Today's Topics:
1. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - November clash,
Their wealth is made of our misery ! In December, do they stop ?
(fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. ait russia: Social riot in Chile: days 28 and 29 [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. yeryuzu postasi: World Industrial Workers - IWW Istanbul:
Stubborn to capitalism, we will live! We will not keep capitalism
alive! (tr) machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. US, M1 AA: Spectators No More - 2019 Electoral Politics,
International, Solidarity, State Violence By BD of M1 Michigan
Collective (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. The Freedom Shop: Anarchist bookshop in Te
Whanganui-A-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. ag-freiburg: Smash patriarchy!? feminist perspectives on
violence in and against patriarchy (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro FARJ/CAB: Remember
November 18th in Rio de Janeiro! (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Holand, vrije bond: Gaza fights for freedom
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. aragon cnt.es: [CNT-Zaragoza] Before the trade union
elections in Cerler Electronics (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The current government, faithful servant of the wealthy classes like its predecessors,
organizes our precariousness to increase the profits of the capitalists: pension and
unemployment insurance reform, utility breaks, guarantee of real estate speculation ... In
December, we have the opportunity to say stop to Macron and the bosses. ---- Pension
reform: why it concerns us ? ---- The government is about to radically change how our
pensions work, moving to a point system. It is a long-standing goal for the capitalist
class to end the pay-as-you-go pension, integrated into Social Security in 1945 through
the struggles of the working class. In the point system, the amount of retirement pensions
depends on the number of points earned over the entire career. This calculation over the
entire career, and not only over the best years, is seriously damaging for our working
parents, who are directly affected by the increase in inequality, the precariousness of
employment, and unemployment. . In addition, the value of the point is set by the
government and may be lowered each year! We will therefore force the most precarious to
work longer. Rather than fighting against precariousness, the government once again
squeezes the workers' belt !
This demolition of our current pension system planned for 2020 is a new attack by the
government against all the labor rights acquired by the struggles. This new system of
self-help financing would be a disaster for us as students, who are sabotaging our right
to a decent retirement just as we begin to contribute. Especially since student
precariousness increases and forces a very large majority of us to work during our studies.
On December 5, several unions call for an unlimited strike against retirement by points.
We have our place in this mobilization, invest with the professional unions, organizing
the strike in the places of study to demand the abandonment of this project.
For our future, show them that high school students and students are also against this
reform !
When will access to housing for all ?
As is the case every year, the year has begun for many with the difficulties of access to
housing. Some of us have had to sleep in their cars or find emergency solutions in very
harsh conditions. Others have found themselves completely on the street (and especially
many foreign students, as every year) !
These difficulties are not due to an insufficient supply (3 million empty housing in
France according to INSEE), but to the race for the benefit of the real estate owners, who
prefer to speculate by keeping their properties unoccupied, even though people are dying
in the street ! These proprietors are defended by an unjust law created by and for them,
as well as by a police force that harasses the homeless and expels those who seek refuge
in their unoccupied buildings.
Private property defined in the law deprives people of access to housing, for the
interests of the classes that own. Requiring empty dwellings !
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Message: 2
On November 14, major performances were scheduled in Chile on the anniversary of the
killing of an Indian activist Camilo Catrilianca. But, contrary to expectations, this day
turned out to be the most low during protests. The reason for this is the Chilean
anarchists see in the spread of panic rumors about the authorities' intention to carry out
a coup and establish an open military dictatorship, like Pinochet's. However, after dark,
the situation changed. Activists again resorted to guerrilla attacks on the police. ----
Thanks to the spread of information about where those who organize brutal repression live,
activists know where and when to strike. So, in Chiguayant, an attack was made on the
house of the husband and wife - the police, the entire first floor was defeated. In Quinta
Normal, protesters broke into the policeman's house and beat him. In Independence, the
house of the captain of the Carabinieri is stoned. In many neighborhoods, police-owned
cars were burned or smashed at night. In Rancagua, protesters in hoods threw a dynamite
saber into a police patrol during protests, but it did not explode. At the end of the
night, an attack was made on a police station in La Victoria with dozens of incendiary
bombs; in Koyaik, police houses were set on fire, and in Puerto Montt, the house of a
priest involved in sexual harassment.
