#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - MONDAY 8 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

  
 1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL marseille - And the
      life of the Palestinians, does it matter? #PalestinianLivesMatte
      (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]r (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  fal.cnt.es: Thursday, June 4: digital meeting with Mark
      Bray, author of 'Antifa, the anti-fascist manual'
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  anarchist communist ACG: Anarchism and Violence - New
      Pamphlet (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, Today in Class War Daily FRIDAY 05 JUNE 2020
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #306 - Editorial: the
      police virus (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Poland, STATEMENT - AGAINST CUTTING DOWN TREES IN 
     SUCHY LAS
      by Anarchist Federation of Poznan section [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, wessex solidarity - ANGRY WORKERS OF THE WORLD -
      Precarious and Unruly -- NEW UK INITIATIVE - 
      FOUNDING CONFERENCE
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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His name was Eyad al-Halaq, he was 32 years old. Eyad was autistic. Saturday, May 29, he was going to the specialized school he attended. A
Palestinian from Jerusalem, he had lived under occupation since his birth. The brutality of the occupying army had been his daily life since
his childhood. The savagery of this racist army has claimed its life. ---- Arrested by the soldiers, he fled, frightened: they "neutralized"
him as they know how to do by shooting at him to kill. They supposedly took his cell phone for a weapon and therefore identified Eyad as a
terrorist. Palestinian equal to terrorist, it is one of the Israeli items. Eyad's educator, present at his side, had nevertheless informed
the soldiers of this army which claims to be the most moral in the world that he was autistic. " Suddenly, they shot three bullets at him in
front of my eyes, " she told Channel 13. " I yelled," Don't shoot. " They did not listen, they did not want to hear. "

But what is the life of the Palestinians worth??

One may ask. Over the years, Palestinians have been killed in traffic accidents by soldiers who claimed to defend themselves from a
terrorist attack. Others were killed for simply walking near a checkpoint, while others, such as al-Halaq, are killed simply because they
"looked suspicious". Twenty-one of them have been murdered by the Israeli army since the beginning of this year.

It has been over a year since Israeli repression has taken on a new dimension in Jerusalem with daily raids in Palestinian neighborhoods
resulting in house ransacking and dozens of arrests of young men and children. The period of the coronavirus was an opportunity for this
army, deprived of all moral sense, to destroy health centers, to arrest the volunteers who disinfected the streets...

Chance will have united George Floyd and Eyad al-Halaq, murdered by police or soldiers for whom the life of the other does not count. Miko
Peled, the son of Israeli general Peled, notes on social networks that it is the same racism, the same brutality. Demonstrations were held
in both Israel and occupied Palestine to demand justice for George and justice for Eyad.

Israeli journalist and writer Gideon Levy also draws a parallel between the two victims. He protests: " The Israeli border police are no
less brutal and racist than the United States police.[...]But, here, the death of a man helps us sleep; there, she started protests.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who turns out to be Jewish, was quick to apologize to the black community in his city. "Being black in America
should not mean a death sentence," he said. And being a Palestinian either shouldn't mean a death sentence, but no Israeli Jewish mayor has
ever said anything like that. "

The assassination of Eyad al-Halaq is just one more illustration of the violence of the occupation and the apartheid regime to which Israel
has subjected the Palestinians for over 70 years. It is the illustration of the racist character of a State founded on the negation of the
Other. If the life of the Palestinians is to be as valuable as the life of any other human being on this earth, it is time to end impunity
for Israel, to denounce and combat the racist and discriminatory laws that make Palestinians citizens deprived of basic rights and national
rights.

The AFPS national office, June 2, 2020

https://ucl-marseille.frama.site/blog/et-la-vie-des-palestiniens-elle-compte-palestinianlivesmatter

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This Thursday, June 4 , we will talk with Mark Bray about his book Antifa, the antifascist manual . It will be on the YouTube channel CNT ,
at 18:00 . ---- The author of Antifa, the anti-fascist manual and The Translation of Anarchy , will be answering our questions live, in a
new digital event in collaboration with CNT. An interview that will allow us to know Mark Bray's point of view about the current racial and
social uprising in the United States produced by the murder of George Floyd , or the scope that the attempt to designate Antifa as a
terrorist group can have . ---- We attach the poster of the event and we encourage you to visit the CNT channel on YouTube , where you will
find all the presentations and digital meetings that have been held throughout these weeks.

