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Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 - Culture, Read:
      Attard, How I Became An Anarchist (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Holand, vrije bond: [Amsterdam] Anarcha-feminist block
      during Women's Day March (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative: Call to support
      student protest against police arbitrariness and repression |
      Wednesday 26/2, 16:00, AUTh [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - UCL press release,
      49.3 or not, we continue the fight (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  The Anvil Vol 9 No 1 Jan-Feb 2020 -- NEWSLETTER OF THE
      MELBOURNE ANARCHIST COMMUNIST GROUP -- AFTER THE FIRES
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating CouncilMACC: General
      Assembly - March - Verso Books (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, Anarchist communist Group: The ACG's Rebel
      Education Worker issue 1 is out! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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It is first of all the story of a political reconstruction, that of Isabelle Attard. European environmental activist Les Verts, then New
Donne, Member of Parliament from 2012 to 2017, she thought that she could act within institutions in order to work for democracy and the
common good. She even thought it would be possible to change how it worked. She has worked hard, whether in favor of free software, Rojava,
against the state of emergency or against the airport of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. She also experienced the sneer of male deputies when a woman
spoke in the National Assembly, the contempt with which many treated their parliamentary assistants, the fictitious jobs in the service of
the parties ... And yet she believed it, to the point of running in June 2017 for a second term.

Read also the interview: Isabelle Attard: "I still believe in the strength of the collective"
After an electoral defeat, it is common to seek to be reclassified as a permanent member of a party, in a company management or in a
territorial administration. But Isabelle Attard, she decided to stop everything and start a real internal examination. Her readings, her
discussions and her meetings led her to explore other shores, those of anarchy (she holds to this term), of libertarian communism and of
self-management to the point of feeling at home there.

A moment of sharing
This phase of deconstruction-reconstruction lasts two years, two years of profound upheaval with this haunting question: why so long before
becoming an anarchist? For it as for the immense majority of the population, anarchism remains nebulous and inaccessible, because it
corresponds to an absence, in particular in the programs of history which from their origin aim to form a republican conscience supposed to
be the embodiment of the best. Liberty, equality, fraternity: the motto even espouses values that are those of anarchism, so how to see a
priori false promises and a real imposture?

This book written in the first person is instructive as are the autobiographies which depart from narcissism and exemplarity to offer a
moment of sharing. He does not pretend to renew anarchist theories. However, it shows an increasingly strong aspiration for a profound
transformation of society as shown by the revolt of the yellow vests and the mobilizations against the climate collapse to which capitalism
leads. And that's what's interesting. We also see that the author did not become an anarchist by chance and that her aversion to relations
of domination was decisive. How I became an anarchist can therefore be called a work of popular political education.

* Isabelle Attard, How I became an anarchist , Seuil / Reporterre, 160 pages, 12 euros.
Indeed, it starts from its own experience and revisits the contribution of the revolutionary utopias of Ukraine, of Spain, but also of that
less known of China, with the federalist anarchist experience in Manchuria in 1929. It makes the link between these struggles which the
dominant ideology has endeavored to marginalize or even erase with those of the Zad, self-managed enterprises in Greece and Argentina, and
revolutions in Chiapas and Rojava.

The contribution of revolutionary utopias
Isabelle Attard also invites us to (re) discover, among others, the thoughts of Voltairine and Murray Bookchin, two US nationals anarchists,
whose reflections will be useful to all those who think that libertarian communism the XXI th century can be reduced to the contribution of
anarchism and anti-authoritarian Marxist currents and that it is also inseparable from ecology and feminism.

Laurent Esquerre (UCL Aveyron)

Isabelle Attard, How I became an anarchist , Seuil / Reporterre, 160 pages, 12 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Attard-Comment-je-suis-devenue-anarchiste

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International Women's Day is on Sunday 8th March 2020. The Vrije Bond Amsterdam takes to the streets: The Anarcha-Feminist Block will light
up the streets! We are Purple and Black! ---- We invite you to join our Anarcha-Feminist Block on the yearly Women's day march in Amsterdam.
Come in action against the normalisation of violence against women across the world. We will be walking in support of people fighting
against the oppression of women happening in all parts of our lives. Against sexual violence, inequality and maltreatment at work, at home
and on the streets. We will also walk against all types of violence and oppression of our trans*sisters. ---- This global day of action grew
to enormous numbers in 2017 in response to US president Trumps misogynist agenda. Thousands of people took to the streets in Amsterdam on
the 8th of March 2017. However, we are not walking this block to merely ask the state to change their policies. We are not merely asking for
so called equality enforced by the state.

