Today's Topics:
1. Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - [France] A self-managed
grocery store to revive a village (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Attacks on strike marches on Tuesday 18/2 in Athens,
Thessaloniki and Patras By APO (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 - India: An
ethnic cleansing that does not say its name (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Class War Scotland - Dundee Anarchist Bookfair is happening
on the 14th of March! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. UCL Saint-Denis - What we want (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. cgt-lkn: against "hot returns" (ca, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
A text by the comrades of France and Belgium of the Libertarian Communist Union: Passing the door of the Alternator is discovering a citizen
store where the concrete notion of collective and self-management takes on its full meaning. Promoting local producers, this Auvergne
association allows the inhabitant of a small village to experience direct democracy while revitalizing their village. ---- It all started
with the closure of the local supermarket in the Auvergne village of Sauxillanges, a small village of 1,200 inhabitants, not very far from
Issoire. In order to find a solution to the planned desertification of the village and at the initiative in particular of four women,
architects and activists, a vast survey is being carried out with the inhabitants. It appears that the inhabitants are "waiting for a bulk
food store, a grocery store or a friendly place" recalls Sandra, active member of the association from the start.
Everything is organized very quickly: a first group of women mobilizes and begins a multitude of research, visits co-ops, alternative
places, approaches producers, examines the different legal statuses. A first constitutive assembly made up of 25 inhabitants met in July
2017 to refine the papers, the operation, the time slots. Finally, to start and cover the first costs, "keeping tables on the markets will
raise 5,000 euros" .
Between July and September 12, the association is registered and premises of 100 m 2 are open. The association will have been set up in two
months! Today it includes 180 members and 65 volunteers from the village and its surroundings.
Revitalize the city center thanks to social ties
The Alternator organizes workshops on ecological transition and sets up screenings-debates, offers board games, joins the Issoire toy
library. A cultural association and another for migrants are being created. Clearly, "the association has become a place of mutual aid and a
bridge between local associations" . Inform, advise, support and spread while being as transparent as possible, these are the group's
claimed leitmotifs. Thus the association participates "in all unifying projects" like that of the rue du Trac festival in late September.
She also created an association called Roue libre, a bicycle repair workshop that organizes parties.
And because people meet "by working together, each and everyone talks about things that are happening in the surrounding villages, upcoming
events, the latest news. The social bond is revived" .
Promote local productions
Fresh local products, organic or in conversion, are presented in bulk. Concerning the producers, Sandra reveals to us, still a little
astonished, that "although that does less work for them and that the margins can be very interesting they did not immediately respond
present. They thought they were wasting their time and did not really see the group's objectives" , before adding, "now, convinced of the
merits of the approach, they come to offer their products. And there are more and more. The consumer also benefits thanks to the very low
margins on certain products" . The Alternator therefore works very well and generates a turnover similar to that of a small business.
A great initiative should be noted: the hiring of two employees part-time for a few months of the year. It should be noted that at the
beginning "this principle was not unanimous but the discussions at the general assembly (GA) ended up validating it. The people hired have
been involved in the project from the start, and everyone, both volunteer and employee, is gradually learning to find their mark within the
group, according to their personality and their life experience" . Difficulties, whether personal or organizational, are not all resolved,
however.
Direct democracy
The collective notes that, strangely, some and some do not imagine practicing self-management or direct democracy "when they do it
concretely" . They are so dispossessed of these tools "that they have to relearn how to work in a collective, without hierarchy, by talking
and doing together!"" But how this is organized direct democracy ? It is through the collective meeting that the proposals of the various
working groups are validated (or not) and that the monitoring of their application is decided. The positions and responsibilities, the
methods of each and everyone then evolve according to comments or claims, in order to embrace as closely as possible the multiple facets of
daily work. In this way, "the collective therefore constantly refines its practices" . Yes, we can say today that the collective card works
and that it saves time.
The collegial mode which governs the association allows a priori not to have a hierarchy. And if the volunteers, members end up recognizing
the benefits of this type of functioning "it was necessary to achieve this result to fight some habits and remove doubts" : training
volunteers in different tasks "is a challenge!"" . Is the regulation too complicated? How can we improve the functioning of the
organization? Some do more than others and collective and administrative management is time consuming, etc.
One thing is clear today within the collective: members today would really need to meet more often and have adequate premises. A place where
could be organized, as Sandra says, "debates without stakes, where could deepen certain points and solve more collectively the problems ..."
Challenge which, given the motivation of the members, is far to be insurmountable.
To the order of the next GA: how to increase the number of volunteers, look for a larger room, organize events, parties, refreshments to
collect more money, "and above all that, by owning the premises and practices, living democracy" . Because it appears that "many people make
better decisions, decisions that are more virtuous for the collective, fairer, more courageous, more ambitious" .
Long live the collective !
