Today's Topics:
1. Poland, rozbrat.org: POZNAN WITHOUT EVICTION, EXPLOITATION
AND POVERTY! 25 YEARS OLD ROZBRATU - EXHIBITION /
INFO POINT AT GALERIA ARSENAL [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. unautrefutur, CGA: Police harassment is enough! in Montreuil
on August 3rd (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. US, WSA, ideas and action: Statement on the United For
Respect organization (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Manifesto of the Union Communist Libertaire UCL - A
social and popular anti-fascism (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. umanita nova: Centenary of Humanity Nova -- administration
humanity nova articles * in evidence (it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Call for contribution in the third edition of A Inimiga da
Rainha magazine By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Russia, avtonom: "I consider the charges absurd, as well as
the regime in our country": Vladislav Barabanov was arrested
until September 27 [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
From 26 July to 22 September in the Poznan City Gallery Arsenal you can watch the
exhibition / info point documenting the quarter-century of activities and fights fought by
the anarchist movement in Poznan . Realization of the project was possible thanks to the
reaction of the Galeria Arsenal team to the current situation related to Rozbrat's threat.
Workers and employees of the Arsenal, (similarly to the previous CK Zamek, Malta Festival
and Port Etno), decided to support us in the campaign. The title of the jointly organized
exhibition is "Poznan without eviction, exploitation and poverty! 25 years of Rozbrat ".
It consists of both leaflets, brochures, bulletins, posters, photos, graphics, templates
and four video materials to be watched on site ("Containers", "Plate", "Tenants for sale",
"Amazon - time to strike ").
Department: Rozbrat stays!
Keywords Rozbrat stays Rozbrat stays
They reflect, in a nutshell, the broad spectrum of activities of Poznan anarchists, their
campaigns show the evolution of political interests, aesthetics, language, and above all -
the scale of the impact of the bottom-up social movement on the situation in the city (and
beyond). Her message is clear and legible: there is no Poznan without Rozbrat! Below we
present the curatorial text accompanying the exhibition:
POZNAN WITHOUT EVICTION, EXPLOITATION AND POVERTY! 25 YEARS OF ROZBRAT!
The exhibition 'Poznan without eviction, exploitation and poverty! 25 years of Rozbrat!
"Is an attempt to present the multi-layered, socially, ecologically and culturally
involved activities of the Rozbrat collective. To bring visitors closer to the most
relevant local issues, we have divided the exhibition into eight thematic sections: tenant
movements, workers' movement, uncensored culture, publishing houses, social feminism,
environmental issues, anti-war activities and social campaigns and initiatives. A separate
infographic is dedicated to each issue. In addition, we provide zines, newspapers and
brochures published by the collective. The subject of the accommodation is supplemented by
documentary films made during protests against the displacement of the tenement house
residents at ul. Stolarska and for the liquidation of a container housing estate in Poznan.
The exhibition is to draw attention to the issues of privatizing public space, allocating
green areas for development and limiting access to common areas. Rozbrat, as an important
culture-creating place existing on the map of Poznan for a quarter of a century, should
not disappear due to economic pressure and private interests.
Rozbrat is a place where you can organize differently - without subsidies and sponsors, on
a non-commercial basis, jointly building a socio-political center accessible to everyone,
regardless of wealth and origin. But it is above all a place where various social
activities come from - to go further into the city space.
In other words, there is no Poznan without Rozbrat!
POZNAN WITH NO EVICTIONS, EXPLOITATION, AND POVERTY! 25 YEARS OF ROZBRAT!
The exhibition "Poznan with no evictions, exploitation, and poverty! 25 years of Rozbrat!
"Rozbrat collective. In order to bring people, we have divided the most important local
issues, we have divided the exhibition into eight thematic sections: tenants 'movement,
workers' movement, culture without censorship, printing issues, social feminism,
environmental issues, anti-war activities, social campaigns and initiatives. Each issue is
presented on a separate infographic. Cosmetics, newspapers and brochures published by
Rozbrat collective are available on spot. The subject of the tenants' movement is
supplemented by the documentary film. In turn, workers' matters are taken up by a film
titled "Cofelski's employees and a video" referring to the collective labor dispute at Amazon.
