#WORLDWIDE #WORLD #ANARCHISME #News #Update - FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2021

 

Today's Topics:

   

1.  Section of I.W.A. in the region of Russia about the last
      protests for Navalny (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  vitoria.cnt: COMMUNICATION FROM THE CULTURAL 

     SECTIONS OF THE
      CNT ON THE IMPRISONMENT OF PABLO HASEL (ca)

      [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  

 3.  federacion anarquista iberica FAI: Health is not a commodity
      -- [Let's socialize the pharmaceutical industry.] (ca, de, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

4.  Poland, Employee Initiative, ozzip: Consumption, investments
      and savings from an employee perspective 

      [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  Anarchist Federation Gran Canaria: Canarias, the largest
      prison in the State (ca) [machine translation] 

     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

6.  Czech, AFED: Buric 1/2021 - anarchist magazine 

      was published
      in Slovakia [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1

We, anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists, consider it completely unacceptable for
ourselves to take any part in political shows organized by supporters of the
right-wing populist Navalny, who is sadly "famous" for his openly nationalist,
anti-immigrant, anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic statements. To march in the ranks
of the demonstrations they convened would mean - regardless of any excuses or
"explanations" - to turn into the back of one of the political gangs waging a
dirty and unprincipled struggle for power. ---- We, as anarchists, believe that
both the current authoritarian regime in the Kremlin, which became the successor
of Yeltsin's neoliberal clique, and the opposing group headed by Navalny, which
is now seeking to seize the leadership of the entire mass of disaffected, are
just the spokesmen for the interests of the country's true rulers - the dominant
Oligarchy and its "Iron Heel". Supporting any of these camps completely
contradicts our anarchist convictions and our social revolutionary goal.
Participation in the struggle for power between various parties, coalitions and
cliques, and the transfer of more than justified social discontent of people into
the rotten channel of politicking only distract the working class from the
struggle for its true social interests, from the awakening of the labour class
consciousness and, ultimately, from the social and personal liberation.

We, anarchists, stand for the immediate and unconditional release of all
anarchist, left-wing radical and social prisoners who are languishing today in
the dungeons of the Oligarchy. But we are convinced that such a result must be
achieved on our own, without turning into actual voluntary or involuntary
servants of certain alien contenders for political power for the sake of
continuing the same anti-social and neoliberal policy in the interests of
Capital. We cannot fight side by side with those who did not interfere with the
total privatization and destruction of affordable health care and education, who
did not oppose the anti-human pension reform, who last year supported the
introduction of a universal terrorist system of surveillance and house arrest
under the pretext of "fighting the epidemic". There is no "lesser evil" for us,
and we do not enter into an alliance with the enemy - even when he is the enemy
of our enemy.

No to political struggle - for social resistance!

https://iwa-ait.org/content/section-iwa-region-russia-about-last-protests-navalny

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Message: 2



The repression of the Spanish state towards its artists is already a constant.
The imminent imprisonment of Pablo Hasel should give us pause. From the whole of
the Cultural Sections of the CNT we show our rejection towards a condemnation
that is clearly unfair and disproportionate, which threatens the freedom not only
of Pablo, but also of anyone who has an opinion contrary to what oppressive
elites dictate, or even, of anyone who narrates some uncomfortable contrasted
facts of the underworld of power. ---- It is essential to modify the penal code,
abolishing those laws that muzzle us, to guarantee the right of expression to
both artists and anyone who lives in this state. For all these reasons, we call
for mobilization and we join the concentrations that have been called.

For the freedom of the people in the face of repression worthy of totalitarian
regimes, for the freedom of Pablo Hasel.

https://vitoria.cnt.es/blog/2021/02/06/comunicado-de-las-secciones-culturales-de-cnt-sobre-el-encarcelamiento-de-pablo-hasel/

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Message: 3



The chaos and disorder of capitalism and its managing states is leading humanity
to disaster, especially the poorest (that is, the majority). The health crisis
generated by a pandemic that, in addition, has its origin in the plundering and
depredation of natural spaces by large extractivist corporations, as well as in
the destruction of biodiversity, is unsustainable, since money and the market
they are above everything, even health and life.This crisis, like all crises
within the capitalist system, has been primed, as we have already mentioned, with
the poorest layers of society, not only in health, but also economically,
creating even more poverty and despair , leading to the most absolute misery to a
large part of society, while great fortunes come out even richer, up to 24% more
than last year.

