Anarchic update news all over the world - 4.12.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Czech, afed: Do not remove yellow vests -- It's back in
      France again. What is going on and who are "yellow vests"?
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  wsm.ie: Identity Politics is a Four way Conflict
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  wsm.ie: The housing crisis in Ireland - 8 points on the big
      picture (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, liberta salonica: interventions at schools in the
      center & Xirokrini (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  anarchist collectivity vogliamotutto: 10 years since the
      revolt of December 2008 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, APO: Anarchist Announcement on the December
      Rebellion, Against the Fascist Threat and State Terrorism -- by
      dirty horse [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  alas barricadas: [SEIS Madrid] Against the circus of union
      elections por Union of Teaching and Social Intervention of CNT
      Madrid. (ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 8.  Briefs from Greece By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Sounds like they have something to do with the rescuers. The "gilets jaune", yellow and 
reflective vests, however, are named after the warning garment that every driver has to 
wear in the car and dress him in the event of an imminent danger. As a great danger, tens 
of thousands of French drivers and drivers have seen steeply rising fuel prices that 
threaten the budgets of their homes. Fuel prices rose in France by 23% last year. Another 
leap forward will take place in January when a higher tax on diesel and petrol is to take 
effect. Macron's administration defends higher taxes by making the transition to a greener 
way of transport. ---- On the seventeenth of November, about 250,000 Frenchmen came to the 
streets. They blocked important transport hubs at 2000 sites and ten oil stores. They have 
no leader and do not speak to any political party. This time, this is not an event of 
unbending unionists. It is another spontaneous "facebook" movement, one of those that has 
caused many debates, hopes and skepticism in recent years. The reasons for the anger are 
quite legitimate. If you are dependent on car traffic, you have to drive the car to 
school, you have to go to work with it and you need it to supply and maintain your 
household, the fuel is growing dramatically by an existential problem.

Let us not, however, say that the "gilets jaune" is an anti-ecological movement that 
challenges global climate change and is opposed to green politics. It is precisely this 
pose that tries to impose various anti-emphatic, reactionary, neoliberal, conservative, 
chauvinist, or fascist political parties. To understand the yellow vests, we need to 
realize where we are and what is happening here. Capitalism is a rogue rogue system, in 
which only villains flourish. They try to maintain and impart the maximum power of the 
market. The task of the embassies, state, liberal, non-liberal and conservative 
governments is not only to preserve capitalism and profit growth in all circumstances, but 
at the same time, which is associated with it, to shift as much of the cost to society as 
possible. They are not just the roads and railways we pay, and often they are profitable 
for big business. It's not just the upbringing of new workers and brains that we pay, and 
of which the big business is often totally free of charge. These are mainly exploited 
resources, wars, humanitarian catastrophes, infrastructure renewal after the wars, and 
more and more burning and possibly even fatal problems for the devastated environment. 
They are not the households who are driving the world to ruin, 10% of the richest are 
responsible for half of all greenhouse gases. But half of the planet's population, which 
is among the less fortunate, unprivileged, generates only 10% of greenhouse gases. Do not 
forget, do not forgive, we will not give up! They are not the households who are driving 
the world to ruin, 10% of the richest are responsible for half of all greenhouse gases. 
But half of the planet's population, which is among the less fortunate, unprivileged, 
generates only 10% of greenhouse gases. Do not forget, do not forgive, we will not give 
up! They are not the households who are driving the world to ruin, 10% of the richest are 
responsible for half of all greenhouse gases. But half of the planet's population, which 
is among the less fortunate, unprivileged, generates only 10% of greenhouse gases. Do not 
forget, do not forgive, we will not give up!

"I earn 500 euros per month, how can I use it? With what I earn, I can only have one meal 
a day, "Jaen-Luc complains, a seven-year-old protester from Calais. Fact? Do we have to 
believe that? In France? In globalized capitalism, this is possible. If you are doing for 
a staffing agency and become an outsourced human resource. Again, these are the cost and 
business risks of the company's loins. If we make sense of the political reality of today, 
we have not one, but two major political streams. The first, liberal, democratic, 
neoliberal, has been drinking our blood for too long. For decades, he has denied global 
climate change, today he feels he accepts it. He is willing to make some changes here that 
will delay the destruction of the planet, that a big business is making these changes and 
that all the development and costs associated with it will be paid by the company. The 
second main stream, the non-liberal Democrats, the conservatives who face the opposition, 
will deny the devastation of the planet by business as long as possible, and ensure that 
everything runs in the dormitory, and the company pays off all the externalities of the 
big business. Both these streams are merged into a stinking cesspool that pulls us to the 
bottom.

