Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #289 - Brazil: On a techno
rhythm, in the light of the flashing lights (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, anarchistcommunist group ACG: Two new pamphlets
from the ACG! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - States of the struggles
n ° 2 (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Anarchist collectivity Omikron72 APO-OS: PETRIT
ZIFLE-NEKROS FROM PHASISTA. NO OPPOSITION AND
STATE AIRLINES WILL
NOT BE RESPONSIBLE. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. wsm.ie: Yellow Vests - People are ready to go onto the
streets because they have nothing else to lose - audio
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, anarchistcommunist group ACG: Stansted 15 Guilty
Verdict (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Greece, Update from the mobilizations of the Group Against
Patriarchate-APO. in Athens, Patras & Thessaloniki on November
25th By APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. anarchist communist group ACG: Stand with the Stansted 15!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Poland, rozbrat Anarchist Federation - Poznan section: March
for Climate. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Some impressions gleaned by a libertarian Alternative activist present in Brazil during
the elections. ---- Brasilia, October 27, 18:30 at the bus station, Conjunto National
Mall: supporters of Fernando Haddad have decided to make a mass flyer broadcast on the eve
of elections. Several hundred people are distributing pro-PT leaflets in a desperate
attempt to turn things around. The pro-Bolsonaro invite themselves to the game. They are
not violent and are content to dance to bad techno. Very quickly, while there is no
violence or clashes, the military police come en masse to " protect The pro-Bolsonaro.
Although they are supposed to separate the protesters, their attitudes and their
positioning mark them on the side of the supporters of Bolsonaro. The spectacle of
fascists swaying over music in the light of police beacons alongside heavily armed trellis
mastodons seems very symbolic of the promises of the new Brazilian regime ...
Brasilia, October 28, 19:05 in a residential area: the election results have just been
announced on television, the verdict is without appeal, Jair Bolsonaro becomes the next
president of Brazil. Very quickly, throughout the neighborhood, fireworks start to fuse on
all sides, giving an impression of July 14 or December 31 ... Among the petarades, noises
are duller, deeper. I realize then that they are not firecrackers, but shots. In this
district, but also all over Brazil, Bolsonaro's supporters take out their weapons in their
hands and empty their magazines in the air, a harbinger of obscure times. I learn the next
day that a child was killed by bullets that fell.
Campus of the University of Brasilia on October 29 at 18:00: the tension is at its height
because, on social networks, pro-Bolsonaro announced a demonstration to " clean up the
University of the Reds ". Everyone fears a fascist tidal wave, under the protection of the
police. In the end, it will be a wet firecracker - a dozen militants wearing pro-Bolsonaro
T-shirts are pointing their noses. They are repulsed by several hundred angry students,
and quickly flee under police protection, pursued by the jeers of the crowd ... The story
is not inevitable, and fascism either - provided it organize to fight. The coming months
will be decisive in Brazil, but fascism is not the only way out ...
Brasilia October 31, around 10:30 am on an indigenous occupation: Brasilia is an
ultramodern city made of concrete, glass and steel. Yet, at the foot of a neighborhood of
brand new buildings, extends a small forest, prohibited access because " indigenous area
". Inside the field, total tipping. Under the woods, there are dozens of mud houses
occupied by various indigenous groups. The inhabitants hold a meeting: if their occupation
of land has been in place for 40 years, it is threatened with eviction because real estate
developers want to occupy the land ... The occupation had to be legalized, but the
Brazilian president had to initial the decision. Since the election of Bolsonaro, the
tension is palpable because it is likely that their occupation is delivered to developers.
The fight seems inevitable, but not the victory ...
Matt (AL Montpellier)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Bresil-Sur-un-rythme-techno-a-la-lumiere-des-gyrophares
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Message: 2
The Anarchist Communist Group has just produced two new pamphlets - Is Class Still
Relevant: An Anarchist Communist Perspective and What Happened To The Revolution? ---- The
Is Class Still Relevant pamphlet argues that yes, class is still relevant and is a
"structural relationship between two classes.... it is not an identity - even if you do
not identify as part of the working class, you still are." ---- As the pamphlet states:
"It has become increasingly popular among academics and others that the working class is
either tiny or no longer a key player in the struggle for a new society...the implication
is that ‘class struggle' is less important and the focus should be on ‘people' or other
oppressed groups. In fact some would go so far as to argue that the white, male working
class is reactionary and more of an enemy than a key component of revolutionary struggle."
