Today's Topics:
1. Union Communiste Libertaire bruxelles - Facing the social
explosion in Chile: 3rd release of the Anarchist Federation of
Santiago (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, Class War: The rich run the world (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Union of Syndicalists of Poland, zsp: Hostel24 in Bydgoszcz
has not paid salaries (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. ait russia: Social protests in Chile are already the 3rd
week (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. i-f-a.org: Statement of international solidarity with the
anarchist movement in Greece (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, Brighton Solfed: The new term is well under way and
so is our organising! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Faced with the social explosion in the Chilean region, the Anarchist Federation of
Santiago declares: ---- 1- The current situation is uncertain, people still struggle,
their courage was stopped neither by bullets nor crumbs thrown by the bourgeoisie. The
oppressed class continues to bravely resist the streets of the entire region dominated by
the Chilean state, which is why we call for continued mobilizations in all our spaces: in
the streets, in villages, in high schools, in clashes, etc. Notwithstanding the above, we
know that there will be a wear and tear process inherent in so many days of struggle. That
is why it is extremely important to start building and strengthening the Territorial
Assemblies, which must go beyond the institutional vision of the "Citizens Council"
(Cabildo Ciudadano) and not revolve around a new constitution, but by road of the people
", where, according to the autonomous and horizontal reflection in these spaces of
assembly, we generate a vindictive common frame of the oppressed class, considering local
realities and those of greater scale, in order to generate new scenarios of fight on the
territories. On the other hand, generate an Organized Community that provides solutions to
the most immediate and daily problems to strengthen the power of self-management that will
gradually dismantle the state on our territories. This process of accumulation of forces
is fundamental so that this social explosion is not only a moment of catharsis but also
the beginning of a process of emancipation of peoples. considering local realities and
those on a larger scale, in order to generate new scenarios of struggle on the
territories. On the other hand, generate an Organized Community that provides solutions to
the most immediate and daily problems to strengthen the power of self-management that will
gradually dismantle the state on our territories. This process of accumulation of forces
is fundamental so that this social explosion is not only a moment of catharsis but also
the beginning of a process of emancipation of peoples. considering local realities and
those on a larger scale, in order to generate new scenarios of struggle on the
territories. On the other hand, generate an Organized Community that provides solutions to
the most immediate and daily problems to strengthen the power of self-management that will
gradually dismantle the state on our territories. This process of accumulation of forces
is fundamental so that this social explosion is not only a moment of catharsis but also
the beginning of a process of emancipation of peoples. to generate an Organized Community
that provides solutions to the most immediate and daily problems in order to reinforce the
power of self-management that will gradually dismantle the state in our territories. This
process of accumulation of forces is fundamental so that this social explosion is not only
a moment of catharsis but also the beginning of a process of emancipation of peoples. to
generate an Organized Community that provides solutions to the most immediate and daily
problems in order to reinforce the power of self-management that will gradually dismantle
the state in our territories. This process of accumulation of forces is fundamental so
that this social explosion is not only a moment of catharsis but also the beginning of a
process of emancipation of peoples.
2- The government's response was to cancel the state of emergency and the presence of the
army in the streets, but the repression of special forces - militarized police -
intensified. The crackdown killed 25 people, more than 4,300 detainees, more than 1,600
wounded, more than 160 people lost their eyes as a result of the crackdown, 19 people were
killed more than 133 people were tortured, all according to official data which, according
to international organizations, are lower than the actual figures. As if that were not
enough, the director of the Institute of Human Rights (INDH) said that there were no
systematic violations of human rights, showing precisely that all state agencies protect
violence against peoples in struggle.
We call for international solidarity, the liberation of all prisoners and the memory of
our dead.
3- Political parties and their characteristic opportunism have come to light during these
days, of course their leaders are not in the street and have not been repressed, but they
do not hesitate to self-proclaim the "representatives of the people and their demands".
This movement has never needed you and will never need you in the future, you only seek to
make a pact with the government, this on the blood of our murdered brothers and sisters,
you are only looking for to oxygenate this democracy with the smell of tears, you will
never represent our interests since you are not part of the oppressed class. We reject
your "new social pact" because it does not represent a radical change for the peoples,
4- The Constituent Assembly, for its part, was a slogan that had a great echo in our
class, it seems to be a magic lamp that, once rubbed, will solve all our problems as a
class. Such a vision is only an illusion for people in struggle. This is why it seems
extremely important to us to provoke a critical attitude and to alert our class.