Yellow vests are a mass movement in which there are surely desperate people who will 
listen to embarrassing propaganda or compromise with neoliberal hopelessness. But there 
are also freedmen, who set up food banks and form anti-fascist blocks. The role of the 
anarchist, anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist movement and all people capable of free 
thinking is to force elite and global capital to pay for all necessary changes to 
sustainable society, as well as humanitarian catastrophes linked to the militarist opening 
of new markets and environmental devastation by business. No wealthy, no corporation can 
make the whole human community alive and generate profits at the expense of future 
generations. No democrat, populist, or dictator will declare ourselves in favor of business.

Sources:
https://freedomnews.org.uk/dont-abandon-your-yellow-jackets/
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/svet/2654381-pri-protestech-ve-francii-zemrela-zena-kvuli- 
crash-gasoline-flooded-earth-yellow
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/worlds-richest-10-produce-half-of-global-carbon-emissions-says-oxfam 

https: 
//www.facebook.com/tenzolizthia/posts/2155237491173956?comment_id=2156383854392653¬if_id=1542885099530387¬if_t=comment_mention 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2084495778530082

https://www.afed.cz/text/6909/nesundavejte-zlute-vesty

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Discussions about Identity Politics (IdPol) absorbs a huge amount of energy across the 
political spectrum.  Discussion on the left however is often complicated and made overly 
hostile because they take place along the single axis of oppression which means proponents 
of IdPol get lumped in with Hilary Clinton while opponents get lumped in with Donald 
Trump.  This understandably encourages bad faith discussions that throw a lot of heat and 
very little light. Here we are going to argue that a much more useful exchange can happen 
when we instead create a plot where one axis is oppression and the second is exploitation 
as that puts both Trump & Clinton a good distance away from socialists.
A visualisation might help.  The different positions on Capitalism and Identity Politics 
can be plotted two dimensionally where one axis is exploitation and the other oppression. 
We put those keen on both oppression and exploitation in the top right corner, this is 
where most fascists belong. We put those most against oppression and exploitation at 
bottom left, here is where anarchists should stand.  The clarity brought by this plot to 
discussions of Identity Politics is that it places the likes of Obama, Clinton and Google 
at bottom right, ie whatever they say about opposing oppression they are upholders of 
exploitation. And that section of the left that supports at least some oppressive politics 
ends up in the top left quadrant.

‘Intersectional left' as a shorthand that performs two useful separations in reference to 
discussions of progressive politics.  In the first case the ‘left' part serves to 
distinguish between those who support an anti-oppression politics that includes the 
radical redistribution of property as a core component and those who do not.  The left 
hand side of the plot versus the right hand side. And in the second case the 
‘intersectional'* part distinguishes between those who see fighting oppression within the 
working class as fundamental to achieving communism and those who see it as secondary, and 
perhaps a divisive distraction from ‘the struggle'. The bottom left of the plot versus the 
top left.

Some of the bottom right do claim the term intersectionality but only see a problem, and 
often a downplayed one, in the oppressive element of class societies.   This is sometimes 
referred to as classism or more commonly known as snobbery. That is the set of oppressions 
that follow from someone's class identity as it is read by others from their accent or 
neighbourhood and which lead them to be discriminated against in terms of employment 
opportunities.
This claim to be intersectional without being socialist was deployed by Hilary Clinton in 
the 2016 primary and election.  It doesn't recognise the exploitative side of class, that 
is the division in the world between the very few who own the means of production and the 
very many who must therefore hire their labour to those capitalist owners. Indeed she used 
the claim to be ‘intersectional' to attack the Bernie Sanders campaign as ‘BernieBros'. 
Again our 2 dimensional plot comes in useful here in demonstrating that regardless to how 
seriously you take Clinton's opposition to oppression relative to Sanders he still comes 
closer to everyone on the left than she does.

Google even more than Hillary Clinton could be considered to illustrate the contractions 
of this ‘intersectionality without socialism.' It's a company that claims to take 
oppression within the workplace extremely seriously while at the same time being all about 
exploitation within that same workplace. Consider this statement included with a 2017 
Google job advertisement  "At Google, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, 
we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our 
community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative 
action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, 
color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, 
marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified 
applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you 
have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know"

However the vast majority of google profits flow to the shareholders, including the 
management, rather than the workers.  Such companies might track gender and race promotion 
statistics but you can get fired for just revealing how much you earn to a fellow worker. 
And while engineers are well paid there are also many poorly paid workers, often employed 
at arms length though sub-contracting to ensure they have poor conditions and little legal 
recourse.  This apparently is just fine for woke capitalism.

