[Fanzine]: Poland – Free the Warsaw Three [ENG]

Posted on 14/07/2016 by resiste

On the night of May 23rd, the police in Warsaw arrested three anarchists on charges of an alleged arson attempt of a police vehicle. The three were transferred to a remand prison where they are to be held in custody for three months, awaiting trial. They face up to 8 years in prison. Media frenzy broke out over the arrest in the past few days, with high-ranking politicians and experts on terrorism discussing the matter on TV. Photos and video reruns of the arrested walking with chains around their feet and hands are broadcast on public transportation…

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[Fanzine]: Polonia – Free the Warsaw Three [CAS]

Posted on 12/07/2016 by resiste

En la noche del 23 de Mayo, la policía detuvo en Varsovia a tres anarquistas con la supuesta acusación de intentar incendiar un vehículo policial. Lxs tres fueron transferidxs a prisión preventiva, donde permanecerán durante los próximos 3 meses, en espera de juicio. Se enfrentan a hasta 8 años de prisión. Los medios han estado hablando mucho del caso en los últimos días, con altos políticos y tertulios “expertos” en terrorismo hablando en TV. Las fotos y vídeos de las personas detenidas caminando con cadenas en las manos y en los pies, se retransmiten hasta en el transporte publico…

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Turkey: About the attempted military coup in Turkey KKE [ENG]

Posted on 22/07/2016 by mesziechl

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Posted on July 20, 2016 by mat on signalfire.org

Fierce clashes inside Turkey’s bourgeoisie amidst imperialist interventions in the region.

The dangers for the peoples in the region are growing.

Yesterday there was a very dangerous development in neighboring Turkey. The attempted coup by a faction of the military establishment was quashed but it left behind many dead and wounded in armed clashes, bombardments, even air combats. The most important thing is that it opened a new period of instability and danger both for Turkey and the Mideastern region. Despite the fact that Erdoğan and his government were obviously taken by surprise, it was not something “out of the blue” because there were several manifestations of discontent and disputes inside the Turkish ruling class and the military establishment… Also the fact that recently Erdoğan moved in the direction of restoring diplomatic relations with Russia is something to be taken into account.

The initial estimates that the coup was orchestrated by a handful of low-ranking military personnel were disproved. The truth is that this move was led by high-ranking military cadres and obviously had the backing of parts of the ruling bourgeoisie. These factions had opposed the constitutional amendments promoted by Erdoğan in order to concentrate more power on himself. This was manifested in the declaration of the “plotters” in which they presented themselves as defenders of the secular nature of the Turkish state.

Anyway moves like these and in countries like Turkey where imperialist (especially US) interventions are intense cannot be attributed to inter-bourgeois contradictions alone. It is clear to us that imperialist entanglement – direct or indirect, overt or covert – is a decisive factor. These are moves that can have – from the imperialist direction – the character of measuring up forces and possibilities. And we must not forget that the Erdoğan regime and the bourgeois factions that support him, in their attempt to make Turkey a key factor in the region, have several times provoked the imperialists, either the US or Russia,

The failure of the coup can be attributed to many elements, such as its poor preparation, but the mass mobilization of the people against the “plotters” played a key role despite the fact that this mobilization is tried to be credited to Erdoğan’s call.

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Belarus: Anarchist report about prison hierarchy and conditions by comrade Mikalay Dziadok [ENG]

Posted on 22/07/2016 by mesziechl

Belarusian prison – Untouchables in the prison hierarchy

The topic of prison caste system is often raised in the media in recent times, it is often discussed in connection with the political prisoners. However, almost all who write on the subject, know about it at best from the stories of former inmates or use common social stereotypes. As a result, there are often a lot of blunders and false representation.

The aim of this article is to illuminate some aspects of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon the informal hierarchy in Belarus prisons.

27 years old, an activist of the anarchist movement. He was born in the town of Bragin, Gomel region. He graduated from the Belarusian State University College of Law, worked as a judicial custodian in the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk and legal adviser in a private company. In 2009 he entered the European Humanities University (Vilnius) specializing in Political Science and European Studies. On September 201, he was detained in Minsk on suspicion of the attack on the embassy of Russia. He was convicted of participation in a protest actions near the General Staff, the House of Trade Unions and the casino “Shangri-La” in the “case of anarchists“, he received 4.5 years prison sentence. Three months before his release he was sentenced to another year of imprisonment under Art. 411 of the Criminal Code (willful disobedience to prison administration). Released on August 22, 2015 by presidential decree “On presidential pardon” (he did not write a petition for clemency, although it was repeatedly offered). Now he is a first year student at the European Humanities University, specializing in world politics and economics.

