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WORLD WORLDWIDE INFORMATION - ACTIVISM - A-infos-index24 - Latest Headlines - 40 post - post - NewsUpdate UpdateNews in all languages. Sunday 8 November 2026.

 

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[A-infos-index24] First few lines of the ainfos posts of the last 24 hours
a-infos-index24@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:16:57 GMT 2026


(en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Athens, These are not accidents - State and capital are murdering workers (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:08:08 GMT 2026


(en) UK, ACG: NON-VIOLENCE DOES NOT EXIST (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:07:59 GMT 2026


(en) France, OCL: Blog publishing banned - The Internet, "a space of freedom", really? by Saint-Nazaire (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:07:53 GMT 2026


(en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - FICEDL International Assembly (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:07:45 GMT 2026


(de) UK, ACG: GEWALTFREIHEIT EXISTIERT NICHT (ca, en, it, fr, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:07:25 GMT 2026


(en) France, UCL AL #375 - Ecology - Cooperation Jackson: Building Self-Management in the Face of Environmental Racism (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:07:16 GMT 2026


(en) France, OCL CA #363 - Courant Alternatif - October 2026 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:06:53 GMT 2026


(de) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Athen: Das sind keine Unfälle - Staat und Kapital ermorden Arbeiter (ca, en, it, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:06:50 GMT 2026


(de) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - Internationale FICEDL-Versammlung (ca, en, it, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:06:43 GMT 2026


(de) France, UCL AL #375 - Ökologie - Cooperation Jackson: Selbstverwaltung angesichts von Umweltrassismus aufbauen (ca, en, it, fr, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:06:35 GMT 2026


(de) France, OCL: Verbot der Blog-Veröffentlichung - Das Internet, ein "Raum der Freiheit"? Wirklich? - von Saint-Nazaire (ca, en, it, fr, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:06:12 GMT 2026


(de) France, OCL CA #363 - Courant Alternatif - Oktober 2026 (ca, en, it, fr, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:06:02 GMT 2026


(ca) UK, ACG: LA NO VIOLENCIA NO EXISTE (de, en, fr, it, pt, tr)[Traducción automática]
a-infos-ca@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:05:47 GMT 2026


(ca) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - Asamblea Internacional de la FICEDL (de, en, it, pt, tr)[Traducción automática]
a-infos-ca@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:05:37 GMT 2026


(ca) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Atenas: No son accidentes; el Estado y el capital asesinan a los trabajadores (de, en, it, pt, tr)[Traducción automática]
a-infos-ca@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:05:31 GMT 2026


(ca) France, UCL AL #375 - Ecología - Cooperation Jackson: Construir la autogestión frente al racismo ambiental (de, en, fr, it, pt, tr)[Traducción automática]
a-infos-ca@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:05:18 GMT 2026


(ca) France, OCL: Prohibición de publicar el blog: ¿Internet, «un espacio de libertad»? ¿De verdad? - por Saint-Nazaire (de, en, fr, it, pt, tr)[Traducción automática]
a-infos-ca@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:05:09 GMT 2026


(ca) France, OCL CA #363 - Courant Alternatif, octubre de 2026 (de, en, fr, it, pt, tr)[Traducción automática]
a-infos-ca@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:05:03 GMT 2026


(it) France, OCL CA #363 - Courant Alternatif ottobre 2026 (ca, de, en, fr, pt, tr)[traduzione automatica]
a-infos-it@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:04:42 GMT 2026


(it) France, OCL: Vietata la pubblicazione di blog - Internet, davvero "uno spazio di libertà"? di Saint-Nazaire (ca, de, en, fr, pt, tr)[traduzione automatica]
a-infos-it@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:04:23 GMT 2026


(it) France, UCL AL #375 - Ecologia - Cooperation Jackson: Costruire l'autogestione di fronte al razzismo ambientale (ca, de, en, fr, pt, tr)[traduzione automatica]
a-infos-it@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:04:13 GMT 2026


(it) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Atene, non sono incidenti: Stato e capitale assassinano i lavoratori (ca, de, en, pt, tr)[traduzione automatica]
a-infos-it@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:03:57 GMT 2026


