Update: anarchist nieuws and information all over the world - 25.10.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  ait russia - Chile: Social riot and cancellation of fare
      increases [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  ait russia - The 49th Act of the Yellow Vests: Solidarity
      with Firefighters [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  alas barricadas: Chile under state of emergency (ca, it)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  autonomy: Solitary pickets dedicated to the 2nd anniversary
      of the start of the Seti affair took place at the FSB building
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  anarkismo.net: SOLIDARITY ALREADY WITH THE CHILEAN PEOPLE,
      AGAINST ADJUSTATION AND REPRESSION OF PIÑERA (ca, en, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  cnt-ait: The Arab Spring: failed revolutions and a
      successful transfer of power (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  wsm.ie: Chilean feminists call for International Solidarity
      against the Violence of the State (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 8.  A quick balance of today's (23-10-19) day in Chile:
      (ca)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Another blow to capitalist neoliberalism and "austerity": mass protests in Chile forced
the president to refuse to increase public transport fares. Spontaneous riots and riots in
Santiago erupted on October 18; the city turned into an arena of street battles. The
authorities responded to the uprising by declaring a state of emergency and sent troops
into the streets - for the first time since Pinochet's dictatorship. At first, they
promised to compensate for the increase in pay to the "most needy." However, continued
protests forced the regime to retreat. ---- The reason for the explosion of indignation
was the increase in fares for the metro Santiago from 800 to 830 pesos. The difference was
not so great - only 4 euro cents, but this measure was, as they say, the last straw that
overflowed the chalice of discontent. Another reason was the increase in electricity
charges across the country. On October 19, Radio Bio-Bio recalled the country's prevailing
"chronic social inequality, low pensions, and increased electricity and medical fees."
Added to this are facts of corruption in the police and the army and repression against
the student movement. "All this formed a cocktail that caused the largest social protest
of the last decades in our country," Claudia Migno wrote on the radio's website.

Peaceful protests began on October 14. Young people (primarily students) refused to pay
entrance fees and began to break into the metro station in different parts of the city;
Carabinieri were thrown against the protesters. Solidarity with young people was announced
by metro workers. "We, the metro workers, are not enemies of the students, and the
students are not enemies of the metro workers," said trade union representative Eric
Campos at a October 17 press conference. It is not necessary to agree with the forms of
action of the protesters, but the requirements to cancel the increase in fares are
completely justified, he confirmed, urging the carabinieri to be removed from the subway
and to begin negotiations with students and employees.

By the evening of October 18, the situation began to worsen. Barricades moved to the
streets. They grew up on the square of Italy, the avenues of Heroes, Portugal and at
various points of the Axis of Alameda. Protesters began to attack buses. So, one of the
buses was completely burned by the demonstrators at the intersection of Vicuna McKenna
Avenue with Alameda, right in the middle of Italy Square. Then at least three more flared
up. With arson, Molotov cocktails were used.

Dissatisfaction quickly went beyond the question of increasing subway fares or indignation
at the mocking statement of Minister of Economics Juan Andrés Fontaine, urging people to
get up early and enjoy discounts on fare.

Chaos reigned in the capital. By nightfall, there were reports of attacks on electronic
access systems for vehicles in Kostanera Norte (they had already been the target of
attacks many times before). Then a huge fire swept through the fire escape of the building
of the ENEL Corporation on Santa Rosa Avenue, next to Alameda and San Lucia Station. This
company supplies electric buses for public transport and has caused widespread
dissatisfaction with the recent switch to advanced meters.

Against the backdrop of police repressions against the demonstrators, a monument to the
Carabinieri, located a few blocks from Italy Square, and the flag of the Carabinieri were
burned.

Initially, the metro stations became the epicenter of the attacks, mainly in Maipu Square.
As a result, the interiors were broken with blunt objects, and the shops inside were
destroyed. Banks, retailers and various service centers were also defeated. With the onset
of night, the metro stations Trinidad, on La Florida, San Jose de la Estrella, Eliza
Correa, Pedrero, Los Quillhoes and Santa Julia on the 4th, 4A and 5th metro lines flashed.

