Today's Topics:
1. [Chile] Santiago: Some words on September 11 By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. US, black rose fed: Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo
Kom'boa Ervin, Posted on September 11, 2020 - FederationTags:
Black Anarchism, interview (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Kom'boa Ervin, Posted on September 11, 2020 - FederationTags:
Black Anarchism, interview (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Slovakia, priama akcia: The CNT-AIT succeeded in
re-employing its member [machine translation]
re-employing its member [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Federación Anarquista Santiago: 47 years from the
installation of the civic-military dictatorship, where
authoritarian fascism fell on our class, (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
installation of the civic-military dictatorship, where
authoritarian fascism fell on our class, (ca) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, afed - A3: Covid, profits and power [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. ait russia: Anti-police riot in Colombia [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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For years, youth combatants have been fighting at the forefront of social protest, not only in Chile, but across the planet. October 18th
was the historic and existential date where space and time were broken and where we prefigured a different world in acts. This time, the
entire population took to the streets, tired of the abuses and miseries of life, to take all this inside. ---- In the dominated groups there
is a natural inclination towards freedom, rebellion, revolt and the total recovery of life. 73 marked an entire generation, and what we
learned from it was not in vain; it was with time that we acquired experience and awareness of struggle, history, our past and our future.
We listen to those who came before us, we experience violence and experience it, we lose compassion, we draw our own conclusions and we are
sure that nothing has ended. All wounds and falls are partial failures, as are the elements from which you can draw the strength to keep
fighting.
Given the scenario in which we find ourselves, it is clear that everything is going wrong and that everything aims to reduce our strengths.
Between the pandemic and the plebiscite, we are stunned and bombarded with news and projects that claim to emancipate us, but are far from
that. There is no doubt that our release will be our job or not. It is up to us to ensure that history does not repeat itself.
On this September 11, the first day after the start of the revolt, we ask for the strengthening of territorial organization, direct action,
mutual support and solidarity, as well as the commemoration of this date in whatever way it deems appropriate, maintaining the necessary
safeguards and care, both in health and on the streets.
September is black and our memory is full of the future.
Nothing and nobody is forgotten!
The streets are ours
NO MORE TOUCH TO COLLECT!
Down with the police state
FREEDOM FOR REVOLT PRESXS!
In memory and action for those who fell in the course of social war!
LIVE THE ANARCHY!
Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly
Chuchunco, Mapocho Valley[Est. Central, Santiago
Translation> Liberto
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Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo
Kom'boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism and rising relevance of Black anarchism. We also urge you to generously contribute
towards a fundraising campaign organized by William to support Lorenzo and his partner JoNina Ervin. Both are movement elders who've
inspired generations of rebels and are in need of support with their living and medical expenses. ---- Introduction and Interview by William
C. Anderson ---- The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has highlighted the daily disasters of capitalism. A lack of healthcare, a
safe environment, housing, and food are an everyday question for a growing segment of vulnerable people. This has brought about a noticeable
interest in anarchism for many. The failures of the state were made plain by ineffective solutions, willful neglect, and utter disregard for
human life. It exposed deeper questions (for some) about the plausibility of statist solutions. In concert with all this, authorities began
to take notice, evidenced by its mounting attacks and scapegoating of anarchists. President Trump and many others seemingly identified a set
of politics they found threatening and worthy of blame. This is no coincidence and it follows a historical pattern.
As usual, anarchism was denied its complexity by shallow, willful misreadings. The intricacy of various sets of anarchist politics,
principles, and approaches were reduced to the trope of the terroristic bomb-thrower. Even as anarchists organize and take part in mutual
aid projects around the country during this pandemic, this is not what anarchism represents to many people. In the midst of a global
pandemic, the effectiveness of these sorts of projects paired with other survival programs has become especially relevant. Although, for
opponents, so did the necessity to attack these politics from all sides. Still, growing interest in Black anarchism has remained undeterred.
Black anarchism has long been sustained by the works of often overlooked thinkers and revolutionaries. Among them is Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin.
I first met Lorenzo in 2012 at an organizing workshop I helped lead alongside different organizers across the South. My friend (who'd come
up with the idea) invited Lorenzo to speak based on the recommendation of someone she knew. It didn't take long for Lorenzo and his partner
JoNina Ervin to make the truths of anarchism clear to me. It started me on my journey to fully embracing Black anarchism.
Lorenzo has lived a revolutionary life to say the least. After being introduced to anarchism by Martin Sostre, a jailhouse lawyer that was
one of the architects of the prisoner's rights movement as we know it, he's had to battle and flee U.S. authorities more than once. He's
lived all over the world while teaching and organizing. These are just some of the reasons it's important to hear his insights about the
current predicament we're facing.
I spoke with Lorenzo about Black autonomy, fascism, and what's needed as we confront the crisis.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
William C. Anderson (WCA): What do you think about the current uprisings happening throughout the country in response to police violence?
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (LKE): I think the uprisings are good but we're seeing that they have limitations as a revolutionary uprising. These
limitations allow the state to subvert the nature of uprisings as well as the issues as mere reforms. The state and the liberal politicians
and others are able to utilize that against the movement. This kind of cooptation has been happening for a while. I've watched 60 years of
protests and so-called "riots" and rebellions and uprisings in major cities and small towns like Ferguson, Missouri. I've watched 60 years
of them going back to 1964 with the Harlem rebellion in Harlem, New York. It was always something to do with the police. One form or
another, they kill somebody, beat somebody, or just came in the community and did some kind of atrocity. And the people responded with a
fight back. What's been allowed to happen in this instance is that the people rebel, the people fight back, and people put up a mass front
of protests. Then the politicians and the others claim to be using their issues or their drive to then turn around and propose some liberal
reforms, which aren't liberal at all, actually.
What we see is that each time the police terror or racism becomes worse or it just becomes prolonged. So we have to ask ourselves, "Okay
we're having protests. We're going up against the man. But are we also not understanding that the role here now is to transform the society
as a whole?" We're not trying to just get some "defund the police" or whatever. The government is not giving anything, and even with the
protests pressuring them, they have yet to come up with anything in terms of any kind of program to prevent further atrocities against Black
people. There have been thousands of people killed by the police in the United States and the government has given impunity to the killer cops.
This is a form, in my estimation, of class warfare or fascist policing, and we need to understand that. They are using the most violent
statist agents, especially in the Black community and in poor communities. They are using them to beat down any grassroots political
opposition as well. They're using them to create a new kind of criminal system where they are summarily charging people and putting them in
prison for long periods of time with draconian sentences. And this has been going on for quite some time. So, rebellions are great. They're
wonderful, it's great to see people standing up. The only thing is, you know my standpoint as an old long-term activist and everything, I
try to look at the actual essence of a struggle, not just the fact that it's happening. The orientation of the struggle today is very
similar to what I saw in the final stages of the civil rights movement. You see them win reforms, but not transform the system itself.
That's the difference between revolutionaries and reformers, we want to smash the state entirely.
We can't organize the way we organized back in the 60s, we can't organize the way we organized even 30 years ago, 20 years ago. We've got to
break new political ground and have new political theory and new political tactics.
