Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Anarchism "Black & Red" APO: SOLIDARITY TO THOSE WHO
ARE EXPLAINED TO MINEAPOLIS AND ALL THE WORLD
AGAINST THE POLICE
OFFICE & THE STATE CONSTRUCTION, By APO [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Ireland, derry anarchists: Barricade Bulletin No.8 OUT NOW!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ait russia: Sebastian Lotzer. Diary of an epidemic and an
uprising known in advance [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #305 - Culture, Read:
Rey-Robert, "Sexism, a man's business" (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. el miliciano cnt-ait chiclana: Levante Regional: If your
luxuries are our misery we refuse to produce them (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. US, WSA, ideas and action: Covid-19 Crisis and Battling
Capitalism in the Post-Truth Era / Ryan Paul, By Jason Fiore
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. [Utrecht] Solidarity with Minneapolis Die-in Demo in Utrecht
- In front of the Dom tower Sunday 31 May, 15:00-16:30
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
8. ait russia: Anarchists held a protest in front of the Polish
Sejm [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot pressing a person's face - forever George Orwell, 1984 ---- For the umpteenth time, a
uniformed man in America is murdered in color. Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. Protests against racism and police brutality have
been raging in Minneapolis since Tuesday, sparking mass uprisings. During the protests, one of the protesters was found dead by a
bulletproof vest (with the information so far), and he was included in the list of people who lost their lives because they belong to the
class and social base. Of course, we have no illusions. State, capitalist barbarism has repeatedly shown its true face.
The class / racist structure of American society is a given. The parastatal hoods of the Ku Klux Klan have been replaced by the legitimate
police sleds of the state. Minorities in the United States are subjected to violence and racism on a daily basis, with 40% of police
killings and 35% of African-American prisoners. A look at corona mortality rates proves the unequal treatment they face. Three times more
people die from the virus than whites for a variety of reasons, such as poor access to health care, low incomes, and poor working
conditions. The plight of African-Americans in ghettos is suffocating, as suffocating as George felt under the cop's boot. I can't breathe.
A slogan that includes the cry of all the oppressed from all over the world. Racism and fascism are everywhere and are fueled by the state
and capitalism.
Some insist on exorcising barbarism by saying, "Fortunately, we are not America." And yet it is enough to belong to a minority in any
country to be killed. All you have to do is be an immigrant, a refugee, a looter + a person, a woman, an anarchist and you can be on the
floor being trampled on until you let out your last breath. As long as you belong to the oppressed of this world so that your life has no
value. It is enough to fight against the bankrupt system of oppression and exploitation in order to enter the murderous target of the
authorities and the law. It is enough for the killer to wear a uniform and his act is not considered reprehensible. At the moment, Derek
Chavin, the police officer who killed George Floyd, (as well as his accomplices in the murder of Thomas Lane, Tao and Alexander Cueng) are
free and no legal action has been taken against them. It seems that for a while it will just be necessary to replace the cop's crest with
the hood of the Ku Klux Klan. Change of shift.
Police everywhere in the world are a patchwork of recruited racists and murderers. And this is exactly what the state itself wants the
police to do in order to effectively carry out the task it is tasked with: torturing the weak and protecting the strong. George Floyd and
Jacques Costopoulos had one thing in common - they belonged to the class and shared social identities that hated the dominant example. The
state and its police will continue to strangle the weak and the impoverished until the society records the murders on its mobile phone,
instead of revolting against its tyrants. Because the fact that no one reacted, probably fearing the uncontrollable violence of the police,
means that the cop's power is not afraid of anyone and continues to press on the heads of the oppressed. The uprising is a one-way street
for social self-defense and an attack on police brutality and state death warrants.
