Today's Topics:
1. cab anarquista: How do anarchists vote? In the fights! - In
the struggles of the black people! (de, it, ca, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
the struggles of the black people! (de, it, ca, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #310 - Culture,
Read: Collective, "Homage to Rojava. The internationalist
fighters testify" (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Read: Collective, "Homage to Rojava. The internationalist
fighters testify" (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ait russia - France: "107th Act" of protest and "March of
Freedom" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Freedom" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. UK, narchist Communist Group ACG Stormy Petrel is Out!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Poland, ozzip Employee Initiative: Not for discrimination
against Amazon employees in Poland! Lowest bonuses!
against Amazon employees in Poland! Lowest bonuses!
The greatest
demands! [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
demands! [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam: Report back from the
Solidarity with Belarusian protests demonstration
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In periods like this, much is said about the need for black people to occupy the
spaces of state power. As if the entire Brazilian slave and colonialist heritage
were over, if the number of black parliamentarians grew in the city councils.
Meanwhile, Capitalism and the State continue with daily racist violence. ---- The
case of Beto Freitas, brutally murdered by security guards at a Carrefour in
Porto Alegre, was no exception. In the past ten years, while murders of white men
and women have fallen in the country, deaths of black men and women have
increased, according to the Atlas of Violence. ---- We believe that the solution
to this scenario is not to cast a vote at the polls to try to change the balance
of forces within parliaments. As revolutionary anarchists, we defend the
construction and strengthening of social movements, in the perspective of
self-organization of the black people, building resistance and clenching fists in
the construction of Popular Power. This alone can destroy racism and white
supremacy, as well as any form of domination!
"We do not believe in the debate of oppression while fighting against
'privileges', nor do we believe in individual 'empowerment', but that these axes
are part of the way society is structured. The only possible empowerment is to
build real, collective black power within the social movement in conjunction with
the oppressed sectors: black men and women, forest peoples, peasants, women and
workers in general. " - Racism and Colonial Domination, Revista Socialismo
Libertário n.4
Read the magazine in PDF here or look for one of our organizations to purchase it
in print.
In the struggles of application workers
Precarious work and high unemployment have thrown a lot of people into informal
work, and transportation and delivery services by application have been the
fastest growing in recent years. The big companies in the sector took advantage
of this, and decreased the earnings of these workers, who had to work much harder
to earn the same as they did before. The situation got even more serious with the
pandemic, when people had to take risks on the streets, without the applications
giving any support.
Facing this was not the work of any professional politician: the workers
themselves are organizing themselves, making stoppages and other types of
mobilization, in order to have better working conditions. We, anarchists
organized in CAB, vote on the struggles of workers and application workers,
publicizing their struggles, raising class solidarity in the spaces where we
militate, and also strengthening the self-organization of delivery men and
drivers, where our activists work in these sectors.
We believe that only, thus, strengthening movements from below, that we will be
able to build a process of social transformation, that will end exploitation and
any kind of domination!
In women's struggles!
Violence against women has deep roots in our patriarchal and sexist society, and
is expressed in several ways: birth control and sexuality, unpaid domestic work,
moral and sexual harassment, psychological torture and physical violence, and are
even more serious with black and impoverished women.
This violence is also institutional, produced and reproduced by the State. Gender
inequality is yet another useful mechanism of domination, all the more so if we
take into account that the vast majority of those who occupy the positions of
state power are white men.
But we do not believe that increasing the presence of women in the State can
transform and overcome this scenario. It is in the struggle of those below, with
the collective construction in our territories, that we can increase the social
force to overthrow sexism and patriarchy. That is why we vote for women's
struggles, for the daily construction in the neighborhoods, in the places of work
and study, in the countryside and in the other territories where the oppressed
classes are, by the Popular Power!
In indigenous and quilombola struggles
The original and quilombola peoples remain under threat in times of democracy.
The "Citizen Constitution" of 1988 guaranteed rights on paper, which more than 30
years later are systematically violated by the State itself.
The resistance of the indigenous and quilombolas, even under threats and
violence, shows that the struggle for the right to land and territory is of
central importance in the country. Despite the mechanisms for guaranteeing
hard-won rights, the State is an ally of Capital in the expulsion, impoverishment
and genocide of these peoples. As an instrument of the ruling classes, the State
is not neutral in these cases. Often, politicians and judges own land or have
very close relationships with these large landowners, so we shouldn't have any
illusions about this space.
For this reason, we CAB anarchists support the struggles of the peoples of the
forest and the quilombos, maintaining ties of solidarity, defending the
historical conquests of the movements for the sovereignty of the territories, in
denouncing ethnocide and against the denial of rights conquered historically. In
these elections and outside them, we vote for indigenous and quilombola struggles!
In the struggles of outsourced
Some years ago, outsourcing deepened in the public and private sectors, a process
facilitated by the approval of laws that only favor businessmen. Female workers
and outsourced workers earn less, have less job stability, longer hours, and are
more at risk, such as accidents at work. They also have weakened unions, with
many directions only interested in the power game with those above.