On November 15, at 3 o'clock in the morning, parliamentarians of all directions announced
the achievement of an agreement concluded behind the back of the population. It is about
holding a referendum on the draft new constitution. After this compromise, as stated, the
protests can be stopped. On the "Square of Dignity" appeared white panels with the
inscription "Peace".
However, the rebels do not believe in conspiracy of the parties and again take to the
streets, entering into new clashes with the police. Meanwhile, television is clearly
manipulating, showing crowds of people and claiming that they allegedly welcome agreement.
In the "zero zone" the truck unloads piles of stones to help the front line fighters,
collisions are becoming increasingly fierce. Hundreds of victims are delivered to
first-aid posts. 27 people received eye injuries; some of them lost their eyeball.
In the middle of Italy's square, 29-year-old Abel Akunya fell with a cardiorespiratory
attack due to tear gas bombs. The ambulance going to him was attacked by a police armored
personnel carrier, which brought down water jets and shots at it, so the paramedic was
injured. Abel could not be saved: he died in intensive care. Another victim of the state.
"These are the realities of the elite's calls for a" social world "," public order "and a"
social pact. "The truth is that we are at war and there are comrades who continue to fight
on the front lines without an eye and with dozens of balls of fraction in Thousands of
"incorrigible" risked and continue to risk their skin, freedom and life for the past month
since the outbreak, "write the Chilean anarchists.
The anonymous authors announced the names of the administrators of the fascist Black Chile
Spiders group and hacked the website of Agrosuper, an animal exploitation firm. Thousands
of kilometers from Chile, in Greece, the anarchists of the Pyramans of the Chilean era
burned the car of a Chilean diplomat.
"Social rebellion has achieved what the years of anarchist propaganda have not been able
to do: it has shown many people that continuing to entrust our lives to professional
bureaucrats is the wrong way. We continue to move forward with our longing desire for
FREEDOM. Call to come out again to protest, this time on Monday November 18 in front of
the University of Chile, "anarchists write.
Based on materials
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1198412780546923&id=100011346371712%C3%82%C2%A0
https://aitrus.info/node/5360
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Message: 3
In the district of Fatih, Istanbul, World Industrial Workers IWW Istanbul issued a
statement yesterday after four brothers committed suicide due to poverty after a person
killed himself with his family in Antalya yesterday. " Capitalism persist, we will live!
We will not keep capitalism alive! Açiklama ---- Although the economists look at the data
and say that the situation has started to improve, the media tries to show us a dusty pink
world with lies, as usual, but the rulers threaten to punish those who say that the
economy is bad, we the workers know the truth very well. Consistency in overlapping taxes
and hikes, our income does not increase. Everyone is becoming increasingly poor, except
for a minority that benefits from this order. More and more people are losing their jobs
and more and more unemployed people have lost hope of finding a job. No one can make us
believe their lies in the face of open reality.
When we look around, more and more people feel desperate and helpless. A few days after
the suicide of 4 brothers living in Fatih in Istanbul, a father who has been unemployed
for 9 months in Antalya left a letter and killed himself with his family, tragic
indicators of the desperation of the laborers in the absence of struggle and solidarity.
For someone, it seems to be a forensic event, the madness of people with psychological
problems, the crises of people who have gone away from religion, or the news of magazine
value, and they want to be seen as such. But we see that these events are the cries of
poverty, despair and suffering.
From now on, our first job should be to get out of the swamp of despair, which we have
lost ourselves, and turn our face to the other laborers around us. We must come together
in the workplaces and in other areas where we are together, and we should build solidarity
and struggle networks. Every time we feel desperate in doing so, we must remind you that
this system, that is, capitalism, is responsible for our problems. We should remind the
more desperate ones around us.
