Today's Topics:
1. Czech, AFED: Memories - The story of anarchist sisters who
were born in the tsarist empire and died after the collapse of
the Soviet Union. [machine translation]
were born in the tsarist empire and died after the collapse of
the Soviet Union. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Exclusion of a
member of the Libertarian Communist Union (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
member of the Libertarian Communist Union (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ait russia: A.Yu. Fedorov. Anarchists and syndicalists of
the world in the conditions of the "coronacrisis" [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
the world in the conditions of the "coronacrisis" [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Union Communiste Libertaire Lyon: UCL and Solidaires Rhône
press release: New fascist attack on Croix-Rousse during a
Christmas toy drive (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
press release: New fascist attack on Croix-Rousse during a
Christmas toy drive (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Chile] Chuchunco City: Libertaria Chuchunco Assembly
Bulletin #3, December 2020 By ANA (ca, pt)
Bulletin #3, December 2020 By ANA (ca, pt)
[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The following report was made thanks to the visit of anarchists Igor Pošivalov,
Jaroslav Leontev and Vlad Tupikin to the Garasjov sisters in 1994. Anna died the
same year and Tatiana survived a few years later. Anna wrote a memoir, which was
prepared for publication by historian Andrei Nikitin. The Czech translation
entitled Memories of an Anarchist was published by the Publishing House of the
Anarchist Federation and was first handed over to readers at the Tabook 2019 book
festival. ---- When I arrived at the platform of Ryazan railway station, I was
disappointed by its unrepresentative appearance. Our stations in Irkutsk look
much more luxurious. The city itself made the same impression on me: ordinary
five- and ten-storey houses, almost wooden and old stone buildings are almost
missing, the entire Ryazan past has been preserved only in the church complex on
the local hill. But Irkutsk Ryazani will not be able to cope. Huge white walls,
towers crowned with golden, blue and green domes, high-rise bell towers, from
which in 1921 red machine gunners shelled crowds of peasants rushing from the
Saratov province and led by the former commander of the Red Army Division
Sapozhkov. Forks, sticks and axes are not an argument against rifles and machine
guns. The Sapožkovci shared the sad fate of the Makhnovists and Antonovs. There
was not a trace of them left in Ryazan,
However, I did not come to Ryazan to get to know places that remember something.
I want to meet people who remember how in their youth they read the verses of
Polonsky, the book Bakunin, saw the shooting of sapožkovci and much more. Two
such people live in one of the new neighborhoods, two sisters, one born in 1901,
the other a year later. Their names are Tatiana and Anna Garasyov. Anna is often
mentioned by Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag Archipelago , but not later.
Anna Mikhailovna opened the door for me. Her older sister is no longer getting
out of bed, her leg under her ankle was amputated in a camp in Kolyma.
Grandmothers live alone, they never had children. They do not go out on the
street, their neighbors bring food and newspapers to them. She also reads them
the newspaper, both sisters already have poor eyesight. They live on a tiny
pension. They do not belong to the category of the old Bolsheviks, and the
Socialist-Revolutionaries did not reward the Socialist-Revolutionaries or the
Anarchists.
The sisters were born into the family of a governor's teacher, they studied at a
grammar school and a medical school. In 1917, Tatiana entered Moscow University,
the Faculty of Social Sciences, attended lectures by the anarchist theorist
Professor Alexei Borov, the well-known philosopher Berdyaev and historian
Kizevetter (he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party of
Constitutional Democrats, a friend of Muromtsev and Vernadsky). expelled from the
earth by a group of philosophers). Bukharin lectured on a new economic subject at
the faculty. She joined the student anarchist circle at the University of Tatiana.
"It simply came to our notice then. At the door of the university, I read the
announcement: There will be a meeting of anarchists in this and that auditorium
at this and that time, "says Tatiana. "There were mainly girls in the circle.
When Kropotkin died in January 1921, his relatives and comrades-in-arms demanded
that anarchists sitting in prison go to his funeral. At that time, the leader of
the Confederation of Anarchists of Ukraine, Baron, our Ryazan anarchist Topilin,
later shot dead for organizing the escape of twenty-one anarchists and left
Socialist-Revolutionaries from prison, was sitting in Butyrka. Our teachers
Borovoj and Karelin went to see Dzeržinský, but he categorically refused to
release the prisoners. At that time, the students of the anarchists announced
that they would throw a funeral wreath from the council of the People's
Commissars into the dump, compiled a list of their names and handed it over to
the Czech Republic with a request to either release the comrades, or close
students as well. I was also on the list, according to him we were expelled from
universities after the Kronstadt Uprising. Borovoj then reassured the students
and went to Lunacharsky. Lunacharsky spoke to Lenin, Lenin telephoned
Dzerzhinsky, and he had to agree. The anarchists released parole on the day of
the funeral from eight in the morning until six in the evening, for a total of
six people. The others remained in prison.
Kropotkin was buried on Sunday. He lay in the pillar hall of the House of Trade
Unions, and by the way, he was the first to be taken out of the building. There
were a lot of people there. The funeral organizers refused the services of law
enforcement, there was not a single militiaman. Students from all universities
made living chains that stretched from the House of Trade Unions to the
Novodevichy Convent itself. In the morning, the delegation went to Butyrek to
welcome the temporarily released. We see a delegation of butyrs going under a
black banner. They entered the hall and stood by the coffin of honor guard. Then
we went to the cemetery. My task was to carry a wreath from Nabat with the
inscription: 'You lived in freedom, you died in freedom!' Frankly, I didn't
really want to carry it, we anarcho-syndicalists had great differences with the
Nabataids. Baron, Borovoj and Karelin gave a speech in the cemetery.
In 1951, on the anniversary of Kropotkin's death, they erected a monument on the
grave with a completely silly inscription: 'Geographer, traveler'. That's really
awful! Not a word that Kropotkin was a great revolutionary!
The Kronstadt uprising began in March. The Communists at Moscow State University
were very nervous. And we waited and hoped. I left Moscow that spring... "
Yes, after the Kronstadt Uprising, there were mass arrests and executions of
anarchists and Socialist people across the country. Tatiana Mikhailovna left
Moscow and returned to Ryazan, where her sister had lived throughout the
tumultuous time. Anna tells:
"I was fourteen at the age of seventeen. For decades, the Bolsheviks have
repeated how evangelists, Socialist-Revolutionaries, anarchists are bad,
indulging in individual terror, throwing bombs. But I remember their mass terror.
After October, they suddenly divided the city into sectors and took someone at
any moment. Arrest, arrest, arrest. They went mainly for the clergy, they did not
miss anyone. We had Bulygin's and Chvošcinská's neighbors. Bulygin, a former
interior minister for whom the first state duma was formed, was already very old,
paralyzed in 1918. He was sitting in a rocking chair on the terrace, holding his
prayer book upside down. When his neighbors greeted him, he nodded and even tried
to lift him. At that time, I attended English classes with the governess of the
Bulygins and the Chvošcinskýs. I came to class once and Bulygin wasn't on the
patio. I enter the house, the living room full of chakras. He is standing,
sitting, smokes. Chvošcinská stands by the wall pale, restless. Then a Chekist
asks, 'Whose girl is this? What's he doing here? ' Chvošcinská replies: 'She is a
neighbor, she goes to class.' And at that moment, the noise. I see, two of them
are pulling Bulygin like a sack. They dragged the old man down the street and
threw him into a carriage. President
A former seminarian Sidorov and his deputy Stelmach, Latvia, were in our country
at that time. Stelmach shot Bulygin, he liked shooting. Who was the weak old man
interfering with? "
Anna joined the Ryazan Pedagogical Institute, where she also joined the
anarcho-syndicalist group.
Tatiana and Anna came to St. Petersburg and started working as nurses - it was
convenient that they attended medical school. They were also active in the
anarcho-syndicalist group. Tatiana kept in touch with emigration to Finland (to
this day she refuses to say with whom specifically, because she gave the word of
honor to the revolutionary), she rented a room in a house opposite the windows of
Grigory Zinoviev. She was also arrested in this apartment in 1925. A tour of Anna
soon took place, which in the meantime returned to Ryazan, where she found
Kropotkin's books and a photograph of the anarchist Topilin, who had been shot
back in 1921. The sisters met in the prison of the Moscow secret police
headquarters in Lubyanka. They were investigated for a terrorist anarchist
organization, interrogated by the well-known Chekist Timofey Dmitrijevich
Deribas, a direct descendant of the man after whom the best street of Odessa was
named. In those years, political prisoners had not yet been beaten and tortured.
By decision of the Special Council, the sisters were given three years in
political isolation and three years in exile. They were serving their sentences
in Verkurgural, where they met and befriended many great political prisoners, and
took part in collective protests and hunger strikes.
Many interesting people sat in prisons for political prisoners. The sisters
remember the well-known eserka Ekaterina Olicka, who later helped Solzhenitsyn a
lot in his work on the Gulag Archipelago , the anarchist Vsevolzhsky, who was a
nephew of Tukhachevsky, and the anarchist Stürmer, who was the niece of the
tsarist minister. At the Sverdlovsk transfer station, they met Berta Brodová, the
wife of a participant in the Tambovský (Antonovský) uprising, Yuri Podbelský.
Yuri Podbelský's brother Vadim was the People's Commissar of Posts and
Telegraphs. There was an anecdote among political prisoners about Lenin's
Podbelský that he died of calluses, which he made during the first brigade.
All convicts had nicknames. Action Anna was nicknamed the Bumblebee, the calm
Tatyans were called Vetévka. One of the convicts, Eserka Alperovicová, told about
her stay in Huljaj Poli during the Civil War. In the final stages of the uprising
in Ukraine, some divisions of Makhnovists disintegrated and arbitrary
requisitions and apparent looting began. Once Nabata's leader Aron Baron came to
Makhno's staff in socks. "What's going on, Dad? They're undressing their own
people! "When they caught one such looting group, Makhno gave an angry speech and
ordered that all the robbers be shot. He cried during the execution. Old
Kolymcany kept a lot of similar stories in their memory.
