Today's Topics:
1. France, Union Communiste Libertaire Youth Secretariat UCL -
January Clash, Why participate in the strike ? (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Canada, ucl-saguenay, Collectif Emma Goldman -[book]George
Orwell: Homage to Catalonia (1 of 2) (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Zabalaza News: Lucien van der Walt, 2019, "REBUILDING LINKS
BETWEEN UNIONS AND CO-OPERATIVES FOR COUNTER-POWER,
" 'Amandla,
number's 67/68, pp. 28-29 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #301 - Seveso sites:
Lubrizol and Natup, same major risk ! (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Germany, the platform - Stella Nigra Anarchist Collective:
If the state does not abide by its own rules again - a legal view
of the Indymedia case below (de) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. cnt.es: CNT calls to "maintain and extend" the struggle for
dignity after the general strike (ca, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Canada, ucl-saguenay, Collectif Emma Goldman -[Montreal]Exit
of the 720 blocked in support of the Wet'suwet'en (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran: Not to eastern
imperialism, western imperialism, Islamic imperialism, nor Sunni
or Shiite ISIL (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Why participate in the strike ? ---- Since December, a strong renewable strike movement has been organized against pension reform, notably
at the RATP, the SNCF and in Education. For this month of January, let's be everywhere as much as possible to join this movement ! ---- The
pension reform penalizes us all, it will make us work longer and for a much lower retirement. In the cities where we are able to go to our
places of study, let us mobilize widely against this reform which is unpopular ! In our places of study, let us prepare general assemblies
to join the demonstrations, and bring our support to the actions of the strikers. ---- Don't let E3Cs strike in high schools ! ---- In high
schools, the month of January is also the start of the continuous examinations of the Bac (E3C) resulting from the Blanquer reform which
further accentuates social inequalities. The boycott and strike actions of these examinations by the teachers are to be supported. Let us
organize with them and them, so that the E3Cs do not come to stop the strike in high schools. As in other sectors, this type of professional
demands can help to amplify the movement against pension reform.
Salaried students, let's not stay isolated !
Beyond financial solidarity with workers who are already on strike, if we want this reform not to pass, we have to be on strike as much as
possible, everywhere, even where it is complicated. The government will withdraw its reform when the shareholders force it to do so, after
losing millions thanks to the cessation of our work. We are more than one in two students working alongside our studies, because of the
precariousness we suffer. Let's meet the employees of other sectors on their strike pickets, contact unions, in order to have information on
our right to strike, help to organize, and to mobilize our colleagues at our workplace !
We don't want to waste our lives to win it !
The pension reform penalizes us all, it will make us work longer and for a much lower retirement. Wherever we have access to our places of
study, let us mobilize widely against this reform which is unpopular ! In our places of study, let us prepare general assemblies to join the
demonstrations, and bring our support to the actions of the strikers.
Don't let E3Cs strike in high schools !
In high schools, the month of January is also the start of the continuous examinations of the Bac (E3C) resulting from the Blanquer reform
which further accentuates social inequalities. The boycott and strike actions of these examinations by the teachers are to be supported. Let
us organize with them and them, so that the E3Cs do not come to stop the strike in high schools. As in other sectors, this type of
professional demands can help to amplify the movement against pension reform.
Salaried students, let's not stay isolated !
Beyond financial solidarity with workers who are already on strike, if we want this reform not to pass, we have to be on strike as much as
possible, everywhere, even where it is complicated. The government will withdraw its reform when the shareholders force it to do so, after
losing millions thanks to the cessation of our work. We are more than one in two students working alongside our studies, because of the
precariousness we suffer. Let's meet the employees of other sectors on their strike pickets, contact unions, in order to have information on
our right to strike, help to organize, and to mobilize our colleagues at our workplace !
