Today's Topics:
1. [Canada] The 15th Montreal International Anarchist Theater
Festival is looking for plays! By ANA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Resuming the debate on the concept of
imperialism by BrunoL (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Union Communiste Libertaire - UCL release, Erdogan's
regime fights against Rojava (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, LAFA Again - Report on August the 24th
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. APO: Liberty Festival of Occupied Areas and Collectibles - 4
DAYS FOR ANARISM AND FREEDOM COMMUNISM September
3-6, 2019
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, north east anarchist group NEAG: Study for Struggle
#3 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Montreal International Anarchist Theater Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the
world dedicated to anarchist theater, is looking for plays, texts, monologues, dance
theater, puppet theater, mime, in English and French, with anarchism as its central theme.
or any subject related to anarchism, that is, against all forms of oppression, including
the state, capitalism, war, alienation, patriarchy, etc. ---- It will also be considered
pieces that, from an anarchist perspective, explore ecological, social and economic
justice, racism, feminism, poverty, class oppression and gender issues. The works of
anarchist and non-anarchist authors will be welcome. ---- Are you interested in presenting
your work during the Festival? Send us the application form by November 7, 2019!
>> Contacts
Email:
festivaltheatreanarchiste@yahoo.ca
Site:
www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com
Mail:
Montreal International Anarchist Theater Festival
CP 266, Succ. 'W'
Montreal, QC H2L 4K1
Canada
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There is imperialism and there are powers - yes plural - imperialists. ---- I need to
start this new series (I believe) for a couple of obvious reasons. The first and most
sensitive of the reasons why the concepts are real, or at least try to challenge,
interpret the lived real as a concrete experience and not just the imaginary universe
(which also forms the lived real). That is, there is, there is imperialism and there are -
in the plural yes - imperialist powers. ---- August 25, 2019, Bruno Lima Rocha ---- I need
to start this new series (I believe) for some obvious reasons. The first and most
sensitive of the reasons why the concepts are real, or at least try to question, interpret
the lived real as a concrete experience and not just the imaginary universe (which also
forms the lived real). That is, there is, there is imperialism and there are - in the
plural yes - imperialist powers.
Some powers are also heirs to colonialism, and perhaps that is why General Villas Bôas, in
his circumstantial nationalist outburst, quoted Ho Chi Mihn in order to achieve the image
of the French president, banker Emmanuel Macron. There are also late empires spreading in
the wake of the parent empire, such as the US, the target of nine out of ten leftist
militants (where I include myself). Of course the same general says nothing about the
Gringos Empire. I wonder why?!
Another practical reason for the debate on imperialism is to recognize contemporary forms
and to get out of the caricature mass grave. Imperialism is not only an invasion of
Gringos Marines, but that is so to this day. Imperialism is the superior form of
capitalism, and even this Lenin is correct - at least in the analysis - but not only. The
Soviet Union was imperialist in Afghanistan, following the trajectory of the Anglo-Russian
imperial dispute in this same region. China's relationship with newly unified Vietnam and
freed from the US invasion, after fighting the French and Japanese, was horrific. In this
case, Deng Xiao Ping said that came in all areas.
But unfortunately, in the 21st century, imperialist projection capabilities, at least in
the field of economics, reproduce forms of capitalism. Today, the US, China, Russia and
the European Union (tied at the last two), India, Iran and Turkey in the background can
exert pressure on some scale, generating power surpluses to violate sovereignty and
internalize external interests beyond their own. borders and areas of direct influence. By
their relative weight, we can undoubtedly include Israel and Saudi Arabia on this list as
well.
They are distinct political systems, forms of government, and regimes, but in terms of
International Political Economy, the sum of the strategic concertation of ruling-class and
ruling elite factions reproduces an imperialist dimension. Take a look at the race for the
"African eldorado", one of the bases of the rebirth of our co-brother continent: China,
France, Turkey and even Brazil (in a beautiful exercise of cooperation, but never without
criticism) dispute or disputed important spaces, besides from the US ever.
