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(en) rozbrat.org: Not for the occupation of Palestine! Not for the lecture lobbyist with ICT UAM! Campaign of Solidarity with Palestine, Anarchist Federation - Section Poznan [machine translation]

A-infos - October 28, 2016 - 4:07am
The authorities of the Department of Political Science and Journalism AMU invited Uri Ben Yaakov associated with the Israeli government think tank International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) to deliver a lecture Fri. "About the Global Terrorism". In the light of the policies pursued by the authorities, which supports ICT and composition, activities and goals of the organization invited it deserves to be called a scandal. The board of ICT is the former head of Mossad (1986-1996) Shabtai Shavit. And its president Uriel Reichman in the spirit of militarism states that: "Source achievements of Israeli society is not in the government in Jerusalem, but in the strength of the Israeli majority, the people of this nation, who take responsibility for the future of the country: serve in the army of Israel or are reservists ..." ( statement of February 2011 ...

(en) Greece, ese: Bull Workers Counter # 133 of Blog SSC-Athens (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 28, 2016 - 4:07am
Articles of ERC , Sheet Counter Workers , Working Material Since ERC Athens ---- Successfully completed the work of Coordination red and black (Red and Black Coordination). In the meeting held in Athens, 22 to 23 October 2016, attended - except what the organizers ERC (Greece) - organizations: CNT- F (France), CGT (Spain), SAC (Sweden), USI / AIT (Italy ), IP (Poland) and S olidaridad O brera (Spain). A day before the meeting, a public event on "class and social struggles in Europe and the contribution of anarcho-syndicalist organizations ", where they talked representatives of organizations from different countries. ---- At the end of the work issued joint statement on the killing of the Egyptian laborer Abd Elsalam Ahmed Eldanf who participated in strike protection in the city of Piacenza, Italy. Download the announcement in English HERE . ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - Education: Towards a liberating critical pedagogy (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 28, 2016 - 4:07am
Libertarian pedagogies have designated a set of concepts and teaching practices aimed at the individual and collective emancipation. Yet it is now probably necessary to give new life to this project. ---- The effectiveness of a technique is neither right nor left ... In the field of education as elsewhere, history shows. Thus, from the late nineteenth century, activists of the anarchist movement worker embarked on the project of renewing education. Among these include Paul Robin and Sébastien Faure. This is out of the vertical knowledge inherited from the Church. Instead, we must learn from the scientific experimental method to promote sound pedagogy. Freinet set up after the First World War, a councilist inspired pedagogy that would allow the common people to acquire the capacity to self-manage the factories. ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - unionism, 5000 walkers for 8 Goodyear (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 27, 2016 - 6:41am
[Photos] On 19 and 20 October they and they were thousands in Amiens to support eight Goodyear workers sentenced to nine months in prison. Photo report, together with a narrative excerpt from the blog libertarian communist CGT. ---- Wednesday, October 19, we had to be very early to participate in the event starting in solidarity from the village built in the Saint-Pierre Park to court. Eight militants were Goodyear stand trial on appeal from a sentence to nine months in prison for having "chosen" two company executives during negotiations related to the closure of the plant located in the industrial area of Amiens -North. ---- Before noon, several thousand demonstrators from all over France and Belgium had gathered in front of the stage and around the stands Infocom and SIP, two Parisian unions CGT-book very involved in the solidarity campaign, and UD-CGT North which ...

(en) Afed.cz: IN THE 60 YEARS OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION: A BREATH OF FREEDOM CRUSHED BY SOVIET TANKS [machine translation]

A-infos - October 27, 2016 - 6:41am
If the fall of the Berlin Wall was the November 9, 1989, symbolically and in practice, the end of the Soviet bloc and over 70 years of terror in the name of "socialism" and "communism" authoritarian, as had been anticipated by Bakunin (1), for many years that the Marxist-Leninist type, dictatorial and state capitalist regimes were challenged by broad strata of the population in various countries of the "Warsaw Pact". ---- Without considering the surveys favored by large movements of workers at the beginning of said Soviet dictatorship, as Kronstadt or the struggle of Ukrainian peasants with Makhno , the Hungarian revolution in 1956 with the formation of workers' councils (2) and the popular uprising some of the main cities of the country, is an important milestone in the history of dissent and fight for the freedom of these people. ...