In 1928, Tatiana was given tuberculosis, her sentence was reduced and she was
sent to Chimkent, Kazakhstan. She asked to be transferred home to Ryazan. They
suggested that she write a statement to stop opposition activities. Tatiana
agreed, but did not give up her views. She was returned to Ryazan in 1929 and
Anna was soon released.
In exile, Tatiana married Nikolai Doskal, who was born in Belgium and a former
Bolshevik who joined the anarcho-syndicalists in the mid-1920s. She and her
husband went to Maykop, where she was imprisoned in 1935. She did not find
herself in Maykop by chance. After her first sentence, she returned to Moscow and
began working at Lenin's library. The director of "Leninka" was the former
People's Commissar for Labor Nevsky. According to Tatiana, he was the only
respectable communist. He was not afraid to argue with Stalin, he employed all
those who were expelled from the party during regular purges. He also employed
Tatiana and old Aser Kolosov from Irkutsk. In 1935, Director Nevsky was arrested
and shot in 1937. After his arrest, Tatiana and his man fled to Maykop. But the
all-seeing eye of the Bolshevik security guards found them in the south as well.
Her husband died as a result of torture during interrogation, and she was
sentenced to five years in Kolyma.
"There were a lot of communists in the Koly women's camp," says Tatiana. "They
stayed away, they took us as enemies. Still in custody, the Trotskyists refused
to pass on messages to other prisoners so as not to help the 'enemies of the
revolution'. But I also met my own: real eserka Káta Olická, a friend from
Verchneuralsko, and Berta Babinová. Of the Communists, I remember Yevgeny
Ginzburg, the future author of the Steep Way , the mother of Vasily Axenov. "
Tatiana would not have survived her tuberculosis in Kolyma without the medical
school and the experience of working as a nurse. After her legs froze in the
woods, she was allowed to work in a camp hospital. She was also lucky to have
been picked up before the so-called great terror. Otherwise, the former anarchist
would not miss a bullet to the back. Tatiana returned to Ryazan before the war.
During the war, the nurses worked in a military hospital and in 1949 she went to
Koly again. She sat until 1954. She seemed to be "forgotten" in Anna in the
Verkurgural region, but she was no longer in the camp, but she helped
Solzhenitsyn in the 1960s when he was teaching in Ryazan and writing his
archipelago .
"In Ryazan, full crowds went to Solzhenitsyn, but he didn't talk to everyone,"
says Anna Mikhailovna. "Natasha Anufriyeva from Vladimir told him about us. I
remember how he and his wife Rešetovská came to our house and called through the
gate: 'Do you know who we are?' I hid his manuscript under the roof in one of the
sheds. Nobody knew where I hid him. If you want to hide something, don't tell
anyone, not even your loved ones. Under Ryazan is the recreational place of
Solodcha and Davydovo, and there Solzhenitsyn wrote the Gulag . Káta Olická
provided him with a lot of information for the book. "
"He wrote the archipelago well, but the bad thing is that our Auschwitz - Kolyma
- is not explained there," adds Tatiana.
The New Year 1969 was welcomed by the Solzhenitsyns to the Garasyovs.
Solzhenitsyn was last in their house in 1971.
We listened to the memories of the sisters with bated breath. I was afraid to ask
questions and just absorbed the faint whiff of the past great era. Great heroism
and crimes. We felt like an article between these people of the 1920s and those
who will come after us. And the sisters kept remembering, jumping from one to the
other, helping each other to come to terms with each other's dates and names.
"I haven't been an anarcho-syndicalist in a long time," Anna said. "But I believe
that man can be changed. The people are getting worse. Now I'm more attracted to
individualism. Yeltsin started well, but the Bialowieza Agreement? Dismantle such
a country! It is interesting that today there are still anarcho-syndicalists,
Socialists... I no longer believe it. Although Christianity was able to win the
world by force of a handful of people, but what was it then? "
In the dim room is a broken TV, a table with two chairs, a few photos on the
walls, and a bookcase. On the shelves are Gercen, Lavrov, Tolstoy. When parting,
we old ladies devoted anarchist magazine ?????? (municipalities) and Tatyana
brochure former teacher, Professor Borový Bakunin , issued on the anniversary of
the great rebel members of the Confederation of anarcho-syndicalists. The old
women gave us a cup. An ordinary glass goblet. "We have three, take one in
memory." We left the house, went, and remained silent for a long time.
Translated from the original, available at
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/IOKAS/istoria/mogikany.html .
https://www.afed.cz/text/7266/vzpominky-sester-anarchistek
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Message: 2
On October 18, 2020, the federal coordination of the Libertarian Communist Union
voted, with 98.85% of the mandates, to exclude Hoel (Ilrandar), a member of the
group from Toulouse and its surroundings, following an accusation of rape . ----
This decision is the result of a federal procedure launched within the
organization in March 2020. ---- At the end of this procedure, the organization
considered that the gravity of the facts gathered made it impossible for this
member to be present in our ranks. ---- As provided for in our procedure in the
event of aggression, known to any member of the UCL, we wish to widely inform the
activist community of our decision, in order to ensure that such acts on their
part no longer find their place anywhere, and we invite the other frameworks in
which it can act to make their arrangements to ensure the safety of their
activists and sympathizers.
It seems essential to us to break the silence which allows such acts to continue
to exist.
Our organization reiterates its determination to fight against patriarchy in all
its forms, whether it is deliberate violence or a lack of complicit reaction.
For any question relating to our statutes and exclusion procedure:
contact@communisteslibertaires.org
Libertarian Communist Union, December 20, 2020
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Exclusion-d-un-membre-de-l-Union-communiste-libertaire
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Message: 3
We offer a small overview of the positions taken by libertarian organizations
(from revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism to reformist organizations and groups)
and individual theorists in connection with the coronavirus epidemic and the
unfolding restructuring of world capitalism. After the initial shock and often
misunderstanding of what was happening, the view over time began to increasingly
focus on the totalitarian, coercive and repressive policy of the state, which
turns out to be much more terrible and destructive in its consequences than any
epidemic. ---- This note is not an attempt to grasp the immensity. I do not set
myself the goal of collecting all possible reactions to the crisis, epidemic and
actions of the authorities on the part of the international anarchist movement
(as far as such a term can be correct). My task now is to show the palette of
reactions to what is happening on the part of anti-statesmen and the reasons for
the positions they have taken[1].
So, the secretariat of the International Workers' Association (IWA) already on
March 16, that is, five days after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced
the global pandemic COVID-19, issued a statement, which noted that the sections
of the organization reacted differently to the situation. ... At the same time,
the secretariat itself focused its attention on the inadequate actions of the
authorities and the need to protect the social and economic rights of workers. At
the same time, the IAT secretariat spoke from the position of the need to stop
the work of those industries that are not vital, while unconditionally preserving
wages and providing the population with everything necessary, free access to
medical services for the population, especially the part that is at risk. A call
was made for strikes to stop work in cases where when employers do not stop work
based on profit interests at the expense of the health of their employees.
Demands have also been made for special attention to people without a roof over
their heads and stimulation of the health system[2]. Strictly speaking, the
statement was defensive in nature, since it was not yet known what would follow
in the Euro-Atlantic world in the near future - total lockdowns with far-reaching
socio-economic consequences, primarily affecting the least protected segments of
the population, and the widespread strengthening of police measures total control
over all spheres of life of the population. and stimulating the health system[2].
Strictly speaking, the statement was defensive in nature, since it was not yet
known what would follow in the Euro-Atlantic world in the near future - total
lockdowns with far-reaching socio-economic consequences, primarily affecting the
least protected segments of the population, and the widespread strengthening of
police measures total control over all spheres of life of the population. and
stimulating the health system[2]. Strictly speaking, the statement was defensive
in nature, since it was not yet known what would follow in the Euro-Atlantic
world in the near future - total lockdowns with far-reaching socio-economic
consequences, primarily affecting the least protected segments of the population,
and the widespread strengthening of police measures total control over all
spheres of life of the population.
The Spanish section of the IAT issued a statement in March in connection with the
developments. She expressed concern that despite all the government's assurances,
the most vulnerable segments of the population will have to pay for the current
crisis, as it always has been. There was also a demand for an immediate cessation
of work in all non-vital sectors with full pay. In addition, demands were made to
stop payments on mortgage loans and payments for housing for those whose incomes
were reduced due to the crisis. There was also a demand for the immediate release
from prison of all those who are at risk due to the epidemic[3].
In March, Indian anarcho-syndicalists also voiced their position. They demanded
that, under the prevailing conditions, official and unofficial workers of all
kinds of firms were provided with regular cash payments, increased attention to
the healthcare system, the provision of monthly benefits to precarious workers
and the unemployed, as well as the provision of high-quality personal protective
equipment (PPE) to all delivery workers, cleaners and workers of all spheres.
vital services "[4].
With a certain degree of confidence, we can say that at the first moment the
anarcho-syndicalists, as apparently everyone or almost everyone on the planet,
found themselves in a state of confusion in the face of the crisis, since it was
completely incomprehensible how exactly it was necessary to respond to the
crisis, how they would be in the future. power and business to act, and what will
generally happen next. But then lockdowns began around the world, troops were
withdrawn to the streets of various European cities to maintain order, and
penalties began to be introduced for persons who did not comply with quarantine
requirements.
When the wave of lockdowns hit Russia, the Russian section of the MAT made a
statement. As in previous cases, there were words and problems in the health care
system due to the neoliberal policy of the ruling elite, that the least socially
protected words of the population would pay for the crisis. At the same time, an
accusation was made against the ruling circles of the actual establishment of a
totalitarian regime under the pretext of fighting the epidemic[5].
Over time, talk that the authorities' actions in connection with the crisis have
little to do with the actual fight against the epidemic became more and more
clear. For example, a December statement by the French health workers union,
which is part of the French MAT section, highlighted, among other things, that
when the crisis began to replenish stocks of medical masks, the government did
not. But in November 2019 and April 2020. millions of euros were spent on the
purchase of tear gas, police drones and other police "special equipment"[6].
