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(en) Greece, Antiauthoritarian Athens: Because enough is enough! (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 26, 2016 - 9:14am
Very often situations gender violence, including sexual assault, rape and generally various forms of violence are ignored, devalued, or are normalized jokes. - And what happens a lot. - Continue. -- Every day. - And it's really dangerous because in this way the gender violence is reproduced and perpetuated against women. - The rape of women in Greece is not a current phenomenon and neither appeared suddenly. - For years women more or less suffer in their bodies and in their souls this violent intervention by men. The recent incident of abduction and repeated rape tis14chronis Larissa by a group of men is not an isolated incident. It is one of the many that came to light demonstrating once again that rapists are people of our daily lives and did not come from another planet. Of course there are those incidents which may never hear because either the family sake of ...

(en) International of Anarchist Federations: "Resistance is Life, Silence is Death". -- Calling for unity of all freedom seekers with Rojava revolution forpractical and immediate action (ca, de, fr)

A-infos - September 26, 2016 - 9:14am
Revolutions that have been oppressed by governments in the last two centuries have not been few. But they have never been able to destroy thoroughly a freedom-seeking movement arising from human nature. This stream of revolutions has not lost its foundations and bases among people but it is conveyed from nation to nation and from form to form. It has not stopped its attempts worldwide. Unfortunately so far revolutionary and left activists of the world have not shown any sign of solidarity against reactionary governments. On the other side, these governments are doing their best to destroy Rojava and its achievements ---- After spreading of "The Arab Spring" to Syria, due to the current status of the world and the crises of capitalism, a huge crisis was made in that country. So that in the recent years, capitalist governments' stand concerning Syria has been mainly aimed at its ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire - policy, Forum struggles and anti-capitalist book, by AL Nantes (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 26, 2016 - 9:14am
The Anti-Capitalist Front 44 - U Nantes which is involved -prepare holding a Forum anticapitalist struggles and books on October 1 in the Manufacture of Nantes. ---- documentary films, stands of over fifteen houses of these editions, catering and refreshments on site, all at free prices, a day to exchange, discuss, meet, organize, support ongoing struggles and struggles to prepare come! ---- The anti-capitalist 44 Front is a militant class struggle. you can contact him at anticapitaliste44@gmail.com ---- NANTES ---- Saturday, October 1, 2016, from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m., ---- Manufacture of Nantes, 10bis Boulevard de Stalingrad, 44000 ---- the event on social networks, reach and share! ! ---- PROGRAM: ---- Ground floor -> Book Fair anticapitalist. ---- 1st floor -> Meeting with various collective struggles ---- 2nd floor -> 14H Great debate: After a ...

(en) US, Itch: "We Demand Accountability by Anarcha-Feminist Hit Squad AFHS" (an annoymous movement of anarcha-feminists who want to take action).

A-infos - September 26, 2016 - 9:13am
If you don't know the name Johnny ‘Itch' Fox let us give you a small introduction. Itch is the frontman of once-punk band The King Blues, he is also a producer, a spoken word artist, a domestic abuser and a sexual predator. ---- At Boomtown Fair 2016 on 13th August, The King Blues played on the Devil Kicks Dancehall stage. For those of you reading that haven't been to Boomtown, this stage is the 'punk' stage, it's well established and has always boasted a popular line up. However, this stage is not without it's issues. On either side of the stage are two large cut-out women, smiling in their underwear literally decorating the stage. For us this perpetuates a punk culture that expects women to be silent and complimentary rather than on the stage playing music themselves. It is also really conflicts with the antifascist flags brandished around the tent. On top of this, ...

(en) Australia, anarchist affinity: Your consumer choices won't save the planet by Kieran

A-infos - September 26, 2016 - 9:13am
The climate catastrophe is capitalism. ---- Surely if we were all more committed to buying green, fair trade, or ethically produced products, there would be less environmental and economic exploitation in the world, right? ---- The idea that our consumer choices are ‘votes' for the kind of world we want to live in is a powerful one, but it is an idea that is gravely mistaken. ---- Our current economic system, capitalism, is eating away at the ecological basis of our existence, whilst exploiting and dominating the lives of billions of people. This destruction, domination and exploitation is driven not by consumer choices, but by the logic of capital accumulation. ---- All businesses are confronted by the need to remain profitable. Businesses that do not generate a healthy return on investment will soon go bankrupt and be replaced by those enterprises that are profitable. ...

