Anarchic update news all over the world - 8.10.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Czech, AFED: Haiti: Rebellion against the puppet government
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire - UCL release, UCL
      adopts its logo, adorned with a blackbird (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, Nationwide Call Against Destruction of Aggregates
      and "Green Development" by Jellyfish APO [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, Announcement by APO on Foreign Minister's visit of
      the United States in Athens and call for participation in the
      demonstration on Saturday 5/10 [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  ag-freiburg: clothing factories in asia - union tour with
      workers from indonesia and sri lanka (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, liberta salonica: Update from the demonstration
      (5/10) in Thessaloniki against US Secretary of State M. Pompeo's
      visit to Athens [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  anarkismo.net: Latin American Conjunctural Analysis by
      Various Latin American anarchist political organisations (ca)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





The imperialist appetite of the US again forced the people to resort to armed struggle.
---- Haitian revolutionaries on Friday vandalized several police stations, politicians'
houses, prisons and court buildings. The rebels intend to overthrow the corrupt right-wing
regime of Jovel Moise, supported by the Trump administration. Many people were injured,
four people died. ---- This June, auditors of the Haitian Supreme Court issued a report
incriminating Moise as a key figure in the embezzlement machine. This clique has
transferred to the private accounts several billion dollars provided by Venezuela for the
development of a spawned Caribbean country. Money flowed through the Petrocaribe program,
which allows Central American and Caribbean countries to buy Venezuelan oil on favorable
terms. To make matters worse, Moise stepped out of Petrocaribe last year, under pressure
from the Trump administration, which was a severe blow to this constantly tested country.
Fuel prices have skyrocketed and Haiti is collapsing.

The protesters first expelled the cops from the Cité Soleil slum, in the suburbs of the
capital Port-au-Prince. Police stations in the area were decommissioned with a great deal
of precision. Under the shower of molotovs and stones, even armed members of special UDMO
units (Unité Départementale de Maintien d'Ordre) ran to the teeth. They were trained in
Austin, Texas, to keep many Haitians in their hands to keep Moise in power.

All government offices in Port-au-Prince have been closed. Demonstrators filled the
streets, singing and dancing. Barricades erupted on the main avenues. Prisoners were freed
from the prison adjacent to the main court, then both buildings were burned to ashes.
Several witnesses reported that the police faced armed resistance. Armed insurgents also
attacked statesman's villas, including the home of Judge Pierre Volmar Demesyeux, who
exonerated Jovenel Moise. The court building in Petit-Goâve also burned. The insurgents
did not escape the attention of the banks either, and several branches of Sogebank were
attacked, whose owners were involved in stealing the country. The storm did not only hit
the capital. A police station was also fired in Gonaives in the north.

https://www.afed.cz/text/7040/haiti-vzpoura-proti-loutkove-vlade

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UCL activists chose, among 30 proposals, that of a black robin, with wings tinged with
red. ---- A mocking blackbird. That of the song Le Temps des cerises. ---- It is the
symbol adopted by the Libertarian Communist Union (UCL), three months after its founding
congress. ---- The reference to the Paris Commune flows naturally. An important episode of
the class struggle in France, it continues to inspire our struggles. ---- Nose to the
powerful, yesterday and today, this mocking blackbird evokes the anchoring of the UCL in a
history that runs internationalists from 1871 to the present day: the hope of those who
will not give up never to challenge and upset the world order.
A non-traditional symbolism
This is a non-traditional choice. There are indeed few birds in the libertarian symbolism
in Europe, which is full of red and black stars, erect fists, A circled or cats with
bristly hair. We find more commonly in Latin America. The Anarchist Federation of Rio de
Janeiro, for example, is emblazoned with the scarlet tangara (tiê-sangue), a beautiful red
and black forest bird, related to the imagination of indigenous resistance to colonization.

No less than 30 logo proposals were submitted this summer, to which each militant and
activist of the UCL was able to give a note. With the merle in the lead, it was put
through a confirmation vote, which ended on September 28, and garnered 69.7% approval (a
two-thirds decision was required).

This logo will appear soon, in various variants, on flags, leaflets, newspaper, web,
stickers and all the media of the organization. His black-winged merle tinged with red -
two colors of the labor movement, symbolizing libertarian communism - can also be adorned
with green, purple and other colors ... because our revolution will not happen without
climate justice, without to defeat patriarchy, without breaking racist mechanics.