A kind of spokesman for the moderately defensive position can be called the
position of the well-known anarchist-anthropologist (recently deceased) David
Graeber - "To save the world, we will have to stop working"[7].
That is, at some point it might seem that a little more, and the libertarian
position may become universal. But it was only an illusion. An interview with an
anarchist nurse published by CrimethInc can serve as a clear demonstration of the
lack of understanding that anarchists and the authorities have completely
different understandings of quarantine measures to combat the epidemic.
self-isolation ", and stopping their social life[8]. The problem is that someone
has to pay for all this; we need to provide people with food and preserve jobs,
not impose draconian fines and total police control - but in reality we are
seeing everything exactly the opposite of what should have been done from an
anarchist point of view. At the beginning of the epidemic and crisis, the Chilean
anarcho-syndicalists said: "The state of emergency declared by the government is
just a measure that demonstrates all this. The military does not help the
population, but they carry out the task of protecting capital from expropriation
by the people and protecting the private property of the capitalists. The state
fears its citizens more than epidemics. It urges them not to help each other, but
to isolate themselves and more and more fall into the trap of shock "[9].
Although the gradual "sobering up" from the first shock came, the libertarians
did not have the strength and ability to fully respond to the actions of the
authorities, and therefore May Day in the past year was held in many countries
more symbolically than anything else. From about mid-second half of March to
mid-May, "yellow vests" disappeared from the streets of French cities. And yet,
by May 16, they returned, despite the bans[10]. For us, this is remarkable in
many ways because the French anarchists play a very active role in this movement.
Unlike many anarchists, who took a moderately defensive position at the beginning
of the epidemic and crisis, the famous Spanish historian, anarcho-situationist
and anti-industrialist Miguel Amoros, already in April declared that the current
crisis "served as a pretext for rearmament of domination." He drew attention to
the fact that the actions of the authorities are clearly authoritarian in nature,
and only hide behind the cover of the fight against the epidemic. At the same
time, he linked the current crisis both with neoliberalism and with the very
logic of the existence of an industrial consumer society[11].
On March 12, radical libertarians from CrimethInc. Expressed their position on
the current situation in Italy. At the same time, they drew attention to the fact
that now we are in conditions where our lives are under constant threat on the
one hand, from the side of the new virus, and, on the other, from nationalists
and supporters of auto-territorialism[12]. A few days later, on March 18,
CrimethInc came out with a detailed presentation of their position. They
criticized the measures taken from above, drawing attention to the fact that, in
the end, no amount of "social distancing" from the virus can protect. They drew
attention to the fact that: "The measures implemented throughout the world are
totalitarian in every sense of the word. We see unilateral government decrees
introducing a total travel ban, 24-hour curfew, present martial law and other
dictatorial measures. " Thus, it turned out that totalitarian tendencies ceased
to be only tendencies from now on, as they were now becoming a part of our
everyday life[13].
On March 20, the Italian Anarchist Federation, a section of the International of
Anarchist Federations (IFA), made a statement, beginning with a very specific
statement: "In the face of this crisis, the state and capital are demonstrating
with unprecedented evidence all their boundless limitations and structural
inability to take into account the needs and health of people." At the same time,
like the anarcho-syndicalists from the MAT, the Italian libertarians drew
attention to the fact that the least socially protected citizens will have to pay
for the crisis[14].
The Italian medical workers who are members of the Italian Syndical Union, a
section of the International Workers' Confederation, also voiced their position.
On March 26, they issued a statement criticizing the government's neoliberal
health policy, which made the system unable to cope with the increased pressure
on it in an emergency.[15]
On March 19, the Anarcho-Communist Group (ACG) of Great Britain[16]took the
floor, stating, among other things, that the situation around COVID-19 is a clear
indication of the need to fight not only the threat of viruses, but also the very
source of such threats. It was about the fact that the source of the spread of
the current virus, and earlier - pork and poultry - were animals, and more
specifically, the food industry associated with them. From this the conclusion
was drawn: "animal welfare = human welfare". Even then, she drew attention to the
potential negative consequences of the lockdown, which we increasingly feel
today: "The closure of kindergartens, social centers, libraries, etc. will
further exacerbate this feeling of isolation and loneliness, and if in the coming
months there will be created massive networks of mutual aid,
In an appeal made in early April by the Anarcho-Communist Group of Great Britain,
attention was drawn to the problem of increased domestic violence against women
in the current conditions[18].
For its part, the Anarchist Federation of Great Britain (FAV) opposed the policy
of acquiring the population of herd immunity, which the British government still
adhered to in March, believing that this could doom people with weak immunity to
death. Libertarians came out with, in essence, an ambivalent position: for
stopping work where possible, as well as open days at universities, on the one
hand, and, on the other, with demands for observing socio-economic guarantees for
those who stopped work. ... At the same time, there was a clear condemnation of
the repressive quarantine measures already being taken in the UK. There were
calls for greater cohesion and mutual assistance[19].
In the context of the clearly observed beginning of a total crisis, already at
the beginning of April, British anarchists voiced their updated positions. For
example, the FAV announced the "ideology of inequality" in the context of the
coronavirus crisis, and the ACG stated that a return to the healthcare system,
which was permeated with private interests, as it was before the crisis began,
should not be allowed, since it was its weaknesses that became in many ways the
reasons for what was happening[20].
Drawing attention to the contradictions for capitalism caused by the need to
choose between lockdown and non-lockdown from the point of view of "which is more
profitable" in the economic sense, and not in the sense of public health,
Melbourne anarchists draw attention to the fact that a society based on
libertarian principles is not would be limited by the framework of such a
dilemma, and would calmly stop the work of all non-vital areas, while providing
workers with everything they need. At the same time, they drew attention to the
fact that although many measures have been taken in Australia to social and
economic protection of the population, including an increase in unemployment
benefits, a ban on evictions, subsidies equal to the minimum wage and free
childcare, it does not create a paradise for workers ", as"[the]measures taken
are full of gaps and injustices,
Let us also note the position of the prominent North American theorist and
publicist of green syndicalism Jeff Shantz. So, he criticizes politicians for the
fact that they are guided in the current crisis conditions by purely economic
considerations, forgetting about the person himself. At the same time, for his
part, he speaks from the position of the need now more than ever to combat the
epidemic and crisis of such traditional anarchist topics as mutual assistance and
solidarity, social and economic security for the population. At the same time, he
draws attention to the fact that the current crisis reveals both purely
environmental problems facing humanity and the inability to solve them on the
part of capitalism. In his opinion, the crisis is based on industrial-capitalist
reasons, and in this he merges with the anarcho-situationist Amoros. Schantz also
criticizes the increased police violence, as well as racial inequality. "These
crises also show that the struggle (not least class) underlies capitalism - the
struggle for nature, for social resources, for basic necessities, for the means
of subsistence. They show that the requirements of the system (property, profit,
industrial relations) sharply, irreconcilably diverge from the needs of most
people inside it (for health, safety, well-being) "[22].
And finally, let us turn our attention to the September position presented in one
of the oldest anarchist newspapers, Tierra y Libertad, the organ of the Iberian
Anarchist Federation. Thus, the article drew attention to the methods of social
control: "The introduction - already taking place in places close to us - of
technologies such as the 5G network, the smart city and the Internet of Things,
is based on the placement of sensors throughout the territory. These objects
support communication with each other and with us through devices that we will
soon find it difficult to abandon - "smart phones" and other "smart" things. This
is the skeleton, on the basis of which each state can ensure capillary control
over the territory in the event that the restructuring mentioned above creates
any problems for public order. However, the experiments carried out on us today
also give us an idea of this control: in the event that the tools used on a daily
basis prove insufficient, the state should be able to resort to repression in a
more classical form. " That is, the meaning is simple: under the pretext of
combating the epidemic, the government strengthens the means of police control
over the population, showing distinct totalitarian tendencies that combine both
the latest achievements of information technology and quite traditional measures
of totalitarian control and physical repression. At the same time, the Spanish
libertarians call for the use of the crisis in the sense of trying to bring down
the system, since in spite of all its power, the system itself passes the test of
strength[23]. if the tools used on a daily basis prove insufficient, the state
should be able to resort to repression in a more classical form. " That is, the
meaning is simple: under the pretext of combating the epidemic, the government
strengthens the means of police control over the population, showing distinct
totalitarian tendencies that combine both the latest achievements of information
technology and quite traditional measures of totalitarian control and physical
repression. At the same time, the Spanish libertarians call for the use of the
crisis in the sense of trying to bring down the system, since in spite of all its
power, the system itself passes the test of strength[23]. if the tools used on a
daily basis prove insufficient, the state should be able to resort to repression
in a more classical form. " That is, the meaning is simple: under the pretext of
combating the epidemic, the government strengthens the means of police control
over the population, showing distinct totalitarian tendencies that combine both
the latest achievements of information technology and quite traditional measures
of totalitarian control and physical repression. At the same time, the Spanish
libertarians call for the use of the crisis in the sense of trying to bring down
the system, since in spite of all its power, the system itself passes the test of
strength[23]. under the pretext of fighting the epidemic, the authorities are
strengthening the means of police control over the population, showing distinct
totalitarian tendencies that combine both the latest advances in information
technology and quite traditional measures of totalitarian control and physical
repression. At the same time, the Spanish libertarians call for the use of the
crisis in the sense of trying to bring down the system, since in spite of all its
power, the system itself passes the test of strength[23]. under the pretext of
fighting the epidemic, the authorities are strengthening the means of police
control over the population, showing distinct totalitarian tendencies that
combine both the latest advances in information technology and quite traditional
measures of totalitarian control and physical repression. At the same time, the
Spanish libertarians call for the use of the crisis in the sense of trying to
bring down the system, since in spite of all its power, the system itself passes
the test of strength[23].
