Update: anarchist news and information from all over the world - Part 1 - 1.12.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  avtonom: Anarch-feminist block for shares on International
      Day against Violence against Women [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Slovania, priama akcia: Open Meetings with the Association
      Direct Action in the East [machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Turkey, Anarchist Women are in action for the day of women's
      act and struggle against the violence (tr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Uruguayan Anarchist Federation's opinion on the presidential
      elections in Uruguay 2019. (ca, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Czech, AFED: Intrepid women -- Review of the comics about
      the Women's Rights Movement [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  surrey anarchist communist group: Travellers' life-style
      further threatened. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, Class War Scotland: Alan Moore will break his 40
      years of not voting (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  [alter-ee] Welcome to ather Father Frost Against 2020 -
      festival (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  Unione comunista libertaria Bruxelles: Francophone fighters:
      "The Rojava is illustrated by an incredible resilience" (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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On November 25, International Day Against Violence against Women, feminists rallied in
several cities in Russia. On that day in Moscow, the most massive rally in Russia
dedicated to women's rights took place on Yauzskie Vorota Square - about 1,000 people came
there. The initiators were the participants of the Social Alternative. Anarchists and
anarchists also took part in the action. ---- Recently, in Russia there have been several
resonant cases of domestic violence against women, which ended in the murder or severe
injuries of the victim. Women have practically no right to self-defense - if they manage
to kill their offenders, who sometimes mocked them for years, the police, which does
nothing on allegations of violence, initiate criminal cases of murder. About 80% of female
prisoners convicted of murder actually sit in self-defense. A vivid example is the case of
the Khachaturian sisters, who are charged with the composition of "murder by a group of
persons by prior conspiracy."

Anarchists and anarchists agree with the initiators of the picket that Russia needs to
create an effective network for protecting victims of violence and preventing such crimes.
In other countries, this reduces the number of violent crimes.

However, we believe that the root of the problem lies in social inequality, in limited
access to resources for women and other vulnerable groups. This is what often puts them in
a dependent position and allows them to use violence with almost impunity, until it ends
in the murder of the victim or offender in self-defense. Only by building a society based
on genuine (rather than formal) equality and self-government can we finally overcome
violence in interpersonal relations!

 From Rojava, the umbrella umbrella organization Star, on International Day against Women
Violence, called on all resisting women to pay tribute to the struggle of women in
Northern and Eastern Syria. Therefore, the participants and participants in the
anarchist-feminist bloc also expressed solidarity with the Kurdish women who are
struggling to resist the Turkish invaders in Rojava! Unfortunately, if captured, they are
in no way protected from brutal violence by soldiers and mercenaries.

Photo

Despite the mass action on the Yauza Gate Square, it was only possible to coordinate it as
a picket. Nevertheless, even without amplification, there were many speakers on it. One of
them, an anarchist, delivered the following speech:

"Speaking against violence
We must remember the
many manifestations of it
And deal with all its forms
One of them is sexual violence
And it's not just about rape
It is any physical or verbal contact
With a sexual connotation
Which we do not want

Violence does not have a face
Victims and rapists are in every social group
But most often women face it

Thanks to the courage of those who talk
about past violence
Thanks to the development of the women's movement
We know that this is not a special case
A systemic problem
Approximately every fifth woman
is sexually exploited
Even in childhood and adolescence
But the statistics do not reflect reality
Most of the victims
Do not report to the police
A State machine
Not interested in honest numbers
And turned evidence of violence
into a complex and humiliating procedure

In the end, what does the rapist have?
Protection of the state
Privileges
Often a higher social status
A more favorable financial situation
Due to the difference in salaries
and lack of equal opportunities
Behind a man's back
Millions of people
Ready to recognize and justify
His right to power and domination

But what does a woman have
When she faces violence?
Punishment for self-defense.
Guilt and shame.
Distrust and blaming others.
Lack of timely and affordable
psychological assistance.
Often the inability to leave
home, work or place of study.
Where she was abused.

If the victim is
subject to other types of discrimination
If this is a child, an elderly person
or a person with a disability
Non-white or transgender person
If she lives in poverty, without citizenship
Or is involved in prostitution
She is even more vulnerable to violence
She has even less chance of
protection and rehabilitation

And while this is the case
we will declare rapists and xenophobia
and the elite that they support
what we we refuse to be considered weak
We refuse to be separated
We refuse to support your hierarchy
We will increase power
to unite the bottom
in one motion
and ruin your power
We will fight for each and every
We will fight not only with the consequences,
but also with the causes of oppression.

We say NO to the patriarchy
In which a man is
worth above all others
We refuse to consider ourselves worse
We refuse to be the property of
Our parents, husbands and partners

We say NO to capitalism
In which our body and our sexuality are
Evaluated and sold
We refuse to be a commodity and an object
For profit and pleasure

We say NO to traditional values.
We say NO to stereotypes.
You won't assert yourself at our expense.
You won't earn on us.
We say NO exploitation.
We say NO to porn and sex industries.

Capitalists, liberals, and right-wingers
Won't lead us
Talking about free choice
And "same work" A
situation in which a person
rents his body
in exchange for necessary benefits
such as food and housing
Is sexual abuse

We know what true freedom is.
Freedom is a lack of economic dependence.
Freedom is a lack of submission.
Freedom is equality.