We anarchists are shoulder to shoulder with outsourced and outsourced workers,
strengthening the self-organization of these workers in the struggle for better
working conditions, decent wages and respect for their rights. In this pandemic
period, when they and they were more exposed to contagion, we participated in
mobilizations and denounced the negligence of the bosses.
It is a scenario of precarious relations and working conditions, which in the
political game did not have resistance to the level. We believe that it is only
in the direct action of workers that this scenario can change. For this reason,
in these elections we vote for the struggle of outsourced workers, strengthening
class solidarity and organization!
In LGBTQIA + struggles
Sexual diversity was once considered a mental disorder, and is still the result
of much stigma and violence. Brazil is one of the countries with the highest
number of aggressions and murders against the LGBTQIA + population, the result of
a culture based on patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality and conservatism, which
maintains hierarchies and dominations in our society.
Facing the marginalization and violence of this population is urgent, and it must
take place in all the spaces in which we operate, coupled with the classist and
anti-racist struggles of the world's peripheries.
We disagree with the reading that the advances will come from the conquest of
seats between councilors and deputies. Recent experience shows how figures from
the left itself have rifled LGBTQIA + agendas in the name of electoral
conveniences and the governability of bourgeois democracy. As anarchists and
revolutionaries, we focus our forces on concrete struggles in grassroots actions,
promoting self-care, mutual support and solidarity with combative groups of
diversity. Direct action for the lives of oppressed people!
http://cabanarquista.org/2020/12/01/como-votam-as-e-os-anarquistas-nas-lutas/
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Message: 2
Twenty-two internationalist fighters testify to their commitment in the YPG / YPJ
units in Rojava, tell their motivations, their journey to join the region, their
learning, their daily life, with the fighting or on the contrary the interminable
wait, their companions, their difficult return to "sleeping societies". "We were
ordinary people, no crazier or more courageous than the others. At one point in
our life, we chose to leave everything, lucidly and without fanaticism, to fight
alongside the people of Syrian Kurdistan." ---- If the times and situations are
of course not comparable, the similarities with the international volunteers
hired in Spain in 1936 are numerous and the reference to Homage to Catalonia , by
George Orwell, justified in more than one way.
If the tabur , combat units made up of about thirty people, are placed under the
authority of a commander, they function as militias, without any real hierarchy
or authoritarianism, thanks to the practice of tekmil, a moment of essential
daily debriefing. where everyone is free to express criticism and self-criticism.
Militarism is seen as an ideology peculiar to the patriarchy and to capitalist
society. These units are responsible for defending the population and ensuring
the success of the revolution inspired by democratic confederalism, an ideology
developed by Abdullah Öcalan, which places women at the center of society, which
plans to "empty the state from within" And one of the foundations of which is the
coexistence of different religions and ethnicities on the same territory.
Many pages are devoted to stories of the fighting, in particular to the defense
of the canton of Afrîn against the Turkish army and its jihadist auxiliaries from
January 2018 and to the second attack, still in progress, since October 2019,
with the resistance de Serêkaniyê and the front of Til Temir. Several portraits
of martyred combatants are inserted between the various testimonies. Siyah, from
France and survivor of the Battle of Serêkaniyê, talks about her bitterness and
anger as the world watched Afrîn fall into the hands of Islamists and fascists.
A few indignant voices were raised, but "indignation does not save lives or win
battles. Indignation is a farce for fascism." She concludes her call for
solidarity as follows: "I am just asking you, reader, to question yourself on the
nature of your "political becoming". Ask yourself about your relationship to the
world. Ask yourself this: what were you doing when triumphant fascism was bent on
destroying one of this generation's only consistent revolutionary alternatives?
If it is true that siamo tutti antifascisti, then it is time to show it in action."
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
Collective, Homage to Rojava, Les Combattants internationalistes testify,
Libertalia , 2020, 348 pages, 10 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Collectif-Hommage-au-Rojava-Les-combattants-internationalistes-temoignent
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Message: 3
The "107th act" of protest by the "yellow vest" movement in France coincided with
mass protests by citizens against the new repressive "global security" law. But
the brutal reprisal of the police against a man who did not wear a mask directly
added fuel to the fire of general indignation. About half a million people took
to the streets of French cities. France is once again becoming the heart of
social protests in the world, and no "sanitary dictatorship" has been able to
prevent this. In the capital of the country, real street battles with the police
took place for hours. ---- The Freedom March was initiated by human rights
organizations, public initiatives, journalists ... It was joined by the yellow
vests, anarchists, trade unionists and left-wing activists. Protesters' banners
read about "rage and anger" against Macron's neo-liberal regime and policies. The
"global security" bill, drafted by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen and dragged
through the French lower house of parliament on Tuesday in its first reading,
aims to completely remove the police from any public scrutiny.
In Paris alone, more than 100 thousand people took to the streets. They demanded
to take back the law, which protects the "physical and mental safety" of police
officers committing violence - including from exposing filming on camera and
video. It is not only freedom of the press that is under threat, but the very
right to freedom of expression. The prefect of Paris police on the eve of the
march, defiantly called on the police to continue to follow the "tough republican
line".
