Anarchic update news all over the world - 27.07.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Federación Anarquista Ibérica - FAI: The 11th IFA Congress
      in Ljubljana [July 24-28, 2019] (ca, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Chile] Santiago: Call for Anarchofeminist Bloc on March for
      Free Abortion - July 25 By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, brighton solfed: CJ Barbers owners smash up chair
      and attack picket line (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  First Journal issue of IFA (International Of Anarchist
      Federations) By APO (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  First Journal issue of IFA - FOR A WORLD WITHOUT COUNTRIES
      AND WITHOUT BORDERS -- The Italian Anarchist Federation
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






The eleventh congress of the International of Anarchist Federations IAF-IFA will be held 
in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from July 24 to 28 and there will be dozens of anarchist 
experiences from around the world. Anarchist organizations, newspaper and magazine 
publishers, projects with deep emancipatory roots, colleagues and colleagues from Spain, 
Portugal, France, England, Belarus, Greece, Slovenia, Italy, Czech Republic, Holland, 
Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, 
Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, United States, Japan, Venezuela ... will have the 
opportunity to share experiences, build relationships, discuss and plan strategies for 
daily transformation, strengthen anarchist struggles and internationalist freedom contact.

The previous tenth congress was held in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2016 and supported the 
creation of the Central American and Caribbean Anarchist Federation (FACC), the renewed 
willingness to coordinate anarchist organizations in Latin America, the ongoing 
revolutionary process in Rojava. , the birth of the APO (Greek Anarchist Political 
Organization), the social mobilizations (for example, the big demonstrations and the 
strikes that took place in France in the spring of 2016 against labor reform), experiences 
of fighting against the big projects of the Capital and the State such as the TAV or the 
Notre-Dame-Des-Landes airport.

Since then, the IAF-IFA has fostered strong relationships among the many anarchist 
realities that compose it, has supported the struggles and experiences that the 
federations live daily, from Brazil to France, through Belarus, has promoted campaigns. as 
the denunciation for the murder of Comrade Santiago Maldonado in Argentina and in support 
of the struggle of the Mapuche population, also against the oppressive regime of Maduro in 
Venezuela and in support of the anarchist components that are an important part of the 
ongoing revolutionary process in Rojava

The Ljubljana event will be an opportunity to verify what has been discussed in Frankfurt 
and what has been done since then, to support the creation of renewed federated processes 
such as the one carried out in Brazil and to provide sister organizations such as APO in 
Greece the opportunity to join the IAF-IFA. But it will also be an opportunity to meet and 
discuss, discuss the socioeconomic processes that groups and federations live in their 
territories, about strategies to deconstruct the neoliberal imagination that still 
permeates the actions of billions of people around the world. and crushes and influences 
masses of exploited and exploited.

In the many working groups, heterogeneous issues will be addressed but, in fact, they will 
be connected by the desire to find keys and tools that will make the daily militant 
activity of transformation and reinvention of our communities more effective. These topics 
will cover:
- the analysis of the international permanent war scene and the forms that modern 
totalitarianism is taking in different parts of the world, based on the ambiguous concepts 
of sovereignty and nationalism now rooted everywhere, to reach the processes economic of 
expropriation and global exploitation, - Fear, insecurity, social fragmentation, 
precariousness as forms of existence that push many and many to become migrants, 
scapegoats who lead unsatisfied lives, and are the pretext for building walls and reducing 
rights. social, - the worsening of the living conditions of millions of people both in 
Europe and in Latin America or Africa, - the progressive and constant reduction of the 
spaces of freedom and the growing repression that the States continue to exert on the 
anarchists and on the movements, but also the forms of solidarity between workers, with 
migrants, between the exploited and the exploited, born everywhere, sometimes 
spontaneously. sometimes in an organized way, - the renewed ecological sensitivity and the 
need to free it from the processes of capitalist reproduction and the generation of new 
markets, such as the "green economy" or the myth of sustainable growth,
- also the international experiences of struggle in gender issues, which they arise, 
however, from an individual and collective conscience on which to continue working, to 
reject patriarchy and relations of domination in social and interpersonal relations,
- The increasingly conflicting and spontaneous forms of resistance in the world of work 
and trade unionism, the rejection of militarism, war and violence as an instrument of 
coercion and hegemony.