Although we feel weak and helpless today, we are strong enough to break this order. We
cannot allow more of our class brothers to die of poverty. We must come to the burning,
solidarity, unite our thoughts, concerns, and unite, so that this order which lives us
stubborn to those who poison us and does not survive them anymore!
http://www.yeryuzupostasi.org/2019/11/10/iww-istanbul-kapitalizme-inat-yasayacagiz-kapitalizmi-yasatmayacagiz/
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Message: 4
The uprisings continue in Iraq, in Chile, in Lebanon, in Haiti and beyond. The
governments, the politicians, the ruling elites attempt to repress the uprisings or
propose some "changes" to make the protesters leave the streets. ---- In Iraq, the
government and the security forces murder more than 300, but the protests, the barricades,
the occupation of Tahrir Square continue and expand. In Lebanon, the president tells the
protesters to emigrate, if they don't see "decent people in the state." The protesters, in
their thousands march on the presidential palace and tell the elites to leave. In Chile,
the workers and the people shutdown the country in a general strike, and the president and
politicians promise a vote in April on whether to make a new constitution, hoping to get
the people off the streets. And in Bolivia, a right-wing and racist coup takes place
against the government of Evo Morales, forcing him into exile and opening racist attacks
on the indigenous people of Bolivia. Trump and the U.S. imperialists recognize the new,
racist government in Bolivia and support the coup.
As revolutionaries and anarchists and anti-imperialists, we support these uprisings and
oppose the ruling elites, the governments and the U.S. imperialists. It's necessary to
expose and oppose the role of U.S. imperialism in supporting the ruling elites, the
security forces and the governments which oppress and exploit the people in the countries
where these uprisings and struggles are taking place.
In Iraq, the U.S. imperialists invaded the country in 2003, took control of the country
with an occupation army, massacred tens of thousands of Iraqis and then set up a puppet
government. This new government in Iraq, established by U.S. imperialism in 2004,
continues to govern and control the people of Iraq. Politicians come and go, but it's the
same government, the ruling elites and U.S. imperialists all around. One protester said:
"You politicians have destroyed the country. You have plundered our wealth for 16 years.
It's enough. The people don't want you. Get out."
The people of Iraq are right to demand the end of this government. The government needs to
go, the ruling elites need to go, and the U.S. imperialists and all imperialists and
including the regional power Iran must go. The people of Iraq have the right to decide on
their own futures. The people of Iraq have the right to self-determination.
In Chile the people are rising up against the government which was established in 1990 at
the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. The coup of Pinochet and the army and the elites in
Chile in 1973 overthrew the elected government of Salvador Allende and attacked, with
violence and brutality, workers and students and active opponents of capitalism and
dictatorship and supporters of Allende. U.S. imperialism through the CIA and the
government of Richard Nixon and the ruling elites of the U.S. and Chile, organized and
supported the coup, backed Pinochet and helped to institute the neoliberal "reforms" which
increased the wealth of the elites and the imperialists in Chile, while increasing the
misery of the people.
The people of Chile are right to demand the end of this government. The government needs
to go, the ruling elites need to go and the U.S. imperialists and all imperialists need to
go. The people of Chile, like the people of Iraq, have the right to decide on their own
futures. The people of Chile have the right to self-determination. The Mapuche people have
the right to self-determination.
In Haiti, U.S. imperialism has dominated for decades and has occupied and carried out
coups and backed the dictatorships. The U.S. imperialists and the organized imperialists
through the U.N. dominate Haiti today and prop up the government in Haiti. The people of
Haiti are rising up and have been rising up demanding an end to this government, and they
are right to do so. The government, the security forces, the U.S. imperialists, the U.N.
all need to go. The people of Haiti have the right to determine their own futures. The
people of Haiti have the right to self-determination.
Lebanon is more complicated. The government there needs to go, and the imperialists, U.S.,
Israel, and all need to be driven out. The people also are rising against the influence of
the government of Iran and of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. The people are rising also
against the sectarian divisions imposed on the people and used to divide the people. The
people are right to rise up against the government, the ruling elites, the imperialists,
and the people of Lebanon have the right to determine their own futures, the right to
self-determination.
It's important for anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists and revolutionary anarchists in
the U.S. to oppose U.S. imperialism and support the right of the people of Iraq and Chile
and Haiti and Lebanon and Bolivia and worldwide to oppose and overthrow their governments
and the ruling elites, including U.S. imperialism. Here in the U.S., we need to demand
that the U.S. imperialists get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan and Chile and Haiti
and Lebanon and Bolivia and worldwide. We oppose U.S. imperialism, and we stand with the
fighting people, the workers and oppressed, who are rising up across regions and around
the world against governments and elites and imperialists.
