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(en) Czech, afed.cz: Footsteps Adamit --- Another pocket booklet published by AF brings the narrative Roman Laube specific group of men and women from the beginning of the Hussite movement. [machine translation]

A-infos - November 1, 2016 - 4:20am
Adamité were one of the most interesting and also one of the most mysterious heretical groups in the history of Czech heretical movements. They existed at all? There are reports of "orgies" just rumors and trying to justify their disposal in the eyes of the society? These questions seek to answer modern historiography for decades. The authors of the Stalinist period, eg. Their ritual nudity totally denied as contemporary propaganda designed to discredit them (predecessor of the communist movement to do something like this could commit) and authors from across the political spectrum, this aspect conversely used to argue how far can the various social experiments, disruption of traditional values and keep order. Only work the last twenty or thirty years, especially Peter and Francis Cornej Šmahel, tried to bring up this issue more objective view. However, sometimes ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - history, International Brigades: ras-le-bol of the Golden Legend (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - November 1, 2016 - 4:20am
Owl, a documentary about the Spanish war! Oh no, heck it's even adulterated merchandise ... 80 years later, it is time to publicize the sordid role that Moscow was playing Brigades enlisted in Republican Spain from 1936 to 1938. ---- October 25, Arte aired a documentary by Patrick Rotman on the International Brigades, who will remain accessible on Arte.tv until November 1. ---- Certainly the exhumed footage is remarkable and extremely rare. That's the only positive thing to find. Because finally, how is it possible, with all the research done for years to produce a documentary about two hours, which accumulates as many clichés and approximations? ---- There is no question of calling into question the sincerity of combatants and veterans of the International Brigades. Many were convinced revolutionaries. But the romantic myth of the Brigades should not overshadow ...

(en) zabalaza.net: Worker-Student Alliances: Anarchist Approach Needed by Leroy Maisiri (ZACF)

A-infos - November 1, 2016 - 4:19am
Recent worker-student alliances and activities are lacking in an anarchist/syndicalist approach which focuses on ‘people's power' and ‘worker control'. Such an approach is important for radical transformation, writes Leroy Maisiri. ---- After 20 years of neo-liberal democracy, South Africa has not truly begun the much-needed purge of race and class structural inequalities and constraints inherited from apartheid South Africa. Many university campuses across the country, since 2015, have been set alight by the actions of a non-compromising body of students. This political wildfire has moved from campus to campus, for a range of reasons: one thing remains central, that tomorrow's future is shaped by today's youth, restlessly tackling the structures and impediments that stand in their way. ...

(en) Poland, rozbrat: Statement Wielkopolska Association of Tenants ws. Suspend enforcement proceedings against the tenants of social Greater Association of Tenants [machine translation]

A-infos - October 31, 2016 - 4:31am
After many months of efforts Wielkopolska Association of Tenants, the city of Poznan in September. finally took the decision to suspend the proceedings against the indebted tenants waiting for the allocation of social housing. Bailiffs (at the request of a creditor or city) suspended proceedings. ---- As a result of the intervention of WSL since the spring of 2016 years the city does not bring this type of new cases to the courts (for an enforcement order), and the ongoing proceedings before the courts finally been suspended. In total this applied to approx. 430 cases. The scale of the phenomenon may, however, be much greater, but it is not clear how many tenants would be at risk of this type of claim. Greater Tenants' Association and the European Coalition for the Right to the City believe halt the execution of a major success in the fight for the rights of tenants. ...

(en) afed.org.uk: AF AND THE LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR by Bonnie (London)

A-infos - October 31, 2016 - 4:31am
Latest Resistance is out! Anarchist Federation's free newsheet. ---- https://www.afed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/resistance161.pdf ---- Get your copies at London Anarchist Bookfair where you'll be able to buy new Organise! our magazine too. Up to No 87 and still going! It'll be the only "glossy" mag out as Black Flag is not coming out for Bookfair . ---- 2016 London Anarchist Bookfair . ---- This year's London Anarchist Bookfair will be on Saturday 29th October from 10am to 7pm. ---- Venue: Park View School ---- West Green Road, London, N15 3QR ---- See here: ---- http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/ ---- The AF will be holding 4 meetings at the Bookfair on The Land, Ecology and the Environment, Anarchism in Bulgaria and Mental Health. Check the Bookfair website for details. Feel free to introduce yourself to us there or at our ...

