Today's Topics:
1. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #297 - Boxing and
non-mixed: Put potatoes at the patriarchate (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire - Organizations,
associations and public figures support VDB! (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. [Uruguay] 8th Montevideo Anarchist Book Fair By ANA (ca, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. London Anarchist Communist Group Climate Strike Demo
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, AFED, organise magazine: Organise 92! Cover Art |
Commentary (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #297 - 1929: The
anticolonial struggle of the Korean anarchists (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Union Communiste Libertaire - UCL Tract, In
December, the strike is renewable ? (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Since March 2019, Libertarian Feminism, the non-mixed front of the UCL Brussels, organizes
weekly boxing sessions in non-mixed choice for women, trans and non-binary people, as well
as feminist self-defense sessions. times per month. ---- As women, we suffer daily
violence (symbolic, economic, verbal, psychological, cultural, even physical and sexual)
to which society forces us to peaceful responses. This violence transforms the public
space into an insecure space for women, and especially for those who are non-white,
undocumented, wearing the veil, lesbian, trans, invalid. ---- The non-mixed boxing club,
organized by the libertarian feminism front of the UCL Brussels since March 2019, aims to
strengthen our autonomy, our self-determination, our cohesion through sport. However, we
did not want to summarize the self-defense to the issue of street harassment when the
patriarchal violence is mostly perpetrated by men around us: at work, at school, at home,
in our militant circles ...
By feminist self-defense, we think of physical self-defense as well as verbal, emotional
and mental self-defense to defuse a dangerous or uncomfortable situation. By practicing
boxing, we not only learn techniques to kick, we also learn to give ourselves the right to
defend ourselves, to manage our emotions and counter a feeling of paralysis and
incapacity. Sport becomes a way to engage collectively by the body and to become aware of
our strength.
Men, especially white men - just like the police apparatus, the materialization of the
power of the state - benefit from legitimate violence, associating it with manhood, a
gendered and masculine quality. In contrast, femininity is generally associated with
passivity and submission. Thus, reclaiming proscribed violence is a way of challenging
social order and bourgeois power.
Learn to counter a feeling of helplessness
Therefore, creating a popular, financially accessible boxing club that conveys feminist,
anti-fascist and self-management values, meets a need, and at the same time allows for the
re-appropriation of violence by the body, at a time when combat sports are dominated by
men. Thus, the practice of boxing in non-mixed is a way to combine pleasure and practice
in a benevolent, listening space, where all bodies are accepted, without concern for
performance and competitiveness.
The non-mixed course is a tool for all participants to feel safe, free to express their
limits, to develop the sorority and the activist network. We also organize informal
political discussions, public debates and activities. We wish to build a feminist
community to strengthen social movements, improve our material conditions of existence,
especially by putting in place collective solutions.
This boxing club aspires to show that no matter our gender, our experiences or our
morphology, we are capable of strength, rage, technique and solidarity to fight patriarchy
and capitalism !
Sessions will resume in September every Saturday afternoon at Poisson sans Bicyclette, for
more information contact feminismelibertaire@riseup.net
Libertarian Feminism Brussels
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Boxe-et-non-mixite-Mettre-des-patates-au-patriarcat
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Message: 2
We, organizations, associations, public figures, call to converge massively in Nancy the
weekend of September 28 and 29 for the mobilization "Wind of Bure" against the project
Cigeo ! ---- We, organizations, associations, public figures, call to converge massively
in Nancy the weekend of September 28 and 29 for the mobilization "Wind of Bure" against
the project Cigeo ! ---- The Cigéo project will enter a more operational phase ... ----
For 25 years, the Andra (National Agency for the management of radioactive waste) wants to
bury the most dangerous radioactive waste in the basement of Bure, in the Meuse, within
the installation Cigéo. It will soon enter a new phase. While the work will accelerate, it
is now or never that we must unite to block it !