In the meantime, those who did not dare to take to the streets staged "pan-concerts" of
protest in various quarters of Santiago and even in Iquique and Concepcion.

The capital of Chile was engulfed in fire. After hours of battles between the police and
the demonstrators, hundreds of objects were destroyed, 20 metro stations and 16 buses were
set on fire.

The authorities initially did not react to protests at all. President Pineda was spotted
in one of the restaurants, further reinforcing resentment. Only then did he return to the
presidential palace and after midnight declared a state of emergency in the provinces of
Santiago, the provinces of Chacabuco, Puente Alto and San Bernardo. He initially defended
the decision to increase the fee and only after new arson attacks on the metro on October
19 did he cancel the price increase on Saturday evening, saying that he "heard the voice
of his fellow citizens."

But it was too late. Demonstrations, protests and riots spread, and on October 19,
authorities imposed a curfew in the capital. This is the first curfew in Chile since the
elimination of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. It is valid from 22.00 to 7.00. On
October 19, protesters in Santiago again set fire to subway trains and buses. A wave of
protests spread on Saturday to Valparaiso, Concepcion and Viña del Mar. In the evening of
October 20, a state of emergency and curfew were declared, in addition to Santiago, in
Valparaiso, the cities and provinces of Concepcion, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valdivia and
the entire metropolitan area.

During the street battles since Friday, according to the data announced by the president,
78 metro stations were destroyed or damaged. The damage is estimated at 200 million
dollars. Subway work on a 140 km stretch. completely discontinued, and it is not known
when it will resume. More than 60 supermarkets were destroyed in various cities, at least
6 of them were set on fire. Schools do not work in Santiago on October 21; on weekends,
football matches and concerts were canceled. Shops are mostly closed. Santiago Airport
stopped working at the end of the week.

The Ministry of Defense reported that more than 10 thousand troops were withdrawn to the
streets. On the Internet you can see photos and videos in which a heavily armed soldier
preys on demonstrators. Tanks blocked the streets. Responsibility for ensuring security
rests with the military. The servicemen immediately began harsh detentions. Protesters
throw soldiers with smoke bombs. In some cases, water cannons and tear gas were used to
disperse the demonstrators.

In total, from the beginning of the speeches, according to the prosecutor's office, 1,554
people were arrested. The number of victims reaches 500 people. On October 18, during the
protests 57 policemen were injured, on October 20 - 17 policemen, etc.

It is reported that at least 10 people died during the unrest. On October 20, 5 bodies
were discovered in a burnt clothing factory in Santiago. On the morning of the same day
during the fires after the defeat of two supermarkets in the capital, 2 women and a man
were killed. Two more dead were discovered in a burned down construction market in
southern Santiago.

KUT Chairwoman Barbara Figueroa said on October 20 that dialogue with the authorities is
not possible as long as the military is on the streets. "The state of emergency in this
situation is comparable only to what we experienced during the dictatorship protests. It
demonstrates the complete collapse of this government." The port workers union called for
a strike on October 20: "Chile must wake up from its lethargy"

https://www.nzz.ch/international/ausnahmezustand-nach-unruhen-wegen-fahrpreis-erhoehungen-in-santiago-ld.1516463;
https: //www.jungewelt. de / artikel / 365078.chile-chile-rebelliert.html;
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2019/10/18/santiago-en-llamas-incendios-y-saqueos-extienden-jornada-de-incidentes-en-la-capital.shtml;
https: //ru.euronews. com / 2019/10/19 / state-of-emergency-in-chili;
https://ru.euronews.com/2019/10/20/chile-tickets-reverse;
https://ru.euronews.com/2019/10/21/chile-violence;
https://ria.ru/20191021/1560008989.html;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-21/chile-extends-state-of-emergency-after-death-toll-rises/11623584