(en) apo: Patras, October 20: Demonstration against borders, war and modern totalitarianism (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 27, 2016 - 6:41am
On Thursday October 20, 2016 about 300 people participated in a demonstration in the center of Patras, against borders, war and modern totalitarianism. In the anarchist bloc, formed after the anarchist group called Disinios Ippos (untamed steed), about 50 people marched. Follow the call of the group to the rally. ---- The disastrous results of the Crusades and looting intensification of the capitalist periphery are the elimination of all life in the Middle East, where war has crushed local populations. All this leads to the flight to Europe of millions of uprooted and desperate people every possible means. ---- After the war in Syria, a wave of refugees and migrants moved from the war zone west to Fortress Europe .As a result of the new situation that is forming, the above regulations are being reviewed, such as Dublin II regulation, FRONTEX is more important, ...

(en) [Italy] November 4, 2016: General Strike! By ANA on October 24, 2016 (it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 27, 2016 - 6:41am
The Italian Trade Unions (USI-AIT) and the Unitary Confederation of Base (CUB) are calling for a general strike of all public category and private for the day November 4, 2016, for both work part-time as to the full-time. ---- Strike motivation: ---- * Against the war, which is affecting Europe, the Middle East and African countries against the death factories and military spending and the internal war against the working class, as well as ensuring the reclamation of polluted sites. ---- * For job security. Just deaths. ---- * Against the 1/10/2014 representation agreement between the Confindustria[Italian employers' organization], CGIL, CISL, UIL[Italian majority unions]. ---- * Against the economic and social policy of the government[Matteo]Renzi and the European Union, against the "Jobs Act"[last labor reform of the Italian government]and the abolition of art. 18. ...

(en) Spaine, CGT press releace: Wallonia rejects the ultimatum imposed by the EU (ca) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 27, 2016 - 6:41am
Wallonia calls for "respect for democracy and transparent processes" and stands firm on "no" to the CETA. ---- The European Commission receives another blow after receiving the rejection of the tax ultimatum to the government of Belgium to sign the text of the CETA. André Antoine, Wallonia parliament spokesman said this morning that it was not possible to fulfill the EU ultimatum which demanded to accept the text of the CETA later than the end of the day Monday. ---- Antoine says Wallonia demand respect for "democracy and transparency" in the negotiations on the agreement between EU and Canada -CETA. ---- The Canadian Trade Minister said last Saturday that Canada was ready to sign the CETA and now "the ball is in Europe." The EU and Canada and issued an ultimatum to Belgium on Monday to ensure that Thursday would be ready to sign the CETA text of the EU-Canada summit. ...

(en) derry anarchists: No War But The Class War!

A-infos - October 26, 2016 - 8:00am
Anarchists in Derry took part in today's anti war demonstration at the city centre war memorial as we have done many times before with a clear anarchist message 'No War But The Class War!' ---- All of the speakers quite rightly condemned the continuing atrocities being inflicted upon the people of Syria and the entire Middle East, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis not witnessed on this scale in decades. ---- Twenty-four hour media manipulation on both sides of the propaganda war has deliberately created mass confusion as to who the real perpetrators truly are as Russia, Europe and United States attempt to gain the high moral ground while thousands are killed, millions left without homes and entire communities devastated. ---- Their unofficial policy of endless war and destabilization is an attempt to divert the world's working class into the dead-end of ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - Migrants: In Hungary Refugees not welcome (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 26, 2016 - 7:59am
Building of the separation wall with Serbia, biased referendum on the issue of refugee-es, nationalist escalation in speeches, racist poster campaign ... In the country of Viktor Orbán, and more broadly in Eastern Europe, racist anti-immigrant offensive is becoming more and more worrying. ---- Hungary is definitely not a haven for refugees come-es-es of the Middle East or Africa. Viktor Orbán always goes further in his denunciation of migration quotas within the European Union 1 and immigration in general. He also turned a corner this summer, assuming both the most complotistes theories and that of the "great replacement". One can find a decisive stage of this new development in his speech on the occasion of the national holiday of March 15: "It is forbidden us to say that in Brussels, they are looking for ways to send more foreign quickly as possible to install here. We are ...