The filing of the Creation Authorization Application (CAD) is expected to take place in
2020. Project appraisal is expected to take two to three years. The construction of the
center could therefore be authorized quickly by a simple government decree. The battle
against the nuclear trash can not be won only by hindering its administrative progress but
by winning the balance of power.
... while all the lights are red !
At a time when nuclear collects technical difficulties, salt bill and growing
disenchantment of the population, the project Cigéo continues to be presented as the
"solution" to the accumulation of unmanageable radioactive waste. However, between
technical impasse, failure of scientific demonstrability and impossible reversibility, the
risks of the Cigéo project are very enormous. Andra does not know how to answer: they are
insoluble and inherent to deep storage. This is what the nuclear safety authority said in
a diplomatic speech in its opinion on the Cigéo safety options file in 2017 (to find here:
https://www.asn.fr/Informer/ News / Opinions-of-ASN-on-the-options-of-security-of-Cigeo ).
The project also looks like a financial pitfall. In great difficulty, the producers of
waste wanted to provision the least possible for their management: by complaisance towards
them, the cost of Cigeo, initially evaluated at 34,5 billion euros by the Andra itself,
was fixed arbitrarily to 25 billion. Even the Court of Auditors, in a report released in
July 2019, undermines this calculation downward (read:
https://www.ccomptes.fr/en/publications/laval-du-cycle-du-combustible-nucleaire ). The
bill will inflate, it's obvious. When the small provisions made by the waste producers
have been devoured by the first works, will the taxpayers be asked to pay the rest ?
After two years of inaction, the Andra offensive could resume. So-called "preparatory"
work, because it must be done before the construction of the center, will start on the
territory probably as from the autumn of 2019. It is about large-scale works to allow the
water supply, the food in energy from Cigeo, or the realization of important railway and
road works. Once this work was very expensive, the construction of Cigéo would appear as
inevitable.
Cigeo is a technical and financial aberration and is not a solution to the problem of
radioactive waste. However, those who say so have been facing for two years a relentless
repression, of an unprecedented scale for a territorial struggle. Public authorities have
militarized the whole area, criminalized and judiciarized the struggle to try to paralyze
opposition to the project. An instruction for criminal conspiracy was opened and prevents
10 people involved from getting in touch with each other through the establishment of
highly liberticidal judicial controls. This harassment has just been denounced by the
League of Human Rights and the International Federation of Human Rights (see reports
here:https://www.ldh-france.org/report-on-the-revent-events-in-the-bure-and-on-their-legal-treatment/
).
We all have good reason to say no:
To mobilize against Cigeo, it is to say no to the forward flight that constitutes the
continuation of the production of unmanageable radioactive waste . This means no to a
"false solution" and a project imposed on disproportionate social and ecological impacts.
This is to say no to the steamroller of the authorities who, having unilaterally rejected
all the other options, present this dangerous project as unavoidable.
To mobilize against Cigeo is to say no to the criminalization of people who oppose the
destruction of territories in the name of an absurd project . It denies the infringement
of fundamental rights and the obstacles to freedom of association.
Finally, to mobilize against Cigéo is to defeat the nuclear industry that needs an outlet
for its waste to be able to revive . Nuclear power is a breathtaking industry, an energy
of the past. Uranium mining activities have been under disastrous social and ecological
conditions for decades. Uranium processing and activities related to the production of
nuclear energy such as the construction, maintenance, or decommissioning of facilities are
not CO2-neutral and generate other types of pollution. With the risks of irradiation to
which these activities expose, we are thus very far from the clean, cheap and
non-carbonated energy to which the nuclear lobby would have us believe! Nuclear activities
are also extremely vulnerable to changes in temperature and especially to high
temperatures that worsen their effects. And contrary to what the lobby wants us to
believe, nuclear energy will not save the climate ! To save the climate, nuclear power is
too late, too expensive, and too risky ! Nuclear and Cigeo are therefore in no way a
response to the climate emergency ( https: //www.sortirdunucleaire.orga/infographie-climat ).
