Today's Topics:
1. France, UCL AL #312 - International, Mexico: A Zapatista
tour of Europe in the spring (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
tour of Europe in the spring (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, AFED: Excavators will not destroy our community!
Slovenian squatters say [machine translation]
Slovenian squatters say [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. UK, AFED, organise magazine: Justice For Mohamud | Current
Events (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Events (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, liberta salonica: Solidarity march in Koufontina in
Kalamaria [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Kalamaria [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, [Patra] Gathering in solidarity with the hunger
striker, D. Koufontina | Sat. 23/1, 12.00, Olgas
striker, D. Koufontina | Sat. 23/1, 12.00, Olgas
Square [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. anarkismo.net: Bolsonaro and the twisted mirror with Trump
by BrunoL (ca, de, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
by BrunoL (ca, de, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. ait russia: "Yellow Vests" - "Act 115" [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
A Zapatista delegation will travel through Europe in the spring of 2021, the
opportunity for us to have fruitful discussions with the companions who are still
in resistance. ---- Since the 1994 uprising, the Zapatista movement has strived
to build autonomy, at the base and from the base, within the insurgent
communities of Chiapas, inspiring many political struggles in Mexico and across
the world and knowing how to collect in return many international supports. ----
Zapatism, more than a simple system of thought, knew how to develop a whole
system of political organization, but also social, economic and cultural. Among
these many achievements, we can cite health dispensaries, self-managed schools,
or even cooperatives of coffee producers. There is a well-stocked bibliography on
Zapatista theories and achievements in French literature. Thanks to these
practical implementations and the presence of the insurgent army of the
community, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), a balance of power with
the Mexican state has been able to maintain all these years.
But in recent months, the Zapatista communities have once again been the target
of attacks against their people and against their tools, directly targeting their
autonomy and self-government.
On August 22, a paramilitary group attacked and then set fire to two warehouses
containing the Zapatistas' coffee crops in the district of San Cristobàl de las
Casas, damaging the resources of the communities. On September 11, it was in Tila
that villagers were attacked with heavy weapons by the paramilitary group " Paz y
Justicia ", leaving one dead and several wounded. The return of this paramilitary
violence is generally covered up and instrumentalised by the state authorities,
when it is not directly organized by the latter to destabilize the Zapatista
system and the autonomous indigenous communities.
For Chiapas specialist Jérome Baschet, " this war must be understood in a double
movement of economic predation on the one hand and of (re) conquest of state
control over rebel territories on the other. To justify its policy, the State
argues the imperative of security - "to restore order" in indigenous territory -
and, in a clear neoliberal logic, the economic imperatives (growth,
globalization). At the same time, it tries to regain control over the lost
territories and to prepare the ground for transnational capital." [1]
The state and the paramilitaries still in ambush
In fact, megaprojects, instruments of colonization of territories, are legion in
southern Mexico and particularly in Chiapas. We remember the " Train aya "
project[2], but numerous programs for the construction of electrical and
industrial infrastructures are planned in Chiapas by the federal government in
the coming years. The return of the paramilitaries to the area is therefore far
from being a coincidence.
It is in this context that on October 5, Sub-Commander Moisés of the EZLN
announced the arrival in Europe in the spring of 2021 of a delegation of
Zapatistas, mainly made up of women. This tour will be an opportunity for the
Zapatistas to reaffirm their positions, to be able to talk about what they
experience on a daily basis in their territories and to ensure continued
international support. The end of the tour will be marked by a demonstration on
August 13, 2021 in Madrid, the symbolic date of the start of Spanish colonization
in Mexico. Let us know how to properly welcome the Zapatista delegation in
Europe, and let us help them promote their struggles while drawing inspiration
from their experience of self-management for a life of dignity.
Vincent (UCL Var)
Follow the news of Chiapas and find many press releases from the EZLN translated
on Espoirchiapas.blogspot.com .
Validate
[1] Jérome Baschet, "In Chiapas, the organized peoples facing the paramilitary
offensive" , Monday morning , October 19, 2020.
[2] "Mexico: the" Mayan Train ", weapon of domination" , Libertarian Alternative
, September 2020.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Mexique-Une-tournee-zapatiste-en-Europe-au-printemps
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Message: 2
In recent days, the autonomous Rog factory, one of Ljubljana's two squats, has
been evacuated. ---- The city of Ljubljana had one of the two squats evacuated a
few days ago, which made his life special for many years. The autonomous Rog
factory is already empty. However, the streets in Ljubljana are filling up to
support her. ---- The building belongs to the city, which bought it in 2002, but
never did anything with it, even though it planned a lot. Since 2006, the former
bicycle factory has been osquatized and functioned as an autonomous social
center. ---- This is not Rog's first attempt to evict, the city has been trying
to destroy Rog's Autonomous Factory for years. It presented its efforts to the
public with the aim of transforming Rog into the city's cultural center. In 2016,
the most significant attempt at eviction took place, but the locals managed to
resist the police raid and defended the squat on the barricades literally with
their own bodies. As part of the protests against the city's efforts to eliminate
the squat, a series of cultural and political events took place in Rog, and a
large number of people at that time expressed their support for Rog.
Gentrification is everywhere
Already when we were in Ljubljana in the summer of 2018 at the International
Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, where we had the
opportunity to visit Rog, local anarchists expressed concern that the city would
intervene against the squat. This was part of the process of gentrification that
Ljubljana, like other European cities, is going through. Rog is located in the
very center of the capital, a short walk from the perfectly repaired waterfront
full of tourists or under the castle, which with its modern renovated form
represents the tip of the entire gentrification glacier. A modern glass gallery
and a café in the middle of a medieval courtyard, this is exactly what tourists
will appreciate.
In 2019, the city won a lawsuit in which several official users of the autonomous
factory were sued for the right to use the building. The team around Rog tried to
establish a dialogue with the city and wanted to participate in the creation of
plans for further use of the building and to organize a public forum about it.
However, the city rejected the debate. In its press release, it stated that there
was no time for similar discussions, that public debates with various subjects
took place. We can guess to what extent the voice of the public and ordinary
inhabitants of the city was heard in them. The city then ended the discussion
with Rog by building a construction site around the buildings. No wonder someone
smashed the construction site in response to this "dialogue".
Demolish and thrash
On the morning of January 19, 2021, a brigade of police robocopes invaded Rog
and, without prior warning, court permission, or any legal basis at all, began
evicting Rog. Several people from the Rog collective, the so-called Rogovs, were
arrested and many were injured. The injuries then had to do without medical
treatment for a long time in custody. People soon started meeting in front of the
complex to support the squat. The police also intervened against them, beating
them and using tear gas on them. Even the 80-year-old former editor of the
Ljubljana daily, who had to go to the emergency room after this incident, did not
escape the load of tears. He deserved such help and protection from Slovenian
police officers for coming with his daughter to see how the evacuation was going on.
It does not surprise us that the security agency also took part in the eviction.
According to Rog activists, its members forcibly dragged people out of the
building, and the police just kept an eye on it. Not only people, but also things
were not handled with care. At first, they didn't allow people to take anything
away. They often had to leave pets or expensive equipment there. "When, after all
day's pressure from Rogogs, angry citizens of Ljubljana and journalists, it was
possible to get Rogogs to take their belongings, it was not easy. Police first
confiscated everyone's phones and searched their bags so that they could not
document what it looked like on the premises after the police and the agency
intervened. Most of their belongings, especially modest savings, documents,
computers, cameras, telephones, artwork, study materials, bicycles and kitchen
equipment, she wasn't there at all. All the clothes were scattered in the mud in
the courtyard, torn and dirty in a mixture of broken glass, pieces of asbestos
roofing, and pieces of walls. There were also torn, soaked, and dirty books. The
few that remained there, "said activists from Rog on Facebook.
