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

Today's Topics:

   
1.  US, black rose fed: Antifa Isn't the Problem - Trump's
      Bluster is a Distraction from Police Violence By Mark Bray
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, anarchist communisms ACG: Workplace notes May 31
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  wessexsolidarity: An explainer on our (changing) position on
      the COVID-19 crisis (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Manchester Solfed: important read from Bristol SF...
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  leipzig.fau: The bosses are imaginatively exploiting the
      corona crisis (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, Class War Daily WEDNESDAY 03 JUNE 2020
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #306 - International,
      Why the French army must leave the Sahel (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  US, black rose fed: Re-Introducing the Black Anarchism
      Reader (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  awsm.nz: SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF NORTH AMERICAN
      PEOPLE - ALL SUPPORT TO ANARCHIST ORGANIZATIONS OF 
      USA (ca, de,
      fr, gr, it, pt, tr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
10.  Czech, afed: Fízlové, Trump and Antifa -- Police violence
      is being demonstrated in the United States. [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Did the tragic video of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis throw you into a fit of rage? Of sadness and despair? Did it make
you want to burn down a police station? ---- Whether it did or (more likely) did not, you might be among the many Americans who sympathize
with the outburst of anger behind the overturning of police cruisers and the smashing of storefronts in cities across the country in the
wake of Floyd's death, even if you disagree with property destruction. Though "violent" protest tactics are generally unpopular, they
command attention and force us to ask: How did we get here? ---- President Trump, Attorney General William P. Barr and their allies have a
simple and convenient answer: "It's ANTIFA and the Radical Left," as Trump tweeted on Saturday. "In many places," Barr explained, "it
appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by anarchic ... and far left extremist groups using Antifa-like tactics." "Domestic
extremists," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted, are "taking advantage of protest to further their own unrelated agenda." After another night
of destruction that included the burning of the former slave market called the Market House in Fayetteville, N.C., Trump upped the stakes on
Sunday by declaring that "the United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization."

Trump's reckless accusations lack evidence, like many of his claims. But they also intentionally misrepresent the anti-fascist movement in
the interest of delegitimizing militant protest and deflecting attention away from the white supremacy and police brutality that the
protests oppose.

[Trump's announcement]actually suggests a tacit acknowledgment of popular sympathy with the grievances and tactics of the protesters: If
torching malls and police stations were sufficient on their own to delegitimize protests, there would be no need to blame "antifa."
Short for anti-fascist in many languages, antifa (pronounced AN-tifa) or militant antifascism is a politics of social revolutionary
self-defense applied to fighting the far right which traces its heritage back to the radicals who resisted Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
in Italy and Germany a century ago. Many Americans had never heard of Antifa before masked antifascists smashed windows to shut down Milo
Yiannopoulos in Berkeley, Calif., in early 2017 or confronted white supremacists in Charlottesville later that year - when a fascist
murdered Heather Heyer and injured many more with his car in a way that frighteningly presaged the New York police officers who drove into
protesters on Saturday in Brooklyn.

Based on my research into antifa groups, I believe it's true that most, if not all, members do wholeheartedly support militant self-defense
against the police and the targeted destruction of police and capitalist property that has accompanied it this week. I'm also confident that
some members of antifa groups have participated in a variety of forms of resistance during this dramatic rebellion. Yet it is impossible to
ascertain the exact number of people who belong to antifa groups because members hide their political activities from law enforcement and
the far right, and concerns about infiltration and high expectations of commitment keep the sizes of groups rather small. Basically, there
are nowhere near enough anarchists and members of antifa groups to have accomplished such breathtaking destruction on their own. Yes, the
hashtag "#IamAntifa" trended on Twitter on Sunday, suggesting a very broad support of the politics of antifascism. Yet there is a
significant difference between belonging to an organized antifa group and supporting their actions online.

Trump's declaration seems impossible to enforce - and not only because there is no mechanism for the president to designate domestic groups
as terrorist organizations. Though antifa groups exist, antifa itself is not an organization. Self-identified antifa groups like Rose City
Antifa in Portland, Ore., the oldest currently existing antifa group in the country, expose the identities of local Nazis and confront the
far right in the streets. But antifa itself is not an overarching organization with a chain of command, as Trump and his allies have been
suggesting. Instead, largely anarchist and anti-authoritarian antifa groups share resources and information about far-right activity across
regional and national borders through loosely knit networks and informal relationships of trust and solidarity.

And in the United States, antifa have never killed anyone, unlike their enemies in Klan hoods and squad cars.

Though the specific tradition of militant antifascism inspired by groups in Europe came to the United States in the late 1980s with the
creation of Anti-Racist Action, a wide variety of Black and Latinx groups, such as the Black Panthers and Puerto Rican Movimiento de
Liberación Nacional (MLN), situated their struggle in terms of antifascism in the 1970s and 1980s. Expanding the picture further, we can
trace the broader tradition of collective self-defense against white supremacy and imperialism even farther back through resistance to
indigenous genocide and the legacy of militant black liberation represented by Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams, C.L.R. James, Ida B. Wells,
Harriet Tubman and slave rebellions. This black radical tradition, black feminism and more recent abolitionist politics influenced by
organizations like Critical Resistance and Survived and Punished clearly inform the actions of protesters far more than antifa (though there
are black antifa and others who have been influenced by all of the above).

