Today's Topics:
1. US, Olimpia, SUPPORT COYOTE ACABO September 3, 2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - Kurdistan: A
political revival (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire leaflet AL - Working against
the law: the ongoing tussle (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. US, black rose fed: hundreds take the streets in portland in
solidarity with prison strike (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. wsm.ie: Anarchists on the anti-water charges national
demonstration - Sep 17th (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - Coup in
Turkey: "A group confrontation in power within the state" (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. wsm.ie: Protest at misleading pregnancy advise centre on
Berkley road sept2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. ozzip pl: Warsaw: memory Workers Brigade of Defence Warsaw
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - fascist coup
in Chile 1973: the heavy responsibility of "democratic
socialism". (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Coyote Acabo , an anti-racist activist from Olympia, WA has a rough road ahead of him and
could really use some support. He is currently serving 13 days on an anti-police graffiti
case, and has another 22 days to serve in the very near future on a case where he was
convicted of throwing a rock at a truck belonging to a neo-nazi. That's a neo-nazi that
showed up with many others to counter an anti-police brutality protest that Coyote was a
part of. ---- Last year, Olympia saw a lot of spirited marches and demonstrations in
protest of an Olympia police officer shooting two young black men, Andre Thompson and
Bryson Chaplin. In response to the very understandable anti-police brutality
demonstrations that were going on at that time, neo -nazis were showing up to disrupt the
protesting which at times even meant neo-nazis attacking the protesters.
Well, Coyote has a third case that he is currently dealing with, and for that case his
trial starts on September 19th where he is being charged with felony assault. In this case
he is being accused of pepper spraying a counter protester who grabbed someone who was a
part of an anti- police brutality protest that Coyote was a part of.
Coyote is now in the city jail in Olympia, WA and money is being raised that will go
towards phone calls , commissary, and to help his family out while he is locked up.
Visit the crowd funding site, here: rally.org/supportcoyoteacabo to learn more about how
you can donate to the support fund. Also, please pass it around as well. Solidarity from
near and far is so important in times like these.
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Message: 2
The Kurds are under the spotlight for their resistance to Daech and oppression of the
Turkish state, but also for the social and societal changes implemented in Rojava (Syrian
Kurdistan). Back on an ideological revolution. ---- Since my trip to Rojava, my worldview
has changed. The ongoing revolutionary process not just upsets the balance of the Middle
East forces, but also our revolutionary ideals. Indeed, the cleavages within the anarchist
movement, revolutionary communist or revolutionary left in found partially obsolete. These
differences found in two key concepts: the state and power. ---- Instances of dual power
at the local level ---- This was the center of the reflection of the Kurdish national
liberation movement, especially embodied by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). For this,
the PKK began a reflection and reorganization of its body, which lasted ten years, from
1995 to 2005. The triggers were the fall of the USSR and the "black years" when the
Turkish state razed thousands of Kurdish villages and where state violence reached a
climax. Folded-es on Mount Qandil in Iraq, the guerrillas and guerrillas have expanded
their research fields (re) reading such authors as Marx, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Luxembourg,
Foucault (and other postmodern), Chomsky and Murray Bookchin . This author has probably
played the most influential role in the revival of Kurdish thought. Murray Bookchin is
known for her thesis on the ecology movement and its libertarian municipalist.
The majority of Western revolutionaries are "wait and" pending general strike gold for
Murray Bookchin large mobilisations are "spring offensive" rarely exceeding "summer
vacation." The struggles by demonstrations and strikes against state and capitalist system
are sometimes crucial task but, by their form, they fail to register a process of
sustainable social transformation. Murray Boochkin advocates a struggle against the State
by the construction of dual power bodies at local level now. This is based assemblies,
neighborhood councils, which has run, take the control of the municipality, dissolving the
old order. Municipalities and partly paid the state power will confederate against him.
For this, Bookchin is based on numerous historical examples of city-assemblies
confederated against the power of states. To cite only three example: municipalities of
the Middle Ages, towns meeting of New England, or the Parisian sections of the French
Revolution. These experiences were all in confederacy capacity characteristics to resist
States by militias controlled by municipal assemblies, to rely on a local democratic power
and have control over their finances. One can also find experiences of city-assemblies
today in Europe as in Marinaleda Spain or in Saillans in France.
Murray Bookchin also shows that these dual power bodies play an essential role in social
progress that can obtain the oppressed majority. For Bookchin, the fight against modern
states, to be exact nation states, through the oppression of awareness of the citizen and
his ouster from politics rather than building a working class identity. For him the
incompatibility of capitalism with ecological produce its fall because its purpose is to
produce an unsustainable environment for humanity. It is therefore incompatible with the
latter.