Saturday, September 28, we will be together in Nancy for a national time. Let's build a
common and united front to defeat the steamroller of the CIGEO project.
So we give you appointment at 14H on the Cours Leopold, Nancy for the highlight of the
weekend, which promises to be demanding .. and a little off !
For more info: https://ventdebure.com
Event to broadcast: https://www.facebook.com/events/1225435810959733/
SIGNING
National Organizations
Citizen Action for Nuclear Disarmament (ACDN)
Acting for the Environment
ASSO-Solidaires
Attac France
Europe Ecology The Greens
Federation of Trade Unions SUD Education
France Nature Environment
Greenpeace France
Insubordinate France
New Anti-Capitalist Party
Communist Party of Workers of France
radiaction
Network "Sortir du nucléaire"
International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggle / International Labor Network
of Solidarity and Struggles
SOUTH Solidarity Culture
Libertarian Communist Union
Solidary union
ZEA earth
Local organizations
Actival
ADENY (association for the defense of the environment and nature of Yonne)
Asodedra (association for raising public awareness about the dangers of landfilling
radioactive waste)
CALLS Association
Attac-Agen (47)
Attac-Hauts-Cantons
Attac-Jura (39)
Attac-Vosges
Bure stop 55
Cacendr - Collective action against the burial of radioactive waste
CAPEN 71, departmental federation of environmental associations of Saône & Loire (17 local
associations), member of FNE Bourgogne Franche Comté
Cedra - Collective against the burial of radioactive waste
Collective CHANG (Nuclear halt - Gard)
Bure-Lilleradiée Support Committee
Bure-Longwy Support Committee
Bure-Mulhouse Support Committee
Committee for the Safeguarding of Fessenheim and the Rhine Plain (CSFR)
Grand-Est Peasant Confederation
Confederation Paysanne des Vosges (88)
Destocamine
Right to the Sun for each habitat
Eodra - Opposed to the burial of radioactive waste
Together ! 54
France Nature Environment (FNE) Bourgogne Franche Comté
France Nature Environment (FNE) Grand-Est
Génération.s Grand Nancy
Gudmont said no
GSE (South Grésivaudan ecology)
The water that bites
League of Human Rights (LDH) section Nancy
Meuse Nature Environment
Utopia Movement
ZIP 38 (New Anti-Capitalist Party Isère)
SNUPFEN-solidaires (Unified National Union of Forest and Nature Professionals) Lorraine
In solidarity 54
Solidarity Moselle
Get out of the nuclear Berry-Giennois-Puisaye
To get out of nuclear Isère (SDN 38)
To leave the nuclear Sarthe (SDN 72)
South Education Alsace
Tchernoblaye
THUR ECOLOGY & TRANSPORT
UCL Nancy (Communist Libertarian Union Group of Nancy)
Public figures
Manon Aubry, MEP
Clémentine Autain, LFI MP from the 11 th district of Seine-Saint-Denis
Julien Bayou, national spokesperson for EELV
Ugo Bernalicis, BIA deputy of the 2 e North constituency
Olivier Besancenot spokesman of the NPA
Manuel Bompard, MEP
Jo Briant, Inter-Peoples Information Center
Jean-Marie Brom, Research Director CNRS, Head of theEnergies sectorof France Insoumise
Cyril Brulé, Architect, Vice President of the Regional Natural Park of Morvan
Leila Chaibi, MEP
Eric Coquerel, BIA deputy of the 1 st district of Seine-Saint-Denis
Alexis Corbiere, BIA deputy of the 7 th district of Seine-Saint-Denis
David Cormand, National Secretary of EELV, MEP
Danakil, music group
Raphaël Darley, spokesman of the Association for the Restoration and the Protection of the
Natural Environment of Tonnerrois (ARPENT)
Michel Dubromel, President of France Nature Environnement
Fiat Carolina, BIA member of the 6 th district of Meurthe-et-Moselle
Cécile Germain-Ecuer and Mickaël Kugler, Regional Co-Secretaries of Europe Ecology - Les
Verts Alsace
Kolin Kobayashi, Independent Journalist
Bastien Lachaud BIA deputy of the 6 th district of Seine-Saint-Denis
Michel Larive BIA deputy of the 2 e riding Ariege
Yves Lenoir, co-author of "La Comédie Atomique"
Emmanuel Maurel, MEP
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, BIA deputy of the 4 th district of Bouches-du-Rhône
Danièle Obono, LFI member of the 17e constituency of Paris
The Ogres of Barback, music group
Younous Omarjee, MEP
Mathilde Panot, BIA member of the 10 th district of Val-de-Marne