The exhibition aims to draw attention to common areas. Rozbrat, as an important
culture-creating a place on the map.
Rozbrat is a place where one can organize differently - without subsidies and sponsors, on
non-commercial terms while building a common, socio-political center accessible to
everyone, regardless of wealth and origin. But it is primarily a place where the social
space is located.
In other words, there is no Poznan without Rozbrat!
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/rozbrat-zostaje/4635-poznan-bez-eksmisji-wyzysku-i-biedy-25-lat-rozbratu-wystawa-info-punkt-w-galerii-arsenal
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Message: 2
They are inhabitants of Montreuil, they are workers, it is "France who gets up early" to
take an old formula. And yet, since May, the police have been harassing and threatening
them. This can not continue any longer, we call on the solidarity of the population. ----
Police officers who make the watch, facies checks, arrests, threats of expulsion
("obligation to leave the French territory") ... The area around Robespierre metro and
Place Charles-de-Gaulle. have become, for several weeks, dangerous areas when you have
black skin. Why this harassment? ---- In retaliation for the ex-Afpa's requisition ...
---- Place Charles-de-Gaulle, there is the former center Afpa, rightly requisitioned in
the fall of 2018 by the City of Montreuil to relocate the residents of the migrant
workers' home on Bara Street, totally unhealthy, because deplorable management. Many
relocates are also undocumented, and forced to work in hiding. The building of Afpa, it
belongs to the state, and the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis has never digested his
requisition.
... by a relentless prefect ...
However, since April 29, 2019, the Seine-Saint-Denis has inherited a prefect shock.
Georges-François Leclerc practiced in the Alpes-Maritimes for two and a half years, where
he orchestrated a constant repression against the migrants and their supporters - notably
the peasant Cédric Herrou, whom he attacked in court (in vain, fortunately). Same topo
against yellow vests. After the police seriously injured a 73-year-old Attac activist,
Geneviève Legay, in Nice, he was transferred.
And it is not a coincidence that he was parachuted into the 93. Abuse migrant workers,
undocumented, it helps to "put in pace" our rebel, popular, mixed-race - and for these
three reasons constantly targeted by the slanders of the far right and the government.
Gathering support for Chronopost strikers, July 10, 2019.
... to accentuate the overexploitation of undocumented workers
This harassment is not intended to empty Montreuil or France of its undocumented. These
are systematically used to lower costs. No building site opens without them. It is the
strikes that reveal the scandals, like currently that of Chronopost, Alfortville, which
involves several undocumented residents of Montreuil.
Since June 11, they have held a picket line without stopping, to request their
regularization. La Poste takes advantage of their deprivation of rights to make them trim
the sorting and unloading of trucks in unworthy conditions: hiring at 3 or 4 o'clock in
the morning, part time, for 600 euros per month, overtime unpaid, transferred in case of
claim or illness ...
We call for a first demonstration of response with migrant workers SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 2
PM from the town hall of Montreuil to say stop harassment, stop overuse, regularization of
undocumented The event Fb
First signatories: CGT Local Union, Montreuil Solidaires, Vitry Workers' Committee of
Vitry, New Anti-Capitalist Party, Libertarian Communist Union, French Jewish Union for Peace
tract_soutien_aux_sans-papiers_3_aout_2019Le harcèlement policier, ça suffit! à Montreuil
le 3 aout - Libertarian Communist Union - Grand Paris
http://unautrefutur.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/tract_soutien_aux_sans-papiers_3_aout_2019.pdf
http://unautrefutur.org/category/theme/luttes-sociales/
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Message: 3
This guest column of Labor Pains is written by the Target Workers Unite! an independent
initiative run by rank and file Target team members. ---- Introductory comments by a TWU
member ---- Here's our account on how one specific NGO undermined our efforts to organize
as rank and file workers, the important thing to remember is that this is systemic, it's
not just a matter of individual's actions, these legal structures force a conservatism
within non profits which keep workers subordinate. ---- "Statement on the United For
Respect organization" ---- By Target Workers Unite ---- Some may have the impression that
Target Workers Unite has been a project of the non-profit corporation known as United For
Respect (formerly Organization United for Respect at Walmart or OUR Walmart). We rank and
file Target workers issue this statement to clarify the relationship between Target
Workers Unite and United For Respect (U4R).
