#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - TUESDAY 16 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, Anarchist Communist Group ACG: George Floyd and the
      mass movement in the USA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, brighton solfed: Black Lives Matter: Solidarity
      statement (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #306 - Spotlight,
      Economic patriotism: geography of a dead end (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Chicoutimi: Solidarity
      action with the cause "The life of blacks counts" (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain,Anarchist Communist Group ACG: Priti Patel, thug
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Czech, AFED: With an ethical compass and a vision - Review
      of the book Anarchism and its Ideals by Cindy Milstein[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, Class War Daily FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2020 -- Rock
      Feilding-Mellen: still wanted for murder (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The appalling murder of George Floyd by cops in Minneapolis ignited a movement that was a long time coming. Demonstrations spread like
wildfire throughout the United States, involving many thousands of people. It is a movement that is multicultural and multi-ethnic,
involving people from all genders. Demonstrations took place in 806 cities and towns, in all 50 States and in the American-occupied
territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. ---- What this movement has highlighted is the role of the police as the State
agents and enforcers of the rule of capitalism and of a deeply racist agenda. Debates about the continued existence of the police are now
being discussed openly, in hitherto unheard of developments, with calls for defunding and for actual abolition of the police. This
increasing disenchantment with the police was triggered by the hundreds of murders carried out by the police and by the increasingly
aggressive attacks on demonstrations by cops, which have radicalised many participants. This mass movement is of course feared by Trump, but
also by large sections of the ruling class who do not see eye to eye with the President. This includes the Democratic Party which is
frantically trying to co-opt and tame this movement, moving it away from direct action and street mobilisations towards voter registration
and a vote for Joe Biden in the forthcoming election in October.

The State and ruling class in America responded at first to the murder of George Floyd by a denial. When people took to the streets, at
first in Minneapolis and then Stateswide, the State responded with beating with batons, smoke grenades, pepper spray and pepper pellets,
tear gas and rubber bullets. This failed to deter the demonstrators, who came out day after day to defy police brutality. People were
beaten, injured and blinded by the police. Curfews were put in place, many by Democratic mayors, and the media and various officials went
into action by maligning demonstrators. In many States the National Guard was mobilised to back up the police.

Trump attempted to mount a military response which failed, partly because sections of the military leadership were opposed to igniting a
civil war for which they were not prepared.

Trump is now deemed by many sections of the American ruling class as no longer useful. In this situation, the fire brigade of social unrest,
the Democratic Party, swung into action, with its allies in the black establishment.

It should be remembered that the increasing militarisation of the police, which has climaxed in the present situation, happened under both
Republican and Democratic Parties. Biden, as Vice-President under Obama, was an enabler of this increasing militarisation.

The Democrats are making vigorous attempts to defuse the movement. Rejecting demands for police defunding and abolition. Biden is calling
for mild reforms of the police, including increased hiring from minorities. Alongside him, Bernie Sanders, the so called "radical" loved by
many leftists in the USA and here, is also opposed to defunding and abolition, falling in behind Biden.

The Democrats' increasing grip on the mass movement was apparent with the appearance of Biden at George Floyd's funeral.

Alongside this, we have seen the panic now coursing through the police, who fear resistance to their authority and to calls for abolition.
The sight of cops taking the knee is a sign of this panic, as they attempt to play the old "good cop" shtick, when they are part of a
repressive and racist institution.

Not since the 1960s has such a movement emerged in the USA. The rising rate of unemployment aggravated by the coronavirus epidemic, has
contributed to the mass nature of the movement and the anger seen on the streets is in part due to increasing awareness of the nature of the
capitalist system. It must resist all attempts to divert and tame it. Power is on the streets, not at the ballot box. The logical extension
of this movement must be towards the dismantling of the whole stinking system, and that is what we as revolutionaries, as anarchist
communists, must argue for.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/06/11/george-floyd-and-the-mass-movement-in-the-usa/

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Content warning - racism, racist violence, police brutality, state violence, anti blackness, transphobia, misgendering, misogynoir,
colonialism, transmisogyny ---- We offer our solidarity and compassion to the people in the US and UK bravely resisting the structures of
white supremacy and systemic anti-blackness which are endemic in our societies. The murder of George Floyd has furthered a global movement
which is provoking tangible change in many countries. Resist the media narratives of chaos and brutality; these protests are courageous,
well-organised actions by communities seeking to abolish the structure of racist state violence. ---- We support the destruction of symbols
of white supremacy such as the Bristol slave merchant statue. These symbols are a daily exhibition of the racist values of British society
and we applaud the action of the Bristol protesters in taking back their public space. We fully stand alongside the further removal of all
racist monuments from public spaces.