Anne-Sophie Pelletier, MEP
Isabelle Péguin, member of Collectif Halte au nucléaire Gard
Christine Poupin spokesperson of the NPA
Philippe Poutou spokesperson of the NPA
Loic Prud'homme, LFI deputy in the 3e district of Gironde
Adrien Quatennens, BIA deputy of the 1 st North constituency
Jean-Hugues Ratenon, BIA deputy of the 5 th district of Reunion
Sandra Regol, spokesperson for EELV
Muriel Ressiguier, LFI MP from the 2 nd constituency of Hérault
Yannick Rousselet, climate / energy campaigner at Greenpeace
Sabine Rubin, LFI member of the 9 th district of Seine-Saint-Denis
François Ruffin BIA member of the 1 st constituency Somme
Arnaud Schwartz, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee
Benedicte Taurine, BIA member of the 1 st district of Ariege
Toshiko Tsuji, association Yosomono net France
Florence Vallin-Balas, Mayor of Cognin in Savoy
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Organisations-associations-et-personnalites-publiques-apportent-leur-soutien-a
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Message: 3
Companions of the world: Once again we are organizing the meeting we hold annually in
Montevideo. This is the 8th Anarchist Book Fair, which will take place between November 1,
2 and 3 at the Cordón Norte Social Center. A space that is facing an eviction attempt,
which demonstrates that self-organization, solidarity, and direct action building go
completely against capitalist interests and their established power. ---- We know that the
territories where we live constantly become the target of ambitions and determinations of
capital. And not only of capital, but also of state institutions and organs, as
coordinators and protectors of economic and political power.
These ambitions are not for our well-being but the consequence of a system based on
competence, efficiency, hierarchy and accumulation, the product of the savage exploitation
of human beings and the environment, and an incessant pursuit of profit.
The authority violently invades our territories, imposing the law through its officials
and thus try to silence and repress our actions, which go against their capitalist values.
With this Fair we propose to create a space for meeting and reflection to visualize what
we are facing, and to establish another way of resisting, starting from the horizontal,
autonomous construction and social combat.
For these reasons, the axes are:
- Territory.
- Conflict.
- Resistance.
Related to the present.
The limit to submit your ideas proposals is 25/09. They should be sent by email
to:feriaalibromvd@riseup.net
For more information contact us through our Facebook page:@feriaanarquistamvdor on our
blog:feriaanarquistamvd
We wait for you to sow rebellion and reap freedom!
feriaanarquistamvd.wordpress.com
Translation> Daitoshi
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 4
West London ACG will be running a stall this coming Saturday 28th September at the West
London Peace Market, St Michael & All Angels Church Hall,Priory Avenue - London W4 1TX
from 10.30 am-4pm. Come along for copies of Jackdaw and our range of pamphlets, stickers,
leaflets, etc. ---- London ACG turned out for the Climate Strike demo on Millbank on
Friday and distributed hundreds of Jackdaws and Rebel Cities. Similar ACG distros took
place at the same time in Exeter, Glasgow. Leeds and Norwich. ---- This Land is Ours: The
Fight for Land Justice clock ---- Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 7 PM - 9 PM UTC+01 ----
Public · Hosted by London Anarchist Communist Group
Details
Land, if we define it to include all physical resources such as water, air and Land, if we
define it to include all physical resources such as water, air and what lies beneath the
ground, is the source of all wealth and our very existence. However, what should belong to
all of us has been taken from us and concentrated in the hands of a small minority so that
they own the land, decide its use (usually to profit themselves) and control access to the
benefits. All our struggles, whether for housing, community centres, and good, cheap food
or against climate change are struggles over how land is used and who makes the decisions.
