Update: anarchist news and information from all over the world - 13.12.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Union Communiste Libertaire Bruxelles - We are no longer
      afraid, an open letter from feminists. (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Chile. Fifth statement of the "Federación Anarquista
      Santiago" on the social uprising More than one and a half month
      from the start. (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  The process begins for an Anarchist Congress in Chile By ANA
      -- Called for a pro-federative assembly (pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  black rose fed: WILDCAT STRIKE LAUNCHED BY UC SANTA CRUZ
      GRAD STUDENT WORKERS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  [Chile] Santiago: 50th Day of Social Uprising By ANA (pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, wessex solidarity: Statement in support of the
      protests in Iran -- Cautiously pessimistic (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  anarchist communist group ACG: Update on the strike movement
      in France - December 9 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 8.  ait russia: "56th act" of "yellow vests" in the midst of a
      mass strike [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  Turkey, Young Workers Association was on the Streets against
      Economic Crisis (tr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Five days after the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the DH published an article under the title "  #MeToo ,
collateral victims in men?»More than an article, it is a tribune without filter or nuance of the journalist and the newspaper which
publishes it, in which ten Belgian personalities, men, express themselves on the mode:" Can not more nothing say". ---- "We can not say
anything more": faced with this sentence made by men finally posing as victims, we remained calm (and yes, we are not hysterics). We read
this article to the end. We took the time to discuss it, to meet each other to understand the reactions to this article. ---- What to say?
It is difficult to know where to start so this platform is full of disturbing statements ...
For them, women would no longer be able to accept a "nice compliment", a "light dredge". These gentlemen do not want to understand that it
is not a question of capacity but of choice: having to undergo, without flinching, inappropriate remarks, hisses and comments on our
physics, salacious allusions, it's basta! Rather than lamenting being deprived of "freedom" for women, these men would do well to question
the violence of their behavior; they are not the victims of feminicide, beaten, harassed, commodified.
At the same time, those men who see with so much casualness and levity what women suffer, if they had a real awareness of the oppression
they inflict on them, we would know. They have so integrated these behaviors, these social norms, that they have become incapable of
realizing the violence they are doing (consciously or unconsciously) to women. We invite them to question and to introspect before blaming
women for the current events they deplore.

We could read that women should not turn to social networks to denounce the acts suffered, but to justice. The same justice that is so
lacking in resources that it is unable to guarantee women victims of aggression and violence real security? This same justice that asks us
questions such as: "What did you wear? "It was not a little late to walk alone in the street? This patriarchal justice?

We read that we should not boycott works by pedophile and abusive filmmakers because we need to open the debate. Do you really think that
the 12 women who have been the prey of Roman Polanski want to open the debate?

We were able to read these men once again to explain what it is like to have "a true feminist message", except that you guys do not really
understand this feminist message!
The problem that these men encounter, which bothers them, is not that they can not say anything, as some people say in the gallery. No, the
problem is related to the frustration they feel they can not say everything they want without having a negative answer, without being put in
their place ... Before, we were silent, now we resist them and we say NO.

22% of men say and acknowledge having already been the author of a sexual assault, this figure represents only a visible part of the
iceberg, he speaks men who are aware of having, one day, a behavior that poses problem, not all others who refuse to understand that their
behavior is qualifiable sexual assault.

No, there is no risk of low birth rate, no risk that contacts between men and women disappear. We just do not want (in fact, we never wanted
to) to make us heavily flirt, touch, harass by strangers, relatives, colleagues, etc. This does not mean that we do not want to talk to men
anymore and that it is forbidden to approach us, to talk to us. No, it is just that today we are much more selective, direct and proud, we
want and will do everything to change things.

In fact, what we simply want is to leave the patriarchate, it is to live in a society where the relationship between men and women is done
outside the relations of domination and on a relationship of equality. Reading, in 2019, a man downplaying the scope of the Metoo and
violence against women, comparing what they live structurally with what he experienced as inter-personal relations and invoking the "
#balancetaPute ", confirms that there is still a long way to go to get there!

We will no longer apologize to men whose ego is hurt because they can no longer sin as before. This is a new era, it will take place.