The PKK has also deepened its development of the nation-state. Indeed, that State identity
vice seeks to divide and conquer the opposition of identities. In Turkey, it is on this
basis that the Turks are opposed to the Kurds. The latter having the injunction to be
assimilated and forget their language and culture. In the USSR, the nation-state took the
form of a workers' identity opposed to bourgeois and petty bourgeois. It is on this basis
that the forced collectivization caused millions of victims. This is the same as the
Soviet Union opposed the "working knowledge" to "bourgeois science" for a while denying
the scientific veracity of Einstein's general relativity.
autonomous army of Kurdish women since 1992
It is through a thorough critique of patriarchy that Kurdish women PKK have also developed
a women's liberation movement. Kurdish women are organized in an autonomous army since
1992, become almost independent today, YJA-Star. The bodies of female self-organization
played a key role in the new doctrine.
For the PKK, the first of oppression is patriarchy, which put an end to "natural
Companies" (the "primitive communism" in Marx). Natural companies have developed their
early social hierarchies on the "rupture equality" that is to say the creation of male and
female gender with the aim of exploiting women. For the Kurdish left there can be no free
and emancipated society without full emancipation of women. They also reappropriate
knowledge, long the monopoly of men, through their new ideology, or ginéologie women
science. One of the slogans of the movement is "kill the man" in you because they claim it
is the male mentality that caused the search for power. On this basis, they educate women
and men to antipatriarcat, they founded their own non mixed organization, their own armed
forces or their own agricultural cooperatives as the Rojava.
In Rojava, the ideology of the PKK is globally respected. The economy is in the hands of
municipalities, such as oil. Women struggle every day to educate society. Municipalities
are united by a social contract strongly inspired elaborations of the federations of
Kurdish women. Finally, the majority of political decisions do not exceed the level of
city-assemblies.
All these political positions undermine the vision of the Western revolutionary movements
in the world. Perhaps a part of the solution to our problems lies not in this white
movement, feminist, environmentalist and democratic Mesopotamia.
Raphael Lebrujah (friend of AL)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Kurdistan-Un-renouveau-politique
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Message: 3
For the success of the day of action on 15 September, now relaunching in the unit, the
activity of union branches and local mobilization networks. ---- A unitary national day of
strikes and demonstrations on 15 September, that is unheard of. And it shows that anger is
still there, despite police repression, despite sentences prison terms, despite the state
of emergency, despite recourse to 49-3 early July to impose a minority law objectively.
---- The anger is still there ---- We are angry and we want the repeal of the Labour Law.
We are angry and we refuse the establishment of a compulsory civic service of nine months
for the young. We are angry because the destruction of the entire labor code is on the
table and it is now a major challenge for the rights of working men and women.
Working against the law: the ongoing tussle
PDF leaflet to download AL
We are angry against those who, throughout the summer, have exploited the attacks to
distill the poison of fear and poison of racism; hatred and division. We are angry because
it's been years that the right and left governments accumulate antisocial laws despite
huge demonstrations, spectacular blocks, strong strikes, negative polls.
Hit harder
Let the rogues and scoundrels who govern in their primary since we already know that,
whatever the outcome of the upcoming presidential election, we still have to mobilize
against the bad shots. And put all our forces in the construction of the general strike
that points the nose but hardly flourish since the movement of the 2010 pension.
Le Havre, June 2, 2016
(C) Daniel Maunoury
For the balance of the last great struggle is clear: we have to hit harder to win, to
block the bad shots and reaping victories. Only prolonged general strike will allow us to
put the record straight, to restore lost rights and to record new achievements and to lay
the foundations of a new society.
Change society
It is here and now that we start discussing the society we really want. It is in the
struggles, in businesses and in neighborhoods that we must begin to build, resisting and
organizing. We need to rebuild an anti-capitalist, libertarian and revolutionary left to
prepare tomorrow the expropriation of the capitalists, self-management companies and
direct democracy everywhere.
Join us now, never to suffer and to imagine another company, communist and libertarian.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Contre-la-loi-Travail-le-bras-de
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Message: 4
As the largest prison strike in modern history took place, groups from around Portland
came together in the September 9th coalitions. Led by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing
Committee and Anarchist Black Cross, Black Rose Portland and a host of other organizations
joined together to take on the regional organizing work to coincide with the nationwide
strike. ---- On the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising, inmates at facilities in 23
states went on strike, refusing to go to work or engaging in slowdowns/stoppages. Locally,
hundreds of protesters came to Chapman Square in the heart of downtown Portland to string
together the issues of private prisons, commercial exploitation, white supremacy and mass
incarceration. Groups like the Marilyn Buck Abolition Collective and Black Lives Matter
PDX discussed the racial nature of the prison system, while Anarchist Black Cross honed in
on key issues like working conditions, access to healthcare, and physical abuse that
prisoners regularly face.
