Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam

In the run-up to presidential elections and the FIFA World Cup, repressions against antifascists and anarchists started in Russia. In Autumn 2017, 6 people were arrested in Penza; several of them had weapons and explosives planted on them. FSB officers then tortured the antifascists right in the detention facility: they applied naked wires to the activists’ various body parts and turned the electricity on, they beat them up, hanged them upside down. While torturing them, the agents made the activists learn by heart the story the FSB needed: they were supposed to confess of having founded and belonging to a terrorist organization called “The Network”. In late January 2018, three more antifascists were arrested in Saint-Petersburg. They, too, were beaten up, tortured with electric current, and forced to incriminate themselves by confirming they were members of the “Network”.

AGA continues it’s series of actions to support our comrades in problems.

Please come to the Anarchist Library (Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16) on Saturday March 30, 18:00 to learn about this case, get update from the last event and write your solidarity letters to the prisoners!

Wenüy
Voor de rebellerende herinnering aan Santiago Maldonado
Door kameraden uit Argentinië.
De presentatie is in het Engels, het boek is in het Spaans.
(English below)

Maandag 28 januari 2019
Aanvang 19:30 presentatie 20:00
In de Anarchisitische Bilootheek – Bollox
Adres: Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16 Amsterdam

Twee wegen van strijd die elkaar kruisten, de eerste van Santiago Maldona, gekidnapt en vermoord door de Argentijnse staat, en de tweede strijd, van de Mapuche bevolking. De strijd van de Mapuche tegen de vernietiging van hun leefgebied en identiteit.

We proberen een overzicht te geven van de intense sociale strijd die plaatsvind in de regio’s van Argentijnse en Chileense staat.

Terwijl kapitaal en de staat probeert iedereen te verarmen en de positie van het proletariaat nog slechter te maken, waar geen verschil word gemaakt tussen Argentijnen, Chilenen, Mapuche, Qum, Wichi of migranten, is het verzet daartegen aan het groeien in verschillende sociale bewegingen die elkaar vinden en banden sterk worden aangehaald.

Inheemse bewegingen, strijden tegen mijnbouw, ontbossing, fracking en Agro-industrie, gevangenen-stakingen, de vrouwen beweging, gigantische stedelijke manifestaties tegen pension hervorming en afbraak van rechten van werkers, en de lijst gaat door en door.
Echo’s uit 2001 trillen door naar nu.

Deze avond is georganiseerd door de:
Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam – Vrije Bond
http://agamsterdam.org
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Monday 28 januari 2019
Book presentation:

twenüy
“for the rebel memory of Santiago Maldonado”
By comrades from Argentinia.

Doors open 19:30 start 20:00
At the Anarchist library – Bollox
Adres: Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16 Amsterdam

The presentation wil be in Inglish, the book is publsihed in Spanish

Content of the book en the presentation:

Wenüy
“for the rebel memory of Santiago Maldonado”

Starting with two paths of struggle that crossed, one by Santiago Maldonado, dissapeared and killed by the Argentinean State, and another by the Mapuche people, that constantly tries to recover their territory and collective identity, we intend to give an overview of the social conflicts that are deepening in the region dominated by the Argentinian and Chilean nations.

While Capital and the States are trying to pauperize and worsen the condition of the proletarians, whereby they be argentinians, chileans, mapuche, qom, wichi or inmigrants, there is a growing number of social movements that are finding each other and deepening their links.

Aboriginal movements, struggles against mining, foresting, fracking and agrobusiness, prisoner strikes, the women’s movement, massive urban manifestations against the change in retirement funds and labor laws, and the list goes on and on.

Echos of 2001 are resonating once again.

This event is organized by the:
Anarchist Group Amsterdam – Vrije Bond
http://agamsterdam.org

Ten years ago, two Russian anti-fascists, journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov, were murdered by neo-nazi group conducted by the government in broad daylight on 19th of January. Stanislav was not just a lawyer, who took political left-sided anti-fascist cases, he was also a public anti-fascism and human rights spokesperson well known to the whole country.

His voice and his actions against fascism were so powerful that the government found the only way to stop him – kill him. Anastasia was extremely brave journalist writing governmental exposures for an independent paper. Several journalists of this paper were already killed by governmental servants before her. She was a collateral damage of  Stanislav’s assassination, she chased the killer until he turned around and killed Anastasia.