When police greeted the demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets on
Saturday afternoon, the Paris demonstrators set fire to parked cars and the Bank
of France headquarters in the Republic Square (
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/391484.marsch-der-freiheit-rebellion-der-massen.html)
The flaming facade of the Bank of France
+ + +
On Saturday, November 28, numerous demonstrations against the "global security"
law took place across France. In Paris, the "March of Freedom" took place between
Place de la République and Place de la Bastille. Throughout the week, the tension
around the issue of the adoption of the law "on global security" and, in
particular, its controversial article 24, which prohibits the shooting of police
officers while they are on duty, increased, especially after the appearance on
social networks of shots of the violent dispersal of migrants on November 23
Republic Square and videos of music producer Michel Zeckler being beaten on the
doorstep of his studio in Paris.
Article 24, which has been approved by the police trade unions, has provoked
protests from advocates of public liberties, in particular French journalists,
who see it as a "disproportionate attack" on freedom of speech and information.
In addition, the publication of images of police officers is considered necessary
by representatives of Parisian suburbs ( https: //www.rfi.fr/ru.....)
+ + +
The "March of Freedoms" began at 14.00 on Republic Square. Demonstrators moved to
the Place de la Bastille, on the outskirts of which at 15.30 fierce clashes broke
out between part of the protesters and the police
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/291120/gja93se10728112020-marchedeslibertes
). "France turned into a battlefield overnight," the Vesti.ru correspondent
reported. " France is on strike. Actions have taken place across the country
against the scandalous security law. In a matter of hours, they turned into
riots. Hundreds of people were injured, dozens were detained" ( https: /
/www.vesti.ru/article/2491825 )
+ + +
Over the weekend, France was engulfed in street protests, where the number of
participants is well over 100 thousand, and the degree of aggression is so off
scale that the injured police are numbered in the tens.
Such battle scenes would be the envy of any director, but this is not a movie,
but the center of Paris. Everything that happens looks like a massacre. The
square is buried in smoke. Tear gas on one side, flames on the other. The police
try not to lose sight of each other. As soon as one fought off the group,
anarchists attack him and begin to beat him. A hail of blows rains down - with
legs, sticks and fists. Gas is powerless here. The one who is supposed to provide
"protection of order", helplessly, on his knees trying to dodge another
"hooligan" ...
Small streets looked like the walls of the house had collapsed. From everything
that came to hand, they built barricades, and then made fires. At first, the
trash cans burned, then the so-called. The "black block" brought big logs from
somewhere. Flames lit up the Place de la Bastille. The facade of the Bank of
France also flared up. Cars parked in the neighboring streets followed. Water
cannons were sent to extinguish the fire, trying in vain to disperse the crowd.
With those who wanted to block their movement, the police did not stand on
ceremony: with pepper gas in the face, then they pounded on the ground and detained.
Injured on both sides. More than fifty people were injured by the police alone.
They were fired at with fireworks, practically point-blank, pelted with stones,
bottles, practically everyone. In response, blows fell with truncheons ... This
was a kind of culmination of the procession, which began quite peacefully. At
first, they wanted to ban the demonstration of power, and this from the very
beginning fueled anger.
There are so many people here in the center of Paris that they did not fit into
the square, occupying all the adjacent streets. The French authorities want to
pass a law on "global security" proposed by the head of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs. Its 24th article states that the distribution of the face or
identification mark of a police officer in case the goal is to harm him, physical
or mental, is now a crime. The punishments are the most severe - a year in prison
and a fine of 45 thousand euros. Given the vague wording, in fact, you can punish
any journalist from those who work on the same protests. The videos, filmed by
the press or by eyewitnesses, more than once recorded cases when the police
showed "excessive cruelty."
This week has been rich in such events. Initially, the "law enforcement officers"
decided to forcefully squeeze out about 5 hundred migrants who pitched tents in
the Republic Square. People were shaken out of them, then tear gas and noise
grenades were used. And two days ago, a patrol decided to detain a young man who
was walking without a mask. Music producer Michelle Zekler had already entered
his studio when uniformed men burst in and started beating him. Eerie footage was
recorded by a surveillance camera. Then there were insults and threats, a smoke
bomb was thrown into the room. And when, breathless, he nevertheless went out
into the street, a patrol who arrived in time joined the beatings. Eyewitnesses
have already filmed what is happening.
But this is not an isolated case. Take, for example, the number of people injured
during the processions of the "yellow vests": gouged eyes, torn hands ...
The demonstrators are demanding a deep reform of the police and the resignation
of everyone - from Interior Minister Gerard Dermonand to President Macron. But
the lower house of parliament in the first reading adopts a scandalous law
banning filming.
"The government's response is repression and violence," says demonstrator Assa
Traore of the Justice for Adama initiative. - But it is simply necessary to
continue negotiations. We have to say no to the police violence captured on
camera. Today we are furious because our government does not hear us. "
The ban will actually affect journalists as well. Correspondents do not come to
demonstrations without helmets, gas masks and special protection. Drive away is
the least that can be done with them. Colleagues have already been detained,
equipment has been broken. This Saturday, a freelance journalist was also on the
list of injured ...
