Today's Topics:
1. wsm.ie: Apollo house receives eviction by injunction notice
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. wsm.ie: Video tour of previous Dublin eviction by injunction
sites on the morning of Apollo House hearing (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Catalunia, embat: 18G #AraTocaVaga. We recover what is ours.
(ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Norwegia, nsf-iaa: 100th anniversary of NSF: 1916-2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, afed.cz: Anarchistická conference -- Text greetings
Anarchist Federation anarchist meeting in Most. [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Looking back at the first anarchist conference: "Anarchism
lives, the struggle continues!" by Johny(J) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
About an hour ago the Apollo house occupation received a finally crafted piece of
legalistic bullshit designed to divide homelessness activists from the professional
services on 'Health & Safety' grounds. Health & safety has become the go to excuse for
pushing people onto the streets, when the Halston street (ex) prison was occupied over the
summer we say the same 'concern' this time over the fact that the pigeon shit found in
that building was a health and concern safety. As we observed then there is plenty of
pigeon street on the cold, wet streets of Dublin but now its winter and those streets are
very much colder. ---- We've been reporting on various large-scale occupations that have
taken place in Dublin over the last three years. A persistent theme has been the eviction
of people living there on health and safety grounds. The other persistent element is that
all these buildings currently still lie empty and unused, indeed Halston street is even
floodlit at night presumably to deter reoccupation.
It's common sense that the streets are far more dangerous to sleep on. But the powers that
be understand just how badly people would look on evictions when they cite property
ownership as the reason. That's why they have sold unplayable house mortgages to US
vulture funds which are flying in, carrying out the evictions and making a large profit
for being the nasty cops in the process.
Respect for legal concepts of property ownership rather than who is or can use it is what
lies behind the enormous housing shortages. Shortages that have been created by
government, landlords and property speculators because they know nothing drives up rents
and hours prices more than the now very real fear that the alternative is the streets.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/apollo-house-eviction-injunction-notice
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Message: 2
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYilERPKs0M was shot on the morning of the
Apollo House injunction hearing at the High Court, 21st December. As well as footage from
outside the courts on our way there we had earlier visited the sites of other occupied
buildings evicted in the last 20 months. We discovered all of them were still vacant and
in most cases no visible work at all had been done on them. ---- Apollo house is a NAMA
building occupied to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people. 35-40 people
have been accommodated there over the last couple of nights. As expected the judge
granted the injunction, it will come into operation on January 11th. ---- We visit 4
other occupations evicted after the same judge granted injunctions over the previous 20
months. All four of those sites are currently vacant and in 3 cases no apparent work has
been done. At the largest, Grangegorman all the habitable structures have now been
demolished, it had previously housed 30 people.
Irish law is completely weighted towards property holders and not at all towards peoples
needs for housing
The evictions sites we visit in the video
Site 1: The Bolt, Dorset street
Site 2: The Debtors Prison
Site 3: Grangegorman (the HSE houses)
Site 4: Grangegorman (‘squat city')
We also mention but don't visit The Barricade Inn which is also still vacant after a
injunction was granted against the occupiers of that building. More on all of these at
www.wsm.ie/squat
http://www.wsm.ie/c/dublin-eviction-injunction-sites-apollo-house
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Message: 3
Wednesday 18 January 2017 will be debated in Parliament the items are intended for
education. Onslaught considers it important to support and endorse the demonstrations that
will take place that day to press the Catalan parliament and prevent the continuation of
austerity and cuts to public education. For this, CGT has called a strike in public
schools, and a concentration of 12 to 14 hours before the Parliament, without ruling out
future actions. Also on February 9, when it is determined the items and proceed to final
approval, is called another strike, because the fight does not end or begin with the
approval of budgets. ---- We do not just defend what we have, but also take the offensive
by demanding a quality public education. In this regard, we must enable mobilization
proposals, claims and roadmaps advanced, as stated in the unitary manifesto in favor of
reversing the cuts, which also improve the conditions of teachers and quality of education
. It is also key in the process of mobilization, the choice of date for the strike because
they are unlikely to put the conflict and debate in a better position when the budget are
being discussed (January 18), it when they have been assigned (February 9). Therefore, it
is important to endorse and support all the mobilisations called, and more forcefully
strike of January 18, a strike planned at a reflux widespread popular movement and
association, and that marks the rest of social sectors the way to go against social and
economic policies continuistas, not disruptive to the neoliberal model, and state of
obedience.
Finally, we call on the entire educational community to support and endorse the strike on
January 18, 2017 as well as future mobilizations and actions to achieve the demands set
out in the manifesto. The defense of public education as a step towards a truly democratic
and popular model is not only matter of teaching but also mothers, fathers and relatives
represented the PTA's, students and all youth and other workers of our people. Extend the
call to join us and other sectors in the mobilization , without ruling out any form of
struggle, using every place and time that we consider the most appropriate, making January
18 a day of struggle in general .
http://embat.info/aratocavaga/
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Message: 4
Norwegian Syndicalist Federation (NSF) held on October 29 a meeting as a start to the
100th anniversary. It was kept in a wooden house in Grunerlokka in Oslo, and it was a very
good attendance. Greetings were performed from IAA- Secretariat (with seat in Poland) by
the Secretary General, a fellow from Solidarity Federation -Manchester, and a fellow of
Ørestad LS, an IAA "accustom" organization. Later in the evening came nine transport
workers and one of them made a greeting to NSF. ---- It was only an introductory speech
about the founding of the NSF on 28 December 1916 and the many direct actions organization
led the next few years. NSF their local Confederation agitated early to take eight-hour
day, and began to agitate for six hour day as early as 1919. A health worker / historian,
writing two books about NSF, then spoke about the work of the local unions in Rjukan, a
society where NSF had 600 members in 1920. He also told how LO locally sometimes
collaborated, whereas in others, undermining the NSF and its direct actions significantly.
Another speaker told about NSF's activities in their twenties and thirties. NSF joined IAA
when Internationals were created in 1922 and has since taken an active part in it. NSF
continued with the professional organization in their twenties and thirties. They also had
a women's group (called Unity) who actively participated in organizing the work of NSF.
Several of the group members were arrested during WWII for illegal work against the Nazis.
The oldest current NSF veteran talked about NSF events from World War II to the
reorganization in 1977. NSF cooperation during this period of revolutionary syndicalists
in Sweden, since SAC had taken a reformist development, and Danish comrades. He also
talked about reorganizing the NSF in 1977 and the scientific work he and other NSF
comrades had in the metal industry. There had been some important, illegal strikes in this
sector that had radicalized workers.
The largest part of the event was about labor disputes as NSF members had taken part in
and / or supported. To name a few: NSF had a few years after the reorganization in 1977 a
separate action against a fast food which was successful, it was told about repression
against NSF union activists, a fellow talked about the activities of the NSF "made" during
preschool teachers' illegal strike in 1987, another on the support to the illegal strikes
on Tollpost-Globe (large transport terminal) in 1992 and SAS - Hotel conflicts in 1992 and
1993. Thanks to these conflicts got tens of thousands of workers in these and other
industries permanent instead of temporary contracts! It was also mentioned labor up to today.