Libertarian Communist Union, October 3, 2019

https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?L-UCL-adopte-son-logo-orne-d-un-merle

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Message: 3






On Saturday October 12, 2019, we invite initiatives, assemblies, colleges, resistance
movements and militants: ---- * In Concentration - march on Freedom Square of Karditsa
(central) at 11.00 am ---- aimed at - as far as possible - highlighting the giant
catastrophe planned in the greater Agrafa area, with a vehicle for "green" development and
the installation of wind turbines. Agrafa is a vast landscape of natural and wild beauty,
a "monument" of struggle, a place where thousands of people fought for freedom. ---- * At
a meeting of movements and an open assembly, at Pausilipos Refinery about looting and the
destruction of nature by state, capital and EU governments. ---- We do not perceive the
struggles that everyone in his region has as "local problems". We perceive them as the
struggles of a global movement, which fights against growth, which is destroying lives and
the environment in today's system, to fuel the profitability of the few, against the
social needs of the majority.

The threatening destruction of the Agrafa, too, is part of the overall attack on nature,
and therefore on society. The ND government, with its so-called development policy,
imposes a number of measures. Unconditional and with lightning procedures, it will provide
opportunities for any kind of overruns of building conditions and controls, to protect
nature and cultural heritage. It subsidizes "investors" for crime against nature, for the
benefit of capital and to the detriment of workers, public property and the environment.

 From Euboea, Skouries, Epirus, Ionian, Crete to Volos and Acheloos we can see that all
kinds of investors, taking all the necessary facilities, plunder nature with the sole
purpose of profit.

However, this attack has found the resistance of the movements against the pillaging of
public space. People who defend their own lives, their history and their dignity through
the defense of nature. Against the privatization of water, seashore, the destruction of
forests, the pollution of the air and the seas, the vast dumps.
Only our struggles, our resistances and their connection can put a stop to the engines of
"development" and the catastrophic - for nature and society - state and capital projects.

Through the event we seek to link these resistances together so that we can all
coordinate, discuss, exchange experiences to give better terms to the battles to come.

We seek the confrontation and finally the blocking of all destructive processes. We know
that we have everything set against us, by the government and SYRIZA, by investors and the
EU, by state institutions, by local actors in municipalities and regions.

The "growth" they are preparing us is destroying our environment and our lives. It is our
duty to choose the path of resistance and rupture, of coordination, of joint actions, of
mass and collective struggle.

OPEN CONVENTION AGAINST GREEN DEVELOPMENT AND AEOLOGICAL IN AGRICULTURE

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/

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Message: 4






On October 4, 5 and 6, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be in Athens as part of a
strategic dialogue between the Greek and US states, and to sign agreements that
significantly enhance the presence of his most murderous mechanism. planet, US state, in
Crete, Thessaly and Alexandroupoli. The agreement, which was originally created by the
Syrian government and concluded by the ND government, includes: The indefinite concession
and "upgrade" of the Souda base, a base of US military and NATO critical importance to the
control of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. The "upgrade" of the NATO base
in Larissa with the presence of unmanned combat aircraft and the permanent presence of
unmanned combat aircraft. The use of a significant part of the Alexandroupolis port as a
naval naval base.

This agreement is part of the imposition of key directions by the dominant bloc of power,
the West, against the Balkan societies, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East. The
militarization of large areas and the deepening of control, the reinforcement of the
presence of professional assassins, the technological upgrading of arsenals, are
instruments used for one purpose. The purpose of total control, strangulation, and
preparation for new, regional and generalized military conflicts. As state and capitalist
dystopia have no promise for the world's poor but poverty and misery, and as geopolitical
rivalries continue to intensify, NATO is the guarantor of the bloody "order" of modern
totalitarianism.

The Greek state as an integral part and the US state. as the leading force of this
alliance ratify and upgrade their agreement, which includes, among other things, the
"Strategic Dialogue": The "anti" terrorist doctrine, the strengthening of the
Greece-Cyprus-Israel alliance, the control of energy resources, the extortion of looting
of the working class and the natural world through major investment plans.

The US Secretary of State Pompeo and Mitsotakis as Prime Minister of the Greek State meet
to represent the boots of the occupying armies marching inside the West and in the
capitalist region, the horror of Guantánamo and Moria, the murderous violence of the
oppressors, the repressive mechanisms, prison buildings and working galleys. They
represent bombers flattening towns and villages, and death for the uprooted at the border.

Amid the repressive campaign that has unleashed the Greek state on the occupied spaces,
race structures and social and class resistances, on  the day that Athens will be in a
huge repressive climax, the presence of public fighters is an open road to read by those
who refuse to accept barbarism.