For us, the Constituent Assembly serves only to give an institutional solution to the
conflict, it will only function in the interests of the oligarchy, because as a class we
have not yet developed organizations and struggles can guide this process in the best of
circumstances. Therefore, to develop a constituent assembly in the short and medium term
only leaves the destiny of this movement to those who oppress us, there is no correlation
of the forces necessary to form our class interests. The realization of a Constituent
Assembly in the immediate future would be a great tragedy for the peoples in struggle,
because it would be burying the class struggle for many years against this new
constitution "democratic,
Others, on the other hand, have understood the process of the Constituent Assembly as a
slow and long-term process, in which the accumulation of forces of citizen councils and
territorial assemblies is directed towards the re-shaping of the pillars of the state.
Chilean. We are also distancing ourselves from this position, because for us, the process
of accumulation of forces, which is a priority task, is not to develop a Constituent
Assembly, but to generate the self-managing power of the oppressed class that formulates a
new social contract without any agreement with the oligarchy and where the pillars of the
system of domination are buried forever: patriarchy and capitalism, its colonial strategy
of domination and its expressions: the nation-state, the gendered system and extractivism
. We will not rebuild the state,
We know that the political constitution binds and maintains the institutional pillars of
neoliberalism, which must be transformed, but it is not only a juridico-political
question, since it is impossible to negotiate with the oligarchy on the paramount issues
of the class struggle, as well as private ownership of land and water, conflicts t
https://bxl.communisteslibertaires.org/2019/11/06/face-a-lexplosion-sociale-au-chili-3eme-communique-de-la-federation-anarchiste-de-santiago/
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Message: 2
It's not hard is it? The rich the world over run the world. Our prime minister is an Eton
elite scumbag that made millions and rules over the poor. Trump is a billionaire that
rules over the poor. ---- This is capitalism and it's the same the world over. They rule
and we suffer under the states use of the police the military to keep us in line while the
laws they uphold mean nothing to them but are used to smash us whenever they see fit. ----
Whenever the people the working classes organise and say enough is enough the state will
put the machine of oppression into operation. You have a vote. A say. But it's pointless
defunct. All political parties outside the mainstream are unknown and irrelevant.
You have a voice but make sure it's peaceful while they keep you in chains in poverty
subservient and compliant. Otherwise that same government will rain down on you the utmost
violence imprison you if you resist. You may believe you have the freedom of speech but
even that has limits in our democracy while they lie cheat kill without any recourse to
their law.
We all know there's one for them and one for us. So what do we do? Try and work within a
corrupt and totally stacked system? Or smash it and them our so called masters our betters
those that live lives beyond our weekly wage slave lives. These people are the rich and
our ruling class. They have no notion of how poor people live and they do not care about us.
We are not the underclass we are still the working class no matter what some people might
tell you. Having a job doesn't suddenly make you working class other than the fact you
have a job any less than you cannot rebrand the poorest ppl in society as a underclass.
(John Mayor I believe). Cunt. Brixton boy.. Really?
Class is important. I know many proud WC people and many good MC ppl (not proud strangely
enough) our movements are full of the middle classes some good some bad but we lack the
working class numbers because of the failures of the left. There are many WC ppl that are
tired don’t have the time energy or are lazily right wing in thinking possibly due to
being uneducated or stupidly tribal in some respects. We should all try harder.
But it’s the elite the rich the people in power from the royals to all their breed that
keep the divide the class difference in place. It suits their ultimate need. To keep us
all in our place and to use us all against each other to keep their own interests in place.
It’s not hard is it·
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Message: 3
In Bydgoszcz, a group of former employees of the Hostel24 Bed & Breakfast hotel was
established in the Union of Polish Syndicalists, which is located at ul. Lelewela.
Employees intend to fight for payment of overdue wages that they did not receive for work
at the hotel.
Each of them has to recover about PLN 1,100 - 1,400. The employer, the company 2.4.6 sp. Z
o.o. does nothing with payment requests and not even with court payment orders. More
people are treated in the same way.
For this reason, employees decided to work with the ZSP to fight more vigorously for the
money they owed.
https://zsp.net.pl/hostel24-w-bydgoszczy-nie-wyplacil-wynagrodzen
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Message: 4
After some lull on the long weekend (November 1 was a day off for All Saints in Chile),
when many Chileans left the city, on Monday November 4, protests against neoliberal
socio-economic policies resumed with renewed vigor. The regime of President Pinhera made
another concession, abandoning plans to reduce taxes on entrepreneurs. ---- On November 1,
grieving women marched in the morning to the presidential palace in a silent protest.