Activists from unions at SAS hotel, Tollpost- Globe and other unions attended an NSF
conference in April 1996 on Direct action. Two dock workers from Liverpool who were on
strike, also participated in this conference. These were then introduced to even more
Norwegian unions and clubs, and it was the start of an extensive and important solidarity
work from local Norwegian unions for Liverpool dock workers.
SF buddy, and another comrade, spoke about this support work for the port workers 'strike
in Liverpool in the nineties, and also about the extensive work for solidarity among
Norwegian local unions of the British miners' strike in the 80 years. SF comrade also
spoke about the current situation, and so clearly the link between the Norwegian
government's plans to privatize the railways, and privatization in the UK, they have been
a disaster in the UK and now the Norwegian government copy them!
NSF activists were active in establishing local support committees for arrested workers in
Chile and Bolivia in the late seventies, and members took an active part in supporting the
efforts of arrested workers in Poland after martial law in December 1981. A comrade from
ZSP informed concerning the situation of Polish workers today, and how Poland is trying to
promote the country as a low-cost countries to attract investment. The speech was also
about ZSPs labor as there are lots of, and how they organize themselves against the
government and employers' policies.
Swedish comrade gave a speech about privatization in Sweden is extensive. He also said
that legislation in Sweden makes it easier for minority organizations to negotiate than in
Norway, and told about the labor that has been, or is organized by Ørestad LS. It was also
informed that Ørestad LS, Danish comrades and NSF will start a Scandinavian cooperation.
All these examples and many more show the importance of international solidarity and
international organization. The importance of NSF's membership and active participation in
the International Workers' Association (IAA) since 1922 was mentioned in all the speeches
about the different decades.
The celebration was held in times where employers and government attacks workers' rights
in all fields. There are lower oil prices compared to a few years ago, and it is being
used as a pretext to attack oil -arbeidernes conditions and rights, and they throw
thousands out in unemployment, while the oil companies still have exorbitant profits.
And for a year and a half ago on strike pilots in Norwegian for the right to be employed
where they actually perform their work and not by other companies. Dock workers are
fighting, and in some ports have been on strike / conflict for three years for collective
agreements and for the right to perform the work in accordance with international
conventions (ILO). And in October, there was a four weeks long lokførerstreik that
required a common standard of education, so that it is independent of the various rail
companies which occurs when the privatization plans of the railway will be implemented in
2017/18.
Because of this situation, where the Norwegian tripartite and class collaboration model
creak at the joints, the NSF received several requests for new forms of industrial action,
and anarcho-syndicalism in the past eighteen months, than in the more "quiet" period from
December 2000!
Written by LS of NSF @ Thu, December 15, 2016 8:03:25 p.m. 0000
http://www.nsf-iaa.org/readpost.php?post=1481832205.txt
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Message: 5
Since we insist on organizing the anarchist, we support the development of the anarchist
movement, even outside of our federation. More organizational approaches and related
platforms within the movement can be beneficial. It was among others the message that our
delegates have interpreted the initial greeting to the Anarchist Conference, which was
held on December 17 under the auspices of the SAF in Most. A report from the conference by
members of the organizing SAF can be found HERE
https://safed.noblogs.org/post/2016/12/21/ohlednuti-za-prvni-anarchistickou-konferenci-anarchismus-zije-boj-pokracuje/,
said AF greetings on the following lines: ---- Anarchist Federation would like this
through their delegates greeted the participants and the participants of today's anarchist
conference in Most.
Our organization was founded in 1995 on the needs of some anarchist organize and find it
satisfying organizational platform. Movement since the early 90s has undergone in this
endeavor path of searching and testing, which showed some experience. Probably the most
important thing is that the organization is a necessity. And Anarchist Federation for us,
local groups and individuals involved in it, a platform for communication and coordination
of various activities. Another entertainment is that it is not good to try to insist on
linking the anarchist movement under the umbrella of a single organization, because
anarchism is very diverse, in terms of ideological orientation and preferred work methods.
Within the Anarchist Federation we can discuss their direction. On the basis of such
internal debates, we determined the structure of our goals, rinks cooperation within the
Movement and beyond, our business policy or publishing strategy. Our federal structure
allows us to implement transregional projects such as publishing AF or uniformly organized
on an international level as a member of the International Federation of Anarchist
Federations. Within our possibilities, abilities and capacities we are open to cooperation
across the broader anti-authoritarian movement.
In particular, recent years have taught us how important it is for an anarchist activism
safety culture and a certain prudence on the one hand, before the secret and the Nazis, on
the other hand, from various wack unbalanced individuals and small authoritarians. This is
the reason why membership in the Anarchist Federation, bound to a certain period of
cooperation activities and mutual understanding.
We consider it very important to support local groups and activities. According to their
capabilities in this area, we offer theoretical and practical background. We will be happy
if our lines in the future will strengthen other groups and individuals who are generally
clear about where ideological stand, what they want to do and have the maneuvering rules
for safe communication. But we are no recruiters and will be happy for each functional and
meaningful anarchist initiative, whether under the joint auspices or outside.
Anarchist Federation is certainly ideal, and for a simple reason. It is formed and only
the people. Additionally, quite a few of us, which generally can be said about organized
anarchists and anarchistkách. Also, we as humans are different, we have enough or lack of
its own initiative, a different level of accountability to the common cause, in most cases
we are busy with jobs, school or other activism, we can not and we do not want to pay all
at once, such transregional and numerous federation us some processes take longer. Just we
are trying to work under the slogan "From each according to his ability...".
We would like to invite to support some of our projects. First, it is wall paper A3 ,
which are available each month on our website afed.cz download. Simply print a few copies
and put up or lay them at appropriate locations. Further assistance would appreciate
through the collection of publications of our publishing, especially anarchist revue,
Existence , or better still engaging in their distribution. A condition that can build
anarchist publications, is to create a functional range of customers and distributors. If
you do not anarchist publication sales, they have no future and their sense of issuance.
I wish you success in our joint fight against all forms of oppression and unnatural
authority, as a free and self-governing society
anarchist Federation
https://www.afed.cz/text/6584/anarchisticka-konference
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Message: 6
Who is watching what is happening in the anarchist movement, he certainly has not escaped
the information about the forthcoming I.Anarchistické conference convened by the North
Bohemian Anarchist Federation (SAF) to the north of Bohemia. Our aim was to build on the
tradition of the old days of the anarchist movement, the last similar event took place 110
years ago as III. (All) anarchist congress on Christmas Day in the 1906th ---- The
announced one-day conference anarchist met on Saturday, December 17, 2017 in Most, rode to
the people of Prague, northern, western and central Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Present
were representatives of several anarchist organizations organizing the North Bohemian
Anarchist Federation (SAF) , then Anarchist Federation (AF) , Ostrava Anarchist Federation
(OAF) Collectively Against Capital (KPK), the empty throne and the Voice of
anarchopacifism (VAP).
