Today's Topics:
1. Solidarity in anarchist Osman Evcan (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, Glasgow Events from 22/03/2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Joint Political Declaration: "Women workers and workers who
are organized throughout the country" (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Antifascist BLOCKING 24/3 17.00 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) -
Neighbourhoods, The "community organizing" husked (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Zabalaza News: African Anarchist Collective Tokologo #5/6 -
“Bill Andrews and South Africa’s Revolutionary
Syndicalists,” by Lucien van der Walt (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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From February 22, 2016, anarchist Osman Evcan who is imprisoned in Turkey, moved to third
in a hunger chronoapergia with aichmiako request providing food vegan in prison, and
requests regarding the conditions of detention at the maximum security prison Silivri No:
6 L Type. ---- To promote partner race stuck stratsa and banners in Patras, Thessaloniki
and Chania, and has a poster of the collectivity 'gadfly'. ---- The Osman struggling in
prison: ---- - Access to vegan food by ordering out of prison, and provide some food from
the canteen and administration. ---- - Against detention conditions "aimed at the
suppression and intimidation of prisoners" because the wing is the Osman has no courtyard,
while cameras still exist in the cells for 24 surveillance and control of prisoners. Osman
has received three disciplinary penalties for breaking the camera of his cell.
- Against mail retention, the restriction information and communication and access to a
greater number of books, magazines and newspapers to prisoners.
Through these requests anarchist comrade, reveals the tactics of the Turkish state to kill
the fighting spirit and the alienation of prisoners between them and the nearby
environment and their fellow.
We stand next to Osman and his struggle. Because the race is a constant struggle against
prisons, the modern technological totalitarianism, and the power used by each kind of cage
for the operation and control of living beings.
As he wrote and imprisoned comrades Dimitris Politis, George Karagiannidis Yiannis Michaelides
"Very few things we know about him personally, but can only be touched by the fact that in
one country - a war zone, a prisoner companion, selects and insists, to raise the issue of
the total release of life from the shackles of civilization power. An imprisoned comrade
who refuses to feed with animal corpses, tormented by the meat processing industry, and
other derivatives of pain, refuses to provide gear bloodthirsty capitalist machine,
destroying and pillaging the land.
It happens to have experienced the scorn and irony against a non-human-race attitude, even
inside the antiauthoritarian space in Greece, usually in the name of something "more
important", as if there may be an objective ranking of the match priorities. So this is an
extra important for us to highlight the partner's hunger strike in Greece, apart from the
obvious support and solidarity needed by Osman this difficult time. "
POWER ANARCHIST OSMAN EVCAN
UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF LAST cage
NONE living being NOT FREE
FOR THE FULL RELEASE AND ANARCHY
anarchist collectives:
Krakatoa (Patras)
Horseflies (Chania)
Black / Green (Thessaloniki)
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Hi all, ---- Another packed update, with ourselves at Glasgow Anarchist Federation having
a slightly more light-hearted event than usual tonight, with a discussion about The Hunger
Games books and films, then tomorrow our friends from the Empty Cages Collective will be
in the city to provide support and advice on prison abolition campaigning. Loads more to
look at this week as well, so be sure to take a look! ********** The Hunger Games &
Revolution ---- Tuesday, March 22 at 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM ---- Fred Paton Centre, 19
Carrington Street, G4 9AJ ---- When I finally read the Hunger Games trilogy last year, I
discovered that suddenly I was having conversations about revolution with people I had
never even discussed politics with before. Positive, fun conversations. This talk and
discussion will take a light-hearted look at how the dystopian society in The Hunger Games
resembles our own, and how it doesn’t, and what is exciting about the revolution in the
Hunger Games and what isn’t, from (of course) an anarchist communist perspective. This
will be full of spoilers, but won’t contain full plot summaries, so if you haven’t got a
clue what happens yet in the Hunger Games, you might like to acquaint yourself with the
books or films to participate in discussion. Listeners are of course still welcome.
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This event is hosted by Glasgow AF. We ask that all those attending this event read the
brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here: https://afed.org.uk/about/safer-spaces/
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Tear The Walls Down Tour #2 – Empty Cages Collective – Workshop
Wednesday, 23rd March: 6-8pm
Unit 11, 53 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow, G5 8JD
EMPTY CAGES Collective are coming to Glasgow!
