Today, on the 10th of October, the “Labor, Democracy and Peace Meeting” that was organized by various unions, associations and organizations has been attacked. Like in Amed on June and in Suruc on July, the bombs exploding in Ankara today has killed tens of people.

South Africa, 16 October 2015: On the evening of Friday 9 October 2015, a militant of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front in the impoverished black township of Khutsong (west of Johannesburg), was threatened with violence for his political work by a group of youths.

The next morning, a political school that he and another member run in the area, was forcibly disrupted by an even larger mob. The two Zabalaza comrades were fortunately able to escape, but have had to flee to a neighbouring township where they are now in hiding. Meanwhile the thugs have returned to the house where “Tebogo” lives, looking for him.

The international Anarkismo Network, which brings together class struggle anarchist organisations from more than a dozen countries in both the global South and North, and has relations with far more from across the globe, has noted with great surprise and concern the recent accusations by AK Press that Michael Schmidt is a fascist working undercover to infiltrate the anarchist movement.

Before we can make any pronouncements on the matter, however, we need to carefully examine both the AK Press evidence, the article by Alexander Reid Ross, as well as Michael Schmidt’s response to the evidence and article. As a network Anarkismo has not taken sides, and will not accuse the accuser or the accused before there is more information and all the evidence has been presented.

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Sea como sea, la firma de un acuerdo de paz, eventualmente, debería ser el comienzo de un nuevo proceso de luchas sociales en donde –si las cosas salen como deberían, algo altamente improbable- la oligarquía debería, en teoría, renunciar a la guerra sucia contra el pueblo. Pero sabemos –y esto lo sabe la comunidad internacional y los burócratas de la resolución de conflictos y construcción de paz- que el gobierno no cumplirá los acuerdos, mentirá y mantendrá niveles importantes de represión, que serán descritos como niveles “aceptables” por los socios en EEUU y la UE, que tienen demasiados intereses estratégicos en Colombia como para montar una alharaca por unos cuantos campesinos masacrados. No hay que caer en esa infantil ilusión burguesa de que con el fin del conflicto armado se le acabará a la oligarquía la “excusa” para criminalizar al movimiento popular y para reprimir. Como lo dijo el revolucionario guineano Amílcar Cabral, bajo las condiciones del capitalismo, toda lucha es armada: sólo que a veces el pueblo tiene armas y a veces no. Pero el Estado siempre las tiene y siempre las utiliza contra el pueblo cuando ve sus intereses estratégicos amenazados. La fuerza organizada del pueblo es la única barrera objetiva que tendrá esa violencia de clase. Hay que estar advertidos y preparados para los conflictos del post-conflicto.

About ten months have now passed since the Libertarian Communist Group (Grŵp Gomiwnyddol Libertaraidd) was formed in Wales, in November 2014. The decision to launch a new organisation last year was borne out of disappointment at the demise of both Collective Action (CA) and its short-lived follow-up, the Libertarian Communist Initiative (LCI). Our consequent frustration was compounded to some extent by the fact that one of our comrades had also been a member of the previously defunct Liberty & Solidarity (L&S;).

In retrospect we can discern that both of these erstwhile projects - CA/LCI and L&S; - failed due to a lack of ideological cohesion and a confusion of political direction. From our perspective such failures can fairly be viewed as epic if one takes into account that these organisations were, on separate occasions, the products of would-be “platformist” splits from the Anarchist Federation (AF). Be that as it may, in the case of CA/LCI, having seen various members and associates drift away, and with our remaining England-based cadre not unreasonably opting to become involved in an accessible and potentially worthwhile enterprise, the Welsh contingent was simply left with a fait accompli.