We call on the demonstration on Saturday morning to oppose the regime of poverty and
death, internationalist solidarity and the fight for freedom and equality.  To oppose the
agreements of the politically and economically powerful that foreshadow a war-torn
reality, the companionship of the following. To counter the repressive mechanisms the
voices of those who are not subject to fear. To confront the world of exploitation and
subjugation and the dystopia that is imposed on us, the only reality worth experiencing:
The revolution for social liberation, the world of Anarchy and Liberal Communism.

ENANTIA IN MODERN INTEGRITY AND WAR

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY - ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARITY AND
FREEDOM COMMUNISM

CONCENTRATION-  PASSENGER SATURDAY 5/10 ON 12TH, PROPHYLIA

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collections

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/

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Message: 5






23. October | Place: Aula der Hebelschule (Engelbergerstr. 2) | Time: 07:00 pm
Dian of the feminist union Inter-Factory Workers' Federation (FBLP), based in Jakarta
(Indonesia), as well as Chamila of the Dabindu Collective (Sri Lanka) will each give an
input. The focus will be on current working and living conditions of garment workers as
well as Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) and the latest labour struggles. ---- Afterwards we
want to talk about ideas on how to support the struggles of garment workers from our local
regions. ---- The input will be given in English and translated into German. ---- FBLP
(Inter-Factory Workers' Federation): Struggles for indefinite working contracts and is
active against (sexualised/ gender-based) violence and against the discriminiation of
LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer). As part of their work FBLP has a
community radio. It's run by female workers for female workers and is call Marsinah Radio.

Dabindu Collective: Feminist organisation in which garment workers, especially within the
free trade zone of Katunayake, are organized and can refer to each other in solidarity.
They aim for more self-determination of garment workers through educational programms and
promote human rights for (working) women.

Die Veranstaltung wird organisiert von: FAU Freiburg, feministisches Zentrum Freiburg,
feministische Linke Freiburg, realitätenwerkstatt - feministische Gruppe, la Banda Vaga -
rätekommunistische Gruppe, anarchistische Gruppe Freiburg

https://www.ag-freiburg.org/termin/naehfabriken-in-asien-gewerkschaftstour-mit-arbeiterinnen-aus-indonesien-und-sri-lanka-clothing-factories-in-asia-union-tour-with-workers-from-indonesia-and-sri-lanka

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Message: 6






A relatively small number of people marched against Mike Pompeo's visit and the new
US-Greece Mutual Defense Agreement. to be signed and for an indefinite renewal of the
Convention on the bases, their upgrading, the purchase of new military equipment,
individual agreements for the development of trade, economic, energy and military
relations between the two countries, which could not be missed by the agenda and the
maximum possible cooperation in both the migration and upgraded and pro-war strategy of
the Greek state in the region (with the backs and on behalf of local and multinational
hydrocarbon mining companies). ---- Following the call of the Thessaloniki Freedom
Initiative and the Anarchists' Collectivity from the East, an anarchist bloc was formed
which was supported by 60 other comrades. The whole course (KKM-L, ANTARSIA, LAE, KEERFA,
OKDE, FROM) did not exceed 250 people, while the anarchist bloc had a strong pulse with
slogans against militarism, imperialism, nationalism, nationalism, nationalism war but
also with slogans of solidarity with immigrants. Indicatively, they heard:

"PEACE TO PEOPLE-WAR IN NATO I WANT THE WORLD BROTHER

BLOCK CLASS TO NATIONALISM IN WAR IN NATO MILITARISM

POVERTY, POVERTY AND MILITARISM IN OUR COUNTRY IS THE ENEMY

WITH MIGRANTS WE ARE ALONG, REPRODUCTION TO NATO AND NATION

ORGANIZED AND ARMED BROADCASTER, LET'S STOP NATO MASSACRE "

Due to the organized and banner-based presence of the Popular Unity in concentration and
on the march, the anarchist bloc kept a distinct distance from the rest of its body, even
wanting to separate its position at street level from the anti-Turkish and anti-Macedonian
nationalists. positions expressed in recent years by its leadership group that openly
supported the rallies of the ND, the Golden Dawn, the church, the caravans, the cops, the
fascists, the national troupe, as well as the 6-month presence of LA deputies n government
set up in January 2015 (positions and keep following the agreement of February 20, 2015 in
the corresponding Eurogroup).

We do not suffer from left-handedness. Existing political and tactical differences with
leftist organizations are a field of enduring ideological struggle, opposition,
convergence and divergence in demonstrations, in unions, in assemblies, in the real life
of the working class and the oppressed. But our choice in recent years is either not to go
out to joint demonstrations, to ask for leave or to keep distance from the UAE, or to do
as we did today (and without ever doing so today in terms of physical violence or based on
in - most of the time - our overwhelming numerical superiority but with arguments) is
vital to us. And the reason for this hubris is not only based on the existence of
political disagreement - even if it concerns crucial issues in this regard,

Because for the last two years and while the majority of the LAU has supported politically
and tried to legitimize the rallies for Macedonia socially, the anarchist movement in the
city has fought daily battles (ideological as well as materialistic on the streets) with
the bourgeoisie. nationalist rallies - a race that managed to win at a heavy cost of course -.