Check out their work here: http://www.prisonabolition.org/
This workshop is open to all, with any level of experience, interest or knowledge. There
will be opportunity for discussion and to focus on the struggle for abolition in a
specifically Scottish context.
The Tear Down The Walls Tour is a chance to learn about struggles against prisons across
England, Wales & Scotland. The two hour workshop explores the role of prison in our lives,
how the P.I.C harms individuals and communities and alternatives to it. We introduce
examples of state violence, like the IPP sentences, and we focus on prison expansion, as
well as the role of prison labour. We explore recent resistance & ongoing struggles and
aim to support new groups to emerge that can fight this racist, sexist, brutal system.
The Empty Cages Collective have been working towards building a movement in England, Wales
& Scotland that fights the prison industrial complex. Through touring, popular education,
events & actions, the collective have tried to connect individuals and groups who share a
rage against the prison system and a desire to build a different world. The collective
have produced publications, spoke at event after event, launched Community Action on
Prison Expansion, took part in the international action camp against the mega prison in
Wales, supported the Smash IPP campaign and organised the recent week of action against
the P.I.C. Having visited five cities in March 2014, the first TDTW tour built the first
friendships and now it is time to take to the road again.
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From Milton to the World presents…Urban Roots (film)
Thursday, March 24 at 5.45 PM
St Andrew’s Methodist Church, Liddesdale Square, G22 7BT
Welcome to the second film in our film festival!
North Glasgow Community Food Initiative is running a series of free fortnightly films,
chosen by the people of Milton. This film festival ‘From Milton to the World’ covers
themes of food, biodiversity, community growing, fracking and other environmental topics.
We hope that you will leave entertained and inspired to take positive action in your local
environment!
Our second film ‘QUEEN OF THE SUN’ is a profound, alternative look at the global bee
crisis. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the
mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an
unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and
philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana
Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in
balance with nature.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Free refreshments will be served at 5.45pm before the film starts at 6pm.
The film will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Marie, giving you a chance to
share your thoughts on the film.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekoeQodrVoM&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
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TheGovanhillBaths: Film as the activist’s tool and film screening
Thursday, March 24 at 7 PM
MILK cafe, 452 Victoria Road, G42 8YU
LIVING ROOM LECTURES in collaboration with the ACHE Collective at the Milk Cafe
::: INTRODUCE:::
THE GOVANHILL BATHS
lecturing on the subject of
**Community Activism: The Baths and Film as the Activist’s Tool**
with a FILM SCREENING of Fran Higsons film
~~ "UNITED WE WILL SWIM" ~~
This 25 minute documentary about the 15 year campaign to save The Govanhill Baths is made
by Camcorder Guerillas (directed by Fran Higson). Fran and the Guerillas specialise in
activist filmmaking with subjects including protest movements across Scotland such as Stop
the War campaigns, The Friends of Dungavel and The Faslane Peace Camp.
Director of UNITED WE WILL SWIM, Fran Higson, will speak on the value of film as a form of
activism broadly, yet also in the context of Govanhill community activism.
Also up for discussion are the topics of activism and community ownership. How does the
struggle to let the Baths live, and the Govanhill community thrive, relate to current
struggles; locally and more widely?
How can we learn from these examples of community activism and local perseverance?
Join us at the MILK CAFE, Govanhill, to learn, discuss and eat good food
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It Wisnae Us? The Truth About Scotland and Slavery
Friday, March 25 at 7:45 PM – 9:30 PM
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground)
March 25th – The date that British Parliament passed the bill abolishing Slave Trade in
the British Empire in 1807
Before the talk food will be available from 630pm -745pm. Provided by The Vegan people’s
kitchen Glasgow. £3.50 for a 3 course meal.
Scotland and Slavery talk by the super interesting Dr Iain Whyte author of Scotland and
the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838. 8pm.
Dr Iain Whyte met Dr Martin Luther King in 1964. Dr King encouraged Dr Whyte to tell the
Civil Rights story at home.
It Wisnae Us. The truth about Glasgow and Slavery talk by super engaging Speaker Dr
Stephen Mullen. 845pm.
Very brief talk on Anti Slavery International. 920pm
930pm finish.
