Anarchistic update news all over the world - 31 March 2016
Today's 5 Topics:
1. Zabalaza News: Tokologo African Anarchist Collective #5/6 -
"The Struggle of the Working Class Can't Be Ended Unless We
Radically Change Society" - Collective statement, Johannesburg,
2015 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - international, Brussels:
libertarian communists against the state of war (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, Libertarian unions (EΣC Athens): Freedom to the
Spanish demonstrator Alfon Fernandez Diaz (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) - Policy, Read:
libertarian Challenges for the XXI century (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. A-Radio Berlin Experiences of an anarchist prisoner on how
to survive jail in Belarus (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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AGAINST CAPITALISM AND THE BOSSES ---- The struggle of the working class in South Africa
is a struggle against the slave bondage of capitalism and the state. Capitalism and the
state are based on the ruling class minority (capitalists, generals, top officials,
professional politicians) exploiting and oppressing the working class majority (workers of
all grades, our families, rank and file soldiers, the unemployed, and the rural poor). The
two classes have totally different interests: we are locked in class struggle. ----
APARTHEID BUILT CAPITALISM ---- Capitalism in South Africa was built through apartheid
oppression: land dispossession, the compound system, migrant labour, the pass laws, and
denial of basic worker and human rights to black workers.
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
Apartheid was defeated by workers' struggle. But the legacy of apartheid lives on. It
cannot be removed, unless we radically change society. The elections of 1994 did not
remove the key cause of apartheid oppression, which is capitalist exploitation. The
struggle must continue against both capitalism and racism: one enemy, one fight!
ONLY THE WORKING CLASS CAN FREE THE WORKING CLASS
Only revolution by the working class and poor can end the nightmare of racism and
capitalism, creating freedom and equality for all. Only the workers and the poor can
create a free society because only we have the organisational power, will, numbers and
class interest in overthrowing this system.
AGAINST OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION
We oppose all oppression: racism, sexism, imperialism, environmental destruction,
discrimination against gays and lesbians. We are for real equality for all. Only the
revolution by the working class and poor can end all oppression; only the fight against
oppression and for working class power can unite the workers. Oppression and
discrimination are against the interests of workers. They divide and weaken our struggle.
FREEDOM CANNOT COME FROM GOVERNMENT
Working class freedom cannot come through parliament or the seizure of state power. The
state (judiciary, government bureaucracy, police force, parliament etc.) is a tool of
capitalism, bosses and politicians. The use of the state can only lead to corruption,
defeat or dictatorship over the workers' movement. The economic disaster and political
tyranny of the Marxist-led Soviet Union shows this clearly.
INSTEAD: REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNIONISM
Socialism must come from below, from mass action. The trade unions must take over the land
and the factories and put them under direct workers control through a revolutionary
general strike based on the occupation of workplaces. The workplaces should be run through
workers' assemblies, committees and councils linked up across industries.
AND MOBILISE WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES
This must take place in alliance with organised community takeovers of municipal services
and control, through neighbourhood assemblies, committees and councils, linked up across
the towns and villages.
Together, the worker and community councils should plan, from the bottom-up, the economy,
using the democratic workplaces to meet the needs of our communities, to improve our
working conditions and incomes, and to create an environmentally sustainable society in
which all people are treated equally.
TOMORROW IS BUILT TODAY
The seeds of the workers' and neighbourhood assemblies, committees and councils are to be
found in today's unions and social movements. By ensuring that these movements are
organised democratically and rely on struggle, and by educating the members in the
revolutionary theory of anarchist-communism, we build tomorrow today through building
"counterpower" and revolutionary "counterculture".
WORKERS OF THE WORLD - UNITE!
To be successful, the revolution must be based on a working class / poor movement united
across colour, sex, and national lines. Capitalism is international, and therefore the
revolution must be spread internationally by the working class.
We oppose all attempts to divide the masses by race, language, religion: black workers
have nothing in common with the black members of the ruling class, white workers have
nothing in common with the white members of the ruling class. But black, Coloured, Indian
and white working class people have everything in common with each other.
INTERNATIONAL UNITY, ANARCHIST-COMMUNISM
The revolutionary general strike will establish a non-racial international working-class
democracy: anarchist communism. This will be based on federations of grassroots workplace
and community councils, and defended by a workers' militia.
