donderdag 23 april 2026
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #369 - Unionism - Max (CGT Capgemini): "What we want is the closure of Capgemini Government Solutions." (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
At the end of 2025, the CGT Capgemini learned that the group's American subsidiary-called Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS)-was offering tools from the company Palantir for mass surveillance. In January 2026, the multinational observatory and then France 2 revealed that CGS had several contracts with ICE, some of which included performance bonuses in their pursuit of migrants.
AL: When this came out in January, what was happening in the union?Maximilien: We were already working on the issue. Right after Trump's re-election, there had been an email from the ambassador sent to companies. Capgemini started to change its political rhetoric, particularly on inclusivity and diversity. When France 2 released its investigation, it accelerated things. We've finalized and released everything we've been working on for the past month: Instagram posts, press releases, responses to all journalists, and appeals to our federation and the CGT confederation. We're also looking at what we can do to coordinate our struggles. Because Capgemini isn't the only company; there's also Thales and others.
We also need to offer an alternative. We denounce the situation, OK, but what do we do? Because there are still comrades, colleagues who have to work. We also need to remind people that there's another solution besides what capitalism offers us. As experts in our field, we know we can use our labor for something else.
Maximilien is an IT specialist at Capgemini, a French digital services company listed on the CAC 40. He is a union representative and co-general secretary of the CGT Capgemini. Maximilien: So we had to convince our colleagues a bit.
Just before, we learned of a plan to cut 2,409 jobs. We started holding general assemblies. But as with mandatory annual negotiations, and more generally in the IT and engineering world, people are very fatalistic. So we didn't really manage to draw large crowds. Conversely, the contract with the ICE (European Trade Union Confederation) immediately brought a lot of messages of support, a lot of thanks from people who were proud that we were trying to fight this from within. And a lot of unionization. People said to themselves: "My company is messing things up, I'm not going to turn a blind eye, I'm going to fight it."
To illustrate the scale of the crisis at Capgemini, all the union organizations were invited by Aiman Ezzat, the CEO, for a discussion meeting, which is very rarely done. As a simple IT specialist, wearing an Adidas jacket and a Lacoste cap, at the international headquarters and facing the boss via video conference, you really feel the system of domination. I read a collective statement and was able to challenge the boss on his ethical rhetoric. Indeed, colleagues who refuse assignments to stay true to their principles are being shown the door.
Among your demands was the end of partnerships with the ICE (European Centre for International Development), and this issue of the conscience clause.
During a previous negotiation, we demanded an "ecological conscience clause," particularly for contracts with Total. It was immediately dismissed, but these are things we, as a union, are trying to implement: colleagues are being devoured by Capital, but let's at least have some control over our values. Some colleagues still want to sign these kinds of contracts. No problem, we don't judge colleagues for what they do; that's not our goal. We're here to offer them a way out.
Faced with internal struggles and the scale of the scandal, Capgemini has put its US subsidiary up for sale.
First of all, who's going to buy a company that, in the CEO's words, "isn't profitable"? Secondly, "putting it up for sale" is just shifting the problem onto someone else. We have our famous saying here: "I'm selling the gun that killed 50 people. It's not mine anymore!" What we want is clearly the closure of CGS.
You've broadened this demand to call for an end to all harmful partnerships with companies that commit genocide or ecocide. Is this finding any support within the union and the company?
We could use name and shame tactics. But all the big capitalist companies collaborate with genocidal or colonial companies, or supply governments and the military. We demand at least an audit. Capgemini is an international company; it just spun off a subsidiary. But for example, in Hungary, what are their activities? What services do they offer? We remain an internationalist union, so we defend the interests of all workers, not just white workers. As an internationalist union, we must help our comrades in America, who share the same views as the CGT. We believe we should not be responsible for neocolonialism.
Let's get back to the announcement of more than 2,400 job cuts and this Taylorism applied to IT.
