Today's Topics:
1. [USA] Announces 2020 Austin Anarchist Book Fair By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, vogliamo tutto: No involvement in their wars! We
will not become meat for their cannons! [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. wessex solidarity: Workers win at St Mary's Hospital,
Bromley Libraries and Delfin Language School: early Feb class
struggle round-up (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, APO: POLITICAL CALL FOR SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL
ANTI-FASH DEMOCRACY AGAINST LUKOVMARCH --
SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY
SOFIA, BULGARIA [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Solidarity with refugees and immigrants Concentrations in
Thessaloniki and Patras By APO [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Texas. The Austin Anarchist Book Fair 2020 is a regional event bringing together anarchists and people from across the city, region and the
so-called nation. We are eager to foster connections between anarchists, left-wing libertarians, and anti-authoritarians. We also hope to
celebrate the communities that we have developed here and around the world. ---- Join us Sunday, February 9, at the Spider House Ballroom
for a day of celebration of endurance, community, and happiness in a relaxed atmosphere, for all ages. Free and open to the public. Look for
zine makers and left-wing organizations; meet, chat and drink with others like you, listen to some amazing speakers, and find out more about
the causes you are passionate about. ---- The bar will be serving drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) all afternoon and food trucks will be
open outside, close to the main doors.
Organizations and Speakers:
* Bayou Action Street Health
* Food Not Bombs Austin
* Monkeywrench Books
* ATX Anarchist Black Cross
* Screwston Antifa
More organizations and speakers will be announced
If you would like to participate, please send an email to us at AustinAnarchistBookfair@protonmail.com
The Austin Anarchist Book Fair strives to create a welcoming space for all people, including people of various genders, people with
disabilities, parents, children, femmes, women and all ethnicities. If you experience harassment, abuse, aggression, or any other type of
violation during the book fair, or if someone who has been involved in this behavior in the past is negatively affecting your participation
at the book fair - or if you need help for any other reason - please contact us at AustinAnarchistBookfair@protonmail.com
WE NEED Volunteers and Organizers! If you would like to participate, please send an email to us at AustinAnarchistBookfair@protonmail.com
austinbookfair2020.com
Translation> Brulego
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 2
The war in Syria is at the heart of the intra-sovereign conflicts. The field is being tested by war machines and the power camps are set up.
On the one hand the US, France, Germany, Israel and on the other Russia and Iran, with Turkey constantly upgrading its position. As the less
powerful states gather around them, their companions. ---- The assassination of Iranian military leader Soleimani and seven generals, the
US-led invasion of Iraq, the gas pipelines, the EEZ, the war in Libya and Yemen ... are episodes of a continually escalating war, and
hegemony. ---- The Greek state attached to the EU chariot and NATO, through agreements with Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, the US agreement to
strengthen and expand bases in Araxos, Alexandroupolis, Larissa, Andravida, Stefanovikio, Souda, the deployment of missile and anti-aircraft
missile systems a new war agreement with France seeks to strengthen its position in the eastern Mediterranean region and to control as much
of its energy resources as possible.
In every intra-capitalist war conflict, the blood of priests poured into the glorious battlefields establishes the dominance of the victors
and fills the vaults of the capitalists.
Solidarity is the weapon of the peoples
War in the bosses' war, overthrowing state and capitalist barbarism, over anarchy and communism
anarchist collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2020/02/05/against-war-solidarity-upon/
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Message: 3
Cautiously pessimistic ---- The last week or two has seen a few impressive wins of one kind or another. In the healthcare sector, workers at
St Mary's Hospital have scored a big victory after strike action organised through the grassroots United Voices of the World union forced
the trust that employs them to bring over a thousand outsourced workers back in house, meaning that they'll now enjoy the same terms and
conditions as NHS staff. There is a slightly sour footnote to this one, in that Unison put out a deeply cynical press release claiming that
the victory was a result of the trust having "accepted our arguments", with no mention made of the strike action that actually won it which
Unison played no part in. A reminder of just how grubby some parts of the union movement can be at times.
At Delfin Language School, teachers who were made redundant...
TEFL Workers' Union Declares Victory in Delfin Redundancy Dispute
3rd February 2020
Teachers at Delfin English School in London will be walking away from their jobs with an enhanced redundancy after a vocal and energetic
campaign that spread to cities around the UK.