We want a society without bosses, rulers and oppressors of any description. We want a
democratic economy under the direct control of the working class. We are
anti-authoritarian: the only limit on individual freedom should be that it does not remove
the freedom of others.
AIMS OF THE TOKOLOGO AFRICAN ANARCHIST COLLECTIVE (TAAC)
The Tokologo African Anarchist Collective does not stand in elections or aim to take state
power. The TAAC is not a trade union. The TAAC is a political organisation for militants
who aim to encourage the self-activity and political consciousness of the mass of the
people - the workers and the poor - so that they can make the revolution for themselves.
Our role is to promote the struggle, but in the end, only the working class can free the
working class! Tomorrow is built today.
We support all struggles against oppression. We support the progressive student movement.
We support existing trade unions, but fight for workers control of the unions, a
revolutionary programme of anarchist communism, and the formation of "One Big Union"
uniting all workers. We oppose elections and we oppose social movements being used as
voting cattle by politicians.
A FIGHTING TRADITION
We proudly stand in the mass tradition of anarchist- communism and syndicalism. Our
movement has historically attracted millions worldwide, because it serves the needs of the
workers and the poor, not the power-seekers and exploiters. Today it is growing across the
globe.
If you agree - JOIN the TAAC. www.zabalaza.net
https://www.facebook.com/zabalazanews/posts/171883897169413
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Despite yesterday's events, the determination of Alternative Libertaire Brussels remains
the same. We do not succumb to fear, neither hypocrisy nor any national unity. ---- "The
government uses fear of terrorism to the population accept the worst security measures and
thus trim the freedoms of all. A state of emergency allows the government to restore
political consistency when it is challenged for months for its anti-social policies. Do
not let them muzzle the social mobilizations!" ---- Extract from the Belgian platform
"Stop the state of war", in which Alternative Libertaire Brussels participated since
January 2016. ---- STOP THE STATE OF WAR IN BELGIUM AS ABROAD! ---- Following the outrage
at the horror of the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, we must take position against
the security and warlike escalation in which the Belgian government is committed
tirelessly applying the logic that Western states since guide September 11, 2001 and that
led us to the current situation.
First, the wars in the Middle East and Africa, causing thousands of deaths in the name of
"democracy" and "fight against terror". The current international chaos is the only
tangible result.
On the other hand, our freedoms and our rights suffer severe restrictions, security
discourse and support racist. In the name of defending the "home front" a bit every day it
eats more "democracy".
A foreign war
The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali and more recently in Syria, where our
governments take us did not end the "terrorism", quite the contrary. Clearly they serve
other purposes as the Iraqi example has shown.
The lucrative arms trade, among others, illustrates that the discourse on democracy and
the fight against terrorism hiding other interests. Beyond the direct benefit, the support
of our governments to schemes that provide financial and logistical support to terrorism
shows how the geopolitical and commercial interests are central to the logic of death that
our arms sales and our ongoing thirst oil and / or minerals cheaply constantly feed.
The solution will not come from imperialism but of peoples in the region fight against
Daech and against all forms of totalitarianism. If our governments refuse to support this
resistance we affirm our support for our part to their claims.
An internal war
The fight against terrorism is now used as pretext to attack day after day public freedoms
they claim to defend. Security measures endanger public freedoms without guaranteeing
human security.
In the name of security, the "anti-terrorist" measures allow the invasion of privacy of
the entire population: wiretapping, security cameras, tracking displacement, etc.
In the name of protection of the citizen, the state gives more powers and weapons, so that
democratic rights are more limited: police custody for 72 hours, automatic rifles,
soldiers in the streets, etc.
The prohibition of gatherings and conferences to ban demonstrations for the climate
through the desire to limit the right to strike: security policy is used to stifle
dissent. Hundreds of million less for education and health go directly to war and security
policy. This policy of destruction of collective solidarity and the right of democratic
expression fueling insecurity, exclusion and dynamics of division in society, ie the root
causes of what is called the "radicalism" and "terrorism ".
