Anarchic update news all over the world - part 1 - 09.10.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  wsm.ie: Transport needs and Climate Breakdown as 25, 000
      march through Dublin by: Andrew N Flood (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL - Stop the
      persecution against the Traore family! (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #298 - Editorial: The
      absurdity of the system kills (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire - UCL-Rennes, Concert to
      support migrants (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Czech, AFED: Memories of anarchist - Anarchist Federation
      publishing house has published a new book. [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Brazil, liga rj: Ecological and health disaster (ca, it, pt)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire - Migrants, eternal
      sacrificed successive reforms of health (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  [Patras] Gathering at Goody's against layoffs and employer
      terrorism By APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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As part of the global climate strike about 25 thousand students marched through the center
of Dublin city. This was one of many demonstrations that took place around Ireland, even
the small dormitory towns around Dublin like Maynooth had their own demonstrations. So the
actual numbers protesting in Ireland was probably in the region of 40,000.  In this piece
Andrew looks at how collective action can halt Climate Breakdown using the example of the
need for transport to illustrate why individual consumer choices cannot fix things. ----
Watching the march one of the things that struck an observer was all the handwritten signs
that certainly indicated quite an awareness of what the core issues around Climate
Breakdown actually are. Worth mentioning as we've seen an awful lot of cranky old white
men in the Irish media over the last couple of weeks trying to suggest that the young
people taking part in these mass protests don't understand the issues or were being
tricked by adults. One powerful answer to that is just to watch this video and watch all
the different signs and different slogans that people have created themselves.

The Irish government's complete lack of seriousness about the climate crisis is shown by
the fact that the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar chose this of all days to cut the ribbon on a
runway being reopened. Air travel of course is one of the things people focus in as a
cause of a climate change / climate breakdown. The reason for that is it's a significant
enough percentage on its own, around 3.5%, but also it's one of those things where a very
small number of people are causing a huge amount of damage. An awful lot of the damage of
air travel is  from people who are travelling multiple times each year.

That air travel figure is one illustration among many of why it's a mistake to talk about
halting climate breakdown in terms of getting people to make different individual consumer
choices. In fact most of the damage is done by a very, very, small percentage of the
world's population, these are the world's wealthy.  In the UK for instance 10% of people
account for 50% of International flights.

We already know the wealthy don't particularly care about the rest of us because they have
created and maintain an economic system in which a huge percentage of the world's
population are extremely poor.  So while on the individual level you or I might decide to
try and completely avoid air travel that makes very very little difference if the wealthy
take 6 or more trips a year. We've got a fairly narrow elite that are traveling multiple
times per year who won't change their behaviour because frankly they don't really care
that much about how or whether the rest of us live. This also isn't a question of the rich
simply being immoral - they are but it's more a case that an awful lot of the Climate
Breakdown causes we face need systematic collective change. Climate Breakdown can't be
halted at an individual consumer level.

Collective decisions making not individual consumer choice
You can see why this is the case if you look at transport. Ireland has a pretty terrible
public transport system as it's expensive, it's quite often slow and it also doesn't
really connect areas up very well. It tends to just connect city centers up with the
suburbs because it's set up to facilitate working and shopping. The national train network
is is both slow and expensive.  It also only connects Dublin to each of the regional
cities. It doesn't even really connect them to each other. So we've created this transport
system in Ireland where a lot of people are quite dependent on having a car and are often
unable to choose an alternative way of getting around.

Now we know cars cause a huge amount of climate damage so the government's proposed
solution to that - which is no solution whatsoever - is to simply try and replace the
mechanical petrol and diesel cars on the roads with electric cars. On one level you might
think that an improvement because obviously emissions from electric cars are lower but
what it also does is ensure that in fact lots and lots and lots of new electric cars need
to be built. The process of constructing those results in the production of huge amounts
of a climate change gases and uses up materials some of which are in short supply and/or
have polluting extractive processes. What we need to do in terms of transport is not an
individual consumer choice of what sort of car people drive but rather a collective choice
made by society that we're going to have a very good public transport system.

