Update: anarchist news and information from all over the world - 20.12.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Marx wasn't the first one which had written a
      capitalism-analysis by Hans Schreiber (de, ca, fr, it, nl, pt,
      tr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland): Dublin sees
      successful anti-fascist rally taking far right (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #300 - Anti-racism:
      We walked for equality and against Islamophobia (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  schwarze rub: Bochum: - Banner Action Solidarity with the
      People in Hong Kong (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Czech, AFED: Several streets in Zizkov have changed their
      name. Newly to remind victims of the Turkish invasion of Syria.
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 6.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Never Mind the
      Ballots, Create the Resistance (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Marx wasn't the first one which had written a
      capitalism-analysis by Hans Schreiber (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Marx wasn't the first one which had written a capitalism-analysis, Fourier and also Proudhon had already witten their own correct
Capitalism-anallysises decades BEFORE Marx, Marx should have already known these former analysises. What Marx did was nothing much more than
to write a lot of wrong theories that since then all socialists shall believe as the ultimate and dogmatic truth, Marx and Engels destroyed
the 1. International on purpose, this is proven according to a lot of private letters between Marx and Engels, the congress in "The Hague"
in 1872, was a previously meticulously played game that destroyed the First International, Marx and Engels were well aware of this, they
caused the workers' movement to die at the time, and this dumb German social democracy in the tradition of Marx followed it, 150 years since
thence, it has done everything possible and imaginable to prevent the free organization of the labor movement forever and as well for all
eternity, precisely by making the worst enemy of the labor movement their greatest hero and his all wrong theories (often the exact opposite
of them is true) as those wrong theories are appointed since then as the ultimate dogmatic laws of socialism.

Even the Communist Manifesto of 1848 was merely a plagiarism of the French Fourierist Victor Considerant, whose thoughts were adopted by
Marx and Engels, whose writings, which appeared in 1843, they merely translated from French into German and then publiahed it with a new
title and their own names above.

It would be wrong to assume that the marxist social democracy will gradually disappear on its own. It will be as long as there will be
capitalism. Because, as long as the state and capitalism exist, there will always be people who do not want to overcome the existing state
of violence and economic robbery, but only want to adapt to it and want to get along with it as tolerably as possible. They just want to
change this state, but they don't want to abolish it. The union of these people is the party of social democracy which was founded in
Germany and spread world around since then. Social democracy is just a marxist party movement and not a cultural movement. It lives through
capitalism, is flesh from its flesh and dies only with the death of capitalism itself. But in one respect, social democracy will have to
stop much earlier, namely as an organization of ideas that supposedly has a scientific basis, that supposedly represents true ideals!

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A very successful anti-fascist #RallyForPeace took place yesterday as 100s of anti-fascists occupied the planned site at the Dail of a
far-right rally. Stewards did a great job of containing far-right provocations throughout the rally. ---- The 1st group of far right
agitators that appeared were visibly bewildered to find the site of their rally occupied. This group included masked members of Generation
Identity, the group linked to the New Zealand mass killer & two of whose Irish members were jailed recently ---- 180 arrived for the far
right rally, and ended up stuck across the road from their intended rally site. Some, particularly the masked fascists spent over an hour
trying to provoke people on the anti-fascist protest. Stewards prevented this happening at the rally

Four to five times as many anti-fascists turned up - the far right had been very sure in advance that the anti-fascists could be 'dealt
with' which is why such a large number of stewards were deployed to keep the rest of the anti fascist rally goers safe from fascist violence

In fact 100 anti-fascist stewards deployed an hour ahead of the announced start time to take control of the location and set up a perimeter
which would be free from fascists and their violence. A few fascists did try and enter this but were prevented from doing so.

Leading to the glum faces seen here on the fascists clustered around one of their piss poor leaders, ex British soldier Tan Torino. The best
the fascists could manage afterwards was to sob online about how mean everyone was to them - who knew fascists were so disliked?

