Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #268 - Presidential
election: Fillon, the sand rebel (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, class war, Gallery: Autonomous Nation of Anarchist
Libertarians (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, afed: TRUMPING TRUMP - ANARCHIST COMMUNIST
PERSPECTIVES (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. provo gr - Thessaloniki Anarchist Group Pyranthos: Freedom
for comrade Mario Seisidis by Athos Simonetis (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, afed.cz: Boycott as emergency brake underprivileged
--- History and form one of the forms of nonviolent resistance.
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - In 2017, our resolution?
The Revolution!, in Lorient on 9 February by AL Lorient (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The former Prime Minister and probable future President is also seen as a rebel fighting
against the "system". But the revolution he proposed, and above all liberal, conservative
and hostile to the popular classes. Decryption. ---- François Fillon will represent the
Republicans and other right-wing groups in the presidential election. And it is sworn, it
too is antisystem, as stated on Franceinfo Bruno Retailleau, senator LR and support of the
candidate. To qualify Fillon as "antisystem", "who wants to shake the coconut tree", it is
certainly necessary to have a good dose of humor, when we know that the former prime
minister has been elected since he was 27 years old ... And yet, It is enough to look at
the program of the candidate at the primary level to see to what point it is, indeed,
antisystem and even against all the systems: the health system, the pension system, the
school system ...
First, the candidate at the primary has argued a program promising to put down the health
system, even though he slightly backpedaled when nominated candidate. Fillon proposes to
privatize social security very largely, transferring a large part of the coverage to
private insurance. To the solidarity system would only be the burden of guaranteeing
long-term or serious care (cancer ...), which generates little profit, while the most
solvent care would be offered to the friends insurance insurers of the President (Henri de
Castries, future potential minister of the Economy, is also the former CEO of Axa). In
addition, the hospital, already understaffed, is promised to abolish posts. It is
difficult to see how the public health service will be able to provide care worthy of the
name under such conditions. Modest wage earners will therefore have to pay much more for
poor quality care.
On the side of the school, in addition to the job cuts that will affect it, Fillon
promised to promote more private education (Christian, but not Muslim of course ...). To
leave nothing to chance, man already has many ideas to reform the programs, which would be
too ideological, too formatted by the "pedagogism" ambient. He intends to replace them, in
history for example, by a sort of praise of eternal, white and catholic France (baptized
"national narrative") a thousand leagues from all scientificity.
Fattening his insurer friends
As for the judicial system, which one is certainly not obliged to love very much, one
risks very much to detest it a little more with Fillon in power: the candidate wants to
suppress the penal constraint as alternative to the prison, "to restore The automatic
nature of revocations of suspended sentence "and" remove the automaticity of the cuts ".
In short, it is a matter of being ever more severe with "delinquents" (but not tax
evaders, who will no longer have much to defraud), and to have more recourse to prison.
The construction of 16,000 new cell spaces is planned.
The pay-as-you-go retirement system, which Prime Minister Fillon had begun to sack in
2003, is promised final completion: the candidate plans to raise the retirement age to 65,
The capitalization, history of fattening a little more its friends insurers.
In short, Fillon wants to finish undoing all that still vaguely guarantees social
protection to the popular classes in France. It is to serve even more the soup to the
capitalists to the detriment of the employees. Nothing modern, we had already seen that in
the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. And only the organized workers can
not defeat by the force of the collective.
Vincent (AL Paris South)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Election-presidentielle-Fillon-le
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1 FEB 2017: The Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians crew decided they liked the
area so have moved into a new mansion after their recent eviction. ---- from a friend: "We
are delighted to offer for sale this superbly appointed property maintained to the highest
possible standard... Grade ll Listed building ... 7 floors, is part of a terrace
constructed circa 1868 ... spacious reception room and dining room ... fully fitted
bespoke kitchen complete with central island housing oven and hob, fitted appliances and
marble work surfaces... laundry room ... 18 bedrooms, some with en suite bathrooms and
fitted wardrobes ... 11 bathrooms in total. Staircases to all floors are of marble
construction. The property has a flat roof which could easily be converted to a roof top
terrace ... Located in exclusive Grosvenor Gardens, this property was recently advertised
for sale by Rightmove at a guide price of £24,000,000.
Or you could just squat the fucker. Welcome to the new residence of the Autonomous Nation
of Anarchist Libertarians, evicted this morning from 102 Belgrave Place, now slumming it
at 4 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH. All welcome."
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/gallery-autonomous-nation-anarchist-libertarians/
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Message: 3
Two articles with anarchist perspective on the new USA presidency, by AF members. ---- 1)
Whoever you vote for? Trump and anarchism ---- Anarchists traditionally label all
politicians, political parties and governments as essentially the same. At best, even
those genuine defenders of ‘liberal democracy' are apologists for global capitalism and
prepared to use authoritarian measures to suppress opposition. The 20thC movement in the
West observed the witticism, "Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in". This
reflected the anarchist analysis of what everyone not part of the political class knew,
that politicians will offer the world in order to get elected, and then abandon the
working class once elected. This is still the case for most of the ‘democratic' world. But
Trump is undoubtedly more dangerous, for America and for the World. It doesn't fall to
anarchists to point this out. Without wishing to normalise the usual sort of politics,
Trump feels different.