For some, it's just a beautiful word,
But when each and every one
Will set it as his goal
When we stop Underestimating and devaluing
Myself and our dreams
When we unite
Around what connects us
We will win
Sounds like a lot of work
And as if we definitely won't survive

But the good news is
we are doing
What we are here and now, together
Together, our voices sound
together against violence
This is the result of our work and our struggle
Our business is not interrupted
and do not pause
This is the merit of each and everyone
Thank you "

https://avtonom.org/news/anarha-feministskiy-blok-na-akcii-v-mezhdunarodnyy-den-borby-s-nasiliem-protiv-zhenshchin

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26th November 2019 After the reopening of the open meetings in Bratislava, we would like
to start such meetings in the east of Slovakia as well. Here, too, we lack the meetings,
discussions and joint activities of people close to our activities. We plan to hold our
first meeting in December. What topics? The ones you consider important! The topics are up
to you. We do not limit them, so they may cover other areas, such as those currently being
dealt with by Direct Action. What we expect We would like the meetings to contribute to
the development of class-oriented activities in the region (for better understanding, we
recommend that you take a look at this short text about the class -
https://priamaakcia.sk/Kapitalizmus-trieda-a-triedny-boj-pre-nie-uplnych-zaciatocnikov-.html)
.

If you have your own ideas for discussion and activity, we will welcome them. We wonder
what problems you are interested in, what you think could be improved in the region, what
upset you, or how we could organize more effectively.

Can anyone come?

Direct action is an anarcho-syndicalist association and we do not cooperate with political
parties or pro-parliamentary left initiatives. The topics are not limited, but we would
like to engage in constructive activities and discussions that question political parties,
the representative principle, capital and the state.

If you perceive it like us, we will be happy to see you. If you are interested in a
different approach, or if you are in the political party, security forces or someone you
are managing, stay at home.

How to start?

If you are interested, please contact us on our facebook or email (zvazpa at riseup.net)
for details.

We look forward to meeting.