Trump is conjuring the specter of "antifa" (while Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz blamed "white supremacists" and "the cartel") to break the
connection between this popular groundswell of anti-racist and black activism that has developed over recent years and the insurrections
that have exploded across the country in recent days - which put police brutality in full view whether we agree with how it got there or
not. Paradoxically, this move actually suggests a tacit acknowledgment of popular sympathy with the grievances and tactics of the
protesters: If torching malls and police stations were sufficient on their own to delegitimize protests, there would be no need to blame
"antifa."

This is not the first time Trump or other GOP politicians have called for antifa to be declared a "terrorist" organization. So far, such
calls have amounted to little more than rhetoric - but they carry an ominous potential. If antifa groups are composed of a wide range of
socialists, anarchists, communists and other radicals, then declaring antifa to be a "terrorist" organization would pave the way to
criminalizing and delegitimizing all politics to the left of Joe Biden.

But in the case of the George Floyd protests, right-wing attempts to blame everything on antifa - perceived by many to be predominantly
white - evince a kind of racism that assumes that black people couldn't organize on this deep and wide of a scale. Trump and his allies also
have a more specific motive: If the flames and broken glass were simply blamed on "antifa" or "outsiders" - as if anyone had to travel very
far to protest - then the urgency would shift from addressing the root causes of Floyd's death to figuring out how to stop the shadowy
boogeyman Trump rails against. Even if you disagree with property destruction, it's easy to see the chain of events between Floyd's death
and burning police cars. Trump's misinformation aims to mislead us all.

Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism and politics in modern Europe. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,
Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, and the co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer
Reader. He is currently a lecturer at Dartmouth College and a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra.

https://blackrosefed.org/mark-bray-antifa-isnt-the-problem/

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Postal workers take action against coronavirus ---- From the editors of Going Postal, the ACG postal workers bulletin ---- Following actions
in March and April by postal workers in different parts of the UK, including Alloa, Greenock, Winchester, etc., over concerns about the
coronavirus and workplace safety, there were walkouts in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. ---- At the
delivery office on Queen Victoria Road in High Wycombe, one postal worker was diagnosed with coronavirus. As a result workers, already
concerned about the low standards for safety at the office, went out on unofficial strike. ---- At the Werrington delivery office in
Peterborough, after a manager tested positive for COVID-19, workers walked out on 16th May. They were angry that he had been walking around
the delivery office without observing social distancing. Ninety five per cent of the workers at the office joined in the wildcat strike.

Meanwhile in Belgium in late May, postal workers walked out at Ixelles after their workload was increased, with an almost doubling of parcel
volume as a result of online shopping increasing during the pandemic. Management then agreed to hire additional temporary staff.

Dyson revolt

Workers at the Malmesbury and Hullavington engineering factories in Wiltshire owned by James Dyson recently revolted over being forced back
to work.

James Dyson, is the richest man in the UK, with a fortune of £16.2 billion. He is also the biggest farmer in the UK, owning 14,000 hectares
of land with his Beeswax Dyson Farming agribusiness.

Workers working from home were ordered back to the workplace with no notice. They refused to give in under pressure and management were
forced to make a U-turn.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/05/31/workplace-notes-9/

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We've come in for a bit of criticism over the last couple of days for our views on the government response to the COVID-19 crisis. Firstly,
we'd like to start off by saying that our position on the response to the crisis has changed since it started to emerge at the end of
February. At that point, it felt like a massive unknown and that starting to develop our own response in terms of physical distancing and
withdrawing from events we were due to participate in seemed to be the sensible thing to do. ---- Anarchists played a part in this process,
working out other ways we could interact with each other while avoiding being physically close as a precaution. They also did and are still
doing seriously good work with grassroots mutual aid projects. There was a feeling that this was something that anarchism could own.

For us, that sense of ownership was taken away once the government stepped in to impose their own measures which ended up placing all of us
under restrictions that most of us have never experienced in our lives. The legislation the government brought into to implement and enforce
these restrictions turned what we were voluntarily undertaking for what we thought would only last a month or so into something that is
being done to us with no end in sight.

While we get that those anarchists who initiated ways of dealing what they perceived to be the threat in the early stages of the crisis want
to retain ownership of that, with top down legislation and enforcement, the dynamic changed. As the lockdown went on, the negative impact it
was having on peoples lives started to become more apparent. We're talking about the social and mental health impacts ranging from disrupted
relationships and isolation through to an increase in the number of suicides. Also, the long term economic impact which we'll be paying for
with mass unemployment and austerity will have a devastating impact on our lives.

As we went into May, routes out of the lockdown that involved surveillance, tracking and further losses of personal autonomy and freedom
were being discussed. It was also becoming clear that in order to free up as much bed space in hospitals as possible, elderly patients with
the COVID-19 virus were effectively being dumped into care homes. The ensuing tragedy in care homes staffed by low paid workers without the
resources to deal with the subsequent wave of infections and deaths has been described by a fair few people as little more than a thinly
disguised cull.

All of this prompted us to start asking some serious questions about the narrative we were being fed. That involved a fair bit of reading
around and keeping an open mind. Yes, that process did take us into some weird areas that were veering towards what some would term as
conspiracy theory. It also led us to take a look at some of the alt right takes on the issue so we could understand how they were exploiting
people's concerns about the lockdown for their own ends. All of this was a necessary research process that helped with our building the list
of COVID-19 crisis readings on this blog. A list that we're prepared to defend as not, in our opinion, going anywhere near conspiracy theory.

