Today's Topics:
1. Czech, afed: Fight for bread and roses -- Book review
Feminism for 99% [machine translation]
Feminism for 99% [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #312 - Against
racism, Federal orientation: UCL's commitment against
Islamophobia (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
racism, Federal orientation: UCL's commitment against
Islamophobia (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. anarkismo.net: Baekyao, "The Makhno of Korea" by Dmitri
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Uk, Leeds SolFed: BOYCOTT CHILEAN PRODUCTS!
SOLIDARITY WITH
IMPRISONED PROTESTERS! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
IMPRISONED PROTESTERS! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Russia, avtonom: Strategic Notes: Peter Gelderloos on the US
Situation (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Situation (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, AFED: We do what we can -- We have our dreams
and we
follow them. The anarchist federation is entering the
follow them. The anarchist federation is entering the
new year.
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Message: 1
It would seem that a new publishing house has appeared here - Svobodná knihovna,
zs But make no mistake, this is the good old Neklid , which has published several
new titles in a very short sequence. These include a booklet quite clearly called
Feminism for 99%. Manifesto. It is a joint work of three authors. Cinzia Arruzza,
Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser are not 99% classical representatives, they
are university professors. But don't be afraid, their manifesto is not another
practice of foreign words in the text for a handful of intellectuals. And they
are not the authors who write about those downstairs from the heat of their
cabinets without experiencing their struggles at the same time. On the contrary,
they are activists who, for example, co-organized the International Women's Strike.
They begin their 2019 manifesto by rejecting a form of feminism that aims, in
particular, to increase the representation of women in corporate governance,
boards, governments and parliaments. Such an approach makes feminism a mere maid
of capitalism to enable women in the ruling class to participate more in
decision-making and exploitation. But this is just a continuation of the path to
a "burned planet" instead of a "just world." It's either or. And so feminism
stands for 99%, feminism with a completely different class orientation, which by
its very nature can no longer stand on its own, but must unite with other
movements - anti-capitalist, environmental and anti-racist - with a struggle for
free quality education. , generous public services, affordable housing, labor
rights or a world without wars.
The authors then build on concrete manifestations of a new wave of feminism,
which sweeps around different parts of the world and rediscovers the strike as a
tool to make their interests visible and assert them. In fact, radical feminism
is nothing new, as the manifesto may seem. In rejecting liberal feminism, which
is in a way part of our problems, they make it clear: "We don't want to celebrate
CEOs in luxury offices - on the contrary, we want to get rid of CEOs and their
luxury offices once and for all."
The manifesto has a clear intention "to identify and directly confront the real
source of crisis and misery - and that is capitalism." The basis of gender
oppression is thus "subordinating social reproduction to profit-oriented
production." And as the title of one chapter puts it: "gender-based violence
takes many forms and is all linked to capitalist social relations." Here we are
directly exposed to the economizing view of the life of the individual and
society as we know it from Marxism. After all, even the authors consider the
predecessor of their manifesto from Marx and Engels from 1848. And although a
really large part of gender violence is based on relations determined by
capitalism, as is well described in the manifesto, the world is multi-layered, by
their examination of unnatural authorities, they would certainly object.
Despite this, however, this manifesto is a very successful statement that the
feminism of those below is diametrically opposed to the liberal one, that all
bottom-up struggles must be understood as part of one common one, and that "our
weapon is a vision that is feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist at the same
time. ".
https://www.afed.cz/text/7277/boj-za-chleb-a-ruze
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Message: 2
Like the League of Human Rights, Amnesty International, Solidaires and others,
UCL protested against the dissolution of the Committee against Islamophobia in
France (CCIF) by the government, which accused it of having part linked with
jihadism, although it is an NGO for the defense of rights guaranteed by
secularism. To clarify its commitment against Islamophobia, the federal
coordination of the UCL adopted 90% of the mandates, in October 2020, this
framing motion. ---- While the government designates "religious separatism" as a
new enemy from within, it is necessary to reaffirm, by clarifying it, the
approach of the UCL in its fight against Islamophobia.
The UCL Manifesto identifies two sources of Islamophobia in the West: on the one
hand, the building of a " white and Christian national body"; on the other hand,
the persistence of colonial racism. For UCL, Islamophobia targets people who are
Muslim or assigned as such. It leads this struggle on an anti-racist and class
basis, against the division of the proletariat by power, for equality and for
freedom of worship and conscience. A commitment in no way contradictory with the
radical criticism of religions.
The goal of UCL is not only to denounce Islamophobia, but to roll it back on a
mass scale. To take this fight to a mass scale - which the UCL cannot achieve on
its own - we need a broad unitary framework.