After several individuals and organizations spoke, protesters hit the streets with signs
that targeted the systemic violence faced at the hands of the police. Portland Police
began harassing protesters early on, trying to confiscate signs and arresting a
participant before the march even began. Once on the road, protesters moved through the
city, heading to corporate locations that use prison labor while reaping astronomical
profits. This included McDonalds, which has been a target of movements like the
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee for its use of prisoners for producing frozen
meat patties.
Outside of the downtown McDonalds location, protesters presented a mock prison cell,
shedding light on a system that send many to package McDonald's burgers for $0.13 an hour.
Protesters entered and occupied an AT&T location, bringing attention to the use of prison
labor to run call centers on massive corporate contactors. Those inmates that do work for
AT&T make only a few cents an hours and are not able to take advantage of normal labor
laws that workers on the outside depend on.
The police eventually showed up in riot gear and took to a line formation across the
street. Announcing that protesters had blocked traffic they were ordered to disperse.
Later, protesters returned to the Justice Center to hold a noise demonstration that can be
heard by inmates on the inside, a show of solidarity across the double paned glass. They
were met with a row of riot police who violently pushed them back, forcing them into the
park. As the demonstration continued, police periodically moved in f
http://www.blackrosefed.org/hundreds-take-streets-portland-solidarity-prison-strike/
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Message: 5
September 17th sees the next major national march against the 'we can't believe they are
not dead already' water charges. We respect that many anarchists will be marching with
their local groups but for those who are not we thought it would be good to have an
anarchist bloc and march together, everyone can then meet up at the end. ---- The
traditional starting points have been Connolly and Heuston train stations but because of
the Apple tax scandal the organisers have added a thrid starting point for this one, the
big glass building at 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay. For those who don't know something like
700 companies are registered out of this address including some whose Irish operations
claim revenues in the billions. It's a big building but not that big, we can only presume
some sort of Dr Who Tardis effect is in operation.
Right2Water says of this meetup point that is at "Sir John Rogersons Quay is the home of
tax evasion in Ireland. There will be a number of speakers about tax evasion at this event
before joining up with the two other Right2Water assemblies for a major demo in the city
centre."
Are you there at 1.30 on the 17th. If you are on Facebook you can join our 'Anarchists on
the anti-water charges national demonstration' Facebook event. If you are marching in one
of the other blocs with a local group we will be announcing an end of march meet up point
nearer the date.
The cover image is a photograph of a 2015 water charges march with graphical elements from
the Right2Water event linked above
http://www.wsm.ie/c/anarchists-anti-water-charges-sep17th
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Message: 6
On the night of 15 and 16 July there was a coup attempt in Turkey harshly repressed the
same day and all summer. Anarchists DAF Turkey give us their views on the event. ---- The
rally in Yenikapi Istanbul, which took place Sunday, August 7th is an important example of
the extent of political mobilization that took place this summer in Turkey. ---- The
rally, which came to 5 million people and leaders of the opposition party (except HDP),
displaying "unity protectors of democracy," in fact sent multiple messages targeting both
the domestic policies and outdoor. ---- Maneuvers of the government ---- During the coup
process, which can be described as groups clash in power within the state, it seems that
President Erdogan and the AKP government managed to negotiate the presence of different
political groups in their "policy for the coup process."
The existence of the state on the land where we live is directly linked to the existence
of the army, given their relationship during the process including founder. The coup is a
term that has an important place in the political life of the Turkish republic. One can
see how the coup, as an unavoidable political reality of the existence of the state in
these lands, affects current policies by considering the latest, that of 1980.
This happened on July 15 was a character that continues this political reality. The army,
which wanted to intervene in the political power, tried to take control of state buildings
of strategic importance; several strategic positions bureaucrats who were taken hostage,
the Parliament and the buildings of the intelligence services were bombed, bridges and
airports were blocked by soldiers, clashes between soldiers and police. Coup attempt five
o'clock ended with different maneuvers of the current government and particularly Erdogan.
These maneuvers, notable facts are media monitoring, control and civil-es of mass
mobilization by the media and control of law enforcement by the Ministry of Interior.
The current political power was able to maintain a massive mobilization on July 15 under
the name of "democratic supervision" particularly by targeting the street and military
areas. To create civil mobilization that stopped the tanks rolling towards the bridges
blocked by soldiers the night before 16 July, the AKP has used all state facilities.
Since 15 July, while this mobilization has identified the sacred values of the state, and
those who lost their lives in this mobilization declared "martyrs" by the stories of
heroism, a continuous state of vigilance is trying to be created constantly fanning hatred
and revenge.
The largest gathering mentioned above is an extension of this state of vigilance. We see
this part of the mobilization in the street trying to also target several groups (Kurds,
Alevis, the opposition) that stand against this state in different areas. The AKP and
Erdogan, who hold the current political power, have become a platform for natonalistes
Islamist. This is shown clearly by symbols created by this process.