Signatories:
Macrales
Young Organized and Combative - JOC
Collecti.ef 8 maars  Brussels
The News Antigone
Group feminic collages Brussels
Feminism Libertarian Brussels
Collective  The head up
FLutts Women in struggle

The article we react to:  https://www.dhnet.be/.../metoo-of-victims-collaterales-chez ...

The position of the DH on the reactions of the article in question: the freedom of expression goes only in a sense visibly:
https://www.dhnet.be/.../metoo-and-men-la- dh-against-the ...

https://bxl.communisteslibertaires.org/2019/12/08/nous-navons-plus-peur-lettre-ouverte-de-feministes/

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Message: 2





Fifty days after the Social Outburst, the people are still firm in the struggle, the attempts of demobilization, criminalization, state
terrorism and the exhaustion of days of resistance have not been enough to break the will of the oppressed class, which has risen to never
kneel again. The social fabric annihilated by Pinochet's dictatorship is now being reconstructed inch by inch, in instances such as
territorial assemblies, territorial organizations and unions, cultural activities, common pots, and in protest the Organized Community
flourishes. The peoples in struggle have demonstrated all their creativity and rebellion, in this way generating an indefatigable
resistance. The protest of millions of women and dissidents has been moving, shouting to the world that "The oppressive State is a rapist
male", an echo that has been felt in all corners of the planet, capitalism and patriarchy tremble in the face of the rebellion of the
peoples. It is tremendously important that everything we have experienced in these months of resistance does not remain anecdotal or
circumstantial, hence it is extremely important to create and strengthen the organizations of the oppressed class such as unions,
federations and student centers, territorial assemblies, women's organizations, sexual and feminist dissidents, committees of relatives,
coordination in defense of land, water and territories, organizations of indigenous peoples, and so on. In this way, to ensure popular
protagonism and to consolidate this process of accumulation of forces.
The State continues with its policy of terror, thus extending human rights violations to all territories, a situation that has even been
visualized by international organizations with a clear liberal tendency. The attributions of its lackeys are absolute, and every time the
Government has been able to do so, it has come out to rub the backs of the henchmen who spread terror, violence, torture and rape in our
streets and neighborhoods. The figures of repression are increasingly dramatic: more than 8,500 detainees, thousands of tortured, hundreds
of rapes, uncertain numbers of disappeared, about thirty murdered, and almost 300 people with their eyes mutilated. They are killing us,
disappearing, torturing and raping us.Added to the above, the mechanisms of repression have increased, to the point of reintegrating retired
police and advancing the promotion of those who were in the process of "training," thus increasing the repressive presence in a significant
way. Although we are not in a state of emergency legally, the peoples in struggle have been able to prove the permanent and veiled nature of
this, since State terrorism is still more present than ever.
Added to the above, the parties of order embrace each other and celebrate the emanation from the rotten National Congress of laws that are
coming to criminalize social protest. Laws that will punish with severe penalties those who carry out strikes, land seizures, or organize
themselves to rise up against this system of domination; in this way all forms of effective resistance against Capitalism and Patriarchy are
banned. On the other hand, a new political police is being created, which will have undercover agents to persecute, harass and assassinate
social fighters, and if this is not enough, a law is being passed that will allow the Armed Forces to protect the infrastructure that makes
the flow of products and the plundering of nature possible. This repressive agenda counted with the obvious votes of the Right and the "Ex
Concertación" -architects of this tearful democracy-, however, we also counted the omission and votes of the so-called "Left"; Communist
Party and Frente Amplio ( Wide Front) of those who will never feel betrayed since they have never been on the side of the oppressed class.
With this they only come to reaffirm what is known and understood in the streets, that they are nothing more than false critics, lovers of
bourgeois democracy and its privileges, they only seek to contribute to the precariousness of our lives and will bring a toast when they
fill the prisons with social fighters. The people possess wisdom, so we understand that this was not a "political error" as some squeal on
social networks, but a declaration of direct war against the oppressed class. The peoples have a memory, so we will never forget that they
helped the government in power to massacre us.
The political caste, "expert journalists," and the commentator who passes the television sets have targeted various groups who would be
behind the "public safety problem Chile faces". These stupid things come from bourgeois mouths, which have never understood popular
rebellion and its indomitable nature. It is the oppressed class as a whole that has rebelled against a system that forbids us to live in
dignity, that denies us water and land, that commodifies our bodies and territories, that forbids us everything.
Finally we call to continue the resistance, today there are thousands of prisoners of the social explosion who are imprisoned in the prisons
of the bourgeoisie, we call to extend solidarity actions and fight for their immediate release. Likewise, we must continue to consolidate
popular protests, strengthening and creating organizational instances of all kinds, which will advance to the construction of an organized
community, in order to concretize our self-liberation and the fall of the patriarchal-capitalist system of domination and its colonizing
strategy.
Let's continue the fight!
Immediate release of the prisoners of the social revolt!
To strengthen the People's Protagonism!
Let's strike root Anarchism!
To build an organized Community!
Long live the struggle of the peoples!