An effective public transport should be free and able to get people where they are going
regular & fast enough that there is almost no need for individually owned cars anymore. We
need a collective transport system where the private car becomes a kind of oddity of the
late 20th century. A weird symptom of the hyper individualism that capitalism encouraged
and which almost wrecked the planet.   In the cities this means a system that is not just
about getting people from a suburb into the city centre but that connects the entire city
up so that visiting a friend on the opposite edge of the city is as easy as driving there.
And we need a rural transport system that enables people to rapidly reach every village on
the island, and runs late enough to help revitalise rural social life.

Although in the US or Ireland this probably sounds hopelessly utopian the reality is that
such systems have already existed and we tore them up.  Ireland had a fair more extensive
island wide train system in the 1910's, you could even get to Achill island by train.
Trams ran out of Dublin to Howth and the foothills of the Dublin mountains so people could
escape the city at the weekends.  Outside of the global north transport systems that
connect up everywhere are common as there are no other options.  Trains & buses run
between cities and towns, shared taxi's run the same routes with greater frequency and
connect up towns to villages.  These are a necessity of relative poverty, many people
can't buy and run a car. The pressures of poverty mean they certainly have significant
flaws not least pushing drivers to cramming too many people in and driving for too many
hours.  But they prove that  a properly funded system could ‘abolish the car', even more
so when you consider that the technological developments of the last decade cover the
final set of uses.  If you need to transport an elderly relative for a hospital
appointment or move a load of furniture to a new home you could rent a vehicle suitable
for that for the time it takes, such schemes often using electric vehicles already exist.
Which in any case is a lot better than trying to use the ‘family car' for all those
purposes when it's too small for some and too big (and therefore wasteful) for others.

This is a very different idea the government goal of replacing our current fleet of fossil
fuel cars with a similarly sized fleet which incidentally would require 2.6 million
electric cars in the south alone.  That sort of consumer choice approach to Climate
Breakdown might reduce running emissions significantly but it requires a huge use of
energy and raw materials to make all those cars.  A process that will involve the
production of lots of greenhouse gases, around 8.8 tonnes of CO2 per car so some 22
million tonnes in all which is more than current transport emissions for over a year.

Car use is already very inefficient in terms of transporting people in comparison with
trains or buses, most cars bringing people to work only carry one person which at the same
times a bus will have 50 on board.  The electricity used to drive an electric car still
has a high proportion (70% in 2017) coming from fossil fuels so the emissions from 50
single person electric cars taking 50 people to work will be very much larger than a 50
seater diesel bus.  And while each of those cars will sit unused for the rest of the day
the bus will continue to run back and forth meaning the emissions from the manufacturing
process per person transported will be minuscule in comparison with a car.  So why on
earth are we talking about replacing single user petrol cars with almost as inefficient
single user electric cars rather than a really good collective public transport system?

The level of collective decision making we need here extends beyond the type of vehicles
but also what sort of transport infrastructure we build.  In particular government
priority for a very long time has been to prioritize private cars on roads over
pedestrians, cyclists and bus and train passengers.  Tram tracks were torn up, footpaths
narrowed or never built, bus corridors a recently hotly contested introduction and cycle
lanes seldom much more than a line of paint.  In the last decades a lot of money went into
building motorway connections between Dublin and the other cities around Ireland but
almost nothing into train lines.  As a result the trains are expensive and no faster than
driving.  They should be making inter-city journey's at a fraction of the cost of a car
and at 2 to 3 times the speed which incidentally would also relieve some of the housing
pressure in the big cities by making it possible to reasonably commute from much further
away. Putting money into fast train lines rather than motorways is an excellent example of
how meaningless a ‘consumer choice' approach is to Climate Breakdown.  This decision to
fund one over the other cannot be made by individuals but only through collective decision
making.    The decision to give space on a city transport route to pedestrians, cyclists
and buses rather than a car lane for individually owned cars cannot be made by a consumer,
it has to be a collective decision.  Organising rather than shopping choice is what we need.