Here is an example of the ‘normal' politics that people fell for. The move to the right in
Britain expressed itself in the vote for Brexit. This followed the promise of £350
million-a-week for the NHS. That promise which was dropped straight after the referendum.
Politicians still tell lies. Everybody knows it. But we tend to accept that we can't do
anything about it and should, as the Trotskyists like to put it put it, ‘Vote Labour
without illusions'. We can't have utopia, so we should accept... well... Corbyn who is, in
hyper-authoritarian mode, currently telling Labour MPs that they will lose their jobs if
they threaten Brexit. What a surprise!
Trump is not of the political class, however. He "delivers". Here we have someone saying
that he is going to build a wall and make Mexico pay, and his electorate seeing that he is
doing just that (building to provide jobs; taxing Mexican products to make Mexico pay).
Muslims will be denied entry to the US; it sounded incredible, but it's actually happened
already. NATO is a waste of time; he's cosy-ing up to Russia! He supports the oil industry
and denies global warming; he's reviving drilling and piping where it was ruled out on
social and environmental grounds. Obama Care must go; it's going. This makes him all the
more difficult to comprehend with our traditional analysis, where politicians promise
things that are ‘good for everyone'. Far from lying to the working class, he is gaining
credibility for the dynamic legislating in ‘Week One' on these issues. What will the
following weeks bring? People of Colour in fear of the police; he plans to removing some
of the safeguards that would make shooters accountable. Women wanting control of our own
bodies, look out. And Palestinians. And the people of the Baltic states.
But on another level, whilst he openly and unashamedly admits to wanting and planning
things that other politicians would conceal at all costs, there is still a hidden agenda.
This is that he must surely be anticipating and planning what will happen when working
class people begin to resist. Persecuting all Muslims for being Muslims is a sure way to
radicalise some people, justifying repression. Perhaps this is the plan with the Mexican
working class. Indigenous peoples in the northern States have taken direct action against
the oil industry, and will undoubtedly be forced to take more. And a declaration of war
from working class women? And working class People of Colour?
This is not to say that he is just the same as other politicians. In fact, some people
have drawn parallels between Trump-ism and fascism. Such comparisons shouldn't be made
lightly. After all, it wasn't the working class but the middle class who voted for Hitler.
But in responding to Trump we must be aware that the traditional forms of political
activism may achieve little. Legal challenges? He will present his own ‘facts'. Petitions?
He will laugh. Demonstrations; he doesn't care about the opinions of ‘Liberals'. All of
this could make him even more popular with a white demography. This group is only one
element of a wider "working class" which has seen life get harder and harder over the past
decades. But this vast group is now self-identifying as an electoral majority, one let
down by the political regimes of the past, and which voted for something entirely different.
But as ever, most anarchists in the US, just as in Europe, come from the white working
class ourselves (not something to accept, race-wise, but it is a fact). The danger might
be more immediate at the moment, but we are still very well positioned to oppose
right-wing popularism, and without having to concede a case for liberal democracy. After
all, it is the failure of middle class liberal democracy that has allowing the political
rise of a wealthy anti-intellectual global political class in the first place.
2 ) Trump: New Possibilities
A year ago Trump was seen as a rank outsider in the US Presidential Elections and was seen
as nothing but a joke by mainstream commentators in the media. His election has horrified
the political establishment -whether Democrat or Republican- and the liberal
intelligentsia. He appealed to voters who saw themselves ignored and dismissed like many
in the rust belt areas, he appealed to the old recurring motif of protectionism that has
regularly appeared in US history, the old America First doctrine, and he appealed to those
elements in US society disturbed by the growth of the civil rights movement, the movements
for women's liberation and sexual freedom. Trump is a misogynist and a racist and he holds
no sympathy for Native Americans. Thus he appealed to many who felt like he did and he
gained the support of the alt.right, the Ku Klux Klan, the various Nazi and fascist
groupings. Trump himself is no fascist but he legitimises racist and xenophobic attacks
and the increasing atmosphere of racism, misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism (it was
significant that the White House statement on Holocaust Day failed to mention the six
million Jews that perished and signally failed to mention anti-Semitism).
It looks like Trump intends to rule through decree, through the Executive Orders he has
signed in rapid succession. So the wall along the border with Mexico is to go ahead, the
ban on immigration from Muslim countries goes ahead, Obamacare is to be abolished etc etc.
This has resulted in massive mobilisations both in the USA but also throughout the world.
The Women's Marches in the USA, many of them massive, were echoed throughout the world
with all told nearly 700 demonstrations taking place on a world wide scale. Similarly
Trump's immigration policies have set off a large number of demonstrations and pickets
both in the USA and internationally.
