#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Germany, AND: Elephant in the room - conversation with
      anarchist from Belarus on politics in the country during
      coronavirus (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL press release: In
      France, as in the United States: let's fight against police
      violence and state racism (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Anarchist Federation (Greece): To the anarchist movement and
      everybody in the USA that participates in the struggle
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, Class War Daily WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2020: Direct
      Action Gets the Goods! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, Solidarity rally with anarchist comrade Irdi K .:
      Thursday 11/6, 09:00 at the Administrative Court of First
      Instance of Thessaloniki. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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https://archive.org/download/interview-belarus/Interview_belarus.mp3 0:00 1:06:57
In this edition of Elephant in the Room we are talking to a friend and comrade from Belarus, country that some call last dictatorship in
Europe. Belarus is one of the few countries in the world that didn't take quarantine measures against coronavirus. At the same time
government was trying to prevent any information spread on COVID-19 in the country. With growth of the virus in society people started
organizing by themselves to save community from virus and it's aftermath.
Music: Iknow - https://iknow.bandcamp.com/
https://and.notraces.net/2020/06/08/elephant-in-the-room-conversation-with-anarchist-from-belarus-on-politics-in-the-country-during-coronavirus

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The assassination of Georges Floyd by a police officer led to a large revolt in the United States against racism, a racism deeply rooted in
the American police. In France, the struggles against police impunity in matters of racist violence have been waged for many years by the
relatives and families of the victims. For UCL, the time is now to build popular unity against racism. --- The assassination of Georges
Floyd by a police officer led to a large revolt in the United States against racism, a racism deeply rooted in the American police. A racism
of which blacks are the main victims, but which also affects other minorities (Hispanic, Asian, Muslim or considered as such ...). A racism
which has its roots in a long history of violence, which forms a system, slavery and white supremacism.

If Trump's coming to power has further freed up racist speech and acts, and acted as a "  green light  " for the increase in racist
violence, there is a continuum of racist police violence that predates him, in the context of a culture of police impunity.

This revolt has a wide international echo, because it resonates with the experiences of many victims of racism and police violence around
the world.

In France, the struggles against police impunity in matters of racist violence have been waged for many years by the relatives and families
of the victims. Confronted with the culture of police impunity, which is based on the bias of the justice system - there are very many
discontinued classifications, dismissals, acquittals or, at least, suspended sentences for the police officers implicated -, confronted with
indifference or media hostility which takes up with complacency the police versions, confronted with indifference or hostility from the
majority of political currents, families, their relatives, lead a brave fight.

As the situation in the United States is brought to light, there is a great temptation for journalists and politicians to oppose a French
police institution that is allegedly "  virtuous  " or in which racist police officers are only "  small " minority  ", and the American
police institution, gangrened by racism.

In reality, in France as in the United States, police racism makes system: it is a state racism inherited from a colonial history, which is
based on a practice of police violence which affects the working classes as a whole, but which also mainly affects black people, Roma,
Arabs, Muslims or considered as such. It is for this reason that the fight against the racist system is not simply a matter of good
humanitarian conscience, but a necessary prerequisite for unity in the face of the ruling classes. Whenever the racist system backs down, it
is popular power that advances !

On June 2, UCL called for the historic rally organized by the Adama Committee
The practice of police violence is covered by the judiciary, by the media under orders of power, and by the political class. The recent bill
of E. Ciotti aiming to prohibit the filming of the police is one of the illustrations, with the aim of preventing any collection of evidence
of the violence, as well as reactions to the words of Camelia Jordana, or the impunity of the fascist police of Rouen, still in office even
though their negrophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist comments were exposed by a black police officer who was one of the victims.

The success of the dignity march of May 30 and the demonstration of June 2 (at the call of the family of Adama Traoré and his support
committee) which brought together tens of thousands of people in Paris and in region, marks the starting point for a revival of popular
anti-racist struggles. They have already imposed a discussion on police violence in public space.

Let us work, in our unions, our associations and collectives, with our colleagues and our neighbors, to make this renewal a lasting reality
alongside the families of victims, their loved ones, alongside all those who are subjected to police violence and the state racism and thus
create the conditions for popular unity against racism !