WCA: What sort of advice would you have for young radicals then who want to transform this society? What advice do you have for those who
are politicized and looking for some direction on how to go about doing the things you think need to be done?
LKE: We as activists, as organizers, have to make ourselves and our communities ungovernable. I know you've heard that term before. That
means what it says. We have to make it so that we create a new kind of political system of our own, whether it's dual power or revolutionary
direct democracy, whatever we want to call it in this period. We need to create that kind of movement, a mass anti-fascist movement on one
hand. And on the other hand, we need to have the capacity on a mass scale to build a community-based mass economic survival tendency, based
on cooperatives in the ghetto for housing the poor, rebuilding the cities, and taking care of the material needs of the poor. We need to be
able to build that. I'm not opposed to some of these groups that are coming about because although not now radical, potentially they could
turn into something else. But what needs to happen is that we need to be reaching the masses of urban poor people with these programs. We're
not fighting just to have a cult or a group, or some leaders. We're fighting to put power in the hands of the people in a new society.
Presumably, revolutionaries know some things in some areas of organizing that people don't know. So we need to be training them, we need to
be equipping them to be independent of this political structure. I also think the Black Panther Party was right, we need to have survival
programs and we need to be going beyond just what they had. We should be trying to build the survival economy in this period right now.
We should go from this period where there are some people who understand or are practicing mutual aid, but the masses do not. So we need to
go beyond "just helping," to working toward some sort of different economy, a survival economy on the way to full on anarchist communism.
Maybe that's the name we know of, as anarchists, but in some parts of the world, they call it a "solidarity economy" to help them survive
capitalism. Whatever it's called, we need to have that so we're not totally dependent on the capitalist state. I don't claim to know it all,
but I do know some things and I know one thing that's not going to work-is when you allow the same corrupt, racist cops to claim that
they're reformed now or you got the same politicians claiming "Well, this is not the same system, we've never found a way to defund the
police, but we're reorganizing it, so be patient!" George Jackson, a radical prisoner in California and member of the Black Panther Party in
the 1960's, himself, said that such police or prison reforms are nothing but the further rise of fascism. They help fascism become
acceptable to the people.
We've dealt with that for years because you see how the police have been using different kinds of psychological warfare and pseudo campaigns
like Weed and Seed, or community policing over the years. That stuff was designed to put the police in power over the community. They were
intentional racial profiling and control measures, and we need to understand what's been happening up to this point. This stuff with Trump
is just the culmination or the end stage of their building of fascism. They built the prison system which is the biggest in the world. They
built that back years ago. They started using paramilitary policing years ago, especially in the Black community. All these things that we
see, these forms of what would constitute a fascist state in another country, they don't have to build it. They've already got segments of
it built in America.
You have to ask yourself some critical questions like how is this ever being allowed to happen at a time when you've got all these so-called
anti-racist, anti-fascists in name. But they even don't do anything to deal with this kind of fascist struggle against itself. They go and
get in the street and fight some drunk Nazi, some low grade kind of organizing campaign. We need more than that in this period, now coming
up especially. We need the ability to have a mass base, not just youth but communities, a broad segment of the people. We need that mass
base added to a new kind of politics where the people are being put in control, rather than the politicians or preachers or whomever all
these people they've chosen. Tell the youth to build movements from the grassroots up. Build resistance movements and build a large enough
movement that cannot be controlled by the state so that, as I said before, it's ungovernable. And ungovernable means a number of things to
people in the movement right now: it means the kind of tactics you engage in in the street, it means how the community is organized that
they don't have to depend on these politicians, it means a mass boycott of capitalist corporations, a new transitional economy, and many
others things as part of a resistance.
One thing I'll be most anxious to say to people is we can't organize the way we organize back in the 60s, we can't organize the way we
organized even 30 years ago, 20 years ago. We've got to break new political ground and have new political theory and new political tactics.
These don't come from one person or group alone, it must be decided by the people themselves.
WCA: Can you talk a little bit about why you started Black Autonomy, what it is?
LKE: Black Autonomy was something I started to try to deal with the fact that inside the anarchist movement, there were very few black
people. Black Autonomy was designed also to be a pressure group against the institutionalized racism within the anarchist movement. At that
time, white anarchists in the USA were not really relating their political direction to the Black community or interested in Black
organizers. Truthfully, it was not really a true anti-racist movement in that period. And I eventually reached the stage where I said what
we will have to do is create an African American/Black tendency within the anarchist movement that is strong enough to stand on its own. And
that can challenge the white fixed nature of the anarchist movement. That was the same reason I started writing Anarchism and the Black
Revolution, which was a book that raised the contradictions around race and colonialism and oppression, and called for Anarchists to raise
their consciousness. They had never looked at it as a problem or issue before; they never thought about Africans or Blacks in America at all
unless they were merely trying to recruit Black people into their tendencies, but even that was not happening when I came along in the early
1970's. I was the only Black Anarchist in the USA and even other parts of the world for years, actually decades.
In the United States, Black people's labor and living conditions have always been different from the white population, going all the way
back to slavery. Something that Marx himself has said is the "pedestal" for the creation of capitalism in the USA was Black slavery. I
tried to get anarchists to understand and think more critically about it, but they would become very angry and defensive at me for saying.
So we created our own ideological construct and organization that wasn't perfect and it was created under some really tough odds, but we
created it. It was in the face of fear, guilt and hostility by white anarchists. They gave Black Autonomy no real support, began to call us
"narrow nationalists" and this and that.
We created what was essentially a collective first in Atlanta. You know, myself and I think there were seven other community organizers, and
seven or eight students from Clark College and Morehouse University. They became part of this collective right at that time. Eventually the
group built a ten city national federation and a group in London.
We were doing political discussions and so forth in Atlanta on the direction we should take. So, the ones from the street said, "Well, look,
we gotta be organizing the Black community against the conditions that are happening to us." And we started organizing around the Atlanta PD
police assassination of a brother named Jerry Jones in 1995, and we also started organizing around the attempt by the city government to
take the transit system away from the poor and working people inside the city and give it to people in the suburbs. You know they were going
to up the transit fare so much that people who lived in the city wouldn't be able to pay for it. So we started the Poor People's Survival
Movement, a group we had started. And out of that came the Atlanta Transit Riders Union. We were fighting against the authorities that ran
the transit system and we began raising contradictions around race, class, and poverty that had existed for years by city authorities. That
was a successful campaign. We were able to beat the transit officials back for years against implementing the fare hike. We made the rich,
the city government, and corporations underwrite it, instead of poor people or workers who had no other transit options.
Black Autonomy itself was an anarchist organization, but it also understood that its politics were based around the reality of the
oppression of Black people in the United States and around the world. We organized around the things that we still see happening today: mass
imprisonment of Black people and murderous shootings by the police or fascist vigilantes. We have been organizing in a number of cities in
the 1990s and even in the 2000s. The 2013 anti-klan demonstration in Memphis, Tennessee was the largest anti-fascist demo that year with
1,500 to 2,000 people. We had been organizing a number of cities against police terrorism for years as well.
