Today's Topics:
1. Anarchist Vogliamo tutto e per tutti: Speeches on Saturday
14 September, 12pm, Propylaea [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #297 - uan Branco:
Bourgeois imposture and demagogic porridge (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, AFED: INTERNATIONAL OF ANARCHIST FEDERATIONS 2019
CONGRESS STATEMENT ON MIGRATION (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Information from the participation of the Anarchist
Political Organization in the TIF demonstration By APO
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Canada, ucl-saguenay, Collectif Emma Goldman - Mathieu
Bock-Côté, anti-fascism and the Second World War. (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Interventions with text sharing at Metro stations and on the streets of the neighborhoods
of Petralona, Koukaki, Nea Smyrna and Neos Kosmos take place all week long by the
anarchist collectivist Vogliamo tutto e per tutti . Banners were also placed at central
points of neighborhoods calling for the demonstration " Solidarity in Satisfaction and
Self-Structures " on Saturday 14 September at 12pm in Propylaia. ---- The following is the
text of the collegiality which shares the speeches and invites the demonstration: ----
SOLIDARITY IN DUTIES AND SELF-ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES ---- To build embankments in state
and capitalist barbarism ---- In a crescendo of police and demonstrations and mobilizing
huge armed forces, the new right-wing state administration recently carried out an
invasion and evacuation of four squads occupying mainly refugees and immigrants in the
Exarchia area. Armed police officers led hundreds of immigrants and underage children to
the detention camps in Petros Ralli and then to a concentration camp (those the state
baptizes as hostels) in order to live in isolation from the social fabric and their
dependents. mechanisms of state and institutionally recognized NGOs. Subsequently, the
entrances to the buildings were built and set up by permanent armed guards, further
intensifying the climate of terrorism and police terrorism attempted to impose on the
neighborhood of Exarchies. At the same time, the area is full of police attacks, verbal
challenges, use of chemicals against occupied areas and struggling people.
The choice of the state to place the Exarchate neighborhood as the primary repressive
target is not accidental. Exarchia is an area that hosts an alliance of individuals and
collectivities that resist state and capitalist barbarism and find sites of
radicalization, companionship, and solidarity. Areas of struggle and self-organization, as
are occupations, are embedded in catastrophic schemes and at the same time territorialized
by the world of power. A world based on the exploitation and oppression of man by man,
where everything is a commodity and the maximum value is the profits of the bosses.
Occupations, therefore, have been and will continue to be the focus of repression as they
challenge the existing and at the same time represent a world of equality, solidarity,
justice and freedom. The attack aims to intimidate political subjects and to stifle
struggles, while at the same time normalizing bureaucracy in the center of the metropolis
and asymmetric violence by the state.
Suppressive movements do not come as a thunder in the air. The "law and order" doctrine
has been a central opposition line of the ruling party and has been systematically
attempted to present itself as the most important political stalemate to divert from the
fact that both the right and the left (the whole bourgeois political spectrum) agree on
substantive politics line applied in the last decade. In fact, the social majority has
nothing to promise more than labor exploitation, exclusion, destitution and repression.
The treaty of poverty, the intensity of oppression and exploitation, the plundering of
public wealth, the destruction of the environment in the name of "growth" implemented in
previous years, through the Memorandums, it is permanently consolidated, and the two poles
of the restored partition are strung up for the enforcer of the method of enforcement.
With its traditional characteristics of open authoritarianism, violence, racism and police
democracy, right-wing management is addressing its conservative electoral base, where most
fascists are repatriated electively. At the same time, all racists, fascists and sexists
from the ranks of the Bacharasi are closing their eyes, deliberately arming their
murderous instincts.
These attacks are no coincidence that they are targeting the most undervalued and
depressed part of society, refugees and immigrants. From the first moment of taking power,
measures were taken that made clear the choice to continue isolation, illegalization and
repression of immigrants. The management of the "migrant" passed to the Minister of Public
Order. The Minister of Labor, Broutsis, removed the possibility of obtaining AMKA for
asylum seekers and unaccompanied refugees, excluding them from basic health services and
livelihoods. Examination abolished at 2 olevel of asylum applications and it was decided
to step up police controls at the maritime border, upgrade the technical means of
surveillance and strengthen cooperation with FRONTEX and NATO. All state planning aims at
preventing immigration by any means and because this is not possible due to the ongoing
war and economic operations of the rulers, the aim is to isolate, legalize, impoverish and
fully control the lives of refugees and migrants. Concentration camps run by the police
and the army are being built and continue to be built, where thousands of immigrants are
stuck by violence and living in miserable conditions, in containers with three times their
capacity without the necessary medical care. The State,
An obstacle to this design is the occupation of immigrant and immigrant housing and the
self-organized struggle structures located in Exarcheia and in every corner of Greece.
