#Update: #anarchist #news and #information from all over the #world - 17.12.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Announcement for the nationwide mobilizations December 5 & 6
      By APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #299 - Chile: A spark
      can set fire to the pampas (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  anarkismo.net: Gangs by Pink Panther/AWSM - A critique of
      recent anti-gang proposals in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - State of Struggles
      n° 3, After the announcement of Édouard Philippe, we continue !
      (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - UCL press release,
      Pensions: we continue, we amplify ! (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Solidarity Federation - Bristol Like Page: Some optimism in
      a dark time... (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  [Mexico] Communiqué of the solidarity group after the
      release of Miguel Peralta By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  CGT-LKN EuskaL Herria: FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF
      TURKEY TO THE KURDO PEOPLE AND THE COMPLICITY OF 
      THE SPANISH STATE IN THE MASSACRE OF TALL RIFAAT 
      (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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APO Announcement on Pan-Hellenic Solidarity Mobilizations Against the State Repression Campaign and the December 5th ultimatums and the
December 6th Resistance & Memory Protests ---- On December 5 and 6, on the eve of the ultimatum of the pro-government ministry. Against the
occupations and the world struggling through self-organized political and social ventures, tens of thousands of people take to the streets
nationwide to break the climate of terrorism and practice bar on the crosstalk crescent of the far-right government.
Thessaloniki, Patras, Athena ---- On December 5, the day of the end of the state ultimatum, solidarity rallies are organized in the
occupations, from Athens, Patras, Thessaloniki to Mytilene, Larissa, Volos, Veria and Karditsa, where a large number of people participate.
In Athens, after the convocation of the No Pasaran Assembly! more than 2 thousand people are taking part in the demonstration in the city
center. In Thessaloniki, there is a solidarity march in the occupation of the Kato Toumpa area with the participation of hundreds of
fighters. Two days ago, on December 3, another massive solidarity march took place in the city center, and a giant march was erected on the
facade of the Labor Center. In Patra,

Athens, additions

Athens 6 December

Athens 6 December

Thessaloniki, morning march

Thessaloniki 6 December

Patras, morning march

Patras, morning course 2

Patras 6 December

Patras 6 December
On December 6, the 11th anniversary of the assassination of 15-year-old student Alexis Grigoropoulos and the outbreak of social uprising,
and amid heightened repression and terrorism, tens of thousands of people took part in demonstrations of remembrance and resistance. There
are routes in all major cities, both in the morning and in the afternoon. In Athens, police are making pre-emptive morning raids, preventing
people from descending into the Propylaea. Among them are comrades from the "Arodamos" Anarchist Student Assembly who are brought to GADA
with their flags and banners and left only after the march. In the afternoon, more than 10,000 people are marching on the No Pasaran
anarchist block! gather more than 3. 000 protesters. After it expires, the cops make dozens of arrests and arrests in the Exarchia area,
hitting, stripping and torturing people. The recurrence of savage violence in the neighborhood of Exarchies, as well as after the mass
rallies on September 14 and November 17, are the dozens of cases of bashing, abuse and torture of those who fall into the hands of the
brutal police brigade of occupation. a policy aimed at depreciating and neutralizing those who fight. In Thessaloniki, the morning march was
attended by students' associations and the anarchist student group "Ataxia", as well as the afternoon demonstration by Kamara, where more
than 2,000 people flocked to the anarchist and anti-accessory blocs. In Patras, there is a massive march of students, students and political
organizations in the morning. In the evening a march is taking place from the Branch with the participation of about 500 fighters, clashing
with the repressive forces that have encircled the entire center, and with suppressive fury they are launching a responsible shipment of
chemicals and wood at the expense of demonstrators, in violent additions, - Equal and finally in 7 arrests, 4 of which with charges of
misconduct.

As state repression and terrorism, the murderous repressive mechanisms of the state continue to spearhead state policies to discipline those
who fight and subjugate the whole of society, it has become clear that tens of thousands of people across the nation and across solidarity,
street fighting with MAT killers, and the development of solidarity between the fighters can pave the way and form the basis of social and
class counterattack on repression and their ultimatums.

As arrests and state violence attempt to uproot resistance, new rounds of power clashes will arise in the future due to barbaric antisocial
policies and looting of the social base, to remind that the December uprising is still the ghost. lurking over the world of Power.

Do not let them unfold their plans undisturbed. Stay on the streets. Against the state, their repression and their murderous police. Against
the capital and barbarism it imposes. We call on everyone: the world of struggle, youth, workers, students and students to join the struggle
dynamically, in every social field to stem the tide of state repression, to go out in the fight for a world without oppressors and the
oppressed, of a society of freedom of justice and equality.

The whole earth boomed against its forces. In Chile and Bolivia, in France, in Syria and in Palestine, in Turkey and in thousands of places,
the desire for freedom is still a daily battle. To sail from the bays of revolt, into the open sea of total social and class counterattack
and emancipation. To overthrow the aging world of fear, submission, poverty. To live the only life worth living, of the struggle for the
Social Revolution.