Workshop participants began to arrive between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning, with a
slight delay, the conference was launched in 11.hodin member of SAF , who briefly greeted
those present delegate Anarchist Federation, read a greeting on behalf of the entire
conference AF and proceeded to organizational and technical matters. The conference
identified the reporter and moderator, selected the moderator explained the rules of
debate and nonverbal aids during discussions. It agreed to organize discussions and
lectures schedule.
Since one of the objectives of the conference were getting to know one, was dating wheel
where each participant or participants briefly introduce (a).
The first lecture combined with discussion presented by a representative block SAF on "
The revival of the anarchist movement and its unification ." A member of SAF attempted to
outline the importance of cooperation and coordination of activities and joint action of
the anarchist movement as a whole, with a view to its gradual unification, which will not
be easy and quick process, but should be treated with a movement to try if he wants to get
out of their marginal status and to become a living and evolving movement. Likewise,
appealed for greater empathy that older anarchist activists a helping hand to newcomers to
participants of the movement. Likewise, existing teams had been helpful and encourage the
emergence of a new anarchist collectives in places where previously there was none.
Presented by the position that the movement can develop and grow, but needed to do every
anarchist individuals, each of us on every matter, therefore it is necessary for us among
their unorganized friends and girlfriends touted the need for pooling and as much as
possible about her campaigning .
Delegate SAF came up with concrete proposals to help the movement to revive and unite:
Firstly, as already mentioned the need to initiate and assist in setting up new local
anarchist groups to gradually created a network of anarchist collectives in places where
they do not and should reach more in their activities.
Secondly, it is necessary to develop the existing anarchist organizations closer
communication and collaboration through forums anarchists (tek). Personal meetings, of
course, nothing can replace, hence the need to meet in joint meetings such as the
Anarchist Conference.
The fourth proposal to develop more effective cooperation and convergence between the
anarchist groupings is to create a "coordinating committee" (working title). Such
coordination committee would be composed of delegates from various organizations who would
be on the basis of their mandates for addressing common procedure, statements, planning
events and campaigns that were subsequently re-approved by individual organizations. It is
no news with these commissions have already lost the old anarchist movement of the late
19th and early 20th centuries.
A member of SAF expressed wishes and suggestion if the will of the individual regional
anarchist groups to unite under the banner of the Anarchist Federation , which is our
longest established group since 1995 and a member of the International of Anarchist
Federations, therefore, a group with a tradition established structures and experience.
The second discussion session was held on the theme of " anarchist 1st May 2017 ," in
fruitful discussions sounded several observations and contributions. The ultimate
conclusion was the wish of the participants and the participants of the conference that
was held traditional anarchist 1.máj in Prague with subsequent demonstrations that would
be appropriate for the regions took place before the first May Day local events, and we
all gathered in one place and demonstrated the strength together! Representatives of the
Anarchist Federation presented its proposal to briefly 1.máje topic of " work " and will
organize 1.máj, other groups have promised and offered their help and support.
The third discussion session devoted to " anti-elections campaign of 2017 ". In 2017, we
expect several polling theaters, but one of the most important will be that elections to
the Chamber of Deputies in October. Within unleashed debate was discussed a rumor about
the boycott of the elections, which they try to discourage people from non-participation
in elections, and it is suggested that we responded to this hoax. Both the participants
and the participants expressed content over the anti-elections campaign which should be
directed to boycott all political actors without distinction and as an opportunity to
promote anarchist alternative government. Above all, the organization AF, VAP and SAF
are planning to print and distribute materials from the traditionally anti-elections
leaflets, stickers to posters. We agreed on a mutual help with their promotion and
distribution. SAF has proposed closer cooperation should be through the establishment of "
promotion committee " composed of delegates from various groups and plans call for
cooperation on anti-elections campaign of other regional anarchist groups who have shown
interest to participate in the campaign. Delegate VAP raised the question of logging
materials, what has spurred debate about its meaning and whether nelogované materials are
indeed greater outreach to the public.
After the Gaza discussion blocks, followed by another one breaks associated with food,
served with lentil soup. Later he followed the second course rice with gravy.
The first lecture presented by a representative of the Anarchist Federation on the theme "
Media Communication and Public reletion ". He tried to outline how the anarchist movement
exploit the possibilities of mass media, even though it has its pitfalls, how to practice
and how to proceed should be convened press conference. The second part was how to create
their own media, it was very inspiring presentation of the project team Submédia , who is
very well managed libertarian public relations, what we could see when you watch one of
the short films " To Change Everything: An Anarchist appeal ". The performance was briefly
Publishing AF with an appeal for participation in the distribution of anarchist
publications. The last topic that member AF broached the social networks, especially FB,
although security has its pitfalls, yet it can be used as a platform for the promotion of
anarchist ideas. Among other interesting was the finding that there is no need to
overwhelm FB profile inexhaustible number of contributions, but just 2-3, maybe in the
morning and evening. Or perhaps it is more effective than an event picture (poster).
Likewise, he warned against the pitfalls of creating "bubbles interest", which is closed
and we will fail to get information mime group of people with anarchist mentality.
The second lecture to the conference prepared a delegate Moravian collective vacant throne
, who tried to introduce Christian anarchism, to which the team reports. The lecture was
extremely interactive and agile and sparked an emotional debate on faith and the church,
which is in the atheistic environment, natural anarchist movement. Workshop participants
agreed on the idea that as anarchists we see questionable faith in God that all sitting
here, they have something they believe in. But as anarchists can not recognize the Church
as the Church embodies authoritarian power and principles that as anarchists we can not
accept.
The third lecture was the presentation of free community Voice of anarchopacifism (VAP) ,
where delegates presented their anarcho-pacifism and his ideas, while informal
organization approached the principles upon which their community works.
The last lecture on "The nine-day strike in IGW Brno and political importance of
workplaces " concluded conference of representatives of the organization Collectively
Against Capital . Members and members of KPK approached and analyzed IGW strike at a
factory in Brno, which was the longest strike in the Czech Republic at least since 1989,
completely mainstream, consistent from start to finish and winning, albeit with limits.
Summarize what led to the strike, and focused on the question "Why did it go just in IGW,
while in other workplaces, workers can not defend?"
The last lecture with discussion, which actually followed each lecture, after 21.hodine
officially venue I.Anarchistické conference ended . Although not materialize workshop "
Computer security " by the AF and " How to establish a local anarchist group " by SAF
(which we from time constraints canceled), yet was packed conference program and demanding.
It was nice to discover that the movement is a strong need to discuss, debate, and many
had to be terminated prematurely because they could do much time. Likewise, the finding
that the movement is interested in meeting in similar meetings and personal discussions
with various parties and participants, as well as the people who wrote to us that he could
not attend this time, wish to make another anarchist conference. This leads us to
implement the second anarchist conference in the summer of next year (probably in June)
and how it is seen as a few days, offers the chance to implement it in the form of a
Anarchist camp somewhere in the countryside.
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Oury Jalloh Campaign: "When Exposing a Crime is treated as committing a Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals.
Oury Jalloh Campaign: "When Exposing a Crime is treated as committing a
Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals."