Libertarian Communist Union, June 9, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?En-France-comme-aux-Etats-Unis-luttons-contre-les-violences-policieres-et-le

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....to everybody that is out in the streets fighting racism and authority. ---- It is with excitement, suspense, hope and sorrow that we
watch what is transpiring in the streets of the cities of the US after the racist murder of African American George Floyd. Our thoughts are
with you, our solidarity will be expressed in action from here. You are the ones struggling in the heart of a superpower that, along with
others, dominate the planet. You are in what the rest of the world sees as the "centre of the world". So, the images and reports we receive
from the protests, the clashes and the propaganda war have historic value and an effect much wider than just within the borders of the
United States. You affect us much more than we ever could affect you, no matter what we did. We cannot talk in length about the direction of
your struggle, nor suggest anything.  The differences between the Greek and American conditions are such that they shape a completely
different landscape. Here, there are no minorities with the same social characteristics like the African Americans are in the United States.
Here, systemic racism is aimed towards refugees, Romani, and some ethnical minorities that are geographically isolated. We face repression
from a state that is barbaric like any other but with fewer resources than the equivalent in the United States also lacking its "Imperial"
pride. Here, we are but 10 million people with just two metropoles... The only reasonable thing for us to do is to share with you our
experiences from similar events that, despite the differences in the circumstances, could contribute to the choices that the people in the
struggle will be forced to come across, as they do in every such revolt in history. In the end, the Greek state is itself an advanced
capitalist one, a western imperialist power with a bourgeois democracy, with media of similar degeneracy as the ones in America, and with
plenty racists and fascists too. And so, in 2008 police officers murdered a 15-year-old in the historically radical region of Athens,
Exarcheia. Throughout the country, we experienced a month of massive insurrection against the barbarity of the state, an insurrection lead
by the youth and with other radical political forces - the anarchists first among them - on the tip of the spear.  In addition, a few years
later, during the economic recess and the over vision of Greece from the IMF and the EU, we again experienced important insurrections. A few
years after these events, we are now at the stage of extracting our conclusions, some of which we think could relate to your struggle. We
address them in a few words, hoping you will find them useful.

Events of insurrection make the people listen. Suddenly, thousands of people are not only willing to listen to new suggestions and ideas,
but they ask for it. It is a once in a lifetime chance for the radical movements to address the people and convince them.

In times like these, the worst threat comes from within. Behind everyone fighting, everyone losing their sleep, getting injured or arrested,
there are conventional political forces biding their time, seeking their own promotion. They are the first to try and undermine the fighting
spirit, the first that will try to make people go back to their homes and isolate the more radical elements when the tension dies down. In
Greece, after the events of 2008, the ultimate winner was a leftist political party that eventually became government and naturally
dismissed their previous promises.

Insurrections die and often the question is what is gained in the end. The state will not hesitate to initially sacrifice its "unfortunate"
servant who with their actions-which have often been repeated by others like them in the past and are unfortunately "normalized" by the
state- in order to quench the public outrage. In Greece, the murderer of the 15-year-old boy was convicted and given life imprisonment.
Depending on the duration and intensity of the insurrection, and apart from the- usually temporary- punishment of the perpetrator, some
ground could be gained in the form of law reforms. This is good, but there are much better things to gain, such as confidence, the
development of the political consciousness and the long-term organization of the people from the grassroots. After the 2008 revolt our
movement came out much stronger but at the same time, much less so than it could have been had it had the readiness to engage in organized
political work and develop new social structures, able to accept many more people.

Although the struggle against repression or racism are central issues, the insurrection will bring forward many more. In the end, this is
the most important thing: organizing the people from the grassroots. In Greece, during the time of financial crisis and big popular
movements, grassroots assemblies were formed. In our opinion, the anarchist movement lacked a strategy capable of continuing and expanding
itself and so, this potential within the working class withered and died. However, while it still functioned, it displayed elements that
allowed us to have very high hopes...

During revolts, as well as during revolutions, people from more privileged social classes may stand with the people of the working class.
This is not a bad thing. Often, the social consciousness of a person overcomes their class or political interest. However, this cannot
cancel the fact that in the end the working class must seek the causes of its suffering in class inequality and political delegation. Class
analysis and its reference cannot be absent, and it is with joy that we hear the famous slogan "Eat The Rich" shaking the streets of the
American cities. Apart from the streets however - this has become apparent to us - workplaces must also be turn into spaces of resistance,
insurrection, and organization.

Slander, doom-mongering and the production of fear are beyond doubt part of the armoury of the media, every time a situation such as this
arises. This is inevitable. It is a fear-producing strategy that tries to present an acceptable facade for the bourgeois. Poor people,
immigrants and outcasts will surely loot the wealth which they are denied. However, the problem of organized crime hijacking the revolt
requires diligent attention, not for the sake of the media, but for the sake of the soul of the revolt.

We are the ones that produce wealth and there is no other action more deeply revolutionary than reclaiming it.