NO PASARAN! UNDER THE HANDS FROM THE POPULATIONS, THE AGRICULTURALS AND THE SOCIAL-CLASSICAL RESISTANCE

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PARTICIPANTS ON DECEMBER 6

Pause Each Persecution For The 7 Participants Of The Dec. 6 Declaration In Patras - Down The Hand From Our Companions

FOR THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNISM... THE GAME IS CONTINUED!

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collections

http://apo.squathost.com/

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Chile has been experiencing a historic moment since October 17th. Workers, students, unions, political and social organizations,
associations, committees, children, everyone is on the street. The police and the army are too. Never seen in the "laboratory of
neoliberalism" since the coup d'etat of Pinochet in 1973. The ruling classes maintain the social order at the price of a fierce repression,
led in particular by an army of sinister memory. ---- It all starts with the announcement of an increase in the price of the metro ticket in
Santiago, now set at 830 Chilean pesos in full hours (1.03 euros) while the amount of SMIC is 374 euros per month. High school students took
the first step by calling for "days of escape" between 7 and 14 October: in small groups they entered the stations near their school without
paying. The government responded with the threat of the suspension of the student tariff (30 cents), and without understanding anything that
solidarity and class consciousness mean, said his misunderstanding of the fact that high school students then demonstrate that the price of
their tickets did not increase.

On October 17, the actions of the high school students take an unexpected scale: they open the turnstiles to let pass the many workers who
every day use public transport. In at least one station, they deactivate the ticket validation devices, an action described by the vandalism
press. The reaction of the government was immediate: the police are sent to control all the accesses of the network and to repress the high
school girls. The service is suspended in several stations. First mistake of the ruling class that pushes thousands of people on the street,
who, far from blaming high school students for not being able to move normally, have spontaneously understood that the culprit was the
government and its intransigence in the face of a legitimate claim.

We can describe what has happened so far, but it is not easy to know why it was precisely in October 2019 that Chile finally "woke up", as
we heard and shout in the demonstrations. This is not the first time that high school students organize such actions and this is not the
first abuse that the lower and middle classes are experiencing.

However, unlike other days of escape, the population, instead of condemning the actions, expressed strong support. Despite the efforts of
mass media journalists, in each micro-sidewalk, the claims are considered legitimate and the interviewees say they are ready to return home
a little later if this makes a difference. A slogan begins to circulate: it is not for 30 pesos increase of the price of the ticket, it is
for 30 years of abuse.

For 30 years of abuse
The following is better known: the situation is worsening for the ruling classes. Between 17 and 18 October, several metro stations burn, a
hundred small spontaneous demonstrations take place in the streets of Santiago and, at night, there is a series of looting of supermarkets,
shops and government buildings. It should be noted that most of the actions were carried out against the big chains of distribution:
pharmacies, supermarkets and other businesses which, in Chile, practiced big collusions these last years, confirmed by the courts of justice
without sanctions they are not inflicted.

Most metro stations are closed, the police are everywhere, justice - as they say in France - nowhere. On the 18th, the President of the
Republic, Sebastian Piñera, announces the application of the Internal Security Law and sets up the next day a curfew for the Metropolitana
region, of which Santiago is a part. Faced with these measures, which are usually used only in case of earthquake or natural disaster, the
population begins a "cacerolazo" mode of manifestation inherited resistance against the dictatorship of making noise with a pan for show
that they are empty.

Starting on 17 October, a protest against the increase in metro fares, Chile is currently experiencing a historic moment of mobilization and
faces a violent repression.
The army at the controls of repression
On October 20th, the first information of the dead, the wounded and the detainees is collected. The National Institute of Human Rights
counts five dead, hundreds wounded, and thousands of detainees. The curfew now affects several regions of the country.

On October 21, in his presidential message, Piñera declares " we are at war ". The protesters, they answer in the street: " We are not at
war ". From then on, the demonstrations are multiplying - they are taking place everywhere, even in the upper middle-class neighborhoods -
and the list of wounded, dead and tortured is just getting longer. The tradition of the Chilean army has been updated, and we have seen
images that we saw more since the end of the dictatorship (1973-1989). The ruling classes have shown what they are capable of. To militarize
a country rather than letting go of a handful of privileges, to leave public security in the hands of the same army that was in power
between 1973 and 1990 and to seek to divide a people that demands only justice and dignity.

Despite the difficulty of conducting a thorough analysis while the events are still ongoing, we have some elements. First, in recent
decades, the working classes in Chile have suffered the consequences of the structural adjustment program proposed by the IMF, the World
Bank and other representatives of capital, which has greatly precarious their living conditions.