We don't want to waste our lives to win it !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Pourquoi-participer-a-la-greve
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Message: 2
If today Catalonia draws attention on the international scene for its secessionist movement as well as the repression and the numerous
political arrests carried out by the Spanish central government following the referendum of self-determination, in another era, this region
of world was anything but a model for Mathieu Bock-Côté (MBC) and his zealots. Far from embodying a model for nationalists who are closed in
on themselves, Catalonia represented the most important revolutionary center of Europe. As Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name
George Orwell, points out: "I had fallen more or less by chance into the only community of any importance in Western Europe where class
consciousness and the refusal to trust capitalism were more common attitudes than their opposite. (P.109) Not quite the same tribute as MBC.
Homage to Catalonia is a story about the Spanish War published in 1938, a few months after its author's engagement in a unit of the Workers'
Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) on the Aragon front in Catalonia. George Orwell recounts his 115 days on the front, as well as his
participation in the days of May 1937, which opposed anarchists (CNT-FAI) and communists of POUM supporters of the social revolution to the
Assault Guards (police) and the Stalinists of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC). Finally, the author discusses his hasty
departure from Spain after the Stalinists outlawed the POUM. The film Earth and Freedom (1995) by British director Ken Loach is partly
inspired by this work.
The revolutionary atmosphere in December 1936
George Orwell arrived in Spain in December 1936 with the intention of writing some articles for the newspapers, but hardly arrived, he
joined the militias. "[...]on this date and in this atmosphere, it seemed inconceivable to be able to act otherwise. The anarchists still
effectively had the upper hand over Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. "(P.13) To try to show the atmosphere somewhat,
the author of Homage to Catalonia mentions that:" Any store, any cafe had an inscription informing you of its collectivization[...]all trams
and taxis and many other vehicles were painted red and black. Revolutionary cupboards everywhere[...]"(p.14) But the most important
according to the author"[...]there was faith in the revolution and in the future, the impression of having suddenly led to an era of
equality and freedom. Human beings sought to behave as human beings and no longer as mere cogs in the capitalist machine. "(P.15)
The militias or the microcosm of a classless society
The workers' militias, hastily raised by the unions and the parties at the start of General Franco's rebellion (1), had not been organized
on the basis of an ordinary army. The main points were social equality between the officers and the troops. Everyone had the same pay,
shared the same food and wore roughly the same clothes (2). But above all, there was no clatter of heels and military salute, and even less
of the stripes and epaulettes. George Orwell explains: " It was understood that one had to obey orders, but it was also understood that,
when you gave an order, it was like a more experienced comrade to a comrade, and not like a superior to a inferior. "(P.41)
Life on the Aragon front
" In trench warfare, five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles and the enemy. "Orwell explains," This was their order of
importance, the enemy came last. "(P.36)
After a few days of military training, which the author describes as " useless and silly ", the centuria made up of 80 men of which he was
a part, was sent empty-handed to the front line. It was only three days after his arrival at the front, that Orwell and his comrades
received rifles and training for a few minutes on the basics of handling weapons. When moving his column, the author makes the following
reflection: " It seemed awful to me that the defenders of the Republic, it was this band of ragged children carrying rifles out of use and
of which they did not even know to serve. "(P.31)
The front in this sector was not a continuous line of trenches, but a cordon of fortified posts perched on each of the peaks. The enemy was
more than 800 meters as the crow flies and two kilometers by road. The absence of artillery and the lack of military equipment (3) forced
the militiamen to maintain their position or to carry out small-scale night attacks. " We only had rifles, most of which were scrap metal.
There were three types in service. First, the long Mauser rifles of this type rarely dated less than twenty years[...]then there was the
short Mauser, or carabiner, cavalry weapon in reality[...]in fact they could hardly be used: they consisted of mismatched spare parts; No
rifle had its own breech and three-quarters of them jammed after five shots. There were finally some Winchesters[...]ammunition was so rare
that each man, on his arrival at the front, touched only fifty cartridges of which the majority were extremely bad. "(P.50)
In his story, the author is far from presenting himself as a heroic fighter. In fact, war is anything but romantic. It is presented by
Orwell as a long wait: "Nothing was happening; just from time to time a man injured by a sniper's bullet "(p.108). Came to Spain to fight
fascism, as may be recognized later for his books Animal Farm and 1984 was content he said, "to exist as a kind of passive object
with[...]the cold and lack of sleep. Perhaps this is the fate of most soldiers in most wars. "(P.109)
Opposite, in the ranks of the fascists, the situation was scarcely brighter. After capturing a fascist position, the author writes: " These
poor unpaid conscripts seemed to have nothing but blankets and a few pieces of undercooked bread. "(P.96)
The end of the revolutionary atmosphere
On April 25, 1937, Orwell and his comrades were relieved by another section and left the front in the direction of Barcelona. " And after
that things began to spoil him " (p.114)
More in a future article.