Even in the midst of such anguish, the structures of anti-blackness encourage a reductive view of black communities that erases LGBTQIA+
people and women. This is something we must recognise and resist. Other black people recently slain at the hands of police include Breonna
Taylor and Tony McDade. Although Breonna Taylor was killed only weeks before George Floyd, her death did not elicit global media coverage;
it is important that we recognise misogynoir where it looms and #sayhername. We must also recognise the transphobia at play when Tony
McDade, a trans man, was misgendered in reports of his death by the press. The intersection of their respective identities with their
blackness results in them facing more injustice even after their deaths.

It is paramount now to reach out to your black friends, family and workmates to offer them emotional, practical and financial support.
Simple actions like cooking someone a meal, collecting medication or giving space to the black people in your life to vent and share their
experiences can make a real difference.

We would encourage those thinking of joining protests to remain cautious as these can be particularly unsafe for black people and people of
colour. If you are thinking of attending, BLM UK has some good safety advice[https://www.facebook.com/BLMUK/posts/1610180805797556].

Although we are rightly angry at the systemic violence black people face in the US we would like to stress that the UK is equally complicit
in such brutality. Whilst the history of race and racism in the UK is different from the US, it is no less deadly. As a nation built on the
legacy of slavery, empire and the exploitation and demonisation of migrants, the UK is systemically racist.

Systemic anti-blackness in the UK is black people being twice as likely as white people to die in custody - a rate that is almost as high as
that of the US. However, their deaths are often forgotten, their names unspoken. We say them now: Sarah Reed. Joy Gardner. Sean Rigg. Mark
Duggan. Sheku Bayoh. Edson da Costa. Rashan Charles. This list is far from complete.

Systemic anti-blackness in the UK is seeing black people four times more likely than white people to die from COVID-19, with poverty,
increased exposure and medical racism believed to be factors.

Systemic anti-blackness in Sussex is black people being almost 11 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched.

We would be remiss if we spoke about threats to black lives without mentioning the epidemic of attacks on black trans women. Iyanna Dior was
recently assaulted and Nina Pop was recently murdered. Trans-misogyny has put the lives of trans women of colour under threat. When we say
Black Lives Matter we must include all black lives; centring black trans women, not erasing them.

We encourage you to donate to the following organisations and bail funds:

The Bail Fund Network Emergency Rapid Response Fund https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundscovid
National Bail Out https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020
Black Lives Matter UK https://gf.me/u/x6ip22

For more information on the criminalisation of black people in Sussex:
http://www.stop-watch.org/your-area/area/sussex

For more information on state violence against black people and people of colour in the UK:
https://uffcampaign.org/
https://www.inquest.org.uk/

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/black-lives-matter-solidarity-statement

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The lack of masks, tests, respirators during the pandemic has put the debate on the dangers of capitalist globalization and the industrial
weakening of the national territory back into the public arena. All political parties embark on a "sovereignist" bid which seems to make
good sense. But the logic of a competitive economy cannot be changed: concentration of capital and search for maximum profit will remain the
engines of capitalism ... until its fall. ---- Protectionism has always existed. It allowed the colonization of the planet and accompanied
all the wars between imperialist powers. It was in the mid-1970s that the modern version of the concept of "economic patriotism" was forged
. ---- The industrial bastions where the CGT and the PCF are powerfully organized and where the employees have accumulated substantial gains
are methodically destroyed, and the productions transferred to countries at lower costs  ; imports explode. Structural unemployment is
taking place. At the same time, Giscard authorized family reunification, an old claim from the left. Immigrant workers are gradually leaving
homes for single people and bringing their families. Like all workers, they are found massively in the housing estates of the suburbs.

The PCF is thus simultaneously weakened in its two base camps. The response will be violent: Georges Marchais requests the temporary
cessation of all immigration " until the immigrants present are worthily integrated in France "; and the PCF launched a long and powerful
campaign on a simple theme: " Produisons français ". Despite the social and political strength of the PCF at the time, these two campaigns
were in vain and were later drowned in the subjugation of the Communist ministers of the Mitterrand government. The long strikes to defend
jobs will unfortunately be essentially powerless to preserve the production sites.

And it is the National Front, then ultraliberal, which will recover these slogans a little later, thus initiating what will become its
"social" turning point . The poster " One million unemployed is a million too many immigrants " will bring to an end the dangerous logic
initiated by the PCF; and to the PCF campaign on " French production ", it will suffice for the FN to add " with French workers " to install
its infamous discourse on national preference.