There are scientific works on this subject. And, of course, I do not aspire to consider the phenomenon in all its diversity in one article. The question will be mainly about one prison caste, the existence of which characterizes the system as a whole, and the knowledge of which is critically important for any falling prisoner in Belarus, especially for a political prisoner. The so-called “petukhi” (“roosters”) ( also “downcast”, “bugger”, “cockscomb”, etc.).

So, from this text, you will learn:

– How did the “downcast” appear in prison;

– How do people become one;

– What are conditions of these people in jail and prison;

– What functions are performed by these people in prison;

– Why is the existence of this caste vital for the administration of penitentiary facilities.

Part 1. Blatnoy, muzhik, kozel and petukhi
How did the cast of “petukhi” appear»

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Turkey: 11 riot police killed in Trabzon [ENG]

Posted on 22/07/2016 by mesziechl

The Joint Command of Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH) has released a statement claiming responsibility for the action that targeted riot police in Maçka district of Trabzon at 08:30 on 19 July.

HBDH militants hit a group of 15 riot police effectively, which left 11 among them dead and others wounded. During the same hours, the building of Police Directorate was also hit with automatic weapons.

HBDH Joint Command said the action was carried out in memory of July 14 Resistance Martyrs and to mark the anniversary of the Suruç massacre. The statement added that fascist mobs attacked the Kurdish locals in the wake of the action.

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Call for an International Action Day against Feminicide of Yazidi Women [ENG]

Posted on 22/07/2016 by mesziechl

3 August 2016 marks the 2nd anniversary of the Feminicide and Genocide by Islamic State (IS) against Yazidi people in Sinjar/Shengal. On 3 August 2014 IS attacked and captured Sinjar, which is the historical homeland of Yazidis, a Kurdish religious minority whose ancient religion is linked to Zoroastrianism. IS destroyed Yazidi shrines, executed resisters and demanded the residents to swear allegiance or be killed. During the IS-massacre in Sinjar up to 5.000 Yazidis were executed. Almost 200.000 people managed to flee. 50.000 Yazidis fled into the Sinjar Montains, where they were trapped without food, water or medical care, facing starvation and dehydration.

At the same time approximately 5.000 Yazidi women and children were captured. They were appropriated as spoils of war and sold as sex slaves to Muslim men or given to IS commanders. Those who refuse to convert were tortured, raped and eventually murdered. Babies born in the prison where the women are held were taken from their mothers to an unknown fate. Women allegedly raped by IS fighters have committed suicide by jumping to their death from Mount Sinjar. While a high number of women managed to flee or could be liberated, approximately some 3.000 women are still in IS captivity.

While the campaign of IS against Yazidi people often is described as a massacre, it shows all characteristics of genocide. But additionally IS is carrying out acts of feminicide. Kidnapping of Yazidi women as spoils of war, enslavement, systematically rape, forced conversion are not only parts of a systematically war against women, but feminicide.

Yazidi people, especially women in Sinjar answered the acts of genocide and feminicide by IS through self-organisation and self-defence. Today Mount Sinjar marks the centre of Yazidi self-organisation through self-defence units, people’s and women’s councils as expression of their collective will.

But the IS-threat on the Yazidi people in Sinjar is continuing. And still countless women remain in the hands of IS. For their liberation national and international action and solidarity is needed.
Also the UN Special Commission declared in its report released on 16 June 2016 that the incidents that happened in Sinjar amount to genocide and a crime against humanity. We will continue our struggle until the responsible are tried and pay for their crimes.

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Greece, Thessaloniki : Actions against borders at No Borders Camp [ENG]

Posted on 22/07/2016 by mesziechl

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Today, the 21st of July 200 comrades from the No Border Camp (NBC) Thessaloniki decided to mark the IOM-office. IOM, the “International Organization for Migration” is one of the dirty players, that among other things assists in the execution of so called “voluntary returns” or in other words deportations. Within minutes the determined group threw the info-material of the office outside and tagged the whole building with slogans showing everyone what kind of organization resides there. Also a statement was read and leaflets were distributed along the way back to the NBC.