In 2010, during the peak of the struggle against the financial oversight of Greece, during the biggest and most militant protest in the
centre of the capital, a bank caught on fire and 3 workers that were inside died. The sorrow that this caused to everyone as well as the
fierce slander the media produced against the movement quenched its rage and dealt a blow from which it never recovered. Such events are
either products of bad luck, criminal negligence or provocation and can become the tombstone of a movement.

It is a given that fascists will step forward, aiding the state in the slander and repression of the struggle, especially since the murder
of George Floyd had racial motives. Such circumstances, when the fascists step forward while the state is struggling to keep them under its
protection, are always a good chance to settle things with the most dangerous political infestation that plagues the working class.

Despite battling in the streets for decades, we cannot criticize the militant part of your struggle. We do not confront the same type of
army you do. We can, however, share with you some experience from the 2008 revolt on a certain issue. Aside from the clashes during central,
massive events, activism in different districts and throughout the city or country can intensify the general climate and disorient the state
forces.

During these times, the main thing organized revolutionary forces must do is to be able to give answers on matters of operation,
organization, and politics. It is not the time to follow ideological approaches by the book. It is 1000 times better to make a wrong
decision than to make no decision at all. No revolt is a copy of another and hence each new revolt requires new approaches. Anarchists must
be ready and capable to find what those are without hesitation or delay. Experiment, keep an open mind and unify (a revolt can drastically
change the status quo within the movement, as we found out in 2008). We insist on unity and common strategy among anarchists, knowing well
it is easier said than done.

In situations such as this, what is great and what is not, what is important and what unimportant is determined by the future, not the past.
In no case it is our intention to give lessons. What we see happening in the US is bigger and more important than anything we have lived up
to now in Greece. We will stand by your side to the best of our abilities, while maintaining our own struggle over here. Internationalism
and unity among people of the struggle reflect the unity of the interests of the working class throughout the world regardless of colour,
race, and culture. We remember the solidarity of the American movement to our struggles. The road we follow is common for all of us, no
matter where we happen to be on the map. It is the road of the struggle against capitalism, the state, fascism, racism, sexism, and any kind
of discrimination.

For equality. For freedom. For true and permanent justice. For social liberation.

Anarchist Federation (Greece)

https://www.anarchist-federation.gr/archives/2181

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Today in Class War Daily: ---- USA: A statue of noted slaver and child sex trafficker toppled in Richmond, Virginia ---- Destroy 500 years
of colonialism! And Viva CHAZ! ---- Instigating Terror ---- London BLM Protest: First Hand ---- Got a text for us? Email
classwardaily@gmx.com ---- Class War 10/06/2020 https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-46-200610.pdf ---- Direct Action
Gets the Goods! ---- Not 72 hours ago protestors tore down Colston's statue. ---- Since then ANTWERP has taken down Leopold II, London HAS
taken down Robert Milligan, Liverpool Uni will rename Gladstone halls, Plymouth is renaming Sir John Hawkins Sq and ALL the fucking rest of
it. NOW BRISTOL INSPIRES RICHMOND AS THE STATUE OF COLUMBUS, NOTED SLAVER, CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER AND GENOCIDAL DESPOT, IS DETHRONED, LIT UP
AND CHUCKED INTO A POND.

Destroy 500 years of colonialism! And Viva CHAZ!

"A hundred castellanoes are
as easily obtained for a woman
as for a farm, and it is very
general and there are plenty of
dealers who go about looking
for girls; those from nine
to ten are now in demand."

Those are the worlds of
Columbus wrote in 1500 to Doña
Juana de la Torre. To secure
his second expedition with the
promises "slaves as many as
they shall order to be shipped,".

This is history. You were
mislead in school and whatever
your thoughts on the spirit of
adventure you were sold, this
is our shared history. As is the
genocide of the Taíno peoples.

He wasn't a product of his age or
any of that tosh either. His actions
were so appalling he lost his
governorship of Hispaniola and
spent time in the clink, and atleast
one of his crew, Bartolemé de las
Casas, spent years exposing his
atrocities and treatment of the
working class Spaniards both.
This is the legacy that America
founds itself on. The names
of slavers runs as deep in the
colonies as it does back here and
it seems that now, finally, now,
we are seeing a line drawn under
the celebration of this heritage.
So Chris got tore down, set alight
and dragged into a pond. It's not
pretty, it's not democracy but it
sure as shit is the justified will
of the ancestors of those who
suffered unimaginable pain.

GET FUCKING GOING.