And if there was a lesson to be learned from this adventure, "it is that we all, as Sandra declares with enthusiasm and conviction,
individually, need others to evolve, that if the operation does not leave the possibility to deepen democracy, it is the latter that will
disappear ..."
Thank you to Sandra, Agathe and the whole Alternator team!
Nicolas (UCL Auvergne)
by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/02/france-une-epicerie-autogeree-pour.html
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AGAINST: ---- -In the new round of anti-social attack and robbery on salaries, insurance and care ---- - EXTENSION OF THE TERMS OF THE
EMPLOYEES SLAVEMENT WITH THE SUBSTANTIAL DESTRUCTION OF SUNDAY ARTS ---- -In WORKING "ACCIDENTS" WHO ARE MURDERS OF BENEFITS ---- - IN
CRIMINALIZATION OF TRADE UNION AND DISABILITY ---- - IN WAR PLANNING, INCLUDING REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, IN PLACING THE
NATURAL WORLD ---- BASIC ORGANIZATION - CLASS SOLIDARITY - MATCH RESISTANCE ---- ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARITY
AND FREEDOM COMMUNISM ---- GENERAL FAILURE - CALLS ON TUESDAY 18 FEBRUARY ---- Athens: Strike Demonstration - Demonstration at Habitat,
11.00 ---- Thessaloniki: Strike in Kamara, 10.30 ---- Patras: Strike Concentration in the Annex, 10.00
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collections
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 3
A fifth of the Indian population on the street (250 million), universities attacked by fascist militias in the pay of the BJP, the voluntary
endangerment of Indians of Muslim faith, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) aims to "re-Indianize"a country whose whole history shines
however of the coexistence of its diversities. Modi goes further than any other country in the hands of the far right. ---- Exactly a year
ago, Modi, the sinister Indian Prime Minister had already put the country on the street when he attacked union rights (read AL of February
2019). Since December, protest movements have erupted everywhere to prevent the latest infamy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from
happening and deprive Muslim nationals of three Indian states of their rights and continue the work of humiliation of this community, which
represents 14% of the country.
In December 2019, the Indian government amended the CAA, a previous law of 1955 facilitating access to Indian citizenship for Afghan,
Pakistani, Bangladeshi immigrants, provided they are Hindu, Jain, Christian, Sikh ... Everything but Muslims. This law is backed by the
National Registry of Citizens (NRC) set up in Assam (north-eastern part of the country) in 1951 and recently reactivated aiming to identify
citizens of Indian origin to distinguish them from immigrants · came from neighboring states.
It is now a question of depriving an entire population of rights. Land of high immigration, Assam has developed an aggressive nationalism
targeting mainly Muslim Bengalis and Bengladeshi. Massively undocumented, obviously over-exploited in the Assamese tea plantations, they
know of no other home than India. Two thousand of those whom the secretary general of the BJP calls " termites " have already been
assassinated by the Assam Movement. 1.9 million people already fall under these provisions in Assam alone. That is to say, as many people
who are threatened with becoming stateless and being directed to truly horrific detention camps, and this, indefinitely since there is no
repatriation agreement with Bangladesh.
The CAA creates the perilous precedent of citizenship based on religious affiliation. With the NRC, Modi wants to experiment with a massive
Hinduism instrument, applicable elsewhere in the country and whose project is already planned.
Massive Hinduism weapon
According to his usual strategy, the passage into legislative force is always combined with intimidation by interposed fascist militias.
Thus, Nehru University in Delhi was attacked by thugs of a student union Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (national patriotic organization, RSS)
from the BJP and leaving around thirty wounded. Thus, the number of lynchings is increasing sharply since the arrival of Modi in power.
Tacitly encouraged and systematically unpunished, they target, in addition to Muslims, untouchables and ethnic minorities. Thus the
suspension a month ago of the specific status of Kashmir, predominantly Muslim and its media blackout.
We know the strength of the Indian social movement, its ability to mobilize in impressive numbers. The states of Kerala, Bengal, Punjab have
already decreed that they will not apply the CAA. Groups of women at roundabouts, repeated demonstrations, Dalit organizations (untouchable,
outside caste) in solidarity with the Muslims of Delhi, blockages, union actions ... But also: fierce repression, the attack on the Muslim
University of Delhi by the police, twenty dead, several thousand arrests, property seized ... At the time of going to press, the movement
has not stopped expanding and taking root ... Curiously, the examples cited by Indian newspapers to encourage them to stand are, Chile and
... France struggling: " not to give in to reformist offers but to fight " .
