The recent local elections have seen a continuation in the decline in the numbers of the people taking time to vote. Along with this comes the usual soul searching and hand wringing among commentators in the media wondering just what is going wrong, and how can it be fixed. ---- The usual possible solutions are offered including on-line voting, making voting compulsory, a "none of the above" option being placed on the ballot paper, or a "no-confidence party" being formed for the disaffected. Of course some just consider the electorate to be too distracted by other things, too ignorant, too ungrateful of living in a democracy, or just too lazy. ---- From my experience of talking with people who don't vote there is an instinctive repulsion for our politicians and the system that hands them a nominal position of power, while not really troubling the corporate giants ...

we want to be free - not brave ---- A year ago we gathered feminist groups and individuals and organized microphones in thisio occasion raping a woman in response to sexist violence that we accept all day. K Inactive rape is not an isolated incident . Today we go down the street to shout that behind them there is a whole culture: the culture of rape. ---- The culture of rape is the result of the overall patriarchal culture and are part of our everyday lives. We learn from small to live and survive in it. It is in every sexist joke on tv, music, legislation, in the street, in the words and attitudes. However, it is most often tacit, veiled, a common secret. ---- The culture of rape is not a theoretical scheme. It is our daily lived experience. Affect all objects that do not belong to the dominant masculinity. On the way, we have to deal with Psst Psst, the "What ... are you?", ...

Evening organized by the Kurdish Democratic Community Centre in Rouen (CCDKR), Alternative Libertaire, Together Revolutionary Left, NPA, PCF, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray really left, Solidaires 76. ---- The unit of collective solidarity Kurdistan (including G is a member) and the Kurdish cultural center Rouen organized an evening debate and solidarity (with catering and festive party). ---- November 5 Saturday ---- from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ---- in the great hall of the Halle aux Toiles in Rouen ---- (free entry) ---- Video, buffet lunch, tea, dance and folk music ... ---- Debate with: ---- Pascal Torre (Association France-Kurdistan) ---- Tuba Ezer (Peoples Democratic Party HDP) ---- Khalid Issa (Democratic Unity Party, PYD-Syria) ---- http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Solidarite-avec-les-peuples-du ...

Password the title was on the main banner in a demonstration on Sunday, October 30, 2016 convened to Ostrava local anti-authoritarian initiative Wake houses. Action should refer in particular to practices of RPG Flats, which according to the organizers of the protest "a symbol of the criminal privatization of state property, which still hurts." They remind us, among other things, the fact that in 2015 this company was sold under unclear circumstances turnkey created companies, which through intermediaries in Luxembourg and the Netherlands own a giant US investment fund Blackstone. It is known around the world by coming to declining regions to take advantage of decimation for their own financial benefit. ---- RPG Flats in Ostrava regularly increasing rents, creating segregated sites and buildings in its ownership additionally invest practically. The result is worse and ...

from @UVWunion: Justice for John Lewis cleaners November - John Lewis makes well over £100 million in profit a year despite a recent slump, and pays its Chairman over 114 times what the cleaners earn. ---- Nonetheless, John Lewis insists on denigrating and treating their cleaners like second class citizens, who they despicably outsource for no other reason than to deprive them of the same benfits that in-house staff receive. ---- Not only are the cleaners paid poverty wages of £7.29 per hour - which will be insultingly increased by only 6p an hour to £7.35 an hour on 18th October - but they are excluded from the famous partnership model lauded by all. ---- Consequently the cleaners do not benefit from the store discount, the annual bonus, even if it has fallen from 17% to 11% in recent years, or even the minimum wage of £8.20 per hour which comparable in-store workers (aka ...

Last Saturday, October 29, about 30 cyclists and rowerzystek participated in the Forest Critical Mass. The pretext for organizing a bicycle ride with PL.A. Mickiewicz established the Regional Board of the Polish Association of Hunting, was the death of a cyclist who was shot by a hunter in the vicinity of Wagrowiec ---- Below the leaflet: ---- STOP murders HUNTER! ---- Hunters joke that "once a year she shoots a rifle." We know that the weapon itself did not shoot, so we gathered on FOREST critical mass to protest against the senseless death set in Wagrowiec 57-year-old cyclist by a hunter. ---- The cyclist was found in a ditch with a gunshot wound to the head. Hunting in the vicinity of 21-year-old who killed a man earlier shot a deer. Bullet pierced the animal, and then hit 57-year-old. ...

