Today's Topics:
1. Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group: STRIKE FOR A
SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, AFED, Organise Magazine: What's Wrong with the
University? | Theory And Analysis (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ait russia: "Yellow vests" still go out [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Chile] Santiago: 20th day of the social uprising By ANA
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. el miliciano cnt-ait chiclana: Latin America stands up and
the world looks the other way (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [Chile] First issue of the newspaper "Guerra de Clases" By
ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
This article first appeared in The Anvil Vol 8 No 5, Sep-Oct 2019. ---- On 20 September
this year, there was a co-ordinated series of demonstrations around the world held under
the umbrella of "School Strike for Climate". At least 6 million people participated, with
protests across 4,500 locations in 150 countries. It was followed the next week by another
2 million people protesting in 2,400 locations. In Australia, protests were attended by
about 300,000 people - amounting to over 1% of the population. ---- These protests mark a
watershed in global politics around climate change. In key countries, including Australia,
huge numbers of people are angry about the impending climate disaster and willing to do
something about it. Capitalist governments, however, are taking inadequate action and some
are even denying there is a problem.
It will take more than protest to avert the danger of global temperature rises of 3-4
degrees C, which would cause the death of billions and possibly the end of industrial
civilisation - and most people know it.
What is urgently necessary now is to turn protest into resistance, through turning the
school strikes into workers' strikes. In Australia, the next global school strike day
should be the occasion for mass co-ordinated strikes by workers from as many industries as
possible, with the aim of building towards a general strike.
Such strikes, of course, will be illegal. But this is such a broad and urgent issue that
we now have a golden opportunity to smash the "Fair" Work Act and its vicious anti-union
provisions to smithereens. Workers who have had strikes banned by the "Fair" Work
Commission, or been injuncted off picket lines, or fallen foul of other rules that are
designed to prevent us exercising our economic power have a vital interest in joining the
next climate strike.
To achieve mass workers' action over climate change, however, requires two things.
Firstly, it requires a political platform that appeals to workers both morally and
materially. The climate movement needs to get away from the moralistic approaches some
organisations and prominent figures have. We're not "all in this together" and we don't
all share responsibility for the unsustainability built into capitalist society. Instead,
we need to put a Just Transition at the heart of our program. Workers and communities
currently reliant on unsustainable industries have to own the transition plans and
therefore have to generate them themselves. No worker and no community should be left
behind. Naturally, this will need resources, which will have to be found with social
equity. So forget about neo-liberal ideas like a carbon price. The rich got us into this
hole and they'll have to pay to get us out.
Secondly, organising these strikes requires a sufficiently committed political force. The
union officials will have to decide which side they are on: a Just Transition to a
sustainable, zero carbon future - or the electoral fortunes of the ALP. We need a rank and
file upsurge in the unions that will push past officials that stand against us. And the
prize will be not just a barrier in the way of the destruction of habitability on our
planet. It will also be the ability of workers and their unions to strike on daily issues
of wages, conditions and employer behaviour.
The general strike for a Just Transition will be the beginning, but not the end of the
matter. We will open up a debate about the dimensions and shape of the Just Transition. As
the struggle progresses, more workers will come to realise that the only Just Transition
is a transition away from capitalism. Two facts will drive this. First more people will
see the existing capitalist class is so invested in fossil fuels that it has to be swept
aside for humanity to achieve sustainability. The understanding will also emerge that
eternal growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Only by abolishing capitalism can we
disconnect living standards from resource consumption and adopt a circular zero waste economy.
The struggle for a planet we can continue to live on is the struggle for libertarian
communism. And it will be won or lost in the workplace.
CAPITALISM IS UNSUSTAINABLE
https://melbacg.wordpress.com/2019/11/10/strike-for-a-sustainable-climate/
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The university is a hierarchical institution that protects the elites by awarding them
cultural capital and whitewashing their reputation. It upholds existing inequalities and
indoctrinates students into the reigning ideology. Universities serve the vested interests
of the state, corporations and wealthy donors. They control and distribute knowledge in
ways that empower the rich to get richer. ---- Hierarchy is baked into the structure and
mission of the university. The elites go to university in order to distinguish themselves
from ordinary folks. ---- The university provides formal education that helps run the
system and extend its life. It inculcates entitlement and defines the proper manners of
the ruling classes. University education establishes and maintains the pecking order that
elevates a few individuals and relegates the rest to the derogatory category of laypeople
or the uninitiated.