There has been a tradition of fighting for the land in Britain, most recently in the
Scottish movement for land reform. People are beginning to question the idea of private
property and moving to more radical ideas such as the land being a Commons- owned and
controlled by us all. This talk will first look at the question of who owns and controls
the land in Britain (using material from the work of Andy Wightman on land ownership in
Scotland and Guy Shrubsole's new book- Who Owns England), consider what is being done in
Scotland and elsewhere, and then open the discussion on what changes we would like to see.
This meeting is organised by the Anarchist Communist Group at anarchistcommunism.org
For information on land see: the Anarchist Communist Group's pamphlet Land and Liberty
-available from all good radical bookshops.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-land-is-ours-the-fight-for-land-justice-tickets-71766338049?utm_term=eventurl_text
what lies beneath the ground, is the source of all wealth and our very existence. However,
what should belong to all of us has been taken from us and concentrated in the hands of a
small minority so that they own the land, decide its use (usually to profit themselves)
and control access to the benefits. All our struggles, whether for housing, community
centres, and good, cheap food or against climate change are struggles over how land is
used and who makes the decisions.
There has been a tradition of fighting for the land in Britain, most recently in the
Scottish movement for land reform. People are beginning to question the idea of private
property and moving to more radical ideas such as the land being a Commons- owned and
controlled by us all. This talk will first look at the question of who owns and controls
the land in Britain (using material from the work of Andy Wightman on land ownership in
Scotland and Guy Shrubsole's new book- Who Owns England), consider what is being done in
Scotland and elsewhere, and then open the discussion on what changes we would like to see.
This meeting is organised by the Anarchist Communist Group at anarchistcommunism.org
For information on land see: the Anarchist Communist Group's pamphlet Land and Liberty
-available from all good radical bookshops.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-land-is-ours-the-fight-for-land-justice-tickets-71766338049?utm_term=eventurl_text
https://www.facebook.com/events/508030516451540
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Message: 5
Good morrow, fellow angry mobsters. Today I have two thingummibobs to share with you. Been
a while, eh? Yeah, I'm bad at this. ---- Thingum the first: Organise! magazine issue 92,
and Brexit. ---- Ok, one of those is actually exciting. Organise! 92 is rammed full of
super interesting articles which you will find enjoyable and stimulating. Go here & read
it:[HERE!], then come back & listen to me waffle. ---- Here's the cover illustration,
painted by Muggins Truly earlier this year, with a little digital contrast enhancement
(cover image to the right) - "Anarchy and Brexit" 2019 Acrylic on black paper, 210 x 297mm
---- I had a fairly specific brief for this, which helped as I found it verry difficult to
be passionate about this subject. I'll go into that a little more below, but to be clear,
this illustration is of a red & black flag on a red/black star flagpole, representing the
triumph of working class solidarity through anarchism over the division and disorder of
the UK/EU schism.
Here's the previous draft, which used a white background on the UK flag stripes. I thought
this looked garish and, well, it sucked, so I started over. I much prefer muted colours,
and these stripes detract from the important flag. I wasn't dead happy with the way that
turned out either, since it's too buried to make out any black areas, and the red makes it
look more like a cabbage leaf than a bold ensign of class war.
So yeah...
Brexit makes me blummin' miserable. That's pretty normal, I hear. Disagreements cloud
political spaces and take up space that could otherwise be used to organise(!) proper
resistance to the bosses and their guards. Sure, there are some Lexit arguments. I have no
time to rehash any of those... cos the big secret is, the EU doesn't actually matter.