(it) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - Assemblea internazionale FICEDL (ca, de, en, pt, tr)[traduzione automatica]
a-infos-it@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:03:50 GMT 2026


(it) UK, ACG: LA NON-VIOLENZA NON ESISTE (ca, de, en, fr, pt, tr)[traduzione automatica]
a-infos-it@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:03:36 GMT 2026


(tr) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - Savaş Çoktan Başladı (ca, de, en, it, pt)[makine çevirisi]
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:03:33 GMT 2026


(tr) France, UCL AL #375 - Ataerkillik Karşıtlığı - Çocuk Merkezlilik: Yetişkin egemenliğine (adultism) karşı örgütlenme (ca, de, en, fr, it, pt)[makine çevirisi]
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:03:17 GMT 2026


(tr) France, OCL: Radyo: Öldürme yetkisine hayır! (ca, de, en, fr, it, pt)[makine çevirisi]
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:03:05 GMT 2026


(tr) France, OCL CA #363 - Ulusal Eğitim ve Direnişte Yönetim (ca, de, en, fr, it, pt)[makine çevirisi]
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:02:49 GMT 2026


(tr) France, Monde Libertaire - Pages d'histoire No. 141: Çin'de Emperyalizm ve Soykırım (ca, de, en, fr, it, pt)[makine çevirisi]
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:02:39 GMT 2026


(tr) Australia, ACF - Picket Line: Gözlem Hattı: Victoria Seçimleri (ca, de, en, fr, it, pt)[makine çevirisi]
a-infos-tr@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:02:32 GMT 2026


(pt) UK, ACG: A NÃO VIOLÊNCIA NÃO EXISTE (ca, de, en, fr, it, tr)[traduccion automatica]
a-infos-pt@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:02:17 GMT 2026


(pt) France, UCL AL #375 - Ecologia - Cooperation Jackson: Construindo a autogestão diante do racismo ambiental (ca, de, en, fr, it, tr)[traduccion automatica]
a-infos-pt@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:02:09 GMT 2026


(pt) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - Assembleia Internacional da FICEDL (ca, de, en, it, tr)[traduccion automatica]
a-infos-pt@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:02:01 GMT 2026


(pt) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Atenas: não são acidentes o Estado e o capital estão assassinando trabalhadores (ca, de, en, it, tr)[traduccion automatica]
a-infos-pt@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:01:52 GMT 2026


(pt) France, OCL: Publicação de blog proibida - A Internet, "um espaço de liberdade", será mesmo? por Saint-Nazaire (ca, de, en, fr, it, tr)[traduccion automatica]
a-infos-pt@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:01:39 GMT 2026


(pt) France, OCL CA #363 - Courant Alternatif - outubro de 2026 (ca, de, en, fr, it, tr)[traduccion automatica]
a-infos-pt@ainfos.ca
Sun Nov 08 06:01:11 GMT 2026


[A-infos-index24] First few lines of the ainfos posts of the last 24 hours
a-infos-index24@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:52:33 GMT 2026


(en) UK, ACG: Quote of the Week (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:44:01 GMT 2026


(en) France, Monde Libertaire - Pages d'histoire No. 141: Imperialism and Genocide in China (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:43:56 GMT 2026


(en) France, UCL AL #375 - Anti-patriarchy - Child-centrism: Organizing against adultism (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:43:51 GMT 2026


(en) France, OCL: Radio: No to a license to kill! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:42:48 GMT 2026


(en) France, OCL CA #363 - Management in National Education and Resistance (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:42:39 GMT 2026


(en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - Living with Speculation: Carrara - The Politeama Affair (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:42:30 GMT 2026


(de) France, UCL AL #375 - Antipatriarchat - Enfantismus: Sich gegen Adultismus organisieren (ca, en, it, fr, pt, tr)[maschinelle Übersetzung]
a-infos-de@ainfos.ca
Sat Nov 07 07:42:26 GMT 2026

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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE PARIS - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #363 - Courant Alternatif - October 2026 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The new season's issue of *Courant Alternatif* is hitting mailboxes soon...