Mind you, what is and isn't conspiracy theory is a grey area and one influenced by subjective understanding and opinion. What has made us
more than a bit annoyed is the instant, reflexive dismissal by a number of anarchists of some of the readings we have listed as being
‘conspiracy theory'. Given the restrictions we're already under plus what will be coming down the line at us if we don't start showing some
signs of resistance, it's a bit alarming that what we consider as reasonable warnings are getting dismissed out of hand.

As we've noted before, we're in an unprecedented situation. In a 24/7 news and social media landscape, trying to tease out the signal from
the noise is a difficult task. One thing is abundantly clear, the massive number of powers the government has conferred upon itself will not
be given up without the fight of our lives. That's not conspiracy theory - it's just paying attention to the lessons of history. Before
long, it's highly likely that powers that were ostensibly brought in to deal with the COVID-19 crisis will be deployed against us in another
‘crisis'.

All we've been trying to do is alert people in order that the right strategies and tactics to resist what's very likely coming our way can
be developed. The range of grassroots mutual aid initiatives that have emerged to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 crisis certainly
offer some hope. As well as dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, they will have a role in dealing with the dire consequences of an inevitable
economic depression and the crushing austerity that will be inflicted upon us. We hope these mutual aid groups will also take on the task of
resisting an increasingly intrusive and oppressive state, aided and abetted by the large corporations they've outsourced many of their
functions to.

The point is that it shouldn't be an either/or situation in being involved with a mutual aid group dealing with the impact of the COVID-19
crisis on the one hand and on the other, developing a strategy of resistance to deal with and defeat the dystopia to come. It's just that
from where we are, it feels like some groups are focusing on mutual aid as a way of not having to face up to the totalitarian dystopia the
government and the corporations will likely be inflicting upon us.

That is why we've probably come over as a bit stroppy at times because to us, it feels like there's not the sense of urgency there should be
about what's coming. We're not saying this to score intellectual points or to look clever. It's because we'd like a future where we can lead
a full, meaningful life as opposed to one where we merely exist as a cog for as long as the machine will tolerate us. That's not just for us
as individuals or family, it's also for our community and all of our comrades. Basically, it's an existential threat that we take personally.

As this is intended to be a statement, we've tried to keep it as brief as we can. The aim is to explain how we've come to our position in
the hope that this can help in the discussion about where we go from here. We look forward to a constructive discussion...

These two pieces broadly set out our position...

The emerging political divide https://thehecklersewca.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/the-emerging-political-divide/

A sort of a warning... https://thehecklersewca.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/a-sort-of-a-warning/

https://wessexsolidarity.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/an-explainer-on-our-changing-position-on-the-covid-19-crisis/

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Solidarity Federation - Bristol ---- It can feel really disempowering to see a revolutionary struggle unfolding thousands of miles away and
not be able to help. ---- The situation in the USA has given us both horror and hope. The treatment of People of Colour and protesters at
the hands of the Police is gut-wrenching, but the courage of those fighting back should be an example to the rest of us of what a people can
do when they've had enough of being ground down. ---- If you want to show solidarity with the Minneapolis resisters in a real, practical
way, there are a few things you can do. We've made a list below. ---- * Head over to the minnesotafreedomfund.org. The fund pays bail
payments for people on low income and has been very active in supporting people arrested while protesting in Minneapolis. Remember, America
is one of only two countries in the world that has a cash bail system, where people accused of a crime have to pay huge sums of cash to
avoid being imprisoned before their trial. You can donate on their website
* Check out Black Visions Collective, A Minnesota-based organisation fighting for Black autonomy and community-led approaches to safety.
Again, you can donate on their website https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
* Support the North Star Health Collective- a collective of health workers in Minneapolis who are providing first aid and medical support on
the ground to injured protestors. You can read more and donate here https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/
* Consider donating to Reclaim The Block, an organisation based in Minneapolis who campaign to defund the Minneapolis police department and
redirect the money to community and education projects, to build a genuinely safer city. Find out more at https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/
* Show some love and support to Unicorn Riot, a grassroots media collective who have done amazing work fighting the reactionary propaganda
and reporting on the realities of the protests, including documenting some shocking footage of police brutality. Find out more here
https://unicornriot.ninja/

We've been in touch with comrades in the USA for more information and we'll try and add to this list if we can. All these organisations are
based in the Minneapolis area but the fighting hasspread to cities across the USA. If we get information about how to support protestors in
other cities then we'll share this here as well.

We know that times are tight right now and not everyone is in a position to give money. If you want to help without donating, please please
please share this post! Make sure you talk to your friends, neighbours, colleagues, family and anyone else who will listen about the real
situation, and try to combat the poisonous anti-protestor rhetoric wherever you hear it.

We have sadly heard a few negative comments from Bristolians about the insurrectionary nature of the actions in Minneapolis. Comments like
"protests should be peaceful!", "they're destroying their own communities!" and "rioting is just living up to a stereotype!" are unhelpful
in current situation. To the people denouncing the protests for their supposed violence, we'd like to say the following:

* Riots work. They force administrations to change. Learn your history.

* Property is replaceable. Lives are not. This is about George Floyd. If you're more worried about property damage than a man's life then
you need to do some soul searching.

* No social movement is perfect, and things can get messy. These protests weren't planned and the activists aren't all working from the same
script. Not every action carried out during these protests may make sense from the outside, but just because a few protestors smash up the
‘wrong' shops, doesn't mean the whole movement should be seen as invalid.