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4299
Oury Jalloh Campaign: "When Exposing a Crime is treated as committing a
Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals."
On the 7th of January 2005, 2 African brothers Oury Jalloh and Layé
Alama Kondé, were murdered by German Police in Dessau and Bremen
(Germany) respectively.
The murder of Oury Jalloh is not singular nor is the perpetrator of the
crime individual. It was a collective, systemic and systematically
State-organized crime that still goes unabated.
The LIVES of Africans/Black people and also other minorities do not
matter in Germany/Europe
Come to Dessau and fight for the lives that don’t seem to matter.
7th January, 2017 at 14.00 O’clock at the main Train station in Dessau.
12 years have passed since Oury Jalloh and Layé Alama Konde were
murdered in police cells in Dessau (with both hands and feet tied to
tiled walls and floor) and Bremen (through poisoning) respectively. It's
only through the tireless struggle of a few activists and networks that
we have succeeded in getting a glimpse of collective and organized
criminality on the part of the German State, in the clearing up of
evidence in both cases, which definitely proved that these brothers were
murdered.
For Oury Jalloh, the official prosecutor’s thesis of suicide has been
disproved by various facts and indices while some activists that have
been behind the case have been unjustly prosecuted and are still being
persecuted with repeated police violence during demonstrations as a
consequence.
The same day in Bremen, another African fatally succumbed to emetics
forcefully administered to him by German police. In all these years,
none of the trials against policemen, that were only opened up after
immense pressure, led to an enlightenment on the circumstances of both
Oury Jalloh and Laye Alama Konde’s deaths.
This continuous colonial reality, reflected through organized killing of
to be Migrants in the Mediterranean, the deportation practices, the
investigations against relatives of the victims of NSU or the rise of
the AfD and other right-wing entities in Germany and Europe makes it
more important than ever for us to come together to challenge and fight
these evils of the 21th Century.
Remembering and fighting for justice for Oury Jalloh, Layé Kondé,
Mariame Saar, Christy Schwundeck, Dominique Kuomadio (the list goes on)
and all the others is a matter of self-defense.
The more united we are in challenging and defending ourselves and values
against these monsters of the 21th Century, the more we expose the
cracks of a world order and systems that have failed Humanity and will
destroy Humanity if we do not stop them.
OURY JALLOH IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CASE — NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN!
RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE – OR – EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE!
......
Informationen zu Gruppenanreisen zur Demonstration in Gedenken an den
12. Todestag von Oury Jalloh in Dessau-Roßlau am 7. Januar 2017:
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Treffpunkt für die Busanreise: Oranienplatz 11.00 Uhr
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Sternschanze https://www.facebook.com/kara.wane.12
Köln:
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Leipzig:
TREFFPUNKT in LEIPZIG am 07.01.17, um gemeinsam auf die
Gedenkdemonstration für Oury Jalloh in Dessau mit dem Zug zu fahren!
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Dresden- Neustadt:
nach Dessau gibt es eine gemeinsame Anreise aus Dresden: Treffpunkt Bf.
Neustadt um 10:45 Uhr
Hannover:
Wenn es einen dritten Bus geben soll, meldet euch bis Montag, 17 Uhr
verbindlich bei uns per Mail: hannover@interventionistische-linke.org
Frankfurt:
Abfahrt in Frankfurt ist um 6:45h vom DGB-Haus.
Tickets gibt es in der Karl-Marx-Buchhandlung in Bockenheim.
GREIFSWALD:
Ab sofort gibt es im IKUWO Tickets für den Bus am 07.01.2017 nach
Dessau. Immer Dienstags bis Samstags
Erfurt:
Zugtreffpunkt zur gemeinsamen Fahrt zur Gedenkdemo am 7.1. in #Dessau:
11:15 Uhr am Hauptbahnhof in Erfurt
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Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals."
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4299
Oury Jalloh Campaign: "When Exposing a Crime is treated as committing a
Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals."
On the 7th of January 2005, 2 African brothers Oury Jalloh and Layé
Alama Kondé, were murdered by German Police in Dessau and Bremen
(Germany) respectively.
The murder of Oury Jalloh is not singular nor is the perpetrator of the
crime individual. It was a collective, systemic and systematically
State-organized crime that still goes unabated.
The LIVES of Africans/Black people and also other minorities do not
matter in Germany/Europe
Come to Dessau and fight for the lives that don’t seem to matter.
7th January, 2017 at 14.00 O’clock at the main Train station in Dessau.
12 years have passed since Oury Jalloh and Layé Alama Konde were
murdered in police cells in Dessau (with both hands and feet tied to
tiled walls and floor) and Bremen (through poisoning) respectively. It's
only through the tireless struggle of a few activists and networks that
we have succeeded in getting a glimpse of collective and organized
criminality on the part of the German State, in the clearing up of
evidence in both cases, which definitely proved that these brothers were
murdered.
For Oury Jalloh, the official prosecutor’s thesis of suicide has been
disproved by various facts and indices while some activists that have
been behind the case have been unjustly prosecuted and are still being
persecuted with repeated police violence during demonstrations as a
consequence.
The same day in Bremen, another African fatally succumbed to emetics
forcefully administered to him by German police. In all these years,
none of the trials against policemen, that were only opened up after
immense pressure, led to an enlightenment on the circumstances of both
Oury Jalloh and Laye Alama Konde’s deaths.
This continuous colonial reality, reflected through organized killing of
to be Migrants in the Mediterranean, the deportation practices, the
investigations against relatives of the victims of NSU or the rise of
the AfD and other right-wing entities in Germany and Europe makes it
more important than ever for us to come together to challenge and fight
these evils of the 21th Century.
Remembering and fighting for justice for Oury Jalloh, Layé Kondé,
Mariame Saar, Christy Schwundeck, Dominique Kuomadio (the list goes on)
and all the others is a matter of self-defense.
The more united we are in challenging and defending ourselves and values
against these monsters of the 21th Century, the more we expose the
cracks of a world order and systems that have failed Humanity and will
destroy Humanity if we do not stop them.
OURY JALLOH IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CASE — NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN!
RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE – OR – EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE!
......
Informationen zu Gruppenanreisen zur Demonstration in Gedenken an den
12. Todestag von Oury Jalloh in Dessau-Roßlau am 7. Januar 2017:
https://www.facebook.com/ouryjallohinfo/
Gedenkdemo für OURYJALLOH ➡ 07.01.17 ➡ DESSAU ➡ 14:00 Uhr ➡ Hbf. Dessau
Berlin und Potsdam:
Für alle, die aus Berlin und Potsdam
Treffpunkt für die Busanreise: Oranienplatz 11.00 Uhr
An-/Abreise auf
Frankfurt/Main mit dem Bus zur Demo "Oury Jalloh - Das war Mord" am 7.
Januar 2017 in Dessau. Abfahrt in Frankfurt ist um 6:45h vom DGB-Haus.