For a long time, IT was an El Dorado, and many people retrained in it. We had the individual bargaining power to negotiate wages. But the bosses understood: they've done a lot of retraining, but for specific tasks rather than a general IT training program.
It's a form of neo-Taylorism. Many jobs are becoming obsolete and are left behind in reorganizations. People don't necessarily find other work afterward because they're doing a specific task. Furthermore, managerial status seems (falsely) protective. Colleagues feel like they're no longer part of our social class. I call them tax managers. We're still workers, but with a shirt. I'm not saying our work is physically tiring; we're not in a factory. But it's just as intellectually exhausting because you're always doing the same tasks. Many colleagues define themselves as code workers because they work for years on the same four lines of code. Bosses have adapted factory production methods and applied them to IT. Artificial intelligence is a false pretext. The real goal is to reduce payroll costs and increase productivity. Much to the delight of shareholders.
Interview by Malo (UCL Rennes)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Max-CGT-Capgemini-Ce-qu-on-veut-c-est-la-fermeture-de-Capgemini-Government
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Link: (en) France, UCL AL #369 - Unionism - Max (CGT Capgemini): "What we want is the closure of Capgemini Government Solutions." (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Indonesia: When the Army Mutilates Its Critics (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Activist Andrie Yunus Victim of Acid Attack ---- On the evening of Thursday, March 12, 27-year-old activist Andrie Yunus, a well-known figure among Indonesian youth protesters, was the victim of a vicious assassination attempt. ---- The scene, filmed on the street by CCTV cameras, took place in the Salemba district of central Jakarta. After following him for a while, two men on a scooter, wearing helmets, sprayed a caustic liquid in Andrie's face as he was riding in the opposite direction. He fell from his vehicle, wracked with pain, and tried to tear off his clothes.
The activist had just left the office of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), where he was recording a podcast on "Remilitarization and Judicial Control in Indonesia," addressing the recent revision of the military law against which he had publicly campaigned.
Immediately rescued by passersby, Andrie was rushed to Cipto Mangunkusumo Central Hospital. While his condition is stable and his life is not in danger, the corrosive liquid caused severe burns over more than 20% of his body, particularly on the right side of his face, his chest, and his hands. Even more seriously, the acid caused severe chemical trauma to his right eye, resulting in a dramatic decrease in vision and damage to the surface of the cornea.
Taking the Risk of Speaking Out Against the Military
It must be said that Andrie's public stances are deeply unsettling to those in power-especially the military. He is, among other things, the deputy coordinator of KontraS (Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence), a civil society organization (CSO) established in 1998 that monitors the human rights situation in Indonesia, documents cases of enforced disappearances and state violence, and petitions for civilian control of the military.
Unsurprisingly, the organization had already been targeted numerous times. Its founder, Munir Said Thalib, was himself poisoned with arsenic in 2004 on a Jakarta-Amsterdam flight. The perpetrator turned out to be a member of the Indonesian National Intelligence Organization (BIN), acting on the orders of the department's head himself: General Muhamad Abdullah Hendropriyono.
Through KontraS, Andrie campaigned fervently against the increasing interference of the military in civilian affairs. He notably made headlines in March of last year when he disrupted a closed-door meeting of the House of Representatives aimed at finalizing the draft amendment to the 2004 Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Law.
His actions highlighted the legislators' attempt to quietly pass a significant law expanding the military's role in civilian affairs, without prior review or public participation. This law allows active-duty officers to hold positions in numerous public institutions without having to resign. The ratification of this law in March 2025 significantly expanded the military's role in civilian and political affairs.
Furthermore, this activist commitment is not the only thing that may have earned him the enmity of the Indonesian elite, since Andrie Yunus was also a member of the Fact-Finding Commission (KPF), which, in recent months, conducted an independent investigation into the bloody crackdowns of August and September 2025.
The army takes over to better suppress his involvement
Very quickly, an investigation is launched, and CCTV footage is reviewed. Images circulate, particularly online and on social media, and several photos reveal the faces of the attackers. Four suspects are quickly identified, arrested, and then identified as... members of the military: they are reportedly four military officers attached to the Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) of the Indonesian Air Force and Navy.