Why the consumer focus?
   So why is it that there is such a big focus on individual consumer choices as a way of
combating climate breakdown? Well one of the reasons is that at first it seems like an
easy solution to people not used to working together as a group to win change.   On your
own you can decide to buy one product rather than another and that gives us a sense that
we're doing something meaningful. Probably most people reading this are already making
some choices along this lines, cycling rather than driving, avoiding flying where
possible, eating less beef or even going vegan, avoiding ‘fast fashion' and so on. I've
made changes myself to the way I live and that's because I want to contribute as little as
possible to making Climate Breakdown worse.  I don't want to be somebody who's
accelerating climate change but I recognize that what choices I make will have very very
little impact, indeed no measurable impact in terms of where the planet is going to find
itself in 10, 20 or 30 years time.  For the reasons already outlined the really meaningful
changes have to be changes we make collectively, that we make as a society. But there are
other reasons why the individual consumer choice gets pushed and the main other reason is
ideological.

We live in a society, a neoliberal society, where the whole idea that society could make,
indeed should make decisions is is looked down on.  People coming together to educate each
other, talks things out and then perhaps vote on a range of options is seen as impossible,
as something not to be attempted outside of the occasional referendum. Instead we are told
that left to itself the market will make wise decisions. That if we allow the free hand of
the market to operate it will somehow magically make decisions that will avoid climate
breakdown or that will supply housing - to take an example where it's very obviously not
happening in the current Irish context. You might wonder where does this idea that the
market can be a solution come from, in particular when in the context of housing and
climate change it very obviously hasn't been working and time is running out.

Why is it the case that what we are told are intelligent people, media commentators etc
continuously put forward this idea that the market can do something that it very blatantly
isn't. The reason is basically down to the fundamental nature of the society we live in.
Taking a step back and looking at that society we see that a very small percentage of
people control almost all the wealth in our society and that this control means that while
we call the society we live in a democracy the reality is that they make all the key
decisions.  Those people don't want us making decisions.

We have little say but much potential power
In work for instance most of us have no say whatsoever in terms of how things go. We've no
say over what's produced, why it's produced, how much its sold for etc. That's made by the
people who own the company. Those people often don't even work for the company we're in.
They are often just shareholders, meaning they just collect a percentage of the profits
made every year because they own those shares. That's quite a strange system and under the
threat of climate breakdown its a disaster as shareholders want to make profits, not
protect the planet.

OK you might think, there is no democracy in work and we do spend a lot of our lives
there.  But once we turn 18 we do get to vote for politicians.   But what determines who
wins an election is very is very often how the media covers them, right? And most of the
media is owned by the same very small amount of rich people who own the wealth in society.
When you look at the data in fact you realize that elections are nearly always won by the
candidate who has the most money. That's the main determining factor in who rules us.  So
in work it's the case that we live in what is really a dictatorship, we don't really have
a say about how work runs and then society as a whole turns out to be also run by the same
people.

Effectively the super wealthy buy politicians, sometimes very literally in terms of
bribes, sometimes less literally but still as effectively in terms of control of the media
and who gets donations. So the decision making system we have means the people who are
producing the vast majority of climate change gases have by far the loudest voices.  These
are the people who control and profit from the companies and corporations which produce
the vast majority of climate change gases.  So you've got a very small percentage of the
world's population, we're maybe talking less than 1% here, maybe 0.1%, and they get most
of the wealth that's generated by the processes producing climate change.

It gets worse though.  This group, the super wealthy also have the least interest in
minimising the extent of climate change. If you take the example of rising sea levels the
rich have the money to move.  Indeed they have the money to buy a house on wherever the
beach is going to be at its new sea level. Some are experts in making a lot of money from
property speculation so who knows they might well make a lot of money from property
speculation around sea level rises. The vast majority of the world's poor on the other
hand don't have any of those choices. Lots of people cannot escape rising sea levels
because they live in in places almost entirely comprised of low-lying land as in Pacific
Islanders or in countries like Bangladesh where there's a lot of rivers and little
available land. They also can't escape the effects of sea level rises because they don't
have the money to move somewhere else and in any case border regimes won't allow them escape.

For a lot of the rest of us it's not quite that severe but it is the case that we already
can't afford housing, that we are already stuck paying way more rent than what we can
actually afford and that as things get disrupted, as areas go underwater moving for us is
a much bigger deal than it is for wealthy people.  Of course the sea level rise will be
slow and over many decades, I'm using it here for illustration.   The much more worrying
thing that's already happening is rising food insecurity. The changing climate means that
food crops that were once reliable are sometimes failing or delivering reduced harvest,
and that's really affecting the poorest people in the world who are very much dependent on
subsistence farming to eat. The rest of us, we see food prices increasing, perhaps we see
we have to switch from eating one thing to another thing as a consequence of that but a
lot of the world's population are dependent on growing their own food and if the crop
fails they don't necessarily have the means to purchase something else. They become
dependent, perhaps on UN relief funds, and if that fails to arrive they literally face the
threat of starvation.