£4 suggested donation. All money raised is going to Anti Slavery International.
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The cost of organising this event is:
1. Venue hire £20
2. Speaker’s travel expenses £25
Any amount raised above this total will be donated to Anti-Slavery International.
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Capital Reading Group: Sections 3 & 4 of Chapter 1, and Chapter 2
Saturday, March 26 at 1 PM – 3 PM
The Electron Club, CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Last time we had a good discussion of the first two sections of Chapter 1. We agreed that
the next two dense sections deserve to be the focus of this meeting. So that’s: ‘The Form
of Value or Exchange-Value’ and the ‘Fetishism of Commodities’. And also the short Chapter
2 on Exchange.
If you’ve not come before, feel free to come this time!
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Trident Ploughshares: Non-Violent Direct Action workshop
Saturday, March 26 at 10 AM
Glasgow Quaker Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Crescent, G2 4PS
The focus is on taking action to disrupt the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system wherever
it is. The issues raised and skills learnt at these workshops are transferable to other
nonviolent campaigns – and by the way it’s fun!
The trainings are all from 10am to 5pm with a lunch and tea breaks. You need to be there
for the whole day. There is a £3 booking fee and donations will be gratefully received at
the training venue to cover our costs. – you can book here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trident-ploughshares-nonviolent-direct-action-members-training-tickets-21523436177
People who can’t risk arrest but would like to do practical hands on support are very
welcome. Enquiries to tp2000
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Tangerine
Saturday, March 26 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM
CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Join us for Sean Baker’s ‘Tangerine’, screening as part of Cinema For All’s ‘Reaching
Communities’ project.
You’ll also have the chance to win a GIANT promotional poster!!
FREE! LGBT Unity Group Fundraiser – donations taken
Plot:
"Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day prison sentence,
meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on
Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally reveals that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend and pimp Chester
has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Sin-Dee storms out to search the
neighborhood for Chester and the woman."
Starring transgender actresses, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor….who should win
awards for their great performances.
Famously shot using an iphone 5 for $100,000, using this lens:
http://www.moondoglabs.com/
Tangerine also has a *fabulous soundtrack.
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/128253391
Accessibility:
*The film will be subtitled
*The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue with accessible toilets on the ground floor.
*For more information please see: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/accessibility/
Tickets:
*Free/Donation, first come first serve!
*This is also a fundraiser for LGBT Unity Scotland.
*Rated 18
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Another Homeless Affair – Benefit gig for Glasgow Night Shelter
Friday, April 1 at 7:30 PM – 11 PM
Anderson Parish Church, 759 Argyle Street, G3 8DS
Benefit gig for the night shelter with:
– The Ronaynes
– Five Cousins
– Dogtooth
– Scott Charles
& lots of good grub made by our very own night shelter volunteers!
In the church with the green pointy roof…
Tell your friends!
£8
Tel 07789454903 for tickets in advance, tickets will also be on the door.
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SKILL SHARE!!! Hosted by WestGAP
Saturday, April 2 at 11:30 AM – 4 PM
The Art School, 20 Scott Street, G3 6PE
WestGAP invites you to take part in our Skill Share at The Art School on Saturday 2nd
April. Our Skill Share plans to bring groups, activists and researchers together to learn
both the strategic and practical ways to fight poverty in our communities. We feel our
service would benefit from learning from the skills and the experiences of others fighting
poverty and the surrounding issues and we hope that you will to!
WestGAP is a volunteer-led anti-poverty community group based in Cessnock, Glasgow. We
provide free, independent welfare advice to anyone who comes through the door. In 2015 the
impact of Welfare Reform has also highlighted the links between poverty, housing, poor
employment rights, immigration status, physical and mental health, we’ve experienced the
effect this has had on our community. We’ve had to learn on our feet, and adapt quickly to
the impact this has had on our service.
We want you to join us to share your experiences and your skills. We welcome any groups or
campaigns to propose and host a workshop to share with others or you can come along to
listen and learn from other groups.
We also want this to be as practical as possible and hopefully at the end of the day we
will all have developed practical skills to develop in our communities.
The venue is fully accessible, however there is a big hill outside, if you have mobility
problems please let WestGAP know and we can assist.