Racism State
Racism, racial profiling and police violence are a daily reality in the neighborhoods,
especially for racisé.es Belgians and migrant.es To justify this continuing violence, the
increasingly Islamophobic and racist speech, media and political, build for years the
image of the "enemy within" that would be the musulman.es and migrants. At each stage, so
they are deepening divisions and trivialization of hate.
The fight against terrorism serves as a pretext to intensify the presence and police
repression in the neighborhoods. Searches, identity checks, arbitrary arrests, etc. The
strengthening of the alert status has allowed the state to intensify Islamophobia
vis-à-vis musulman.es and excluding migrant.es
attacks the political consequences are already clearly felt
Security measures have cost an additional EUR 400 million to strengthen the "civilian"
security and another 18 million more for the military. Bill that increases when we add 14
million per month that cost the 6 Belgian warplanes in Iraq.
While the budget for the security and the war is constantly increasing, yet the government
continues to claim that there is more money for social policies (unemployment insurance,
health, employment, public services, etc.) . The safe state is heavily financed while
successive governments détricotent the social state. While social insecurity is the
primary source of insecurity for the majority of citoyen.ne.s of this country, the
government does not intend to fight against precariousness, poverty and exclusion
It does not bring peace bomber blows from the sea or the sky. You do not defend freedom
with laws that destroy. You do not fight the insecurity and exclusion with racist speech.
It is not vital to democracy by replacing schools and health care, by .s policier.e
weapons in the streets.
The government is using fear of terrorism to the population accept the worst security
measures and thus trim the freedoms of all. A state of emergency allows the government to
restore political consistency when it is challenged for months for its anti-social
policies. Do not let them muzzle the social mobilizations!
claims:
To racist speech, collective punishment and all those who try to divide us: solidarity
with the poor neighborhoods, the Belgian racisé.es the migrant.es and undocumented.
Faced with draconian decisions: Stop the security policies and anti-terrorism laws. Stop
the criminalization of social movements.
To our right to all everywhere to live in peace, stop imperialist wars our government that
feed the spiral of violence.
We fight for that wealth to serve the welfare of the population, not repression and war.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Bruxelles-communistes-libertaires
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The Alphonse arrested while he left his home in the working area of Vagiekas in Madrid
on 14.11.2012. - Directed toward a strike protection in the neighborhood. - The same day
was a day of general strike pan. - Participation in the strike had to do with the claims
that were shown: no more unemployment, not anti-labor reforms, not cuts in social goods,
not privatization in health, education, etc. - The Spanish police used a favorite for this
tactic tried to load a backpack with molotov cocktails. - From what can be seen in Spain,
as in Greece, thus Police in machinations against demonstrators. ----The Alphonse detained
although the backpack apotypomata.I Spanish police found no fingerprints used a favorite
for this tactic was kept in prison for 56 days, in a special isolation regime (FIES
status) and was released on 01.09.2013 thanks to international solidarity and protests
made in Vagiekas, in Madrid, in many cities in Spain and in other other countries. The
prosecutor gave accusations of possession of explosives and asked for five years imprisonment.
Repression in Spain has made scandalous increase reaching incredible level of violation of
freedoms.
The State of Spain criminalizes all forms of social action, with detailed and
exhaustively. Hundreds are they threatened with imprisonment for their involvement in
workers', political and trade union struggles. The terror experienced by social and labor
struggles in Spain, there is something unknown and for Greece. The attack on the rights
and freedoms is a common choice of the bosses and rulers in every country where the
workers and the oppressed rise up and claim.
On 11/25/2014 th 2014 was the trial, which proved police conspiracy against Alphonse. In a
trial riddled with contradictions and no evidence to show that the guilt of Alphonse, the
questioning focused essentially on questions related to ideology and personal life.
Finally, the 23 year old Alphonse sentenced to four years imprisonment.
This decision was a warning to those who are fighting against the terrible situation in
which society is. It was used as a warning to those who dare to rebel, refusing to comply
with the increasingly intense bondage which subsume all employees. The state, through the
media "communications" presented by Alphonse as a common criminal, using lies and
falsifying information in order to justify police conspiracy and attempt so people forget
how Alphonse was a protester who together with other citizens of the claimed public health
and education, opposed the anti-labor measures of the government and cuts in social
services, fighting for the rights of the entire working class.