This is already happening,  there are already a lot of people living in food insecurity
due to failing crops and becoming dependent on UN or whatever other relief agencies
provide food.  For years the number in food insecurity decreased, with economic crisis and
climate breakdown this is no longer true and is rising since 2015.  The UN said last year
that more than 820 million people did not have enough it eat.  This is roughly one person
for every nine on the planet and one baby in 7 is now born underweight.

That's the planet we've already created and climate breakdown is going to escalate food
insecurity considerably in the next decades. In terms of human impact it's probably the
most devastating short term outcome, although it will be obscured by the civil conflict
and wars that will accompany it.  There is good evidence that the 2011 Arab Spring
insurrections were in part generated by escalating costs of the main food stables.  In
other words the first mass movements of climate refugees have probably already happened.

If you look at the denialism commentary from the angry old white men in the media I
referred to earlier about the movement to halt climate breakdown you'll see that the same
collective V consumerist ideas I write of here, but from the opposite angle. Because what
you'll often see is they'll try and rubbish the dedication being shown by the activists
who are coming out and organizing on the street by suggesting that instead they should be
not using their mobile phones, or that there parents shouldn't be driving them to school
in the morning or that they shouldn't be taking a holiday. A whole range of things that
are precisely intended to try and push people away from the collective solutions we need
and towards individual consumer choices.   So the message that's been put out in the
media, and again the media is controlled / owned by the super wealthy, is that instead of
taking collective action, instead of collectively organizing together instead of talking
about what solutions we need together, what you should do is retreat back into the home.
Go back to being an individual, go back to making consumer choices.

Profit, consumerism and divide & rule
The capitalist system is also well capable of making profits out of consumer choices. Lots
of people may stop eating beef or drastically reduce the amount of it they eat because of
the proportionally huge amount of greenhouse gases beef results in.  There is a good
argument for making a collective decision to drastically cut beef production for that
reason and for all remaining production to be low intensity grazing based that aids in
soil regeneration.  But that's a collective decision that can be made, capitalism has no
problem with individuals cutting down on beef because it can sell them other products. And
then it can probably sell more or less the same quantity of beef to other people, perhaps
at a slightly reduced cost, perhaps at the same cost with more spent on advertising.  The
individual consumer route in other words might well have no useful impact on climate
breakdown at all.

But of course on this particular issue and plant V meat based diets in general we've
already seen that partly to keep us divided and partially to create market segments the
capitalist media will be very happy to stir up antagonism between those two groups because
they know if they can create a fight between vegetarians and meat eaters then both those
groups become distracted from the common danger of Climate Breakdown we face. A lot of
vegetarians probably already know multiple reactionary uncles who will make a point out of
extra meat eating to annoy them.  The media already regularly publish ‘beef to be banned'
clickbait articles to drive traffic to their sites for ad purposes and  if you look at the
commentary underneath those clickbait articles you'll see an endless pointless fight
between vegans and those who think their heads will explode if they 24 hours without
feasting on flesh.

You'll see the same sort of fight before that between car drivers and cyclists and again
this often comes from a media click bait, a deliberate attempt to sort of set people who
aren't really against each other against each other. When the reality is that the change
we need isn't going to be made simply by more people choosing to become cyclists, that's
great if they do that, but actually needs to involve a whole reworking of what we
understand by transportation. That's switch I talked about earlier from individual car
culture to collective forms of public transportation, trains in particular, buses, cycling
and collective systems of being able to use shared cars. Instead of having a discussion
about the need for this transformation and how it might be organised in the media what we
see endlessly is this attempt to set the needs of one group of people against another
group of people.