Google workers are not unionised. We aren't setting ourselves up as the arbitrators of who 
is and is not intersectional.  But we do think the Google, Obama and Clinton positions are 
more clearly described as ‘woke' capitalism or capitalist IdPol. IDPol being a popular 
shorthand for ‘Identity Politics.' Generally Clinton supporters and the ‘progressive' tech 
sector already use the term Identity Politics as a positive descriptor while those on the 
intersectional left may avoid it because such use and the negative use by the right make 
it a rhetorical trap of misunderstandings. Woke capitalism is serious about minimising 
oppression and even willing to fund Affirmative Action programs aimed at overcoming the 
consequences of historical oppression for particularly talented individuals,  Just don't 
ask them to increase the minimum wage in jobs like fast food where oppressed workers are 
often disproportionately employed. Not to mention suggesting equality on wages.

We've already came up with a shorthand which probably covers the non-intersectional left, 
that is the Nostalgic Left.  That shorthand reflects that their opposition to 
anti-oppression politics which toady often stems from a nostalgic look to an most imagined 
past when the left was not complicated by what they also call Identity Politics. It also 
includes the reactionary elements of the left like the US Revolutionary Communist Party 
that until recently saw homosexuality of as bourgeois deviation. That specific 
pro-oppression attitude is now unusual in the western left but hostility to trans 
liberation has stepped in as an area where some on the Nostalgic left support oppression. 
We wrote about the Nostalgic Left at more length previously so won't repeat that here.

Another way of looking at all this is in terms of how ‘progressives' view exploitation and 
oppression.  Exploitation is where workers only receive back some of the value of what 
they produce, their employer pocketing the rest as capital.  Google or Clinton have no 
problem at all with exploitation, indeed Google could not exist with it. Oppression is 
where you are discriminated against because of the identity assigned to you.  Google or 
Clinton profess to be horrified by oppression while embracing exploitation. Lean in 
feminism seeks a path to more women running the machinery of exploitation rather than 
opposing it.

However the division between oppression and exploitation under class society is very 
porous.  The exploitation that comprises capitalism means that oppression is fundamental 
to building the wealth of the few through keeping the many divided.  This history of the 
development of capitalism is not simply a history of exploitation of the worker in the 
factory but also the oppression of colonialism and the racism of slavery providing the 
wealth which funded the building of those factories.

The Intersectional Left is best used to describe that section of the left that recognises 
oppression and exploitation are inter twined with each constantly recreating the other. 
For this reason you can't win through prioritising the fight against one over the fight 
against the other.

A three way fight?
This three way division expresses the fault lines far better than a binary one of being 
for or against ‘Identity Politics' does. Possibly by design the label Identity Politics 
lumps together the Intersectional Left and Woke capitalism.  That lumping works well for 
Woke capitalism, it enabled Clinton to try and mobilise the Intersectional Left against 
Sanders for instance. But despite that it has also been uncritically adopted by the 
Nostalgic Left because it enables them to pretend Woke Capitalism is intersectionality 
rather than a rather obvious bad fit to the concept.  The US election primary campaign 
proved this to be sectarian foolishness that damaged Sanders. But it also means Nostalgic 
Left theorists often don't understand the ideas they think they are arguing against and so 
their confusion with Woke Capitalism gets read as bad faith or at time it is sectarian bad 
faith.**

‘Identity politics' is a 4 sided conflict
Finally it is important not to forget the 4th side to the conflict.  Woke Capitalism is a 
utopian*** development of a particular tendency within capitalism but for most of history 
most capitalists have recognised oppression and exploitation as going hand in hand and 
essential to each other. The wealth of British capitalism was built through slavery & 
colonialism - those capitalists developed racism as part of that process and it was 
essential for generating the capital and markers that made the industrial revolution 
possible at that point in time. Racism was the motor that drove the labour requirements of 
the sugar plantations of the West Indies, enormous profits were made but that needed huge 
quantities of labourers working in conditions of low life expectancy.  It's probably not a 
co-incidence that the apparently ‘progressive' companies today are those with 
comparatively few workers to vast amounts of capital in what can only be a short lived 
period of rapid growth. When that growth plateau's and those workers start to organise 
collectively it could very well be that the like of Google will rediscover the value of 
manipulating divisions in its workforce.