This was one of the many actions that happened over the course of the last few days. Among them were direct actions, ad-busting and demonstrations in Thessaloniki as well as in the surrounding areas near the so called “relocation centers”, which in fact are prisons.

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Shut down IOM – For the benefit of all !

The International Organisation of Migration (IOM) as the second largest intergovernmental agency worldwide is one of the big global players in migration management.

“Managing migration for the Benefit of All” is the IOM’s guiding theme.

But who does in fact take the profits ?

One of the major tasks of the IOM is to assist the global migration regime in socalled “voluntary returns”.

In February 2016 for example IOM organized the deportations of 135 Aghans to Kabul. For receiving 700 Euro each, these migrants were forced to sign their “voluntary return” to Afghanistan – the offered “alternatives” are deportations by force or imprisonment. Also the payment of social benefits often depends on the migrant’s participation in IOM Consulting services about options of return.

IOM exclusively serves the interest of its member state governments and their anti-immigrants-policies. The claim, migration needs to be managed and controlled, is the base for dividing migrants in exploitable and valueless – in legitimes ones and those with false claim.

Migration management has many faces; Fighting irregular migration and developing border control are just some, IOM and Frontex are their servants. As migration controls and borders perpetuate the capitalist system and its massive and racist inequalities.

Abolish all borders ! For a global freedom of movement !

Shut down IOM – for the Benefit of All !

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Malaysia: Fire at anarchist space Rumah Api, solidarity needed for repairs [ENG]

Posted on 22/07/2016 by mesziechl

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Rumah Api caught on fire on the morning of 19 July at 7:00am. We did not know what actually happened and why even though there is witness saw one guy, who always sleeping downstairs, sitting at the couch before the fire started.

We at Rumah Api saw this as more as an accident then an act of sabotage. We won’t speculate any wild rumours so internet people need to calm the shit down.

The fire has destroyed the entire building electrical system and partially damaged one motorcycle belong to one of us. According to the source, the cost of wiring and reinstall the electrical system is RM5k.

With the eviction news is around the corner, Rumah Api need to get back to it’s feet as soon as possible. We need to get organised against the highway and this fire disaster should not kill our spirit.

We would love to thanks friends solidarity from all over the world, who still believe a better world is still possible. Any friend who want to donate for recovery process, here the details:

For donation
Paypal to: cactusdistro@gmail.com (Please write a note “Donation to RUMAH API)
Maybank (Msia): 162049046957 (Yazman Bin Yahya)
Or you can contact us directly at:
rumah_api@riseup.net

Never give up, never surrender!

-Rumah Api-

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Greece: Kurds in Lavrion refugee camp celebrate the 4th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution [ENG]

Posted on 21/07/2016 by mesziechl

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Germany: Invitation to the Rebellious Encounter from 27th July to 3rd August in Gasthof Meuchefitz (Free Republic of Wendland) [ENG] [DE] [ES] [IT] [KU] [TR]

Posted on 21/07/2016 by mesziechl

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20 years ago, in 1996, the Zapatistas issued an invitation to the “First Intergalactic Encounter for Humanity and against Neoliberalism” in the liberated, rebellious areas of Chiapas, Mexico. And for the first time ever, the invitation did not include organizations and parties of whichever ideological orientation, but the resistant, rebellious people themselves – from across the world! More than 3000 people came together in the Lacandon Jungle. They debated, listened, and celebrated. Many people from Germany also made that journey. They returned full of strength, courage and inspiration, and some decided to link up here – in a network for Solidarity and Rebellion, the Ya-Basta Netz. This summer the Ya-Basta Netz is 20 years old.

We’ve given a lot of thought to what might be the best way of coming together and celebrating this occasion. In the end, we came to the conclusion that not only do we want to celebrate, but we also want to keep on walking and take a step forward. The best way to do this seemed to be by an invitation to another Rebellious Encounter.

Also in Mexico people are celebrating. The Zapatistas are inviting to the festival “CompArte por la humanidad” (starting 17/7) and also the Congreso Nacional Indigena is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Our activities here “in the heart of the beast” are in solidarity with struggles there. We understand them as part of a global resistance against this life destructive system.