This is the starting point, but hard lessons have been paid for in blood by the working
classes and the people. The people of Egypt rose up to bring down the dictator Mubarak,
but the army and the courts and the elites and the imperialists remained, and within just
a few months and after one election, the new dictator, el-Sisi, took control. So long as
the state, the army, the police, the courts and the ruling elites and the imperialists
remain in place, then the people cannot be free. The answer is not a new government, with
new faces, while the state remains in place, while the ruling elites and the capitalists
and the imperialists retain control.
The fight now, the task now in Iraq, in Chile, in Haiti, in Lebanon, in Bolivia, in Iran
and worldwide is to end this system, to overthrow the governments and put an end to the
army, the
police, the courts, the prisons, the ruling elites. This is not the time for transitional
governments which include the army command as in Sudan or for any governments which
include the same ruling elites and police who have oppressed and exploited the people for
all these years.
The task now is to end and destroy the states and the system in all these countries, in
the U.S. and worldwide. The task now is to seize the wealth of the ruling elites and the
imperialists, to seize the banks and the factories and the utility companies and the
corporate farms and the landed gentry and the corporate wealth and the hospitals and
schools and the mines and the oilfields and all of it, and to put that wealth to use for
the people and for the good of us all, and to guard the resources and defend the earth in
every country.
There is no blueprint for how to do this. It hasn't been done before. We have to base
ourselves on the experiences and the lessons learned through the class struggle, the
struggle for freedom for all these years.
We know that many of these struggles are described as "leaderless," which means the
traditional political parties, the traditional unions are not in charge. Even radical or
organizations claiming to be revolutionary or anti-capitalist have been taken by surprise.
These are uprisings from the base, from the communities, from the grassroots, from the
bottom up. And this is the great strength and the great hope.
People are building barricades and blockades. People are storming government buildings.
People are fighting the police and the security forces. People are organizing general
strikes and shutting down the economies of countries. This is self-organized. This is heroic.
We have heard of neighborhood and community assemblies meeting in Chile. We have heard of
ongoing assemblies in Lebanon. We have heard of neighborhood committees in the Sudan
uprising of the past year. We have heard of the self-organization in Tahrir Square in Iraq
and across the country. It's the self-organization, it's the new formations organized by
the participants which are the most important now. These are the organizations in the
communities, in the schools and the workplaces, among specific groups and oppressed
groups, by protesters in the public spaces, this is where the revolution can succeed. The
traditional parties and union leaderships will attempt to take control of these groups, of
these organizations of the uprisings and will attempt to steer the uprisings into safe
channels, into moderation, into compromise with the authorities, into being practical.
Capitalism as a worldwide system is in crisis. This system cannot meet the needs of
ordinary people, and everywhere exploits and oppresses ordinary people. This system is
destroying the planet and cutting the forests and making the air unfit for breathing and
the water undrinkable and causing the planet to warm and the ice caps to melt. We have to
end this system, all of us, and across all borders and in solidarity across all borders.
U.S. imperialism has profited from the exploitation of people and resources in Haiti, in
Chile, in Iraq, in Bolivia and worldwide. The people of the world have every right to
demand that U.S. imperialism pay the price for the wealth and the resources stolen from
the people of the world and including from oppressed peoples and nations and their
descendants and members in the U.S. The immediate goal of the social revolution must be to
meet the needs of the people, with the first focus on meeting the needs of those most
oppressed and living most precariously. And this is part of the fight in all of these
countries and for us in the U.S.
The answer is not a more humane capitalism or a more democratic capitalism. People
everywhere hope for a democratic system, a humane system, but capitalism cannot deliver on
this. While the rulers control the wealth, the rulers control the governments and the
states. Under threat of revolution, these rulers offer new elections and new faces and
discussions and compromises and promises of improvements, but these are all attempts to
prevent revolution and maintain the system. And the rulers can even have a president or
dictator step down or promise a new constitution and so on. And once the immediate threat
of revolution passes, the rulers can reassert their direct control and keep all
discussions in safe channels and the appropriate legal frameworks, while the system of
oppression and exploitation remains and continues.