For George Floyd, Jacques Costopoulos, Eleni Topaloudi, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the Turkish hunger strikers
-COMMUNICATION EXCELLENCE IS A WEAPON OF THE SELF-GOVERNMENT OF THE
OCCUPIED -ALLIGHTING TO THOSE WHO ARE EXPLAINED TO MINEALIKI KITNITIS KITNIT & ALL KOSMOS
CONCENTRATION - MICROFONIKI
Friday 29/5 19:00 Tsimiski with Aristotelous
Collectivity for Social Anarchism "Black & Red" | member of the
Anarchist Political Organization (Federation of Collectives)
* At 19:00 the fascists of ATHEX they call outside their offices to gather and march.
TAGSGeorge FloydUSARepression
http://apo.squathost.com/
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Message: 2
Issue No. 8 of Barricade Bulletin, the free bulletin of Derry Anarchists is now.Due to the current Covid 19 crisis we will not be printing
this latest issue however you can get your free PDF copy of the latest issue by clicking on the following link here.
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:d0ee4be1-3d25-49d4-90d4-f615ca1158e5
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Message: 3
"The epidemic will end, but not the measures, opportunities and consequences that it has caused and which we all are now facing. We are
giving birth to a new world full of suffering" (Gianfranco Sanguinetti) ---- For 5 nights, the suburbs in France exploded in riot (in April,
- aitrus.info). Despite the state of emergency and the ban on going out - or rather because of them. Police officers were ambushed, cars and
city halls were tortured. 5 people have died since the declaration of the state of emergency in connection with police actions to ensure a
ban on leaving the house. ---- There are wounded, many of them - seriously. The police, who for decades have been nothing more than an
occupying army for poor neighborhoods, have taken another step forward in their orgy of violence. Extrajudicial killings seem to be only a
matter of time. It could and should have exploded, and everyone knew it.
Already in the first days of the ban, skirmishes broke out repeatedly in the suburbs. Well-organized groups lit a fire, directly and
unexpectedly attacked police entering the neighborhoods. After such attacks became more and more, an order was given not to try to maintain
the ban any more with all possible forces. But the cops remain cops. They drive and chase people riding mopeds through the streets, because
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, because they didn't have the right skin color or they don't wear a helmet. Or simply because
they themselves are filthy sadists.
Now we realized, but it's too late. Now in the Parisian metropolitan area alone there are about 1,000 police officers. They have helicopters
and all conceivable technological gadgets. But it didn't help much. Against just a few hundred teenagers.
From Siberia to the African continent, from North to Latin America prison in one. Day after day. Even here, in Europe, in Italy, in France
... - night after night. Riots in Africa, on the Indian subcontinent, in Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela ...
Those who are experiencing a transformation into global pandemic fascism directly in their own skin, and not in the abstract constructions
of prosperous left academics, have long begun the struggle. Of urgent need. And in this country (Sebastian Lotzer lives in Germany, approx.
Enough 14), long texts appear about the refusal of the Fusion festival or about the cautious protest on May 1 (a curious tradition: for
years the "new left" had nothing to do with this day, not counting the initiatives of the communist groups in the 1970s, but since the
legendary night in 1987, various fragments of socially marginalized leftists began to march on that day, which had nothing to do with the
traditional labor movement or social explosion on May 1, 1987).
The world will be different, or you can probably say that it will simply show its true face. For decades, texts and analyzes of
"fascization" have been published here. And now, when all theories faded in the face of reality, not a single word, no real acts of
resistance, except for night excursions. Or helpless symbolic acts that morally deserve all respect, but nothing more. Only obedience and
fear. However, no, it's not about fear. Indeed, fear itself is nothing wrong. He belongs to us as much as love and hate. Here it is worth
talking more about cowardly comfort and neurotic, narcissistic localization in a world disguised as altruism. Anyway. The gap with a large
part of the "left" has long been ripened and overripe, and after the current submission, which is no coincidence reminiscent of 1977, he
finally stands at the very top of the agenda for those who still have serious interest in the rebellious shift. That is, those who even make
up a minority against the background of the dispersed movement of various pseudo-revolutionary groups and cliques, simply waiting for the
opportunity to resume their daily affairs, as if nothing had happened.
https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/04/24/pandemic-diaries-the-anticipated-uprising/
https://aitrus.info/node/5484
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Message: 4
After Une culture du rape à la Française , Valérie Rey-Robert, author and feminist activist, has just published Le Sexisme, a men's affair .