So Black Autonomy also started organizing and trying to create a dual power political structure trying to create ideas that can reach the
youth and trying to combat prisons as an entity. Not just combating judges and all this other garbage, but actually dealing with the prisons
being used as a tool of oppression of Black and poor people. And unfortunately, we weren't able to get enough forces around us on that
question to build a broad based movement against mass imprisonment. We tried to get groups like the Anarchist Black Cross to help us, but we
failed when they united with the authoritarian left.
WCA: Why do you think the current administration is honing in on anarchists and Antifa (Anti-Fascists)?
LKE: Trump needs a scapegoat for one thing. Antifa are willing to combat these fascists in the street and they have been doing so for quite
some time. So Trump's able to utilize that "violence" to justify his policies, and he'll become more repressive about it as time goes by. I
really do think he wants to prosecute them in federal court for "treason." They want to project Antifa as "enemies of the state." I think he
would have used the DOJ and his federal goon squad to try to smash them by now, if it were not for the fact that he has had to run for
office and he has not had a totally free hand. And also, I think that he believes, and to some extent it may be true, that a lot of the
stuff that's happening in the street is by anarchists that seem to have mass support.
The thing is, for almost 100 years, the government has always seen anarchists as a serious threat for disruption. In years past, there have
always been waves of repression of anarchists. But in recent years, anarchists haven't been exactly doing very much that would warrant this
kind of repression. I'm surprised that it's coming now but I'm not surprised in one sense, because we are a convenient scapegoat as the most
dangerous tendency on the left. The communists? Oh the communists are all sold out! (laughter) They've all sold out and they're running for
office or whatever. And to some extent (laughter) that's true to be quite honest. I'm not saying in every instance, but you have got a lot
of communist elements that are in bed with the state and in bed with the capitalists right now.
The Department of Justice and FBI want to scapegoat the Black protest movement. They haven't been able to do it with the Black movement yet,
although, you know, they came up with this so-called state security program some time back where they were going to go after Black
activists, you know, "extremists."
"The protest movement is pushing the government back, pushing it up against the wall, but it's not choking the life out of it. What we need
is the kind of revolutionary movement that can choke the life out of it and create a new society all together."
WCA: "Black identity extremists."
LKE: That's exactly what they called it, and they tried to use it for intimidation, but for whatever reason they weren't able to get the
public support to that extent. He wants to do it with Black Lives Matter. But I think a lot of people have been convinced now that Black
Lives Matter is just using non-violent tactics. So the American people are not so much in favor of the idea of the state or the government
coming after them like that. It may still happen before or after he leaves office, if the Black protest tendency becomes more radical or
switches tactics.
WCA: I wanted to ask you about the increasing popularity of Black anarchism. There are a lot of Black people who are becoming more
interested in anarchism. A lot of these Black people are getting interested in your work. Can you speak about this and why you think it's
happening? And can you also kind of speak to what you will hope that they get out of your work and Black anarchism?
LKE: First, it was a surprise to me to even find out that there were new anarchist tendencies, Black anarchist tendencies, on the scene. And
I only found that out in the last year, this year actually. But on the one hand that speaks to the work we did with Black Autonomy. Whatever
mistakes we made and our failure to build a mass tendency years ago, it speaks to that work. I think if I hadn't written Anarchism and the
Black Revolution and done other things that I did with the comrades that I worked with, people wouldn't even know about the ideas of Black
Anarchism.
The other thing is, I stand for a type of anarchism that's a class struggle anarchism. My perspective and my understanding going back
reading years ago is that anarchism comes from the socialist movement. It is in fact self-governing socialism or libertarian socialism. The
ideas of self-governing socialism and all this came from Bakunin, and the anarchist movement was part of the first international communist
movement. So my thing is, if people are going to want to get an anarchist perspective or Black anarchist politic, they have to understand
that we have to build a movement that's about struggling for power to the people. That's not just a term of art, but we are fighting not to
just have a party or cult or some leadership. We're fighting so the people on the ground, on the bottom, can begin to build a new life for
themselves and a new society. There's all kinds of debates on what that society could look like or what transitional stages of fighting and
building a new society we have to go through.
I do believe we'll have to go through a transitional stage. But at this point, at this moment, it is about revolutionary community
organizing, not just "peaceful protests" to appeal to the government. We must adopt new thinking about resistance and rebuilding communities
so that we can be ungovernable by the state. We have to think about people building revolutionary communes and building other forms of
independent political entities. Right now we have to think about millions of homeless people coming, and talk about how we give them some
place to live. How do we deal with the government to force them to provide those resources and, how do we fight the government to take over
housing entirely? We're going to have to do widespread fight back in the form of squatting or just going in physically taking over
buildings. With the kind of class warfare that exists in the United States, you will have to pick up the gun if you want to change society.
I mean, I'm not saying using armed struggle as a only tactic, but the revolutionary civil war is coming inevitably. The government will make
war on you, whether you are ready for war or not.
I acknowledge a mass tendency which uses non-violence at a certain historical stage can push the government back, and that's what's
happening right now. Yes, the protest movement is pushing the government back, pushing it up against the wall, but it's not choking the life
out of it. What we need is the kind of revolutionary movement that can choke the life out of it and create a new society all together. These
organizations we're talking about, are stifled by petty bourgeois consciousness, petty bourgeois organizing, petty bourgeois leadership and
so forth creates a certain kind of movement. A certain kind of movement that will not go to the point of "going for it all" as they used to
say back in the day. I really think that they have built in limitations on their ability or their willingness to overthrow the state or even
talk about it. The funny thing is, we have to continue to think about things just like that, overthrowing the state, not getting some
reforms. I'm not gonna tell you that you never should get reforms if you can in the immediate sense. But at this stage, we've gone too far
now to just settle for this reformism over and over again especially in this moment. This moment is a revolutionary moment and other things
have happened to make it that way, not just the protests.
The system itself is tottering because of the COVID virus and everything that's happening with Wall Street. All these things are happening
and it puts the state on the weakest point it ever has been. Even Trump or whomever taking over the state and trying to create a fascist
state is not doing it from a position of strength. They're not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they're trying to
impose it from a position of weakness, and fear. So that's why I said we have to build an alternative, radical force, so that it can then
work in a way that it never has before to overthrow the entire system. Not just the Democrats or the Republicans-you know the rulers want
that sort of bullshit. They want it, because it's trivial. It means nothing whatsoever. In the final analysis, Trump may want a personal
dictatorship. But the other guy[Biden], he's an agent for the state and he's an oppressor in his own right. He's helped to get the prison
system to the point where it is. His running mate, Kamala Harris,-well she is just as much of an establishment Democrat as he is. She's just
as much in favor of using the police and the government against the poor. We need to be able to educate masses of people about these things
while we're creating an alternative, so they will not be fooled. We need a new society and a new world, not more capitalism.
https://blackrosefed.org/ungovernable-interview-lorenzo-komboa-ervin-anderson/
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Re-employment disputes are very difficult and often end in some form of relatively satisfactory agreement, but without real re-employment.