* There's a growing body of evidence that a lot of the property damage was instigated by undercover police and agent provocateurs. There are
scores of examples of police brutality towards protestors across the USA in the last few days where peacefully protesting people have been
targeted for violence. Violent protest is a response to a violent state. People have a right to defend themselves. We're not going to list
or link footage of police brutality here, but if you don't believe us then google it.

* Big chain retailers are in no way "part of the community". They charge the community as much as they can for their goods, and they pay the
community as little as possible for their labour. Meanwhile, the profits they make are siphoned off to senior managers, CEOs and
shareholders who almost certainly do not live in the affected communities. Even smaller businesses are guilty of this to an extent.
Capitalism is not worth crying over. Robbing a superstore is not "destroying your own community", it's redistribution of wealth that rightly
belonged in the community in the first place.

* In fact, there are reports of activists distributing goods and resources taken from shops like Target, Robin Hood style, to protestors and
residents. This clearly benefits their community more than having food and other essentials locked up behind a paywall. Don't forget how
many have been plunged into poverty recently by COVID-19 and the US government's shitty response to its' people's suffering. When people
complain about "looting", this is the point that they are missing.

https://www.facebook.com/manchestersolfed/posts/2700572290187435

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Lucie Fennel from the anarcho-syndicalist union FAU on self-organization and creative strategies against layoffs and Co. ---- By Sebastian
Bähr April 23rd, 2020, 6:17 pm Reading time: 6 min. ---- What problems do wage earners come to FAU with? ---- The numerous questions about
short-time work, safety at work, government aid and simplified applications for Hartz IV are new. The bosses are sometimes very imaginative
in exploiting the Corona crisis. Much of what we came across is legally in a gray area. ---- In the interview ---- Lucie Fennel is a service
worker and secretary for the Business Commission of the Free Workers' Union (FAU). The anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation is made up
of local individual and branch unions. Fennel is also an organizer in the precarious sector. Sebastian Bähr spoke to the union activist.
Photo: private

What for example?

In the first place, these are notice of changes, terminations and the non-renewal of fixed-term contracts. The latter is extremely difficult
to deal with legally, because the labor courts are currently closed. Many are losing their jobs in rows due to non-renewal and are now
hardly able to find any new jobs. We have to get creative, of course, but that is precisely our strength.

How can you be creative under the current conditions?

That depends on the company and the industry. Some employers cannot afford public pressure, especially those that have high prestige and
invest a lot of money in their good reputation. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, we are currently in conflict with several urban
cultural institutions, which can have a great impact.

Countries like Italy are currently experiencing major strikes and protests. How do you rate the current disputes in Germany?

The large unions in Germany are traditionally sluggish and lose some opportunities. Your device is not designed for self-defense of the
workers. There are disputes here too, but they are under public radar due to a lack of support from the unions.

Who are you thinking of?

There are clear losers in the crisis, especially in the areas of care, retail, cleaning, agriculture and logistics. The "system-relevant"
people, that is, those who keep our society running, suffer. They struggle with extreme overload and sometimes life-threatening
circumstances. Shift times are extended, rest periods are shortened and inadequate protective measures are accepted. With pure audacity.

What would be necessary instead?

For example, more staff for system-relevant professions. Funding and state aid must primarily benefit workers and the self-employed.
Clapping is not enough for us. Especially in the precarious sector, we would like to have gratitude in the form of money.

Would protests and strikes in nursing or retailing currently meet with public approval?

I think there is already a lot of support there. The nursing emergency is nothing new, and the profession enjoys great recognition in many
parts of society. If I had the ver.di funds at hand, I would be on my way to the Holweide Clinic in Cologne. That should be closed because
of lack of funds, against the will of the citizens and the workforce.

The topic of renting is also receiving new urgency. Tenant unions are now being established in some cities. How do you feel about such projects?

Tenant unions are sorely needed. Especially in times when many cannot work but still have to pay rent. The concept is not a new one. Tenant
unions like ACORN have proven their worth in many parts of Europe and the world. They are significantly more capable and more effective
than, for example, the tenants' association, which is primarily legal protection insurance. Unions like ACORN bring neighborhoods together,
promote solidarity and encourage people to take action. Tenant unions often work with methods similar to traditional unions: rent strikes,
demonstrations, campaigns and membership selection.

On its website, the FAU has stated that it is expecting an economic crisis after the pandemic. What do you see as a threat?

Recessions are inevitable in our system, they keep coming back. Due to the current developments, there is now a threat similar to 2008:
massive job losses, austerity programs and company closings. Companies reduce costs, gross domestic product falls, unemployment rises. The
only way to defend yourself against this is through organized neighborhoods and workforces that help each other. Experience has shown that
no support can be expected from the state and business. The industrial dispute is all about power, and it is important to build it up now.
Everyone should ask how they can react when the property class's attack begins after the Corona crisis.

After the crisis in 2008, attempts were made in Greece to self-organize neighborhoods and businesses, but the European left failed at the
European level. In your view, what are the lessons from the crisis at the time?

The self-organization back then was born out of necessity. The state could not help people, unemployment rose and the EU's austerity
measures mainly affected wage earners. So it makes sense to help yourself. Merging should become a strategy.