It is equally valid to debate the issue, since almost always the nineteenth-century model,
where there is a set of local alliances that benefit from external pressure - or the
denationalization of wealth and the loss of popular sovereignty - still exists and
reproduces itself. And, astonishingly, interests are often of original ideological
motivation - a sense of belonging - and go hand in hand with the typical meanness of those
who have much, want even more, and judge themselves with far greater merit than most.
It is also worth noting that the complexity of the subject calls for a debate that matches
its threat, including very current versions, such as the almost always harmful effects of
International Legal Cooperation; the interpenetration of social networks and
disinformation groups (Brazil and the relationship with neopentecostals and ultraliberals
of Republican Party slag exemplify the problem) and also of the malicious madness as the
translucent and dangerous thesis of the "globalist conspiracy".
Finally, conspiracy and external presence as well as espionage and hybrid wars are such
obvious and serious matters that we cannot be irresponsible in confusing this seriousness
with absurd and delusional "totalizing conspiracy theories without evidence or concepts."
The debate is urgent and the deadlines are running (in my case, literally). This profile
and adjacencies accept (accept) suggestions and criticism.
The first post-Cold War stage to its height after September 11, 2001
The most evident of this concept is the military presence, specifically from the US,
operating nine permanent combatant commandos. The projection of power surpluses by force
is not unique to the Gringo Empire, but the size and volume in which it occurs. In the
post-Cold War and pre-September 11 period, the Pentagon inaugurates a phase that will meet
the Total War on Terror (GWOT). There is controversy as to whether it began after the
first attack on the Twin Towers (February 26, 1993) or derived from the simultaneous
explosion of US embassies in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and also in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania (August 7, 1993). 1998). The scale gained by these operations after 9/11 is
enormous, but the doctrine was established before. That is,
The conception of a multi-present enemy, and indeed antagonistic to "unfaithful empires"
such as the United States, Russia (in the Caucasus) and China (in East Turkestan),
indicates the enormous capacity of the Superpower (also through its allies in Europe,
through NATO) and the rising powers to project their military interests across borders.
The aggressiveness of US special forces and the "War on Terror" - with illegal kidnappings
in foreign countries, unprocessed jail in Guantanamo and concentration camps like Abu
Ghraib (Iraq) and Bagram (Afghanistan) - is the hallmark of the first ten. post 11
September years.
Another mark is the so-called colored revolutions of the former Soviet states, such as the
Rose in Georgia (2003-2004), Orange in Ukraine (2004) and Tulip in Kyrgyzstan (2005). It
is important to note that while there is incidence through manipulation citizen via the
internet and the media, there is also, always exists, greater or lesser legitimate social
demand and really existing claims processes. As the Uruguayans say, "Only what is
organized is organized", even with the worst intentions. The Arab Spring theme as "color
revolution", apart from the use of the internet, I do not see as a valid application. In
the "green movement of Iran", or "Iranian green revolution", after the election of Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and defeat of "moderates" Mir-Houssein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi,
I have given these examples to look at an effort I modestly remove labels and the "sealing
debate" to which the politicized and malformed portions of our people are exposed and
going beyond denominations for convenience.
If the War on Terror and the "color revolutions" usher in US imperialism after 9/11, the
avalanche of social networks is the globalized mark of manipulation of the public sphere
of entire countries. Evidence is wide-open with the Edward Snowden case in 2013, already
five years after the "Crisis Named Humbug OR Bubble Named Fraud" burst and its derivatives
around the world. The interconnectedness of consciences, the attack on the public sphere,
the creation of mass-producing puppets in civil society is the hallmark of this period,
radicalizing the process in the subjunction of the new rights to the even more
right-winged US agendas. The process leading up to Trump's election and its globalized
repercussions reflect this statement.
