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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #309 - Anti-fascism, United States: the Alt Right contaminates Europe (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Oct 27 07:18:05 GMT 2020
Appeared at the end of the 2000s in the United States in a context of recomposition of the far-right and favored by the election of Donald
Trump, the Alt-right has today imposed itself on the American political scene. On the occasion of the crisis born from the pandemic, it is
now setting out to conquer Europe. ---- The expression Alt-right, for alternative right, was coined in 2008 by white supremacist activist
Richard B. Spencer. Openly racist and close to neo-Nazi circles, Spencer advocates the "ethno-nationalist", campaigns for women to be
confined to the domestic sphere, and if he is pro-abortion it is only to limit the births of black children and latinos. During Obama's
presidency, the Alt-Right gained popularity by using the revengeful rhetoric of the emasculated white man, frustrated at no longer being
able to calmly express his sexism, racism and homophobia. The election of Trump, the first promoter of the ideas carried by this new
far-right, will accelerate its deployment.
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(en) i-f-a.org: Neither with prisons, nor with laws, fascism can be smashed only in the streets - APO statement on Golden Dawn
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Oct 27 07:03:59 GMT 2020
The current text was written before the Golden Dawn's trial on 8th of October 2020
<http://apo.squathost.com/neither-with-prisons-nor-with-laws-fascism-can-be-smashed-only-in-the-streets/> ---- On September 18th, 2013 the
paramilitary squad of golden dawn proceeds to a murderous attack in Keratsini (Athens), resulting to the assassination of the antifascist
Pavlos Fyssas, after being stabbed to the heart by the member of golden dawn, G. Roupakias. This was another one of the numerous murderous
attacks the paramilitary gang of golden dawn made against anarchists, leftists, syndicalists, refugees and migrants, squats and
self-organized and occupied spaces. Following the State's policies and the medias dictations and protecting the Capital's interests, the
fascists always strike against the most violently exploited parts of society, against the revolutionary movements that are explicitly
targeted by State's repression.
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #309 - Edito: Justice-fiction (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Oct 27 07:03:04 GMT 2020
Imagine a country, a bourgeois republic, where the Minister of Justice opens an investigation against judges because the latter scoured the
telephone exchanges of journalists and lawyers to find the person who informed a former president of the republic and his lawyer (and friend
of the Minister of Justice) eavesdropping on them in an investigation for corruption. ---- Imagine a country, a bourgeois republic, where
the Minister of Justice opens an investigation against judges because the latter scoured the telephone exchanges of journalists and lawyers
to find the person who informed a former president of the republic and his lawyer ( and friend of the Minister of Justice) eavesdropping on
them in an investigation for corruption.
Are you following ? Imagine that this minister is a lawyer who pleaded for a former minister convicted of money laundering, for "godfathers"
of the right condemned for multiple offenses, or for police officers "jostled" during the search of the headquarters of an opposition party.
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - UCL press release, Support for the struggles of Mexican women: not one more (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Oct 27 07:01:26 GMT 2020
Mexico has for many years and still maintains an extremely high rate of feminicides: we remember that Ciudad Juarez was the symbol of
feminicides and disappearances of women (hundreds since 1993 in this city alone, a figure that is probably underestimated. ). Faced with the
pervasive violence exercised against them, Mexican women can no longer bear the perpetual impunity of their attackers. ---- Anger and
determination have further increased since the start of 2020, after new feminicides have been added to this terrible list. In the past
weeks, several feminist groups have occupied the offices of the National Human Rights Commission in Mexico City, followed by similar actions
in several other cities. The occupants of Mexico City, including many mothers and sisters of victims, have announced that they want to
transform these premises into victim assistance centers.
(Photography: Andrea Murcia)
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(en) cab anarquista: For the land rights of native peoples! Timeline is genocide! (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Oct 27 07:01:15 GMT 2020
FOR THE RIGHT TO EARTH TO ORIGINATING PEOPLE! ---- THE STORY OF ORIGINATORS DOESN'T BEGIN IN 1988. ---- TEMPORAL FRAMEWORK IS GENOCIDE ----
"The only expiration date is memory" ---- The 28th of October 2020 is marked by the judgment of a lawsuit that runs through the Supreme
Federal Court of enormous impact on the peoples of Brazil. ---- It is the day scheduled for the judgment of Extraordinary Appeal 1,017,365,
request for repossession brought by the Environment Foundation of the State of Santa Catarina against the National Foundation of the Indian
and the Xokleng people. We know that this is not the first time that the thesis of the time frame has been taken to the STF. On the
contrary, because it is a colonialist thesis that seeks to restrict the access of the original peoples to the demarcated lands as much as
possible, this thesis has progressed periodically under the patronage of ruralists and agribusiness since the promulgation of the
Constitution, the same that guarantees the protection of these territories.