Union Direct Action

https://priamaakcia.sk/Kapitalizmus-trieda-a-triedny-boj-pre-nie-uplnych-zaciatocnikov-.html)
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These are the photos  from the protests and actions in front of "men institutions". Protesting the men violence and patriarchy in Istanbul and Ankara. ---- "The
day of women's act and struggle against the violence all around the world, 25th November is upcoming... This year, we will be on the streets again, while
feeling inside the anger surrounded by hope, a motto uprising on our tongues, with our determination for what we want. For our lives, for our freedom." ---- The
Man Who's Waiting for Service, May Seclude Himself Instead of The Woman! ---- "Male makes a living, female cooks." ---- This has always been taught the women
like a constant rule, since the ancient times of patriarchy occurred. To our mothers, to their mothers, to the mothers of their mothers... The man scolded the
woman right after he came home after working outside whole day. He scolded her, because he got tired all day and he was in a bad mood. Then he expected dinner,
he expected care, he expected love, he expected service... he expected, because it was the man working all day long, it was the man bringing money home at the
end of month.
And the woman used to wait the man's coming at home, as she has been taught for centuries. She used to clean the house, she used to cook, she used to iron, she
used to look after. She used to, because... She didn't know as well, really, why was she doing that all?
Because, she was taught so. For years, she has seen the indoor labor had no value, the woman's duty was serving the man, the indoor violence on secluded women
was invisible, man had the right to oppress woman in this system.
Ayse Dogan was killed when she said "Get it yourself." instead of giving the salt to the man she was married for 25 years, you see... Later on, the killer guy
said; "I'm repentant, I was the victim of my sudden anger."...
That Ayse is our riot. That Ayse is the end of our patience outflowing to the streets, she is the rage of all women who were secluded like Ayse. We don't except
to be locked in the houses where they use violent, reduced us to servants, oppress, behaving us like we are their property.
The man who waits for service may seclude himself; we choose our freedom!
The Women Defending Their Lives Can't Be Prisoned, Close the Jails and the "Justice" Palaces!
State; the power owner, it is in power and it tyrannizes the ones it dominates. The history of the states is related to the history of patriarchy, as well as it
is related to the history of the injustice that women undergone in society.
Çilem Dogan is just one of the women who knows that the justice of the state is based on injustice, especially when the women are in question, the injustice
becomes double. Çilem, whom the state was trying to imprison as she had killed the guy who tried to sell her, threatened her with death tons of times, said
that: "I've walked a lot in the hallways of this courthouse with a purple face for the protection order. I had no other choice."
Anyway, whenever the women apply to the state to get rid of the violence they are in, they are exposed to violence again, at each step of the state mechanisms
they apply. The so-called "the guarder and keeper, embracer and protector" state, had never been at the side of women. It did not because, a man can kill a
woman, he can rape the woman, he can use violence however he wants. But a woman can never resist a man even if he tries to kill her, if he uses violence, she
can't defend her life. If she defends, she is "sentenced", imprisoned like Çilem. But when a man kills a woman, he gets good time credit by wearing a tie, he
gets out of jail in a couple of months. Isn't this, what the man calls "justice" anyway?
Nevin was imprisoned as she killed the man who raped her for years, you know... At the end of the case which lasted for years, the court decision was declared
as; "There is no self-defense" in the justice palace...
You see that Nevin, is our riot. That Nevin is the anger of all women who were imprisoned like Nevin. She's our hope brimming over the jail walls. We don't
believe in the justice that lets them to "outlaw" and imprison us; rewarding the ones who use violence, and kill us!
We don't except the imprisoning of the women who defend their lives. The women who killed not to be killed like Name, Çilem and Yasemin, will liberalize by the
solidarity of women, not by the justice of the state.
The Women will not be Shut Down in Family, May the Ministery of Family and Social Policies be Shut Down!
The family is a value for man to strengthen his power, while it is a cell for woman where she is obliged to obey the man's power. The subject is the woman whose
ancestry connects to the man's, who is forced to come into man's possession, and who has to hold her horses to provide continuance of the family by marriage. It
is the woman again who has to be a good mom to the kids, a good wife to the man, the "purity" of the family. But they call the man as "bread winner". He wears
the trousers and he is the rule maker in family, he is responsible for the purity of the family.
And the ministry of family and social policies, tells us, the women; "Marry and start a family, then we will decide your position in society under the roof of
family." as it befits its name. In other words, the state says "I can protect your interests only within the family.", while conditioning women to marry and
start a family by disregarding their selfness. Not only the amount of the children we will have, but also how should we behave as a woman is its matter as well.
You know Güllü, who was burnt at the stake by the guy she was married to... Güllü, who held on to life for 12 days along in the hospital where she was taken to,
then we lost her...
So then, that Güllü is our riot. That Güllü is the anger we feel, after the women who are burnt at the stake. Güllü is our belief which will demolish the
ministries of the state.
We are not obliged to serve the family which is a foundation to ensure the manhood's continuity. We don't except to be secluded in the family which turns
patriarchy into a doctrine that holds women childminder and liable to their homes!
Our best response will be to shut down the ministry of family and social policies, which prevents the divorcements instead of homicides, always guarantees the
man while abandoning the woman to violence and torture, paving the way for massacres.
May the Media Cannels Shut Down, They Make the Woman Invisible with the Misogynist Discourses!
Shut down the media channels that maintain the manhood's existence on man's side! Leave your news language which shows the women helpless and the men as system
watchers on the news that media presents.
According to the news, we are being attacked because of our skirts or lipstick we wear. We are being killed, and according to the news, the men are either the
victim of a sudden anger or aggrieved by divorcement. They want us just to be silent and watch, so just to be watcher and accept the discourse "That's normal".
They want us only to wait by the fear of "when will be my turn", making the eyes blind and the ears deaf. They want us to bear the growing fear even we know we
will be under pressure, as it puts too much stress on us.
We become indispensable for the brands, advertisements when 8th March is upcoming. When we get out for action on 8th March, we are announced as "marginals" on
headlines, and "victims" on third page news on 9th March.
It is we are again whom the party leaders insult by saying "I can't know whether she is a woman or a girl."; target by saying "Women and Men live together." on
the rostrum.
Keep beck the cameras that had greedily presented a libelous videotape named "Last Minutes Before She Died" about Sule Çet, who was tortured sexually in a plaza
in Ankara and was killed by being thrown out of the 20th floor of plaza on the date of May 28th, and are chasing the clamors, sorrows instead of the press
briefings during women cases.
Just before she was killed, Hande Kader told cameras; "You tape but you don't air!", you know... So, that Hande is our riot. That Hande is our anger that
cameras had never taped and televisions had never aired!
Shut down all the media channels which cover the violence women face, raising the misogynism!
Sedition, Jealousy, Purity... Man has Many Excuses for Violence, Women Willnot Cover Their Body!
Woman's body is prohibited for herself. Woman was advised to cover herself by both the order of religion, and the oppression of patriarchal society. In fact,
the man exhibited his body everywhere. They say, "the property is in the square" for man. What is covered for woman, is uncovered for the man.
The shorts woman wear, is an excuse for the male violence. In this patriarchal system which doesn't allow woman even how to wear, rape became "destiny" for the
woman who uncovers her body.
Woman is subjected to torture through the rituals applied to the woman's body, in the societies the patriarchy continued. The woman is ashamed of her body due
to female circumcision, feed force, isolation.
That can't be like this, that can't go on like this for women. Each dress they put on us, each hand reaching our body by using our cloths as an excuse, each
policy via our body, detaches us from our body we are in; we become imprisoned, blocked in our bodies.
There was Melisa, who was exposed to violence because of her shorts you know... The guy who attacked Melisa, he attacked her by saying; "Are you not ashamed of
wearing this in Ramadan?"... That Melisa is our riot. That Melisa is the anger of any woman whose body is forced to cover like Melisa. It is the power for us to
shiver the patriarchy.
We the women, will not be ashamed of our bodies, we will not hide our bodies by worrying not to let anyone to see. We won't be covered by the men's values,
aggressions, mentality!
The Women Willnot Be Locked! The Patriarchy, The State and The Capitalism Will be Demolished!
Our comrade Emma Goldman used to say; "... there can be good demands but real emancipation begins neither in the ballot box or in court; it begins in woman
spirit." She believed that the women's liberation could only be gained by the struggle of women and she knew the state would not set the women free. Emma
trusted women would get their freedom by force form the state. We also don't demand anything from the state. We see the patriarchy penetrated in the roots of
the state and we want to annihilate it. We call all the women to get organized, struggle, and get our freedom by getting out of our cells we are locked in and
outflow to the streets on November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Anarchist Women

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31660

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"In the next elections, the degree of adjustment will be defined. If it will be greater or" a la Uruguayan ", and the degree of repression that will accompany
it. These are differences in degrees of whether the adjustment will take place slowly, gradually, progressively over the people, or instead will be "Macri-like"
in an abrupt and cruel manner. containment policies in the face of the advance of misery, certain "patches" that dampen the effects of these policies. ---- Let
us say explicitly: in the next period what will come is a policy of worsening people's living conditions. During the Broad Front governments there was some
redistribution, but the rich got richer. Now that the economy is dwindling, the upper ones want a larger percentage of the wealth. This is what always happens
in times of recession and crisis. No government will stand up to the ruling classes to stop this looting, so we say that what is under discussion is whether it
will be done gradually or rapidly and forcefully.