Bruno Lima Rocha (blimarocha@gmail.com / t.me/estrategiaeanalise) is a postdoctoral fellow
in political economics, a doctorate and master in political science and a professor in
international relations, social communication and law. He is a member of the Capital and
State Research Group ( https://www.facebook.com/capetacapitaleestado/ )
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31517
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Since 2016, the Turkish army occupies the Shehba canton in northern Syria ; since 2018, it
occupies the canton of Afrîn ; since July 2019 she has been conducting operations in
northern Iraq against the Kurdish left. It now encircles the Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) on
3 fronts, and is negotiating hard with the United States and Russia to obtain a new zone
of occupation in the canton of Cizîrê, in Rojava. ---- On July 12, the Erdogan regime
launched Operation Claw 2 in northern Iraq, particularly in the Qandil Mountains area,
held by the Kurdish revolutionary forces. ---- A first attack (Operation Claw 1) was
carried out in the Hakurk region (Iraq) in May, without success. These two operations
appear to be part of a wider plan involving a potential invasion of the eastern Euphrates
in northern Syria against the revolutionary forces of Rojava.
Turkey has increased its military presence along the Rojava border, amassing more than 50
tanks, artillery batteries and armored vehicles near Tal-Abyad.
In al-Bab and Jarablus, mercenaries of the Free Syrian Army (ASL) were also reportedly on
high alert, while their generals met with their Turkish sponsors to discuss details of an
offensive.
Ankara has also begun to dismantle the wall built along the northern border of Rojava,
particularly near Tal-Abyad.
In the occupied Afrîn canton, in Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan, however, the Turkish army
faces fierce resistance. Every day, she suffers attacks and the progress of her troops has
even been stopped in northern Iraq.
What keeps Turkey from directly attacking the Rojava that it now encircles for the most
part ? The green light of its Russian and American allies. Ankara's claim is to be able to
occupy a 30-kilometer stretch of territory all along its border as a "buffer zone",
supposedly for "security" reasons. However, in this buffer zone, there would be several
major cities of Rojava: Qamislô (capital of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria),
Kobanê, Tal-Abyad, Derîk ...
Ankara is openly counting on settling some of the 3 million Syrian refugees who live on
its soil, under the good old Ottoman policy of deporting people according to the political
interests of the moment.
Can we imagine that, tomorrow, Kobanê, where the Kurdish left put a stop to the jihadist
expansion, Kobanê be occupied by the Turkish army, which sponsored Daesh for years ?
After the invasion of the Canton of Afrin, which left thousands dead and led to ethnic
cleansing, with 250,000 Kurds driven from their homes and replaced by the mercenary
families of the ASL, one is right to fear a new operation of this type.
For the moment, the Russians and Americans are wavering and opposing Ankara's demands.
Rojava is not immune to an imperialist arrangement at his expense.
Revolutionaries around the world should prepare for this eventuality. Fighters and
volunteer fighters continue to fight alongside the YPG-YPJ, as the group Tekosîna Anarsîs
(Anarchist Combat) we salute in passing. Solidarity is paramount, it must continue to be
heard to defend freedom and revolution in Kurdistan.
Libertarian Communist Union , August 27, 2019
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Le-regime-d-Erdogan-fourbit-ses-armes-contre-le-Rojava
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Message: 4
On the 24th of August members of the Anarchist Federation, as part of the London
Anti-Fascist Assembly (LAFA), marched against an abortive "Free Tommy" demonstration. This
was the second mobilisation of the month (read our report on the first one here) and the
strain of attempting two marches in one month was showing on both sides. However, LAFA
still managed to get about 150 people gathered at Oxford Circus before marching off to
Portland Place to meet the far right demonstration there. ---- When we got there, the far
right presence was only a small band of diehards, which grew later as another tiny far
right march from Trafalgar Square linked up with them. Even with the Trafalgar mob, LAFA
had them outnumbered, and the anti-fascist presence was further bolstered by an 80 strong
march from Stand Up To Racism which joined us later.