And this is what worries the establishment, both in the Democrat and Republican elites and
within the state machine, both within its bureaucracies and within its intelligence
services. Not since the days of the zealous persecutor of Native Americans, Andrew
Jackson, have we seen a President like Trump. What we are seeing are the biggest mass
mobilisations since the days of the civil rights movement and then the movement against
the wars in South East Asia. The fear of radicalisation worries much of the ruling class
in the USA. Witness the protests of the Ford Motor Company, Google. Amazon, Expedia etc
who are equally concerned about the cut off of a free flow of cheap labour.
It may well be that Trump could be assassinated, a possibility in a country with easy
access to arms. It may well be that he is impeached before he completes his term in
office, bearing in mind the slew of law suits Trump is facing and the possibility of
further revelations about his own business dealings and personal behaviour. What is
important is that the promise of No Peaceful Transition, pioneered by revolutionaries in
the USA, is actually happening and has happened from the first day of Trump's
inauguration. This is leading to increasing radicalisation, as we said both in the USA and
elsewhere. We anarchists must be there, to support these mobilisations and to point out
that all of these struggles, the struggle for women's liberation, against homophobia,
against the racist policies of Trump and his support for the deeply racist American
police, the struggle to defend Native Americans, the struggles to protect the environment,
are all linked. These struggles have to be united. We already have the example of Standing
Rock with a new unity among Native American tribes and the solidarity of military
veterans.We need to from now start building a real opposition not just to Trump but to the
whole rotten edifice of capitalism, creating our own organisations of counter-power and
mutual aid. We must not allow any emerging mass movement to be diverted into the channel
of electoralism, whether under the banners of Sanders or Corbyn.
These are disturbing times, but they are also exciting times. A year ago many things were
not seen as remotely possible-the Trump victory, Brexit. Equally the rebirth of a
revolutionary movement is possible. We revolutionary anarchists must be up to the tasks
ahead. We must increasingly involve ourselves in social struggles and mass mobilisations.
We must increase our voice and develop effective organisation on both a regional and
international level.
Anything Is Possible!
https://afed.org.uk/trumping-trump-anarchist-communist-perspectives/
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Message: 4
Do away with tales of anti-terrorism ten years after ---- The summer that we passed on
August 4 at random control of Sparta cops arrested after chase anarchists K. Sakkas and M.
Seisidis who were wanted for different convictions each. ---- During the chase, the cops
shoot straight shot against unarmed comrades, fortunately not achieve them, while during
the arrest and after that beaten and subjected to torture in police Laconia address of the
uniformed bastards democratic order fingerprinting and identity. ---- Understood their
democracy, denies the presence of a lawyer and summarily transferred to Athens. From there
after their detention by Sakkas ordered transferred to prison Malandrino and Seisidis
Domokos prison. In addition to the categories associated with the theft of the car leading
the infringements of etc and their arrest (them load the cops to justify violence and
shots) accused as members of EO revolutionary struggle. Anarchist K. Sakkas were wanted
for violation of restrictive conditions of parole and on unenforceable imprisonment, while
the anarchist M. Seisidis were wanted and in a bounty of 600,000 euros for participating
in the gang robberies imagined counter-terrorism giving it the name robbers of "gang in
black".
So somewhere here begins the tale
On January 16, 2006 robbery takes place in the national bank in Solonos Street, in
downtown Athens. During the escape of the perpetrators becomes scuffle with cops who have
arrived in the rain of bullets over the heads of citizens. The fray heavily injured
anarchist Giannis Dimitrakis arrested already trying to escape with a bag containing
weapons, but not used. Television pictures with G.. Dimitrakis be lying on the ground
immobilized with handcuffs and badly injured, while all sorts of bastard police gives him
a kick and go round the world. In the following days, parrots security, "reputable"
otherwise (thugs and informants) journalists reproduce the story of counter (this great
school informer) who speaks for gang membership which placed the Dimitrakis, which since
2002 had committed another 6 robberies with large sums of money. The cops with their
parrots will give it the name the robbers of the "gang in black" because of the black
color of the clothes supposedly wore the perpetrators, to strengthen their scenarios on
relations with armed revolutionary violence organizations and financing of an unknown
revolutionary fund. The tale but the gang to tie needs and others, because a man alone
gang does. Job catching the informers counterterrorism dusting anarchists folders (yes,
those who have been removed) using the captured political action of each and complicating
political, friendly and family relationships. so make "profile" ruthless terrorists and
criminals to anarchist comrades persons. The soup findings are the arrest warrants for
three other anarchists: Simos Seisidis, his brother Mario Seisidis and Gregory Tsironi.
The magic number 4 of counterterrorism to justify based on the anti-terrorism law the
criminal organization.