One element that highlights our statement is that in these latest demonstrations that took place, police violence increased. Interrogations, arrests, beatings,
plainclothes police, Republican Guard presence and order to disperse demonstrations at the base of the rubber bullet for nothing are beginning to be part of the
new elements of this juncture. It's just that a right turn is taking place no matter who wins the election. A tuning yaw with withers. We insist, what is under
discussion is the "dose", but not the adjustment itself.

Clearly, neither in this election nor in any election is at stake the power: power and power relations in society between the classes. Neither the ownership
rights nor the full benefits enjoyed by companies are in dispute or under discussion. In this way, it is not possible to support or enhance the workers' and
popular struggle, nor to place the proposals of the popular movement. Elections, like the government, are political gears of the state. The state is a
longstanding institution that does not allow deep changes within it. In capitalism, the state became technicized and complexified, becoming an instance of
condensation of power and class relations, but which essentially keeps its functioning intact in order to maintain the power and wealth of the ruling classes
and, on the other hand. , dominate and repress the dominated classes if necessary. The state has a class essence: it is inherently from above. Therefore, those
who govern will do so for those same sectors that dominate in society.

In 1971, in a material entitled "Time of struggle, time of elections?" Our Organization explicitly stated: "Someone may think: 'but if there are elections we
can, by voting well, put a president of ours, a president out of people, who are on the side of the people, and everything will be settled. ' Many people
believe this and so there are so many people who vote. It seems easy. And yet for years it has been going from election to election, voting now for one, now for
another, and things go from bad to worse.
Is it the people who are always 'wrong'? What happens is something different. It is that within the current system, anyone who comes into power has to act for
the benefit of the ruling classes, otherwise they don't get there ... or overthrow it. The state is not neutral. Much less is it an emanation or representative
of the people. It is not a simple 'locomotive' that can be driven by anyone who gets the majority in the elections. It would be a very particular locomotive
that accepts only one driver, which always bends to the same side: the defense of the ruling classes, which are the only ones - experience shows this - that can
drive it.

The truth is that the state is not simply a 'locomotive'. It is a constitutive part of the system, certainly one of the most important. It is part of a system
based on the private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the majority working by the minority, which accumulates capital based on this
exploitation. The central function of the state, which justifies its existence, is the function of power. The function of imposing on the people compliance with
the prevailing social order. "

That is why those who govern, govern for those above, otherwise do not govern or do not allow to govern. The capitalist system does not tolerate any kind of
reform. We no longer have to refer to Guatemala and Chile, where US intervention toppled governments that had driven reforms of some depth. Consider today the
rude attack on Venezuela and the constant attempts at invasion and the economic blockade; The US imperial power does not allow any government with any degree of
autonomy. In this we can include the "soft blow" in Brazil to curb a more inde

foreign policy.

A concrete example occurred in 2004, when Tabaré Vázquez traveled with Danilo Astori to present to the IMF the future minister of economy. In fact, the
conduction of this folder has not changed and nothing seems to indicate that it will change.

To make it clearer: in the realm of the state and the elections in particular, the economic policy, the housing, health or employment policy, the fostering of
industry, and even less of cooperativism is in dispute. Nor are the tax benefits of the rich and multinational corporations under discussion: the withdrawal of
capital from abroad is guaranteed, no one argues about the need for free trade agreements and trade liberalization, etc. Nor is it said to overrule the impunity
law and dismantle the armed forces. No one who plays in the bourgeois political system discusses the "sacred rights" of the bourgeoisie, no one discusses
"capitalism" as the social ordering system of life.

Because the institutions of the bourgeoisie can only serve the bourgeoisie. In this all that reproduces are privileges. And putting a vote in a ballot box every
five years does not produce an act of magic. What happens in this situation, on a folk Sunday every five years, does not dissolve power. Power is being
contested - and the Resistance - every day at work and study, in neighborhoods, in the countryside, where the oppressed and the oppressed are fighting and
organizing, fighting to make their living and existence worthy. Strengthening this Resistance builds People Power, power of the people, the lower and the lower.
Capacity of action is built and institutions that foreshadow a new world.

Because, definitely, if elections were really important, if something relevant was at stake in them, they would be prohibited. No class or social group that
holds the power will raffle its power every five years. Elections are a mechanism, a device that gives a certain image of "democracy", of participation.
Obviously this participation is false, because the true participation of the people, by itself, would generate a new political-social situation, would allow
other possibilities that are not to the liking of the ruling classes.

The processes of true popular participation, those in which the people were protagonists of their destiny and built, even in a limited way and time, a different
society, were outside the state and all its dynamics. Since the Paris Commune in 1871, the Spanish Revolution in 1936 and the construction of the "Collectives"
in much of Spain, Makhnovitchina in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution - including the large levels of participation generated by the construction of the
Soviets in the first period. of the Revolution throughout Russia - the immense participation in Nicaragua in 1979 and beyond, and the current process of social
construction taking place in Rojava, Kurdistan region where communes with a large participation of women are being built, and this in a general context of war
in Syria, are just a few examples that we can mention on a more general scale; but also at the micro level we can see processes of this kind everywhere.

