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(en) Greece, For antifascist concentration Psilalonia (10/6) by anarchist group "restive horse" - a member of the APO (gr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jun 16 07:48:42 GMT 2017
From morning Saturday, June 10, dozens of nationalists "Greek Assembly" had begun to
arrive in Patras from different regions of the country to participate in an open
concentration Psilalonia scheduled for 8 pm. ---- By early afternoon, rallied about 50
Comrades, anarchists and antifascists from different collectives, assemblies and joints,
we figured the square and we held an open call in fascist concentration to safeguard one
of the most central squares of the city and not allow spreading the racist and nationalist
poison of this nationalist group, which eventually was forced to carry the event of a
closed space (tavern) in the periodic or the auction. The police had ruled the region in
order not to approach the point of antifascists. ---- After about three hours antifascist
presence in the square held anti-fascist demonstration in the city's main streets with
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(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #273 - Police brutality: Lamine Dieng's murder, ten years without justice (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jun 16 07:48:36 GMT 2017
Since the murder of Lamine Dieng by policemen of XX century in Paris in 2007, her family
demands that the perpetrators of what she calls " a barbaric homicide committed in
organized gangs " be charged . ---- For 30 minutes, Lamine was held face down by 300 kg,
the total weight of the officers kneeling on his back after having stuck his ankles and
handcuffed his hands, one arm passed over the shoulder and the other folded into the back.
The final conclusions of the medical appraisals are overwhelming: " Mechanical asphyxia
by suffocation, suffocation due to facial support against the ground with pressure from
the top of the head ". But the perpetrators of the crime, identified, have enjoyed ten
years of impunity, which are ten years of denial of justice for Lamine.
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(en) Greece, Anarchist group "restive horse" [APO] - AGAINST STATE revanchism, THE SKEFORIES, THE REPRESSION AND STATUS EXCEPTION (gr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jun 16 05:54:56 GMT 2017
"In conditions of political crisis the best defense of bourgeois democracy is the
self-abolition." ---- Gerasimos Lykiardopoulos ---- Nowadays, politics SYRIZA-ANEL
management, after about 2.5 years in place of governance continues to pave the way for the
deepening of exploitation and oppression terms and sharpens attack in even more extensive
sections of the population. After cultivate false hopes on system landscaping through
governmental role-taking and contributed decisively to the weakening of social and class
movements that had developed over the previous period, then adopted the same neo-liberal
agenda with its predecessors, fully aligned with the requirements and antisocial patterns
of local and international elite, while attempting to give extended life to the already
bankrupt political and economic system by developing co ikon social peace, national
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(en) Britain, afed: ORGANISE! MAGAZINE ISSUE 88 SUMMER 2017 - Contents + Editorial
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jun 16 05:54:40 GMT 2017
Organise! magazine issue 88 Summer 2017 was out in print in May and is now free to
download. Get printed copies online from either Active Distribution or AK Press. ----
Download Organise! magazine issue 88 Summer 2017
http://afed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/organise88-web.pdf ---- Contents ----
Editorial: Smash the Prison Industrial Complex ---- Special issue features ---- -Brick by
Brick - Creating a World Without Prisons ---- -Belarus Anarchist Black Cross: Opposing the
‘Social Parasite' Tax ---- -The Empty Cages Collective ---- -Care Not Cages ---- -Let's
Tear Down the Walls! ---- -Prison Abolition Groups and Campaigns in Britain ---- Other
features ---- -Things do not change unless people cause trouble! ---- -Midlands Anarchists
Get Organised! ---- -News from the Sparrows' Nest ---- -Repression of Anarchists in Turkey
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(en) Czech, afed: Housing is a right - Statement collective occupy and live for Saturday's occupation of empty houses in the city center [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 15 11:02:52 GMT 2017
What will the dilapidated house on the corner of Hybernská and Senovážné, unsuccessfully
solved over ten years. Classic story of Prague Realty. It's natural? That it's the same as
if someone left fallow same time his scooter, and nobody has the right to object to
anything, because only the owner can decide on their property? ---- We do not think so. At
a time when the Czech Republic at risk of losing housing up to a million people, where the
idea of a stable and secure housing for many total utopia, a dilapidated house, plus
state-owned uneven abandoned scooter. The moment we choose direct action comes when we see
that the conceptual solution to the situation, which could be a law on social housing, the
MPs thrown off the table. So we choose own solution. ---- Yesterday we squatted for
housing. Although we know that similar symbolic actions busy housing crisis is not
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(en) zabalaza: Renewal and crisis in South African labour today: Towards transformation or stagnation, bureaucracy or self-activity? - eNCA/Sethembiso
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 15 08:56:32 GMT 2017
South African unions are large but fragmented, substantial but politically weak. They
represent different political traditions and all are marked by serious organisational
problems. They have little impact on the official public sphere. The unions need to work
towards realizing a stateless, classless, self-managed society without hierarchy, based on
political pluralism and freedom. ---- Renewal and crisis in South African labour today:
Towards transformation or stagnation, bureaucracy or self-activity? ---- by Lucien van der
Walt (ZACF) ---- South African unions are large but fragmented, substantial but
politically weak. They represent different political traditions and all are marked by
serious organisational problems. They have little impact on the official public sphere.
