Three libertarian unionists meet Permanent Revolution. Because the ritual denunciation of "union bureaucracy" should no longer be used to mask the failure to act. ---- In the monthly Alternative Libertaire July-August 2016, a critical article was devoted to the Permanent Revolution website (RP). This article gave rise to online answer on that site . Linger to return on important issues concerning the relationship between political and union activism, issues of interest to all those convinced of the need to change society. ---- If we wrote this article, it is not for the pleasure of arguing with another revolutionary current, let alone to defend the trade union bureaucracies. But because, beyond the differences we may have on trade union action (and we do not find in the vision RP attributes, we shall return), a red line seems to have been taken with the recovery ...

Saturday, September 10, at least 33 people died in a factory fire in Bangladesh food packaging. Developing countries are a favored playground for capitalists: cheap labor, virtually no labor regulations and lack of safety standards. All for profit and allow export in rich countries. ---- The fire follows the many factory accidents in this region. We remember especially the Rana Plaza in 2013 that killed more than 1,000 people, mostly women. The building collapsed even as workers and laborers were demanding safer working conditions. In 2012 a textile factory caught fire killing more than 100 women. ---- But these are not just accidents. They are proletarians who were tué.es by the onslaught of a deadly global capitalism. To all those who extol the virtues of industrial and rich countries, these dramas are here to remind them that this wealth (monopolized by a small ...

Pastor Evan Mawarire unwittingly began the #Thisflag movement in May 2016 by posting a video online in which he expressed his frustration with the socio-economic and political crisis in the country. ---- The last 4 months in Zimbabwe can surely be characterized as an awakening of the Zimbabwean working class, as thousands of these citizens have taken to the streets, responding to Pastor Evan Mawarire's call: "hatichatya" - we are not afraid. This is certainly a historic time for Zimbabwe; a time of growing labour pains as the country (hopefully) enters a process of rebirth towards a better and new Zimbabwe. ---- But before we can even begin to talk about a free Zimbabwe and how we would go about getting that, we need to first have a clear and coherent class analysis of the Zimbabwean social and political climate. ...

September 11 during a convention of - Modern - party program, lips of their leader Ryszard Petru announced: "We will introduce legislation restricting or banning the activities of organizations of a racist, chauvinist and widespread hatred of weaker and anarchist organizations, occurring against the state and its institutions. We will defend the state against extremism and populism of the left and right of the political spectrum." ---- Power, whatever it, is to himself that there is always against the people, especially those who are not needed it for anything. Just as modern, it is shoulder to shoulder with the developer, kamienicznikiem or exploitative employers, strengthen anti-social solutions and most sweeping under the carpet the problems of those who would rather not feed the electorate of one of the leading party. Anarchists but appear wherever the needs and ...

Dynamic intervention took place Monday afternoon 12/9 by members of the Libertarian Trade Union Ioannina colleagues / compas and compañeras / s, against the pre-congress event SYRIZA in Litharitsia park. About 35 people stood in front of the entrance of the building which will become the event, shouting slogans and throwing leaflets. The executives of the ruling party, tampourothikan inside, trying to respond to the accusation that focused. There was an immediate mobilization of the police, with the parties and OPKE who failed to approach eisodo.Oi focused withdrew structured around 7, sharing texts in the city market. https://ese.espivblogs.net/2016/09/14/14-9-16/ ...

Fascism is directed against the poor and oppressed of this world and to those who struggle and resist exploitation regime. ---- Fascism although it is one, has many facets: the assault battalions in the city center, the walls of Fortress Europe, the anthropokynigous immigrants-refugees at the border or in the urban fabric, to the modern concentration camps. ---- the thread that connects the murder of P. . Fyssas and Sachtzat Loukman, as well as attacks on immigrants and the movement is common. ---- 2 days so before the anniversary the murder of antifascist II. Fyssas, chief ASE intends to make its appearance in our town. ---- Well we say no inch of land to the fascists. ---- We support the fascist concentration; stewardship in Kamenik. ---- To crush fascism, to fight for life, freedom, dignity. ---- Friday 16/9 18.00 Kamenik ...

Despite the favorable result at the airport of the June referendum, Opponents of the project do not give up: after the success of the weekend of July 9, other appointments are scheduled to oppose work the government announced will commence in October. ---- The referendum of 26 June has not surprisingly given victory to supporters of the airport. We must re-specify the scope of this consultation was defined according to different surveys conducted by the government. Failure would have been highly likely in case of consultation at national level, of the Great West and the region Pays de la Loire, the yes only outweighed the Loire-Atlantique department. ...