The C. Dimitrakis transported to the hospital where the raven counterterrorism prosecutor
I. Diotis undertakes to torture to extract confessions and information, repeating the
crime that took place in S.. Dry the Annunciation. Unfortunately for this diverse movement
of solidarity which developed immediately prevented this giving life to mate and halting
the further plans of cops. Comrade driven without having fully recovered in prison, but
the story continues as apart from robbery cops arrested later the load 6 other unsolved
robberies and photos of comrades who have chosen the way of absconding and not unjustly
with many approaches of batson- adorn charitable institutions batsokratias with
handwritten titles below: terrorist, highly dangerous, criminal, armed, according to the
imagination of each pig who posted.[1]
When the story begins to spoil the counterterrorism takes part again. This time the avenger
The C. Dimitrakis ordered in July 2007 for the robbery in the national bank originally
Solon heavy penalty (25 years imprisonment) and on appeal after the bubble
counterterrorism half has deflated to 12.5 years and after serving his sentence is
released, while the remaining six robberies, attempted manslaughter and money laundering
(revolutionary fund) acquitted. Moreover during the trial revealed that the weapons found
in Dimitrakis had never used and that most of the balls thrown by the scuffle came from
police weapons, which led and citizen injured foot. So rebutted the cops story about black
gang, criminal organizations, terrorism and revolutionary funds and come to the surface
all the manipulations and the cooking of the cops in this scheme. The other three remain
absconding regime, risking their lives in any meeting with uniformed killers be "fired"
one of their guns. The cops do not lose opportunity each time in response to the arrest of
anarchists to leak to vigilantes journalists history with robbers in black even if it no
longer exists, so preserving the climate of terror against the three comrades and pressing
for eventual delivery to trial on "equal" terms.
The C. Dimitrakis will certainly not forget the law enforcement mechanisms after his
release as occasionally several uniformed and non-cops will travologisoun him in some part
with unbelievable excuses the limits of farce. The fury against militants not easily
forgotten.
Along with the scripts of cops coming and the state at recreating the story in October
2009 with the bounty of 600,000 euros of three anarchist comrades from the then Minister
batsokratias M. Chrisochoïdis enhancing the manhunt against them and turning now with
official state ordered the barrels weapons on them, reducing the "enemy" a number.
Obviously all these made the dummy called Chrisochoïdis, Minister mnimoniakis government
of PASOK as a faithful guardian of the interests of the bosses, while immersing an entire
society in misery. There fell from the clouds just with this movement confirmed our fears:
that as the conspiracy fells in courtrooms, so the cops would act uncontrollably "paying
with their own way of justice." The climate helped built into it.
On 3 May 2010 Cops arrest randomly checked Simos Seisidis, who in an attempt to escape
receives shot from behind by a cop who is covered. Although he has a weapon with him not
in use while the injury combined with violence at the time of conception (broken hand,
swollen from wood face so not to recognize either his relatives or his) late transfer to
Hippocrates, improper initially treating the wound, and the constant presence of all kinds
of police in the ambulance, the hospital room, and even surgery, leading to deterioration
in his health and ultimately the amputation of his leg.
The guilt indictment there before (active anarchist, member of the "gang of robbers in
black", a terrorist, a member of an armed organization and that other imagined
counter-terrorism) and the known snitches most journalists work and hopefully catch the
tale xanadesei ...
Simos remains incarcerated in the prison hospital of Korydallos, convicted a total of two
cases and remand for another three. On March 30, 2011 will be tried in the first instance
for the robbery of the National Bank in January 2006, and six more bank robberies by
indictment for participation in a criminal organization robbers in black.
In May 2011 in S. trial. Seisidis was found unanimously guilty to robbery in the national
bank in Solonos 2006, which condemned the anarchist C. Dimitrakis for 6 robbery gang
robbers ghost now in black as well as for the attempted murder of cop who shot him
crippling the leg. Therefore the security scenario collapses for a second time, but
nevertheless the conspiracy of cops not say to finish ...
In the period before conception, in order not barred the plimelimatikou character offenses
for robbery, the 3 wanted comrades were tried in absentia to prison terms for offenses
which were then acquitted. But this was no obstacle to the design of cops for continuous
discomfort against S. Seisidis, even after his release and acquittal. Characteristic is
the address of the rabble of pimp SMEs which unabated replicate security tale.[2]
... And the fiasco security continues ...
Anarchist Gregory Tsironis and he wanted to fantastic gang of bandits with black arrested
at home in New Anchialos Volos on 29 May 2015 in a Hollywood type enterprise
counterterrorism Service to arrest suspects in bank robbery in Distomo. Robbery in which
not the Tsironis participated.