Cuervo (UCL Marseille)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Inde-Une-epuration-ethnique-qui-ne-dit-pas-son-nom
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Just to remind everyone about the Dundee Anarchist Bookfair 2020. ---- CWS will have a stall, with badges, T shirts - hope to have the new
CW Scotland T shirt, stickers and our good selves at this long awaited event. Hope to see you there? ---- This event is free to attend and
we'll have free child care available. ---- The Boomerang Community Centre is an accessible venue and if you have specific access
requirements please feel free to reach out to us so we can best facilitate your attendance and participation in the event. ---- Details
about the venue: http://www.boomerang110.co.uk ---- Food Not Bombs Dundee will be providing a free lunch between 12-2 and tea and coffee all
day for donations. ---- We're going to showcase some of the amazing groups doing work in Dundee and have a selection of independent vendors
selling literature and zines.
In the short term, we're actively trying to connect local activists and groups so we can platform them as best we can with the hope that
we'll be able to help them grow and share lessons learned.
Our long term aim is to establish an autonomous space in Dundee and we see this event as a vital part of that process.
If you want to get involved in the event then email us at dundeeanarchistbookfair@riseup.net
You can also find out more information on our website: https://dundeeanarchistbookfair.org
facebook.com/events/1566949893457592
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Message: 5
Revolutionary syndicalism and anarcho-syndicalism, the best compasses for workers in struggle! ---- The current movement revives the
original foundations of unionism: a class unionism ready to break with employer exploitation and state domination. Since December 5, the
message carried by all has become increasingly clear: Class Unity, Direct Action and General Strike, the three bases of our revolutionary
unionism. Its objective, to build a society of social justice and radical equality: Libertarian Communism. ---- Like our comrades from the
CGT RATP Bus Pleyel, we share the charters of Amiens, our most expensive shield and our keenest look at what we want! ---- - To be
disseminated as much as possible - ---- the Amiens Charters in the text: ---- "The CGT groups, outside of any political school, all workers
who are aware of the struggle to fight for disappearance of workers and employers ". ---- The Congress considers that this declaration is a
recognition of the class struggle, which opposes in the economic field workers in revolt against all forms of exploitation and oppression,
both material and moral, implemented by the capitalist class against the working class. The Congress specifies, by the following points,
this theoretical affirmation: in the daily claiming work, the trade unionism pursues the coordination of the workers' efforts, the increase
of the well-being of the workers by the realization of immediate improvements, such as reducing working hours, increasing wages, etc. But
this task is only one side of the work of unionism: on the one hand it prepares for complete emancipation, which can only be achieved by
capitalist expropriation, and on the other hand, it advocates as a means of action the general strike and it considers that the union, today
resistance group, will be, in the future, the group of production and distribution, base of social reorganization.
The Congress declares that this double task, daily and of the future, stems from the situation of wage-earners which weighs on the working
class and which makes all workers, whatever their opinions or their political or philosophical tendencies, a duty to belong to the essential
grouping that is the union.
Consequently, as far as individuals are concerned, the Congress affirms that the union member is entirely free to participate, outside the
corporate group, in such forms of struggle corresponding to his philosophical or political conception, confining himself to asking him, in
reciprocity, not to introduce into the union the opinions he professes abroad. With regard to organizations, the Congress declares that in
order for trade unionism to reach its maximum effect, economic action must be exercised directly against employers, the Confederate
organizations not having, as trade union groups, to be concerned with parties and sects which, outside and alongside, can freely pursue
social transformation.
http://www.ainfos.ca/fr/ainfos19909.html
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Message: 6
The ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to "hot returns" violates the elementary rights of any human being
struggling to escape from very dramatic realities, estimating the Spanish Government's appeal against the October 3 ruling of 2017
thatunanimously ruled that Spain had incurred in two violations of the European Convention of Rights that prohibits collective expulsions,
and article 13 that requires the existence of adequate resources to challenge the possible violations of the rights recognized therein. ----
The ECHR now resolves by a very large majority that the expulsion and return to Morocco in hot or border, without following any legal
procedure, of two people from Mali and Ivory Coast who, on August 13, 2014, had entered the territory Spanish jumping the fence of Melilla,
does not violate any of the two precepts that had previously been considered violated. In addition, the ECHR maintains that these two people
were able to apply for asylum at source, which is totally unrealizable.
It turns out that the Constitutional Court is pending resolution of the appeal of unconstitutionality raised by, among others, the PSOE,
against the 'Gag Law, in the tenth additional provision, establishes that: "Foreigners who are detected on the border line of the
Territorial demarcation of Ceuta or Melilla while trying to overcome border containment elements to cross the border irregularly may be
rejected in order to prevent their illegal entry into Spain. "
We cannot forget the PSOE-UP government program, to repeal the "Gag Law" and the electoral program of United We can say that it will be
monitored "that there is no hot return or illegal express". In addition, the Government may not practice hot returns, although current
legislation authorizes it and already promotes a modification of the 'Gag Law' in this matter. We will see what is the "progressive"
character of this Government.
https://www.cgt-lkn.org/blog/archivos/6161
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