Subscribe to receive it. Below are the table of contents and the front page. Articles will be published on this site throughout the month-provided we don't get hacked again. To ensure you don't miss out, the print edition is the best bet...
*Courant Alternatif* needs subscriptions and wider distribution; please support us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: *COURANT ALTERNATIF* No. 363, October 2026
Editorial: Disasters are never natural - page 3
* ECOLOGY / LAND-USE PLANNING
Pages 4-5: Grand-Ouest CO2: The decarbonization scam
* CLIMATE
Pages 6-7: Climate runaway: consequences and possibilities
* CAPITALISM
Pages 8-10: Ecocide: historical perspectives - Reading A. Birh
Pages 10-11: Reading Romaric Godin: The three bodies of capitalism

Workplace insubordination: pages 12-13

* SOCIETY
Page 14: A rural Pride event with mixed results
Page 15: Crackdown on pro-Palestine support in Belgium

Big Brother: pages 18-19

* EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT
Pages 18-22: Management in the national education system - forms of resistance
Pages 23-26: What can schools do in the face of patriarchy? pages 26-29: EVARS: possibilities and contradictions

pages 30-32: No to the militarization of youth
page 33: Rejecting the army and war (ARRAG)

* FEMINISM
pages 32-34: A call against freezing one's oocytes

* INTERNATIONAL

pages 37-39: Mexico: racketeering as a form of domination
pages 40-44: Burma: the ongoing war and revolution in Myanmar

This issue was prepared during OCL gatherings and laid out in the Poitou region. The editorial committee meeting to prepare the December issue will take place in Toulouse on October 24 and 25, 2026.

*Courant Alternatif* needs subscriptions

The *CA* subscription price has risen to 35 euros in 2026. It had been 30 euros since... 2012-though that was originally for 10 issues plus special editions.

Since then, we have switched to full-color covers and started using a professional mailing service; printing and shipping costs have steadily increased; and we are no longer sold on newsstands due to skyrocketing press distribution fees (following the demise of the NMPP).

The standard annual subscription is therefore rising to EUR35 for 10 issues-which remains quite affordable-but is set at just EUR20 for those for whom the standard rate would be too expensive (a common situation in these lean times).

Like all activist publications, *CA* will continue to operate at a loss despite this price hike. To break even, we would need EUR20,000 per year, or 600 subscriptions. Remember to renew your subscription (see here) and get others to subscribe; feel free to sign up by sending a check, making a bank transfer to the "La Galère" account via the oclibertaire.lautre.net website, or using HelloAsso.

If you read our articles online, please note that the site only exists thanks to the print edition. So don't be stingy: make a donation-one that won't qualify for a tax deduction, because that's not how we roll...

You can also send us addresses of potential subscribers, give a gift subscription for EUR20, and suggest distribution points...

In short, we need cash, dough, bread, moolah, funds, and banknotes-because until it's abolished, money remains the lifeblood of the war... the class war!

To help "CA," send checks made out to "La Galère," along with subscription leads or distribution point suggestions, to:
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https://www.oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4773
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE PARIS - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #375 - Ecology - Cooperation Jackson: Building Self-Management in the Face of Environmental Racism (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In one of the poorest cities in the United States plagued by unemployment, police violence, corruption causing water supply issues, and food deserts residents are organizing. They are stepping in where the state has failed, creating farms and self-managed cooperatives with the goal of achieving self-sufficiency and self-management. ---- In the heart of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, a network of cooperatives has been promoting self-management since 2014. Co-founded by Kali Akuno, a Black anarchist activist, Cooperation Jackson aims to implement the "Jackson-Kush Plan" which he authored drawing on the ideas of radical Black movements. The plan seeks to establish revolutionary "dual power" through the creation of popular assemblies and a self-managed economy, alongside capturing municipal power and implementing radical reforms to transition toward an eco-socialist society.