Under the guise of democracy
Each coup is a process by which state oppression shows itself in a physical and violent
form. This is putting pressure on the oppressed using force and violence to win political
power. As revolutionaries who have experienced the time when the military coup of 1980
killed, tortured and directly repressed the revolutionaries and the oppressed, and the
period that followed, we know too well what the blows of State really are.
We also know what is being tried under the name of a supposedly "democratic struggle"
against the coup on July 15. Being an "elected government" which is erected as an argument
against the groups that the coup Plan plays an important role in legitimizing the current
position of the AKP and Erdogan. Since July 15, all political discourse are erected under
the guise of democracy.
We noted earlier that the AKP and Erdogan have made explicit their caractérisque to be a
platform for nationalist Islamist groups. In particular, given the struggle of these
formations against supporters of the coup, the secular Kemalist political groups within
the state since its foundation, we can see that there is an existential contradiction
between this platform and the military and bureaucrats Republicans. As much this
contradiction seems to pro-democracy, the reality is far away. To view this distance, just
look at the "demands" of the street. The death penalty, a presidency with additional
powers, and many other applications based on the same Islamist and nationalist values are
hidden under the guise of democracy.
While democracy is sanctified by the current political power, the demands of the 51% who
voted for this political power in the last elections are described as the will of the
people. The reality is very far away. The current political power is trying to sell its
projects and strategies as those of the people. Since this platform is against all
"political values of the West", these stagings in favor of democracy are not realistic.
It should be noted, on the other hand, that we should not fall into the trap which fell
socialist organizations doing these analyzes. Our critique above does not mean that we
embrace democratic values of the system. In fact, it's the same democratic system that
makes it possible that the "majority oppresses the minority" playing the role of being in
favor of democracy. Within the democratic system, when radical Islamists take power, they
take the role of those who are in favor of democracy; and when the Nationalists or the
Liberals took power, they are the ones who endorse this role. It is precisely the message
that the AKP and Erdogan want to move to the West: "We are Democrats. "
Who planned the coup?
From the beginning, we said that the current process is a result of power groups within
the state fighting for its conquest. It is known that since the first elections in which
the AKP began to hold state power, the AKP has had relations with the Gülen community was
gaining popularity especially in the international media. Erdogan himself even stated in a
recent rally that had relations with the Gülen community and he had been deceived and that
he apologized to the people.
Fethullah Gulen, a community leader and a religious authority, has had a growing influence
on Turkish politics in the last thirty years. This growing influence reached political
power with the AKP and opened the door to the development of significant spot within state
agencies. The current fill AKP has also benefited from this position in league. The
conservative identity of the party allowed it. Fethullah Gulen was seen as an important
spiritual leader until the last four years by members of the party and Erdogan himself.
The peak of the struggle for power during the last four years, due to various politques
and economic calculations, is the attempted coup.
Considering the depth of their relationships and the relationships of the planners of the
coup with the Gülen community, the process sets something very different from the classic
contradiction between Kemalists and conservative. It is a conflict of interest. Gülen and
his community are accused of treason by the political power, are just one side of a broken
partnership.
scenarios
Since the issue is the political power of the State, it is clear that political groups
clash in power in the state's interior has a place in international plans. Since the day
of the attempted coup, in a process where all the TV channels, newspapers, radios, except
those revolutionaries have become a part of mass media, several scenarios were continually
broadcast and still are . Most scenarios argue that the coup was carried out by the United
States through the Gülen community, due to the fact that Gülen lives in the United States.
The scenarios often talk about the coup attempt as designed by the CIA because of
anti-Western international policies of the Turkish state.
Other scenarios speak of the coup attempt as designed and implemented by the AKP and
Erdogan himself. These other scenarios highlight Erdogan, which would strengthen its
political power at the end of this process, eliminate all opposition in this configuration.
Of course political oppression against the Kurds play an important role in creating this
climate of lack of opposition. AKP, CHP, MHP and who have used this "democratic unity"
since the beginning of the process, followed a policy that explicitly excluded the HDP,
creating a so-called "democratic coalition" accusing the HDP and the Kurdish movement
'being part of the plot, thereby destabilizing the HDP.
Another scenario, part of the same process of destabilization, is that of war. In this
scenario, following the violent operations that the state has committed to a one-year
period, particularly in the north of Kurdistan, one can notice that the state is ready for
massacres at even larger scales. In an environment where the line between civil war and
foreign war has disappeared in the last ten years, it is not unreasonable to think that
the end of the war will be directed to the Rojava and Syria. Considering Syria and
mobilizing the Middle East alone, it is possible that the coup process is part of
international plans.
State of emergency for whom?
It is important for us, revolutionary anarchists to carefully analyze all scenarios
mentioned above as possibilities regarding our near and distant prospects. We need
revolutionary strategies made with these prospects. However, apart from all these
scenarios, as revolutionaries we feel the impact of the state of emergency since July 20.