Unity through a solidarity that is diverse
The need to define a division between the Intersectional and Nostalgic left is a product 
of both the progress the left - broadly defined - has made in fighting oppression in the 
20th century and the resultant transformation of what is still very much a capitalist 
society in the 21st century.  Clarity around this division is also needed because of the 
failures of the left and in particular the failure of strategies that focused on the 
concept of a ‘core industrial working class' that was assigned the vanguard role.  This 
was the mostly white and male working class of the European banana (the industrialised 
zone running from England through the Ruhr and down to Northern Italy) and what is now the 
US rust belt.
It turned out that the very strong union organisations built in these zones and, in the 
European case, the strong parties of the left built alongside them were vulnerable to 
being picked off in isolation - as with the 1984 British miners strike.  They were also 
vunerable to capitalist restructuring, both replacement through automation and moving jobs 
to less organised regions of the globe. Often workers unity was fragmented through the 
pre-existing if papered over, fractures along the lines of race, gender and sexuality 
that, as defeats accumulated,  allowed the growth of right and even fascist parties in the 
deindustralised one time left bases.

The challenge for the Intersectional left is to build new movements for communism that 
don't contain the weakness of that fragile and false unity.  Real strength is built 
through movements that fundamentally challenge oppression throughout their existence. The 
other challenge is to prevent Woke Capitalism presenting itself as the way to fight 
oppression, through the suggestion of a path towards a mythological capitalist system of 
exploitation that does not rely on using divisions within the working class.

You probably have seen a two dimensional political axis before, but where the first axis 
was left V right and the second authoritarian V anti-authoritarian?  Someone with better 
drawing skills that those in our sketch might well want to add a third dimension, the 
authoritarian V anti-authoritarian axis.

Anarchists need to ensure these movements for communism are anti-authoritarian in nature 
as we understand that top down revolutions will end up recreating oppressions despite what 
might be good intentions.  The Intersectional Left needs to become anti-authoritarian if 
it is to defeat both exploitation and oppression in any sort of way that avoids the 
historical tendency of authoritarian socialism to recreate both.

WORDS: Andrew Flood - this piece is one of several pieces arising out of a process of 
collective discussion and education we will be publishing over the coming months.

>>>> Further reading <<<<
WSM position paper on Exploitation & Class
WSM position paper on Anarchism, Oppression & Exploitation

>>>> Expansions & Explanations <<<<

The axis
The plot and the placement of groups in it is for illustrative purposes, there is no 
precision and indeed part of the purpose of the exercise might be to discuss the relative 
placements of Clinton V Corbyn for instance. A couple of the groups are probably obscure 
in particularly the pre-20002 RCP which is a reference to the US Maoist organisation of 
that name that as late as 2002 was still maintaining the once widespread line that 
‘homosexuality is a bourgeois deviation'. That position is now rare on the Western left 
but its not at all uncommon to still encounter a similar attitude towards trans rights 
from elements of the Nostalgic left, particularly those more prone to see Stalin sending 
Russian tanks into Hungary in 1956 to put down the workers revolution as a good thing, the 
Tankies on the graph. Mujeres Libres was an organisation of anarchist women that formed 
during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution in part because of the way the marginalisation 
of women continued within the anarchist CNT union.

*Intersectionality is a term developed from the Black feminist experience in the US.  The 
first uses of the term lie in the writings of American civil rights advocate Kimberlé 
Williams Crenshaw.  But the precedents are older and rooted in struggles and the 
theorising that came from those struggles. For instance the 1977 ‘Combahee River 
Collective Statement'  is often cited 
http://combaheerivercollective.weebly.com/the-combahee-river-collective-statement.html
The term intersectionality refers to the way people's multiple identities intersect to 
create a whole that is not simply the sum of the component identities.  The experience of 
oppression a black woman faces is not simply the addition of being black and being a 
woman, but also contains additional components from being at the intersection of those two 
oppressions.  Although it largely developed as a critique of white feminism, it also 
provided a critique of a common tendency on the left to see unity as being best achieved 
behind a single working class identity. That almost inevitably became the identity of the 
straight white man, the literal image of ‘the worker' found in so much left iconography in 
less copped on times.

