Today's Topics:
1. Czech, AFED, The Ashes of Phoenix - How did the police
misbehavior with terrorist production turn out? And what else is
ahead? ABC booklet review. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, CALL TO DECLINE 14/9 IN PROPYLAIA By APO [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, Open assembly against state repression: [PATRA]
ANTI-RATIFICATION-ANTI-REPRESENTATIVE REVOLUTION
6 YEARS AFTER
PAUL PAULA'S MURDER [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Czech, AFED: Radical Buddhism - A review of a book published
by the Anarchist Federation Publishing House. [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #297 - Education: In
Bobigny, "be a teacher and shut up !" (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, AFED, organise magazine: Hongkongers Ain't Nothing
To Fuck With | International (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: Poznan without eviction,
poverty and exploitation. 25 years of Rozbrat [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Britain, anarchist communismt group: New ACG Pamphlet -
Malatesta on Organisation (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On the occasion of this year's Anarchist Festival, the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) has
published a booklet, The Ashes of Phoenix , which reflects the police operation Phoenix,
designed to construct an anarchist terrorist cell with the help of police agents as a
springboard to criminalize the movement. ---- He puts the chronological overview of events
in the context of the whole case, from the spectacular raid on April 28, 2015 to the
evacuation of the Cibulka squat, the absurd prosecution of Igor Shevcov, another fruitless
raid, the arrest of Lukas Borl. However, it is "improper", as in December 2018 five people
in the Phoenix 2 case were indicted, which the police apparently want to obtain at least
some result when the court sent her to the appropriate places with the first fabricated
case. What is going on in the second case is described in a separate chapter.
There is also an attempt to reflect on what the bird has given us. We will learn that it
is possible to outwit the police by pretending, although at the end of this point it is
aptly stated that this effort has not paid off. Wiretapping of places and phones has
proved ineffective. Perhaps for the cause itself, but not for the needs of deciphering,
what are the ties in the movement, as could be traced from the courtroom plays. The fact
that Seznam.cz is willing to hand over your communication to the police was not so
discovery. Likewise, the well-known fact that data encryption is essential is confirmed.
More beneficial seems to consider in a report from the city court, which eventually
acquitted defendants of guilt for lack of evidence and pointed out the lack of
transparency in the work of the police. That, without blaming for any consequences, has
deprived several people of months of life by imprisonment and has put them and their
families under enormous pressure, notwithstanding "practices such as driving into the
forest, threatening partners and suspects' parents." The report also points out a targeted
effort to discredit us with an empty label of terrorism.
Other conclusions presented in the publication are a bit of carrying wood into the forest.
First, in the finding that "there is no" movement ". Indeed, in spite of the efforts to
federate the anarchists and anarchists, there was not and is not a subject that could be
called a real movement, both qualitatively and quantitatively. And to say that this
repressive wave taught us better tactics and the belief that security is never enough is
just an unwanted admission that similar challenges and warnings were lightly taken by some
activists before this unpleasant experience. A special shout is the appendix at the end of
the brochure referring to the majority rejection of so-called insurgent anarchism in the
anarchist movement: so naive.
The Ashes of Phoenix . 2019. 32 pages A5. Download at
https://antifenix.noblogs.org/files/2019/05/zin-.pdf .
https://www.afed.cz/text/7017/popel-z-fenixe
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Message: 2
Inter-Poster Poster for Solidarity with the Occupiers & Against the Repression Campaign
---- ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANCIENT POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AGAINST STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CAMPAIGN
- CALL FOR 14/9 PROPHYLIA ---- The repressive operations of August 26, with the invasion
of a squadron of MAT squads and the evacuation of four occupied sites, the arrest of 3
occupiers, the recruitment of 143 refugees and immigrants and their expulsion from housing
squads, are the first major occupations. business. A business that has long been heralded
by the ruling elite, and challenged by the systematic targeting of the anarchist movement
and those fighting by the media. ---- This operation was preceded by the adoption of
anti-labor measures, the abolition of asylum, the strengthening of racist legislation
against immigrants and refugees, repressive movements against occupied sites in Athens and
Ioannina. Following the elections, the new government, pushing ahead with the actions of
the previous government, unfolded the agenda for the coming years and highlighted its main
enemies, the enemies of every government: Anarchists, militants, immigrants and workers.