The state is in a rebuilding process since July 20. Operations in the army, police,
justice, economic centers, ministries, municipalities, etc. are still ongoing.
The state, which is one of oppression and violence mechanism, becomes more oppressive and
more violent with the delegated legislation, and outside areas related to the Gülen
community, increases the attack against the revolutionaries, taking advantage this process.
A populist oppostion linked with power, a great set of media that has become the voice of
political power, the curing of the law directly related Erdogan fascist masses ready to
rally with nationalist Islamic values, an army ready to attack nearby geographical areas
for the international situation ... possible dangers await the oppressed and revolutionary
in this region.
The battle groups in power, claiming political power over a device increasing the economic
and political injustices are nothing but the hegemony of the oppressors of the oppressed
permanently winner to destroy freedom oppressed-e-s.
Neither apparent or implied dictatorship or civil or military training or coups or
political powers of elections that are enemies of the people have any relationship with
the will of the people. We who believe that living in freedom can not happen by coups or
through elections, know of the existence of the state as a permanent coup liberty and our
revolt will continue until that it creates a free world. What we all need is not to have
false hopes about the fight between the powers, but to know that hope is revolution for
freedom.
Huseyin Civan (Member of the DAF) Translation Quentin (AL Rennes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Coup-d-Etat-en-Turquie-Un
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Message: 7
About 200 people took part in a protest last night at the misleading pregnancy advise
centre on Berkely road exposed yet again by a Times investigation, see their video below.
---- This protest was organised at very short notice by Real-Productive Health. They had
organised a protest about a year back as well but this operation has been misleading women
in crisis for about a decade with similar protests happening on many occasions over those
years. ---- It's located next to the (genuine) Marie Stopes advice centre. Speakers
included Emily from the anti-racist network who talked about how already marginalised
people are likely to be particularly vunerable to being mislead by such operations. ----
Ahead of the protest the organisers said ---- "We are calling this picket on a recently
exposed so-called ‘counselling' service that lies to women with crisis pregnancies.
‘We are calling for the immediate and appropriate regulation of this sector. We are
calling for closure of services that refuse to afford women their constitutional right to
accurate information about abortion services outside Ireland, and who lie to them about
the effects of a termination of pregnancy.
‘Anti-choice ‘counsellors' who tell their clients that women who have had abortions are
more prone to breast cancer or are in danger of engaging in child-abuse are beneath
contempt. It reveals the depths to which they will go in trying to fool women in crisis,
as well as the general public, in order to deny women the right to control their own bodies.
‘They are not pro-life, they are pro-lies.
‘We challenge the anti-choice campaigners to denounce this service, and also to admit
whatever connections may exist between them and these fraudsters who peddle contemptible lies.
This situation has arisen because women are denied the right to abortion services in
Ireland. The Irish state continues to bury its head in the sand, all the while women are
lied to, denied accurate information and denied access to safe and legal services in their
own country. Ultimately, people who are pregnant are denied autonomy of their own body on
the Island of Ireland (both North and South).
Politicians must call a referendum to REPEAL THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT and stop exporting the
problem to England.
Real-Productive Health calls on the women of Ireland and their pro-choice allies to stand
up to these anti-choice bullies. We demand that they stop lying in order to deny women the
right to make choices about our own bodies, our futures and our lives.'"
A national demonstration organised by the Abortion Rights Campaign to demand the Repeal of
the 8th amendement takes place in Dublin 0n the 24th of this month.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/protest-misleading-pregnancy-advise-centre-berkley-road-sept2016
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Message: 8
On Tuesday, September 6, at 18:00, the Warsaw Commission Environmental OZZ IP organized a
demonstration under the slogan "No more war, no more nationalism," devoted to
commemorating activists and union activists and members and members of the pre-war
left-wing organizations, who in 1939 defended Warsaw against the aggression of the third
Reich. Below we present the relationship of the organizers and the organizers of the
action. ---- "In the first days of September at the initiative of the Polish Socialist
Party was formed volunteer Workers Brigade of the Defence of Warsaw, which focused approx.
6 thousand people from various leftist and trade union circles. Today, it is a forgotten
episode in the history of both the left and the September events. We want this anniversary
has again become an occasion to recall the crimes of Nazism, racism, extermination, total
war "
The event was not only a historical character. In the context of the tragic anniversary of
the outbreak of World War II we wanted to draw attention to the alarming tendency in
Poland and Europe: the rapid growth of nationalist tendencies and increasingly frequent in
the media and political salons rhetoric of war.
"Frightening war fueling nationalism and strengthens the divisions. The atmosphere of fear
spreads violence, including the daily, among ordinary people. We want to remind that it is
capitalism, with its selfishness, focus on profit, the necessity of expansion - causes of
war. "Said Catherine Rakowska, representative of the Workers' Initiative.
