Anarchic update news all over the world - 24/05/2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Surrey Anarchist Communists Just imagine what could happen
      when Trump visits the UK. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Spain] Valladolid, CGT with the Palestinian people,     Nakba
      Day By ANA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Spain, Barcelona: Solidaridad Obrera #370 The use of
      anarchism - Antonio Galeote By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire - unionism, Educators
      Wrestling: Equal Pay for Equal Work! by AL Paris-Sud
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #283 - Far right: Militia
      and state violence, dangerous liaisons (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





The working visit of Trump to the UK on 13-14th July has predictably generated a lot of 
excitement in many sections of the left and also in a fair few sections of the anarchist 
movement as well. There's already discussion and debate about what form the protests 
against Trump's visit should take. Suffice to say, it looks as though there will be a 
variety of actions and protests to mark the occasion. It's also a reasonable assumption 
that whatever takes place on the streets in central London will be met with a heavy police 
presence. One that could well drain police resources away from other areas of the capital 
and from surrounding counties. ---- Let's play a game of imagining what could happen with 
a mass of cops in central London and the rest of the capital somewhat short of cops on the 
streets. What if there were enough motivated class struggle activists across the capital 
who could see the opportunity provided by the distraction of the protests against Trump, 
and the cops diverted to police them, to use the 13-14th July to undertake actions that 
will aid our class? It's not hard to draw up a list of issues that could be highlighted by 
a series of nimble, well planned, creative actions if you want a bit of a thought experiment.

Purely as an exercise, these are these are the ones we've thought of. Abandoned council 
estates awaiting the right offer from a developer that could be re-occupied. High end 
estate agents complicit in the agenda of making London a welcome home for the super rich 
while ordinary people are socially cleansed from the capital - could it be that they may 
experience some creative ‘inconvenience'? Housing associations actively complicit in 
socially cleansing people from London being paid a visit by people who refuse to be moved 
away from friends, family and support networks? Exploitative outsourcing companies who 
treat their precarious workforce like dirt perhaps being given a lesson in manners? The 
list could go on if you really want it to...

The point we're trying to make, without getting done for incitement, is that a) in 
situations like this, the left and a fair number of anarchists could do with being a lot 
less predictable and knee jerk reflexive and b) we need actions that advance our class 
interests rather than those that make the participants feel good about themselves but have 
no impact on the real world.

https://surreyanarchistcommunistgroup.blogspot.co.il/2018/05/just-imagine-what-could-happen-when.html

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Message: 2





This May 15, took place in Valladolid, in Plaza de Fuente Dorada, and called by the 
Solidarity Platform with Palestine of Valladolid, which belongs to the CGT, a 
concentration at 8 pm which brought together several hundred people in solidarity with the 
Palestinian people. ---- May 15 marks the 70th anniversary of Israel's declaration of 
independence, which brought thousands of Palestinians and Palestinians to the "Nakba" 
disaster. According to the Palestinian National Committee for Boycott, Divestment and 
Sanctions (BNC): ---- "Your independence is our Nakba. The ethnic cleansing of 750,000 to 
one million Palestinian indigenous people 70 years ago and converting them into refugees 
to establish a Jewish-majority state in Palestine is not a reason for celebration.

The Nakba is not a crime of the past, it is ongoing. Seventy years later, Israel continues 
to demolish Palestinian homes, stealing our land to build illegal settlements exclusively 
for Israeli Jews, expelling Palestinians from Jerusalem by repealing our residency rights, 
and denying Palestinian refugees, like many of our members, our right internationally 
recognized to return to our homes. "

During the act of solidarity and protest, a theatrical performance was performed, several 
testimonies of Palestinians were read about their memories of 70 years ago, and read the 
poem 'The Story' by Kamal Nasir.

After all this they left in manifestation by diverse streets of the center of the city.

> More photos:

http://rojoynegro.info/articulo/sin-fronteras/valladolid-cgt-el-pueblo-palestino-d%C3%ADa-la-nakba

Translation> Sol de Abril

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Message: 3





" Big corporations have started the class struggle; they are authentic Marxists, but with 
values inverted. The principles of the free market are great for applying to the poor, but 
the very rich of them protect themselves . " - Noam Chomsky ---- Globalization, that is, 
the taking of control in capitalism by the more speculative, as opposed to business and 
industrial sectors, obviously has important ideological consequences. One that is being 
widely diffused is that the thesis that all the more or less extensive intellectual 
ideologies and conceptions of social dynamics are out of date. They no longer exist. In 
this way, we would have reached the apotheosis of the single thought. The dominant 
doctrinal body indicates that only economicist ideology and the logic of economic growth 
exist. These criteria became, therefore, the new axes of the society, its evolution and 
eventual conflicts. What is outside the economic-financial balance does not exist, it is 
pure marginalization, populism, ideological garbage.

