woensdag 1 april 2026
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #368 - Ecology - New Genomic Techniques: The FNSEA and Agribusiness Push for More GMOs (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
In the early 2000s, the actions of the "voluntary crop destroyers" and the Confédération Paysanne (Peasant Confederation) helped to regulate and limit the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the European Union (EU). The EU, with the help of agribusiness and powerful agricultural unions, is attempting to push through seeds that will no longer be classified as GMOs. A GMO is obtained by introducing a portion of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or a gene from another species into the genome of a living organism in order to give it new capabilities: transgenesis. For example, "Monsanto 810" corn, obtained by introducing a gene of bacterial origin, allows the plant to produce an insecticidal molecule.
"GMO-Lite" Seeds
The European right wing is trying to find a way to allow the marketing of new genetically modified seeds. It is supported by agribusiness and intensive farming unions, led by one of France's most powerful lobbies for the productivist agricultural model: the National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA).
New genomic techniques (NGTs), which can also be called "GMO-lite," artificially introduce a gene from another variety of the same species. The risks will not be reduced; quite the contrary, because these NGTs, being considered traditional seeds, will not be subject to the regulations governing GMOs. As a result, most GMOs/NGTs will no longer be evaluated or labeled. Consumers who do not want them will thus unknowingly buy them.
Farmers will have no guarantee that the seeds they buy are not GMOs/NGTs. Small seed companies could easily be sued for trademark infringement, as they would be unable to prove that their seeds naturally contain genetic information similar to that described in the industrial patent. The risk of these mutants cross-pollinating with plants in their immediate environment cannot be ruled out. These crops could therefore contaminate organic (and non-GMO) crops. Adding insult to injury, the agribusiness industry has managed to make farmers solely responsible for any environmental and health damage caused by GMOs/NTGs!
In early December, Members of the European Parliament and EU Member States reached an agreement to allow the introduction of GMOs/NTGs. This agreement still requires formal adoption by the Member States in the Council and by MEPs in a final plenary vote before it can enter into force.
Protest march against Monsanto and GMOs in May 2025.
William Murphy
Moreover, Pascal Canfin, a Macron-Green MEP, hails this as "excellent news," with "more solutions to combat water shortages, drought, and rising temperatures." Let's not fall into this trap that would have us believe that technology will save us from disaster. The cultivation of GMOs worldwide for over 30 years has never been an answer to climate change or the decline in biodiversity. Only small-scale, local agriculture, free from the dependence on multinational agribusinesses, will be able to feed us adequately and reduce the impact of human activities on the environment.
C. (UCL Fougères)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Nouvelles-techniques-genomiques-La-FNSEA-et-l-agro-industrie-forcent-pour-plus
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Link: (en) France, UCL AL #368 - Ecology - New Genomic Techniques: The FNSEA and Agribusiness Push for More GMOs (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE CANADA - news journal UPDATE - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - ICE Kills, Garda Profits, and Quebec Pays! - Chicoutimi on the Nitassinan (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
On the night of February 27, activists from the Emma Goldman Collective simultaneously unfurled banners on Boulevard du Royaume and Boulevard Sainte-Geneviève. By pointing the finger at the multinational corporation's complicity with the American political police (ICE), the Collective's activists denounced a financial scandal: the disbursement of $300 million in public funds by Quebec. This governmental "generosity" bears a striking resemblance to successful blackmail by CEO Stéphan Crétier, who threatened to relocate the head office.
GardaWorld, a Key Player in the Repression of Migrants
While raids against immigrants continue in the United States via the political police force ICE, GardaWorld continues to rake in millions by accumulating contracts awarded by the latter. Indeed, GardaWorld has become a pillar of repression at Alligator Alcatraz by providing, among other things, armed security guards, supervisors, and armored trucks.
It is unacceptable that Quebec public funds are financing a company actively participating in the torture and incarceration of migrants. The Alligator Alcatraz center is now the symbol of this downward spiral, with Amnesty International reports and damning testimonies detailing degrading treatment. While GardaWorld already held an $8 million contract in July 2025, it is now bidding on ICE tenders worth up to $190 million. This direct collaboration with the Trump administration demonstrates how a local multinational corporation profits from repression and human misery.
Fortunately, resistance is flourishing.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, where ICE agents shot and killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti, a wave of anger swept through the city, giving rise to an unprecedented community mobilization. Volunteer networks monitored and reported the agents' every move. To this end, checkpoints were erected at strategic points in neighborhoods with high concentrations of immigrants, and whistles were used to signal the arrival of ICE agents. Meanwhile, hotels housing these agents were flooded with fake reservations and faced daily noisy protests.
The community also organized to support those bearing the brunt of ICE violence. Businesses temporarily closed their doors to become food distribution centers, while volunteers delivered essential supplies to immigrants who no longer dared to leave their homes. Numerous fundraising campaigns have sprung up to support families devastated by arbitrary arrests. Everywhere, posters call on citizens to protect their neighbors. It is this surge of solidarity that we are carrying on today: defending our neighbors in struggle across the United States. Let's not wait for fascist violence to take root here before drawing inspiration from the resistance in Minneapolis.