This war operation against those who fight is part of a systematic effort on the part of
the Greek state for decades to subdue social and class resistance and enforce
subordination. An effort that hit the wall of mass and militant mobilizations, uprisings,
struggles.
The bankruptcy of the state and capitalist system, the constant reproduction and deepening
of its ransom, entails escalating exclusion and countless violence for the poor, looting,
and irreversible destruction of the natural world, the death toll and death in the world ,
miserable survival in the workplace.
At both the international and local levels, the fear of the rulers for resentment and
anger at these conditions leads to the upgrading of their legal and repressive armor, to
the gruesome ideological warfare that reaches the point of humanizing the opponents and
annoying about the regime. From Greece to France, power lords call "trash" and "trash"
those who target, as a prelude to the practice of murderous violence.
They are trying to sow fear because they have thousands against them. The images of
armored cops and the invasion of the platoons in Exarchia and the occupations have many
recipients, all of them drowning in exploitation and subjugation. The anarchist movement
appeals to them and from there draws its strength and is a key issue for the days when the
mass and militant descent are coming to the streets, the counterattack of the Praetorian
guards, the colonization of the fighters and the oppressed. The outcome of the battle
against this long-term repressive campaign will judge the power correlations between the
state and the bosses on the one hand and the affected on the other for years to come.
With our weapon of solidarity we give the slogan of counterattack to state and capitalist
barbarism. To rekindle the outbreaks of social and class resistance. We call on the
anarchist comrades, the squatters, those who fight all over the world to organize
solidarity actions and movements in the anarchist movement and squatters in Greece.
Transnational solidarity can be another embodiment in the plans of the state and of
capital and enhance the resistance of all competitors in every corner of the globe.
As an Anarchist Political Organization, we participate, support and call on the
mobilizations organized by the Assembly of Anarchist Occupations, Occupations of Refugees
and Immigrants, Haunts and Political Collections NOPASARAN! in Athens.
BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES
NO DELIVERY OR RECOVERY
They will NOT!
AGAINST THE CONSTITUTIONAL CAMPAIGN
SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN AND THE STRUCTURES OF THE STRUGGLE
DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY
SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 12:00, PROPHYLIA'S STATEMENT, ATHENS
ANARCHIC POLITICAL ORGANIZATION - FEDERATION OF COLLECTIONS
http://apo.squathost.com/6050-2/
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Message: 3
At the open meeting held today (Tuesday 10/9) in the self-managed space Forward to
organize an anti-fascist-anti-fascist march 6 years after the assassination of Paul
Fyssas, issues of political and social context were discussed and considered important the
demonstration of broader anti-oppressive and anti-oppressive characteristics. ----
Especially at a time when the repressive campaign of the state against the spaces of
struggle, the anarchist movement and social / class resistances is underway, we must find
ourselves on the streets again in order to give a massive, kinetic response to the
anti-social and anti-war pronouncements of the new government. ---- Specifically, the
following was decided for the following period: ---- Information gathering: Tuesday 17
September in Espero (Georgiou Square) at 19.00 ---- An open assembly will follow against
the state crackdown at 9 pm
ANTI-RATHER-ANTI-FATHER-REPRESENTATIVE STATEMENT ON WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 18.00 FROM ANNEX
WE DON'T FORGET PAUL'S MURDER BY FACISTS
THIS STEP BACK TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT
BETWEEN HANDS FROM THEIR RACES AND PLACES
Open assembly against state repression
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Announcement of Self-Managed Space Against State Repression Campaign
AGAINST THE STATE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
DOWN THE HANDS FROM THE PATTERNS AND THE WORLD OF THE RACE
SOLIDARITY WILL WIN
On August 26, powerful police forces storm the Exarchia area and evacuate four squads,
arrest three and seize 143 refugees and immigrants. In the following days, starting on
August 29, MAT forces, in a demonstration of power, attack chemical weapons on K * Vox
daily, causing comrade injuries and causing damage to the building. At the same time, the
Exarchate area is reminiscent of a occupied zone, with police men everywhere present,
imposing the "law and order" dogma of the neo-liberal Mitsotakis government.