The story is now known beyond the bounds of farce with cops leaking their tales and
informants do their work without guilt. Anyway the slogan cop - Media - neo ALL BASTARDS
work together did not come by accident, putting at bay and fascist crutches system. Once
again, the reports make negative climate for the partner and once again the informers of
security and their accomplices eat their faces.[3]
In June 2016 the anarchist Gregory Tsironis was unanimously guilty by the Second
Three-Member Felony Appeals. Accused and that the case of robbery in 2006 at the National
Bank on Solonos Street which was badly injured Yiannis Dimitrakis. In addition to the
decision of the court, to which it has been acquitting sentence even the Chair Attorney
acquitted him and all other felony acts were attributed against him were another 6 bank
robberies five homicide attempts, setting up a criminal organization Mr. .a. For the same
acts that had been acquitted in 2011 and Simos Seisidis.
For history will record the statements of the lawyer not to repeat ourselves we ...
exposes once again the asfalitikoi mechanisms in front of the grand collapse of one of the
largest plots are obliged to apologize in public for years slander and chases , who pushed
into outlawry and was cause for unjust detention until now the ...
and since they do not put end to their tale of ... let us put a ...
Turning now to December 2016 we find anarchist comrade Mario Seisidis custody pending a
trial conspiracy, with one indictment has koureliastei other three times in the
courtrooms. We will not allow to happen anything less than his release. Already
machinations began (again) be shot down one by one, starting with the class itself and K.
Sakka as members of the organization Revolutionary Struggle, which the prosecutor decided
to release them. It seems that the elements of counterterrorism was not as compelling as
the show for years through their leaks.
We presented the chronicle of history to demonstrate the wrath of law enforcement
mechanisms against anarchists and struggling people. Menos not hesitate to coin stories,
rack, be imprisoned in the dungeons of democracy, to shoot to kill, to wipe albeit
borouse- us to consolidate the sovereignty and better safeguard the profits of the bosses.
Neither he started the story back in the distant 2006, nor now no illusions about the role
of all these informers from any post if the system serving all these years (cops, media,
judges, politicians, ministers ...). that's why we did not make a single step back, even
in difficult times, having managed our solidarity to knock down asfalitikes approaches and
prisons so that our partners do not bend and do not bow their heads in state repression
they have given them. Also we did not step back over the years to not let an inch ground
in such state practices. With our raised fist out of the dungeons and their courtrooms
show our solidarity to not dare to wrap in a sheet of paper any partner and competitor humans.
Let's finish this time once and for all their fairy tale. Although large enough not
believe nobody ...
"So, on December 16 asked to give another battle, this time in the courts. I asked to give
a definitive end to this case kakostimeni. A astynomodikastiki bubble that maintenance so
many years men counterterrorism, together with journalists. I will stand before them to
defend any choice I made in my life. But above all, my choice to engage in the wider
anarchist-antiauthoritarian space from the age of 15 years. My choice to lie to
assemblies, rallies and behind the flaming barricades.
As anarchist militant, I will not do any moral and ideological discount to believe me, I
will not even half a step back and will not bend my head in any court, in any prison
anyone anthropofylaka. So my vision for social revolution become reality. Until victory,
until the freedom. "
Marios Seisidis Korydallos Prison
Freedom for anarchist Mario Seisidis
Pyranthos, Anarchist group Thessaloniki
December 2016
[1]. (... In the masked robbers' gang in black "Police gave six other unsolved bank
robberies made from November 2002 to January 2005. According to the decree No. 644 issued
in March 2007 the competent judicial council, Yiannis Dimitrakis and his accomplices were
attributed robberies in Commercial Bank in University street, in the National Bank in
Plaka, in the branches of Alpha Bank in Stournari street and Chalkokondyli street, the
National Bank in Eleftheroton square in Halandri and end the National Bank stou Gyzi,
where indeed there was again a shootout with police. The smooth seven robberies 700,000
euros.)
Source: the archipapagalos counterterrorism and permanent partner as pen transmitter
information from the media, B. Labropoulos in one of the many articles / press releases
and science fiction scenarios writes in litter VIMA years.)
[2]. He arrested the accused for the "robbers in black", Simos Seisidis ...
http://www.kathimerini.gr/814695/article/epikairothta/ellada/synelhf8h-o-kathgoroymenos-gia-toys-lhstes-me-ta-mayra
-simos-seisidhs
The source of these incoherent and led cops vdelydografimatos is otherwise authoritative
litter DAILY (09/05/2015) The pimp author of the text does not even care to epalithepsei
tale that served the high ranking source at the 6th floor in the capital batsomegaro ).
With a simple search on the internet one finds even larger pearls by the defenders of
truth bums / pimp / journalists.