Three months after the death of Adama Traoré, the family still demanding justice and truth and always for more than a change of scenery that has just been decided, lay in examinations can be performed. Because without justice, there will be no peace, go to Châtelet to 13h. ---- Justice is a right which we can claim without a fight, days, weeks and months pass but never gives. ---- Adama Traore is killed by agents of the gendarmerie in the city of Beaumont. Upon her arrest, Adama is held down, without resistance, under the weight of three policemen who handcuffed him. He complained to many recovery could not breathe and lost consciousness in the vehicle. Once at the police station, it will be left lying on the ground. Firefighters have not been able to revive him. Many shadows still loom over the circumstances of his death. But it is, without doubt, the questioning ...

For an even held Wednesday noon Wednesday, November 2, the standard concentration in front of the County Court of Patras in order to avoid a first home auction. - Dozens of people gathered despite the intentions of some notaries to enter the room, this was prevented by the decisive presence in the world. - The adoption of the third memorandum, the prerequisites and the implementing laws that go with it, are a new round of looting to society in terms of more onerous and tougher than the past since the measures are added on the ruins left by the previous two memoranda. ---- The job failed to complete the right-wing government comes to complete the 'populist' coalition SYRIZA-ANEL (as he and tycoon Agnello commenting on the politics of his country, "There is a kind of Left that is more useful than the Right. it is at the left that can do everything you could not do ...

Native Americans lead fight against gas pipeline for environmental justice ---- The Standing Rock Sioux in the U.S. have been fighting against the construction of a major gas pipeline which would threaten their water supply and violate their sacred sites. They have organized popular direct action against the construction company and the state and inspired people throughout the country and the world. ---- For months, thousands of Native Americans and others have attempted to stop the construction of a monster gas pipeline. They have filed legal claims and lobbied politicians, but what has been especially impressive has been the attempted blockade of construction. Throughout the world, indigenous peoples have played an important role in fighting pipelines, oil drilling, fracking, and the overall destruction of the environment. Sometimes allied with local ...

This article - almost fully extracted from my book Teoria Bakuniniana do Estado [Bakuninian Theory of the State]- aims to realize a brief discussion on the theory of social classes and bureaucracy elaborated by Mikhail Bakunin in his anarchist period. What are the criteria that define the social classes? Which are the social classes? Are there dominant and oppressed classes? How can class struggle be defined? What is bureaucracy? How does it relate to other social strata? These are some of the questions the text tries to answer. ---- "The state has always been the patrimony of some privileged class: ---- a priestly class, an aristocratic class, a bourgeois class, a bureaucratic class in the end". ---- Mikhail Bakunin[1] ---- This article - almost fully extracted from my book Teoria Bakuniniana do Estado[Bakuninian Theory of the State][2]- aims to realize a brief ...

Today, third 1/11 intervened in the office of the President of the Thessaloniki notaries association, Joanna Bilisi- Chrousala. While the agency was working and people inside, not opened to us. We wrote slogans all over the floor of the office, but also in their entry, flew flyers on the right to housing and shouted slogans against the auctions, state and capital. The purpose of our visit was to remember in this president (which in various praplanitika trick "non apochis- abstinence" and "hiding" tried to deliver the bank's hands a field single asset a man, believing that in this way will fool the movement and solidarity in the world) that will not let them touch it, the hangers and others who are part of the auction or home, or plots, as they call them, nor hair of the oppressed. To remember that those who contribute to the perpetuation of misery and exploitation regime ...

In the night of October 21st, 2016 we attacked the courthouse in Bern, Switzerland, with paint. This was an action in solidarity with the #PrisonStrike going on in the USA. ---- Since September 9th, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, the largest prison strike in history has been going on in the USA. With labor refusal, hunger strikes and uprisings, prisoners are fighting against prison slavery. ---- Although slavery was theoretically abolished in 1865, it continues to exist legally in the form of prisoner labor. This is guaranteed by 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids slavery, except as a punishment. ---- As a result, prisons can force inmates to unpaid or cheap work and accumulate huge profits. ---- Alone the two largest private operators of prisons, the Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group make over 1.5 billion $ of ...

For three weeks, police demonstrations were held in different cities. We refuse to support the Police because it is also the tool of governments to establish their domination over the exploited, whether at work, in the street and their neighborhood. Given this security drift, it is urgent that the social movement keeps the pad following the mobilization of the spring against the "work" law. ---- For three weeks, police demonstrations were held in different cities. Sometimes without declaration prefecture, they take place without repression, while some demonstrators were masked and armed, marching in Paris in the government district and the Elysee. Bursting their unions, the police say they are in solidarity with their colleagues injured by petrol bombs in Viry Châtillon October 8. ...