The government has made it clear from the first moment that it will seek to crush the
internal enemy, other than the anarchists, the immigrants, the workers and the world of
struggle, by those who are resisting the spread of state and capitalist barbarism. The
long-announced repressive campaign (and catches the thread from where the previous
government left it) is a necessary condition for the government to implement its
anti-social plans. After all, it has already shown examples of writing, with the abolition
of asylum, the new racist law on refugees and immigrants, the file of unions, and the
announcements of an even greater assault on workers and their conquests. At the same time,
the attack on the militants and the struggle sites in Exarchia forms part of the broader
plan to expel every fighting element from the neighborhood of Exarchia in order to
transform it into a capitalist zone of profitability. The police crackdown on the region
in recent days aims to terrorize residents, militants and those who oppose state and
capital plans.
As a Self-Managed "On-Person" space, part of the spaces of social and class struggle, we
have nothing but to express our solidarity with our comrades and companions, in
occupations and in the spaces of struggle that are at the heart of state repression. The
attack on them, is an attack on the whole anarchist movement, it is an attack on everyone
who is fighting against the modern totalitarianism that he is trying to impose. For us,
occupation and self-managed spaces are the focal points of our struggles against the state
and capitalism, places of political ferment and housing of our libertarian-anarchist ideas
and constitutions. They are the territories of our perceptions and practices, a channel of
communication with society. We were fighting, we are fighting and we will fight to defend
them with all our might! We do not surrender them to the state, we do not surrender them
to repression!
DOWN THE HANDS FROM THE PATTERNS, STRUCTURES AND THE WORLD OF THE RACE
APPLICABLE TO CONSTRUCTIVE STATE AND CAPITAL DESIGNS
TO RISE UP THE SOLIDARITY ROAD AGAINST THE OUTCOMING REVOLUTIONARY CAMPAIGN
NO DELIVERY - NO RECOVERY
They will NOT !
Protest against state repression campaign on Wednesday, September 11th at 7pm
Comrades and comrades will be briefed by the occupation of Lela Karagiannis 37 on the
recent repressive movements of the state, the No Pasaran campaign and the September 14
demonstration in Athens
We support solidarity in occupied spaces, race structures and social and class resistances
on Saturday 14 September in Propylaea at 12 noon
Self-managed "On-Face" space
Patras, September 2019
epitaprosw@gmail.com | epitaprosw.espivblogs.net
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/
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Message: 4
The anarchist idea clearly stands in opposition to unnatural authorities, both real and
imaginary. It is also the reason why he considers the enemy as religion, with his idea of
all superior gods or deities separated from nature. This is also the reason why the
so-called Christian anarchism was rejected by the vast majority of the anarchist movement
(despite some sympathy), because it did not liberate the human mind from capturing
irrationality, but rather affirmed it. But how do we approach the directions that are
described as religions, even though in reality there is no idea of God behind them, such
as Buddhism? Here too, the answer is not clear. On the one hand, we find philosophy and a
method of freeing from prejudice, on the other hand, an institutionalized religious system
that restricts people as much as other religions, and instead,
How to get out of it? A book published in May this year on the occasion of the seventh
edition of the Prague Anarchist Book Festival and entitled Radical Buddhism could be
helpful . A small reader (not only) for anarchists. In the book, the selected texts were
selected, translated and annotated by Max Šcur. He is a long-standing anarchist and, in
the last few years, also a Buddhist. "I was surprised to find that my anarchist conviction
only strengthened and that it was not at all contrary to Buddhism," he says in the
afterword. Moreover, it has helped him partially free himself from the Western tradition
of thought, to which anarchism belongs, but nevertheless, by its diversity, it defies the
other Western systems of thought. Max notes that "the Buddhist response to suffering lies
not on a theoretical level, but on a practical level, and that is the first and
fundamental thing that brings him closer to anarchism: it is, first and foremost, a life
practice, and then some theory."