(en) anarkismo.net: Dublin protest to force the government to back down and scrap water charges sees 1000s on streets by Brian - WSM

A-infos - September 25, 2016 - 3:41am
The Irish government's attempt to introduce domestic water charges in Ireland is not going well. In fact, for them it's been a disaster because it's sparked off a huge upsurge in working class self organisation and direct action. Saturday saw thousands of anti-water charges campaigners flooding the streets of Dublin o to again voice their opposition to Irish Water & water charges and as a show of strength for the movement. ---- It has been fully understood since the very beginning of this campaign that Irish Water was simply a vehicle to be used for the privatisation of water services and infrastructure in Ireland. The right wing, neo-liberal political establishment wished to gift the most vital of all resources to capitalist interests who would squeeze as much profit out of commodified water as possible, while cutting off the water supply to anyone who couldn't pay their ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - compulsory civic service: regimentation and exploitation (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 25, 2016 - 3:41am
An amendment to the bill "equality and citizenship" passed by the National Assembly could increase the vulnerability of young people. It plans to introduce a compulsory civic service of nine months, between 18 and 25, which would consist of three-month government propaganda followed by a compulsory period of work paid below the poverty line. ---- Neither vacation or summer job, but three months forced into "Days defense and citizenship." It is expected that the first phase of compulsory civic service is going from 1 July to 1 October of the year of 18. Now this is a crucial period, between the end of school and the beginning of the upper and / or wage labor studies. ---- During the three months of "republican classes" during which the "symbols of the nation" and the "fundamentals of the Republic" will be praised, going one speak of the bombing by France ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - antifascist demonstration, Against the Nazis in the tavern of Thor, October 8 in Verdun (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 25, 2016 - 3:41am
The semblance fashion be the multiplication of the most ridiculous racist, the famous "white race" Morano to irrational delusions on the "replacement" of the Christian population by Muslims, some Nazi splinter groups feel comforted and take the opportunity to reappear in broad daylight. This is particularly true of "Hammerskins" which just installed their local, picturesquely called "Tavern Thor" in the village of Combres-sous-les-Côtes in the Meuse, who did not ask as. ---- This neo-Nazi group, whose name "Hammerskins" (skin - hammer) is a program, not content just to march in uniform worthy of another time in which young men bare skull can proudly show off their tattoos where swastikas and references to the Führer cross mingle. ---- To implement their hate speech on the supremacy of the "white race", the Nazis practiced a training firearm and ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - Orleans: The party in struggle (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 25, 2016 - 3:41am
The first edition of the Festival of resistances and alternatives took place on Sunday 3 July in Semoy, in agglomeration of Orleans. With over 300 participants, this is a first success styling suites. ---- Nearly thirty organizations were stakeholders of the Feast of resistances and alternatives; they brought together associations (BDS, Cimade, Family planning, RESF, Sortir du nucléaire ...), political organizations (AL, PC, PG Postal code ...) and the Solidarity trade union was one of the kingpins of this event. Kurdish comrades were also there in numbers. Six "workshops" an hour (actually debates) were scheduled on the day. The activists of AL have participated in one of Solidarity entitled "Work Act: the struggle is class" and an animated on "How to break with capitalism? "Which brought together fifty participants. ...

(en) Greece, Gathering at Oraiokastro Thessaloniki By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 25, 2016 - 3:41am
THE BATTLE against fascism AND IN RACISM IS LONG BECAUSE SOME OF THE TOP OFFER ---- We were born and Oreokastro in Damascus and in Campania and in Touba and somewhere in the Crimea or in the Athens and in the western mitropoleis.Megalosame and went to school with John, Mary, Mohammed, in Lorient, Yuri and Hassan. ---- the border and the different places p p provenance of never scared us and we stood out to us. What put the dividing line was the aversion of some intolerant, mindedness weaklings who feared children coexist with us, who feared the different color, different language. Snobby as is decided here and not to allow their own children to study together with children of refugees and immigrants (ri) s. Apologies that if this happens, will occupy the school. There, then, fascism, racism source was already knocking on the door of that community. There was created the ...