I also remember that the library of the Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo will open next Monday, June 8 , with mornings , from 10:00 to 14:00 hours,
Monday through Friday . The reopening will take place according to the security measures established due to the crisis caused by COVID-19.
We wait for you.

https://fal.cnt.es/jueves-4-de-mayo-encuentro-digital-con-mark-bray-autor-de-antifa-el-manual-antifascista/

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Anarchism and Violence, published May 2020 is a pamphlet from the Surrey group of the Anarchist Communist Group. ---- The pamphlet contains
extracts from Malatesta's "Life and Ideas". The issues covered are as relevant today as they were when it was first published 25 years ago
by the London group of the Anarchist Communist Federation. ---- In the booklet, Malatesta discusses the question of violence and why
adequate means are required to resist force. ---- Price: £1.50, including postage, for this 16 page pamphlet. ---- Order your copy via
PayPal to londonacg@gmail.com ---- For more ACG publications, visit our publications page ---- https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/publications/

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/06/03/anarchism-and-violence-new-pamphlet/

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Viva Mutual Aid: an interview with a member of South Norwood Community Kitchen ---- Use of weapons ---- They're shooting the medics ---- For
a dignified and effective demonstration ---- London Black Lives Matter protests: key dates ---- Got a text for us? Email
classwardaily@gmx.com ---- https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-43-200605.pdf ---- VIVA MUTUAL AID! - An interview
with a member of South Norwood Community Kitche ---- Since the arrival of Covid we've seen the number of Mutual aid groups across the UK
expand rapidly to over four thousand! These groups work day in day out to support their communities with food, PPE, and a variety of social
care. South Norwood is one such operation that seen a regular community kitchen blossom into a full blown mutual aid operation.

We caught up with Laura,
part of a co-operatively run
community kitchen to ask
about how the kitchen had
had to adapt and change
since lock down.
1. As we're fast approaching
3 months of lock down, how
has the South Norwood
Community Kitchen had
to adjust and adapt to
the needs of the regular
kitchen users and other
vulnerable members of the
community?
There has been a lot of
listening to and learning
from our regular kitchen
community about their needs
and how their circumstances
have changed; but also
through our networks we have
done a lot of work finding
where the hidden members
of our communities are who
may have become vulnerable,
or are more vulnerable than
ever, and what they need.
A lot of our regular visitors'
support systems have come
apart so we've had to learn
fast about other ways they
can access support be it
around mental health,
housing, benefits etc. and
what the new channels for
this are. Hardly any of them
have phones or some of our
friends stuck at home are
unable to use technology so
we've had to find ways of
helping them through this.
We've noticed our friends
who don't have access to
public funds have been
doubly disadvantaged by this
lock down as they are unable
to access official support so
we have had to support them
more than ever.
Deliveries have also become
an important part of what we
do now. A reliable service
for those who can't get out
the house or find it difficult
accessing food and basic
things. It's helped to bring
a bit of community to their
doors when they have never
felt more isolated.
2. Do you feel the principles
of Mutual Aid have worked
well for you?
Yes absolutely, it has helped
to just make things happen,
get resources shared and
information across quickly.
Even though we have had to
put together new processes
and ways of doing things
they are not weighed down
by hefty structure or admin
which means we can be
nimble and flexible when
we need to adapt what we
do. Also it means people
can just get involved and
crack on with what needs to
be done. It makes the whole
environment around what we
are doing more inclusive and
everyone feeling involved.
We've had scenarios where
some people were accessing
support and are now helping
to support others so it creates
a culture of reciprocity and
mutuality where no one is
treated as a victim.
There does however at times
need to be decisions made
somewhere and people need
direction or knowledge
but this doesn't mean that
it should work through
hierarchical means but
through supporting people to
get the knowledge they need
and share it on.
3.Do you feel that Council
involvement would have
helped or hindered
your Mutual Aid non
hierarchical way of all
working and supporting
one another on an equal
basis?
Council structures are
paternalistic and deeply
bureaucratic and they can
only ever think in this way.
When resources are scarce
like they are now, there are
resources they can share
such as funding but it needs
to be done in a way that
is not onerous or tries to
control mutual aid efforts
in communities. Creating
competitive environments
has not helped organisations
with some winning and
some losing in the funding
roulette.
Thankfully we have always
made the council aware that
we are independent from
them and that the terms of our
relationship needs to be on a
footing where they see us as
having better understandings
of the needs and aspirations
of our community rather
than prioritising their own
internal agendas. Its still
a work in progress but
any council involvement
should be around giving and
supporting resources led by
mutual aid efforts rather
than them leading activities.
4. What has worked really
well for you in keeping
the kitchen surviving and
expanding during lock
down, and what have the
obstacles (if any ) been?