Meanwhile, protest rallies throughout the country that spread from Santiago to other
cities and regions. Most of them are peaceful, although there are reports of arson, defeat
and clashes with the police. The main form of peaceful protests was the "pan marches"
(Caserolaso). Famous actors and singers come to the demonstrators. Such marches took place
at Plaza Nuños, in the park of Ines de Suárez (Providencia) and Santa Isabel in the
metropolitan area, the cities of Talca, Temuco, Concepcion, Quillota, Pisco Elki
(Coquimbo), Antofagasta
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2019/10/20/las-manifestaciones-pacificas-que-se-tomaron-las-calles-de-varias-ciudades-del-pais.shtml
According to the data announced by the Minister of the Interior, at 21:00 on Sunday the
death toll was 7 people, 152 were arrested for various "acts of violence", 70 - for
"serious incidents of violence" and 40 - for "robberies". The state of emergency was
extended to the cities of Valdivia, Antofagasta, Talca, Chillan, Chillan Viejo, Temuco,
Padre Las Casas, Punta Arenas and the entire Valparaiso region. The number of soldiers
used reached 10,500, and the minister did not rule out an increase in their number.

Despite the cancellation of higher fares, new demands are being made. To the exclamations
"Stop abuses" and the slogan "Chile, wake up", which is spread on social networks, the
demonstrators demand an end to the economic model, in which access to education and health
is private, and there are huge social inequalities, low pensions and lack of basic services
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2019/10/20/gobierno-confirma-7-muertos-y-responde-a-crisis-ampliando-estado-de-excepcion-a-otras-ciudades.shtml
  In Pasa Almonte (Tarapaca), the Family Health Center caught fire, in Iquique, attacks
were made on the building of the regional administration, shops and notaries in the city
center were destroyed; clashes with the military occurred at the barracks of the 6th Army
Division
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-de-tarapaca/2019/10/21/incendian-unico-cesfam-de-pozo-almonte-en-iquique-atacaron-edificio-de-intendencia-y-comercio.shtml
  Last night, in the Concepcion province, the paid entry of Penko on the interport highway
was set on fire
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2019/10/20/desconocidos-incendiaron-peaje-interportuaria-en-la-region-del-bio-bio.shtml
In Concepcion on Sunday, an attack on a gun shop; the attackers carried out the weapon
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-del-bio-bio/2019/10/20/alerta-en-concepcion-turba-saquea-armeria-preciados-llevandose-cuchillos-y-pistolas.shtml

https://aitrus.info/node/5341

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The 49th rally of the yellow vest movement was dedicated to solidarity with the
firefighters fighting, whose demonstration on October 15 in Paris was brutally dispersed
by the police, and one of the firefighters was wounded in the eye. The central rally took
place this time in Clermont-Ferrand. Activists from other places of the Puy-de-Dom,
Cantal, Croesus department arrived on a march in Clermont-Ferrran ... ---- Despite the
authorities' ban, protesters gathered in Jaude Square. The authorities mobilized
repressive forces, significant in the scale of the city: 80 special forces from CRS, 50
mobile gendarmes and many employees of the Department of Public Security Directorate.
Police and gendarmes were concentrated nearby, but so far did not intervene. Protesters
challenged police stationed in neighboring streets, chanting: "Nobody likes the police."

Only a few demonstrators wore yellow vests. Slogans were put forward not to wear them, in
order to avoid unnecessary clashes with the police. "The police will confiscate them from
us," explained 58-year-old Alain. He added that "almost nothing has changed in a year,
fuel is even more expensive, and the gap between rich and poor is growing."

"Today we came to express our support for firefighters; we are trying to achieve
convergence (struggle) of different professions," explained the baker Gilbert, who came
from the Central region.