Escaping the trap, effective action
So how do we escape this trap? We escape this trap by coming together, we escape this trap
by taking it part in collective action and climate strike marches are a start to that
process of collective action. They are bringing people together, people are talking to
each other while they march, people are getting a sense of common purpose. And even more
importantly big march's give you a sense of collective power. You see how many people are
thinking the same sort of thing and will got act.  You realize you have a part to play
together and there's even a collective sense of oneness that you get in a football or
other sports crowds. So they often provide a very good start point but I think the thing
we've got to be clear that are only a start point.

Back in 2003 ahead of when the USA invaded Iraq there were absolutely enormous
demonstrations all around the world and in particular in the countries that were heading
to war. Hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people came out on the streets and
said we do not want this war.

Even Dublin saw a demonstration that was probably four times bigger than the Climate
Strike march. At least a hundred thousand people marched through Dublin that day in 2003
and they were specifically saying we don't want to have a part in this war. The part that
we  were and are being pushed into in America's wars is refuelling warplanes at Shannon.
But the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he'd have been on the demonstration himself if he
wasn't busy and ignored the demand to stop refuelling. They are well used to contain mass
popular protests in the form of marches. We might start with a march but that has has to
go somewhere else before it loses momentum, we have to escalate. We need to come together
and think about what else can we do, what other possibilities exist, how do we force them
to pay attention to us. In 2003 that meant organising mass trespasses at Shannon airport
as others snuck in at night and damaged planes.  For the while that real momentum existed
they had to stop refuelling there but that was a brief moment as once war officially
started most people stopped marching.

In the context of Climate Breakdown the answer is not the one most people first think of.
The answer is not electoral politics. I've already talked about the way that's controlled
by the super-wealthy but beyond that in Ireland we see a very good example in the Irish
Green Party of how toothless and useless electoralism is. The Green Party have been in
power, they were part of the government back in the  late 2000s.  Importantly they were
part of the government when there was massive opposition to the opening of a new
experimental gas refinery at Rossport. There were huge community mobilizations against
that, people resisted that refinery over the course of a decade and  the Green Party were
in power at the end of that process, at the time that they saw the deployment of the Irish
Navy, two gunboats, hundreds of Gardai and even elements of the Irish Army. This saw the
illegal preventive arrest of activists and their detention in Mountjoy jail to prevent
them taking kayaks out into the bay. Before the Green Party went into government they'd
stood alongside the protesters, in power they were part of the government that suppressed
and even illegally jailed them.  That is the reality of electoral power and what it does
to the good intentioned.

What we can do is move from these marches to programs of direct action where we actually
target the industries that are producing most of the greenhouse gases. In the Irish
context for instance it means if they give a go ahead for the LNG plants on the Shannon,
which will result in the importation of lots of fracking gas that we physically put
ourselves in the way and stop the construction of that plant. You can apply the same sort
of thing to road projects. We must identify areas where we ourselves can come together in
huge numbers and stop those projects going ahead.  That's called Direct Action because the
action taken has a direct impact on stopping what we are against.  We are not reduced to
pleading with politicians to act for us.

We can also do things that are somewhat more indirect but still quite effective like
bringing cities to a halt, and that's been happening already to an extent, but somewhat on
the symbolic level.  Through methods of mass power forcing a change of policy we gain an
understanding of our own power.  We come to to see that if we come together we are
perfectly capable of running society and that we want to do it on a very different basis
to that very, very tiny percentage that currently run everything. We can take power
ourselves, we can collectively come together, we can run our workplaces, we can run our
communities and we can set a very very different set of priorities than the current system
which prioritizes profit above all else.

It's great to see the huge numbers that have started to mobilize, what we need to think
about is what we're going to do with that mobilization and the answer is to radically
transform society, top to bottom, in a revolutionary sustainable way.

Words: Andrew Flood (follow Andrew on Twitter)

https://wsm.ie/c/transport-needs-climate-breakdown-collective-action

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Assa Traoré was indicted following a complaint of defamation of gendarmes who killed his
brother Adama Traore. This episode is the result of an unbearable judicial harassment
against this family that highlights the police violence. ---- Adama Traoré died of police
violence in 2016, in Beaumont-sur-Oise. Since then, his family, and especially his sister,
Assa Traoré, demand that the truth be recognized. Assa Traoré is an exemplary activist,
who also makes her fight a broader fight against all police violence, against state
violence in poor neighborhoods. Supporting the collective "The Truth for Adama" is
indispensable, not only because a man is dead, but also because he has become the symbol
of the racist violence practiced by the police against men from working-class neighborhoods. .