I would also not say that the social left has failed. I think some approaches and strategies have failed, especially the idea of so-called
movement parties. I don't want to demonize that, but self-organization brings immediate results, it improves people's lives on the spot and
builds power and political awareness that parties can only dream of.

What special role can basic unions like the FAU now play?

We can do exactly what the German Trade Union Confederation often fails to do: react quickly and flexibly and try new methods. Instead of
relying on social partnership and the goodwill of employers' organizations, we hit the table and enforce our demands.

In Cologne, for example, we provided homeless women with a combination of negotiations with the municipal housing office and squatting. We
are equally flexible when it comes to industrial action. In a restaurant business, we won a labor dispute through a weeklong strike and a
turbulent company occupation. But we also practice negotiating tactics and collective bargaining law - which helps.

How is the FAU currently working?

Almost all local FAU organizations have switched their activities to telephone advice or email and video chat meetings. Some syndicates set
up groups to help each other and support people in their neighborhood. Many of our advisors and organizers have also worked into the new
legal situation. While this is all very new to us, it has worked well so far.

https://leipzig.fau.org/die-bosse-nutzen-die-corona-krise-fantasievoll-aus/

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Today in Class War Daily: "Community Cop Clobbering"; Black Lives Matter protests: key London dates ---- Got a text for us? Email
classwardaily@gmx.com FROM BRIXTON 1985 TO MINNEAPOLIS 2020. THE RAGE REMAINS THE SAME "COMMUNITY COP CLOBBERING" ---- The names and places
have changed but it's the same story, murderous cops trying to smash up the community who are tired of their shit. Class War reported on the
1985 Brixton riots as active participants. and were back out the day after slinging Class War on the same streets. "The best Saturday night
out for years - bleeding brillliant - sheer inspiration fucking wonderful. ---- We took on the murdering fascist pigs as a community on our
own turf a and smashed them. ---- The people of the whole area were on the streets, confronting the cops - burning cars, blocking roads,
bricks and petrol bombs for Brixton nick.
Bill bastards running, shitting
themselves - what a pity it
doesn't happen in rich areas like
Hampstead. But it did spread
out to Clapham, Streatham and
Peckham.
Press meanwhile slithered back
into the area they had been
thrown out of the nigt before.
They spew out their
usual fucking kak about
unemployment and deprivation
whilst pissing it up with putrid
local politicians and uncle tom
community leaders dining on
their own words. Only last week
they were all congratulating
themselves on the absence of
riots after Handsworth and
Toxteth because of how the
Police Force and wonderful
Lambeth council is and how
the community love the cops
really and ‘its all the fault of a
few extremists' - kak kak kak.
The community were out on the
streets Saturday cos Inspector
Windy Shitpants Lovelock shot
a black mother of 6 and put her
in a wheelchair for life.
The result was a spontaneous
explosion of class - of
community hatred against the
police. All this as Inspector
Alec Marnoch drivelled on
about ‘visiting agitators from
Handsworth' - what a load of
fucking bullshit.
Now as everyone knows the
riots were started organised
and led by community alien
stormtroopers from the red
planet Bolleaux who landed on
the roof of the fucking Ritzy!!
When are the stupid fucking
pig shits beginning to wise
up to the fact that we riot in
response to the particularly
violent elements of oppression
by the class enemy the Cops.
We fight these bastards with
all our strength with bricks and
petrol bombs."
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CLASS WAR DAILY is the official newspaper of the working
class action group Class War, founded in 1982. Accept no
imitations! Class War Daily is the world's only daily anarchist
newspaper. It is written by and for working class people.
CLASS UNITY, CLASS PRIDE - We know life is hard and
the news is often shit but we're here to add some humour and
make sure you're informed about what's really going on.
BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY - Class War believe that the
working class should fight the rich and the rulers ourselves.
We don't appeal for help from the Labour politicians or the
big trade union bosses. We take action together, building
confidence to act in our own interests.

https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-41-200603.pdf

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Adding endlessly the "scalps" of jihadists, does that help West Africa to move towards a political and social solution to the conflicts that
tear it apart ? No. On the other hand, Operation Barkhane secures Nigerien uranium and consolidates the tutelage of France over vassalized
and discredited governments. ---- Since 2013, France has been waging an "endless war" in the Sahel, mainly in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
Officially, it is a "war against terrorism", a magic formula that misleadingly simplifies the complexity of conflicts in the region: ----
insubordination of stigmatized minorities (Tuareg or Fulani), competition for land between farmers and breeders, economic crisis and drug
trafficking [1]...
At the time, the Malian army collapsed in the face of the rebel offensive. Its structural corruption was common knowledge - a place for a
non-commissioned officer or a soldier bought 250,000 to 500,000 CFA francs there 2 - and many soldiers were at the front almost without
equipment, because their officers had sold it contraband... As for the neighboring countries, which the UN had mandated to rescue Mali, they
were slow to move, and rather urged Bamako to call Paris for help...

In southern Mali, we began to hope for French intervention, which will be widely applauded. Even anti-imperialist intellectuals like Samir
Amin saw the slightest harm in it and supported it [2].

In reality, calling for a French intervention amounted to being chained "to the neo-colonial chariot" for "along time yet", wrote
Alternative libertaire [3]. But at the time, it was difficult to make this criticism heard, and the Malian diaspora in France boycotted one
of the only protest rallies against Serval, convened in front of Areva's headquarters by AL, LO and the NPA.