The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in
woman's soul.

Emma Goldman - The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1911)
Yes, that's right. States keep women in prison, enable a gender-bias in healthcare, social-welfare and education. Women suffer more from
state militaries bombing conflict zones and their police harass (non-cis) women on the street. Our struggle against patriarchy must remember
the victims of such state violence whilst drawing inspiration from models of anti-patriarchal living around the world.

This is why we walk. We are Black and Purple.We are not blue police-lovers: come in action against the suppression of gender dissent by the
police.

But we ARE pink: trans* women are women.

and we ARE black: the state is not our friend.

and we ARE purple: women are the revolution.

Where and when?
March 8, 12.30

Dam Square - Amsterdam meet in front of Mme Tussauds, watch out for the bakfiets with anarcho flag.

https://www.vrijebond.org/anarcha-feministisch-blok-vrouwendagmars/

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No aggressive challenge by the state and its repressive mechanisms will remain unanswered! ---- State power administers the sharpened class
opposition with overwhelming repression, the curtailment of rights conquered by hard and perennial struggles, persecution and
self-determination against those who fight against state and capitalist barbarism, exclusion from public service and social exclusion. they
are overrun by capitalist designs. Spreading terror in the public sphere through the frequencies of media regimes and the repressive
violence of police forces is a consistent state tactic, which responds to the demands of capital to enforce social laxity and
reconciliation. ---- The brutality of the state's repressive mechanisms is now unshaken. Following police rape, MATZ occupation of the
Exarchates, evacuation of targets, targeting and monitoring of fighters, ill-treatment and retaliation for physical violence against
detainees, noon on Monday 24/2/20 . A security policeman first parked his car in front of a peddler's counter at the central entrance of the
ASOEE, then detained an immigrant street vendor of cigarettes. As he was perceived by comrades and companions, but also by students, he
resorted to a small corridor in the courtyard of the school when he was asked about the reason for his boisterous behavior towards the
immigrant. Then, after unlocking his service weapon, he began targeting students who were asking him to leave campus. He did not hesitate,
in fact, to threaten to use his weapon if they did not leave him alone. In the face of this provocative act of repressive violence, comrades
rushed to his machine breaking it. The cop did not stop even punching the heads of the students, both those who complained about his
stubborn attitude and his arbitrary presence in the asylum, as well as those who were just crossing the street to get in or out of school.
Finally, after 5 minutes, a whole MAT squad arrived at the ASOEE to untie this squat. It all happened on the same day that the two students
were acquitted,

The following day, Tuesday 25/2/2020, during an informational microphone on the incident of the armed cop, powerful police forces arrived at
the ASOEE, overtaking the asylum, shedding tear gas and hitting the flashlight. After the ensuing clash, the cops eventually left ASOEE, but
they surrounded the straits, joined in the encampments and trapped dozens of fighters, who were eventually unleashed and joined in a single
munitions battalion and alley , proceeded in coordination with Exarchia.

Media Regimes they have maintained an attitude of total concealment of police arbitrariness. They have been skilfully engaged in a
deliberate effort to reverse the events that took place in the EUMM. In their utter confusion, trying to justify the aggressive, armed cop,
they presented various fabricated scenarios that collapsed within a short period of time. We first heard that the cop was physically
assaulted by the students for 15 minutes, and later some news media reported that the cop allegedly went to meet his girlfriend at school.
However, audiovisual material and photographs have emerged that underscore the pronouncements of state officials and the bosses, bailiffs of
regime journalism. The omnipotence of the urban edifice,

The ND government, in a statement publicly congratulated by its far-right MP Thanou Plevris, on the "calmness" he showed, giving him full
support and coverage, as if nothing had happened. They even blamed the students themselves for the blame! The above merely tacitly confirm
the incessant slide of the ND government into a far-right cut authoritarianism in order to manage the widespread indignation of the social
majority that is squeezed under the constant financial yoke of capitalist barbarism.

