Today's Topics:
1. London Anarchist Communists: Libertarian Communism 2019 --
2nd ACG Dayschool: (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire - The strength of women
changes the world Join us at UCL (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. London Anarchist Federation: Report on Solidarity Demo for
Exarcheia (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Czech, afed: Fight against unnatural authority (II) --
Completion of the interview with members of the Anarchist
Federation [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, anarchist group "mischievous horse" - APO: [Patras]
Call for open assembly to organize anti-fascist-anti-repressive
demonstration ... 6 years after Paul Fyssa's murder [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. London ACG Public Meetings: Sunday 22nd September: Film Show
- Joe Hill (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Sunday: October 5th 12:30- 5:30 May Day Rooms- 88 Fleet Street, London
(https://maydayrooms.org/) ---- In its second year, Libertarian Communism 2019 gives those
interested in libertarian/anarchist communism an opportunity to come together to develop
our ideas on important current issues. This year there will be two sessions.
Women organising in the workplace ---- The women's movement and working women have used a
number of different organising models and methods since the late 60s and early 70s in
their fight against patriarchy and exploitation at work. These struggles have taken place
at work itself as well as within the trade union movement, revolutionary politics,
political parties and the legal system, with varying degrees of success. Often we have
felt as attacked and beleaguered by our ‘comrades' as by our exploiters. We have tackled
discrimination, fear, sexual harassment and humiliation and tried to build solidarity,
strength, power and confidence through consciousness raising, practical and theoretical
debate and self-organisation and direct action. What are the issues facing working class
women today and what can we learn from past experiences in order to make our struggles
more effective?
Climate change and capitalism
There will be three speakers including a student involved in the strike movement. We will
focus on the following issues:
· review of current climate change movement
· how we implement in practice an anti-capitalist strategy that links the workers movement
with the environmental movement?
· how far can technology be relied upon to combat climate change?
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/
https://londonacg.blogspot.com/2019/09/libertarian-communism-2019.html
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Message: 2
Our organization, the Libertarian Communist Union (UCL) was created on June 8, 2019. It
was born from the fusion of Alternative Libertaire (AL) and the Coordination of Anarchist
Groups (CGA). The women of both organizations have been extensively involved in this
founding process. Today, many libertarian communist comrades join us to continue with us
the important work started on feminist, anti-patriarchal struggles: training, support for
women's self-organization, development and dissemination of feminist practices and tools,
spaces non-mixed, solidarity of our allies, etc., protection of women within and outside
the organization. ---- When women get up, people move forward ---- All over the world,
revolutionary women are organizing and fighting more than ever to defend their rights,
denounce macho violence, fight patriarchy and capitalism.
On March 8, 2018, Zapatista women organized a meeting that brought together 8,000 women
from around the world who are struggling. They then affirmed the need to end the
patriarchal capitalist system. Across Latin America, numerous events are organized to
denounce feminicides under the slogan " Ni una menos " (" not one less "). In Brazil,
women took to the streets against the election of the far-right candidate Bolsonaro,
taking over " Ele Nao " (not him).
On March 8, 2018 and 2019, women managed to unite and gather in millions in the main
Spanish cities. Kurdish women are building a strong anti-tribal feminist movement and are
preparing a World Women's Meeting for 2020.
Let us rely on these experiences, find the strength to get together and organize
ourselves. Without us, women, the world does not work !
Libertarian feminists, we fight against all oppressions
Our libertarian feminism is at the crossroads of the struggles against all the
exploitations and all the oppressions. He is anti-capitalist, ecologist and anti-racist.
Our democratic aspirations are anti-state. We do not believe that the strengthening of the
State is a solution, but rather that it is part of the problem, in particular because it
makes work more precarious, contributes to the destruction of public services, tramples
our social conquests (closing of maternity , family planning, and IVG centers ...). Women
are the first victims of these deadly policies.
As for the police and justice, not only do they not protect women, but leave them prey to
their attackers and murderers. The number of feminicides throughout the world and in
France continues to increase. The blows to women's bodies are daily. The laws are
inadequate, and the means are derisory in the face of this emergency.
If we struggle to improve our living conditions here and now, we are also fighting to
abolish patriarchy. Patriarchy is a political, economic and social system based on the
sexual division of labor through domestic exploitation and the domination of our bodies,
our lives and our sexualities. It is based on the physical, psychic and economic
submission of women. Any deviation from these assignments is sanctioned to ensure the
maintenance of social and gender order. As such, we affirm that feminist and
anti-LGBTIphobia struggles are closely linked and must be carried side-by-side without
erasing their specificities.