Assa Traoré did not hesitate, twice, to name the names of the 3 gendarmes who killed his
brother. This act of courage is now repressed. The gendarmes filed a complaint for
defamation, advised in this by the lawyer of ... Jean-Marie Le Pen. This complaint,
followed by an indictment, aims once again to intimidate and silence the Traore family.
Already, Bagui and Yacouba Traoré, Adama's brothers, are in prison. This relentlessness is
unbearable, even though the 3 gendarmes are only placed under the status of assisted
witnesses !

Freedom for Bagui and Yacouba Traore ! Stop the prosecution against Assa Traore ! Truth
about the police murder of Adama Traoré !
Libertarian Communist Union , October 3, 2019

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Halte-a-l-acharnement-contre-la-famille-Traore

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This time she was a school principal. Christine Renon, 58, committed suicide at her
workplace in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis). Prior to her gesture, she took care to send a
letter to her colleagues. ---- What she writes there leaves little doubt about the reasons
for her action: the hierarchical pressure, the multiplication of tasks, the lack of means
and time, the avalanche of accounting and bureaucratic "reforms". ---- Opposite, the
reaction is methodical: stifle the case and depoliticize it. The academic inspectorate
hastened to ask those who had received the letter to hand it over to the police, while
"sources" promptly mentioned the recent death of the director's parents as a possible
ground for her desperation.

But no one can be fooled by these maneuvers. Managers will be accountable. And since it is
a whole system that is responsible, it is this one that must be challenged.

In private or public enterprises, capitalism is booming or running. And liberal ideology
may well preach that wounds - like resources - are only intimate, we know that's wrong.
The content of the tribute paid by his colleagues, parents and anonymous students has
shown unequivocally. This death is added to the long procession of those whom the work has
killed.

UCL, September 27, 2019

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Edito-L-absurdite-du-systeme-tue

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More than 400 people in the street in Rennes because of the prefecture and the town hall !
Against this misery organized by the public authorities we demand papers and housing for
all ! By wide and unitary struggles, managed collectively, favoring self-organization, we
will win against racist policies and these borders that murder. ---- We are organizing a
support concert for migrants on Friday 11 October at Babazula from 19.30. There will be a
free priced punch, the profits will go to support associations and collective migrant-es.
---- Facebook link to the event ---- The groups: ---- 7:30 pm Aurore and Bahia El Bacha
---- 8:30 pm Ulysse Mars ---- 21.30 Carpe Dilemma ---- 22:30 From top to bottom
"The songs of Aurore give to hear and to see, the images of an intimate universe in which
one authorizes oneself of the silences, the slowness, the penumbra. In an intense and
sensitive voice carried by a throbbing guitar or a piano, Aurore sings in English and
French, accompanied by the cellist and singer Bahia El Bacha. "

Video of Bahia El Bacha

"Ulysse Mars is an author, singer composer who tries different forms to present his work.
Sometimes solo, duet, trio. He gropes, he sings, he spies on himself. Discover him at the
same time as him. "

"Carp dilemma ? Songs to text, Love, Laughter, Crying, Excited in a merry bazaar ? What a
dilemma ! "

"From the top down. Inspirations, expirations, and in between the zero point, will
inspire. François (accordion) and Steven (guitar), sometimes musette, sometimes Tango,
from East to West, North to South, from top to bottom, and flamenco. "

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Concert-de-soutien-aux-migrant-es

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In October 2019, the book Memories of anarchist was published by Anna Garsjov. She lived
in 1902-1994, experienced the Tsar, both revolutions of 1917, the Bolshevik era and the
collapse of the Soviet Union. As an anarchist, she went through prison and exile. She
worked as a nurse, but also as an engraver in a map printer. In the 1960s she met
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and helped him to process and hide materials for the GULAG
Archipelago . ---- "For the curious reader and historian, the most interesting are not the
memories of important figures of the political or social scene whose attention necessarily
attracts the events of their professional life, but the memories of people little known or
totally unknown. track people and events around you. It is in their notes, diaries and
memories that the elapsed time will be revealed in every detail, full of little things,
but also the thoughts and hopes of the people living at that time. Such rare testimonies
include the memories of Anna Garasjova, thanks to which Russian life in the last twentieth
century can be seen in a new light, "says its editor in the introduction to the book.