At the time a journalist who was in the far-right rally said they were constantly moaning about how we had taken their spot and whining at
the Garda that they should move us for them

Because we were helping with stewarding and so facing the fascists our video view of #RallyForPeace was of the confrontations but inside the
security cordon created there was much singing and even some dancing

There were also speeches (although the sound system was a bit underpowered for the numbers) from a wide variety of people including SIPTU
Deputy General Secretary Ethel Buckley. SIPTU was one of several unions lending support to the anti-fascists /

A large number of NGOs also took part. Interestingly the hard right GRIPT group have decided to not only align with open fascists in
opposing the anti-fascist rally but have chosen to specifically target catholic charity Trócaire for taking part.

After 7 fascists arson attacks in the last 12 months, attacks on peoples houses and prolonged harassment & threats as individual
anti-fascists there isn't much of a mystery when some anti-fascists needed to obscure their identity, particularly those from marginalised
groups

The GRIPT piece not only fails to provide this context it actually fails to mention the word fascism or even racism once. Perhaps that's why
the article is anonymous, GRIPT writers have played with the fascists in the past and got their fingers burned

The reality was a huge range of groups from right across 'civil society' in Ireland lent support to the anti-fascist rally. There is
widespread concern with the poisonous hatred far-right YouTubers are spreading intendeding to incite vulnerable people into acts of violence

Many republican, left & anarchist groups were also present including a first outing for Feminist Anti-Fascist Action FAntiFa - a coalition
of groups that yesterday helped secure the space ahead of the #RallyForPeace

facebook.com/WorkersSolidarityMovement/videos/633507700721994

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On November 10, the demonstration against Islamophobia gathered tens of thousands of people in Paris. A real success and perhaps a major
turning point in the construction of a popular anti-racist response. The Libertarian Communist Union has taken its place there. ---- Last
October, the Islamophobic offensive was launched from the highest summit in the state. A minister publicly believes that the veil is not
"compatible" with the Republic. A President of the Republic calls for the establishment of a "vigilance society" to track down "weak
signals" of "radicalization", designating as targets all Muslim people or considered as such, issuing a real permit to discriminate.
Meanwhile, Zemmour is hating CNews. And there are acts. Graves. A veiled student mother accompanying her child on a school trip taken to
task and publicly threatened in the middle of the Regional Council of Burgundy meeting by elected National Rally. An attack on a mosque in
Bayonne by an activist from the far right. From October 15  [1], the UCL called for a strong and united reaction to respond to this
Islamophobic offensive and its procession of violence, aggression and daily stigmatization. Several groups were taking local initiatives in
this direction. On October 19, UCL took the floor at Place de la République during a first rally called urgently by the Collectif de defense
des jeunes du Mantois.

Fight back, fast and strong
But it was the day before, during a meeting organized at the town hall of Saint-Denis, that the momentum that would culminate in the March
10 November took shape. That evening "personalities" are around the table, including Madjid Messaoudene, elected representative of
Saint-Denis or Taha Bouhafs, journalist. But also organizations: the CCIF, the Muslims, the Adama Committee, EELV, the FUIQP, the NPA, the
UNEF, the UNL ... and of course the UCL. Not everyone knows each other and is not necessarily used to working together. But everyone agrees
that a strong and united initiative must be taken, even if the contours are not yet defined at this time.

It was not until a second meeting the following week that it was decided to embark on the organization of a large march against Islamophobia
on November 10. A call text is urgently drafted and submitted for signature, each and everyone mobilizes their networks. The gravity of the
attack on the Bayonne mosque on October 28 accelerates the process. The initiative then became a rallying point for all progressive forces:
Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the CGT, transmitted his signature, as did the FSU and Solidaires, but also the entire parliamentary
group of rebellious France. At this time, many of us understand among the initiators that a turning point is taken: the fight against
Islamophobia can finally become a widely shared equality issue.

The appeal was issued on 1 st  November on the website Liberation internet with a top 50 list and first signatories. On November 3 it is
republished on Mediapart, this time supported by 400 signatories. In most media, the March is highly commented and it is first the rallying
of almost the entire spectrum of left that strikes the spirits. From then on, a campaign of denigration takes place, fueled by both the
fachosphere and the reactionary dispensary of the Republican Printemps. All the supporters of the March are assimilated to "objective
allies" of "fundamentalists" . The organizers are never given the floor in this sequence.