This event has been funded by The Community Capacity and Resilience fund, therefore we
have a small budget to reimburse some travel expenses if this would prohibit you
attending. Please let us know before the event.
Please register your attendence via Eventbrite here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skill-share-tickets-22360199960
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Re-imagining a democratic Europe
Saturday, April 2 at 11 AM – 4 PM
CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
When do we get our say? An Open Space discussion aimed at prefiguring how a real European
democracy would be. Is there a new kind of global governance we can create with others?
How should we vote in the forthcoming referendum – to leave, to stay? What impact will the
result have on the lives of people in Britain? Migration, TTIP, workers’ rights? Can we
forge independent links with fellow Europeans outside of the EU of states and
corporations? Lightning conductors so far: Gordon Asher, Leigh French, Neil Davidson,
Marie Macpherson.
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Screening of Young Soul Rebels – LGBT Unity Centre Fundraiser/Free
Saturday, April 2 at 7 PM
CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Young Soul Rebels | Dir. Isaac Julien | 1991 | 105 min | UK
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48N4TBsBdQ
This atmospheric classic received the Critics award at Cannes. Set in London 1977, queer &
straight love stories and a murder mystery unfold with fabulous soul music tracks.
Organically examines the racism and sexual politics of the time.
FREE/ Donation Fundraiser for the LGBT Unity Group
Shown with the support of Cinema for All as part of their "Reaching Communities’ project.
*The CCA is a Fully wheelchair accessible venue
*English subtitles for deaf/hard of hearing audience members.
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RADICAL FOOD SOLIDARITY PROJECTS
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Glasgow Vegan People’s Kitchen – March Edition
Friday, March 25 at 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground)
Come and celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the Glasgow Vegan People’s Kitchen with us! Get
your party hats out, bring along 3.50£ and be served a delicious three course party meal!
This time we are serving:
Starter: Courgettes with Pecan-Parmesan and Salad
Main: Superextrafruitilicious Banana-Pineapple Curry with Rice
Dessert: SURPRISE ANNIVERSARY CAKES!
Please bring along your own beverages, glasses and tap water will be provided.
See you then, you Partypossums!
P.S. Straight after the People’s Kitchen there will be a great talk on, titled "It wisnae
us. Slavery and Scotland" by Dr Iain Whyte, author of Scotland and the Abolition of Black
Slavery, 1756-1838. (see above)
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The Vegan People’s Kitchen is a non-profit event that is:
*offering a cheap, inclusive, ethical and healthy meal
*About anti-capitalism, shared responsibility and mutual aid
* A chance for the community to get together and socialise
We serve exclusively vegan food because it is
*ethical
*environmentally more sustainable
*cheap
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Govanhill Free Dinner
Every Monday at 5:30pm – 8:00pm
Govanhill Trinity Church, 28 Daisy Street, G42 8JZ
Join your neighbours for a free dinner. All welcome.
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The UNITY World Café
Every Tuesday at 11:00am – 1:00pm
140-142 Nelson Street, G5 8EJ
UNITY is still distributing free food to destitute asylum seekers.
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RADICAL SPORTS & OUTDOORS SECTION
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Critical Mass
Friday, 25th of March at 7 PM
George Square
Meet at the column before a ride about town.
INVITE YOUR PALS!
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Roller Derby: British Champs Tier 1 Triple Header
Saturday, March 26 at 11:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Glasgow Caledonian ARC, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA
4 EPIC TEAMS COME TO GLASGOW TO PLAY FOR THE TITLE OF BRITISH CHAMPION!
ROYAL WINDSOR RG v GRD
NEWC v ROYAL WINDSOR RG
LEEDS v GRD
4 GREAT TEAMS – 3 HIGH LEVEL GAMES – LOTS OF STALLS
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR!!
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Thursday Glasgow Adult Parkour Class
Thursday, March 31 at 7 PM – 9 PM
Buchanan Street Underground Station, G1 2LW
Adult Parkour Class in Glasgow will be happening on Mondays and Thursdays! Locations will
vary but the meet up point will be at an Underground Station.
Location: Buchanan Underground Station
Meet up time: 6:45pm
Class time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: £6
Age: 18+
Email: info
Paul will be meeting you at Buchanan Underground Station, Hope to see lots of people
there! All levels of practitioners welcome! Bring a friend and get £2 off your Class!