Originally published by Federación Anarquista Santiago Facebook page. Translated by Enough 14.

FEDERACIÓN ANARQUISTA SANTIAGO, December 6, 2019

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Message: 3






It's been a month since the social explosion, and we see that our efforts in various organizations and calls to work from the territories
have been arduous, a situation that may not have been fully prepared and during these intense days it is normal to see physical, mental and
discursive. On the other hand, it is also thought that the response as anarchists could have been different and more coordinated in order to
capture in the population the principles and purposes of anarchism in the face of widespread aversion to the hierarchical institutions that
dominate us. We see that in many territories the abuse and domination of the privileged class continues to be questioned, but without the
aim of seeking the true liberation and transformation of our lives, We could exemplify that the current focus of the discussions that led to
surrendering the effort only to a constitutional change, which we understand as the restructuring of a new oppressor. In other territories,
we can also see political parties through social organizations sticking their noses, making them believe they are representatives of the
people because they have been leaders or "social actors" for years, trying to validate the same power structures and privileges of one over
the other. others that this social explosion originated. Which would lead these new "social actors" to be the new bourgeoisie. by making
them believe that they are representatives of the people because they have been leaders or "social actors" for years, trying to validate the
same power structures and privileges of one another that this social explosion originated. Which would lead these new "social actors" to be
the new bourgeoisie. by making them believe that they are representatives of the people because they have been leaders or "social actors"
for years, trying to validate the same power structures and privileges of one another that this social explosion originated. Which would
lead these new "social actors" to be the new bourgeoisie.

The different anarchist organizations were able to articulate various activities; In other territories new organizations are being born, but
we consider this effort to be the first step. History has allowed us to know that this social upheaval and people's level of response do not
happen when we want it, nor is it immediate, or incidentally, are processes that take decades of work and are a great opportunity to move
forward. The strength to continue the fight will depend on each other, and we need together to dream and make a collective effort. It is
time to self-criticize for the lack of unity, because in many situations it was not possible to make a federation of anarchist organizations
without, through these calls, individualization, exclusion of people, organizations or self-marginalization,

We believe it is urgent that we anarchists be organized and cry out for unity, leaving aside personal differences; Without this, we
understand that we would not be aware of the seriousness of certain facts, but at the same time we understand that anarchism is the only
political philosophy that is constantly self-critical, which leads us to question and improve our actions.

Through the Assembly we propose, we hope to do concrete work in the short and long term in order to create a united anarchist movement
aspiring to social transformation.

It is important to mention that while the call is being made through a specific organization, ideologically oriented by anarcho-syndicalism,
the call is not just for anarcho-syndicalists and sympathizers, since our goal is not for a group or trend to position itself as a carrier.
voice of anarchism. Feel a part of all organizations that pursue anarchist principles, means and ends.

We call for a process throughout Chile, where anarchists from all communes and regions hold local assemblies, to finally hold an anarchist
congress in the Chilean region.

As  Various Trade Union Santiago  is part of the metropolitan region, the call we are initially making is to the neighboring municipalities
of Santiago, but we urge the organization of each territory, generating the necessary calls and thus achieving a cohesive movement.

In the process, no selection will be made or projects will be neglected, from editorial projects to territorial organizations, from
propaganda groups to student groups, from open spaces to cooperatives, all, including individuals who are not currently shaking, are invited
to to participate.