We would like to invite you to conversations about the ways in which different issues relate to one another:

How is the dispossession of indigenous peoples related to tax havens? What does the denigration of Trans*-people have to do with the mass deportation of refugees and dispossessed people? What is the connection between struggles for free urban spaces, and the building of alternatives in rural communes? What does the banking crisis have to do with land grabbing? Where and how can we think about militancy and activism together? These are the questions we want to pose ourselves and which we propose to you, in order to shed light on the diversity of our struggles.

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Italy, Torino: Mezcal Squat: 10 anni di occupazione- 5 giorni di passione! [ITA]

Posted on 21/07/2016 by mesziechl

Mezcal Squat: 10 anni di occupazione- 5 giorni di passione!

mezcalIl tempo vola quando ci si diverte! Ed è così che ci troviamo quest’anno a festeggiare i primi 10 anni di occupazione del Mezcal Occupato. Invitiamo a brindare con noi tutti gli amici, tutti coloro che hanno reso e rendono tuttora possibile questo pazzo esperimento, chi non ci conosce e chi ci conosce già. Mercoledì 3 Agosto, apre i festeggiamenti la cena bellavita: un appuntamento fisso dal 2006 che si sposta nei viali del parco per dare la giusta cornice ad una sontuosa cena di condivisione, dove invitiamo tutti a cimentarsi nella preparazione del loro miglior piatto per condividerlo insieme. In una atmosfera di fuoco, accompagneranno la cena la musiche gitane di tutta Europa dei /Balakaval/ e dei loro ospiti i /Paz quintana/, dal Chile. Giovedì 4 Agosto sarà dedicato all’approfondiemento pratico e teorico dell’autogestione. Nel pomeriggio si terranno diversi laboratori liberi e gratuiti per l’autoproduzione di: carta di riso, ice isolation, cucito, falegnameria e serigrafia. Alle 19 apericena bellavita e a seguire dibattito sull’autogestione: a partire dagli spunti che ci fornisce l’esperienza del Mezcal Occupato nell’autogestione desideriamo confrontarci con altre realtà che portano avanti la stessa pratica con percorsi diversi. Venerdì 5 Agosto il giardino del Mezcal e la sua piscina ospiteranno i migliori bar autogestiti ed autocostruiti per un contest di cocktail a aperitivi fino all’ultimo sorso… e fino all’ultimo morso! Prepara la tua postazione servi il miglior cocktail accompagnato dallo stuzzichino più azzeccato con il sottofondo musicale più di classe che ci sia: dj set “only vinyl” con /Black dynamite trio/ e /Da Sbrothertz/. Dalla mezzanotte concerto Blues e rock’n’roll dei più rudi e scatenati con /Fratelli tabasco/ e /Mama boys and the connection/.

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Turkey : State of emergency [ENG]

Posted on 21/07/2016 by mesziechl

President Erdogan has declared a three month state of emergency which allows the government to bypass parliament and rule by decree. Tom Stevenson writes from Istanbul that this has triggered support but also concern.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the three month state of emergency on Wednesday after a gruelling four and a half hour meeting of the National Security Council.

Since the coup attempt on July 15, authorities have engaged in a post-coup crackdown that has seen more than 8000 detentions across the country and mass suspensions in public institutions.

Curfews, restrictions on free assembly, the power to restrict the publication of books and magazines, these are just some of powers the Turkish government has granted itself in recent days.

Turkey’s civilian government may have narrowly avoided a coup, but now it has reinstituted a state of emergency written into law in 1983 by Turkey’s old military rulers.

Following the defeated the coup attempt, the government has been enjoying widespread public support – but the declaration of a state of emergency also leaves many uncomfortable.

“Of course after this coup the government had to do something,” said Gurkan Aydemir, the owner of a cafe in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district. “But I am very worried that after all this they will just go too far and go crazy, I’m very worried about that.” Continue reading →

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Armenia,Yerevan : Protest Turns Violent: 25 Police, 20 Others Wounded [ENG]

Posted on 21/07/2016 by mesziechl

Hundreds of Armenian protesters sympathetic to an armed opposition group holding hostages at a district police headquarters in Yerevan clashed with police on July 20 after their demand to provide food to the gunmen went unheeded by authorities.

Demonstrators pelted a heavy cordon of riot police with rocks, after which police used stun grenades to disperse the crowd. A group of officers reportedly detached from the rest and chased some demonstrators.