In November, in light of a new lockdown approaching, the British FAV presented
its brief overview of what happened since the beginning of the epidemic, and
again reminded of its position. The material was published in Organise! For
example, the British again complained about neoliberal logic, said that the
government, which had been acting late from the very beginning, hastily lifted
restrictions on "returning to work", and now it is mainly people from the working
class that are paying for the crisis. Further, they drew attention to the fact
that some of the workers during the crisis, there was a decrease in wages, there
was an increase in unemployment. "The next few months are full of uncertainty,
which is not surprising as the virus spirals out of control more and more, not
only in the UK but around the world. In Europe and the Mediterranean there is a
night curfew the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War, was
introduced or extended in France, Greece (including the islands and Crete),
Italy, Sicily, Cyprus and most recently in Spain, "write the British anarchists.
Another important point, voiced by the example of anti-quarantine protests in
Slovenia, was that anarchists should participate in them, including with the aim
of not letting them be handed over to the right-wing "anti-mask" and conspiracy
theorists[24].
As for the protests that have swept the world, we will quote CrimethInc, who
write about them from North American positions, where there was no lockdown on
the European model: "Criticism of Donald Trump's actions in the fight against the
COVID-19 pandemic united the liberal opposition: millions accuse his government
of did not do enough to prevent the spread of the virus. At the same time in
Europe, although more efforts were made to combat the pandemic, the activities of
the governments also provoked protests from the population. This is due to the
fact that it was aimed at expanding the powers of the police, rather than helping
those who are in distress due to the virus and the economic crisis "[25].
And finally, we will end our brief review with the November statement by Miguel
Amoros, who calls what is happening "a soft coup." "Wallet or life! Either chaos
in the economy and healthcare, or the end of domination. Either the increasingly
limited deceptive conveniences of a deadly economy, or the adventure of sovereign
existence - that is the question, "the Spanish thinker believes.[26]
In general, as Errico Malatesta once said: "We are for the abolition of the
police system. We are for freedom for all and for a free agreement that will be
possible for all when no one has the means to suppress others and everyone is
involved in the normal work of society. We are for anarchy "[27].
NOTES:
[1]I will also note that I myself voiced my initial position on the basis of the
available data already in April: Epidemic, panic and totalitarianism //
https://aitrus.info/node/5429; Epidemic, panic and totalitarianism. Part 2:
Additions and reflections // https://aitrus.info/node/5432; Epidemic, panic and
totalitarianism. Part 3: Brave New World // https://aitrus.info/node/5436
[2]This system makes us sick // https://aitrus.info/node/5419
[3]Spain: Statement by CNT-AIT in connection with the state of emergency //
https://aitrus.info/node/5420
[4]Demands of anarcho-syndicalists in India in connection with the epidemic //
https://aitrus.info/node/5423
[5]Statement in connection with the introduction of house arrest in a number of
regions of Russia // https://aitrus.info/node/5430
[6]Dans la santé comme partout: travaille et crève //
https://www.facebook.com/chats.noirs.turbulents/posts/252995412826875
[7]Graeber D. To save the world, we're going to have to stop working // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-to-save-the-world -...
[8]Survival is Resistance. An Interview with an Anarchist ER Nurse //
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-survival-is-resistance
[9]"Don't give up!" Appeal of the anarcho-syndicalists of Chile //
https://aitrus.info/node/5426
[10]France: Return of the "yellow vests" // https://aitrus.info/node/5475
[11]Miguel Amoros. Masked State and New Abnormality // https://aitrus.info/node/5602
[12]Against the Coronavirus and the Opportunism of the State // https:
//ru.crimethinc.com/2020/03/12/against-the-coronavirus-and-the-opp ...
[13]Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide // https:
//ru.crimethinc.com/2020/03/18/surviving-the-virus-an-anarchist-gu ...
[14]Coronavirus and emergency: we don't forget which side of the barricade we are
on - statement by FAI Italy //
http://afed.org.uk/coronavirus-and-emergency-we-dont-forget-which -side-o ...
[15][Italy]Statement by USI-CIT health workers //
https://www.icl-cit.org/italy-statement-by-usi-cit-health-workers/
[16]Created by part of the former members of the Anarchist Federation of Great
Britain.
[17]Coronavirus and the Ill Health of Capitalism // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-communist-group-corona ...
[18]Domestic abuse and coronavirus // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-communist-group-domest ...
[19]More of the State You've Got (While Mutual Aid Grows to Tackle Coronavirus)
// http://afed.org.uk/more-of-the-state-youve-got/
[20]Government and Covid-19: an ideology of inequality //
http://afed.org.uk/government-and-covid-19-an-ideology-of-inequality/; NHS
England and the Covid-19 Pandemic // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-communist-group-nhs-en ...
[21]Anarchism in a pandemic and the struggle needed // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/melbourne-anarchist-communist-gr ... The Plague
// https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/melbourne-anarchist -communist-gr ...
[22]Shantz J. Intersecting Crises: Intersecting Resistance // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-intersecting-crises -... Idem.
Mutual Aid and Solidarity against Crisis. Green Syndicalist Reflections on
COVID-19 // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-mutual-aid-and-solid ...
[23]Virus and Techno World Test // https://aitrus.info/node/5589[24]Another fine
mess // http://afed.org.uk/another-fine-mess/
[25]Second wave: New lockdown and new uprisings // https:
//avtonom.org/news/vtoraya-volna-novyy-lokdaun-i-novye-vosstaniya? ...
[26]Miguel Amoros. Masked State and New Abnormality // https://aitrus.info/node/5602
[27]Malatesta E. Selected Works. Brief system of anarchism. M., 2011.S. 169.
https://aitrus.info/node/5607
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Message: 4
This Saturday 12/12, at the end of a solidarity collection of clothes and toys
organized by the association PESE in the premises of the bookstore la Plume
Noire, two members of the association PESE (Pour l'Egalite Sociale and l
'Ecology) also unionized with Solidaires Rhône were attacked by a group of 7-8
far-right activists. ---- Having visibly spotted the place, the fascists waited
until the 2 volunteers were alone to beat them (10 minutes earlier, about ten
people were present in the bookstore). ---- The attack is far from trivial: ----
- it was carried out on the day of a collection of clothes and toys organized by
an association for destitute families, in particular migrant families.
- the targeted location which hosted the collection has already suffered threats,
collages on its storefront and an attack in 2016 by around twenty fascists in the
past.
As a reminder, the city of Lyon is still the base of several fascist groups
including Génération Identitaire which has a storefront with a room open to the
public (the Traboule) and a training room for street combat (the Agogé).
For 10 years, our organizations have been involved in collectives fighting
against these small groups and for the closure of their premises and we will
continue to be so despite the intimidation and this new attack. The strategy of
the far-right has not changed: to attack, to scare, including on members of an
association, but we remain determined to fight against these hate activists.
Under the Collomb era, the fascists were never worried and the closures of
premises were only due to the mobilization of the inhabitants of the
neighborhoods concerned.
How many attacks, how many assaults will have to take place, how many wounded
will we have to count, so that measures are finally taken against these small
groups? Or maybe we will have to wait for a dead person? The laissez-faire
attitude towards these far-right activists is unbearable.
For our part, we will continue to fight alongside the employees, the exploited
for our emancipation and social justice far from fascist speeches. We will
continue to mobilize employees and residents of the neighborhoods concerned
against these threats.
Facing the fascists, we can only count on ourselves and the solidarity of our
social camp.
Union Communiste Libertaire et Solidaires Rhône
https://www.visa-isa.org/fr/node/145991 Union Communiste Libertaire et Solidaires
Rhone
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Message: 5
Editorial: Closed chapters, open history. ---- After the October 25 polls, the
revolt had an evident decrease and an internal configuration. The overwhelming
victory of "approval" showed in the numbers the polarization that exists in
society, at the same time that it seemed to "close" the stage of struggle that
opened on October 18. The triumph of "approval" is certainly a victory, but it is
only a symbolic victory, and therein lies the danger; nothing guarantees that
after October 25th things will improve, much less that our needs will be truly
resolved. The ghost of Jaime Guzmán and his neoliberal "Chip" continues to haunt
the current constitution, its defenders and its false critics (all those who with
a false smile jumped into the victory car). The constitutional obstacles and
tricks that exist in the "election of voters" make us suspicious of those who
govern and look at the entire institutional process with profound uncertainty. In
any case, if there is anything we can learn from the 1988 plebiscite, it is that
we must not relax, we must not believe them, we must not leave the street alone
or leave the confrontation behind. Feeding the rebellion in every possible way is
indispensable and fundamental for maintaining the state on the ropes and applying
pressure, intensifying the struggle and recognizing our goals. That is how we
achieved "small victories". we must not leave the street alone or leave the
confrontation behind. Feeding the rebellion in every possible way is
indispensable and fundamental for maintaining the state on the ropes and applying
pressure, intensifying the struggle and recognizing our goals. That is how we
achieved "small victories". we must not leave the street alone or leave the
confrontation behind. Feeding the rebellion in every possible way is
indispensable and fundamental for maintaining the state on the ropes and applying
pressure, intensifying the struggle and recognizing our goals. That is how we
achieved "small victories".
After the October 25 vote, the revolt was reconfigured and, at least here in
Santiago, the scene of the clashes shifted to the vicinity of the University of
Chile's metro to try to reach La Moneda in defiance. In the streets there is
anger and indignation; loudly, "Fora Piñera", "police abolition", "below SENAME"
and "freedom for the prisoners of the revolt" are heard, the latter being
population. In this sense, the protest journeys are articulated in different
territories seeking to call, raise awareness and keep alive the flame of the
revolt, also registering disturbances in the Central Station commune.
The moment we are in is diffuse; street presence is maintained (less than before)
and new and more organizational initiatives are set up, in addition to renewing
(or disappearing) those that already existed. The revolt resists death. From
this, it is necessary to draw conclusions and identify root problems, always
seeking to go further.
We call on people to continue organizing, taking care of themselves, informing
themselves and building in practice new ways to solve their needs and recover the
life that these killers are stealing from them. We also welcome you to this third
issue of the Chuchunco Libertaria Assembly bulletin, which, in addition to love,
fire, affection and anarchy, contains reflections from the Assembly a year after
the revolt, TPP-11 and the danger of our food autonomy , words by fellow
anarchist Mónica Caballero, update on community restaurants that continue to
operate in the sector, poems, drawings and more ...