The demonstrators first occupied the symbolic building of the cathedral, and then moved
back to the city center, where they built burning barricades from garbage cans. For the
first time, ballot boxes flashed on Lagarle Street; later the same thing happened in a
number of other streets. A helicopter flew continuously over the demonstration.
Demonstrators walked around the city center, accompanied by police officers. They headed
down Fongiev Street to the Palace of Justice, and they had to call firefighters to put out
burning garbage cans. At the end of the march, the demonstrators tried to return to Zhod
Square, where they tried to break into the shopping center, but were driven away by the
police. There were collisions at the entrance.

During the march, there were several clashes with the forces of the capitalist order, as,
for example, on the small Assa Street, between Zhod Square and the prefecture, where
police used tear gas bombs. As a result, at least 11 people were detained.

In Toulouse, protesters decided this time to abandon the traditional route of
demonstrations, starting the march at 14.00 not in the city center, but on the left bank
of the Garonne, in the Saint-Cyprien quarter. The reason for this choice was the desire to
express their solidarity with the struggle of firefighters and emergency doctors, who are
just on strike. This quarter houses the barracks of firefighters and a number of clinics
and hospitals. The slogan was put forward: "We will help convergence and unity: no man and
no woman deserve such inhumanity: this scandalous violence and the complete lack of
response from our leaders." As they marched, they made a stop at the Vion Firefighter
Barracks, chanting "Thank you, thank you!" and applauding. Demonstrators tried to cross
the Catalans bridge blocked by police to the center, which used tear gas against them.
Then clashes with the police took place in the Burrassol quarter, where protesters tried
to connect with the doctors from the Purpan hospital. Small groups of strikers and
demonstrators were located in the city center, between Wilson Square and Saint-Georges. A
helicopter patrolled over the demonstrators.

In Paris, protesters marched from France-Television headquarters to La Défense, surrounded
by police. The Bordeaux demonstration took place without incident. In Lille, the "yellow
vests" held a demonstration under the banners "CRS, don't touch my fireman!" and
"Firefighters are poisoned by gas; police officers are awarded." In Lyon, protesters
gathered in Bellecour Square with the banner Solidarity with Firefighters. Law enforcement
forces attacked them to prevent access to the main shopping streets in the city center.

In Valenciennes, where a regional demonstration of "yellow vests" was held, clashes
occurred with the police and gendarmes, which were only three times less than the
demonstrators. The protesters moved in a constant police environment. From the very first
moments of the march from Valigloo parking, at 2.00 p.m., where the police seized one
person, the tension grew. Clashes broke out twice - under the bridge and in front of the
brewery on Lille street.

In clashes with the police, who repeatedly used tear gas, in Rouen, demonstrators threw
various objects at the guards of the capitalist order. 2 policemen and 1 demonstrator were
injured, 7 people were detained.

Marches also took place in Angers, Nior (where the protesters also recalled the struggle
against pension reform and the privatization of the Paris airport) and other cities.

In addition to the demonstrations, the "yellow vests" also continued protests on the
roads. So, at the roundabout of the Chateau-Gaillard highway A42, they handed out leaflets
to passing cars and chanted "We are here, even if Macron does not like it." In
Carcassonne, activists of the Carcassonne in Anger group let people traveling on the Q6
highway east of the city for free. In Brest, they blocked traffic on the RN12 highway ...

https://aitrus.info/node/5342

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In Chile it has been lived since Saturday in a state of exception in 5 regions of the
country. The military is patrolling the streets and there are reports of police and
military abuse of all kinds. After a week of protests due to the rise in public transport,
President Piñera wanted to take a "coup d'etat" and end the protests on the fast track.
Not only has he not succeeded but he has opened a crisis in the country of great
proportions. Tomorrow, Monday, an attempt will be made to carry out a general strike,
initiated by the port unions. To follow the events of Chile, the following twitter posts
are recommended: #toquedequeda #ChileSeCanso #ChileProtests #EstadoDeEmergencia
#ChileSeLevanta # ChileDespertó # RenunciaPiñera #ChileResiste

There is a psychosis environment fueled by the media, with organized looting of
distribution chains, banks or markets and also attacks on police stations and banking
centers. However, in neighborhoods won by drug traffickers there are attacks among those
below, giving the feeling of chaos. These cases are used to justify the presence of the
military in the street. At the moment there are 3 dead in a fire and more than 700 people
arrested.

