Anarchic update news all over the world - 5.12.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  [Uruguay] Intervention on the debut of the documentary "El
      Camino de Santiago" in Montevideo By ANA (ca, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Greece] Video: In Patras, KKE-PAME communists try to block
      anarchist demonstration blocs By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation: Donald Trump,
      White Nationalism and America's Colonial Legacy 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group: The Anvil Vol 7 No 3 -
      ARMISTICE DAY by ablokeimet (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Poland, zsp: The fair trade "I Love Bio" does not pay for
      work [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, Class War: No to Tommy Robinson - No to Brexit
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  [Argentina] Rosário: Presentation of the book "Wenüy. For
      the rebel memory of Santiago Maldonado " By ANA (ca, pt)                      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Against his world of profit and political competition: ---- On the night of Friday, 
November 16 , an intervention was carried out in room B of Sodre, in order that the 
documentary " El Camino de Santiago " would not normally pass. The room was invaded 
without paying for the entrance while the movie began, flipping through pamphlets, while 
the room was filled with several angry cries. ---- We repudiate the Argentine director 
Tristán Bauer and Florencia Kirchner, since they are creators of a documentary that 
profits with the image of the companion anarchist Santiago Maldonado, using it like a 
mediatic tool for its political and economic interests. ---- Bauer was present, but he 
could not quell the anger of the screams and chants that made it difficult to display his 
documentary. Even though he was trying to challenge himself with some of us and faced us, 
his effort was in vain. It was clear all the contempt we have for him, both through words 
and with a well-deserved spit, since we repudiate all his political circus in words and 
actions. We even managed to stop the display and turn on the lights in the room, where 
immediately some spectators voluntarily left after hearing our slogans, while others 
watched in astonishment. We stopped the normal performance of the event and we were the 
center of attention in a sustained way for a few minutes, until Tristán Bauer left the 
room saying that the documentary would not be displayed.

With this intervention we continue the boycott that began in Argentine territory before 
the premieres of the same documentary. We will not allow Bauer and the Kirchners to 
benefit peacefully from the murder of a fellow combatant, since we oppose all politicians 
and consider them enemies of freedom.

Santiago did not die by serving as a puppet to his political campaigns, Santiago fought in 
the streets and the State killed him.

Macri, Kirchner, the same shit! Long live anarchy!

Source: 
https://periodicoanarquia.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/recibimos-y-publicamos-intervencion-en-el-estreno-del-documental-el-camino-de-santiago-en-montevideo/

Translation> Liberto

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On Wednesday (28/11) in Patras, on the 24-hour strike called by private sector unions to 
call for "an end to austerity policies" in Greece, forces from the Communist Party of 
Greece (KKE) and PAME central union linked to the KKE) tried to bar and isolate the 
anarchist blocs from a march in the central streets of the city. There was an immediate 
reaction of self-defense of several anarchist demonstrators, with the effect of emerging 
melee clashes. A companion was injured. The anarchist blocs remained united until the end 
of the march. ---- This is not the first time that KKE-PAME communists have tried to 
impose themselves on other fighters, especially anarchists, seeking to exclude them from 
demonstrations. In social networks, they went so far as to say: "If marginal-anarchist 
groups appear, they will be isolated and driven off."

On the other hand, this attitude of the KKE-PAME communists is not Patras's peculiarity. 
Their respective practices are known throughout the Greek territory, where they exclude 
and target militants, especially those who refer to the self-organization of workers, 
students and activists who participate in the social and grassroots movement, who promote 
resistance, action libertarian, autonomous, and horizontal assemblies.

" We will continue to fight state and employer terrorism and bureaucratic unionism. We 
will continue to fight to make the strike again a weapon in the hands of the workers, in 
order to make trade unionism dangerous. We will continue to fight to form a grassroots 
militant union that will put our interests and needs at the center of attention, "says an 
excerpt from an extensive statement posted on the Indymedia Athens  portal  by the 
anarchist group of Patras Dissinios Ippos (Indigo Horse) that addresses the incident.