Produireons français, from PCF to FN
The construction of Europe and the establishment of the euro will update the debate in the political world. On the right, "orthodox"
Gaullists will rise up against the abandonment of national independence symbolized by state planning in favor of market logic alone. On the
left, from chevènementistes to the Party of the demondialization (Pardem) while passing by Montebourg or Onfray, one maintains the nostalgia
of the "Thirty Glorious" and one accuses Europe, which allows strange and detestable political combinations between these two families
ideological.

We can easily spot in the speeches of the PCF, rebellious France and Attac how sovereignty easily replaces an authentic anti-capitalism more
difficult to share.

Patriotism, protectionism, sovereignty mean the same thing: imposing national rules to prevent "foreign" competition . "Foreigners" who
necessarily respond in the same way (if their military power and their political independence allow them). Patriotism claims that bosses and
workers of the same country have common interests vis-à-vis the bosses and workers of other countries.

In short, it dilutes class consciousness in favor of a nationalist consciousness and opposes head-on the old workers' program: " The
proletarians have no country "! And let's be clear: two million French men and women work on the national territory for foreign capitalists
and hardly see the difference within the same branch of activity!

There remains the question of nationalizations. Despite the important nationalizations during the Liberation and in 1981 with Mitterrand,
France remained a capitalist power. In fact the capitalists need, according to the branches, the sizes of companies and their weight on the
market (local national or world) sometimes of protectionism, sometimes of liberalism.

These differences of interest within the bourgeoisie also explain the diversity of political forces which represent each of its fractions.
We spontaneously oppose privatizations which offer ever more new markets to private capital. However, nationalization is not an
anti-capitalist solution, especially in the event of compensation of the shareholders by the State.

Macron "patriot" ?
If, in the course of an isolated fight to save jobs, the slogan of nationalization can arise, it is advisable to criticize its limits
without ambiguity. Our libertarian communist response is clear: expropriation of shareholders, self-management socialization, localized
productions as close as possible to needs and territories, with federalism (of municipalities and industries) for productions requiring the
heaviest investments.

Emmanuel Macron swears that the crisis opened by the Covid-19 pandemic opened his eyes. It pours hundreds of billions into the employers'
coffers by indebting the country like never before, in total reverse of all ultraliberal compasses. And it legislates to increase state
control over potential foreign investors.

"Patriotism at last" ? Nay. The groups that will benefit the most from the aid have the majority of their productions (and their employees)
outside France ! As such, Friends of the Earth have just revealed that French banks have invested 24 billion in US shale gas ! This is the
truth about Macron's ecological and patriotic turn !

As for the relocations sometimes mentioned, we must read the bourgeois economists who are in fact thinking of "bringing together" the
relocations to the Mediterranean basin or to Eastern Europe: in short, in countries always at low cost but whose local bourgeoisies do not
not claim to be the hegemony of the world, unlike China where production costs have increased so much that it even relocates to Africa with
all its strength.

As long as the mode of production is based on a globalized economy of competition between rival shareholders, any attempt to escape the
logic of the market will be vain and illusory. Except to engage Europe in the war between the United States and China with a real war as the
ultimate outcome.

Jean-Yves (UCL Limousin)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Patriotisme-economique-geographie-d-une-impasse

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We are informing you of this press release which was sent to us by email. Do not hesitate to do the same and send us your news and opinion
letters. ---- Wednesday Morning, in Chicoutimi on the Nitassinan, a banner with the inscription "George Floyd, We do not forget, We do not
forgive" was deployed on the viaduct in Rue Saint-Henri visible from Boul. St-Paul direction South. ---- This action responds to the call
for solidarity launched by the participants of the Vigil on May 31. ---- The subjects of systemic racism and police violence must remain at
the forefront until we collectively find effective solutions to eradicate these barbaric behaviors. ---- These solutions will emanate in
particular from a greater place for the voices of those concerned in public space.
Anonymous collective in support of the movement "The life of blacks counts"

Photo credit: Rocket Lavoie, The Daily
by Collectif Emma Goldman

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/06/chicoutimi-action-de-solidarite-avec-la.html

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Priti Patel, the Tory Home Secretary, has, obviously, defended the rule of law by stating: ---- "It's not for mobs to tear down statues and
cause criminal damage in our streets, and it is not acceptable for thugs to racially abuse black police officers for doing their jobs...To
the quiet law-abiding majority who are appalled by this violence and have continued to live their lives within the rules, I hear you. To the
police who have been subject to the most dreadful abuse, you have my full backing as you act proportionately, fairly and courageously to
maintain law and order. To the criminal minority who have subverted this cause with their thuggery, I simply say this: your behaviour is
shameful and you will face justice."
She went on to back the idea of a new law to prosecute those who damage war monuments, referring to slogans spray painted on the Cenotaph.