In the book, you will encounter men's texts (that there would be no "radical Buddhist"?) -
the philosopher Egon Bondy, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, professor James M. Shields, living
priest of the Soto Brian D. Victoria school, executed priest of the same Gudo school
Uchiyama, the Indian revolutionary Har Dayal, engaged Buddhist Bhimir R. Ambedkar, writer
Gary Snyder, social activist Suluk Sivarakshi, social ecologist Max Cafard, philosophy
professor David R. Loy, Zen master Robert Aitken and punker Noah Levin. At the end of the
book you will also learn about all of them.
Fromm points out the anti-authoritarian nature of Buddhism: "To remove God, make the
individual fully responsible for his actions, rid him of all illusions, overcome his
belonging to class and nation, and arrive at a collective, shared membership of the truth
- only a few radical thinkers today Cafard, in his witty and ironic essay, Zen anarchy
directly states, "From the beginning, Zen was more anarchist than anarchism." And he adds,
"Zen helps us get rid of the congestion of authoritarian ideological apostasy," even
"Buddha is just a hole through all the old shit when we get rid of them. "
In his Anarcho-Communist Revolution, Uchijama clearly states that it is necessary to get
rid of the social superstitions which he considers to be an alleged duty, "that you should
pay the landowner rent (...) ". Not surprisingly, it turned out as it turned out, calling
for action: "Then let's confiscate all the wealth that the government has forcibly and
oppressed since our ancestors, and let's manage it together!" Loy: "Our economic system is
an established greed itself, militarism institutionalizes hatred and media delusions. Any
personal awakening we achieve on our pillows will be incomplete without a social awakening
and a social response to these three (...) causes (...) of suffering. "
Know that religion will not make you better. As Ambedkar says in the interpretation of the
Buddha's teachings, "One should be moral not to please any god. One should love another
man for himself. "Levin does not deny the punk when he says," Do not believe anything that
is based on tradition and charismatic presentation. So, as Cafard recommends, "Go out and
see killing some Buddhas, and I wish you a very, very nice day!"
Radical Buddhism - a small reader (not only) for anarchists . Anarchist Federation
publishing house, 2019. 250 pages A6, paperback, recommended contribution to cover 150 CZK.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7033/radikalni-buddhismus
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Message: 5
Since the beginning of the mobilization against the Blanquer law, everyone has in mind the
extraordinary anti-union repression suffered by four teachers of the college Republic,
Bobigny (93). To defend them, the mobilization was exemplary, even if it was not enough.
---- "Be a teacher and shut up": anyone who participated in the mobilization against the
Blanquer law could see many T-shirts, stickers or cloth bags stamped with this slogan
accompanied by a drawing showing the minister gagging a teacher. It is in particular the
committee of support to the repressed staff of the college Republic in Bobigny (93) which
distributed this material. Thanks to him, the repressed of the college Republic - victims
of an exceptional repression - have imposed themselves in the landscape of the
mobilization against the law Blanquer.
To understand what is happening, you should know that the Republic College in Bobigny,
ranked REP + (highest level of priority education), has for several decades a very strong
anchor in social mobilizations. The college was thus among the spearheads in the
mobilization for an emergency plan in Seine-Saint-Denis in 1998. In recent years, it has
been the scene of multiple strikes, strikes and actions under the right to withdrawal.
