Today's Topics:
1. [Spain] Combative Block Climate Mobilization By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #297 - Long live the
undocumented on strike! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Canada, ucl-saguenay, Collectif Emma Goldman - [Strike for
the climate] More than 3000 people in Chicoutimi against the
destructive LNG project Quebec (Saguenay Energy) (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. deliverunion.fau: Goodness negotiations FAU vs Deliveroo
(de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Mexico] 1st International Anarchist Film Festival in Mexico
City | December 13 to 15, 2019. By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [Canada] Video | Montreal International Anarchist Theater
Festival 2019 By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. WSM.ie: XR strategy is based on bad science by Emmanuel
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Greece, Thessaloniki Libertarian Initiative: Rally against
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Athens | Saturday
5/10, 12:00, Statue of Venizelos (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
This Friday, September 27, the CNT-Comarcal Sur de Madrid participated together with the
Combative Block of multitudinous climate mobilization. Numerous student organizations,
feminists, ecologists, and unions of all kinds have invaded the streets of Madrid. ----
Thousands of people once again blocked much of the city in protest against the destruction
of the land, thanks to devastating capitalist consumption. ---- Today, the CNT has come
together in a single block accompanied by all those people who shouted and demand a
change. ---- Source:
https://www.cnt.es/noticias/movilizacion-por-el-clima-del-bloque-combativo/ ---- Related
Content: ----
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/09/06/spanish-found-climatic-foundation-capitalism/
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 2
Since this morning, undocumented workers from ten companies are on strike to demand their
regularization. UCL supports them because it is in the fight that we will gain new rights!
---- The situation of people exiled in France is inhuman. They are both over-exploited at
work by corrupt bosses and subject to police and judicial repression in all areas of their
lives. Not to mention housing, which, when they have access, is indecent. ---- Even worse
! They contribute for our pensions, for our unemployment insurance, for our health
insurance ... but without being able to benefit in return ! This unacceptable situation is
hypocritical in many ways. If they are employed, it is good that they are indispensable in
many economic sectors. In addition, their bosses often take advantage of their
administrative situation to exploit them even more than workers with French nationality.
Pay below the SMIC, unpaid overtime, deplorable working conditions ... the bosses will
stop at nothing to increase their profits on the back of those who had to flee their country.
But undocumented workers have decided today to go on strike to demand their
regularization! It is in fact through the struggle that we tear rights. The CGT is leading
this strike.
The Libertarian Communist Union calls for the widest possible solidarity ! Let's give
their strike fund via the Regional Union Ile de France and meet them on one of their 10
pickets.
To support the strikers, send your donations to: CGT Regional Union 263 rue de Paris - box
455 - 93514 Montreuil Cedex (Mention on the back of the check: "Strike of undocumented
workers")
This strike must set an example and remind us that we demand total freedom of movement.
Nobody is illegal !
The Union Communiste Libertaire, 1 st October 2019
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Vive-les-sans-papiers-en-greve
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Message: 3
On September 27, we were more than 3,000 students, retirees, children and workers walking
the streets of downtown Chicoutimi to denounce the government's environmental inaction and
the destructive project of LNG Quebec (Energy Saguenay). The latter consists of the
construction of a natural gas liquefaction complex at Grande-Anse and a 750 km pipeline.
Meanwhile in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, 3000 people took part in the
demonstration in Alma and hundreds of individuals walked in Saint-Félicien as well as in
the Saint-Coeur-de-Marie district (Alma) . In Quebec City, 25,000 people took part in the
event and in Montreal, a historic event in Canada brought together nearly half a million
people. Feeling the pressure, the first sinister in Quebec, François Legault, thought it
best to reach out to the young, while his vice-sergeant made calls for calm and agitated
men of straw. The environmental disaster speaks of a third "green" bridge-tunnel link for
Quebec City and the government's bias against the proposed gas pipeline and natural gas
liquefaction plant. In this case, the government business of François Legault takes over
the half-truths and the volunteer omissions of the promoter. He claims that hypothetically
(indeed nothing guarantees that coal plants will close in China as suggested by Energy
Saguenay) the pipeline project will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) elsewhere in the world ...