(en) Britain, afed: Grass roots struggles show the way - resistance bulletin #161 - Contents + Editorial

A-infos - October 26, 2016 - 7:59am
Contents ---- Solidarity with all workers: Byron Burgers face workers' anger ---- Deliveroo & the gig economy fightback ---- Postal workers' wildcat strike ---- Rent Strike: students make it an effective weapon ---- Squatters take to the roofs to defend social housing ---- Organic Lea: Land for Food and Community ---- Land: What for? Who decides? ---- Homeless fight back against criminalisaton ---- US prisoners unite against prison slavery ---- The Need for a New Fight Against Nuclear Power ---- Building an international anarchist movement: The 10th Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations ---- Editorial ---- What with Brexit, Tory backstabbing, a new Prime Minister, Corbyn being elected Labour leader (again!) and a US presidential election it seems the pantomime of parliament has never been livelier! In our opinion far too much attention has ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - Book: I, Viyan, fighting against Daech (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 26, 2016 - 7:59am
It's 2008, Viyan 18 years. It is shepherdess in a Kurdish village in the region of Ayn al-Arab - but then Ain al-Arab, its name in Arabic, because the Kurdish language is banned under the regime of Assad. Viyan deposited beside the bed of his mother's jewelry box. It does this quietly, not to wake her. Tonight she will join the guerrillas. She said nothing to anyone, neither his mother nor his sisters, nor his brother who is head of the family office. His brother, precisely, wanted her to marry one of her cousins while Viyan has other desires: to learn, to fight for his people to be free. ---- His departure is incredible. A couple comes to get in a van with another girl from his village. Hardly have they traveled a few kilometers that the brother of Viyan appears on his motorcycle and chases them. The girl asks: if he catches up, it's over, it will never become a fighter, ...

(en) anarchism "Black and Red" APO: intervention in the red for auctions (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 26, 2016 - 7:59am
The morning of the third 18/10 intervened in radio station "in the red" in Thessaloniki and read our text on the question of a 'home auctions and also invited to participate in the world in concentration against auctions on wednesday 19/10 in 15.30. ---- the text read: ---- Concentration against auctions | TO FINISH THE AUCTIONS OR OTHERWISE OUR steals LIFE, we will resist ---- In a period of general economic and humanitarian crisis, once violated labor rights and acquired years that salaries and pensions decrease rapidly and unemployment is touching red, the bulk of society living in poverty and misery, thousands of people crammed into detention centers - "accommodation" in appalling living conditions, the SYRIZA-ANEL government in cooperation with banks and always under the supervision of European institutions, proceeds of auctioning a 'residence ,. ...

(en) Greece, anarchist group "restive horse" APO: The occupation is part of the social and class struggles (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 26, 2016 - 7:58am
On Monday, August 5, 2013, the State vacated three occupied spaces in Patras. - The historical conquest Annex downtown that is inseparable from the social and class struggles of the local community since November 1973 and has become a point of reference for thousands of resisting and insurgents over the years, the seizure of Maragkopouleiou Street Gounaris and occupation N. Gizis 33 - self haunt TEI Patras. - From inside the busy Maragkopouleiou arrested five comrades facing charges of domestic peace disturbance and the prominent damage, breach of the law on weapons and refmatoklopis. ---- Their trial is set for Tuesday, October 25 in the courts of Patras. ---- This operation was the culmination of a repressive attack of the state against the world of the match in Patras and joined to the overall design of a nationwide crackdown on resistance areas and ...

(en) anarkismo.net: International Campaign for the Freedom of Rafael Braga/Campaña Internacional por la Libertad de Rafael Braga by farj (pt)

A-infos - October 25, 2016 - 5:59am
The Campaign for the Freedom of Rafael Braga makes a call for collectives, movements and popular organizations all over the world to join us in the International Campaign for the Freedom of Rafael Braga. ---- One of the main issued raised by the Campaign is the motivation behind the arrest of Rafael Braga. He was arrested and condemened in 2013 even without being a protester. He was arrested because he is Black and poor. Because he is not an activist, no mobilizations were made at the time and he was tried and condemned very quickly. Even after his sentencing, the mobilization around his case never achieved the level of the mobilizations around the case of other arrests of militants in 2013 and 2014. Rafael is a symbol of the penal selectivity and structural racism of the justice system of Brazil. ...