Contrary to what the journalistic parrots present, immigrants living in liberated
buildings live in dignity and freedom. They live in occupations by participating in
collective management processes of space, developing contacts and relationships with the
"local" population, thereby breaking the taboos of xenophobia and racism. Because the
common ground that has been occupied by locals and immigrants in the occupied territories
creates the necessary condition to communicate the needs and to strive together in a
radical direction. For us though,
Common struggles of locals and immigrants against poverty, fascism, war, oppression and
exploitation, for the social revolution, for anarchy and communism.
WE ARE NOT FEAR, WE ARE CLOSED!
Demonstration Saturday 14 September, 12pm, Propylaea
anarchist collectivism Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
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Parisian petit bourgeois, close to society, Juan Branco strives to divide the oppressed to
weaken struggles. His favorite weapon: confusionism and compromise with the extreme right.
---- The author of the Twilight pamphlet , often cited as revealing corruption in the
highest spheres of the state, is a personality that has emerged from the movement of
yellow vests. Coming from the Parisian petty bourgeoisie, Juan Branco rubs shoulders with
film and political personalities early in his career. ---- If he was able to send us these
" revelations ", it is because he was part of this world, integrated it and participated
in its reinforcement, according to his own writings. That a bourgeois tells us the "
secrets " of a power in which he participated does not make him an ally of the social
camp. And his presence in various media, including extreme right, raises issues like his
contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis people and organizations in struggle.
The interview he gives to Denis Robert (director of the Media and author of the preface to
Twilight ) is talking about the bad faith of the character and his contempt. He asked him
about the cancellation of his tour in the south of France. Several political organizations
in Toulouse had alerted about the questionable interview in the Incorrect (newspaper close
to Marion Maréchal) in February. SOUTH Education Mirail, who invited him, had chosen to
maintain the event by asking for clarifications. The answer was to cancel.
Bad faith and class contempt
In the interview with the Media, he returns to this event by insulting the union and
organizations of struggles " useful idiots " and " relay words of power . " It is
justified: " these people,[...]are afraid of the loss of purity and are panicked at the
thought of finding themselves in a situation where we could say they are compromised " .
How to accept this argument when it is precisely the compromise of the leaders with the
capitalist powers that Juan Branco denounces ? Should not he rejoice in our vigilance with
regard to compromises with the extreme right ?
Juan Branco illustrates the strategy of division and manipulation operated by the
bourgeoisie and its allies. Far-right ideas would be a problem only because they would
divert the people from the real enemy: finance and the oligarchy. The objective of this
transversal populism would be to address the popular electorate to bring it back into the
fold of the left of government.
Always according to this strategy, it would be necessary to discuss with those who vote on
the extreme right by reorienting their hatred of the others towards the oligarchy, the 1%,
notions which have no reality in a reading of class, or can maintain Antisemitic and
conspiracy fantasies. It completely masks the state and capitalist system that produces
structures of power and wealth grabbing. It infantilises, fuels confusion, blurs class
markers and politics. With what results ? Fifteen years that this transversal populism
gangrenes the currents of the moderate left and yet, capitalism is always more fierce, the
inequalities are widening and the oppression continues to grow.
Fascists are everywhere, and far right scores have never been so high since the end of the
Second World War. Although he is not responsible for this state of affairs, Juan Branco,
who propagates and applies this strategy, only weakens emancipation struggles by dividing
the oppressed.
Aiphix (UCL Toulouse and around)
https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Juan-Branco-Imposture-bourgeoise-et-bouillie-demagogique
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Message: 3
Here is a summary of the work-group on migrations and borders at the eleventh congress of
the International of Anarchist Federations 24-28th July 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia which
involved a series of workshops including one on migration with participation of
organisations including FAI (Iberia: Spain/Portugal), FAI (Italy), FAO (Slovenia/Croatia),
FA (French-speaking), AF (Britain), FLA (Argentina), IFA-Brazil, APO (Greece) & El
Libertario (Venezuela). ---- The main points that arose were as follows: ---- War, climate
change and poverty have triggered and continue to trigger massive migratory movements from
the most exploited, oppressed and plundered areas of the world, towards the economically
richer ones.
Migratory movements have triggered a process of "globalisation of poverty", that has been
encouraged by the interests of capitalists and supported by states. Because of national
laws against migration, it is typically hard, if not impossible, for a poor person to
enter a rich country legall, so that migrants who reside in them are constantly
blackmailed. For this reason it is easier to impose worse working conditions compared to
those of local workers, removing the rights and protections that have been won for all
workers in many countries of the world.