The pamphlet outlines the evidence for the existence of class, and argues that it is
central to a struggle against the present system. As it notes: "The vast majority of
people are working class. It is in their interest to overthrow capitalism for a number of
different reasons, not just because of exploitation at work. There are other oppressions
that exist in society, linked to capitalism but with their own dynamic and impacts. There
are many ways that class struggle is linked to the struggle against oppressions;
patriarchy and racial oppression are embedded within capitalism. Capitalism benefits from
unpaid labour in the home and historically benefitted from the slave trade. Oppressed
groups are often the worst affected by capitalism and State violence. The culture and
ideology of capitalist society, supported by religion, encourages bigotry and conservatism
towards nonconforming sexualities and genders. And, even if the oppression does not seem
to directly relate to the class struggle, it is wrong and must be fought. We cannot create
an anarchist communist society as long as there are any oppressions."
What Ever Happened To the Revolution? Describes what a revolution is, a fundamental
transformation of society such that all social relationships are significantly altered. It
enumerates the revolutions that have happened throughout history and argues forcefully for
the need for a revolution. Along the way it looks at the inadequacies of reformist
solutions and the false alternatives of Labour and other social democratic parties. As it
concludes: "We need to develop a strategy which starts from the premise that a social
revolution, encompassing all aspects of life is desirable, necessary and possible. The
revolution will not just happen; the conditions have to be right and revolutionaries have
an important role to play in a number of ways. However, this does not mean that we can
predict, determine or control what happens. We need to be organised with the end in mind.
This means that it is not enough to be organised just on the local level or in single
issue campaigns. We need to be organised on a territorial and indeed transnational level
with the conscious aim of promoting revolutionary activity. An important part of this
revolutionary work must by long-term within the wider working class: resisting attacks,
creating alternatives and building up an effective movement and a culture of resistance."
Class is available for £1.75 (includes postage), Revolution is available for £2.75
(includes postage)
See our publications page for info on how to order copies
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/12/12/two-new-pamphlets-from-the-acg/
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Message: 3
Macron's speech on December 10 did not extinguish the mobilization and even put oil on the
fire: it is not by releasing crumbs that it will silence anger. While the movement
continues in the universities, the challenge now is to achieve convergence with the unions
and bring the challenge to the workplace. ---- 1. Macron crumbs crumbs ---- In his speech
on December 10, Macron spoke to try to calm the mobilization. The ads are ridiculous. ----
As we wrote in our last federal leaflet ( here ), for the most part Macron makes up his
concessions by gross devices: the increase of the smicard.es will be paid by the tax of
all and not by the bosses! It persists in attacking the solidarity of social benefits by
weakening contributions and taxes: these false solutions, which in the short term can
attract (overtime), continue in fact to destroy the public services which will no longer
be financed. The only satisfied claim corresponds to a subject at the same time carried by
the movement of the Yellow Vests and having been the object of strong unitary trade union
mobilizations (without the CFDT nor the UNSA) since one year: it is the cancellation the
increase in the CSG for retirees.es earning less than 2,000 euros. Even though the money
stolen from these pensioners in 2018 has not been returned, the implementation of the
measure seems more uncertain than the Macron speech and there is no general increase in
pensions ( so for the smaller ones, not subject to the CSG, there is nothing)!
Some big bosses decide to pay end of the year bonuses: Total, Publicis, Iliad, Altice,
LVMH ... Proof that money, there is. But this € 1,000 tax-free premium is obviously used
to extinguish anger, as the boss of the Medef hailed, and are nothing to face the
difficulties of workers to feed themselves, to lodge, to move, to to heal. In addition,
the announcement effects work full: in many companies, there is already an end of year
bonus ; what is advertised there, is in addition ? Instead ? It's complete blur.
2. The trade unions and Macron
On Monday morning, Macron received its social partners. In the continuation of their
unitary communique of Thursday 6 (see State of the struggles of December 10), CFDT, CGT,
FO, CGC, CFTC, UNSA and FSU went to the Elysee.