The problem is not just neoliberalism and austerity. The problem is capitalism. And the
problem is not just fascism or dictatorship, the problem is capitalist democracy and
popular front alliances with the liberal or "progressive" wing of the ruling class, as
well. The answer is not social democracy covering over the capitalist system, and the
answer is not state capitalism instead of traditional capitalism. The answer is ending the
capitalist system once and for all.
Some hope that a constituent assembly or new elections or a new constitution is the
answer. But if the economic system remains, if the capitalists and the ruling elites
retain control, then exploitation and oppression will continue. And anarchists and
revolutionaries must say this and discuss this in the spirit of finding the way way
forward to liberation and freedom and revolution.
In 1924, Malatesta, the Italian anarchist, in the article "Republic and Revolution" was
discussing what was needed if and when the Italian and international workers overthrew the
dictatorship of the fascist, Mussolini:
"There is a need to make a clear distinction between the revolutionary act, which
overthrows as much as it can of the old regime, replacing it with new institutions, and
governments that follow to halt revolution and suppress as much as they can of the
revolutionary conquests.
History teaches us that whatever progress is made by revolution occurs in the period when
popular activity is at its height, when either a recognized government does not yet exist
or is too weak to set itself against the revolution. Then, once government is established
reaction invariably sets in, serving the interests of the old and new privileged classes,
and seizes back from the masses everything it possibly can seize back from them.
Thus our task is to make, or help to make, the revolution, taking advantage of all the
occasions that come our way and from all available forces. To push the revolution as far
forward as possible, not only in terms of destruction but above all in terms of
reconstruction, and to remain opposed to any embryonic government, ignoring it or fighting
it to the best of our ability.
We shall no more recognize the republican Constituent Assembly than the monarchist
parliament. If the people want such an assembly, so be it; in fact we could find ourselves
alongside the republicans in resisting any attempts at restoration of monarchy. But we
ask, we demand, complete freedom for those who think as we do, to live outside state
protection and oppression and to spread our ideas by word and deed.
We are revolutionaries, yes, but above all we are anarchists."
June 1924
And from "Further Thoughts on Republic and Revolution:"
"But, it will be asked, if you don't want the Constituent Assembly, what do you want?
Revolution. And by revolution, we don't mean the insurrectionary phase alone, which would
be indispensable, save in the highly unlikely eventuality that the regime, collapsing from
within, falls of its own accord. But insurrection would be sterile if it were not followed
by the liberation of the people and would serve merely to replace one state of violence by
another.
Revolution is the creation of new institutions, new groupings, new social relations.
Revolution is the destruction of privilege and monopoly, a new spirit of justice,
solidarity and freedom which must renew the whole of social life, raise the moral level
and the material conditions of the masses by calling upon them to provide for their own
future through their direct and conscious action. Revolution is the organization of all
public services by those who work within them in their own interests, as well as in those
of the wider public. Revolution is the destruction of all coercive bonds, and is the
autonomy of groups, communes and regions. Revolution is the free federation, brought about
by solidarity, by individual and collective interests and by the needs of production and
defense. Revolution is the establishment of a myriad of free groupings based on the ideas,
desires, needs and tastes of all and every individual. Revolution is the formation and
dissolution of thousands of representatives, neighborhood, communal, regional and national
bodies, which lacking any kind of legislative power, serve to make them known and
harmonize the wishes and interests of the people near and far, and act through propagation
of information, advice and example. Revolution is freedom proved in the crucible of events
- and lasts as long as freedom lasts, that is, until such time as others, profiting from
the weariness that overtakes the masses, the inevitable disappointments that follow on
exaggerated hopes, possible mistakes and human error succeed in creating a power, which,
backed by an army of conscripts and mercenaries, makes laws and blocks any forward
movement - and reaction sets in."
June 1924
In summary, we oppose U.S. imperialism and all imperialism and colonialism. We support the
right of the people of Chile to overthrow the government established by the coup and the CIA
and which serves the interests of the army, the ruling elites and the imperialists. We
support the right of the people of Iraq to overthrow the government established by U.S.
imperialism and the U.S. occupation of their country and which serves the interests of the
ruling elites, the security forces and the U.S. imperialists and all imperialists. In
these countries, as in Lebanon and Haiti and West Papua and Bolivia, we support the right
of the people to independence and freedom and liberation and self-determination. This is a
matter of international solidarity and standing with the people of the world opposing
imperialism, colonialism, neoliberalism and austerity.