No place escapes violence, no place will escape our vigilance
Download the leaflet in pdf
That's why we are revolutionary, invested in our unions, our associations, our places of
work, of life, our collectives. Today it is fundamental to unite, to stand together and we
call all those who find themselves in these values to organize with us to carry out our
struggles.
The organization is a weapon ! We now call on women to organize themselves, to build
counter-powers everywhere, to develop solidarities and spaces for emancipation, to join us
in the libertarian communist union.
Long live those who fight ! All united we will overcome !
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-force-des-femmes-change-le-monde-Rejoignez-nous-au-sein-de-l-UCL
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Message: 3
On the 2nd of September we held a solidarity demo outside the Greek embassy, which got
about 30 people out on a Monday afternoon. We handed out copies of the Anarchist
Federation's statement (also below) on the brutal attacks on immigrants and anarchists by
the Greek state, although the embassy refused to allow us to deliver a copy to their
staff. ---- We would like to thank everyone who came, including the people over at Anarcha
Feminism who helped us promote it. Solidarity with our comrades suffering in Greece and
down with the false borders used to divide us! ---- Statement from the Anarchist
Federation ---- On Monday the 26th of August, the Greek police launched a large operation
in Exarcheia, the famous rebel district in the centre of Athens. This is a unique place in
Europe for its high concentration of squats and other self-organised spaces, but also for
its resistance against repression and solidarity with migrants and the precariat.
Early in the morning, the squats of Spirou Trikoupi 17, Gare, Rosa de Fon and Transito
were surrounded by huge police forces: anti-riot police, anti-terrorism police and secret
police. The police then launched a large repression operation, leading to over 100
arrests. Migrants have been sent to camps known for inhuman living conditions. More than
15 kids that grew up in Athens and had their life there were deported. The security forces
are now walling up the buildings that used to be home to so many.
This operation aimed to directly attack the incredible solidarity efforts that were
developed by a network of people, many of them anarchists, to cope with the austerity
measures the Greek state and the EU implemented. It aimed to destroy a neighbourhood that
has invented a new world where it has been possible to exist and live regardless of your
economical, social or cultural background. It aimed to keep Exarcheia under the control of
a violent state that, like the rest of Europe, is ready to put humans in camps, simply
because they were born on the other side of a border.
Exarcheia has many other squats, around 20, but the newly elected Greek prime minister
promised a complete "cleaning". More battles are to come.
The Anarchist Federation is expressing its full support to everyone in Exarcheia.
For a future without State, police or borders,
Solidarity!
https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/report-on-solidarity-demo-for-exarcheia/
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Message: 4
Follows on the first episode, which you can find HERE. https://www.afed.cz/text/7021 ----
What about the state itself and its repressive forces, the military and the police? Do you
still take them as your arch enemies or are you willing to engage in a debate and
compromise with them? ---- Talking about arch enemies sounds a bit theatrical. Why are
anarchists so often in conflict with the state and its repressive forces? It is not
because they are the cause of all evil. Inward, they are institutions of social coercion
and supervision, outward they are instruments of power expansion or defense against it. It
is necessary to look at what constitutes the state and what interests are promoted through
it. Historically, the bourgeoisie claimed its share of power, for which it needed to stand
in the masses of the people, but with whom it did not have much in common. The promise of
an equal share of power has proven to be a powerful tool for the corruption of these
masses, even though it is at the heart of a foolish fraud. The bourgeois democracy has
nothing to do with equal share of power. The fairy tale of free choice is just deleting
honey around a mushroom in a game whose rules we have no influence on. If you look under
the lid, you will see a range of economic and power interests, links between business and
political circles, obvious and hidden pressures of transnational capital. The state is
then there to maintain the status quo, ie. he maintained social inequalities, allowed
economic growth for owners and investors, and held the scum, the others, in short, whether
with sugar or whip. This clearly implies the role of the repressive forces at the disposal
of the state. But the masses can also be controlled and used by other means, such as
nationalism, religion or consumer orientation. So it is not just a matter of hating the
state, but it is necessary to look beyond it. The state is not scolded only by anarchists.