The struggling student and labor movements are not terrified by the brutality of state repression. Class struggles are not criminalized, nor
are they going to stop, because they are just first of all. We stand by everyone who fights against the state and capital. We express our
full solidarity with the struggling students and call on the social base to support their struggles in defense of asylum and to halt the
ever-increasing capitalist educational restructuring. It is imperative to move forward with a frontal class compulsion of all the parts of
the working class - economically active (salaried workers) and non-working people (students, students, unemployed, retired) -,

We call in support of the student demonstration against police arbitrariness and repression (on the occasion of what happened at the
University of Athens in recent days): Wednesday 26/2, 16:00 at AUTH Technical University.

THE GOVERNMENT'S REPRESENTATION WILL NOT TERRORIZE OURS, IT IS GOING TO SUSPEND OUR GAMES

STOP ON THE SIDE OF COMPETITIVE CLASS MOVEMENT

SUPPORT THE ASYLUM SOCIAL SITUATION AS A SUBSEQUENT RIGHT TO CLASSIFICATE CLASSICAL MOVEMENT

FOREIGN FOR A SURPRISE CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS, STUDENTS, WORKERS, UNEMPLOYED, PENSIONERS AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL

Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)

lib_thess@hotmail.com
http://www.libertasalonica.wordpress.com

* Below is the video and photos of what happened at the ASOEE:

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/

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Macron therefore decided to use article 49.3 of the Constitution to force through his pension reform. Édouard Philippe announced it in the
Assembly gallery this Saturday, February 29, when the green light had just been given to him during an extraordinary Council of Ministers.
Thus, a new version of the bill, used to deputies today, is considered as adopted at first reading by the National Assembly, without vote.
---- Is this really a surprise coming from this government which is forcing all of its policy into force by all the authoritarian means at
its disposal ? Police repression, requisition of strikers ... and now 49.3. This government and its policy are less and less legitimate
every day. Anger accumulates everywhere. While the first phase of the renewable strike is over, the government hopes to finish the pension
issue as soon as possible, because it knows that the social situation remains explosive.

As in 2016 with the labor law, the use of 49.3 makes the idea of parliamentary resistance illusory. We have nothing to expect from a
hypothetical censure motion or the result of the municipal elections, we can only count on our own strength. Despite the obstacles and
difficulties, only our mobilization, that of the workers, in the strike and in the street will be able to reduce this power in the service
of the capitalists.

The Libertarian Communist Union calls to mobilize now in the rallies that are organized everywhere in France in reaction to this use of
49.3. We must immediately prepare for a second round in this battle, with the prospect of March 31. Beyond a great day of successful
mobilization, we must give ourselves the means to launch a new wave of strikes and mobilizations in early April. The day of March 5 in
higher education, the feminist mobilizations of March 8, or the demonstration of the 14 must be as many points of support to continue to
build relentlessly the general strike.

49.3 or not, we continue the fight !

Libertarian Communist Union, February 29, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?49-3-ou-pas-on-continue-le-combat

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The disastrous bushfires in eastern Australia are now out, but not before over 18.7 million hectares were burnt and 34 people killed.
Sydney, Australia's largest city, was blanketed in smoke for over a month, while numerous other cities and towns suffered similar
conditions. And, despite recent rain, most areas are still susceptible - the bushfire season lasts until March at least and one dry month
could start things up again almost anywhere except along the coast. ---- Political debate around the bushfires has been out of the
Government's control for months. They lost it when Scott Morrison was found to be on a secret holiday to Hawaii at the time two volunteer
firefighters were killed, but it probably only dawned on Morrison how badly things were going for him when he tried a PR appearance in a
town recently hit by fire and couldn't find anyone willing to shake his hand.

For quite some time, there has been a
large majority in Australia in favour of
treating climate change seriously and
taking effective action, but their strength
of conviction was lacking. Other issues
took precedence and public concern
Credit: IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus

wasn't enough to drive the denialists
from their dominant position in the
Government. All this has now changed.