Solidaires declined the invitation by saying that his role was not to " discuss " ( see
here ).
The statements of each organization after the speech of Macron are in a logical sequence
to their respective positions since the beginning of the current movement, whether it is
the CFDT , the CGT , FO , the CFE -CGC , CFTC , Unsa , FSU or Solidaires .
3. The preparation of the December 14 strike day
The CGT called for a day of strikes and demonstrations on December 14th. The Union
Syndicale Solidaires joined the appeal. CNT-SO too. In some areas and in some places, the
call is wider, with calls from FO or FSU as well. But the number of calls to strike in
companies and services remains quite limited.
A central issue is the junction with the yellow jackets for the 5 th Saturday's
mobilization on 15 December. If the day of strike is followed, the unionists of the CGT or
the FSU who want it would have more weight to push their union to call Saturday
demonstrations of yellow vests. This is already the case of Solidaires for December 15, as
it was for the 8th.
The success of this day is therefore crucial for the rest of the social movement.
Depending on its success, a strike renewal on Monday 17 December could be considered. We
must push for this solution wherever possible.
4. The crisis in the CGT
The blog of the libertarian communists of the CGT gives information on the crisis opened
by the signature of the communiqué of December 6th. Several departmental unions (UD) and
federations are calling for an extraordinary National Confederal Committee (NCC) ; it
seems unlikely that one-third of the organizations will be reached, as stipulated in the
Confederal Statutes.
In addition, several Departmental Unions show their support for Yellow Vests and call for
demonstrations Saturday 15.
5. Continuing mobilization in youth
The protest does not weaken in high schools: Tuesday, December 11, several hundred high
schools were still marked by actions. In the streets, thousands of high school students
marched in Paris, Rennes or Marseille and hundreds in many cities.
On the side of the universities, the blockade of the college of Nanterre was voted until
Thursday ; same thing in Rennes-2. In Paris-1 (Tolbiac site) or at the Sorbonne, the
buildings were closed by the administration. In Poitiers, the Faculty of Social Sciences
is blocked.
6. Yellow vests elsewhere
In Belgium, the movement took place as early as 17 November. This movement is close in its
demands: from anger against the rise of taxes on diesel, it has spread to the challenge of
austerity measures put in place by the government. The repression is strong. In the
Netherlands and Bulgaria, some blockages by Yellow Vests have taken place. In Egypt, the
sale of yellow vests is under surveillance or prohibited. For fear of a new social revolt
? And until Iraq, the yellow vest serves as a rallying point for demonstrators: here.
7. Respond to Ideas That Turn in Yellow Vests
The Marrakesh Pact is a UN pact prepared since 2016, whose real name is " Global Compact
for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration ". It was formally adopted on December 10 and 11,
2018. It is an unambitious and non-binding pact for states. Text does not contain " right
to opposable immigration" ", Contrary to what the right-wing extremists who turn on social
networks claim. It is necessary not only to remember that these false information were
propagated first by Trump, then taken again by the French right and extreme right. We must
also reiterate that all migrants are welcome on French territory, that one life is not
worth more than another and that migrants are victims in France of racist police
persecution and exploitation of employers.
The Citizen Initiative Referendum, or RIC, already exists in some countries, such as
Switzerland where it is called " Popular Initiative " ". A certain number of citizens with
the right to vote may submit a text to the vote of all citizens entitled to vote. As it
stands, the ICN would be democratic progress. However, one must not be naive: there is no
authentic democracy possible in the capitalist system, because the general interest is
perpetually subordinated to the particular interests of the most influential fractions of
capital. A simple example: if today, in France, the State conceded a referendum on the
future of nuclear power, the public debate would necessarily be distorted by the lobbies
(EDF, CEA, Areva, Bouygues, Eiffage ...) who would put their gigantic means in the balance
so that the people " vote well ". Millions of euros would be injected into marketing
campaigns with TV spots, radio and expert opinion paid to tout the merits of atomic
energy. What would face the partisans and supporters of an exit from nuclear power ?
The direct democracy advocated by the libertarians is quite different:
first, it would be in the context of a socialized economy, thus free of industrial and
financial lobbies parasitizing the public debate ;
Secondly, it would have a much more global scope than the RIC, since it would directly
validate the major orientations structuring society in terms of spatial planning, energy
model, etc.