The entire teaching staff at Delfin was made redundant last year just five days before Christmas. The TEFL Workers' Union, which represents
staff at the school, maintains the redundancy process failed to meet the required legal standard. In response, the union undertook a series
of pickets alongside a social media campaign.
Choosing to focus largely on Delfin's business partners, there was a national day of protest targeting a language school chain from whom
Delfin is renting teaching space. Protests were also directed towards a staffing agency which began providing teachers to Delfin immediately
after the redundancies.
Delfin, which declared insolvency during the subsequent negotiations, failed to send someone from the Dublin head office to London to
discuss the matter.
According TEFL Workers' Union representative Anna Clark:
"The Delfin teachers fought a hard campaign and were lucky to be able to count on the support of the London EFL community and IWW branches
around the UK. As a result, they secured an enhanced redundancy package - something that's virtually unheard of in the language teaching
industry."
In a further act of solidarity - and one which stands in stark contrast to that of their employer - Delfin teachers secured the additional
payment for a further two teachers who had left the school before formal redundancies were announced.
Teachers at Delfin joined the TEFL Workers' Union in 2018 making it one of the few unionised language schools in London. Over the course of
the following year and half, teachers won significant contract improvements including paid sick days, paid meetings and trainings, and the
removal of unlawful clauses in their contracts.
A statement put out by the union had this to say,
"This victory shows how badly the language teaching industry needs a union. For too long, workers in language schools have had to deal with
employers that pay little heed to law and have even less concern for the welfare of their staff. But when we stand together, real gains can
be made."
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Message: 4
At the global level, the state and capitalist machinery is seeking to exacerbate inequalities, oppression and exploitation. Aiming at
increasing power and control, modern totalitarianism does not hesitate to shape warfare in the region as it continues its outburst against
the plague strata in the West. Amidst this vortex of cultivated insecurity, the racist and intolerant narratives of fascist groupings, which
form an integral part of the overall movement of the power bloc, find their ground. ---- Everywhere in the world the role of fascists
remains the same: to do the dirty work of serving the strong, to cultivate hatred for the poor in other areas, to disorient and prepare the
poor for a new mass slaughterhouse in some in the future.
Across Europe, neo-Nazis act as a vanguard of European Union anti-immigration policy decisions. Attacks on refugee and migrant camps, when
not carried out directly by security authorities, are carried out by neo-Nazis, such as dozens of attacks on displacement centers in France,
Germany. Countries with hard-line nationalist parties in government are hermetically closing the border, simply extending the EU's policy of
exclusion.
At the same time, in the face of the international anti-social alliance of world elites and the struggling societies they are preparing for,
the inexhaustible liberating possibilities of struggles erupting around the world are emerging. From Rosawawa to Chiapas, from the favelas
of Brazil and the uprising in Chile to the anti-fascist barricades of Western Europe and the Balkans, the Social Revolution affair is still
alive, it encroaches on the state and its bosses and shapes them social and class counterattack.
It is this social and class counterattack that scares the sovereigns so much that they employ the darkest of human history to suppress it.
Due to the general crisis of the state-capitalist system, the scope for consensus in its sovereign designs is increasingly limited. For this
reason, they are already being dragged out of the power quagmire and its far-right and fascist reserves, the Counter-Revolutionary Camp,
have taken action internationally to pave the way for the realization of the strategic pursuits of Power.
From Bolsonaro Brazil, to the Europe-fortress of Visegrad, the far-right turn in Italy and France, the Balkans of nationalism and Erdogan's
Turkey, fascism is the "response" of the system to its total and deep crisis, in his own contradictions. Contradictions caused by the
healing conflict imposed by his basic principle, the exploitation and oppression of man by man. Together with war, and with the threat of
generalization, they form the iron grid of power that spreads worldwide.
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In Greece, all governments have so far not ceased to cultivate intolerance and racism, while state mechanisms have ceased to use and arm the
Nazi attack groups. From the dozens of attacks on refugees and immigrants, youth and militants, to occupied combat sites (such as the
Libertatia occupation in January 2018 in Thessaloniki) to the assassination of Sachjat Lukman in January 2013, September of the same year,
Albanian land worker Petrit Zifle in Corfu in November 2018.