Aus Hamburg
fahren zwei Busse zur Demo: SAMSTAG 7.1.2017 um 7 Uhr morgens am S Bhf
Sternschanze https://www.facebook.com/kara.wane.12
Köln:
OURY JALLOH BUSTOUR 2017 Köln - Dessau: Samstag 07.01.2017
Abfahrt: 06:00 Uhr Köln Bhf-West
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010862675397
Magdeburg:
Zugtreffpunkt für die Fahrt zur Oury Jalloh-Demo am 07. Januar 2017 um
12:45 Uhr am ZOB in Magdeburg
Leipzig:
TREFFPUNKT in LEIPZIG am 07.01.17, um gemeinsam auf die
Gedenkdemonstration für Oury Jalloh in Dessau mit dem Zug zu fahren!
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Tickets gibt es in der Karl-Marx-Buchhandlung in Bockenheim.
GREIFSWALD:
Ab sofort gibt es im IKUWO Tickets für den Bus am 07.01.2017 nach
Dessau. Immer Dienstags bis Samstags
Erfurt:
Zugtreffpunkt zur gemeinsamen Fahrt zur Gedenkdemo am 7.1. in #Dessau:
11:15 Uhr am Hauptbahnhof in Erfurt
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Hundreds of migrants try to storm border into Spain's enclave of Ceuta
http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2017/01/01/la-frontiere-maroc-espagne-a-ceuta-forcee-par-pres-d-un-millier-de-migrants_5056221_3214.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-spain-idUSKBN14L147?il=0
Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's
North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a
border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish
government said.
Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence
in the early hours of Sunday before being lifted down by cranes, footage
from local TV station Faro TV showed.
Only two people were allowed into Ceuta to be taken to hospital while
the rest were returned to Morocco, the Spanish government said in a
statement.
Video:
http://farotv.es/2017/01/01/mas-de-70-inmigrantes-se-encaraman-a-la-valla-tras-intentarlo-casi-1-000/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-spain-idUSKBN14L147?il=0
Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's
North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a
border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish
government said.
Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence
in the early hours of Sunday before being lifted down by cranes, footage
from local TV station Faro TV showed.
Only two people were allowed into Ceuta to be taken to hospital while
the rest were returned to Morocco, the Spanish government said in a
statement.
Video:
http://farotv.es/2017/01/01/mas-de-70-inmigrantes-se-encaraman-a-la-valla-tras-intentarlo-casi-1-000/
zondag 1 januari 2017
Now to read: JOURNEY BACK TO LESVOS 3: EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT –
JOURNEY BACK TO LESVOS 3: EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT – AUGUST 2015
JANUARY 1, 2017
http://lesvos.w2eu.net/2017/01/01/journey-back-to-lesvos-3-everything-is-different-august-2015/
Here you find the documentation:
Doku-Mitilini-Journey-back-to-the-borders-2015
2017 just started – and the documentation of our journey back to
the borders 2015 is ready.
It is more then one year later now – and what happened in 2015 already
became history. When we read now, the texts and the pictures of 2015,
we read it also to understand our own history.
A lot has changed since then, especially on Lesvos.
After the EU-Turkey-deal and the closure of the Balkanroute, 60.000 people
got stuck and are blocked under inhuman conditions in Greece.
They are blocked from continuing their journey into another future. Lesvos,
the island of solidarity has changed into the island of the trapped.
Most deportations to Turkey are carried out via Lesvos. We will soon
document what we experienced in October 2016.
Again there is the plan to build new detention centres on the
Aegean islands, not much hope for a positive change this year.
Even more resistance is needed and the history of the struggle for freedom
of movement should be made public.
The border was never open – and it was never closed. Also today,
under very difficult conditions, people manage to continue their journey
and to arrive. Today, in times where EU-migration-policy again
means mainly deterrence and deportation, we need more then ever another,
a welcoming Europe, safe places where noone will be asked for a passport,
but is just a friend among friends.
OUR EUROPE DOESN’T NEED BORDERS,
INSTEAD IT HAS OPEN DOORS AND PEOPLE CAN ARRIVE ON REGULAR FERRIES,
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
Anarchic update news all over the world - 1 January 2017
Today's Topics:
1. AGAINST THE ASSAD REGIME'S CONQUEST OF EASTERN
ALEPPO -- The
Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre - Migrants and
migrants: Ferns open and inclusive (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, class war: Harrods staff demand full payment of
tips (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Athens: Manifestation against the "sub-minimum wage"
(ca, gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in
the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies
for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who
were both secular and Islamist, has entailed massively indiscriminate bombardment and
besiegement by the Syrian regime and allied Russian and Iranian forces against a civilian
population numbering 250,000 people over the past several months. On December 12, 2016,
this ruthless "scorched-Earth" policy targeting Eastern Aleppo yielded a final defeat of
the rebels there, in addition to an "agreement" supposedly stipulating their evacuation
with families to secure areas. Credible reports nonetheless warn that, in numerous cases,
Assad's victorious forces and their allies have not observed these publicized truces since
their capture of the remainder of the city: they are accused of forcibly disappearing
hundreds of men and boys since taking over the remaining sections of former rebel presence
within the millennia-old citadel. The defeat of those defending what was formerly known
as "Free Aleppo" was prosecuted by the cruelest of methods, involving wanton destruction
of human lives, especially those of children, by regime and Russian mass-aerial
bombardment and artillery strikes of the rebel-held districts. The extensive atrocities
of which the Syrian military and paramilitary forces stand accused of having committed in
Eastern Aleppo are one with the Assad regime's general modus operandi of despotic terror,
which has led to an estimated 60,000 forcible disappearances since the beginning of the
Syrian Revolution in March 2011.
The RSSC clearly acknowledges that the Syrian Revolution exists and continues, even amidst
the loss of Aleppo to regime forces. The devastating fall of Aleppo and the enormous
human suffering this has entailed represent tragedies of immense proportions which cannot
be overlooked by revolutionaries or humanity in general. This "victory" for the Assad
regime and its crimes against humanity also anticipate generally negative outcomes for the
Syrian Revolution. With the State's recent capture of Aleppo and of Daraya four months
ago, Assad has few major Syrian cities that remain beyond his dictatorial reach. Save for
Rojava and the territory still held by the Islamic State, only Idlib and smaller cities
remain under rebel control. From pillaged spaces, the destruction of base needs, and a
resurgence of rare diseases to disappearances, mass executions, being buried under
collapsing buildings, and having only one hospital functioning in a city of nearly 2
million, it's only reasonable that people escape war, or fight in it. Regarding armed
struggle, we wish to clarify that the much-maligned far-right Jabhat Fatah al-Sham
(formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, or JAN) remained a distinct minority within the rebel forces of
Eastern Aleppo, and that it had in fact been expelled from the district by the organized
revolutionaries for nearly a year until last summer, when it regrouped to assist with
breaking the siege maintained by Assad and his allies, leading to the final outcome we now
observe. In parallel, the Eastern Aleppo rebels expelled Islamic State forces from the
area as early as 2014. Under the circumstances created by authoritarian leaders like
Assad and imperialistic states such as the United States and Russia, we must support
refugees at all costs, and in as many ways as we can. We expect that Assad and his
Russian and Iranian military allies will now repeat the terror waged against the civilian
population of Eastern Aleppo by turning to similarly bombard the remaining Sunni-majority
cities and people into submission and carrying out forcible disappearances and summary
executions en masse.