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(en) [Chile] "Circulo Anarcofeminista Ni Amas Ni Esclavas" a year after the social crack By ANA [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Oct 26 06:54:25 GMT 2020
As anarcho-feminists, we will always be critical of the strategies of representative democracy and this plebiscite will be no different from
all previous electoral processes. We believe that both anarchism and feminism are shaped by direct action and autonomous organization.
Neither feminist parties nor parity constitutions will end our struggles. The capitalist and patriarchal system is still in place and we are
still here to confront it. ---- The re-foundation of the State will never be the horizon that we anarchists aspire to, which is why, in the
face of any power strategy to appease our anger, we will remain firm in the consolidation of organizations willing to build new social
relations, relations where the germ of the hierarchy it will never impose itself either to represent us or to supplant us. Our voices in
songs without norms, our hands in making collective and solidary, will cause one and a thousand revolts to blossom until the new world
springs from the ruins, full of other worlds for the deeper embrace of diversity, life.
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(en) Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement awsm: Why anarchism is dangerous for those in power - Dana Ward and Paul Messersmith-Glavin
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Oct 26 06:50:27 GMT 2020
Anarchists frighten privileged elites and their authoritarian followers not simply because the primary goals of the movement have been to
abolish the sources of elite power - the state, patriarchy, and capitalism - but because anarchism offers a viable alternative form of
social and political organization grounded in workplace collectives, neighborhood assemblies, bottom-up federations, child-centered free
schools, and a variety of cultural organizations operating on the basis of cooperation, solidarity, mutual aid, and direct, participatory
democracy. Opposed to all forms of hierarchy, domination, and exploitation, anarchists work to create a culture grounded in equal access to
resources making the genuine exercise of freedom possible. Over the past century and a half, and particularly in the last two decades, the
self-managing principles of anarchism have proliferated around the world and have also become part of the standard operating procedures of
protest. Since elites would be rendered redundant in an anarchist egalitarian society, no wonder rulers tremble at the thought of anarchist
jurisdictions.
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(en) Poland, Rozbat, Employee Initiative: YOU DECIDE WHAT HAPPENS WITHIN YOUR BODY. [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Oct 26 06:50:07 GMT 2020
The judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal, which in practice makes abortion illegal, is an example of disgusting cowardice and hypocrisy
of people guarding the patriarchal, conservative system of values. People who have decided today about the life and death of women hide
behind their majesty, their togas, their god, law and conscience. ---- Department: Country ---- Keywords abortion women's rights ----
However, they do not really have a conscience. In fact, they condemn women and their relatives to the continuation of pregnancy, which will
surely end with the death of the child or, if it survives, it will be unable to live independently. ---- While most people do not have
access to psychological or psychiatric care (giving birth to a child with severe genetic defects and watching it pass away will be a great
trauma for many); when there is no social support, when there are no nursing homes, nurseries, special schools; when women give birth in
pain, without painkillers or the possibility of caesarean section; when they are unemployed, they work at the lowest national level and
struggle with poverty; when they have nowhere to live; when they do not receive assistance while being victims of mental or physical abuse
by their partners, then to deprive them of their elementary right to decide whether to continue their pregnancy in the event of a fetal
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #308 - Culture, Read: Clochepin, "Anarchist" (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Oct 26 06:49:55 GMT 2020
At 65, Philippe Clochepin, a libertarian railway worker, has just published his Memoirs, shedding his personal light on the struggles of his
time. ---- At 65, Philippe Clochepin, a libertarian railway worker, has just published his Memoirs, shedding his personal light on the
struggles of his time. As often in this kind of exercise, it is the memories of youth that provide the most colorful and detailed setting:
his high school in Boulogne-sur-Mer which, in 1973, is slow to wake up while the whole country is standing against the Debré law; "Papa's
factory" (Aciéries de Paris and d'Outreau, APO); the bistros where we change the world ; the Bonzini table football ; entry to the SNCF ;
and then the pervasive smell of mimeo installed at home, which we "cauffer" (Boulogne dialect) to get out of multiple leaflets, bulletins
and craft newspapers:Raised fist, Le Cri du Boulonnais, Workers' autonomy ...
Philippe Clochepin joined the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization (ORA, ancestor of the current UCL) in 1974, revolted by fascist barbarism
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(en) [Chile] Santiago: Assembly Presentation - Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Oct 26 06:49:39 GMT 2020
In the heat of the revolt, different affinities and residents of the commune of Estación Central and its surroundings invited us in December
to form the Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly, as a way to break the isolation imposed by institutions submissive to capitalist interests. ----
The assembly is a collective commitment to liberation, a space that allows us to organize horizontally without mediation by leaders, leaders
and / or political parties, to respond to our needs, dreams and desires outside the logic of the market, authoritarianism, sexism and
racism. ---- The possibility of organizing ourselves from our territory we see it as a door for the reconstruction of the neighborhood's
social fabric, torn in the dictatorship, in favor of alternative life projects. In this sense, we are committed to generating solidarity
networks that allow us, from collective self-care, to establish a local network of mutual support to resist the capitalist way of life,
which precarizes and sacrifices our lives for the benefit of the powerful.
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