Dressed in black and with blindfolds, they denounced the cruelty of the state, capitalism
and patriarchy. In the evening, crowds of people again came to the center of Santiago, and
thousands of people entered the "restricted area". Hooded protesters attacked the
Argentine Embassy and the Catholic Church a few meters from Italy Square. (In addition,
over the past 8 days, 8 evangelical churches were burned). In the midst of the clashes,
the anarchists handed out to protesters in hoods food from an impromptu field kitchen. The
demonstrators used laser beams as a weapon to blind the police and armored personnel
carriers. A group of demonstrators overturned a military statue in a monument to General
Bakedano.
Members of the fascist Social-patriotic movement were found in the ranks of the
demonstrators. Anti-fascists and anarchists attacked them; the majority escaped, the rest
were badly beaten and the flag was taken from them.
In most water pools, the water was painted red, symbolizing the blood of the dead and
injured during state repression.
In Aric, protesters smashed a bust of Columbus. In Canete, the local headquarters of the
far-right UDI party was burned. A group of demonstrators from Limache walked 98 kilometers
to pass a petition to the La Moneda presidential palace in the capital, but they were met
by water cannons.
Authorities announced a freeze on highway entry tariffs and canceled an annual increase of
3.5%. However, organizations organizing a protest against this type of requisitions
consider this measure to be insufficient and call on November 6 to hold massive actions of
the payment boycott.
In an attempt to bring down the heat of protests, political parties began to promise to
write off debts on tuition fees for university students.
Actions of solidarity with protests in Chile take place in many countries of the world. In
Athens, a group of protesters demolished turnstiles in the subway in support of an
uprising in Chile. In New York, dozens of people coordinated burst into the subway after a
demonstration against racism and state repression. They pasted leaflets and posters.
At the end of the week, various autonomous and self-governing events were organized in
Chile to raise funds for wounded and arrested comrades (
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/ )
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A general strike was scheduled for November 4. At 7 o'clock in the morning, road closures
were supposed to begin, at 17.00 marches were scheduled for Italy Square, along the
Alameda and Kostanera Center. At 20.00, "pan-protests" were to begin.
Tens of thousands of protesters again took to the streets of Santiago on November 4. The
movement goes without leaders. The gathered masses in the square of Italy organized a
mega-demonstration; a stream of people tried to move to the presidential palace, but came
across a police force that used tear gas from a water cannon; protesters responded with
stones and Molotov cocktails. During the clashes, 6 policemen were injured (including 2,
set on fire by Molotov cocktails).
With the onset of darkness, people began to rattle in empty pots and honk with car horns.
Near the shopping center in the highest skyscraper in Latin America, barricades were erected.
In the cities of Viña del Mar, Valparaiso and Concepcion, the destruction of shops and
administrative buildings took place again.
Meanwhile, opposition parties and Congress are continuing negotiations with Pinera,
although protesters are demanding the resignation of the billionaire president. Chile
ranks first in Latin America in terms of social inequality. 1% of the population here owns
33% of national wealth
(https://www.voanews.com/americas/chile-protests-resume-demonstrations-crimp-economic-growth;
https://www.france24.com/en/20191105-mega-rally-marks-chile-protests-third-week-as-president-struggles-1)
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Super Monday November 4 began with barricades and road blocking at various intersections
and mass intrusions, especially at the Vicente Valdes metro station. The square of Italy
in Santiago was crowded; clashes with police occurred in many places. Protesters beat 2
motorized police officers and broke their motorcycles. In the forbidden "zero zone" with
an incendiary bomb, 2 police special forces were set on fire, which was greeted with a
standing ovation from the demonstrators.
During the clashes, anarchists scattered thousands of propaganda brochures. Radical
protesters in the hoods shouted and whistled the members of the youth organization of the
Communist Party, and its office was bombarded with paint bombs.
Demonstrators broke into the central building of the Catholic University and carried out
furniture, using it to build a barricade. At the same university, in San Joaquin, hooded
protesters fought with the police.
On the night before, dozens of actions were held in reminder of the dead, disappeared and
tortured. The municipality of Santiago has closed the entrances and exits in two of the
most important symbolic lyceums - the National Institute and the National Barros Arana
Boarding School. Students fled from other colleges en masse, and some students decided to
seize schools in various parts of the country.
The Usach metro station was closed and evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious item.
