Anarchic update news all over the world - 17.07.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  alas barricadas: Greece, Exarchia prepares (ca) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  cnt-ait: SOLIDARITY WITH HONG KONG REVOLUTIONARIES - GILETS
      JAUNES / YELLOW VESTS - Lien permanent (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, anarchist communist grou ACG: Hong Kong
      unrest-update (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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As we told you in a previous article , Mitsosakis made the eviction of all Exarchia part 
of his electoral campaign. We gather thanks to the testimonies of compas like Yannis 
Youlountas and members of Rouvikonas what is to come and how it is being noticed. ---- The 
police operation "Law and order" against Exarchia and Rouvikonas would be almost ready to 
be launched. The countdown is nearing its end (09/07) ---- According to the new minister 
of public order, Michalis Chrysochoidis, and the deputy minister in charge of penitentiary 
and penal policy, Lefteris Economou, the state's plan would be ready to attack the rebel 
neighborhood of Athens. A huge police device is being prepared with the MAT (the 
equivalent of the French CRS), DIAS fighters, intelligence officers, anti-terrorist teams 
and other units.The new Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants his mandate to begin by 
launching a major coup, as quickly as possible, against the anarchists and the "hoods" who 
would be responsible for drug and arms trafficking in the capital. "Migrants" would be 
equally responsible for this situation according to television channels, more specifically 
"employed by anti-authoritarians" in a kind of "libertarian mafia and international center".

In short, a great paranoia in all media to justify the imminent offensive of the Greek 
state against one of the few bastions of self-management in Europe. A district of Exarchia 
that "gives very bad ideas to other places, for too long," especially in its resistance 
against police incursions. The new government has announced the imminent evacuation of all 
occupied places, regardless of the purpose of the squat, throughout the neighborhood, and 
numerous searches to look for drugs, weapons and other equipment used in struggles.

The main police commissioners say they are ready to intervene and some of their 
subordinates have even made a fuss on Facebook announcing their joy of going to harass 
anarchists and migrants. For example, Constable Konstantinos Iliopoulos said: "From 
tomorrow, shit anarchists and sons of bitches, we will be in Exarchia as if it were our 
house with the Delta force" (an infamous group of very violent people recruited from the 
most virulent extreme right) . The government also worries about the idea of classifying 
Rouvikonas as a terrorist organization, something its predecessors resigned a year ago 1 . 
" Definitely preventing the damage of Rouvikonas is the prime minister's priority"His 
spokesperson, K * Vox, his Exarchia headquarters, is in the crosshairs of this operation 
that could start any dawn.

It is difficult to say exactly when or how the raids will develop, but we expect a lot of 
violence from the MAT, eager to take revenge on this neighborhood that they have long 
hated and where the members of the anarchist movement find refuge. What is certain is that 
Exarchia will not let them get it and, above all, that it will be more difficult for them 
to maintain control of the neighborhood in the long term than to return to it. I will not 
say more here. Thank you for your support wherever it comes from: it must be said that 
once again a state wants to subdue an area of resistance, a laboratory of autonomy, 
self-management and libertarian experiences, but also a great alternative to host the 
sordid refugee camps. In other words, once again, the power wants to make the utopia 
disappear so as not to lose its imprint. Sooner or later it will be the power or us. 
Freedom or death Because capitalism and the authoritarian society lead us to stagnation in 
all aspects. Or this deadly society will continue to destroy the world, sooner or later or 
we will be liberated and save our lives or try something else. Of course, the next few 
days will be difficult and perhaps even tragic. Among the many policemen who will come to 
hunt us, beat us or stop us in the labyrinth of the neighborhood and its shadows, there 
will be neo-Nazis and other fascist bugs eager to make us suffer, to take revenge for the 
fall of Golden Dawn and simply to break to the left, the migrant , to the anarchist. But 
we are not afraid. We are not afraid of the present because we are already in tomorrow. We 
have another way of living together, in our heads and in our hearts, a world free of the 
horrors that disfigure it, a life without tyrants or servants. We do not resist for 
Exarchia, but for all: more than for a day, for all the others that we need to leave the 
political prehistory of humanity.