The U.S. imperialists, the imperialists of Europe, and, increasingly the imperialists of
Russia and China attempt to dominate, control and exploit the people and resources of
other countries and regions. And local and regional powers such as Iran and Israel and
Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Indonesia and India attempt to control and exploit the people
and resources of other countries and those designated as "other" in their own countries.
And this othering within these countries continues in the U.S. and across Europe and in
China and Russia, as well.
Within these countries, within the U.S., it's necessary for anti-imperialists and
anti-capitalists and anarchists and all those who support freedom and liberation and
equality to stand with the people and the uprisings now taking place around the world. And
it's necessary that we acknowledge that the wealth and power of the ruling class and the
imperialists in the U.S. and beyond are built on the exploitation of people and resources
worldwide. And that U.S. imperialism and all imperialists and the ruling classes in all
countries who have profited from imperialism and colonialism must pay and must compensate
and transfer wealth and resources to the nations and peoples who have been oppressed.
Inside the U.S., we have to make the fight to smash U.S. imperialism and to transfer
wealth and resources back to the people who have been robbed, the countries which have
been robbed, and to the oppressed people who have been robbed worldwide and including in
the U.S.
As Malatesta said in 1924,"We are revolutionaries yes, but above all we are anarchists."
We support the fight against imperialism and for self-determination. We recognize the
lesson of Egypt that it is not enough to overthrow the dictator or to have an election,
while the ruling elites, the imperialists, the army remain in power and control. While the
state remains, while the ruling elites, their army and their police and prisons and courts
remain, then the people and the oppressed cannot be free. People demand freedom and
dignity, but the capitalist system cannot provide freedom and dignity to the ordinary
people of the world. A new face, a new government, a reshuffling will not work. The system
remains, and the power and control remain with the ruling elites, the wealthy few, the
imperialists.
As anarchists, we have to say that there is no lasting answer within this system. While
the ruling classes retain their wealth and their power, we cannot be free. If masses of
people are demanding a new government, a constituent assembly or a new constitution, we
don't withdraw from the struggle. We support the right of oppressed peoples to
self-determination, and we defend that right against all those who attempt to deny the
right. But, as anarchists, we also say that there is no answer within the legal framework
of the worldwide capitalist system. A new
government or a constituent assembly or a new constitution will not mean freedom or
liberation for the masses of people if the capitalist class and the imperialists retain
their wealth and power. If the army and the police and the prisons and the courts of the
ruling classes remain in place, then the people cannot be free. If the factories and the
mines and the banks and the wealth remain in the hands of the capitalists and the
billionaire class, then the people cannot be free.
And so, as anarchists and revolutionaries, we have two important tasks in this period of
uprisings around the world. First, to support these uprisings, to be in active solidarity,
to oppose the ruling elites and the imperialists everywhere, to oppose U.S. imperialism
everywhere, and to support the right to self-determination and freedom for the people
everywhere. And second, to be honest and clear, that no new government, no new
constitution, no new faces can provide freedom and liberation and self-determination. It
is only the people themselves, organized themselves and seizing the wealth and the
resources and putting an end to the ruling elites, the imperialists, the police, the army,
the prison, the courts, the legal framework, the state, who can take freedom and
liberation and self-determination into their own hands by ending the system of capitalism
and imperialism once and for all.
In the early days of the uprising in Lebanon, a woman in her fifties and in the protests
said: "They took all our fundamental rights ... We are dying at the hospital gates. I will
stay in the street. ... Since I was born, we've been spectators to their quarrels and
corruption."
Spectators no more.
She and others are calling for the overthrow of the entire political class, of all the
ruling elites. And this sentiment is shared across Lebanon, across Iraq, across Haiti,
across Chile, across Iran and beyond.
In Chile, on November 12th, leading up to the general strike there, 300 homeless families
and supporters attempted to expropriate land from a vineyard to build needed housing. The
police attacked those occupying the land. This movement in Penalolen, Chile, listed as
members of the commune: Unitarians Movement, Organized Housing Movement, CEAVI El Parral,
Community Housing Committee, Land Territory and Housing Group Luchadores Lo Hermida, and
popular organizations of Lo Hermida issued a statement which included: "Chile woke up:
it's not time to wait for solutions, it's time to conquer them."