And above all, how does the question of the right to referendum respond to the urgent and
legitimate social demands of the yellow vests movement ? What is the relationship between
the right to referendum and the increase in the minimum wage, wages, pensions and social
minima ? What is the relationship with the need to take money from employers, from the
wealthy who exploit the majority of the population ?
As part of the ongoing movement, this subject, rehashed by some organized groups, has the
following effect: 1. To divide the movement on a subject that does not respond to the
social emergency, the need to radically transform society . 2. to shift discussions to
political polemics instead of keep
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Etats-des-luttes-no2
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Message: 4
On Nov. 25, 2018, a landowner, of Albanian origin, Petrit Zifle , is murdered in Lefkimmi,
Corfu , with a shotgun from the goldsmith Dimitris Kouris . The Deputy Assassin was known
in the region for his fascist ideas, a neo-nazis statement (as in all he demonstrates the
swastika tattoos on his chest) and a member of Golden Dawn (an elected representative of
the Athens Stock Exchange and its usual escort agent when she appeared in Lefkimmi). ----
Petrit Zifle on November 25 in a public chat in the cafe, rebuffed the polemic voices of
neo-Nazi D. Kouris, who, on the occasion of the Macedonian, ran his racist hatred. The
conversation ended with the goldsmith being threatening Zifle's life. Shortly afterwards,
having set up a crib, he kills Petrit Zifle with a shotgun and then throws his body in a
ditch where they find him the next day.
From the very beginning, local media trying to conceal the real motivation of the murder,
suggesting that there were "personal differences". This, of course, is not something that
surprises us. In the same way, S. Lukman's neo-Nazi assassins and their lawyers are still
attempting to hide the racist motive of the murder of S. Lukman in the halls of civil
justice, arguing that they were quarreling with him because he "closed the road with the
bicycle" . As was the case immediately after the assassination of P. Fissa when the
systemic means rushed to talk about a murder that arose from "disagreements". But even
when we were assaulted by an artillery battalion. in anti-Anatolian anti-authoritarian
hangout Antipia,
Because this is another way of the state-capitalist system and its mechanisms to "rinse"
the fascist attacks and to conceal that it is the same that generates and fuses fascism.
Thus, while the neo-Nazis attack self-organized struggles, hangouts and squats, in
fighters, and more generally to those who stand against barbarism, the state and their
activists attempt to awaken the conservative reflections of society, on occasion such as
the Macedonian, or Katsifa, in order to cluster it with their designs. They try to
cultivate a nation-based machiable unity to dissuade the oppressed from uniting them and
their real and common enemy, which is none other than the same authoritarian and barbaric
state-capitalist system. Because that's what makes people sad and plunder every field of
social everyday life.
But whatever they say, trying to conceal the truth, all those who are exploited and
oppressed on the part of the poor, the unemployed, the youth, the struggling, we know very
well when the dead are from our side. So, like Paul Fyssa, like S. Lukman, so Petrit Zifle
is one of us and murdered because he has raised his stature against the overtly diffused
intolerance and racism. Because he had the fist and the courage to face a neo-Nazi.
And in this fascist assassination, as in every state and offensive attack, we will respond
collectively, fightily and dynamically. Because their attacks, even if they know the good
state and fascists, do not scare us. They convinced us. We will intensify our overall
struggle towards state and capital. We will continue to sow the seed of questioning and
collective resistance, breaking fear, personalization and frustration. Through the
organized, uninterrupted, non-negotiable and continuous struggle for Social Empowerment,
we will overthrow the world of power and build a world of equality, freedom, solidarity
and justice.
FIGHT AGAINST THE FASHION AND THE SYSTEM OF THE GENE
FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE
FOR ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNICATION
anarchist collectivity Omikron72, member of the APO-OS.