Representatives of the city commented on the evacuation, saying that it was an
abandoned and dangerous building and that construction work would begin there as
soon as possible, based on a valid building permit. It is said that a cultural
center should be established there in two years. Yes, a cultural center for a
culture that will suit the city, that will not have a critical thorn, and that
will earn the city. Just look at the photos from the many events that have taken
Rog in recent years, the lively bustle and the action and mood that prevailed in
Rog. During the years when the squat worked, there was a huge number of artists
who found space for free creation. On the other hand, there is a proposal for a
sterile, perfectly refined and clean building, where, according to clearly lined
rules, the city will promote a "normal" culture.
A place for everyone
However, it was not just a center of culture. Rog, with its vastness, provided
enough space for all those interested. In the area there was an octagon for
martial arts or a luxuriously huge skatepark (the largest in the former
Yugoslavia). However, Rog's role in the social field was also very important. "A
certain impetus for the revitalization of the area and the start of the social
function was the refugee crisis, in which a large number of refugees were passing
through Slovenia. Rog activists responded to the border closure by cutting razor
wires and organizing solidarity events. The Rog Social Center started its
activities in one of the smaller buildings, which to this day serves primarily as
a meeting place for asylum seekers and activists. The social center organizes
lectures, English, Slovenian and Persian courses, every Monday there is a
so-called Café international, a meeting over coffee, an article from the A2larm
website about an attempt to evacuate Rog in 2016. The people who are pushing the
city to the margins have also lost this refuge.
And not only because of them, the evacuation of Rog could not have come at a
worse time. Under normal circumstances, a winter season would suffice. However,
during the covid pandemic, the situation is even more difficult. The time Rog was
evicted was not chosen by chance. Government measures against the spread of
coronavirus limit the possibility of collection. The police thus have an easy
lever on the protesters. At a time when a pandemic and its effects are crushing
all ordinary people, there is also less chance that people will speak out against
such insidious actions because they have enough to worry about.
Protests and international support
But there is a large autonomous community in Ljubljana. Both around Rog and
around the second city squat Metelkov (which, however, fits the city into a shop
and even attracts tourists in its guides) there are a number of active people
who, despite the cold weather and epidemiological measures, strongly disagree
with the city's position. There are a number of demonstrations or protest
rallies, which are often outnumbered by the fizels present.
And physicists do as they can at meetings. In addition to the aforementioned use
of peppers, for example, they beat up a radio editor, who visibly showed himself
with a press card. On Friday, the police blocked the march to Rog and tried to
identify as many participants as possible. One man was dragged away by the
police. She later released him, but with a fine of 1,100 euros for reading the
names of police officers from the public register in response to the Fizls
pushing out people and spraying pepper.
Rog also calls for international solidarity. You can take a solidarity photo with
your friends, inform about Rog's eviction and its context, or you can financially
support Rogovka.
Unfortunately, the city's long-term plans to destroy this living island of
alternative life came true, and the huge five-story area of the former bicycle
factory was lonely. To be on the safe side, the city immediately began
demolishing the smaller buildings belonging to the factory. Above the ruins rises
a listed building of the factory, the wall of which was decorated by the famous
graffiti artist Blu during the "anti-clearing" festival in 2016 with a monumental
pink-red pistol , which is composed of things used to defend Rog against police
forces. Before tearing it down, it will remind the city of how diverse and
diverse the community is around the Ljubljana Autonomous Communities. However,
the community will survive here, even if this building is demolished. As
Ljubljana squatters say: "Excavators will not destroy our community!"
https://www.afed.cz/text/7287/nasi-komunitu-bagry-neznici-vzkazuji-slovinsti-squateri
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Message: 3
On the 9th of January, Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was murdered by the South Wales
Police in Cardiff. Communities across the city soon rallied to oppose this
blatant, horrible act of racism, with a fundraiser for Mohamud's family reaching
its goal of £30,000 within two days, and the hashtag ‘#Justice4Mohamud' quickly
spreading like wildfire throughout social media. The most overt response was,
however, a series of large protests outside the Cardiff Bay police station from
the 12th until the 16th of January. The response of the police and the media to
both Mohamud's death and to the protests provide a damning exposure of the role
of both of these institution in, and their allegiance to, a racist, colonialist
system.
The police, as expected, explicitly denied any role in Mohamud's death, even
going so far as to lie and state that there was no evidence that Mohamud being
physically injured in any manner; this lie was later exposed by a later report
from an independent investigation. The media assisted the police in this lie, and
continues to downplay the severity of this event, by refusing to state that
Mohamud was murdered by the police, instead stating only that he ‘died after
being held in police custody' in a poorly veiled attempt to distance the police
from Mohamud's death; some may attempt to justify this phrasing as no more than
an attempt to maintain neutrality, but, in situations of evident and extreme
oppression like this, neutrality can be nothing more but allegiance to the
oppressors.
The protests were large, vocal and unrelenting in their criticisms of not only
South Wales police, but of policing as an institution. They, acting in accordance
with the wishes of Mohamud's family, remained entirely non-violent, yet, due to
the challenge that they posed to the police, they were treated in a
disproportionate and aggressive manner, with around 250 police officers being
present at the protest on the 16th; this number of officers is completely
unprecedented in recent history, and I have personally seen far, far larger
demonstrations of thousands of people in Cardiff being policed by no more than a
dozen officers. The police deliberately targeted black people, walking past white
protesters, in order to threaten them with fines for breaching the restrictions
on mass gatherings that have been placed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
this threatening behaviour continued outside of the protest, with protesters
being intimidated, followed and fined as they walked home, and one organiser,
Bianca Ali, had her home invaded by two van-loads of police officers in riot gear
in an obvious act of state repression and authoritarianism. Bianca received a
fine of £500, which was later doubled to £1000, but, thankfully, community
solidarity resulted in this money being raised within a few days. The
surveillance of protesters was also obvious, with police liaison officers
attempting, with a false, friendly guise, to gather information about the
protests, and with cameras being constantly used to record the protests. Even
beyond this frankly horrifying repression, the behaviour of the police at the
protest was atrocious and disrespectful; officers were recorded laughing at and
mocking the protesters, and one officer even jokingly confessed to murdering Mohamud.
The media did nothing to expose or report on the police's atrocities and did
everything in their power to portray the protests as violent riots, playing on
the racist stereotype of black people as aggressive thugs or criminals in an
attempt to delegitimise the protests; Wales Online used a deliberately
provocative picture to misrepresent the protests, and the headline from the Daily
Express read "Furious protests erupt in Cardiff as angry crowds hurl smoke bombs
at police". The use of smoke bombs was a brief, harmless event which posed no
threat to anyone, and, whilst it is undeniable that many of the protesters were
angry (and rightfully so!), ‘furious' is hardly a suitable word to apply to a
controlled, relatively peaceful event. In fact, the majority of the major media
outlets reported on the use of smoke-bombs, whilst very few of them reported on
the speeches, arguments and demands of the protests.
These disgusting behaviours displayed by both the police and the media are a
direct result of their vested interest in preserving racism. The police in the UK
were formed in order to maintain oppressive class relations by attacking
organising working class people and violently enforcing private property
relations, and they were soon modelled after their Amerikan counterparts, who
were the direct institutional descendants of slave patrols; as a result, the
police is fundamentally racist and classist, and will always serve to intimidate,
attack and oppress those marginalised in society in order to coerce their
subservience to the unjust system that exploits them everyday for the benefit of
the rich and powerful. Major media outlets in a capitalist system are necessarily
owned by rich and powerful people, the same people who benefit from this
exploitative system and, therefore, have a vested interest in combatting the
anti-racist efforts that would necessarily challenge this system. Any honest
reporting of the protests would undermine the ideology that upholds the current
neoliberal system, and would expose many people to its horrors, so instead
dishonest reporting is used to undermine support for the protests and, by
extension, the struggle against racism; despite the best efforts by some to keep
the protest's respectable, there simply never was a chance of the corporate media
reporting positively on the protests.