(1) July 18, 1936: Military uprising. CNT calls for general strike across the country
(2) According to the author, it is more correct to speak of "multiform" to describe the militia uniforms.
(3) July 25, 1936: France rejects the Spanish government's request for arms. The factious soldiers receive military support from Italy.
by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/01/livre-george-orwell-hommage-la.html
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Message: 3
**Based on a talk in Tanzania on union strategy. ---- High unemployment, together with stunning failures by both private and state sectors
to provide basic services, have helped reignite interest in forming cooperatives amongst the working class and poor. There is a range of
left ideas behind support for building workers' co-ops. They range from ideas that cooperatives can alleviate poverty, to claims that they
can form the heart of a different, solidarity-based economy, to notions that they can provide a route out of capitalism itself.Co-ops,
following the International Cooperative Alliance, are autonomous organisations to meet the common purposes and needs of members, with joint
ownership and control. They are often presented as new - in some cases, as part of an innovative "21st century socialism". But they have a
surprisingly long history. What, then, can we learn from earlier experiences in South Africa? And what role, if any, can co-ops play in
reinvigorating the union and working class movements?
Limits and possibilities of co-ops
I argue that workers' co-ops cannot play a significant role in poverty alleviation or job creation, do not challenge capitalism
economically, and are not a direct route into socialism. However, there is still real value in workers' co-ops, if linked to larger working
class movements for change.
Workers' co-ops face capitalist production, which is based on authoritarian management, control over capital and skills, exploitation and a
disregard for workers' views and rights. They must either struggle simply to survive, or embrace capitalism. Likewise, consumer co-ops aimed
at the working class are under immense pressure to provide low-price items, and so to source cheap products from capitalists. Relying on
ethical consumption by richer people makes co-ops reliant on the inequalities within capitalism. Relying on states makes them reliant on
ruling class patronage and politicians.
Fundamental change in society requires a massive redistribution of wealth and power - not least, socialisation of major means of production.
This requires struggle and confrontation, rather than engaging in markets on the margins.
That said, workers' co-ops - whether start-ups, or from factory occupations, or land occupations, or generated in other ways - can provide
valuable, concrete examples of democratic, self-managed, non-profit production. They can contribute to building the working class counter-
power and revolutionary counter-culture, or consciousness needed for fundamental change. Workers' coops should be embedded in larger social
movements, especially unions, which can provide protected markets and subsidies, including paying above-market solidarity prices.
Claims that co-ops provide an alternative are not new. They were, for example, made in the 1840s by French libertarian socialist
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He was later a major influence on the anarchist movement of Mikhail Bakunin. Proudhon wanted autonomous, bottom-up
co-ops, funded by a mutual bank; his rival, Louis Blanc, an early social democrat, advocated state sponsorship. In South Africa, efforts at
forming union-backed worker co-ops date back a century, and they remain central to the formal socialist strategy of the Congress of South
African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
However, there is nothing intrinsically anti-capitalist, anti-statist or inclusive about co-ops. The most economically important co-ops in
modern South Africa have been large-scale capitalist cartels. For example, KWV was formed in 1918 as a co-op run by white Western Cape
commercial farmers. It controlled wine and distilled spirits, including prices, received state backing and was built on the back of
low-wage, non-union and impoverished, mainly Coloured labour. This is an example of a user co-op providing services to clients. In this case
it is also enabling capital accumulation. Around 1997, KWV became a private firm, ran bee deals from 2004, and sold for over a billion rand
in 2016.