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Message: 5
A look at why the Yellow Vests will reject Macron's concessions that takes the form of a
discussion between two of our members, one of whom is a French migrant in Ireland who has
been following the news and discussions in the movement in France online. Looks at the
‘concessions', the formation of the movement, the clash with far-right infiltration and
the contradictions of the relations between the Yellow Vest movement and climate change
movement which also marched in Paris this weekend. Ends with a discussion of where the
movement is now likely to go.[audio] ----
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/yellow-vests-people-are-ready-to-go-onto-the-streets-because-they-have-nothing-else-to-lose/
---- The audio should be listened to alongside this overview article
https://www.wsm.ie/c/centre-collapses-yellow-vests-france
https://wsm.ie/c/yellow-vests-audio-analysis-movement
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Message: 6
The Stansted 15 have been convicted of "endangering safety at aerodromes" a
terrorism-related offence carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison. ---- In March
2017 the peaceful protesters entered Stansted Airport by cutting a hole in a wire fence
and then attached themselves to a plane intended to carry 60 migrants being deported to
Nigeria and Ghana. The protest was a fairly successful piece of direct action as ten of
the deportees have had the time to apply for asylum and one has already won the right to
stay in the UK. ---- However the protesters were arrested and the case was heard at
Chelmsford crown court, with limited media coverage beyond the initial trial, when it was
thought that the protesters would be let off with minimal charges. For the last nine weeks
the defendants have been involved in a legal battle, with the prosecution jumping from
trespassing to the current terrorism-related charges, the full implications are likely to
become clear by February 2019.
As a result of protests such as this one, the Government is now carrying out its
deportations from military airports, where protesters and the general public will be none
the wiser to the fates of those desperate enough to risk everything for a new life in a
supposedly tolerant and developed western power.
The convictions could set a precedent for the future treatment of anyone brave enough to
peacefully protest. While the fact that the protest happened on an airfield presented the
opportunity for the government to escalate the charges to terrorist-related offences, this
case may be seen as an indication of how Theresa May's Conservatives will deal with those
prepared to take direct action against the government's racist border control policies.
The Anarchist Communist Group believes that borders are divisive and unnecessary, enforced
to ensure the maximum capital for the privileged few. Nationalities and nationhood are
exaggerated to cause rivalries between the working classes of individual "countries". The
combination of economic and patriotic bollocks is a key tool used to direct the anger of
people suffering at the hands of the capitalists away from the ruling classes and towards
"foreigners".
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/12/12/stansted-15-guilty-verdict/
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Message: 7
As a group against patriarchy, we participated in the mobilizations in Athens, Patras and
Thessaloniki on the occasion of the "Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women". The regime
introduction days, like 25, theNovember, it is another effort for us to distort the
assumption of female emancipation. The same institutions and their mechanisms, which
cultivate, enforce and sustain gendered violence, are present today as the advocates of
its eradication. They are the same mechanisms that acquit rapists who condemn women who
resist their rapist, who intercede and hold incapacitated seropositive women, dismissing
pregnant women, who form a special regime of exploiting women in workplaces that suppress
and attack with ferocity struggling women, who stand up against injustice and
exploitation, stacking and holding thousands of immigrant women in concentration camps in
desperate conditions,
On November 24th in Athens, we participated in the anti-gay violence campaign against the
state and patriarchate - for the emancipation and anarchy, and we walked together with the
banner of anarchist comrades against patriarchy "Gender violence is a status as long as
there is state and capitalism ". In the gathering of Kavikareas, that is to say, before
the course began, slogans were called outside the "Attica" bakery - the "Horiatikos" -
owned by the businessman Giannakopoulos, responsible for trafficking in women: "Attica -
Villages are not bakeries, they hide trafficking modern slavery ". In the process, slogans
were called such as: "Gendered police violence shows the" feminism "of sovereignty," From
Mexico to Turkey women's struggles for freedom "," Freedom is not given by laws, with
races from the bottom won in the streets, "Refugee workers from the land are beaten, the
righteous are right", "In Omonia, there was no robbery, state and bosses were murdered."
The anarchist block ended in Exarchia Square, in the solidarity gathering of the arrested
anti-fascist motorists.
In Patras, on the morning of November 25, we participated in the gathering called for by
the Women's Initiative Against Patriarchy. With a banner of the initiative, which reads:
"Gender violence is a status as long as there is a state and capitalism," the papers of
the initiative and the group against Patriarchate of the APO were shared. and thieves were
thrown. The gathering was flanked by about 30 people, and there was a table of printed
material from both subjects about the issue of female emancipation.