Mohamud was only 24 years old, he had a family and his whole life ahead of him.
That was robbed from him by a racist institution that has been operating for
centuries, claiming thousands upon thousands of innocent lives. His death was,
and remains, a tragedy, and we must do everything in our power to ensure that
Mohamud is the last person killed through the brutality of the police. As these
events have proven, this can only be achieved through the abolition of the
police, who are irredeemably racist and beyond any hope of ‘reform'. As these
events have also proven, we cannot expect any help in this struggle from
corporate media, which has a vested interest in ensuring the continued existence
of systemic racism. However, these events have proven that we can expect help
from our communities, those who we struggle and fight alongside on a day-to-day
basis. Together, we can fight for, and we can win, a better world!
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2021/01/22/justice-for-mohamud-current-events/
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Message: 4
Political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas has been on a hunger strike since January
8, demanding that the law passed by the New Democracy government be photographed
for him, in order to transfer him from the rural prisons where he was being held
until then. The law provides for his transfer to Korydallos and not to Domokos,
where the general secretary of anti-crime policy, Sofia Nikolaou, decided to
transfer him arbitrarily. At the moment, the hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas
is being held in solitary confinement, in a cell, which has been christened a
hospital ward, with 24-hour surveillance via camera. At the same time that the
state is exhausting its revenge on Koufontina in the face of refusing to obey
even the laws themselves,
For this reason, as part of the nationwide solidarity day, on Tuesday, January
19, about 40 comrades marched in Kalamaria, which was directed to the offices of
the local organization of New Democracy.
VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY D. KOUFONTINA
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF HIS REQUEST FOR TRANSFER TO KORYDALLOS PRISONS
Coordination of collectives for solidarity with the hunger striker D. Koufontina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnzqzOARGb4
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2021/01/20/
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Message: 5
Victory in the hunger strike of D. Koufontinas ---- On Friday, January 8, the
militant communist D. Koufontinas starts a hunger strike with a request to be
transferred from Domokou prison to the underground prison of Korydallos, where he
has already served 16 years of his sentence so far. On 22/12, the comrade was
abducted by a large group of police forces and was transferred to the Domokou
disciplinary prison with brief procedures. ---- Saturday 23/1 Solidarity Rally at
12:00 | Sq. Olgas ---- Let us not forget that this transfer takes place after the
passage of the extrajudicial bill of the Ministry of Civil Protection, which,
among other things, provides a series of provisions that tighten the detention
regime, depriving basic rights of detainees. Rights clearly not granted, but won
through the struggles of so many fighters, the struggles of prisoners with
dignity and strength against the shame of the system of "imprisonment" and
confinement.
At the same time, the reasoning on the part of the state and specifically through
the general secretary of anti-crime policy, Sofia Nikolaou, is on the verge of
provocation as they claim that due to the pandemic it is not possible to make
transfers to Korydallos. This, of course, can only be a pretext to cover the fact
of the constant effort of political and physical extermination of the people of
the struggle by democracy and the respective rulers of power. In other words,
this is another attempt to revanchize domination by hitting an imprisoned
militant in the face of whom many meanings are concentrated regarding the modern
post-political history and the direct and militant struggles that were waged
against the ruling complex.
And all this at the same time that the social base is in one of the most
precarious places in the recent history of the western world. At a time when the
state is struggling with the display of power and constant repression, to hide
its black spots and its criminal policy, at the level of pandemic management, to
the detriment of those below. At a time when misery, death, isolation and state
social control are at their height, proving once again, and clearly, that
capitalism, the system of the cold exploitation of man by man, must be crushed.
The state will beat its political opponents and will be ruthless and ruthless.
That is his role. To make it clear that it has the monopoly of violence by
fighting those who dare to challenge its omnipotence, to fight, to fight for life
and freedom.
We choose to stand by Comrade D. Koufontina, against the selective bans on
rallies, morally and politically supporting the choice to fight for the obvious.
With dignity, consistency, stubbornness and continuity, we constantly fight, as
part of the oppressed, against the domination that wants you as a submissive and
frightened follower and follower of the demands and needs of capital. We are next
to the comrades who with vigor put their own body on the embankment, we fight
incessantly for the existing and we build with a weapon of solidarity a world
free from all kinds of power.
On 19/1, a day of nationwide actions of solidarity with the political prisoner,
the demonstration in Patras was attacked by the repressive forces, when a march
was attempted.The guard clashed face to face with the MAT squads, which attacked
in a coordinated manner from two sides, reaching the door of the Branch
occupation. Two arrests were made at the time of the clash, while another comrade
was arrested in the afternoon, during the attack of the cops on the gathered
crowd outside the police station of Ermou, where the detainees were being held.
All three were charged with misdemeanors and were released overnight. As long as
the state chooses to intensify repression, as long as it chooses to attack its
struggles from below fiercely, we will be on the road, fighting for justice and
freedom. The hunger strike struggle continues, inside and outside prisons.
NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
SOLIDARITY TO THE REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTER D. KOUFONTIDA
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF HIS REQUEST FOR TRANSFER TO KORYDALLOS PRISONS
Saturday 23/1 Gathering / Microphone Solidarity at 12:00 | Sq. Olgas
Open assembly in solidarity with the hunger striker D. Koufontina
Saturday 23/1 Solidarity Rally at 12:00 | Sq. Olgas
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 6
Two leaders of member countries of the United Nations (UN) have faithfully
followed in the footsteps of defeated President Donald Trump. One, subordinate
and colonized, is the Brazilian president ---- The "tropical trumpism" represents
the set of messages, signs, political identities and reactionary positions
merging an imaginary conservative past that relativizes the colonial period and
slavery. This set of horrors gained momentum with the election of Trump in 2016,
not by chance the same year that the center government of Dilma Rousseff suffered
a coup d'état dubbed impeachment. In his subordinate condition, Bolsonaro bet
that a "privileged" relationship with the representative of the American extreme
right could provide some gains in diplomacy and economic relations. None of this
happened.
trump_e_bolsonaro_dando_as_mos.jpg
Bruno Beaklini (@estanalise) - article originally published in the Middle East
Monitor (www.monitordooriente.com)
Two leaders of member countries of the United Nations (UN) have faithfully
followed in the footsteps of defeated President Donald Trump. One, in a
subordinate and colonized manner, is the Brazilian and protofascist president,
Jair Bolsonaro. Another is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let's start
with the second.
The Likud leader has spent the past four years in symbiosis, as a single twin of
the former casino owner. Yes, it is the most controversial chauvinist who was
assumed and formally accused of corruption, Benjamin Netanyahu, who goes by the
codename "Bibi". The relations between Israel and the USA are complementary,
including in the mass discourse. If, on the one hand, the Zionist state depends
on military and financial aid from the Empire, on the other hand it manages to
impose its domestic agenda as if it were of first international magnitude for
Washington strategists.
For those who still have any doubts about this capacity, we suggest reading the
book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel lobby and the US foreign
policy" (here I indicate the translated article and not the complete book,
available athttps://www.scielo.br/pdf/nec/n76/03.pdf ). In this seminal work, the
duo of renowned American political scientists and professors of International
Relations - both closely linked to the establishment of the Empire's oligarchy -
explain the direct and sometimes subordinate relationship of the United States to
the Tel Aviv government.
