Today's Topics:
1. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG - Film: Alan
MacSimoin's Story (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. cgtpv.org: [January 30] Unitarian statement in support of
the general strike of Euskal Herria (ca, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - [Coastal GasLink]
Occupation, blockades and barricades in support of the
Wet'suwet'en Nation (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 - unionism, At
the City of Paris, we revived class consciousness (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Bulgaria, anarchy.bg: Calendar for 2020 [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, mischievous horse APO - Poster: States and bosses
redistribute land... solidarity the weapon of the people
[Traduction automatique] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Ireland, Derry Anarchists: Antifascism: Lessons For 2020
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. anarkismo.net: Balance of the protest day of January 21,
2020 by grupo libertario vialibre (cr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The following is a YouTube film of Irish Anarchist, Alan MacSimoin. See HERE ----
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/12/07/obituary-alan-macsimoin-1957-2018/ for the ACG's obituary for Alan. ---- The YouTube page
itself says: ---- "This is the story of Alan MacSimoin 1957-2018 a long-time Anarchist activist and founder member of the Workers Solidarity
Movement. MacSimoin joined as a young man the Official Republican Movement (Sinn Fein) . Within a short time he was involved with the Irish
Anti Apartheid Movement's boycott of South African goods in Ireland. He was also active with the Irish Anti Nuclear Movement that stopped
the building of nuclear power stations around the coast of Ireland in the 1970s. Alan was central in the Murray Defence Committee in 1976-77
to stop the state execution of Anarchists Noel and Marie Murray for the killing of a member of the police. Was involved with the
Stoneybatter and Smithfield Peoples History Project. This is his story, in his own words.
https://irishrepublicanmarxisthistoryproject.wordpress.com/"
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/01/23/film-alan-macsimoins-story/
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Message: 2
The CGT, CNT, COS and Intersindical Valencian unions convene a unitary concentration open to all social movements, on January 30, at 19:00,
in the Plaza de los Pinazo in Valencia, in support of the General Strike of 30 January Euskal Herria. ---- UNITARY COMMUNICATION ---- For
years, female workers have been earning less each day, with shorter and more insecure contracts that make our lives worse. Many of us find
it increasingly difficult to reach the end of the month due to rising food prices, housing, transportation, the utility bills, water,
college fees, etc. Capitalism is becoming more and more aggressive: wealth is accumulated by the few, while most condemn us to
precariousness in all areas of our lives. ---- In addition, we are living under a social repression that also affects us. The gag law, labor
reforms, the alien law, article 135 of the Constitution, the repression of social activists and trade unionists, or the recent application
of article 155 in Catalonia are just a few examples of the situation in which we live .
For all this, we consider it very important that we articulate a response for the whole union movement from our centers and workplaces, as
this is where we directly suffer from our exploitation. Because we know that the struggle for the transformation of society and for the
elimination of social and gender inequality cannot be stopped at the doors of work centers, we are committed to working for the confluence
of combative and demanding class unionism to be a tool useful in the defense of the working class.
That is why we salute and support the General Strike call for January 30, Euskal Herria convened, unilaterally, by the unions ELA, LAB, ESK,
STEILAS, ETXALDE, EHNE, HIRU and CNT and numerous social organizations , to claim "WORK, LIFE AND WORLD PENSIONS". We share the demands of
the call, which focus on improving the working and living conditions of workers and pensioners, and in combating the precariousness and
inequality of work and social as a result of the neoliberal policies implemented in recent years. years.
To make this possible, we will work towards the repeal of the current labor and pension reforms, and the implementation of a social and
labor agenda that will improve the quality of employment, social rights and benefits and public pensions; because, like the organizations
calling for the General Strike on January 30, we also want to build another socio-productive model, putting life at the center and giving
priority to the sustainability of care and the planet. Measures that must be priority and urgent; reason, and to stop the precariousness of
working and living conditions, it is necessary to mobilize the workers, as well as our colleagues in the Basque Country, and also we withthe
convening of a CONCENTRATION on January 30, at 19 hours, in the Plaza de los Pinazo in Valencia.
Whoever governs, we will keep fighting!
Worth work, life and pensions!
https://www.cgtpv.org/confederal/sindical/30-gener-comunicat-unitari-en-suport-a-la-vaga-general-deuskal-herria
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Message: 3
Pressure and solidarity actions continue to multiply everywhere across the so-called Canada. On January 21, a group of Aboriginal youth from
the Nuuchahnulth, Tla'amin, Sto: lo, Namgis, Heiltsuk, Lil'wat, Xwlemi, Qayqayt, Lue Chogh Tue, Shishalh Skwxwú7mesh First Nations occupied
the offices of the Department for 15 hours. Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources in Victoria, British Columbia. They asked for a meeting
with New Democrat Minister Michelle Mungall (Minister of Energy), the withdrawal of Coastal GasLink and the RCMP from Wet'suwet'en First
Nation territory and the stopping of works. The occupation would continue for as long as it took for these demands to be put into practice.