So our presence today in the demonstration comes as a continuation of last April's
campaign, as yet another point in trying to crush an anti-war movement that will be linked
to labor struggles, migrant struggles, struggles oppressed from other parts of the globe,
but and with struggles for the defense of the natural world, like a call that banners say,
it wants to raise an internationalist and classical bloc in imperialism, militarism, war
and capitalist "peace", far and wide. opposite national narratives.

And so we will continue.

Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative

Collectivity of Anarchists from the East

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2019/10/05

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Latin America, an untamed and rebellious land, heiress of centuries of struggles and
resistance, where magic invades realism, where we are going through a critical situation
in ecological, humanitarian and social terms. Today we are facing a turning point, where
threats to our bodies and territories are increasingly concrete, which is why indecision
and half measures must be fought with positions and proposals. It is our historical duty,
as anarchists, to generate spaces for debate and criticism, where we prefigure the days of
struggle that lie ahead. In turn, it is necessary to propose new categories of analysis in
order to point much more accurately at those who subject us today. ---- During the last
decades, our territories have served as a space for the geopolitical struggles of
imperialisms: China, the United States, Russia, Turkey, among others, plot their interests
on the spaces we inhabit. Due to this, it is necessary to break with the old analysis of
the Cold War, where the interests of the US were deployed on the continent without any
counterweight. Today there are many actors in this geopolitical struggle. We can not fall
into myopia and direct all our criticism only to the US. Of course, today in that
geopolitical struggle, it tries to secure this area as its "backyard" that it always
intended it to be, but despite having high levels of responsibility for misery in vast
territories, they are not the only ones who carry out an imperial policy.

We are facing a strong advance of the right and extreme right throughout Latin America. On
the phenomenon of world scale, since various parties of these orientations have been
growing electorally in Europe for three decades now, in countries of the former Eastern
bloc they have been reborn with unusual vigor, and in the rest of the continent various
expressions of these signs gain space. In the US, Donald Trump is a sample of the same
phenomenon, with the particularity that has had effects on his imperial policy for the
Latin American area and the world.

Already under the Obama administration, the US supported and organized the coup in
Honduras in 2009, initiating this gradual turn to greater control over what they call
their "backyard." This coup had its continuity in the coup in Paraguay in 2012 and the
"soft coup" in Brazil in 2016. This environment facilitated the electoral rise in
Argentina of Macri in 2015 and Duque in Colombia in 2017. The only country where there was
"Progressivism" was in Mexico, and this is very relative.

The right has organized its "return" to the front of governments. In each country they
have developed a strong campaign against "progressivisms", they have made an axis in
corruption - in which all the political sectors are involved, as it has become clear in
Brazil with the Lava Jato - but they have also organized at the Latin American level,
always counting on imperial support.

These governments - Macri and Bolsonaro - have added support to the Lima Group, to that
set of recalcitrant governments that shout "democracy" outward but apply anti-popular and
repressive policies inside. And particularly in the case of Bolsonaro already speaking
directly against bourgeois democracy, installing the idea of dictatorial governments
directly. It is this group of countries that has served as Latin American coverage for the
coup attempts of the Venezuelan right supported by the US. They openly handle the
possibility of an open-minded US invasion, as in the old era, using the mechanisms of the
OAS (Organization of American States) and the TIAR.

This continental turn to the right is not minor. The capitalist system, after a fierce
application of neoliberalism, allowed certain popular "changes", some improvements, some
"loosening" to improve domination and constant looting of those below. In the so-called
"progressive" period there were certain social policies to contain poverty, of varying
degrees according to each country. They had as common denominator to allow some
improvement in the life of the poorest sectors of society, but in managing poverty, no
real work policies were generated, the poor were left in the place of welfare recipients,
or at most, at the hands of outsourced and precarious work, where it is the State itself
that outsources tasks, enriching companies or NGOs and generating a much more precarious
and rights-free working class.