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The Glasgow Girls of Garnethill – Women’s Heritage Walk
Saturday, April 2 at 2 PM – 4 PM
Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
£6/£10
Within Garnethill’s confined boundaries we spotlight the women who pioneered European art
movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library
in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in
Glasgow. For more information and booking, please see:
http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-glasgow-girls-of-garnethill-womens-heritage-walk/
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Glasgow Roller Derby -v- Bear City, Berlin!
Saturday, April 23 at 1 PM – 5:30 PM
Bellahouston Sports Centre, 1 Bellahouston Drive, G52 1HH
Last year, Glasgow Roller Derby travelled to Berlin to take on the wonderful Bear City
Roller Derby. This year, we host Berlin as they go head to head with us in what will be a
high level european bonanza of derby!
And prior to our big headline act, there will be a cherry popper game featuring some of
Scotland’s newest skaters on the block!
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United Glasgow Football Club
The club operates under dual core principles of anti-discrimination and financial inclusion.
www.unitedglasgowfc.eu
www.clubwebsite.co.uk/unitedglasgowfc
UGFC run beginners sessions for women every Monday night at the Firhill Complex. These
sessions are trans inclusive. If you’ve not played since school or have never played at
all, why not come along for a kickabout? Only £1 if working and nothing if you’re not earning!
For more info or to find out about our women’s 11-a-side team, get in touch with Jazz
Rogers at jazz
Contact the Club for men’s training times.
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United Glasgow: Can You Support Us? A Call To Action!
From like-minded football clubs to individuals who agree with our stance on financial
inclusion and anti-discrimination, United Glasgow has many supporters from across the
world. We’re calling on you, your friends, families and local businesses to support our
cause and help us to continue to provide access to football for Glasgow’s young people. As
you will be aware, we operate under a system of paying only if you are able to, which is
why we’re appealing for supporters to set up a monthly subscription (£10 suggested
donation) to cover the costs of hiring training facilities.
"We spend nearly £800 per month on training venues alone; your monthly support can ensure
we can keep providing access and opportunities for all." – Alan, Chairperson
In 2014/15, the significant of our total costs were spent on renting venues to provide
access to sports (and we have grown since then!) and we could really use your help to
continue to provide this.
If you would like to set up a subscription or one off payment, you can rest assured that
your contributions are directly helping provide young people from all walks of Glasgow
life the chance to train and play together.
http://www.unitedglasgowfc.eu/supportus
Also: Do you have any spare football boots that you could donate to those who have none
but desperately want to play football? We’re always accepting donations of astro-trainers
and moulded boots (no metal studs!) for our men’s teams. Please get in touch if you can
help out.
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Capital Reading Group – Sections 3 & 4 of Chapter 1, and Chapter 2
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Saturday 26th March
13:00–15:00
Electron Club, CCA, Sauchiehall Street
Last time we had a good discussion of the first two sections of Chapter 1. We agreed that
the next two dense sections deserve to be the focus of this meeting. So that’s: ‘The Form
of Value or Exchange-Value’ and the ‘Fetishism of Commodities’. And also the short Chapter
2 on Exchange.
If you’ve not come before, feel free to come this time!
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SOLIDARITY propaganda poster-FCL under the strike called by the CUT morning. ---- A
WORKERS AND ORGANIZE WORKERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ---- More and more workers are
beginning to recognize what they are favorable for entrepreneurs labor laws. This is why
in recent years we have witnessed Crescent ment of organizations and increasingly distant
from what awaits the institutional union actions, illegal strikes, roadblocks, blockades
of access to the workplace, among other forms of start by force what the law denies. ----
In this context it should be understood that the current labor reform. What started as a
promise to "level the playing field" -but that from the outset contained elements that
constituted a setback in matters of Sindical law, Congress ended up becoming an
unacceptable monstrosity that seeks to channel and tame the emergence of new forces that
from the places and workplaces, they have come to give a fresh air to the sorry state of
the union movement.
None of this can be considered a surprise, unless they had had the strange hope that the
Government and Parliament legislate in favor of those who struggle every day to structural
changes in favor of our people. Instead, what we do merits further reflection is the role
played by the CUT at this juncture, whose leaderships the have subordinated the interests
of the bloc in power, transforming it into a trade union platform support for
pseudo-reforms government, mortgaging once again fighting and political independence of
workers' organizations. The consequences of this way of acting are in sight.