(en) zabalaza: ZACF message to the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya on its 60th Anniversary

A-infos - October 31, 2016 - 4:30am
Dear comrades of the Federacíon Anarquista Uruguaya, ---- We, militants of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF), send you a big clenched fist salute and revolutionary internationalist greetings on this the historic occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya - commemorating 60 years of struggle for freedom and socialism. ---- Knowing all the obstacles and challenges that we in the ZACF have and continue to face in trying to build a revolutionary anarchist movement rooted in the daily life, struggles and fighting organisations of the oppressed classes we can only begin to imagine the commitment, hard work and sacrifices that must have gone into building the FAU, developing its extensive social insertion and influence in the fighting organisations and struggles of the oppressed Uruguayan people and sustaining it over such ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - Graphic Novel: Calling Kobanî (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 31, 2016 - 4:30am
Released in France on September 7 Kobanî Calling is the latest graphic novel of Italian Zerocalcare. Kobanî Calling, it is the result of two trips to the author of Kurdistan and a small group of activists from the centri sociali, these alternative cultural places and activists typical of Italy. ---- We will go to Rome to Kobanî, via Turkey, Qandil Mountains, Syria and Iraq, sometimes a few meters positions Daech, over 260 pages. No one length, we discover the complexity of the war in Kurdistan. Whether you subscribe to Kurdistanews on Facebook or the Kurds we are completely unknown-es, Kobanî Calling is an ultra-available graphic novel, educational, rich, funny and moving. ---- Born in 1983, Zerolcalcare is a committed artist who is becoming increasingly popular in Italy. With a style all his own, full of humor and self-mockery, he tells the stories that make her ...

(en) Aperitif presentation of Alternative Libertaire in Rennes October 26 by AL Rennes (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 31, 2016 - 4:30am
Au Chat Chatterbox, 45 Rue Duhamel, Rennes, from 19:30 to 21:30. ---- Anti-capitalist, self-managing, feminist, union ... come and discuss with us the political project of Alternative Libertaire. How to fight today? What social project to propose? ---- Alternative Libertaire Rennes, brings together activists who identify with revolutionary anti-capitalism, self-management and the class struggle. ---- We are a young group, mainly composed of students with, éducs, insecure, invested in their union (Solidarity students) or in collective of autonomous struggles. ---- We try our level contribute to the development of social struggles and all emancipatory struggles. For housing rights, feminism, the regularization of undocumented migrants, against dismissal or of course against the airport project of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - Police: Eye of the Needle (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 30, 2016 - 8:30am
Pierre Douillard-Lefevre, sociologist and historian, lost an eye following a launcher firing "defense of bullets." In a small book published by Editions du Waterfront, Eye of the Needle, it traces the history of the creation of the French police arsenal in detail the composition, and highlights the growing militarization of the police. ---- In 1995, the Director General of the National Police, Claude Gueant, decided to equip his men with a new weapon: the Flash-Ball gun. The turn is symbolic: the troops fired back at the crowd. In 2002, Sarkozy, Interior Minister, will engage in this shift with enthusiasm and non-lethal weapons will increase. They allow to target a determined protester and implement a highly effective strategy in a hurt to deter thousand. ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL October - 1936: the Spanish Revolution under the sign of libertarian communism (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 30, 2016 - 8:30am
It was during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 libertarian affect closest utopia that generations of activists had worn every day. An exceptional self-management experience is emerging. An almost unique example in the history of the international labor movement. ---- As soon as the military coup (Uprising) triggered by General Francisco Franco, 18 July 1936, the resistance is organized. It is primarily the result of unions and revolutionary organizations. The government of the Frente Popular, elected in February 1936, remains impotent. Aragon, in the Levant, in a part of Castile and especially in Catalonia, the "nationalist" armies are routed only by the mobilization of the working class, predominantly organized within the CNT[1]. ---- Historian Agustin Guillamon in his book Barricades in Barcelona (1936-1937), wrote: "Once the state monopoly of violence ...