Sourced, documented, illustrated by concrete cases, this educational work provides the means to become aware of and combat the sexism that
we convey, as men, even insidiously, on a daily basis. ---- The author here overturns the famous maxim of Simone de Beauvoir ; "You are not
born a man, you become one ", she writes. The social construction of men has its roots in violence, which is the very emblem of virility,
which no biological data can justify. In order not to be considered " abnormal " a man must be strong, be aggressive, be violent.
Statistics show that men are the overwhelming majority of attackers and rapists (whether against women, children or other men). A man, built
in patriarchal society, is supposed to be afraid of nothing, to take ever more risks, to dominate everything and everyone.
To be a man is also and above all to be built in relation to women. And even if some men struggle to hear it (and also in militant circles
supposedly more open to these questions), this book documents how, at all levels, in all classes, all men benefit from male domination. They
have higher salaries, hold positions of responsibility, do not experience street harassment, etc.
Men are the overwhelming majority of attackers
Valérie Rey-Robert develops at the end of the book the priority axes intended for men to participate in the fight against sexism. This
struggle begins with the education of men. First of all by listening to women, taking their words into consideration without being persuaded
that our opinion will make a difference. But we cannot expect women to be our "educators". It is up to us as men to train and educate
ourselves to be true allies.
Fight foot by foot, in "real life" as on social networks to dismantle the idea that men are also victims of sexism. Rethink sexuality in
general and your own sexual behavior in particular. Stop being a witness to sexism. Finally, and this is a central element in the book, it
is necessary to put into practice the devirilization of our lives (at work, in homes, on the street, in struggles, etc.).
Reading required (I wish I could say mandatory) for all men. We know that it will not be enough to put an end to patriarchy. But to be
content with facade postures without questioning one's own behavior, in one's private life as in public life, will also not advance the
fight for equality and emancipation.
As the author reminds us at the end of the book, there is an emergency. " It is time to put an end to manhood, it is time to realize,
individually and collectively, that the sexism and the violence that it generates are the business of those who create them and not of those
who undergo them. "
Jon (UCL Angers)
Valérie Rey-Robert, Sexism, a man's affair , Libertalia, March 2020, 264 pages, € 18.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Rey-Robert-Le-sexisme-une-affaire-d-hommes
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Message: 5
In recent months we have witnessed a Dantesque spectacle: privatization has shown us the shame of a system that prioritizes the benefit of
companies over people. Outcome? Thousands of deaths, of course, concentrated in working-class neighborhoods, health, care, cleaning,
transport, service and geriatric population. Precisely, the most defenseless and endemically immersed population in precariousness and
exclusion. ---- We live in uncertain times; a small virus has come to show what we already knew: we are bait for savage capitalism. Once
again, we will be sacrificed in defense of the privileges of a few and their market benefits. ---- His recipes for the cure are again the
same as always: Millions of layoffs, alarming setback in freedoms and rights, more precariousness, aid to banks and companies while the
working class dies in its slashes or in the solitude and abandonment of a field hospital. Not to mention those who die in their homes
waiting for help that never reaches the neighborhoods of the urban slum.
The State and Capital have been cutting labor rights that we had previously obtained, and we fear that with the excuse of the epidemic that
we are experiencing, politicians and businessmen want to tighten us even more, if possible, the rope that they put on our necks, in order to
continue squeezing and exploiting each day more.
WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT! IT'S TIME TO CLAIM WHAT IS OURS.
We will not pay for this crisis because it is done in human lives and we have already paid too much. If your profits are private, why do we
always have to share your losses?
The existing level of unemployment, and the one that is surely looming if not remedied, should force us to consider what way out we want: to
further increase the levels of exploitation, waste and contamination in this absurd race for infinite growth on a planet of limited
resources; or on the contrary, a fair and rational distribution of wealth.