It is evident that this situation is possible because of an undemocratic organizational
structure and lacking in transparency, in which the New Majority parties have managed to
maintain control of the central mechanisms through unmentionable. Thus, it has promoted
passivity instead of fighting, and dialogue in conditions where you have everything to
lose, so we face a scenario in which the late call to strike on March 22 no It has nothing
to offer the working, class except try us of the desperate attempt by the Communist party
to save his thesis that it is possible to have one foot in the government and other social
movement.
For these reasons, we want to make a call to advance the construction of a new type of
unionism representing consistently the interests of our class, which promotes feminism
within the struggles of the workers, who have a profound vocation political and democratic
conviction, as well as be a central player in overcoming the devastating effects of
capitalism on the environment.
We know that there are efforts to take on this challenge in many honest union leaders both
inside and outside the CUT, and we must be able to translate this into the necessary unity
that requires the working class, the same as is divided exactly by irresponsible
leaderships who put alien to the interests of their constituents. Only unity around a
critical and transforming power will allow, sooner rather than later, we undertake the
struggle for demands such as negotiation by branch of the economy or productive circuit,
for the right to strike without restrictions, to the outsourcing and freedom of dismissal,
to PFAs, and in short, for a new society.
MILITANTES COMMUNITIES
SOCIALIST FRONT OF ACTION
PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT GUACHUNEIT
SOLIDARITY-LIBERTARIAN COMMUNIST FEDERATION
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2016/03/21/declaracion-politica-conjunta-a-las-trabajadoras-y-trabajadores-que-se-organizan-a-lo-largo-del-pais/
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Priesthood, church, fascists and neo-Nazis, veterans clubs "special forces" and other
vothrolymmata city think they can shed the anti-immigrant, racist and fascist poison the
city, whatever time they want. ---- NOT miscalculated ---- Anarchists and anti-fascists we
set up road block in the fascist Greek Orthodox parade showing the teeth of the oppressed
of the world. The "Islamization" dressed the mantle of new risk, manufactures the "other",
the enemy within the game. The front sets the known megaloalitaras, junta pimp Anthimos,
the cover of Nazism will dissolve here and now. ---- Clusters in BLOCKING against fascism
against ---- modern totalitarianism. ---- Agios Dimitrios and Papazolis THURSDAY 24 MARCH
17.00 ---- BLACK & RED, collectivity on Social Anarchism ---- member Anarchist Political
Organisation
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%86%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF-%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%BF-243-17-00/
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For many activists, a question that often remains unanswered is: how to mobilize people?
How to develop frameworks for collective political consciousness? The research and trials
of community organizing, spanning over a hundred years, are a response to end this problem
(almost) insoluble. Proof by example in Grenoble. ---- In order to develop popular against
powers, the community organizing is a method of action and collective organization that
takes as its starting point the rulers and injustices experienced by people physically, to
pursue three objectives. ---- The first objective, which can be described as pragmatic and
reformist, is to view the world " as it is " and collectively undertake struggles in the
form of direct action to achieve improvements in the living conditions of classes (as
could a union, but on land ranging from housing to education through labor).
The second objective, which is a real dynamic of popular [education 1], will realize that
these struggles conducted and won collectively will help to overcome a feeling of
inevitability and real political exclusion. They will also be the development of class
consciousness framework based on a certain interpretation of social antagonisms.
The third objective pursues a revolutionary project: the aim is indeed to build a balance
of power by the collective organization of those whose only power is their number.
Introduced and theorized from the late 1930s by Saul Alinsky [2], the community organizing
comes from across the Atlantic [3]. One finds its principles in the struggles of
California farm workers around Cesar Chavez, and one can see parallels with the analyzes
of Freire [4]. In France, these methods have been developing since the late 2000s, in
various modes.
On one side of the activists from-es or close neighborhoods are discovering the community
organizing on a trip to the United States in 2010. Convinced-es, they and they are trying
to implement this approach in France end up creating the Praxis Studio, one of the
activities is to train and support collective neighborhoods such as Stop ethnic profiling
[5], Zonzon 93 [6] and many others.