As an example, we will point out that it was precisely the electoral processes and state mechanisms that ruined the Sandinista Revolution, because it was the
spaces chosen by the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie and the empire to overthrow this revolutionary process. On the other hand, elections are used with total cynicism by
the bourgeoisie and world powers: elections are required in certain countries and not in others. No one dares demand elections in Saudi Arabia, for example, and
for this absolutist monarchy to become a Republican country, because that is not important to the US.

So, as we said, in elections nothing important is at stake, nothing that implies substantial change, nothing that implies profound change or structural change.
Elections are a good reaffirmation of the capitalist system, it is one of the gears that guarantee its functioning in the public sphere. The people, in all
this, are totally absent except to legitimize this farce. "

(Answers to the "Hemisphere Izquierdo", October 2019)

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In March, Argo published a book that in the form of a comic book presents (in its subtitle) the Hundred Fifty Years of the Struggle for Freedom, Equality and
Sisterhood . The authors of this work, published a year earlier in Norway, are Marta Breenová, who has already published a number of publications on feminism
and prominent women, and Jenny Jordahl, who in turn took care of the work of art. ---- Intrepid women are undoubtedly intended for younger readers, although it
can also provide adults with lessons and ideas for reflection. So we wander from the utterly inferior position of a woman in the 19th century to meet the
Manifesto on Gender Equality by Elizabeth Candy Stanton and the intrepid actions of former slave Harrieta Tubman in the liberation of slaves. While formally
later black slaves were liberated and "equalized" in the US, there was no shift in women's rights, let alone black women.

The authors take on the famous philosophers who did not count on women or emphasize their passive role. It takes Rousseau to Kant and Hegel. Fortunately, there
are also philosophers - later executed by Olympe de Gouges with her Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens or Mary Wollstonecraft with the book Defense
of the Rights of Women . At the end of the 19th century, these were followed by women's organizations providing women with access to education.

One of the important struggles was the struggle for the right to vote for women, so the reader can get acquainted with the radical sufražetkách, among whom the
name Emmeline Pankhurst. They made many sacrifices, but they were not afraid of clashes with the police, prison or arson attacks. Their motto was "Actions, not
words." And so we can see how the suffrage for women is gradually taking up in different countries from New Zealand (1893) to Czechoslovakia (1919) and
Switzerland (1971) to Saudi Arabia (2015).

We will also look at the struggle of women in the workplace, the birth of International Women's Day and the fate of Rosa Luxemburg ("Whoever does not move,
shackles will not feel"); or to fight for the right to decide on your body. Here, one cannot resist the thoughts of the reverse tendencies of the clerofascists
(one of which religions) and their desire to bring the world back many years, prohibit abortion, contraception, homosexuality, gender studies, and not address
sexual harassment and domestic violence. But we will also focus on the topic of free love and the fight for the rights of homosexuals (including Stonewall's
company).

It is positive that the book focuses not only on Europe and the United States, but it will also look beyond Tere Qoratolajn to Iran or Malay Yousufzai to
Afghanistan.

In those 150 years, many have been won. Some countries even took the lead, although it was often not a big win for the underprivileged, as they usually only
represented the interests of the ruling class. From a feminist point of view, however, there is still much to fight for, whether in our country or elsewhere,
for example, to ensure that gender does not restrict the freedom and opportunities of the individual, to circumcision, to prostitution, so that they are not
raped, abused, or sexually harassed at work...

"Slowly but surely we are moving forward. We can hope that publishing such a format will extend the front lines of the struggle for emancipation, both gender
and social. However, at least in a simple and pleasant way it mediates the often neglected part of modern history and the fact that no rights will be given to
you without a fight, you simply have to take them.

https://www.afed.cz/text/7072/neohrozene-zeny

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A brief history of The Grove at Stonehenge by a Surrey member of the ACG. ---- The so-called ‘battle of the bean field' lives long in the memories of the
traveller community. The modern ‘war' on ‘new age travellers' was declared on the 1st of June 1985. Around 1,400 police from six counties and the Ministry of
Defence were in Wiltshire to "decommission" the convoy, which consisted of around 500 new age travellers, free festival-goers and environmental activists. The
police were thwarted in their efforts to arrest the majority of the convoy via a roadblock and the travellers then occupied a pasture field and an adjacent bean
field, establishing a stand-off that was only broken late in the afternoon, when, under instructions from on high, the police invaded the fields en masse, and
violently assaulted and arrested the travellers - men, women and children - smashing up their vehicles to try and make sure this new nomadic movement would
never be able to function again. The threat over intervening years has never gone away...Margaret Thatcher is a most hated figure among the traveller community.

The Drove is a by-way which runs yards from Stonehenge and is used by the travellers as well as tourists. This sanctuary for the traveller community was home
for roughly 30 people, some of which had children who attended the local school at Lark Hill at the time I was there. However, the numbers would swell too many
hundreds at celebration times, such as equinoxes, renewing ties with communities from all over the country. It has to be said that like most communities, it has
a different mix of personalities which on occasion could become fiery but on the whole, it was party time.