Having a great community
like we do in South Norwood
is the best survival kit you
could ever need and from this
has come a committed crew
who trust and respect each
other. Having honesty, no
egos or power merchants has
been really important with
regards to having to change
things if they aren't working.
We made some mistakes at
the beginning (and are still
sometimes making mistakes!)
and it was pretty stressful but
we came together, reflected
and shared ideas then got on
with it.
Also our relationships with
the wider community. If we
need something quickly,
it happens; like people
dropping stuff off, referring
people who need support or
just championing the cause.
One of the key obstacles has
been some of the competition
that can arise between
different organisations,
groups etc who are each trying
to support the vulnerable in
our communities. Often there
is competition for funding
and resources whereas we
should be collaborating and
supporting each other - by
not working more together
it stretches resources thinner
and thinner.
5.TheKitchen working so
successfullyhas certainly
been taken on board by the
local community, and the
phrase "mutual aid" is now
becoming adaily description
of what has been happening in
the area.Do you think after
lockdown is over people will
hold on to this belief that it
is possible for people to work
co-operatively rather than
competitively and without a
hierarchy?
I think the foundations for
this have been laid and people
realise that they can take
action and are not afraid to
do so. I think before all this
a lot of people wanted to act
but did not know how or did
not have the confidence to do
so.
However extreme times call
for extreme behaviours and
people have stepped beyond
their comfort zones (or didn't
even have a choice) and I
think that to go back to their
normal realities would never
feel the same again.
It has burst a lot of bubbles
about how we cannot rely on
our individualistic efforts and
that other people are sources
of support and resilience.
There is a collective
consciousness there now that
cannot be broken very easily.
There is still work to be
done though. As soon as
the world's cogs start to
turn again and lives become
increasingly focused back
onto working and capitalist
means of survival, there is
a fear that many people will
turn inwards.
Our communities therefore
need to find fresh and
renewed ways for voices to
be shared and heard, and
clear understandings of how
they make change happen;
however small or big. That
their smalls acts will still
really make a difference.
We have got to keep that
energy going but it cannot
become trapped and suffocated
by hierarchical and routine
community meetings and
consultations that are usually
led by people in authority but
through meaningful acts of
community expression and
action where everyone is invited.

https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-43-200605.pdf

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Crises are always an opportunity for capitalists to promote measures of population control. Presented as provisional, they end up being
instituted in laws or habits. ---- The current epidemic is no exception: drones to monitor movement, digital tracking of individuals and
their entourage, remote monitoring of work or university exams, camera to detect the wearing of masks. It is a safe bet that these
"innovations" will last. --- To innovation is added amplification. Raising fear of the epidemic, violent police practices have increased.
People paid for it with their lives. It must be said that the coping was very unevenly distributed in France, since Seine-Saint-Denis
suffered a fine rate per control of 17% against 5.9% on the French average. At the same time calls to denounce his neighbors, or even
relatives, monopolized the switchboard operators of the professional police.

This is not new, the police state has always benefited from asubstantial" volunteer base ", as evidenced, for example, by the denunciations
against the beneficiaries of the RSA. The police virus is powerful and feeds on media figures of the internal enemy: today joggers and
joggers, or confined parents who take their children out of apartments that are too narrow. The antidote is known, however: turn off the
screens, read the revolutionary press and build class solidarity.