But as the developers , François Legault fails to say that this project will produce GHGs
here and elsewhere in Canada. It is also necessary to take into account the mortal danger
that the realization of this project poses to the threatened population of belugas.
"How dare you?" - Greta Thunberg
Of course, some opportunistic politicians were present at the various events. In
Chicoutimi, Bloc Québécois candidate Mario Simard and Chicoutimi's municipal councilor,
Simon-Olivier Côté, skated and used the politician's language of choice when asked about
the LNG project. " I do not see any opposition between going for a walk and being for or
against big projects. I am not in favor or against any project. What I do have is to
ensure that environmental standards and assessment are respected . "( Link ) said the
District 8 Councilor and the king of downtown parking lots in Chicoutimi.
In 1970, this kind of comment might have been preferable to the comments of the former
Liberal Party of Canada candidate, now with the Conservatives, and Saguenay municipal
councilor Marc Pettersen. But we are no longer there. There is a climate emergency.
" If we do not change policy by 2020, we may[...]disastrous consequences for humans and
the natural systems that support us. Said Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the
United Nations. Our era requires, for the sake of the greatest number, that our society
abandons fossil fuels and begins a necessary economic downturn. That our economy is based
on the satisfaction of individual and collective real needs, oriented towards the
maintenance in the long term and according to existing resources.
Members and friends of the Anarchist Collective Emma Goldman took the opportunity to
distribute dozens of copies of the newspaper Cause Commune Express # 31 ( link )
Picket line at Cégep de Chicoutimi
At UQAC
University Boulevard
At the Cégep de Chicoutimi
Listed 21 hours ago by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2019/10/greve-pour-le-climat-plus-de-3000.html
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Message: 4
Is Deliveroo no longer guilty of his former workers? Next Monday, one of the first quality
negotiations between unionized riders and Deliveroo will take place.
Two pre-negotiations in the labour dispute against Deliveroo will take place soon. Four
dismissed Deliveroo riders are suing Deliveroo for dismissing them and against their fake
self-employment.
When: Monday, 07.10.2019 at 11:30 am
Where: The Labor Court Berlin (room 206), Magdeburger Platz 1, U-Bahn: Kurfürstenstraße,
Nollendorfplatz.
https://deliverunion.fau.org/2019/10/02/guteverhandlung-fau-vs-deliveroo/
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Message: 5
The International Anarchist Film Festival is not a typical contest in which participating
films compete for a prize. ---- At this festival, we want to show what is currently being
done in audiovisual format on the anarchist theme, as well as presenting the
cinematographic work of companions who use this medium, not only to promote
anti-authoritarian ideas, but also as a weapon to highlight the violence of the domination
system and manipulation through the media. ---- For us, it is important to disclose The
Idea and other realities of (current) anarchism, remember passages or historical facts of
the Anarchist movement that, through informative, theoretical, artistic and combative
aspects, is an accessible medium for people, generating a point of view. encounter that
can serve as a reflection and inspiration to subvert daily life.
Attached are the images of the complete Program of the 1st International Anarchist Film
Festival in Mexico City. December 13 to 15, 2019.
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/08/29/mexico-1o-festival-internacional-de-cine-anarquista-in-city-do-mexico/
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 6
This short documentary features some of the highlights of the fourteenth annual edition of
the Montreal International Anarchist Theater Festival (MIATF) 2019 - the largest anarchist
theater festival in the world. MIATF presented about 30 artists from seven groups from
Chile, USA, France and Montreal for three nights of provocative, socially engaged and
freedom-loving theater, May 21-22, 2019, in La Sala Rossa, in English, French. and
Spanish. ---- The groups that appear here are: CEETUCH Company, Rap Battles for Social
Justice, The Collectif Geste Gauche, The War Council and Lantern, and Thought Experiment
Productions, AnarkoArtLab + Artemis Beastes, Jesse Grindler, Babushka Theater (Montreal)
and Dire, Encore (Missing is the Intervento di malo group that performed on May 17).
More information in French: http://anarchistetheatrefestival.com/fr/news
In English: http://anarchistetheatrefestival.com/en/news
Video filmed and edited by Jenna Welik and Vitor E. Rico, CUTV, 2019, Montreal Music by
Rooman Production (YouTube).