>> Video (00:47), an excerpt from the confrontation is possible to see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvGSoi23y8

Source:  https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1593496/

anarchist-ana news agency

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Rosa Soros discusses the colonial legacy of America, how it is still felt deeply today, 
and why we need a grassroots, revolutionary working class movement to fight - not just the 
forces of reaction brought about by the Trump administration - but the tide of liberalism 
that secured his power. ---- Since the election of Donald Trump as President of the United 
States and the international public's response to it, you'd think America has suddenly 
become a hive of racists and fascists. This is not to suggest that Trump's presidential 
campaign and subsequent victory hasn't emboldened the far-right and white supremacists in 
the States: we've seen white nationalists attempt to intimidate Black Lives Matter 
protesters at Trump rallies; a sharp rise in armed anti-Muslim protests by right-wing 
extremists in places like Arizona, Atlanta, and elsewhere across America; and an 
anti-fascist protester shot and in critical condition by a Trump supporter at an alt-right 
Milo Yiannopoulos event on the day of Donald Trump's inauguration. While we are correct to 
respond and respond fiercely to this wave of reaction, we need to be careful not to get 
swept up in the tide of liberal discourse that would have you think that Donald Trump is 
the Devil and if he is defeated then the people will be free! It goes without saying, 
Donald Trump is a vile, racist, misogynist, shit-stain and an authoritarian: but racism 
and white supremacy in America is nothing new - when Trump falls, who will replace him?

The United States was literally built on the savage onslaught and pillaging of its 
indigenous people and on the backs of black slavery. The United States has a shameful 
legacy of public lynchings, racial segregation, and criminalisation of black people and 
non-black people of colour - and neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton did or could do 
anything to challenge the structurally racist foundations on which the USA was built, and 
continues to sustain itself. Institutional racism from the top down begins with racist 
legislation, such as the infamous Jim Crow Laws enforced up until 1965, and is enacted 
sharply at the bottom with attacks on black, Brown, Jewish and Muslim communities, such as 
the horrific Charleston church shooting by white supremacist Dylan Roof. In a sobering 
documentary, ‘13th' the mass incarceration of black people in America is considered the 
modern day slavery, and demonstrates how since its abolition a clause known as The 
Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery 
and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. This conveniently coincided 
with the State's campaign to criminalise and prosecute black people in huge numbers, 
making them a legitimate and expendable source of free labour. Racism and the prison 
industrial complex continues to uphold capitalist production and represent the interest of 
the State.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the States are an ultra-violent white supremacist organisation 
that spans 150 years (established first in 1865) whose membership is about 30,000 strong. 
They are one of the only far-right extremist groups who have a collective knowledge and 
history of organising that has been passed on from generation to generation. They've never 
been smashed the way most other far-right and fascist groups have. We need to understand 
this in the context of the legacy of racism, colonialism and imperialism that the United 
States is built upon and stop this sudden panic as if things were getting better until 
Trump came along.

Racism and colonialism is sewn into the very fabric of the Red, White and Blue, and we 
need to look beyond the more explicit manifestations of white supremacy and nationalism in 
order to defeat them. It's easy to destroy the Devil if it wears its horns so gaudily: but 
if it's hidden behind a pearl necklace, a rehearsed smile, and speaks of feminism while 
simultaneously supporting a war which kills hundreds and thousands of brown women in the 
Middle East, the Devil will continue to walk among us. Hillary Clinton, the 'lesser of two 
evils' candidate supported the 1994 Crime Bill by her husband and then President, Bill 
Clinton, which saw extraordinarily harsh sentences for low-level crime, targeting 
predominantly black people and destroying thousands of working class ethnic minority 
families. Hillary Clinton would not have been the answer to America's problems. Hillary 
Clinton would not have stopped the mass murder of working class black people at the hands 
of police. Barack Obama did not stop the mass detention and deportation of undocumented 
migrants under his administration (in fact, Obama deported more immigrants than any other 
US President!).