(en) Greece, Anarchist collective Oktana (AF): A beast with two heads (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 30, 2016 - 8:30am
"A beast n 'war and fleeing n' ampla of and is're both the girl zympraga death" - couplet which was awarded at this year's mantinada competition organized in Cretan village on the refugees - One head -the largest age- symmetrical and sober, he knows the past and has lived the birth of his brother. The other young and sickly, disfigured by abuse and reactionary. He does not know his age and despises fraternal advice. The two faces of the beast, sharing the same body. - A body relatively healthy, with large displacement, not because of the food-this was denied many times but because of history. ---- For almost four decades -from birth neoterou- two heads dragging their bodies in a different direction. When one wants to go left, the other directed to the right and pulls, and when one turns to the south, the other stubborn and go running to the north. For years now, ...

(en) Greece, Patra: For the anti-fascist gathering and march in Rio By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 30, 2016 - 8:30am
For some days, a few dozen refugees hosted in Hotel Rion Beach, in Rio area, away from Patras. ---- Afternoon Sunday, October 23 were posted in the area of an announcement from an initiative Rio residents committee called for the meeting to another hotel in the area for the "issue emerged suddenly, unpredictably and with complete privacy in our region by creating refugee hundred refugees Cover (?) ". ---- Directly antisygkentrosi was called at the Rio suburban station this afternoon involving dozens antifascists, leftists and anarchists. Then they held a protest of about 200 people. The course was moved to the point of the meeting invited "residents committee" where he found that he never appeared one, while the hotel itself was noon issued notice of cancellation of the debate in the area, after the reactions caused. ...

(en) A-Radio Berlin Presentation: the Prison Strike in the USA 2016

A-infos - October 30, 2016 - 8:30am
Dear all, ---- As Anarchist Radio Berlin, we recorded a presentation about the ongoing prison strike in the United States of America, its backgrounds as well as the methods of support and solidarity that are used in- and outside of prisons. The presentation was held in October 2016 in Berlin. ---- You'll find the audio (to listen online or download in different sizes) ---- here: ---- http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/10/24/a-radio-in-english-presentation-the-prison-strike-in-the-usa-2016/ ---- Length: 57:47 min ---- You can find other English and Spanish language audios here: ---- http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/. ---- Among our last audios you can find: ---- * An interview about the "flower holiday" in Azerbaijan and the imprisoned anarchists: ...

(en) Czech, afed: RPG stinks. Flats people! [machine translation]

A-infos - October 29, 2016 - 10:22am
Are you bothered by unscrupulous speculators housing, parasitic people and society? Then donate October 30 protest in Ostrava. ---- On Sunday 30 October in Ostrava held the "Day against housing speculators." The event combines protest and entertainment begins at 13.00 in the street Žofínský (behind the House of the book) and is organized by the Ostrava initiative Wake houses. Anarchist Federation (AF) supports this action and adds to the challenge organizers. ---- Underprivileged are oppressed and exploited by capital only in the workplace (either directly to them or that they are forbidden, eg. Because of skin color), but also in the realm of satisfying their basic needs, including in particular housing. The impact is twofold: bloating the pockets of speculators on the one hand and atomized, prekarizovaná and frustrated society on the other. We therefore urge all ...

(en) Libertarian Youth of Madrid: Disobedience spreading -- Die domesticated strikes (and domestication) (ca, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 29, 2016 - 10:22am
In the realm of obedience everything is repeated, everything plays. boredom and routine are repeated in the classroom, in the neighborhood or at work. And this sad scene, where even the tools of struggle and rupture of normality, such as strikes, have been domesticated, obedience commands unopposed. ---- Obedience is the Students' Union and its one-day strikes, which only serve to, face the press, justify their treacherous role. canned obedience is offering us all the youth and student organizations (but especially senile) Marxist character, hoping to occupy the role of the Students' Union. Obedience is fighting for chains, wanting to change their rings, but keeping intact its oppression: this is what it means to fight for public schools, the state education for entrepreneurship education and their needs. ...