>> Watch the video (03:00) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG9X8jIo0C0&t=22s&fbclid=IwAR0WMUnq88J9Z3wNwfmmxkT4Ny1VGpudLtqkbBvVfruqm62mlTg9Iy3cEWI&app=desktop
Translation> Brulego
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/05/16/canada-14o-festival-internacional-de-teatro-anarquista-de-montreal-de-17-a-23-de-maio/
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 7
If you happened to be using bad science to impose a strategy that turned out to be
inefficient, and if as a result of this inefficiency billions of people died... who would
be the most violent person in the room? This is the question Roger Hallam (a founder of
XR) and George Monbiot (a Guardian journalist and prominent supporter of XR) would do well
to ponder as the collapse of the earth's biosphere and the system fueling that collapse
are claiming more lives every day. ---- Both of these men have been arguing in favor of
non-violent civil disobedience as the only acceptable tactic to avert catastrophic climate
change. This stance is usually justified by referencing a study entitled "Why Civil
Resistance Works" authored by Erica Chenoweth.
Since neither Monbiot nor Hallam seem to have taken the time to critically read the study
they reference, here is a short list of the many disqualifying flaws it contains:
- the study isn't consistent in its definition of violence
- the study doesn't account for the possible complementarity of violent and non-violent
tactics despite acknowledging that no struggle is purely non-violent (yes, even the one
you are thinking about)
- the study uses data sets cherry-picked by scholars in Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
(NVCD), but didn't consult scholars critical of NVCD
- The study doesn't account for the possibility that more militant strategies fail more
often simply because the goals they set for themselves are harder to attain (for example a
systemic change as opposed to a mere change of regime)
- The study perpetuates without evidence the myth that so-called violent movements deter
people from participating.
- The study doesn't acknowledge the subjective nature of the categories of violence and
non-violence. For example it presents sabotage as violent, which means sabotaging a
railway used to transfer people to a death camp counts as an act of violence...
-The study doesn't acknowledge that it simply makes no sense to categorize actions in
terms of violence and non-violence: if the direct-action you plan consists of
non-violently blocking the construction of a pipeline but the police try to drag you away,
do you fight back or do you let the action fail? Whether or not you need to use violence
to succeed depends on your oppressor, not on you.
-The study of course avoids reflecting on the fact that violence and non-violence are not
scientific but moral categories - categories that states have used over and over to divide
social movements by pitting "good protesters" against "bad protesters". And because
Non-violence is an exclusive ideology that requires the suppression of other tactics,
pacifists often end up assisting the police in arresting the more militant elements of a
movement.
- Finally and most importantly, the study doesn't even conclude that NVCD is the only
thing that works, it merely says that NVCD works more often. Even if this were true, this
is very different from saying that NVCD will work better in all contexts for all struggles
and regardless of the aims. But even Chenoweth betrays her own work in that regard.
Please bear in mind that this list is not even complete
Now the question that naturally follows is: how is it possible for such a fragile ideology
to be so widely accepted? It has to do with the fact that contemporary NVCD fits perfectly
with the liberal mythology surrounding the function of the state and its police.
It is commonly observed that the environmental movement is overwhelmingly composed of
white middle-class people living in rich western countries. People who are treated
relatively well by the white supremacist capitalist system that dominates the planet.
People who place ecology at the center of their politics because it is one of the few
issues that may directly and acutely affect them one day. People who are not used to being
put in physical danger by the state (through eviction, deportation, repression etc) and
who are unlikely to have felt in their flesh that the state and its police don't actually
exist for their protection.
But who beat the Shell to Sea protesters to favour the interests of big oil corporations?
The Police
Who assisted balaclava-wearing thugs in their illegal eviction of Dominic street occupants
for the benefit of a slumlord? The Police
Who deports migrants and then turns up at multicultural events to deny the fundamentally
racist function they serve? The Police
Who provided a hundred false testimonies against the Jobstown protesters? The police
Who allows politicians and capitalists to feel safe as they continue business as usual?
The Police
Who was given its modern form by the head of the colonial occupation of Ireland? The police
Who was created as a crowd control tool for the benefit of a ruling class of exploiters?