An Anti-Racist and Libertarian Legacy
This cooperative network draws its legacy from anti-racist civil rights struggles, libertarian ideals, and initiatives such as the Mondragon Corporation in the Spanish Basque Country. It was created by and for working-class communities particularly Black and Latino populations to address state disinvestment, racism, and the difficulty of accessing basic necessities. It operates out of a central hub, the Kuwasi Balagoon Center, which houses cooperatives as well as affordable housing units. Its name pays tribute to the renowned anarchist activist Kuwasi Balagoon, an active member of the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army.

Reclaiming the city
From an eco-socialist perspective, Cooperation Jackson has established an urban farm where pesticide-free produce is grown. Far from operating in isolation, the farm is open to the community, hosting calls for volunteers, permaculture workshops, and seed distribution events. Its goal is to strengthen local food sovereignty by setting up food cooperatives to distribute high-quality food at affordable prices. Furthermore, the organization puts into practice the reclamation of derelict buildings and abandoned land for agricultural use.

Cooperation Jackson aims to meet the population's essential needs, but it goes further: it aspires to foster self-sufficiency by hosting cooperatives focused on banking, renewable energy, recycling, healthcare, childcare, and more. It has also established a fab lab[1]to approach technological innovation through a more democratic lens, while serving as a hub for education and the arts.

Delagnelle (UCL Lyon)

To learn more or support Cooperation Jackson, visit their website: Cooperationjackson.org/.

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[1]A fab lab is a collaborative workshop open to the public that provides access to machine tools for small-scale production.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Cooperation-Jackson-Construire-l-autogestion-face-au-racisme-environnemental
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY ITALIA ROME - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #27-26 - FICEDL International Assembly (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The assembly of the International Federation of Libertarian Study and Documentation Centers (FICEDL) took place in Bologna from September 11 to 13. The previous general assembly had been held exactly ten years earlier-also in Bologna, and likewise at the C. Berneri Anarchist Circle. ---- The gathering saw a high level of participation: over 40 archives, libraries, and study and documentation centers were present, while others sent statements and greetings. About half of the participants were Italian, with others attending from France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, England, Romania, Brazil, and Chile. The introductory presentations highlighted the widespread reach and deep roots of the anarchist and libertarian movement-not only regarding the preservation of records documenting the movement's past activities but also in relation to contemporary initiatives, thereby playing a vital cultural and social role.


Further details about the gathering can be found at https://ficedl2026.bida.im/.

Recordings of all the sessions are available at this link: https://tubocatodico.bida.im/c/ficedl_2026__berneri/videos.

The history of the Federation can be found at https://ficedl.info/.

In his address on late Friday afternoon, Lorenzo Pezzica emphasized the "non-museum" nature of the work carried out by our archives and libraries. While a "technical" approach to the preservation, cataloging, and dissemination of materials is certainly necessary, this work must not be divorced from the movements active in contemporary society. This perspective was echoed and reaffirmed by many other speakers-both during the Saturday afternoon workshops and in the series of morning presentations mentioned earlier. During the workshops, various ongoing initiatives were highlighted that propose-and are already partially implementing-platforms for the exchange and federation of archives and materials.

Comrades from Anarhiva have offered to host the next FICEDL network meeting (in 2027), which is expected to take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Official confirmation from them is expected soon.

For 2029, comrades from the Biblioteca Terra Livre in São Paulo and the Archivo La Revuelta in Santiago, Chile, have stepped forward as potential hosts. Both organizations will be marking their twentieth anniversaries, making it a perfect occasion for a proper celebration.

In the spirit of engaging with active groups aligned with FICEDL, the meeting was also attended by several archives that are not yet part of the network. Many of them have since requested to join.

Working groups were also established to assist with managing the Federation's official website, compiling an "annual," creating a mutual aid fund (to cover organizational and travel costs for future meetings), and organizing a roster of simultaneous and consecutive interpreters to facilitate future gatherings.

Finally, the assembly approved a motion expressing solidarity with Autistici/Inventati and condemning the increasingly authoritarian measures taken against social movements. The text of the motion can be found here: https://ficedl2026.bida.im/mozione/.