(en) Libertarians Autonomous Students e.l.a: ACT AGAINST HIGH SCHOOL REFORM (ca) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 24, 2016 - 2:51am
Hello. We are the ELA (Libertarians Autonomous Students) and came across this email disclose the "ACT AGAINST HIGH SCHOOL REFORM" to be held on 30 October at the will of MASP to 17 hours. ---- Follows the call text for the act: ------------------------------- The reform announced today by the unpopular and neoliberal government of Michel Temer (http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/educacao/2016/09/1815771-reforma-nao-resolve-problemas-que-desembocam-no-ensino -medio.shtml) it is a joke and does not represent our wishes; Nor will satisfy our needs.---- The crusade Temer against critical questioning of matters of society considered useless by the capitalist system (arts, sociology and fiolosofia) put back on the street sophomore revolutionary youth! ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - Agriculture: Hunt GMOs, they come galloping (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 24, 2016 - 2:51am
After genetically modified organisms classic, laboratories have developed new techniques for obtaining more sophisticated than earlier plants. The agrochemical industry tries to evade the regulations. ---- In February 2016, the European Commission examined the NPBT, new techniques for producing plants, to decide in consultation with Member States to submit or not to European regulations on GMOs. The High Council of Biotechnology (HCB) issued a discrete report, quoted by L'Usine Nouvelle: "The Scientific Committee of the HCB offers to coach some of these techniques, case by case. An analysis close to that of the companies surveyed in the Economic Committee, Ethics and Social Responsibility, which advocate to regulate according to the characteristics of each product, rather than to focus on the techniques used to obtain them. " The term NPBT includes many techniques that ...

(en) Greece, "Black & Red" of Anarchist Political Organisation APO - The fight against fascism and racism are long because some offer roof CONCENTRATION IN OREOKASTRO (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 24, 2016 - 2:51am
Preselection Tuesday 20/9 at 17.00 Ag. Venizelos Concentration Square against Hall Oreokastrou 18.00 ---- We were born and Oreokastro in Damascus and in Campania and in Touba and somewhere in the Crimea or in the Athens and in the western metropolis. - We grew up and went to school with John, Mary, Mohammed, in Lorient, Yuri and Hassan. - The border and the different places of origin is not never scared us and we stood out to us. What put the dividing line was the aversion of some intolerant, mindedness weaklings who feared children coexist with us, who feared the different color, different language. - Snobby as is decided here and not to allow their own children to study together with children of refugees and immigrants (ri) s. ...

(en) Report of the Prison Strike in Texas, second week:

A-infos - September 24, 2016 - 2:51am
The Anarchist Black Cross Austin confirms that the following units are closed and isolated , totally or partially, or "exclusion": Barry Telford, Beto, Clements, Connally, Ferguson, Gib Lewis, Jordan, Smith, Torres, William Hobby. ---- Calls units are called to know their status and that all information that might have to be shared. Collect the following testimony that has come to them: ---- "Today, September 17 I went to the Hughes Alfred Unit in Gatesville (Texas) to visit a friend. While I was waiting to take us to the booth visit, a woman sitting next to me mentioned that prisoners / as this unit were being repressed / as. She was visiting a woman in Hobby that due to overcrowding, had been transferred to the medical building in Hughes. I asked if I could join the conversation and ask some questions. the woman imprisoned said he had heard radio guards that inmates ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - UK: Brexit Brexit or not, that's not the issue (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 23, 2016 - 2:23am
UK voters came out in June for the release of their country in the European Union. A blow to Europe and a dilemma not easily resolved for the left, between interpretations in terms of xenophobic withdrawal or slap to the liberal right. Lighting. ---- After the referendum on the Brexit UK, Holland proclaimed that it would go quickly to make an example, block the contagion. And the new English Premier Minister (anti-Brexit) repeats tirelessly "Brexit is Brexit" to reassure English voters. But, pushed early 2017, negotiations could wait for the end of 2017 to start major causes of elections in France and Germany ... ---- A divided country ---- The referendum was promised by the traditional right to win the support of the xenophobic right but David Cameron was sure to win. The defeat cost him his job. The vote is decided: against the Brexit, employers, most of the traditional right, ...