Extractivism, both of the progressive governments of different signatures and of the
liberals, as a neocolonial regime and dynamic prevailing throughout Latin America, has
only deepened the unequal exchange between territories and the international division of
labor as historical expressions of the class struggle, intensifying the exploitation of
large volumes of nature (commodities) towards export. The geopolitical rearrangements have
outlined new strategies to increase the circulation of goods to the industrial centers,
opening routes in places never before thought, such as the IIRSA-COSIPLAN series of
projects; new designs of free trade agreements such as TPP-11(which includes Mexico, Peru
and Chile as Latin American countries); disputing the last natural-community goods of the
planet. Its consequences have brought questions inherent to this dynamic of exploitation
of nature, opening important processes of deterritorialization through local and global
migrations; the loss of biodiversity; the increase in violence against feminized and
racialized bodies (women and other sexualities - non-binary and trans-), including the
"hired killer", and finally the cases of corruption that we have seen with the Odebrecht
Case, which involves a network between different States.

It should be mentioned that the hegemony of progressivisms in the 2000s intensified the
looting and plundering of our territories, since their programs "with social emphasis"
were based on the extraction of natural goods and their sale to industrialized countries.
In this sense, progressive governments redistributed crumbs from a time of boom, of growth
in the international price of commodities. They managed some salary improvements and
social policies, but the fundamentals of the system were not touched. These policies had
as a common denominator to raise the living conditions of the poorest sectors of society,
which played simultaneously as an element of social containment, while building state
apparatus plagued by an affluent and parasitic political caste.

At the same time, the Latin American ruling classes multiplied their profits and the gap
between rich and poor increased. But the rich did not want to lose the administrative
control of the State. It is their State, part of their class power lies there, and is
condensed in their institutions. They were not willing to allow "upstarts" to take control
of it for a long time. A few years they could stand, while fixing the house after the
looting of the '90s. But they were getting impatient.

Does this mean that "progressive" governments are the necessary exit and that they are the
antithesis of the right? NO. First, in addition to allowing a historical enrichment of the
local and multinational bourgeoisie, progressive governments redistributed few resources
at a time of growth in the international price of raw materials. After that boom, economic
difficulties and the crisis returned. But they did not use this "bonanza period" to invest
in the generation of work at the industrial level, nor was there any Agrarian Reform or
radical transformation of services to the population, etc. The progressive governments
allowed a large-scale landing of natural goods extraction projects in the continent: large
mining, oil, soybean and forest plantation projects, hydroelectric... all for the benefit
of multinational capital, especially Chinese in recent times. All this within the
framework of the IIRSA Plan, a looting plan designed from the USA. The general lines of
the system were not modified, they simply adapted to the new stage, which now having a
certain popular consensus, was easier to fully implement the looting policy.

The redistribution of wealth was concise. But as we said, the fundamentals of the system
were not touched: neither private property, nor the redistribution of wealth or power
relations. Even so, the bourgeoisie and the more conservative sectors were not willing to
tolerate Lula, the Kirchners or whoever does not come from their kidney[direct
translation]. A clear class hatred travels the continent and distills its poison on the
villages.

But also in this period there have been two processes that have had their peculiarities in
this framework: the Venezuelan and the Bolivian situations. In Venezuela, driven by Chávez
at the time, multiple "communes" have been developed, which some press releases say,
nowadays have a negligible volume of people involved and some development in economic,
cultural and social activities, without linking some with the State. There has been a
break there compared to the previous period, where even the military, bureaucrats and
bolirricos[a play on words between Bolivarian and rich]wanted to control this process and
take full hands of the money that had been invested in this experience.

In Bolivia, a "plurinational state," halfway, but where the indigenous and peasant
movement has had influence, the same one that starred in 2000 and 2003 in the
insurrections of the "gas war" and "the water war", knocking down governments and putting
a stop to neoliberalism. It is that mobilization that prints a different character to the
historical processes that the peoples live. Recall that in the previous period, the
continent was shaken by broad popular mobilizations that caused more than one government
to fall.

The situation in Colombia deserves a special chapter, where after the "peace agreements"
have been signed, more than 570 social militants have been killed. A sector of the FARC
has returned to the armed struggle, which shows that there is no guarantee or possibility
of pacification in the country. The paramilitaries, drug trafficking groups and the Army
continue to articulate increasing violence towards those below. Colombia lives in constant
war. However, the media shows its government as "democratic," being the Latin American
country that receives the most military support from the US, and that is vital to its
interests. Even in the possibility of an escalation or conflict on the border with Venezuela.

In recent years the Colombian popular movement has been leading important struggles,
especially peasant and indigenous organizations, where the processes of land seizures and
recovery have been more than relevant along with agricultural strikes.