[3]. EPIKIRYGMENOS AFANTOS AND YEARS ON ... New twist in the case of Achialos - Arrested
"thief in black" Gregory Tsironis ... Rich booty from their action ...
http://www.ethnos.gr/koinonia/arthro/nea_tropi_stin_ypothesi_tis_agxialou_synelifthi_o_listis_me_ta_maura_grigoris_tsironis-64194919/
To copy this time journalism vomiting thank the litter THE NATION 30.05.2015. Whole
article complements emetics scenarios of security and other essential details and
conclusions for writing science fiction book. The search for truth, however, forgotten
somewhere along the acquittals of partners for security tale called robbers in black,
revolutionary societies and armed groups ...
http://www.provo.gr/pyranthos_seisidis/
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Boycott is primarily known as an act of voluntary abstention from buying products of
certain companies, and is an expression of protest for political or ethical reasons. Today
it is in the form of so-called. Ethical consumption, perhaps the most widely used tactics
of organizations fighting for human rights, animal liberation and environmental
protection. This may not be only purchase any, but also a rejection of negotiations with
individuals, groups, institutions or the entire state - or refusal to participate in any
process. The boycott tactics, thus accessing the anarchist, anti-authoritarian and broad
social movement. ---- organized ignorance ---- Ostracism and boycotts are so similar
political tactics that one often considered the second option. Speeches ostracized already
know at least from ancient Greece, where he was an unacceptable act of expelling man from
the community on the basis of consensus. The term boycott was first used in Ireland during
the so-called. "War on land." People are memorized after the mass ostracism land manager
in the Irish region Loch Measca while British army captain named Charles Cunningham
Boycott. This rejection Captain Boycott was organized in the year. 1880 League of Ireland
for the land (Irish Land League).
Captain Boycott was the administrator of the hated land of Lord Erna. Who in 1880 refused
to reduce rents by 25%, which was a result of poor harvests request of tenants. Boycott
wanted to calm the situation eviction of eleven most maladjusted tenants. But too fuel to
the fire. People approached the bold step. Within one refused to work in the fields and
stables under his administration, they refused to sell products, deliver mail and serve in
his house. Boycott he imported a politically connected workers from the province of
Ulster, which fear before the uprising was accompanied by thousands of policemen and
soldiers. The cost of this achievement, however, proved to be devastating. Disgrace
Captain Boycott was forced to leave Ireland.
The success of the rebels encouraged the whole island of Ireland, after which swept a wave
of boycotts. Annuitants who evicted farmers have begun to realize that nobody else wants
to cultivate their land. Boycotts became effective tactic in the fight against the Irish
Farmers English rentiérum who received legal privilege. Irish tenants of land on the other
side faced legal barriers to the acquisition of property and pay astronomical rents, which
led to the brink of starvation. On this historic event to see the simple difference
between ostracism and boycott. Ostracism often nothing more than punishing individuals,
while the boycott aims to achieve social change.
individualistic tradition
The boycotts were a favorite strategy of the past Benjamin Tucker and American periodical
Liberty . It seemed that the boycott strategy might individualistum rejecting a
revolutionary concept to provide a peaceful social means by which people can eliminate
activities which they regard as so immoral, they are intolerable. Individualists feared
that without tools like boycott, people will turn to their demands to the state. Tucker
was fascinated by Irish protirentovním movement, which included Irish League for the land,
and later in her but failed. He began to believe that the requirements of the movement
were exchanged for political advantage of its leading figures, especially Parnell. The
work INSTEAD OF A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One lamented: "The Irish League for the
land failed because peasants did not act at its own discretion, but at the discretion of
their leaders, who are at a critical moment betrayed."
Yet the League for the land boycott tactics managed to get into the awareness of the
American individualists 19th century. Tucker him later declared Ireland the shortest path
to success: "No pay rent now or later, no pay compulsory taxes now or later, the total
ignorance of the British Parliament, and its so-called laws of this moment, the
overwhelming abstention, uncompromising, but noninvasive boycott defectors , cowards,
traitors and oppressors ... " the boycott has become an integral part of" passive but
indomitable resistance " and Tucker considered him only strategic alternative to open
revolution, he stubbornly refused. Professed passive resistance, which he called "the most
effective weapon against oppression, that when a man in his hands" .
When the strike is not enough
Among the leading features of the boycott tactics include exclusion from the authorities
of the change process. Therefore, it has become a favorite tactic of radical movements
that their demand was not going to turn to the authorities. Syndicalist Tom Brown in the
text of unionism or syndicalism? (Trade Unionism or syndicalism?) Said the boycott as a
tactic of workers fighting for their rights outside the reformist trade unions: "Boycotts
unions rarely used, except syndicalist unions in Spain and Scandinavia. There is a
powerful weapon, but one that has no impact on the loss of wages, as is the case during
the strike. The most useful, of course, to those parts of the market, which depends on the
purchasing power of workers. " The boycott products of rogue employers who refuse to
accede to the demands of the employees is becoming the simplest expression of solidarity
and effective weapon in the hands of organized workers.
Similarly, he thought Rudolf Rocker, stating that "the focus of political struggle lies
not in political parties, but in the economically struggling organizations working" .
Boycotts are considered as one of the most important tools of direct action. Besides its
high efficiency, especially in the sectors of normal production, highlights its potential
to attract workers to fight public support. Further highlights its selective advantage in
a particular struggle, aiming at a specific managers who are particularly hostile to unions.