Everyone is rebelling: Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg, Montpellier and Nantes ...
New demonstrations are promised in Paris. The bill is now submitted to the upper
house of the French parliament ("News of the week" from Paris)
+ + +
In total, protests were held in 70 cities in France. 62 police officers were
injured. 81 people were arrested, including 23 in Paris (
https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/28/protesters-take-to-streets-across-france-over-controversial-national-security-law)
+ + +
Large demonstrations took place in other cities as well. In Bordeaux, a group of
protesters smashed the windows of a major supermarket and carried out popular
expropriations. When the police began to disperse the demonstrators, a fire broke
out.
In Nantes, traditionally one of the centers of radical protests, up to 7,000
people took to the streets on Friday evening. On the banners and posters one
could read: "Protection of individual and collective freedoms", "No draft law on
security", "Violence - the last refuge of incompetence" and "Not seen - not
taken." People chanted: "Freedom, freedom. Freedom", "Police everywhere - justice
nowhere" and "Everyone hates the police." The march began peacefully, but after
19.30, when the police used gas, clashes broke out, which lasted an hour and a
half. Police report 17 arrests, including 6 before 5.30 pm, when police demanded
that protesters open their backpacks. (
https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/28/protesters-take-to-streets-across-france-over-controversial-national-security-law)
https://aitrus.info/node/5596
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Message: 4
Stormy Petrel, the Anarchist Communist Group's theoretical and historical
magazine will be out this Friday. A bumper issue of 60 pages, it contains the
following: ---- Building Resilient Communities: The Challenges of Organising
Locally ---- Community Activism in South Essex ---- Mutual Aid during the
Pandemic ---- Charity or Solidarity? ---- Covid Mutual Aid: A Revolutionary
Critique ---- ACORN - no mighty oak! ---- Anarchist Communists, anti-fascism and
Anti-Fascism ---- Women: Working and Organising ---- What is Anarchist Communism?
(excerpt from Brian Morris's forthcoming book) ---- Poll Tax Rebellion - Danny
Burns ---- Book Reviews - Putting the poll tax rebellion in perspective ---- We
Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
Class Power on Zero Hours ---- McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New
Capitalist Spirituality ---- £4 + £1.40 p&p ---- Order your copy via PayPal to
londonacg@gmail.com
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/12/01/stormy-petrel-is-out/
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Message: 5
On December 1, 2020, Amazon Fulfillment Poland submitted the regulations of the
"December Bonus" to trade union organizations for consultation. The proposed
amount for full-time employees was PLN 600 gross (EUR 135), about PLN 470 net. At
the same time, Amazon employees from Germany, Spain, Italy and France will
receive 300 euros, 300 dollars from the United States and 300 pounds from the
United Kingdom. ---- When Amazon's German warehouses went on strike, Amazon in
Poland announced mandatory overtime. This meant working 11.5 hours, commuting
many hours, several hours of sleep and enormous demands, despite the constant
threat of the coronavirus. We are key employees, delivering necessary products
mainly to Western Europe in a pandemic. What do we get in return? The company has
made a fortune on us and once again we are treated like cheap labor. We earn much
less, and prices in other countries are not much lower. Food in Poland is 30%
cheaper than in Germany and only 25% cheaper than in Spain. We live badly, and
the reason is companies such as Amazon, which once again does not offer us even
half of the rates from other countries.
Unions operating in the Polish Amazon, OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza and NSZZ
Solidarnosc, have 30 days to take a position on the company's proposal. Unions
consult with Amazon members and employees. Please participate in the poll:
1. We only need PLN 600. Trade unions should accept Amazon's proposal
2. We want more. Trade unions should keep negotiating with Amazon
3. We want more. We need to support union negotiations with collective pressure
on the company. Declares joint participation in protests (e.g. slowing down of
work / wearing a vest "2,000 for everyone" and others)
Please answer here: https://tiny.pl/7st6s
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2720-nie-dla-dyskryminacji-pracownikow-amazon-w-polsce
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Message: 6
Last Sunday on Nov 29 we took initiative and organized the protest to show our
solidarity with anarchist, anti-fascists and other people of Belarus who are
fighting against dictatorship regime of Lukashenko ---- Original call and more
background here. ----
https://www.agamsterdam.org/call-for-solidarity-with-belarus-demo/ ---- At 2 pm
on the Beursplein in Amsterdam people started to gather. Soon we were almost 35
people, of different ages and backgrounds, including people from outside
Amsterdam. There were banners and black/red flags, hundreds of flyers were
distributed to the passing public. There was a small sound system and various
speeches were given. ---- Even though such actions are very unlikely to influence
situation in Belarus, we still find it important to show our solidarity and
spread the message. Not a lot of things can be better for a prisoner than reports
of solidarity actions with him from all over the world.
Strength and determination to the freedom fighters from Belarus! Always in
solidarity with all oppressed against all oppressors!