A hug for all. Feel free to read, spread, share and speak ...
To the street todxs xs presxs of the revolt!
For the destruction of all forms of authority!
Solidarity and mutual support!
Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly
Mapocho Valley[Est. Central, Santiago]
Spring, 2020
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Message: 1
The following report was made thanks to the visit of anarchists Igor Pošivalov,
Jaroslav Leontev and Vlad Tupikin to the Garasjov sisters in 1994. Anna died the
same year and Tatiana survived a few years later. Anna wrote a memoir, which was
prepared for publication by historian Andrei Nikitin. The Czech translation
entitled Memories of an Anarchist was published by the Publishing House of the
Anarchist Federation and was first handed over to readers at the Tabook 2019 book
festival. ---- When I arrived at the platform of Ryazan railway station, I was
disappointed by its unrepresentative appearance. Our stations in Irkutsk look
much more luxurious. The city itself made the same impression on me: ordinary
five- and ten-storey houses, almost wooden and old stone buildings are almost
missing, the entire Ryazan past has been preserved only in the church complex on
the local hill. But Irkutsk Ryazani will not be able to cope. Huge white walls,
towers crowned with golden, blue and green domes, high-rise bell towers, from
which in 1921 red machine gunners shelled crowds of peasants rushing from the
Saratov province and led by the former commander of the Red Army Division
Sapozhkov. Forks, sticks and axes are not an argument against rifles and machine
guns. The Sapožkovci shared the sad fate of the Makhnovists and Antonovs. There
was not a trace of them left in Ryazan,
However, I did not come to Ryazan to get to know places that remember something.
I want to meet people who remember how in their youth they read the verses of
Polonsky, the book Bakunin, saw the shooting of sapožkovci and much more. Two
such people live in one of the new neighborhoods, two sisters, one born in 1901,
the other a year later. Their names are Tatiana and Anna Garasyov. Anna is often
mentioned by Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag Archipelago , but not later.
Anna Mikhailovna opened the door for me. Her older sister is no longer getting
out of bed, her leg under her ankle was amputated in a camp in Kolyma.
Grandmothers live alone, they never had children. They do not go out on the
street, their neighbors bring food and newspapers to them. She also reads them
the newspaper, both sisters already have poor eyesight. They live on a tiny
pension. They do not belong to the category of the old Bolsheviks, and the
Socialist-Revolutionaries did not reward the Socialist-Revolutionaries or the
Anarchists.
The sisters were born into the family of a governor's teacher, they studied at a
grammar school and a medical school. In 1917, Tatiana entered Moscow University,
the Faculty of Social Sciences, attended lectures by the anarchist theorist
Professor Alexei Borov, the well-known philosopher Berdyaev and historian
Kizevetter (he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party of
Constitutional Democrats, a friend of Muromtsev and Vernadsky). expelled from the
earth by a group of philosophers). Bukharin lectured on a new economic subject at
the faculty. She joined the student anarchist circle at the University of Tatiana.
"It simply came to our notice then. At the door of the university, I read the
announcement: There will be a meeting of anarchists in this and that auditorium
at this and that time, "says Tatiana. "There were mainly girls in the circle.
When Kropotkin died in January 1921, his relatives and comrades-in-arms demanded
that anarchists sitting in prison go to his funeral. At that time, the leader of
the Confederation of Anarchists of Ukraine, Baron, our Ryazan anarchist Topilin,
later shot dead for organizing the escape of twenty-one anarchists and left
Socialist-Revolutionaries from prison, was sitting in Butyrka. Our teachers
Borovoj and Karelin went to see Dzeržinský, but he categorically refused to
release the prisoners. At that time, the students of the anarchists announced
that they would throw a funeral wreath from the council of the People's
Commissars into the dump, compiled a list of their names and handed it over to
the Czech Republic with a request to either release the comrades, or close
students as well. I was also on the list, according to him we were expelled from
universities after the Kronstadt Uprising. Borovoj then reassured the students
and went to Lunacharsky. Lunacharsky spoke to Lenin, Lenin telephoned
Dzerzhinsky, and he had to agree. The anarchists released parole on the day of
the funeral from eight in the morning until six in the evening, for a total of
six people. The others remained in prison.
Kropotkin was buried on Sunday. He lay in the pillar hall of the House of Trade
Unions, and by the way, he was the first to be taken out of the building. There
were a lot of people there. The funeral organizers refused the services of law
enforcement, there was not a single militiaman. Students from all universities
made living chains that stretched from the House of Trade Unions to the
Novodevichy Convent itself. In the morning, the delegation went to Butyrek to
welcome the temporarily released. We see a delegation of butyrs going under a
black banner. They entered the hall and stood by the coffin of honor guard. Then
we went to the cemetery. My task was to carry a wreath from Nabat with the
inscription: 'You lived in freedom, you died in freedom!' Frankly, I didn't
really want to carry it, we anarcho-syndicalists had great differences with the
Nabataids. Baron, Borovoj and Karelin gave a speech in the cemetery.
In 1951, on the anniversary of Kropotkin's death, they erected a monument on the
grave with a completely silly inscription: 'Geographer, traveler'. That's really
awful! Not a word that Kropotkin was a great revolutionary!
The Kronstadt uprising began in March. The Communists at Moscow State University
were very nervous. And we waited and hoped. I left Moscow that spring... "
Yes, after the Kronstadt Uprising, there were mass arrests and executions of
anarchists and Socialist people across the country. Tatiana Mikhailovna left
Moscow and returned to Ryazan, where her sister had lived throughout the
tumultuous time. Anna tells:
"I was fourteen at the age of seventeen. For decades, the Bolsheviks have
repeated how evangelists, Socialist-Revolutionaries, anarchists are bad,
indulging in individual terror, throwing bombs. But I remember their mass terror.
After October, they suddenly divided the city into sectors and took someone at
any moment. Arrest, arrest, arrest. They went mainly for the clergy, they did not
miss anyone. We had Bulygin's and Chvošcinská's neighbors. Bulygin, a former
interior minister for whom the first state duma was formed, was already very old,
paralyzed in 1918. He was sitting in a rocking chair on the terrace, holding his
prayer book upside down. When his neighbors greeted him, he nodded and even tried
to lift him. At that time, I attended English classes with the governess of the
Bulygins and the Chvošcinskýs. I came to class once and Bulygin wasn't on the
patio. I enter the house, the living room full of chakras. He is standing,
sitting, smokes. Chvošcinská stands by the wall pale, restless. Then a Chekist
asks, 'Whose girl is this? What's he doing here? ' Chvošcinská replies: 'She is a
neighbor, she goes to class.' And at that moment, the noise. I see, two of them
are pulling Bulygin like a sack. They dragged the old man down the street and
threw him into a carriage. President
A former seminarian Sidorov and his deputy Stelmach, Latvia, were in our country
at that time. Stelmach shot Bulygin, he liked shooting. Who was the weak old man
interfering with? "
Anna joined the Ryazan Pedagogical Institute, where she also joined the
anarcho-syndicalist group.
Tatiana and Anna came to St. Petersburg and started working as nurses - it was
convenient that they attended medical school. They were also active in the
anarcho-syndicalist group. Tatiana kept in touch with emigration to Finland (to
this day she refuses to say with whom specifically, because she gave the word of
honor to the revolutionary), she rented a room in a house opposite the windows of
Grigory Zinoviev. She was also arrested in this apartment in 1925. A tour of Anna
soon took place, which in the meantime returned to Ryazan, where she found
Kropotkin's books and a photograph of the anarchist Topilin, who had been shot
back in 1921. The sisters met in the prison of the Moscow secret police
headquarters in Lubyanka. They were investigated for a terrorist anarchist
organization, interrogated by the well-known Chekist Timofey Dmitrijevich
Deribas, a direct descendant of the man after whom the best street of Odessa was
named. In those years, political prisoners had not yet been beaten and tortured.
By decision of the Special Council, the sisters were given three years in
political isolation and three years in exile. They were serving their sentences
in Verkurgural, where they met and befriended many great political prisoners, and
took part in collective protests and hunger strikes.
Many interesting people sat in prisons for political prisoners. The sisters
remember the well-known eserka Ekaterina Olicka, who later helped Solzhenitsyn a
lot in his work on the Gulag Archipelago , the anarchist Vsevolzhsky, who was a
nephew of Tukhachevsky, and the anarchist Stürmer, who was the niece of the
tsarist minister. At the Sverdlovsk transfer station, they met Berta Brodová, the
wife of a participant in the Tambovský (Antonovský) uprising, Yuri Podbelský.
Yuri Podbelský's brother Vadim was the People's Commissar of Posts and
Telegraphs. There was an anecdote among political prisoners about Lenin's
Podbelský that he died of calluses, which he made during the first brigade.
All convicts had nicknames. Action Anna was nicknamed the Bumblebee, the calm
Tatyans were called Vetévka. One of the convicts, Eserka Alperovicová, told about
her stay in Huljaj Poli during the Civil War. In the final stages of the uprising
in Ukraine, some divisions of Makhnovists disintegrated and arbitrary
requisitions and apparent looting began. Once Nabata's leader Aron Baron came to
Makhno's staff in socks. "What's going on, Dad? They're undressing their own
people! "When they caught one such looting group, Makhno gave an angry speech and
ordered that all the robbers be shot. He cried during the execution. Old
Kolymcany kept a lot of similar stories in their memory.
In 1928, Tatiana was given tuberculosis, her sentence was reduced and she was
sent to Chimkent, Kazakhstan. She asked to be transferred home to Ryazan. They
suggested that she write a statement to stop opposition activities. Tatiana
agreed, but did not give up her views. She was returned to Ryazan in 1929 and
Anna was soon released.