When rapid social change comes, there is often destruction of monuments symbolising the old order. This happened during the Paris Commune of
1871, with the destruction of the Vendome column, it happened during the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1956 the huge statue of Stalin was
torn down by the crowd, and in 1991 the statue of Dzherzhinsky, the founder of the repressive Bolshevik secret police, met a similar fate.

Patel has kept her pledge to defend the police as Home Secretary when she was elected. She continues to do so, whilst a movement has emerged
in Britain that questions the nature of the police and its long record of deaths in police custody and its everyday treatment of black and
Asian people.

But then again, that's hardly surprising. Patel has spoken twice at meetings of the Bruges Group, a right wing think tank that includes many
members of the far-right among its members. These include Martin Webster, the leader of the National Front in the 1970s, and the Holocaust
denier Lady Michele Renouf, as well as many former members of UKIP. The Bruges Group is financed by a number of right-wing billionaires like
Lord Malcolm Pearson, Michael Freeman, Sir Rocco Forte, and Lord Stanley Kalms.

At the Bruges Group conference in London on March 7th, the chair of the Group said, "I would like to congratulate Boris Johnson on
appointing two spartans and Bruges Group speakers to high office. First, Priti Patel to be home secretary. I have a letter here from Priti
thanking us at these difficult times for our support".

The Bruges Group is an enthusiastic supporter of the Putin regime and its members have appeared on the Putin-controlled TV channel Russia
Today. The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has spoken at Bruges Group meetings in 2013 and 2015. Both Tebbit and
Thatcher have been its honorary presidents.

Patel was forced to resign from the May government three years ago because of her meetings with Israeli ministers, business people and a
senior lobbyist. It was she who voted for a stricter asylum system, she who backed May on the "hostile environment" policy which led to the
persecution of members of the Windrush generation. She has consistently voted against the protection of human rights. She voted against same
sex marriages, she argued that it was wrong to bring the police to account through the courts.

She is a rabid defender of the police. In our book, her record shows that she is the real thug.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/06/11/priti-patel-thug/

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In May this year, Neklid published a book by the long-time activist and promoter of anarchist ideas, Cindy Milstein, in a Czech edition
called Anarchism and its Ideals . If this title reminds you of something, I will tell you: as Anarchism and its vision, it was published in
2013 by Between Lines. The original was first published ten years ago as Anarchism and Its Aspirations . ---- Every time I write a review of
a book, I try to grasp, among other things, what central feelings she has left in me. And sometimes they don't even have to be directly
related to the content. In this work, it is mainly a feeling of alternating optimism and pessimism in relation to one's own beliefs about
the possibility of realizing the ideas of freedom and self-government. The publishers themselves notice this in their preface when they
recall the hopes of 2011, when people arose in various parts of the world, and whether they consciously or not used the methods of anarchist
theory and practice. While today we are more witnessing several years of onset of reaction with its xenophobia, nationalism and calling for
the hard hand of a strong leader. In her ten-year-old prologue, the author admits that many aspirations from the peak of the
alterglobalization movement seem to be irreversible, that even anarchists are becoming greater nihilists, and that "the gap between the
ideals of anarchism and today's social reality, even in anarchist circles, can be very depressing." Still, hope does not give up and seeks
to provoke a "debate about what anarchism is and what it could be," to exclaim at the very end of the book that "if we give our best, we can
dare to go utopian from below to the world from all and for all '.

Anarchism and its ethical dimension

The first chapter is an introduction to anarchist theory and practice. Although many views and definitions of anarchism can be found, the
shortest could be "the struggle for the free society of free individuals," meaning "the abolition of dominance and hierarchical forms of
social order, or power in social relations, and their replacement by horizontal versions, or division of power." to all ". And all with the
knowledge that there will always be some contradictions in the relationship between individual and social freedom, which requires a constant
search for balance. This means that anarchism must be inherently dynamic thinking.