We have been hearing messages for years about how well the capitalist and the
statist models work. University careers focused on the management of this perfect
system, transmission of values from the school that prioritize competition,
inequality, individualism and efficiency to the detriment of solidarity, equality
and mutual support ... Brainy researchers, economists, journalists, lawyers and
politicians talking about the wonders of the system. And every time there is a
major crisis such as that of Covid-19 or the many that climate change has
generated, whoever can for themselves, everything goes to shit.

It is obscene and criminal that technology and science, built from the social
knowledge accumulated throughout the history of the human being, are monopolized
by greedy companies that the only thing they pursue is the enrichment of their
owners and boards of directors, with their respective commissions and briefcases
for governors and state officials.

There we have a clear case, that of the pharmaceutical industry, which is
condemning poor humanity, a huge number of women, men and children, to death and
disease by having appropriated, with the support of the States, the social
heritage which are knowledge and its derivatives, as is the case with vaccines.

The pharmaceutical industry has deceived everyone, making contracts that it does
not fulfill, leaving markets with which it had committed itself without
supplying, supplying only the highest bidding states, artificially inflating
prices, blackmailing the whole of society by having the frying pan for the mango,
enriching its investors and managers at the cost of the death of thousands of
people, and with the complicity of governments.

About 75% of the coronavirus vaccines distributed belong to just 10 countries
around the world. 85 low-income states will not be able to widely access the
vaccine until at least 2023.

Meanwhile, the breaches of Pfizer and AstraZeneca in the delivery of vaccines
raise the alarms of the European Commission. But what were they waiting for! They
have been legislating for years to favor big capital, giving credit and
encouraging the worst band of criminals, those who enrich themselves with the
pain of others, at the same time that their shares skyrocket.

Says the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom
Grebreyesus, that the world is on the brink of "a catastrophic moral failure
regarding the equitable distribution of vaccines against Covid-19." These world
leaders do not find out or they do not know: the catastrophe is called
capitalism! The WHO criticizes the "selfishness" of rich countries and
pharmaceutical companies, a selfishness that is an essential part of the model
defended by national and international institutions and which they put us at all
hours under euphemisms such as individual initiative, freedom of business and
market, personal leadership.

The WHO is scandalized by contracts that are not fulfilled, by arbitrary price
increases, by distribution of vaccines among the richest ... There is no reason
for this as long as capitalism and its political expression, bourgeois
democracies and representative systems are defended. The model they support and
legitimize carries within it the gangrene of lies and crime.

For us, however, the cause of this evil is clear: private ownership of the means
of production. For this reason, the solution can only be one: the appropriation,
by the people, of these industries, which must be socialized and self-managed in
such a way as to impose human and social criteria over the commercial and
individual. There is no other solution to avoid the cataclysm of this system,
which has always been sold to us as a fundamental pillar of progress, but which
in reality only increases inequality, increasing the gap with each crisis. Of
course, these solutions will never be promoted or tolerated by the States,
protectors of the sacrosanct private property and grateful servants of the owners
of capital, their true masters,

Iberian Anarchist Federation

https://federacionanarquistaiberica.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/la-salud-no-es-una-mercancia/

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Message: 4



"It's not that bad, people are not losing their jobs. Let's start taking this
money out, using it for consumption and investment, this is what we mean, to
support such activities "- the author of these words is not one of the economic
journalists who publish in liberal media out of reality. They were spoken by
Tadeusz Koscinski, the current Minister of Finance[1]. As it turns out, a person
performing tasks in the field of, among others designing the state budget,
managing tax matters, financing local governments and servicing public debt,
there is no knowledge of the real economy and the situation of Polish and Polish
household budgets during the coronavirus pandemic.

 From the beginning of the pandemic, the ruling team has been clumsily reacted to
the deepening public health crisis and the accompanying economic crisis.
Successive, rapidly introduced "anti-crisis shields" turned out to be primarily
anti-labor shields[2]. The fact that the capitalist system takes advantage of
every cataclysm or social collapse to increase profits is no surprise to the
trade union movement. As Krzysztof Król, a member of the National Commission of
OZZIP and the initiator of the # tyra16challenge campaign, said during the first
lockdown, in neoliberal capitalism for the working class, "there is always a
crisis"[3].

Therefore, we should ask who the appeal of Minister Koscinski is addressed to?
Does it mean 2.6 million of us who have less than PLN 1000 savings, or maybe 5.5
million people who have no savings[4]? Such an appeal is not only socially
harmful, but also raises well-founded doubts: in whose interest is it taken? It
is no surprise that politicians often act in the interest of the financial lobby,
so it should not surprise us in the case of a politician who, like Koscinski, has
already been accused of breaking the anti-corruption law[5].