Neoliberalism also opposes it. He wants from him the greatest possible support of capital,
privatization and commodification of almost everything, abolition of environmental and
labor protection, but on the other hand, neoliberalism demands the protection of
investment and property and the elimination of radical opposition that could jeopardize
the interests of the richest. At a time when neoliberalism has become an ideological
hegemon, the question arises as to whether to fight for what the workers' movement has
resisted over the last 150 years. To a certain extent this is certainly needed, but it is
equally necessary to be free from the idea of capitalism with a human face. The anarchist
stateless solution is based on the idea that the historical role of the state is not
social but repressive. Without the coercive power of the state, it would simply not be
possible to maintain the class division of society. when neoliberalism has become an
ideological hegemon, the question arises as to whether to fight for what the workers'
movement has resisted over the last 150 years. To a certain extent this is certainly
needed, but it is equally necessary to be free from the idea of capitalism with a human
face. The anarchist stateless solution is based on the idea that the historical role of
the state is not social but repressive. Without the coercive power of the state, it would
simply not be possible to maintain the class division of society. when neoliberalism has
become an ideological hegemon, the question arises as to whether to fight for what the
workers' movement has resisted over the last 150 years. To a certain extent this is
certainly needed, but it is equally necessary to be free from the idea of capitalism with
a human face. The anarchist stateless solution is based on the idea that the historical
role of the state is not social but repressive. Without the coercive power of the state,
it would simply not be possible to maintain the class division of society.
In Russia, Belarus or Ukraine, people with anarchist sentiments are still arrested and
imprisoned or even tortured. The most well-known media is probably the controversial case
of members of the Pussy Riot group, but there are others such as Igor Olinevic and Mikola
Dziadok, and more recently the network case. How does it look in the Czech Republic? Do
you know any cases of similar persecution?
We can boldly say that all states are the same in this. Active persecution of anti-system
opposition, liquidation of autonomous projects outside and against the state, fabricated
cases. It doesn't matter if we're in the East or the West. The only difference is how far
the repressive components of a country are willing to go. In Russia, there are no forms of
torture and forced confessions. In our country it suffices with agents-provocateurs,
threats, senseless detention, police bullying, etc. We could see this in the so-called
Phoenix case, which ended in a fiasco for the "investigators". But they do not give up and
prepare Phoenix II, want to send a few people behind bars at least for publishing
information on arson attacks, or for the dissemination of subversive literature.
How do you perceive the strange circumstances of the recent closure of the clinic in
Zizkov? Couldn't it be counted on in the end, and rather, when did that happen?
There's nothing strange about it. During the few years of the Clinic's existence, there
have been several times when there was a risk of eviction, and it was only a matter of
time before it arrived. Although efforts to legalize space continued, it was clear from
the outset that the Clinic team was struggling in unequal struggle. The struggle took
place especially at the ideological level, the attacks by the police, neo-Nazis and
executor just illustrated it. Two ideological worlds clashed here. One craving for
alternative, unbridled relationships, collective action, self-government, a city for
people... And the other advocating a neoliberal ideology that says private property is
holy and the owner can treat it at will, uncontrollable alternatives are inadmissible, the
city is here to generate profit and executor is a knight on the white horse of today. On
the one hand, a group of poor activists and non-conformist intellectuals, on the other
hand, a cohort of politicians, police, senior officials and corporate media. That the
Clinic has lasted for such a long time is almost a miracle. The team of the Clinic is
alive, but the movement without material background and space is weakened. In addition,
they continue to face a liquidation financial attack through the bailiff who led the
eviction. At the same time, it is evident that nothing prevented this from being agreed
and the Autonomous Center could continue to operate in the Jeseniova Street for several years.
Do you think there is still power in the demonstrations and gatherings created by the
Occupy Movement, the Euro May Day, or recently the Yellow Vest, or has the focus of
resistance shifted more into the web of social networks?
The power of demonstrations is not worth overestimating. Demonstrations alone will not
achieve anything, but they have mobilization potential and are an important signal and
means from below to point out a problem. Which of the politicians and economic elites had
taken seriously massive trade union marches in Prague years ago, behind which there was no
real threat? Unless there is any movement behind the demonstrations that has the potential
and determination to touch elites in tricky places, there will be only memory and other
frustrations. That is why we think the most important are the struggles that have an
impact on the workplace and capitalist infrastructure. Unlimited strikes, blockades ...
But you do not necessarily have to wait for the emergence of numerous movements to be
successful. Solidarity networks have been found to be effective in helping individuals to
recover their wages, for example. Resistance shifted to social networks is perhaps the
greatest blessing for the system. It can be supervised, easily manipulated and kept away
from physical space. Much easier than struggling with demonstrators in the streets,
tackling highway and refinery blockages or struggling with rebellious employees.
French Essayists The Invisible Committee argues that in today's atomized, uncertain and
multipolar times, full of misinformation, there is no real power anymore, but rather a
simulation. What do you think? Is there any common enemy at all?
We don't want to get bogged down in over-philosophizing. Power always had many forms, and
they could change in different ways. Power also acts on many levels. But it is based on
inequality, unnatural authority, and through it you can force someone else to do what you
want, even if it may not be in line with whether it wants it or not. Thanks to social
inequality, capital has the power to maintain and benefit from the wage labor system.