OUR FIRST STRIKE
Target Workers Unite can find its origins in our first strike action in Christiansburg,
Virginia at Target Store 1292. Local workers came together in August 2017 to strike
against our ex-boss Daniel Butler, who had been engaging in sexual harassment and other
reactionary behaviors towards Target workers. There was no formal relation between
ourselves as rank and file Target workers and any union or non-profit organization. It was
entirely an independent initiative created and led by workers committed to worker power in
our community. Our first strike action was a success. The abusive boss was fired, and we
won our case before the National Labor Relations Board, a case concerning illegal threats
and intimidation of Target workers for going on strike and sustaining workplace organizing
after the strike action in August 2017.
WORKING WITH U4R
In early 2018, staff from United For Respect contacted Target workers at Store 1292,
inviting us to join and build a united front of retail workers - at least this is how it
was presented to us. When first sitting down with U4R organizers and staff there were
preliminary discussions about what organizing Target workers would look like. We had an
idea of what that should be:
Establish a national newsletter and website for Target workers as a means to centralize
our grievances and transmit a strategy and advocacy for workers to organize via shopfloor
worker committees.
Avoid a traditional unionization campaign not centered on an NLRB union election process,
instead using the right to concerted activity in the private sector to bring change
directly on the shopfloor, building an independent worker organization to force
concessions from management in any Target store. We refer to this orientation as
SOLIDARITY UNIONISM
U4R told us that we were of like minds and that these were areas for collaboration.
BALTIMORE BETRAYAL
Working in good faith with U4R staff in 2018, our objective was a Target worker organizing
committee with the resources to help recruit Target workers across the country. These
efforts led to the first strike action in Baltimore. Workers from Target Store 1265 wanted
to hold their racist and abusive management accountable, just as we had at Store 1292. We
recounted our strike action and strategy to our fellow workers, and they too wanted to
follow suit. Initially it seemed as if U4R was on board with this, flying out a paid
organizer to help create a store committee and to plan for a strike action. But as we
approached the projected strike date, the staff from U4R increasingly hesitated and
discouraged us Target workers. They also tipped off store management by prematurely filing
several NLRB and EEOC charges without consulting Target workers in the organizing
committee. This allowed the corporation to preempt our efforts and contain disruption
through an internal investigation that removed a few scapegoats. During this time, Target
workers spent a tremendous amount of time networking with local community groups, unions,
and media, building support for the impending strike action. We were cajoled by the U4R
staff and directors to postpone or stop our strike action on at least three occasions,
making us look unprofessional and unable to commit to plans made with these community
groups in Baltimore. We believe the actions of U4R seriously diminished the turnout for
our picket line and press coverage of the strike action.
We pressed for a multiday strike action based on our prior strike and its success, but
instead we were encouraged to do a short, symbolic one hour strike action. We were also
encouraged to do a sales floor disruption, action that is unprotected activity and grounds
for legitimate discipline and/or termination by Target Corporation. We expressed
reservations about this proposed disruption, since we knew we had no legal protection to
do so, but we believed following through would establish that we are willing to work with
U4R and collaborate towards bigger and better efforts. We were also told not to mention
U4R to media or portray ourselves as connected in any way with U4R during this strike
action. We finally followed through with this strike action, despite the setbacks from U4R
staff, and it helped to galvanize community and worker support for subsequent strike
actions in Baltimore. But to add insult to injury, after we Target workers managed to
garner press coverage of our strike action at Store 1265 all on our own, U4R decided to
use the media we produced in their own propaganda. This was tremendously upsetting to the
Target workers at 1265. When we requested to discuss this issue via a letter of petition,
U4R ignored our letter. This would not be the last time Target workers faced indifference
and silence from U4R staff.