Dear friends, ---- How and when exactly the opening hours will be, will straighten out soon. But we'd already like to introduce it solemnly - preferably of course with you, who will surely use or need this office sometime. The new office is located in the seminar house in the backyard of the autonomous housing project ‘Mangelwirtschaft' (Overbeckstr. 26). At this point again we gratefully appreciate we can use this space. ---- On the spot we wanna celebrate. It starts Tuesday 15.11. (psst: the next day is official holiday...) from 8pm. The cozy get-together will be enriched by a concert of the band Alarm (Prop'n'Folk), afterwards DJ Twizted Liz will play HipHop / Trap - dancing, singing or bawling is always possible. If we want it there will be campfire in the beautiful but dark garden, maybe we'll watch a film or the like. A basis of vegan food and of drinks will be ...

Syndicalism is to scare bosses, growing power of workers and forcing the repressive system, judiciary and police, to take action to comply? Either called Libertarian or anarcho either Base o real unionism makes the worker himself responsible for the claimthe processes through collective rights. With self-organization through associations or interprofessional assemblies and weapon solidarity between different sectors creates militant struggles incompatible. This is exactly what afraid boss every small or large and therefore arriving to threaten to sue for defamation and extortion. This force we forcing the state to enable prosecutors and policemen under the orders of the respective employers. ...

The Hungarian uprising of 1956 a controversial memory. Proponents of a liberal anti-totalitarianism make proof that the Hungarian people adhered unconditionally to the capitalist model. Hungarian nationalists transform it into patriotic insurrection. One can also see this event for what it was: a massive revolt of the working class against authoritarian socialism, which rose direct democracy. ---- The context of the insurrection was threefold. On the one hand, following a pluralist period between 1945 and 1948, the Stalinist Communist Party, headed by Mátyás Rákosi, had reined in Hungarian political life with a particularly ferocious brutality. On the other hand, the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in February-March 1956, which the "revelations" of Stalin's crimes had been timid echoes in Hungary, had raised the hopes of supporters of communists some liberalization, ...

The Uruguayan Anarchist Federation turns 60. The Secretary of Organization, Juan Pilo, Rompkbzas said that the country must change. "We must attack causes: spread and the situation changes in people, you have possibility to live a dignified life," he said. ---- FAU opposes the Free Trade Agreement with China. "Do not fuck me Vazquez. Let there be a little more than politics and people start to argue. From China, can be cheaper paper than we do?" Asked Juan Pilo. ---- The spokesman for the Anarchist Federation he questioned the treatment of public security and said the rulers suffer Stockolmo syndrome. " A lot of technology to control everything and everyone. But there is to alleviate the causes of crime. If you are born in Pocitos, you have very little chance of being criminal. If you're born in a sibling neighborhood as the hookah Louse, you probably have relationship ...

The quote in the title is taken from Bakunin himself, who first publicly identified himself as an anarchist in 1868, around the time that he joined the International. It is surprising then that in another book along similar lines, René Berthier argues that the anarchist movements that emerged Social Democracy & Anarchism in the International Workers' Association 1864 - 1877 from the struggles within the International regarding the proper direction of working class and socialist movements constituted a break with rather than a continuation of "Bakuninism," and that Bakunin is better described as a revolutionary socialist or syndicalist than as an anarchist. I think my book provides a good counter-argument to that position. ...

On 04.11. There will be an anarchist Kiezdemo through the Nordstadt from 3 pm, meeting place is in front of the Anarchist book and cultural center Black Pigeon. With the demonstration, we want to highlight the complex problems in the neighborhood, but also the different perspectives and approaches of solutions from below which have developed in the last few years to the public. ---- In the last few years some approaches have developed which can be part of change from below. New spaces have been created, such as the North Pole (left pub and meeting point), the recorder (alternative pub) or the anarchist book and cultural center - Black Pigeon. They offer space for non-commercial culture, political organization, free education and much more. The Black Pigeon as the newest room has managed to become a neighborhood within a few months. Especially children from the area ...

Not to sell or to take, we are not objects! ---- An analysis of publisexisme. ---- Within the month Libertaire , the Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Lyon proposes a debate on the theme of sexist advertising. ---- See you Saturday, November 5 at 16h in the Black Feather (8 rue Diderot, 69001 Lyon). Free prices. ---- Advertising instrument of ideology of the capitalist system, uses and reinforces the worst gender stereotypes, racist, homophobic, lesbobophes, transphobic and biphobic for the sole purpose of selling. ---- By taking the whole ideology supposedly natural inequality men / women, imposing a physiognomic model, love, sex and single family based on male domination and heterosexuality, carrying motherhood as the supreme culmination of femininity, relegating women free domestic work and child rearing, the publisexisme is one of the most direct ...