The police
Who (despite Hallam's ignorant claims) is given free range to become a violent mob
breaking laws, killing and maiming with impunity when the state feels threatened by a
social movement? The police
Who (as has so far been the case with the French yellow vests) rarely defects even in the
face of exhaustion? The police.
Whose role is it to produce obedience and fear? What kind of mindset does this job require
and reproduce?
Only from a position of privilege is it possible to see the police as just another worker
in the division of labor. Only from a position of privilege is it possible to believe that
an institution which maintains itself through brute force (i.e. indifference to suffering)
can be convinced of abandoning its main function (defending the white supremacist
patriarchal and capitalist order) by means of non-violent civil disobedience. Only from a
position of privilege is it possible to see states as neutral entities capable of adopting
the right policies as long as you staff them with the right-minded people and feed them
the scientific facts along with pdf format transition plans. Only from a position of
privilege can Hallam think of climate change as an apolitical issue that may benefit from
the support of the far-right. Only from a position of privilege can Monbiot assist the
French state in criminalizing the black block which headed last Saturday's climate protest
in Paris. And if any of them had taken the time to confront their own strategic beliefs to
the on-going mass movements unfolding in Hong Kong and in France, they would have realized
most of what they believe is wrong. But this will have to be for another article. In the
meantime and with all due disrespect: Monbiot, Hallam, STFU.
Author: Emmanuel
https://wsm.ie/c/xr-strategy-bad-science
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Message: 8
The struggle against war, imperialism, capitalism is a task of the world working class
---- The exacerbation of the capitalist crisis of overcrowding has, among other things,
created several conflict zones, which are scattered across different lengths and widths of
the globe (see Ukraine, the Middle East, Central and North Africa) surrounding the
capitalist centers. Capitalist barbarism does not leave the sun for the poor and the
oppressed. Sovereignty now defines the conditions under which it is possible to choose who
will survive and who will not. The transition from social democratic management to social
activism, through the lending of money and the exploitation of the financial sphere,
fierce neoliberalism and budgetary surveillance are in line with the aggressive rebuilding
of capital at the global level in response to the needs of the now shaky market economy.
Correspondingly, the state apparatus proceeds to emergency measures and to suppress the
internal enemy, while western metropolises are militarized using the pretext of migratory
flows and the campaign against terrorism.
The irreconcilable internal contradictions of capitalism, which have once again
contributed to the eruption of a structural crisis, bring to the fore one of the powerful
papers that the ruling class is called upon to cast in such cases. This paper is war, as
it is an outlet for capital from the capitalist crisis, but also a golden opportunity for
the enrichment of the arms industries. The price, of course, is to be paid with the
indemnity, both out of their own pocket and with their blood, where the oppressed and
exploited land. War is an advantageous solution for capital when it comes to a standstill.
It can open up new markets, new business opportunities through the insatiable exploitation
of raw materials and the hands of laborers in the cyclone's eye. Also, after the period of
widespread disaster, which is going to destroy both parts of fixed (means of production)
and variable (workers / workers) capital, there is always a period of capital
reconstruction, even if it is carried out on debris and corpses. As mentioned above, of
course, war is an ongoing reality right now. But it is being carried out by
representatives and at least it has not yet hit the door of the West. war is an ongoing
reality right now. But it is being carried out by representatives and at least it has not
yet hit the door of the West. war is an ongoing reality right now. But it is being carried
out by representatives and at least it has not yet hit the door of the West.
Greece ranks second in the NATO countries with the highest military spending in proportion
to their GDP. Greece's military spending is estimated at 2.4% of its GDP annually
(exceeding the 2% threshold set by the Alliance at its 2006 meeting), which translates to
$ 4.5 billion. Expenditure on armaments is at the top of the state budget's priorities,
while the social majority is eliminated by austerity policies dictated by the memoranda.
Indeed, the memorandum pledges stipulate that the country's international economic
committees will hold at least until 2060.