As this was happening, we crafted the first draft of a national Target newsletter by
Target workers, as was agreed to by U4R staff. Once again we were discouraged, this time
from printing or distributing the newsletter. Instead we were promoted to create a secret
Facebook group where the contents of the newsletter could be contained which would isolate
its distribution. The U4R staff have repeatedly shown a conservative orientation toward
Target workers doing anything other than follow the predetermined agenda made by staff
without our consultation, without an open discussion of strategy and tactics for
organizing Target workers. We were told on multiple occasions that having U4R associate
with anything we did, whether it was a newsletter or a strike action, could jeopardize the
legal status of U4R, fearing that Target would file an injunction against them. This is a
fair concern. We are not reckless and do not promote reckless behavior, but U4R on the
other hand has repeatedly encouraged Target workers to engage in reckless actions that
have no legal protection and could easily result in the termination of Target workers.
Towards the end of 2018, U4R began to make it apparent that they had little interest in
actually organizing Target workers to do anything substantial on the shopfloor. Instead it
was apparent that U4R's conception of organizing was to essentially turn workers into
lobbyists, encouraging us to take action anywhere but the shopfloor. From a conservative
viewpoint this makes sense, as it has the least amount of legal risk, but building real
worker power is inherently risky and requires sacrifice that can only be accomplished by
workers on the shopfloor. This strategy of fighting for policy change is one that takes
the struggle out of the hands of workers and puts it in the hands of NGOs, legal
professionals, and politicians.
The purpose of our collaboration with U4R was to enhance our efforts to organize Target
workers and to build real independent working class organization that didn't fall into the
politics-as-usual routine of a traditional unionization drive or symbolic and impotent
strike actions that we have seen with the SEIU-funded "Fight For $15" campaign.
Unfortunately, we discovered that U4R does not move beyond these ineffectual forms of
labor organizing but instead perpetuates them.
THE CREATION OF TARGET WORKERS UNITE
We, the workers of Target, were extremely disillusioned with these repeated promises,
backpedaling, and changes of mind. We were always thanked for "being flexible" and for
understanding that U4R was in a "period of transition." Frankly, we've never known U4R to
not be in a "period of transition," an apparent excuse to justify backdoor maneuvering
that undermines our rank and file efforts. This is why we launched Target Workers Unite.
We concluded that U4R had no real intention to organize Target workers, especially when
they ended their facilitated weekly committee calls for Target workers. We didn't want our
efforts to die. We have spent too much of our own time and money to stop just because an
NGO lost interest. Over the course of the winter of 2018 we rebuilt momentum. Through our
own efforts and persistence Target workers have reached out to us to help them fight back
against their bosses. This is how our latest strike action in Baltimore developed at Store
1541. These workers called us personally asking for our help and when we presented the
issue to U4R in the hopes of gathering more support we got silence once more, not even
helping us to signal boost the strike action on their social media channels.
ANOTHER BETRAYAL
After launching Target Workers Unite, U4R staff again expressed interest in organizing
Target workers. They asked to have access to the contacts we gathered. We agreed. Though
we had reservations, we still hoped to create a mutually beneficial relationship between
ourselves as Target workers and U4R, considering their resources and staffing. This led to
the launch of the Target worker survey project. We crafted the questions, spent our own
resources to boost the survey, getting results over a period of months with little-to-no
resources provided by U4R. As we promoted the survey to Target workers across the country,
we found U4R had edited our survey without consulting us. Though we presented the survey
as anonymous to calm fears that Target workers would be identified by Target Corporation,
U4R decided to ask for names, phone numbers, and other contact information, removing any
sense of anonymity for Target workers. We received angry responses from Target workers
about being spammed with emails, texts, and phone calls from U4R staff. When we asked why
this was done without our approval, we were given the vague answer "to build power," but
it appears that U4R's only concern is to spam workers, souring relations with other Target
workers we now have to work to overcome. Our power and organization hinges upon trust, but
U4R has repeatedly destroyed trust among workers.