Beyond the controversies
The comments of a handful of signatories, sometimes dating back several years, came out. Despite the fact that their authors have sometimes
changed their discourse since. But it must be made clear: some of these comments, sexist and homophobic, are unacceptable. And all the
struggles of the UCL, particularly our commitment against patriarchal domination, clearly indicate that we cannot be associated with it.

However the words of some signatories and their instrumentalization could not taint an initiative as beneficial as necessary. For UCL, there
was no question of taking a step back or a step aside, and our organization fully assumed its commitment to this march.

The reality of this initiative proved us right: it was indeed an anti-racist, popular, historic march. A march that brought together and
where the dignity of the first and first concerned was expressed with vividness.

Our fight against Islamophobia is fully in line with our desire to break down the racist machinery. As we said during our intervention Place
de la Nation, at the arrival of the March  [2] : "Islamophobia is not there by chance, it has a history. It is an Islamophobia that comes
from afar, from colonial racism and its procession of murders, looting, massacres. It has a material reality, concrete for Muslims in this
country: stigmatization, discrimination, violence, daily brutality. It is this reality of racism and Islamophobia that we cannot tolerate.
Our responsibility, the responsibility of the equality camp is engaged today. It obliges us.  "

The challenge now is to transform the essay, to make this November 10 March a founding event. And for that to succeed in further broadening
the mobilization, to succeed in anchoring it on the ground, in cities, neighborhoods, but also in businesses and services. In this respect,
the positions of trade union organizations such as CGT, FSU and Union Syndicale Solidaires are to be welcomed. By their territorial network,
by the counter-power which they represent concretely vis-à-vis the State, because they are tools of concrete solidarity, their long-term
commitment against Islamophobia can prove to be decisive.

Other initiatives will be taken in the coming months: alongside those who fight for equality, it is up to us to be one.

Théo Roumier (UCL Orléans)

[1] "Let's break the Islamophobic offensive, let's react together  ", UCL press  release of October 15.

[2] "" Yes we are atheists, so what ? "UCL against Islamophobia  ", on the site of the UCL.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Antiracisme-On-a-marche-pour-l-egalite-et-contre-l-islamophobie

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Some anarchist comrades from Bochum did a small solidarity action for the people in Hong Kong:"We made a banner to send a message of
solidarity to the people and our anarchist comrades in Hong Kong. The text is "Solidarity with the people in Hong Kong. Your insurrection is
inspiring. Let's smash state&capitalism." We later placed this at the Ruhr-University entrance. People who want to know more about the
revolt in Hong Kong can read this interview. Comrades all around the world - in Hong Kong, Chile, Rojava or anywhere else: Our hearts, fear,
hope, anger are with you!"

https://schwarzerub.blackblogs.org/2019/12/15/bochum-banner-action-solidarity-with-the-people-in-hong-kong/

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On the night of Friday, December 13 to Saturday, the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution in Rojava (VORR) symbolically renamed six
streets in Prague. These now bear the names of the people killed in the invasion of Turkey and by its jihadist militias, supported by it,
into the region of northern Syria, commonly known as Rojava. Overlapping the original street names, VORR joined the international day of
solidarity with the swarming resistance of Rojava against authoritarianism, fanaticism and the expansive nationalism of the Turkish regime.
---- "We overwhelmed the names of Zizkov streets because we feel sadness and anger in the face of the power pecks and tanks pushing into the
country a unique attempt to build a radical-democratic society in the Middle East while watching the West quietly. The streets now bear the
name of the murdered progressive Kurdish politician Hevrin Chalaf or international volunteers and volunteers killed alongside the Kurdish
YPG and YPJ militias, "Adéla Mracková explained on behalf of VORR in a press release.

The event, however, is primarily dedicated to the memory of those whose names never penetrate the Western media. "Due to the Turkish
occupation of Rojava territory, many local defenders and civilians were killed. Hundreds of thousands of people had to flee in fear of air
raids and atrocities perpetrated by mercenary and Islamist groups, which Turkey - although still a NATO member - used as dispensable troops
of the first sequence, "Mracková added.