The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is looking for plays, texts, monologues, dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, in English and French, on the theme of anarchism or any subject pertaining to anarchism, i.e. against all forms of oppression including the State, capitalism, war, capitalism, patriarchy, etc. We will also consider pieces exploring ecological, social and economic justice, racism, feminism, poverty, class and gender oppression from an anarchist perspective. We welcome work from anarchist and non-anarchist writers. ---- The 2017 edition of the festival will take place on May 23-24. ---- Are you interested in presenting your work during the festival? ---- Send us the application form by November 7, 2016! ...

History is a battleground. He knows that each of the politicians. For some time, the Polish public space glorifies But attitudes that go beyond good taste. The glorification of nationalism, racism, xenophobia becomes commonplace. ---- September 17th through the streets of Poznan procession passed under the flags patriotic red and white. As this procession: Front secondary school youth, which, like the "communism" was told, so he goes. The orchestra, some soldiers. A further group of ONRowskich flags, carried by punks whose ancestors Gani Jews and collaborated with the Nazis. They walked smiling, as if on parade. They enjoyed probably, because in the next row followed the mayor Wisniewski, deputy Dziuba, church notables, police and army officers, MPs and councilors, removed from the position of the province governor Florek and many other politicians. Behind them a ...

On Tuesday, 2 August. Jon - from Romania Rom living in Poznan - asked for money staying at the traffic lights drivers. He was detained by the police. In the police car taken away his cup, which collected donations and blindfolded with a cloth. He heard also, if he wants to beg, it will amount to Romania. The torturers took him and threw podpoznanskim in the woods, picked up the money not the distance. ---- We know also other cases where the police or municipal police extorted by threats from Roma money or begging for leaving / entity whose peacefully demanded his fate. Representatives and representatives of the community were repeatedly robbed, intimidated and blackmailed. The police (not only Poznan) feel completely unpunished in contact with the Roma community of Romanian origin. Officers use their low economic status and the fact that the exclusion from the labor ...

Hi everyone, ---- This started as a short update, as first one in a while, but has turned into a pretty long one! Lots on this month! ---- Enjoy! ---- ----- Public Meeting to address Glasgow transport crisis: ---- Get Glasgow Moving! Building a citywide Public Transport campaign ---- Thursday 15th September - 7pm ---- Renfield St Stephen's, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP ---- https://www.facebook.com/events/225852114483359/ ---- Most people in Glasgow rely on public transport to get around (only 49% of households have cars), yet our public transport network is a total mess: ---- * Private bus companies continue to cut our vital services and increase fares so that they're completely unaffordable. ---- * Glasgow Subway (built in 1896) still only serves a tiny area of our city and is the only underground in the whole world never to have been ...

All French housing will soon be affected by the replacement - free - our traditional meters with "smart" meters. pollution devices, connected meters are mainly direct access to personal data which represent a huge market. ---- The "smart" meters will soon invade our homes. This will start with electricity meters, the well known Linky (EDF), whose establishment in France is estimated at 5 billion euros in 2020; Then come the gas meters Gazpar (GrDF-Engie); and longer-term ones with water Consospy. All will be connected to the Internet by radio, that is to say, wireless, and therefore to permanently searchable distance, with any additional waves thereon, and thousands of new antennas. ...

STATE AND CHAPTER born fascism ---- Fascism turned openly against the poor and the downtrodden of this world while aimed at crushing any form of resistance to exploitation and oppression. In conditions of a systemic crisis in the context of the modern totalitarian state and the bosses, pursuing the militarization of society and the ekfasismo, forming the ground where fascist gangs are developed, which are in each case para percussion groups. ---- Since the assault battalions in the city center and the fence hill in the bowels of Europe by refugees and immigrants murders border and incarcerated in concentration camps, the forms of fascism are many but its role is one: beating where indicates that the government policy itself, the interests of the bosses and regimented propaganda media. Against the wildest operator segment of society and against the ...