Seven years later, the climate is quite different. African opinions are increasingly hostile to French intervention, while other Westerners
are doing everything to stay away.

To raise French awareness of the issue, there are at least five good reasons to demand the withdrawal of tricolor troops from the Sahel.

1. Because it's an endless war
Rustic armed groups that strike and disappear, no front line, no clear military objective, still less political objective, civilian
populations caught in the crossfire and suspected on both sides of collaborating with "l ' enemy"... So many characteristics of a
counterinsurgency war that has become a"quagmire". Like the United States in Vietnam, like the USSR and then the United States in
Afghanistan, the French state knows that it is engaged in an unmanageable war. Only, like his predecessors, he does not know how to get out
of it.

Leaving the Sahel in these conditions is to admit seven years of war "for nothing". Staying there is perpetuating a macabre routine, where
the staff gives the impression of fulfilling its mission by making numbers - or "scalp" as he says with derision: here, 20 combatants killed
in a drone strike, there, 30 others pulverized by a Mirage 2000. They will be quickly replaced [4].

2. Because it delays a political solution
The pitiful withdrawal of French troops will come sooner or later, but in the meantime, their presence prevents other options than the "war
on terror" from being explored. It is from a part of the Malian society, which thinks that jihad is only the screen of a rebellion whose
springs are in reality social and political, and which it is necessary to negotiate while there is still time , that is to say before
international jihadists, survivors of Syria for example, come to make their hole in the Sahel and make any dialogue impossible. So when, in
April 2017 in Mali, a conference of national understanding recommended the opening of negotiations with the two main Islamist leaders,
Ahmadou Koufa and Iyad Ag Ghali, Paris immediately prohibited the Malian government from going in this direction [5].

Rebelote early 2020 when barkhane force said it would ignore any negotiations, and would continue to strike terrorists [6]. The French
guardianship therefore prevents the search for a political solution by the Malians themselves.

3. Because it probably makes the situation worse
Barkhane's murderous routine fuels the desire for revenge. And it will progress with the "collateral" victims who can only increase since in
December 2019, Barkhane cocked its missile drones. We saw it in another "endless war", that waged by Obama against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and
Yemen between 2008 and 2016: out of 3,800 dead in 542 "targeted attacks" by drones, 8% were civilians accidentally killed [7].

The motivations of penniless young people in the Sahel to join armed Islamism are diverse: the lure of gain (rapine and trafficking), of
power, the defense of a minority (Tuareg or Peuhl) mistreated by a Racist state and its soldiers ... The fundamentalist reference to Islam
provides a virtuous covering for this commitment. But with the French presence, we can add another, prestigious motif: the anti-colonial
combat against the "crusaders".

In March 2017, facing the adversary, four jihadist groups hitherto competing - Ansar Dine, AQMI-Sahel, Al-Mourabitoune and Katiba Macina -
thus unified within the Support Group for Islam and Muslims ( GSIM, affiliated with Al-Qaeda). One of the fears of some observers is that
the GSIM "goes upmarket" and becomes capable of projecting itself beyond its traditional area of action, for example by planning reprisal
attacks in France [8]. For the French population, who cares little about Operation Barkhane, the revival would be violent.

4. Because it strengthens a criminal system
For many discredited and corrupt regimes, the "war on terror" is an alibi for obtaining the Western blessing. However, the definition of
"terrorism" can, as often, be vague and mixed with racism. The Tuareg and Fulani minorities, accused of sympathy for the jihadists, are
particularly victims. In Mali and Burkina Faso, since 2016, the civilian populations have in reality not only been victims of the jihadists,
but also of the regular army and militias which are subservient to them. Their crimes, summary executions and collective massacres amount to
hundreds of deaths [9]. Because it comes from allied states, the French government turns a blind eye to this kind of ... terrorism.

In general, the grid of the continent by the tricolor army - more than 8,000 soldiers in 9 countries, in March 2020 - consolidates impunity.
Think of the sad dean of African autocrats, the Cameroonian Paul Biya (in power since ... 1982 !), Or the Chadian Idriss Deby (in power
since 1990). In February 2019, Paris saved him for the umpteenth time, when Barkhane deviated from his mission to bomb, in Chad, a column of
rebels who were not, however, jihadists ! [10]

5. Because it is an imperialist intervention
Since independence, France has wanted to keep its influence in Africa. Basically, the French army is calibrated less for "defense" than for
being "projected" into distant theaters, according to the interests of the state and national capitalism. In March 2020, according to staff
figures, 41% of the personnel deployed were abroad [11]. It is an army of "external operations", that is to say an imperialist army.

Like Russia currently in Syria or the United States in Vietnam in the past, France claims to be a "guest power" in the Sahel by friendly
governments which have called on it for help. This rhetoric hardly masks its imperialist motivation. On the one hand, it must secure its
supply of Nigerian uranium. On the other hand, he must confirm that she is a reliable tutor, with whom to be reckoned. It is a decisive key
to maintain, in the face of American and Chinese competition, concessions and public markets in Africa.

However, the French state, which claims to restore order in the Sahel, has an important responsibility in the current situation. In 2011, he
could not ignore - since it was the great fear of Chad, Niger, Mali or Algeria - that the destruction of the regime of Colonel Gaddafi, in
Libya, was likely to lead to a dissemination of armaments and "lost soldiers" in the Sahel, where Gaddafi had pulled the strings of
rebellion for more than twenty years.