Finally, there will be discussion tables and exchange of practical experiences, the 
strengthening of relations between the working groups, from the management of magazines 
and newspapers to the management of social and radio media, but also a discussion on the 
management of self-managed spaces , about production experiments. From the bottom, whether 
in isolation or in a cooperative way, the activity in associations and coordination, the 
methods and proven ways to face conflicts and differences in daily life, even within our 
organizations to build new relationships and strengthen existing ones.

It will be an important moment for organized anarchism to firmly reaffirm libertarian and 
class internationalism and the commitment of cooperation and solidarity between exploited 
and exploited, to strengthen the struggles and experiences that can tear down borders, 
walls and territories. and promote the construction of a world of freedom and equality.

Our solidarity greeting to the comrades who will participate, to the delegates and 
delegates, to those who support the initiative with proposals and contributions of 
solidarity. Long live anarchism, long live the International of Anarchist Federations!

The congress is organized for different times, some public and others reserved for 
delegates. In particular, in the morning and in the afternoon, it will take place behind 
closed doors with the participation of delegates and delegates from the organizations 
present. Starting in the afternoon, the debates will be public and the concerts will be 
open to all.

FAIt International Relations Commission

https://federacionanarquistaiberica.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/congreso-ifa-2019-el-xi-congreso-de-la-ifa-en-liubliana/

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Anarchists also abort. We have always done so and will continue to do so even if the state 
insists on legislating its will over our bodies. We refuse to docilely serve the 
reproduction of a life that is taken from us every day through economic policies that 
impose misery on us in the name of the progress of the ruling elites. ---- Because we 
understand that our bodies are the last frontier of capitalism, we will find ourselves 
organized in defense of our territories, our eagerness to bypass borders, to build 
community, to fight against all authority and every form of oppression that through the 
artifice of hierarchies intends to separate us. ---- That is why we call on the anarchists 
to march in a block this Thursday, July 25th at 5:30 pm from Gral. Bustamante with 
Providencia (Telefónica corner).

We abort

all authority

Neither Love nor Slave

Anarchofeminists Always

Translation> Sol de Abril

Source: 
https://lapeste.org/2019/07/santiago-convocatoria-a-bloque-anarcofeminista-en-marcha-por-aborto-libre-25-julio/

anarchist news agency-ana

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Message: 3






On Thursday 20th June, we staged a picket outside of CJ Barbers in Kemptown as part of our 
ongoing campaign demanding over two months unpaid wages for a former worker. In response 
to this, the owners of CJ Barbers, Hamid Caram and Cyrus Shabini smashed up a chair and 
attacked the picket line. ---- This was a significant escalation of a now familiar tactic 
of CJ Barbers, which is to assault and attempt to intimidate picket lines. On the Saturday 
previous to this, Hamid assaulted a female member of Brighton SolFed who was outside of 
the shop. ---- Our dispute with CJ Barbers is in relation to a former worker who was paid 
£100 for two and a half months work. CJ Barbers have tried to claim that this was a 
'voluntary' arrangement, but as the worker explains in this article, CJ Barbers did not 
uphold their end of this (exploitative) deal, reneging on the promise of training and a 
job at the end of the voluntary period.

For this reason, we are demanding that the worker is paid the national minimum wage for 
the two and a half months work he did, totalling £2800. We offered to negotiate with CJ 
Barbers before opening this dispute, and have offered them on a weekly basis the 
opportunity to make a reasonable offer to open negotiations. Their only response has been 
further intimidation, asking for 'one-to-one' meetings with no offer of payment made.

Worker solidarity is stronger than bosses. We won't be going anywhere until this worker 
gets paid.

An injury to one is an injury to all!

More information on this dispute:

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/cj-barbers-owners-smash-up-chair-and-attack-picket-line