As a trade union movement, it is our duty to firmly oppose the anti-crisis
measures taken at the expense of working people. We are tired of the austerity
and money squeezing policy. There are a number of solutions that not only can
remedy the economic crisis, but most of all can significantly improve working and
living conditions, and, seen in a broader perspective, prevent other crises
(including the climate and environmental crisis, the costs of which in the
capitalist system will also fall primarily on the shoulders of working class).

Let us pause for a moment, however, in the appeal to spend savings on consumption
and investment. On the surface, this request sounds reasonable. From the first
weeks of the lockdown, we have heard how important the economic activity of
"ordinary people" is, their spending on consumption and services had a
significant impact on the condition of the entire economy. In order to enable
this activity (and above all, to ensure the survival of people when many sectors
of the economy come to a standstill, job cuts, etc.), many countries have decided
to use various forms of money transfers directly to their citizens, either as
benefits or as a benefit. forms of unconditional basic income.

In Poland, this aid took the form of subsequent so-called "Anti-crisis shields" -
a chaotic, inconsistent, flawed support program, the beneficiaries of which
turned out to be employers rather than employees and employees, and at the
enterprise level, large corporations rather than small companies. As an Employee
Initiative, we have repeatedly criticized this program. The pandemic revealed all
the shortcomings of the Polish labor market, for example its precarization, due
to which a large part of employees is not entitled to a standstill, the
scandalously low amount of unemployment benefits, or the façade nature of the
National Labor Inspectorate. The rulers, instead of using the moment of the
crisis to fight these pathologies, decided to transfer huge amounts of public
money to private enterprises, with a very weak system of control over the
spending of these funds. As a result, many companies gave their employees and
employees notices immediately after receiving government support. And the money
that has poured out into private corporations in large amounts does not return as
investments to the economy. Perhaps the words of Minister Koscinski should be
addressed to private enterprises? Maybe they should take out their savings, among
others, thanks to many years of support from the state budget (tax breaks,
special economic zones, etc.)? they do not return as investments to the economy.
Perhaps the words of Minister Koscinski should be addressed to private
enterprises? Maybe they should take out their savings, among others thanks to
many years of support from the state budget (tax breaks, special economic zones,
etc.)? they do not return as investments to the economy. Perhaps the words of
Minister Koscinski should be addressed to private enterprises? Maybe they should
take out their savings, among others thanks to many years of support from the
state budget (tax breaks, special economic zones, etc.)?

Instead of persuading Polish women and Poles to spend money (which they do not
have) on consumption (which they may not need at all) and investments (which may
turn out to be harmful to society and / or the environment), the minister of
finance could reflect on their situation and reflect what investments do we
actually need to improve our living conditions. According to the report of the
National Debt Register - Savings Barometer[6], as many as 38% of people admit
that their financial situation deteriorated during the pandemic. More than 43% of
Poles tighten their belts due to the increase in the prices of products and
services, and 35% due to the expected increases. Many people are also afraid of
losing their job (every fifth respondent) or lowering their salaries (nearly
22%). Due to precarious working conditions and low wages, many people do not have
any savings (1/4 Polish women and men),

Moreover, various forms of household debt are also increasing. The arrears
registered in the National Debt Register have increased since February 2020,
which was the last month before the pandemic, by over PLN 2 billion. This gloomy
picture is only one element of a wider, much more pessimistic panorama of social
life during neoliberal capitalism and during a pandemic - it does not even take
into account the dramatic state of health care, including both the working
conditions of staff in health facilities and the availability of treatment for
people suffering from covid or other diseases (17% of people had to opt for
expensive treatment in private healthcare); it does not take into account the
disregard of the health and life of their employees by many employers. Many
people cannot give up unnecessary and risky work during a pandemic,

The pandemic only exposed and exacerbated a number of systemic problems generated
by neoliberalism. At the same time, it may only be a prelude to the problems of
the deepening climate and ecological crisis (which is also an effect of the
capitalist economy, based on constant growth and ruthless exploitation of people
and natural resources). Noticing all the injustices and pathologies of this
model, however, also creates an opportunity to overcome the crisis. What do we
propose in return?

1. Reduction of working time. Instead of fueling the economy with consumption,
working hours should be shortened (without a cut in wages). This would not only
respond to the risk of rising unemployment and job cuts, but would also allow for
a fairer distribution of the most arduous jobs. David Graeber, an anthropologist
and activist who died last year, wrote about the fact that we work too long and /
or that our productivity grows, but that only the owners of the means of
production or the managerial class reap profits from it. Moreover, shorter
working hours would also translate into a fairer distribution of reproductive
work and reduced emissions and environmental pressures.