In Thessaloniki, on the morning of November 25, we supported the microphone gathering that
was called by the "Women's Initiative Against Patriarchy". With banners against the
patriarchy who wrote "LITTLE VIOLENCE IS A STATUS AS WAS STATUS AND CAPITALISM | WOMEN'S
AGAINS FOR MANAGEMENT AND ANARCHY "and the Women's Initiative" FIGHT AGAINST THE FIGHT
AGAINST WOMEN'S MANAGEMENT AGAINST THE STATE, THE CAP AND ALL FORMS OF POWER "we shared
texts of the initiative and the group of the APO. . The gathering was flanked by 20-25
people, during which slogans were chanted about female emancipation and gender violence
and tits were thrown, while there was printed material of the group against patriarchy and
the women's initiative.
We welcome the interventions made by comrades in various events organized by institutions
in Athens, Patras and Thessaloniki, demonstrating in their speech and movement the
hypocrisy of talking about the elimination of gendered violence, the institutions that are
part of the power system that generates and reproduces it, and highlighting the position
that the only realistic solution to eradicating violence against women is the total
struggle for the eradication of the world of patriarchy, s and capitalism:
the intervention of anarchist comrades against patriarchy at the Athens Concert Hall,
where banners, slogans and triciks interrupted the speech at the opening of a concert
organized by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality of the Ministry of Interior
the intervention of the patriarchal initiative of Patras in Patras with banners, slogans
and triciks at the Patras Palace Hotel, where a two-day seminar was organized by the Union
of Women of Greece and the Association of Mae-Dean Scientists of Patras in cooperation
with the region of Western Greece. There the comrades interrupted the speech "The
phenomenon of violence against women", conducted by the Patras Advisory Center of the
General Secretariat for Gender Equality of the Ministry of Interior
the intervention of the women's initiative against patriarchy in Thessaloniki, which
interrupted speeches at a seminar on the eradication of violence against women organized
by the NGO. "Partnership for the Social Gender" and the Equality Research Center, and
among the speakers there was also a policeman of the anti-racist department.
We express our solidarity with the comrades and comrades of the anti-fascist motorcycle
struck in 2012 by the police, who will stand up against their tortured cops in the trial
postponed for 18/2/2019
As struggling, as anarchists and as women, we can only stand solidarity with one another
and together we organize and strive aside all over the earth with all the oppressed of
this world against our daily dynasties. We can only stand with the words and actions of
the struggling women and greet their struggles all over the earth. Inspired by the bloody
strikes of migrant women in the US of the 19th century. such as the Mujeres Libres of the
Spanish Revolution, Zapatistrias in Chiapas as the Rizava guerrillas and the female
fighters in Turkey and the United States, we struggle to overthrow the rotten world of
patriarchy, state and capitalism and build in its debris that of social equality, dignity,
SOLIDARITY IN FOOTBALL AND MOTORCYCLE PARTNERS
FROM GREECE TO MEXICO AND TURKISH WOMEN 'S GAMES FOR FREEDOM
AGAINST THE PATRIARCH, THE STATE AND THE CAPITALISM FOR SOCIAL RESPONSE, ANARCHY AND
FREEDOM COMMEMORATION
Group Against Patriarchy - APO
http://apo.squathost.com
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Message: 8
Call out to support the Stansted 15 for Tuesday 18th December ---- Actions listed in towns
and cities across the country ---- Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/768612286805767/ ---- We repeat the callout, launched by
Liverpool Migrants Solidarity Network, set to coincide with International Migrants Day
18/12/18. They say: ---- For International Migrants Day on Tuesday 18 December, activists
from all over the UK will stand in solidarity with the Stansted 15, a group of people who
stopped a secret charter flight from deporting precarious migrants to destitution,
persecution, and death. On Monday 10 December, the Stansted 15 were found guilty of
terror-related charges. Amnesty International called the verdict a crushing blow for human
rights. We are using this day to raise awareness of the plight of the Stansted 15 in
addition to local migrant-rights issues in every city participating in this national day
of action.