As is always the case with gatherings of comrades, there was no shortage of opportunities for socializing and camaraderie. Dinner, lunch, and dinner at the Berneri-featuring a concert by Mars on Pluto on Friday evening and a performance by the Coro delle Mondine di Bentivoglio on Saturday evening-followed by a well-attended Sunday lunch at the VAG on Via Paolo Fabbri, where the Federation's assembly had taken place earlier that morning. A solidarity event was held there, featuring a large community lunch to help cover the legal expenses of the family of Abderrahim Fakir, a Bologna resident killed by police in the city last July.

Elio Xerri Library

https://umanitanova.org/assemblea-internazionale-ficedl/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE PARIS - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL: Blog publishing banned - The Internet, "a space of freedom", really? by Saint-Nazaire (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We are writing to inform you that the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati , which hosts the blog La Mouette Enragée (The Raging Seagull), is currently under attack from the US government. Like thousands of other activist groups, we are now being denied the right to publish online. We do not know if the effects of this attack will be long-lasting, or even if they will prove irreversible.

The Trump administration classified the Autistici/Inventati platform as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" .
Of course, we offer our full solidarity to our Italian comrades, but we will not be outraged by this power grab in the name of a supposed attack on freedom of expression. First, because force is the natural regime of any state, even one that claims to be, like the United States, the champion of individual liberties. Second, because we have never harbored the slightest illusion about the nature and function of the internet. Any technological production has no chance of emerging under the regime of capitalist accumulation unless it contributes to its expanded reproduction and nothing else. The internet, "a space of freedom"-what a joke!

Finally, it is in these circumstances that it becomes useful to rethink how we exchange information, how we generate ideas, and which tools or approaches we prioritize. These setbacks reinforce our conviction not to abandon the practices we have used for decades: the printed newspaper, the book, the leaflet, the poster, the sticker, the public meeting, and so on.

A new issue of the newspaper La Mouette Enragée is in preparation, you will find it soon in the main kiosks of the Boulonnais, spread the word!

Long live social justice!

Boulogne-sur-Mer, September 4, 2026

You may have noticed that the OCL website, like other sites on the other.net network, has also fallen victim to this offensive against "subversive internet" content. We are trying, with our limited resources, to minimize the damage...

https://www.oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4769
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE UK uk United Kingdom London - news journal UPDATE - (en) UK, ACG: NON-VIOLENCE DOES NOT EXIST (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The text below appeared in the journal of the Organisation Communiste Libertaire (OCL) of France, Courant Alternatif. Whilst specific French instances are referred to, we feel that this is a useful general article on the question of "non-violence." --- For ages, the debate between non-violence and violence has permeated social movements. Violence is not only physical, but also institutional, symbolic, psychological, and so on. This opposition is largely fuelled by the state. It criminalises our mobilisations by accusing them of being violent, even going so far as to accuse them of terrorism or of glorifying it. It is imperative to move beyond this opposition and try to act by taking into account and articulating the multiple forms, actions, and initiatives that social movements take.


The primary function of the state is to maintain social order: capitalist society. It is founded on exploitation, the maintenance of a social hierarchy, patriarchy, and the division of the dominated among themselves, through racialisation, the subjugation of certain genders, criminalisation, and the creation of artificial competition. All of this generates daily violent conflict. Faced with challenges to these various aspects, the state has no choice but to respond violently. In this context, the debate between non-violence and violence is sterile. It only serves to perpetuate divisions within social movements.

This violence takes many forms. The first, and most visible, is physical violence, for which only the state is deemed legitimate. This requires police forces, and even military personnel if necessary. The judicial system is one of the tools of this violence. The goal is to crush by force any form of social protest and to imprison anyone who does not submit to this social order.

Politically, the bourgeoisie can turn to the most authoritarian governments when it deems the situation too perilous. Thus, in the 1930s, some capitalists declared, "Better Hitler than the Popular Front" (for example, de Wendel, a steelworks owner and member of the Comité des Forges). To analyse the interwar period, the focus is primarily on the rise of authoritarian regimes in Europe, the most well-known being fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany.