2. Investments in public services. Instead of investing in the banking sector and
private services, which benefit a handful of people (as urged by the Minister of
Finance), invest in public services that provide the most important life needs of
all Polish women (care, education, health, public transport, housing). By
radically increasing the subsidy of the public sector from the state budget,
additional well-paid and stable jobs can be created.

3. Taxation of private property: financial and real estate. Where to get the
money for all this? We advise the minister - instead of reaching into the empty
pockets of Poles and Polish women, one could start from the places where the most
capital accumulates. A large part of the increase in savings of affluent people
(the sum of over PLN 50,000, according to the KRD report, can be proud of only 7%
of Poles) is now being invested speculatively, only raising housing prices for
the working class[8].

Politicians and women politicians of all parties - at least in the time of the
pandemic - stop representing the interests of the capitalist class and the
financiers, and start thinking and guided by the public interest, or else you
will end up in the "dustbin of history", just like the unjust system you strongly
defend!

Weronika Parafianowicz / Department Committee of the Association of Employers at
the University of Warsaw
Pawel Nowozycki / Committee Committee of the Association of Trade Unions
"Inicjatywa Pracownicza" at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Substantive consultation: Maciej Grodzicki / Department Committee of the
Association of Employee Initiative at the Jagiellonian University

Footnotes:

[1]The statement comes from January 22 this year and you can read it in the
interview that Tadeusz Koscinski gave to Polish Radio, URL:[LINK]
[2]For a detailed description of the anti-worker nature of the first shield see
Jakub Grzegorczyk, Katarzyna Rakowska; "Anti-crisis shield - workers and workers
will pay for the crisis",[LINK]
[3]Krzysztof Król, Rafal Wos; "Poland seen from the crane",[LINK]
[4]The data comes from the report of the National Debt Register from the end of
last year, which we discuss below.
[5]The case was made public by "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" and described by the
portal Gazeta.pl,[LINK]
[6][REPORT]
[7]See David Graeber, "No Purpose Work. Teoria ", Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw 2018.
[8]According to Eurostat data, Poland ranks second in the EU in terms of housing
price growth (an increase by 7.9% in the last quarter of 2020), and only
Luxembourg has a higher result,[LINK DO ARTICLE]

https://ozzip.pl/publicystyka/gospodarka/item/2740-konsumpcja-inwestycje-oszczednosci-z-perspektywy-pracowniczej

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Message: 5



The geographical location of the Canary Islands places it naturally on the usual
migratory routes to leave the continent. Its location in the Atlantic has also
made it a tricontinental connection point, a historical place of passage on the
journey from Europe to America. The volume of Canarian emigration was enormous
from the 16th to the 20th centuries and even today it maintains notable diasporas
in countries such as Cuba, Puerto Rico or Venezuela (called for a long time in
the Canary Islands "the eighth island"). The claim that there were more canaries
living off the islands than on them was commonplace at the beginning of the last
century.
The foregoing could give us to understand that in the Canary Islands the
migratory phenomenon is understood naturally, but unfortunately, and at least
currently, this is not the case. The islands are experiencing a situation of
collective dissociation from their own geographical, social and political
reality. State education, media bombardment, daily propaganda, government
policies, have caused a high percentage of the Canarian population to develop a
strong European identitarianism. In the Canary Islands we live with our backs to
the African continent, even though we are only 95 km from it. The idea of being
one of the last colonies in Europe is not something to be confronted with. The
fact that the archipelago is one of the most impoverished territories in
"political Europe", with a higher rate of unemployment, evictions, social
exclusion and child poverty has not, paradoxically, prevented that Eurocentrism,
the pro-colonial mentality, Spanish nationalism or insular chauvinism and
xenophobia prevail. We have been educated, from school, to be proud of being
"second-class Europeans" and to point out, in the face of any economic or social
crisis, poor foreigners.

The migration phenomenon is not studied in depth, nor does it interest the public
authorities to understand its causes. There is talk endlessly about "mafias" and
"human trafficking", but never about refugees from armed conflicts, about workers
fleeing extreme poverty, about people fleeing political or religious persecution.
Interestingly, it is omitted that human trafficking is an effect of migration and
not its cause, and that it must be found in situations that have promoted or
directly provoked the European powers, such as wars, desertification or the
plundering of the natural resources of the countries of origin.