Why a unitary framework
The march of November 10, 2019 was driven by such a unitary framework, with an
arc of force largely rallying to the left (politically and unionally). A
denominational component was added to it, including the LES Muslims platform,
with conservative elements.
This November 10, 2019 march - which responded to a wave of Islamophobia fueled
by the highest peaks in the state - marked a turning point. For the first time in
a long time, the French left as a whole braved the media smear campaign and
affirmed its rejection of the stigmatization of the Muslim minority. The
anti-racist camp has emerged strengthened.
What political perimeter?
It is necessary that the union, political and associative structures engaged in
the anti-racist fight participate in this unitary framework: CGT, Solidaires,
CNT, CNT-SO, FSU...; FA, NPA, Ensemble, EELV, PCF...; Mrap, LDH... In addition,
it is vital that this unitary framework integrates associations which, although
not denominational, can themselves be targeted by Islamophobia - CCIF, FUIQP,
ATMF, FTCR, ACTIT, Acor, Adama Committee...
The UCL will seek as a priority to associate these structures with the unitary
framework because, as indicated in its Manifesto , its solidarity goes " in the
first place to the movements which, with the anti-racist struggles, associate a
democratic project of social emancipation based on the action of the popular
classes".
On the other hand, the UCL will do nothing to associate with this unitary
framework conservative associations, denominational or not, institutional or not
- of the style CFCM, Amif, platform LES Musulmans. But, insofar as they do not
explicitly defend a fundamentalist project, their presence in a unitary framework
will not hinder the signing of the UCL on a common appeal, since this is
politically clear, and not contradictory with what the UCL stands for.
Our activist approach
The libertarian communist current must be part of the mobilizations, not just
comment on them from the outside. It is by being in a framework that we make it
evolve, and the march of November 10, 2019 proved that it was possible that this
would go in the right direction. This approach remains that of UCL. The debate
can remain open on the advisability of the presence or not of certain structures
or personalities in this unitary framework. But this debate should not be a means
of weakening the response to the Islamophobic offensive.
Federal coordination of the Libertarian Communist Union, October 2020
Logo: Demonstration of families of police victims, March 19, 2017, in Paris. cc
Vincent Nakash / UCL Saint-Denis
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Orientation-federale-L-engagement-de-l-UCL-contre-l-islamophobie
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Message: 3
The Shinmin Liberal Commune was structured in a decentralized and federal way,
operating with three types of councils: municipal, regional and provincial, and
with the free cooperation of all to address vital needs, agriculture, education,
funding, etc. Although Japanese troops were better armed, Kim successfully
defended the Shinmin Liberation Commune, with the support of other Northeast
Asian groups, being able to resist the invaders. ---- Kim JWA-Jin or Baekyao,
"The Makhno of Korea" ---- Korean anarchist Kim JWA-Jin was also known as Baekyao
"The Makhno of Korea". Born on December 16, 1889, he was born in Hongseong,
Chungcheong Province, to a wealthy family. His father was Kim kyeong-Gyu.
At the age of 15 he sold his house, with more than 80 bedrooms, where his family
lived from generation to generation, and moved to a smaller one. Three years
later, he freed 50 slave families and burned public records of slavery, giving
each family enough land to live on; this was the first act of slave emancipation
in modern Korea.
He founded the Homyeong School to promote modern science among the masses, as
well as the Giho Heunghakhoe Foundation, which provided scholarships to young
people from rural areas to study in Seoul. Around 1909, with Yi Chang Bong, They
also set up an orphanage in Seoul. In addition, they set up several companies
based on a cooperative structure and a newspaper in Hong Kong.
He soon began his struggle against Japanese imperialism. In 1919 the Northern
Army was formed to achieve independence from Korea, which was occupied by
Japanese troops. On October 21, 1920, an ambush stopped in Chingshanli, Siberia,
with the support of the independent Hong Beom-Do military corps, in a regiment of
3,000 Japanese soldiers led by Kano, causing 1,200 fatal casualties to the
invader, including Kano . Shortly afterwards, Kim led his army to victory in the
Manchurian capital, Cheongsanni.
With this triumph, he was appointed chairman of the Korean Executive Committee
and tried to unite all the groups of the independence movement in Manchuria,
where more than two million Korean immigrants lived. When the Communist Anarchist
Federation of Korea (FACC) established an independent revolutionary community in
Shinmin Province, in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in 1929, under the command of
the Korean People's Union, it led its armed forces of Japanese troops.
The Shinmin Liberal Commune was structured in a decentralized and federal way,
operating with three types of councils: municipal, regional and provincial, and
with the free cooperation of all to address vital needs, agriculture, education,
funding, etc. Although Japanese troops were better armed, Kim successfully
defended the Shinmin Liberation Commune, with the support of other Northeast
Asian groups, being able to resist the invaders.