The peculiarity of Chile is that the violence of the measures also affects the middle classes, even well-off. Since higher education still
pays off, even in public universities, there is no real public health system or retirement and the conditions of access to housing are
becoming harder and harder. young, childless workers resort to bank loans to cope. We are thus witnessing a process of widespread
proletarianization where, of course, the working classes remain the worst off. This partly explains the scale of the mobilizations: the
majority of the population said Basta !

Most of the population says Basta !
A second element is the leadership crisis of the ruling classes, whose scale is regional. They struggled to impose their program, and had to
give way to new faces. In Chile, the latest presidential elections have shown just how the emergence of "non-traditional " figures Is a
fact. Orphans of a real direction, the ruling classes in Chile had to impose once again their social order by blood and fire. The third
element is the process of political polarization within the country, linked to this crisis of direction. Faced with the relative vacuum of
power, we have witnessed the emergence of extreme right-wing groups and the radicalization of the positions of the left. However, none of
these groups managed to crystallize and impose a concrete political program, which explains that Sebastián Piñera was elected in 2018 for a
second term.

It is in this context that the demonstrations and actions of rebellion occurred. At this moment, hundreds of popular assemblies are active,
they demand a new constitution and the end of the neoliberal system. New organizations are being set up and solidarity is growing. No
traditional political party is at the head of this movement: Chile has understood that it is not through the guardians of the old order that
this will change. The future is not written, but for the moment - even if the ruling classes are catching up - Chile has gained enormously
in dignity, conscience and organization. It will now be on these bases that we will build the future, that's for sure. As El pueblo unido
says, song that was played, sung and shouted during the demonstrations, will be the vida that sells : the life that will come will be better.

Felipe (UCL Paris Nord-Est), October 28, 2019

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Chili-Une-etincelle-peut-mettre-le-feu-a-la-pampa

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When politicians want to come across as tough on crime they will announce a crackdown on gangs. Criminal gangs make an easy target because
(quite correctly) few people like them or want, them in their midst. Simon Bridges, the Leader of National Party, is no different. On
October 30th, 2019, it was reported in the Stuff article National Party say they ‘hate gangs' and would block benefit access that: ----
"National wants to block gang members from receiving a benefit if they are unable to prove they don't have illegal income or assets. ----
"The plan is part of National's Social Services Discussion Document, which was released on Wednesday and states: ‘National hates gangs. They
peddle misery in our communities and are responsible for the scourge of drugs in New Zealand.' ---- "National Party leader Simon Bridges
told Stuff the move was prompted by the exponential increase in gang numbers and if elected next year, National would crack down hard on gangs."

This increase in gangs refers to the upsurge in the numbers of patched gang members and prospects by as much as 1400 that the Police
Association referred to at their conference held in October 2019. As part of their plan to crack down on gangs it was reported in the same
article that:
"National will also compel government agencies to share information about gang members and their families so they are supported to be
violence and drug-free.
"Bridges believed most New Zealanders would not think he was heartless for implementing the policy.
"'Right now they are working hard, paying taxes, while gang members double dip getting the benefit and having their ill gotten gains from
their crime. It is beyond the pale.
"The gangs were known and there were a raft of touch points between gangs and agencies, so MSD would be tasked to administer the policy, he
said."

Not surprisingly for a social conservative, Bridges assumes that gang members are on a benefit while simultaneously living off the proceeds
of crime. While it might be a popular stereotype there is no way to confirm this because the Ministry of Social Development does not keep
records of whether or not their clients belong to a gang.

The response from the government was swift and showed that the measures being proposed to deal with the gangs by the National Party had
pretty much been implemented. As was reported in the same article:
"Police Minister Stuart Nash said it was ‘desperate political grandstanding' on the part of Bridges who seems to have only just realised
that gangs had a presence in New Zealand.
"‘Gang numbers started growing when the Rebels Motorcycle Club from Australia established a foothold in 2011, under the previous government.
The following year, police numbers fell by 150. Criminals began to be deported from Australia in even greater numbers in 2015. His
government responded by freezing spending on police.'
"Sanctions against those with undeclared income were already enforced, he said.
"Police, Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Social Development already went hard on benefit fraud and tax fraud - whether or not someone had
a patch on their back, he said."

In passing, this highlights the fact that essentially Labour has nothing different to distinguish itself from National. There may be the
occasional technical differences or bits of fine tuning here and there, but often they share the common ground of trying to out tough each
other.

On November 26th, it was reported in the Stuff article National Party's war on gangs could ban patches, create ‘Strike Force Raptor' police
that:

"The National Party wants to ban gang patches and insignia in public places and create an Australian-style "Strike Force Raptor" police unit
to crack down on gangs and Other proposals to crack down on gangs included revoking parole for those who associated with gangs and creating
a new sentence for violent gang crime."

A gang patch ban is a gimmick and such bans are already in place in much of the country. For the most part the gang patch ban has either
been circumvented by gang members tattooing their gang patches on their faces, arms or back or mocked by simply turning the jacket with the
gang patch inside out.