The real data on immigration shed even more light. It is estimated that between
2020 and the beginning of 2021, some 25,000 migrants from the African continent
have arrived on the islands. The local government has in its "custody" only about
10,000 of them. About 2,000 were able to reach the peninsula (the goal of the
vast majority) and between 500-600 have been directly deported. Approximately
12,000 are outside the supposed "official reception network" 1. The media have
shown endlessly images of migrants frolicking in the island's hotels, but what
has been said less is that many of them have spent up to 3 weeks abandoned in the
port of Arguineguín (in the south of Gran Canaria ), without any type of hygienic
condition, cursing and eating badly, with no other cover than a simple canvas
over their heads. Nor has it been said that many of them have already been
expelled from the hotels and that they now subsist in subhuman conditions,
practically in the open, in the ravines of Gran Canaria. It is even less
interesting to know where and under what conditions some of the 12,000 people who
have not fallen into the hands of the State are. It is taken for granted that
many were able to escape to the peninsula, but we know perfectly well that the
survival of some of them (certainly a minority within the global count) is being
guaranteed in networks of mutual support outside the institutions. Rehousing and
food self-sufficiency projects such as those initiated by the FAGC (which
currently house more than 200 migrants in situations of government persecution)
demonstrate the ineptitude of the institutions and their disastrous management of
comparatively enormous resources.

The Government of the Canary Islands (quadripartite left) does not speak of
"humanitarian emergency", but of "health risk" and dehumanizes migrants who go
from being people to being "a problem. The pandemic, that wild card with which
any repressive measure has been justified for a year, serves to further limit the
movement of migrants and prescribe most social interactions. Meanwhile, the
obligation to produce and consume remains intact, and allows workplaces, shopping
centers and classrooms to remain open without anyone establishing a relationship
between capitalism and contagion. Questioning the system and its contradictions
becomes complex and unnecessary when you have a scapegoat.crisis or to applaud
their policies. No one is unaware that linking Covid and migration is a fallacy
and an exercise in hatred, but it is much more electorally profitable to
establish this interested connection than to recognize that the main route of
international transmission of the virus has been tourism (the first case of the
Spanish State was precisely a tourist on the island of La Gomera 2 ).

Racism doesn't come spontaneously out of nowhere. It is learned. Children are not
innately racist. They are when they are taught to be. And in this case, the
Canarian people are receiving a crash course in racism and xenophobia from the
institutions. The manifestations of street racism are a reflection of the
manifestations of institutional racism. It is a process that runs from the
offices to the neighborhoods. When the police violently dissolve any unauthorized
public event but are tolerant, and even complicit, with racist protests, the
message for the population is clear: xenophobia is a matter of "good citizens".

Many media outlets have been essential to the success of this dirty
disinformation war. Political calculations have been stronger than responsibility
and rigor and an anti-immigration campaign has been launched that could end in an
escalation of racist violence of priceless proportions and consequences. They
nourish their columns and news reports with hoaxes taken directly from social
networks and distort any daily conflict between migrants until they turn it into
a ready-made "news". They speak, without shame, of "avalanche" or directly of
"invasion" to refer to some 25,000 people; no similar term has ever been used to
refer to the more than 15,000,000 tourists that we have received annually 3 .

Interestingly, it is silenced that a large part of these migrants are actually
prisoners of the State. It is silenced that many of them have not been able to
use either their passports or their tickets for their true objective: to reach
Europe. It is silenced that the cause of all this is that the central government
(that so "leftist" coalition between PSOE and UP) has turned the Canary Islands
into a huge prison to prevent human beings, too dark for their liking, from
roaming its white Europe. It is silenced that the same Europe that has decided to
dispense with the borders between member countries, for purely commercial
purposes, is the one that is pressing so that the invisible wall that they have
erected before the African continent does not fall. It is silenced that in this
Europe markets are infinitely freer than people.

And while all this is happening, a large part of the people is putting into
practice the imperialist lesson that has been burned for centuries: in times of
uncertainty and crisis it is always easier to hit the bottom than the top.

The great success of capitalism, the State and its coercive forces, is that an
impoverished and depleted population looks for those responsible in their own
class and not among those who govern and exploit them. Canarian poverty has not
been caused by migration. It has been caused by an economy that has been
completely colonized since before the English imposed tomato cultivation on us.
It has been caused by the current tourist "monoculture", which only enriches the
lobbyhotelier and the speculators of Vacational Housing, while the working class
only receives precariousness and chronic unemployment. It has been caused by a
completely outsourced economy, which forces us to serve and does not allow us to
create anything. It has been caused by a political class that has given all our
resources to multinationals, which has allowed rural land to have been in the
hands of a few aristocratic families for centuries and urban land, including
neighborhoods, has spent the last decade in the hands of the banks and from these
to vulture funds. Poverty has a name and a face, and also those who generate it.