However, a few days ago we received great news from our friends from the CNT-AIT in Cartagena, Spain - they managed to win the re-employment
of their member Daniel in Grupo Sifu Murcia SL ---- The dispute lasted from March 24 and the result is a permanent employment for
indefinitely. The company has admitted fraudulent behavior regarding Daniel's contract, as well as illegal dismissal. ---- Daniel will now
try to organize a general workplace meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a core CNT-AIT organization in the company. ---- The
CNT-AIT in Cartagena adds to the dispute: ---- "Once again, it has been shown that companies are not happy when CNT-AIT gets involved in a
dispute, because they know that when we show up, we mean it and we can only get disputes."
This is the union's second victory in a short time. He has only recentlywon a dispute with WebHelp and Norwegian Air Shuttle , which
indicates a very good development throughout the local organization.
Union Direct Action
https://www.priamaakcia.sk/Zvazu-CNT-AIT-sa-podarilo-dosiahnut-znovuzamestnanie-svojho-clena.html
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...unleashing death, torture and repression, which generated a process of breaking the social-popular fabric, built from the struggles of
obrerxs, crafts and peonxs since the middle of the th century. Fear and silence served as the stage for the installation of neo-liberal
economic pillars that further deepened the precarization of our lives, being reinforced over the 30 years of the agreed transition. ----
Today as struggling communities we go through a process of rearticulation, where through different instances of popular organization we are
meeting: the territorial assembly, union, student center, neighborhood and population organization, common pots, groups of groups of women
and sexual dissent, supply networks, protest and mobilisation are the spaces where we have been building community organized in resistance,
strengthening the revolutionary self-management power to advance territorial control.
From different sectors, calls for demobilization have been lifted, to passively wait for the magic lamp that for some is the restituent
plebiscite of October 25, in a context of pandemic where hunger and death lurks popular sectors we cannot Staying inertia, protest and
mobilisation is the only way to our emancipation. On the other hand, Covid-19 still whips us, so call great concentrations in Plaza de la
Dignidad or other symbolic space of resistance, can mean putting our health at risk, therefore, this is where we must make it worth our
audacity, innovating in new fight repertoires, lifting various instances of protest in the territories we inhabit, taking the necessary
protections to continue mobilizing. From above they already cook agreements to oxygenate bourgeois democracy, only the popular organization
and protest will be able to stop the agreements of the parties of order and overflow this institutional process that stands on deaths,
mutiladxs, raped, and political presxs that fill the jails of the Status. To use popular ingenuity, to make this September 11 a day of
protest, mobilization and memory.
#EstadoAsesino
#NiPerdonNiOlvido
#LibertadALxsPresxsPoliticxs
#11DeSeptiembre
#RevueltaSocial
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Are they a threat to the veil of freedom, or rather a desire for profit and total control of the population? Download, print and distribute
the September issue of the A3 wall newspaper! ---- There are people who are outraged that they should wear a vevid-19 in public transport at
the time of the spread of the disease, and they see a threat to their personal freedom behind it. It is true that regulations on safeguards
and their implementation are quite chaotic and often not very systematic. On the other hand, elementary protection is a manifestation of
everyone's responsibility both to themselves and to the people around them. But when the capitalist lessons pour into your head for 30 years
about the fact that everyone should look only at themselves and not look at others, because the stronger and more ruthless ones win, then it
is no wonder that some people fall into this delusion and have trouble taking on travel by bus or train veil. Fortunately, not everyone fell
for this ideological massage, and on the contrary, with the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, there was a huge potential for solidarity,
On the example of the mining company OKD, we could see how some companies treat their employees and do not hesitate to endanger them with
disease. Profits are profits after all. American billionaires, for example, could talk about this. While the United States, despite its
president's daily idiocy, ranks among the most affected countries for coronavirus infection, with 11 million jobs lost since February, the
total wealth of the 400 richest Americans has risen eight percent year-on-year.
Yes, we are all on the same ship. So while millions are in the hold, the elite handful are having fun in first class and the others are just
laughing. So if he reflects them at all when calculating his profits.
Covid-19 has even become a new pretext for strengthening repressive apparatus in various parts of the world. Some countries argue that when
tracking the movement of people infected with coronavirus (so-called tracing), they will use tracking devices, which include a facial
recognition system.
Such a tool for strengthening control of the population is now also being purchased by the Police of the Czech Republic. Each of us will be
identifiable not only by our face, but also by walking, and we can get into the viewfinder, even if the phyngeal software judges that our
faces express unwanted emotions.
The domestic supplier boasts on that occasion how it has already supplied such a system to countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi
Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain. That some new democratic axis of good, which certainly does not abuse the system in any way? After all,
according to official propaganda, it is supposed to protect us from terrorists, criminals and almost humanitarian assistance in tracing. It
is not strange that the restriction of human freedom is sold wonder not as the highest good for man.
But if you are not a complete boarder, you can easily put two and two together. Why do police forces take so much video material from
various demonstrations? Why don't they like it so much when someone defies their desire for an ID card at these events? This will then give
you an argument that you are similar to the person you are looking for. And everyone around you is similar to the person anyway, and it
doesn't matter if she is a protester, a pensioner or a teenager. And the digital personal recognition system will be abused in the same way.
The police thus want to have an overview of all those who stand in the way of the current capitalist order. And this is a wet dream of all
the defenders of the existing order around the world - from Saudi Arabia through the USA and China to Russia, Belarus and the Czech Republic.
Although a London court recently ruled that the use of facial recognition software is illegal, it will be enough to create one moral panic
after some unfortunate event, and it may not be as early as 9/11 in the United States, and the path to consolidating total control is
certainly finds.
It must be remembered that the powerful of this state and all the states in the world do not care what happens to ordinary people and how
they live. They are primarily concerned with protecting capital and consolidating their own power. They suppress any protest that could
really disrupt the "order" they maintain by various means (the violent ones are still very popular). It doesn't bother them much that people
are dying of covid-19 and other illnesses or that they are in a debt trap and ending up on the streets, mainly that year-on-year profits are
growing and are tools for recognizing, controlling and pacifying those below.
Big brother is watching you!
A3 (September 2020) to download HERE .
http://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2020-09.pdf
Download, print, distribute!
The A3 wall newspaper is published by the Anarchist Federation every month. They are intended mainly for dissemination through stickers in
the streets or posting in workplaces and schools.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7223/a3-covid-zisky-a-moc
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In real street fighting, protests against police violence in Colombia have spilled over. The police not only use gas and stun grenades, but
also open fire on demonstrators, the number of those killed has reached 11, more than 400 people were injured. Enraged protesters are
throwing stones at the police, ransacking and partially setting fire to 56 police stations and dozens of buses. More than 100 people were
arrested. Violent protests are taking place in Bogota, Cali and Medellin ... ---- Riots began on Wednesday after police killed 43-year-old
lawyer Javier Ordoñez, a father of two, in detention. 2 police officers threw him to the ground and at least 5 times hit him with an
electric shock, despite him and those around him asking: "Please stop!" He later died in hospital. The Bogotoi police chief announced that
the police had been called because the drunks were breaking order, and Ordonez allegedly hit the police.
The Minister of Defense expressed his sympathy for the Ordonez family. The authorities promise to punish both police officers. But this
cannot calm people's indignation.
