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(en) derry anarchists: The Anarchist Prince: Remembering Kropotkin 100 years after his death
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 08:00:22 GMT 2021
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin died 100 years ago, on the 8th of February 1921.
The anarchists of Moscow organised his funeral, refusing to accept assistance
from the Government, and tens of thousands of workers, intellectuals and students
followed the cortege in demonstration of their solidarity with his opposition to
the Communist dictatorship. True to character, the Bolsheviks, having promised to
release all the many anarchist political prisoners for the funeral, released only
a few of them for one day only. ---- Incidentally, this would be the last time
that anarchism was to be tolerated by the Soviet Union. Back in 1920, peasants in
Andalucía had been collecting donations to provide finalcial help for Kropotkin.
The last four years of his life were spent in poverty and as much obscurity as
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(en) ait russia: Act 125 of the "yellow vests": against the sanitary dictatorship and corrupt media [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 08:00:08 GMT 2021
From midnight on April 3, the French authorities, despite the protests of
society, nevertheless decided to introduce the 3rd lockdown under the pretext of
an increase in the epidemic, thereby carrying out another attack on the
increasingly curtailed civil rights and freedoms. This topic became one of the
main ones during the 125th protest act of the "yellow vests" movement in various
cities of the country. ---- In Paris, protesters gathered at 1:30 pm outside the
BFM television building and held a microphone rally. At 14.45 they marched,
reaching at 15.00 the FranceTV building, where a rally was held again, and then -
street discussions. The column of demonstrators, as usual, was surrounded by the
CRS, equipped to the teeth. The promotion ended at about 18.00
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(en) UK, AFED organise magazine: A Day In Myanmar
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 07:58:47 GMT 2021
Pretty much everyday various comrades in Myanmar put out lists of links
documenting the day. Updates on checkpoints,deaths, medical call outs, tactical
reports, videos of atrocities. Many of these links soon go silent, get blocked,
turned private or account removed. ---- This is a translated extract from the
March 27. These headers are direct translations, copy and pastes or summing up.
Fair warning many of the links take you to horrific pictures and the like. ----
This is A Day In Myanmar and the days are continuing like this. ---- Medical team
is urgently needed in West Mogok city. Too many injured people!! (Still Shooting)
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=114929730679671&id=102300158609295
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(en) Czech, AFED: "You have shown us that being peaceful is useless" - The Case of Pablo Hasél [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 07:58:22 GMT 2021
An Interview By Radio Fragmata (Greece) with An Anonymous Anarchist in Spain ----
The following is an interview with an anonymous anarchist in Spain regarding the
recent riots and general response to the prosecution of anti-fascist rapper Pablo
Hasél. We hope this interview helps both to inspire others around the world with
news of this uprising, but also to prepare for similar policies that are being
implemented across the neo-liberal world; intent on repressing our movement's
voice. ---- With love and solidarity, we spit on the grave of Franco from Greece,
welcome the passion of those in the streets of Spain attacking symbols of the
state and capital, and present this conversation as part of a broader project of
borderless solidarity in the struggle against fascism.
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(en) Holland vrije bond: Free Bond Congress - call live reader (nl)
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 07:57:51 GMT 2021
Dear Free Members of the Federation, ---- The anticipation for the Free Bond
Congress may start even earlier than usual this year! This conference will take
place from 3 to 5 September 2021 at the Camping site for Freedom Reflection in
Appelscha . That will take a while, but as we announced earlier, we hope to be
able to start the interesting conversations and discussions well in advance of
the actual congress. To facilitate the exchange of thoughts between members and
groups, we create a living conference reader. ---- How to contribute ---- A
living reader is only lively when new contributions appear regularly. Individual
members and local (or thematic) groups can contribute to the reader in two ways.
First, you can write an original contribution - a conference piece. Such a piece
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(en) France, UCL AL #314 - Politics, Story of struggle: on hunger strike to regularize Madama (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 07:52:58 GMT 2021
Welcomed for two years in a family in Puy-en-Velay, a young migrant from Mali is
threatened with expulsion by the prefecture of Haute-Loire. Hunger strike,
demonstrations, association and inter-union mobilization are organized in order
to fight state brutality. Story of an ongoing struggle. ---- At the end of
January, the ax of the prefecture fell: it refused to regularize Madama, welcomed
by the family of two of our comrades. A violent shock for them but also for our
group which knows the young Malian well. After the emotion, we decided to put all
our energy into a hard and long fight to support Eric in his choice to start a
hunger strike on January 30. ---- 03/09. Since the writing of the article, the
situation has continued to evolve. Madama is in prison.
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(en) Czech, AFED: Spring downhill AF - Report on the historically first online congress of the Anarchist Federation [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Apr 14 07:52:32 GMT 2021
Circumstances also forced us to go with the times. The Spring Congress of the
Anarchist Federation (AF), in a situation where it is practically impossible to
travel, took place in a virtual space in the form of an online conference, which
was conducted through a secure service. ---- Since for many of us it was the
first experience with this way of communication, the weekend meeting was divided
into two parts. Friday evening was dedicated to the connection test and debugging
of problems on the part of individual registered members. At the same time, the
program for the following day was tuned, some of its points were discussed in
advance, and there was no shortage of discussing personal matters. After all, we
are a team of people close to each other, between whom there are often long-term
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(en) Poland, Employee Initiative: Logistics, culture, education and gastronomy - strike week in Italy (March 22-27, 2021) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Apr 13 07:02:57 GMT 2021
Solidarity action of OZZ IP with strikes in Italy (Warsaw, March 28, 2021)
We present an account of a week of labor struggles in Italy organized,
co-organized or supported by grassroots trade unions ADL Cobas and SI Cobas. The
Workers' Initiative expresses full support and solidarity with the protesters.
---- For over a year, trade unions in Italy have faced the need to work in
conditions where health and life are at risk due to the pandemic. This applies
especially to logistics and production. According to experts, logistics and
e-commerce in Italy recorded a 30% increase in revenues in 2020 year-on-year.
Employees and employees of the logistics industry have been operating
continuously, paying an exorbitant price in the form of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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(en) Greece: 1st cycle of actions of the campaign for the 200 years since the revolution of 1821 [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Apr 13 07:00:11 GMT 2021
As part of the 1st cycle of actions of the anti-state / anti-nationalist campaign
that we carry out for the 200 years since the bourgeois-democratic revolution of
1821, we proceeded to interventions in the western suburbs with banners in the
central square of Kamatero, the pine tree of Agioi Anargyroi and its central
entrance. At the same time, banners were hung at universities in Athens,
specifically at the Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Philosophy on
campus. Attached are photos and the first flyers printed for the purposes of the
campaign. ---- Our text on the historical context and character of the revolution
of 1821 as well as on the start of the campaign can be found here .
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(en) Poland, Employee Initiative: April 7 - World Health Fighting Day [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Apr 13 07:00:00 GMT 2021
Statement of the International Union Solidarity and Struggle Network , to which
OZZ Employee Initiative belongs. ---- April 7 is World Health Day. It is a day of
struggle for the member organizations of the International Union Solidarity and
Struggle Network. The current health context in which we have been caught up and
entangled for a year reminds us that this is not the time for consensus
celebrations that pretend that everyone and everyone is fighting for the right to
health for all: whether they are trade unionists or employers; people using
health care or managing it; people defending health rights around the world, or
shareholders of pharmaceutical companies.
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