But as usual,
In the morning of January 20, demonstrators blocked access to BC Ferries' Swartz Bay terminal by blocking Highway 17 while others blocked
the sea entrance by kayak. Several trucks and cars were therefore unable to board the ferries. This company is targeted because of its links
with the liquefied natural gas industry.
On the same day, there was a blockage at the port of Vancouver. A local protester explained in a local media why she was organizing against
this gas pipeline project: "We are blocking the port and these streets in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en nation. We are fighting for the
sovereignty of their unceded territory and against the development of the pipeline. "
Finally, on January 16, more than sixty people blocked the intersection of Boulevard Pie-IX and Rue Notre-Dame Est during rush hour in order
to disrupt access to the port of Montreal as well as downtown. via highway 720. There was a distribution of leaflets to motorists in order
to explain the reasons for the action. On banners, one could read "GTFO of Wet'suwet'en land" and "Solidarity with indigenous
sovereignties". After removing the blockage, the group erected a burning barricade and then headed west on Notre-Dame while forming a
wandering blockage by erecting other barricades on its way.
by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/01/coastal-gaslink-occupation-blocages-et.html
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Message: 4
The social movement of this winter will have allowed to recreate a culture of struggle, in a beautiful union unity, and with rejuvenated
militant forces. The high level of conflict, solidarity and direct action have brought the different trades closer together, which bodes
well for the future struggles. --- Gardeners, garbage collectors, entertainers, childcare assistants, chauffeuses, sewer workers,
upholsterers, lock keepers, woodcutters-pruners, social workers, road workers, administrative agents, water distribution technicians, etc.
The City of Paris has nearly 60,000 agents in nearly 350 diverse trades. An important blocking power, since they manage all of the Parisian
public services, except for a few pieces passed to the private sector.
From the start of the inter-professional movement against pension reform, an inter-union was established, with the CGT, the FSU, FO and the
UCP (a union of managers). A peculiarity: the CGT-Ville de Paris has been going through a crisis for several years and has been split in
two, and only one of the two fractions has participated in the intersyndicale. It is only recently that all these unions have been able to
work together, and it has never been seen on such a long and hard movement. A sign that this fight is not quite like the others ...
Read also: " After January 24, the assets for a prolonged movement " , Alternative libertarian, February 2020.
Decentralize GAs, closer to colleagues
Quickly, the intersyndicale organized a regular general assembly, which brought together 100 to 300 people. If the debates were introduced
by the representatives of the four unions, the GA was in reality managed by the strikers themselves and themselves, unionized as
non-unionized. All the proposals were examined, no strategic debate was taboo. This allowed colleagues who had never gone on strike to play
an essential role in leading the movement.
However, we have felt its limits. While the City has tens of thousands of agents, we cannot be satisfied with a central GA, even with all of
the services. This was remedied by organizing local GAs, in certain boroughs and in certain departments, as close as possible to colleagues,
who thus felt more directly involved in the event, more easily took the floor and took the initiative. But this decentralization was
undoubtedly too late. The GA has given itself two main roles: to sustain and amplify the strike at the City of Paris, and to coordinate with
the other professional sectors.
On demonstration, December 28, 2019.
cc City of Paris against pension reform
The town hall puts us in the way
Amplification was indeed the priority objective, because the very good rate of strikers on December 5 (15%) eroded over the mobilization
dates. There was a hard core on an indefinite strike, but it remained an extremely small minority. Numerous information tours with
colleagues have enabled unionized and non-unionized workers alike to rub shoulders with the realities on the ground. And what we saw there
was interesting: in the vast majority of cases, colleagues well informed about the reform. Colleagues who refused this social decline. But
also colleagues that we had to convince of our collective power to win this battle, if we put all of them together.
It must be said that the town hall has put us in the dark... From December 5, driven by the tremendous energy that emanated from the strike
at the RATP and the SNCF, we recorded several attempts to start a renewable strike, including cleanliness. But the town hall rotated private
dumpsters to clean the streets overnight. Municipal elections require, Hidalgo and his majority sabotaged the garbage collectors' strike !
It didn't stop there. Many municipal establishments, nurseries, libraries, gymnasiums, etc. had to close due to strike. Communication from
the town hall ? That the closings were only due to the strike in the transport which prevented the agents and agents from working !