This is not the time for reforms or new wallpaper to cover a crumbling system. This is not
the time to wait for some promised reform to take place after the people leave the
streets. This is the time to participate in the movements, to support the struggles
against the governments and the ruling elites and the imperialists, to defend the demands
of the people for basic rights and for the right to self-determination, to support the
fight for liberation and freedom and revolution.
And it is also the time, for us, as revolutionary anarchists, to be truthful and honest.
The answer is not in constituent assemblies or new constitutions or new leaders of the
government. The answer is in revolution, seizing the land and the wealth and the
workplaces, and destroying the government, the police, the army command, the courts, the
prisons, the legal framework. And all of us in local communities and workplaces and local
assemblies and public spaces and neighborhoods are the future. All of us, organized
together, replace the current system and end the current system of oppression and
exploitation and capitalism.
All of us together, across all borders for social revolution and anarchism.
http://m1aa.org/?p=1681
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Message: 5
Wellington Zinefest 2019
This year's Zinefest is happening this coming weekend! It's a two-day event and the
Freedom Shop will be there on Sunday, 17 November, 11am to 4pm.
We'll have some new zines on the West Sahara, the situation in Rojava and a Scottish
anarchist's take on Brexit, as well as new postcards and lots of other stuff. And of
course the brand new Plan B organiser for 2020!
See you there: Te Auaha, NZ Institute of Creativity, 65 Dixon Street, Te Aro
https://freedomshopaotearoa.blogspot.com/
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A three hour workshop about patriarchy, feminism and the roles of violence inside these.
We'll discuss different feminist perspectives, queer and trans* politics, antirascism and
critique of systemic and state oppression. We want to point out that (sexualized) violence
is fundamental to the system of gender oppression. ---- Further on we want to talk about
feminist strategies trying to tackle sexism and interpersonal violence in cooperation with
the state and why this might by problematic, followed by a short overview on alternatives.
---- In the end: it's possible and important to reclaim the discourses about violence
beyond machoism to use them against this sexist system. Antisexism needs to become
practical. We're are looking forward to discussing what that might look like.
We can organize an English translation if needed!
A workshop by the ignite! workshop collective ignite.blackblogs.org
in cooperation with: Anarchistische Gruppe Freiburg, Feministische Linke Freiburg,
Realitätenwerkstatt
https://www.ag-freiburg.org/termin/smash-patriarchy-feministische-perspektiven-auf-gewalt-im-und-gegen-das-patriarchat
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Message: 7
On November 18, 1918, the so-called Anarchist Insurrection broke out in Rio de Janeiro,
one of the most important insurrectionary experiences of revolutionary unionism, anarchist
union strategy. ---- Led by the working class organized into different union categories,
the insurrection comes after a long period of rising cost of living (carestia), the
outbreak of the Spanish flu and the intensification of the class struggle in the state of
Guanabara. ---- They were alive in the memory of the oppressed and the oppressed, the
great general strike of 1917 over the rising cost of living in the context of the
post-World War I. ---- The trigger for the uprising was the death of several construction
workers in a work accident at the New York hotel. It should be said that the imaginary of
the Russian Revolution spread like a gunpowder, motivating the workers dissatisfaction in
our Latin American continent.
The insurrection had the decisive action of the Rio de Janeiro Workers Federation (FORJ)
and the Anarchist Alliance, a specific organization whose main reference was Professor
José Oiticica. Far from being a spontaneous insurrection, the organizing committee of the
insurrection was decisively articulated with the action of the Anarchist Alliance.
The insurrection was not limited to the city of Rio de Janeiro. The countryside was also
hit by popular uprising, with experiences of popular power in the city of Magé, where
workers seized factories and claimed libertarian socialism.
In Rio de Janeiro, gunfire with repressive forces, use of dynamite and street clashes
(including the desertion of army soldiers) marked the landscape of popular struggle.