As a member of NATO and as an integral part of the Euro-Atlantic imperialist tanks, the
Greek state has been designated the role of the watchdog (second only to Israel) of its
respective interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. But this means that,
even as an auxiliary, the Greek state will be involved, as far as it is concerned, in the
geopolitical rivalries and war conflicts that its fathers are involved in. It is certain,
however, that the domestic bourgeoisie will strive to obtain as much of the pie as
possible from the pie shared in its neighborhood. At the moment, the local plutocracy is
seeking to turn Greece into an energy hub in the Eastern Mediterranean and a gas and
electricity transmission channel to the European Union. This is how the
Greek-Cyprus-Israel-Egypt alliance is translated, as well as the military alliances and
exercises set out in this transnational agreement, as well as the US suggestions. and
NATO's actually behind it, along with the construction of the East Med gas pipeline and
the Euro-Asia Interconnector for the transmission of electricity to European Union countries.
NATO plans seek to "plant" military bases on Greek territory, in preparation for upgrading
the conflicts in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. At the same time, the
militarization of NATO countries is also a demonstration of power in order to grit the
teeth on the Russian agent, who is the main US opponent. from the BRICS axis (Brazil,
Russia, India, China, South Africa). In this context comes the Prespa Agreement with which
the neighboring country became a member of NATO, thus joining the sphere of influence of
American imperialism in order for the latter to gain advantage in the wider Balkan region
against the Roman Empire. The Volatility of US Relations -Turkey (about a year and a half
ago Turkey announced that Incirlik base would cease to serve NATO) upgrades Greece's
geostrategic importance for NATO, as NATO is now called upon to find new milestones. The
Andravida air base (which hosted the Iniohos war exercise in March 2018) and the Araxos
counterpart (there is a possibility of nuclear resettlement) are to be upgraded. A drone
base is being built in Larissa, while a helicopter base is planned in Alexandroupolis. For
Syros, NATO planning is set to turn the port of Ermoupolis into a strategic point, where
US Navy ships will be repaired and refueled. Simultaneously,
Recently, the second round of the "Strategic Dialogue" with the US is under way to final
ratify the extension of the Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) for an additional
8-10 years, in order to a lot of time has been spent on upgrading Souda's NATO bases
(expanding use of the Marathi pier), Larissa Air Base, Army Air Base at Stefanovikio
Magnesia and Alexandroupolis Port. So the culmination of this "dialogue" following
Mitsotakis' visit to the US is the visit of US Secretary of State M. Pompeo to Athens on
October 5-7, a "dialogue" that began in December 2018 at SYRIZA, Washington. From now on
the Greek state will be among the "front states", ie it will be the first line of
deterrence against the main competitors of the USA (Russia, China). It is now clear in the
most obvious way that the Greek state generously provides advice on the dictates dictated
by the US military plans. and NATO, with the country essentially becoming a focal point of
Euro-Atlantic imperialist military interventions. Along with the above strategy in the
context of imperialist competition between the US and Russia, the US provided $ 250
million in military assistance to Ukraine's liberal-Nazi government,
In the event of war, the world proletariat will be the one that will be forced to move the
war machines of the capitalists by paying the price with the lives of people in our class.
The clouds of a generalized war seem to be thickening and the involvement of the Greek
state in NATO's military plans is deepening. For example, in an earlier bombing of
Damascus and Homs by British, French and US air forces, a ship sailed off the base of
Souda and air refueling aircraft took off from the same base.
The more imperialist the rivalries become, the more the bourgeoisie will look to the
future of their working classes, especially as they continue to thicken the clouds of an
impending war that will serve only the interests of the capitalists. In the face of this
deplorable and bloody prospect for the people, the proletarians of all countries must
unite on the basis of our community of material interests and direct our efforts towards
the establishment and strengthening of a class, anti-war, transnationalist transnational
state. and capital. Let's face it that we are not going to fight for the profits of the
bosses, that we are not going to eat with our class brothers because we are on the same
side of the class barricade.
NO WAR BETWEEN PEOPLE, NO PEACE BETWEEN CLASSES
CLASS AND internationalist SOLIDARITY BETWEEN LAND WHERE oppressed and exploited
FIGHT FOR THE STRUCTURE
OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER OF CAPITAL
FOR libertarian communism
CONCENTRATION:
SATURDAY 5/10, 12:00 PM, STATE OF VENICE
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative - member of the Anarchist Federation
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/
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