On the other hand, the advance of racist and fascist positions has not been able
to counteract by some Canarian social movements that on many occasions are
disconnected from their immediate reality. Some do not have any direct
relationship with the working class to which they are directed or do not know
more formulas of interaction than those of folklore. Many can understand the
urgency of overthrowing the "Gag Law" that represses people for their ideology,
but very few the urgency of loading the "Immigration Law" that represses people
because of their place of birth. Others have resigned for years to engage in any
direct confrontation with the administration and have no other claim horizon than
the next grant. They tell us that racism and fascism are fought at the polls or
in dialogue with the enemy. There are those who even

We believe that our people, our class, and that includes those who were not born
here or speak our fucking language, defend it day by day, on the chopping block,
in the street, sharing with them the tools that allow us to remain alive and
free. We do not want to establish any dialogue with fascism, nor persuade it, nor
convince it, nor defeat it in the field of ideas. We believe that fascism is not
disputed; it bursts. Therefore, in order not to leave you a micron of land, we
continue to create free and self-managed spaces. We continue to promote shelters
that welcome human beings who today are being persecuted for their skin color,
ethnicity or place of origin. We continue to socialize abandoned lands so that
these families, among which there is a significant percentage of minors, can
cultivate and feed themselves. We continue to recycle and repair electrical
appliances so that they have hot water and a clean break that has not been
guaranteed in the "camps of shame" set up by the State. We also continue to learn
and accumulate knowledge, such as new ways of farming, steps to follow to make
homemade ovens, recipes with which to make bread for hundreds of people, new
methods to isolate buildings and a long etcetera. But, above all, we remain
convinced that the land has no name, that borders are a crime for which our
grandchildren will one day judge us and that there is no country, flag or
collective identity that is worth fucking shit compared to any lifetime.

FAGC

1 Data from the TVC newscasts (1/28/21).

2 "A German tourist, first case of coronavirus in Spain", El Periódico (3/10/20).

3 La Voz de Lanzarote (3/27/18) speaks of an average of 16 million and Europa P
ress (2/2/20) of 13 million in 2019.

https://anarquistasgc.noblogs.org/post/2021/02/05/canarias-la-carcel-mas-grande-del-estado/

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Message: 6



After a long time, an anarchist magazine was published in Slovakia, we bring you
a review ---- When a friend within the Anarchist Federation (AF) sent us a link
to the new magazine Buric , I danced with joy. It's been a really long time since
an anarchist magazine was published in Slovakia. I like to remember times when
there was no shortage of them. It is only 20 pages of A5 format, but this is
definitely just the beginning... In Slovakia, although the group Direct Action
involved in the International Association of Workers operates, a little diversity
and other initiatives is definitely not harmful. ---- As already mentioned on the
front page, the magazine is published by the "anarchist information group
AlterNativE, southwestern Slovakia", and in the editorial we learn that in a way
it follows the two issues that were published under the title Alternative . Buric
then ends with a call to join an initiative that could lead to the establishment
of the Slovak Anarchist Federation. If something like this happens, and I keep my
fingers crossed that it will, then surely AF will be happy to help pass on
organizational experience.

Rioteraccording to him, he would like to mediate the inspirations of social
struggles and acquaint with the history and personalities of the anarchist
movement. The first issue reflects the centenary of the death of the anarchist
theorist Petr Kropotkin and brings a text about his life and work. An article
about rural anarchist collectives during the Spanish Social Revolution also
provides inspiration for today. There is also an interview, specifically with a
member of the historical association Zádruha, from which one can feel enthusiasm
for radical history, but he also comments on the state of the current anarchist
movement and explains his political views. The translation of the Greek poster
makes it clear that the current system is an obvious form of terrorism and that
the only alternative is a free and self-governing society. Finally, a reflection
on the possibilities of anti-authoritarian tendencies is published,

I hope that we will soon see another issue and perhaps some new organizational
platform between Slovak anarchists.

Buric No. 1/2021. 161% information periodical. 20 pages A5. Download HERE .
Contact: casopisburic[a]safe-mail.net

https://www.afed.cz/text/7295/buric-1-2021

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