Today's Topics:
1. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 - Rail: More
than 45 days at the stop and an intact determination ! (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, AFED: Cops' lame attempt to prevent dissent
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, AFED: No hope, no future: Always the same
individualistic bullshit, Review of a new nihilistic-primitivist
pamphlet [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Anarchist Socialist Libertarian Organization - OASL:
SOLIDARITY TO THE GUARANI M'BYA COMMUNITY
FOR THE OCCUPATION OF
JARAGUÁ (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Six weeks after the start of the fight against the points retirement project, the railway workers and railway workers are not disarming.
Even if the strike started on December 5 has largely eroded, nothing predicts a rapid end to the conflict ... and the SNCF strikers intend
to take part in the mobilization to the end. ---- For almost a month, the government and the management of CFDT and Unsa have announced the
imminent end of the mobilization. However, the mobilization continued, thwarting all demining and division attempts (sectoral measures,
postponement of the pivotal age, etc.). ---- The strike, which began with a number of very striking majority has lost its vitality over the
weeks but again became majority during inter-day January 9, the 36 th day of strike: it is proof of its roots and the determination of the
strikers.
It is also the (re) discovery that when the mobilization is in the majority, it is possible to really block production despite the obstacles
to the right to strike. Indeed, such a blockage had not happened to SNCF since the strike of 2007. The following year, the law on "
continuity of public service " indeed required many categories of staff to declare the intention to strike 48 hours in advance, which
allows the company to reassign non-strikers and to run a maximum of trains.
Paris, December 10, 2019
cc Daniel Maunoury
A real interpro mobilization ... but not widespread
The general strike of January 9 was eagerly awaited by railroaders and railroaders in struggle and, if this date was not the starting point
of a general conflagration, all the GA noted a real investment of many sectors professionals, coupled with visibility of the strike and
blockages in these sectors. If the length of the conflict and the deductions of wages make it difficult to envisage a massive
remobilization, in renewable, with the SNCF, the tone of the last GA did not look like augured anything of an end of mobilization.
The almost daily interprofessional actions, the favorable polls, the voluntarism of the union teams who continue the mobilization work
enabled another good day of action on January 24, with 40% of the drivers on strike, on the occasion of the council of ministers who
reviewed the bill.
Read also: " Rail: Basta of the" Christmas truce " " , Alternative libertarian, January 2020.
This unprecedented movement has already made it possible, by virtue of its visibility and its duration, to occupy the political field and
corner the government. Despite the lack of establishment and fighting spirit of many union structures, the links interprotected locally will
certainly revitalize union action in most territories.
The inter-professional mobilization started on December 5 is therefore not over, and whatever forms it takes in the coming weeks, railway
workers and railway workers will respond to it !
UCL railway workers, January 25, 2020
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Ferroviaire-Plus-de-45-jours-au-taquet-et-une-determination-intacte
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Message: 2
Recently, you may have noticed that ‘Counter Terrorism Policing' decided that the AF is enough of a threat to include our logo in their
guide, now withdrawn, which aimed to advise teachers and medical staff about potential extremists. Joining us in the guide were other
anarchist-linked groups, such as Class War and Solidarity Federation but also groups that have a reputation for being a lot more tame in
their political outlook such as Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Stand Up to Racism. Clearly, the term terrorism would not be
applied to these groups and their actions in most people's minds. In response to the widespread backlash to their targeting of environmental
groups, the police pointed to a note in the guide that said, "not all of the signs and symbols noted within this document are of
counter-terrorism interest." However, that note was placed only within the section of the guide about far-right and white groups, relating
to their use of pagan symbolism, which is ironic since right-wing groups and individuals were judged by the Met in 2019 to be the fastest
growing terrorist threat in the UK!
Conflating organisations that are prepared to use direct action to counter oppression or protect the environment with terrorists and
fascists is insulting to those of us who are seeking to create a socially peaceful and non-violent world, but only acts to show the lengths
to which governments will go in order to suppress any challenge to the status quo. Treating fascists, who endorse bigotry and genocide, as
equivalent to anti-fascists, who strive to prevent bigotry and genocide, is an example of the disingenuous application of the ‘Horseshoe
theory' - the idea that there is a continuum of political viewpoints away from the a centre which goes off left and right in opposite
directions but tends to meet up at the extremes.
We join the many voices who have condemned this guide and the almost Orwellian intentions behind it. Unfortunately though, by focussing on
non-violence, this condemnation has for the most part accepted the narrative put forward by the State. By such a limited condemnation,
nation states are allowed to assert and maintain their ‘legitimate' monopoly on violence. Not an eye has been batted towards the constant
violence and terrorism that the British government, and other governments across the planet, have employed historically, and continue to employ.