Boycott takes on added significance with advancing changes to the system of production
goods and services, such as outsourcing and flexibilization. The production process is
separated into the smallest parts in order to maximize profits and eliminate the defense
mechanisms of the workers. Outsourced workplaces where labor represents a narrow group of
employees serving automated production, does not see the excessive concern with trade
unions. Organized make it more difficult, if not impossible, part-time work and employment
through another entity, usually an employment agency. To groups working on the brink of
interest also include employee unions and employees of supermarkets and other shopping
chains, who are among the lowest paid. In these cases, it may be a boycott of products
only possible way and the emergency brake, how to get employers to heed the demands of the
workers.
The impulse for the movement weakened
Boycotts may not be merely a complementary activity or means of expressing solidarity. It
can become a nutrient pulse half-dead movement or even accelerator uprising. Let's look at
a historical example of Spain, ridden dictatorship of General Franco. The situation of the
Spanish people was in 1950, after eleven years of the Franco regime, really desperate.
Austerity measures, massive decline in wages and an increase in the cost of living to 700%
brought millions to the brink of famine. Poor eating and hygiene conditions that year was
attributed to 22% of the total number of deaths. Of the 3.7 million farmers and other
workers in the country were officially employed only 500 000. 40% of land holding church,
60% of landlords making a mere 2% of the population. 400 000 people Madrid and Barcelona's
150,000 residents were forced to live in dug-outs and clay huts. Hundreds of thousands of
regime opponents were imprisoned and executed thousands.
During the eleven years was opposition to Franco suppressed. Glimmer of hope represented
only Basque region. In 1947 he joined the strike to 60,000 workers in Vizcaya and
thousands of other workers in the vicinity. The town, however, soon fell into a state of
siege and strikes were massive arrests suppressed. The resistance was further restricted
to minor conflicts with the regime and clandestine meetings of dissidents. It was not
clear whether the general public is able to resist and risk jail or death. But on March 1
1951 was in Barcelona increased the price of tickets for the tram unbearable 40%. The city
immediately began to distribute leaflets and posters calling for a boycott.
On the first day of the boycott added 97% of passengers. Within a few days, they rode the
tram was almost empty. The streets were full of people walking to work sometimes up to
several kilometers. Strike entered most tram drivers, but they were hired scabs, which
assisted police escort. A successful boycott proved that a mainstream society clerical
fascism of Franco's sick. March 12 came in Barcelona and nearby strike 300,000 workers who
were demanding decent living conditions and protested against the Franco regime. Police
and the military were on alert. In the harbor anchored four warships full of Marines.
Throughout the city there were riots and clashes that killed thousands of prisoners.
Despite a massive deployment of repressive forces strike lasted for 14 days. But that was
not all. At the end of April was sparked another glimmer of hope. In Bilbao, joined the
strike 250,000 workers and further strikes and boycotts were held in the region of Navarre
in Pamplona and Madrid. Although the events did not lead to the overthrow Franco, became a
major impetus for the crushed resistance movement.
Go to hell
But back to ethical consumption. Boycott was in the Czech and Slovak anarchist movement
favorite tactic immediately after its rebirth in the 90s, and his popularity has endured
in the following years. With the transformation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and
called. Creating favorable conditions for investors, opening the economy to the free
market, which eliminated the local production, the plan was to boycott the products of
multinational corporations and the boycott of supermarkets and hypermarkets, which are
growing like mushrooms after rain. Much attention harvested corporations to boycott
McDonald's, KFC, Coca Cola, Nestle and Shell.
Reasons for boycotts of these companies are very similar. On the background there is
always the economic imperialism, and business greed that is able to gain anything. The
term McJob since the 80s expresses work under slave-like conditions, badly paid and
without any prospects. It is a job with a high turnover and a minuscule chance to organize
themselves into unions. The most important glossary of English Oxford English Dictionary
defined since 2001. In the Czech Dictionary of neologisms , the term appeared in 2004.
Offences corporations are very serious. This is a false aggressive advertising, slave
labor conditions, animal abuse and child labor. As a result of growing crops in third
world countries for the export practices of multinational corporations, causing famine and
the deforestation of the Amazon forest. Intensive deployment chemicals contaminated soil
and water. There could be irreversible ecological disasters and the actors do not assume
any responsibility. Many corporations such as Coca Cola and Shell are involved in murders
and executions environmental activists and trade unionists.
Not that these boycotts of companies in the Czech Republic, like other countries met with
a massive response, but people of many practices have become aware of and began to favor
more local production. Responded to this corporation in a simple way. Without halt its
expansion, maintaining at skoupených original brand enterprises and liquidated those
returning. Today is also the majority of people with their very low purchasing power
dependent on buying the cheapest low-quality products.