The meeting will be held on Sunday, January 5, 2020, and anyone who wishes to attend, please contact us by email:

sovsantiago@gmail.com

accion-directa.org

Translation> Liberto

anarchist news agency-ana

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Message: 4






Could the #Red4Ed strike wave spill over to higher education and graduate student organizing? Participant C.A. writes on the announced
strike hours after the vote was taken. -- By C.A. ---- Graduate student workers at the Santa Cruz campus of the leviathan University of
California have voted to launch a wildcat grading strike in the lead up to final exams. Organized under Local 2865 of the UAW, these workers
perform a wide variety of duties - everything from carrying out faculty research, to lecturing, to evaluating the coursework of tens of
thousands of enrolled undergraduates - all in order to keep the university running smoothly. ---- Graduate student worker at UC Santa Cruz
are overjoyed as they vote to launch a wildcat grading strike leading into final exams on Sunday, December 8. Over 120 attending the meeting
in person and 140 joined remotely via conference call.
The Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz
Universities, especially large public institutions like the UC, rely almost exclusively on the labor of graduate students to handle the ever
increasing volume of bachelors seeking students who arrive on campus. Despite the institution's total reliance on grad student labor, these
workers have had to fight tooth and nail to win the meager pay and benefits that have so far been secured. Still, of course, it is not enough.

Many may be aware of the (capital manufactured) housing crisis that has struck the heart of California's major cities. Santa Cruz, while
somewhat isolated from the larger Bay Area, has not been immune to its effects. In fact, the conditions in this small, sleepy beach
community have acted to concentrate and supercharge what has been ongoing in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and other nearby cities.

With its already highly constricted housing stock, Santa Cruz was long ripe for landlords big and small to take advantage of renters.
Recognizing the rapidly rising value of their commodity, Santa Cruz landlords have adjusted their rates to reflect the gobs of money that
tech companies pour into the region. This has directly led to renters persistently falling in and out of homelessness, living in their cars,
or having to relocate to far flung areas of the region.

A Simple Demand: "We need a Cost of Living Adjustment"
This was the reality that I walked into when I accepted an offer to join a graduate program at UC Santa Cruz. Assuring myself that my
conditions couldn't be any more dire than those I had faced throughout my many years working in the service industries of Los Angeles and
the Bay Area - I soon came to the realization that I was completely mistaken.

During 2018 contract negotiations, our union was able to secure a 3% wage increase for all student workers, the first since 2014. However,
during this same period of time, the average cost of rent in Santa Cruz shot up by a staggering 15% - with many graduate student workers
paying forty, fifty, sixty, or even seventy percent of our already atrociously low income, simply for our basic need for shelter.

This is perhaps the core reason why 85% of union members at the UC Santa Cruz campus voted in 2018 to reject the statewide contract that was
hammered out. Union leadership unfortunately showed little care for the specific conditions that workers on the UCSC campus were and are
facing, as they moved to ratify the contract anyway.

Recognizing this dire state of affairs, grad student workers began organizing both within and without the official channels of our union. A
simple demand was put forward: We need a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) - specifically the university must begin issuing a monthly payment
of $1,412 in order to bring the nearly 2,000 student workers employed by the university out of a state of rent burden.

This call immediately resonated with both active and inactive members of our union. A march and rally to deliver our singular demand to the
Chancellor's office was attended by more than 200 student workers and their supporters.

The Beginning of a Wildcat
Unsurprisingly, the university administration has done little other than issue vague pronouncements about "creating new opportunities for
student workers" and "uncertainty that a cost of living adjustment would achieve the desired effect".

This intractability has only generated more ire on the part of graduate student workers.

Now, at the tail end of the quarter, there has quickly materialized a threat to strike during the most crucial grading period of the
academic cycle. A straw poll of union members revealed that there was a massive willingness to launch a strike immediately.

Perhaps most thrilling is the fact that this militancy is erupting in the face of a contract which prohibits an unscheduled withdrawal of
our labor. To put it bluntly: the rank and file don't care what the contract stipulates - we are strike ready.

This has created an even more unprecedented situation where 6 of 7 members of our local union leadership have resigned in support and
anticipation of what would be a wildcat action.

"We Strike Tomorrow!"
On December 8th, 120 graduate student workers gathered in an auditorium on campus, accompanied by another 140 via Zoom video chat. The
purpose of the meeting was to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of violating our contract in order to begin a wildcat strike the very next day.