However, since the winter of 2017, the administration has decided to clean up this college
too hectic. Begins then a hallucinating gears, culminating in the spring of 2018, a visit
of several weeks of the General Inspectorate (top of the hierarchy), at the request of the
Minister. Then, after a period of latency, the chopper fell in March 2019: two teachers
subject to disciplinary procedures, and two by transfers "in the interests of the service"
- that is to say without the should justify them.
Solidarity Fund, 10,000 petitioners ...
But it was, on the part of the hierarchy, to attack a strong and reactive team, well
inserted into the union network. The response has been up to par: public meetings, support
night, rallies in front of the rectorate, solidarity fund, campaign on social networks,
10,000 petitioners in support. A forum on Mediapart has been signed by many academics,
trade unionists and politicians. The inter-union CGT-CNT-FO-SNEP-SNES-SOUTH of 93
supported the mobilization end-to-end.
And yet, that will not have been enough ! Admittedly, the two disciplinary procedures have
been reduced to mere blame ; on the other hand, the two mutations "in the interest of the
service" were validated by the rector in July. The mobilization was exemplary, but it was
not enough, for the time being, to block the institutional steamroller.
Gyula (AL Montreuil)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Education-A-Bobigny-sois-prof-et-tais-toi
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Message: 6
In 2018 a man from Hong Kong murdered his girlfriend while on vacation in Taiwan. The
horrible crime would soon become the spark of resistance in Hong Kong to the authority of
the Chinese Mainland in protests that would confuse comrades the world over. ---- Let's
make the situation clearer. ---- Hong Kong is not a democracy. ---- It has no free
elections. ---- While "democracy" here in the UK maybe nothing more than a shallow mockery
of the concept, now more than ever, in Hong Kong it is seen as the last line of defence
from an ever encroaching empire. The Chinese Communist Party has no use for any system
which would threaten it's grasp, it is moving in to deliver the killing blow to freedom in
Hong Kong which is aims to bring into the fold. Hongkongers are being passed from one
empire to another and the world shrugs it's shoulders. China is an economic power house,
pissing them off would be bad for business.
When we talk about Hong Kong fighting for "democracy" we cannot frame it in our own
context. It is a colony population fighting for the rights to self determination and
autonomy. For older generations this means appealing to the former colonial masters for
help, for the younger it means revolutionary action. In 2012 the political drive for
democracy dried up and ground to a halt, It seemedd that Pre-Screening of electoral
candidates by Beijing would increase. Resistance to this grew into the Occupy Central with
Love and Peace camps and associated Umbrella Movement which saw tens of thousands holding
protests and living in camps on main intersections for months in a campaign to bring about
universal suffrage. During the attempts to clear out protestors the police would use tear
gas and when local television broadcasted a young man named Ken Tsang being assaulted by
police there was an massive escalation. Ken was carried off with his hands tied behind his
back; then, while one officer kept watch, a group of about six officers punched, kicked
and stamped on him for about four minutes.
The Chief Executive CY Leung would go on to defend Beijing's screening policy as open
elections would force Hong Kong into actually caring for it's citizens and providing
social welfare, he argued that "If it's entirely a numbers game, then obviously you'd be
talking to half the people in Hong Kong earning less than US$1,800 a month (the median
wage). You would end up with that kind of politics and policies."
The world gave Hong Kong silence.
Standing against China is bad for business.
It was indeed bad for business under the British who occasionally flirted with the idea
during their tenure of control over Hong Kong as China has always sought to "preserve the
colonial status of Hong Kong" even threatening to "liberate" the region in 1960 if
democratic elections and thus self governance ever granted. Tho some there were some small
developments in the 80''s and 90's, the Hongkongers remain citizens trapped in a system
they had very little voice in. The chief executive who would govern Hong Kong after the
hand over was elected by a 400 member selection committee. China began it's programme of
colonisation.