In this climate, leftist organizations also intend to move forward. The port unions
announced a strike from Monday to which they will try to add other sectors in a national
strike. This crisis may end up breaking the bipartisan center-right and center-left system
that governs the country since the end of the dictatorship.

Very rare Chauffeur arrives with micro, it is parked 1 block from the barricades. 5
minutes pass and go to the barricades, and then leave ... pic.twitter.com/CO1UG7MOzl

- Nicolás Sepúlveda Gambi (@niko_sepulveda) October 19, 2019

It's not 12 o'clock and they are already repressing with extreme violence in Valparaíso.
Condemnable! This is Piñera's response to the just and growing malaise of the people. What
happens is the responsibility of the Arrogance of the Government and its abandonment to
democracy. #toquedequeda pic.twitter.com/PEcKNDkFfq

- Nataly Campusano (@Naty_campusano) October 20, 2019

 From there, some libertarian organizations launch their manifests:

Before the social outbreak registered during the last days in the Chilean region, the
Santiago Anarchist Federation declares:

1- We attended the collapse of the neoliberal experiment, thousands of voices echo in the
streets demanding dignity. This outbreak is not accidental, it is the dignified response
of the people to the precariousness of our lives, the looting of nature, the devastation
of territories and ecosystems.

  The struggle that has been unleashed in the streets is not only for the increase in the
price of the subway, but for all these years of humiliation, deprivation and teasing of
the bourgeoisie. Today peoples rise in all territories, dignity will never be taken from us.

This social fire was produced by the recurring and rebellious action of secondary
students, who have been subjected to the militarization of their educational spaces. Young
people without fear, full of rebellion and courage, have generated this spark that has
burned "the oasis of democracy" in Latin America.

2- The government's response has been the wildest and most extreme repression; decreeing
the State of Exception and installing the Touch of Queda, in turn, have filled the streets
of their lackeys, pacos and militias have once again pointed their weapons against our class.

We will not be intimidated, yesterday, Saturday, all the territories resisted in the
streets, ignoring state terrorism. Full of courage we have protected our populations from
unleashed repression.

Unfortunately the repression has hit us hard, thousands of arrests, injured and dead
people has been the balance of terror launched on our peoples. Again the minions of the
State / Capital have fired against the peoples in struggle, fulfilling their historical
role of defending the bourgeoisie and their property when the class demands their rights,
they will be eternally despised.

3- It becomes completely necessary to articulate autonomous and grassroots organizations;
assemblies and territorial coordination, are the organizational spaces that we must raise
in order to project the fight and prevent this social explosion from being co-opted by
political parties, who in a faint-hearted and opportunistic way have been absent from the
streets and have only yelled through social networks. The construction of the Organized
Community is necessary in order to strengthen our struggles and make the remo to those who
have sold us for positions of power.

4 - We call to maintain the mobilization and making a qualitative leap by calling the
GENERAL STRIKE, which allows us to articulate the different sectors in struggle; students,
settlers, workers and marginalized. The struggle will deliver to us what the bourgeoisie
denies us. We call to continue fighting to advance the recovery of our social rights,
eliminate the AFPs, abolish the water code, reject the Social Integration Law and the
TPP-11, socialize the transportation system and put an end to laws and measures repressive
such as; safe classroom, anti-terrorism law, state internal security law, State of
Exception and curfew.

Out with the Milicos de las Calles!

General Strike Now!

To root Anarchism!