Baekya's physiognomy has become a legend in Manchuria and North Korea. Kim
JWA-Jin was assassinated on January 24, 1930 in Shinmin while repairing a rice
mill built by the FACC. Although the criminal material for his murder was never
found, a young member of the Communist Party of Korea (CPC), who was the direct
instigator of the crime, was arrested and executed. Following Baekyao's
assassination, the anarchist movement in Manchuria and Korea suffered mass
repression. Japan sent troops to attack Shinming Liberal Commune from the south,
while Soviet and Chinese Stalinists, former allies of the anarchists, attacked
from the north.
During the summer of 1932, Shinmin's most prominent anarchists were killed and
war on both sides proved insecure. The libertarians went underground as Shinmin
Liberal Commune was annihilated.
Kim JWA-Jim has been remembered by both North and South Korea as one of the
leaders of national independence. In 1991 his house in Hongseong was renovated
and turned into a museum. Also, a festival is held every year in October in his
honor.
Source: Eleuterio Perot Fernandez. Translation: Neither God nor Master.
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32137
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Message: 4
We post below a statement from the Chilean Friends of the International Workers'
Association, Grupo Germinal, explaining the Neoliberal Government's harsh
repression of protests and asking that pressure be applied to relevant diplomatic
institutions, businesses, and organisations with protests and letters of
solidarity. ---- In addition, the French Section (CNT-AIT) has proposed "a
boycott of Chilean products as long as all the prisoners have not been released"
- something we support as the Leeds local of the Solidarity Federation. Because
of Chile's export oriented economy, in practice this means refusing to buy food
products originating there, such as salmon, avocado, wine, grapes, or kiwis.
Christmas is one of the most important times of the year for this market, and so
a well-organised boycott still has the potential to be highly effective.
Statement from Grupo Germinal:
"Since the uprising of the people of Chile against the rise in Metro tickets,
transport services and the neoliberal policies of the Chilean government, which
started a popular revolt that left more than 11,300 people detained, 2,500 of
whom are imprisoned, many with investigations and without convictions, in
preventive detention. What has been interpreted as an action of political
repression seeking to outlaw the protest.
The prisoners who are in the prisons of Chile since October 18, 2019, are
deprived of liberty for breaking a turnstile (which are at the entrance of the
Metro stations), for accusations of Carabineros as witnesses for fire, aggression
to the police, looting, barricades, burning churches and banks, etc. Many of
these accusations have been dropped due to lack of real evidence or because the
fallacy of the accusations has been proven.
Therefore, for the general public, these accusations are seen as revenge on the
part of the power and the State against those who have risen up against the
ruling elite.
Since the first days of December of this year, a campaign has been launched for
the freedom of the prisoners of the revolt, which has pressured the deputies,
ministers and the government to lift the preventive detention and the prisoners
can fulfill the investigation period with house arrest, the same type of
sentences that have been given to police officers accused of violation of human
rights, whether for rape, serious injuries to protesters, torture and murder, of
which a small number are in preventive detention in police barracks.
We call on the anarchists of the planet to join this campaign and send letters of
repudiation to the Chilean government through its embassies and consulates
demanding the immediate freedom of the Prisoners of the Chilean Revolt. And we
ask those who can make demonstrations outside embassies, consulates and interests
of Chilean companies to do so.
ONLY SOLIDARITY IS THE WEAPON OF WORKERS AND OF THOSE OPPRESSED AGAINST THE STATE
AND CAPITAL.
Germinal Anarchist Group"
Leeds SolFed stands in solidarity with all those imprisoned for
anti-state/capitalist protest, and we hope you will too. Pay attention to your
food labels, and anything else you are buying that may be a Chilean export. Only
with international solidarity can we finally end the global carceral system and
the predatory capitalism it maintains.
https://leedssolfed.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/boycott-chilean-products-solidarity-with-imprisoned-protesters/
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Message: 5
American anarchist Peter Gelderloos wrote in his twitter about the possible
consequences of yesterday's assault on the Capitol supporters Trump. He also
recalled the main priorities for the US anarchist movement. Avtonom.org publishes
a translation of these notes. ---- If the Republicans decide to remove Trump,
then the Democrats will welcome it. Then the renewed democracy will become very
centrist. Fascists will be left without electoral representation and will look
for other ways of action. If the Republicans do not dare to do this, then the
Democrats will go to court in two weeks. They defiantly distance themselves from
the Republicans through progressive politics and a variety of (mostly symbolic)
actions. These actions will include reprisals against all "extremists", both left
and right. In any case, they will find ways to increase pressure on anti-racist
and anti-capitalist riots, just in the second case they will more actively use
the integration of activists.