In reflecting on the fall of Aleppo, we must be critical of the role the Kurdish
Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its world-renowned militias, the YPG and YPJ, played in
this process. While the international anti-authoritarian left has rightly hailed the
Rojava Revolution (2012-present) as an emancipatory development reminiscent of the Spanish
Revolution of 1936-1939, less attention has been focused to date on the relationship
between Rojava and the regime. The truth is that the undeniable gains made in the Rojava
Revolution were made possible by Assad's withdrawal of forces from the northeastern region
of Syria in 2012-unfortunately, the very opposite of the situation for the Syrian
Revolution, with movements from the Sunni Arab-majority regions of the country arrayed
against Assad bearing massive losses during these same years. Indeed, some critical
commentators have charged the PYD with either remaining "neutral" toward or even openly
siding with the regime since 2012. In terms of Aleppo, the PYD's militias are accused of
having conspired with Assad and his various reactionary international allies in
dismantling the Aleppene council system and bringing the city district back under State
control. We wish to investigate these claims about the actions of the PYD's militias in
Aleppo further, expressing our concern, and we declare our support-apart from some of
PYD's military aspects-for the TEV-DEM movement struggling to implement democratic
confederalism through the construction of popular power based on communes and councils in
the region, as well as the specifically feminist elements of the Rojava Revolution.
Amidst this negative turn of events following the fall of Aleppo-the very silencing of the
Arab Revolutions, perhaps, at least for now-we recognize the dignity of the resistance of
the Syrian civil defense to the atrocities of Assad, Russia, Iran, and their allied
militias. We declare our support for the Syrian Revolution that lives on in the remaining
Local Coordinating Committees (LCCs) and parallel self-organizational efforts, as in the
martyrdom of those taken since the onset of the Revolution and its development into a
global/regional civil war. We denounce the terrible disregard for human life demonstrated
by the counter-revolutionary State and international military forces in Aleppo and
throughout much of Syria. We demand an immediate cessation of arms sales and transfers to
the Assad regime and a withdrawal of the Russian and Iranian militaries and the Shi'ite
militias from Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan that are propping up a tottering
dictatorship, in addition to a suspension of US/NATO support for the Kurdish militias and
the financing and arming of right-wing Islamist rebels by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and
other reactionary Gulf kingdoms. We believe that only by clearing the field in Syria of
all imperialist interventions will progress toward justice and liberation be achieved, as
these imperialist forces will inevitably only cause a degradation of liberatory
strategies, and will surmount to a furthering of proxy warfare. We further support the
immediate investigation and prosecution of Assad and his allies for their violations of
international and natural law. We encourage our comrades and readers everywhere to
organize in favor of Syrian refugees and the threatened Revolution, against foreign
intervention and militarism in Syria as well as Assad's resurgent fascism.
Al-sha'ab yourid isqat al-nizam! "The People want the fall of the regime!"
- The Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
------------------------------
Message: 2
Since October 25, a reception and guidance center (CAD) opened Beaucé, in the community of
common Ferns (20 and 000 inhabitants), to accommodate 140 réfugié.es following the
dismantling of the jungle Calais. ---- Following the announcement of a CAD in Fougeres
(Ille-et-Vilaine), the extreme right, as usual, tried to go up against precarious each
other. The Regional laying FN - resident in Fougeres - wanted to organize an event to
mobilize its supporters against migrants and migrant. ---- Many false leaflets (on the
flight work by asylum seekers - even though they and they can not work - on possible
attacks on public money spent ...) were broadcast. The presence of the extreme right in
the markets and in public spaces has created significant tension with residents and
inhabitants, even as the FN claims to have a speech to appeasement.
In response, many political organizations, associations, original residents have
organisé.es to fight against this speech. Thus, in parallel antimigrants rally organized
by the extreme right, which brought together about 100 people from all over Britain, 750
people gathered shouting "Fougeres, Fougeres, open and united" to show support for future
residents of CAD.
social ties against rejection
The far right had bet on potential spillovers to validate his speech. Other cities hosting
for several months CAD testify if some residents and some inhabitants may be receptive and
responsive to the speech of the far right, the experience has not validated their hopes.
This is to accommodate the best male and female migrants and bring the best possible
reception, a group of residents and inhabitants has created Fougeres Solidaires. This
class is complementary charities designated to accompany the reception, to propose actions
and activities to réfugié.es and Fougerais and Fougeraises (city tours, cafes, board
games, collecting clothes, repair bikes ...).
This group has existed since mid-October, has been opened to residents of CAD and some
participating. Beyond solidarity that contributes to exist, the collective can create
social ties between inhabitants and the inhabitants themselves and with residents and
resident.
In this pre-election period many political parties are trying to make their butter by
appropriating such popular initiatives. The proposed democratic framework for the
collective can fight against this recovery. This framework also enables participants and
residents of the CAD to experiment with direct democracy and self-management, as well as
exchanging collectively on the relevance of the actions and positions of the group.
Indeed, certain forms of aid can be infantilizing and embarrass residents and residents. A
collective framework allows for reflection.
The opening of the CAO had consequences far beyond the strict welcome and collective
responses are encouraging.
Céline (AL Ferns)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Migrantes-et-migrants-Fougeres
------------------------------
Message: 3
Harrods faces strikes and protests over ‘unfair' tips policy ---- from Politics.co.uk, 23
December 2016: Harrods is facing demonstrations and possible strike action by staff over
its tips policy, Politics.co.uk can reveal. ---- Workers at the high-end department
store's restaurants are involved in a dispute with bosses over the amount the company
deducts from the service charge. ---- The United Voices of the World Union (UVW), which
represents a number of the workers, says that Harrods takes an unspecified percentage of
the tips left for waiters and staff by customers. ---- Staff say they have been left in
the dark over the amount being deducted from the service charge because they do not
receive a full breakdown of what they receive. They have complained to management over
Harrods' refusal to confirm in writing the percentage they take...
Full article here
More info as it comes!
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/harrods-waiters-demand-full-payment-tips/
------------------------------
Message: 4
Informative text of several student groups on a demonstration against the "sub - minimum"
wage, on December 17 in the center of Athens. ---- Following an initiative of autonomous
student groups at the Polytechnic School of Athens, and libertarian groups in Athens on
Saturday 17 December 2016 at noon a demonstration was held against the salary "sub -
minimum" and in general against the undervaluation of our work. The appeal was made by the
Cook Association, the Peristeri People's Assembly, the Kipseli-Patission Resistance and
Solidarity Assembly, the Syntagma Square Workers and Unemployment Assembly, the Rocinante
Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative, the Union of Trade Unions Libertarian, the Assembly of
anarchists for social and class emancipation, as well as fellow workers and associations,
neighborhood assemblies and squatters, and political communities.