Of course, the offensive of financial and speculative capitalism almost destroyed the 
previous capitalist model, based on business production. On the ground, that is, in 
companies, in cities, in the streets and in neighborhoods, the victory of globalization 
also implied the almost total disappearance of structures, organizations and groups that 
until then were considered as leftist. In this sense, the defeat has been enormous, with a 
very significant decline of the scarce labor rights that had been extracted from the 
entrepreneurs, and the conversion of the unions into bureaucratic machines serving the 
needs of the system. The unions, through their complicity with power, completed the 
process of destroying the few labor rights that kept the workers alive.

This new social order, this new situation that has arisen now but has been preparing for 
some time, has almost completely and definitively plucked some ideological and political 
systems that have hitherto had an important social meaning, such as social democracy or 
capitalism. state, called communism by its officials and leaders. It is therefore quite 
true that the new scheme, based on financial speculation as the basic method of capital 
accumulation, won the political, social, economic, and ideological struggle.

The self-named left

How was this situation achieved? One of the reasons has been the end of what until now had 
been called the left. That is, social democracy and state capitalism, the latter called 
communism. At this point, it is necessary to remember that libertarian and 
anti-authoritarian movements had already foreseen this situation. Libertarians said that 
Socialists, Social Democracy, were mere managers of capitalism, who were involved, among 
other things, in trying to make exploration of the vast majority of citizens in charge of 
a powerful minority more palatable. When the most difficult moment of the crisis came, 
that is, when the onslaught of financial capitalism from the industrial one intensified, 
Social-Democracy diluted like sugar in the water, because its capital no longer needed. 
The libertarians, therefore, analyzed the situation correctly.

State capitalism was also considered by the libertarian movement as a variant of 
capitalism purely. In these systems, such as the former Soviet Union or China, private 
owners are replaced by civil servants, who form the exploratory minority. It is this 
minority that drives the process of capital accumulation, appropriates the benefits and 
maintains the system through repression. The structure of this ruling class can be 
explained by the application of its own language: the proletariat is replaced by the 
party; the party, by the central committee; the central committee, by the political 
bureau; the political bureau, the permanent commission and the permanent commission by the 
secretary general. Once again, the libertarians had already said this.

Social democracy was diluted in a savage and more aggressive capitalist system, and state 
capitalism, after the political implosion that symbolized the fall of the Berlin Wall, 
became a private capitalism, though with tycoons closely linked to the state . It is a 
more authoritarian capitalism than the so-called democratic. Basically, Russia and the US 
or Great Britain are the same, although there are some differences of political hue. The 
Chinese system maintains the unique party, although the economic and financial groups 
controlled by the great oligarchs are the ones who make the important decisions. There was 
a kind of convergence between classical capitalism - embodied by its more financial and 
speculative version - the ligth capitalism of social democracy and the former capitalism 
of territories such as Russia or China.

There are other countries that formerly were in the so-called Third World group (Cuba, 
Venezuela, and other Latin American countries, Algeria, Vietnam, etc.) that, after a 
period of political but not economic decolonization, went through similar somehow to state 
capitalism, degenerating in some way in situations like those of Russia or China. They are 
masks with more or less facades of parliamentary democracies, but controlled by minorities 
who exploit their populations with the complicity of large multinationals, in the context 
of a pseudo-totalitarian political and institutional scheme marked by tremendous corruption.

The antiglobalization reaction

It is obvious that these transformations of the capitalist system have produced internal 
reactions because they have hit some social sectors with force. The main victim of this 
evolution was not only the bottom layer of the social pyramid, that is, the poorest, the 
marginalized, those who have almost nothing. This time, the coup was also directed against 
large sectors of the middle classes, which the speculative and financial offensive put 
into an accelerated process of proletarianization. This situation has caused a 
reactivation of identity phenomena and ultranationalist, with strong xenophobic, racist 
and supremacist content. Illustrative examples are the emergence of leprosy in France, the 
supporters of Brexit in Britain, the League in Italy, the far right in Germany, Donald 
Trump in the USA, or the case of Catalonia.