On the other hand, activists, social workers, disillusioned-es by the limits of their
previous practices, discover the thought of Saul Alinsky and interested. They and they
start to train with London Citizens [7] and create in Grenoble in 2010 the Echo association.
In 2012, Echo becomes a citizen Alliance [8], whose governance is ensured by its members
and not by the activists. This first trial in 2013 inspired the creation of the
association in Rennes If allied itself [9]. Today, an organization of the same type will
start in the Paris region [10]. Note that there is also an international organization, the
ReAct [11] (Network for transnational collective action), which aims to bring together
residents and wage earners against multinationals.
The Citizens Alliance in the Grenoble area, for its part, has recently changed its model,
leaving that charged by London Citizens, which was to be based primarily on existing
communities (associations, schools, cults, etc.). It is now implementing the model
practiced by Acorn [12], a very powerful organization in North America (up to 175 000
members in the United States in 2010, currently 70,000 members across Canada) whose method
is to go meet individually with people, which allows us to reach more remote from public
life and collective frameworks.
All of these projects can be compared to a Multi-Terrain revolutionary syndicalism, whose
base is not the company but the neighborhood. They are launched by people who seek to be
in the action and take practical measures in a materialistic and pragmatic approach,
convinced es that direct action is a powerful means of popular education, and the
denunciation of rulers can be truly effective in fighting effectively against acts they
generate.
These experiments are already producing results but are still at the experimental stage.
The terms vary (you translate "organization of citizens", "community organization", or
something else?), How to also do (individual memberships collective memberships both
no????): How to import France this Anglo-Saxon method requires experience, in order to
combine the best efficiency and democracy, radicalism and pragmatism. To be continued ...
At the Citizens Alliance in the Grenoble area, the work of the base is to go door-to-door.
When the board of the Alliance, made up exclusively of members, decides to go to meet the
inhabitants and inhabitants of a new district, he commissioned it to an organizer or an
organizer (this is how people who are designated working for the citizens Alliance). He or
she will then embark on a period of intensive door-to-door. For four hours each day, he
will knock on all the doors in the neighborhood.
The key in these individual meetings is based on the concerns of the people we encounter,
their practical problems and daily newspapers. The front door is radically materialistic,
and at this stage it is considered that all the anger is legitimate. If a person is angry,
it is because there is a sense of injustice, and there is no judgment to make on that anger.
It is this legitimacy which makes possible mobilization: it is indeed the antithesis of
approaches which people are accustomed: on one side, the sphere of social work tends to
return the responsibility for the difficulties the person (do you handle well your budget?
you busy yourself well your child? etc.), and other political groups are stronger in
inappropriable scholars and electoral discourse to fight and get victories over small
concrete injustices.
popular self-education through action and collective
This first meeting is already in itself a moment of political consciousness. Indeed,
during a successful door-to-door, the organizer or the host will accompany the person
questioning her, so she searched the problem she talks ( "And also that is how ? before
and how was it? "), it searches and identifies the solution it wants to see implemented,
it identifies the structural cause of the problem.
This is called the "verticalization", as opposed to so-called horizontal anger aimed
neighbors, which do not have more power than us. All this so that it becomes aware of the
weight of social injustice in the fact that this problem is not resolved, she imagines the
number of people who live the same injustice and strength that would bring that number to
regroup, and finally she imagines how it might act collectively to change that.
When the Citizens Alliance launches into a new neighborhood, the goal is to quickly get
the commitment of a maximum of people. By becoming members, they will work with the
organizer or the host to communicate with their neighbors and neighboring dynamic
organization in progress. The organizer will thus look to the "put in motion" to more
quickly, so they are maximally themselves structuring their neighborhood. "Can we go see
all the neighbors you know? Do you have time to go see your side other tenants in your
rise to speak to them? "
Gradually, a group was formed. After 4 to 5 weeks, members will meet for group meetings.
From the first meeting, the organizer will propose modes (animation, decision making)
that will allow to acquire all democratic habits. These practices will then become the
culture of the group, will be appropriate for members, which will never be naive before
the false steps of institutional consultations.
We find these practices in neighborhood assemblies, which bring together 50 to 100
members. It is during these meetings that the members decide what actions to take priority.
cc Nicolas Moiroud
windows for all!