Let us speak clearly here,
China is not a communist country.
It is a brutal state authority where economic disparity is celebrated and used to throttle
it's working class into obedience. Since Deng Xiaopeng took over in 1978 the CCP as all
but abandoned it's aspirations of becoming a Marxist-Leninist workers state. In 2000 this
would become policy as Jiang Zemin brought in the "Three Represents" and took the nation
in pursuit of a ‘socialist market economy' with Chinese characteristics.". Now China has
476 of the world billionaires while the average monthly salary of the worker is around
£780 a month. The means of production are in the hands of private corporations and spills
out everywhere. Eduction and Healthcare are privileges of the elite. China #1 is the goal
and the workers best be willing to suffer for it or be considered enemies of the all
powerful state.
Under Xi Jinping this has meant a radical growth in Nationalism under the guise of a
"cultural revival", a broad sweeping facial recognition and a monitoring network» that
makes 1984's Ingsoc look like rank amateurs and has seen overt and hostile moves to
consolidate China and to bring about "Complete National Reunification ", something it was
made clear he approaches with teeth bared in his statements to Taiwan in January this
year; "We make no promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option of taking
all necessary means". Like all nation states, the authority demand obedience and
domination. This is something they maintain in Hong Kong through the Electoral Affairs
Commission which pre-screens candidates for the Legislative Council for their political
beliefs and by ensure that the The Chief Executive is selected by small body of (now) 1200
people.
This Chinese sock puppet government upon seeing the situation with the murder in Taiwan
and under the guise of stopping Hong Kong from becoming a safe haven from criminals moved
to install The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters
Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. This bill would allow China to extradite certain
criminals and run them through the radically different legal system in the mainland. One
which is controlled by the CCP. This doesn't come without precedent mind. In March 2017
the Chinese state kidnapped pro-democracy activist Lee Ming-Che saying he was under
investigation on "suspicion of harming national security.". He later plead guilty to
"subverting state power" which it's believed he was forced into.
So they begin to forward a bill many fear will be used to allow China to drag them away in
the night. Resistance started on the 31st of March when the Civil Human Rights Front, an
organisation composed of some 50 pro-democracy groups, launched it's first protest against
The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation
(Amendment) Bill 2019. It was a civil march through the city of 12,000 people. The
following March on the 28th saw 500,000.
These were acts of civil disobedience but the tension was building and Ahead of the second
reading of the bill organisers called for a return to demonstration on the 9th June.
Four hours after the march began, people were still leaving the start point at Victoria
Park. Well over a million marched and a great many of them did not return home.
Autonomists, students and pro-independence campaigners began to camp out in front of the
Government headquarters. This was the moment where things changed, around midnight, the
police forces Special Tactical Squad (STS) moved in and clashes broke out and mass
protests took place through the night.
Come the 12th and the second reading, everyone was out. From the unions and opposition
groups, to student networks and Anarchist affinity groups. The variety of political
positions was vast but they came unified in opposition the the Bill and the Chinese state
undermining their political agency. By 4pm the police had began using pepper spray and
attacking people,and shooting tear gas on them. The Hong Kong protests as we see them on
the news had begun.
Over the next three weeks there would be numerous protests from strikes, sit in and even
the odd siege of police stations. The lawyers held a silent march, the legislature was
raided, there was a laser festival and the airport was sat in. Whether peaceful or
militant it was quite clear there was a strong sense of political unity, which over time
would develop into tactical unity. The protests were organised organically, without
leadership and without any singular faction taking control somewhat confusing the world
media. Around the world it seems people were confused, were they pro-capitalists?
Nationalist? Unions? Or even Anarchists?... The answer is yes.
Beyond all the "riot porn" and unexpected but enjoyable guides to "protesting like
Hongkongers" movements such as this are diverse. It doesn't matter if some groups waves
the Stars and stripes and the sinophobic right wing of America loose their shit or if the
budget is there for full page ads in newspapers around the world. The movement is diverse
and at it's core working class and grass roots.