Obviously, there is something to demotivate ...
The unitary procession - a novelty - regularly brought together several hundred colleagues, with superb animation.
cc Daniel Maunoury
Fighting together extirpates us from corporatisms
This mobilization changed something at the City of Paris. The unitary procession - a novelty - regularly brought together several hundred
colleagues, with superb animation. We even carried out an invasion punch action from the Council of State ! It went impeccably, smoothly and
without fright, and it showed the less used colleagues that we can raise the level of conflict when we consider it necessary: the whole
thing is to decide it collectively.
Joint actions, combining very different professions and yet all territorial agents and agents, have helped to recreate a feeling of class
belonging. Yes, we are all in the same boat ! Furthermore, the participation of RATP agents, railroaders and teachers in our GAs reinforced
this feeling that we were fighting for a common goal. It is quite natural that we went on the picket lines of the SNCF, or intervene in the
various GA, that we sang and danced together in demonstration... It is by the fight that we extirpate from corporatism and individualism to
constitute the exploited class which fights for its emancipation!
" Sewers: 17 years less life ... 2 years of bonus offered. Shame on you ! »CGT banner at the demonstration on December 17 in Paris.
cc Daniel Maunoury
Milestones set for the future
And yet, sectoral demands, we have at the City of Paris and we have also put them forward. Because you have to go find colleagues in what
affects them most directly. However, in the territorial, it is the law of transformation of the public service, passed last summer. It
should make the agents of the City of Paris lose no less than eight days of leave per year !
The question of precariousness also occupies a central place. Of the 60,000 agents in the community, there are 17,000 temporary workers !
During the movement, a collective of temporary workers from the City of Paris was created. Having left the municipal museums, it sought to
extend to other directions, and brought together many and many colleagues who previously did not dare to claim. The strong and united
inter-union that we knew how to constitute was able to animate the strike, to organize processions and to secure them, to carry out actions,
to circulate information ... It is an undeniable asset for future struggles at the City of Paris.
Adèle (UCL Pantin)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?A-la-Ville-de-Paris-on-a-ravive-la-conscience-de-classe
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Message: 5
The 2020 calendar is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Federation of Anarchists in Bulgaria in 1990 and the
publication of the Free Thought newspaper.
For 30 years the Bulgarian people have not managed to get out of the "transition", but have managed to decrease by 30%. It is high time to
realize that the only way out of the system was to completely restart society.
30 years later, the FAB is younger and more radical. The organization is our lever to move the world towards freedom.
Download the 2020 calendar file from here and bring it to the nearest printing center
http://www.anarchy.bg/
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Message: 6
Adhesive ---- THE STATES AND THE AFFILIATES RESTORE THE EARTH ... ---- RECONSTRUCTIONS IN "IMPLICATIONS", GEOPOLITIC ---- COMPETITIONS,
EEZs, PIPES, ENERGY AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES ---- WITH WAR ---- TALENTS - ON THE LIMITS OF A GENERAL WAR - ---- that are targeting the peoples
of the whole world ... ---- BLOCK ON NATO'S WAR ---- LET'S MAKE MEAT FOR THEIR RULES NO CONSENT ---- TO GREEK GOVERNMENT DESIGNS ---- | OUT
THE BASES AND THE NUCLEARS ---- THE SOLIDARITY OF THE PEOPLE'S WEAPON! ---- The socio-class resistances in every corner of the Earth should
widen. ---- From the US to Iran to strive - far from any kind of patron - to overthrow the world of sovereigns and build a society of
self-determination, mutual help and peaceful co-existence
INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR, FACISM, IMPERIALISM AND MODERN INTEGRITY
anarchist group "mischievous horse" / FROM & companions - comrades
Patras, January 2020
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Message: 7
In the face of a global resurgence of authoritarian far-right governments, policies and even social behaviour, there is a need to build an
anti-facist strategy that pays special attention to the root causes of xenophobia, racism, misogyny. ---- A society where competition and
the pursuit of individual wealth are promoted as the ultimate goals and values is bound to normalise inequality, because it feeds from it.
---- Opposing this normalisation is at the core of a clear anti-facist strategy. What are we fighting against? Who benefits from prejudice?