** Shorthand & Legacy
Shorthand always has the problem that it is a simplification of a more complicated 
situation.  In this case it lumps into three distinct groups what will actually be a 
spectrum of opinions along two distinct axes.  And the differences at the extremes within 
each of those groups may be almost as large as the differences between each of the groups. 
  That problem is also a necessary cost of political clarification and organisations. All 
left organisations, unless they are simply cults, are groups of people who have different 
opinions but have agreed to join an organisation that has a collective opinion which will 
never be absolutely identical to theirs.  We need to group together in this manner to 
achieve more than the sum of our parts, one person can't put out a newspaper (unless they 
are very wealthy) but 100 people can by pooling resources. Left groups were often defined 
by ‘the paper' for just this reason.

In the past those groupings within the left have often defined themselves using shorthand 
around personalities. Trotskyism V Stalinism for instance where the personalities stood in 
for a range of opinions that person held including socialism in one country, social 
fascism, permanent revolution etc.  The emerging categories used here are just as real as 
those earlier broad divisions and describe the modern world and modern left more usefully. 
The old divisions don't map neatly onto one or the other, anarchists tend to be 
Intersectional but there are certainly some that are Nostalgic. Marxist-Leninists are 
often Nostalgic but many are Intersectional.

https://wsm.ie/c/identity-politics-four-way-conflict-left

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The WSM has been having a 'big picture' discussion around the housing crisis from which 
the following points emerged. We are publishing them ahead of the December 1st 
demonstration in Dublon (14.00 Parnell square). ---- 1. We built our cities and the houses 
of our cities. They are ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own. ---- 2. The 
contemporary crisis of capitalism has made markedly visible the relationship between 
finance capital and property speculation, between the concentrated money-power of bankers 
and speculators and the shaping of the built environment in our towns and cities. ---- 
This relationship has had all manner of disastrous consequences for the working class 
(inflated rents or mortgages, lower living standards, ghettoisation and suburbanisation 
etc.) and for the environment (distorted flood plains, abandoned buildings, the 
prioritisation of car commuting over public transport etc.). Today, it seems that one of 
the real challenges for the working class is to change that relationship, to claim a 
‘right to the city' for its inhabitants.

3. Ireland's ruling class are thieves who well deserve our scorn and derision. But if our 
communities want to take control of our city we must organise together. We do not expect 
those who inhabit Leinster House to solve our housing problems. Politicians typically rule 
out state intervention in the property market to build social housing or to curb the cost 
of renting. They call this ‘restoring confidence to the market'. We call this ‘destroying 
the fabric of society'.

4. Neoliberalism - or the free market faith - is a programme for destroying collective 
structures which may impede the pure market logic. This faith in the free market is 
powerful not only among those who live off it - such as financiers, the owners and 
managers of large corporations and property portfolios or REITS - but also among those, 
such as high-level government officials and politicians, who derive their justification 
for existing from it. The consequences for housing has been profound. In the 1970s, social 
housing in Ireland made up 33% of all new houses; today, it has dropped to under 5%. And 
as bad and all as it is to be homeless, how much worse is it to be homeless and a 
Traveller in this country? Or to be homeless and an addict? Or to be homeless with 
dependents? Or to be homeless and a migrant?

6. Capital wants us to discipline us. It wants us to look at homeless people and think 
‘What an awful situation; I must work harder to prevent it happening to me' (working 
harder, for us, always means making more money for someone else). Or Capital wants us to 
think of asylum seekers and say ‘We have our own people to be concerned about' (but we 
know that asylum seekers are ‘our people' and that, given the opportunity, asylum seekers 
would work in and make our communities better places to live). Or Capital wants us not to 
think about these people at all. It says, ‘This is unfortunate, but necessary. We will 
have growth tomorrow and then we will fix these problems'. But we know this is untrue. It 
was untrue yesterday, untrue today, and will be untrue tomorrow. In all cases, Capital 
(with the help of the State and its servants) is preventing people from living in homes 
with dignity. We see that we have more in common with homeless people than we have with 
the class of people who profited in the boom and who are still profiting in the bust - 
whether big developers or private landlords or government politicians. We refuse to bow to 
the free market faith in our society. We believe that housing is a human need that we can 
create for all.

7. We see all the empty buildings in the city - the dereliction created by those who hold 
the free market faith. We support squatting as a form of direct action to provide shelter 
for homeless families.

8. We support those housing action groups that are busy forming, talking to one another, 
and acting across Dublin and across Ireland.