A Cambridge or Harvard degree is viewed with veneration that defies logic. Universities
depend on magical thinking to promote their brand and image. They feed off myths and
delusions that subvert humanity. Magical thinking, however, goes against the core
principles of scientific endeavour and critical judgment.
The university teaches students that knowledge is valued within legitimate frameworks and
should serve the dominant agenda. Higher education gives nuance and subtlety to the
injustice that permeates society. It shapes the image of the establishment and helps it
preserve and grow its assets.
In a free society, knowledge is open and democratic. In contrast, the university builds
hierarchical relationships and a closed circle of experts. Even if education can set us
free and unleash the creative potential of humanity, universities are no bastions of
freedom or creativity. There is a sense of adventure and free exploration in science that
university education fails to deliver.
The university is not a haven of freedom that some academics imagine it to be. They may
carve out safe spaces inside the institution, but that kind of illusory liberty can also
be obtained outside academia. This is based on the power that professors have won over the
larger community. The academic pyramid is another instance of the oppressive mode of
existence that anarchists abhor. Far from an exception, subjugation is one of the pillars
of university education. By definition, the competition for privilege cannot be fair.
Universities conform to the provisions of copyright law and restricted access to knowledge
as a tradeable commodity. Academic research is published in peer-reviewed journals that
hide articles behind paywalls. Only affluent organisations and individuals can access
scientific knowledge, as multinational publishing corporations have seized the means of
its dissemination. Academic publishing is now primarily a business.
It is no coincidence that university is run as a company. This seemingly ancient
institution has managed to survive for so long because it assumes the structure and power
dynamics that currently dominate humanity. In the medieval times, it was subservient to
the church. Today universities are corporations managed by sleazy capitalists.
The university is part of the neoliberal order and the gig economy, as more and more
academics have short-term contracts and work for slave wages, while the entitled few enjoy
permanent positions. The inequality between senior professors and precarious staff has
sharpened class consciousness: junior researchers, doctoral candidates, and part-time
lecturers organise to stand up for their rights.
Academics are valued for their ability to win grant money. This mercantile approach to
education prioritises capital and dehumanises scholarly efforts as their goal is not to
improve the world but rather to create value for the university.
Since universities subscribe to the capitalist mode of value production, the monetary
worth of an academic degree is the key criterion of academic achievement. Even by this
metric, universities have failed students. University education has become a debt trap.
While the elites reap the lion's share of the benefits, most participants in the higher
education process get ripped off.
Cultural capital associated with university education is reinforced by financial strength.
At a certain level, it is one and the same as university weds knowledge to power and money.
Universities are not only chasing state funding, but also wooing private benefactors. In
return, the wealthy expect nothing less than the validation of their authority. Greedy
capitalists donate to universities to clean their reputation and evade taxes. The
university enables the rich to create an illusion of respectability and defend their
wealth. This is a reciprocal bond, where one supports the other.
Universities use capital to acquire resources and hire people, reproducing and aggravating
the injustices that fester in the globalised world. Elite universities in the global north
attract qualified students and professors from the global south. Colonialism plays out in
research collaboration, academic services, and knowledge dissemination. Elite universities
foster colonial relations that have existed since the dawn of capitalism. Scientific
innovations, produced by elite universities at the expense of the global south, serve the
rich and powerful of this world. This exchange exploits the poor and perpetuates global
inequality.
Higher education institutions in the global south cannot be on par with western elite
universities because they do not have the funding or resources to offer commensurate
remuneration or research conditions. The reason behind this discrepancy is capitalism:
elite institutions extract and exploit human and material resources for the indulgence of
the privileged few. Academic excellence and meritocracy are a sham.
The global elites enjoy abundance as the rest face austerity. Education is not exempt from
this logic. The main cause of inequality in university rankings is the power of capital.