Indeed, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, reacted swiftly, declaring the incident "an attack on democracy" and promising that "whoever the perpetrators are and whatever their motives. Such acts of violence are intolerable and must be prosecuted according to the law," he stated in a press release issued the day after the attack (March 13).
And yet, the suspects will ultimately be investigated by the military police and tried by a military court for "aggravated assault," a crime punishable by up to seven years in prison.
In a statement released on Wednesday, March 18, numerous civil society organizations-including Kontras and Amnesty International Indonesia-protested the Indonesian Armed Forces' resumption of the investigation, declaring that an internal military inquiry would "downplay the seriousness and systemic nature" of the attack and risk shielding high-ranking officials from accountability.
Today, the four suspects are in custody: the thugs who, at the bottom of the chain, are directly implicated in the acid attack against Andrie. Certainly, but when will the true masterminds behind this assassination attempt be identified and apprehended?
On Thursday, March 19, President Prabowo Subianto-a notorious military man accused of crimes against humanity-personally addressed the issue. Feigning concern, he promised "a thorough investigation, reaching the masterminds of the operation," and ordered the authorities to "unmask the instigators of the attack." Insisting that "those who ordered it, those who paid for it, must be identified," he even dared to specify that "there will be no impunity."
In a country riddled with corruption and compromise, where impunity reigns for the political and military elites, and where state violence spews its deadly repression against the dignified revolt of the street... we dare to doubt the sincerity of the butcher-president Prabowo. All the more so since the assassination attempt appears to have been carried out by the army.
https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8891
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Link: (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Indonesia: When the Army Mutilates Its Critics (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE BELGIUM BRUSSELS - news journal UPDATE - (en) UK, ACG: Their Wars, Our Dead: Talk at Housmans on March 27th. (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Have you been 'swept up by war fever'...?? ---- Friday March 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1
AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: 'Their Wars, Our Dead! Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine'with Jason Brannigan and Declan McCormick
'Their Wars, Our Dead!' brings together six anarchist responses to war and militarism. The book makes the case that since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a war fever has swept the anarchist movement and also a larger section of 'the left'. The essays collected in the book seek to learn from the past in order to put forward a revolutionary yet realistic course of anarchist anti-militarism today.
Some of the topics included are: internationalist opposition to WW1 and WW2; the mechanics of imperialist politics; conscription (and resistance to it) in Ukraine, Russia and Israel; anti-militarist responses to the war in Ukraine; the complex relationship between anarchism and militarism in Ireland.
Discussing the topic will be two of the books contributors, Jason Brannigan (Organise!, Belfast) and Declan McCormick (Anarchist Communist Group).
Details: https://autonomynow.noblogs.org/
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2026/03/20/their-wars-our-dead-talk-at-housmans-on-march-27th/
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A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #358 - Trump's "Peace Council": Don't you have a billion dollars? (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
The Israeli army has just confirmed the daily death toll announced by the Gaza authorities: nearly 72,000 identified bodies. In fact, with untreated illnesses, living conditions, organized starvation, and bodies that are either unrecovered or unidentified, we are probably looking at the murder of 10% of the population, more than 200,000 people. --- We have gone from a high-intensity genocide to a low-intensity genocide. Every day, there are new deaths in Gaza.
Sharks at work.Trump created a "Peace Council" whose mission is to "promote stability, restore reliable and legitimate governance, and ensure lasting and legitimate peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict." This council is run by the gangsters surrounding Trump: Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner. Tony Blair is also there, and this council is endorsed by Turkey and Qatar.
It's as if the city of Chicago had tasked Al Capone with restoring peace to the city in 1930.
Trump isn't just a predator; he's a wheeler-dealer. He worked to get Egypt and Israel to sign an agreement to exploit the gas located a few kilometers from Gaza. 35 billion dollars!