More intriguing, though, is their plan to set up a Strike Force Raptor-type anti-gang police unit modelled on the New South Wales
gang-busting unit. While this would appeal to many people who want to see a tough stance taken it is worth mentioning that the performance
of the police unit National wants to emulate has come under fire.

In the article Lawyer alleges stalking, intimidation by members of police taskforce targeting bikies that was published in the June 4th,
2019, Sydney Morning Herald it was alleged:

"A NSW solicitor has called for an investigation into members of a high-level police taskforce targeting bikies after officers allegedly
stalked and intimidated him.
"Greg Coombes, a lawyer in Grafton in the state's north, was due to represent a client associated with the Gladiators bikie gang last
Tuesday when members of Strike Force Raptor allegedly began to follow him from his home."

This is only one of many criticisms levelled against this police unit. Former New South Wales detective Mike Kennedy was quoted in a Radio
New Zealand website article on November 27th, 2019, as saying:

"He needs to pull his head out of whatever it's stuck in because ...[gangs]exist. They're always going to exist. They just go underground.
"I'm not a bleeding heart liberal," he said. "But[the zero-tolerance strategy has]just been a disaster."

The article went on to state:

"Outlaw motorcycle gangs are unregulated, so how would you know?" he said. "They're not required to pay a fee ... and register with
government. So any suggestion that the numbers are down is just nonsense."
Kennedy said the problem had just been driven underground.
"People don't stop being members of groups just because they've been arrested. They go into jail, they reinforce themselves, they come
out,[and]they get more of a reason to remain in the group they're in."
Police officers needed a working relationship with communities, including gang members, so they would cooperate with investigations, he said.
"You need this community to trust you so that when things need to be brought into line, the police are able to go in and speak to people and
find out who's ... behaving really badly, and who needs to be put in jail," Kennedy said.
"If you want those families to help the police ... then you can't just tar them all with the same brush. And that's what Raptor does."

When even former police officers from New South Wales are saying that such task forces don't work then notice should be taken. Its worth
remembering what the Police Minister said. Much of the increase in gang numbers in New Zealand was the result of the Australian police -
including the Strike Force Raptor - deporting gang members to New Zealand. In short, the Strike Force Raptor hasn't especially reduced gang
numbers but has essentially merely exported them.

A Stuff article (29/11/19), reported that experts in crime and gangs were less than impressed by the claims made by the National Party.

"Apart from the headline-grabbing gang issue, the 43 proposals feature a mix of nuanced ideas and proposals without substance, they said.
It has raised questions among police sources about Bill of Rights issues and whether the proposals could ever actually be enacted.
Experts have also highlighted that much of the document contains areas where policy already exists and questioned whether the tactics to
suppress gangs could even work.
There are already 12 government agencies which cooperate with information sharing about gangs through the Police Gang Intelligence Centre
and the Government has already proposed Firearm Prohibition Orders (FPOs) to keep guns out of the hands of gangs - something the National
Party said it wants to implement.
The Government has provided additional police to specifically work on organised crime and Police Minister Stuart Nash is considering new
police powers, through a review of the Crimes Act and proceeds of crime laws, targeting gang hierarchy and organised crime."

Again, this underscores the point that really there is often little to separate the political parties. They share a desire to legitimise
their control over society, to give police more power and to use crude crackdowns on gangs as their pretext. They disagree on the details,
some policies and public relations messaging of this but not the fundamentals.

While the politicians of all kinds and law enforcement argue among themselves over how they should deal with the gangs it has been the
Police Association - an organisation hardly noted for having liberal tendencies - that has concluded that the gang problem is the result of
societal issues and the increasingly lucrative drug trade.
The article What's going on with gangs? Influx of organised criminals is ‘destroying families' (Stuff, October 16th, 2019) stated:

"The UN estimates the illicit meth market in Australia and New Zealand is now worth $11.1 billion, partly because of high wholesale and
retail prices.
"'High-level Mexican drug cartels are now targeting New Zealand because selling drugs here is so lucrative. In the last year alone New
Zealand police seized one and a half tonne of meth and an increased volume of cocaine,'[Police Association President Chris]Cahill said."

"In the past 10 years police had gone from single kilo drug imports justifying significant resources, to now, 100 kilo imports being almost
commonplace, he said.
"'However my biggest concern is the rapid growth in gang numbers and the effect this will have on the lives of New Zealanders.'
"'What does it say when young people are increasingly considering gang membership as their future? Our members see disconnected, angry,
confused and unloved young people turning to gangs as a ‘family'!'"