After about an hour of discussion, those present (both in person and online) cast their ballots. Speaking in a loud, firm, and nearly
unanimous voice, they said: We strike tomorrow!

As long as we are on strike, as long as management refuses to provide us with a living wage, graduate students will not turn in grades for
any of final exams, papers, or other academic material that they are tasked with evaluating.

This story is developing. As the situation evolves, we will be providing updates about movements on the ground.

To learn more about this campaign, please follow on Instagram @payusmoreucsc and on Twitter @bananaslums. See their website at
https://payusmoreucsc.com/

C.A. resides between the Bay Area and Los Angles and is currently a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz. They are involved in renter struggles
and a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra.

https://blackrosefed.org/wildcat-strike-santa-cruz-grad-students/

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December 6, 2019 ---- The flame is lit! ---- Who would say... It's been 50 days! ---- During the week, we talked about how the number of
people coming to Dignity Square has dropped dramatically. There was a call not to deteriorate from "the first line": "they left us alone and
are making us shit" was the phrase that echoed. ---- Some predicted that the Social Uprising was slowly dying. But the government, in
complicity with parliament, threatened "with the punishment of hell" those who continued to protest, which had the opposite effect and
people returned to the streets. ---- And they came back angry at those who know that in this fight you can't trust political parties and you
only have yourself, and that together with others we make a knot. A us that on this day exceeds one hundred thousand people!
On this eighth Friday of the Social Uprising, hatred was directed against the Broad Front and its pathetic apology for the anti-protest
vote. That is why, last night, they attacked the headquarters of one of their coalition parties: "Democratic Revolution."

A group of people from La Legua distributes luncheons, stylists get haircuts and, a little more, in a special chair, offer massages for
protesters, the beautiful thing is that everything is without a currency exchange. Solidarity and mutual support remain one of the pillars
of these fifty days.

Elsewhere in Zone Zero, clashes between hooded and footmen are violent. A three-meter police structure is carried on foot to the barricades,
and like the "Trojan Horse" from within, about thirty shields come out and then burn the "sculpture" amid applause and shouting. One moment
that left us paralyzed was when a hooded Molotov bomb was lit on his clothes, but he was able to put out the fire quickly.

With a giant slingshot, they throw stones at the cops. Shields with an A within a circle, among others, protect those who resist the attack
of the capital's armed arm.

Under the police monument, the uniformed men had organized themselves behind a trench of sandbags, hooded them out of the trench, and
appropriated the material to lift their own.

The liquid released by the armored fire hydrant is dangerously toxic, wet protesters get naked because their clothes literally burn the
skin. The chemical weapons used are of a power never seen before. They report that pepper gas reaches at least the seventh floor of
buildings near zone zero.

There is a greater presence of anarchist propaganda, various screens and anarchist flags. On the walls are the posters of the Revolutionary
Propaganda Group (GPR) and a mural by Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

At Shopping Costanera Center, another iconic site of the Santiaguinas protests, hundreds of people are able to enter and march inside the
mall. Outside, demonstrations are suppressed by police. Numerous incendiary barricades burned down Providencia Avenue, the largest on the
corners of Fr. De Valdivia, Los Leones, and Miguel Claro. At the last corner, a fascist named Orso Ricci threatened the protesters with a
knife and then kicked those who set up a barricade. The counterattack was straightforward, he was beaten and knocked unconscious, police
watched him until an ambulance picked up the law-loving citizen.

At night there are attacks on police stations at Central Station and La Granja, in the last two police officers wounded by gunshots, in
response the tanks shoot at the population. Yes, tanks!

In Concepción, civilian PDI agents infiltrate the marches and arrest hooded by throwing incendiary bombs. In the same city, police beat a
famous violinist and broke his instrument. In La Serena, fascists attack the tomb of Romario Veloz, killed by militias during the Curfew. In
Pucón, they suspend the known Iron Man triathlon.

For fear of demonstrations, they cancel at the last minute the graduation of the 4th graders of Liceo 1, and their loved ones make another
symbolic in a nearby place. Then at least one of them walks with her diploma in hand to Dignity Square and is greeted with thrilling shouts
of support.