He set the price of joining the "Peace Council" at one billion dollars. The members of this council are diverse: they include the feudal and slave-trading Arab countries that have "normalized" relations with Israel (or are about to): Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan. There are Trump and Putin's European allies: Bulgaria and Hungary. Putin has delegated his allies, four countries from the former USSR. Trump has brought on board three South American countries, along with, of course, Milei's Argentina. What raises the most questions is the presence of Muslim countries (Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia) that could well be forced destinations for expelled Palestinians.
Several indicators suggest that the Israelis are prepared to empty the Gaza Strip of some of its inhabitants. In November 2025, 153 Gazans who had paid exorbitant sums to leave the territory had their documents confiscated and were smuggled onto a plane that landed in South Africa.
Maintaining the distress
Hundreds of trucks filled with essential supplies (food, water, tarpaulins, medicine) remain stuck, mostly in El Arish, and only trickle into Gaza. Last fall, the UN declared Gaza to be in a state of famine. This state has been officially "lifted," but the territory remains in a state of malnutrition. Some stores are beginning to receive supplies, but prices are prohibitive for the vast majority of the population. The occupying power has demanded that 37 NGOs provide the names of their Palestinian employees. Those that refused (such as Doctors Without Borders) are barred from entering Gaza. In 2025, more than 2,000 civilians, mostly children, were killed while trying to reach the only distribution points controlled by militias linked to the Israeli army. The occupying power wants to regain control of the distribution of aid, which is only getting through in small quantities.
A "yellow line" divides the Gaza Strip from north to south. The eastern part is being emptied of its entire population. Approximately two million people are crammed into tent camps or the ruins of their apartments. No foreign journalists are allowed to report. More than 200 Gazan journalists have been murdered.
No reconstruction can begin, due to a lack of money and materials.
The Predators
The occupying power and its allies have failed to break Gaza society. It is a peaceful resistance. The population has organized itself in the camps to collectively provide food, education for children, psychological support, and care for the sick.
The "Peace Council" aims to deprive the population of Gaza of any decision-making power, whatever happens.
If Netanyahu and Trump start a war-we are of course thinking of Iran-they will try to expel part of the population. Israel's recognition of Somaliland is surely intended to make it a possible destination. We are also thinking of Indonesia, Turkey, and Qatar, which are members of this council. The Zionist project has always been "maximum land and minimum Arabs."
Trump is talking about the "Riviera" again. He just mentioned "billions of dollars" that the United States could invest in Gaza. A truly mafia-like capitalist project could try to emerge. With the priority of destroying the social fabric and enabling the construction of "smart cities" with perpendicular streets and cameras everywhere.
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4663
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(en) France, OCL CA #358 - Trump's "Peace Council": Don't you have a billion dollars? (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #9-26 - New hotspots across the country. The government detains asylum seekers. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
To implement the European asylum reform, the government intends to make virtually the entire coast of the Italian peninsula and Sicily a "border zone." This will translate into hotspot centers and deprivation of liberty for asylum seekers throughout the country, starting with the cities where NGO search-and-rescue vessels have arrived in recent years in the Mediterranean, as part of the government's distant ports policy. The new European Pact on Migration and Asylum provides for border "detention," already partially envisaged in the 2018 Salvini decree, implementing a new and additional form of detention for those awaiting a decision on their asylum applications.
It is important to build opposition to these plans, seeking to coordinate the organizations most affected by the government's racist and repressive plans.
Long-standing rumors are confirmed by a circular from the Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration of the Ministry of the Interior dated September 9, 2025, addressed to numerous prefectures: Agrigento, Ancona, Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Chieti, Genoa, Livorno, Massa-Carrara, Milan, Naples, Ravenna, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Salerno, Syracuse, Taranto, Trieste, Varese, and Vibo Valentia.