GardaWorld is just waiting for the contract; they'll get plenty of practice.
Published 5 hours ago by Emma Goldman Collective
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2026/02/ice-tue-garda-profite-et-le-quebec-paie.html
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Link: (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - ICE Kills, Garda Profits, and Quebec Pays! - Chicoutimi on the Nitassinan (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, Monde Libertaire - The Terror of Whiteness (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
A book of oral testimonies collected between 1936 and 1938, translated by Elsa Quéré, entitled *Under the Reign of the Whip: An Oral History of Slavery in the United States*. A selection from among 2,300 other interviews, it gives voice to those who experienced slavery as children or teenagers. These individuals, already very old at the time, describe the living conditions of enslaved Black people before abolition in 1863. Their accounts reveal the cruelty, terror, and exploitation perpetrated by white supremacy in the Southern states. In her preface, Françoise Vergès reminds us that the slave system was one of the driving forces behind capitalist development both in the USA and in the Caribbean islands. These testimonies from women and men describe the living conditions of this Black population on the large plantations, the customary mistreatment where the whip reigned supreme, the sexual violence (barely mentioned in the testimonies?), and the violence of separation when a slave, a family member, was sold to another owner. In short, they reveal the immense cruelty of the white "masters," both men and women, during the period of slavery and even after the so-called emancipation following the Civil War.
Here are a few excerpts to illustrate my point.
A pastor's statement: "You Negroes, obey your masters and mistresses and steal nothing from them."
Statements from enslaved people: "You had to answer 'Yes, sir, master' and bow very low, otherwise the overseer would smack you. We were their slaves, we were their dogs."
In 1867, "we were supposed to be free. They promised to pay us, but we never got anything."
"Whatever we did, we were entitled to the whip[...]there was a place in the kitchen where she tied the slaves to the walls[...]Sometimes, she practically tore their backs to shreds."
"I saw men[...]being beaten unconscious with a stick; women stripped naked to the hips and whipped."
"Very often he arrived covered in blood from the beatings that damned overseer gave him."
"I received an education, but not the kind you get from books. I received the education of the whip and beatings." (The slaves were absolutely forbidden from learning to read and write.)
The master "threatened to whip me, to immobilize me by tying my hands to my feet, and to put an iron muzzle on me. That was the worst part." "They whipped poor Leah until she collapsed, almost dead. Then they rubbed her wounds with salt and pepper to make her suffer even more."
"The Ku Klux Klan... Those they didn't whip, they hung by their fingers and toes."
"White people told us we were born to work for them and that we did it very well."
This period was appalling and left deep scars on communities across the United States. Trumpism, with its white supremacist and men's rights militias, is a lamentable illustration of this even today.
Hugues
Groupe Commune de Paris
Quéré E. (trans.), 2026 Under the Reign of the Whip: An Oral History of Slavery in the United States, Toulouse, Ed. Ici-bas
https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8861
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Link: (en) France, Monde Libertaire - The Terror of Whiteness (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, FA: The far right is on the loose (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
In this statement, the Anarchist Federation addresses the events surrounding the death of the neo-fascist activist in Lyon, the media coverage that has saturated all channels, and the demonization of anti-fascists and all those who oppose the country's shift to the far right. ---- First of all, let's be clear: no one deserves to die like that on a sidewalk. ---- Nor does anyone want to be attacked by an armed group that came to fight with the aim of "riding Lyon of foreigners and leftists." Q. Deranque and the far-right activists knew they were heading for a confrontation. His death was neither a premeditated murder nor an ambush, as the media have hammered home. The facts are that two groups made contact, and after a few minutes, one of them lost and abandoned several of its members.
According to Nemesis, the fascists, acting like knights, "protected" the women in their group who had come to stage a protest. This is a typical strategy of this femonationalist group, which attributes sexist violence not to the patriarchy but to foreigners. Their usual tactics: to provoke a conflict, create a publicity stunt, hide behind a team of "muscle" to provide "security," and then exploit the whole situation.
Thus, while Quesam Deranque was still in a coma, their leader, Alice Cordier, was invited onto CNews and other media outlets, which rushed to publish contradictory accounts without any fact-checking, including one about an imaginary stabbing. This media frenzy would not have been possible without the Bolloré empire, which participates in the attempt to normalize the far right. The treatment by these media outlets is comparable to that given to a victim of a racist crime or police killing: digging into their criminal record, discrediting them, smearing them.
With this death, the far right has finally found its martyr, allowing it to call for violence against antifascists or, by association, against La France Insoumise (LFI). Fascists will attempt to manipulate social media by generating an AI-generated image of Q. Deranque, or by shamelessly using the face of a living person to illustrate the death of the neo-Nazi activist. Their narrative is quickly contradicted by images showing the infamous "traditionalist activists providing security," masked, crutched, and armed with tear gas, in the thick of the fray.