We believe that this draconian ruling was designed to thwart direct action against the UK
government's brutal and violent treatment of migrants. This country's racist and
xenophobic immigration policy is rooted in its colonial history. This history continues
with the mistreatment and exploitation of migrants in detention, a regime of sexual and
physical violence that has resulted in over 43 migrant deaths inside ten immigration
removal centres since 2000. Even when not detained, borders cross the everyday lives of
all migrants, especially asylum seekers who live in enforced poverty, forbidden to work
and housed in appalling privately-run accommodation. State hostility is further embedded
in schools, universities, the NHS, charities and housing authorities, with employees
conscripted to become border guards, making precarious the lives of so many non-EU and EU
migrants and those who were born in the UK but were unable to regularise their status
because of opaque immigration rules and high visa fees. The violent coloniality of the
hostile environment was exposed this year by the horrible treatment of the Windrush
generation, many of whom were brought to the UK to help rebuild the national economy after
World War II, raising children that were born in the UK. After living in the UK for their
entire lifetimes, members of these communities have found themselves cruelly detained and
deported, without the ability to contest their cases.
On Tuesday 18 December, we will use our collective voices to stand in solidarity with the
Stansted 15 and with all migrants, such as the women detainees in Yarl's Wood who continue
to #HungerForFreedom.
Helping migrants and stopping detention and deportations from happening in our communities
is not a crime! We demand an end to the the hostile environment policy, an end to
immigration detention centres and an end to deportations!
To support the Stansted 15 and End Deportations we urge people to wear and/or make signs
in pink in solidarity. The following cities have local actions planned. Please click on
the link of your city to find out how you can get involved:
Belfast: https://www.facebook.com/events/2175265235926197/
Brighton: https://www.facebook.com/events/1032809280238739/
Bristol: https://www.facebook.com/events/1796614357115511/
Glasgow: https://www.facebook.com/events/1036916286509529/
Lancaster: https://www.facebook.com/events/308318683356062/
Leeds: https://www.facebook.com/events/339051770208796/
Leicester: https://www.facebook.com/events/2081279961918126/
Liverpool: https://www.facebook.com/events/1466939670116682/
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Message: 9
On December 8 in Katowice, as part of the UN climate summit COP24, there was a March for
Climate. A wide coalition of protesters consisting of many environmental and social
organizations was also attended by representatives of libertarian, anarchist and
anti-capitalist circles. The anti-capitalist bloc created by these environments was an
integral part of the March for Climate? he walked at the end, closing a protest of around
three thousand participants. ---- Although in the organizers' announcements, the entire
initiative was to have a peaceful march from the beginning to the end, its massive police
forces, totally inadequate to its size and planned course, were gathered for its
"protection". ---- In addition to uniformed officers, armed with all possible means to
suppress riots, there were an unusually many non-uniformed officers (so-called
"clandestine"). The police behavior clearly escalated the tension among protesters. The
"civilian" officers ostentatiously expressed themselves with their telescopic batons,
photographed and filmed protesters, at the same time ignoring any inquiries about the
reasons for their actions, inquiries about the legitimacy of the service, or this fraying
against the protesters with their weapons. The police probably wanted to show that so many
of her presence on the march was necessary, although his course absolutely contradicted
it. It did not work, the thesis apparently accepted by the service, that the protest may
be dangerous for the participants of the climate conference or inhabitants of the
agglomeration. The march proceeded in a peaceful manner and without any disturbances or
aggressive behavior on the part of its participants and participants.