By the end of winter 2018, VORR had formed a broad coalition of Prague autonomous-left groups, including the local group of the Anarchist
Federation. The organization sponsored the largest demonstrations against the Turkish invasion of Syria and launched a campaign under the
slogan "Holidays? Certainly not in Turkey ". VORR has long appealed to Czech government officials to prevent arms exports to Turkey and to
promote political and economic sanctions at international level. In addition, he advocates ideas put into practice in Rojava, such as
democracy from below, female emancipation, ethnic and religious tolerance, and ecology.

https://www.afed.cz/text/7083/ulice-po-obetech-turecke-invaze

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As we said when we were still in the Anarchist Federation back in 2015, "Grassroots groups and organisations emerging around housing and
opposition to austerity must maintain their grassroots outlook and their horizontal organisation. The alternative is distraction from their
vital action by the Corbyn circus and its left-wing cheerleaders; a path which only leads to disappointment and betrayal." And indeed, the
path has led to disappointment, with a massive Tory majority. ---- The Left reacted with horror to the results, Richard Seymour writing for
Novara Media that "Disaster nationalism has just cut through the Labour heartlands, and there is no obvious solution. The seat losses may be
reversible; as Momentum suggests in an email to its supporters, the margins of Tory victory being small. But the swings were huge, and the
breach is historic. To rebuild any kind of Left in these constituencies, after decades of neglect and local Labour rule being pretty
useless, will sadly require more than a six-week election cycle and a passionate campaign run by heroic volunteers. It's no consolation that
we probably have ten years of vicious Conservative government in which to do that rebuilding."

The Socialist Party, for its part, bleated that we must "Refound Labour as a mass democratic workers' party with socialist policies." Paul
Mason tweeted, "I think Labour can go to a million members if we learn from this defeat and stay positive, internationalist and left. Tell
your friends: I just joined the Labour Party, will you too?" Elsewhere he wrote: "we need a new leader of the opposition. They have to be a
person of stature and experience to withstand what's coming. They have to be someone who can unite the Labour centre and the left." David
Broder writing in Jacobin magazine whined that "I'm Crying, You're Crying. But Our Day Will Come... But by way of consolation, at least now
we have more comrades to cry with, more comrades whose pain is our own and more comrades who will win, some bright, future day." This range
of reactions from deep gloom-Seymour-to blinkered optimism-Mason, the Socialist Party - to cringeworthy blubbing-Broder- reveals the
bankruptcy of all of these pundits in their foisting of illusions in Labourism and social democracy.

As we wrote in Open Letter to Plan C: "For us, the key question in all of this is the autonomy of the social movements... We must argue the
case that the new grassroots groups and organisations emerging around housing and opposition to austerity must maintain that grassroots
outlook and horizontal organisation and not be distracted by the Corbyn circus and its left cheerleaders. It's not a question of ‘in,
against, and beyond' the Labour Party, as one Plan C statement suggests, but realising that any real social movement that has as its goals
the achievement of libertarian communism must be outside and against the Labour Party which has always been the enemy of real social change,
has always been the social fire brigade when the fires of unrest flare up."

Corbyn - defibrillator of Labour
In fact, the phenomenon of Corbynism revived a body that was in terminal decay. It was an episode in the decline of Labour, a decline which
will now continue. In the process Labour was able to establish itself as the largest political party in Western Europe, hitting a figure of
564,443 members in 2017 (but falling to 518,659 by 2018). The development of the grassroots organisations that had developed around housing
and against austerity, as mentioned above, were indeed, adversely affected by Corbynism, with the moving of some activists to Momentum and
other Labour organisations. At the same time, very few of these new Labour activists were to lend support to these grassroots organisations,
concentrating instead on long, boring party branch meetings where they attempted to wrest power from the Blairite/Brownite right, and on
canvassing. They were seldom to be seen engaged in activism in the neighbourhood and on the streets. Indeed, the tempo of housing struggles
has slowed considerably in London, and the Radical Housing Network, once a promising development that sought to unite housing struggles, is
a shadow of its former self. Only in the sphere of environmental action has grassroots organisation developed with the climate strikes and
the Extinction Rebellion mobilisations, although there is much to criticise in the politics of the latter.