  The pressure on the traveller community to disperse is always around. There are frequent police ‘drive-bys'. Council notices to move on or face having your
home being towed away. The army train up and down The Drove and there occasional inspections by National Trust operatives, NT are guardians of the land that
surrounds the monument. Even the local farmer adds to the faces of disapproval. However, the biggest bully in terms of outright hostility to travellers is
English Heritage. The Stonehenge monument site is a big earner, for instance, check this BBC report from April 2011.
Access to the stones is a ‘cash cow' which garners support from all those intuitions that gain from it. There have been clashes between security guards and
travellers protesting the right for free access to the stones and keep The Drove open (Save The Drove Facebook page).
In fact, the by-way was closed to motorised traffic on the 12th of July 2018. However, this was deemed illegal and overturned by a High Court judge but by the
time of that ruling, the community had been further scattered.

So although The Drove is now open, the intended damage has been done. The proposal of a tunnel under Stonehenge, for traffic on the nearby A303, ratchets up
still further travellers' fears that The Drove will only open for limited period.

https://surreyanarchistcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/2019/11/travellers-life-style-further-threatened.html

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So Alan Moore, Writer and Anarchist, has written this week about how he will break his 40 years of not voting, to vote Labour and try and oust the Tories,
getting rid of the vile Tory party is at the top of most left wingers lists, but, what are we replacing the Tories with? Another master, another ruler, another
oppressor, another party who will promise the earth and deliver nothing more than a handful of dirt, of which we should be grateful for, doff our working class
flat caps and show thanks to our masters for the crumbs of abject poverty and devastation they throw down for us. ---- As anarchists, why should we give up on
our beliefs and go and place a cross next to a politician who we know will never deliver on the promises made during the election campaign, politicians who will
lie, cheat and steal from the very people they have begged for their vote. Will Labour really be able to turn around the devastation left by the Tories? And
let's face it a system which was built upon a failed legacy left by the previous Labour government led by war criminal Tony Blair.

The public are being fooled, each of the parties seem to think that by throwing money at problems we will alleviate the current issues, issues that have been
going on for most of the 2000's, we have a massive national debt, started under Labour, and which has only risen despite the austerity measures inflicted on us
by this heinous Tory Government, add to that a failing NHS that is being systematically raped by the private sector, social housing, that since the initiation
of Thatcher's ‘Right To Buy' scheme has left the country with a massive gap in available accommodation, rising homeless figures, rising suicide rates, wars,
wars and more wars not through the necessity of removing a threat to our civil liberty or the evil of fascism but corporate greed. This country has been ripped
apart by divisive politicians who rather than sort problems blame the poor, the disabled, immigration and of course the opposing parties, forcing us to fight
amongst ourselves, pointing fingers at who we should be blaming for the problems, they know that if we take the focus away from them, the politicians, the real
instigators of hate, we will never start the revolution required to topple this hateful corrupt system.

Don't fall into the trap of voting, the labour party, like all the others, want to seize power in order to control our lives, anyone who wields power over us is
a threat to us no matter how well intentioned they pretend to be. How can they have our interests at heart when they are out to serve themselves first, the
Labour party are as capitalist as the Tories they just disguise it with socialist ideals and slogans, they have lost the working class ethics that the party
were formed around, mainly to provide and protect the rights of the workers. The Labour party have no intentions of abolishing the existing capitalist structure
and state, it merely want to tinker with it to fit in with their policies, a Labour Government will have the same social structure as before, we, as Anarchists,
want to break that structure, it's failing on every level so why would we want to keep the status quo.

To me it's an absurd idea to give up our active resistance to be governed to take part in in the bourgeois electoral system, collaborating with the
establishments electoral process goes against everything we fight for, and don't give me the old "If you don't vote you're helping the Tory's stay in power"
bullshit, the Tories are only one cog in the big Parliamentary wheel, Government is Government whatever party it is, if we choose to reject the whole system why
then should we vote for it?

Disengage from this electoral farce, break the chains of the oppressors, seek freedom from governance, it's time to rise up and disembowel this corrupt system
that we're forced to reluctantly participate in.

Anarchy, Freedom, Equality.

facebook.com/classwarscotland/posts/2732741486789950

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Father Frost Against is a cultural and political festival, focused on critical thinking, reflection and development of new activism strategies. Held in
Helsinki, Finland from the 3rd to the 5th of January and organized by local activists, as well as participants from Russia and the post-Soviet space. ---- The
aims of the festival are to redefine social and political fields, through the exchange of information on experiences with successful projects and strategic
planning. Networking and connecting with like-minded people, involving new participants and guests in the festival agenda and development of a new language to
indicate current and relevant issues is also a focus. ---- The festival is held in cooperation with various grassroots, horizontal initiatives, libertarian,
left-wing and anarchist communities. Active participants are representatives of trans /queer /LGBT communities, feminist initiatives (intersectional feminism,
cyberfem, leftfem,
decolonial feminism), anarcho-communities (including post-anarchists,
eco-anarchists), independent media, human rights organizations and
representatives of NGOs. Also participating - environmentalists,
philosophers, practitioners and theorists of contemporary art,
developing participatory projects, political activists and
representatives of alternative self-organized associations.

The festival will be held at several venues simultaneously and planned
as a synthesis of various forms of participation: music program, inputs,
lectures, performances, workshops, discussions, presentations, video
projects, performative practices.