It turned out that the only aggressor on this march were the officers, supposedly there
supposed to ensure security. In the middle of the manifestation, for a clear signal, the
so-called "The secret police", a group of policemen of the prevention department moved
towards the participants of the anti-capitalist block, and smashing its order with the
help of shields and clubs, pulled out of the crowd one of the protesters. The reason for
this action - how were police officers explained after the event? it was allegedly
suspected by the detainee of dangerous objects. Searching for an activist did not confirm
these suspicions, but he was accompanied by numerous insults of the officers directed at
the detainee, jerking off and failure to provide information on the causes of aggressive
police actions. At the same time, the police attack had to meet the reaction of other
protesters. It is obvious that they tried to prevent unreasonable detention. The situation
was very dynamic, the police used means of direct coercion, and the crowd had to react
even in defense of the blows "given away" by the uniformed ones. In the resulting
confusion, among the shouts demanding the release of the detainee, the police managed to
draw another three people out of the protesters. In their case, the detention was even
brute. One of the people was grabbed from behind and dragged on the ground, having no
means of defense - although, of course, according to police, this person at the same time
beat the policemen (though she kept the flag in her hands all the time and was dragged on
the ground by a few unpolished policemen) . the police used means of direct coercion, and
the crowd had to respond even to the defense of blows "given away" by uniformed. In the
resulting confusion, among the shouts demanding the release of the detainee, the police
managed to draw another three people out of the protesters. In their case, the detention
was even brute. One of the people was grabbed from behind and dragged on the ground,
having no means of defense - although, of course, according to police, this person at the
same time beat the policemen (though she kept the flag in her hands all the time and was
dragged on the ground by a few unpolished policemen) . the police used means of direct
coercion, and the crowd had to respond even to the defense of blows "given away" by
uniformed. In the resulting confusion, among the shouts demanding the release of the
detainee, the police managed to draw another three people out of the protesters. In their
case, the detention was even brute. One of the people was grabbed from behind and dragged
on the ground, having no means of defense - although, of course, according to police, this
person at the same time beat the policemen (though she kept the flag in her hands all the
time and was dragged on the ground by a few unpolished policemen) . The police managed to
draw another three people from among the protesters. In their case, the detention was even
brute. One of the people was grabbed from behind and dragged on the ground, having no
means of defense - although, of course, according to police, this person at the same time
beat the policemen (though she kept the flag in her hands all the time and was dragged on
the ground by a few unpolished policemen) . The police managed to draw another three
people from among the protesters. In their case, the detention was even brute. One of the
people was grabbed from behind and dragged on the ground, having no means of defense -
although, of course, according to police, this person at the same time beat the policemen
(though she kept the flag in her hands all the time and was dragged on the ground by a few
unpolished policemen) .
Police actions led to solidarity action by protesters, initially consisting in the fact
that some people sat on the street under the so-called sitting demanding the release of
detained persons. At that time, the police sealed the anti-capitalist block from the core
of the demonstration with a tight cordon. These actions led to the retention of the entire
March for Climate. The organizers and other demonstrators have made a joint decision that
the manifestation will not move until the situation of detainees is clarified. The
prolonged negotiations with the police effectively paralyzed further protest. The police
tried to manipulate the information given to the protesters and lead to a situation in
which the demonstration's front will continue Marching, and the police block left by the
police will remain in place. If this were the case of the Anti-capitalist Bloc, after the
official end of the March, he would be considered an "illegal gathering" and the people
involved are detained. Finally, bearing in mind both the threats of escalation of police
activities and its assurances about the release of detained persons, Blok decided together
with the organizers to continue the March for Climate. At the same time, a decision was
also made to organize a peaceful protest at the police station where the detainees were
transported.
The protest at the police station, in which some of the demonstrators took part, lasted
nearly three hours. In the course of these activities, the police again abused their
powers making it difficult to contact the detainees with the lawyer and family and not
providing information about their situation. The end result was an objection of
obstructing the actions of officers of two of the detained persons and the charge of an
active assault on an officer of one person. One of the activists was heavily battered
during the arrest, so immediately after leaving the police station he went to the hospital
to make a diagnosis. It is bizarre that the intervention, which became a pretext for the
escalation of police activities, was completely unfounded, and the person against whom it
was taken was released without charge while the demonstration was under way.
To sum up, it is clear to us that this is once again the police force, supposedly
protecting either participants of legal and peaceful protest, or bystanders, actually seek
to confront, use violence and use their powers to break the protest.
We do not consent to the breaking of demonstrations and unjustified detention of its
participants or participants. We do not consent to violence against detainees, threats,
insults and insults. There is no consent for the prosecution of the detainees once again.
We do not agree to lies and manipulations performed by public relations police officers
attempting to pass sentences against detainees and to misrepresent the actual picture of
the course of the protest and police activities. We clearly declare solidarity with the
accused persons, we will support them and inform them of all actions taken in their defense.
We will not let ourselves be chuffed or intimidated! Solidarity with our weapons!
Anarchist Federation - Poznan section
http://www.rozbrat.org/dokumenty/ekologia/4651-owiadczenie-przeciw-brutalnoci-policji-i-rozbijaniu-marszu-dla-klimatu
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