Wave of repression hits anarchists in Turkey following May Day demonstrations.--Yesterday night turkish state organized a night raid to various houses and anarchist social centres in a night raid in Istanbul. 60 people were arrested. It is yet uncertain if some of those people are anarchist or just related/friends of some anarchists. ---- The apparent "reason" shown for the raids are the actions of the insurrectionary/primitivist anarchists' stone throwing on the 1st of May actions. However, the groups that are targeted are not insurrectionary anarchists. One of them is social anarchist/anarcho-communist group called "land and freedom" (toprak ve ozgurluk) the other is Revolutionary Anarchist Activity (Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet). ---- Till now nothing has been heard from the imprisoned anarchists. They are not even let to talk with their ...

Julio Rodriguez, a stalwart comrade of ours from Los Angeles, has been held in prison since Saturday under threat of immediate deportation. We will not let another one of our brothers be kidnapped from us by the racist state! ---- Julio is an anarchist youth organizer with the Youth Justice Coalition and RiseUp LA, radical groups that run out of Chuco’s Justice Center in Inglewood, CA. He is a student at Free LA High School at Chuco’s where he is studying to get his GED. Julio is prominent in the LA punk scene, organizing and promoting DIY shows, and encouraging the politicization and education of kids in the scene. ---- This past Saturday, Julio was hosting a Cinco de Mayo party at his house. When he noticed that someone had stolen his laptop, he shut down the party and told everyone they needed to leave, but a group of them refused. Julio knocked on the side of their car ...

We’re now having monthly meetings in publically announcable venues, and meeting up between times usually in people’s flats to save money. ---- Today is May’s public meeting. We’ve got a room at glasgow university in the adam Smith building, which is at the end of bute gardens, at the top of the university avenue hill. ---- Room 1104, Adam Smith Building, 6.30-9pm, 15/5/12. ---- There’s a lot coming up to plan for such as next steps for the solidarity network, an anarchist action against nuclear weapons as part of Faslane peace camps 30th birthday 30 days of action, and upcoming anarchist riot folk gig and theory discussions. ---- How are we as anarchists involved in and contributing to the ongoing struggles in Glasgow. How can we best use our resources to further the change we want to see in the world? If this interests you bring your ideas and commitment and get organised ...

The Campaign Against Household and Water Charges (CAHWT) has been hugely successful so far in several ways: in encouraging mass non-payment; in making the taxes a big political issue, even in the mainstream media; in getting tens of thousands of people involved in protests and public meetings. ---- However, significant areas of the country e.g.: the Beara peninsula, Mayo, parts of Cork and Dublin cities etc have not become organised or active. Getting those areas to organise is a major key to winning the campaign. Regions should play a major role in reaching out and helping to initiate activity in areas, which are not yet organised. ---- For that to work, ordinary people in those areas will have to feel they have a real share in the ownership and control of the campaign, which means not only attending meetings and protests but participating in a properly democratic structure. ...

Saturday May 19th 3pm at Lucas Arms, Gray’s Inn Road, London, Nearest tube King’s Cross. Anti-authoritarianism Today and Yesterday: On the 140th Anniversary of the Founding of the Anti-Authoritarian International in St Imier Switzerland. This year marks the 140th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Authoritarian International. Following moves by Marx and his followers to expel two leading anarchists, Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume, from the First International, the first genuine intertational working class organisation, the Jura section in Switzerland, supported by the Italian and Spanish sections, revolted against these bureaucratic moves and convened a conference. They were soon joined by other sections equally dismayed by these moves and Marx’s high handed decision to move the General Council of the First International away from Europe to New York. ...

March 24 at Vernouillet (Yvelines), local activists of AL and Other Revolutionary and progressive organizations (NPA, Attac, Left Front, ... EELV) faced in concert-organizing a fascist. --- Cynically, behind the music label "Working Class Heroes" hides Serge Ayoub and His small group Third Way. As Demonstrated FA watch the site, the scrambling operation Conducted by the Ideological far right continuous. Under cover of a speech "socialist" for "workers" (French), it is still Obviously the more crass nationalism. --- This Is Kept hidden in the fascist Third Way got to rent a private room, unbeknownst to the owner. Purpose, despite the notoriously racist music groups Openly Nazi gold (the band Condemned 84, refuse to play in the presence of people of color), without the ticket WAS Distributed Questions Asked by the major supermarkets in the area, based on networks of national ...