And most importantly, what can we do about it? ---- A speaker from the Industrial Workers of the World Ireland Branch leads the discussion
on Antifascism: Lessons for 2020. ---- Saturday 1st February at the Derry Radical Bookfair, Speakers Corner, Pilots Row Community Centre @ 3pm
Facebook events link here. https://www.facebook.com/events/122900368927124/
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Anarchism: It's History, Development & Future http://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/2020/01/anarchism-its-history-development-future.html
As part of a scheduled list of events for thos year's Derry Radical Bookfair at Speakers Corner will host a discussion title Anarchism, its
history, development and future. An introduction to the politics of class struggle anarchism will begin at 2pm in the hall of the Derry
Radical Bookfair, Pilots Row Community Centre. Facebook events link here.
http://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/
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Message: 8
Last Tuesday, January 21, 2020, the first general day of protest of the new year was convened. Linked to the great November-December 2019
movement, different social and political organizations called for a new "strike" without a labor strike, which is already the sixth since
the beginning of the government of Iván Duque and the fourth since the immense day started on on November 21, of which two months were
fulfilled. ---- Last Tuesday, January 21, 2020, the first general day of protest of the new year was convened. Linked to the great
November-December 2019 movement, different social and political organizations called for a new "strike" without a labor strike, which is
already the sixth since the beginning of the government of Iván Duque and the fourth since the immense day started on on November 21, of
which two months were fulfilled.
It is clear that on the day, except in public universities in student unemployment, there were no work stoppages, and the organizations of
the National Unitary Command (CNU), especially the Unitary Central of Workers (CUT), do not make calls in that regard. If there was some
modest agitation of socio-political organizations such as the People's Congress in the streets, but much of the publicity that remains until
today in the avenues, posts and facades is from the November-December national protest days. Before the call, the address of the disjointed
National Committee of Unemployment (CNP), said that on January 21 there would be "cacerolazos and no marches", ignoring different social
calls already underway and that it was reproduced by various national media, generating confusion about the working day.
In the city of Bogotá, the so-called new protocol of control of the social protest developed by the administration of Mayor Claudia López of
the Green Party was applied, which in general continues the policy of the Peñalosa administration as instances of dialogue and time of
Response of the Available Force and the ESMAD of the Police. And although the mainstream media speak of a litmus test of the district
government before the day, it is clear that the security policies of the new mayor López formed in the first Peñalosa administration, are
not substantively different from those of the previous district governments, conservatives or progressives, who regularly resorted to
repression against marches that impeded mobility. The new figure of the peace-making mothers as a civil organization coordinated with the
local government, represents a discursive extension of the figure of the coexistence managers formed at the time of Luis Eduardo Garzón del
Polo, but not a modification of this line of intervention created to contain the crudest forms of police repression. The rhetoric of the
centrist government of Bogotá that: "shares and is part of the strike" made water everywhere, if its control policy and normality is
reviewed against the already limited activity of state workers.
The national government of Iván Duque and the uribista-conservative and evangelical coalition, I seek to resume the political initiative by
installing a communication campaign and a banner on the front of the Congress, calling to participate in the national conversation, while
calling for greater judicialization of the violent elements of the protest. However, this instance of non-binding dialogue generated by the
government within its national dialogue strategy and as a partial response to the movement of November 21, is dominated by participants
chosen by finger and related to Uribism, methodologically oriented to search of supposed consensus without political deliberation, which are
not viable or desirable for the popular movement.
The development of the day
That day we recorded in the capital 15 concentrations and mobilizations in the city and its metropolitan area. The day began with 9 small
simultaneous blockages starring students and neighborhood organizations on main roads in the south east, south west, west and north west of
the capital. The same force: 1) Intermittent blocking on Avenida Primero de Mayo with tenth race with dozens of participants who moved to
the Antonio Nariño sector then repressed by the Police, 2) Intermittent concentrations at San Mateo de Soacha station, with dozens of Young
workers, 3) Partial student blockade in the South Portal, 4) Concentration with partial block on 13th Street in Fontibón,
On the other hand, 8) a concentration of women workers, about half a morning there is a concentration of half a hundred Uber drivers in
front of the Ministry of Transportation that partially cut off Esperanza Avenue, protesting against the exit of the country's platform,
after its declaration of illegality and the fines imposed by the authorities for continuing its illegal operation. Although the informal
workers of this new virtual transport company mobilized, they did not raise any labor claim in front of their outsourcing employer and their
difficult working conditions, so it is clear that it is a pro-business call, linked to the campaign deployed by the company itself to
mobilize the sympathy of its upper and middle class users.
However, the main blockade was developed 9) in the Suba Portal, with concentrations since dawn, seeking to reissue the success of the day of
November 21, with about 100 participants who moved along Suba Avenue, in successive clashes with the police. Then at night on that same road
corridor, a wider mobilization was carried out starring popular youth, with more than 300 participants.