Brexit is about everything else surrounding the EU membership. Freedom of movement,
refugees, poverty, workers' rights, these are all connected issues that revolve around the
Brexit divide, whether they're a result of EU membership or not.
I voted Remain, and if there's another vote I'll do it again, because I owe it to my
European friends and family not to shaft them. ‘Leave' means rejecting solidarity with
many good, committed people who keep our movement alive. Brexit is driven by isolationism
and xenophobia. I don't want The Bastards to deport my friends, and The Bastards are
definitely in charge.
Fortress Europe is a horrific place for those caught on the southern and eastern borders.
Ignoring it and cutting ourselves off will only make it worse. I know people who travel
from Britain to provide support as close as Calais and as far as Greece, who do excellent
work to help refugees fleeing wars that Britain is responsible for. Restricting the people
who travel to help will only make the situation worse for the people who need help. More
will die.
But... whatever happens, the cracks are deep. We will all need to look out for each other
more than ever, whatever happens next. That's what this picture is about. Nations and
states are power structures, which will force together and tear apart communities as they
see fit. That's what happened here: they forced communities apart. We need strong working
class organisations, capable of engaging, supporting and defending communities against
exactly the sort of division that is tearing us apart. That's the Red-&-Black flag of
Anarchism, rejecting nations and states, for working class solidarity.
Oh yea
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/09/24/organise-92-cover-art-commentary/
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Message: 6
In August 1929, in the chaos of the Chinese civil war, Shinmin Township, Manchuria, was
founded as a self-organized agricultural territory and associated with a guerrilla force
opposed to the Japanese occupation of Korea. Anarchists play a driving role. ---- Since
1910 and the colonization of Korea by the Japanese army, the Chinese border region of
Manchuria has experienced a massive influx of refugees, peasants and peasants robbed of
their land. On this ground is born a resistance, armed or not, mixing various political
currents: monarchists, nationalists, socialists, anarchists ... From August 1929, the
anarchists are at the heart of a vast experience of self-organization of this peasantry in
exile. Threatened by the Stalinists, the Shinmin Commune will finally be destroyed by the
Japanese invasion of September 1931.
Korean anarchism developed in the wake of the 1 st March 1919 saw the first demonstrations
of open resistance to Japanese colonialism. The event forces many and many rebels to flee
the country to Manchuria and China, Shanghai, Beijing or the south of the country. In this
context, the exiles meet the socialist and anarchist ideas that flourish in the Chinese
metropolises and in Tokyo. They then associate with Chinese and Japanese anarchists both
for practical reasons of survival and ideological affinity. The revolutionary context in
China is conducive to the development of Korean anarchism in exile. Groups are organizing.
Together with Chinese and Japanese activists, they publish newspapers and get active in
the labor movement.
Shanghai is then a privileged meeting place. A true hub for anarchists Far East, the city
sees developing a movement "transnational" more international, through for example,
organizations such as the East Asian Anarchist Federation in 1928 under Korean Yi Jeonggyu
and Yu Seo and Japan's Iwasa Sakutaro[1]. Far from being limited to sporadic relations, it
is one and the same movement that unites these activists, whose many round trips from one
region to another favor a certain uniformity of points of view and practices. In
particular, everyone agrees that Japanese imperialism is the main threat in the region,
and the liberation of settlements as a priority.
Shanghai, hub of anarchism in Asia
It is especially important for Korean anarchists who were forced into exile because of
their participation in the independence movement of the 1 stMarch 1919. Many of them and
see them in anarchism a way to achieve independence and to develop the economically
backward Korean peninsula. This notion gradually passes from simple feeling to a strategic
reflection. It will take a decade of one (r) evolution in stages, a continuous process, in
the words of Yu Ja-myong and Yu-rim. For this, the alliance of all anticolonialist forces
seems to them a necessity. This will also lead the anarchist organization, in a
particularly perilous period, to occupy two seats in fifty in the Korean parliament in
exile in Shanghai, from 1941 to 1945.