Our struggles overflow and our communities grow stronger. We expect no change from above. 
We look to one another and our own initiative. We have a world to win together. Dignity 
and decent housing for all! And, in the midst of suffering and resistance, when we talk of 
a social logic of fairness, and of looking after our own, we do not forget the five adults 
and five children who died in a fire on a halting site in Carrickmines. We do not forget 
those who take their own lives in Direct Provision. We do not forget those who die on the 
streets. We do not forget their relatives, their families and friends. And we do not 
forgive those who would put the value of their property ahead of the dignity of the living 
and the dead.

https://wsm.ie/c/housing-crisis-notes-big-picture-ireland

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Anti-Fascists and Anti-Fascists have intervened in schools in the center and Xirokrini, in 
view of 29 November - the day when the fascists, assisted as ever by the media, invited 
the students to take up their schools and "participate in the Pan-Hellenic Day of Action 
the "Macedonian". ---- The first "independent" nationalist occupations are already a fact: 
so "independent", often done without any collective decision of the student community, 
banners with fascist slogans and symbols, or, even more improbably, with uniformly printed 
banners (non-!), according to the media, students give the pulse with UWCard slogans and a 
lot of nationalist parapsychology). ---- Similar interventions were made by anti-fascists 
and anti-fascists, pupils and non-students, to dozens of schools in the city.

Whosoever intends not to stand fast as fascists turn our cities, squares, our schools into 
places that we all and all of us do not fit in. The world of the struggle, the exploited 
and the oppressed, all and all of us who have not forgotten the brutality of the 
historical past, must drastically abstain from any attempt to develop fascism, whatever 
the cause and whether it unfolds. We have to crush fascism in the whole social field in 
which we move and live: in the streets, in the work, in the schools and in the schools, in 
our neighborhoods.

We will not let the neo-Nazis infect students with the most mischievous, abhorrent and 
murderous ideology that humanity has ever known. We will keep our schools clean from 
racists, nationalists and fascists.

BENEFITS AGAINST THE POWER - NOT FOR NATIONS AND THE CHURCH

INSTRUMENTS AND OUTSIDE THE SCHOOLS TO CLASSIFY THE PHASE AND THE SYSTEM WHICH GIVES AND 
GIVES THEM

Thessaloniki
Liberal Initiative lib_thess@hotmail.com libertasalonica.wordpress.com

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2018/11/29

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Then we did not get used to death. ---- Then thousands of people went out on the streets 
to express their wrath, the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the cops of Corkonas and 
Saraliotis. ---- Then the utopia scribbled its marks on the streets and city buildings. 
---- When normality was overturned and everything seemed feasible. ---- At the time when 
the authoritarian laws came to a halt and the path to the total overthrow of the world of 
exploitation and oppression appeared. ---- TODAY and NOW to attack every power, to walk in 
the footsteps of the revolt towards ... social revolution, anarchy and communism.
December 6 and every day everyone on the streets where the impossible becomes possible.
anarchist collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2018/12/01/2008-2018-ten-years-revolt/

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Message: 6






10 years after the December Rebellion and the hundreds of school occupations that gave 
birth ---- ... keep the flame lit in the schools ---- NO RELATIONSHIP TO NATIONALS AND 
MINIANGULAR ANTILLIPSES ---- The December uprising is engraved in the memories of the many 
thousands who lived it, and is a symbol of resistance for the younger men mentioned in it. 
It began as an angry response to the murder of the 15-year old student Alexandros 
Grigoropoulos at the junction of Tzavella and Mesolongiou streets in Exarchia by the 
special guards E.Corconea and V.Saraliotis. A murder that came as a corollary to the 
aggravated state aggression against the struggles of that period.
The December uprising is for us all an inspirational place, a point that we perceived what 
can happen when society takes the situation in its hands and resists , a focal point for 
our politicization and action , a historic moment of conflict with the its dominant class 
and its minions.

We were the students who understood the schools , who, along with thousands of others, 
protested with the same anger, that we had come to the road for a long time and learned 
that only through our struggles can we claim that we belong to it. Students who stayed for 
weeks in schools and demonstrated each day. We were the students who had shut down 
thousands of schools , which transformed the amphitheater into fields of fermentation, 
exchange of views, into cells of politicization. We were the teachers who stood as 
comrades and comrades side by side with our students and we ate together the wood and 
police tear gas. We were all down the road, collide with the police, we were occupying 
state buildings.Those who have learned to gain fear , overcome inertia and defeatism 
because we knew we had others at our side and that we were right. We were the ones who 
later came back on the road to the anti-social bills of governments. Those who have once 
again experienced state violence and repression because we have stood up against state and 
capitalist barbarism, in memorials, in anti-labor and anti-social bills, in law enforcement.