UCL, May 22, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Edito-le-virus-policier

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Today (6.05) at 6:00 a group of ten activists associated with the "Green Wave" initiative and the Poznan Anarchist Federation conducted a
direct civil disobedience action, organizing a blockade of felling trees located at Mlodziezowa Street in Suchy Las. In this way they want
to thwart the possibility of continuing the felling, which without the consent of the residents and the commune began yesterday. Activists
came to support the fight of the inhabitants of Dry Forest against the total felling of 65-year-old linden avenue. Yesterday almost all
possibilities of legislative blocking of felling and a few weeks' protest of the inhabitants proved to be ineffective. ---- We would like to
remind you that as part of the activities undertaken in recent weeks, the inhabitants have submitted to the commune head Grzegorz Wojter a
petition against the logging, which was signed by 1,000 people.
Wojtera ignored the petition, further accelerated the start of the cut from Thursday to Tuesday! What's more, he declared that he also did
not intend to delay the felling in any way, despite the fact that it was not until May 11 that an extraordinary session of the commune
council was to be held, at which residents and councilors would be able to get acquainted with the project for the reconstruction of
Mlodziezowa Street for the first time. According to residents, it can be renovated in a way that also assumes the protection of greenery in
this place and is not associated with felling.

At this moment, the last option that we have to stop the work related to felling and to support the local community is to put pressure on
the Poznan staroste to block the decisions taken (as a person holding a clerical position superior to the head of the commune head).

 From the morning, being strapped to the trees, we demand that the starost come to the place and express a public declaration by him - which
side is he advocating and whose interests are more important to him; whether its actions are going to protect and represent the inhabitants
of Suchy Las, or the private arbitrary head of the mayor, of which even the councilors did not know. We demand the immediate cessation of
work, leaving the lime trees still uncut and changing the road plan so that it takes into account the leaving of trees.

The trees we are fighting for were planted 60 years ago by primary school students located at the end of Mlodziezowa street. They have an
additional sentimental value for the local community. They provide protection against the sun on hot days, natural tools to fight smog and
global warming. Their presence also allows to preserve water in the ground, which is of great importance in the current drought in Poland.
At the same time, it should be remembered that due to climate change and drought, new compensation plantings may not be accepted, which is
why it is so important to leave and protect even a few uncut trees!

Green Wave
Anarchist Federation Poznan section

https://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/krajowe/4720-oswiadczenie-przeciwko-wycince-drzew-w-suchym-lesie

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For a new UK wide initiative to coordinate strategical debate and local working class practice: www.letsgetrooted.wordpress.com ---- Dear
friends, ---- Over recent weeks Croydon Solidarity 1, AngryWorkers and other comrades have started a debate about how to intensify our
collaboration and make it open for others. 2 This debate was compounded by the Covid-19 crisis around us and encouraged us to pronounce more
clearly our need for a new form of working class organisation. This article is written in the spirit of this organisation. It is not a
pompous programatic proclamation, but a work schedule, a discussion paper for the next strategic steps. ---- Our efforts have to be based on
a broadly shared understanding of how capitalism works and how to overcome it. We will discuss these general questions, but our organisation
will primarily distinguish and thereby open itself to others by concrete work, mutual committment and research. The general spirit is not to
grow the organisation for the sake of it. Instead we want to help to grow the ability of the working class to self-organise internationally
and to demonstrate the potential for communism in the actual movements of the class and the crisis of capital. For the moment our common
platform is summarised here:
angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/about/

The focus of our activities will be the setting up of local solidarity networks in strategically important working class areas, activities
in and around bigger workplaces, and the circulation of a regular local working class publication. We want to discuss openly and
self-critically the experiences of setting up such minimal structures and support each other. We invite existing local initiatives to join
in and potentially expand their activities. We are aware that not everyone is able to participate on this level for various reasons, but
encourage those comrades to help the effort, e.g. through their research work or by help running the organisational infrastructure. We see
the last six years of AngryWorkers activities in west London not as a template, but as something that has to be critically reviewed, also
according to specific local conditions:
classpower.net/intro/

We need more than just a federal structure of local collectives. We need a common discussion and decisions that can shape local practice.
The second focus is therefore to meet regularly to discuss the local experiences against the background of both the UK and international
developments of class struggle. We feel responsible to help international comrades understand the situation in the UK and to establish
contacts to local workers if needed.

We are in the process of preparing for a constituting and planning conference for the end of 2020. In order to make all this more concrete
we write down some preliminary ideas for a 1-year plan, based on the assumption that 20 to 30 people and 4 to 5 local collectives take part,
who are willing and able to meet quarterly.