This paradoxical participation does not prevent them from openly criticizing both the
provisional government and the nationalist camp, just like Soviet communism.
The necessary anticolonialist solidarity does not alter their critical sense and there is
nothing to indicate that they were not aware of the trap that could be represented by a
movement whose sole purpose was national independence. Yu Seo, an anarchist who
participated in Quanzhou's self-management experiment, was worried about the patriotic
"mad wave" among Asian anarchists, but considered that the first step towards revolution
would begin with the liberation of the colonies. In the same way, the presence of Russian
anarchists in China like Vasilij Eroshenko gave them access to stories about the
degeneration of the Russian revolution.
This pragmatism also translated into concrete experiments throughout the 1920s, with
significant influence in Manchuria. As early as September 1923, Yi Jeonggyu, Jeong Hwaam
and Chen Weiguang tried unsuccessfully to establish an autonomous village in the Hunan
region. The experience of Quanzhou by these same activists is part of this logic, with the
will shown in 1926 to train youth villages to improve their ability to defend their
communities against the gangs of looters and Stalinists.
The anarchists present in China are also actively involved in the creation of the Huaguang
Hospital in Shanghai, which will serve as a place of communication and meeting. Two
universities are created to share their anarchist ideals: "Lida College" and the
"University of Labor" of Shanghai, or Laoda. These universities are the urban counterpart
of Quanzhou's rural experience: so many educational tools to teach city and city dwellers
to organize themselves into workers' collectives, and to village men and women to increase
their self-defense capacity.
Popular self-defense and struggle for independence
This principle of popular self-defense will be found in 1929 in the platform set up in
Manchuria. It is a question of allowing the peasants to organize themselves and to defend
themselves against external aggression. The concept is found in the establishment of
security units (against local bandits) on the one hand, and an anti-Japanese guerrilla on
the other. However, the strategic link between social revolution and the anticolonial
struggle will be distorted as the civil war in China worsens, then threats of Japanese
invasion. the priority becomes more prosaically the survival of Koreans who have fled in a
buffer zone between Chinese nationalists and Japan-dominated Korea.
Pragmatism is needed to respond first to the needs of the two million Koreans and Koreans
in Manchuria, and to cope with difficult living conditions. In 1929, the nationalists
rallied to the organization proposed by the anarchists in Manchuria in a new entity: the
united society of the Korean people.
These separatists, as it would be more correct to call them, accept the platform proposed
by the anarchists based on a cooperative organization of economic communities divided into
autonomous rural divisions in which the farmers can help each other in the extreme
conditions of the environment. Manchu. The libertarian nature of this very concrete
platform is clear: the stated aim is to create a society without hierarchy in which "human
dignity and human freedoms would be guaranteed" . The new organization was defined as "a
cooperative organization, autonomous and self-managed" and "governed without authoritarian
government" .
The sources are still too fragmented to know in what proportion these principles have been
applied, and how much they remained on paper before the attack on Manchuria by the
Japanese Imperial Army in 1931. Nevertheless, it is certain that the priority in Manchuria
will have been to ensure material survival in a very hard country, through local planning
and the principle of mutual aid.
The time for pragmatism - to survive or perish
Moreover, the alliance of anarchists with the nationalists can not be read as a
renunciation. In the case of the Commune of Shinmin, the anarchists will never abandon
their principles. It is rather a rallying of nationalists, at least anarchist practices,
and an autonomous organizational form. This shift of nationalists towards an anarchist
platform demonstrates the effectiveness of the organization set up to face the extreme
rigor of the Manchu conditions and allow the survival of refugees.
From the beginning, however, the Shinmin Commune is threatened. The double assassination
of the two leaders, Kim Jwa-jin in January 1930 by the Japanese and Kim Jon-jim in 1931 by
the Communists, dealt a blow to the project - which partly challenged the effectiveness of
the decentralization of power. over the period. But the fundamental reason for the fall of
Shinmin is the intensity of the double attack led by Japanese troops and communists from
1931, the offensive by a modern army like that of the Japanese leaves no chance for a
frontal defense.