(en) Greece, apo: [Patra] SOLIDARITY FOR 5 DIOKOMENOUS occupant MARAGKOPOULEIOU By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 29, 2016 - 10:21am
KATALIPSEIS IS THE PIECE OF Conon and class struggle ---- On Monday, August 5, 2013, the State vacated three occupied spaces in Patras. The historical conquest Annex downtown that is inextricably linked with the local community social and class struggles since November 1973 and has become a point of reference for thousands of resisting and insurgents over the years, the seizure of Maragkopouleiou in Gounari Street 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 ...

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire - Kurdistan and the struggle against violence against women, in Paris November 8 by AL Paris-Sud (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

A-infos - October 29, 2016 - 10:21am
The latest news of the revolutionary process in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) with Raphael Lebrujah, anticapitalist activist who has traveled several months. At the federal local AL, 92, rue d'Aubervilliers, Paris 19th, Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at 20 hours. ---- Since 2011-2012, the Rojava is home to an against-society based on secular foundations, social and democratic. ---- Alternative Libertaire tries to glean information field on the popular self-organization and the action of the Kurdish left in areas under its control. ---- For more information: ---- AL Position: critical support of the Libertarian Communists to the Kurdish Revolutionary Left ---- Rojava: New Chiapas? ---- The success of the movement of Kurdish women ---- Yes, the people can change things (experience Rojava) ---- ... And all articles of the Kurdistan folder on Alternativelibertaire.org ...

(en) Poland, Workers' initiative rozbrat statement: We are all chuligankami! [machine translation]

A-infos - October 29, 2016 - 10:21am
After the black protest unclean play police can be seen even more clearly than before. Poznan police behaves in fact as a thief, who caught stealing calls "catch the thief". These thieves will be Poznan anarchists who - in the words of the police - textbook and professionally prepared to initiate riots during the said protest. ---- In this way, trying to divert attention from the fact that this behavior was dazzled by police brutality and chaotic - literally beating wildly. ---- The image of the police has been seriously undermined; to save him in the haze of tear gas decorated roundup and consequently arrested three bystanders. All this is confirmed not only by anarchists, but also unauthorized demonstration participants. Some of them have themselves been injured as a result of police action . There was better at the police station, one of the detainees ...

(en) wsm.ie: Hundreds protest conviction of Jobstown teen following Burton sit in

A-infos - October 28, 2016 - 4:07am
Hundreds of people marched through Dublin on Saturday to protest the conviction of a Jobstown teen for false imprisonment. He had been part of a protest which delayed Labour Party leader Joan Burton who had made an unwelcome visit to the community resulting in a sit down in front of her car as she left the area. The delay in her being able to leave resulted in dawn raids on the houses of activists across Jobstown and in the trial of many of them for false imprisonment. ---- Burton remained in her car throughout the protest with people sitting in front of it. This verdict is a shocking undermining of any sort of right to effective protest, massively expanding the power of the state to criminalise almost all forms of resistance including those which many members of Burton's Labour Party engaged in previously. ...

(en) asf-iwa: Manchester Hospitality Workers

A-infos - October 28, 2016 - 4:07am
"After reviewing six years of data from the Office of National Statistics and information from The Change Group's database, the results revealed that while women held seven out of ten waiter roles, men were paid £1,150 per annum more for the job. In restaurant manager roles, the pay gap closes slightly to 10 percent, but it still means women earn £3,500 less. " https://munchies.vice.com/en_uk/articles/women-in-the-restaurant-industry-are-still-being-paid-less-than-men ---- Women in the Restaurant Industry Are Still Being Paid Less Than Men ---- BY DAISY MEAGER ---- 20.10.2016 ---- Never Miss A Story ---- Working in the restaurant industry means dealing with drunkards and brunchers. Even scientists have admitted that it's one of the most stressful occupations out there. ...
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