The painful official figures so far report at least 11,000 people injured, 352 with eye injuries, 41 murders, 121 missing, 600 tortured, 12
raped and 100 sexually abused; We know that, unfortunately, the number is much higher. The number of detainees and prosecuted cannot be
specified, but the number of pre-trial detentions approaches 1900. So much suffering is not in vain that the word revenge comes true.

In Macul, they vandalize and puncture the tires of three private police cars.

Call to evade at all subway stations on Monday, the 10th.

We have clear goals and our actions seek to break their oppressive system, our smiles want their breakdown.

For brotherhood in war and for creating a fighting community!

THE REVOLT IS LIVE ... THAT THE REVOLT LIVE!

Honor for Alexandros Grigoropoulos (Greece), this one also goes to you...

NT
Translation> Liberto

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https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/12/11/chile-santiago-50o-dia-de-revolta-social/

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In the past week or so, two statements about Iran have been circulated - one essentially supporting the Iranian regime by framing the whole
issue as being about "US imperialism", and another initiated by Iranian socialists and revolutionaries living in exile, which puts the
movement in Iran into its proper context, as one more moment of our class fighting back, just as it is in Chile, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Haiti,
France, Lebanon and so on. The latter is reproduced below. If you would like to add your name to the list of signatories, please send an
email to azadi_subversion@riseup.net, stating your full name and affiliation/self-description. ---- We are protesting against problems in
the whole system in general. We reached a crisis where we noticed that the system cannot handle it anymore
- a protester in Chile
Our world is on fire. Not only forests but also cities are burning all over the world. Social conflicts of all sorts are erupting, spreading
their flames across the planet: Algeria, Chile, Ecuador, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, you name it. Located within this global
context of struggles against the social hell of neoliberal, financialized capitalism, there has been another mass uprising in Iran since
November 15, 2019.

Sparked by the sudden tripling of fuel prices, tens of thousands of Iranian people have been protesting in more than 100 cities throughout
the country. Of course, the fuel price per se did not generate such a huge and widespread uprising. Rather, it is 40 years rule of the
privileged oligarchy on the basis of authoritarianism, systematic exclusion of opponents, dispossession and expropriation which have made
millions of people unemployed, extremely precarious, depriving them from the basic conditions of life (education, healthcare, food, and
housing).

Just as 30 pesos increase in subway fares turned the already raging fire into an inferno in Chile, so too, the fuel price sparked the recent
uprising in Iran (the same goes for WhatsApp tax in Lebanon, the cancellation of fuel subsidies in Ecuador, and so on). "It is not about 30
pesos", a Chilean poster proclaimed, "but 30 years of neoliberalism."

Since Friday, the people in Iran have been courageously fighting against the heavily armed personnel of the regime's Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC), as well as armed plainclothes militia thugs (known as Basij) who are economically dependent on the regime. The people
had every "right" in this world to defend themselves against the systematic state-violence, build barricades on the streets, block highways
and occupy local areas and roundabouts.

The forgotten and the invisible in Iran made themselves visible by starting fires. The fire to these people is the yellow vest to the French
surplus population and proletarians. Both give voice to the voiceless. While the BBC Persian TV and reactionary loyalist media (Iran
International, Manoto etc.) prescribe the liberal doctrine of "peaceful, civil protest," the Iranian youth are self-conscious of the fact
that "a people without hate cannot triumph," that "material force must be overthrown by material force," and that they have the right to
legitimately defend themselves against the state violence systematically aimed at killing the citizens.

"Enough is enough" is the message of the people in the Global South and beyond. As students have chanted in one of Tehran's universities,
"the people are fed up, enough with slavery." Like our sisters and brothers in Iraq and Lebanon, the Iranian people are absolutely fed up
with the authoritarian capitalism reducing their lives to a mere vegetable existence, the systematic corruption intrinsic to mafia
capitalism, and the sub-imperialism of the Islamic Republic in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen and the region as a whole.

They are not only opposing the tripling of the fuel price but the Islamic Republic in its entirety. No other slogan, chanted by our comrades
in Lebanon, can better express the spirit of struggles in the current conjuncture: "All means all".