Through the state, it has the power to maintain this inequality also by means other than
economic means. But power is also manifested through patriarchy, racism, nationalism,
religious obscurantism, the exploitation of animals and nature... And so there are many
opportunities to corrupt and ensure that even the privileged become adaptable
"accomplices". We can focus on and fight against partial manifestations of power, but we
should be aware of their context and the fact that all these struggles should be
interconnected in a way. It is precisely the fight against unnatural authority that
underlies the anarchist idea that enables us to do so.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7022/boj-proti-neprirozene-autorite-ii
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Message: 5
K grind an open meeting to organize anti-state-fascism-antidepressant demonstration in
Patras ... six years after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas ---- The change in political
management with the July 7th elections marks the continuation, in even tougher terms, of
the onslaught of the state and capital in the majority of society, continuing on the path
paved by all governments in previous years, and especially in the past. which played an
important role in the cultivation of illusions and the deregulation of social and class
struggles. ---- This attack aims at: ---- Imposing suffocating living conditions on the
working and unemployed with even tougher anti-social measures. At the forefront is the
announcement of a new round of war for those who are at the heart of the political and
economic system today. To the poor, the pariahs, the strugglers. Their obvious aim is to
subjugate them so as to pave the way for the unimpeded imposition of socio-economic elites
who want to impose social conditions on labor camps.
Expanding the incarceration of refugees and migrants in concentration camps, legalizing
killings at land and sea borders, consolidating the State of Exemption as a basic norm of
organizing life, and shaping the conditions for the establishment of a Society Camp.
To intensify the plunder of the natural world and local communities through the
implementation of gigantic designs and pharaohs, as a strategic pursuit of the sovereigns
for the expansion of their speculative activities and the destruction of the planet.
In the Emergency Regime consolidation operation through the proclamation of a giant
repressive enterprise against the struggling parts of society, and in particular against
the anarchist-antiauthoritarian movement. This operation involves evacuations of occupied
combat sites, police occupation of entire areas, upgrading of the legal arsenal against
militants. The proclaimed repressive strategy of the new government aims at the complete
disappearance of political, social and class struggles.
As social activists we owe the following:
To organize and repel the repressive and ideological attack prepared by the new political
management against the world of struggle.
To highlight the illusions of political management rotation and the very antisocial nature
of the state that destroys the social majority, kills those who are "overweight", targets
those who resist, plunder and destroy the natural world.
To crush state and state terrorism, where it manifests itself. For the next time it may
seem that the state is incorporating all repressive tactics into its mechanisms of
transnational action of the raids, but the fascists will always be a useful reserve and
will use them again when needed.
To find ourselves on the streets, alongside those brutally affected by the new round of
state and capitalist aggression.
We call an open meeting Tuesday, September 10 at 17.00 in the self-managed space In the
Western (Patreos 87) for organizing anti-state-fascism-antidepressant demonstration in six
the anniversary of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, to give a first mass kinematics response
to antisocial and anti-government pronouncements by the new government.
Four and a half years after the start of the ATHEX trial that attempted to promote the
state as the sole guarantor of "democratic normality", to consolidate the theory of the
two extremes and to unleash the action of state-owned neo-Nazis, and 6 years after the
assassination of Paul Fyssa from the golden-haired Rupakia, to find ourselves again on the
streets, where fascism is practically broken, where everything is still open...
AROUND THE STATE, CAPITAL AND FASCISTS ....
LET THE FIRE OF SOCIAL AND CLASSICAL WAR REFUSE
anarchist group "mischievous horse" - member of APO
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 6
2 pm-4:30 pm May Day Rooms, 188 Fleet St, London EC4Y 1DH https://maydayrooms.org/
Joe Hill was one of the most effective and inspirational union organisers in the USA in
the 20th century. Following the film we will discuss what we can learn from the experience
of Joe Hill and others in the IWW about workers organising today. ---- Thursday 26th
September: Discussion Meeting - This Land is Ours: The Fight for Land Justice ---- 7pm
Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY https://housmans.com ---- Land 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 land justice 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, consider what is being done in Scotland and elsewhere, and then open
the discussion on what changes we would like to see.
Sunday 1st December 1st December: Discussion Meeting: Free Public Transport for All
2 pm - 4:30 May Day Rooms
The current transport system is based on the car and road-building culture. This is one of
the key causes of climate change and pollution, both air and noise. Meanwhile, the public
transport system is overcrowded and expensive in cities and non-existent in rural areas.
With housing increasing in price in the centre of urban areas, people are forced to move
further and further out and end up paying a large portion of their wages and time just to
get to work. And, there is continual pressure to undermine the working conditions and
safety concerns of transport workers.
Join us for a discussion of these issues and help develop a campaign for free public
transport for all, building a united movement of workers and users.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/09/01/london-acg-public-meetings/
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