(en) awsm.nz: A Sound Action

A-infos - October 25, 2016 - 5:59am
For over a month members of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) in Texas, USA have been on strike. This happened after a year of ongoing negotiations between the musicians and management. The final straw was the insistence by bosses that the musicians accept pay reductions of between 2.5-7% following salary cuts in 2010 of over 13%. ---- An initial reaction to the strike even from those normally sympathetic to workers taking such action could be "Why should I support a bunch of well-educated and highly skilled people who only cater to the tastes of the ‘cultured' middle classes anyway?" It's true orchestral musicians aren't suffering the same levels of deprivation as some sections of the working population, but in reality the former are hardly living it up large either. One anonymous member of the FWSO explained her circumstances this way: ...

(en) Greece, the auction of VIO.ME. By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 25, 2016 - 5:59am
On 12.02.2013 unpaid (since 2011) Employees of the Industrial Mining took the decision to ignore the requirements of the state and capital and chose the path of struggle, going to occupy the factory. Key pillars upon which constructed the project of VIO.ME from day one, is the triple-self-self-self-organization. Workers exceeded the established institution t th unionism and direct democratic procedures applied in a manner making any decision while eliminating any economic power (equal remuneration). The decisions taken at the general assembly process of workers in which all members have equal status. From the very first moment of the plant, a solidarity network created by the workers collectives and individuals and their struggle was linked to similar operations in Europe, Argentina, Turkey and Spain. ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - Call: In the future the struggle unionism (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 25, 2016 - 5:59am
struggle trade unionists who have worn the call "It blocks all! "For more than four months does not intend to stop there. Faced with fighting ahead, the challenge today is to transform the test by building a sustainable network. ---- After a first fairly comprehensive review of the text published in mid-July[1], the team of activists who animate the call "It blocks all! "Has bet to start a new beginning of September," There is still fighting! "(See box), calling for the establishment of an inter-control network with a first constituent meeting on 15 October. This is of course ambitious. ---- Already in 2010, calls for trade union general strike carried the seed idea of being "the tool of union renewed debate at the base"[2]. But they ultimately more used to "weigh" on the internal debates of the trade unions involved in the strike (CGT included) to concretely ...

(en) Britain, afed: ORGANISE! MAGAZINE ISSUE #87 WINTER 2016 - Contents + Editorial

A-infos - October 24, 2016 - 6:41am
The Winter 1997 issue of Organise!, the AF's 30th anniversary issue #87, will be out at the London Anarchist bookfair later this month. Contents and editorial are below. Buy online from Active Distribution and AK Press and at many radical bookshops and social centres. Alternatively get in touch here and arrange to obtain a copy directly (price for this with packing and postage is £3.50 for UK orders, £4 within EU or £4.50 rest of the world). ---- Organising for Resistance: Grass roots struggles show the way! ---- Contents ---- Editorial: No State Solution ---- Undercover Cops Within the Social Movements ---- It is Time We Discussed Abolishing the Police ---- On Vigilante Justice and the Need for Social Movements ---- Modern Totalitarianism ---- The State and Revolution ---- 90th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike in Britain ---- 80th anniversary of the 1936 ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - international, Syria: In the heart of the imperialist melee (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 24, 2016 - 6:41am
Syrian civil war has become, for most part, the scene of an indirect confrontation between foreign powers. Russia, USA, Iran, Turkey, France, oil monarchies ... Who wants what? And Rojava in? decryption and test hypotheses. ---- For the third time this year, Syria has seen the failure in September of attempted truce sponsored by Russia and the United States. Failure mainly due to the multiplication, in the civil war, armed forces with conflicting objectives, shifting alliances with uncertain sponsorships. Difficult to enforce a cease-fire under these conditions. More than ever, however, Moscow and Washington appear to be the duo without which nothing can be done in Syria. To the great annoyance of others ingérentes powers - Iran, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia ... - kept away from Russian-American councils, or invited to unnecessary multilateral conferences, such ...
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