(en) 1st International Conference of Anarchist Geographies and Geographers (ICAGG) - Geography, social change and anti-authoritarian practices

A-infos - September 23, 2016 - 2:23am
Reggio Emilia (Italy) - Centro Studi Cucine del Popolo, via Beethoven 78/e, 21-23 September 2017 - http://www.cucine.arealibertaria.org/ ---- In the last years, an outstanding international and multilingual rediscovery of anarchist geographers has occurred at the level both of academics and of grassroots movements, drawing at the same time on a renewed interest for historical figures like Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921) and Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), and on the contributions of anarchist and antiauthoritarian ideas and practices to present-day struggles for social liberation worldwide. Special issues on anarchism and geography have been published by outstanding international journals, such as Antipode and ACME, leading to a flourishing of recent papers and books on these topics, including the organisation of successful sessions on anarchist ...

(en) Greece, Black and Red (A.P.O.) Information from the memory path in Pavlos Fyssas (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 23, 2016 - 2:22am
Yesterday, Saturday, September 17 held the memory path of antifascist Pavlos Fyssas murdered by Golden Dawn. Initially 450 people, which reached 600 responded to calls anarchist, anti-fascist antiauthoritarians standing Kamenik, the Autonomous Figure Ataxia students and Anarchist Political Organisation with the first start of Kamara and the top 2 of Venizelos statue. The process initiated by pulse to the offices of the ATHEX halted from cages at the height of Antigonidon continued by St. Demetrius, Iasonidou and ended Kamara. Fonachtikan slogans such as' Fascists and pit bosses stou the bottom, long live the world proletariat ',' For immigrants, we are together, return to cops and nazis, '' Neither f nor Oreokastro nowhere, crushed fascists in every neighborhood. " The murder of an antifascist TANGIBLE bastards a fascist organization unites us, but our rages above all ...

(en) black rose fed: AUDIO: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE CHINESE REVOLUTION

A-infos - September 23, 2016 - 2:22am
https://soundcloud.com/providenceiww/maoism-and-the-chinese-revolution-a-critical-introduction ---- We present to you this audio recording of a recently hosted and very engaging talk by Elliot Liu of Unity and Struggle on his recently published Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction published jointly by anarchist publishers PM Press and Thought Crime Ink based in Canada. The event was hosted and organized by members of the Providence IWW at their union hall. ---- The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it-often referred to as "Maoism"-resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations? ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Police violence: an AL wounded comrade and private care (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 23, 2016 - 2:22am
Beaten, held down, private care despite a bloody wound, placed in custody ... Our friend Eric decided, with other victims, seize the advocate. ---- Thursday, September 15, the first demonstration against labor law after the summer was held in Paris and other cities. ---- As in previous events, it has had its share of police violence: tight shots of tear gas, LBD at face level, violent loads, arbitrary arrests, searches and security checks at the entrance to the event. An activist SOUTH Health lost an eye despite surgery to try to save him. ---- Among the protesters and arrested demonstrators: Eric, Alternative Libertaire 92. ---- He had until the middle of the night to be auscultated ---- While the event had just begun starting from Bastille, riot police charged, trying to cut the demonstration in two, recurrent practice now. ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Police violence: an AL wounded comrade and private care (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - September 22, 2016 - 2:20am
Beaten, held down, private care despite a bloody wound, placed in custody ... Our friend Eric decided, with other victims, seize the advocate. ---- Thursday, September 15, the first demonstration against labor law after the summer was held in Paris and other cities. ---- As in previous events, it has had its share of police violence: tight shots of tear gas, LBD at face level, violent loads, arbitrary arrests, searches and security checks at the entrance to the event. An activist SOUTH Health lost an eye despite surgery to try to save him. ---- Among the protesters and arrested demonstrators: Eric, Alternative Libertaire 92. ---- He had until the middle of the night to be auscultated ---- While the event had just begun starting from Bastille, riot police charged, trying to cut the demonstration in two, recurrent practice now. ...
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