We are the ones who continue to struggle on every front , trying to overthrow the 
barbarity surrounding us. In schools and schools against class barriers, mergers and 
abolitions, the Gavroglu bill, the degradation of our conditions of study and life, the 
strike of trade unionism, the death of thousands of deputies on the road. Those who are 
organized in the workplace to resist and collectively claim to belong to them, to layoffs, 
wage cuts, the abolition of collective agreements. We are the ones who set up anti-fascist 
barricades so as not to leave the earth to the nationalists and the fascists. Those who 
arein neighborhoods and squares with neighbors, re- occupy the public space and resist the 
looting of their lives.

We are not the "10 hoods", the image of the "marginal" that power defines for us. We are 
the workers and the unemployed, the anarchists and the students, we are many and we want 
them all, we are December. We became one with tens of thousands, with them we hit the 
state and capitalist symbols, we conquered the streets, the universities, the mayoralties. 
We conquered the conscience that next time we do not want to return to the regularity of 
state and capitalist sepsis.

Recently, the Golden Dawn and a series of far-right nationalist organizations have been 
attempting to organize student occupations and mobilizations with clearly 
nationalistic-fascist content. On the occasion of the so-called "Macedonian issue", we are 
following a coordinated effort from the far-right site to enter schools and diffuse its 
intolerant and racist poison.

The "Macedonian" issue was the occasion for the assembly of the various nationalist groups 
and the organization of nationalist rallies. In the last year, a series of fascist-jerking 
attacks on immigrants, fighters, squats and self-managed combat venues have taken place, 
culminating in the arson of occupation of Libertatia by a group of fascists who 
co-operated with a football club hooligan, with apparent police coverage .

Against the effort of engaging the peoples in warfare and turning them into cannon meat 
because of the inter-imperialist contradictions (coupled with the efforts of various power 
blocks to increase their sphere of influence), we should advance internationalist 
solidarity and the common struggle of peoples so that to be able to live peacefully and 
harmoniously defining their own lives away from any kind of "patron".

Against the attempt to dissuade students from the real problems of government policies, 
the memorandums and directions of the international political and economic bosses, 
dissolving the school , further degrading the conditions of study and life, and sowing 
poverty and poverty in the overwhelming majority society, to bring our interests and needs 
to the fore.

Student-and not only-squatting is a weapon in the hands of those struggling for a life of 
dignity and not a means for the neo-Nazi to diffuse their mischievous perceptions. A 
weapon of those who struggle for life against all those who are sowing death. 
Student-student squats (student 1998-2000, student 2006-2007, 2011, revolt 2008), great 
teacher matches are part of the rich history of social and class resistances. We have to 
catch this thread of struggles today and throw the nationalist garbage out of our schools 
and schools. With our common struggle, students, students and teachers put our interests 
and needs ahead,turning schools and schools into live race, resistance, fermentation and 
politicization cells.

10 years after the grand revolt of December, we continue to struggle against what 
dissolves our lives . 10 years after the thousands of occupations and mobilizations of the 
students to regain the thread of struggle, resistance and claim . Let us leave no space to 
nationalist affairs. Crush them in neighborhoods, squares, schools, schools, workplaces, 
and where else they go head-to-head.

We continue to struggle for new insurrections but also for overcoming them . Because our 
vision does not stop at the outbreak of spontaneous insurrection. It is not justified by 
anything less than the social revolution, the universal overthrow of the state and 
capitalism, and the building of a new class society of equality, solidarity and freedom.

ORGANIZATION AND RACE

For the Society of Equality, Solidarity and Freedom

For Anarchy and Liberal Communism

anarchist group "dwarf horse"

  member of the Anarchist Political Organization

December 2018

  https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2018/11/29

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Message: 7





In the next month of December, the workers of the public education in Madrid will be 
called to the polls to elect our union representatives. It is well known that such an act 
of democracy aims to reproduce the structure and values of parliamentarism in the field of 
work. ---- As a historical reminder, we would like to point out that these elections are 
heirs of those held during the Franco dictatorship.At that time there was a mandatory 
union, the Vertical Union. Periodically workers were called to elect their Union Liaisons. 
Although other unions were banned, members of CCOO, USO, Christian sectors, communists ... 
participated in the elections as independents. CNT and UGT boycotted those electoral 
processes because they considered them simple farces that aimed to give a democratic air 
to the dictatorship, and to avoid any kind of social conflict. When Franco died, the 
Vertical Union disappeared thanks to the multiple protests of the workers, and democracy, 
after the Pacts of Moncloa, which demobilized the working class, gave way to a multitude 
of unions that function on the organizational and electoral basis inherited from the 
Franco regime.