Humans produce more free knowledge and engage in creative activities far beyond university
education. Academic recognition of a handful of scholars among seven billion people is a
mockery of the idea of open knowledge. Very few can make it to the top of academe, but
everyone is already part of humanity and their individual and collective efforts have a
much greater impact on knowledge and education than those of a small band of scholars
within the exclusive ambit of academia.
Online technology has made the sharing of insights and the learning of new things more
accessible and egalitarian. It has engaged millions of people, demonstrating that you do
not have to go to university to learn or exchange ideas. Skills, knowledge, and creativity
are not the preserve of formal education. There are now new opportunities being opened for
disseminating knowledge and developing original views. One caveat here is that the online
tools that have challenged the exclusive role of academics are unaccountable to the public
as they belong to profit-driven corporations. Social networks and new media have loosened
the chokehold of pretentious experts, but they might serve as oppressive implements in the
hands of their owners.
Knowledge should be free. The limits imposed by the university will eventually give way to
open and horizontal learning relationships, which will help us dismantle the current order
and build a harmonious society.
A fair and democratic university is a contradiction in terms. The university is a model of
subversion that forces students and professors to play by the rules and pledge blind
allegiance to the powers that be. Since the game is rigged, many people refuse to believe
the promise of higher education.
Society will benefit from doing away with the shackles and blinders of academia. In the
Anarchist struggle for freedom and equality, the university is not an ally, but one of the
numerous reasons to overthrow the system. ?
Pavlo Shopin is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the English
Department at the University of Freiburg. He comes from Luhansk, Ukraine.
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/10/29/whats-wrong-with-the-university-theory-and-analysis/
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A few days before the first anniversary of the yellow vest movement, thousands of
supporters again, once again, took to the streets of French cities on November 9,
including Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, etc. The central rally was held in
Montpellier, a city that hosted the 4th "assembly assembly" of the movement a week ago.
---- The demonstration in Monepellier was held in a tense atmosphere. Demonstrators
marched around the city surrounded by police, while CRS special forces cordons blocked
access to the station, Polygon shopping center, and the prefecture. Clashes repeatedly
broke out between the demonstrators and the police using tear gas. In response, masked and
hood protesters threw firecrackers and smoke bombs. From a mobile sound system, there was
music from Star Wars. Authorities report 15 detentions. 5 police officers and 1
demonstrator were slightly injured.
"The social problems remain the same as at the beginning of the movement of the yellow
vests," the 50-year-old sociologist Jean explained to reporters. "Too much inequality, too
many stressful professional situations that are difficult for life ..."
A regional demonstration was held in Strasbourg. Participants chanted "Revolution!" and
raised the banner "To live, not to survive - we will not retreat." Some of the protesters
armed themselves with firecrackers and smoke bombs. During the clashes, the police seized
5 people.
In Toulouse, protesters gathered in the city center. Initially, they traveled through
narrow streets, avoiding skirmishes with the police, but after two hours, about a hundred
activists headed straight for the CRS cordon. Battles went on for several tens of minutes,
then the protesters scattered in gas clubs.
In Bordeaux, "yellow vests" were joined by Kurdish demonstrators protesting against
Turkish intervention. Some of the Kurds also donned yellow vests.
According to an opinion poll conducted by Odox at the end of October, 43% of French people
believe that the yellow vest movement has not died and will sooner or later regain its
former power. 59% of the French rated his role positively.
https://www.rtl.fr/actu/debats-societe/gilets-jaunes-plusieurs-milliers-de-manifestants-ont-defile-dans-les-rues-7799429382;
https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/2648039-20191109-gilets-jaunes-plusieurs-milliers-manifestants-defilent-montpellier-strasbourg-toulouse-bordeaux
https://aitrus.info/node/5355
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WE WANT TO CELEBRATE ABOUT THE RUINS OF CAPITALISM! ---- The strategy of decentralization
and taking the conflict to the rich neighborhoods worked better than expected, thousands
of people adhered to the call to manifest around the Costanera Center[one of Santiago's
largest malls]. After the police crackdown, multiple groups dispersed, generating various
outbreaks of conflict. Banks, pharmacies, fast food chains and AFPs were collectively
expropriated and destroyed by hooded men. ---- The whole axis of Providence was blocked
from Manquehue to Piazza Italia. The call is again to join on Thursday, the 7th, and on
Friday, the 8th, in the symbol of capitalist consumption. ---- Memorable moments were
experienced by strangers who attacked the headquarters of the ultra-right Independent
Democratic Union (UDI) party, smashing the entrance to the property and creating chaos
inside. Protesters also removed furniture from headquarters to create a barricade. In the
graffiti and as indispensable seal of the Revolt was an "A on the ball". The whole
political spectrum came out to condemn the action, calling it an attack on democracy.