As usual, the police were the most dangerous threat to anti-fascism and they devoted
significant resources to keeping us contained. They pushed us away from the Tommy
supporters and ended up kettling us on the pavement opposite the "Free Tommy"
demonstration and mostly kept the two sides separate, although the far right did throw
some flares and some Nazi salutes at us.
They day was mostly uneventful until we went to leave. At that point the police attacked
our bloc without provocation and arrested three anti-fascists, although the "Free Tommy"
demonstration also took four arrests for various acts on boneheadery. Luckily there were
no serious injuries on our side as far as I know despite the heavy handed police response.
Aside from police brutality the main threat on the day was the heat, with temperatures as
high as high as 29C. We must give thanks to QueerCare again for providing medics to make
sure everyone survived the heat as well as the police repression.
The far right showing was dismal compared to their last march in London on the 3rd of
August, let alone the huge numbers they pulled last summer. This "Free Tommy"
demonstration looked more like the motley band of cranks that characterised the far right
after the disintegration of the English Defence League than the mass movement they seemed
to be building last year.
But we cannot be complacent, several things were against the far right on the 24th that
might mean this drop in numbers is only temporary. Firstly, they screwed up their
mobilisation horribly, cancelling it before attempting to remobilise unofficially.
Secondly, marching twice in a month is always an organisational stretch, and many of the
supporters from outside of London may have stayed away. Lastly, the hot weather probably
discouraged some people, especially the far right football hooligans who would have to
choose between watching the games on at the time in a nice cool pub or marching around
getting sunburn in central London.
However, the short gap between this and the last march, the difficulty in organising
against the far right when they themselves do not know what they are doing, and the heat
also made this a hard mobilisation for LAFA. Ultimately we outnumbered and out organised
the "Free Tommy" crowd on the day and hopefully we can do it again in October, when the
next march in London is likely to happen.
https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/lafa-again-report-on-august-the-29th/
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Message: 5
The world designed by the rulers has no vision of a different social institution for a
perverse life. They want us to stop fighting forever, to think about smiling. The world of
modern state-capitalist totalitarianism is a world of increasing exclusion of excluded
strata, barbaric exploitation of workers, and a constant state of emergency to curtail
freedom. ---- The new government that emerged after the July 7th elections is trying to
capitalize on the right-wing agenda everything that the left-wing government has
generously delivered over the past. It is clear that the new management will try to take
advantage of whatever popular consensus it has gained to move even more vigorously on the
path it has taken: from Moria to closed camps, from NGOs to cops, from evacuations to the
Orphanage, Niki, the University reigns in 2015 and the evacuations of refugee squads in
the new attacks on Notary, Dream and the political outposts of the anarchist struggle,
from drugmaking to batsmanship and back again.
All the previous time, and especially in Thessaloniki, the promotion of nationalist,
fascist and interstate reservations on squares and sidewalks was attempted openly. The
anti-fascist movement has fought dozens of battles against them, especially in the period
since the January 21 rally, to bring them back to their holes, but we must not worry.
The state may soon incorporate all repressive tactics in the near future, but fascists can
always be found behind the back of the police. After all, it is this police-paramilitary
combination that has managed to ignite the occupation of Libertatia.
It is up to us to completely reverse the climate that was temporarily created in the city
as a result of the revival of nationalism, racism and darkness on the occasion of the
Macedonian revival, sending their bodies once and for all to the dustbin of History. To
show in practice that ultimately the state and the statesmen did nothing. As long as the
enormous and particularly demanding process of 'Rebuild Libertatia' is pursued, our aim is
to defend the occupation politically, the most important condition for its success, as
well as the financial support of the project.
The Liberty Festival of Occupied Spaces and Collectibles
The organization of the Freedom Festival of Occupied Areas and Collections aims to create
a public and open political and cultural space for meeting, communication and fermentation
between the social and class struggles developed from below and the intervention of
anarchist and libertarian media.