On the other hand, 6 mobilizations of small and medium size are developed, led by university students, particularly from the District
University, on two major routes either to Banderas or to the center. They developed as follows: 1) A sit-in and blocking of a hundred
students from Javeriana University, District University and other institutions in the 7th race with 40 with a hundred participants, in which
a community pot is installed. 2) Youth block in front of the Hippies Park, with the participation of some artistic groups, which then moved
to the center, with a few dozen attendees. 3) Blockade and march of students of the Technological headquarters of the District University in
the Villavicencio Avenue with 2,000 participants, in which the small mobilizations coming from Soacha and the South Portal, which ends at
the Banderas Portal, also converge. 4) The mobilization of students from the National University and other institutions with another 3,000
participants, who leave on Calle 26, take Avenida Boyacá and then the Americas, temporarily blocked by the ESMAD, which ends up coming
together with the District University in Banderas, where there are scattered clashes with the police during the afternoon. 5) The march of
students from Calle 80 with the city of Cali to the center of the city. temporarily blocked by the ESMAD, which ends up coming together with
the District University in Banderas, where there are scattered clashes with the Police during the afternoon. 5) The march of students from
Calle 80 with the city of Cali to the center of the city. temporarily blocked by the ESMAD, which ends up coming together with the District
University in Banderas, where there are scattered clashes with the Police during the afternoon. 5) The march of students from Calle 80 with
the city of Cali to the center of the city.
The last 6) call made by trade union organizations and small delegations of the District Association of Education Workers (ADE) that led the
call and to a lesser extent the National Union of Banking Employees (UNEB) and the Trade Union Union of industry of oil (USO) that gathered
about 3,000 people from the National Park to the Plaza de Bolívar, although it was affected by the shocks that already occurred in the city
center
On the day the direction of the National Stop Committee convened a national cacerolazo with very limited compliance. On the other hand,
there were clashes between sectors of young protesters and the police forces in Suba, the South East, Portal Américas on several occasions
and especially the city center. In addition, at least 3 punk nightly musical events were organized in the Santander Park that moved to the
Hippies Park, electronic music in the Independence Park and a decimated act in the Plaza de Bolívar.
In the rest of the country, calls were held in Cali where there were intermittent blockades in the morning, then clashes between students
and police at noon and night trade union mobilization, youth and workers mobilizations in Medellín and Bucaramanga where there were some
clashes, and popular marches in Barranquilla and Cartagena.
Some reflections
The January 21 was a day of significant protest in which we recorded in Bogotá 15 events with 9 blocks and 6 mobilizations and about 10,000
participants, with similarities to the day of December 4, the smallest of the calls for November-December cycle stop last year. It is clear
that the movement failed as a work stoppage, said that the real capacity to organize was never proposed or had.
On the day three key moments of the November-December sessions were repeated as they are: a first moment of neighborhood blockades in the
morning, a second moment of sectoral mobilizations during the day and a third time of clashes between protesters and police forces in The
afternoon in different places. However, the weakness of the mobilizations made during the day was clear, as was clear the student reflux
with the partial exception of the District University and the important absence of the workers organized until the evening.
The failure of the "national cacerolazo" call was also evident, since spontaneous popular concentrations at night were severely limited,
with the very partial exceptions in Suba, massive and generalized cacerolazos that defined part of the massiveness and novelty of the
previous movement .
The current leadership of the National Stop Committee chaired by the MOIR, played a role of severe containment of the mobilization with its
role of denial of the marches and its majority orientation by parliamentarism. At the same time, however, it is clear that no other
alternative sector has had or now has the capacity to mobilize the indignant people that broke out at the end of November, and the weak
forms of local organization that were expressed in some popular assemblies at the end of the year they have reduced to their "normal"
proportions of temporary coordination of territorial organizations. In other words, neither the Committee nor the organizations on its left
have the capacity to represent the movement, although they are its clear drivers.
We think that the reflux of a movement as inorganic and frantic as last year has already occurred, and this has not only been due to the
short-term factor of holidays and end of the year holidays. We believe that before condemning our people and imposing a policy of desperate
mobilization without concrete perspectives, we must ask ourselves for the reasons for demobilization and inquire about our own weaknesses.
Far from any avant-garde shortcut and device machinations, we think that the main task today is the re-encounter with the protagonists of
the great day of national protest last year, where they have dispersed and exhausted, that is, in the workplaces , neighborhoods and
educational institutions, to build alternative organizational boards from below,
Now to organize this great rebellion, in popular force!
Up those who fight!
Vía Libre Libertarian Group
Related Link: https://grupovialibre.org/2020/01/24/balance-de-la-jornada-de-protesta-del-21-de-enero-de-2020/
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31738
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