TERRORISTS ARE KAPITALISTES
HANDS OFF THE FIGHTERS
Interference from outside the Spanish embassy
Saturday, April 2 at 12.30 noon
(Dionysius Areopagite 21 - Metro Station Acropolis)
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Libertarian unions (ΕΣΕ Athens)
http://ese.espivblogs.net/2016/03/26/26-3-16/#more-2340
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free electron unusual path and eclectic writings and stimulants, Philippe Corcuff, recent
militant Anarchist Federation, published in October in the World libertarian publishing a
book to rethink the emancipatory social criticism. Michael Löwy in its present critical
but sympathetic reading. ---- Anarchist pragmatic social democrat libertarian, Philippe
Corcuff is not an ordinary author: every book is an intellectual adventure, which
gleefully plays of academic disciplines and policy disciplines. In a friendly and fun
formula he defines himself as " a plumber emancipatory social criticism: cleaning some
clogged pipes, giving a few hammer blows on battered pipes or desajustés, replacing some
too old parts, trying new branches in place of other abandoned to improve the flow "...
Proudhon Dewey, through Holloway
Probably be accused of eclecticism. He proudly claims its diversity of sources, ranging
from Proudhon to Dewey, through Holloway, Rancière and Balibar - and many others. One of
his chapters is even titled "Marx / Wilde / Foucault / Onfray / Bourdieu"! But this
eclecticism is only an appearance: Corcuff is a bee visits a flower infinity, but to make
their own honey, its pragmatist anarchism sui generis.
I must say that its route is atypical: it starts at Ceres Chevènement, left wing of social
democracy, continues movement of citizens of the same, but soon left for a brief stay with
the Greens, followed a much longer involvement in the revolutionary Communist League -
which he does not share Leninism - and its successor, the NPA. Finally, it is since 2013
that he found his happiness in the ranks of the Anarchist Federation. He withdrew from the
path outside the norm, it is not regret, or resentment, but critical lessons (and
self-critical!) For the future.
So in "anarchist neophyte" he reflects on capitalism, on the decrease, the equaliberty, or
media criticism, from Proudhon and Bakunin, but also seeking libertarian bursts out of the
anarchism, Marx, Rosa Luxemburg or John Dewey (the great American pragmatist philosopher).
Compass in this risky navigation is " a pragmatic individual and collective
self-emancipation leaving no retreat into the domination of steel cages ."
Avoiding both the nostalgisme the Presentism or futurism, he tries, like his friend Daniel
Bensaid, think " the past and the future in the strategic field of this ." Critical of
fixed and dogmatic solutions, it calls for a dialectic between ends and means, processes
and ruptures, spontaneity and organization, reform and revolution. In discussing the
various authors mentioned in the book, his method is explained there by a beautiful image,
" rubbing flint to spray sparks of intelligibility ."
One of the most interesting food for thought regarding the place of the individual and
individualism in an emancipatory project. Criticizing what he calls the " collectivist
software " of the left, he refuses to oppose solidarity to individualism, referring, among
others, Karl Marx himself, has he not written in the Communist Manifesto that " the free
development of each is the condition for the free development of all "?
The most questionable aspect of this subtle and endearing book could be summed up with a
name: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Certainly, one can find many interesting tracks in the
author of Philosophy of Poverty (eg, federalism), but can we believe, as the friend
Corcuff, it is more operative than Marx or Bakunin?
It is not only that Proudhon was, as Corcuff recognizes " homophobic, misogynistic,
anti-Semitic and bellicist e" - nobody is perfect! - But he was also a fierce opponent of
communism, in the broad sense of the term. Corcuff therefore opposes associative
individualism Proudhonian the various revolutionary currents collectivist, whether
libertarian Marxism dear to Daniel Guérin and Olivier Besancenot, or libertarian communism
Makhno and supporters of his platform.
critical thinking with a hammer
But Proudhon's individualism is based, as Corcuff recalls the small private property,
supposed to ensure individual freedom against the state ... I think this debate has been
decided at the 1868 congress of the First International, with the adoption of the
principle of collective ownership of the means of production; This resolution was adopted
by an alliance between socialists, Marxists and libertarians - especially left
Proudhonists like Eugène Varlin, future leader of the Paris Commune - against the
opposition of "Proudhonists right" as Tolain (future Versailles).