(09/07)

Yesterday, motorized police officers passed by the squatter of Notara 26 migrants 
(northwest corner of Exarcheia) and shouted to the comrades who were on duty: "the battles 
and the jail will arrive soon!"

(10/07)

It seems  that instructions have been given to avoid any external communication other than 
that which media reporters will propagate in the coming days. For its part, Facebook has 
just deleted several pages of the Exarchia collectives, beginning with Rouvikonas for the 
second time.

Exarchia prepares to resist (13/07)

8:30 am in Athens. I go to bed, after several meetings and a night of guard in the squat 
of Notara26 with other solidarity and residents. EXARCHEIA IS PREPARED TO RESIST. Everyone 
is determined not to give in to the threats of the state that is about to attack. Several 
power outages today, including Notara26, confirm the proximity of the assault. The 
information reaches us. The policemen are preparing. The new government absolutely wants 
to get us on our knees as soon as possible. The whole neighborhood redoubles its 
suspicions. The many places and groups tighten their bonds to resist. Exarchia meets, 
thinks, organizes ... We may not stay long, but we will not give up without fighting. 
Thank you for all your support messages that warm our hearts. We are just a front line 
among others, between utopia and dystopia, because this authoritarian attack is global. 
But even if the power manages to destroy Exarcheia, which will not be easy, it will not be 
able, whatever happens, to erase its history.

ALERT NOTARA 26 / EXARCHIA!!!

On Friday morning, the employees of the state energy company cut electricity from the 
residential squatter for refugees and migrants. Note 26. According to these same 
employees, they were acting on orders from the police. We ask the activists of the social 
movement and solidarity to be alert. We request an open meeting this Saturday, July 13 at 
5:00 p.m., SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

# N26resist #ExarcheiaResist

Note to keep in mind: this is not the time to do revolutionary tourism, nor to take 
pictures in which people are identified (as happened five years ago, seeing strangers 
recording will automatically mean the destruction of the material) or to overwhelm 
questions to the activists who are preparing to defend a whole project of life.

Health and Revolution!

1 Something that we already have in "Love and the revolution", in 1:10:30

http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/41847

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The Hong Kong revolutionaries invaded Hong Kong's parliament on July 1, 2019, to protest 
against the Chinese communist party's despotism, which seeks to expand its hold on the 
territory. ---- Inside the parliament, after having destroyed the symbols of the control 
of the Communist Party over the territory, they unfurled a black banner on which one could 
read "there are no violent people[rioters], There is only a violent politic [tyranny]". 
---- They also deployed a Yellow Vest as a sign of solidarity with the Yellow Vests in 
France. ---- It is a movement without a leader or representative, but extremely organized 
and supportive. That a movement can develop and be victorious, without leader or 
representative is something incomprehensible for our leaders, and the media who are 
supporting them. Our Masters absolutely need representatives, in such an extent that they 
want to create ones at any cost (as we saw during the Yellow Vests movement in France, in 
November and December, when the Prime Minister Philippe begged someone of the Yellow Vest 
to come to Matignon[Prime Minister residence]to meet him and have a talk, or when the 
TVnews chain BFM tried to put forward personalities from Yellow vests, but that have been 
repudiated immediately by the rank-and-file). They also try to explain to us that the 
"people" demand for leaders or representaive. They can not understand that we can make and 
do without any representative. It must be said that the whole system is today organized 
according to the principle of hierarchy (companies, parties, unions, the organization of 
the government, the army regime, etc.). This scheme is so entrenched that they do not get 
to see otherwise. So in Hong Kong for sure that our media should not understand anything 
about the situation!

The fact that we simultaneously observe self-organized movements, with similar slogans 
against Power and its violence, in Asia as in Hong-Kong, in Europe with Yellow Vests, or 
in Africa in Algeria and Sudan , demonstrates obviously that the claims for Freedom, for 
Dignity and for Solidarity are universal aspirations, which surpass all the false 
identitary differences, and which sign the true mark of the Human Civilization,

By their gesture, the revolutionaries of Hong Kong renew with the revolutionary and 
anarchist spirit which animated the young students of the Movement of May 4th 1919 or 
those of Tian-An-Men in May 1989!