The themes on which the festival's political events and presentations will take place
cover a wide range of student resistance and struggles of indigenous people in Latin
America, up to women's emancipation, the fight against war and nationalism, but also
acquaintance with new libertarian publishing ventures and their significant contribution,
which enriches our understanding based on the experiences of struggle from previous
kinetic attempts to resist and overthrow it. Rato and capital. Events repeatedly
intertwined with the past in order to stand up to the dystopian present of modern
totalitarianism.
We choose the festival to be occupied on campus as well, aiming both at the actual defense
and social support of the occupied areas, which have already been put on the forefront of
state repression, as well as the defense of social asylum and conquest. has once again
been targeted by the state. They try to impose a graveyard silence on all social sites. We
also have to give our own answers, and these are also unfolded, fermented, and expressed
in the open processes of our communities, in our events and celebrations, in our protests
and debates.
We aim to create a space where as many people as possible can come into contact with the
struggle of anarchists for a society of equality and freedom through discussions and
briefings, book presentations, photography and documentary exhibitions, theatrical
performances and concerts.
In this way, we will have the opportunity to create yet another terrain where anarchists'
perceptions, practices, proposals, positions and struggles will be raised on a number of
issues that run the political and social reality of our time. A public dialogue where we
will have the opportunity to get to know and present experiences of struggle and political
conclusions from resistance that unleashes social liberation.
Occupation "Libertatia", Occupation "Mundo Nuevo", collectivism for "Libertatia"
liberalism, collectivism for "Black & Red" Social Anarchism, Anarchist student group
"Ataxia", Women Initiative against Patriarchate, Eleutherios
* Full program and poster will be announced soon.
Poster for the Thessaloniki Occupation & Collective Freedom Festival
By APO -August 28, 2019089
Poster for the Thessaloniki Occupation & Collective Freedom Festival
3-4-5-6 SEPTEMBER 2019
Events Schedule:
THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
[in the occupation of MUNDO NUEVO | Philippos & Siatistis, Roman Agora]
18.00 EVENT: Presentation of the brochure "Capitalist Restructuring in Education"
From the Anarchic Student Group "ATAXIA"
(on the terrace of the occupation)
20:00 DOCUMENTARY VIEW: "For Life"["De toda la vida" 1986]
Lisa Berger-Carol Mazer, Spain (30´)
(on the terrace of the occupation)
20:30 BOOKSHOP: MUJERES LIBRES, REHABILITATION & WOMEN'S HANDLING
Participants: Nautilus releases & comrades from the book translation team
(on the terrace of the occupation)
22.30 Rock LIVE with: Electro Vampires, FLOW 102
(on the ground floor)
* At Occupation "Mundo Nuevo" there will be a permanent photo exhibition on "Anarchist
women in Spain, before and after the mujeres libres", which was granted to Occupation by
the Spanish CGT (Confederation General del Trabajo)
WEDNESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
[in the occupation of MUNDO NUEVO | Philippos & Siatistis, Roman Agora]
18:00 EVENT: Patriarchy: Another arrow in the quagmire of modern totalitarianism. The
fight against it as part of the broader struggle against state and capital.
FROM THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST PATRIARCHY
(on the terrace of the occupation)
19:00 UPDATE on Mapuche race and screening of documentary "Newen Mapuche" (125?)
(on the 3rd floor of the squadron)
21:00 EVENT: A PEOPLE IN THE WEAPONS, THE PISTOLERISMO PERIOD IN THE SPANISH MESPOLISM AND
THE HISTORICAL REVIEW
Involved: Collectivity for Social Anarchism "Black & Red",
Angel Perez Gonzalez, translator
(on the ground floor of the squadron)
22:30 THEATRICAL PRESENTATION: IT HURTS MY MIND BY TSRITSANTSOULES
(on the terrace of the occupation)
THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
[at LIBERTATIA TEMPLE | 19 Stratou Ave. & Sarantaporou Street]
18:00 BOOKSHOP: READY FOR REVOLUTION, CNT DEFENSE COMMITTEES IN BARCELONA 1933-1938, by A.