P.S. We already posted our thoughts about organizing street actions during corona
time here and the most of it is still valid.
https://www.agamsterdam.org/report-back-of-protest-in-solidarity-with-anarchist-abtin-parsa/
Updates English news from the Anarchist Black Cross Belarus:
https://abc-belarus.org/?lang=en
This action was organized by the Anarchist Group Amsterdam - Vrije Bond
https://www.agamsterdam.org/
aga@agamsterdam.org
https://www.agamsterdam.org/report-back-from-the-solidarity-with-belarusian-protests-demonstration/
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Solidarity with Belarusian protests demonstration
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In periods like this, much is said about the need for black people to occupy the
spaces of state power. As if the entire Brazilian slave and colonialist heritage
were over, if the number of black parliamentarians grew in the city councils.
Meanwhile, Capitalism and the State continue with daily racist violence. ---- The
case of Beto Freitas, brutally murdered by security guards at a Carrefour in
Porto Alegre, was no exception. In the past ten years, while murders of white men
and women have fallen in the country, deaths of black men and women have
increased, according to the Atlas of Violence. ---- We believe that the solution
to this scenario is not to cast a vote at the polls to try to change the balance
of forces within parliaments. As revolutionary anarchists, we defend the
construction and strengthening of social movements, in the perspective of
self-organization of the black people, building resistance and clenching fists in
the construction of Popular Power. This alone can destroy racism and white
supremacy, as well as any form of domination!
"We do not believe in the debate of oppression while fighting against
'privileges', nor do we believe in individual 'empowerment', but that these axes
are part of the way society is structured. The only possible empowerment is to
build real, collective black power within the social movement in conjunction with
the oppressed sectors: black men and women, forest peoples, peasants, women and
workers in general. " - Racism and Colonial Domination, Revista Socialismo
Libertário n.4
Read the magazine in PDF here or look for one of our organizations to purchase it
in print.
In the struggles of application workers
Precarious work and high unemployment have thrown a lot of people into informal
work, and transportation and delivery services by application have been the
fastest growing in recent years. The big companies in the sector took advantage
of this, and decreased the earnings of these workers, who had to work much harder
to earn the same as they did before. The situation got even more serious with the
pandemic, when people had to take risks on the streets, without the applications
giving any support.
Facing this was not the work of any professional politician: the workers
themselves are organizing themselves, making stoppages and other types of
mobilization, in order to have better working conditions. We, anarchists
organized in CAB, vote on the struggles of workers and application workers,
publicizing their struggles, raising class solidarity in the spaces where we
militate, and also strengthening the self-organization of delivery men and
drivers, where our activists work in these sectors.
We believe that only, thus, strengthening movements from below, that we will be
able to build a process of social transformation, that will end exploitation and
any kind of domination!
In women's struggles!
Violence against women has deep roots in our patriarchal and sexist society, and
is expressed in several ways: birth control and sexuality, unpaid domestic work,
moral and sexual harassment, psychological torture and physical violence, and are
even more serious with black and impoverished women.
This violence is also institutional, produced and reproduced by the State. Gender
inequality is yet another useful mechanism of domination, all the more so if we
take into account that the vast majority of those who occupy the positions of
state power are white men.
But we do not believe that increasing the presence of women in the State can
transform and overcome this scenario. It is in the struggle of those below, with
the collective construction in our territories, that we can increase the social
force to overthrow sexism and patriarchy. That is why we vote for women's
struggles, for the daily construction in the neighborhoods, in the places of work
and study, in the countryside and in the other territories where the oppressed
classes are, by the Popular Power!
In indigenous and quilombola struggles
The original and quilombola peoples remain under threat in times of democracy.
The "Citizen Constitution" of 1988 guaranteed rights on paper, which more than 30
years later are systematically violated by the State itself.
The resistance of the indigenous and quilombolas, even under threats and
violence, shows that the struggle for the right to land and territory is of
central importance in the country. Despite the mechanisms for guaranteeing
hard-won rights, the State is an ally of Capital in the expulsion, impoverishment
and genocide of these peoples. As an instrument of the ruling classes, the State
is not neutral in these cases. Often, politicians and judges own land or have
very close relationships with these large landowners, so we shouldn't have any
illusions about this space.
For this reason, we CAB anarchists support the struggles of the peoples of the
forest and the quilombos, maintaining ties of solidarity, defending the
historical conquests of the movements for the sovereignty of the territories, in
denouncing ethnocide and against the denial of rights conquered historically. In
these elections and outside them, we vote for indigenous and quilombola struggles!
In the struggles of outsourced
Some years ago, outsourcing deepened in the public and private sectors, a process
facilitated by the approval of laws that only favor businessmen. Female workers
and outsourced workers earn less, have less job stability, longer hours, and are
more at risk, such as accidents at work. They also have weakened unions, with
many directions only interested in the power game with those above.
We anarchists are shoulder to shoulder with outsourced and outsourced workers,
strengthening the self-organization of these workers in the struggle for better
working conditions, decent wages and respect for their rights. In this pandemic
period, when they and they were more exposed to contagion, we participated in
mobilizations and denounced the negligence of the bosses.
It is a scenario of precarious relations and working conditions, which in the
political game did not have resistance to the level. We believe that it is only
in the direct action of workers that this scenario can change. For this reason,
in these elections we vote for the struggle of outsourced workers, strengthening
class solidarity and organization!