It has been a difficult process for us to gather enough survey responses to have any claim
of accuracy. We spent hundreds of hours reaching out to Target workers and hundreds of our
own dollars to deliver the survey to other Target workers across the country. But before
we could reach the necessary threshold for our survey, U4R organizers, without consulting
the Target workers leading the project, called for the formation of a survey committee to
process the results, appointed a non-Target worker to lead the committee, and removed us
as administrators from the Facebook group that we had established. This was the final
straw for us. It was evident that U4R-paid organizers were working to appropriate our
efforts and contacts only to isolate and contain the workers who have been leading these
efforts from day one. We sent a message to all Target contacts in our social media
network, including the Facebook group, providing a short summary of U4R transgressions and
a warning to other Target workers about what to expect when working with U4R. Not long
after, we were banned from all U4R social media networks and lost access to our own
survey. U4R paid organizers then sent a message claiming the survey was their property and
that as "an act of good faith" they would transfer ownership to us, the Target workers.
They portrayed us as reckless. They said that their strategy for a fair work week policy,
in partnership with the NGO Fair Workweek Initiative - another front for the Center For
Popular Democracy - would deliver qualitative change, even though their strategy only
amounts to a media campaign and a few staged actions at Target Corporate offices.
The U4R strategy is based on the idea that they can pressure Target Corporation
representatives into meeting with a few token workers. They want to present their fair
workweek policy to persuade the corporation to adopt it without any real worker power on
the shopfloor, without any real leverage to force concessions from the corporation. This
appears to be a delusional strategy that has no concept of how demands are won by workers,
but it only appears delusional if we fail to recognize the real aim of U4R and other NGOs
and unions. They don't want worker power, only the appearance of worker power mediated by
paid staff reliant on philanthropists and foundations, which want nothing more than the
"humane" exploitation of workers, not genuine worker power rooted on the shopfloor or the
abolition of worker exploitation. Should we really be surprised that U4R undermines rank
and file worker initiatives when their own directors have a history in the labor movement
of stopping such rank and file initiatives at the behest of labor bureaucrats?
At U4R events, they give the impression that U4R is the reason wages have been raised at
Walmart, but they only tell half-truths about these claims. They don't mention that the
wage increases at Walmart were paid for by laying off thousands of workers. If they claim
victory for the wage increase, should they not also celebrate the job losses? A real sign
of power and leverage for workers would entail a wage increase without mass layoffs, but
we know that U4R doesn't have that kind of power, and they aren't working to construct it.
At their gatherings they advocate for the "small circle group," which is the closest they
come to promoting shop floor organizing, but according to U4R, a small circle group can be
anything and can exist anywhere, a facebook group, a facebook chat, workers scattered
across the country and not situated within a particular store. It is a completely hollow
slogan. This kind of organizing hasn't happened anywhere in their Walmart worker campaign.
If they actually wanted shopfloor small circles or worker committees, they would have to
spend the time and effort to actually train workers to be organizers on the shopfloor.
They haven't. Instead they take the workers out of the workplace to campaign and speak out
on conditions everywhere but the shopfloor. They take the workers away from their
community and coworkers, the place where workers can actually have influence and build
working class power.
WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM
We as Target Workers Unite do not claim to have built the sort of leverage necessary to
win major concessions for Target workers nationally. We aspire to this power, and we are
actively working towards this, but we can at least be honest about our capacities and
intentions, claiming no easy victories. We understand that building leverage and power
always stems from direct shopfloor action in our stores. We must build parallel
organization by workers against each store management, who are counter-organizing workers
to carry out the corporate agenda. We must teach our fellow workers that we and the bosses
have no common interest, that our interest is worker democracy and worker control on the
shopfloor. We must determine how things operate and are run at our stores, so that we can
serve our communities. U4R and other NGOs and mainstream unions have no interest in this,
instead perpetuating worker subordination to our corporate overlords - albeit mediated by
the NGOs and unions. We must build genuine worker power that features working class
independence from these bureaucratic institutions and their corporatism. This will only
happen through militant struggle by the workers ourselves. The professionals won't lead us
to the promised land; only we can liberate ourselves.
We as Target Workers Unite are skeptical of non-profit organizations and labor unions.