The reaction against the social wreck of the middle classes has caused Catalonia to return 
to identity, to almost medieval myths, with a strong xenophobic component promoted from 
Catalan supremacy, which was mixed with a surprising resurgence of agricultural and 
ultraconservative Carlism. In this deeply reactionary group, backed by a grotesque 
pathetic and grotesque rural and protean ultranationalism of the nineteenth century, were 
joined by influential groups of careerist elements who have spent forty years sharing 
public money in a mire of corruption hidden by nationalist flags. In this consisted the 
sovereignist process, which is already in clear retreat after being humiliated by Spanish 
nationalism. Here again we must remember the constant denunciation and critique of 
libertarians in relation to nationalist phenomena, based on irrationality. Nationalism is 
not only a reactionary phenomenon, but is another manifestation of the various ideological 
forms that capitalist domination assumes.

In fact, in spite of all these evolutions, the essence of the system has not changed, 
except in some political aspects, that is, in its appearance. Minorities with control over 
the repressive apparatus accumulate capital and divide profits by exploiting the vast 
majority of their populations. The repressive and coercive apparatus includes, as has 
always been the case, the law, the media, the parties, the so-called democratic 
ideologies, the parliaments, the votes ... The whole is different, but the reality is the 
same. The essence of the system has not changed, although now everything is clearer, 
because social democracy and so-called communism are where they have always been: with 
capital.

The state is the basis of the system

However, it is necessary to emphasize that there is an element that appears in all these 
versions of the capitalist system: the state. It is the instrument common to all forms of 
political, economic and social oppression. In fact, it is the axis on which the whole 
system is mounted. This analysis of the concept and reality of states has always been in 
the radical critique of the libertarian movement toward any state structure. This 
rejection is not only for the state itself, but for any means of collaboration with its 
organizational elements. To participate is to strengthen the state, give it legitimacy and 
therefore benefit and legitimize the system. This is the basis of the libertarian 
rejection of partisan schemes, elections and parliaments. It is naive, childish and 
immature to think that the state can be destroyed from within. It's the opposite. It is 
the state that integrates and uses for its benefit those who want to destroy it using 
their own channels, the state channels. And the current situation shows that this 
libertarian critique of the structure of the state is more relevant than ever.

Capital itself has generated pseudo-ideologies that can serve as a substitute when it can 
no longer maintain the political alibi given by the current political parties. This is 
what has been called the new policy. In France, the example is Macron, an ultraliberal who 
replaced the old guard of the system. In the case of Spain and Catalonia, alternatives 
such as Podemos, Ciudadanos or the Ada Colau group are proposed. It's a fake. They are no 
more than the old political forms of capitalism, a relief adapted to new trends of opinion 
and starring ambitious and opportunist politicians who seek the power and distribution of 
public money among their friends. Just look at what is happening in the city of Barcelona,

What remains, then, to oppose the capitalist avalanche? When social democracy and state 
capitalism have already integrated perfectly into the speculative offensive against the 
popular sectors, it is clear that a critical analysis is essential and without 
intellectual traps of what is happening. If we disregard the ideological crutches and 
doctrinal mortgages of the Social-Democrats, Marxists, and Nationalists, the only critical 
analysis can be based on those based on rational, real concepts, not preconceived ideas. 
Of those who assume that reality can only be interpreted and understood by completely 
breaking the old schemes that put the conclusions before the data, instead of the 
objective facts.

Tool for resistance

The libertarian approach appears as the only appropriate tool. Because it starts from a 
radical denial of state structures, and because it rejects any method of collective 
resistance that falls into the error of using the mechanisms of the system. The system 
bases its ideological justification on an apparent democracy, based on the votes of 
partisan representatives to form parliaments that in reality are only instruments of large 
multinational corporations and banks. Therefore, it is necessary to reject with force the 
claim that one can resist the aggression of the system using its mechanisms and methods. 
It does not make sense to participate in elections, parties or parliaments, because this 
attitude only serves to reinforce and give credibility to those who manage the system.

It is about acting from the outside, always aware that the ends do not justify the means. 
The use of authoritarian methods will produce authoritarian and dictatorial behaviors and 
situations. The principles of assembly and self-management are the essential way of 
creating organizational forms and methods of action that allow the construction of a real 
resistance. In these moments, before the savage offensive of the most aggressive 
capitalism that has already been known, it is not a matter of dreaming about the social 
havens of the future. The problem, the big question, is to organize resistance. Because if 
there is no resistance, there will be no future.