Workers' co-ops are different: they are owned and controlled by the workers themselves. But they have significant limitations.
Co-ops in South African history
Workers' Co-ops in South Africa first emerged in Cape Town, according to Evan Mantzaris. A small bakers' union started an International
Cooperative Bakery on Roeland Street in 1903, and bootmakers in the non-racial General Workers Union (GWU) set up two co-op stores on
Caledon Street in 1906. That year, striking cigarette rollers in the gwuformed a co-op producing "Knock-Out" and "Lock-Out" cigarettes,
eventually employing 300. The latter co-ops were assisted by GWU and Social Democratic Federation militants like the anarchist Barney Levinson.
Despite enthusiasm, union support, and impressive starting capital, none lasted. Raw materials were controlled by large firms; co-ops lacked
running costs and battled to pay wages; they could not access big retailers or compete with the big brands; they struggled to operate
democratically and efficiently. This pattern continued over the following decades.
The 1980s saw a revival of interest in worker co-ops in the left press and Cosatu. For example, the National Union of Metalworkers of South
Africa (Numsa) set up the Sarmcol Workers Cooperative (Sawco) in Howick in 1987 to assist fired workers. The National Union of Mineworkers
(NUM) set up 30 cooperatives in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, following a bruising 1987 mass strike. By 1989, Numsa was setting up
the Siyanda Consumer Cooperative in Port Elizabeth, and an East Cape Co-op Newsletter. Other unions were also active.
From co-ops to union investment companies
There was never agreement in Cosatu over co-ops' aims, but there was consensus over co-ops' limits. In Cosatu News in 1989, Numsa argued
they were "tiny" islands in a "hostile capitalist environment," employing hundreds only, and struggling to remain democratic. NUM ran
cooperatives mainly to help, and keep contact with, ex-miners in rural areas. They were phased out in the mid-1990s. Its Phalaborwa T-shirt
Printing Coop has, however, survived. NUM's new approach was to build local businesses via a Mineworkers Development Agency (MDA).
Kate Philip, NUM co-op and then MDA coordinator, documented the disappointing outcomes of the NUM and other workers' co-ops: issues of
funds, wages, skills, and management, pressure from big capitalist firms and lack of markets. The alternative was for workers' co-ops to
emulate capitalist firms, eroding co-op values.
In the 1990s, co-ops faded from union projects, and union funds moved instead into investment companies. In 2015, the total value of
Cosatu-linked union investment companies stood at R20 billion. Many are embroiled in bee deals, enriching black elites, union and ex-union
leaders and established firms. Involvement in privatisation and corruption is common. They are capitalist corporations.
Role of co-ops in broader movement
The basic problem facing worker co-ops is that we live in capitalism. A small ruling class of capitalists and state managers controls all
major means of production, administration and coercion through top-down corporations and states. This system operates according to deep
logics of domination and exploitation. Projects like workers' co-ops are doomed to the margins.
Bakunin saw that co-ops are "overwhelmed" by monopoly capital. But he also saw their great value: they "habituate ... workers to organise
themselves to conduct their own affairs", helping "plant the precious seeds" for a new society.
Unions should revive workers' co-ops. They should do this without illusions that they can end poverty - that requires the end of capitalism
and of states. Nor that they can end capitalism and states themselves - that requires revolution. They should do it as part of the
institutional apparatus of a radical working class movement.
What matters is that worker co-ops demonstrate the features of a new world. They must contribute to a culture of self-management, practical
skills and solidarity essential to a revolutionary counter-culture. This consciousness is essential to building counter-power that can
challenge the ruling class now, and later dethrone it, socialising the major resources and reconstructing society from below.
To give a concrete example, union-backed co-ops could supply t-shirts (as with successful NUM and Numsa co-ops in Phalaborwa and Howick) to
unions, with large, guaranteed sales at decent prices. The unions would lose money on this - it's always cheaper in China - so this is a
political, not an economic decision. It's about building the co-ops, the union, and the class. This is close to how Numsa used to approach
the co-op question, using co-ops to demonstrate what they called in Cosatu News "democracy in production". And why not expand this into
building clinics, fixing roads and establishing alternative media, technikons and universities?