The Golden Dawn trial began five years ago, amidst widespread social outrage by repeatedly fascist attacks, with the main objectives of
stopping the expression of social discontent and the ransacking of the Nazi gang and the state itself, who is also the principal
orchestrator and instigator of fascist / paramilitary attacks, using them as a backup in the direction of terrorizing society and
suppressing social and class resistances.
During these years, both the "institutional antifascism" which attempted to promote the state as the sole guarantor of "democratic
normality", consolidated the theory of the two extremes and unleashed the action of the neo-Nazi neo-Nazis, as well as the neo-state
neo-Nazis themselves. action on the sidewalk they found the strong, resolute, lasting and unyielding anti-fascist action against them.
Today, the trial closes with most of the defendants already on the move, while its prosecutor, Adamantia Economou, ending any illusions that
some might have about "regime antifascism" suggests acquitting the defendants of the murder. and their acquittal on charges of setting up a
criminal organization.
At the same time, the July 2019 runoff brought the ruling New Democracy to the heart of the New Democracy, following the social-democratic
management of SYRIZA that included, in the name of the radical Left, their disillusioned 2008 system of mercenaries. 2012, scattered
illusions and illusions by turning large social groups into alternatives and dead ends and demobilizing movements of denial and subversion.
On the disintegrated social fabric, looted labor rights, diminished resistance, the far-right political management now imposes the "Law and
Order" doctrine.
Since the beginning of her rule she has launched a full-scale attack on the world of struggle, on the anarchists and their structures, on
the exarchist militant neighborhood, on the world of work, on the youth.
At the same time, the most extreme policies of extermination, a regime of exclusion and the rhetoric that there are lives that are not worth
living are being applied to the most vulnerable and weak social part, refugees and immigrants. The self-organized refugee and migrant
structures in which solidarity was developed were forcibly evacuated, and women, men and children were being transferred to concentration
camps that were constantly popping up across the country. Concentration camps where death is constantly looming, where thousands are stacked
and forced to live in conditions of misery and utterly unfit for human dignity and dignity. Women burn behind the barbed wire, children die
in cardboard boxes.
Every year, in Sofia, Bulgaria, a fascist parade is held in honor of fascist general Hristo Lukov, who was executed by guerrilla Violeta
Yakova on February 13th 1943. The parade is organized by a series of neo-Nazi parties and organizations such as the Bulgarian National Union
and so on. The parade is the leading manifestation of fascism in Bulgaria, and every year delegations from fascist and Nazi parties from
other European countries (Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, etc.) participate.
For us, as anarchists, the resistance to the onslaught of totalitarianism and fascism should have a real internationalist character. It is
impossible to fight globalized capitalism and fascism solely[on a local level]in Greece. It is vital to develop contacts and practical
solidarity between comrades in neighboring countries, as well as on an enlarged international level.
The Anarchist Political Organization has been supporting the anti-fascist protest held in Sofia for three years. Several comrades from
Greece have been in Bulgaria's capital in recent years to protest against fascism and to support the comrades there, who have been trying to
build barricades in the ongoing promotion of fascism, to build structures and fronts to resist the attack of state, fascists and mafias.
The social movement in Bulgaria, having essentially been completely dissolved under the state boot of socialism, has been confronted from
the outset with the nationalist and fascist groups, which were regrouped after the collapse of 1991. Today, it is vital to support
Bulgaria's anti-fascist movement so that it can resist the fascist threat, so that social and class resistance can flourish, against
nationalist crowns and capitalist commands. For this reason, APO is also calling this year for groups and individuals to respond to the call
to join the February 22nd protest in Sofia, Bulgaria.
For the strengthen of common internationalist struggles. For the Balkans of equality, solidarity and mutual respect. For the Social
Revolution, Libertarian Communism and Anarchy.