Today the right attacks with everything directly against life. Proof of this is the fires
in the Amazon, where governments such as Bolsonaro give a "white card" to prey on nature
and promote indigenous genocide for the benefit of large agricultural capital. It is an
expression of an aggressive proto-fascism to an extreme degree, which does not repair the
means to expand the deployment of the capitalist system. It is the neoliberalism imposed
with total aggressiveness and applying the maximum of the British Empire, "shitting on all
the consequences."

A strong tightening of the bolt[a metaphor about a screw]
The Latin American bourgeoisie needs to resume the helm of the government throughout the
continent. It needs it to impose a major adjustment, a hard adjustment like the one that
Macri has imposed since 2015. But we think that the right already has strong bases of
support: in Peru they have not lost the government at any time, including all corruption
scandals possible; in Colombia the ultra right controls the government with Iván Duque
(governs through uribismo) and in Chile the already dissolved "Concertación" has ruled
under the Pinochet-ist and neoliberal logic. A non-negotiable launch pad.
Many of the turns came from progressivism itself or its allies. Lenin Moreno in Ecuador
was Rafael Correa's successor and took an important turn at the political level both
internally and in the region. Michel Temer gave a parliamentary "soft coup" being the Vice
President of the government of Dilma Roussef.

In Uruguay, various members of the Frente Amplio have made references aimed at separations
from Venezuela and qualify the government of that country as a "dictatorship", in line
with the Lima Group and the OAS. Some of them like José Mujica, who until yesterday
received money at the hands of Venezuela, today shows himself as what he is: an
opportunist who changes position according to how the wind blows. Now Venezuela does not
send more money due to the economic blockade and the crisis in the country, generated and
deepened among other organizations by the OAS, whose Secretary General Luis Almagro, was
placed there with great help from Mujica himself. It can be said that among the
"progressives" are characters from all over the world, worthy of a chronicle of humanity's
greatest infamies.

In Uruguay there are elections in October-November, as in Argentina. The dispute is the
degree of adjustment and stick: if the Broad Front achieves its fourth government there
will be an adjustment and turn to the right of a lesser degree than if the opposition
wins, but the discussion is the degree of adjustment. And it will be accompanied by
repression; this is already being seen in the mobilizations against the installation of
the third pastera[concrete mixer]in the country, where the police go out to defend the
interests of multinational capital under a progressive government. The right plain and
simple, comes with the hard and pure neoliberal libretto.

The alliances woven in many cases by these "progressive parties" are characteristic of a
horror film: the PT allied itself with the most rancid and reactionary right in order to
have the votes in parliament ... buying them with money as well, as it has been
demonstrated in both frames of Mensalao and Lava Jato.

But it is here that the right puts to full operation, mechanisms of the system that at
other times did not see this impact: the judicial system has been used as a device of
power pointing per se at the corrupt, but several judges are the new "crusaders" for
austerity and justice. Right now it has been shown that the plot of corruption is broader
than we can imagine and that the game on the right to remove anyone from the road does not
repair the mechanisms used.

The right wants total political control. And retake through negotiations which allows the
operation of the State: tenders, bribes, purchases, various businesses, from which it was
never absent, but their voracity has no limits. There is a kind of "genetics" that tells
you that no matter how much "progressive governments" govern for them, they protect their
businesses and their class interests, that they contain the poor and reinforce the
repressive apparatus, this "progress" does not come from their crib, they are not
bourgeois of pure strain. For the bourgeoisie, they are not trustworthy, although they
have done their homework very well. There is a class instinct that this Latin American
industrial-rural-financial-commercial bourgeoisie expresses there; a clear class hatred
they have thrown into the streets with unusual force. They do not want to lose or "pinch"
their power. They are not even willing to tolerate palliative measures, let alone talk
about reforms of a certain depth, as happened in past decades with populism or
developmentalist or liberal-reformist governments. They are neoliberals of pure strain; in
their blood is the hatred of those below and the constant thirst to turn the world into a
business.

And for that business to work for them, more and more state terror is necessary. The
attacks come from all sides, with labor and pension reforms, budget cuts in education, a
blind eye for fires, deforestation and killings of indigenous and poor people. On the
other hand, the electoral left continues with its institutionalist and demobilizing
discourse of the bases. In Brazil, trade union offices call one-day strikes "general
strikes" and do not seem to be able to dissociate themselves from the so-called "Free
Lula" slogan. However, our efforts continue to promote the organization from the base and
support struggles with direct action, such as sit-ins of indigenous people in the Special
Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESAI), against mass layoffs in that public health body
and sit-ins in universities.

While the palaces are formulating laws and crisis projects, more economic liberalization,
less rights for the people and more profits for the exploiters, the repression in the
streets of the cities represses the discontented and tries to keep the people in the
silence of the bullet.