The ruling class has responded to this radical, practical negation of all existing powers with an iron fist. The systematic violence
employed by the Islamic Republic to paralyze the uprising is unprecedented in scale and intensity. The authorities have completely shut down
the internet for four successive days, transforming the country into a big black box, slaughtering the people with impunity. According to
Amnesty International, hundreds have been injured, thousands arrested, and "at least 106 protesters in 21 cities have been killed," although
"the real death toll may be much higher, with some reports suggesting as many as 200."

There are many videos showing the police shooting demonstrators in the head and chest - as we observed before in the case of Iraq. This
happened mainly in the Kurdish and Arab provinces whose discriminated people are once again at the very forefront of the uprising and have
paid the highest price.

The Islamic Republic has been successful so far in achieving its goals. They have seized the opportunity provided by the US sanctions to
realize their neoliberal dreams in order to be able to both recover the current budget deficit and increase their military operations in the
region. To do so, they have shut down the internet by virtue of which they have brutally slaughtered their opponents. Internationally
speaking, there has been no specific media coverage, no international condemnation of the state repression, and very little solidarity from
the global left - in other words, the bloodbath is carried out in silence. This is possible because, while the oppressed classes in Iran and
the Middle East have no illusion about the "anti-imperialist" role of the Islamic Republic, many on the left still believe in the
ideological self-representation of the regime as an anti-imperialist force standing against the US and its regional allies.

The left needs to learn from the oppressed classes to simultaneously oppose US imperialism (especially US sanctions) and the Islamic
Republic's interventions in the region.

We, the undersigned academics and militants, urge the global left to break its silence and express its solidarity with the people of Iran
and their resistance.

It is pointless for us to demand anything from the Islamic Republic, but we will demand from our comrades and progressive forces all over
the world to be - in any possible form - the voice of the oppressed people in Iran suffocated by the forced isolation. We also call on the
international left to condemn the atrocities of the regime against its own people.

Finally, we stand in solidarity with the Iranian protesters who are reclaiming their dignity by refusing austerity, authoritarianism,
militarization of society, as well as any other form of domination that stifles their autonomy and freedom.

December 8, 2019
Categories: Anarchist, France, Chile, Iran, Hong Kong, Iraq . . Author: wessexsolidarity . Comments: Leave a comment

https://wessexsolidarity.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/statement-in-support-of-the-protests-in-iran/

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Message: 7






The start of the general strike in France last Thursday saw 250,000 demonstrate in Paris. Overall we had the Ministry of Interior give a
figure of 800,000 for those taking part in demonstrations in the whole of France and a figure of 1.5 million from the unions. Mobilisations
continue, and some unions have called for a remobilisation of the strike movement on December 10th. However, if the dates of December 5th
and 10th are close together, they still don't answer the call for an all out continuous strike movement. ---- In Amiens 8,000 demonstrated.
At Draguignan, 1500; Toulon, 15,000; Le Mans 15-18,000; Lannion, 3000; Saint Brieuc 7000; Blois, 4000; Orleans, 10,000; Montpellier, 25,000;
Beziers, 6000; Sète,  2000; Strasbourg, 10,000; Dijon, 9000; Rennes, 20,000. At Guéret 2500 turned out, which hadn't been seen for a long
time, and at Rodez 6000, a record for the town. At Nancy, 13,000 mobilised. At Limoges there were more than 15,000; at Vannes 5000; at
Carcassone more than 4000. In Le Havre 20,000 demonstrated; at Rouen, 40,000; at Marseille 25,000 according to the police, 150,000(!)
according to the unions. At Alençon, 2000 demonstrated; at Brest, between 10 and 15,000. At Clermont Ferrand, 25,000; at Poitiers, between 8
and 10,000. 20,000 demonstrated in Lille; 30,000 in Nantes. At Brive there was a very good turnout of 5000; at Angers, another good turnout
of 10,000 and 1200 at Cholet and 800 at Saumur. 11-12,000 at Albi, 3-4000 at Aubenas. At Beauvais, 6200 demonstrators, a large demonstration
never seen in that town before. At Nimes, more than 10,000. More than 10,000 at Cherbourg, again the biggest mobilisation ever seen there.
At Toulouse, as many as 100,000 demonstrated and there were clashes with the police, leading to 27 arrests. The police attempted to block
demonstrations in other towns. Presence of Yellow Vests on many demonstrations, as well as high school and university students.