Guillamon
From "Asymmetric Threat" editions (member of "Los Solidarios" publishing venture)
19:30 EVENT: George ORGUEL: A CONSERVATIVE ANARCH FIRE IN AN ELEPHANT, A DISCUSSION ON
BOOKS Shooting an Elephant and George Orwell: a Conservative Anarchist.
Participated in: Nautilus releases,
Dimitris Markopoulos (Magma editions), Nikos Kourkoulos (translator)
21:00 EVENT: UNDERSTANDING OF MACEDONIANS, PRISONERS & THE ANARIC MOVIE ANSWER - CAMPAIGN
AGAINST WAR AND THEIR NATION
Involved: Collective for Social Anarchism "BLACK & RED" | collectivism for libertarian
communism "LIBERTATIA" anarchist collegiality "DOUBLE HORSE" (Patras)
22.30 REBETT FUN in the courtyard of the squatting with HAIR CUBARS & GUESTS
PREPARATION SEPTEMBER 6
[IN THE GRASSES OF THE AUTO SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY]
18:00 BOOKSHOP: BAKUININ'S LYRICS IN CASTLE, SAN MICHAEL, JULIOLI MANIERI & THE 1898
ANTI-AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE (ROME)
Participated in: Nautilus Liberal Editions
19:30 EVENT: WE ARE CRAZY AND HAPPY, PHOTOGRAPHING THE WILD SIDE OF THE 80s ("Editions"
edition)
Participants: George Nikolaidis, photographer
21:00 BOOKSHOP: WHEN COCKRAS LOVES SCOTTI, A HISTORY OF ANARCHIC MOVEMENT IN GREECE IN THE
DECADES OF 1970
Participated in: "Bibliopelagos" Editions
22:30 HIP-HOP CONCERT WITH YOU:
Absinth
Sponty
Tragic irony
Dj homies
RAEM
Renovatio
* There will be a cinema bookstore at all events
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We're back, with our 3rd anarchist reading group session. ---- Study for Struggle is North
East Anarchist Groups reading group, where we get together and discuss texts relating to
radical politics and the emancipatory struggle for freedom. ---- Our third session will be
the first of a two-parter on environmentalism from a radical, anarchist perspective. In
this first session, we will discuss some classic anarchist and communist texts relating
the environment, nature and ecology. In the second session, to be held in December, we'll
have some more contemporary texts! ---- We'll discuss how climate change relates to us
here and now, how environmentalism relates to the class struggle and talk about ideas for
a sustainable future. ---- We've had some positive feedback regarding the reading group
sessions, so if you haven't popped along yet, we hope to see you at a session soon! From
someone who attended:-
"Excellent discussion meeting with serious-minded but simpatico people. Recommend
attendance at the next one!" (We had to Google what simpatico meant too, don't worry!)
Texts for this session are below!
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1964) by ‘Lewis Herber' (Murray Bookchin)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-bookchin-ecology-and-revolutionary-thought
Chapter 8 of Anarchy, Geography and Modernity, titled "The Feeling for Nature in Modern
Society (1866)" by Elisee Reclus
http://shorturl.at/nDV09 (CW: Some colonialist language in this piece)
The Destruction of Nature (1909) by Anton Pannekoek
https://libcom.org/library/destruction-nature-anton-pannekoek
We hope to see some of you there and if you decide to participate further, you can help
shape the content of future reading group sessions! So please get involved!
None of us are experts! So come along and join the discussion!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/428039201393452/
https://northeastanarchistgroup.org/2019/08/28/study-for-struggle-3/
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