Topics covered throughout the festival:

New ontologies, new materialism;
Gender/queer/feminist agenda;
Necropolitics;
Decolonialism;
Social protests in Russia;
Media-activism
Participatory projects.

Information about all festival events will be public. Lunch and dinner
will be free for foreign guests of the festival. All food will be vegan
in order to be as accessible as possible.

The festival locations will be: Museum of Impossible Forms, Oranssi ry
and Ulrika. Further info on these spaces will be shared later. All
locations are accessible spaces.
If you are interested in taking part in the festival and you need a
place to sleep, please fill out the form at
http://en.dedmorozprotiv.com/#Contact Registration is required only for
those, who need help with sleeping places. Registration deadline is the
2nd of January.

Event in FB:  https://www.facebook.com/events/2450861888569493/
Event in VK: https://vk.com/dedmorozprotiv
WWW: http://en.dedmorozprotiv.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnKhsD1O30BooGiMyWgd2Gg
Telegram: https://t.me/dedmorozprotiv

Additional information: dedmoroz@riseup.net

https://avtonom.org/en/news/welcome-ather-frost-against-2020-festival

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Military situation, health, state of mind of the populations, resilience of the democratic institutions, strategy of the command of the FDS ... These militants
engaged in the International Battalion of liberation give us their point of view on the period of uncertainty that currently lives the Rojava. ---- In Syrian
Kurdistan, the political situation has dramatically changed since October: Turkish offensive with the US green light, then entry into the running of the Russian
army and deployment of troops of the Damascus regime. A month later, the autonomous Administration of North-East Syria is living a more than precarious
situation: besides the canton of Afrîn, occupied since March 2018, the border towns of Tall Abyad and Serê Kaniyê fell under the cut of the Islamist
supplementives of the Turkish army. And on a strip of 5 kilometers deep on the Syrian-Turkish border, the Russian military police and the Turkish army are
jointly patrolling.

Nevertheless, armed clashes continue in certain areas, such as Tell Tamer (Girê Xurma in Kurdish). A group of French comrades involved in these fights responded
to the questions of the libertarian Alternative. All operate in the framework of the Revolutionary Antifascist Front (RAF), part of the International Liberation
Battalion (IFB)[1]of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Libertarian alternative : Hello comrades, greetings from France and Belgium. Can you tell us a few words about this new group, the Revolutionnary Antifascist Front?

RAF Francophones: Let's say that our itinerant revolutionary itineraries have crossed at the right place at the right time. We found ourselves together in the
International Liberation Battalion, then our personal ffi nities and our common political perspectives logically gave birth to the RAF. We fought together
during the Serê Kaniyê battle and then on the Tell Tamer front. We are many autonomous militants, as many communists as anarchists. Among Francophones, there is
also a certain post-situationist tendency, but here it does not matter much for us. Our presence in Rojava necessarily leads our political thinking to restructure.

The RAF was founded in November 2019 as part of the International Liberation Battalion.

Although the front is "frozen", clashes persist south of Serê Kaniyê. Who opposes whom? What is the attitude of the Russians and Turks to this?

Francophones of the RAF: Effectively there is a stabilization of the military situation. The fighting continues but the intensity is lower. They oppose
essentially the FDS to the "Syrian National Army", the Islamic militants of the Turkish army, which it supports with air strikes and shelling. Soldiers of the
Damascus regime sometimes pretend to support the SDS with artillery fire, more for the form than anything else. Our operations are therefore reduced, but remain
substantial. Last night, one of our IFB friends was injured in an assault. Meanwhile, Russians and Turks build military bases face to face, a few kilometers
from each other.

Images of intifada along the border were seen with villagers stealing Turkish military vehicles. What is the prevailing feeling in the population?

RAF Francophones: The people are enraged to see these patrols on the roads. This is the ultimate event on the part of the Turkish fascist state, which decimates
the population and then claims to come and check that it is not arming itself to defend itself. The revolt of civilians is also not without risks: a few days
ago, Turkish tanks fired on the crowd and journalists in the area of Kobanê. On 18 November, in the same area, Turkish and Russian tanks saw civilians throwing
Molotov cocktails at them.

There is also a certain apprehension, mainly in cities like Manbij, to see the Damascus regime regain control. Hostility is less in Hassakê, where he had
retained control of a neighborhood since his withdrawal in 2012.

The regime's soldiers behave like cowboys, refuse to pay shopkeepers, and stage themselves as new saviors. Alas, these saviors are fleeing faster than they
arrive on the battlefield. They are calamitous, despite their firepower superior to ours. With such "friends", no need for enemies.

The regime of Damascus symbolizes this contradiction to which every revolutionist confronts one day: that of compromise. Between survival and annihilation, the
Kurds have made the choice of survival, and as internationalists, we understand it despite our disgust for the Al Assad clan.

But overall, hostility prevails over the Damascus regime.

In general, there is fairly good cohesion between ethno-religious groups, and particularly between Kurds and Assyrians. Enemy propaganda is attempting -
hopefully unsuccessfully - to present this war as the legitimate reconquest of Arab lands, and would like to exacerbate the opposition between Kurds and Arabs.
Fortunately it does not take, or little. Even if, obviously, there is a beginning of "religious" war promoted by the Turkish state against the Kurds designated
as "disbelievers". This racist speech is supported by attacks orchestrated in close collaboration with the MIT, the Turkish secret services, both north and
south of the border.