This is the nature of a popular rebellion and like the Mouvement des gilets jaunes, they
have endeavoured to maintain this and keep it grass roots. There has been two forms of
protests; first there is the the civil marches full of the usual flags,placards, banners
and liberal calls for democracy, they do well bringing in thousands and keeping an
approachable voices to the movement. Secondly there is the direct protest actions such as
holding of barricades, blocking roads and it has seen the development of new a hit and run
methodology, a tactic commonly referred to as "be water".
It's worth noting as well that as a general rule of thumb during the more radical
protests, it has become the standard practice to take down any flags and hand them back to
their owner and disapprove of having their movement represented with either flags of
foreign powers or local organisations. The exception to this seems to be the Black
Bauhinia flag, which has come to symbolise the protests.
Along the way five demands began to present themselves.
Complete withdrawal of the extradition bill from the legislative process
Retraction of the "riot" characterisation
Release and exoneration of arrested protesters
Establishment of an independent commission of inquiry into police conduct and use of force
during the protests
Dissolve the Legislative Council and begin the implementation of universal suffrage
It is on these these demands that they have come to organise and identity their collective
action. It's on these demands they are beginning to see a response as Carrie Lam moved to
withdraw the bill on the 4th of September. She also requested that protestors end their
demonstrations and enter into dialogue with the government. This is code for "please allow
us time to re-group, hunt down leaders and remove your revolutionary agency".
The protestors would have none of it.
At the Citizens Press Conference the next night, the young protestors and armed with
helmets and masked up gave their reply in three languages. The spoke with passion and
dedication to their cause and made their position on Lam's offer of a truce clear.
"If Carrie Lam had withdrawn the bill two months ago, that may have been a quick fix, but
applying a band-aid months later on to rotting flesh will simply not cut it ... Liberate
Hong Kong, The revolution of our times, five demands not one less. Fight on and take care
fellow Hongkongers"
We cannot afford to be trapped in our anarchistic dogma as working class comrades around
the world suffer brutality at the hands of the state or as they are forced to live in
unjust societies with neither voice nor liberty. We must be overt and vocal in our
solidarity and where capable take action in support of their cause. Not as allies but as
accomplices and together we fight back against all the evil empires and hopefully sharing
our notions of Anarchism as we go providing a better option for this world we are
building. Heck, even if you are fundamentally hostile to the liberal protest for
democracy, know that our Anarchist comrades are out there on the streets, defending their
comrades regardless, defending their communities from the police and the government. Give
them your love and solidarity until they win this struggle.
FIVE DEMANDS NOT ONE LESS
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/09/13/hongkongers-aint-nothing-to-fuck-with-international/
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Message: 7
In October 1994, several people spent the first night in the buildings located at
Pulaskiego 21a in Poznan. This is how the history of Poznan's Rozbrat begins. Today, it is
one of the oldest occupied socio-political centers in Europe celebrating its 25th
anniversary. On September 14, a demonstration will pass through the streets of Poznan, at
which trade unionists from the Workers' Initiative will also speak. ---- Of course, this
was not the first time when desperate people occupy vacancy to have a place to live.
Thousands of families in Poland do so in response to the housing situation. However,
Rozbrat was a broader project from the beginning. Occupation of abandoned, abandoned
buildings eventually turned into social, political and cultural activities. Sklot was to
affect the whole city and support grassroots initiatives and movements opposing state
oppression and the business dictate.
Against displacement
The natural consequence of the creation of Rozbrat was the willingness to support other
people occupying vacancy and opposition to the commercialization of housing. When mass
evictions began at the end of the 1990s, Rozbrat and the Anarchist Federation (FA)
operating there, organized the first evictions blockades. At the turn of 2011 and 2012, FA
and residents of the "cleaned tenement house" on ul. Piaskowa was founded by the Greater
Poland Tenants' Association.