Sympathy for Proudhon also led Corcuff to deal with some current too lenient Proudhonists
like Michel Onfray, whose rightist drift becomes more and more evident.
Another notion of Proudhon which our friend is attached is " the balancing of opposites "
that he opposes the Hegelian-Marxist concept of dialectical transcendence of
contradictions. Or, as he himself acknowledges, the opposition between bourgeoisie and
workers can not be the subject of a " balancing " any but rather an overflow in a
post-capitalist framework.
But could one say the same of most contradictions of our society: for example, between
capital and nature, between imperialism and the oppressed peoples, between patriarchy and
women, between capital accumulation and the accumulation of misery?
I can not follow the plumber Philippe Corcuff in all connections of pipes he proposes, but
I think most of its hammers are assénés the right place ...
Michael Löwy
Philippe Corcuff, Challenges for the XXI century libertarian , an anarchist by neophyte,
Paris, Éditions du Monde Libertaire, 2015, 295 pages, 14 euros.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Enjeux-libertaires-pour-le
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Dear all, The following recording has been made by the Anarchist Group Dortmund (in
cooperation with A-Radio Berlin) during a presentation on March 6, 2016. ---- In it the
former anarchist prisoner from Belarus Mikalai Dziadok shares his prison experiences and
gives some advice on how to survive the jail. Total helplessness, psychological pressure,
stupid convicts‘ laws, ever-lasting prison terms – this is what Belarusian prison is made
of. ---- You'll find the audio (to listen online or download in different sizes)
here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/03/28/a-radio-in-english-belarus-former-anarchist-prisoner-about-his-experiences-on-how-to-survive-jail/
---- Length: 1:29 h ---- You can find other English and Spanish language audios here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/.
Among our last audios you can find:
* An interview on an anarchosyndicalist struggle in vegan pizzeria in
Berlin:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/03/28/a-radio-in-english-belarus-former-anarchist-prisoner-about-his-experiences-on-how-to-survive-jail/
* An interview with the Anarchist Federation in Britain about its Safer
Spaces policy (about feminism and conflict resolution):
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/02/26/a-radio-in-english-feminism-and-conflict-resolution-the-anarchist-federation-britain-and-its-safer-spaces-policy/
* Mediterranean 4: An interview with the workers of the self-managed
soap factory Vio.me in Thessaloniki:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/24/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-4-the-self-managed-soap-factory-vio-me-in-thessaloniki/
* Mediterranean 3: An audio by the self-organized refugee squat
Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/16/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-3-the-self-organized-refugee-squat-orfanotrofeio-in-thessaloniki/
* An interview with an activist of the Passe Livre movement in Sao
Paulo, Brazil:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/13/a-radio-in-english-brazil-the-passe-livre-movement-in-sao-paulo/
* Mediterranean 2: An interview with two anarchists working on the
refugee topic in Slovenia:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/12/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-2-anarchists-in-slovenia-and-the-refugee-balkan-route/
* Northern Europe 3: An interview with two members of the new Anarchist
Federation in Finland, Alusta:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/05/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-3-the-new-anarchist-federation-in-finland-alusta/
* Mediterranean 1: An interview with two activists of the occupied and
self-organized refugee center Notara26 in Athens, Greece:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/02/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-1-the-occupied-refugee-center-notara26-in-athens/
* Northern Europe 2: An interview on the Anarchist Bookfair in Tallinn,
Estonia:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/12/18/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-2-the-anarchist-bookfair-in-tallinn-estonia/
* Northern Europe 1: An audio on the countercultural Musta Pispala
festival in Tampere, Finland:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/23/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-1-musta-pispala-festival-in-finland/
* Eastern Europe 5: An interview with Anarchist Black Cross Warsaw:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/19/a-radio-in-english-eastern-europe-5-anarchist-black-cross-warsaw/
* The documentation of a presentation about the topic "Undercover for
State and Capital":
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/04/a-radio-auf-englisch-audio-documentation-undercover-for-state-and-capital/
Enjoy! And please feel free to share!
A-Radio Berlin
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