Within a few blocks another group destroyed and vandalized the monument to the ideologist
of the civic-military dictatorship Jaime Guzmán.
A collaborative, self-organizing human stream built an impressive cobblestone barricade,
hand in hand passed the rocks with which they were erecting an impressive work of rebel
engineering. Impossible for the armored cars to circumvent the imposing barricade.
A beautiful custom is being created, that hooded climb on the armor that launches water
and sabotage the hose, making it unusable. It happened today in Providencia and in the
city of Porto Montt.
In Puente Alto and Renca Square, students faced a band of police for hours. In Renca they
attacked with stones and Molotov bombs a police station. Five prawns were injured.
In Piazza Italia thousands of people continue to gather, and clashes with the police are
frequent.
The day before, police entered a school after the assembly decided to occupy it, and one
of the carabineers fired bullets from point blank at two students inside the educational
establishment. The smaller ones were injured in their limbs.
Throughout the journey the "No + Tag" movement blocked urban roads. Looking for a
"Perdonazo", forgiveness in the fines of dealers.
Faced with the threat of sabotage from Barras Bravas[soccer fans]the Libertadores Cup
final in Santiago is canceled, the national championship is still suspended and the soccer
players' union refuses to play on the bodies of the Uprising.
At night, hooded "Villa França" and "La Victoria" attack police with incendiary bombs.
After twenty days the Social Uprising is still alive and one of the reasons is that it has
no leaders or leaders. Let us not be manipulated by political parties and their requests,
we continue to anarchize all possible spaces.
Today we have completed twenty days of joyful collective resistance, but we have lived a
lifetime without any respect for authority.
Prisoners and prey of the Uprising, to the street!
See you at the barricades!
NT
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https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/06/chile-santiago-18o-dia-da-revolta-social/
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This past month has been a period where several social fronts, street struggles,
indigenous resistance and riots in Latin American territory have been activated. This
panorama makes us think of a cycle of rebellion that makes its way again in Latin America,
some revolts in the heat of others, under the premise of the confrontation of social
classes. The communities of the Abya Yala continent (mostly accepted name to name America
by the indigenous peoples that would mean "Land of vital blood") rise up making noise,
because silence is not made for those resistant men and women. The world instead turns its
back, we look the other way, including many social movements or militant organizations; we
remain hidden behind our groups believing ourselves judges of the revolutionary tribunal,
This year marks the centenary of a very important European revolutionary cycle, which we
have already mentioned in other issues of our publication, such as the general strike of
La Canadiense in Barcelona, the Italian Rosso Biennium in Turin, or the labor council in
the Republic from bavaria Experiences that marked the beginning of a cycle that had been
forging for decades by the ascending international labor organization and that would still
have to write some of the most revolutionary pages in the history of the working people.
In the two decades that we have been in this 21st century, an increase in the organization
of marginalized communities, indigenous societies and the precarious youth of capitalism
in the peripheries of the system can be seen in Latin America. We are not talking about
rabies stories exclusively,
Uruguayan thinker and activist Raúl Zibechi has studied these Latin American social
movements extensively, identifying different theoretical and practical lines regarding
social movements in Europe or the United States of America. The first issue is that they
would be movements linked to the territory, but not from a national point of view, or with
intentions to claim it to build a state entity. They are peasant, indigenous or urban
popular movements that continue to be linked to the land, whose workforce is still linked
to the territory, not to the global market. This brings us to a second question, and in
the territories controlled by these social movements, non-capitalist social relations and
horizontal social institutions that despise hierarchies predominate.