And in the afterword to the Czech edition, we read, among other things, "Who would be
tired of reading memoirs, say, the noble French bourgeois from the end of the last
century, if we had Anna Garasjov's book, the living book, of flesh and blood of the
nation? It is unbelievable how many known and unknown details have captured the memory of
this unique witness of Russian history over the decades! Besides the unusual and somewhat
bizarre fate described Anna Garasjovová cruelty peasant rebellion against landowners and
the Bolsheviks, the slaughter of so-called "hostages", forced displacement and death of
thousands of Kazakhs, fled the communist leadership to Hitler from Moscow ... Numerous
facts of memories Garasjovové took to his monumental The Gulag ArchipelagoAlexander
Solzhenitsyn, who had been friends with her since the 1960s. We can safely say that
without the testimony of this modest old woman from Ryazan, Solzhenitsyn's indictment of
the Stalinist system would have never been so appalling and convincing.

Finally, the Czech reader is lucky enough to get to know one - if not the main - of
Solzhenitsyn's sources. Anna Garasjov's memories - besides the documentary prose of
Trotsky, Gide, Alyachnovich, Weil, Henijush, Solomon - are undoubtedly one of the most
impressive writings about Soviet state capitalism and its crimes. It is all the more
frightening to realize that elements of the then established police state, including the
"presumption of guilt" for its enemies, still survive in Russia and other post-Soviet
countries. And so it is no coincidence that the process constructed by the FSB with the
Anarchist Pension-Petrograd Network of 2019 so much resembles the 1925 Ryazan-Petrograd
case of the Garassian sisters. "

256 pages A5, recommended contribution to cover costs 200 CZK

https://www.afed.cz/text/7041/vzpominky-anarchistky

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Message: 6






September 26th, a major disaster occurred in the city of Rouen, Normandy. A huge fire
destroyed the Lubrizol factory, a Seveso listed site located on the immediate outskirts of
the city, and released 5000 tonnes of highly toxic waste into the city and the region,
including asbestos. The health consequences on the population are incalculable in the long
run. ---- The Lubrizol plant belongs to the group of American billionaire Warren Buffett.
Warren Buffet is the man who said: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class,
the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
https://federation-anarchiste.org/
https://ligarj.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/rouen-na-normandia-franca-fogo-em-industria-quimica-e-guerra-de-classes/

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Message: 7






The sea snake of the State Medical Aid (AME) is the controversial subject dreamed of
family meals and TV sets: everyone involved without knowing what it is ! As proof, the
CPAM has updated the information page on the AME September 23 when there is nothing new:
test around you, that includes the AME care basket ? So of course Macron does not want to
delete it but simply evaluate it says: it will be done quickly considering that the
"basket of care" is pierced since it is limited to 6 types of basic and / or urgent care
(example below) following successive flattening. And still it is necessary to have
obtained the AME or to have succeeded in renewing it which belongs to the course of the
combatant. ---- Equality of rights is vital ! ---- As libertarian activists, we fight for
equal rights: pathologies do not care about boundaries and nationalities. The growing
precariousness of hundreds of thousands of people adds to the danger of the rest of the
population. The reoccurrence of scabies, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), the
maintenance of the number of HIV infections are clear signs of an announced health
disaster. Indeed, having the MEA (often very late) is not an assurance of being able to
treat effectively because it is difficult to find a caregiver, to be able to go regularly
and to obtain medication when situation is already precarious (frequent relocation,
detention for up to 90 days, etc.)

Small savings on the health of the most precarious
Macron has chosen to reform social protection in depth: more health insurance
contributions for employees, the end of the RSI (Social Plan of Independents) and the
social system student, etc. The disappearance of the AME, which is costly in terms of
management, is clearly lacking so that unconditionally, all residents in France can access
the same care. However, the cost of the regularly agitated MEA is only a drop in
comparison with the cost of tax evasion, the exemptions from "employer contributions" (ie
our deferred salary). ) or removals of the ISF and other taxes of rich !