This only makes sense in a larger project of union renewal, the rebuilding of union democracy, critical thinking and workers' education, and
autonomy from capitalist parties and corporations. That project would require the abolition of union investment companies. Their billions
could be used for mass organising drives, a lively working class media, advice centres and union-backed co-ops, building a movement, as
Bakunin put it, for a "future system of production" in which "land and all forms of capital must be converted into collective property".
**Lucien van der Walt has long been involved in union and working class education and movements and published widely on labour, the left and
political economy. Currently at Rhodes University, he's part of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit and the Wits History Workshop.
facebook.com/lucien.vanderwalt.3/posts/2440009042930035
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Message: 4
The plan to store a large tonnage of phytosanitary products by the Natup cooperative on the Buchy plateau raises opposition. The struggle
has just seen its first major victory, with the cancellation of the prefectural decree authorizing its establishment. ---- In the Rouen
region, the Lubrizol fire raised concerns over other potential time bombs. The Association for the promotion and defense of 5 Communes on
the Buchy plateau, located 20km from Rouen, is currently fighting Natup, one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in France - a sort of
French Monsanto. ---- The latter quickly freed itself from the maximum tonnage for which it had a pesticide storage authorization,
increasing each year the quantities found in running water. Jean-Louis, its president, says: " Our struggle began when we discovered the
opening of the public inquiry into the operation of a storage platform managing this enormous tonnage of phytosanitary products. The choice
of the site was insane: the ground is strewn with faults and marnières, at the top of three slopes where flow ground water which supply the
Grand Rouen with drinking water. It is also close to a station which was heavily bombed in 1944 and of which 30% of the bombs did not explode.
A few hundred meters away, a marnière recently collapsed under the highway, forming a chasm the width of a lane. A truck full of fertilizer
then overturned on the side of the highway igniting and causing a major traffic jam in the middle of black and smelly smoke. The risks do
not stop at the premises, there are also all those related to the transport of these products."
A first administrative victory
The danger study carried out listed the formulas of products likely to be dispersed in the event of a major fire. At the request of the
association, a chemist looked into these formulas: some of these products in gaseous form could be fatal in a few minutes, there is also the
risk of fetal malformations. In the event of such a fire, only a specialized team of firefighters from Rouen can intervene on Seveso sites.
However, they need at least three quarters of an hour to intervene at Vieux-Manoir...
However, the collective has just won a great victory. The administrative court has just given them reason: on October 30th, it canceled the
decree taken by the prefect at the end of 2016, which implied the classification of the site in Seveso high threshold, like Lubrizol. The
court considers that " a risk of accident linked to the activity of the site would be likely to cause serious or irreparable damage to
people and property ". Jean-Louis explains: " Our fight joins that of the unitary collective Lubrizol: never again. We must now take it to
the next level by creating a structured organization for residents of all the Norman Seveso sites and, ultimately, joining the national
coordination. "
Yvon (UCL Rouen)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Sites-SEVESO-Lubrizol-et-Natup-meme-risque-majeur
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Message: 5
On 08.14.2017 the website was linksunten.indymedia.org banned by the Interior Ministry. Criminal proceedings were launched against "five
people who were identified as operators" for "forming a criminal organization". ---- The Federal Interior Ministry described linksunten as
"the most influential internet platform for violent left-wing extremists". The ban was further celebrated as a severe blow against "the
left-wing extremist scene" and can be read in response to the riots at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, according to which a consistent approach
should be presented to the public. ---- The clear branding of the website in public also served to hide the problem of the ban. And this is
relevant for everyone - even for those who have no sympathy with the website or the content, there would be plenty of reasons to feel
threatened and to reject it.