Two workers have won their cases against Citibank in Poland. Three people had sued the company - for discrimination of a worker after paternity leave, for mobbing and for sexual harrassment. The court found in favour of the two workers who claimed discrimination and mobbing and awarded them significant compensation. In the case of the discrimination case, the victory is especially significant as there is widespread pressure at work for men not to take paternity leave - a pressure which reinforces patriarchal practices in the society and which penalizes men who might want to share parenting responsibilities. ---- Citibank has appealed the decision. ---- A third case, held separately in another city, has been dropped. Unfortunately, issues of sexual violence are not treated very well and it is often an ordeal to see such a case through to the end. However, we hope that even the ...

"The very revolutionaries who claim that they are against the state, and for eliminating the state...see as their central task after a revolution to build up a state that is more solid, more centralized and more all-embracing than the old one." - Ron Taber, 1988 (1). ---- The remarkably common attitude among revolutionaries of all stripes is that "the means justify the ends". We're told it is acceptable to embrace authoritarian organisational practices because these practices are necessary to achieve an anti-capitalist revolution. As Anarchists we argue that the theory and organisational practice of revolutionary groups must be consistent with the principles upon which we want a future society to be based. We believe that the praxis of groups which seek communism should point them toward communism, and not toward statism, authoritarianism, hierarchy, ...

In the late 1970s, in many European countries is growing Green movement (with "H" great) politically aspire to pursue environmental sustainability. They have a network with a variety of political ideologies ekosentris, including ekososialisme, ekoanarkisme and ecofeminism and actively campaign on the issue of anti-nuclear, peace, environmental conservation and civil liberties. The movement flourished after the emergence of Die Grünen (The Greens), a Green Party formed in Germany and public attention. This movement is already networked globally and sensitize on four pillars, namely ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and non-violence. ---- The influence of anarchism on the movement of Green is very apparent in the third pillar, namely grassroots democracy, which correspond to various thinkers eco-anarchists, such as Henry David Thoreau, Elise ...

This short video on Emma Goldman is useful as an introduction, is well produced, is appealing, and will likely spark people's interest in learning more about Emma Goldman. That last point alone makes it worthwhile. However, be aware that it waters Goldman down to make her palatable to a liberal feminist audience. ---- Anti-capitalism was central to Goldman's analysis of social institutions, but this film does not use the word capitalism even once, instead saying Goldman rejected "business interests." She was also far more antagonistic to the suffrage movement than this makes it seem. She saw the suffragists as bourgeois individualists who had no connection to the kind of working-class immigrant women and men that Goldman organized with. She saw that working-class men had the right to vote, and were still oppressed and exploited, so what good would that same right do ...

STATE AND CHAPTER born fascism ---- Fascism turned openly against the poor and the downtrodden of this world while aimed at crushing any form of resistance to exploitation and oppression. In conditions of a systemic crisis in the context of the modern totalitarian state and the bosses, pursuing the militarization of society and the ekfasismo, forming the ground where fascist gangs are developed, which are in each case para percussion groups. ---- Since the assault battalions in the city center and the fence hill in the bowels of Europe by refugees and immigrants murders border and incarcerated in concentration camps, the forms of fascism are many but its role is one: beating where showing them the state policy itself -with latest example of the arson attack by fascists to capture refugees and immigrants Notaras 26 at 24/8, which came as a continuation of the ...

In these circumstances widespread social liquidity, which seamlessly continued imposition of modern totalitarianism, the rule puts all means to service the purpose of which is none other than the complete control from below. Simultaneously with the imposition of poverty and misery, trying to establish a permanent climate of fear and subordination in society. And it passes through persecution, repression and "ng radeigmatiki" punish those who challenge its authority and striving towards overturning and spreading a collective vision different from the dominant. ---- On May 5, 2010, day nationwide general strike, one of the largest demonstrations held metapoliteftika where crowd attempted to storm into parliament, while declaring the further bleeding and looting of our lives. The day was irretrievably tainted by the death of three workers in Marfin bank, when the people set ...

Introduction to this particular issue ---- In this part I will discuss some basic historical information on the model of anarchist political organization and in the end, I will make a comparison between these experiences and the current mission of political organization that aims to be the catalyst for a democratic social change Confederalista. ---- Model descent anarchist organization: three anarchists experiences ---- nternational Alliance of Socialist Democracy: As I mentioned in the first part of the test, the model of federalist organization is not new. In 1868, within the International Workers Association (AIT) called federalist party included an organized political force called the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy (known as a type of Bakuniana Alliance), whose best - known public reference was Russian activist Mikhail Bakunin (1814/1876). The ...