Trump is over now, but if he and his henchmen are not punished, electoral
trumpism could return again in two years. From a practical point of view, it is
extremely important to resist the attempts of the fascists to organize. You also
need to keep in mind that ignoring the fascists strengthens them. But the biggest
threat is the State. This is a good moment to remind people that cops don't
protect us. They embody all the worst in society.
The main revolutionary points of conflict in the United States are still the
racism of the police and immigration authorities, as well as exploitation at home
and at work. It is necessary to give a decisive rebuff to the cops-murderers and
attempts to evict for non-payment. We're not here to defend elections.
Peter Gelderloos
https://avtonom.org/news/strategicheskie-zametki-piter-gelderloos-o-situacii-v-ssha
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Message: 6
The Anarchist Federation (AF) was founded in 1995 and since then has had the same
goal - to organize anarchists who want to overcome the existing relationship of
domination and subordination that would lead to the creation of a free,
self-governing and bottom-up society. We have far-reaching goals, but on a
practical level we can realize our visions partly now and here. ---- Some of us
study, most then go to work or work on various contracts, so that it is up to
where to live, and when we do, there is also something left to cover the costs
associated with various political and non-political activities. We are against
capitalism, but we feel trapped in it, trapped in economic and social relations
over which we have little influence. We know that our lives are largely shaped by
the needs of capital, which sees us only as human resources that are forced to
undermine it for the sake of bare survival.
Nevertheless, we do not give up the anarchist vision, a society where we would be
masters of our own lives on the basis of free agreements, where we would give
according to our possibilities and take according to our needs. And so we try, as
far as possible, to create at least small free spaces that stand outside
capitalism, and if possible against it. We do what we can. But we do not want to
sacrifice the rest of our lives to political activism, we want to live above all.
That is why our activism is in a way connected with freedom and life. It is
reflected in how we shape our communities, how we treat each other, with whom we
establish cooperation, in which areas we are involved. Each according to their
abilities, possibilities and specific interest.
We know that the world is troubled by hundreds and thousands of problems, most of
which have the same denominator - the desire for power, whether political or
economic. Capitalism and authoritarianism seek to gain new territories and
maintain power and profits on those already conquered. This in turn entails
social inequalities, exploitation, war, human and animal suffering, plunder of
nature, climate destruction, species extinction, trampling on labor rights,
racism, nationalism, etc.
We would like to be on all fronts where the privileged are fighting for their
rights and power is being raised. We would like to support all communities that
are fighting for their autonomy. We would like to enter into all matches that we
consider important. And that there are. We would like to inform you all about it.
We would like to express our solidarity, belonging and love to all the fighting
people down there in all corners of the world. We would like to help all those
who suffer and feed all the hungry.
There are not thousands of us, but we do what we can. We do not intend to confess
to anyone that we do not pay attention to this and that we do not inform about
this or that problem. We do what we can. And we will not sacrifice our lives in a
naive effort to save the world. We don't want to save anyone. We don't want to
solve his problems for anyone. We don't want to tell anyone what or how to do it.
We don't want to appropriate foreign battles. We do not want to promote
ourselves. We don't want to lead anyone, just as we don't want to be led. We get
inspired and we want to be our own inspiration on how to live a freer life.
We have our personal and collective desires. We have our lives. We are bound by
friendship, we feel like comrades to each other, despite the way this concept has
been discredited by the previous regime and the fact that we do not usually use
it in our public speeches. There are things we want to do with others. We realize
that as individuals we are not as strong as when we act together.
Organization gives us opportunities that we do not have as a lone individual.
Capitalism wants us to be atomized. Our answer is a collectivity that respects a
free individual. For us, the organization is a tool for the development of
ourselves, our local groups and projects that go across regions and teams.
Organization for us is not closing ourselves to a bubble and playing on our own
sand, it is an opportunity for us to be open, to participate in activities going
across different groups and individuals.
We do what we can, and in doing so we always keep in mind the basic anarchist
principles of equality, freedom and mutual assistance. We don't care if we are
not enough anarchists for some or dangerous others for others. We are happy to
hear criticism and comments, but we will always form our policies and specific
activities and alliances according to our own, if possible on the basis of
consensus within our individual groups, or the federation as a whole.
It would be very nice to be part of a mass revolutionary organization. If there
were conditions for its origin and existence, it would undoubtedly already exist.
We do not drown in revolutionary ideas and skepticism of unfulfilled wishes.
Fight is the way. Now we are following it in the number of several dozen people.