To build Organized Community!

Long live the struggle of the peoples!

SANTIAGO ANARCHIST FEDERATION

http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/42361

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Message: 4






On October 19, a picket line took place near the FSB building in Moscow, dedicated to the
2-year anniversary of the start of the notorious case of the so-called "Network". At the
same time, single pickets in support of the defendants in the Network case were held in
other cities and countries - at the moment, it is known about the actions in St. ----
Petersburg, Penza, Nizhny Novgorod, Berlin. ---- Despite the presence of pro-Kremlin
provocateurs, one of whom even did not stand for long with her banner, the Moscow picket
line went quietly. In addition to the anarchists, representatives of the support group
Azat Miftakhov, Left Block, Left Resistance, Indefinite, and other sympathizers - only a
few dozen people - also took part in the action.

Of the incidents, there was only the detention of a permanent participant in opposition
pickets near the Presidential Administration named Alexander, who called to join them and
argued with the provocateurs from SERB. An employee of the center for countering extremism
(CPE) explained the detention that Alexander was "suspected of committing a crime." The
man was taken to a wagon. According to OVD-Info, the detainee asked to call him an
ambulance because of diabetes, but police officers ignored his request. Ambulance was
called by Alexander eyewitnesses to the detention, after which he was taken to the hospital.

Two years ago, on October 19, 2017, Ilya Shakursky and Vasily Kuksov were detained and
brutally beaten in Penza. They were followed by the arrests of other defendants in the
Network case: Dmitry Pchelintsev, Andrei Chernov, Arman Sagynbayev, Julia Boyarshinov,
Viktor Filinkov, Igor Shishkin, Maxim Ivankin, Mikhail Kulkov.

Two years, as our comrades in St. Petersburg and Penza have been in captivity, many of
them have been brutally tortured by the FSB during this time. Exhausting courts go to
Penza every day; for an indefinite period, a break in court in St. Petersburg dragged on.
Two years are not just words, it is day after day - suffering and struggle, humiliation
and hope, despair and solidarity.

https://avtonom.org/news/u-zdaniya-fsb-proshli-odinochnye-pikety-posvyashchennye-2-y-godovshchine-nachala-dela-seti

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Message: 5






As it has been happening in recent years in different countries of the region, as a result
of the adjusting and repressive surge that hits different sectors of the oppressed classes
we see in the streets a great active and popular resistance. Wave that analyzed together
seems to respond, as is often the case with the alignment of governments with imperialist
interests. In addition to the increase in the cost of living, job insecurity, looting of
common goods, homelessness, health and education, another common denominator is the savage
repression that states carry out to curb the massive mobilizations, in many cases with use
of military force. ---- We can say today that this is also the case in Chile. We come from
decades of struggle for access to education, housing, in defense of salary and agreements,
for the recovery of ancestral territories, with the prominence of students, youth, port,
women's movement, environmental assemblies and the Mapuche communities, among other
sectors. Today the rebellion erupts massively against the increase in public transport,
against the measures of the Piñera government, who did not hesitate to send the repressive
forces to the street - the same as the Pinochet dictatorship - and further restrict the
rights to protest and the political participation, getting to impose the curfew, and
counting on two dead and at least 16 wounded so far in these days of repression.

Just as it happened in Ecuador, Haiti, Puerto Rico, where the implementation of popular
power has succeeded in curbing the onslaught of the ruling classes, we hope that the same
will happen in Chile, where the popular sectors have a rich trajectory of struggles and
resistance to throughout history We believe that this movement initiated by students,
residents and other popular sectors will be able to put a brake on both the neo-liberal
scythe and the persecution and repression that the government unleashes on those below.