This sentiment is shared to some extent by the Mongrel Mob, one of the largest gangs. In the November 27th, 2019, NZ Herald article Simon
Bridges should target poverty if he wants to tackle gang problems - Mongrel Mob Kingdom it was reported:

"Waikato Mongrel Mob Kingdom president Sonny Fatupaito said the party's law and order proposals reprised old policies which had "failed
miserably" and "terrorised Maori ... for generations".
"Fatupaito said his gang chapter was formed "out of the ashes of poverty" and that gangs were the most marginalised people in the country."
"The gang president questioned the success of the Strike Force Raptor Unit in Australia, which has absorbed significant resources while
failing to stem the rise of gang members or gang-related crime in the country.
"He noted the Australian Ombudsman's finding that the unit disproportionately targeted non-gang citizens and Aboriginal citizens.
"Fatupaito said he predicated an Australian-style crackdown in New Zealand last year because of the influx of "501s" or Australian deportees
from motorcycle gangs, who had led to a rise in gang numbers, drug crime, and violence here."

Leaving aside Fatupaito's misleading attempt to link gangs with other marginalised groups, he is right about National's plans to deal with
gangs being a re-tread of old policies that have failed here and overseas.
What the politicians and others who have spoken about the gang problem have all touched upon, but often failed to address, is that the gangs
are the product of both socio-economic failures within society and the failed war on drugs. Gangs are a misanthropic and deeply misdirected
attempt to deal with real problems that exist for those at the bottom of society. They are a pathogen an unhealthy society produces.

In the late 20th and early 21st Century technology has done away with thousands of jobs. A factory doesn't require thousands of workers on a
production line to produce goods. It can be done by a small group of people sitting behind computers and big screen monitors. There's no
need for filing clerks because there are no paper files any more. They're all on screen. Even farms no longer need as many workers to
harvest crops because a machine can do it more efficiently. Working class people, especially in rural areas, and Maori people have been
disproportionately disadvantaged by such changes.

In addition, though by its nature this is difficult to prove, I would argue there is cronyism and nepotism in much of New Zealand when it
comes to jobs. There is also the absence of opportunities caused by the lack of educational qualifications, appropriate work experience and
skills for the local job market and long standing bigotry against Maori and the poor which paints them as lazy, drug-addicted criminals
despite no evidence to back such stereotypes.

With so few opportunities in the legitimate job market this has led some into the drug trade.
Despite the risks involved the drug trade is lucrative. The Australian and New Zealand drug trade in total is worth $11.1 billion a year.
This is now attracting the attention of drug cartels in Mexico and elsewhere. As the September 20th, 2019, Radio New Zealand article The
Detail: New Zealand's rampant drug culture reveals:

"The prices that we pay for it here are much higher than the rest of the world and basically trans-national organised crime groups, cartels
in Mexico and South America as well as the more traditional organised crime groups in China and Southeast Asia, have cottoned on to this."
"A kilogram of meth can be produced in Mexico or China for just a few hundred to a thousand dollars. That's probably worth $5000 in Mexico
or the US if it gets to the border.
"You bring that same kilogram here and the market price for a kilogram is anywhere between $180,000 and $350,000."
Basically, with a waiting base of buyers willing to pay $100 for 0.1 grams of meth - New Zealand is an attractive proposition for smugglers.
"I've been in this organisation for 36 years ... and I never thought I'd see these types of numbers," says Customs investigations manager
Bruce Berry.

Drugs are also risky. 64 people were found to have died - at least in part - as a result of methamphetamine related toxicity over slightly
less than five years, according to inquest reports released under the Official Information Act. The risks associated with P are seen as very
minor compared to the money that can be made from it and this is a key factor as to why the gangs are growing. In a society where a lot of
young people, especially among Maori and Pacific Island communities (and increasingly Asian as well), are being shut out of the legitimate
economy they are joining the gangs to get into the drug trade to make money. This has happened particularly in Northland where it was
reported in the March 13th, 2018, article Getting hold of meth in 20 minutes or less that

"There's so much unemployment in the Far North, there's very little transport, you've got a widely distributed population and the gangs
easily take advantage of people," said Whangarei defence lawyer Kelly Ellis, who frequently interacts and represents meth users.

The one thing that is self-evident is that there are no easy solutions to dealing with the gangs, certainly not within the system that
currently dominates. These groups are largely the product of a dysfunctional society and an economy where an underclass of people have been
shut out.

As has been stated above the gang problem won't be solved by grandstanding politicians demanding getting tough on them. Nor will the use of
brute force by dedicated anti-gang task forces like the New South Wales Strike Force Raptors achieve any long-term solutions. In most cases
where gangs have been cracked down on human rights abuses, extra-judicial killings and homicide rates have increased dramatically,
especially in Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines, as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have reported many times.

In my view there are two ways in which the gang problem can be better dealt with:
The first is possible as a reform within the current system. Deny the gangs their key source of income: money from drugs. The easiest way to
achieve this would be the legalisation of all drugs. If the legalisation of drugs follows the same pattern as the legalisation of
prostitution did, the immediate short term result would be the flooding of the local market with cheap drugs in the hope they could get more
customers. When the anticipated increase in demand does not meet the actual demand the bottom will fall out of the drug trade and take down
most of the gangs with it. Those that survive will need to regroup and look for alternative sources of revenue. Even though there will still
be gangs they would be seriously knocked back for a while at least.