Someone joins, someone disconnects and goes their own way. Maybe that journey
will connect us with millions of other unprivileged people one day. Maybe not. We
will not collapse from this possibility. We will continue on the path of anarchy
and do what we can.
If you want to go on this journey with us, organize, for example, within the
Anarchist Federation.
If you want to learn more about anarchism, read the brochure Anarchism for
Beginners , which has just been published by our publishing house.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7280/delame-co-muzeme
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[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
It would seem that a new publishing house has appeared here - Svobodná knihovna,
zs But make no mistake, this is the good old Neklid , which has published several
new titles in a very short sequence. These include a booklet quite clearly called
Feminism for 99%. Manifesto. It is a joint work of three authors. Cinzia Arruzza,
Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser are not 99% classical representatives, they
are university professors. But don't be afraid, their manifesto is not another
practice of foreign words in the text for a handful of intellectuals. And they
are not the authors who write about those downstairs from the heat of their
cabinets without experiencing their struggles at the same time. On the contrary,
they are activists who, for example, co-organized the International Women's Strike.
They begin their 2019 manifesto by rejecting a form of feminism that aims, in
particular, to increase the representation of women in corporate governance,
boards, governments and parliaments. Such an approach makes feminism a mere maid
of capitalism to enable women in the ruling class to participate more in
decision-making and exploitation. But this is just a continuation of the path to
a "burned planet" instead of a "just world." It's either or. And so feminism
stands for 99%, feminism with a completely different class orientation, which by
its very nature can no longer stand on its own, but must unite with other
movements - anti-capitalist, environmental and anti-racist - with a struggle for
free quality education. , generous public services, affordable housing, labor
rights or a world without wars.
The authors then build on concrete manifestations of a new wave of feminism,
which sweeps around different parts of the world and rediscovers the strike as a
tool to make their interests visible and assert them. In fact, radical feminism
is nothing new, as the manifesto may seem. In rejecting liberal feminism, which
is in a way part of our problems, they make it clear: "We don't want to celebrate
CEOs in luxury offices - on the contrary, we want to get rid of CEOs and their
luxury offices once and for all."
The manifesto has a clear intention "to identify and directly confront the real
source of crisis and misery - and that is capitalism." The basis of gender
oppression is thus "subordinating social reproduction to profit-oriented
production." And as the title of one chapter puts it: "gender-based violence
takes many forms and is all linked to capitalist social relations." Here we are
directly exposed to the economizing view of the life of the individual and
society as we know it from Marxism. After all, even the authors consider the
predecessor of their manifesto from Marx and Engels from 1848. And although a
really large part of gender violence is based on relations determined by
capitalism, as is well described in the manifesto, the world is multi-layered, by
their examination of unnatural authorities, they would certainly object.
Despite this, however, this manifesto is a very successful statement that the
feminism of those below is diametrically opposed to the liberal one, that all
bottom-up struggles must be understood as part of one common one, and that "our
weapon is a vision that is feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist at the same
time. ".
https://www.afed.cz/text/7277/boj-za-chleb-a-ruze
------------------------------
Message: 2
Like the League of Human Rights, Amnesty International, Solidaires and others,
UCL protested against the dissolution of the Committee against Islamophobia in
France (CCIF) by the government, which accused it of having part linked with
jihadism, although it is an NGO for the defense of rights guaranteed by
secularism. To clarify its commitment against Islamophobia, the federal
coordination of the UCL adopted 90% of the mandates, in October 2020, this
framing motion. ---- While the government designates "religious separatism" as a
new enemy from within, it is necessary to reaffirm, by clarifying it, the
approach of the UCL in its fight against Islamophobia.
The UCL Manifesto identifies two sources of Islamophobia in the West: on the one
hand, the building of a " white and Christian national body"; on the other hand,
the persistence of colonial racism. For UCL, Islamophobia targets people who are
Muslim or assigned as such. It leads this struggle on an anti-racist and class
basis, against the division of the proletariat by power, for equality and for
freedom of worship and conscience. A commitment in no way contradictory with the
radical criticism of religions.
The goal of UCL is not only to denounce Islamophobia, but to roll it back on a
mass scale. To take this fight to a mass scale - which the UCL cannot achieve on
its own - we need a broad unitary framework.
Why a unitary framework
The march of November 10, 2019 was driven by such a unitary framework, with an
arc of force largely rallying to the left (politically and unionally). A
denominational component was added to it, including the LES Muslims platform,
with conservative elements.
This November 10, 2019 march - which responded to a wave of Islamophobia fueled
by the highest peaks in the state - marked a turning point. For the first time in
a long time, the French left as a whole braved the media smear campaign and
affirmed its rejection of the stigmatization of the Muslim minority. The
anti-racist camp has emerged strengthened.