It was a milestone in the fight for the rights of tenants in Poznan. The tenant movement
in the city has consolidated. Dozens of evictions were not allowed. What's more, actively
and successfully demanded the liquidation of the container estate, debt relief for
municipalities, the start of a wide program of construction of available housing and that
the rules for granting social housing be changed. "House cleaners" were successfully
opposed. Activists and activists from Rozbrat were the first in Poznan to start
cooperation with the poorest inhabitants of the city - Romanians of Romanian origin living
on a hillside.
People first, then profits
The first meetings of the Employee Initiative (in 2001) were also held at Rozbrata. The
goal of this yet informal group was to support protesting employees and defend dismissed
trade unionists. Three years later, Poznan FA and Cegielski's employees jointly
established a "regular" trade union under the same name. Today - as we know - IP has over
3,000 members gathered in about 70 committees operating in industry, education, logistics,
culture, social protection, etc. In the Poznan agglomeration, we managed to establish IP
organizations in Cegielski, Amazon, Volkswagen, and Poznan nurseries, theaters, hospitals.
One of the commissions operates on Rozbracie. The Poznan Inter-Enterprise Committee helps
many professional groups, e.g. recently porters working on outsourcing (which we described
in more detail in previous issues of our Newsletter). More and more often injured
immigrant workers from Ukraine come to her. First of all, the Commission is trying to
recover their overdue salaries.
In defense of greenery
Activists from Rozbrat took part in ecological actions - in blocking the devastation of
nature on the Saint Anna Mountain (still in the 90s), on the Rospuda, in the Bialowieska
Forest. Rozbrat itself is located in an area that is an integral part of the Poznan West
Green Wedge. This area is of interest to developers. However, the construction of wedges
causes the city to suffocate, and smog becomes one of the main ecological problems (as in
many Polish cities).
Demonstrations in defense of green areas came out many times from Rozbrat. One of the
first protests of this type broke out around the area that enthusiasts of the elite sport,
which is golf, saw. From 2005, there was a struggle to ensure that the valuable and open
area was not turned into a fenced hole with holes. Today, the Poznan authorities announced
that it will be afforested and remain open to the public.
Let's do it ourselves
Rozbrat is often associated with cultural activities. Over 25 years of existence, over 500
concerts have been organized here with the participation of over 1,000 music bands, over
150 film screenings, about 30 different types of festivals, as well as many other events
such as exhibitions, discussions, theater shows and happenings. The "free school" project
has been successfully developed for a year, where professional teachers give free English,
French, Flemish, Italian etc. lessons as well as mathematics and chemistry.
Freedom Fighters Gym has also been thriving on Rozbracie for some time - Muay Thai, Yoga,
Kettlebell and Cross Training workouts. Here, Polish champions and champions of various
sports disciplines have trained and trained. In total, hundreds of participants took part
in approximately 2,500 free classes of this type organized so far.
Rozbrat stays!
Screen printing workshop, bicycle workshop, rehearsal room for music bands - all these
initiatives show that you can organize differently, without subsidies and sponsors, on a
non-commercial basis, building a socio-political center accessible to everyone, regardless
of how much money they have in their wallet or where they come from.
However, Rozbrat is a salt in the eye of the local power and business elite. An attempt
has now been made to bid on the area it occupies, which may be attractive to developers.
The community centered around this place began a broad campaign in defense of Rozbrat. A
similar auction was attempted 10 years ago. At that time Rozbrat managed to defend
himself. To make it happen today, he needs extensive support from various sides.
An article by Jarek Urbanski, which appeared in the latest issue of the Bulletin of
Incijatywy Pracowniczej > download PDF with the entire number
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2513-poznan-bez-eksmisji-biedy-i-wyzysku-25-lat-rozbratu
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century ago, Malatesta's arguments for the importance of organisation are as relevant
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dirty word. Malatesta, by stressing the importance of organisation for anarchists confirms
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