In this way, Israel manages to impose an agenda on the Empire, the State itself
being created from Nakba, in the ethnic cleansing war led by Ben Gurion, between
1947 and 1949, a part of this imperialist articulation. Unlike Brazil, the
Zionist state operates as a bridgehead for the Crusaders, acting with its own
will. The government based in Brasilia, due to the gravitational weight of the
South American country, tends to collide with the gravitation and projection of
surplus power in the United States. In all Latin American territories the same
phenomenon occurs, but in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, due to the size and
dimension of these countries, pressure from the USA tends to be greater, although
with a less noticeable direct presence.
Trump, Bolsonaro's idol and the coloniality of the subordinate position
There is a level of dependency that is intrinsic to the formation of Latin
American countries, and refers to the concept defined by Aníbal Quijano as "the
coloniality of power" (
http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/espanol/quijano-colonialidad-del -power.pdf
). In this way, domination takes place both from the outside in, as in a landing
of marines in the early 20th century (between 1898 and 1934) during the so-called
"banana wars" ( https://www.historiando.org/guerras -bananeras /), but it can
also exist in the mentality structure that organizes national institutions. Thus,
as bold as a correct foreign policy is, without changing the domestic strength
correlations, the tendency to add ignorant, imbecile, upstarts and parasites, all
properly colonized intellectually, is gigantic ( http: //www.ihuonline.unisinos.
br / article /
6926-revisiting-anibal-quijano-and-coloniality-of-power-in-latin-america ). Such
is the case of Bolsonaro's mismanagement and his twisted mirror in front of the
former luxury hotel owner and reality show host.
The "tropical trumpism" represents the set of messages, signs, political
identities and reactionary positions merging an imaginary conservative past that
relativizes the colonial period and slavery. This set of horrors gained momentum
with the election of Trump in 2016, not by chance the same year that the center
government of Dilma Rousseff suffered a coup d'état dubbed impeachment. In his
subordinate condition, Bolsonaro bet that a "privileged" relationship with the
representative of the American extreme right could provide some gains in
diplomacy and economic relations. None of this happened.
The debacle of the Brazilian chancellery will be addressed in another article.
The supposed comparative advantages between the United States and Brazil never
existed, concluding the Trump administration with the announcement that the US
transnational and automaker Ford Motor will simply end its activities in Brazil (
https://g1.globo.com/economia/ news / 2021/01/11 /
ford-closes-factories-and-closes-production-in-brazil-in-2021.ghtml ). The
disastrous administration of Bolsonaro and Paulo Guedes did nothing and does
nothing to defend industrial employment in the country, culminating in the
departure of a company that has been in Brazil for over a hundred years (
https://www.noticiasautomotivas.com.br /
after-101-years-ford-closes-production-in-brazil /). If this characterizes a
"strategic alliance", what would a "tactical alliance" with another government
look like? No "friendly" government should allow a factory linked to the US
Treasury to leave, leaving regions where the company has industrial plants
installed in economic depression.
The case of Ford's departure follows the pattern since President Bolsonaro and
his entire troupe's first official trip to the United States. At the time, in
March 2019, of the four points considered positive by the Brazilian delegation,
pragmatically only one would have any concrete meaning. Let's see: US support for
Brazil's entry into the OECD; inclusion of Brazil as an NATO extra ally; positive
view of partnerships for diplomatic issues and, finally, the beginning of talks
to sign commercial treaties, mainly in the area of agriculture (
https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2019/03/20
/interna_politica,744063/um-saldo-positivo-na-viagem-de-bolsonaro-aos-estados-unidos.shtml).
Three subordinate alignments and a promise of pragmatism that has not been
realized. On the contrary, there was never reciprocity in actual terms between
the Foreign Ministry and the US State Department during the period. In other
words, besides preaching in defense of "Western civilization" and other
reactionary fantasies, there was no progress in any area.
The final effect of "Trumpism in the USA" without Trump in the White House may be
the alignment of a legion with millions of those manipulated in conspiracy
theories and similar hallucinations, culminating in the attack on the Capitol of
January 6 of that year ( https: // www.
bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-55568031). In Brazil, "tropical trumpism" may
resort to similar practices in 2022. But, until then, protofascism will have to
live with a "different boss", remembering who campaigned against his candidacy.
Bolsonaro and Brazil's isolation in the International System
The Brazilian extreme right government may be isolated in the face of the
repositioning of the Empire under the Biden administration. Some level of tension
in environmental issues seems to be inevitable, in the resumption of the Paris
Agreements and in multilateral initiatives to prevent climate change. In the
defense of Brazilian sovereignty in the Legal Amazon, a new clash is possible,
since the US may have in the Bolsonaro government, the "perfect villain", since
the president is an ally of Trump and defender of the worst environmental
practices in the history of the Continent.
Returning to the beginning of the article, the difference between Benjamin
Netanyahu and Jair Bolsonaro is the relative weight of each country. Israel
behaved with the same arrogance as South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s in the
widespread conflict in southern Africa. Brazil, on the other hand, under the dark
administration of the extreme right, allied with speculators and military
surrenders, is like a giant that is afraid and ashamed of its own size. Instead
of exercising its geopolitical weight and leading the Continent by turning to
South-South relations, it is content to be subordinate to the agendas of the
Empire, with the aggravating factor of internalizing the domestic political
agenda for the purposes of maneuvering and manipulation of broad electoral bases.
The tendency is for Brazil to become, in fact, a country not respected in the
International System in the remaining period of Bolsonaro's mismanagement.
This article originally published in the Monitor do Middle East
(www.monitordooriente.com)
Bruno Beaklini (Bruno Lima Rocha Beaklini), of Arab-Brazilian origin, is a
political scientist, professor of international relations and journalism and a
columnist for the Monitor of the Middle East. Contacts: blimarocha@gmail.com /
https://www.facebook.com/blimarocha/ / www.estrategiaeanaliseblog.com /
t.me/estrategiaeanalise (Telegram) and
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCweS5s_1c0AvbXe5_iXYjKA ( Youtube channel)
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32145
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Message: 7
At a time when the French authorities are discussing the possibility of
introducing a third "quarantine" under the pretext of fighting the epidemic,
protests against the policy of the neoliberal regime in the country continue. In
Paris on January 23, a "unitary march for freedom" was held, bringing together
groups of "yellow vests" and opponents of the new security law. ----
Demonstrators gathered at 11:00 in front of the Council of State in the Place
Palais Royal and at noon marched towards the National Assembly. At 4.30 pm they
stopped at the Military School on Boske Avenue. ---- Simultaneously, in Paris,
unions called for a demonstration against layoffs and job cuts before the
National Assembly in the afternoon. Both performances merged together!
The demonstrators chanted: "Here, here" yellow vests "," We are here "," Puts to
Macron "," We will be mad "," Work, consume and be silent "
On the banners and posters, one could read: "Stop giving your consent", "Trade
unions! When will there be unity of action? Instead of days of protest alone and
mass processions of sheep", "To tell the truth is a revolutionary act", "He who
does not move, does not feel her chains. Rosa Luxemburg "," Freedom, equality,
brotherhood - for whom? "," For purchasing power! "," Let's fire the oligarchy! "
Demonstrations against the security law and against the restriction of freedoms
took place in various cities in France, including Van, Rennes, Marseille, etc.
The performances on 23 January brought together a large number of participants.
They were surrounded by outfits of the repressive forces of the regime, but this
only strengthened the determination of the "yellow vests" and other protesters.