Boycott, divestment and sanctions
Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign which kicked off July 9, 2005 171
Palestinian non-governmental organizations to support the Palestinian people in their
struggle against Israeli occupation (although the first settlers announced a boycott of
products already in 1988, anti-capitalist and anti-Zionist organization Matzpen). The
campaign was inspired by the movement against apartheid in South Africa, which showed what
a boycott is an effective weapon by which thanks to popular support South Africa got into
isolation. In addition, the situation in Israel is strikingly reminiscent of apartheid:
color-coded ID cards and permits to move or homes demolished by bulldozers and forcible
displacement. A prominent South African politician Ronnie Kasrils said that a form of
segregation that he saw in the West Bank and Gaza is "worse than apartheid" . Boycott of
Israel supports many Israeli celebrities and his support is also rising among the
representatives of the Jewish Church. The initiators of the boycott are aware that many
attempts to stop the occupation of Palestine has failed.
Naomi Klein wrote: "Since 2006, Israel has consistently escalating their crimes: expanding
settlements, launched a shocking war against Lebanon and the Gaza imposed collective
punishment in the form of a brutal blockade. Despite the escalation of the conflict,
Israel does not face any reprisals, or vice versa. The annual shipment of weapons and
support of the US, worth three billion dollars is a mere shards. During this key period,
Israel has used a massive development of diplomatic, cultural and trade contacts with many
other allies. For instance, in 2007 Israel became the first country outside Latin America,
which signed a free trade agreement Mercosur. During the first nine months of 2008,
exports grew from Israel to Canada by 45 %. The signature of a new agreement with the
European Union, which doubles the export of Israeli food preparations. "
Do BDS campaign involved many anarchist organizations. Thus express support for the
Palestinian people and the organization of the International Solidarity Movement, which is
the problem of long-term deals as well as Anarchists Against the Wall, according to which
not a campaign "created in the name of some nationalist ideas or illusions build
Palestinian national entity (ie. The National Liberation), but for the simple 'liberation'
- end of colonialism Israeli settlers and occupation " .
Finally
Theme boycott may be so extensive that I consider to be impossible to mention all the
important examples and undergo at least a framework analysis. I purposely missed one of
the most common activities of the anarchist movement worldwide - call for a boycott of the
elections, which have been devoted a lot of space elsewhere. It does not mean that I would
like to take on meaning. With the company's growing dissatisfaction with the political
representation could be the next parliamentary antivolby for the anarchist movement a
great impulse. Greater attention should certainly deserve a glorious past boycotts that
changed the world, eg. Bus boycott in Montgomery, boycotts colonial powers, or the
aforementioned boycott of apartheid.
After inspiration but we do not have to look only to the past. The struggle of people
against the austerity agenda that has spread the cost to suppress the crisis on the
shoulders of ordinary people, carried out in Ireland among others campaigned against the
introduction of so-called. Tax household. Anyone who owns a house or apartment livable,
should the end of March to register and pay a tax which in 2012 amounted to 100 euros. It
did so only half of Irish households. An interesting achievement is also a boycott of
unpaid community work in Britain, which is to be conditional distribution of social
benefits similar to how it was recently introduced in the country. From this forced free
labor benefit-rich companies such as G4S, McDonald's and Tesco. The campaign was launched
in 2010 and operates on a bottom-organized basis. During that time we managed to force
several companies to take on the "unpaid work" did not participate.
From the above examples it will be seen that tactic Boycott itself does not help. From
the libertarian point of view it must be accompanied by what is called building a culture
of resistance. Our task remains creating bonds of solidarity and understanding between
many different people at many different places. These new relationships to give people the
strength and confidence of much needed to fight. Culture resistance can be a torch that is
capable of converting a single outbreak of fighting in the revolutionary wave and further
spread. Yet it remains a boycott powerful tool in the hands of underprivileged people and
the emergency brake, if other tactics fail.
Zdroje:
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080514104745312
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott
Tom Brown: Trade unionism or syndicalism?
http://libcom.org/library/anarcho-syndicalism-rudolf-rocker
http://libcom.org/history/1951-barcelona-general-strike
http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's#Criticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions
http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos22085.html
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/18547
Published in existence no. 2/2013 on "ethical consumption".
https://www.afed.cz/text/6607/bojkot-jako-zachranna-brzda-neprivilegovanych
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Public meeting of Alternative libertarian Lorient on Thursday February 9 at 20:30, Cité
Allende (House of associations), 12 rue Colbert. From 7.30pm, small restaurant, press
table. Free entry. ---- Whatever the future president: resist, build the alternative, here
and now: it's possible! ---- What democracy, what economic system do the libertarians
defend in struggles today? How to resist everyday life while developing alternatives? ----
Politics is not just about elections. 2017 will not be limited to the presidential and so
much the better. No matter which candidate comes out of the polls, it will serve the
interests of the powerful, not ours. ---- Whatever the candidate who comes out of the
ballot boxes, we will have to defend ourselves to preserve our rights and to obtain new
ones. Capitalism and the political system that accompanies it offers us no future other
than precariousness, unemployment, repression.
An alternative to this society must be built today.
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