To end unemployment, a 40-hour workday from more than a century ago cannot be maintained. Today's productivity, technology and automation
have nothing to do with then. And it translates into a continuous saving of companies in labor. All those profits are kept by the
capitalists. It is high time that a part of the advantages of technological advances in companies go to the working class that produces
everything.
Therefore, to end the level of unemployment, it is vital to reduce the working day without a reduction in wages (distribution of work and
wealth), the abolition of overtime and retirement at age 55, so that you can work the great
number of unemployed youth. And like the conquest of the 40-hour day more than a century ago, through the Canadian strike, they will not
grant us anything without a fight.
So an indefinite general strike is necessary.
IF THEIR LUXURIES ARE OUR MISERY WE REFUSE TO PRODUCE THEM.
Our leaders have dedicated themselves to plundering public health, leaving it in a deplorable state, privatizing and stripping it of all
resources.
His anti-worker policies have left us in absolute poverty. We are already seeing it: the differences between exploited and exploiters are
now more palpable for the people; Thousands of people today will not have anything to fill the fridge with.
The leaders know in what this situation is going to derive, that is why they take their repressive forces for a walk, who like beasts take
advantage of any situation to fine, intimidate, arrest and beat the working class.
We live in a historical moment, or we prop up our rights and obtain new conquests that benefit our class, or we plunge into the bosses and
state terror.
? REDUCTION OF THE WORK DAY TO 25 HOURS.
? ABOLITION OF EXTRA HOURS.
? RETIREMENT AT 55 YEARS.
DEAL OF WORK AND WEALTH.
GENERAL AND INDEFINITE STRIKE!
CNT AIT Regional de Levante
http://elmilicianocnt-aitchiclana.blogspot.com/2020/05/regional-de-levante-si-sus-lujos-son.html
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Message: 6
The COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. has been exacerbated by mass consumption of right wing conspiratorial fake news that downplays the
seriousness of the crisis and upholds market liberalism as the solution. What is new about this is that Trump's populist victory has brought
conspiracy theory out from the shadows directly into the mainstream information market. Conspiracy theory has become a direct part of the
multimedia information hegemony in which capitalists invest billions in DC think tanks that figure out diabolical ways to influence consumer
opinion and ensure that consumers do not act rationally. What is not new is the lie that market liberalism is the real solution for crisis
after crisis. Whether crises be market or socially driven, right wingers constantly demand more power and authority be given to the wealthy
political and capitalist class over everyone else, and we are expected to have faith that we will be provided for. This did not happen in
the past, and it isn't going to happen now.
The U.S. and most other countries suffer from a lack of participation in democracy. This doesn't simply mean lack of participation in voting
or getting people elected,although the U.S. political machine is indeed one of the narrowest and least accessible. But in a more direct and
meaningful way, participation in democracy means things like forming unions and grassroots worker and consumer organizations that organize
ordinary people and have the power to create and win campaigns around real social problems. So, this kind of democratic participation is
actually subversive to market liberalism since it's based around meeting the social needs of ordinary people - something markets fail at. In
crises such as the one we currently face, some uptick in democratic participation is usually observable. In the U.S. this can be observed in
some increases in strikes and other shop-floor actions, as well as increased activity among some healthcare-related consumer groups. But
state governments have already been influenced by right wing lobbyists to open early, instead of heeding the advice of medical experts. The
result will be re-opening the flow of profits to the wealthy while ordinary workers face threat of eviction if they don't work, or possibly
being infected with a potentially deadly disease if they do.
In the short term, it will take a major increase in democratic participation to have a real positive alternative to these terrible
conditions. If we are effective at this, we can increase consumer protections and safeguards, bringing about things like rent freezes and
reductions and comprehensive universal healthcare. In the long term, we believe that a self-managed libertarian alternative to capitalism
can withstand crises better, by focusing on production directly for use (instead of producing commodities that continue to pile up in
landfills), accessibility, solidarity and direct participation.