In exile, Tatiana married Nikolai Doskal, who was born in Belgium and a former
Bolshevik who joined the anarcho-syndicalists in the mid-1920s. She and her
husband went to Maykop, where she was imprisoned in 1935. She did not find
herself in Maykop by chance. After her first sentence, she returned to Moscow and
began working at Lenin's library. The director of "Leninka" was the former
People's Commissar for Labor Nevsky. According to Tatiana, he was the only
respectable communist. He was not afraid to argue with Stalin, he employed all
those who were expelled from the party during regular purges. He also employed
Tatiana and old Aser Kolosov from Irkutsk. In 1935, Director Nevsky was arrested
and shot in 1937. After his arrest, Tatiana and his man fled to Maykop. But the
all-seeing eye of the Bolshevik security guards found them in the south as well.
Her husband died as a result of torture during interrogation, and she was
sentenced to five years in Kolyma.
"There were a lot of communists in the Koly women's camp," says Tatiana. "They
stayed away, they took us as enemies. Still in custody, the Trotskyists refused
to pass on messages to other prisoners so as not to help the 'enemies of the
revolution'. But I also met my own: real eserka Káta Olická, a friend from
Verchneuralsko, and Berta Babinová. Of the Communists, I remember Yevgeny
Ginzburg, the future author of the Steep Way , the mother of Vasily Axenov. "
Tatiana would not have survived her tuberculosis in Kolyma without the medical
school and the experience of working as a nurse. After her legs froze in the
woods, she was allowed to work in a camp hospital. She was also lucky to have
been picked up before the so-called great terror. Otherwise, the former anarchist
would not miss a bullet to the back. Tatiana returned to Ryazan before the war.
During the war, the nurses worked in a military hospital and in 1949 she went to
Koly again. She sat until 1954. She seemed to be "forgotten" in Anna in the
Verkurgural region, but she was no longer in the camp, but she helped
Solzhenitsyn in the 1960s when he was teaching in Ryazan and writing his
archipelago .
"In Ryazan, full crowds went to Solzhenitsyn, but he didn't talk to everyone,"
says Anna Mikhailovna. "Natasha Anufriyeva from Vladimir told him about us. I
remember how he and his wife Rešetovská came to our house and called through the
gate: 'Do you know who we are?' I hid his manuscript under the roof in one of the
sheds. Nobody knew where I hid him. If you want to hide something, don't tell
anyone, not even your loved ones. Under Ryazan is the recreational place of
Solodcha and Davydovo, and there Solzhenitsyn wrote the Gulag . Káta Olická
provided him with a lot of information for the book. "
"He wrote the archipelago well, but the bad thing is that our Auschwitz - Kolyma
- is not explained there," adds Tatiana.
The New Year 1969 was welcomed by the Solzhenitsyns to the Garasyovs.
Solzhenitsyn was last in their house in 1971.
We listened to the memories of the sisters with bated breath. I was afraid to ask
questions and just absorbed the faint whiff of the past great era. Great heroism
and crimes. We felt like an article between these people of the 1920s and those
who will come after us. And the sisters kept remembering, jumping from one to the
other, helping each other to come to terms with each other's dates and names.
"I haven't been an anarcho-syndicalist in a long time," Anna said. "But I believe
that man can be changed. The people are getting worse. Now I'm more attracted to
individualism. Yeltsin started well, but the Bialowieza Agreement? Dismantle such
a country! It is interesting that today there are still anarcho-syndicalists,
Socialists... I no longer believe it. Although Christianity was able to win the
world by force of a handful of people, but what was it then? "
In the dim room is a broken TV, a table with two chairs, a few photos on the
walls, and a bookcase. On the shelves are Gercen, Lavrov, Tolstoy. When parting,
we old ladies devoted anarchist magazine ?????? (municipalities) and Tatyana
brochure former teacher, Professor Borový Bakunin , issued on the anniversary of
the great rebel members of the Confederation of anarcho-syndicalists. The old
women gave us a cup. An ordinary glass goblet. "We have three, take one in
memory." We left the house, went, and remained silent for a long time.
Translated from the original, available at
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/IOKAS/istoria/mogikany.html .
https://www.afed.cz/text/7266/vzpominky-sester-anarchistek
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Message: 2
On October 18, 2020, the federal coordination of the Libertarian Communist Union
voted, with 98.85% of the mandates, to exclude Hoel (Ilrandar), a member of the
group from Toulouse and its surroundings, following an accusation of rape . ----
This decision is the result of a federal procedure launched within the
organization in March 2020. ---- At the end of this procedure, the organization
considered that the gravity of the facts gathered made it impossible for this
member to be present in our ranks. ---- As provided for in our procedure in the
event of aggression, known to any member of the UCL, we wish to widely inform the
activist community of our decision, in order to ensure that such acts on their
part no longer find their place anywhere, and we invite the other frameworks in
which it can act to make their arrangements to ensure the safety of their
activists and sympathizers.
It seems essential to us to break the silence which allows such acts to continue
to exist.
Our organization reiterates its determination to fight against patriarchy in all
its forms, whether it is deliberate violence or a lack of complicit reaction.
For any question relating to our statutes and exclusion procedure:
contact@communisteslibertaires.org
Libertarian Communist Union, December 20, 2020
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Exclusion-d-un-membre-de-l-Union-communiste-libertaire
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Message: 3
We offer a small overview of the positions taken by libertarian organizations
(from revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism to reformist organizations and groups)
and individual theorists in connection with the coronavirus epidemic and the
unfolding restructuring of world capitalism. After the initial shock and often
misunderstanding of what was happening, the view over time began to increasingly
focus on the totalitarian, coercive and repressive policy of the state, which
turns out to be much more terrible and destructive in its consequences than any
epidemic. ---- This note is not an attempt to grasp the immensity. I do not set
myself the goal of collecting all possible reactions to the crisis, epidemic and
actions of the authorities on the part of the international anarchist movement
(as far as such a term can be correct). My task now is to show the palette of
reactions to what is happening on the part of anti-statesmen and the reasons for
the positions they have taken[1].
So, the secretariat of the International Workers' Association (IWA) already on
March 16, that is, five days after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced
the global pandemic COVID-19, issued a statement, which noted that the sections
of the organization reacted differently to the situation. ... At the same time,
the secretariat itself focused its attention on the inadequate actions of the
authorities and the need to protect the social and economic rights of workers. At
the same time, the IAT secretariat spoke from the position of the need to stop
the work of those industries that are not vital, while unconditionally preserving
wages and providing the population with everything necessary, free access to
medical services for the population, especially the part that is at risk. A call
was made for strikes to stop work in cases where when employers do not stop work
based on profit interests at the expense of the health of their employees.
Demands have also been made for special attention to people without a roof over
their heads and stimulation of the health system[2]. Strictly speaking, the
statement was defensive in nature, since it was not yet known what would follow
in the Euro-Atlantic world in the near future - total lockdowns with far-reaching
socio-economic consequences, primarily affecting the least protected segments of
the population, and the widespread strengthening of police measures total control
over all spheres of life of the population. and stimulating the health system[2].
Strictly speaking, the statement was defensive in nature, since it was not yet
known what would follow in the Euro-Atlantic world in the near future - total
lockdowns with far-reaching socio-economic consequences, primarily affecting the
least protected segments of the population, and the widespread strengthening of
police measures total control over all spheres of life of the population. and
stimulating the health system[2]. Strictly speaking, the statement was defensive
in nature, since it was not yet known what would follow in the Euro-Atlantic
world in the near future - total lockdowns with far-reaching socio-economic
consequences, primarily affecting the least protected segments of the population,
and the widespread strengthening of police measures total control over all
spheres of life of the population.
The Spanish section of the IAT issued a statement in March in connection with the
developments. She expressed concern that despite all the government's assurances,
the most vulnerable segments of the population will have to pay for the current
crisis, as it always has been. There was also a demand for an immediate cessation
of work in all non-vital sectors with full pay. In addition, demands were made to
stop payments on mortgage loans and payments for housing for those whose incomes
were reduced due to the crisis. There was also a demand for the immediate release
from prison of all those who are at risk due to the epidemic[3].
In March, Indian anarcho-syndicalists also voiced their position. They demanded
that, under the prevailing conditions, official and unofficial workers of all
kinds of firms were provided with regular cash payments, increased attention to
the healthcare system, the provision of monthly benefits to precarious workers
and the unemployed, as well as the provision of high-quality personal protective
equipment (PPE) to all delivery workers, cleaners and workers of all spheres.
vital services "[4].
With a certain degree of confidence, we can say that at the first moment the
anarcho-syndicalists, as apparently everyone or almost everyone on the planet,
found themselves in a state of confusion in the face of the crisis, since it was
completely incomprehensible how exactly it was necessary to respond to the
crisis, how they would be in the future. power and business to act, and what will
generally happen next. But then lockdowns began around the world, troops were
withdrawn to the streets of various European cities to maintain order, and
penalties began to be introduced for persons who did not comply with quarantine
requirements.
When the wave of lockdowns hit Russia, the Russian section of the MAT made a
statement. As in previous cases, there were words and problems in the health care
system due to the neoliberal policy of the ruling elite, that the least socially
protected words of the population would pay for the crisis. At the same time, an
accusation was made against the ruling circles of the actual establishment of a
totalitarian regime under the pretext of fighting the epidemic[5].
Over time, talk that the authorities' actions in connection with the crisis have
little to do with the actual fight against the epidemic became more and more
clear. For example, a December statement by the French health workers union,
which is part of the French MAT section, highlighted, among other things, that
when the crisis began to replenish stocks of medical masks, the government did
not. But in November 2019 and April 2020. millions of euros were spent on the
purchase of tear gas, police drones and other police "special equipment"[6].
A kind of spokesman for the moderately defensive position can be called the
position of the well-known anarchist-anthropologist (recently deceased) David
Graeber - "To save the world, we will have to stop working"[7].