What political perimeter?
It is necessary that the union, political and associative structures engaged in
the anti-racist fight participate in this unitary framework: CGT, Solidaires,
CNT, CNT-SO, FSU...; FA, NPA, Ensemble, EELV, PCF...; Mrap, LDH... In addition,
it is vital that this unitary framework integrates associations which, although
not denominational, can themselves be targeted by Islamophobia - CCIF, FUIQP,
ATMF, FTCR, ACTIT, Acor, Adama Committee...
The UCL will seek as a priority to associate these structures with the unitary
framework because, as indicated in its Manifesto , its solidarity goes " in the
first place to the movements which, with the anti-racist struggles, associate a
democratic project of social emancipation based on the action of the popular
classes".
On the other hand, the UCL will do nothing to associate with this unitary
framework conservative associations, denominational or not, institutional or not
- of the style CFCM, Amif, platform LES Musulmans. But, insofar as they do not
explicitly defend a fundamentalist project, their presence in a unitary framework
will not hinder the signing of the UCL on a common appeal, since this is
politically clear, and not contradictory with what the UCL stands for.
Our activist approach
The libertarian communist current must be part of the mobilizations, not just
comment on them from the outside. It is by being in a framework that we make it
evolve, and the march of November 10, 2019 proved that it was possible that this
would go in the right direction. This approach remains that of UCL. The debate
can remain open on the advisability of the presence or not of certain structures
or personalities in this unitary framework. But this debate should not be a means
of weakening the response to the Islamophobic offensive.
Federal coordination of the Libertarian Communist Union, October 2020
Logo: Demonstration of families of police victims, March 19, 2017, in Paris. cc
Vincent Nakash / UCL Saint-Denis
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Orientation-federale-L-engagement-de-l-UCL-contre-l-islamophobie
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Message: 3
The Shinmin Liberal Commune was structured in a decentralized and federal way,
operating with three types of councils: municipal, regional and provincial, and
with the free cooperation of all to address vital needs, agriculture, education,
funding, etc. Although Japanese troops were better armed, Kim successfully
defended the Shinmin Liberation Commune, with the support of other Northeast
Asian groups, being able to resist the invaders. ---- Kim JWA-Jin or Baekyao,
"The Makhno of Korea" ---- Korean anarchist Kim JWA-Jin was also known as Baekyao
"The Makhno of Korea". Born on December 16, 1889, he was born in Hongseong,
Chungcheong Province, to a wealthy family. His father was Kim kyeong-Gyu.
At the age of 15 he sold his house, with more than 80 bedrooms, where his family
lived from generation to generation, and moved to a smaller one. Three years
later, he freed 50 slave families and burned public records of slavery, giving
each family enough land to live on; this was the first act of slave emancipation
in modern Korea.
He founded the Homyeong School to promote modern science among the masses, as
well as the Giho Heunghakhoe Foundation, which provided scholarships to young
people from rural areas to study in Seoul. Around 1909, with Yi Chang Bong, They
also set up an orphanage in Seoul. In addition, they set up several companies
based on a cooperative structure and a newspaper in Hong Kong.
He soon began his struggle against Japanese imperialism. In 1919 the Northern
Army was formed to achieve independence from Korea, which was occupied by
Japanese troops. On October 21, 1920, an ambush stopped in Chingshanli, Siberia,
with the support of the independent Hong Beom-Do military corps, in a regiment of
3,000 Japanese soldiers led by Kano, causing 1,200 fatal casualties to the
invader, including Kano . Shortly afterwards, Kim led his army to victory in the
Manchurian capital, Cheongsanni.
With this triumph, he was appointed chairman of the Korean Executive Committee
and tried to unite all the groups of the independence movement in Manchuria,
where more than two million Korean immigrants lived. When the Communist Anarchist
Federation of Korea (FACC) established an independent revolutionary community in
Shinmin Province, in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in 1929, under the command of
the Korean People's Union, it led its armed forces of Japanese troops.
The Shinmin Liberal Commune was structured in a decentralized and federal way,
operating with three types of councils: municipal, regional and provincial, and
with the free cooperation of all to address vital needs, agriculture, education,
funding, etc. Although Japanese troops were better armed, Kim successfully
defended the Shinmin Liberation Commune, with the support of other Northeast
Asian groups, being able to resist the invaders.