From February 1917 until 1939, a revolutionary wave swept across much of the globe. It began with the Russian Revolution in 1917, followed by the German Revolution in 1918. This process spread to Italy with the creation of workers' and peasants' councils and to Central Europe. From 1936 to 1939, Spain experienced the most significant revolutionary upheaval that challenged capitalist society. The United States was also affected by this social unrest: numerous factories were occupied by proletarians who could no longer bear the consequences of the 1929 crisis. This inspired workers in France during the Popular Front, who also occupied their workplaces. This greatly worried the capitalists. In France, after initially condemning the Popular Front, they appealed to Léon Blum, the Prime Minister, to resolve the conflict so that the workers could "liberate" the factories and return to work.

Governing through fear

Currently in France, entire segments of the population are subjected to this physical violence. Residents of working-class neighbourhoods are subjected to it daily. This results in numerous injuries and deaths. Special police units are assigned to maintain order in these areas. The State, through the justice system, the administration, and the mainstream media, attempts to conceal this violence, either by minimising it or by discrediting the victims and those who express their solidarity. Legal proceedings can be initiated when individuals, political groups, or artistic groups declare that the police are killing people. The State must absolutely normalise this police violence to maintain fear in these neighbourhoods, keeping residents silent about their increasingly degraded living conditions. It is a veritable government by fear that is being established. When some residents revolt, the repression is extremely violent.

This form of government by fear has been used for several years to repress social movements (the movement against the El Khomri law, the Yellow Vests, the pension reforms, etc.). The mobilisations can be large (involving several million people), but the state responds only with violence, seeking to crush them by force. It refuses any questioning of its political choices. Macron clearly demonstrates the purpose of the state. He governs to satisfy the wealthiest few percentages of the population and large corporations, primarily multinationals. The rest of the population must endure the deterioration of public services (education, healthcare, etc.) and pay for an increasingly unequal budget. Similarly, the distribution of wealth is becoming increasingly unequal.
Under these conditions, the state must equip itself to be even more repressive. Given the deterioration of living and working conditions, he cannot rule out the possibility that people will organise to oppose these societal choices, leading to the impoverishment of increasingly large segments of the population.

But since the state alone holds the legitimacy of physical violence, any form of popular physical and violent opposition is condemned. Social movements are delegitimised in order to depoliticise them. They are often labelled as terrorists. Thus, new categories are invented, such as ecoterrorism, and more recently, movements denouncing the massacre of the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank by the Israeli state are denounced as antisemitic and as glorifying terrorism.

It's only a matter of time before any protest or mobilisation becomes an act of terrorism! Neoliberalism must prevail at all costs. Thatcher declared there was no other choice. Clearly, she has descendants! Challenging this form of capitalism is synonymous with "lèse-bourgeoisie" (a crime against the bourgeoisie). All means are justified to maintain the hegemony of the bourgeois class, even if it means killing people, massacring populations, refusing to eradicate genocidal processes, even if it means destroying the planet by refusing to question productivism and thus the creation of ever-increasing profits...

This unconditional support for the apartheid and colonisation policies of the Zionist state serves to criminalise all Muslims, and by extension, immigrants of Arab origin. They are portrayed as backward, wanting to impose Sharia law and challenge "democracy," "equality between men and women," and even, for some, to "replace" whites with Arabs, etc. But do we live in a truly democratic country? Are elections a democratic guarantee? Can we truly take control of our own affairs within the current institutional framework? Can we collectively determine what we produce, how, with what means, and for what purposes? Can we reclaim these questions (currently answered exclusively by capitalists according to their own interests) to prioritise socially useful work? Has patriarchy disappeared? Has racism vanished?

Social, institutional, symbolic, psychological violence...

The state and those in power exert other forms of violence. Who hasn't experienced institutional violence from administrative services, for example? These services often receive us with suspicion. An unemployed person is frequently perceived as a fraudster who must be subjected to increasingly strict controls. A person of foreign origin often faces racism, contempt, and, again, suspicion. It is becoming increasingly difficult to assert one's rights, even though these rights are regularly curtailed by laws.

Providing answers is very difficult due to the isolation of individuals, while the person they are speaking to relies on the institution for which they work. In fact, we are confronted with our own solitude in the face of these state machines. At times, revolts are expressed individually or collectively. Here again, we are met with authoritarian responses (police, justice system).