The legal basis for the ban was the Association Act. And this is exactly where the great danger lies, because the problem is that Linksunten
has never founded an association. However, this design was deliberately chosen in order to circumvent the significantly higher requirements
of the Telemedia Act that apply to press releases. These increased requirements apply for a good reason. They are designed to protect
fundamental rights to freedom of expression and the press. This should apply especially if the state, like here, specifically takes action
against certain public opinion publications and wants to prevent them. Therefore, the ban was justified with the widespread content on the
website and the comments that could be read under written articles.
It is also clear to everyone that the website was at least a blog on which everyone could publish freely and which should therefore be
treated as a press medium - and should only be prohibited according to these principles. However, this hurdle was deliberately circumvented
with the "Association Act" trick.
If this approach were successful, the Federal Ministry of the Interior would have a simple method of declaring all the press releases he
disliked as an "association" and then banning it on this basis, which also prompted "Reporters Without Borders" to criticize the ban, but
rather to them little contact with the radical left is likely to be said.
Despite this obvious violation of the law, however, there was no great public outcry - after all, it hit a platform without too much public
support. The calculation of normalizing (fundamentally) legally questionable measures as test balloons, using current social moods, has so
far worked.
Another side note is, as is so often the case, the dubious role of the protection of the constitution, whose participation in the ban was a
clear violation of the, for good reason, constitutional prohibition on the separation of the police and secret services from cooperation.
The people identified as responsible for the linksunten website are suing the ban on associations. The public prosecutor's office in
Karlsruhe has meanwhile stopped investigating the five people and other unknown people. Nevertheless, the ban on an "association" has so far
been maintained.
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has dated the trial on January 29, 2020. On the occasion of the start of the negotiations, a
demonstration in solidarity with linksunten will take place on Day1), January 25, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. on Simsonplatz in Leipzig in front of
the courthouse.
For the negotiation, a public and awareness must be created to point out the threat to this case and to generate public pressure from it.
The ban must not be accepted without further ado.
Solidarity with linksunten.indymedia.org and those affected!
By: Stella Nigra Anarchist Collective - The Platform Trier
facebook.com/DPlattform/posts/500155984031455
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Message: 6
The anarcho-syndicalist center points out that the battle against precariousness "cannot and should not end today" ---- He also warns about
the "false recipes of those who seek to avoid, at all costs, that nothing changes" ---- The CNT union has greeted the thousands of people
who on Thursday have mobilized in the Basque Autonomous Community and the Navarre Regional Community to ask for pensions, work and decent
living. "The strike, an essential tool of the working class, has once again put these claims clearly on the table and has been worth
remembering that only through unity can we take steps towards such objectives" - said the anarcho-syndicalist center.
In an emergency assessment released this afternoon, the union - one of the participants in the call for a general strike - has stressed that
the struggle for dignity "cannot and should not end today or be reduced to a day of mobilization." «This is demonstrated by the pension
tide, which has been on the street for two years, and so we must demonstrate the trade union organizations» -he has remarked.
In that context, CNT has called to "maintain and extend" the mobilization campaign for work, pensions and decent life, while noting that the
way of consultation and social dialogue "is nothing more than false recipes of those who seek avoid, at all costs, that nothing change».
"Beware of promises and deceptions: patches are no longer valid here," said the plant. Precisely, he has called to be alert to those who
from the institutions "will seek to deactivate the conflict or redirect it to carpeted rooms".
Similarly, the union has highlighted the "autonomous and transversal" nature of the pensioners movement. «Your fight without flags or
parties behind shows us again that only the people save the people» - CNT has pointed out.