Opinion polls confirm what public debate
has suggested. The environment is now
the biggest issue in the public mind in
Australia and the demand for action is
growing.
continued page 3

AFTER THE FIRES
Continued from page 1
The Government has had to change its
position. It has silenced open deniers and
has taken to stating frequently that climate
change is real and needs to be stopped.
Its defence now revolves around saying
that its existing policies are adequate to
meet the challenge. This is a lie as much
as denial is, but it has the virtue of being
just plausible enough that supporters of
the Government can pretend to believe it.
Beyond the Government's official position,
things have moved. Sections of the Liberal
Party want to take more serious action. The
National Party is having a civil war: one
faction thinks the defence of coal needs
to be done aggressively, while the other
thinks that's too risky. Meanwhile, Labor
has announced a commitment to zero net
emissions by 2050 and the Greens have
a new leader who is communicating their
existing policies more assertively.

None of this, of course, amounts to a
solution. To the extent that the Liberals'
new stance is not just PR cover for the
same old same old, it's too little, too late.
Labor is fundamentally handicapped by
the craven capitulation to pressure that's
in its DNA. And the Greens suffer under
the delusion that a just and sustainable
capitalism is possible.
What needs to be done
Right now we have improved prospects
of translating propaganda into action.
The next global School Strike for Climate
needs to be many times bigger than
last September's and it needs to have
the social weight of the unions. The
Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
advocates that workers form rank and file
groups in their unions to push for turning
the School Strike into a workers' strike for
a Just Transition to a zero carbon society.
In these rank and file groups, Anarchists
will argue that the capitalist class is so
invested in its sunk costs in fossil fuels
that any realistic transition requires the
abolition of capitalism. It's possible to
imagine a capitalism based on renewable
energy, but the existing capitalist class
will fight tooth and nail to protect their
investments.
Only the power of the working class
can beat the capitalists who would see
the world burn before surrendering their
fortunes. To prevent catastrophic climate
change, we need a revolution. Bringing
the unions into the School Strike for
Climate movement is a necessary step
on that road.
STRIKE
FOR A SAFE CLIMATE

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The Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) is hosting one of our monthly general assemblies on Friday, March 13th, at Verso
Books. GAs are a great opportunity to get plugged in with MACC's projects and working groups. MACC assemblies are open to all anarchists,
antifascists, anti-authoritarians and those interested in anarchist ideas and organizing so please invite your friends and share widely!
---- We encourage everyone to come with ideas about what they would like to see for future campaigns or actions and what direction they'd
like MACC to take to build a more powerful, militant anarchist movement. ---- An orientation will precede the assembly starting at 6:30 PM
for those interested in familiarizing themselves with MACC, general assemblies, and anarchist ideas. Participants are invited to bring
snacks to share.

For more information visit macc.nyc/ or contact us at info@macc.nyc

MACC's safer spaces policy is available here: macc.nyc/safer-spaces

If you are an anarchist parent/guardian who would like to participate in MACC but feel unable to do so because you need childcare (or if you
know anyone who needs childcare), please reach out and let us know at macc_childcare@protonmail.com and we will be more than happy to help.

Verso Books is an accessible space. Use the entrance on Jay Street. Once inside, there is an elevator directly on the right. The closest
accessible routes are:
Borough Hall:
- Subway: The 2/3 trains are accessible in both directions. The 4/5 trains have northbound access only, but you can still access from the
2/3 platform. The elevator is in front of the Supreme Court Building at Court Street and Montague Street
Bus connections: B25, B26, B38, B41, B45, B52, B65, B103. There are a few options, but the bus route closest to the station is the B25,
which you can take to the Front/York Street stop near Verso Books.
Jay Street Metrotech:
- Subway: The A/C/F/R trains are accessible in both directions. The elevator is on the Northeast corner of Jay St. and Willoughby St.
- Bus connections: B25, B26, B38, B41, B45, B52, B54, B57, B61, B62, B65, B67, B103. There are a few options, but the fastest route to Verso
Books from this station is to take the B67 to the Jay St/York St stop.

facebook.com/events/449728545724897

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As UCU takes part in 14 days of strike action, stepping up from eight days towards the end of 2019, ACG members of UCU have published the
first issue of their bulletin, to be distributed on a picket line near you!
It's A5 double sided, so just download a copy from this page, print however many you want back to back, then chop it into two flyers.
To contact ACG Rebel Education Worker, email education@anarchistcommunism.org
DOWNLOAD Rebel Education Worker 1 https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/REW1-1.pdf
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/02/29/the-acgs-rebel-education-worker-issue-1-is-out/

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