The brutal repression that followed, locked up anarchists and trade unionists, closed
unions, but spread fear in the Brazilian ruling class. Several labor and social regulation
laws were passed after the reform. The ruling class feared organized action from below.
https://anarquismorj.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/lembrai-do-18-de-novembro-no-rio-de-janeiro/
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Message: 8
Dear comrades, The Vrije Bond Amsterdam is hosting a film night coming Sunday on November
24 at the Nieuwland (Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 95). There will be a collective dinner at
18.30 and we will start the movie at 20.00. This time we are watching the documentary Gaza
fights for freedom by the Empire Files. The revolutionary duo consisting of Abby Martin
and Mike Prysner has been producing high quality anti-imperialist films, reports and
investigations and they recently focused on their first feature-length documentary about
the repression of Palestinians in Gaza. A film we have all been waiting for. ---- In
association with the Palestinian freedom movement, Martin has given an impressive show of
the violence, crimes and genocidal tendencies of the Israeli regime. It is a film that we
cause anger and sadness, but will also inspire to fight the terrible conditions in Gaza.
With this film, Martin tells the real story of the Middle East is, free from imperialist
propaganda. Gaza fights for freedom shows where the repression of the world is really
coming from and who is hurt by this.
Come to the film night and show your solidarity for the freedom fighters of Palestina!
Militant snuggles, Vrije Bond Amsterdam
https://www.vrijebond.org/gaza-fights-for-freedom-filmavond-vrije-bond-amsterdam/
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Again, as every more than 4 years, Electrónica Cerler SA and its committees invite us to
what they call a "union elections". ---- This time to try to simulate democracy, the
company mixes this process with a referendum on the labor calendar, a calendar that from
the union section of CNT we had been demanding at the beginning of each year, and already
passing through the list of someone very close to the patronal. ---- It happened on
another occasion, that the delegates in offices by UGT, mainly Eduardo, very close to
several executives, came to collaborate in illegal dismissals, allowing the replacement of
stable personnel by maintenance ETTs, and denying before the inspection accidents at work,
cases of discrimination and harassment, factory closures without sufficient notice, etc.
Something that has also had a lot to do with the presidents of the UGT and CCOO committee
that have taken turns these years.
Anyone can see the alienating effects that the electoral subsidy of the state subsidy has
been causing in the long-term unions and their respective parties that manage them at
will. These union companies have even tried to boycott the historic general strikes of the
feminist movement through ridiculous stoppages of a few hours to confuse the templates.
The CNT has been demonstrating through practice that business committees are not necessary
to respect the scarce rights achieved by the working class, and how only the strike can
really advance in the improvement of working conditions. In addition, the creation of
these subclasses of privileged workers is detrimental to the interests of the working
class, which has been demonstrated after the signing of the Moncloa pacts, during the last
40 years of workers' defeat, and small victories based on much effort.
The current situation of the new labor relations puts in doubt the effectiveness of the
union model based on the union elections and the political pacts. Unitary representation
is increasingly symbolic in the face of the proliferation, which it has allowed, of
subcontractors, ETTs, outsourcing companies, etc. The domesticated and hegemonic trade
unionism that underpinned capitalism has only strengthened the current model of job
insecurity, signing garbage agreements and legitimizing precariousness, instead of
organizing and mobilizing the working class to confront the situation.
The model of union representation and direct action of the CNT is shown more and more
clearly as the alternative to this situation, also providing representation to the
contracts and subcontractors through union sections that break the established frameworks
to divide us, demonstrating that a unionism combative, honest, supportive and effective is
possible and necessary.
Thus, by facing the employers, their cornering and their trade unions, the union section
of the CNT in Cerler Electronics we have managed to establish a free labor consultancy, a
work calendar at the beginning of the year, that many contracts for work and service were
transformed into undefined, readmissions for dismissals, leaving substantial modifications
to working conditions, some improvements in prevention of occupational hazards, etc.
The CNT will always defend the interests of the working class, whoever is on the
committees and do what they do, because our affiliation is the one that supports it and
decides jointly, not the delegates, nor any party or subsidy.
For all these reasons, the CNT will never lend itself to participate in the trade union
elections to the works council, and we suggest to our affiliation and supporters that they
DO NOT VOTE, or in case of doing so, do so blank or void.
The committees are of the company, the assemblies of the workers.
http://aragon.cnt.es/cnt-zaragoza-ante-las-elecciones-sindicales-en-electronica-cerler/
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