In the countryside and forests, the root of a Latin America that has not enjoyed the
bonanza of the "left" in government, not only the burning and the ecocidal advance of the
landowners in making victims, but also the systematic genocide of the rural towns and
native populations, whose bodies continue to accumulate as a direct result of the
advancement of the the extreme right in the continent.

Argentina: Take care of their governance or defend our salary
The numbers thrown in the last elections showed nothing different to those which has been
living in the street, in the neighborhoods, in the workplace. Even in this legitimizing
instance of the system - such as representative democracy - the desperation of the popular
masses has been expressed in the face of the scrapping of the country. We can start by
arguing that the miscalculation - as much of the consultants as of the political class -
of the electoral result, is related to their low level of knowledge of the life lived at
the bottom, of the rejection of the popular sectors to the chilling policies of hunger,
unemployment and exclusion of Macri and the IMF. The social, economic and political
landscape, which the oppressed have been experiencing, is increasingly complex and
pressing. In a recessive context, in the middle of an inflationary spiral and
unprecedented indebtedness, the peso devalued immediately after the elections by 25%. This
was immediately transferred to the price of the basic basket and fuels, in a deliberate
period of time granted by the national government, before launching 10 measures as an
incentive, in an attempt to engulf the popular classes again. The result: a resounding
salary reduction. But, it is not our intention to extend too much in the numbers, to
describe the proportion of the damage done in the last speculative move of the financial
sectors and the Government.
But this period of adjustment that has been going on for almost a decade, deepened by
Macri-ism at huge levels, we know is going to exceed the "end of cycle" of change. Among
the candidates, in the background, adjustment modalities are discussed. That is why
Alberto Fernández's endorsement of bringing the dollar to $ 60 pesos is consistent. Nor
should we ignore that we are already in a context of crude advanced neoliberalism
throughout the region, in a continent where US imperialism tries to regain hegemonic control.

In this dramatic scenario, we must analyze that two specific institutional exits are
clearly explained immediately. One is the one proposed by the leaders of the Frente de
Todos, which consists specifically in doing nothing, waiting until seated until December,
taking care of the flow of votes and safeguarding the governability (as this implies the
banking of Macri's anti-popular measures). As we have been arguing, the social crisis
caused by the advanced neoliberalism, was directly proportional to the crisis of lack of
political participation of the oppressed class for a long period. Recall that we come from
decades of restriction above the popular participation, through mechanisms of cooptation,
patronage and bureaucratization, when not outright delegitimization and repression of
social protest. This "non-participation paradigm", it could be seen there at the beginning
of 2016, when in full conflict over layoffs in the public sector and in Red Ridge, the
Kirchnerist dome called to kill in the squares (the "resisting with endurance"). In short,
this exacerbated call to "not cacerolear"[protests where people bang on pans]- even trying
to stop the forced measures from the guilds - does not hide anything other than the care
of its electoral percentage, to the detriment of preventing higher levels of poverty and
unemployment for the people.

The other exit to this blow against the pocket of those below, has to do with what is
proposed from the combative sectors of the labor movement and popular organizations, such
as the possibility of organized resistance from the street. As soon as the devaluation
happened, we could see the response of some of these sectors, such as the mobilization of
ATE Capital and the unemployment of the Metro Delegates in CABA, as well as the cuts of
Commerce Employees in Rosario. The plan of extended struggle of the state in Chubut,
without a doubt, is an example of organized resistance to the government's scythe. Social
movements, urged by hunger in the neighborhoods, also came out with popular pots
throughout the country, within the framework of a large-scale police operation.

 From organized anarchism we are aware that there is no widespread climate of popular
effervescence, much less deep rebellion. There is struggle, discontent and high
expressions of rejection of the social situation, but we know well that we are far from a
"Que se vayan todos"["they must all go" motto that emerged spontaneously in the course of
popular protests, pickets and cacerolazos that characterized the December 2001 crisis in
Argentina], and that trade unions and social movements lack a representative class
program. However, it becomes clear that social humor does not have the same times[direct
translation]as the electoral calendar. It is clear that the political class as a whole is
more afraid of the idea of a social outbreak than that of 10% more poor. Even before the
imminent triumph of Alberto Fernández, the Kirchnerist leadership prefers a triumph with
little margin and social disbelief to a popular overflow with pressure on the streets. At
this point we must be cautious. Knowing that there are popular sectors that have placed
hopes in the vote and in progressive electoral proposals - and who long as us for a
society without exploitation - it is necessary to challenge them and urge immediate
resistance through popular mobilization.