In the territories controlled by these social movements, non-capitalist social relations
and horizontal social institutions that despise hierarchies predominate.
This leads the aforementioned writer Raúl Zibechi to coin the term 'moving societies',
which would replace the denomination of 'social movements'. It would characterize these
communities in Latin America their double aspect that determine their essence of struggle:
on the one hand the resistance to the dominant socio-economic model, and at the same time
a process of creating a new world from these territorialized social relations outside the
capitalism. The challenge in the face of the classical revolutionary conception of these
societies in movement is that they are themselves carriers of that new world, they should
not imagine it, nor should they conquer the state political power; They build autonomous
powers because that is their essence.
We will analyze next three processes that are taking place since last month in Latin
America, and that have not exploded from nothing, but from the silent work of hundreds of
thousands of people in continuous war against criminal capitalism. These are the revolts
in Ecuador, Haiti and Chile; Some of these popular rebellions are still open, they have no
beginning or divisible end, they are one more page in the history of resistance in Latin
America.
Ecuador says enough to President Lenin Moreno: a social force of twenty thousand
indigenous people takes the city of Quito and manages to knock down the antisocial measures
Protests in the Ecuadorian capital began on October 3. Social organizations convened
marches that soon spread throughout the country in the face of economic measures
introduced by its president, Lenín Moreno. Faced with the climatic urgency, the Ecuadorian
president established a package of hydrocarbon measures recommended by the International
Monetary Fund, which directly attacked the already precarious standard of living of the
Ecuadorian population. After several uninterrupted days of protests, the repression by the
police and the army greatly heated the Ecuadorian political environment, and strongly
activated the opposition to its president.
On Monday, October 7, a social force of more than twenty thousand Indians began to enter
the capital, arriving in a completely paralyzed and exclusively active city to collect
food that would receive this huge human tide. The transport services paralyzed the
country, the Governments of Bolívar and Morona Santiago were taken by the indigenous
movement; and even President Lenín Moreno fled from Quito to establish the government in
the city of Guayaquil. The CONAIE or Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador
achieved an overwhelming symbolic victory in the country, managed to flee the president
himself, and raised the entire society in Ecuador.
The militarization of Quito did not wait for its president, who used all the information
available to him to launch propaganda against the indigenous movement and thus take
advantage of the international support that most European countries, including his own
Spanish state, provided him as a vote of confidence from the sewers of capitalism.
Allegations of torture, ill-treatment and threats in police departments increased the
intensity of the struggles, and also consequently a criminal repression without regard. On
Tuesday, October 8 from the morning the empty building of the National Assembly was
occupied by urban protesters along with the force of the indigenous communities that had
taken the city. The government established a curfew, violent clashes with the police
increased and the first deaths among resistant Indians began to be known. The barricades
were the most common spontaneous urban structure those days, during the week tensions
increased with daily marches and an absolute paralysis of the country.
As of October 12, a very symbolic date throughout America for its resistance, the balance
was 27 dead, 860 injured, 120 missing, almost 2 thousand detainees and a hundred people
tortured. After a dozen uninterrupted days of popular struggle, President Lenin Moreno
announced the end of the economic package that set the country on fire. Indigenous blood
and other popular movements had already run, and yet in the House of Culture, which was
the space for indigenous counterpowers during those days, this measure was celebrated. But
not before announcing that the struggle did not cease, but that it returned to other
channels that they and they preferred, because they do not wish to be forced to use
violence as an inescapable self-defense to which they had to resort.
The confluence of the urban anti-capitalist movements, together with the force of feminist
women, and the indigenous CONAIE achieved enough union to raise their voices and rise as a
people, revitalizing the class conflict, to which they presented battle in an unimaginable
way in our European societies
Haiti has been years of poverty and revolts; It is the story of the long agony of a town
that rises like a butterfly that flutters its wings
The Haitian people are the great unknown of Latin America, and also the poorest. It is the
neighboring country of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea, devastated three years
ago by Hurricane Matthew, the backyard of the United States of America and a broken toy of
the International Monetary Fund. He has currently completed his sixth consecutive week of
protests, which has claimed more than 30 protesters killed. The country's paralysis is
total, but ... when is a territory that lives in eternal poverty not paralyzed? A country
that is the most precious field of experimentation of global capitalism.