Armenia’s Health Ministry said 45 people were hospitalized with wounds, including 25 police officers.

At least 13 people were taken to Yerevan’s Grigor Lusavorich hospital. Doctors there said 11 of them were police officers and that two policemen suffered particularly serious injuries.

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Switzerland: New letter from imprisoned eco-anarchist Marco Camenisch [ENG]

Posted on 20/07/2016 by mesziechl

We receive a letter from ecologist anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch concerning his intra-extra prison treatment:

End of June 2016: ‘descent’ update

After the transfer in November 2015 from Bostadel to the ‘closed transit’ unit of Saxerriet (Salez) there was a ‘transfer meeting’ on 10th December 2015 with the prison governor, the Zurich DAP representative and my lawyer, where the following ‘steps’, were ordered and have since been implemented :

– January 2016, internal transfer from ‘transit’ to an ‘open section’

– February 2016, 2 leave permits of 5 hours accompanied by personnel of the institute

– March 2016, 2 leave permits of 5 hours each with a ‘designated person of one’s choice who assumes responsibility’

– April 2016, 2 leave permits, the one of 5 hours and the other one of 12 hours with a ‘designated person of one’s choice who assumes responsibility’

– May 2016, 2 leave permits, one of 5 hours the other of 12 accompanied by a ‘representative person of one’s choice would assume responsibility’

– 18th May, another ‘executive coordination meeting’

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At this meeting it was decided (with an order dated mid-June) that a leave permit of 12 hours be granted for June and July, plus a weekend permit of 24 hours in June and one of 36 hours in July, as well as a leave permit of 24 and another of 36 hours in August; afterwards, following another ‘executive coordination meeting’ to be held at the beginning of August, it could be decided that in September 2016 (about three months earlier than ‘foreseen’) I could start ‘external work’ for six months (work outside, evenings/nights inside, weekends outside). The requested work contract (min. 50%) and a place in a small prison in the Zurich area should already be certain, as far as I know.

Then a few months’ external work and residency (in private accommodation) could follow and, at the beginning of 2018 at the latest, release on bail.

The possibility of continue my political /personal relations (especially my writing) has been strongly reduced in recent years due to the repeated transfers and consequent reorganization of this work, sometimes starting again from scratch. And now, in this long passage ‘between inside and outside’ such possibilities have been reduced even more (often to a flicker…) or otherwise taken up, ex-novo, in an intriguing as it is impervious reorganization of the remains of solidarity beyond the walls in this prison society. These are efforts that all those directly involved in solidarity including myself, having to cope with in ‘spaces’ at times even more limited and certainly more uncertain than the ‘prison-prison’.

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España/Alemania: Nueva infomacion sobre la compañra detenida por expropiar un banco [ES]

Posted on 19/07/2016 by mesziechl

Con una breve nota de prensa difundida por el Cos de Mossos d’Esquadra se anunciaba el pasado 13 de abril la operación policial en la que se detuvo en Barcelona la compañera actualmente encarcelada en Köln (Alemania), acusada de haber expropiado una entidad bancaria en la ciudad de Aachen.

Según esta nota, la operación respondía al cumplimiento de una Comisión Rogatòria Internacional cursada a petición de la Fiscalía de Aachen, que dos días antes de la operación había firmado una orden de detención a nombre de la militante anarquista de Barcelona. Lo que no explicaba la nota y hasta ahora no había trascendido al conocimiento público es que la detención y los registros efectuados por el CME en los barrios barceloneses de Gràcia y el Carmel no fueron la simple ejecución de una petición internacional, sino la culminación de un larga y estrecha colaboración entre los aparatos policiales y judiciales de los Estados alemán y español, con la participación activa de la policía autonómica catalana. La implicación de los Mossos d’Esquadra en el caso se inicia mucho antes del pasado abril y, tal como ha quedado evidenciado, va bastante más allá de un papel pasivo y meramente ejecutorio.