The police behaved with restraint this time, but their sheer number should have
intimidated the rebellious. The authorities are terrorizing the country, imposing
a curfew, and threatening to "vaccinate everyone by the end of August." But they
can't do anything about the "street" they despise
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/240121/gj-acte115-paris-23012021-marche-unitaire-pour-les-libertes)
During the protest, there was sharp criticism of restrictive measures imposed by
the regime, isolation and lockdowns. "... I think the real virus is in the Elysee
Palace" (presidential), - explained one of the "yellow vests" (
https://twitter.com/giletsjaunesgo )
On the same day, small actions of "yellow vests" were traditionally held on the
streets, intersections and junctions in Osh, Antibes, Tarbes, Lannion, Rouen,
Millot and other cities and towns of the country.
https://aitrus.info/node/5619
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Message: 1
A Zapatista delegation will travel through Europe in the spring of 2021, the
opportunity for us to have fruitful discussions with the companions who are still
in resistance. ---- Since the 1994 uprising, the Zapatista movement has strived
to build autonomy, at the base and from the base, within the insurgent
communities of Chiapas, inspiring many political struggles in Mexico and across
the world and knowing how to collect in return many international supports. ----
Zapatism, more than a simple system of thought, knew how to develop a whole
system of political organization, but also social, economic and cultural. Among
these many achievements, we can cite health dispensaries, self-managed schools,
or even cooperatives of coffee producers. There is a well-stocked bibliography on
Zapatista theories and achievements in French literature. Thanks to these
practical implementations and the presence of the insurgent army of the
community, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), a balance of power with
the Mexican state has been able to maintain all these years.
But in recent months, the Zapatista communities have once again been the target
of attacks against their people and against their tools, directly targeting their
autonomy and self-government.
On August 22, a paramilitary group attacked and then set fire to two warehouses
containing the Zapatistas' coffee crops in the district of San Cristobàl de las
Casas, damaging the resources of the communities. On September 11, it was in Tila
that villagers were attacked with heavy weapons by the paramilitary group " Paz y
Justicia ", leaving one dead and several wounded. The return of this paramilitary
violence is generally covered up and instrumentalised by the state authorities,
when it is not directly organized by the latter to destabilize the Zapatista
system and the autonomous indigenous communities.
For Chiapas specialist Jérome Baschet, " this war must be understood in a double
movement of economic predation on the one hand and of (re) conquest of state
control over rebel territories on the other. To justify its policy, the State
argues the imperative of security - "to restore order" in indigenous territory -
and, in a clear neoliberal logic, the economic imperatives (growth,
globalization). At the same time, it tries to regain control over the lost
territories and to prepare the ground for transnational capital." [1]
The state and the paramilitaries still in ambush
In fact, megaprojects, instruments of colonization of territories, are legion in
southern Mexico and particularly in Chiapas. We remember the " Train aya "
project[2], but numerous programs for the construction of electrical and
industrial infrastructures are planned in Chiapas by the federal government in
the coming years. The return of the paramilitaries to the area is therefore far
from being a coincidence.
It is in this context that on October 5, Sub-Commander Moisés of the EZLN
announced the arrival in Europe in the spring of 2021 of a delegation of
Zapatistas, mainly made up of women. This tour will be an opportunity for the
Zapatistas to reaffirm their positions, to be able to talk about what they
experience on a daily basis in their territories and to ensure continued
international support. The end of the tour will be marked by a demonstration on
August 13, 2021 in Madrid, the symbolic date of the start of Spanish colonization
in Mexico. Let us know how to properly welcome the Zapatista delegation in
Europe, and let us help them promote their struggles while drawing inspiration
from their experience of self-management for a life of dignity.
Vincent (UCL Var)
Follow the news of Chiapas and find many press releases from the EZLN translated
on Espoirchiapas.blogspot.com .
Validate
[1] Jérome Baschet, "In Chiapas, the organized peoples facing the paramilitary
offensive" , Monday morning , October 19, 2020.
[2] "Mexico: the" Mayan Train ", weapon of domination" , Libertarian Alternative
, September 2020.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Mexique-Une-tournee-zapatiste-en-Europe-au-printemps
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Message: 2
In recent days, the autonomous Rog factory, one of Ljubljana's two squats, has
been evacuated. ---- The city of Ljubljana had one of the two squats evacuated a
few days ago, which made his life special for many years. The autonomous Rog
factory is already empty. However, the streets in Ljubljana are filling up to
support her. ---- The building belongs to the city, which bought it in 2002, but
never did anything with it, even though it planned a lot. Since 2006, the former
bicycle factory has been osquatized and functioned as an autonomous social
center. ---- This is not Rog's first attempt to evict, the city has been trying
to destroy Rog's Autonomous Factory for years. It presented its efforts to the
public with the aim of transforming Rog into the city's cultural center. In 2016,
the most significant attempt at eviction took place, but the locals managed to
resist the police raid and defended the squat on the barricades literally with
their own bodies. As part of the protests against the city's efforts to eliminate
the squat, a series of cultural and political events took place in Rog, and a
large number of people at that time expressed their support for Rog.
Gentrification is everywhere
Already when we were in Ljubljana in the summer of 2018 at the International
Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations, where we had the
opportunity to visit Rog, local anarchists expressed concern that the city would
intervene against the squat. This was part of the process of gentrification that
Ljubljana, like other European cities, is going through. Rog is located in the
very center of the capital, a short walk from the perfectly repaired waterfront
full of tourists or under the castle, which with its modern renovated form
represents the tip of the entire gentrification glacier. A modern glass gallery
and a café in the middle of a medieval courtyard, this is exactly what tourists
will appreciate.
In 2019, the city won a lawsuit in which several official users of the autonomous
factory were sued for the right to use the building. The team around Rog tried to
establish a dialogue with the city and wanted to participate in the creation of
plans for further use of the building and to organize a public forum about it.
However, the city rejected the debate. In its press release, it stated that there
was no time for similar discussions, that public debates with various subjects
took place. We can guess to what extent the voice of the public and ordinary
inhabitants of the city was heard in them. The city then ended the discussion
with Rog by building a construction site around the buildings. No wonder someone
smashed the construction site in response to this "dialogue".
Demolish and thrash
On the morning of January 19, 2021, a brigade of police robocopes invaded Rog
and, without prior warning, court permission, or any legal basis at all, began
evicting Rog. Several people from the Rog collective, the so-called Rogovs, were
arrested and many were injured. The injuries then had to do without medical
treatment for a long time in custody. People soon started meeting in front of the
complex to support the squat. The police also intervened against them, beating
them and using tear gas on them. Even the 80-year-old former editor of the
Ljubljana daily, who had to go to the emergency room after this incident, did not
escape the load of tears. He deserved such help and protection from Slovenian
police officers for coming with his daughter to see how the evacuation was going on.
It does not surprise us that the security agency also took part in the eviction.
According to Rog activists, its members forcibly dragged people out of the
building, and the police just kept an eye on it. Not only people, but also things
were not handled with care. At first, they didn't allow people to take anything
away. They often had to leave pets or expensive equipment there. "When, after all
day's pressure from Rogogs, angry citizens of Ljubljana and journalists, it was
possible to get Rogogs to take their belongings, it was not easy. Police first
confiscated everyone's phones and searched their bags so that they could not
document what it looked like on the premises after the police and the agency
intervened. Most of their belongings, especially modest savings, documents,
computers, cameras, telephones, artwork, study materials, bicycles and kitchen
equipment, she wasn't there at all. All the clothes were scattered in the mud in
the courtyard, torn and dirty in a mixture of broken glass, pieces of asbestos
roofing, and pieces of walls. There were also torn, soaked, and dirty books. The
few that remained there, "said activists from Rog on Facebook.
Representatives of the city commented on the evacuation, saying that it was an
abandoned and dangerous building and that construction work would begin there as
soon as possible, based on a valid building permit. It is said that a cultural
center should be established there in two years. Yes, a cultural center for a
culture that will suit the city, that will not have a critical thorn, and that
will earn the city. Just look at the photos from the many events that have taken
Rog in recent years, the lively bustle and the action and mood that prevailed in
Rog. During the years when the squat worked, there was a huge number of artists
who found space for free creation. On the other hand, there is a proposal for a
sterile, perfectly refined and clean building, where, according to clearly lined
rules, the city will promote a "normal" culture.