Demystification
In the Sahel, the French state presents itself as a savior. The reality is that it does not save people and does not reduce violence. It
only saves uranium mines and its status as a suzerain state vis-à-vis vassalized governments. Its armed presence locks West Africa into
dependence, sometimes keeps it under the rule of demonetized dictators, removes the possibility of peace negotiations and, overall, prolongs
and aggravates an endless war.

Guillaume Davranche (UCL Montreuil)

Validate

[1] Eros Sana, " Mali: the real causes of war ", Bastamag, February 4, 2013.

[2] Aminata Traoré, Boubacar Boris Diop, " La Gloire des imposteurs ", Philippe Rey, 2014.

[3] AL, " Mali: Areva is well worth a war ", January 16, 2013.

[4] " " Barkhane "says he eliminates a hundred combatants per month in the Sahel ", Le Monde, March 11, 2020.

[5] Moussa Bolly, " Paris prohibits Bamako from negotiating with Iyad ", Maliactu.net, April 14, 2017.

[6] Le Monde, March 11, 2020.

[7] " Obama's Final Drone Strike Data ", on Cfr.org.

[8] Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, " A lost war ". " France in the Sahel ", JC Lattès, 2020.

[9] Human Rights Watch, " Atrocities committed in Burkina Faso in the name of security risk swelling the ranks of terrorists ", June 12,
2019 ; HRW report on " atrocities committed against civilians in central Mali ", February 2020; " La Minusma accuses the Malian army of
having perpetrated 101 extrajudicial executions ", Malijet.com, May 4, 2020, etc.

[10] Thomas Noirot, " Chad: The French army out of control ", Survie, February 25, 2019.

[11] Infographic, Ministry of Defense, March 2020.

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A little over four years ago we introduced The Black Anarchism Reader - an expansive collection of texts that span more than 150 years of
black anarchist thought. ---- The reader was initially introduced following the popular black rebellions in Ferguson and Baltimore. In the
wake of the uprising in Minneapolis, one that has spawned a nationwide popular movement against racialized state violence, we once again
wish to call attention to this critical collection of works. ---- As we noted when it was first introduced, the reader can and should be
expanded to include an expanding range of black anarchist contributions. We hope to update this reader in the near future to do just that.
For now, we offer the reader as it originally appeared in 2016. Follow the link below to the original post, which includes a full PDF of the
collection.

The Black Anarchism Reader https://blackrosefed.org/black-anarchism-a-reader/

https://blackrosefed.org/re-introducing-the-black-anarchism-reader/

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We repudiate the cowardly murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis's police officers, another racist act in the heart of a world
imperialist power. This event is added to the countless number of killings of people of colour and the Afro-descendent population in the
United States which has been perpetuated since the days of slavery and hasn't yet stopped. During Obama's government there were dozens of
murders of young blacks, which recalls similar racist times of the 1950s and 60s. ---- The answer was a fast and organized upsurge of the
black movement far and wide across the country, similar to this moment in which a huge protest movement is developing, revealing that people
are sick of police violence and impunity. A Minneapolis police station was burned by protestors and some police cars were attacked. Direct
action is a weapon of resistance, something which multiplied across various cities with clashes between protestors and police officers, even
Donald Trump ordered the Army to take the streets and curfews were decreed in 25 cities.

Racism, a structural element in capitalist society, especially in North American capitalism, is unfortunately intact, but resistance and
fighting spirit from people of color and poor people arises in response. By Trump also accuses anarchists and antifascist activists of being
the instigators of the riots. This movement is a popular revolt, the dozens of thousands of people who participate are not anarchists or do
not claim to belong to any political current, but as always the spheres of power try to find those responsible to blame, so as not to
question structural issues and conclude that the racist, patriarchal and capitalist State that oppresses and kills the popular classes is
the actual instigator of the revolts.

RACISM HAS TO BE BURIED TOGETHER WITH CAPITALISM. ALL OUR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY WITH NORTH AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE FIGHTING AGAINST POLICE
AND STATE VIOLENCE AND ABUSES.

Only solidarity and mutual aid will allow us to resist.

ALL SUPPORT TO BLACK COMMUNITIES IN RESISTANCEALL OUR SUPPORT TO OUR NORTH AMERICAN ANARCHIST PEERS!
LONGLIVE ANARCHISM, LONGLIVE FREEDOM!
VICTORY TO THOSE WHO FIGHT!

? Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira - CAB
? Federación Anarquista Uruguaya - FAU
? Federación Anarquista Rosario - FAR (Argentina)
? Organización Anarquista de Córdoba - OAC (Argentina)
? Federación Anarquista Santiago - FAS (Chile)
? Vía Libre (Colombia)
? Union Communiste Libertaire (Francia)
? Embat - Organització Libertària de Catalunya
? Alternativa Libertaria - AL/fdca (Italia)
? Die Plattform - Anarchakommunistische Organisation (Alemania)
? Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet - DAF (Turquía)
? Organisation Socialiste Libertaire - OSL (Suiza)
? Libertaere Aktion (Suiza)
? Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group - MACG (Australia)
? Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement - AWSM (Aotearoa / Nueva Zelanda)
? Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front - ZACF (Sudáfrica)
? Anarchist Unión of Afghanistan and Iran - AUAI
? Manifesto (Grecia)