That is, at some point it might seem that a little more, and the libertarian
position may become universal. But it was only an illusion. An interview with an
anarchist nurse published by CrimethInc can serve as a clear demonstration of the
lack of understanding that anarchists and the authorities have completely
different understandings of quarantine measures to combat the epidemic.
self-isolation ", and stopping their social life[8]. The problem is that someone
has to pay for all this; we need to provide people with food and preserve jobs,
not impose draconian fines and total police control - but in reality we are
seeing everything exactly the opposite of what should have been done from an
anarchist point of view. At the beginning of the epidemic and crisis, the Chilean
anarcho-syndicalists said: "The state of emergency declared by the government is
just a measure that demonstrates all this. The military does not help the
population, but they carry out the task of protecting capital from expropriation
by the people and protecting the private property of the capitalists. The state
fears its citizens more than epidemics. It urges them not to help each other, but
to isolate themselves and more and more fall into the trap of shock "[9].
Although the gradual "sobering up" from the first shock came, the libertarians
did not have the strength and ability to fully respond to the actions of the
authorities, and therefore May Day in the past year was held in many countries
more symbolically than anything else. From about mid-second half of March to
mid-May, "yellow vests" disappeared from the streets of French cities. And yet,
by May 16, they returned, despite the bans[10]. For us, this is remarkable in
many ways because the French anarchists play a very active role in this movement.
Unlike many anarchists, who took a moderately defensive position at the beginning
of the epidemic and crisis, the famous Spanish historian, anarcho-situationist
and anti-industrialist Miguel Amoros, already in April declared that the current
crisis "served as a pretext for rearmament of domination." He drew attention to
the fact that the actions of the authorities are clearly authoritarian in nature,
and only hide behind the cover of the fight against the epidemic. At the same
time, he linked the current crisis both with neoliberalism and with the very
logic of the existence of an industrial consumer society[11].
On March 12, radical libertarians from CrimethInc. Expressed their position on
the current situation in Italy. At the same time, they drew attention to the fact
that now we are in conditions where our lives are under constant threat on the
one hand, from the side of the new virus, and, on the other, from nationalists
and supporters of auto-territorialism[12]. A few days later, on March 18,
CrimethInc came out with a detailed presentation of their position. They
criticized the measures taken from above, drawing attention to the fact that, in
the end, no amount of "social distancing" from the virus can protect. They drew
attention to the fact that: "The measures implemented throughout the world are
totalitarian in every sense of the word. We see unilateral government decrees
introducing a total travel ban, 24-hour curfew, present martial law and other
dictatorial measures. " Thus, it turned out that totalitarian tendencies ceased
to be only tendencies from now on, as they were now becoming a part of our
everyday life[13].
On March 20, the Italian Anarchist Federation, a section of the International of
Anarchist Federations (IFA), made a statement, beginning with a very specific
statement: "In the face of this crisis, the state and capital are demonstrating
with unprecedented evidence all their boundless limitations and structural
inability to take into account the needs and health of people." At the same time,
like the anarcho-syndicalists from the MAT, the Italian libertarians drew
attention to the fact that the least socially protected citizens will have to pay
for the crisis[14].
The Italian medical workers who are members of the Italian Syndical Union, a
section of the International Workers' Confederation, also voiced their position.
On March 26, they issued a statement criticizing the government's neoliberal
health policy, which made the system unable to cope with the increased pressure
on it in an emergency.[15]
On March 19, the Anarcho-Communist Group (ACG) of Great Britain[16]took the
floor, stating, among other things, that the situation around COVID-19 is a clear
indication of the need to fight not only the threat of viruses, but also the very
source of such threats. It was about the fact that the source of the spread of
the current virus, and earlier - pork and poultry - were animals, and more
specifically, the food industry associated with them. From this the conclusion
was drawn: "animal welfare = human welfare". Even then, she drew attention to the
potential negative consequences of the lockdown, which we increasingly feel
today: "The closure of kindergartens, social centers, libraries, etc. will
further exacerbate this feeling of isolation and loneliness, and if in the coming
months there will be created massive networks of mutual aid,
In an appeal made in early April by the Anarcho-Communist Group of Great Britain,
attention was drawn to the problem of increased domestic violence against women
in the current conditions[18].
For its part, the Anarchist Federation of Great Britain (FAV) opposed the policy
of acquiring the population of herd immunity, which the British government still
adhered to in March, believing that this could doom people with weak immunity to
death. Libertarians came out with, in essence, an ambivalent position: for
stopping work where possible, as well as open days at universities, on the one
hand, and, on the other, with demands for observing socio-economic guarantees for
those who stopped work. ... At the same time, there was a clear condemnation of
the repressive quarantine measures already being taken in the UK. There were
calls for greater cohesion and mutual assistance[19].
In the context of the clearly observed beginning of a total crisis, already at
the beginning of April, British anarchists voiced their updated positions. For
example, the FAV announced the "ideology of inequality" in the context of the
coronavirus crisis, and the ACG stated that a return to the healthcare system,
which was permeated with private interests, as it was before the crisis began,
should not be allowed, since it was its weaknesses that became in many ways the
reasons for what was happening[20].
Drawing attention to the contradictions for capitalism caused by the need to
choose between lockdown and non-lockdown from the point of view of "which is more
profitable" in the economic sense, and not in the sense of public health,
Melbourne anarchists draw attention to the fact that a society based on
libertarian principles is not would be limited by the framework of such a
dilemma, and would calmly stop the work of all non-vital areas, while providing
workers with everything they need. At the same time, they drew attention to the
fact that although many measures have been taken in Australia to social and
economic protection of the population, including an increase in unemployment
benefits, a ban on evictions, subsidies equal to the minimum wage and free
childcare, it does not create a paradise for workers ", as"[the]measures taken
are full of gaps and injustices,
Let us also note the position of the prominent North American theorist and
publicist of green syndicalism Jeff Shantz. So, he criticizes politicians for the
fact that they are guided in the current crisis conditions by purely economic
considerations, forgetting about the person himself. At the same time, for his
part, he speaks from the position of the need now more than ever to combat the
epidemic and crisis of such traditional anarchist topics as mutual assistance and
solidarity, social and economic security for the population. At the same time, he
draws attention to the fact that the current crisis reveals both purely
environmental problems facing humanity and the inability to solve them on the
part of capitalism. In his opinion, the crisis is based on industrial-capitalist
reasons, and in this he merges with the anarcho-situationist Amoros. Schantz also
criticizes the increased police violence, as well as racial inequality. "These
crises also show that the struggle (not least class) underlies capitalism - the
struggle for nature, for social resources, for basic necessities, for the means
of subsistence. They show that the requirements of the system (property, profit,
industrial relations) sharply, irreconcilably diverge from the needs of most
people inside it (for health, safety, well-being) "[22].
And finally, let us turn our attention to the September position presented in one
of the oldest anarchist newspapers, Tierra y Libertad, the organ of the Iberian
Anarchist Federation. Thus, the article drew attention to the methods of social
control: "The introduction - already taking place in places close to us - of
technologies such as the 5G network, the smart city and the Internet of Things,
is based on the placement of sensors throughout the territory. These objects
support communication with each other and with us through devices that we will
soon find it difficult to abandon - "smart phones" and other "smart" things. This
is the skeleton, on the basis of which each state can ensure capillary control
over the territory in the event that the restructuring mentioned above creates
any problems for public order. However, the experiments carried out on us today
also give us an idea of this control: in the event that the tools used on a daily
basis prove insufficient, the state should be able to resort to repression in a
more classical form. " That is, the meaning is simple: under the pretext of
combating the epidemic, the government strengthens the means of police control
over the population, showing distinct totalitarian tendencies that combine both
the latest achievements of information technology and quite traditional measures
of totalitarian control and physical repression. At the same time, the Spanish
libertarians call for the use of the crisis in the sense of trying to bring down
the system, since in spite of all its power, the system itself passes the test of
strength[23]. if the tools used on a daily basis prove insufficient, the state
should be able to resort to repression in a more classical form. " That is, the
meaning is simple: under the pretext of combating the epidemic, the government
strengthens the means of police control over the population, showing distinct
totalitarian tendencies that combine both the latest achievements of information
technology and quite traditional measures of totalitarian control and physical
repression. At the same time, the Spanish libertarians call for the use of the
crisis in the sense of trying to bring down the system, since in spite of all its
power, the system itself passes the test of strength[23]. if the tools used on a
daily basis prove insufficient, the state should be able to resort to repression
in a more classical form. " That is, the meaning is simple: under the pretext of
combating the epidemic, the government strengthens the means of police control
over the population, showing distinct totalitarian tendencies that combine both
the latest achievements of information technology and quite traditional measures
of totalitarian control and physical repression. At the same time, the Spanish
libertarians call for the use of the crisis in the sense of trying to bring down
the system, since in spite of all its power, the system itself passes the test of
strength[23]. under the pretext of fighting the epidemic, the authorities are
strengthening the means of police control over the population, showing distinct
totalitarian tendencies that combine both the latest advances in information
technology and quite traditional measures of totalitarian control and physical
repression. At the same time, the Spanish libertarians call for the use of the
crisis in the sense of trying to bring down the system, since in spite of all its
power, the system itself passes the test of strength[23]. under the pretext of
fighting the epidemic, the authorities are strengthening the means of police
control over the population, showing distinct totalitarian tendencies that
combine both the latest advances in information technology and quite traditional
measures of totalitarian control and physical repression. At the same time, the
Spanish libertarians call for the use of the crisis in the sense of trying to
bring down the system, since in spite of all its power, the system itself passes
the test of strength[23].
In November, in light of a new lockdown approaching, the British FAV presented
its brief overview of what happened since the beginning of the epidemic, and
again reminded of its position. The material was published in Organise! For
example, the British again complained about neoliberal logic, said that the
government, which had been acting late from the very beginning, hastily lifted
restrictions on "returning to work", and now it is mainly people from the working
class that are paying for the crisis. Further, they drew attention to the fact
that some of the workers during the crisis, there was a decrease in wages, there
was an increase in unemployment. "The next few months are full of uncertainty,
which is not surprising as the virus spirals out of control more and more, not
only in the UK but around the world. In Europe and the Mediterranean there is a
night curfew the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War, was
introduced or extended in France, Greece (including the islands and Crete),
Italy, Sicily, Cyprus and most recently in Spain, "write the British anarchists.