Spoke as a representative of the party together - Julia Zimmermann:" To fight became not
devotees of weapons and the boys playing in war, but ordinary citizens of Warsaw, of
different religions and nationalities, workers, intellectuals, union activists and members
of the PPS. These are the people beguile today of faith and worship, the authorities
announce triumphantly decommunization streets, which in practice will lead to removal from
the social memory of people left their vision and Polish. This memory is especially
important now, when the authorities once again allows the brown tide to flood our streets. "
Antoni Wiesztort of collective siren reminded that World War II was not so much the
descent of the devil on earth, as the culmination of a social crisis. "In the pre-war
Warsaw was among dramatic hunger housing. When 97% of the city was in private hands, the
smallest cubicle cost a fortune, and peace przypadaly 3-4 people. The Left and the
anarchists fought with exploitation based on private property, nationalists and preached
slogan "Jews to Madagascar." "Solutions" nationalists eventually played in the life of
Hitler, leaving Warsaw destroyed in 87%. Holy rebuilt social cost, and today the
re-privatization of public assets, nationalists silent about enrichment by descendants of
blackmailers and make it difficult to organize themselves anarchists and tenants against
private profits, bredzac the return of the Jews, "komuchach" and the need for armaments.
If we want to live in houses, not in the barracks or coffins, we have to spend to fight
przepasciom society. "
spoke as a representative of the Workers' Democracy.
Between the speeches, participants chanted "no more war and nationalism" and "class war is
not national."
at the rally also quoted leftist poetry connected with the aggression of the third Reich
in Poland m.in fragment poem by Teofil Glowacki: "But our work thing / She needed to grab
the rifle / Warsaw showed red / brown drabom hard fist ". In contrast, present with us
Warsaw Choir revolutionary "Warszawianka" performed the songs pre-war workers, "Red Flag"
and "Warszawianka"
There were over 60 people. We hung black-and-red flags Workers' Initiative and the red
flags of the anti-fascist symbol - three transverse shots.
We placed flowers under the plaque commemorating the Workers Brigade of the Defence of
Warsaw. We announced that for the civil defense of the city and the victims of war and
nationalism will remind 6 September every year.
http://null.ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/mazowieckie/item/2175-warszawa-pamieci-robotniczej-brygady-obrony-warszawy
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Message: 9
11 September 1973 in Santiago, aircraft bombed the Moneda, the presidential palace in
which refugee President Allende. His government was overthrown by a military coup led by
General Pinochet and the CIA, marking the advent of a fascist dictatorship for 16 years
under the heel of the United States. ---- After three years of Popular Unity regime that
has sought to avoid social confrontation, the "revolution" democratic and violence
Allende, is drowned in a bloodbath by the army. ---- Since 1970, Chile was ruled by the
Unidad Popular ( "Popular Unity" UP), a coalition of the Socialist Party (PS), the
Communist Party (PC), the Radical Party and the unit People's Action Movement (MAPU)
coming from the left of the Christian Democrats. Its candidate, Salvador Allende[1], was
elected after six years in office of the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, marked by an
increase in social struggles.
Salvador Allende, a member of the Chilean Socialist Party and President of Chile from 1970
until the 1973 coup.
But from the beginning the UP government with the fear of a coup. Allende said in 1971: "
For us, if the army comes out of legality, it is civil war. This is Indonesia. Do you
think the workers will leave off their industries? And peasants their land? There will be
a hundred thousand dead, it will be a bloodbath . "
In the weeks after September 11, 1973, an estimated 30,000 deaths. The coup and the
dictatorship of the junta led by Augusto Pinochet aims to completely destroy the labor
movement: all left organizations and unions are banned all political activity is
suspended, 300,000 layoffs are ordered in one year (10% of employees), the army decreed
the mandatory filing away of any employee by his boss and concentration camps are
organized hastily (three months after the coup, 18,000 people were there). Until the end
of the dictatorship in 1990, over 38,000 people were tortured and at least 3,200 were
killed or missing[2].
General Leigh, junta member promises to "eradicate the Marxist cancer"
All means are good.
Torture by electricity, water torture, deprivation of food and water for several days,
rape, psychological torture (torture and rape of his family before the prisoner, various
humiliations, sleep deprivation). Some were hung by their feet. Prisoners were also
regularly beaten and drugged. Some prisoners were thrown into the sea from helicopters,
after they had opened their stomach with a knife (to prevent the body from floating). In
torture centers, the cells are sometimes 70 centimeters wide, some inmates are placed in
the middle of corpses. Minor are tortured naked and hung by the wrists.
The strike is liable to the death penalty. Civil liberties are suppressed, freedom of the
press was abolished, and political activity is suspended. Local politicians and all the
mayors are removed, their replacements appointed by the junta.
The general and coup leader Augusto Pinochet.
The before 1973 - The march to socialism!