Initially we will have to focus on establishing a basic infrastructure, e.g. an online platform, to discuss our local experiences and to
create a productive feedback loop: local experiences will inform our general discussions and out of our discussions we can provide valuable
information for the local working class.
This is where the concept of ‘getting rooted' comes in. Rather than trying to squeeze the class into some organisational shape, we want to
have our ears to the ground in working class industries and neighbourhoods in all their complexity - and base our organisational proposals
on these concrete conditions. This also means making and then strengthening connections with militant workers, so that our research can be
diffused and debated in key sectors.
As part of the wider collaboration we should discuss bi-monthly ‘editorial articles' that we can circulate in our local publications.
Currently the most pressing subject would be an assessment of the global Covid-19 regime and the responses of the working class so far.
Another basic step would be the develop of a self-schooling program for new comrades and working class militants: a series of texts and
discussions which help to generalise the theoretical and practical knowledge amongst us and encourage critical thinking.
Based on this organisational fundament we have to develop knowledge and infrastructures that have use value for the working class. At the
upcoming constituting meeting we should decide on certain questions that seem the most pressing to answer in order to understand the current
developments within our class. This could be the impact of automation as we experience it on the shop-floor or migration or the crisis of
working class families. Another strategic research question would be the current division of labour between ‘science and technical staff'
and ‘manual workers' in the essential industries. We can then develop a research and interview schedule in order to structure a collective
work process. Results of the research should be fed back into local publications and the wider debate.
Most importantly we have to create in-depth reports about strikes and struggles in the UK. Unfortunately most of the current left and union
formations don't see the importance of such in-depth reports or see a critical reflection of strong and weak points of struggles as a threat
to their organisational reputation. The working class can only learn out of failures. For these reports we need a sharp view, which comes
out of collective debates - and the will to visit strikes and to engage in longer open conversations with those involved. We have to find
ways to feed this information back into the local class and make an extra effort to bring it to workers who have a strategic interest, e.g.
because they go through a similar situation or work in the same sector. We appreciate the efforts that comrades of groups have undertaken in
that regard, but feel that their efforts so far have lacked working class roots for the feedback.
Over the course of a year, through local work and these struggle visits, we should be able to invite interested working class militants to
an independent ‘struggle conference'. Currently we don't see an independent forum for workers' to discuss their experiences. The National
Shop Steward Network is dominated by the official trade union apparatus and party politics. The World Transformed is geared towards the
Labour Party and not a space for reflection. Initially these meetings won't have a mass character, but a conference of 100 people in 2021
seems a realistic goal.
On the upcoming constituting meeting we should also agree on steps to take part and contribute to the international debate. The most basic
task is to write bi-annual reports about the general development of the crisis and class struggle in the UK. Here we see the
internationalist summer-camp structure with comrades from, amongst others, Grupao in Brazil, Bad Kids and Asap Revolution in France, Wildcat
in Germany, TPTG and Assembly of Workers and Unemployed in Greece, as our primary reference point. Depending on the general developments we
should also systematise our participation in the internationalist website feverstruggle.net, on struggles against the Covid-19 regime.
These are just the bare bones of organisation. We hope that a mutual focus and commitment towards the wider working class will mean that
relations within the organisation will be supportive and constructive, without having to spend too much time on discussing ‘how we discuss'
or organise ‘how we organise ourselves'. The focus is outwards and patience is required. We know that class struggle is not gradual and we
want to bear that in mind in our day-to-day organising. We want to prepare ourselves for the leaps of struggle that will inevitably come.
These leaps will be contradictory, like the Yellow Vests in France or the recent protests and strikes in Bolivia. We want to prepare
ourselves not in order to ‘capture the flag' of these movements, but in order to detect and support the emancipatory tendencies within them
theoretically and practically.

If you are interested in taking part in the preparatory process of the constituting meeting, please drop us an email.

letsgetrooted@protonmail.com
To reiterate, this meeting will not be an exciting happening (although it might be exciting, too), it will perhaps not feel like a hip and
historical moment, but a moment of commitment to work together.

In solidarity
Comrades from Croydon Solidarity, AngryWorkers and others

1
croydonkickoff.wordpress.com

2
https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/ideas-for-our-angryzoomcalls
https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/ideas-for-our-angryzoomcall-2
https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/ideas-for-our-angry-zoom-meeting-3

https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/new-uk-initiative-founding-conference/

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