The second is a longer term, deeper and more difficult one...the abolition of Capitalism. This would eradicate the wasteful economic system
that has decided that thousands of people are worthless because their experience, qualifications and skills are of no use to bosses and
those who do their bidding. In the grey and black economies those same people dismissed as useless have often found themselves in useful
tasks such as building fences, mending heaters or fixing bikes for neighbours in return for cash in hand or cultivating and harvesting
marijuana crops. It would be better if those currently in the Mongrel Mob were running a hemp co-op or repair business instead.

Without the poverty the system we currently live under creates, gangs wouldn't be able to recruit members because there would be no
attraction. Without poverty children will be raised in safer and stable environments so by the time they enter society they would be
equipped with the necessary social skills to cope in whatever type of world they enter. Such young people don't join gangs because they
don't need substitute families, promises of flash cars and nice homes or any of the other gimmicks that gangs use to lure people into their
ranks.

A society based on democratic community control of resources, where there are no extremes of wealth and power would act to take the oxygen
out of the growth of parasitic organisations such as gangs and governments. Lets be honest, we may never reach the point where they are
eliminated entirely, but we can and should try to head in that direction since the alternative proposed by the current political
establishment has little meaningful to offer.

Related Link: https://awsm.nz/?p=4143

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31679

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The State of Struggles is a public bulletin that will be published by the Libertarian Communist Union throughout the movement. It
synthesizes information on mobilization and offers elements of analysis. Make it happen !
SUMMARY
After the announcement of Édouard Philippe, we continue !
Where is the mobilization ?
Bounce on December 17
Report by city

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?APRES-LES-ANNONCE-DE-E-PHILIPPE-ON-CONTINUE

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Wednesday, December 11, Édouard Philippe has only confirmed what opponents and opponents of the pension reform denounce for months already.
Behind a long and insupportable speech to fall asleep, the goal remains the same: to make us work longer for lower pensions. Today, the
strikes continue and must expand. On December 17, we must strike even harder. ---- What we remember: ---- The government remains on the
establishment of a points system, where the calculation of pensions will no longer be done on the best 25 years for the private sector, and
on the last 6 months for the public service, but on the whole career, which will automatically lower pensions. ---- The full retirement age
will also be raised to 64. We can leave at 62, but with a 10% discount on the pension ! ---- The end of the 42 special regimes to level down
all collective agreements.
Division attempts
Power seeks to get certain trades or certain generations out of the mobilization. By shifting the application of the point pension system to
people born after 1975, he encourages the over-43s to stop the strike.
By promising teachers to maintain their pension level, the government is making fun of the world: this promise is as meaningless as when it
certifies that the value of the point cannot drop, and that it will be indexed on the wages and controlled by the "  social partners  " and
by the Parliament. For example, although the index point of the civil servants may be co-managed in this way, it has not been blocked for
years. As for indexation on wages, it would still be necessary for these to increase.
"  No retirement below 1,000 euros  " we are told. Great, it is already in the law since 2008 and it is totally insufficient to live with
dignity !

Should we rejoice at the attitude of the CFDT ?
With these announcements, the government has lost the last support for its reform, because even the CFDT is now opposed to the reform ...
but only on the pivotal age at 64 ! The rest of the reform, the CFDT still approves ! We can easily imagine the maneuver. Laurent Berger
shows the fangs ; the cowardly government over the pivotal age, much to say about not much compared to the whole attack ; we can then mimic
reconciliation, with a government proud to have been "  listening  " and a CFDT which, proud of its "  victory  ", calls to end the strike
and to capitulate on everything else.

Édouard Philippe referred certain corporations to company discussions, this is the case of the SNCF for example, the trade unions being
invited this Thursday morning by the management. We must remain united and reject this reform project as a whole. What we need is a victory
for the entire working world, not cheap accommodation for a few sectors. Our whole class needs to regain confidence in its collective
strength ! All sectors and the social movement would benefit from the doors opened by such a victory.

Bounce on December 17
We must not hide behind facade speeches. The situation is tense. The 5 was an undeniable success of which everyone can be proud. But the
reconductible strike, it does not generalize, for the moment. Too many companies and union teams did not anticipate the day after the 5. The
mobilization of Tuesday, December 10 was strong, but insufficiently prepared to allow other sectors to leave in renewable. Since then, we
are struggling to find the fulcrum to expand the renewals. December 17 must serve this purpose.

Today, we must convince our colleagues to make the 17th an even more massive day than that of the 5. And this time, we must prepare to
continue the next day.

For employees who are already renewable, next Tuesday may seem far away ; We have to keep up the pressure until then by continuing to keep
our strikes alive through blocking actions and interpro links.