We will also need to find ways to battle the multimedia information hegemony that convinces masses of people that conspiracy theory is
factual and that directly improving our own lives is against our better interests. So, we need working class journalism and theory that
brings libertarian ideas into the mainstream and popularizes them. We need to overpower the voice of big capital with the voices and stories
of the masses of everyday working people.
http://ideasandaction.info/2020/05/covid-19-crisis-battling-capitalism-post-truth-era/
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Message: 7
This is a demo in solidarity with the communities for justice for George Floyd and against racism in Minneapolis right now. Against
institutional racism and police violence in the US, in the Netherlands and everywhere else. ---- What will happen? ---- Please come to the
Dom tower ---- First we will use chalk to write solidarity messages on the street ---- #Justice ForGeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter
#KickOutZwartePiet #GeorgeFloyd ---- #NoJusticeNoPeace #Solidaritywith Minneapolis #ICantBreath ---- Short speech and standing together,
taking a solidarity photo to send ---- Die in - where everyone lays down on the ground (if you can and want to) to signify lives lost ----
Wrap up, & more chalking in town ---- Safety precautions ---- Wear a mask, keep 1.5m distance, keep eachother safe. Spots on the ground 1.5m
away from eachother will be marked with chalk. If there are too many people to stay safely 1.5m apart please spread out, use common sense
when you arrive.
Minnesota Freedom Fund
The Minnesota Freedom Fund pays criminal bail and immigration bond for those who cannot afford to as we seek to end discriminatory,
coercive, and oppressive jailing. Your support means more people keep their jobs and their housing while waiting for the outcome of their
charges.
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/solidarity-with-minneapolis/
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Message: 8
On May 29, activists of the Union of Polish Syndicalists (ZSP, sections of the International Workers Association) and the Wroclaw Federation
of Anarchists organized a protest in front of the Polish Sejm in Warsaw. They came to Viejska street under the slogan "We won't pay for your
crisis!" The demonstrators set out their list of requirements aimed at preventing the burdens of the economic crisis from being transferred
onto the shoulders of the working people. ---- These requirements include: ---- - Amending the law "Shield 2.0" so that aid from state funds
is sent directly to those in need, and not to support the profits of companies and investors; ---- - Payment for forced downtime in the
amount of 100% for all; emergency benefits for those whom the authorities have forgotten (unemployed and people looking for work);
- Paid sick leave for all, regardless of working conditions. Free treatment and medication. Providing security measures for those who need
it. Increased health care costs. Raising salaries for health workers and improving their working conditions.
- Public solidarity with employees of key industries! It is necessary to increase the number of jobs, and not force people to work overtime.
- Refusal of new legal mechanisms that allow employers to worsen working conditions without the consent of workers. Creation of effective
mechanisms to counter the deterioration of working conditions.
- Raising wages and improving working conditions for low-paid workers. Decent salary for everyone!
- Special support for the homeless and people living in difficult sanitary and housing conditions (including crowding). Public solidarity
with people at high risk of infection. Support for victims of domestic violence. Suspension of rent collection and great support to tenants.
- Distribution of benefits to those working under civil law contracts without the intermediary of customers. Expansion of the powers of the
National Labor Inspectorate, legal assistance and benefits for those working under civil law contracts with respect to determining their
working conditions.
- Immediate lifting of the ban on holding public meetings and protests in compliance with sanitary standards.
"We will go on strike where the authorities and authorities make us work, despite the risk! Let's fight for our rights! Let's protest
against the antisocial policy of the government!" - declared the demonstrators.
The protesters showed an excellent example of how to respond to attempts by the right to cling to protests. Corvin-Mickey, the leader of the
fascist libertarians who appeared at the rally, was expelled by the demonstrators as a fascist provocateur!
Based on materials: http://polityczek.pl/uncategorised/13059-anarchisci-pogonili-korwina-przed-sejmem-precz-z-faszyzmem
https://aitrus.info/node/5485
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