It is clear that an objective and rational approach to resistance against the ultraliberal 
and speculative offensive is not to use the tools of the system, to act through assemblage 
and self-managed methods, and not to fall into authoritarian positions. Rationality and 
justice can never be separated from freedom. As can be seen, these are libertarian 
principles of action. But we must go with the truth ahead and dispense promises, paradises 
and projects of supposedly perfect societies. For now, it's about resisting. Or at least 
try. In any case, more recent history has demonstrated and continues to demonstrate 
something that the libertarian movement has always maintained: if the channels and methods 
of the system are used, it becomes part of the system.

Source: Solidaridad Obrera # 370, Barcelona, April, 2018.

Translation> Liberto

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Message: 4





The salarié.es of MECS Temporary shelter for children (Paris 13 th ) have been on strike 
for their rights. They have just launched a call for support and explain their approach. 
Courage! ---- In January 2016, early childhood educators from the P'tits Loups team 
working in the Social Children's Home (MECS) Temporary Child Shelter came to question the 
difference in salary between the different children. Staff members (Special Needs 
Educators, Early Childhood Educators, Instructors and Educators). Difference sometimes 
consistent for responsibilities and working conditions identical. ---- The principle of 
equal pay for equal work is absolutely not respected. ---- The general management took 
several months to respond to us, meaning that we had no more questions and no interview. 
Following a new mail where we threatened to strike we have this time been received. During 
this interview our request was recognized as legitimate and the Director General made 
several commitments:

provide for instructor / educators (ME), who have shorter training, a broad training plan ;
to transmit to the general assembly of direction the request of the educators of young 
children (EJE), whose formation is similar and identical in duration to that of the 
specialized educators, to see what it is possible to do and to give an answer in January 2018.
To date, the first commitment seems to be in effect, although we have only had an oral 
agreement but we have not had a satisfactory answer on the second point.

This is why early childhood educators started on May 15, 2018 an indefinite strike to 
claim initially:

equal pay for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) - Special Education Educators (ES) with 
retroactive effect since the beginning of each of our contracts ;
a written agreement stating that current and future instructors will be given priority in 
their application for ECE or ES training.
Since that date, the management obviously seeks to gain time, does not enter the 
negotiations despite our concessions (less retroactivity ...) and asks us to stop the 
strike. So we continue our movement.

In addition, we support all demands and strikes concerning working conditions in the 
health, social, education and transportation sectors !

Here you can directly and in one click, participate in this kitty .

Everyone contributes the amount he wants. All payments are secure.

Thank you all !

MECS Strikers Temporary Children's Shelter

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Educatrices-et-educateurs-en-lutte-a-travail-egal-salaire-egal

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Message: 5





The attack of the law school of Montpellier has brought to light a little publicized 
phenomenon, but one that deserves our attention: the return of anti-strike militia. 
Despite their seemingly " illegal " nature, they easily find their place in the security 
arsenal of " French-style " policing . ---- On 22 March 2018, around midnight, a hooded 
commando armed with pieces of wood and Tasers burst into an amphitheater of the Faculty of 
Law of Montpellier. The images of this violent attack go around social networks and media. 
They set fire to the powders: the blocked facs multiply in the weeks that follow. ---- 
Quickly, it appears that the Montpellier case is not isolated. The attacks have multiplied 
lately. In Strasbourg, students are beaten by the fascists of the Social Bastion. In 
Lille, Identitaires attack twice the occupied university. In Nantes, a security officer is 
beaten with baseball bats by hooded individuals, an assault that students attribute to the 
local extreme right. In Paris, the Tolbiac site of the University Paris-I is the target of 
an attack by twenty young fascist helmet who throw projectiles and smoke on the occupants. 
Thus, about fifteen universities blocked in early April, it is almost a third is the 
target of militia attacks related to the far right.

A complicit police
A flagrant element emerges: the lack of action by the police. In all these cases, there is 
almost no prosecution or investigation. In Lille, during the second attack of 
Identitaires, they arrive and leave under police protection, without there being any 
questioning. The only real exception to this lack of action on the part of the police is 
Tolbiac: six fascists are arrested and placed in custody (in Montpellier, there is only 
the spectacle of a court action) .