Despite an impressive ability to read and react to events, to organize and experiment,
Korean anarchists in China and Manchuria have not been able to cope on the double front of
Japanese imperialism and the Chinese civil war . Nevertheless, as Dongyoun Hwang notes in
his history of Korean anarchism, the Korean anarchists in China were wholly focused on the
future and fought for independence until 1945. They will then campaign for United Korea,
and for its reconstruction on self-management bases. Persecuted by both the Stalinist
North and the Nationalist South, they will only survive in the south by keeping a low profile.
Now gone, the Korean anarchist movement remains integrated in the official memory as one
of the founding currents of independence.
Florent (UCL GPS)
IN RESISTANCE
1910 Under Japanese protectorate since 1905, Korea is annexed by the Japanese Empire.
1919 Anti-colonial uprising ofMarch 1 st . The repression makes 7,500 dead. Hundreds of
thousands of people fled to China, including Manchuria. In Beijing, Shanghai or Tokyo,
students and migrant workers discover Chinese and Japanese anarchist groups.
1921 Publication in Beijing of La Lumiere , the first Sino-Korean journal of libertarian
orientation.
1928 Foundation of the Anarchist Federation of East Asia, associating Chinese, Japanese
and Koreans. She publishes L'Est . In parallel, foundation of the Korean Anarchist
Federation in China, which publishes The Conquest .
1929 In July, the League of Korean Anarchists was established in Manchuria and a wider
coalition, the United Society of Korean People. Based in Shinmin (present-day Chinese
province of Heilongjiang), it offers village communities a federalist and self-managing
"social contract". The project rallies a pro-independence guerrilla unit led by warlord
Kim Jwa-jin.
1931 In September, the Japanese army invades Manchuria and destroys the Shinmin Commune.
[1] Dongyoun Hwang, Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question
of National Development, 1919-1984 , Suny Press, 2016.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?1929-La-lutte-anticoloniale-des-anarchistes-coreens
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Message: 7
The battle that begins against the pension reform promises to be difficult. Between the
weight of past defeats, the weakening of trade union collectives and corporatist
temptations, we are going to have many pitfalls to thwart. The reasons for fighting are
innumerable and the ras-le-bol is general. And yet, we are struggling to build the massive
and radical movement so long awaited and able to bend this government frankly. This
movement will go through the strike. ---- While yellow vests have managed to occupy the
ground all summer and the strike in hospitals does not weaken, the government has unveiled
two new attacks against workers: the pension reform and the insurance unemployment. Two
projects that are part of the same capitalist logic conducted for years for one purpose:
to break our social class ever more to make its exploitation by the capitalists ever more
effective.
Pensions and unemployment insurance: the war to our class
The pension reform will result in a drastic drop in pensions, a decline in the age of
departure and the end of solidarity pay-as-you-go pension. The unemployment insurance
reform will enable the government to make 3.4 billion savings on the backs of the
unemployed. This by lowering the rights, of course. With this new regime, an estimated 1.2
million people will have their rights reduced or eliminated.
The inter-union RATP calls for the strike to be reconductible from December 5.
The best blockage is the strike !
Paris has slowed down on September 13, monsters plugs, deserted stations, thousands of
meetings and canceled meetings ... The RATP agents, massively stopping the work,
demonstrated that the best way to paralyze the economy: it's the strike. More and more
sectors must engage in it to increase the balance of power in our favor.
Because the general strike is not decreed, it is built by the aggregation of anger, by the
organization of ras-le-bol. The inter-union RATP calls for the strike to be reconductible
from December 5. Let us take advantage of these two months to propagate in our boxes and
in our services the idea that it is by the strike that we will win, and converge together
towards a massive mobilization in December.
To build the strike, let's organize !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?En-decembre-la-greve-reconductible
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