Last September, the circular invited these prefectures to identify suitable areas within their provinces for the construction of facilities for screening operations and for hosting asylum seekers undergoing border procedures. The document specifies that these facilities may be set up in prefabricated modules.
The document indicates that the department was conducting a review of existing facilities, both for the identification of those entering the country considered illegal and for hosting asylum seekers undergoing "border procedures." This initiative is linked to the implementation of the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum, which will come into force on June 12.
The circular indicates that to comply with the obligations introduced by the new European regulations, Italy will need to have 8,016 "reception" places to carry out border procedures. To reach this capacity, it was envisaged to utilize existing CAS and create 2,270 places, 270 of which would be reserved for "detention." This would be achieved through a review of the "border zones" and the possibility of locating these facilities in areas far from "external borders" and "transit zones." For this reason, in September, the Interministerial Coordination Committee established within the Department was considering revising the organization of the border zones. The idea was to establish 12 new zones, specifically targeting those where shipwrecked migrants rescued by NGO ships are forced to arrive. These would be added to the existing 17 zones, from which the Department, however, was considering removing Cosenza, Matera, and Southern Sardinia.
At the time of writing, the text of the bill approved by the Council of Ministers on February 11th is not yet available. However, based on the new European regulations, it is possible to understand what will change. As is already partially the case, asylum seekers will be subjected to thorough screening procedures upon arrival, including identification and biometric data registration, and will be sent to either standard or accelerated procedures, depending on their country of origin. A significant portion of asylum seekers will be directed to the latter procedure. It will concern both those whose asylum applications are deemed "unfounded" and those from countries considered "safe." "Safe" countries will be defined based on purely statistical criteria: those coming from countries with an asylum acceptance rate in the EU for their citizens of less than or equal to 20% will be assigned to the accelerated procedure, which reduces guarantees and access to legal information. Those following this procedure would be subject to detention or restrictions on their freedom, and in any case, they would be required to stay in the assigned border zone for up to three months, the deadline set for completing the accelerated procedure.
To understand what these centers will be like, perhaps we can look at the facilities that most anticipated these policies, the centers on the Aegean islands, which have been active for five years now: the CCACs, or Controlled Access Closed Centers, generously funded by the EU, where asylum seekers are forced to live while waiting for their applications to be processed. Confined to the islands off the coast of Turkey, inside centers with high-tech surveillance and made of prefabricated modules, people can theoretically leave, but the long lines, the arbitrary nature of the guards, and the malfunctions of the technological cage often mean that it is a veritable detention.
Centers like these, with the form of "detention," which we interpret as "internment," may no longer allow the people they "host" to leave during daylight hours, turning into veritable prisons for asylum seekers, with the loss of almost all guarantees for the people forced to live there.
It's clear that these changes aren't a bolt from the blue; they've been in the making for decades of racist and repressive legislation in Italy, and the new European Pact is fully in line with European policies of recent years, which have made the Greek CCACs a model.
But in the coming months, we could see these processes accelerate. Borders will become a reality even in cities that have never directly addressed similar issues, with the risk of creating a dehumanizing polarization of public debate through the media that could fuel racism and xenophobia. Above all, they will lead to the widespread and normalization of forms of detention, internment, and confinement for asylum seekers. Furthermore, with laws that increasingly close borders, border violence, now widespread throughout the country, will significantly increase.
Within a month, perhaps a little more, the government will want to begin building these centers; it's important to rally opposition wherever possible. This is why it's important to relaunch the fight against state racism, against all forms of detention and internment, and for freedom of movement for all.
Dario Antonelli
https://umanitanova.org/nuovi-hotspot-in-tutto-il-paese-il-governo-rinchiude-i-richiedenti-asilo/
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Link: (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #9-26 - New hotspots across the country. The government detains asylum seekers. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE US USA - news journal UPDATE - (en) US, BRRN: Women Lead the Class War: Black Rose/Rosa Negra Mobilizes for March 8 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]
March 8th is International Working Women’s Day (IWWD). The commemoration traces its earliest roots to the socialist parties of the 2nd International, the date later becoming solidified on the 8th for its association with the women textile workers’ strike that initiated the first phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917. ---- In the US this history is often obscured in order to reduce the significance of the date’s history. Elsewhere however, ‘8M‘ is a date of combative mobilization for social movements fighting for bodily autonomy and women’s self determination.