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Protests have been running across the United States for nearly a week, sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd. According to
newly published footage from video recordings of the witnesses present, it was a murder in broad daylight, committed by at least three
police officers on duty. Two knelt on Floyd's chest and the third, Derek Chauvin, "knelt" (remind us that this is Babiš's favorite term) on
his neck. In the footage, Floyd lies handcuffed on the ground, whispering that he can't breathe. The fourth policeman watches calmly. ----
The whole thing took place on Monday, May 25, in Minneapolis, where massive protest demonstrations began on Tuesday, which smoothly turned
into a thorough looting of shops. On that occasion, the police station of the third district, which included the said police officers, was
also burned down. Although all four bastards were fired and Derek Chauvin was charged with "third-degree murder" (a peculiar act introduced
in some US states, such as Minnesota - it is the weakest form, murder caused by some kind of unintentionally violent behavior, but also for
such an act can be sentenced by a US citizen to up to 25 years in prison), the public has not yet been able to convince a fair remedy.

Protests and clashes with police continue not only in Minneapolis, but also in many other American cities - in Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix,
Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, New York and Washington. According to the latest information, a total of 1,400 people have been arrested so
far, and 25 cities in 16 US states have declared a night curfew. Violence is increasing, which is often reciprocal. In Indianapolis, three
people were shot dead during the protests and one person died. In Tallajassee, Florida, a van drove into a crowd of protesters, allegedly
causing no injuries. In New York, two police cars hit the protesters, and the consequences for the health or lives of the protesters are not
mentioned anywhere. In Detroit, one of the participants was shot dead by an unknown perpetrator from a parked car during a demonstration.
Injuries are, of course, also reported on the part of the police. There is also a growing number of attacks on journalists, especially by
the police. Already on Friday morning, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, and gradually his entire staff, were arrested live in his work during
Minneapolis. They were released during the day. In Denver, members of the KMGH TV team were hit by rubber bullets fired by police, and in
Minneapolis, two Reuters staff met the same. In Louisville, local TV reporter Kaitlin Rust was hit by a live police shooting with rubber
bullets. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News reporter, a television station that
favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the assembly under the protection of the
president's security service. Already on Friday morning, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, and gradually his entire staff, were arrested live in
his work during Minneapolis. They were released during the day. In Denver, members of the KMGH TV team were hit by rubber bullets fired by
police, and in Minneapolis, two Reuters staff members met the same. In Louisville, local TV reporter Kaitlin Rust was hit by a live police
shooting with rubber bullets. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News reporter, a
television station that favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the assembly under the
protection of the president's security service. Already on Friday morning, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, and gradually his entire staff, were
arrested live in his work during Minneapolis. They were released during the day. In Denver, members of the KMGH TV team were hit by rubber
bullets fired by police, and in Minneapolis, two Reuters staff members met the same. In Louisville, local TV reporter Kaitlin Rust was hit
by a live police shooting with rubber bullets. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News
reporter, a television station that favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the
assembly under the protection of the president's security service. In Denver, members of the KMGH TV team were hit by rubber bullets fired
by police, and in Minneapolis, two Reuters staff met the same. In Louisville, local TV reporter Kaitlin Rust was hit by a live police
shooting with rubber bullets. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News reporter, a
television station that favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the assembly under the
protection of the president's security service. In Denver, members of the KMGH TV team were hit by rubber bullets fired by police, and in
Minneapolis, two Reuters staff met the same. In Louisville, local TV reporter Kaitlin Rust was hit by a live police shooting with rubber
bullets. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News reporter, a television station that
favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the assembly under the protection of the
president's security service. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News reporter, a
television station that favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the assembly under the
protection of the president's security service. In Phoenix, one of the protesters harassed a reporter during a live entry. And a Fox News
reporter, a television station that favors Trump, was attacked by protesters in Washington near the White House and had to leave the
assembly under the protection of the president's security service.

Violent protests are still spreading, so there is speculation about the deployment of the army. Earlier this week, Donald Trump made it
clear on Twitter: "When the looting starts, we'll start firing." Meanwhile, the Pentagon has alerted military police units that could strike
in Minneapolis in a matter of hours. Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz has so far refused to help the military, even though he is allegedly
considering it, but has fully mobilized the National Guard, which he said happened for the first time since World War II.

Also worth noting is the relatively non-violent protest demonstration that took place on Friday evening, May 29, in front of the White House
in Washington. The clashes of protesters with the protection of the American president allegedly lasted more than five hours. The protesters
managed to push away the mobile metal barriers and get into direct contact with the security guards. Trump commented on the fact that he
went to the mayor of Washington elected as a Democrat, Muriel Bowser. In his opinion, he demands more money unnecessarily, but he does not
care about the protection of his seat by the city police. Instead, he praised his bodyguard, the US Secret Service: expressed the following:
"If[demonstrators climbed the fence], they would be greeted by the most frantic dogs and the most terrible weapons I had ever seen. They are
at least caroling about being seriously injured. "

But Mayor Bowser, who was standing outside with peaceful protesters while Trump was hiding behind a fence, said: people were let go. "She
added to the situation on the spot:" There are no frantic dogs or terrible weapons. There is only one frightened man behind the fence. He is
afraid and alone. "

Regarding the demonstrations themselves, Trump made it clear that they were nothing spontaneous but organized by professionals: "George
Floyd's monument has been tainted by rioters, robbers and anarchists. Violence and vandalism are run by Antifa and other radical left-wing
groups that terrorize the innocent, destroy their work, loot the shops and burn their victims. "

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