Source:
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/kolumbien-elf-tote-bei-protesten-gegen-polizeigewalt-a-c9e255c7-98c8-41b1-bccf-c3b00436f865;
https://www.berlinertageszeitung.de/politik/73591-fuenf-tote-bei-protesten-gegen-polizeigewalt-in-kolumbien.html;
https://www.jungewelt.de/loginFailed.php?ref=/artikel/386136.kolumbien-geballte-wut-in-bogot%C3%A1.html
https://aitrus.info/node/5549
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For years, youth combatants have been fighting at the forefront of social protest, not only in Chile, but across the planet. October 18th
was the historic and existential date where space and time were broken and where we prefigured a different world in acts. This time, the
entire population took to the streets, tired of the abuses and miseries of life, to take all this inside. ---- In the dominated groups there
is a natural inclination towards freedom, rebellion, revolt and the total recovery of life. 73 marked an entire generation, and what we
learned from it was not in vain; it was with time that we acquired experience and awareness of struggle, history, our past and our future.
We listen to those who came before us, we experience violence and experience it, we lose compassion, we draw our own conclusions and we are
sure that nothing has ended. All wounds and falls are partial failures, as are the elements from which you can draw the strength to keep
fighting.
Given the scenario in which we find ourselves, it is clear that everything is going wrong and that everything aims to reduce our strengths.
Between the pandemic and the plebiscite, we are stunned and bombarded with news and projects that claim to emancipate us, but are far from
that. There is no doubt that our release will be our job or not. It is up to us to ensure that history does not repeat itself.
On this September 11, the first day after the start of the revolt, we ask for the strengthening of territorial organization, direct action,
mutual support and solidarity, as well as the commemoration of this date in whatever way it deems appropriate, maintaining the necessary
safeguards and care, both in health and on the streets.
September is black and our memory is full of the future.
Nothing and nobody is forgotten!
The streets are ours
NO MORE TOUCH TO COLLECT!
Down with the police state
FREEDOM FOR REVOLT PRESXS!
In memory and action for those who fell in the course of social war!
LIVE THE ANARCHY!
Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly
Chuchunco, Mapocho Valley[Est. Central, Santiago
Translation> Liberto
Related content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2020/09/10/chile-combate-frontal-e-organizacao-revolucionaria-erca-o-fascismo-eo-capital/
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Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo
Kom'boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism and rising relevance of Black anarchism. We also urge you to generously contribute
towards a fundraising campaign organized by William to support Lorenzo and his partner JoNina Ervin. Both are movement elders who've
inspired generations of rebels and are in need of support with their living and medical expenses. ---- Introduction and Interview by William
C. Anderson ---- The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has highlighted the daily disasters of capitalism. A lack of healthcare, a
safe environment, housing, and food are an everyday question for a growing segment of vulnerable people. This has brought about a noticeable
interest in anarchism for many. The failures of the state were made plain by ineffective solutions, willful neglect, and utter disregard for
human life. It exposed deeper questions (for some) about the plausibility of statist solutions. In concert with all this, authorities began
to take notice, evidenced by its mounting attacks and scapegoating of anarchists. President Trump and many others seemingly identified a set
of politics they found threatening and worthy of blame. This is no coincidence and it follows a historical pattern.
As usual, anarchism was denied its complexity by shallow, willful misreadings. The intricacy of various sets of anarchist politics,
principles, and approaches were reduced to the trope of the terroristic bomb-thrower. Even as anarchists organize and take part in mutual
aid projects around the country during this pandemic, this is not what anarchism represents to many people. In the midst of a global
pandemic, the effectiveness of these sorts of projects paired with other survival programs has become especially relevant. Although, for
opponents, so did the necessity to attack these politics from all sides. Still, growing interest in Black anarchism has remained undeterred.
Black anarchism has long been sustained by the works of often overlooked thinkers and revolutionaries. Among them is Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin.
I first met Lorenzo in 2012 at an organizing workshop I helped lead alongside different organizers across the South. My friend (who'd come
up with the idea) invited Lorenzo to speak based on the recommendation of someone she knew. It didn't take long for Lorenzo and his partner
JoNina Ervin to make the truths of anarchism clear to me. It started me on my journey to fully embracing Black anarchism.
Lorenzo has lived a revolutionary life to say the least. After being introduced to anarchism by Martin Sostre, a jailhouse lawyer that was
one of the architects of the prisoner's rights movement as we know it, he's had to battle and flee U.S. authorities more than once. He's
lived all over the world while teaching and organizing. These are just some of the reasons it's important to hear his insights about the
current predicament we're facing.
I spoke with Lorenzo about Black autonomy, fascism, and what's needed as we confront the crisis.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
William C. Anderson (WCA): What do you think about the current uprisings happening throughout the country in response to police violence?
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (LKE): I think the uprisings are good but we're seeing that they have limitations as a revolutionary uprising. These
limitations allow the state to subvert the nature of uprisings as well as the issues as mere reforms. The state and the liberal politicians
and others are able to utilize that against the movement. This kind of cooptation has been happening for a while. I've watched 60 years of
protests and so-called "riots" and rebellions and uprisings in major cities and small towns like Ferguson, Missouri. I've watched 60 years
of them going back to 1964 with the Harlem rebellion in Harlem, New York. It was always something to do with the police. One form or
another, they kill somebody, beat somebody, or just came in the community and did some kind of atrocity. And the people responded with a
fight back. What's been allowed to happen in this instance is that the people rebel, the people fight back, and people put up a mass front
of protests. Then the politicians and the others claim to be using their issues or their drive to then turn around and propose some liberal
reforms, which aren't liberal at all, actually.
What we see is that each time the police terror or racism becomes worse or it just becomes prolonged. So we have to ask ourselves, "Okay
we're having protests. We're going up against the man. But are we also not understanding that the role here now is to transform the society
as a whole?" We're not trying to just get some "defund the police" or whatever. The government is not giving anything, and even with the
protests pressuring them, they have yet to come up with anything in terms of any kind of program to prevent further atrocities against Black
people. There have been thousands of people killed by the police in the United States and the government has given impunity to the killer cops.
This is a form, in my estimation, of class warfare or fascist policing, and we need to understand that. They are using the most violent
statist agents, especially in the Black community and in poor communities. They are using them to beat down any grassroots political
opposition as well. They're using them to create a new kind of criminal system where they are summarily charging people and putting them in
prison for long periods of time with draconian sentences. And this has been going on for quite some time. So, rebellions are great. They're
wonderful, it's great to see people standing up. The only thing is, you know my standpoint as an old long-term activist and everything, I
try to look at the actual essence of a struggle, not just the fact that it's happening. The orientation of the struggle today is very
similar to what I saw in the final stages of the civil rights movement. You see them win reforms, but not transform the system itself.
That's the difference between revolutionaries and reformers, we want to smash the state entirely.
We can't organize the way we organized back in the 60s, we can't organize the way we organized even 30 years ago, 20 years ago. We've got to
break new political ground and have new political theory and new political tactics.
WCA: What sort of advice would you have for young radicals then who want to transform this society? What advice do you have for those who
are politicized and looking for some direction on how to go about doing the things you think need to be done?