This impunity is not trivial. In fact, the police and the intelligence services are very 
well acquainted with right-wing activists, and it would not be very difficult for them to 
question them if that was their intention. Moreover, this inaction is all the more 
striking when compared to the repression during the movement against the Labor law in 
2016, where police violence was very high and frequent: the trials and arrests of 
protesters and demonstrators were the norm , with heavy penalties striking the protesters.

How then explain this impunity ? One could naively believe that it is by " laxity " ... 
Unfortunately, it does not seem that the forces of " order " show " laxity " vis-a-vis the 
fascist militias, but on the contrary it is possible to think that militias and forces and 
order maintain a much more troubled relationship.

The good use of fascist militias by the state
A return to the case of Montpellier is needed to better understand. In appearance, the 
state seems to have reacted vigorously: Dean Philippe Petel (Marshal Petel for the 
intimate) and fascist professor Jean-Luc Coronel (who had invented the particle " 
Boissezon " to make more chic), have been placed in custody, suspended and indicted.

Yet when you take a closer look, things are less clear. Petel and Coronel claim to be 
fuses, and unfortunately, it seems that they have to be justified. Let's go back to the 
course of events. On March 22, 2018, an amphitheater is occupied by the students who are 
mobilized from the law school, supported by the students of the Faculty of Arts (Paul 
Valéry). The president of the University of Montpellier, Philippe Augé, asks the prefect 
for a police intervention, which refuses but positions a strong police device near the 
university. At midnight, the hooded commando introduced by the dean bats the strikers. A 
student ends up stuck under the grid of the University that the thugs beat him down, 
before tasering and beating it with bits of wood. The police trucks positioned in front of 
the University had just left. They will only come back after the attack.

Similarly, according to several student testimonies, the commando is then evacuated under 
the protection of a police line through the front door. This lack of intervention can only 
mean complicity between the anti-trust commando and the police. It is difficult to explain 
otherwise that a dozen staff of the Faculty of Law, professors, in charge of TD and 
attendants, organize such a violent attack if they had no guarantees of non intervention 
of the police. .

Moreover, these guarantees seem to have been respected at first because the commando is 
exfiltré under police protection. Petel and Coronel even publicly assume the action. It is 
only belatedly before the national scandal that measures against them are taken. 
Similarly, while the names of many of the members of the hooded commando circulate widely 
and are revealed during a press conference by the students, they are neither auditioned by 
the police nor implicated. Let us add that Médiapart revealed that a witness was insulted 
and threatened during his hearing by the police. This example of Montpellier is 
particularly flagrant of the use of militias by the public authorities during law 
enforcement operations. So when the state can not or will not intervene by the police,

This is not the first time the state has used militias to replace the police and attack 
social movements. Thus, in 2014-2015 on the ZAD du Testet near Sivens, after the 
assassination of Rémi Fraisse, the gendarmes subcontracted the repression to the pro-dams 
constituted in militia. Among their outstanding exploits, the headquarters of ZAD access 
for two weeks, enamelled violence, all under the watchful eye of mobile gendarmes [1].

Mutation of French policing
Thus, university attacks by far-right groups are not only a sign that these groups are 
agitated. They are also the marker of a new change in French law enforcement. After the 
repression of the law Labor, marked by extreme police brutality, it seems that the police 
force change their tune and on the contrary intervene for the moment, less often and less 
brutally (which This does not mean that they have become bishops, as shown by the attack 
on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes in April 2018 or the interventions on various 
university campuses).

In this context, this use of the extreme right and militias in some cases allows the " 
dirty work " without the police having to intervene. In addition, this strategy goes 
further. It also makes it possible to stage a " strategy of tension ": the attacks of 
militias, the confrontations between extreme right and antifascists can create a state of 
disorder and tension which allow only better to justify authoritarian measures and the 
repression of State thereafter.

In any case, one thing is certain, and it must be known, participating in social 
movements, struggles and strikes has become something that can be dangerous. There is no 
point in asking for police protection against attacks that are an integral part of the 
French state's policing strategy. We must therefore think about our self-defense, because 
no one else will do it for us ...

Matt (AL Montpellier)

[1] To get an idea of the violence on the ZAD Testet: " Assembly violence of the FNSEA 
militias on Zadistes ", online on Youtube.com

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Extreme-droite-Milices-et-violences-d-Etat-les-liaisons-dangereuses

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