP
GO TO DIMITRAKIS FROM THE DISCIPLINE
IMMEDIATE TRANSPORT OF KASSAKAS AND G. DIMITRAKIS FOOTBALLS IN THE CORRIDAL WARRIORS, NEAR
THE PLACE OF RESIDENCE
NO RELATIONSHIP ONLY ON THE HANDS OF THE STATE
SOLIDARITY IS OUR OWNED
anarchist collectivity Omikron72-member of the APO |
http://apo.squathost.com
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On June 16, two young men were assaulted in Rome, because they were wearing T-shirts for
Piccolo America, a left-wing association which organizes squatting actions to save
abandoned cinemas in the capital. They were targeted "because antifascist," which links
the episode to the normalization of violence and intolerance cultivated by the current
Italian government and that has migrants as its main target. Since last year, Cinema of
the Dam'd responds to the rise of the far-right in Italy with an exploration of the best
leftist cinema. ---- The documentary we are showing tonight, PAESE NOSTRO, follows three
cultural mediators of the SPRAR network who assist asylum seekers during their first
months in Italy. Federica, Lucia and Hassan share the same doubts, precarious life, and
enormous responsibilities towards the migrants who they are trying to help. Their stories,
however, are also made of the kind of dreams, solidarity, and mutual support that often
goes untold in Italy.
PAESE NOSTRO was produced with public funding in 2016 by ZaLab, a collective of six
directors. When the project was completed, the Ministry of the Interior, which also held
the rights, decided not to distribute the movie. A few weeks ago, ZaLab chose to make the
film freely available in the belief that since any initiative in support of migrants and
asylum seekers - including the SPRAR network - is being demonized and limited, it has
become even more essential to understand how they work and who makes them possible.
Part 1 of 2 - Directed by Michele Aiello, Matteo Calore, Stefano Collizzolli, Andrea
Segre, Sara Zavarise, 2017, Italy, 70 minutes. In Italian with English subtitles. Watch
the trailer here.
Where?
Cinema of the Dam'd
Overtoom 301
Amsterdam
When?
Wednesday June 26
Bar opens @ 19:30
Movie starts @ 20:00
Free Entry
amsterdam, antifascisme, cinema of the dam'd, film, Italie, ot301
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/amsterdam-italian-antifascist-cinema-paese-nostro/
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