Finally, he has lamented the role held so far by the CCOO and UGT unions, whom he has asked to "publicly say which side they are on." "Above
all, we ask you to stop throwing lies to camouflage your shame" - added the organization.
https://www.cnt.es/noticias/cnt-llama-a-mantener-y-extender-la-lucha-por-la-dignidad-tras-la-huelga-general/
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Message: 7
Text published on the Contrepoints website. Link to the original, here . ---- Press release for immediate release ---- In the middle of rush
hour, Thursday morning, about fifty people blocked a highway 720 exit in downtown Montreal, in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en indigenous
peoples who are fighting against the construction of a oil pipeline on their unceded territory. Burning barricades were erected at the
corner of St-Marc and René-Lévesque streets to block traffic. A #WetsuwetenStrong banner was displayed on a road sign to express solidarity
with indigenous sovereignties. ---- This action is in line with events organized in support of the Wet'suwet'en who have been resisting and
fighting against the destruction of their territory for more than 10 years. In Montreal and across Canada, several actions respond to the
call for solidarity launched by the Wet'suwet'en in response to the intervention of the RCMP to prevent access to their territory on January 13.
The Canadian state, through its armed forces and its colonial justice, is currently attacking defenders of the Wet'suwet'en territories in
order to ensure the deployment of the 670 km of liquefied natural gas pipeline from Coastal GasLink (CGL) .
In this critical moment, let us continue to answer the call of the Wet'suwet'en and support their struggle by all the necessary means.
For more info:http://unistoten.camp/
#WetsuwetenStrong
by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/01/montreal-sortie-de-la-720-bloquee-en.html
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Message: 8
Not to eastern imperialism, not to western imperialism, not to petty Islamic imperialism in the Middle East, not to Sunni or Shiite ISIL.
---- Islamic petty imperialism in the Middle East includes the three fundamentalist governments of Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. What was
their solution to gain international backing and support in the international arena? ---- Given the radical nature of their religion and the
struggle of the left for the phenomenon of religion as a backward issue that impedes society's progress towards humanitarian goals, these
governments, with the help of unlimited economic resources and a large amount of time (through many lobbies) Powerful like Nayak to the bone
marrow of the target communities, they began to inject their own propaganda between the intellectuals and the left of these societies)
concentrating their power especially on the left and the western intellectuals to break the resistance of the Western leaders against Islam
and to make a comfortable face for themselves. Make international. They have tried to influence the thinking of Western societies through
the engineering of the intellectuals of the Western Left, so that when it comes to imperialism in public opinion, the eyes can only be on
the United States and all. While many eastern and western and regional countries (Russia, China, England, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and
others) have completely imperialistic behavior and desires, they have worked with US imperialism to plunder other nations and interests.
Followed by a subscriber. The evidence of this analysis can be clearly seen in the Middle East's ten-year relationship;
The birth and emergence of ISIS by the US and Turkish governments to destroy the Arab Spring revolutions that threatened imperialist
interests, the Islamic Republic of Iran's imperialist presence in Syria and Iraq and other countries to create a Shiite crescent or indeed
Shiite imperialism, and many more.
Our position on "imperialism", however, is quite different from the brainwashed and deceived Western (and of course the eastern) left. In
our view, "imperialism" is imperialism and does not have good or bad, neither small nor great. As we have experienced in Iran and
Afghanistan, there is no difference between Shiite and Sunni ISIS, and Shiite ISIS has been around for over four decades, first shut down in
Iran before the revolution, when the movie Rex Abadan was set on fire in the year 2006, Cinema was set on fire by those who today represent
the Iranian parliament and burned five people and then increased to more than five. After the revolution, they were stoned and stabbed and
tortured by the opposition and thrown into the wells of Jahrom city. The flogging is part of the medieval ISIS Shiite rule of the Islamic
Republic and has been protested for at least five days in November; People were shot dead in the street with bullets and anti-aircraft guns
and dozens of children, ages 5-6, were shot in the head, and after protests on Iranian television, a Quranic expert said the hands and feet
of the demonstrators had been cut off according to the Quran. And then they would be killed and even ten thousand killed. So the basis of
ISIS is Shiite and Sunni based on the Koran and they are no different. As a result of all these issues we continue to maintain our
anti-imperialist and anti-religious positions and we do not see any difference between this imperialist one and the other. Our goal is to
fight all governments as the greatest and most important enemies of the people of the world.
Long live anarchy!
Long live revolution and freedom
https://asranarshism.com/1398/10/22/no-to-imperialism/
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