Milstein also delves into the past, when two currents formed in the socialist camp - the libertarian and the authoritarian. The idea of
taking state power has simply always been unacceptable to anarchism. In addition, he was always very self-critical, which allowed his
further development. It is important to realize that "anarchists are not necessarily better or worse people than others. The complex
networks of hierarchies, hatred, and commodified relationships that distort every person also distort anarchists. "But at least there is
some reflection between them and an effort to do something about it.

Principles such as freedom, solidarity, internationalism, autonomous and federal association, education, mutual assistance, harmony, etc.
have always remained important for anarchism. In addition, many new topics have been added, such as ecology, animal rights, technology,
sexuality, gender...

Anarchism is a revolutionary political philosophy, so it just doesn't surface and doesn't just try to patch up problems. Based on the
critique of capitalist practice, the author shows why such an attitude makes sense. "Anarchists believe that when people put their heads
together, they come up with and create a more creative, multidimensional social organization."

In practice, anarchists propose "modest experiments with great goals" - to enable people to realize their desires and create new
relationships on a non-hierarchical level; to encourage them "to think and act for themselves and to do both on the basis of emancipatory
values." He follows the ethical compass on this journey . Instead of expediency, they ask for the correctness of their actions. This
encourages them to find ways even where no one has ever been able to imagine them, and to adhere to the unity of goals and means.

With such a compass, you can then follow the path of utopia, put the principles into practice, inspire and build the germs of the future
society already in the current one. "Anarchism looks to the past, when people made much more use of communal and self-governing ways of
organizing, noting the possibilities of the present and maintaining a common belief that people can be better at it in the future." they
operate on anarchist principles or experiment with them in various ways.

Anarchism inspired and inspiring

The alterglobalization movement of the late 1990s made anarchism visible. Not only were anarchists involved in it, but the movement was
directly shaped by the anarchist practice of decision-making and horizontality. The anarchist movement used to be mostly socially and
anti-capitalist. In the second half of the last century, however, the influences of the Situationist International, social ecology, the
discovery of the model of affinity groups, West German autonomism and, last but not least, the Zapatista uprising were manifested in it.
Anarchists thus "humbly perceived themselves as part of the many different struggles for freedom waged by various anti-authoritarians."

Anarchism suddenly not only inspired others, but also set the rules for the debate - it is not so much about globalization as it is about
its economic form determined by capital. For many, it suddenly became much more acceptable to identify as anti-capitalists, and more and
more people made "sense to think outside the state." Some were forced to turn to the self-help approaches with which the anarchists already
had extensive experience.

Anarchism rejected the leftist horizon of small concessions and instead called for a strong emancipatory response. He warned against
situations where "the helpless stomp on the helpless, and the powerful will come out without scratching."

At the end of the book, however, Milstein also asks important questions about the fact that we often cannot express what we are fighting for
and whether street events are not just a countercultural version of lobbying, while most people do not have power over their lives. It also
challenges decision-making within affinity groups, which is not applicable to broader, and therefore heterogeneous, groups of people. It is
therefore still necessary to deal with ways of decision-making, combining them and experimenting with them.

There are many examples of people ruling themselves. "They require, among other things, patience, reflection, self-reflection and
imagination. And also courage."

So let's gather courage, follow our ethical compass and fulfill our vision of a free and self-governing society.

Cindy Milstein: Anarchism and its ideals . Neklid, 2020. 156 pages A5, price 215 CZK, available at kosmas.cz .

https://www.afed.cz/text/7186/s-etickym-kompasem-a-vizi

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Today in Class War Daily: ---- Rock Feilding-Mellen: still wanted for murder ---- Dear white people at Black Lives Matter protests ---- Got
a text for us? Email classwardaily@gmx.com ---- Class War Daily 12/06/2020
https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-48-200612.pdf ---- STILL WANTED FOR MURDER ROCK FEILDING MELLEN ---- Three years
after the fire Rock Feilding Mellen - The councillor in charge of housing at Grenfell tower, has still not been questioned by police under
caution. ---- His legal team say there is no duty on him to give evidence since that might prejudice any future criminal trial. ---- We
could go on and on like the enquiry - now in its 3rd year. During the fire and straight after, Feilding Mellen was nowhere to be seen to
help, but the day after was seen clearing the house out of documents.

He resigned at the next Council
meeting before he could
be lynched, and fled to his
family's huge mansion in the
Cotswolds, where he continues
to host "magical social events"
attended by B list celebrities
like Sean Lennon.
This public school toff was
spirited away by the same
social networks of degenerate
toffs who did the same for Lord
Lucan meanwhile 73 lost souls
need an answer, but he refuses
to give one.

https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-48-200612.pdf

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