More than 150 students, colleagues and colleagues marched in various downtown streets of
the commercial and tourist center of Athens, finishing, even temporarily, with the
"festive" atmosphere, with which the state, mayors and bosses try to hide the Wages of
hunger, work without social security, unpaid overtime, work on Sunday, and intensification
of excessive work prevailing in this period.
During the demonstration, leaflets were distributed to workers and consumers, and flyers
were thrown at the "sub-minimum wage", the new anti-worker bill being prepared, as well as
the diachronic undervaluation of our work. Stops were made at the bookstore Ianos on the
street Eolu, highlighting the repression and exploitation of workers in this
company-dungeon in recent years, Everest in Monastiraki, for the murders of workers by the
management of the company. At Everest production stopped, and members of the Association
of waiters and cooks distributed leaflets and engaged in conversation with the companions
of this company.
Then the march went to the offices of the Greek Confederation of Commerce and
Entrepreneurship, which has contributed during the last years to the undervaluation of our
work, to work without social security, and to the imposition of work on Sunday in the
Sector of commerce. When slogans were painted on the door of the building, the timbers of
the so-called anti-riot forces, as real protectors of the patrons, came to protect this
association from the employers. The march arrived at the subway station of Monastiraki,
where slogans were shouted in favor of free access to the mass media.
It is necessary to continue our struggle against the diachronic undervaluation of our
work, as well as against the new anti-worker law proposal being prepared by the State and
Capital. We must continue in a more organized, more massive, more combative and more
dangerous way!
Autonomous Group of Electrical Engineers, Autonomous Group of Surveyors, Libertarian Group
of the Piraeus Technical School, Libertarian Group of Jarokopios, Companions
NdT The motto of the poster of one of the photos: "Abolition of all subliminal wages. To
block the proposed anti-worker law. " The graffiti on the window of the bookstore Ianós:
"Riot forces, bullies and aggressions: This is the culture of Ianós". The graffiti on the
wall: "40 hours for 400 euros? Slap and kick all the bosses. "
http://verba-volant.info/es/atenas-manifestacion-contra-el-salario-subminimo/
------------------------------
1. AGAINST THE ASSAD REGIME'S CONQUEST OF EASTERN
ALEPPO -- The
Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre - Migrants and
migrants: Ferns open and inclusive (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, class war: Harrods staff demand full payment of
tips (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Athens: Manifestation against the "sub-minimum wage"
(ca, gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in
the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies
for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who
were both secular and Islamist, has entailed massively indiscriminate bombardment and
besiegement by the Syrian regime and allied Russian and Iranian forces against a civilian
population numbering 250,000 people over the past several months. On December 12, 2016,
this ruthless "scorched-Earth" policy targeting Eastern Aleppo yielded a final defeat of
the rebels there, in addition to an "agreement" supposedly stipulating their evacuation
with families to secure areas. Credible reports nonetheless warn that, in numerous cases,
Assad's victorious forces and their allies have not observed these publicized truces since
their capture of the remainder of the city: they are accused of forcibly disappearing
hundreds of men and boys since taking over the remaining sections of former rebel presence
within the millennia-old citadel. The defeat of those defending what was formerly known
as "Free Aleppo" was prosecuted by the cruelest of methods, involving wanton destruction
of human lives, especially those of children, by regime and Russian mass-aerial
bombardment and artillery strikes of the rebel-held districts. The extensive atrocities
of which the Syrian military and paramilitary forces stand accused of having committed in
Eastern Aleppo are one with the Assad regime's general modus operandi of despotic terror,
which has led to an estimated 60,000 forcible disappearances since the beginning of the
Syrian Revolution in March 2011.
The RSSC clearly acknowledges that the Syrian Revolution exists and continues, even amidst
the loss of Aleppo to regime forces. The devastating fall of Aleppo and the enormous
human suffering this has entailed represent tragedies of immense proportions which cannot
be overlooked by revolutionaries or humanity in general. This "victory" for the Assad
regime and its crimes against humanity also anticipate generally negative outcomes for the
Syrian Revolution. With the State's recent capture of Aleppo and of Daraya four months
ago, Assad has few major Syrian cities that remain beyond his dictatorial reach. Save for
Rojava and the territory still held by the Islamic State, only Idlib and smaller cities
remain under rebel control. From pillaged spaces, the destruction of base needs, and a
resurgence of rare diseases to disappearances, mass executions, being buried under
collapsing buildings, and having only one hospital functioning in a city of nearly 2
million, it's only reasonable that people escape war, or fight in it. Regarding armed
struggle, we wish to clarify that the much-maligned far-right Jabhat Fatah al-Sham
(formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, or JAN) remained a distinct minority within the rebel forces of
Eastern Aleppo, and that it had in fact been expelled from the district by the organized
revolutionaries for nearly a year until last summer, when it regrouped to assist with
breaking the siege maintained by Assad and his allies, leading to the final outcome we now
observe. In parallel, the Eastern Aleppo rebels expelled Islamic State forces from the
area as early as 2014. Under the circumstances created by authoritarian leaders like
Assad and imperialistic states such as the United States and Russia, we must support
refugees at all costs, and in as many ways as we can. We expect that Assad and his
Russian and Iranian military allies will now repeat the terror waged against the civilian
population of Eastern Aleppo by turning to similarly bombard the remaining Sunni-majority
cities and people into submission and carrying out forcible disappearances and summary
executions en masse.
In reflecting on the fall of Aleppo, we must be critical of the role the Kurdish
Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its world-renowned militias, the YPG and YPJ, played in
this process. While the international anti-authoritarian left has rightly hailed the
Rojava Revolution (2012-present) as an emancipatory development reminiscent of the Spanish
Revolution of 1936-1939, less attention has been focused to date on the relationship
between Rojava and the regime. The truth is that the undeniable gains made in the Rojava
Revolution were made possible by Assad's withdrawal of forces from the northeastern region
of Syria in 2012-unfortunately, the very opposite of the situation for the Syrian
Revolution, with movements from the Sunni Arab-majority regions of the country arrayed
against Assad bearing massive losses during these same years. Indeed, some critical
commentators have charged the PYD with either remaining "neutral" toward or even openly
siding with the regime since 2012. In terms of Aleppo, the PYD's militias are accused of
having conspired with Assad and his various reactionary international allies in
dismantling the Aleppene council system and bringing the city district back under State
control. We wish to investigate these claims about the actions of the PYD's militias in
Aleppo further, expressing our concern, and we declare our support-apart from some of
PYD's military aspects-for the TEV-DEM movement struggling to implement democratic
confederalism through the construction of popular power based on communes and councils in
the region, as well as the specifically feminist elements of the Rojava Revolution.