For Allende and most of the UP, the "Chilean road to socialism" must take place
exclusively within the democratic framework, marking a noticeable difference with various
socialist movements and / or revolutionary in Latin America that have favored the strategy
guerrilla. This peaceful path requires an alliance with all progressive sectors of Chilean
politics.
If you happen well ahead of the 1970 election, Allende has only 36.3% of the vote ahead of
Jorge Alessandri, candidate of the National Party (right) and Radomiro Tomic Christian
Democracy (DC). It is the Congress[3]which is to elect the president and the UP is minority.
The CIA, which had already begun before the election a UP destabilizing work will then
push for the DC postpones its vote towards Alessandri[4]. But Allende negotiating with DC
and received his support in exchange for an agreement called "security status of freedoms"
which provides security of tenure for civil servants (thus maintaining the administration
of former president), limiting mobilisations Popular, respect for republican institutions
and that explicitly limits the role of popular organizations " neighborhood
associations, labor centers, trade unions, cooperatives and other social
organizations[...]can not claim to represent the people or to replace him or attempt to
exercise powers belonging to the political authorities."
October 24 Allende is designated by Congress as president. But the UP has a relative
majority in Congress, before the DC and the National Party.
Despite this, Allende manages to complete the land reform of its predecessor: 100 000
farmers have received land (but 30% of the peasantry still without land). In 1971, he took
the nationalization of large companies, to bring out a "social and mixed sector" in which
the UP promotes a system of worker participation in management.
At the end of the year, 90% of the financial and banking sector, and almost all of the
mining and steel industry is nationalized, social ownership in other sectors of the
Chilean economy has also been extended (energy, transport, etc.). In total the state
controls almost 70% of gross national product, which allows the government to launch the
great "battle of production."
Finally at the same time comprehensive reforms are undertaken to improve the lives of the
masses, increasing wages by almost 35 to 100%, creating housing, continuing reforms of the
education system, etc. One of the most popular activities at the time is the distribution
by the state half a liter of milk per day per baby. To finance these reforms the
government relies on copper mining considered the true " Chile's salary " under Allende.
Allende enjoys significant popular support. The only relatively large left party which
remains outside of the UP, the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Movement of the
Revolutionary Left, MIR, an organization of Castro's type), providing critical support to
the UP. The single union, the Central Unica de Trabajadores (Single Confederation of
Workers, CUT), which brings together nearly 700 000 people in 1970 (over 2.8 million
employees), is under the control of the PC.
But to get the nationalization law, Allende has to negotiate with the DC to get a majority
in Congress. It must grant a decline to 91 the number of companies involved instead of the
245 planned in the program. These are the important popular mobilizations, including a
large number of factory occupations, which will eventually force the UP to nationalize 202
companies instead of 91. Of these 202 state enterprises, 152 were occupied by workers
before any government's approach[5].
A revolution "from below"?
When the economic situation deteriorated in 1972, mainly due to a significant decline in
copper prices, social struggles are growing. To fight against inflation and avoid the
black market, the government appealed to the people asking him to form a "junta for the
supply and price control" (JAP).
But unions, associations of residents of the neighborhoods and slums ( settlers ) and
farmers' organizations far beyond this role. In May 1972, strikes are increasing,
especially in the private sector, for integration into the social sector. In June, the
peasants to occupy Maipu 150 areas, and jointly exhibit with the workers and workers of
the nearby town of Cerrillos (suburb of Santiago). On this occasion is created the first
"industrial cord", an organization bringing together delegates from various popular
movements (unions, parties, neighborhood organizations, JAP ...) territory. This cord
meets the shortcomings of the CUT, the various unions are very isolated and bureaucratic,
which greatly limits contacts and exchanges at the base.
Faced with tensions, the government decreed in June 1972 a pause in the march towards
socialism. A decree restores owner occupied businesses. The right opportunity to launch a
strike of traders. Militias of the fascist organization Patria y Libertad ( "Fatherland
and Liberty", P & L) or employers' militia prevented the police and the administration to
reopen the shops. A coup was foiled, but before the threat persistent semblance, the UP
and the CUT called for the creation of committees of defense in the event of a coup.
On the industrial Cordon Cerrillos Santiago
"Creating People Power"
General repetition
In October 1972, the right renewed the offensive by launching a "strike" of closing
factories and transport block to sabotage the economy. On October 11 the strike spread to
the liberal professions, traders, transport companies. The strike fails through popular
mobilization in the form of self-defense committees, industrial cordons or communal
commandos, provides transportation, distribution of supplies and sometimes production in
occupied factories or functioning hospitals .
For its part the government includes military ministers in January 1973, and two ministers
(socialists and communists) from the CUT, and resubmit a bill to restore to their owners
43 companies occupied.