Let's leave the story aside. Our duty is to review the real achievements of unions present 
in the union landscape of public education in Madrid during the last four years: none.

Nothing good can augur Madrid's union scene:

ANPE, CCOO, UGT, CSIT, CSIF, USO, CGT and STEM are trade unions or professional 
associations with appreciable differences. Some are conservatives such as ANPE and CSIF, 
other progressive and supposedly class like CCOO and UGT, some are presented as 
alternatives, such as CGT, others are confessional as USO, many are corporate as ANPE or 
CSIT. Despite the differences, they all have something in common and that is that they all 
respond to the union model that we have described above: subsidies, liberated trade 
unions, hierarchical bureaucratic apparatuses, clientelism, pacts, etc.

Faced with this union model, we propose as an alternative the assemblies of workers: 
without release and without subsidies. A model based on participation and organization 
among equals, away from the circus of elections, agents and controllers. A model in which 
the workers organize themselves to improve their working conditions, becoming actively 
involved in the struggle, without delegating to the liberated ones who, once the elections 
have passed, forget the program they promised to fulfill. Have you ever seen that the 
liberated unionists give explanations for those electoral promises that remained in the air?

We must also take into account that these released are framed within one of those large 
unions mentioned above, which are very interested in your working conditions. These unions 
only want your vote, your quota and your silence. They have more important problems than 
your employment situation, such as the high-level policy issues that they will deal with 
at the sectorial tables: agreements, reconversions and major agreements go through their 
hands. And thanks to them, every year that passes there are new setbacks. Assemblies of 
workers provide, in opposition, the autonomy to make your own decisions without attending 
to politicking, knowing first hand the needs of your center and fighting directly for them 
without concessions by their macroeconomic or political interests.

For all that has been said, we can affirm that the union elections and the current Spanish 
union system defend the interests of the employers, in this case, the Administration. And, 
how are you going to defend the interests of the workers against the Administration, when 
this is one of those responsible for maintaining these unions economically? According to 
the Excerpt of the Resolution of the Undersecretariat of Education and Vocational Training 
of September 18, 2018, which calls for the granting of subsidies to unions representative 
of teaching staff staff of public non-university education centers, corresponding to the 
year 2018 and published in the BOE of October 8 of this year, the amount of the subsidy is 
91,640.00 euros,

What can we do about this? For mental health it may be useful not to participate in this 
pantomime by going to vote, although that is not the most relevant. The fundamental thing 
is to organize in the centers in union sections and horizontal and autonomous assemblies 
of workers, in which all participate, all fight and all decide; that empower the autonomy, 
the critical sense and the principles that sustain the ethics of integrity.

Do not vote, do not get carried away by passive abstention.

For active abstention and union sections.

http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/41024

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Message: 8






>>  Various demonstrations will take place in the main cities of Greece this December 6, 
2018 to honor the memory of the young anarchist Alexis Grigoropulos, who was murdered on 
December 6, 2008 by police near the Exarchia district in Athens. In response to the 
assassination, the ardent December revolt occurred ten years ago against the first 
austerity measures. Alexis's memory keeps alive the possibility of revolt. ---- >>  On 
Thursday (29/11) in response to the fascist movement "Macedonia Greek earth", led by the 
neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, several hundred students took to the streets across Greek 
territory, particularly in Athens and Thessalonica, to report the emerging nationalism. 
Pictures of anti-nationalist interventions in Thessalonian schools here:
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1593529/

>>  This morning in Athens, a group of 20-25 fascists attacked Occupation 111 with empty 
bottles and stones, resulting in the breaking of two panes. At the time of the offensive, 
there was no one on the property.

>>  The 3rd Congress of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives 
takes place in Thessalonica, on 2 and 3 December. apo.squathost.com

>>  Against patriarchy, capitalism and the state. In Athens, on Saturday (24/11), a march 
for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women featured an 
anarchist bloc[photo].

agência de notícias anarquistas-ana

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