Baekya's physiognomy has become a legend in Manchuria and North Korea. Kim
JWA-Jin was assassinated on January 24, 1930 in Shinmin while repairing a rice
mill built by the FACC. Although the criminal material for his murder was never
found, a young member of the Communist Party of Korea (CPC), who was the direct
instigator of the crime, was arrested and executed. Following Baekyao's
assassination, the anarchist movement in Manchuria and Korea suffered mass
repression. Japan sent troops to attack Shinming Liberal Commune from the south,
while Soviet and Chinese Stalinists, former allies of the anarchists, attacked
from the north.
During the summer of 1932, Shinmin's most prominent anarchists were killed and
war on both sides proved insecure. The libertarians went underground as Shinmin
Liberal Commune was annihilated.
Kim JWA-Jim has been remembered by both North and South Korea as one of the
leaders of national independence. In 1991 his house in Hongseong was renovated
and turned into a museum. Also, a festival is held every year in October in his
honor.
Source: Eleuterio Perot Fernandez. Translation: Neither God nor Master.
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32137
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Message: 4
We post below a statement from the Chilean Friends of the International Workers'
Association, Grupo Germinal, explaining the Neoliberal Government's harsh
repression of protests and asking that pressure be applied to relevant diplomatic
institutions, businesses, and organisations with protests and letters of
solidarity. ---- In addition, the French Section (CNT-AIT) has proposed "a
boycott of Chilean products as long as all the prisoners have not been released"
- something we support as the Leeds local of the Solidarity Federation. Because
of Chile's export oriented economy, in practice this means refusing to buy food
products originating there, such as salmon, avocado, wine, grapes, or kiwis.
Christmas is one of the most important times of the year for this market, and so
a well-organised boycott still has the potential to be highly effective.
Statement from Grupo Germinal:
"Since the uprising of the people of Chile against the rise in Metro tickets,
transport services and the neoliberal policies of the Chilean government, which
started a popular revolt that left more than 11,300 people detained, 2,500 of
whom are imprisoned, many with investigations and without convictions, in
preventive detention. What has been interpreted as an action of political
repression seeking to outlaw the protest.
The prisoners who are in the prisons of Chile since October 18, 2019, are
deprived of liberty for breaking a turnstile (which are at the entrance of the
Metro stations), for accusations of Carabineros as witnesses for fire, aggression
to the police, looting, barricades, burning churches and banks, etc. Many of
these accusations have been dropped due to lack of real evidence or because the
fallacy of the accusations has been proven.
Therefore, for the general public, these accusations are seen as revenge on the
part of the power and the State against those who have risen up against the
ruling elite.
Since the first days of December of this year, a campaign has been launched for
the freedom of the prisoners of the revolt, which has pressured the deputies,
ministers and the government to lift the preventive detention and the prisoners
can fulfill the investigation period with house arrest, the same type of
sentences that have been given to police officers accused of violation of human
rights, whether for rape, serious injuries to protesters, torture and murder, of
which a small number are in preventive detention in police barracks.
We call on the anarchists of the planet to join this campaign and send letters of
repudiation to the Chilean government through its embassies and consulates
demanding the immediate freedom of the Prisoners of the Chilean Revolt. And we
ask those who can make demonstrations outside embassies, consulates and interests
of Chilean companies to do so.
ONLY SOLIDARITY IS THE WEAPON OF WORKERS AND OF THOSE OPPRESSED AGAINST THE STATE
AND CAPITAL.
Germinal Anarchist Group"
Leeds SolFed stands in solidarity with all those imprisoned for
anti-state/capitalist protest, and we hope you will too. Pay attention to your
food labels, and anything else you are buying that may be a Chilean export. Only
with international solidarity can we finally end the global carceral system and
the predatory capitalism it maintains.
https://leedssolfed.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/boycott-chilean-products-solidarity-with-imprisoned-protesters/
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Message: 5
American anarchist Peter Gelderloos wrote in his twitter about the possible
consequences of yesterday's assault on the Capitol supporters Trump. He also
recalled the main priorities for the US anarchist movement. Avtonom.org publishes
a translation of these notes. ---- If the Republicans decide to remove Trump,
then the Democrats will welcome it. Then the renewed democracy will become very
centrist. Fascists will be left without electoral representation and will look
for other ways of action. If the Republicans do not dare to do this, then the
Democrats will go to court in two weeks. They defiantly distance themselves from
the Republicans through progressive politics and a variety of (mostly symbolic)
actions. These actions will include reprisals against all "extremists", both left
and right. In any case, they will find ways to increase pressure on anti-racist
and anti-capitalist riots, just in the second case they will more actively use
the integration of activists.
Trump is over now, but if he and his henchmen are not punished, electoral
trumpism could return again in two years. From a practical point of view, it is
extremely important to resist the attempts of the fascists to organize. You also
need to keep in mind that ignoring the fascists strengthens them. But the biggest
threat is the State. This is a good moment to remind people that cops don't
protect us. They embody all the worst in society.