They have a history of selling out workers. They prefer to cut deals with our corporate
overlords for the sake of keeping the peace, for protecting the positions of well-paid
labor bureaucrats who control these labor unions and non-profits, and for maintaining
working relations with corporate executives. This phenomenon has come to be known as
BUSINESS UNIONISM. These labor organizations function as an extension of control over
workers for the interests of the bosses. These practices have resulted in decades of
decline for the working class, who are forced into this new normal by taking on multiple
part-time, precarious service sector jobs featuring unstable schedules, little-to-no
employee benefits - including healthcare - and the various social problems that result
from such conditions, including lack of access to good housing, education, and many other
quality of life factors. Our current situation and its development was not a coincidence
but a concerted effort by our corporate overlords and their lackeys in government and in
the organizations that claim to represent workers. This decades-long process is what
academics refer to as NEOLIBERALISM, a response to the economic recession of the 1970's
that signaled an end to the economic period of growth following World War II. During this
period our corporate overlords attacked the standards of living for working class people
through aggressive government and corporate policies that eroded the power of the working
class and organized labor. They eliminated pensions, forcing workers to gamble their
retirement on the stock market via 401Ks; busted unions, both in the public and private
sector; cut contract deals with union leadership that tied the hands of workers with no
strike clauses and two-tier systems; shrank the labor force by increasing labor
productivity through intensified work expectations, the automation of production
processes; and outsourced jobs to countries with more easily-exploited workers. All these
policies were enacted in the private and public spheres with the aid of Democrat and
Republican politicians, as well as the union leadership. This is still the case today; we
still live in the era of NEOLIBERALISM and its labor strategy of BUSINESS UNIONISM. Our
corporate overlords could not have achieved this without the complicity of the leadership
of unions and labor organizations. Neoliberalism is not exclusive to the US; it is a
global strategy and orientation used by capitalists, unions, and their governments to
maximize profits by sucking the blood of workers until we die - and which is driving human
civilization to the brink of collapse via ecocide.
This statement is to serve as a testament and warning about the continued practices of
BUSINESS UNIONISM under the era of NEOLIBERALISM from NGOs and unions and their top-down
approaches to "organizing" workers. For real change we cannot look to these entities to
take us forward, we must look to ourselves as workers and no longer settle for piecemeal
reforms, but take the whole thing over.
TWU website: https://targetworkersunite.com
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http://ideasandaction.info/2019/08/statement-united-respect-organization
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We generally favor social movements as instruments of change and action on reality. In the
field of antifascism, they can have an essential role of containment and alternative. ----
Demonstration after the murder of Clément Méric by neo-Nazis, June 6, 2013. ---- cc
Quentin Benmahdi ---- Fascism can not be reduced to the historical experiences embodied by
Mussolini and Hitler. In forms adapted to our time, fascism can continue to present itself
as a modern political "solution". ---- Fascism is an ideology that claims to hybridize
social and national discourse. It is linked to the formation of a "revolutionary right"
that challenges the bourgeois democratic ideology, the Enlightenment rationalism. Fascism
is thus seen as "revolutionary", but serves the interests of the bourgeoisie by breaking
popular struggles, seen as a threat against "national unity". It puts forward the nation
presented as an organism that should be purified of domestic enemies that are in his eyes
minorities, foreigners and foreigners, but also the subversive elements, inducing a racist
vision, but also misogynistic and LGBTIphobe. It is finally a speech assigning an identity
to a territory.
Falsely anticapitalist, this ideology defends the economic order, the private property of
the means of production and the profit motive. She opposes industrial capitalism,
national, considered "genuine" financial capitalism, arbitrarily separated, and
amalgamated to Jews and Jewish by the antisemitic discourse. It serves to protect the
bourgeoisie. It accepts the role of banks willingly, since they finance it.
Fascism wants to mobilize the masses
In the practice of power, fascism is a mode of government that practices state terrorism
associated with a strategy of terror carried out by armed gangs whose impunity is assured.
It seeks to mobilize massively the population in the street to impose its views, to break
the legislative and constitutional locks likely to hinder, and muzzle its opponents - the
labor movement, feminist, minorities and progressive or democratic organizations.
If it possesses an autonomous dynamic like movement and ideology, fascism plays a role of
last resort to maintain the privileges of the possessing minority. It is for this reason
that the majority of the bourgeoisie has always supported fascism against the workers'
movement in times of crisis, according to the phrase "Rather Hitler than the Popular Front".