In LGBTQIA + struggles
Sexual diversity was once considered a mental disorder, and is still the result
of much stigma and violence. Brazil is one of the countries with the highest
number of aggressions and murders against the LGBTQIA + population, the result of
a culture based on patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality and conservatism, which
maintains hierarchies and dominations in our society.
Facing the marginalization and violence of this population is urgent, and it must
take place in all the spaces in which we operate, coupled with the classist and
anti-racist struggles of the world's peripheries.
We disagree with the reading that the advances will come from the conquest of
seats between councilors and deputies. Recent experience shows how figures from
the left itself have rifled LGBTQIA + agendas in the name of electoral
conveniences and the governability of bourgeois democracy. As anarchists and
revolutionaries, we focus our forces on concrete struggles in grassroots actions,
promoting self-care, mutual support and solidarity with combative groups of
diversity. Direct action for the lives of oppressed people!
http://cabanarquista.org/2020/12/01/como-votam-as-e-os-anarquistas-nas-lutas/
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Message: 2
Twenty-two internationalist fighters testify to their commitment in the YPG / YPJ
units in Rojava, tell their motivations, their journey to join the region, their
learning, their daily life, with the fighting or on the contrary the interminable
wait, their companions, their difficult return to "sleeping societies". "We were
ordinary people, no crazier or more courageous than the others. At one point in
our life, we chose to leave everything, lucidly and without fanaticism, to fight
alongside the people of Syrian Kurdistan." ---- If the times and situations are
of course not comparable, the similarities with the international volunteers
hired in Spain in 1936 are numerous and the reference to Homage to Catalonia , by
George Orwell, justified in more than one way.
If the tabur , combat units made up of about thirty people, are placed under the
authority of a commander, they function as militias, without any real hierarchy
or authoritarianism, thanks to the practice of tekmil, a moment of essential
daily debriefing. where everyone is free to express criticism and self-criticism.
Militarism is seen as an ideology peculiar to the patriarchy and to capitalist
society. These units are responsible for defending the population and ensuring
the success of the revolution inspired by democratic confederalism, an ideology
developed by Abdullah Öcalan, which places women at the center of society, which
plans to "empty the state from within" And one of the foundations of which is the
coexistence of different religions and ethnicities on the same territory.
Many pages are devoted to stories of the fighting, in particular to the defense
of the canton of Afrîn against the Turkish army and its jihadist auxiliaries from
January 2018 and to the second attack, still in progress, since October 2019,
with the resistance de Serêkaniyê and the front of Til Temir. Several portraits
of martyred combatants are inserted between the various testimonies. Siyah, from
France and survivor of the Battle of Serêkaniyê, talks about her bitterness and
anger as the world watched Afrîn fall into the hands of Islamists and fascists.
A few indignant voices were raised, but "indignation does not save lives or win
battles. Indignation is a farce for fascism." She concludes her call for
solidarity as follows: "I am just asking you, reader, to question yourself on the
nature of your "political becoming". Ask yourself about your relationship to the
world. Ask yourself this: what were you doing when triumphant fascism was bent on
destroying one of this generation's only consistent revolutionary alternatives?
If it is true that siamo tutti antifascisti, then it is time to show it in action."
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
Collective, Homage to Rojava, Les Combattants internationalistes testify,
Libertalia , 2020, 348 pages, 10 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Collectif-Hommage-au-Rojava-Les-combattants-internationalistes-temoignent
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Message: 3
The "107th act" of protest by the "yellow vest" movement in France coincided with
mass protests by citizens against the new repressive "global security" law. But
the brutal reprisal of the police against a man who did not wear a mask directly
added fuel to the fire of general indignation. About half a million people took
to the streets of French cities. France is once again becoming the heart of
social protests in the world, and no "sanitary dictatorship" has been able to
prevent this. In the capital of the country, real street battles with the police
took place for hours. ---- The Freedom March was initiated by human rights
organizations, public initiatives, journalists ... It was joined by the yellow
vests, anarchists, trade unionists and left-wing activists. Protesters' banners
read about "rage and anger" against Macron's neo-liberal regime and policies. The
"global security" bill, drafted by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen and dragged
through the French lower house of parliament on Tuesday in its first reading,
aims to completely remove the police from any public scrutiny.
In Paris alone, more than 100 thousand people took to the streets. They demanded
to take back the law, which protects the "physical and mental safety" of police
officers committing violence - including from exposing filming on camera and
video. It is not only freedom of the press that is under threat, but the very
right to freedom of expression. The prefect of Paris police on the eve of the
march, defiantly called on the police to continue to follow the "tough republican
line".