A place for everyone
However, it was not just a center of culture. Rog, with its vastness, provided
enough space for all those interested. In the area there was an octagon for
martial arts or a luxuriously huge skatepark (the largest in the former
Yugoslavia). However, Rog's role in the social field was also very important. "A
certain impetus for the revitalization of the area and the start of the social
function was the refugee crisis, in which a large number of refugees were passing
through Slovenia. Rog activists responded to the border closure by cutting razor
wires and organizing solidarity events. The Rog Social Center started its
activities in one of the smaller buildings, which to this day serves primarily as
a meeting place for asylum seekers and activists. The social center organizes
lectures, English, Slovenian and Persian courses, every Monday there is a
so-called Café international, a meeting over coffee, an article from the A2larm
website about an attempt to evacuate Rog in 2016. The people who are pushing the
city to the margins have also lost this refuge.
And not only because of them, the evacuation of Rog could not have come at a
worse time. Under normal circumstances, a winter season would suffice. However,
during the covid pandemic, the situation is even more difficult. The time Rog was
evicted was not chosen by chance. Government measures against the spread of
coronavirus limit the possibility of collection. The police thus have an easy
lever on the protesters. At a time when a pandemic and its effects are crushing
all ordinary people, there is also less chance that people will speak out against
such insidious actions because they have enough to worry about.
Protests and international support
But there is a large autonomous community in Ljubljana. Both around Rog and
around the second city squat Metelkov (which, however, fits the city into a shop
and even attracts tourists in its guides) there are a number of active people
who, despite the cold weather and epidemiological measures, strongly disagree
with the city's position. There are a number of demonstrations or protest
rallies, which are often outnumbered by the fizels present.
And physicists do as they can at meetings. In addition to the aforementioned use
of peppers, for example, they beat up a radio editor, who visibly showed himself
with a press card. On Friday, the police blocked the march to Rog and tried to
identify as many participants as possible. One man was dragged away by the
police. She later released him, but with a fine of 1,100 euros for reading the
names of police officers from the public register in response to the Fizls
pushing out people and spraying pepper.
Rog also calls for international solidarity. You can take a solidarity photo with
your friends, inform about Rog's eviction and its context, or you can financially
support Rogovka.
Unfortunately, the city's long-term plans to destroy this living island of
alternative life came true, and the huge five-story area of the former bicycle
factory was lonely. To be on the safe side, the city immediately began
demolishing the smaller buildings belonging to the factory. Above the ruins rises
a listed building of the factory, the wall of which was decorated by the famous
graffiti artist Blu during the "anti-clearing" festival in 2016 with a monumental
pink-red pistol , which is composed of things used to defend Rog against police
forces. Before tearing it down, it will remind the city of how diverse and
diverse the community is around the Ljubljana Autonomous Communities. However,
the community will survive here, even if this building is demolished. As
Ljubljana squatters say: "Excavators will not destroy our community!"
https://www.afed.cz/text/7287/nasi-komunitu-bagry-neznici-vzkazuji-slovinsti-squateri
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Message: 3
On the 9th of January, Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was murdered by the South Wales
Police in Cardiff. Communities across the city soon rallied to oppose this
blatant, horrible act of racism, with a fundraiser for Mohamud's family reaching
its goal of £30,000 within two days, and the hashtag ‘#Justice4Mohamud' quickly
spreading like wildfire throughout social media. The most overt response was,
however, a series of large protests outside the Cardiff Bay police station from
the 12th until the 16th of January. The response of the police and the media to
both Mohamud's death and to the protests provide a damning exposure of the role
of both of these institution in, and their allegiance to, a racist, colonialist
system.
The police, as expected, explicitly denied any role in Mohamud's death, even
going so far as to lie and state that there was no evidence that Mohamud being
physically injured in any manner; this lie was later exposed by a later report
from an independent investigation. The media assisted the police in this lie, and
continues to downplay the severity of this event, by refusing to state that
Mohamud was murdered by the police, instead stating only that he ‘died after
being held in police custody' in a poorly veiled attempt to distance the police
from Mohamud's death; some may attempt to justify this phrasing as no more than
an attempt to maintain neutrality, but, in situations of evident and extreme
oppression like this, neutrality can be nothing more but allegiance to the
oppressors.
The protests were large, vocal and unrelenting in their criticisms of not only
South Wales police, but of policing as an institution. They, acting in accordance
with the wishes of Mohamud's family, remained entirely non-violent, yet, due to
the challenge that they posed to the police, they were treated in a
disproportionate and aggressive manner, with around 250 police officers being
present at the protest on the 16th; this number of officers is completely
unprecedented in recent history, and I have personally seen far, far larger
demonstrations of thousands of people in Cardiff being policed by no more than a
dozen officers. The police deliberately targeted black people, walking past white
protesters, in order to threaten them with fines for breaching the restrictions
on mass gatherings that have been placed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic;
this threatening behaviour continued outside of the protest, with protesters
being intimidated, followed and fined as they walked home, and one organiser,
Bianca Ali, had her home invaded by two van-loads of police officers in riot gear
in an obvious act of state repression and authoritarianism. Bianca received a
fine of £500, which was later doubled to £1000, but, thankfully, community
solidarity resulted in this money being raised within a few days. The
surveillance of protesters was also obvious, with police liaison officers
attempting, with a false, friendly guise, to gather information about the
protests, and with cameras being constantly used to record the protests. Even
beyond this frankly horrifying repression, the behaviour of the police at the
protest was atrocious and disrespectful; officers were recorded laughing at and
mocking the protesters, and one officer even jokingly confessed to murdering Mohamud.
The media did nothing to expose or report on the police's atrocities and did
everything in their power to portray the protests as violent riots, playing on
the racist stereotype of black people as aggressive thugs or criminals in an
attempt to delegitimise the protests; Wales Online used a deliberately
provocative picture to misrepresent the protests, and the headline from the Daily
Express read "Furious protests erupt in Cardiff as angry crowds hurl smoke bombs
at police". The use of smoke bombs was a brief, harmless event which posed no
threat to anyone, and, whilst it is undeniable that many of the protesters were
angry (and rightfully so!), ‘furious' is hardly a suitable word to apply to a
controlled, relatively peaceful event. In fact, the majority of the major media
outlets reported on the use of smoke-bombs, whilst very few of them reported on
the speeches, arguments and demands of the protests.
These disgusting behaviours displayed by both the police and the media are a
direct result of their vested interest in preserving racism. The police in the UK
were formed in order to maintain oppressive class relations by attacking
organising working class people and violently enforcing private property
relations, and they were soon modelled after their Amerikan counterparts, who
were the direct institutional descendants of slave patrols; as a result, the
police is fundamentally racist and classist, and will always serve to intimidate,
attack and oppress those marginalised in society in order to coerce their
subservience to the unjust system that exploits them everyday for the benefit of
the rich and powerful. Major media outlets in a capitalist system are necessarily
owned by rich and powerful people, the same people who benefit from this
exploitative system and, therefore, have a vested interest in combatting the
anti-racist efforts that would necessarily challenge this system. Any honest
reporting of the protests would undermine the ideology that upholds the current
neoliberal system, and would expose many people to its horrors, so instead
dishonest reporting is used to undermine support for the protests and, by
extension, the struggle against racism; despite the best efforts by some to keep
the protest's respectable, there simply never was a chance of the corporate media
reporting positively on the protests.
Mohamud was only 24 years old, he had a family and his whole life ahead of him.