The main revolutionary points of conflict in the United States are still the
racism of the police and immigration authorities, as well as exploitation at home
and at work. It is necessary to give a decisive rebuff to the cops-murderers and
attempts to evict for non-payment. We're not here to defend elections.
Peter Gelderloos
https://avtonom.org/news/strategicheskie-zametki-piter-gelderloos-o-situacii-v-ssha
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Message: 6
The Anarchist Federation (AF) was founded in 1995 and since then has had the same
goal - to organize anarchists who want to overcome the existing relationship of
domination and subordination that would lead to the creation of a free,
self-governing and bottom-up society. We have far-reaching goals, but on a
practical level we can realize our visions partly now and here. ---- Some of us
study, most then go to work or work on various contracts, so that it is up to
where to live, and when we do, there is also something left to cover the costs
associated with various political and non-political activities. We are against
capitalism, but we feel trapped in it, trapped in economic and social relations
over which we have little influence. We know that our lives are largely shaped by
the needs of capital, which sees us only as human resources that are forced to
undermine it for the sake of bare survival.
Nevertheless, we do not give up the anarchist vision, a society where we would be
masters of our own lives on the basis of free agreements, where we would give
according to our possibilities and take according to our needs. And so we try, as
far as possible, to create at least small free spaces that stand outside
capitalism, and if possible against it. We do what we can. But we do not want to
sacrifice the rest of our lives to political activism, we want to live above all.
That is why our activism is in a way connected with freedom and life. It is
reflected in how we shape our communities, how we treat each other, with whom we
establish cooperation, in which areas we are involved. Each according to their
abilities, possibilities and specific interest.
We know that the world is troubled by hundreds and thousands of problems, most of
which have the same denominator - the desire for power, whether political or
economic. Capitalism and authoritarianism seek to gain new territories and
maintain power and profits on those already conquered. This in turn entails
social inequalities, exploitation, war, human and animal suffering, plunder of
nature, climate destruction, species extinction, trampling on labor rights,
racism, nationalism, etc.
We would like to be on all fronts where the privileged are fighting for their
rights and power is being raised. We would like to support all communities that
are fighting for their autonomy. We would like to enter into all matches that we
consider important. And that there are. We would like to inform you all about it.
We would like to express our solidarity, belonging and love to all the fighting
people down there in all corners of the world. We would like to help all those
who suffer and feed all the hungry.
There are not thousands of us, but we do what we can. We do not intend to confess
to anyone that we do not pay attention to this and that we do not inform about
this or that problem. We do what we can. And we will not sacrifice our lives in a
naive effort to save the world. We don't want to save anyone. We don't want to
solve his problems for anyone. We don't want to tell anyone what or how to do it.
We don't want to appropriate foreign battles. We do not want to promote
ourselves. We don't want to lead anyone, just as we don't want to be led. We get
inspired and we want to be our own inspiration on how to live a freer life.
We have our personal and collective desires. We have our lives. We are bound by
friendship, we feel like comrades to each other, despite the way this concept has
been discredited by the previous regime and the fact that we do not usually use
it in our public speeches. There are things we want to do with others. We realize
that as individuals we are not as strong as when we act together.
Organization gives us opportunities that we do not have as a lone individual.
Capitalism wants us to be atomized. Our answer is a collectivity that respects a
free individual. For us, the organization is a tool for the development of
ourselves, our local groups and projects that go across regions and teams.
Organization for us is not closing ourselves to a bubble and playing on our own
sand, it is an opportunity for us to be open, to participate in activities going
across different groups and individuals.
We do what we can, and in doing so we always keep in mind the basic anarchist
principles of equality, freedom and mutual assistance. We don't care if we are
not enough anarchists for some or dangerous others for others. We are happy to
hear criticism and comments, but we will always form our policies and specific
activities and alliances according to our own, if possible on the basis of
consensus within our individual groups, or the federation as a whole.
It would be very nice to be part of a mass revolutionary organization. If there
were conditions for its origin and existence, it would undoubtedly already exist.
We do not drown in revolutionary ideas and skepticism of unfulfilled wishes.
Fight is the way. Now we are following it in the number of several dozen people.
Someone joins, someone disconnects and goes their own way. Maybe that journey
will connect us with millions of other unprivileged people one day. Maybe not. We
will not collapse from this possibility. We will continue on the path of anarchy
and do what we can.
If you want to go on this journey with us, organize, for example, within the
Anarchist Federation.
If you want to learn more about anarchism, read the brochure Anarchism for
Beginners , which has just been published by our publishing house.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7280/delame-co-muzeme
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