Una mañana cualquiera a Aachen

La mañana del 14 de noviembre del 2014 un grupo de personas armadas entra a la oficina del Pax Bank de la localidad westfaliana de Aachen, al oeste del país. Después de vaciar la caja fuerte y atar a los empleados del banco, abandonan la oficina sin que se hayan producido heridos ni daños personales. Durante los días siguientes, la brigada policial encargada de la investigación, la Landeskriminalamt de Nordrhein-Westfalen (LKA NRW), vinculará esta expropiación con otros dos asaltos ocurridos los últimos años a la ciudad [1] y pondrá en marcha una auténtica -e infructuosa- campaña mediática de delación, difundiendo públicamente los detalles de los atracos y ofreciendo recompensas de miles de euros a cualquier que pueda aportar información sobre personas sospechosas. Tan lejos irá la LKA en esta estrategia, que decidirá utilizar para su campaña un famoso y deplorable programa televisivo, emitido en una de las principales cadenas del país: Aktenzeichen XY… Ungelöst (“Expediente XY… No Resuelto”). Se trata de un reality show de carácter abiertamente para-policial donde se exponen de forma morbosa casos que la policía ha sido incapaz de cerrar por sí misma, mostrando imágenes de cámaras de seguridad, ropa encontrada en los lugares de los «crímenes», retratos robot y reconstrucciones dramatizadas de los hechos para impresionar e incitar a la masa espectadora a ayudar a los cuerpos del Estado y delatar a otras personas.

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Turkey: ‘Prisons During Struggle for Power’ by ABC Istanbul [ENG]

Posted on 19/07/2016 by mesziechl

As the conditions behind walls get better, existence of walls become blurred.

Courts,
Defences,
Choices,
Signatures…

Democracy’s power that cause to forget, is the hush-money that it recognises.

There is no difference between democracy and coup, military and police, barracks and parliament, king and president. State can be dictator, king and sultan without losing the quality of being democracy.

In the day of 15th July, a group of soldiers started a struggle for power in some strategic points that is seen by some as coup, and by others as theatre. As always, people who face this struggle for power in its most bare state are the prisoners. In this struggle for power, all communication of prisoners with outside has been cut. It is informed that releases will not be made until a second order.

Whether there is a coup, who did this coup, who opposes this coup are not the questions that needed to be asked in our opinion. Coup is always implicit to state. Every state practice in daily life, especially a non-ending coup setting on political subjects that state see as opponents, is a state of emergency. Because what makes sovereignty is its ability to decide the state of exception.

If some factions are excluded, passed decisions on, whether these decisions are taken by so-called consensus or covered up by using another name does not change anything.

The sovereign is the one who decides when the public order is disrupted, on security, on death and life. The sovereign decides what is crime and not, who is criminal and how one pays for the crime. It makes people internalise its system to an extent that, lots of people who believe in the necessity of the prison can’t imagine abolishing the place that they don’t what to be in while criticising it. While they see a threat to themselves, they approve prison, but when they are attacked by power they start to see prisons as power’s institutions to protect itself. Yet, while political power changes state institutions remain, changing power means changing criminals. Yesterday’s heroes can be today’s traitors, owners of a right to kill can change in an instant.

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Syria, Kurdistan: Urgent call about the situation of civilians in the area of Minbij [ENG]

Posted on 18/07/2016 by mesziechl

An urgent call for the United Nations, the government of the United States and the public opinion.

A call for attention and support of the people’s council of Minbiç to the United Nations (27 June 2016).

The objective of this report of the people’s council of Minbiç is to describe the situation of the people in the area of Minbiç, located in the north of Syria which finds itself since 32 days in a heavy war situation and to describe which support is needed to eliminate the sufferings of the people. At the same time this report is a call for support to the United Nations.

The people who live in the areas controlled by ISIS since four years, experience a high intensity of violence. The difficulties the people face, because of the usurpation of the economic resources and the spaces of vital needs, continue. The applied embargo in Rojava affects the whole population in Rojava.

The people in the war region of Minbiç who have been forced to leave their houses and livelihoods are in the first instance in an urgent need of support of food and health-care and of all humanitarian aid. Until now this support has been provided by the people’s council of Minbiç, which has restricted means and the support doesn’t suffice. There are still thousands of people who haven’t been reached and whose needs are not known. There is a shortage of clean water in the region. Dirty water, rotten food, insufficient nutrition and bad housing conditions are the cause of illnesses and the fast expansion of illnesses.