Meanwhile in Seattle after taking
8 days of heavy police violence
and near persistent clouds of tear
gas organisers were surprised
over the weekend to see the
Seattle PD pulling out of the
East Precinct ahead of a march.
They removed everything,
rocked up with a - totally above
board I'm sure - shredder truck
and left in a fleet of vehicles.
When they went to check out the
situation, they apparently found
open doors. Did they really just
leave a police station and open
it to be torched down like the
3rd Precinct in Minneapolis?

Seems that they forgot those early
days of unbridled fury have been
honed into revolutionary action.
BLM, Anarchists and local
organisers of every strip came
together, got organised and took
a section of the city, around six
blocks worth, and declared it the
"Capital Hill Autonomous Zone"
or affectionately CHAZ!. They
established barricades mirroring
tactics used by Hong Kong
protestors, set up aid stations and
secured the solidarity of local
business owners and residents
who have been supporting
them.There has even been
talk of ceding the space to the
Duwamish nation conscious of
the history of the region.

 From liberal protestors
organising food and hygiene
facilities to insurgent militias
keeping a 24 hour armed guard
the people have come together.
Fuck they've even got a band
playing regular sets like it was
Berlin May 1st 1999 and Atari
Teenage Riot just rocked up.

In the US and the UK both we've
seen the state scramble to control
and pacify black rage and the
protests that follow. Alongside
the political performances such
as Starmer taking a knee and
the brazen corporate hypocrisy
such as LBC sharing a solidarity
message against racist while
keeping Farage on the books,
we're seeing some genuine results.
The overton window that was
taking a nose dive towards
fascism has span around.
Suddenly we've got city councils
talking about de-funding and
even abolishing police forces and
soem 200 in the UK are looking
to remove the last vestiages of
colonialist profiteering. They are
desperate to appease us blind
to the fact that the anger of the
working class will not be shut
down with a few platitudes and
promises.

Heck even as I type thousands
have swarmed into the Seattle
City Hall, not a day after setting
up CHAZ. This is a marked
departure from previous attempts
to reclaim space such as Occupy
and shows us that lessons from
Hong Kong have been taken and
the toolset available to working
class voices has expanded once
again. It's absolutely beautiful
and I can't wait to see what
piece of infrastructure is seized
in the name of the people next!
The events in the US and those
in the UK - with over 200 actions
over the weekend, attended by
over 100,000 - should inspire
you. We cannot rest! Do not
sit idly by! I suspect many
readers will be on the edge of
one community organisation or
another, well now is the time to
touch base and get motivated.
Black Lives Matter, has been a
beacon in an apathetic void, get
involved and help build the future!
Destroy 500 years
of colonialism!
ABOLISH THE POLICE!
VIVA CHAZ!

https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-46-200610.pdf

https://classwar.uk/2020/06/10/direct-action-gets-the-goods/

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In the summer of 2019 (specifically in July), partner Irdi K., originally from Albania, in the formal process of renewing his residence
permit, a process that is mandatory every five years, so that he can stay in Greece (where he grew up). and has lived almost his entire
life), he was informed that the renewal process cannot proceed, because he is a public danger, due to his arrest and the attribution of
misdemeanor charges against him, because he participated in the course of December 6, 2014. ---- As is often the case, there has been
intense and brutal police repression along the way. Arrests, beatings, injuries and other incidents of police violence. Among those arrested
was Ardi K. After several adjournments, the partner was sentenced at first instance to 27 months. He did not deny his political identity as
an anarchist, but denied the allegations.

It is obviously a vengeful persecution of the comrade, cut and sewn to the measures of state repression, as the postponements, the
non-renewal of the residence permit, its characterization as public danger, the stretching or picking up of the laws themselves completed a
domino door. the renewal of his residence permit.

It is obvious that when you are an immigrant or come from an immigrant family and have political activity and identity, then not only are
the standard criteria that are more than enough to continue to stay in the country not taken into account, but they are rejected in a very
contemptuous and ironic way. by judges and prosecutors.

In the case of Irdi K., we are confronted with the fixed policy of the Greek state, which refuses to recognize full political rights for
first- or second-generation immigrants who have lived and worked in the country for decades, keeping them in a state of total insecurity.
Even more strongly, however, we are faced with the nightmarish reminder that in case you are an immigrant, then you are exempt from the
right to resist and any different choice beyond complete discipline gives the state the right to crush you through Kafkaesque persecution.

This treaty, however, has recipients and all the oppressed and exploited. Look at what you will suffer if you resist is the message ?????
Against this message we stand tall, we do not accept it and we will never accept it.

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST COMPANION IRDI K.

Solidarity rally: Thursday 11/6, 09:00 at the Administrative Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)

libertasalonica.wordpress.com
lib_thess@hotmail.com

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