Amidst this negative turn of events following the fall of Aleppo-the very silencing of the
Arab Revolutions, perhaps, at least for now-we recognize the dignity of the resistance of
the Syrian civil defense to the atrocities of Assad, Russia, Iran, and their allied
militias. We declare our support for the Syrian Revolution that lives on in the remaining
Local Coordinating Committees (LCCs) and parallel self-organizational efforts, as in the
martyrdom of those taken since the onset of the Revolution and its development into a
global/regional civil war. We denounce the terrible disregard for human life demonstrated
by the counter-revolutionary State and international military forces in Aleppo and
throughout much of Syria. We demand an immediate cessation of arms sales and transfers to
the Assad regime and a withdrawal of the Russian and Iranian militaries and the Shi'ite
militias from Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan that are propping up a tottering
dictatorship, in addition to a suspension of US/NATO support for the Kurdish militias and
the financing and arming of right-wing Islamist rebels by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and
other reactionary Gulf kingdoms. We believe that only by clearing the field in Syria of
all imperialist interventions will progress toward justice and liberation be achieved, as
these imperialist forces will inevitably only cause a degradation of liberatory
strategies, and will surmount to a furthering of proxy warfare. We further support the
immediate investigation and prosecution of Assad and his allies for their violations of
international and natural law. We encourage our comrades and readers everywhere to
organize in favor of Syrian refugees and the threatened Revolution, against foreign
intervention and militarism in Syria as well as Assad's resurgent fascism.
Al-sha'ab yourid isqat al-nizam! "The People want the fall of the regime!"
- The Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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Message: 2
Since October 25, a reception and guidance center (CAD) opened Beaucé, in the community of
common Ferns (20 and 000 inhabitants), to accommodate 140 réfugié.es following the
dismantling of the jungle Calais. ---- Following the announcement of a CAD in Fougeres
(Ille-et-Vilaine), the extreme right, as usual, tried to go up against precarious each
other. The Regional laying FN - resident in Fougeres - wanted to organize an event to
mobilize its supporters against migrants and migrant. ---- Many false leaflets (on the
flight work by asylum seekers - even though they and they can not work - on possible
attacks on public money spent ...) were broadcast. The presence of the extreme right in
the markets and in public spaces has created significant tension with residents and
inhabitants, even as the FN claims to have a speech to appeasement.
In response, many political organizations, associations, original residents have
organisé.es to fight against this speech. Thus, in parallel antimigrants rally organized
by the extreme right, which brought together about 100 people from all over Britain, 750
people gathered shouting "Fougeres, Fougeres, open and united" to show support for future
residents of CAD.
social ties against rejection
The far right had bet on potential spillovers to validate his speech. Other cities hosting
for several months CAD testify if some residents and some inhabitants may be receptive and
responsive to the speech of the far right, the experience has not validated their hopes.
This is to accommodate the best male and female migrants and bring the best possible
reception, a group of residents and inhabitants has created Fougeres Solidaires. This
class is complementary charities designated to accompany the reception, to propose actions
and activities to réfugié.es and Fougerais and Fougeraises (city tours, cafes, board
games, collecting clothes, repair bikes ...).
This group has existed since mid-October, has been opened to residents of CAD and some
participating. Beyond solidarity that contributes to exist, the collective can create
social ties between inhabitants and the inhabitants themselves and with residents and
resident.
In this pre-election period many political parties are trying to make their butter by
appropriating such popular initiatives. The proposed democratic framework for the
collective can fight against this recovery. This framework also enables participants and
residents of the CAD to experiment with direct democracy and self-management, as well as
exchanging collectively on the relevance of the actions and positions of the group.
Indeed, certain forms of aid can be infantilizing and embarrass residents and residents. A
collective framework allows for reflection.
The opening of the CAO had consequences far beyond the strict welcome and collective
responses are encouraging.
Céline (AL Ferns)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Migrantes-et-migrants-Fougeres
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Message: 3
Harrods faces strikes and protests over ‘unfair' tips policy ---- from Politics.co.uk, 23
December 2016: Harrods is facing demonstrations and possible strike action by staff over
its tips policy, Politics.co.uk can reveal. ---- Workers at the high-end department
store's restaurants are involved in a dispute with bosses over the amount the company
deducts from the service charge. ---- The United Voices of the World Union (UVW), which
represents a number of the workers, says that Harrods takes an unspecified percentage of
the tips left for waiters and staff by customers. ---- Staff say they have been left in
the dark over the amount being deducted from the service charge because they do not
receive a full breakdown of what they receive. They have complained to management over
Harrods' refusal to confirm in writing the percentage they take...
Full article here
More info as it comes!
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/harrods-waiters-demand-full-payment-tips/
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Message: 4
Informative text of several student groups on a demonstration against the "sub - minimum"
wage, on December 17 in the center of Athens. ---- Following an initiative of autonomous
student groups at the Polytechnic School of Athens, and libertarian groups in Athens on
Saturday 17 December 2016 at noon a demonstration was held against the salary "sub -
minimum" and in general against the undervaluation of our work. The appeal was made by the
Cook Association, the Peristeri People's Assembly, the Kipseli-Patission Resistance and
Solidarity Assembly, the Syntagma Square Workers and Unemployment Assembly, the Rocinante
Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative, the Union of Trade Unions Libertarian, the Assembly of
anarchists for social and class emancipation, as well as fellow workers and associations,
neighborhood assemblies and squatters, and political communities.
More than 150 students, colleagues and colleagues marched in various downtown streets of
the commercial and tourist center of Athens, finishing, even temporarily, with the
"festive" atmosphere, with which the state, mayors and bosses try to hide the Wages of
hunger, work without social security, unpaid overtime, work on Sunday, and intensification
of excessive work prevailing in this period.
During the demonstration, leaflets were distributed to workers and consumers, and flyers
were thrown at the "sub-minimum wage", the new anti-worker bill being prepared, as well as
the diachronic undervaluation of our work. Stops were made at the bookstore Ianos on the
street Eolu, highlighting the repression and exploitation of workers in this
company-dungeon in recent years, Everest in Monastiraki, for the murders of workers by the
management of the company. At Everest production stopped, and members of the Association
of waiters and cooks distributed leaflets and engaged in conversation with the companions
of this company.
Then the march went to the offices of the Greek Confederation of Commerce and
Entrepreneurship, which has contributed during the last years to the undervaluation of our
work, to work without social security, and to the imposition of work on Sunday in the
Sector of commerce. When slogans were painted on the door of the building, the timbers of
the so-called anti-riot forces, as real protectors of the patrons, came to protect this
association from the employers. The march arrived at the subway station of Monastiraki,
where slogans were shouted in favor of free access to the mass media.
It is necessary to continue our struggle against the diachronic undervaluation of our
work, as well as against the new anti-worker law proposal being prepared by the State and
Capital. We must continue in a more organized, more massive, more combative and more
dangerous way!
Autonomous Group of Electrical Engineers, Autonomous Group of Surveyors, Libertarian Group
of the Piraeus Technical School, Libertarian Group of Jarokopios, Companions
NdT The motto of the poster of one of the photos: "Abolition of all subliminal wages. To
block the proposed anti-worker law. " The graffiti on the window of the bookstore Ianós:
"Riot forces, bullies and aggressions: This is the culture of Ianós". The graffiti on the
wall: "40 hours for 400 euros? Slap and kick all the bosses. "
http://verba-volant.info/es/atenas-manifestacion-contra-el-salario-subminimo/
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