Trump and his supporters are not the cause of the problem, but a sharp reactionary symptom 
of liberalism and capitalism in crisis.

This isn't to say that we should ignore the swell of fascist and far-right support Trump 
has fostered: there is a reason over 800 polling stations in the Southern states were 
closed and people were being intimidated outside polling stations by Trump supporters. 
There has to be a militant and organised working class movement in the States to resist 
this. For example, Black Lives Matter, American Antifa groups, and Standing Rock 
protesters are doing incredible and inspirational things. Former Republican working class 
communities are now mass organising in their workplaces and neighbourhoods because they've 
seen that the elite do not represent their class interests. But there needs to be a joined 
up resistance: not just in the States but internationally.

As revolutionaries we need to build international working class solidarity and resistance 
to this onslaught by the reactionary elite. We need to move beyond parliamentary tactics 
because they're defunct. We need to stop resorting to single issue struggles where we 
fight simply for equality. I don't want to win equal rights to that of my white, male 
counterpart because I don't think what he has is good enough! We need to fight for class 
emancipation and real liberation. We need to stop using identity politics and the language 
of privilege as sticks to beat each other with, and the Left needs to challenge the 
sexism, racism and academic elitism that exists within it. We don't need allies - we need 
comrades. When Trump falls and we're asked, who will replace him? Let's fight so the 
answer is us.

http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news/donald-trump-white-nationalism-and-americas-colonial-legacy/

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One hundred years ago this month, the guns of World War I fell silent. Ever since then, 11 
November has been used to mark the end of that war and an intense political struggle has 
been waged over its meaning. The war was a devastating event of unprecedented savagery. 
Millions died and people naturally want to know why. The capitalist media won't tell you 
why it started and they won't tell you how it ended. ---- World War I began because two 
great rival imperial alliances had formed, contesting over who was going to be master of 
Europe. It was a war for conquest of territory, colonies and markets. It had almost 
started two years earlier, in 1912, but diplomacy headed it off. If diplomacy had 
prevented the assassination of an Austrian Archduke from starting the war in 1914, it 
would have happened later on, triggered by something else. The showdown was inevitable.

By chance, the war started when the state of military technology favoured defenders over 
attackers. With the aid of trenches, sandbags and machine guns, a platoon could hold off a 
battalion. Given that the two rival alliances were of roughly equal strength, the scene 
was set for a military stalemate. Governments and generals, as contemptuous of the human 
life of the lower orders as ruling classes always have been, and as stupid as can be 
expected in systems built on inherited privilege, proceeded to waste millions of lives of 
soldiers and others in a vain attempt to break the stalemate.

To cut a long story short, the pointless slaughter generated increasing opposition 
throughout all belligerent countries. The chain broke at its weakest link, with revolution 
breaking out in Russia in 1917. The February Revolution overthrew the Czar and the October 
Revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power, on a promise of peace. They negotiated the 
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which got Russia out of the war in March 1918, while discontent 
continued to build in the rest of Europe and in the Ottoman Empire.

Developments in military technology (most importantly the tank) and the entry of the 
United States into the war had broken the stalemate. Germany and the other Central Powers 
were under increasing pressure and had reached breaking point. In a last ditch effort, on 
24 October the German Admiralty ordered the Navy to sea in order to take on the Royal Navy 
and break the blockade. The German sailors rightly considered this a suicide mission and 
mutinied, first at Wilhelmshaven on 29 October, followed by a larger mutiny at Kiel on 3 
November. The attack was cancelled, but it was too late. The sailors' revolt had sparked a 
revolution. Revolts spread throughout Germany in the early days of November and workers in 
city after city formed workers' councils. By 9 November, the Kaiser had been forced out 
and a republic proclaimed. The new government, centred on the Social Democratic Party, 
signed the Armistice on 11 November.