LKE: We as activists, as organizers, have to make ourselves and our communities ungovernable. I know you've heard that term before. That
means what it says. We have to make it so that we create a new kind of political system of our own, whether it's dual power or revolutionary
direct democracy, whatever we want to call it in this period. We need to create that kind of movement, a mass anti-fascist movement on one
hand. And on the other hand, we need to have the capacity on a mass scale to build a community-based mass economic survival tendency, based
on cooperatives in the ghetto for housing the poor, rebuilding the cities, and taking care of the material needs of the poor. We need to be
able to build that. I'm not opposed to some of these groups that are coming about because although not now radical, potentially they could
turn into something else. But what needs to happen is that we need to be reaching the masses of urban poor people with these programs. We're
not fighting just to have a cult or a group, or some leaders. We're fighting to put power in the hands of the people in a new society.
Presumably, revolutionaries know some things in some areas of organizing that people don't know. So we need to be training them, we need to
be equipping them to be independent of this political structure. I also think the Black Panther Party was right, we need to have survival
programs and we need to be going beyond just what they had. We should be trying to build the survival economy in this period right now.
We should go from this period where there are some people who understand or are practicing mutual aid, but the masses do not. So we need to
go beyond "just helping," to working toward some sort of different economy, a survival economy on the way to full on anarchist communism.
Maybe that's the name we know of, as anarchists, but in some parts of the world, they call it a "solidarity economy" to help them survive
capitalism. Whatever it's called, we need to have that so we're not totally dependent on the capitalist state. I don't claim to know it all,
but I do know some things and I know one thing that's not going to work-is when you allow the same corrupt, racist cops to claim that
they're reformed now or you got the same politicians claiming "Well, this is not the same system, we've never found a way to defund the
police, but we're reorganizing it, so be patient!" George Jackson, a radical prisoner in California and member of the Black Panther Party in
the 1960's, himself, said that such police or prison reforms are nothing but the further rise of fascism. They help fascism become
acceptable to the people.
We've dealt with that for years because you see how the police have been using different kinds of psychological warfare and pseudo campaigns
like Weed and Seed, or community policing over the years. That stuff was designed to put the police in power over the community. They were
intentional racial profiling and control measures, and we need to understand what's been happening up to this point. This stuff with Trump
is just the culmination or the end stage of their building of fascism. They built the prison system which is the biggest in the world. They
built that back years ago. They started using paramilitary policing years ago, especially in the Black community. All these things that we
see, these forms of what would constitute a fascist state in another country, they don't have to build it. They've already got segments of
it built in America.
You have to ask yourself some critical questions like how is this ever being allowed to happen at a time when you've got all these so-called
anti-racist, anti-fascists in name. But they even don't do anything to deal with this kind of fascist struggle against itself. They go and
get in the street and fight some drunk Nazi, some low grade kind of organizing campaign. We need more than that in this period, now coming
up especially. We need the ability to have a mass base, not just youth but communities, a broad segment of the people. We need that mass
base added to a new kind of politics where the people are being put in control, rather than the politicians or preachers or whomever all
these people they've chosen. Tell the youth to build movements from the grassroots up. Build resistance movements and build a large enough
movement that cannot be controlled by the state so that, as I said before, it's ungovernable. And ungovernable means a number of things to
people in the movement right now: it means the kind of tactics you engage in in the street, it means how the community is organized that
they don't have to depend on these politicians, it means a mass boycott of capitalist corporations, a new transitional economy, and many
others things as part of a resistance.
One thing I'll be most anxious to say to people is we can't organize the way we organize back in the 60s, we can't organize the way we
organized even 30 years ago, 20 years ago. We've got to break new political ground and have new political theory and new political tactics.
These don't come from one person or group alone, it must be decided by the people themselves.
WCA: Can you talk a little bit about why you started Black Autonomy, what it is?
LKE: Black Autonomy was something I started to try to deal with the fact that inside the anarchist movement, there were very few black
people. Black Autonomy was designed also to be a pressure group against the institutionalized racism within the anarchist movement. At that
time, white anarchists in the USA were not really relating their political direction to the Black community or interested in Black
organizers. Truthfully, it was not really a true anti-racist movement in that period. And I eventually reached the stage where I said what
we will have to do is create an African American/Black tendency within the anarchist movement that is strong enough to stand on its own. And
that can challenge the white fixed nature of the anarchist movement. That was the same reason I started writing Anarchism and the Black
Revolution, which was a book that raised the contradictions around race and colonialism and oppression, and called for Anarchists to raise
their consciousness. They had never looked at it as a problem or issue before; they never thought about Africans or Blacks in America at all
unless they were merely trying to recruit Black people into their tendencies, but even that was not happening when I came along in the early
1970's. I was the only Black Anarchist in the USA and even other parts of the world for years, actually decades.
In the United States, Black people's labor and living conditions have always been different from the white population, going all the way
back to slavery. Something that Marx himself has said is the "pedestal" for the creation of capitalism in the USA was Black slavery. I
tried to get anarchists to understand and think more critically about it, but they would become very angry and defensive at me for saying.
So we created our own ideological construct and organization that wasn't perfect and it was created under some really tough odds, but we
created it. It was in the face of fear, guilt and hostility by white anarchists. They gave Black Autonomy no real support, began to call us
"narrow nationalists" and this and that.
We created what was essentially a collective first in Atlanta. You know, myself and I think there were seven other community organizers, and
seven or eight students from Clark College and Morehouse University. They became part of this collective right at that time. Eventually the
group built a ten city national federation and a group in London.
We were doing political discussions and so forth in Atlanta on the direction we should take. So, the ones from the street said, "Well, look,
we gotta be organizing the Black community against the conditions that are happening to us." And we started organizing around the Atlanta PD
police assassination of a brother named Jerry Jones in 1995, and we also started organizing around the attempt by the city government to
take the transit system away from the poor and working people inside the city and give it to people in the suburbs. You know they were going
to up the transit fare so much that people who lived in the city wouldn't be able to pay for it. So we started the Poor People's Survival
Movement, a group we had started. And out of that came the Atlanta Transit Riders Union. We were fighting against the authorities that ran
the transit system and we began raising contradictions around race, class, and poverty that had existed for years by city authorities. That
was a successful campaign. We were able to beat the transit officials back for years against implementing the fare hike. We made the rich,
the city government, and corporations underwrite it, instead of poor people or workers who had no other transit options.
Black Autonomy itself was an anarchist organization, but it also understood that its politics were based around the reality of the
oppression of Black people in the United States and around the world. We organized around the things that we still see happening today: mass
imprisonment of Black people and murderous shootings by the police or fascist vigilantes. We have been organizing in a number of cities in
the 1990s and even in the 2000s. The 2013 anti-klan demonstration in Memphis, Tennessee was the largest anti-fascist demo that year with
1,500 to 2,000 people. We had been organizing a number of cities against police terrorism for years as well.
So Black Autonomy also started organizing and trying to create a dual power political structure trying to create ideas that can reach the
youth and trying to combat prisons as an entity. Not just combating judges and all this other garbage, but actually dealing with the prisons
being used as a tool of oppression of Black and poor people. And unfortunately, we weren't able to get enough forces around us on that
question to build a broad based movement against mass imprisonment. We tried to get groups like the Anarchist Black Cross to help us, but we
failed when they united with the authoritarian left.
WCA: Why do you think the current administration is honing in on anarchists and Antifa (Anti-Fascists)?