Its president, Jovenel Moise, a corrupt puppet chosen by supranational organizations, is
clinging to a power that by directly managing it in favor of the IMF, benefits by
enriching the country's political elite. The massive marches in its capital,
Port-au-Prince, of various opposition groups are leaving a trail of blood due to the
strong police violence unleashed.
Last Sunday, October 20, a new mobilization demanded the unconditional resignation of
President Moise. Haitian popular movements point out the incompatibility of the political
and economic situation they have with a dignified life. The disintegration of public
services and the constant feeling of insecurity are tools that determine the current state
of shock. While Haiti is bleeding, the world turns a deaf ear, and when we turn our backs
on the poor of the territory of a small island, we are turning our backs on any
alternative in our own societies.
Chile insists and resists despite the military and police violence that reminds us of the
dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
The Chilean situation is very similar to the Ecuadorian one. Right-wing president
Sebastián Piñera increased the price of the subway ticket in Santiago, Chile; and yet I
did not know that this measure would be the beginning of a confrontation that must be read
in the sense of being fed up with an economic and political model that has been drowning
Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Capitalist economic measures in Latin America are answered from uncontrolled rage; On the
other hand, in Europe the rise in living standards is accepted as a minor evil to pay for
continuing to maintain privileges. In Chile they have suffered for decades that syndrome
of economic model to the European, but spread over a peripheral territory of capitalism,
and with a Mapuche indigenous force that already threatens to join the social movement in
struggle.
At the end of October, at the close of this edition, the military presence sent by the
government has left a balance of 27 dead, 12 women raped, and hundreds of detainees and
tortured, who were traveling through the Pinochet ghost again through the streets of
bloody Santiago. Those streets that will stand again and again again those who insist and
resist, represented by them and themselves, without partisan singles behind and with the
determination to continue the fight despite the withdrawal of the meter's tariff by the
president on October 23.
We will remain alert with the evolution of open conflicts in Latin America, and with the
threat of starting new ones in Uruguay, Bolivia or Colombia. Abya Yala lives up to her
name: land of vital blood.
Article extracted from the anarchist publication "Everything to do"
http://elmilicianocnt-aitchiclana.blogspot.com/2019/11/america-latina-se-levanta-y-el-mundo.html
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We are happy to announce the departure of our newspaper between these busy days with a
first free circulation of 500 copies. "Guerra de Clases" is the name of the Santiago
Libertarian Assembly's promotional organ, published by the group "Acracia y Libertad".
---- For us since oppression there are only two classes, the oppressed class, with which
we stand, and the oppressing class, to which belong those who make the decisions to
command capital, parliamentary politics, and even our own lives. ---- There are those who
say that class warfare is a thing of the past, that it no longer exists, that we talk
nonsense ... But for us, yesterday and today, class warfare is something that never ceased.
It may be that the material does not see such a tangible war, since in most of the world
the oppressed class has no blunt response against those who are exerting power, but since
power they do replicate a ruthless war against those we are about. build a new world away
from all logic of the capitalist system, both in individual and collective practice.
We can clearly see the war in the repression against the resistance movements, also in
social inequality and in the boldness of the repression that has been given free rein in
these last days of revolt in different parts of the world.
For the consolidation of the anarchist movement, for the dignity of the peoples, for the
dissemination of the idea, for anarchy!
The Anarchy!
Content:
Class warfare. // The recent successes of octubre in Chile. // An anarchist call of the
Chilean Region. // Statement Asamblia Libertaria of Santiago. // The Barricades are real.
// Brief analysis on the list of prisoners in the current social conflict. // Coyuncture,
automation and technology. // Asamblea constituent: Siren chants.
>> Download the newspaper here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7d18y7dlgr335bs/Clases_-_Peri's
War%25C3%25B3dico_Asamblea_Libertaria_Santiago.pdf
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