The Hong-Kong movement is a reflection of what is happening in mainland China where every 
year there are more than 100,000 "mass incidents" (to use the Party's terminology), 
whether for wage, environmental or peasant expropriation issues.

With the rise of the new Chinese imperialism, what is happening right now in China and 
Hong Kong concerns all of us!

The movement is not currently weakening, but we can expect a repression - fierce and 
immediate or devious and deferred - against this revolutionary and popular movement.

Solidarity with the revolutionaries of Hong Kong!

CNT AIT Paris

http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/07/10/SOLIDARITY-HONG-KONG

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The demonstration of 1 million that we reported in a previous article was dwarfed by that 
on the following Sunday, June 16th, which numbered two million. The chief executive of 
Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, apologised for the extradition bill but stopped short of saying 
that it would be scrapped, although she said that it would not be revived during the 
current legislative session. ---- The huge demonstration was followed by a stay-away 
strike, most effective in schools and universities. Resentment against the extradition 
bill is compounded by the perception among many young people in Hong Kong of the vast gap 
between rich and poor. The actions of youth were reinforced by assemblies organised by 
groups of mothers, who supported their offspring and gathered crowds of 6,000.

On 1st July, which commemorates the anniversary of Hong Kong's re-incorporation into 
China, over 500,000 demonstrated. At the same time demonstrators made an attempt to occupy 
the Legislative Council building. 500 demonstrators accomplished this at 9pm that night, 
spray-painting the building and then deciding to leave. They stated:

"We are protesters from the civic society. If there's a choice, we wish we didn't have to 
protest against tyranny with our own bodies, and didn't have to occupy the Hong Kong 
Legislative Council as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Government. But the 
Government has put aside all principles and procedures, ignored the demands of Hong Kong 
People, and repeated their lame arguments and lied over and over again. By facing with 
this rule and unreasonable government, we will have no choice but to fight back with 
justice, conscience and love of both Hong Kong and HongKongers."

  Carrie Lam attempted to caricature the occupiers as rioters, although they had behaved 
in an orderly way. The Hong Kong government has now made arrests, at the time of counting 
over 70 people being detained.

The movement is well-organised, with first aid posts, water and food supplies and an 
intricate system of communication via social media and mobile telephones. As one 
participant noted, it is based on decentralised and leaderless actions, facilitated by 
these new forms of communication.

The movement has inflicted several defeats on the Hong Kong administration, with the 
suspension of the bill, the dropping of charges against some demonstrators and a personal 
apology from Lam. If it is to succeed it must escalate its actions to scrap the bill. 
Against this are ranged the powers of the Hong Kong administration and the massed ranks of 
the police, with possible intervention from the regime in Beijing.

Lam had to admit the bill was dead in early July but there has been no formal withdrawal 
of the bill and the movement has vowed to continue their actions. They are also demanding 
an independent inquiry into the brutal methods used by the police on June 12th when tear 
gas and rubber bullets were deployed against the movement.

Some leftists have attempted to characterise the movement as right-wing and inspired by 
American and British imperialism. This reveals the blinkered and bankrupt attitudes of 
these individuals, who continue to defend the state capitalist regime of Xi Jinping as if 
it were some socialist paradise. Whilst there has been some involvement of right wing 
groups who have attempted to influence the movement, it remains one inspired by youth and 
workers, based on decentralisation, and opposed to exploitation.  In the medium and long 
term, the Xi Jinping regime sees the movement in Hong Kong as a threat to its power, with 
continuous demonstrations on the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre, where many 
thousands were massacred by the "People's" Army. The movement in Hong Kong has to spread 
to the mainland and the movement in Hong Kong needs to establish links with workers, 
peasants and students actions there.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/07/13/hong-kong-unrest-update/

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