We made this urgent call to the whole world, because we believe that this human tragedy shouldn’t be ignored. According to our opinion, it is the duty of everybody who believes in universal human values to get rid of the marks of the traumatic experiences of this society which were created by the devastations of the enemy of humanity ISIS. It is not our aim of the offensive to free the people at the costs of lots of losses, because of restricted possibilities.

The present situation

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Germany, Berlin: Report-back from the Defend Rigaer 94 demo [ENG]

Posted on 13/07/2016 by mesziechl

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Germany: Report-back from the ‘Burst The Dreams Of Investors – Defend Rigaer 94’ demonstration that took place in Berlin on 09.07.16…

Burst the dreams of investors – Defend Rigaer 94

Before the demonstration the media and lots of politicians were nervous and expected a violent event on top of almost three weeks of actions in solidarity with Rigaer 94. For that they ordered 1800 cops from different parts of Germany.

The demonstration started almost on time at 21:15 at Wismarplatz in Friedrichshain with about 6000 people, after a manifestation of 45 minutes took place, where the speaker read some writings about the situation in the neighborhood these days. The first two lines were built by civil cops in yellow vests and after some cop cars before the real demonstration was visible. In the front they were holding lot’s of banners and signs. In the end it looked still organized and seemed to be a big beautiful black block.

When the demonstration reached Frankfurter Allee, the first big street, two cop cars were attacked with stones. People were showing their solidarity with fireworks and banner from the rooftop. On the way lots of people opened stones for the public and offered more chances to attack cops, who are a major enemy in the conflict about Rigaer Straße. After the first attack people took every chance to hit them again until they built a line on both sides of the demonstration in Liebigstraße. This time they started to beat up people, split the demonstration and use liters of pepper spray. But even so the attacks continued and especially the not shielded brigade of civil cops (PMS) had to run. The demo stopped just before Rigaer Straße and it was unclear if it could be continued. After a few minutes they decided to go on and passed Rigaer 94, barricaded by cops so that nobody could even think about re-squatting the Kadterschmiede. Only a few attacks on Bambiland (luxury buildings) and some cops followed, before the demonstration reaches larger streets and ended up at Warschauer Strasse, where the cops arrested most of the 86 persons.

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Polonia : Libertad para los tres anarquistas de Varsovia [ES, ENG]

Posted on 11/07/2016 by mesziechl

Tres anarquistas fueron detenidos por la policía en Varsovia, Polonia, el 23 de mayo del 2016. Las acusaciones son: tenencia de explosivos con la intención de utilizarlos en un coche policial para su incendio. Se les llama terroristas por la policía y los medios de comunicación, a pesar que el incendio provocado no se llevara acabo estas acusaciones son bastantes serias, se enfrentan desde 6 meses hasta 8 años de prisión. Las primeras audiencias de los compañeros tuvieron lugar el 24 de mayo, en la Oficina Fiscal de Distrito, donde se podían observar marcas de torturas en sus cuerpos. El 25 de mayo, durante la sesión de acusación en el tribunal de distrito, se decidió mantenerlos en prisión preventiva durante tres meses (que podría prolongarse de forma automática). Desde entonces, cada uno se encuentran en régimen de aislamiento, se les niega el derecho a comunicarse con sus familiares y durante la primera semana de su detención ninguno de ellos tenía acceso a un abogado.

Los medios de comunicación al servicio del Estado solo reproducen la propaganda de las autoridades. La caza de brujas comenzó, creando la histeria de las masas y la imagen del país amenazado por el terrorismo. De esta manera, las autoridades y sus colaboradores están tratando de justificar la aplicación de la nueva Ley Antiterrorista.
Significativamente, justo antes de la entrada en vigor de la ley, el 10 de mayo, 23 de mayo y 30 de mayo en varias ciudades polacas existieron una serie de falsas alarmas de bomba, lo que conlleva a la evacuación de sitios tales como la redacción de la prensa y la televisión, centros comerciales y bancos.

La ola de represión contra lxs anarquistas va en aumento. El 23 de mayo la policía ha realizado seguimientos a lxs compañerxs de un colectivo de Varsovia implicados en la lucha contra la promoción de la alimentación autoritaria. Desde entonces, el colectivo está constantemente acosado por estos “visitantes” uniformados. En Cracovia, registraron el departamento de una persona, ya que supuestamente administraba un sitio en las redes sociales donde ridiculizaban el accionar de la policía. De acuerdo a la información, en Varsovia se ha multiplicado el hostigamiento a las personas relacionadas con el movimiento anarquista e intentar vigilar los distintos espacios antiautoritarios.