The weight of past defeats weighs on our shoulders. However, we must be convinced that we can win, because this government can be backed
down frankly. Besides, even if they are measuring spoons, they don't let go of them for pleasure, but because they are under pressure. The
shooting window is short between now and the end of year holidays, but it is still open. Let's continue the strike and generalize it. Losing
your life to win it: never !

Libertarian Communist Union, December 12, 2019

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Retraites-on-continue-on-amplifie

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This isn't about saying "I told you so!" We have close friends and solid comrades who put their faith and energy into Corbyn and the Labour
party. We have nothing but sympathy and condolences for them. The loss of hope must feel like a bereavement. We're sorry, collectively, for
the anguish that millions of people are feeling today. ---- But we can help, and we can offer an alternative. We know now that no-one is
coming to save us. That's OK. We can save ourselves. Solfed and the Anarchist/Libertarian Left have always believed that real power comes
from below, not above. We don't have to wait for another socialist politician to rescue us from the Tories, we can save ourselves. We
believe that politics starts at home, in our relationships with our families, friends, communities and workmates. We know that electoral
politics is off the cards, at least for a few years. So lets try an alternative strategy. Let's build real, strong, communities and
workplaces that can fight back against the ruling class. Let's do it ourselves, and not wait five years for another roll of the
parliamentary dice. Politics is about what we do ourselves, not who we choose to do it for us.

Here's our suggestions:

Talk to your neighbours. Find out what issues are troubling people in your community or neighbourhood. Get together, hold meetings, find out
what skills and resources you have between you, and come up with a plan to fix the problems. Talk to other neighbourhoods, work together,
and start building a groundswell of organised communities. Don't trust the police, poltiicians, companies or charities; they're not our
friends. Last night proved that.

Talk to your workmates. Find out what's going at work, what people are scared of, stressed by, or angry about. Get together and hold
workplace meetings. Come up with a plan and start fighting back. Talk to other workers, and start building a movement of free, self-managed
workers' organisations. Don't trust the bosses, politicians or the mainstream trade unions-they're not on your side!

Break the rules. Political power is only worth anything if it can be enforced. If you're strong enough to fight back then there's nothing
they can do to hurt you.

Keep talking. Spread the word and the ideas. Especially, talk about your victories and successes. This stuff sounds impossible until we
realise how easy it is.

Be kind to each other. There's strength in numbers and connectedness is power. Your allies and friends are the only thing you have. Cherish them

This isn't a recruitment drive. Don't join Solfed if you don't want to. But do talk to us-we can give advice and we might be able to help.

http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2019/12/13/OPTIMISME

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After four years, five months, and fourteen days in prison on Monday, October 14, 2019, our colleague  Miguel Angel Perala B etanzos was
released from the prison walls of  San Juan Bautista Cuicatl án in Oaxaca. The news reached Miguel at night, while he was in the area m is
tip of the presidio, after holding a hunger strike of 26 days. Finally, he obtained absolute freedom by proving not responsible for any of
the two crimes of criminal case 02/2015 fabricated by the coronelista family of Morenista deputy Elisa Zepeda Lagunas. ----  Freedom of
Miguel  is  the direct result of solidarity of many people, groups, media  reports tion and organizations M is México and the world; the
work of the collective "Other Lawyers", politically engaged comrades who maintained the legal struggle, despite the irregularities and
omissions of the State Judiciary; monitoring of a community that, amidst stress the  divisive and opportunist, Not the  left to demand the
freedom of Miguel. Perhaps the most important is that this freedom is the result of  that  Miguel himself, in the darkest days, kept his
spirit resist isstrength and struggle strengthened by all this demonstration of solidarity.

On the other hand, we want to make it clear that freedom of Miguel Will not the  is  an act of justice exercised from the judicial apparatus
of the state, we know very well that this is not for justice but serves to administer, manage and maintain relaçõ es  theft, domination and
exploitation, as they have done with our mate for over four years. But his freedom was conquered Thanksgiving to  the  organization and
mobilization that accompanied the work of lawyers, we can prove that in the process  criminal 02/2015 n ã the h will a single legal evidence
against him and that the state of Oaxaca, in complicity with the Eloxochitl mandonist group Án, from Flores Magón, headed by the Zepeda
family, kept Miguel imprisoned for purely political reasons  .

Despite this long and stressful process, we are now celebrating the freedom of our companion Miguel and we are happy that he has returned to
the streets. However, beside the joy, we burn with anger for the years, months, days and minutes that they stole from our partner, for the
trauma inflicted on Miguel, his family and  the community of Eloxochitlán; the tensions, divisions and mistrust that the repression the
state and the arrest generated.