Economies are therefore only a pretext for hitting ever stronger on those who often do not
have the material means to defend themselves or to organize and flirt with racists in view
of future municipal and presidential elections.

Fight against the extreme right by applying its program ?
Macron often arises as a bulwark against the reactionary right and authoritarian. Yet his
racist and anti-social politics as his speeches have little to envy to the ideas spread by
the far right.

But it is not running after the RN and its satellites that it fights: it is by weaving
solidarities in our neighborhoods, our campaigns, our workplaces. Let's build another
future, open and welcoming, based on social equality and collective emancipation.

Exploited, with or without papers, even Macron, same fight !

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Les-personnes-migrantes-eternelles-sacrifiees-des-reformes-successives-de-la

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Message: 8






"On April 11, 2019, workers' base unions in the distribution sector in Ioannina (SWEDI)
and Athens (SWEDI) are on strike. A strike that has allowed countless colleagues and
colleagues to collectively and claim their stature against the ever-increasing employer
arbitrariness they experience every day ... ---- This strike marked the culmination of a
perpetual class war between two opposing interests, the employer and the worker. And, as
expected, the bosses would respond with retaliation. In Athens, about a month later, the
Goody's are carrying out two vindictive and unjustified layoffs of strikers and members of
SWEDS at its parent branches in Alexandria and Agia Paraskevi, employees who were the main
claimants of class interests on a daily basis.
The same aggressive strategy applies a few days later to a Goody's store in Ioannina,
despite being a franchise[1], to a colleague who dared to claim his rights by striking.
Rather, the employer of this branch ignores all the legal obligations it has on its
employees. Typically, arbitrariness has reached another level, with no legal nightly pay
increases, public holidays, and bonuses and gifts. In addition, management imposes
off-the-shelf work forcing distributors to hone in and service, while unpaid overtime has
become a habit. And the answer to whomever is unions are the unjust and revenge
redundancies. It makes no impression, therefore, that the workers are massively resigning
from Goody's in Ioannina, refusing to experience the conditions of the galley imposed upon
them.

 From the announcement of the Ioannina Distribution Workers Base Association

Workplace accidents, inadequate security measures, the constant extortion of unemployment
with armies of the unemployed and underemployed living in poverty and social exclusion,
layoffs, the abolition of collective agreements, wage and pension cuts, low wages and
salaries Hunger wages, the abolition of Sunday holidays, excruciating working conditions,
and excruciating hours are factors that make up today's working reality. A reality
complemented by the overt infringement of any labor and social acquis. The frenzied attack
on any form of organization and claim contributes to this.

In the face of the strike of the strike's acquis communautaire, the criminalization of
trade unionism and every form of struggle, in the attempt to depreciate and disarm the
strike so that the strike becomes a weapon again in the hands of the workers. In the face
of the depreciation of unionism as a form of struggle, to fight to make it dangerous
again. In the face of widespread terrorism and repression, in conditions of slavery and
misery imposed by the state and bosses at work, there is another way. The road of worker
organization, resistance, contention and socio-class struggle. The workers themselves, the
unemployed, the youth, the locals and the immigrants, knowing our real needs, have to take
our lives in our hands, organize and fight, With class unions and workers' initiatives to
shape the militant trade unionism of the base and to claim that it belongs to us, far from
the trade union elites who have a complementary role in employment.

Although this option may seem difficult, especially in today's circumstances, it is the
only one that can give perspective to our struggles and make them victorious, breaking the
wider climate of employer arbitrariness and dishonesty. Connect and reinvigorate
individual social and class resistances for permanent and stable work, for better pay and
better working conditions, for access to the social goods of housing, care, education, for
the protection of labor and social rights, for protection of nature, with the overall and
timely social and political demand for the overthrow of the world of power and the free
transformation of society.

AGAINST EMPLOYEE TERRORISM AND CONSOLIDATION CRIMINALISM

CLASS SOLIDARITY OF WORKERS 'WEAPON

ORGANIZE SOCIAL AND CLASSICAL IMPLICATION

CONCENTRATION: SATURDAY 5/10 AT 12 noon at GOODY'S SHOP IN HIGH ALONIA
anarchist group "malevolent horse"/ member of the Anarchist Political Organization

http://apo.squathost.com

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