The unions need to work towards realizing a stateless, classless, self-managed society
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(en) Mexico, Ruptura Colectiva (RC): Students and ESIME-AZC libertarian groups take over the campus AND BLOCK STREETS by imposition of new director (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 15 08:56:02 GMT 2017
#EnEstosMomentos #ElParoVa Students, teachers and libertarian groups of ESIME-Azcapotzalco
of the IPN north of Mexico City, have taken the campus in protest of the imposition of the
new director, Engineer Abraham Medina Ovido, who "has been indicated by The community for
its bad practices of imposition of officials from the top of the General Directorate "and
also already played an important role in the bureaucracy of the campus to be appointed
Interim Director since June 2016. ---- They denounce that during the election of the
candidate there were different irregularities and a vacuum in the consensus with the
students and teachers, mainly the displeasure by the nepotism of the new director and its
connections with the authorities of General Direction that have been in charge to
criminalize and to violate To various students organized from various schools since the
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(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #272 - history, 1937: In Spain, the triumphant counter-revolution (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 15 06:52:24 GMT 2017
The Spanish revolution had begun well, but as early as 1937, under the impact of the
Stalinist blows as errors of the anarchists, it retreated. ---- The Spanish Revolution of
1936 constitutes a page, or even the most important page in the history of our current,
with the mass practice of our libertarian communist ideal. This creative dynamic was,
unfortunately, prevented and stopped as of December 1937. ---- The retreat of the
revolutionary process is due to external causes (the advance of the Francoist armies) but
also to internal causes in the anti-fascist camp: the weight of Stalinism on the one hand,
the hesitations and strategic mistakes of revolutionaries on the other . ---- And if the
social work of this revolution, like the idea of fighting fascism in hand, is part of the
" heroic heritage " of the international libertarian movement, it is not the same with
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(en) France, Alternative Libertaire From our lands to the Earth, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, July 8-9 by AL Nantes (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 15 06:52:10 GMT 2017
Join Alternative Libertarian at the "From Our Land to the Earth" event on July 8th and 9th
in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. ---- Resisting, acting, living ... ---- Again, the Coordination
des Opposants invites us, neighbors, fighting groups, local organizations ... and far
beyond, to gather here in Notre-Dame-des-Landes against the project of 'airport. We need
this unifying and convivial moment, the expression and instrument of an intact
mobilization. ---- From our lands to the Earth ---- Reaffirmed on October 8, 2016 during
the " swearing of the sticks ", our base remains the defense of our agricultural lands,
of the peasants and inhabitants threatened with expulsion, and that of this territory: we
have prepared ourselves. Actively this fall, while continuing the political, legal and
information actions of the citizens.
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(en) Greece, anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Rosinante: We demand decent life - Solidarity with the 'R workers, George SA (gr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jun 14 17:17:39 GMT 2017
The struggle of migrant workers in sweatshop Costas Georgiou, recognize the most authentic
expression of labor solidarity, such owing to an inspiration and model for everyone / s.
That's why we support and stand to win next to the redundant worker Asif Mahmud and his
colleagues: Why is the conflict itself to outright exploitation and authoritarianism, gave
birth to a new world of solidarity and equality. And we will make sure this world to grow
up ... ---- We demand decent life and does not fit the terrorism of employers. Solidarity
in RN and employees of "Costas Georgiou SA" By Rocinante ---- company plastic "Costas
Georgiou SA" in Vlora, other than plastic and paper bags supplied by stores of Sklavenitis
of Jumbo, of Wind and several others, through the history of the worker Asif Mahmud, he
showed that specializes in the wood, when the occasion demands.
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