Based on this observation, we affirm that the fight against fascism is an absolute
necessity. Far from being a secondary aspect of the class struggle, this struggle is a
question of survival for the dynamics of emancipation in times of crisis.
A strategy based on social movements
We generally favor social movements as instruments of change and action on reality. In the
field of antifascism, they can have an essential role of containment and alternative.
A strike, a feminist mobilization, a struggle for housing, the defense of public services
and public transport are not necessarily anti-fascist. But, implicitly, by pursuing
objectives of collective emancipation, they stand in the way of the extreme right.
Firstly because they occupy the social ground, and designate shareholders, landlords,
landlords and bosses as the real ruling classes. Secondly, because they provide other
values: class solidarity rather than national solidarity ; mutual help rather than
resentment and hatred ; the desire for individual and collective emancipation rather than
attachment to the traditional order ; collective responsibility rather than the cult of
the leader ...
It is fundamental to guarantee the anti-racist nature of these struggles, their openness
to each and every one regardless of their origin, on pain of seeing the fascists seek to
gain a foothold there to orient them in a nationalist sense. However, if social struggles
create a conducive political climate, they are not enough, in themselves, to stop fascism.
A specific fight against the extreme right
There is a specific anti-fascist fight to fight: ideological, political, militant. It is
necessary to refuse the trivialization of the reactionary theses, to counter-argue, to
unmask the counterfeiters. We must organize the self-defense of our spaces, our struggles,
our neighborhoods, in the face of fascist aggression.
We are partisan and in favor of the broadest unity, but on a clear basis, both humanistic
and classy. Social and popular anti-fascism must go beyond the republican professions of
faith on the one hand and affinity and counter-cultural activism on the other.
For our part, we opt for an anti-fascism that is not limited to opposing the "official"
extreme right , but that fights against all policies - police, liberticide and racism -
that open the way for it.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Un-antifascisme-social-et-populaire
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" We know, from long experience, the lively spirit of sacrifice that animates our comrades
when it comes to propaganda and we do not doubt that they will respond worthily to our
appeal. (...) Against the overwhelming power of the bourgeois press it is time that
another voice - in addition to the socialist one - rises daily to fend off official lies,
to unravel the journalistic mystifications paid by dominant cliques, to expose the truths
that are most frightening it's more fought and distorted. (...) those who aspire to a
greater increase in our propaganda and our means of struggle and defense, respond to the
appeal and co-operate at their best so that the project of the QUOTIDIANO ANARCHICO is
soon a complete reality. "
Thus recited an internal circular to the widespread movement after the conference in
Florence in April 1919, in which, in addition to the establishment of the Italian
Anarchist Communist Union, the proposal of Ettore Molinari, Nella Giacomelli and Emilio
Spinaci was adopted by the entire anarchist movement , delegate of Milan, to found a
national newspaper.
In November, everything was ready: the printing press and the four administration and
editorial offices awaited only the paper and Errico Malatesta, editor-in-chief. The
government tried in every way to obstruct the exit of the newspaper, including the arrest
of Malatesta himself, but the threat and the implementation of general strikes caused the
first issue of Humanity Nova to be released on February 27, 1920 , 4 pages, evening
edition, to prevent the printers from working at night, 10 cents with a first print run of
9000 copies up to over 50,000 in the following months.
Since then, Umanità Nova , although in its weekly version, has never stopped being printed
and diffused, giving voice to social anarchism, in a completely self-financed way. With
the reopening of September, preparations for the Centenary will also begin. A competition
for graphic designers and draftsmen, brochures, new gadgets, public initiatives and
conferences are just some of the ideas already in the pipeline. Now as then we need the
support of all the comrades. Only through collaborations, subscriptions, subscriptions and
benefit initiatives can we continue this extraordinary adventure.
https://umanitanova.org/?p=10379
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Save friends, ---- The intersectional anarcho-feminist magazine, The Enemy of the Queen,
is making its third edition. A space of denunciation and collective construction in which
reality comes into debate. Social, subjective, political, everyday and aesthetic reality.