"I commute between Anjouan [Island of the Comoros archipelago] and Mayotte since 2003. I have my family there [Mayotte] and it is there that I built my life. Each time I repeated and each time I return. This means that it is not my last voyage!". ---- So said Fayad Halidi, one of the survivors of the sinking of a boat of migrants, January 16 on the northern coast of Mayotte [1]. A tragedy that has claimed more than twelve people dead or missing including an infant. Twelve days later, a new shipwreck kwassa-kwassa [2] was five dead and dozens missing. These dramas add to the long list of victims in this stretch of sea that separates the new French department of one hundred and first three neighboring islands of the Comoros archipelago. ---- An illegal occupation ---- This new French Dom is not recognized by the international community and is denounced by the Comoros and the ...

Tens of thousands of public workers from the North are expected to take part in the UK wide industrial action this Thursday in protest over cuts to pension and attacks on living standards. In the North, civil servants are expected to join immigration officers in the day of action while healthcare workers are taking limited action over lunchtime, involving Nipsa and Unite! members. While this latest strike action is sending out a message that we won’t work longer, pay more into the pension fund and get less, it is significant climb-down from the public sector strike last November which was the largest in decades. -- The attack on public service pensions is only one part of the Government’s austerity agenda and restructuring of capital in times of recession. On the one side we have government policies which dole out tax benefits for the wealthy and business sectors. ...

This May sees the return of the annual Anarchist Bookfair to Dublin, the seventh to be held to date. Since the first, back in 2006, the event has grown hugely in scale, against the background of the bursting of the Celtic Tiger bubble, the IMF/EU bailout and the catastrophic effect of austerity on Irish society. The Bookfair consists of a day of meetings, debates and discussions and will also host bookstalls and information stands from a large number of political organisations and campaigning groups. ---- The Bookfair started out with numbers in the hundreds at the first event in the St. Nicholas of Myra Hall in the Liberties. After a couple of years in the Teachers Club it was clear that more space was again needed so the event moved to its current venue in Liberty Hall. ...

One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow - 14th of May For photos, check original at http://avtonom.org/node/17655 ---- Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a concert. Later, a freemarket was opened, where everyone could leave their goods and gather what was left by other people. Tomorrow 15th of May, there will be a lecture on free non-capitalist economy in the camp. --- Closer to the evening, participators of the "Food Not Bombs", who have already developed a routine for feeding the camp, brough food. Evening assembly become a full general meeting, deciding all important questions. This evening, several hundred people took part, but unfortunately not all participators of the camp are interested. It was decided that a general assembly will be organise every evening 21:00 at the statue of Abai Kunanbayev. ...

The ongoing fight against the deadly project of the airport of Notre Dame des Landes. The demonstration on March 24 was attended by about 10,000 protesters and a hunger strike for farmers to start in the center of Nantes. ---- Nantes was marked on March 24 by a strong mobilization against the proposed airport of the future risk of damaging 2,000 hectares of farmland in the grove of Loire-Atlantique. With the presence of nearly 10,000 opponents and opponents, and more than 250 tractors, the mobilization has reached a new milestone. Mobilizing the world against the proposed agricultural deadly airport Notre-Dame-des-Landes is based largely on the Farmers 'Confederation since the Departmental Federation of Farmers' Unions (FDSEA 44) preferred to bend and submit the project. ...

All over the West Bank thousands of people took to the streets in support of the hunger striking prisoners. The third intifada collected momentum. It started with hunger strike of administrative prisoners held without trail, with solidarity demos, and joined by 1500 Palestinian prisoners - both in solidarity with the administrative ones and in demand for improving condition of the incarcerated. There were demos and vigils of solidarity daily - both in the occupied territories and within Israel. The weekly demonstrations made it their central theme. After nearly 80 days for the two longest hunger strikers, it seems their death is imminent after the Israeli highest court of "justice" approved of the unyielding refusal of the state to retreat from their administrative jailing. State forces vacillate between harsh repression of demos and restraining - expression of their ...

Today, early in the morning at about 05:00, cops raided the houses of anarchists from Revolutionary Anarchist Action, Collective 26A's cafe in Taksim, and the center of Kadikoy Sharing and Solidarity Association in Kadikoy arresting about 60 people. According to the mainstream media, the operation is said to be against those who smashed the windows of corporations in Mayday protests. Those who are under arrest were taken to Istanbul Police Center in Vatan Street. ---- More details will come later. [14.05.2012] _________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E By, For, and About Anarchists ...