When police greeted the demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets on
Saturday afternoon, the Paris demonstrators set fire to parked cars and the Bank
of France headquarters in the Republic Square (
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/391484.marsch-der-freiheit-rebellion-der-massen.html)
The flaming facade of the Bank of France
+ + +
On Saturday, November 28, numerous demonstrations against the "global security"
law took place across France. In Paris, the "March of Freedom" took place between
Place de la République and Place de la Bastille. Throughout the week, the tension
around the issue of the adoption of the law "on global security" and, in
particular, its controversial article 24, which prohibits the shooting of police
officers while they are on duty, increased, especially after the appearance on
social networks of shots of the violent dispersal of migrants on November 23
Republic Square and videos of music producer Michel Zeckler being beaten on the
doorstep of his studio in Paris.
Article 24, which has been approved by the police trade unions, has provoked
protests from advocates of public liberties, in particular French journalists,
who see it as a "disproportionate attack" on freedom of speech and information.
In addition, the publication of images of police officers is considered necessary
by representatives of Parisian suburbs ( https: //www.rfi.fr/ru.....)
+ + +
The "March of Freedoms" began at 14.00 on Republic Square. Demonstrators moved to
the Place de la Bastille, on the outskirts of which at 15.30 fierce clashes broke
out between part of the protesters and the police
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/291120/gja93se10728112020-marchedeslibertes
). "France turned into a battlefield overnight," the Vesti.ru correspondent
reported. " France is on strike. Actions have taken place across the country
against the scandalous security law. In a matter of hours, they turned into
riots. Hundreds of people were injured, dozens were detained" ( https: /
/www.vesti.ru/article/2491825 )
+ + +
Over the weekend, France was engulfed in street protests, where the number of
participants is well over 100 thousand, and the degree of aggression is so off
scale that the injured police are numbered in the tens.
Such battle scenes would be the envy of any director, but this is not a movie,
but the center of Paris. Everything that happens looks like a massacre. The
square is buried in smoke. Tear gas on one side, flames on the other. The police
try not to lose sight of each other. As soon as one fought off the group,
anarchists attack him and begin to beat him. A hail of blows rains down - with
legs, sticks and fists. Gas is powerless here. The one who is supposed to provide
"protection of order", helplessly, on his knees trying to dodge another
"hooligan" ...
Small streets looked like the walls of the house had collapsed. From everything
that came to hand, they built barricades, and then made fires. At first, the
trash cans burned, then the so-called. The "black block" brought big logs from
somewhere. Flames lit up the Place de la Bastille. The facade of the Bank of
France also flared up. Cars parked in the neighboring streets followed. Water
cannons were sent to extinguish the fire, trying in vain to disperse the crowd.
With those who wanted to block their movement, the police did not stand on
ceremony: with pepper gas in the face, then they pounded on the ground and detained.
Injured on both sides. More than fifty people were injured by the police alone.
They were fired at with fireworks, practically point-blank, pelted with stones,
bottles, practically everyone. In response, blows fell with truncheons ... This
was a kind of culmination of the procession, which began quite peacefully. At
first, they wanted to ban the demonstration of power, and this from the very
beginning fueled anger.
There are so many people here in the center of Paris that they did not fit into
the square, occupying all the adjacent streets. The French authorities want to
pass a law on "global security" proposed by the head of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs. Its 24th article states that the distribution of the face or
identification mark of a police officer in case the goal is to harm him, physical
or mental, is now a crime. The punishments are the most severe - a year in prison
and a fine of 45 thousand euros. Given the vague wording, in fact, you can punish
any journalist from those who work on the same protests. The videos, filmed by
the press or by eyewitnesses, more than once recorded cases when the police
showed "excessive cruelty."
This week has been rich in such events. Initially, the "law enforcement officers"
decided to forcefully squeeze out about 5 hundred migrants who pitched tents in
the Republic Square. People were shaken out of them, then tear gas and noise
grenades were used. And two days ago, a patrol decided to detain a young man who
was walking without a mask. Music producer Michelle Zekler had already entered
his studio when uniformed men burst in and started beating him. Eerie footage was
recorded by a surveillance camera. Then there were insults and threats, a smoke
bomb was thrown into the room. And when, breathless, he nevertheless went out
into the street, a patrol who arrived in time joined the beatings. Eyewitnesses
have already filmed what is happening.
But this is not an isolated case. Take, for example, the number of people injured
during the processions of the "yellow vests": gouged eyes, torn hands ...
The demonstrators are demanding a deep reform of the police and the resignation
of everyone - from Interior Minister Gerard Dermonand to President Macron. But
the lower house of parliament in the first reading adopts a scandalous law
banning filming.
"The government's response is repression and violence," says demonstrator Assa
Traore of the Justice for Adama initiative. - But it is simply necessary to
continue negotiations. We have to say no to the police violence captured on
camera. Today we are furious because our government does not hear us. "
The ban will actually affect journalists as well. Correspondents do not come to
demonstrations without helmets, gas masks and special protection. Drive away is
the least that can be done with them. Colleagues have already been detained,
equipment has been broken. This Saturday, a freelance journalist was also on the
list of injured ...
Everyone is rebelling: Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg, Montpellier and Nantes ...