On Saturday there were events in several cities against precarity although not attracting that many people. On the same day Yellow Vest
mobilisations occurred in many cities and towns with blockades and demonstrations, however, with a smaller turnout than at the height of
Yellow Vest actions.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/12/09/update-on-the-strike-movement-in-france/

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Message: 8






Thousands of "yellow vests" went on protest marches on December 7 at the height of a massive indefinite strike against pension reform in
France. The central demonstration in Paris took place from the Seine Ministry of Finance building in the southeastern part of the capital,
demanding "economic justice" and including in its list of demands the cancellation of the neoliberal pension reform planned by the
authorities. ---- The march passed mostly calmly, but clashes with the police occurred in the Danfer-Roshro area. Demonstrators chanting
anti-capitalist slogans bombarded the police with tear gas bottles and stones. ---- Meanwhile, the truck drivers federation joined in
protesting against raising the diesel tax for commercial transportation in the draft budget for 2020. They blocked traffic on roads in 10
regions of France (https://www.sott.net/article/425353-Acte-56-More-French-protests-see-roads-blocked-trains-disrupted-and-scuffles-in-Paris;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-08/tensions-as-yellow-vests-join-french-retirement-protests/11777418;
https://time.com/5745893/yellow-vest-join-france-pension-protest/;
https://heraldpublicist.com/paris-police-blast-tear-gas-at-yellow-vest-activists-on-anti-macron-march/
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Monday December 9th is already the 5th day of the strike in France. In the Paris region, ongoing blockades of public transport caused
traffic jams hundreds of kilometers long. At about 8 a.m., traffic stood for 600 kilometers - 2 times more than usual. The railway
connection in the country again experiences severe interruptions: only every fifth fast TGV train leaves on the road. Interruptions and
cancellations of trains affected the railway connection with Germany.

On December 7, railroad traffic was massively disrupted throughout the country. In Paris, the metro went on strike again. In many cities,
people took to the streets for anti-government demonstrations. Truck drivers blocked their traffic on roads across the country. The
government says, however, that it is not going to abandon the reform, and promises negotiations with the unions.

On Thursday, a general strike swept the country. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported about 806 thousand protesters; unions announced
1.5 million demonstrators, including 250 thousand in Paris. On Thursday evening (after the end of the official union marches), many refused
to disperse, and clashes with the police broke out on Republic Square. According to BFM-TV television, there were at least 500 radicals.
Police used gas against them. Separate clashes occurred in Nantes, Bordeaux and Lyon.

On Thursday afternoon, according to official figures, 85.7% of train drivers and 73.3% of controllers went on strike. 90% of fast trains
were canceled. Among teachers and teachers, the share of strikers was 55%, in Paris - 78%.

Railroad workers, workers in Parisian transport, teachers, air traffic controllers, ground personnel at airports, employees of government
clinics and energy, workers at oil refineries - all of them, at least partially, went on strike from Thursday. Firefighters and students
joined the protests, and even the police complained about the authorities' plans. In many cities, garbage collectors are on strike. Protest
rallies were held on December 5 in 70 cities.

According to a Ifop Institute survey, 46% of the French polled support the strike and only 33% are against it
(https://www.nzz.ch/international/frankreich-die-wichtigsten-antworten-zum-generalstreik-nzz-ld.1526468)

https://aitrus.info/node/5378

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Message: 9






As the Young Workers Association, we were at the crisis rally in Bakirköy with our slogans, black flags and rebellion. Last week we have
distributed leaflets, made posters on the walls in different parts of the city. To raise the anger of the oppressed ones. ---- We're the
ones who can't buy pants for our kids. We're the ones who can't afford to pay the bills. We work 14 hours a day with minimum wage. We're the
ones who haven't been paid for 4 months. We're the ones who can't pay the rent. We are the ones whose lifes are stolen. We are the oppressed
ones. They won't give us the right. We will get. They won't give us our bread. We will get. They will not give justice. We will get. They
won't give freedom. We will get. Victory is won on the street with struggle.
We will never give up the struggle against capitalism, which is itself a crisis, as it is today. We will continue to shout that all bosses
are thieves. This fight is not just today's fight. Now it's time to fight. As long as the powers exist, as long as capitalism exists, this
fight will continue. We will continue our fight with our black flag against injustice everywhere.

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