The coming to power of an ever more right wing Tory administration will mean direct assaults on the NHS, further austerity measures,
increasing moves to a police state, and a widening gap between the super-rich and the mass of the population. They will wage class war
against us and we must respond with the strengthening of our networks of mutual aid and solidarity, with the growing of social movements,
independent from political parties, based on mass assemblies and mandating of delegates. We must develop activity in the workplace, among
tenants and renters, with anti-eviction actions, with migrant solidarity with mobilisations against deportations, to protect our services,
whether the NHS or local services under threat from councils.

Remember, in France, a vast strike movement has developed under the Macron regime. Like Johnson, Macron has launched ferocious austerity
measures against the working class and anger against his rule is on the rise. Alongside and intimately connected to these social movements,
must be the development of a culture of resistance, of inclusive social centres and food networks. We have seen the power of the billionaire
press in the last month or so, as well as the blatant bias of the BBC. We must develop our own media - that means, not just our social
media, which can often operate in a bubble, but the development of street agitation with the production of widely distributed newssheets and
other printed propaganda.

The new Johnson administration seems powerful and now deeply entrenched. But remember, the British ruling class is divided like never
before. On one hand we have social democratic nationalists like Plaid Cymru and the SNP looking towards exit from the United Kingdom,
increasing problems in Northern Ireland, and a Conservative Party seriously damaged by Brexit. As well as this, there are continuing
problems for the monarchy, a cornerstone of the system. Not only has Labourite social democracy been hit below the waterline, but the
project by factions within the ruling class to construct a new centrist party made up of the LibDems, ‘One Nation' Tories, and the Labour
right and centre, has ended up wrecked on the reefs. In this scenario, we should look towards developing a response in the spheres mentioned
above. This will not be an easy fix, but will require determined action and propaganda over the coming months and years.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/12/15/never-mind-the-ballots-create-the-resistance/

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No, that's deeply WRONG. Marx wasn't the first one which had written a capitalism-analysis, Fourier and also Proudhon had already witten
their own correct Capitalism-anallysises decades BEFORE Marx, Marx should have already known these former analysises. What Marx did was
nothing much more than to write a lot of wrong theories that since then all socialists shall believe as the ultimate and dogmatic truth,
Marx and Engels destroyed the 1. International on purpose, this is proven according to a lot of private letters between Marx and Engels, the
congress in "The Hague" in 1872, was a previously meticulously played game that destroyed the First International, Marx and Engels were well
aware of this, they caused the workers' movement to die at the time, and this dumb German social democracy in the tradition of Marx followed
it, 150 years since thence, it has done everything possible and imaginable to prevent the free organization of the labor movement forever
and as well for all eternity, precisely by making the worst enemy of the labor movement their greatest hero and his all wrong theories
(often the exact opposite of them is true) as those wrong theories are appointed since then as the ultimate dogmatic laws of socialism.

Even the Communist Manifesto of 1848 was merely a plagiarism of the French Fourierist Victor Considerant, whose thoughts were adopted by
Marx and Engels, whose writings, which appeared in 1843, they merely translated from French into German and then publiahed it with a new
title and their own names above.
It would be wrong to assume that the marxist social democracy will gradually disappear on its own. It will be as long as there will be
capitalism. Because, as long as the state and capitalism exist, there will always be people who do not want to overcome the existing state
of violence and economic robbery, but only want to adapt to it and want to get along with it as tolerably as possible. They just want to
change this state, but they don't want to abolish it. The union of these people is the party of social democracy which was founded in
Germany and spread world around since then. Social democracy is just a marxist party movement and not a cultural movement. It lives through
capitalism, is flesh from its flesh and dies only with the death of capitalism itself. But in one respect, social democracy will have to
stop much earlier, namely as an organization of ideas that supposedly has a scientific basis, that supposedly represents true ideals!

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