 From organized anarchism we believe it is vitally important to multiply our participation
and actively promote these popular resistance processes, born from the accumulation of
tensions and popular demands, oriented towards generating objectives, strategies and
alliances with different sectors of the oppressed class. It is a priority to transcend and
overflow any attempt to lead electoral, to which we are accustomed to the sectors of
institutionalist reformism (displacing the interests of the oppressed class by those of
the bourgeois), as they tried in Ecuador, where they were clearly exposed and disoriented.
The need for a General Unemployment and a great mobilization to put down Piñera's
adjustment and repression are in sight. The active solidarity of popular organizations
across the continent,

Long live the struggle of the Chilean people!
Down with the adjustment and repression of Piñera! Up those who fight!
CAB - Brazilian Anarchist Coordination
FAU - Uruguayan Anarchist Federation
FAR - Rosario Anarchist Federation (Argentina)
FAS - Santiago Anarchist Federation (Chile)
OAC - Cordoba Anarchist Organization (Argentina)

http://anarkismo.net/article/31605

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Message: 6






 From our friends of Tunisian Anarchist Union, translated by our compañeros of ASF-IWA
Australia: ---- The Arab Spring: failed revolutions and a successful transfer of power
---- It seems as if there is a predetermined pattern or a pre-equipped program for all the
so-called (Arab Spring revolutions), demonstrations against a corrupt and decaying old
authority, suppressed by the regime's police forces, the army intervenes to stop the
repression after a while and declares itself a neutral force outside the regime and rule
among the political forces The Salafis were used as a scarecrow to frighten the liberal
forces, handing power to the right wing of the regime represented in the moderate
political Islam (the Brotherhood) for a while, and then transferring power to other wings
of the former regime, wings that did not emerge in the first rows of it, the above.

Formelly speaking, this is almost a full success!

What happened in all the Arab Spring revolutions, with different differences imposed by
the local circumstances of each state, the Islamists always enter the line, always end up
handing over power to the former regime, the army always plays the role of neutral
government, and the revolutionary movement always ends in a worse economic and political
situation.

On the political front, liberals like to call these revolutions failures, while the
traditional left atributes those failures to external conspiracies against[sovereignty
and]national regimes. All this shows us on the contrary that those Revolutions have
succeeded in fulfilling their mission.

We can, of course, justify and explain this view

But let's start by defining the pattern of movement of these revolutions from within:
1 - usually led by the middle class with a heavy presence of students and youth, the
popular classes are shifted to the background of the picture once the period of violent
clash with the police.

2. These revolutions lack the political axis, where there is no presence of any clear
political program or organized political forces. They usually do not present any clear
program or objectives, which offer populist slogans and (demands), not programs or objectives.

3 - These revolutions lack a radical position, they do not aim to remove (the whole)
system, but calls for political reforms limited to reform the political system, and
improve the conditions of voting, and combat administrative corruption and get rid of
certain figures in the system of government.


4 - These revolutions generally avoid a real clash with the (regime), with the state as a
whole, it avoids the creation of dual power by declaring a revolutionary government from
the street, for example, and it avoids the control or occupation of the joints of the
state such as parliament, banks, headquarters of ministries, etc.

5 - Avoiding those revolutions complete break with the regime, they are hostile to part of
it, but the alliance of another part (the army) and its transformation to rule over the
conflict addressed to its demands.

6 - These revolutions simply represent the maximum possible movement of the middle class,
they are reformist, conciliatory, does not announce a complete departure from obedience to
the system, avoid violent clash and prefer peaceful forms of expression, and ask the
system to repair part of the rest of its parts.

These revolutions succeeded, they succeeded in reshaping the ruling state system. In
Tunisia, they succeeded in restoring the old guard in the Constitutional Party to rule,
and in Egypt, the conflict between the presidency and the army in favor of the army has
paved the way for the new generals' guard over the old guard, even though they often will
not produce the desired results. It is even more so in both Algeria and Sudan in the
second wave of the Arab Spring.