That was robbed from him by a racist institution that has been operating for
centuries, claiming thousands upon thousands of innocent lives. His death was,
and remains, a tragedy, and we must do everything in our power to ensure that
Mohamud is the last person killed through the brutality of the police. As these
events have proven, this can only be achieved through the abolition of the
police, who are irredeemably racist and beyond any hope of ‘reform'. As these
events have also proven, we cannot expect any help in this struggle from
corporate media, which has a vested interest in ensuring the continued existence
of systemic racism. However, these events have proven that we can expect help
from our communities, those who we struggle and fight alongside on a day-to-day
basis. Together, we can fight for, and we can win, a better world!
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2021/01/22/justice-for-mohamud-current-events/
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Message: 4
Political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas has been on a hunger strike since January
8, demanding that the law passed by the New Democracy government be photographed
for him, in order to transfer him from the rural prisons where he was being held
until then. The law provides for his transfer to Korydallos and not to Domokos,
where the general secretary of anti-crime policy, Sofia Nikolaou, decided to
transfer him arbitrarily. At the moment, the hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas
is being held in solitary confinement, in a cell, which has been christened a
hospital ward, with 24-hour surveillance via camera. At the same time that the
state is exhausting its revenge on Koufontina in the face of refusing to obey
even the laws themselves,
For this reason, as part of the nationwide solidarity day, on Tuesday, January
19, about 40 comrades marched in Kalamaria, which was directed to the offices of
the local organization of New Democracy.
VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY D. KOUFONTINA
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF HIS REQUEST FOR TRANSFER TO KORYDALLOS PRISONS
Coordination of collectives for solidarity with the hunger striker D. Koufontina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnzqzOARGb4
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2021/01/20/
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Message: 5
Victory in the hunger strike of D. Koufontinas ---- On Friday, January 8, the
militant communist D. Koufontinas starts a hunger strike with a request to be
transferred from Domokou prison to the underground prison of Korydallos, where he
has already served 16 years of his sentence so far. On 22/12, the comrade was
abducted by a large group of police forces and was transferred to the Domokou
disciplinary prison with brief procedures. ---- Saturday 23/1 Solidarity Rally at
12:00 | Sq. Olgas ---- Let us not forget that this transfer takes place after the
passage of the extrajudicial bill of the Ministry of Civil Protection, which,
among other things, provides a series of provisions that tighten the detention
regime, depriving basic rights of detainees. Rights clearly not granted, but won
through the struggles of so many fighters, the struggles of prisoners with
dignity and strength against the shame of the system of "imprisonment" and
confinement.
At the same time, the reasoning on the part of the state and specifically through
the general secretary of anti-crime policy, Sofia Nikolaou, is on the verge of
provocation as they claim that due to the pandemic it is not possible to make
transfers to Korydallos. This, of course, can only be a pretext to cover the fact
of the constant effort of political and physical extermination of the people of
the struggle by democracy and the respective rulers of power. In other words,
this is another attempt to revanchize domination by hitting an imprisoned
militant in the face of whom many meanings are concentrated regarding the modern
post-political history and the direct and militant struggles that were waged
against the ruling complex.
And all this at the same time that the social base is in one of the most
precarious places in the recent history of the western world. At a time when the
state is struggling with the display of power and constant repression, to hide
its black spots and its criminal policy, at the level of pandemic management, to
the detriment of those below. At a time when misery, death, isolation and state
social control are at their height, proving once again, and clearly, that
capitalism, the system of the cold exploitation of man by man, must be crushed.
The state will beat its political opponents and will be ruthless and ruthless.
That is his role. To make it clear that it has the monopoly of violence by
fighting those who dare to challenge its omnipotence, to fight, to fight for life
and freedom.
We choose to stand by Comrade D. Koufontina, against the selective bans on
rallies, morally and politically supporting the choice to fight for the obvious.
With dignity, consistency, stubbornness and continuity, we constantly fight, as
part of the oppressed, against the domination that wants you as a submissive and
frightened follower and follower of the demands and needs of capital. We are next
to the comrades who with vigor put their own body on the embankment, we fight
incessantly for the existing and we build with a weapon of solidarity a world
free from all kinds of power.
On 19/1, a day of nationwide actions of solidarity with the political prisoner,
the demonstration in Patras was attacked by the repressive forces, when a march
was attempted.The guard clashed face to face with the MAT squads, which attacked
in a coordinated manner from two sides, reaching the door of the Branch
occupation. Two arrests were made at the time of the clash, while another comrade
was arrested in the afternoon, during the attack of the cops on the gathered
crowd outside the police station of Ermou, where the detainees were being held.
All three were charged with misdemeanors and were released overnight. As long as
the state chooses to intensify repression, as long as it chooses to attack its
struggles from below fiercely, we will be on the road, fighting for justice and
freedom. The hunger strike struggle continues, inside and outside prisons.
NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
SOLIDARITY TO THE REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTER D. KOUFONTIDA
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF HIS REQUEST FOR TRANSFER TO KORYDALLOS PRISONS
Saturday 23/1 Gathering / Microphone Solidarity at 12:00 | Sq. Olgas
Open assembly in solidarity with the hunger striker D. Koufontina
Saturday 23/1 Solidarity Rally at 12:00 | Sq. Olgas
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 6
Two leaders of member countries of the United Nations (UN) have faithfully
followed in the footsteps of defeated President Donald Trump. One, subordinate
and colonized, is the Brazilian president ---- The "tropical trumpism" represents
the set of messages, signs, political identities and reactionary positions
merging an imaginary conservative past that relativizes the colonial period and
slavery. This set of horrors gained momentum with the election of Trump in 2016,
not by chance the same year that the center government of Dilma Rousseff suffered
a coup d'état dubbed impeachment. In his subordinate condition, Bolsonaro bet
that a "privileged" relationship with the representative of the American extreme
right could provide some gains in diplomacy and economic relations. None of this
happened.
trump_e_bolsonaro_dando_as_mos.jpg
Bruno Beaklini (@estanalise) - article originally published in the Middle East
Monitor (www.monitordooriente.com)
Two leaders of member countries of the United Nations (UN) have faithfully
followed in the footsteps of defeated President Donald Trump. One, in a
subordinate and colonized manner, is the Brazilian and protofascist president,
Jair Bolsonaro. Another is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let's start
with the second.
The Likud leader has spent the past four years in symbiosis, as a single twin of
the former casino owner. Yes, it is the most controversial chauvinist who was
assumed and formally accused of corruption, Benjamin Netanyahu, who goes by the
codename "Bibi". The relations between Israel and the USA are complementary,
including in the mass discourse. If, on the one hand, the Zionist state depends
on military and financial aid from the Empire, on the other hand it manages to
impose its domestic agenda as if it were of first international magnitude for
Washington strategists.
For those who still have any doubts about this capacity, we suggest reading the
book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel lobby and the US foreign
policy" (here I indicate the translated article and not the complete book,
available athttps://www.scielo.br/pdf/nec/n76/03.pdf ). In this seminal work, the
duo of renowned American political scientists and professors of International
Relations - both closely linked to the establishment of the Empire's oligarchy -
explain the direct and sometimes subordinate relationship of the United States to
the Tel Aviv government.
In this way, Israel manages to impose an agenda on the Empire, the State itself
being created from Nakba, in the ethnic cleansing war led by Ben Gurion, between
1947 and 1949, a part of this imperialist articulation. Unlike Brazil, the
Zionist state operates as a bridgehead for the Crusaders, acting with its own
will. The government based in Brasilia, due to the gravitational weight of the
South American country, tends to collide with the gravitation and projection of
surplus power in the United States. In all Latin American territories the same
phenomenon occurs, but in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, due to the size and
dimension of these countries, pressure from the USA tends to be greater, although
with a less noticeable direct presence.