Bringing our struggles closer so that real bonds of solidarity strengthen our hearts as we
resist together against the proliferation of fascist violence that cynically deceives our
society. ---- We aim for a feminism that supports and embodies the struggle of the trans,
poor, black, and indigenous community. We fight against 'feminism' co-opted by capitalism
and the state. It is not enough to fight against the state, we also fight against
patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism and neo-colonialism.
Interested in contributing? Send us your content (image, theoretical, literary, poetic
text, translation, and whatever else you want to fit in 3 pages or a maximum of 2,000
words) to ainimiga @ riseup.net until August 31st. .
* Note: All references, notes, etc., should come at the end of the text.
WE WAIT FOR YOU!
Previous editions are available here:
# 1 https://ainimiga.noblogs.org/files/2017/10/INIMIGA-para-ler.pdf
# 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lOaeykDMIBDICCFKH7-kR9H8MfA0L8rW/view
anarchist news agency-ana
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Today in Moscow, Judge Kirichenko arrested until September 27 the anarchist Vladislav
Barabanov, who had previously been detained for participating in the July 27 protests.
According to the prosecution, he "organized a directed movement" of participants in an
unauthorized rally. Barabanov does not admit guilt, he said in court: "The case is
politically motivated. If I begin to incriminate myself under investigation, know that I
was tortured. I consider the accusations absurd, as well as the regime in our country . "
---- Vladislav was detained on the evening of August 3 at the exit from the special
detention center in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. There he served seven
days of administrative arrest for participating in the rally on July 27. Barabanov's
mother Elena and his friends did not manage to meet the activist from the Moscow special
detention center, as right at the exit two men put him in a car:
"I look, there are no autoruns, everything is fine," she says. - Some passenger car drove
up. <...> I asked, they said, Barabanov was released at 19:50. There, a man in civilian
clothes was walking suspiciously with papers, as it seemed to me. But there were no cars
at all. 19:50 - I'm calling, I'm saying that they should let Barabanov go. They say to me:
"I've already let him go." Well, where is[he]then? "Well, maybe the laces are tied, he
will come out." And then they say to me: "Lena, they put him in a car." This car was
opened the gate, she drove into the territory of the special detention center, drove right
up to the door where Vlad should go. Vlad comes out with things, they put him in a car and
began to leave. I had a shock. And so they go. I did not start the car. The car turned on
the signaling. As it turned out later, they announced some kind of plan "Fortress". The
car screamed. <...> As a result, they all the same began to push us aside. Naturally, the
girl Vlad sat down[on the ground]in front of the car later. Roughly speaking, we were
scattered in different directions. "
Support Vladislav
Other detainees were also arrested today: Sergey Abanichev, Daniil Konon and Sergey Fomin.
Freedom for political prisoners!
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Anarchist Vladislav Barabanov detained for participation in the rally on July 27
August 5, 2019 - 01:13 - Editorial
On July 27, in Moscow, a libertarian left activist from Nizhny Novgorod was detained
Vladislav Barabanov. He was charged with an administrative offense under s.20.2 h.8 and
sent to custody for 7 days.
On August 3, Vladislav was supposed to be released from the detention center, but he was
not even taken out of the gate. The police put Vladislav in a patrol car and drove away in
an unknown direction.
Now Vladislav is in a temporary detention center. He was charged with a criminal offense
under Part 2 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Participation in
riots" in the case of "July 27." It was opened by the Investigative Committee after
dispersal and mass detentions at the protest rally "Let it Be!" in Moscow. August 5 will
be the court as a measure of restraint.
Vladislav is 22 years old, in Nizhny Novgorod, in particular, he regularly went to pickets
in the Network case .
If you want to support Vlad and his family in a difficult situation, help financially.
Money will be needed for the transfer, payment for lawyer services. Below are the details
on which you can make a transfer.
Thanks to everyone and everyone who remains partial!
https://avtonom.org/news/schitayu-obvineniya-absurdnymi-kak-i-rezhim-v-nashey-strane-vladislav-barabanov-arestovan-do-27
https://avtonom.org/news/za-uchastie-v-akcii-27-iyulya-zaderzhan-anarhist-vladislav-barabanov
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