Simply these were not revolutions, but rather limited uprisings resulting from the
restlessness of the middle class, which met with the restlessness of the wings of
government from the control of one wing for too long, those called revolutions, which
lacked any real class dimension or even a biased economic program for the poorer classes,
and lacked the courage to depart from Obeying the state and declaring a revolutionary
government or political system are not what we anarchists are fighting for.

We do not underestimate its value as a school to train the street and the masses, and an
instrument to expose and expose the entire state system, but we believe and strive for a
class revolution by masses of hard-working people in order to destroy the authority of the
state and give power And wealth for people, For real hardworking people.

Union des anarchistes Tunisiens

Original in Arabic: http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/10/13/printemps-arabe
French Translation: http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/10/18/printemps-arabe-fr
Spanish Translation: http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/10/18/printemps-arabe-es
Portuguese Translation: http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/10/18/Printemps-arabe_pt


http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/10/18/printemps-arabe_en

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Message: 7






A Call to International Solidarity with the Chilean People -- Feminists of the World
Against the Violence of the State! -- October 18th, 2019 ---- The President of Chile, in
agreement with the National Security Council, has declared a state of emergency - the
first one since Pinochet's dictatorship - in response to protests against the rising
cost-of-living and transportation prices that have swept through Santiago. The right to
assembly and freedom of movement have been effectively restricted, and control of the
nation's capital has been turned over to the army, which is currently deployed in the
streets. Nonetheless, the people have come out to protest at hundreds of locations
throughout Santiago and across the country, facing their fear and breaking their silence.

A national day of protest has been called for Monday, October 21st, and we ask feminists
worldwide to join us in demonstrations at their country's Chilean embassies or consulates
to let them know, in a single voice, that we will never go back to living in a
dictatorship, that we stand together and that together, Somos + ( We are MORE).

We request that any and all acts of solidarity be recorded and sent to
coordinadora8m@gmail.com for wider distribution.

In Solidarity,
La Coordinadora Feminista 8 de Marzo / The March 8th Feminist Coordinator

https://wsm.ie/c/chilean-feminists-international-solidarity-against-violence-state

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Message: 8






- Another day more crowds, whole families, the streets were taken in every corner of the
country (the image is from the capital). Neither the announcements of President Piñera
yesterday (more of the same) nor the fear he has tried to install through a runaway
repression or the paranoia environment that some media have fed in recent days managed to
leave people at home. ---- - Social Unit, the articulation of the main organizations of
the Chilean people (with a very important weight of the unions of the public sector) had
convened for today a day of General Strike that the preliminary data indicate that it has
had a greater follow-up than in previous occasions , adding strips of workers who normally
do not stop for fear of dismissal. In a country where the right to strike is very limited
and the minimum standards of the ILO are not met, that is worth highlighting and
demonstrating a state of mind. Highlight that it was again the port unions grouped in the
Port Union of Chile who kicked off starting stoppages on Monday.

- The government and its political supporters continue with clumsy declarations and
movements that denote a huge distance with the popular feeling: to give just one example,
yesterday in Congress their deputies refused to discuss a bill that seeks to reduce the
work week 45 to 40 hours and today they mocked and broke photos of murdered protesters.
They are only talking to the most convinced among their own.

- The pantomime of "national dialogue" that armed the government and culminated in the
announcements of the president quickly deflated by attending that face-lift only the
opposition parties that share economic program with Chile Vamos (the coalition of Piñera):
PR , PPD and DC. The PS (which for more than 20 years shared a coalition of government
with the previous ones) was subtracted at the last minute of going. Other opposition
parties also refused to attend or were not directly invited.

- The general feeling in those who are protesting is that today there are no conditions
for dialogue, because there is no gesture that the government is open to it, and that in
the event that these conditions were generated it should be open door, with All the
representative actors of Chilean society, without exclusions. The need for a new social
pact that overcomes the dictatorial heritage is being installed, and the Constituent
Assembly resonates as a way of materializing it.

https://www.facebook.com/traducciones.belfast/posts/2450010871913620

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