LKE: Trump needs a scapegoat for one thing. Antifa are willing to combat these fascists in the street and they have been doing so for quite
some time. So Trump's able to utilize that "violence" to justify his policies, and he'll become more repressive about it as time goes by. I
really do think he wants to prosecute them in federal court for "treason." They want to project Antifa as "enemies of the state." I think he
would have used the DOJ and his federal goon squad to try to smash them by now, if it were not for the fact that he has had to run for
office and he has not had a totally free hand. And also, I think that he believes, and to some extent it may be true, that a lot of the
stuff that's happening in the street is by anarchists that seem to have mass support.
The thing is, for almost 100 years, the government has always seen anarchists as a serious threat for disruption. In years past, there have
always been waves of repression of anarchists. But in recent years, anarchists haven't been exactly doing very much that would warrant this
kind of repression. I'm surprised that it's coming now but I'm not surprised in one sense, because we are a convenient scapegoat as the most
dangerous tendency on the left. The communists? Oh the communists are all sold out! (laughter) They've all sold out and they're running for
office or whatever. And to some extent (laughter) that's true to be quite honest. I'm not saying in every instance, but you have got a lot
of communist elements that are in bed with the state and in bed with the capitalists right now.
The Department of Justice and FBI want to scapegoat the Black protest movement. They haven't been able to do it with the Black movement yet,
although, you know, they came up with this so-called state security program some time back where they were going to go after Black
activists, you know, "extremists."
"The protest movement is pushing the government back, pushing it up against the wall, but it's not choking the life out of it. What we need
is the kind of revolutionary movement that can choke the life out of it and create a new society all together."
WCA: "Black identity extremists."
LKE: That's exactly what they called it, and they tried to use it for intimidation, but for whatever reason they weren't able to get the
public support to that extent. He wants to do it with Black Lives Matter. But I think a lot of people have been convinced now that Black
Lives Matter is just using non-violent tactics. So the American people are not so much in favor of the idea of the state or the government
coming after them like that. It may still happen before or after he leaves office, if the Black protest tendency becomes more radical or
switches tactics.
WCA: I wanted to ask you about the increasing popularity of Black anarchism. There are a lot of Black people who are becoming more
interested in anarchism. A lot of these Black people are getting interested in your work. Can you speak about this and why you think it's
happening? And can you also kind of speak to what you will hope that they get out of your work and Black anarchism?
LKE: First, it was a surprise to me to even find out that there were new anarchist tendencies, Black anarchist tendencies, on the scene. And
I only found that out in the last year, this year actually. But on the one hand that speaks to the work we did with Black Autonomy. Whatever
mistakes we made and our failure to build a mass tendency years ago, it speaks to that work. I think if I hadn't written Anarchism and the
Black Revolution and done other things that I did with the comrades that I worked with, people wouldn't even know about the ideas of Black
Anarchism.
The other thing is, I stand for a type of anarchism that's a class struggle anarchism. My perspective and my understanding going back
reading years ago is that anarchism comes from the socialist movement. It is in fact self-governing socialism or libertarian socialism. The
ideas of self-governing socialism and all this came from Bakunin, and the anarchist movement was part of the first international communist
movement. So my thing is, if people are going to want to get an anarchist perspective or Black anarchist politic, they have to understand
that we have to build a movement that's about struggling for power to the people. That's not just a term of art, but we are fighting not to
just have a party or cult or some leadership. We're fighting so the people on the ground, on the bottom, can begin to build a new life for
themselves and a new society. There's all kinds of debates on what that society could look like or what transitional stages of fighting and
building a new society we have to go through.
I do believe we'll have to go through a transitional stage. But at this point, at this moment, it is about revolutionary community
organizing, not just "peaceful protests" to appeal to the government. We must adopt new thinking about resistance and rebuilding communities
so that we can be ungovernable by the state. We have to think about people building revolutionary communes and building other forms of
independent political entities. Right now we have to think about millions of homeless people coming, and talk about how we give them some
place to live. How do we deal with the government to force them to provide those resources and, how do we fight the government to take over
housing entirely? We're going to have to do widespread fight back in the form of squatting or just going in physically taking over
buildings. With the kind of class warfare that exists in the United States, you will have to pick up the gun if you want to change society.
I mean, I'm not saying using armed struggle as a only tactic, but the revolutionary civil war is coming inevitably. The government will make
war on you, whether you are ready for war or not.
I acknowledge a mass tendency which uses non-violence at a certain historical stage can push the government back, and that's what's
happening right now. Yes, the protest movement is pushing the government back, pushing it up against the wall, but it's not choking the life
out of it. What we need is the kind of revolutionary movement that can choke the life out of it and create a new society all together. These
organizations we're talking about, are stifled by petty bourgeois consciousness, petty bourgeois organizing, petty bourgeois leadership and
so forth creates a certain kind of movement. A certain kind of movement that will not go to the point of "going for it all" as they used to
say back in the day. I really think that they have built in limitations on their ability or their willingness to overthrow the state or even
talk about it. The funny thing is, we have to continue to think about things just like that, overthrowing the state, not getting some
reforms. I'm not gonna tell you that you never should get reforms if you can in the immediate sense. But at this stage, we've gone too far
now to just settle for this reformism over and over again especially in this moment. This moment is a revolutionary moment and other things
have happened to make it that way, not just the protests.
The system itself is tottering because of the COVID virus and everything that's happening with Wall Street. All these things are happening
and it puts the state on the weakest point it ever has been. Even Trump or whomever taking over the state and trying to create a fascist
state is not doing it from a position of strength. They're not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they're trying to
impose it from a position of weakness, and fear. So that's why I said we have to build an alternative, radical force, so that it can then
work in a way that it never has before to overthrow the entire system. Not just the Democrats or the Republicans-you know the rulers want
that sort of bullshit. They want it, because it's trivial. It means nothing whatsoever. In the final analysis, Trump may want a personal
dictatorship. But the other guy[Biden], he's an agent for the state and he's an oppressor in his own right. He's helped to get the prison
system to the point where it is. His running mate, Kamala Harris,-well she is just as much of an establishment Democrat as he is. She's just
as much in favor of using the police and the government against the poor. We need to be able to educate masses of people about these things
while we're creating an alternative, so they will not be fooled. We need a new society and a new world, not more capitalism.
https://blackrosefed.org/ungovernable-interview-lorenzo-komboa-ervin-anderson/
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Re-employment disputes are very difficult and often end in some form of relatively satisfactory agreement, but without real re-employment.
However, a few days ago we received great news from our friends from the CNT-AIT in Cartagena, Spain - they managed to win the re-employment
of their member Daniel in Grupo Sifu Murcia SL ---- The dispute lasted from March 24 and the result is a permanent employment for
indefinitely. The company has admitted fraudulent behavior regarding Daniel's contract, as well as illegal dismissal. ---- Daniel will now
try to organize a general workplace meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a core CNT-AIT organization in the company. ---- The
CNT-AIT in Cartagena adds to the dispute: ---- "Once again, it has been shown that companies are not happy when CNT-AIT gets involved in a
dispute, because they know that when we show up, we mean it and we can only get disputes."