At the meeting of a neighborhood, the members decided to tackle the problem of dilapidated
and poorly insulated windows in some homes. This problem does not apply to all members,
but all agreed to treat all first. We treat others then. A letter has already been sent to
the landlord to request the replacement of the offending windows, but no response was
obtained. The Assembly therefore decided to take a pressing action the following week.
A group of five members is appointed by the Assembly to prepare the action. On the day,
blankets on their shoulders, many tenants are set at the local office of the landlord "was
cold in our apartments, so today we just warm up in your office," they said, claiming that
their windows are insulated. The local press is there to immortalize the scene. A manager
comes in, says he does not like the method, but listening to the claims and promises an
appointment before the weekend.
A spokesman for the group prepares the negotiation by role-playing with the organizer. The
Citizens Alliance will finally get the commitment of the donor to replace the emergency 75
most dilapidated windows. Such actions obviously seeks victories, but these victories,
they aim to encourage the members confidence in their ability to collectively intervene
and to voice their social interests in the public square.
While one side our society demonizes the conflict, accusing the troublemakers to prepare
the civil war, and on the other hand we can not count those that fatalism leads to the
submission or the disaffection, the community organizing believes in inclusive under
social conflict. Paradoxically, it is assuming to oppose the institutions that can take
its place in society.
Or feel part of a society is a prerequisite for the desire to want to change.
Starting with going door to door and take into account the anger of "most concerned", the
community organizing is to mobilize win victories by rolling back some of the many small
social injustices that they suffer. Through their experience in the Citizens Alliance and
participation in concrete actions, people are becoming aware of social conditioning and
structural inequalities they experience and live an alternative by practicing radically
democratic processes. The victories gradually allow to structure a mass organization and a
balance of power more favorable.
Adeline DL (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
[1] On the popular notion of education as we understand it, see the AL record No. 252 of
July-August 2015.
[2] Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) is considered the founder of community organizing.
[3] Read AL No. 252 July-August 2015: " The pragmatism of the Atlantic " by Julien Talpin.
[4] Brazilian pedagogue.
[5] Collective founded in 2011. stop control at the facies .
[6] Association based in Villepinte. Zonzon93
[7] Citizens UK is a grassroots organization based in the United Kingdom: citizensuk
[8] Citizens Alliance 38
[9] If allied itself
[10] Organize idf citizens
[11] ReAct
[12] Acorn USA, founded in 1970, was dissolved in 2010 following a smear campaign by the
tea party against him. Acorn . Canada Acorn: Acorn canada .
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If W. H. "Bill" Andrews (1870- 1950) is remembered today, it is usually as a founder and
leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, today the SACP). In that role, he
served as party chair, member of the executive of the Communist International, leading
South African trade unionist, visitor to the Soviet Union, and defendant in the trial of
communists that followed 1946 black miners' strike. ---- However, in his earlier years,
Andrews was a leading figure in the revolutionary syndicalist International Socialist
League (ISL). Born in Britain, Andrews was a skilled metal worker and came from the
unions. After a brief stint in parliament for the SA Labour Party, Andrews joined other
radicals in the newly-founded ISL in 1915.
In CPSA/ SACP writings, the ISL usually appears as a sort of CPSA-in-the-making, made of
solid Marxists. The reality is that the ISL was - like many on the radical left worldwide
- part of the broad anarchist tradition: in this case, it championed revolutionary
syndicalism. It stressed uniting all workers, black and white, in One Big Union to smash
capitalism and the state, and national/ racial oppression, and put the workplaces under
direct workers' control.
Andrews worked inside the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) (absorbed many years
later into the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, NUMSA), helped run the ISL paper,
"The International," and was sent abroad by the ISL to attend a (failed) socialist peace
conference in Stockholm in 1917. After his return, he was appointed paid ISL "industrial
organiser" to promote revolutionary syndicalism through workers and shop stewards'
committees. His major aim then was to form a rebel Witwatersrand Shop Stewards' Council.
Although he stressed the importance of winning white workers, then the majority in unions,
he actively supported efforts to organise Indian and black African workers and their strikes.
In 1921, like many of his comrades he helped found the CPSA, where he played a leading
role despite being expelled from 1931-1938. He passed away in Cape Town in 1950, a grand
old man of the Left, and remains an SACP icon.
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