Psychological violence can also be perpetrated, for example, in the workplace. Employers generally receive state support when employees oppose them by occupying the company. The police, acting on the prefect's orders, usually violently remove them, even though they are fighting, for instance, for their dignity.
Increasingly degraded working conditions are also experienced as violence against workers. Concretely opposing them can also lead to repression, often violent. And what about evictions? Finding oneself suddenly on the street can only be an act of extreme violence. Being locked up in a detention centre, then forcibly put on a plane while tied up to be "deported" to a country from which it was deemed vital to distance oneself, is an act of extreme violence.

We could continue this list of examples of everyday experiences.

This shows how difficult it is to separate all these forms of violence. Some mutilate bodies, others cause psychological pain. Some inflict physical blows, others leave no trace on the body. But all are expressions of a desire to dominate us, to impose the capitalist social order on us, to humiliate us, to remind us of our status as commoners.

A sterile opposition

We cannot accept the division imposed by the State. On one side, physical violence, for which only the State has the legitimacy; on the other, symbolic, institutional, psychological, and other forms of violence that can be exercised by many, as long as, in certain situations or thanks to a social status (like a boss, for example, or a zealous civil servant with a high opinion of their position, etc.), a person is in a dominant position.
Faced with violent situations, it is difficult to distinguish between violent and non-violent responses. Faced with violence, all responses are violent. Whatever responses we give to thugs or directly to oppressors, they will always be experienced as violent. Whether we go on strike peacefully (railway workers on strike: that's a hostage situation!) or hold a boss hostage to obtain a pay raise; Whether we prevent the deportation of an undocumented immigrant through a sit-in or by forcing our way through a police barricade, it will always be perceived as violence on our part.

Rejecting the violence/non-violence dichotomy means rejecting the categories into which the State seeks to confine us; it means rejecting the separation between so-called responsible citizens (that is, those who ultimately accept state violence or violence supported by the state) and supposed terrorists, to use the vocabulary currently in vogue within the corridors of power. This allows us to move beyond this sterile debate, which ultimately only those in political power hold a monopoly on. The act of mobilising inevitably provokes aggression against those against whom we mobilise, regardless of the form of mobilisation. The struggle against exploitation and domination is always violent! The construction of power relations (doesn't this common expression contain a form of violence?) requires diverse and complementary modes of action to impose our demands, but also to envision imaginaries both in everyday life and to build futures that break with capitalism: creative utopias.

J Christophe

Comment from OCL:

We wish to reiterate that, beyond what the author states, the capitalist state, whatever its form, is not the only vector of oppression. In capitalist society, and with Macron's neoliberal policies, which normalise the state of exception (Article 49.3, state of emergency, etc.), class violence is experienced daily. It is structural violence, theorised by Johan Galtung, that produces oppression and inequalities in access to common goods (healthcare, education, resources, etc.). This can manifest as joblessness or being trapped in low-paying jobs that deprive workers of a portion of production for the benefit of the wealthy. It is also the domination and suffering of the most vulnerable that the productivist world of work engenders, as developed by Michel Foucault. It is worth recalling that one of the characteristics of this structural violence is that it renders the lives of the proletariat "uncertain" at the intersection of social reproduction, patriarchy, downward mobility, racism, and class-based racism. In the current context of radicalised anti-social policies and repression, we are publishing this perspective on state violence because, in our view, it reflects questions raised in demonstrations and shared feelings of both isolation and hope for finding the strength to act. Ultimately, this text addresses, in its own words, the fact that the state has succeeded in imposing the "collective belief" of Max Weber's "monopoly on legitimate physical violence", but also the symbolic violence so dear to Pierre Bourdieu. This text also questions the notion of non-violence and moves towards the notion of counter-violence, which liberates, as opposed to the oppressive, dominating violence of Herbert Marcuse . Questioning these concepts seems to us a necessary step to re-establish more solidarity, which in our view can only be revolutionary.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2026/10/13/non-violence-does-not-exist/
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE ATHENS - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Athens, These are not accidents - State and capital are murdering workers (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

THE BLOOD OF THE THREE WORKERS - THE RICHES OF THE BOSSES ---- On the morning of Friday, October 9, after an explosion at the MOTOR OIL facilities in Agioi Theodoroi, 5 workers were seriously injured, one of whom died a few hours later, while on October 11, another of the severely injured lost his life. And this prescribed horrific employer crime comes to be added to the already more than 140 murders of workers in 2026 (and over 220 injured) and to the countless ones of previous years, in which the intensification of labor exploitation and the miserable reality of the working conditions in which we are all called to work are cynically reflected.