The Anarchist Federation denounces the criminalization of antifascism, which is merely a response, as it is the far right that wants a civil war, a goal they themselves claim.
The Anarchist Federation denounces this demonization, which portrays Lyon's identitarian and neo-Nazi groups as the good guys, when in fact they have been carrying out numerous attacks and assaults for years.
Faced with the far right and its political agenda, and with an increasingly authoritarian society (militarization of youth, police surveillance, state violence), the Anarchist Federation's struggle is situated on social and ideological ground. While we are repelled by the virile cult of violence espoused by fascist groups, our popular self-defense becomes legitimate in the face of these physical attacks.
Let us stand in solidarity and act against those who offer only ethnic and social racism!
To hatred of others, to violence, and to social destruction, let us oppose antifascism and class solidarity!
Francophone Anarchist Federation,
February 26, 2026
https://federation-anarchiste.org/?g=Lien_Permanent&b=1_274
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Link: (en) France, FA: The far right is on the loose (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #6-26 - Emma Goldman. Anarchy as a Teacher of the Unity of Life - The Sovereign State as an Instrument of Sovereign Sex-Gender (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
"Anarchy is the only philosophy that offers man self-awareness; that holds that God, the State, and society do not exist, that their promises are null and void, since they can only be fulfilled by man's subordination. Anarchy therefore teaches the unity of life; not only in nature, but in man. There is no conflict between individual and social instincts, any more than there is a conflict between the heart and the lungs.[...]The individual is the heart of society, preserving the essence of social life; society is the lung, distributing the element necessary to keep the vital essence (i.e., the individual) pure and strong." (Anarchy: What It Really Means, 1911. Italics mine.)
Anarchy as a teacher of the unity of life: this formula sums up in a nutshell the thought, life, and actions of Emma Goldman, an activist, writer, and theorist of anarchism born in Lithuania in 1869 and died in Canada in 1940, after spending much of her life in the United States and traveling the world, spreading anarchist ideas and practices everywhere.
"Unity of life" means observing and becoming aware of the profound and pervasive interconnection between lives, people, and the environment (natural and otherwise), an interconnection so visceral that it allows for no half measures: to be truly free, we must all be free, together. Therefore, the emancipation of the oppressed is not enough; Goldman's thought goes further: the liberation of each and every one. Freedom, therefore, as the basis for the full realization of Life, understood as vital energy, affectivity, and self-expression (recalling the vitalism of Nietzsche and others) and as practical, daily, and material life. In this regard, for Goldman, anarchy brings a triple liberation: "the liberation of the human mind from the control of religion; the liberation of the human body from the control of property; and liberation from the chains and restrictions of government." (Ibid.)
This vision of life, which today we would call intersectional, lies in the originality of Goldman's thought. However, he also defines anarchy in a more technical sense as "the philosophy of a new social order based on freedom, unrestricted by man-made laws; the theory that all forms of government are based on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as useless." (Ibid.)
Wanting to delve deeper into the intersectionality (ante litteram) of Goldman's thought, I share a reflection by Chiara Bottici, speaker at the dedicated meeting in the "A Philosopher a Month" series: Goldman lived for many years in the US, where mainstream feminism coincided with the suffrage movement, itself virtually monopolized by white, middle-class women demanding the right to vote. In this context, Goldman rejects a feminism that translates solely into the aspiration of women privileged by class and "race"/ethnicity to join the ranks of highly privileged, powerful white men. Goldman wanted more: she wanted everything. Bottici also explored the issue of American feminism, recalling that Native American tribes had forms of gynocracy that took the form of structures of female organization and self-organization through which women could express themselves and act politically. Throughout Native American tradition, therefore, the idea that women possessed sovereignty over themselves and the community never completely disappeared: this awareness survived even the atrocities of colonization, surviving in the collective consciousness and becoming a standard feminist foundation.
From this point on, Bottici elaborated on the mechanisms of control over bodies and genders as an essential element in the construction and maintenance of the sovereign state as we know it today. First, Bottici observes that in Native American tribes, the distinction between genders was fluid and changeable, and gender assignment was often based on dreams and not-as is the practice today-on a binary bodily sexualization. However, Bottici argues, these modes of gender distinction would be unthinkable in the modern era: starting in the seventeenth century, the sovereign state emerged as a political and economic power structure based on the accumulation of capital and resources by an institution that commands and controls a more or less vast territory in a homogeneous and widespread manner, in the sense of diffuse and pervasive. It is a system born in Europe and exported with colonization-for the USA, Bottici identifies the nineteenth century as the initial period of development of the sovereign state in the strict sense.
https://umanitanova.org/emma-goldman-lanarchia-come-insegnante-dellunita-della-vita-lo-stato-sovrano-come-strumento-del-sessogenere-sovrano/
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Link: (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #6-26 - Emma Goldman. Anarchy as a Teacher of the Unity of Life - The Sovereign State as an Instrument of Sovereign Sex-Gender (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI, #205 - February 2026 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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Link: (en) Italy, UCADI, #205 - February 2026 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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