If violence is "the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy.", then the thousands of cases of abuse, injuring and
killing countless people by the Police clearly betray their role as a ‘violent' institution; if terrorism is the "use or threat of action"
that "is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause" or "involves serious violence against a person",
then by its own definitions, the British state's imperialistic involvement in Western Asia, for example, during which it has organised
coups, dealt arms, dropped bombs and massacred civilians, all in the pursuit of its neo-colonial and neoliberal cause, has, alongside many,
many other acts, established it as a terrorist operation for a long time. In addition to these more obvious acts of violence, nation states
are responsible for violence in everyday life through economic inequalities and the upholding of gender oppressions or racist policies
(current or historical) which result in physical and mental illness, injury and death.
Non-violence can be a great method to employ, but we must be mindful of the privilege that allows us to employ it, and acknowledge the fact
that such privilege is neither universal nor necessarily permanent. Violence has been necessary for people to collectively free themselves
from state oppression, or to attempt to do so, whilst terrorism must be opposed as an authoritarian, cruel, elitist method which
deliberately seeks to create confusion and always undermines class solidarity.
Recent struggles by workers and students in places such as Hong Kong, Chile, France and Iran demonstrate not only the necessity of
collective direct action, but also its benefits and efficacy. In this context non-violence can be an act of complicity with oppressors,
allowing nation states to continue or escalate their own violent actions at the expense of ourselves or others. We can note that states
typically include damage to property in their definitions of unacceptable actions by citizens. Very rarely, different parts of the state can
disagree on this, such as the case in UK where a group of women who, in 1996, smashed up British made Hawk war planes bound for the
Indonesia (East Timor) were acquitted by the courts on the moral grounds of preventing genocide. Other times they are prepared to respond to
people's willingness to take direct action with extreme force, such as the sinking of a Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, by French
secret service divers mining it in 1985. Another boat-related example was the all-out assault by Israeli military forces on the humanitarian
Gaza Freedom Flotilla in 2010. The UK state regularly gets away with outrageous violence on protesters - in December 2019 one cop escaped
discipline after the beating of a student in the head with a baton during a kettling in the 2010 student fees demo, which caused him brain
damage, when it was argued that video footage showed another unidentified cop had done it!
If and when states become more and more authoritarian in response to the climate emergency or unchanging economic precarity, the dichotomy
between violent and non-violent action will become more useless than it already is. Already the British government chose to push back on the
idea that XR should be allowed to use direct action even while it adheres to a non-violent ideology. Renouncers of a more pure non-violence
at present may well need to change to more diverse tactics if their ability to perform direct action is not to be hindered by state
repression. Unlike terrorism, collective action can be built upon and must adapt to changing situations, fanning the flames of revolution,
which these states try so desperately to extinguish.
Instead of demanding ‘non-violence' then, we should stand, together, in solidarity with all those who fight to end their oppression, and the
oppression of others. The increasingly authoritarian measures being introduced by the police can and must be opposed, but any opposition
that accepts the narrative that the State has set forward about what form of protest is acceptable is extremely vulnerable to failure.
Together, we can fight to achieve our ambitions, but we must not blindly betray each other, and ourselves, by ‘self-policing' our
activities; instead, we should celebrate a diversity of tactics and use it to its fullest capacity to end our oppression once and for all!
Tags: Ecology, Environmental, police, police violence
http://afed.org.uk/cops-lame-attempt-to-prevent-dissent/
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Message: 3
The Subversion publishing house came up with a translation of a new publication that looks outwardly to bring a new wind to the stagnant
anarchist movement. When we read the first lines, however, we will soon realize that there is no discovery of ideas - the author hiding
under the pseudonym Flower Bomb simply repeats the old well-known individualistic-nihilistic ballast. ---- The text is problematic in its
introduction, when the author dedicated the book to two anarchist assassins, although propaganda by action lost its significance in the
early twentieth century. What are they trying to suggest? That the current rebellious "anarchists" are not radical and should they move from
car-firing to murdering people?
No hope, no future brings us a message that seems to have been copied by Alfred Bonnan - in a tangle of metaphors the reader learns that it
is impossible to wait and waste time building some anti-authoritarian projects. It is much better to throw away the responsibility to the
collective and, in the explosions of bourgeois individualism, plunge into orgies of violent direct action.