Migrant workers have assured great profits for employers in the agriculatural (fruit and
vegetable) sector, in the logistics and care-work sector and in the construction sector
(hard and dangerous work). Both legal and illegal capitalism has greatly benefitted from
their exploitation. States and capitalist interests have always been selective about
approach to borders and migration. However, some states which have previously encouraged
migration for economic gain are now opposing new external and internal migrations,
appealing to xenophobia, racism and fear of the poor.
Strongly patriotic and nationalist groups, characterized by highly reactive and
reactionary positions, have prevailed in several global areas, for example in South
America as well as in the North and in the major part of Europe. As life conditions of all
exploited people become worse in every corner of the planet, excluded identities are
increasingly emerging, turning migrants into the enemy, so that the class war becomes a
war amongst the poor. Only class solidarity amongst exploited people can create a conflict
capable of overthrowing the existing situation.
Along each and every border a war is being fought against people who are on the move.
During this war, thousands of people have died, including many children, and they continue
to die. Borders stay open for goods and those who have money, yet are closed for migrants.
Fascists often offer themselves as a volunteer force to aid police repression. The number
of walls is increasing and the systems of control are intensifying, so that social space
is becoming more and more militarized. Electronic IDs, collection of biometric data,
massive use of drones and thermal cameras are just some of the instruments adopted for the
control and the repression of migrants. Structures being put into place on borders against
migration are aiming to obtain the support of local populations (bringing them into the
‘police discourse'). Indigenous populations and oppressed ethnic groups of people are
moving from peripheral and rural areas towards the larger metropolises (internal
migration) to escape poverty and are suffering the same violence and discrimination as
migrants. The transformation of the ‘migrant' category into ‘enemy' helps and facilitates
states to impose security laws, threatening the freedom of all.
Many governments externalise the repression for undocumented people, giving money to other
states along the different points of migration routes, where violence, rape and torture
have become dreadfully common. So the European Union has paid Turkey, Italy is paying
Libya and the USA is blackmailing Mexico. Many states are making deals in order to reject
huge numbers of people, so that they cannot successful gain or apply for asylum. Others
have abolished humanitarian and other forms of protection.
Gender related issues are a major concern. Women are often subjected to abuses by the
police and are seperated from children and families. Women and LGBTQIA+ people are
detained in detention camps on the borders and are also deported back to countries where
they are in danger of harm.
Detention centres for migrants who are waiting to be removed are true prisons in which
they are confined without any charges or trial. These centres represent a strong
demarcation line between those who have ‘citizen' rights and those who do not. In recent
years the struggle against detention centres for the paperless (sans papiers) has seen
many anarchists involved, alongside migrants, whose struggling, rioting and escaping has
showed that there is no cage that can contain the irrepressible desire for freedom.
In every corner of the globe in recent years democracy has been showing its true face,
setting up in practice ‘criminal and administrative law of the enemy'. Poor and migrants
alike are targets: they are enduring serious deprivations precisely because they're poor
and migrant. Against every state, every border, and for the free movement of all!
http://afed.org.uk/international-of-anarchist-federations-2019-congress-statement-on-migration/
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Message: 4
Information from the participation of the Anarchist Political Organization in the TIF
demonstration ---- The demonstration against the opening of the Thessaloniki International
Exhibition took place on Saturday 7 September. As an Anarchist Political Organization we
called for a concentration on the occupation of Mundo Nuevo and marched to the
concentration of Kamara. We formed a distinct anarchist block in the demonstration
together with the Anaxia Anarchist Student Group and the Quieta Moverean Student Assembly,
which was attended by more than 150 people with the central banner "Against State and
Capitalist Barbarism." The socio-class struggles, the occupations, the anarchist movement
... don't give up - they fight. NO PASARAN».
An entire army of MAT and YMET and asylum cops were occupying the pavement alongside much
of the Kamara demonstration with their presence in the anarchist blocs standing firmly and
guarded.
We marched in Thessaloniki against the new round of anti-social attack prepared by the
neoliberal and far-right political administration that emerged after the July 7 elections.
Against the repressive campaign against the anarchist movement and the self-organized
spaces of the struggle that is already underway, the attack on the social character of
asylum, the anti-labor and anti-union measures and the plundering of the natural world
from Acheloos and Halkidiki to Agrafa Epirus.
It was preceded by the liberation festival of occupied spaces and colleges in the city of
Thessaloniki, which took place at the Mundo Nuevo occupation, at the occupation of
Libertatia (the reconstruction of which is ongoing) and at the grassroots of the
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. A festival that, with its variety of themes, has
managed to highlight the richness and depth of anarchist perceptions and practices, at a
time when the repressive approaches of state mechanisms are intensifying, while defending
its occupied spaces of struggle. aggression, public spaces, and social asylum from
universities under state repression, the Rectan authorities who declared lock-out at the
university and drug trafficking.