Russian military police deployed along the Syrian-Turkish border. Tass Agency

And vis-à-vis the Americans who park around the oil wells, what is the feeling?

RAF Francophones: Guess. For us revolutionaries, there is no surprise about the utilitarian attitude of the United States with the Kurdish movement. The
withdrawal of American support only increased our bitterness about the role of the "international community". For the civilian population, on the other hand, it
was felt as a betrayal, and almost a killing, since Trump literally abandoned the people of Rojava to a certain invasion. The US tanks also got their lot of
stones and rotten vegetables as they were leaving for the Iraqi border. Finally, with regard to the general command of the SDS, we sometimes have the impression
that he hopes in vain for a saving intervention ...

Read also: "Syria-Kurdistan: A drama, a mourning, a changeover" , Alternative libertarian, November 2019.
The Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria[2]now. Does it seem appropriate to say that it includes three main poles of power: the Tev-Dem and the elected
assemblies[3]; PYD[4]; SDS[5]? Do these poles have a common strategy vis-à-vis Moscow and Damascus, or are there any tensions?

RAF Francophones: No, that does not seem so relevant to us. The PYD gradually melted away, giving birth to new smaller parties and local organizations, until
partly to be confused with the Tev-Dem. We observe above all two poles of power within the rojavi society: a military pole, with the SDS, and a civilian and
political pole with the diplomatic representation of Tev-Dem at its head. The latter is dramatically striving to count on the help of the imperialist states
since ... the invasion of Afrîn. A deplorable strategy that has obviously not paid off, and on which the FDS have aligned their own strategy, also deplorable.
The diplomatic representation of the Tev-Dem is one of the first responsible for the current debacle.

Damascus and Moscow agree to gradually deprive Rojava of the autonomy he could win. On the other hand, we are surprised by the passivity of the Damascus regime
in the face of the Turkish aggression against "the integrity of Syrian territory", a theme that is nevertheless redundant in the speeches of Assad and his
people. The regime would be more eff ective if Russia promised it convincing military support, but it seems that no one dares to go back to Ankara.

Turkish soldiers and their ANS Islamist auxiliaries (wearing the ASL flag), on a ruined building in Serê Kaniyê, on 23 October

Do the Tev-Dem institutions hold for the moment?

RAF Francophones: They hold, and do not fail. Except for diplomacy, it has been understood. For the rest, they continue to brilliantly ensure the organization
of society despite the ongoing war. This is one of the strengths of the Kurdish movement: the intelligence of adaptation to the most di ffi cult situations,
survival at all costs. Outside the combat zones, the lives of civilians are not altered beyond measure by war. Refugees are relocated with some speed, despite
their staggering numbers (300,000 according to the Autonomous Administration).

Turkey bombed several grain silos, the hydraulic station which supplied water to half of the canton of Cizîrê, the Serê Kaniyê hospital, and so on. In short,
Turkey applies a logic of ethnic cleansing. And despite this, the health services are good; nurses work twenty-four hours in a row; the Tev-Dem tries to
overcome the lack of water supply by multiplying convoys of tanker trucks; the communes share staple food stocks ... It is the individuals who are above all,
more than the institutions.

Despite all the criticism that can be made of the Kurdish movement, one can not but admire the dedication of its supporters to find solutions despite the
accumulation of obstacles. For a poor and war-torn territory, Rojava stands out for its incredible resilience.

Abdulhamid El Mihbash and Bêrîvan Khalid, co-presidents of AANES, tirelessly denounce Turkish aggression.

What does the Damascus regime say? Does the Syrian Arab Army (AAS)[6]want to absorb the SDS? What is the atmosphere within the militias about this?

RAF Francophones:This assumption was issued by the SDF command a few weeks ago, but it was probably a bluff to speed up the military support of the Damascus
regime, and perhaps deter NATO and the United States of abandon them totally. There is no longer any question about it and, quite frankly, we do not want to, no
one wants such a merger to take place. If this were to happen effectively, it would be the very existence of the Autonomous Administration that would cease, for
without its own self-defense forces Rojava would lose much of its revolutionary identity. The YPG-YPJ militias stand out for many, precisely because of their
ethical and political maturity. They are among the initiators of social transformations. To amputate the revolution of his vital organs would be fatal to him.

Interviewed on 21 November 2019
by Guillaume Davranche (UCL Montreuil)

[1] "International Freedom Battalion new formation annonce: Antifascist Revolutionary Front" , www.amwenglish.com , November 17, 2019.

[2]The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is the new name of the Northern Syrian Democratic Federation, adopted in September 2018, and
encompassing seven administrative regions: Cizîrê, Euphrates (Kobanê and Tall Abyad), Afrîn (occupied by the Turkish army), Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, Deir ez-Zor.

[3]The Movement for a democratic society (Tev-Dem), is the structure uniting grassroots organizations (local committees, municipalities) in Rojava since 2011.

[4]The Party of the Democratic Union (PYD), the sister organization of the PKK in Syria, founded in September 2003, played a vital role in the revolutionary
process in Rojava. The YPG-YPJ militias are linked to him.

[5]The SDS include the YPG-YPJ, many Arab brigades, including several from the Free Syrian Army, the Syrian Military Council, the International Liberation
Battalion.

[6]The Damascus Army officially bears this ethnic name.

https://bxl.communisteslibertaires.org/2019/11/26/des-combattants-francophones-le-rojava-sillustre-par-une-incroyable-resilience

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