Germany's allies had also collapsed. Bulgaria had capitulated on 29 September, while the 
Ottomans signed an armistice on 30 October. Instability within their borders had combined 
with military reverses to force this. The Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary signed an 
armistice on 3 November, but it was already falling apart by then, with independence 
proclamations issued in several cities. The Armistice on the Western Front, therefore, 
marked the end of the entire war. Discontent in the armies of the British Empire, slower 
to develop, peaked after the Armistice and focused on demands for demobilisation.

World War I was ended by social revolution. The population of the Central Powers, under 
the pressure of intense privations brought on by the war, and with the example of Russia 
to their East, withdrew support from the belligerent regimes. The fall of the Kaiser, the 
dissolution of the Hapsburg Empire and the dismemberment of the Ottoman one were the 
result of workers, peasants and soldiers who had had enough. If the Central Powers' morale 
had held, the war would have continued for some time.

REVOLUTIONS STOP WARS

https://melbacg.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/armistice-day/

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An employee of the "I Love Bio" store came to the Wroclaw section of ZSP - a Wroclaw 
network distributing organic food, including products bearing the Fair Trade symbol. ---- 
O., as she informed us, she worked in "I Love Bio", a shop owned by Przemyslaw Eliasz, for 
over two weeks, for which she did not receive the remuneration due. The owner did not even 
arrange to sign a contract with O. (only after two weeks O. she asked for a preliminary 
version of the contract, which, however, was not signed, so in the light of the law, O. 
worked in black). ---- Attempts to contact the boss in order to recover the outstanding 
remuneration and sign the contract do not bring the expected result - do not write off to 
e-mails, do not answer phones, also ignored written requests for payment. In conversations 
with ZSP, he tried to present a false picture of the situation, including dropping the 
fault on the former employee for not signing the contract, even though it is the 
employer's obligation on the first day of work. The head also accused her of not 
completing health and safety training, which turned out to be a lie. O. has written 
confirmation of training on his own (not to mention that it is the responsibility of the 
employer, not the employee, to take care of it, as we reminded him in a telephone 
interview). In a telephone conversation with a representative of ZSP, the owner offered to 
pay only half of the amount worked out by O.

We ask all former and current employees who feel injured by Przemyslaw Eliasz to contact 
us. At the same time, we do not recommend shopping in a place where workers' rights are 
violently broken. In "I Love Bio" stores you will not buy goods that are truly Fair Trade. 
We are calling for a boycott of this store and we are announcing further actions in this 
matter.

http://zsp.net.pl/sklep-fair-trade-i-love-bio-nie-placi-za-prace

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'No to Tommy Robinson - No to Brexit' is a 'dangerous slogan' says the SWP. I thought the 
Left might favour dangerous slogans but not this one cos it links opposition to Tommy to 
opp to Brexit....and we mustn't do that cos SWP doesn't want links to be made - why?
cos their idiotic Lexit strategy means they can not allow any links between growth of 
racism and rise of Tommy and Brexiteers
expect mucho squirming in the next week.

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Saturday,  December 1 at 5:00 p.m. -- Square Belgium (Colon and Zeballos - Rosary) ---- In 
mapudungun " wenüy " means friend. That's what Santiago was for many people. This is how 
his Mapuche companions remember him. And so we want to remember it. ---- After a few 
months of collective activity we gathered testimonies, chronicles, photos, drawings and 
songs. The project was growing. Talking between compas, projecting, deepening. Always 
seeking rebellious memory. ---- Interviews, trips, messages that came and went, texts to 
correct, photos from here and there, proofs of print. A fraternal collective activity that 
united different stories and miles. ---- Today we are very happy to tell you that what we 
first thought of as a small booklet is now a 300 page book. ---- We want to present this 
book, fruit of the struggle, where we have been for more than a year, in the streets, in 
the squares. We are in the mural of Santiago.

Companions and companions of the Library and Historical-Social Archive "Alberto Ghiraldo".

November 2018

Edita Lazo Ediciones

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