We know  that this n ã the  is  the end. Seven other members of Assembl is going Comunit will laugh at it and Eloxochitlán of Flores Magon
remain in prison under the same false acusaçõ es that  ascribed to Miguel; arrest orders continue to be issued and members of the community
remain displaced, ie  the repression of the state and mandonism is not over.

So much so that, after the release of Miguel, Mrs Morenist  Elisa Ze piece Lagunas made a s is series of statements declared es p UBLIC in
various mass media and their social networks, repeating their lies to try to build other hist O fictitious holiday serving its coronelista
power  econ ô medical and pol phytic. False statements that  were even reproduced by the governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, who
despite a legal  resolution acquitting Miguel, continued to treat Miguel as a murderer, contrary to the decision of the judiciary.

In addition is m those lies, which by the way have been torn down, and the use of large media to disseminate them, perhaps the most worrying
is the fact that the president of the local Congress Judiciary Committee Elisa Zepeda and his father Manuel Zepeda Courts appealed against
the acquittal sentence, again putting the freedom and integrity of our mate at risk.

We call tod xs xs companheirxs to be atentxs to s a tio n s d Mrs  Elisa Ze piece Lagunas and the Oaxaca government in pr O ximas weeks and
months and its intention to continue to  repress ã the  against Miguel and Eloxochitlán community Flores Magón. We call on all of you to be
aware of the situation of the seven political prisoners of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón. We hold Mrs Elisa zepeda Lagunas responsible for
any breach of the integrity of Miguel, his lawyers and his family.

Finally, gradecemos  monitoring and support Michael during his imprisonment, the aquelxs todxs we find in this struggle in recent years, n o
s embrace and celebrate them together with you is s a losing battle, because the freedom of Miguel  is  also is Wow.

We remain committed to this fight, against the police, prisons and courts, for the freedom of all those who remain in prison.

Freedom to all  prisoners pol í typical of Eloxochitl will not mage Flowers n, Oaxaca!

Freedom for all xs presxs!

Mo rte the  prison society!

Long live the autonomy and self-determination of the peoples!

Miguel Peralta Solidarity for Freedom Group  .

Translation> Mauricio Knup

Related Content:

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/10/16/mexico-miguel-peralta-foi-libertado/

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   The demographic change that had been denounced is already a reality in the north and east of Syria. Since the Turkish army attacked Afrin
in 2018 hundreds of thousands of people moved to the municipality of Shehba seeking refuge. Insecurity in areas that are not protected by
the YPG and YPJ militias is guaranteed. A few days ago we were informed of the lack of international support for the survival of all these
displaced people, whose homes have been ransacked, making it impossible to return. Winter has arrived and the lack of shelter is extreme.
Worldwide support committees are being organized to Rojava , we encourage you to approach the committees with all the supportive help we can
provide.
  But the demographic change orchestrated from Turkey has the approval of the international community that is not able to guarantee an air
corridor of humanitarian aid for the Kurdish People. Turkey is clear and continues its ruthless plan advancing positions.

  This week the city of Tall Rifaat has been attacked with artillery fire by killing 10 civilians, 8 of them were children between 3 and 15
years old, all of them came from Afrin fleeing the Turkish war against their people. From the General Confederation of Labor we wish to
extend our deepest condolences to their families, friends and companions to the shout of "Sehîd namirin" (The martyrs are immortal)!

Is there any doubt about the genocidal intention of Turkey? Erdogan declared war on Kurdistan several tens of years ago and is slowly
executing his plan. Shifting the Kurdish population to colonize the territory of Northern and Eastern Syria with Turkish population; and
murdering the Kurdish population, the children of a free Kurdistan future that will not exist with silence and international complicity.

But this international silence is not neutral, the Spanish State continues to export weapons to the Turkish Army. Also this week the press
has denounced that "the A400M aircraft, manufactured by Airbus in Seville, is used by the Erdogan army to deploy troops in both territories
(Syria and Cyprus)" Contravene this or not the European regulations that prohibit selling arm to who uses them against another Member State
as in Cyprus, does not seem the most relevant. Spain should not deal with weapons and much less with those that target the civilian population.

 From the General Confederation of Labor we also denounce the use of the women's body as a weapon of war in the Turkish invasion in the
North and East of Syria. As was the case in previous conflicts, the violation is systematic by the Turkish National Army. We support the
Women Defend Rojava Movement and we encourage you to approach the specific committees that have also been organized in our latitudes.

WE KEEP OUR VOICES RISEN AGAINST THE GENOCIDE OF THE KURDO PEOPLE.

WE DEMAND THE TURKISH STATE OF ERDOGAN TO STOP IN YOUR ATTACKS

WE DEMAND THE SPANISH STATE THAT FINISHES THE SALE OF WEAPONS, WE DO NOT WANT ANY MORE KILLED PERSONS, WE ARE AGAINST ALL STATE VIOLENCES.

#ErdoganTerrorist

# RiseUp4Rojava

#WomenDefendRojava

#Not pass#NoPasarán

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