Somehow this lockout has strengthened the popular movement, generalizing the cords, but
also UP: March 1973, elections gave him 43.7% of the vote, allowing him to earn few, but
achieve an absolute majority. At the same time, the DC clearly come from the right
parliamentary means even more secure than before and the climate is increasingly violent.
P & L commandos blew up the premises of the left and a new coup planned for 27 June is
discovered. June 26 arrest of the instigators general will only postpone the deadline to
29. While the presidential palace was attacked by tanks, CUT demand for workers to occupy
the factories and the UP stands ready to arm "when needed". Popular mobilization is rapid
occupation of hundreds of factories and rural areas, strengthening defense committees,
establishment of a coordination of all industrial cords of the country ... The leadership
of the majority remaining loyal army, under the command of General Prats, she obtained the
surrender of the mutineers. The UP will retain from this episode that the loyalty of the
army. But the side of the coup, it draws lessons: General Pinochet would later say that on
June 29 was as the god of finger pointing to the weakness of his plan.
Allende again request the return of the occupied factories to their owners.
The army in control
During the summer, the strategy of tension set up by the right is increasing (P & L
bombings, truckers strikes, traders or doctors). But it is especially the army basking in
his success June 29, beginning the preparatory operations in the coup of 11 September.
Under the pretext of avoiding a civil war, it leads, with the agreement of the President,
major search operations in leftist organizations, evacuation factories, raids in poor
neighborhoods in search of weapons (in under legislation on gun control passed by the UP
in October 1972), always with a massive deployment of troops, FILING and interrogation of
all the activists present.
Despite this, President Allende did not lose the support of the left. September 4, 1973,
over 700 000 people march in support to his palace. The next day, the coordination of
cords wrote to ask him the means to defend themselves and threatening not to support the
government: " You will be responsible for having taken the country, not to a civil war,
since it is already course, but a cold killing, planned, the most conscious working class
and best organized of all Latin America . "
During the night of September 10 to 11, the fleet returns to port of Valparaiso after
throwing overboard all the sailors who oppose the coup, then assumed control of the city.
Warned at 6:30, Allende did not reach Pinochet and therefore called the carabinieri to
defend the Moneda. At 8 am, he speaks on the radio, calling for the loyalty of the army,
but as soon as the junta is expressed in turn on the air, most of the carabinieri left the
palace.
The parties of the UP decided not to call the people to a fight that seems too uneven to
be won.
The palace was bombed at 12.30, then the assault overcomes the last 20 defenders at 14h.
Allende committed suicide.
Soldiers from burning Junta of Marxist literature.
People power?
Across the country, the defense committees meet, occupy factories or public places, and
waiting arms as rumored. After a few hours or days, demobilization is quick, weapons do
not come and the few places that try to resist with low armament, as SUMAR factory, are
swept by air bombardments.
Yet the massive popular support for the president and the significant degree of
organization of the Chilean proletariat had reminded the military that days would, even
weeks of fierce fighting to end the UP. Yet after a few days, everything was settled, and
the majority of Western governments recognize the new regime of the junta before the end
of the month.
Despite the revolutionary potential and strength of popular movements, they remained
dependent on political parties that chose a strategy of "revolution by stages", assuming
the integration of certain sections of the bourgeoisie in a popular national alliance
which would develop a self-centered capitalism. Despite its failures, this strategy
directly from the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, has yet followed through
with the obsession to ally with Democracy-Christian and therefore not to frighten her.
People power was talking about the PC or PS Chile should remain an auxiliary democratic
institutions. Participation in the social sector has been limited to a few elected union
officials, although it has often been the source of struggle for basic dynamic for a real
democratization of the plant[6].
Despite the emergence of this popular power, there has never been a situation of dual
power in Chile since the cords have not been able to act independently from the government
of UP.
The balance of the dictatorship will amount to more than 3200 dead and missing, 18,000
prisoners in concentration camps, 38,000 people tortured, hundreds of thousands of exiles.
And an ultra-liberal economic policy at the service of the richest that will sink 39% of
Chileans in poverty.
Guillermo (AL Angers) and Renaud (AL Alsace)
[1]Salvador Allende, MD, is the founder of PS, former Minister of Health in 1939 the
Popular Front government of Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Senate president from 1966.
[2]These figures established by the new Commission on Human Rights in 2011 (from 32,000
accounts) are challenged by the victims' families since 2/3 testimonies were discarded.
The figures are well below reality.
[3]The Congress is composed of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
[4]4. Franck Gaudichaud, "Study on the dynamics of the Chilean urban social movement"
People's Power "and industrial Cords during the government of Salvador Allende
(1970-1973)", PhD thesis at the University of Paris VIII.
[5]See Frank Gaudichaud, "The unique plant workers, the labor movement and industrial
Cords during the Popular Unity (1970-1973)" in Dissidences No. 14/15 October-20003 January
2004.
[6]Frank Guichaud, in Dissidences op. cit.
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