The authorities were panicked by a night protest of about 50 demonstrators near the
Castaneda Center. Large police outfits rushed to guard this palace of capitalist
consumption in the capital. Calls are being circulated to hold protests at 17:00 on
November 6 and 7.
Taxi drivers staged a caravan at low speed, demanding the resignation of the Minister of
Transport.
In other regions of the country, hooded protesters attacked the Marina Arauco shopping
center in Viña del Mar. In Rio Bueno, a rodeo stadium is set on fire; in Ciyota, the San
Pedro toll station. Arson was also noted in the North. In Antofagast they set fire to the
Masonic temple. In Arica, the heads of various military statues were demolished.
https://aitrus.info/node/5352
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Message: 5
The Commission of Relations of the International of Anarchist Federations (CRIFA) supports
the call for international solidarity launched by the comrades of the Anarchist Political
Organization (APO - Greece), calling likewise for the international mobilization of all
individuals and collectives struggling against state repression and authoritarianism. For
anarchy, for the social revolution. ---- Marseille, November 2nd 2019 ---- CALL FOR
INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT, THE SQUATS, THE REFUGEES AND
IMMIGRANTS, AND SOCIAL AND CLASS RESISTANCE IN GREECE ---- Since last summer - after the
elections of July 7th and the change of political administration- a state repressive
campaign is underway in Greece, which, since the very beginning, has targeted the people
of the struggle- and especially the anarchist movement - the squats and the
self-organized structures of the movement, the refugees and immigrants and social and
class resistance in general.
One of the first steps of the new right-wing government was the abolition of the
university asylum, the police occupation of the neighborhood of Exarcheia - a neighborhood
invested with a quite rich struggling past and present - and the eviction of squats for
refugees and the subsequent transportation of hundreds of refugees and immigrants in
concentration camps, realizing in this way the anti-immigration policies of the EU,
directed towards modern totalitarianism.
This repression campaign is still unfolding, since the danger of further evictions of
squats is in sight, while, at the same time, through a series of laws, labor strikes are
basically being abolished, the privatization of the basic social needs is promoted and the
plundering of nature by multinational corporations in every part of the country is
completely liberalized.
On the other side, social, class and political collectives are already attempting to place
the first barricades against the anti-social plans of the state and the bosses. The mass
demonstration of September 14th, 2019, which was organized by the "NO PASARAN" assembly,
has been a first dynamic response against the state's plans, by thousands of people of the
struggle marching the streets, clearly stating that the movement will not retreat before
state repression. It will continue fighting in every front, in which state and capitalist
attack is unfolding.
Against the repressive attack of the Greek state and its imminent escalation the next
period of time, we stand in solidarity with the anarchist movement, the political squats
and the squats for immigrants and refugees and the structures of the struggle -from the
squats Mundo Nuevo and Libertatia, which is almost fully rebuilt, in Thessaloniki, to the
31 years old squat Lelas Karagianni 37 in Athens, and with all the social and class
struggles in Greece.
The promising people's revolts in Ecuador and Chile, the vigorous resistance in
revolutionary Rojava, the continuing mobilizations in Greece, France, Turkey, Palestine,
the small and bigger acts of resistance all over the world give us hope and strength and
demonstrate that the enemy might be strong but is not invulnerable. Let's intensify and
spread the combative and organized struggle for Social Revolution, for Anarchy!
NO PASARAN!
SOLIDARITY WILL WIN!
Anarchist Political Organisation (APO)
International of Anarchist Federations relation commission (CRIFA)
Italian Anarchist Federation (crint-fai)
http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/2019/11/06/statement-of-international-solidarity-with-the-anarchist-movement-in-greece/
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Message: 6
Our education workers section has been busy organising to deal with insecure contracts and
poor employment conditions. We've had some successes, with our members winning
improvements to their employment conditions and easing the stress of insecure hours and
insecure pay. ---- We are teachers, administrators, lecturers, and local authority staff
who are trying to organise with our colleagues to improve our conditions. We meet up once
a fortnight, talk about issues in our workplace, discuss what we can do about them, and
offer one another practical solidarity to take these steps. We are organising in various
different education institutions in the city and we welcome all education workers looking
for practical support in their workplace, and who want to organise with their colleagues
to improve their daily working lives.
If you're interested in coming along to one of our meetings or finding out more, you can
get in touch with us using the form below.
We also have more information about our organising and some pamphlets about your rights as
an education worker available at: http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton-education
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