It is hard to say how specifically this will move us towards a solidarity, anti-capitalist and egalitarian society, but at least in the
context of a subcultural identity we can confirm the label "cool rebel" who is so authentic anarchist that he despises anarchists. In its
text, Flower Bomb completely ignores the historical experience of anarchist revolutions that were partly wrecked because of chaos and
programmatic emptiness. When the organized social revolution was attacked by isolated "lifestyle anarchists" who were completely stolen from
some anarchist communism because they wanted to experience "emancipatory destruction" right now and here. As if they had completely
forgotten Bakunin's "break down, but also create."
The greatest contradiction of the text, however, is that while the pamphlet is directed into the anarchist movement in order to convince
comrades of the only correct vision of anarchism, it also despises the anarchist movement and labels it with "authoritarian revolutionaries"
and "collectivized misery". However, rebellious anarchism is by its irresponsibility to the rest of the movement purely authoritarian, and
the question is whether to put it together with anarcho-capitalism at all as anarchist currents, because its "live here and now, do not be
restricted" rather resembles right-wing advertising slogan on Coca-Cola. The essence of anarchism lies in positive freedom (freedom to
participate), collectivism, solidarity and self-government. Insurgent anarchism invokes negative freedom (typical of capitalism),
collectivism and solidarity refuse to speak of self-government in this context, because insurgent anarchism does not build or create
anything. So it seems that he has completely retreated from the anarchist nature and now serves exclusively as a tool to repress the
anti-authoritarian movement.
Flower Bomb: No hope, no future: Let the adventure begin!. Subversion, 2020. 12 pages A5. Free download.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7112/zadna-nadeje-zadna-budoucnost-stale-stejne-individualisticke-zvasty
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Message: 4
The Libertarian Anarchist Socialism Organization is in solidarity with the M'bya Guarani in Jaraguá, in São Paulo, who a week ago occupied
land near the Jaraguá Indigenous Land. The fight is to stop the continuation of deforestation in the region, and prevent the construction of
a condominium of five residential buildings, for the Minha Casa Minha Vida program, by Construtora Tenda. The indigenous occupation began
after the construction company cut hundreds of trees. In total, more than 4,000 trees were cut. In opposition, another 200 tree seedlings
were planted by the M'bya Guarani in the places where the felling occurred. ---- The occupation aims at the political articulation and
visibility of the struggle of the M'bya Guarani in the region. The company Tenda Negócios Imobiliários SA, a publicly traded construction
company, has among its shareholders Banco Itaú and the owner of AmBev, billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, one of the richest men in the world.
Tenda has an average turnover of more than R $ 300 million, mainly executing works under the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program. The company
claims to have fulfilled all legal obligations and that the work was approved by the Municipal Licensing Secretariat of the city of São
Paulo. However, the fact that the work is not in indigenous territory does not guarantee authorization.
Mayor Bruno Covas (PSDB) informed that the work was regular and that the indigenous people must prove the irregularities. However, the
indigenous people also claim that the city of São Paulo cannot, alone, authorize a construction, since the Indigenous Land is the federal
responsibility.
Due to the occupation, the works were temporarily suspended, and the indigenous people set up a camp on the ground. Negotiations are being
arranged with Funai, the City Hall and the Public Ministry. Inspectors from the Environmental Company of the State of São Paulo (Cetesb)
visited the site, finding irregularities in the work.
In an area considered to be of permanent preservation, the Guarani M'bya Guarani denounce that the construction would be irregular, as it is
in an area of environmental preservation of the Atlantic Forest, considered a cooling zone of the Jaraguá State Park, in addition to having
a river source. Even Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization obliges states to carry out prior consultations in the case of
undertakings close to the Indigenous Lands, but the Indians were not consulted.
The Tenda project is just a few meters from the limits of TI Jaraguá. The area of 532 hectares was declared to be of traditional occupation
by the Guarani Mbya people by the Ministry of Justice in 2015. However, there is, to date, no lawsuit filed at Ibama, the federal agency
responsible for licensing enterprises in an area of influence of a Indigenous Land.
We are also in solidarity with the indigenous resistance struggle throughout the Brazilian territory; peoples who have suffered from
genocide since colonization, and more recently with assassinations of leaders, and attacks by militiamen and private security guards hired
by ranchers - militiamen and ranchers who are increasingly encouraged by the Bolsonaro government's development project, which proposes to
move forward agribusiness and mining in IT. In urban areas, the threats come from real estate developments that foment speculation and
environmental crimes.
NO TO THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES!
IN DEFENSE OF THE JARAGUÁ INDIGENOUS LAND!
ALL SOLIDARITY TO GUARANI M'BYA!
SAVE THE FOREST! JARAGUÁ IS GUARANI!
Anarchist Organization Libertarian Socialism
February 2020
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