Given mounting state efforts to claw back popular wins related to bodily autonomy in the US—whether reproductive care, gender affirming care, or even the simple recognition of gender expansive identity—we believe a core task for our moment is the establishment of a fighting feminist movement from below.
This means going beyond sloganeering and social media posts to actively incorporate feminist principles into our mass organizing efforts in the labor, tenant, neighborhood, student, and prisoner movements. We are firm in our recognition of feminism as an indispensable dimension of class struggle.
This year, several Locals of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) organized or participated in IWWD events. Below are reports from BRRN Locals in the California Bay Area; San Antonio, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Durham, NC; and Boston, MA.
Bay Area, CA
Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Bay Area mach in the International Working Women’s Day demonstration
This International Working Women’s Day (IWWD), the Bay Area Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra affirmed our commitment to revolutionary feminism from below by participating as a core co-organizing partner in the Bay Area March 8th Coalition. The coalition includes organizations such as Palestinian Feminist Collective, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Gabriela, the California Coalition of Women Prisoners, and others. While each of our organizations maintain differences in strategy, politics, and even in conceptions of feminism, the coalition is united by broad commitments to anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and women’s self determination.
Our vigorous participation in the coalition allowed us to develop closer ties with organizations and individuals who share this perspective, while presenting opportunities to further collaborate in ongoing campaigns. Importantly, members of BRRN brought on more than a dozen mass organizations we are embedded within as sponsors of the coalition and demonstration. This included several union locals, caucuses within unions, tenant unions, student organizations, and more.
Flyers advertising March 8
While coalition work necessarily involves compromise, we nonetheless seized the opportunity to articulate, strengthen, and promote the specific principles of anarchist feminism. Mainly we carried this out by deepening our relationships with local contacts and supporters of BRRN by holding two closed events in the leadup to March 8.
The first of these leadup events was a night of postering in and around the East Bay. Participants wheatpasted posters promoting the IWWD event and coalition, as well as other materials related to a local anti-ICE neighborhood organizing campaign. For many this was their first experience with postering. Throughout the night participants discussed the legacies of anarchist feminist thinkers such as Lucy Parsons, Louise Michel, and Luisa Capetillo—talking through how their ideas remain relevant for fights in the present.
Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra and supporters paint banners in advance of March 8 demonstrations.
Additionally, we organized a pre-demonstration art build. Members and supporters of BRRN painted our own banner, reading “For a Fighting, Class Struggle Feminism From Below”. The event also involved members of the local Kurdish and Sudanese diaspora, who painted their own banners to carry during IWWD.
On March 8th we gathered in Oakland with more than 600 others for the demonstration. In the days prior we put out a general call for an anarchist feminist contingent, which approximately 40 people joined. With purple and black flags flying, our picket signs and banner held aloft, and purple smoke billowing from our section of the march, we made an effort not only to stand out, but to engage with onlookers enjoying the sunny spring day. As we marched we chanted: “1, 2, 3, 4 – women lead the class war! 5, 6, 7, 8 – feminists will smash the state!”
We look forward to organizing in the coalition again next year.
Durham, NC
In January the people in the North East Syria/Rojava called on their international supporters to raise awareness about the ongoing attacks on their communities and the Women’s Revolution happening there. In response to this call the Durham, NC Local of BRRN decided to organize our International Working Women’s Day event around revolutionary feminism and the political/social projects in Rojava.
Attendees watch films on International Working Women’s Day at an event organized by Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s Durham Local.
BRRN members hosted a documentary screening and discussion at The Burrow, a local anarchist community space. Two documentaries were screened (both available online): “Jiyan: Story Of A Female Guerilla Fighter” and “ŞOREŞA JİN: Women’s Revolution.”