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Message: 4





In view of the 11th International Conference of Anarchist Federations held in Ljubljana 
from 24 to 28 July, we publish in electronic format the first issue of the IFA magazine. 
You can download it and read it by clicking here . 
http://apo.squathost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Journal-Pages.pdf ---- CONTENTS ---- 
5-8 BREXIT AND WORKERS Anarchist Federation (of Britain) ---- 9-10 WHEN THE ROBOTS FIRE US 
Federation of Anarchists in Bulgaria ---- 11 FOR A WORLD WITHOUT COUNTRIES AND WITHOUT 
BORDERS The Italian Anarchist Federation ---- 12-15 AGAINST THE RELOCATION OF NUCLEAR 
WEAPONS TO THE ARAXOS AIRPORT BASE, IN GREECE Anarchist Collective "Dissinios Ippos" 
member of the Anarchist Political Organization (Greece) ---- 16-19 RETHINKING 
ANTIMILITARISM TODAY Anarchist Federation (French Speaking - France, Belgium, Switzerland) 
---- 20-21 ANARCHISTS DO NOT VOTE, THEY FIGHT! Black Phoenix Anarchist Unions
IFA-Brasil
20-21 ARMS INDUSTRY AND
THE BUSINESS OF WAR
Iberian Anarchist Federation
(Euskal Herria)
23 APPEDIX - Original Versions

Welcome to the first edition of The Journal, the new magazine of the International of 
Anarchist Federations. Inside we have six articles from around the world addressing 
several issues our members are facing which more than anything we hope to help foster a 
strong culture of resistance.We aim to help strengthen our bonds of international 
solidarity and collective hostility to the ever present threats of the state and of 
capitalism. We believe that developing better communication and keeping informed of our 
comrades struggles around the world is vital to this. ---- The Journal is published with 
the aim to provide a clear international Anarchist viewpoint on contemporary issues and to 
initiate debate on ideas not normally covered in the agitational papers or the region 
specific products of our member federations. It being in constant development we would
appreciate any thoughts on the magazine and indeed contributions for Anarchist comrades.
If you have any queries feel free to contact us at secretariat@i-f-a.org
Venceremos
Ed.

Internationalism - Solidarity - Anarchy

http://apo.squathost.com/5901-2/

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Antimilitarism has always been one of the battlefields of the anarchist movement. Today 
like yesterday, facing the massacre of the First World War, the fight against war is 
firmly rooted in the struggle for social transformation. ---- The war scenarios are 
multiplying. In Libya there is a war in progress, in which the Italian government is fully 
involved: in the country 400 units of the Italian armed forces are already present, even 
according to the official figures of the MIASIT military mission. Meanwhile, diplomats are 
organizing an international conference in Rome to decide the future of the country. ---- 
Italian military intervention is not limited to Libya, but is extended to various African 
countries, to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Indian Ocean and other missions. This is a commitment 
in continuity with previous governments and coherent according to international alliances.
As always, the economic
weight of these war-mongering
policies is discharged on the
community: a large part of the
Italian government maneuver
planned for over thirty billion
euros will be destined to
increase military spending.
The government, in fact, will
respect the commitments
made to NATO by previous
governments, which plan to
bring arms spending to 2% of
the gross domestic product, 24
billion of euro will be added to
the current € 16 billion.
The profits of the military
sector are growing against this
impoverishment. Italy is ninth
in terms of the quantity of arms
exported from all the countries
of the world, and is fifth among
the European producers.
The Italian Anarchist
Federation refuses any exchange
between work in Italy and
destruction and death on
abroad; we also denounce that
fact that arms production brings
wealth to only a privileged few.
War production, absorbing raw
materials, means of production
and labor force, steals resources
from the production of goods
and services, worsening the
condition of the exploited as a
whole.
War and militarism are a
breeding ground for machismo,
for the hierarchical and
authoritarian ideology that
characterizes them, and because
they are based on the practice
of oppression and violence, are
even sexual crimes. Rape is a
weapon of war, theorized in
the offices of Army Staff, acts
violence and acts of feminicide
show men in uniform as
the main protagonists. The
militaristic logic makes women
a battlefield, a territory of
conquest, domination and
power.
Militaristic delirium also
manifests itself within the
recent legislative proposals on
the restoration of mandatory
military leverage, such as
the one already voted by the
Veneto Region, and the one
that is being prepared for
voting on by the Friuli Venezia
Giulia Region. Beyond any
propaganda, we reiterate
that the Armed Forces have
never and never will have an
educational role.
The anarchist comrades that
are part of F.A.I. reiterate
their opposition to militarism,
and invite everybody to
participate in the antimilitarist demonstration of 3th
November 2018 in Gorizia.
To stop the militarization of
society
To eliminate military
expenditure
To close the factories of death
For a world without counties
and without frontiers

http://apo.squathost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Journal-Pages.pdf

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