Overflowing and transcending the "solution from above" approach is a vital issue to
restore confidence in the strength and organization of those below, so that this
resistance that shows being there is vigorously expressed. The popular response to the
plundering of the Government and financial capital cannot be expected. Given the dilemma
of taking care of their governance or defending our salary, we will always go for the
second one and ensuring that the methods that strengthen those below are present.

Chile: the neoliberal "model" works ... for those above
In the Chilean region the system of domination managed by the dominant bloc has
intensified and deepened its neoliberal policy. In these two years of Piñera's government,
there has been little to nothing of social rights that the dominated class possess which
has been dismantled, and in turn it has intensified its repression against the sectors in
struggle.
In the world of wage labor, labor flexibility instruments have been strengthened,
expressing this: the Youth Labor Statute, and the Law Initiative that has sought to
increase the precariousness of work under the false discourse of reduction of hours of
exploitation, canceling the possibility of collective bargaining with employers and making
work conditions more flexible. On the other hand, the Tax Reform ensures the safeguarding
of the profit rates for local and transnational entrepreneurs, in a context of crisis and
economic slowdown, considerably damaging the dominated classes.

In the territories, the Law of Social Integration has consolidated the monopoly of land
access to the real estate world, eradicating the production and management communities of
the city and its territories, making it impossible to carry out self-managed and
participatory projects. Extractivism and the commodification of land and water, today our
territories have a serious ecological situation, with an increasingly complex water
crisis, expanding the areas of sacrifice and the alteration of ecosystems, as happened
with the pollution of the drinking water in Osorno, where the commodification of water
sources is visible through health companies; the situation of Puchuncaví-Quintero that has
not been resolved; the death of rural life, flora and fauna in areas devastated by drought.

We are currently viewing a resurgence of the repressive apparatus and the criminalization
of social protest. Safe classroom law, Short Terrorism Agenda, Migrant Law, are clear
signs that the state apparatus updates and deepens its control and disciplinary tools.
Hitting the oppressed class strongly: street vendors, horticulturalists, migrants, Mapuche
communities in resistance and secondary students. In addition to the above, the murder of
fighters and social fighters such as: Macarena Valdés, Camilo Catrillanca, Alejandro
Castro, and the increasingly frequent feminicides in public spaces, homo-lesbo-transphobia
and racism, shows us the State of Permanent exception in which we live.

A new period of struggle and resistance opens
Nobody has given anything to the people. All times are of struggle, all periods are
complex. Now that the right and ultra-right has retaken control of governments and
"progressivisms" turn in that direction to a greater or lesser degree (case of the
Peronist re-articulation in Argentina or an eventual triumph of the FA with a
parliamentary minority in Uruguay, for example), opens a new stage of struggles, of varied
and complex resistances. Because all governments will come for cutting rights to some
degree or an adjustment plan. There is no longer growth to distribute, only misery and the
club. Therefore, governments and the ruling classes will graduate the levels of adjustment
and repression: there will be some more intense, others softer, and others blatantly of
extreme class violence.
That is why the levels of popular struggle will intensify. Neoliberalism brings
resistance. They know it, so they strongly bet on the milicada[Argentine term for a group
of soldiers]. But peoples also know, intuit and yearn for a different society. The people
know that it must curb so much dispossession, if it is to stop so much arbitrariness.
There is a history of struggles of our indigenous peoples, black quilombolas, the workers
of the city and the countryside, the students, the different expressions and levels of
direct action that have taken place in the continent. Heroic gestures that mark a path;
current, recent struggles, which summon broad sectors of the people, to continue down the
streets, to occupy and recover land, to defend life.

These coming times require politically organized anarchist militants to intensify the
militant effort and try to provide the necessary tools to the popular camp to resist and
advance in a long-term perspective.

A long process of struggle summons us. A long road of yearnings and hopes, of shared
experiences, of pains but also of victories, of advances. Especifista anarchism has much
to say and a role to play in the construction of that different society. In our
organizations and militant spaces there is room and space for all those who seek higher
levels of militancy and commitment, for all those who put their best at the service of the
cause of those below.

It is from below that Socialism will find its militants and builders. We can say that the
only alternative to this world of barbarism is Socialism, and that Socialism will be
Libertarian or it will not be!!!

FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR POWER!!!
STRENGTHEN THE RESISTANCE!!
UP THOSE WHO FIGHT!!
URUGUAYAN ANARCHIST FEDERATION (FAU)
BRAZILIAN ANARCHIST COORDINATION (CAB)
ROSARIO ANARCHIST FEDERATION (FAR) - ARGENTINA
SANTIAGO ANARCHIST FEDERATION (FAS) - CHILE
LIBERTARIAN GROUP VÍA LIBRE - COLOMBIA
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