This is the union's second victory in a short time. He has only recentlywon a dispute with WebHelp and Norwegian Air Shuttle , which
indicates a very good development throughout the local organization.
Union Direct Action
https://www.priamaakcia.sk/Zvazu-CNT-AIT-sa-podarilo-dosiahnut-znovuzamestnanie-svojho-clena.html
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...unleashing death, torture and repression, which generated a process of breaking the social-popular fabric, built from the struggles of
obrerxs, crafts and peonxs since the middle of the th century. Fear and silence served as the stage for the installation of neo-liberal
economic pillars that further deepened the precarization of our lives, being reinforced over the 30 years of the agreed transition. ----
Today as struggling communities we go through a process of rearticulation, where through different instances of popular organization we are
meeting: the territorial assembly, union, student center, neighborhood and population organization, common pots, groups of groups of women
and sexual dissent, supply networks, protest and mobilisation are the spaces where we have been building community organized in resistance,
strengthening the revolutionary self-management power to advance territorial control.
From different sectors, calls for demobilization have been lifted, to passively wait for the magic lamp that for some is the restituent
plebiscite of October 25, in a context of pandemic where hunger and death lurks popular sectors we cannot Staying inertia, protest and
mobilisation is the only way to our emancipation. On the other hand, Covid-19 still whips us, so call great concentrations in Plaza de la
Dignidad or other symbolic space of resistance, can mean putting our health at risk, therefore, this is where we must make it worth our
audacity, innovating in new fight repertoires, lifting various instances of protest in the territories we inhabit, taking the necessary
protections to continue mobilizing. From above they already cook agreements to oxygenate bourgeois democracy, only the popular organization
and protest will be able to stop the agreements of the parties of order and overflow this institutional process that stands on deaths,
mutiladxs, raped, and political presxs that fill the jails of the Status. To use popular ingenuity, to make this September 11 a day of
protest, mobilization and memory.
#EstadoAsesino
#NiPerdonNiOlvido
#LibertadALxsPresxsPoliticxs
#11DeSeptiembre
#RevueltaSocial
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Are they a threat to the veil of freedom, or rather a desire for profit and total control of the population? Download, print and distribute
the September issue of the A3 wall newspaper! ---- There are people who are outraged that they should wear a vevid-19 in public transport at
the time of the spread of the disease, and they see a threat to their personal freedom behind it. It is true that regulations on safeguards
and their implementation are quite chaotic and often not very systematic. On the other hand, elementary protection is a manifestation of
everyone's responsibility both to themselves and to the people around them. But when the capitalist lessons pour into your head for 30 years
about the fact that everyone should look only at themselves and not look at others, because the stronger and more ruthless ones win, then it
is no wonder that some people fall into this delusion and have trouble taking on travel by bus or train veil. Fortunately, not everyone fell
for this ideological massage, and on the contrary, with the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, there was a huge potential for solidarity,
On the example of the mining company OKD, we could see how some companies treat their employees and do not hesitate to endanger them with
disease. Profits are profits after all. American billionaires, for example, could talk about this. While the United States, despite its
president's daily idiocy, ranks among the most affected countries for coronavirus infection, with 11 million jobs lost since February, the
total wealth of the 400 richest Americans has risen eight percent year-on-year.
Yes, we are all on the same ship. So while millions are in the hold, the elite handful are having fun in first class and the others are just
laughing. So if he reflects them at all when calculating his profits.
Covid-19 has even become a new pretext for strengthening repressive apparatus in various parts of the world. Some countries argue that when
tracking the movement of people infected with coronavirus (so-called tracing), they will use tracking devices, which include a facial
recognition system.
Such a tool for strengthening control of the population is now also being purchased by the Police of the Czech Republic. Each of us will be
identifiable not only by our face, but also by walking, and we can get into the viewfinder, even if the phyngeal software judges that our
faces express unwanted emotions.
The domestic supplier boasts on that occasion how it has already supplied such a system to countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi
Arabia, Jordan and Bahrain. That some new democratic axis of good, which certainly does not abuse the system in any way? After all,
according to official propaganda, it is supposed to protect us from terrorists, criminals and almost humanitarian assistance in tracing. It
is not strange that the restriction of human freedom is sold wonder not as the highest good for man.
But if you are not a complete boarder, you can easily put two and two together. Why do police forces take so much video material from
various demonstrations? Why don't they like it so much when someone defies their desire for an ID card at these events? This will then give
you an argument that you are similar to the person you are looking for. And everyone around you is similar to the person anyway, and it
doesn't matter if she is a protester, a pensioner or a teenager. And the digital personal recognition system will be abused in the same way.
The police thus want to have an overview of all those who stand in the way of the current capitalist order. And this is a wet dream of all
the defenders of the existing order around the world - from Saudi Arabia through the USA and China to Russia, Belarus and the Czech Republic.
Although a London court recently ruled that the use of facial recognition software is illegal, it will be enough to create one moral panic
after some unfortunate event, and it may not be as early as 9/11 in the United States, and the path to consolidating total control is
certainly finds.
It must be remembered that the powerful of this state and all the states in the world do not care what happens to ordinary people and how
they live. They are primarily concerned with protecting capital and consolidating their own power. They suppress any protest that could
really disrupt the "order" they maintain by various means (the violent ones are still very popular). It doesn't bother them much that people
are dying of covid-19 and other illnesses or that they are in a debt trap and ending up on the streets, mainly that year-on-year profits are
growing and are tools for recognizing, controlling and pacifying those below.
Big brother is watching you!
A3 (September 2020) to download HERE .
http://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2020-09.pdf
Download, print, distribute!
The A3 wall newspaper is published by the Anarchist Federation every month. They are intended mainly for dissemination through stickers in
the streets or posting in workplaces and schools.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7223/a3-covid-zisky-a-moc
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Message: 6
In real street fighting, protests against police violence in Colombia have spilled over. The police not only use gas and stun grenades, but
also open fire on demonstrators, the number of those killed has reached 11, more than 400 people were injured. Enraged protesters are
throwing stones at the police, ransacking and partially setting fire to 56 police stations and dozens of buses. More than 100 people were
arrested. Violent protests are taking place in Bogota, Cali and Medellin ... ---- Riots began on Wednesday after police killed 43-year-old
lawyer Javier Ordoñez, a father of two, in detention. 2 police officers threw him to the ground and at least 5 times hit him with an
electric shock, despite him and those around him asking: "Please stop!" He later died in hospital. The Bogotoi police chief announced that
the police had been called because the drunks were breaking order, and Ordonez allegedly hit the police.
The Minister of Defense expressed his sympathy for the Ordonez family. The authorities promise to punish both police officers. But this
cannot calm people's indignation.
Source:
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/kolumbien-elf-tote-bei-protesten-gegen-polizeigewalt-a-c9e255c7-98c8-41b1-bccf-c3b00436f865;
https://www.berlinertageszeitung.de/politik/73591-fuenf-tote-bei-protesten-gegen-polizeigewalt-in-kolumbien.html;
https://www.jungewelt.de/loginFailed.php?ref=/artikel/386136.kolumbien-geballte-wut-in-bogot%C3%A1.html
https://aitrus.info/node/5549
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