These documentaries highlight the history of revolutionary groups across Kurdistan, the women’s military units of the YPJ, and how civilian structures are organized in DAANES that operate on the principles of direct democracy, local autonomy, and women’s empowerment.
Black Rose/Rosa Negra table with literature.
Around 30 guests attended the screenings and following discussion. Ideas were shared on how the revolutionary feminism operating in Rojava contrasts with Western and liberal ideas of feminism we find here in the United States. More importantly, we discussed how revolutionary feminism plays into our organizing efforts here and how we can further the goals of true women’s liberation and egalitarianism along gendered lines.
Salt Lake City, UT
The Salt Lake Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra threw on an event for International Working Women’s Day with the aim of building collective understanding around the history and current conjuncture of the revolutionary feminist movement in Utah. Lasting 3 hours, a historical presentation on local labor organizers (who also happened to be revolutionary feminists), group discussion on building a class struggle-oriented feminist movement along the Wasatch Front, zine-making, the creation of an altar to honor those who began walking the path of organized anarchism, and jubilant laughter defined the event.
Speakers at the International Working Women’s Day event organized by the Salt Lake Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra.
Around 30 attended the discussion, both those from within our network of supporters as well as new faces. As a new Local, we did not expect there to be many people who would come to the event, but were grateful and humbled that so many showed genuine interest through their attendance.
A few takeaways from the collective discussion on how to build a fighting feminist movement include:
Continuously showing up;
Embracing being uncomfortable;
Broadening imaginations for what is possible along the revolutionary horizon;
Building interdependence outside of the state;
Holding onto collective memory;
Fighting against the non-profit industrial complex (NPIC)/awareness raising groups.
Attendees of the International Working Women’s Day event organized by the Salt Lake Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra.
The central theme from the event was that we create this world and therefore, we can build a better one. Juxtaposed by a seemingly never-ending polycrisis, the state of the revolutionary feminist movement along the Wasatch Front currently resembles the process of firecrafting. For an ember (a small grouping of similar-minded individuals) to grow into a fire (a mass movement of working people), consistent energy and willingness to experiment with new (or maybe “old”) forms of firebuilding (organizing) is paramount.
San Antonio, TX
Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s San Antonio Local raise fists at their table for the Fury is Fuerza March 8 demonstration.
For International Working Women’s Day, we participated in the Fury is Fuerza march, held every year in downtown San Antonio for something near 20 years.
To prepare for this event we chose and assembled pamphlets relevant to a class struggle feminism. Despite the rainy weather, we set up our table near other comrades gathering for the march and enjoyed wide ranging conversations with those who approached us to take literature or learn about anarchist feminism.
Many of these conversations revolved around maintaining a revolutionary feminist lens in our everyday organizing. As the march departed, we packed up our table and joined the crowd, chanting as the rain finally abated.
Boston, MA
On the night of March 7th, the Boston Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra held a panel discussion and social in honor of International Working Women’s day. The panel consisted of both local and international speakers who spoke on feminist movements in North East Syria/Rojava, El Salvador and Palestine presenting a clear overlap in their struggles as well as differences based on their individual contexts.
Around 20 comrades sat together as speakers both virtual and in-person explored their identities and the influence of their personhood and experiences on their organizing. State repression, the origins and continuation of their movement work, and the importance of popular power were central themes throughout the discussion. The meaning of Women’s Liberation took on many dimensions. We discussed the theoretical and sociopolitical framing of the feminized body by the state and its agents. Feminist organizing praxis included a wide array of forms: neighborhood assemblies, physical transportation and accompaniments, identity/affinity-based unions, self-defense practices, and community education processes.
https://www.blackrosefed.org/iwwd-2026-reports/
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Link: (en) US, BRRN: Women Lead the Class War: Black Rose/Rosa Negra Mobilizes for March 8 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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