Casi al mismo tiempo, la policía asesina a un hombre llamado Igor Stachowiak en Breslavia. Vano buscar aquí una reacción inmediata de indignación por parte de la multitud de políticos, periodistas, policías y expertos del terrorismo. Pocos periosdistas dan alguna señal, cuando la policía matan a un hombre. Sin embargo, los homicidios policiales son sólo la punta del iceberg. Extorsión, golpizas, la protección ilegal de los intereses de las personas influyentes – todos los años existen 16.000 quejas contra la policía, las autoridades reconocen sólo el 5 por ciento. Como resultado de años de selectividad y omisiones de los medios de comunicación, la policía se siente impune.

La atmósfera de la caza de brujas como campaña contra el movimiento anarquista es una amplia construcción de represión y vigilancia hacia los entornos de esta orientación, que están luchando contra los grupos de interés más influyentes en este país. El movimiento anarquista ha sido activa, entre otros, en lxs grupos de trabajadorxs, inquilinxs, ecologistas, antirracistas y la lucha contra el acaparamiento de tierras. Funciona sin concesiones a favor de la justicia social, contra la opresión de las élites empresariales y políticas. La falta de control social sobre la policía, durante años les permitió utilizar la violencia incontrolada contra las personas que luchan en diversos campos contra el sistema violento.

Lo que necesitamos en este momento es la firme solidaridad ante los próximos ataques contra los detenidos de parte del Estado! El 2 de julio, en Varsovia, se llevará a cabo piquetes en solidaridad con los detenidos. Contamos con acciones solidarias en otras ciudades. También pueden ayudar en la recaudación de fondos para pagar los abogados y apoyar financieramente a los detenidos.

Nosotrxs no seremos intimidadxs!

Libertad para los tres Varsovia y todos los rehenes del Estado!

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Greece: Prisoners mobilize for prison reform in Korydallos Prison [ENG]

Posted on 11/07/2016 by mesziechl

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The current Minister of Justice Mr. Nicos Paraskevopoulos has not made any brave steps towards materializing his pre-electoral commitments. On the contrary to his progressive speeches and democratic declarations, he is responsible for the most violent intrusion of anti-terrorism units in Korydallos prison in the last decade, during which, tens of prisoners were tortured and endured unjustifiably violent and degrading treatment. He, along with the Council of Ministers, is responsible for this action which bears a particularly symbolic nature, chosen by the far-right inquisitress Xenia Demetriou, Prosecutor of the Supreme Court.

The prisoners in Korydallos prison, are not and do not intend to become those against which the government will continue to sell its leftist facade, while simultaneously the justice and rehabilitation policies are exhausted in celebrations for the media self-exposure of the secretary general of the Ministry.

The prisoners are stripped of their rights and come to face the arrogance of judicial impunity during all the stages of our detention. The only way to protect ourselves is to intervene on the legislative level. We are not asking the Minister for a political intervention into the judicial authority, nor new measures, whose implementation will be restricted by troika. We are asking for a minimum legislative intervention. Specifically we ask for the materialization of Mr. Paraskevopoulos’ pre-electoral agenda.

Demands:

1. The extension of law 4322 for another year from the moment its proposition comes into force.

2. Suspension of prison sentences for remanded and convicted mothers of newborns, babies, toddlers and children of pre-school age. Implementation of restrictive conditions (alternatives to incarceration) without exclusions based on length of sentence and without making exceptions. No mothers and children in prisons!

3. Legislative provision for a 30-month upper limit for trials in appellate court (if the accused is a prisoner) since the day of remand. Give an end to the torture of unspecified sentences.

4. Abolish the law for cumulative prison sentences for any form of violence within prison or during furloughs since the law is very vague and the range of listed offenses is so wide that prisoners are forced to be given disproportionate sentences in relation to the offense they are actually being accused of.

5. Immediate integration of the prison hospital in Korydallos with the National Healthcare System in Greece

6. The right to conjugal visits for prisoners on the standards of European countries

From today 4th of July 2016 we plan to remain in the yard during the scheduled midday lockdown until our demands are fulfilled.

(via Athens Indymedia, translated by BlackCat)

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