Unlock NAMA (UN) hit the headlines in January after occupying a NAMA building in Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. The aim of the occupation was to open a NAMA building to the public for a day and hold a series of talks on the subject. The group, along with around sixty supporters, were eventually evicted by the Gardaí after the intervention of the receiver but that was only the beginning of the campaign. ---- Since January the group has been busy planning its next moves and working towards the campaign’s aims: To access NAMA properties for social and community use, to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding NAMA and to hold the agency to account. ---- Most of the work so far has centred on the second aim. A poster campaign around the city drew attention to areas with NAMA buildings using the slogan: “Warning: NAMA is operating in this area. ...

Some are, today, before the alternative of protectionism to boost the economy. But capitalism as a whole can hardly be separated, and try to raise trade barriers to exit from the crisis would lead inevitably reactionary at worst nightmare and war. ---- Unemployment is at its highest rate in Europe for a lease. Millions of workers and unemployed European workers perceive little benefits that austerity has not yet eroded, while millions of others do not even have that right. Given this situation, and as it is for European employers to enjoy shamelessly, we see a proliferation of discourse on the re-employment. In general, these speeches are two aspects. First, the reduction of labor costs, the prices paid by employers to hire our ability to work. It is the rigor or austerity, as that term is used by outgoing: if the former majority spoke of rigor, will ...

An accusing finger is pointed at anarchists any time the word organisation is mentioned. Many people believe that anarchism is against organisation and just another word for chaos, but is it? The simple answer, of course, is no, but that does not explain the confusion surrounding the question, nor the accusations thrown at anarchists. ---- Organisation, for anarchists, is one of the most important questions to be settled. Firstly, anarchists recognise that only through organisation can the bosses’ system be smashed. For example, the fact that during the Miners Strike in Britain, massive and co-ordinated police mobilisation was used to break the picketing and isolate the miners makes this point evident. The employers have at their disposal an efficient state apparatus, which will move to crush any opposition to it. ...

There has been some interest since Saturday 5th May about who we are locally, what we do, and even what we own! The following tells you something about us in those contexts, which is why we’ll stress some things about ourselves in contrast to others. It isn’t intended to be a comprehensive statement of what we think and do, and so there might be elements we can clarify if asked. But we wanted to give our own perspective on this year’s May Day as soon as we had the chance. ---- Who are we in Nottingham? ---- We currently have 10 members in the Nottingham group, which is formally structured around a fee-paying membership in full agreement with the ‘Aims and Principles’ of the Anarchist Federation nationally: http://www.afed.org.uk/organisation/aims-and-principles.html . Beyond that, as a local AF group we have autonomy to operate. We meet fortnightly formally, and informally ...

In his various duties as Professor Renan engaged intellectual has participated in countless lectures, conferences and seminars to students, workers, teachers, thousands of people generally interested in social change, contributing greatly to the strengthening of critical thinking in academia in the country . Strongly reject the smear campaigns and threats against Professor Renan, we sympathize with him and all persons persecuted for thinking of the Colombian territory and called the defense of critical thinking, fundamental to the progress of a process of social change libertarian Colombia. ---- The threat and slander have flooded Colombia for a long time. If for some decades and under the guise of anti-bourgeoisie and the armed units persecuted and annihilated an entire generation of popular fighters in recent years, the hegemonic discourse on terrorism has ...

On 1st May, as part of International Worker’s Day, Staines Anarchists embarked on an anti-workfare tour in Egham and Staines. Tesco, WHSmith, the Jobcentre and McDonald’s were all picketed for the part they play in the workfare schemes. ---- Several hundred leaflets detailing the nature of workfare were distributed and for the most part locals were interested to hear about what workfare involves and what it means for workers. ---- Many locals were surprised to hear that this kind of scheme, that often allows businesses free labour, takes place. One person commented, “Forced, unpaid work?! Sounds like slavery to me”. ---- But Mayday for Staines Anarchists wasn’t all work(fare) and no play. In the evening the group met up with other local activists for a Mayday celebration. ...

The US press seems to have decided that the Occupy movement is no longer a story. Pretty much no matter what we do. In New York, on May Day, something between 50,000 and 100,000 people marched through the streets – we don't know the exact numbers because most papers didn't report the event at all, and therefore, didn't bother to make estimates. In California, there were blockades and walkouts. In Seattle, one band of protestors relived the famous Black Bloc actions of November 1999, smashing many of the same corporate windows – and even that didn't make national news! ---- But in a way it hardly matters. Occupy is shedding its liberal accretions and rapidly turning into something with much deeper roots, creating alliances that promise to transform the very notion of revolutionary politics in America. ...