ANARCHIST POLITICAL ORGANIZATION | FEDERATION of COLLECTIVES
site: http://apo.squathost.com/
facebook.com/InternationalOfAnarchistFederations/posts/1312909055586083
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Message: 5
MORIA: THE PROTECTION OF MODERN INTEGRITY - THE PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING LIFE OR ONLY THE STAFF OF DEMOCRACY ---- On Tuesday 4/2, more than
2000 refugees and immigrants are marching from the Moria Dam to the island's country against new asylum legislation and the abysmal
conditions they are experiencing in modern concentration camps. As crowds closed the streets around the closed detention center, riot squads
blocked the protesters, who once again did not hesitate to choke on the world's chemicals. ---- Following the clashes that followed, the
North Aegean regional governor, a member of the ND Moutzouris, who was present throughout the event, came out to seek "help" from Minister
Pro. Chrysochoid citing his fears of widespread clashes between locals and immigrants. His statements are nothing more than "indignant"
because the share of responsibility that the insurgents have on this has nothing to do with the true moralists of the issue. On the
contrary, the climate of terrorism that is reproduced these days through his statements creates the most favorable ground for molecular
fascism. The outrage of the local community of Mytilene comes to flesh and bones with the immediate concentration and launch of hate
pogroms, mainly in the center of the country, where local fascists in good cooperation with the state apparatus carry out a crusade of
violence against the oppressed. On the same night, comrades gather and stage a spontaneous march of one hundred people, clashing with the
forces of repression.
The government, in an ever-increasing assault on immigrants, is announcing new reforms that make even more difficult the lives of
immigrants, from the placement of a navigable barrier to drowning and strangling refugees, to changing the way asylum is granted and the
creation of a lock-up sites, upgraded surveillance sites that prepare deportations.
The above is not an unprecedented fact, but a standard in the management of the lives of refugees and migrants in recent years.
Concentration camps are the most typical example of the application of the exemption regime. In places like Moria, human life is of no value
at all, as the most diminished part of the population, the invisible of this society are deprived not only of the basic benefits and rights,
such as decent living, care, education and even nutrition, but also the very right to life.
This situation, both in Greece and in all European refugee and immigrant host countries, is the most well-founded (and legally enforced)
management of people deemed to be left behind in the capitalist system. People without papers, without names, and without lives end up
trying to escape the horror of war and die trying to gain some of the dignity and life deprived of the barbarism of power whether it throws
bombs or builds hellish.
The July 7 elections marked the continuation of the state and capital attack on the oppressed. The ND comes to march on the red carpet of
the previous government, both through the dismantling of social and class struggles and through the dozens of repressive blows that the
occupation and structures of the movement received during the SYRIZA-ANELA rule, seeking to establish an emergency regime where those who
are left behind will be thrown to the margins. At SYRIZA, Moria had (only) 8,500 inmates, more than twice the capacity.
Successive political management has already targeted its main rivals: anarchists, immigrants, militants and workers, devising new plans for
their suppression and subjugation. These plans also serve the repressive plan announced before the elections and this is taking place.
Repression operations with squad clearings, squad arrests, expulsion of refugees and their transfer to concentration camps.
The first victims are refugees and immigrants. After cutting off the AMKAs and excluding them from work and care, apartheid policy extends
to a direct assault on them with evacuations of their occupied homes in Exarchia.
The transfer of immigrants and refugees from occupation (in an Orwellian power reversal) takes place in the name of their own security. In
fact, the state disintegrates the solidarity communities of humanity within neighborhoods that interact with the rest of the population to
isolate those who are left behind in concentration camps that are being turned into extermination camps. Because when the regime by legal
means imposes conditions that presuppose death and society deafens, then the foundations for the next Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec have
already been laid. And if we still consider the Holocaust as the only crime in History, the genealogy of the extermination in times of
peoples' surplus is too great to ignore.
Immigrants, refugees, prisoners and areas of the Ministry of Education pass on the high supervision of the Directorate General of Police.
What do the inferno, the imprisoned and the youth, the Exarchia and the social fighters have in common? The authoritarian state of modern
totalitarianism sees in these populist groups the social body of the internal enemy as a dangerous class for them, in common with other
proletarian strata, which are also part of the overall state repressive policy.
IN THE WORLD OF AFFIDENTS WE ARE ALL FOREIGNERS
For our part, solidarity knows no borders, no time limits. It is permanent, practical and does not get trapped in any kind of separation
(refugees - immigrants). No solution can be temporary as the problem has not arisen now but it has been created for years by countries that
manage global wealth. Social solidarity between oppressed foreigners or locals is our weapon against the exploiters. We organize and fight
with immigrants for a society of equality and freedom.
TO CLOSE NOW ALL THE CONCENTRATION STOPS - TO LEAVE MORIA'S HELL
MIGRANTS ARE BROTHERHOOD CLASSES, CONCENTRATION CAMPAIGNS NEVER AND NOW
collectivity for social anarchism "Black & Red
member of APO-OS
http://apo.squathost.com/
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