Another important point, voiced by the example of anti-quarantine protests in
Slovenia, was that anarchists should participate in them, including with the aim
of not letting them be handed over to the right-wing "anti-mask" and conspiracy
theorists[24].
As for the protests that have swept the world, we will quote CrimethInc, who
write about them from North American positions, where there was no lockdown on
the European model: "Criticism of Donald Trump's actions in the fight against the
COVID-19 pandemic united the liberal opposition: millions accuse his government
of did not do enough to prevent the spread of the virus. At the same time in
Europe, although more efforts were made to combat the pandemic, the activities of
the governments also provoked protests from the population. This is due to the
fact that it was aimed at expanding the powers of the police, rather than helping
those who are in distress due to the virus and the economic crisis "[25].
And finally, we will end our brief review with the November statement by Miguel
Amoros, who calls what is happening "a soft coup." "Wallet or life! Either chaos
in the economy and healthcare, or the end of domination. Either the increasingly
limited deceptive conveniences of a deadly economy, or the adventure of sovereign
existence - that is the question, "the Spanish thinker believes.[26]
In general, as Errico Malatesta once said: "We are for the abolition of the
police system. We are for freedom for all and for a free agreement that will be
possible for all when no one has the means to suppress others and everyone is
involved in the normal work of society. We are for anarchy "[27].
NOTES:
[1]I will also note that I myself voiced my initial position on the basis of the
available data already in April: Epidemic, panic and totalitarianism //
https://aitrus.info/node/5429; Epidemic, panic and totalitarianism. Part 2:
Additions and reflections // https://aitrus.info/node/5432; Epidemic, panic and
totalitarianism. Part 3: Brave New World // https://aitrus.info/node/5436
[2]This system makes us sick // https://aitrus.info/node/5419
[3]Spain: Statement by CNT-AIT in connection with the state of emergency //
https://aitrus.info/node/5420
[4]Demands of anarcho-syndicalists in India in connection with the epidemic //
https://aitrus.info/node/5423
[5]Statement in connection with the introduction of house arrest in a number of
regions of Russia // https://aitrus.info/node/5430
[6]Dans la santé comme partout: travaille et crève //
https://www.facebook.com/chats.noirs.turbulents/posts/252995412826875
[7]Graeber D. To save the world, we're going to have to stop working // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-to-save-the-world -...
[8]Survival is Resistance. An Interview with an Anarchist ER Nurse //
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-survival-is-resistance
[9]"Don't give up!" Appeal of the anarcho-syndicalists of Chile //
https://aitrus.info/node/5426
[10]France: Return of the "yellow vests" // https://aitrus.info/node/5475
[11]Miguel Amoros. Masked State and New Abnormality // https://aitrus.info/node/5602
[12]Against the Coronavirus and the Opportunism of the State // https:
//ru.crimethinc.com/2020/03/12/against-the-coronavirus-and-the-opp ...
[13]Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide // https:
//ru.crimethinc.com/2020/03/18/surviving-the-virus-an-anarchist-gu ...
[14]Coronavirus and emergency: we don't forget which side of the barricade we are
on - statement by FAI Italy //
http://afed.org.uk/coronavirus-and-emergency-we-dont-forget-which -side-o ...
[15][Italy]Statement by USI-CIT health workers //
https://www.icl-cit.org/italy-statement-by-usi-cit-health-workers/
[16]Created by part of the former members of the Anarchist Federation of Great
Britain.
[17]Coronavirus and the Ill Health of Capitalism // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-communist-group-corona ...
[18]Domestic abuse and coronavirus // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-communist-group-domest ...
[19]More of the State You've Got (While Mutual Aid Grows to Tackle Coronavirus)
// http://afed.org.uk/more-of-the-state-youve-got/
[20]Government and Covid-19: an ideology of inequality //
http://afed.org.uk/government-and-covid-19-an-ideology-of-inequality/; NHS
England and the Covid-19 Pandemic // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchist-communist-group-nhs-en ...
[21]Anarchism in a pandemic and the struggle needed // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/melbourne-anarchist-communist-gr ... The Plague
// https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/melbourne-anarchist -communist-gr ...
[22]Shantz J. Intersecting Crises: Intersecting Resistance // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-intersecting-crises -... Idem.
Mutual Aid and Solidarity against Crisis. Green Syndicalist Reflections on
COVID-19 // https:
//theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-mutual-aid-and-solid ...
[23]Virus and Techno World Test // https://aitrus.info/node/5589[24]Another fine
mess // http://afed.org.uk/another-fine-mess/
[25]Second wave: New lockdown and new uprisings // https:
//avtonom.org/news/vtoraya-volna-novyy-lokdaun-i-novye-vosstaniya? ...
[26]Miguel Amoros. Masked State and New Abnormality // https://aitrus.info/node/5602
[27]Malatesta E. Selected Works. Brief system of anarchism. M., 2011.S. 169.
https://aitrus.info/node/5607
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This Saturday 12/12, at the end of a solidarity collection of clothes and toys
organized by the association PESE in the premises of the bookstore la Plume
Noire, two members of the association PESE (Pour l'Egalite Sociale and l
'Ecology) also unionized with Solidaires Rhône were attacked by a group of 7-8
far-right activists. ---- Having visibly spotted the place, the fascists waited
until the 2 volunteers were alone to beat them (10 minutes earlier, about ten
people were present in the bookstore). ---- The attack is far from trivial: ----
- it was carried out on the day of a collection of clothes and toys organized by
an association for destitute families, in particular migrant families.
- the targeted location which hosted the collection has already suffered threats,
collages on its storefront and an attack in 2016 by around twenty fascists in the
past.
As a reminder, the city of Lyon is still the base of several fascist groups
including Génération Identitaire which has a storefront with a room open to the
public (the Traboule) and a training room for street combat (the Agogé).
For 10 years, our organizations have been involved in collectives fighting
against these small groups and for the closure of their premises and we will
continue to be so despite the intimidation and this new attack. The strategy of
the far-right has not changed: to attack, to scare, including on members of an
association, but we remain determined to fight against these hate activists.
Under the Collomb era, the fascists were never worried and the closures of
premises were only due to the mobilization of the inhabitants of the
neighborhoods concerned.
How many attacks, how many assaults will have to take place, how many wounded
will we have to count, so that measures are finally taken against these small
groups? Or maybe we will have to wait for a dead person? The laissez-faire
attitude towards these far-right activists is unbearable.
For our part, we will continue to fight alongside the employees, the exploited
for our emancipation and social justice far from fascist speeches. We will
continue to mobilize employees and residents of the neighborhoods concerned
against these threats.
Facing the fascists, we can only count on ourselves and the solidarity of our
social camp.
Union Communiste Libertaire et Solidaires Rhône
https://www.visa-isa.org/fr/node/145991 Union Communiste Libertaire et Solidaires
Rhone
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Message: 5
Editorial: Closed chapters, open history. ---- After the October 25 polls, the
revolt had an evident decrease and an internal configuration. The overwhelming
victory of "approval" showed in the numbers the polarization that exists in
society, at the same time that it seemed to "close" the stage of struggle that
opened on October 18. The triumph of "approval" is certainly a victory, but it is
only a symbolic victory, and therein lies the danger; nothing guarantees that
after October 25th things will improve, much less that our needs will be truly
resolved. The ghost of Jaime Guzmán and his neoliberal "Chip" continues to haunt
the current constitution, its defenders and its false critics (all those who with
a false smile jumped into the victory car). The constitutional obstacles and
tricks that exist in the "election of voters" make us suspicious of those who
govern and look at the entire institutional process with profound uncertainty. In
any case, if there is anything we can learn from the 1988 plebiscite, it is that
we must not relax, we must not believe them, we must not leave the street alone
or leave the confrontation behind. Feeding the rebellion in every possible way is
indispensable and fundamental for maintaining the state on the ropes and applying
pressure, intensifying the struggle and recognizing our goals. That is how we
achieved "small victories". we must not leave the street alone or leave the
confrontation behind. Feeding the rebellion in every possible way is
indispensable and fundamental for maintaining the state on the ropes and applying
pressure, intensifying the struggle and recognizing our goals. That is how we
achieved "small victories". we must not leave the street alone or leave the
confrontation behind. Feeding the rebellion in every possible way is
indispensable and fundamental for maintaining the state on the ropes and applying
pressure, intensifying the struggle and recognizing our goals. That is how we
achieved "small victories".
After the October 25 vote, the revolt was reconfigured and, at least here in
Santiago, the scene of the clashes shifted to the vicinity of the University of
Chile's metro to try to reach La Moneda in defiance. In the streets there is
anger and indignation; loudly, "Fora Piñera", "police abolition", "below SENAME"
and "freedom for the prisoners of the revolt" are heard, the latter being
population. In this sense, the protest journeys are articulated in different
territories seeking to call, raise awareness and keep alive the flame of the
revolt, also registering disturbances in the Central Station commune.
The moment we are in is diffuse; street presence is maintained (less than before)
and new and more organizational initiatives are set up, in addition to renewing
(or disappearing) those that already existed. The revolt resists death. From
this, it is necessary to draw conclusions and identify root problems, always
seeking to go further.
We call on people to continue organizing, taking care of themselves, informing
themselves and building in practice new ways to solve their needs and recover the
life that these killers are stealing from them. We also welcome you to this third
issue of the Chuchunco Libertaria Assembly bulletin, which, in addition to love,
fire, affection and anarchy, contains reflections from the Assembly a year after
the revolt, TPP-11 and the danger of our food autonomy , words by fellow
anarchist Mónica Caballero, update on community restaurants that continue to
operate in the sector, poems, drawings and more ...
A hug for all. Feel free to read, spread, share and speak ...
To the street todxs xs presxs of the revolt!
For the destruction of all forms of authority!
Solidarity and mutual support!
Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly
Mapocho Valley[Est. Central, Santiago]
Spring, 2020
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https://lapeste.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/boletin_03_alch.pdf
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