The promotion of the processes of state and capitalist restructuring is rapidly intensifying the attack on the world of work with the ever-increasing intensification of the conditions of exploitation. This attack contributes to the establishment of a medieval era in the working reality. Employer arbitrariness combined with the liberalization of dismissals exacerbate precarious and "black" work, intensify to an extreme degree the exploitation of thousands of workers and bring to the fore the constant blackmail of unemployment, at the same time as the exhausting hours lead to the consequent reduction and even annihilation of the free time of those who work. The abolition of collective agreements and labor gains fragments
class resistance and weakens collective demands in places of exploitation, a fact that combined with the complete demoralization of the bosses contributes to the rapid increase in labor accidents and murders in the dungeons of wage slavery on the altar of capitalist and state profitability and development. The dozens of murders of workers in the prisons of modern slavery testify that the exploited and oppressed continue to pay with their blood for the maintenance and reproduction of the barbaric exploitative and oppressive system.
system, which oppresses, murders, impoverishes. This is precisely demonstrated by the employer's murder of 5 workers at the Violanta factory in Trikala, after an explosion that destroyed the facilities in which they worked, and from which 7 other workers were injured. Today, and after an institutional attempt from the very beginning to cover up the employer's responsibilities, the factory boss Tziortziotis is free after the decision of the Trikala Misdemeanor Courts Council with which his pre-trial detention ended. This is precisely demonstrated by the employer's murder of 2 workers at a factory in Aspropyrgos in July 2026 after an explosion due to a leak of flammable gas, the injury of 11 others, one of whom is still hospitalized with severe burns. The explosions at the Motor Oil refineries, in Violanta and Aspropyrgos, are neither random events nor accidents, but on the contrary, they constitute the tip of the iceberg of the savage class exploitation imposed in the workplace, they constitute prescribed state and capitalist crimes.
The hundreds of murdered workers in the prisons of wage slavery, the thousands of refugees and immigrants who, when not drowned at sea by the Greek coast guard, are tortured and imprisoned in concentration camps, the 57 young people who were murdered in the state crime in Tempi, the outcasts who fall dead at police checkpoints and the thousands of fighters who are furiously beaten in the streets and demonstrations by the uniformed murderers of democracy constitute only a small part of the reality of the overall barbarity that the state and its bosses impose on the vast social majority.
The depth of modern totalitarianism is manifested on the one hand by the continuous and more unfavorable restructurings in every field of social and class antagonism, but also by the preparation of the social base for a warring society, the consolidation of a condition of silence and at the same time submission to the plans of the dominant and on the other hand by the crushing of the internal enemy, any resistance that manifests itself from below and aims to put a dam on the antisocial and criminal policies of the state and capital.
Against the organized attack of the state and capital that locally and internationally have nothing more to promise than the savagery of war massacres and fascism, the only hope for societies lies in the barricades of the exploited and oppressed and the political, social and class organization of the struggle in the direction of social revolution for a society of generalized emancipation and self-management.

THESE ARE NOT ACCIDENTS, WE DO NOT HAVE
STATE FRAUDULENTS AND BOSSES KILLING WORKERS
ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR

SOCIAL REVOLUTION, EXECUTION AND ANARCHY

Next open session of the assembly: Thursday 15/10, 19.30, at the anarchist/anti-authoritarian hangout Antipnoia

anarchist assembly for
SOCIAL AND CLASS ACHIEVEMENT

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2348-athina-den-eina-atyximata-kratos-kai-kefalaio-dolofonoyn-ergates
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