New demonstrations are promised in Paris. The bill is now submitted to the upper
house of the French parliament ("News of the week" from Paris)
+ + +
In total, protests were held in 70 cities in France. 62 police officers were
injured. 81 people were arrested, including 23 in Paris (
https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/28/protesters-take-to-streets-across-france-over-controversial-national-security-law)
+ + +
Large demonstrations took place in other cities as well. In Bordeaux, a group of
protesters smashed the windows of a major supermarket and carried out popular
expropriations. When the police began to disperse the demonstrators, a fire broke
out.
In Nantes, traditionally one of the centers of radical protests, up to 7,000
people took to the streets on Friday evening. On the banners and posters one
could read: "Protection of individual and collective freedoms", "No draft law on
security", "Violence - the last refuge of incompetence" and "Not seen - not
taken." People chanted: "Freedom, freedom. Freedom", "Police everywhere - justice
nowhere" and "Everyone hates the police." The march began peacefully, but after
19.30, when the police used gas, clashes broke out, which lasted an hour and a
half. Police report 17 arrests, including 6 before 5.30 pm, when police demanded
that protesters open their backpacks. (
https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/28/protesters-take-to-streets-across-france-over-controversial-national-security-law)
https://aitrus.info/node/5596
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Message: 4
Stormy Petrel, the Anarchist Communist Group's theoretical and historical
magazine will be out this Friday. A bumper issue of 60 pages, it contains the
following: ---- Building Resilient Communities: The Challenges of Organising
Locally ---- Community Activism in South Essex ---- Mutual Aid during the
Pandemic ---- Charity or Solidarity? ---- Covid Mutual Aid: A Revolutionary
Critique ---- ACORN - no mighty oak! ---- Anarchist Communists, anti-fascism and
Anti-Fascism ---- Women: Working and Organising ---- What is Anarchist Communism?
(excerpt from Brian Morris's forthcoming book) ---- Poll Tax Rebellion - Danny
Burns ---- Book Reviews - Putting the poll tax rebellion in perspective ---- We
Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
Class Power on Zero Hours ---- McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New
Capitalist Spirituality ---- £4 + £1.40 p&p ---- Order your copy via PayPal to
londonacg@gmail.com
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/12/01/stormy-petrel-is-out/
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Message: 5
On December 1, 2020, Amazon Fulfillment Poland submitted the regulations of the
"December Bonus" to trade union organizations for consultation. The proposed
amount for full-time employees was PLN 600 gross (EUR 135), about PLN 470 net. At
the same time, Amazon employees from Germany, Spain, Italy and France will
receive 300 euros, 300 dollars from the United States and 300 pounds from the
United Kingdom. ---- When Amazon's German warehouses went on strike, Amazon in
Poland announced mandatory overtime. This meant working 11.5 hours, commuting
many hours, several hours of sleep and enormous demands, despite the constant
threat of the coronavirus. We are key employees, delivering necessary products
mainly to Western Europe in a pandemic. What do we get in return? The company has
made a fortune on us and once again we are treated like cheap labor. We earn much
less, and prices in other countries are not much lower. Food in Poland is 30%
cheaper than in Germany and only 25% cheaper than in Spain. We live badly, and
the reason is companies such as Amazon, which once again does not offer us even
half of the rates from other countries.
Unions operating in the Polish Amazon, OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza and NSZZ
Solidarnosc, have 30 days to take a position on the company's proposal. Unions
consult with Amazon members and employees. Please participate in the poll:
1. We only need PLN 600. Trade unions should accept Amazon's proposal
2. We want more. Trade unions should keep negotiating with Amazon
3. We want more. We need to support union negotiations with collective pressure
on the company. Declares joint participation in protests (e.g. slowing down of
work / wearing a vest "2,000 for everyone" and others)
Please answer here: https://tiny.pl/7st6s
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2720-nie-dla-dyskryminacji-pracownikow-amazon-w-polsce
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Message: 6
Last Sunday on Nov 29 we took initiative and organized the protest to show our
solidarity with anarchist, anti-fascists and other people of Belarus who are
fighting against dictatorship regime of Lukashenko ---- Original call and more
background here. ----
https://www.agamsterdam.org/call-for-solidarity-with-belarus-demo/ ---- At 2 pm
on the Beursplein in Amsterdam people started to gather. Soon we were almost 35
people, of different ages and backgrounds, including people from outside
Amsterdam. There were banners and black/red flags, hundreds of flyers were
distributed to the passing public. There was a small sound system and various
speeches were given. ---- Even though such actions are very unlikely to influence
situation in Belarus, we still find it important to show our solidarity and
spread the message. Not a lot of things can be better for a prisoner than reports
of solidarity actions with him from all over the world.
Strength and determination to the freedom fighters from Belarus! Always in
solidarity with all oppressed against all oppressors!
P.S. We already posted our thoughts about organizing street actions during corona
time here and the most of it is still valid.
https://www.agamsterdam.org/report-back-of-protest-in-solidarity-with-anarchist-abtin-parsa/
Updates English news from the Anarchist Black Cross Belarus:
https://abc-belarus.org/?lang=en
This action was organized by the Anarchist Group Amsterdam - Vrije Bond
https://www.agamsterdam.org/
aga@agamsterdam.org
https://www.agamsterdam.org/report-back-from-the-solidarity-with-belarusian-protests-demonstration/
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