Every year, Russian anarchists and anti-fascists gather to remember them. So we decided to honor the date by making a movie screening of a DIY picture about a wonderful anti-fascist person Ivan Khutorskoy who was killed the same year by the very same neo-nazi group that killed Stanislav and Anastasia. Ivan was core member of hardcore/punk anti-fascist scene in  Russia, he protected a lot of concerts from bonehead gangs, he was one of the first people who started to answer to nazi’s street violence. In addition to Ivan’s story, the film also provides a rare look into Moscow’s underground punk scene in the 2000’s and the conditions within which the Russian anti-fascist movement has been developing.

This film was shot as a part of a charitable solidarity campaign to support Ivan’s family with donations.

Please come on Saturday 19th January at 18:00 at Anarchist Library (Bollox, Eerste Schinkelstraat 14, Amsterdam) to celebrate the memory of those brave humans, who gave their lives for the anti-fascist struggle.
The picture is with English subtitles.

We voegen regelmatig nieuwe boeken toe aan de Anarchistische bibliotheek. Je kunt zien welke boeken we hebben in onze catalogus. We hebben de afelopen maanden weer een flink aantal boeken toegevoegd waaronder ook een aantal in de categorieen [AFEM]Anarchafeminisme, gender en seksualiteit en de nieuwe categorie [ARAD] Anti-racisme en dekoloniale strijd. Kom vooral een keer langs op zaterdagmiddag!

Gentrification, like all facets of capitalism, is often presented to its victims as a natural process. Shrouded in the logic of progress and polished up with euphemisms like “neighbourhood revitalization” or “urban renewal”, the violent displacement that it brings in its wake is carefully hidden behind a cover of market forces, zoning changes, public consultations and glitzy marketing campaigns. But those who have felt the force of the ‘invisible hand’ plucking them from their communities and pushing them out of their homes are not so easily fooled.

Gentrification destroys the social fabric of working-class and racialized districts, displacing long-standing residents in order to make way for a new class of upwardly-mobile, and often white professionals – who often view the rich local histories of the spaces they move into as nothing more than kitschy branding appeal. The culture clash that emerges between established community members and these new arrivals is often viewed as the front-line of struggles around gentrification; a quarrel between patrons of a locally-owned roti shop, and those of a new craft beer pub; or a battle between NIMBY condo-dwellers and the beneficiaries of a local social service agency.

Trouble 12 and 13 episodes shed light over the gentrification topic, along both episodes, sub.Media examines gentrification as a process of capitalist urban development, by taking a closer look at how it is playing out in three mega-cities: Toronto, New Orleans, Istanbul (1st episode), Montreal, the Bay Area and Berlin (2nd episode).

In 1984 Spain and especially the Basque country are in the middle of big struggles: strikes, terrorist attacks, economical crisis, factories being shutting down and drugs hitting the poorest neighbourhoods of the nation. The socialist Spanish Government is acting against anyone who fights back. One of the most known groups would be GAL, which under command of the government, by using public resources and supported by nostalgic former members of the franquist regime would attack and assassinate member of different terrorist and political groups.

Comandos Autonomos Anticapitalistas (CCAA) were a set of armed groups, who split originally from ETA and were deeply inspired by libertarian and anti authoritarian ideas, performed several actions against Basque and Spanish policemen, and capitalist structures such as Basque’s employers headquarters.

In the middle of the so called “la guerra sucia de Estado” (the states dirty war), Rosa Jimeno was arrested by the police. After being tortured, she was forced to set a date with members of the CCAA somewhere close to Pasaia’s harbor (Basque Country), in March 1984.

While Rosa remained tied to a chair completely surrounded by hidden police, she was forced to lure the CCAA into the harbor. Once they arrived in their zodiac, the gunfire started. ‘Pelu’ and ‘Pelitxo’ immediately died, ‘Txapas’ and ‘Kurro’ would be quickly arrested and immediately after the action killed in in cold blood in the very same bay. Joseba Merino along with Rosa would be the sole survivors.

The documentary Pasaiako Badia gathers witnesses, relatives and experts testimonies from those events and the context under which they took place.