Trump, Bolsonaro's idol and the coloniality of the subordinate position
There is a level of dependency that is intrinsic to the formation of Latin
American countries, and refers to the concept defined by Aníbal Quijano as "the
coloniality of power" (
http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/espanol/quijano-colonialidad-del -power.pdf
). In this way, domination takes place both from the outside in, as in a landing
of marines in the early 20th century (between 1898 and 1934) during the so-called
"banana wars" ( https://www.historiando.org/guerras -bananeras /), but it can
also exist in the mentality structure that organizes national institutions. Thus,
as bold as a correct foreign policy is, without changing the domestic strength
correlations, the tendency to add ignorant, imbecile, upstarts and parasites, all
properly colonized intellectually, is gigantic ( http: //www.ihuonline.unisinos.
br / article /
6926-revisiting-anibal-quijano-and-coloniality-of-power-in-latin-america ). Such
is the case of Bolsonaro's mismanagement and his twisted mirror in front of the
former luxury hotel owner and reality show host.
The "tropical trumpism" represents the set of messages, signs, political
identities and reactionary positions merging an imaginary conservative past that
relativizes the colonial period and slavery. This set of horrors gained momentum
with the election of Trump in 2016, not by chance the same year that the center
government of Dilma Rousseff suffered a coup d'état dubbed impeachment. In his
subordinate condition, Bolsonaro bet that a "privileged" relationship with the
representative of the American extreme right could provide some gains in
diplomacy and economic relations. None of this happened.
The debacle of the Brazilian chancellery will be addressed in another article.
The supposed comparative advantages between the United States and Brazil never
existed, concluding the Trump administration with the announcement that the US
transnational and automaker Ford Motor will simply end its activities in Brazil (
https://g1.globo.com/economia/ news / 2021/01/11 /
ford-closes-factories-and-closes-production-in-brazil-in-2021.ghtml ). The
disastrous administration of Bolsonaro and Paulo Guedes did nothing and does
nothing to defend industrial employment in the country, culminating in the
departure of a company that has been in Brazil for over a hundred years (
https://www.noticiasautomotivas.com.br /
after-101-years-ford-closes-production-in-brazil /). If this characterizes a
"strategic alliance", what would a "tactical alliance" with another government
look like? No "friendly" government should allow a factory linked to the US
Treasury to leave, leaving regions where the company has industrial plants
installed in economic depression.
The case of Ford's departure follows the pattern since President Bolsonaro and
his entire troupe's first official trip to the United States. At the time, in
March 2019, of the four points considered positive by the Brazilian delegation,
pragmatically only one would have any concrete meaning. Let's see: US support for
Brazil's entry into the OECD; inclusion of Brazil as an NATO extra ally; positive
view of partnerships for diplomatic issues and, finally, the beginning of talks
to sign commercial treaties, mainly in the area of agriculture (
https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2019/03/20
/interna_politica,744063/um-saldo-positivo-na-viagem-de-bolsonaro-aos-estados-unidos.shtml).
Three subordinate alignments and a promise of pragmatism that has not been
realized. On the contrary, there was never reciprocity in actual terms between
the Foreign Ministry and the US State Department during the period. In other
words, besides preaching in defense of "Western civilization" and other
reactionary fantasies, there was no progress in any area.
The final effect of "Trumpism in the USA" without Trump in the White House may be
the alignment of a legion with millions of those manipulated in conspiracy
theories and similar hallucinations, culminating in the attack on the Capitol of
January 6 of that year ( https: // www.
bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-55568031). In Brazil, "tropical trumpism" may
resort to similar practices in 2022. But, until then, protofascism will have to
live with a "different boss", remembering who campaigned against his candidacy.
Bolsonaro and Brazil's isolation in the International System
The Brazilian extreme right government may be isolated in the face of the
repositioning of the Empire under the Biden administration. Some level of tension
in environmental issues seems to be inevitable, in the resumption of the Paris
Agreements and in multilateral initiatives to prevent climate change. In the
defense of Brazilian sovereignty in the Legal Amazon, a new clash is possible,
since the US may have in the Bolsonaro government, the "perfect villain", since
the president is an ally of Trump and defender of the worst environmental
practices in the history of the Continent.
Returning to the beginning of the article, the difference between Benjamin
Netanyahu and Jair Bolsonaro is the relative weight of each country. Israel
behaved with the same arrogance as South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s in the
widespread conflict in southern Africa. Brazil, on the other hand, under the dark
administration of the extreme right, allied with speculators and military
surrenders, is like a giant that is afraid and ashamed of its own size. Instead
of exercising its geopolitical weight and leading the Continent by turning to
South-South relations, it is content to be subordinate to the agendas of the
Empire, with the aggravating factor of internalizing the domestic political
agenda for the purposes of maneuvering and manipulation of broad electoral bases.
The tendency is for Brazil to become, in fact, a country not respected in the
International System in the remaining period of Bolsonaro's mismanagement.
This article originally published in the Monitor do Middle East
(www.monitordooriente.com)
Bruno Beaklini (Bruno Lima Rocha Beaklini), of Arab-Brazilian origin, is a
political scientist, professor of international relations and journalism and a
columnist for the Monitor of the Middle East. Contacts: blimarocha@gmail.com /
https://www.facebook.com/blimarocha/ / www.estrategiaeanaliseblog.com /
t.me/estrategiaeanalise (Telegram) and
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCweS5s_1c0AvbXe5_iXYjKA ( Youtube channel)
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32145
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Message: 7
At a time when the French authorities are discussing the possibility of
introducing a third "quarantine" under the pretext of fighting the epidemic,
protests against the policy of the neoliberal regime in the country continue. In
Paris on January 23, a "unitary march for freedom" was held, bringing together
groups of "yellow vests" and opponents of the new security law. ----
Demonstrators gathered at 11:00 in front of the Council of State in the Place
Palais Royal and at noon marched towards the National Assembly. At 4.30 pm they
stopped at the Military School on Boske Avenue. ---- Simultaneously, in Paris,
unions called for a demonstration against layoffs and job cuts before the
National Assembly in the afternoon. Both performances merged together!
The demonstrators chanted: "Here, here" yellow vests "," We are here "," Puts to
Macron "," We will be mad "," Work, consume and be silent "
On the banners and posters, one could read: "Stop giving your consent", "Trade
unions! When will there be unity of action? Instead of days of protest alone and
mass processions of sheep", "To tell the truth is a revolutionary act", "He who
does not move, does not feel her chains. Rosa Luxemburg "," Freedom, equality,
brotherhood - for whom? "," For purchasing power! "," Let's fire the oligarchy! "
Demonstrations against the security law and against the restriction of freedoms
took place in various cities in France, including Van, Rennes, Marseille, etc.
The performances on 23 January brought together a large number of participants.
They were surrounded by outfits of the repressive forces of the regime, but this
only strengthened the determination of the "yellow vests" and other protesters.
The police behaved with restraint this time, but their sheer number should have
intimidated the rebellious. The authorities are terrorizing the country, imposing
a curfew, and threatening to "vaccinate everyone by the end of August." But they
can't do anything about the "street" they despise
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/240121/gj-acte115-paris-23012021-marche-unitaire-pour-les-libertes)
During the protest, there was sharp criticism of restrictive measures imposed by
the regime, isolation and lockdowns. "... I think the real virus is in the Elysee
Palace" (presidential), - explained one of the "yellow vests" (
https://twitter.com/giletsjaunesgo )
On the same day, small actions of "yellow vests" were traditionally held on the
streets, intersections and junctions in Osh, Antibes, Tarbes, Lannion, Rouen,
Millot and other cities and towns of the country.
https://aitrus.info/node/5619
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