In the face of state repression targeted by all those who are fighting against the global
dictatorship of state and capital, the anarchist movement, the occupied spaces of
struggle, social and class resistance and refugees and immigrants, let us rejuvenate each
other. fight for a world of equality, freedom, solidarity and justice.
Against state and capitalist barbarism and the dystopia of modern totalitarianism, which
has nothing to promise beyond poverty, destitution and social cannibalism to promote class
and transnational solidarity among the oppressed.
NO OTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE THAT EXISTING STATE AND CAPITALISM
On Saturday, September 14th at 12.00 we are protesting from the Propylaea against the
state repressive campaign, raising a barricade of solidarity with the spaces of struggle,
the anarchist movement and the socio-class resistances!
NO PASARAN!
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collections
http://apo.squathost.com
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The resistance of the German youth against Nazism : "The Pirates of the Edelweiss were not
absolute heroes but rather ordinary people doing extraordinary things". ---- Eighty years
ago, the Nazis invaded Poland and triggered the Second World War. Mark Bray, the author of
Anti-fascism, his past, his present, his future highlights: " For the next five years, the
Nazis and their allies will kill around 200,000 Roma, 200,000 people with disabilities and
hundreds of thousands homosexuals and leftist activists and other dissidents. "(P.82) and
of course about six million Jews and Jews are two-thirds of the Jewish population of the
European continent. ---- To know more about this book you can consult the text: Suggestion
of reading for the fans of Richard Martineau ...
To mark this sad anniversary, Mathieu Bock-Côté, polemicist of the Journal de Montréal,
hastened to write a column on the subject to once again glorify the great heroes of
official history. say heads of state and leaders. On the other hand, Bock-Côté misses the
anti-fascists who, in Germany and the countries under occupation, resisted the Nazis and
the fascists, via the various resistance cells which included numerous anarchists and
communists, the underground networks, the workers and workers who made defective weapons,
white rose pamphleteers, families who hid Jews in their loft or cellar, the Edelweiss
pirates who grouped together several groups of young German girls. .an eternal war against
Hitler Youth "(p.83), the Dutch strikers of 1941 and those who fell hand-in-hand in the
uprisings of concentration camps and ghettos.
Obviously, the polemicist could not finish his ticket without distorting reality to better
serve his political agenda.
But as Mark Bray points out, " Do we have to wait for the swastikas to beat up public
buildings to defend themselves? (239) Although new black shirts are not running in our
streets en masse, the violence of fascists or fascist groups is very real and " Even in
very small doses, it can be dangerous[...]victims of transphobic or racist violence
realize this in pain . "(p.255) The attack on the Grand Mosque in Quebec City on January
29, 2017 should be enough to convince us. But to be certain, here is a non-exhaustive list
of violence, terrorism and the progress of the extreme right since the end of the Second
World War ...
In Italy, fascist groups from 1969 onwards launched a strategy of insurrectionary tension
aimed at destabilizing society (with the support of the CIA) and thus provoking a return
to fascism to restore order. Their actions resulted in the death of many people. On
December 12, 1969, an explosion in Piazza Fontana killed 17 people and wounded 88. In
1974, a bomb exploded at an anti-fascist rally in Brescia, killing eight people and
injuring a hundred others. In 1980, the murderous violence of the Italian fascists reached
a peak during the attacks at the Bologna station, which killed 80 people. (P.119)
In France, bands of racist skinheads attacked punk concerts and launched what they called
" a hunt for butter, " which killed 23 people in 1983.
In Germany, between 1990 and 2017, at least 169 murders were committed by the far-right.
In 1993 alone, 23,000 crimes related to the extreme right were registered. (107)
In Greece, "[the neo-Nazi]Golden Dawn landed from nowhere to become a major political
force ready to lead a government, before judicial convictions decimate the leadership of
the party in 2013. " (p.257) More More on the history of Golden Dawn, you can consult the
text: How did Greece come to elect neo-Nazi deputies?
In Norway, 77 people are murdered by a right-wing activist at a rally of the League of
Young Labor on July 22, 2011.
On March 15, 2019, 52 people died after attacks in two mosques in New Zealand. On August
4, a white supremacist killed 22 people in El Paso, near the border between Mexico and the
United States.
And the list continues...
"We do not debate fascism, we destroy it" - Buenaventura Durruti
History has shown us that institutions have failed to stem fascism. In Italy, the king
gave power to Benito Mussolini and in Germany the Nazis were democratically elected to the
Reichstag. No offense to Bock-Côté, it remains imperative to draw the good lessons of
history and prevent each potential advance of a new brown plague. We owe it to all the
victims of hatred and fascism from yesterday to today.
" No pasarán! "
Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2019/09/mathieu-bock-cote-lantifascisme-et-la.html
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