Anarkismo

Freedom for Dinah and Sipho, Justice for Papi!
In February 2015, four community activists from Boiketlong in the Vaal, south of Johannesburg, were sentenced to 16 years in prison each following a community protest. This is a very severe sentence and the conviction was based on shaky evidence. The ‘Boiketlong Four’ were arrested for allegedly attacking the local ANC ward councillor and setting fire to her shack and two cars during a community protest. They were convicted of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, arson and malicious injury to property. This is an example of a terrible injustice perpetrated against black working class activists and could have dangerous repercussions for future struggles of the black working class and poor in South Africa if it is not fought. People need to be aware of the facts and take action to demand justice and to fight the criminalisation of poverty and protest.

Ανακοίνωση της Αναρχικής Πολιτικής Οργάνωσης σχετικά με την επιχειρούμενη λειτουργία του Υ/Η φράγματος Μεσοχώρας και τον αγώνα ενάντια στην καταστροφή του ποταμού Αχελώου.

Το οικολογικό έλλειμμα
Το κυπριακό (όπως και το παλαιστινιακό) ως προσπάθεια επίλυσης -δια της διχοτόμησης- που επιχειρούν οι ΗΠΑ και που προσκρούουν στις υπερβολικές απαιτήσεις της τοπικής υπερδύναμης, Τουρκίας, παραμένει ένας σίγουρος χώρος για τη διευθέτηση των αμερικανικών συμφερόντων και μάλιστα κατόπιν εδραίωσης της παρουσίας του ΝΑΤΟ «για το προσφυγικό» μετά την άθλια συμφωνία ΕΕ-Τουρκίας, με τον ελλαδικό παράγοντα να υπακούει στην αμερικανική πολιτική και να επεκτείνει την πολιτκή αυτή στη συμμαχία με την Κύπρο, την Αίγυπτο και το Ισραήλ.

Στη Θεσσαλονίκη - Ενημέρωση
Για πολλοστή φορά διάφοροι περιφερόμενοι θίασοι φασιστών επιχείρησαν να εμφανιστούν στην πόλη της Θεσσαλονίκης. Με την κλασσική πλέον τακτική του να μην ανακοινώνουν το μέρος της συγκέντρωσης τους παρά μόνο 2 ώρες πριν από αυτή -παραδεχόμενοι ότι σε αυτή την πόλη δε μπορούν να εμφανιστούν ποτέ και πουθενά με ασφάλεια-, καλούσαν σε συγκέντρωση την Τετάρτη, 19 Ιουλίου, με αφορμή την επέτειο της εισβολής στην Κύπρο που είναι την επόμενη μέρα.

The outraged media reaction to a jury doing its job and finding the Jobstown defendants not guilty is quite extraordinary. Rather than do the right thing and launch an investigation as to how 180 cops could produce evidence that was directly contradicted by video evidence, the media have gone on a rant against Twitter! Rather than finding it suspicious that nearly 3 million in public funds was spent by the DPP on a case that any proper check of available evidence should have indicated was never likely to convince a jury, the media suggest instead that the problem lay in the exact charges brought. The trial was part of a large scale state operation to suppress a mass anti-austerity community campaign.

Every year in either Dublin or Belfast the pro and anti choice movements come head to head around the so called ‘Rally for Life’. This year it was Dublin’s unwilling role to play host to the bigot parade. It mattered more years than many as a referendum on the hated 8th Amendment that bans abortion is promised for next year. It could be that the next Dublin bigot parade scheduled for 2019 will come after they have suffered a major defeat.

Στην Κύπρο
Ελληνοκύπριοι και Τουρκοκύπριοι θα μπορέσουμε να ζήσουμε ελεύθερα και ειρηνικά, μόνο αν αναπτυχθεί ένα μαζικό αντικατοχικό-αντιιμπεριαλιστικό και ταξικό κίνημα. Ένα κίνημα που θα δώσει μάχες και θα διεξάγει ανυποχώρητο αγώνα για να απομονωθούν οι φασίστες οπαδοί της διχοτόμησης, να φύγουν από τη μέση οι εγγυήτριες δυνάμεις, όλοι οι στρατοί και οι αγγλοαμερικάνικες βάσεις, για μια Κύπρο ελεύθερη και ανεξάρτητη, για την προοπτική της κοινωνικής απελευθέρωσης.

In this article, we respond to the brief exchange between the Workers’ Solidarity Alliance (WSA-IWA) and the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS).

Κείμενο της κατάληψης Rosa Nera
Ο Διγαλάκης κι ο κάθε Διγαλάκης στέκεται με μανία ενάντια στα κοινωνικά κινήματα. Αυτοί που αρπάζουν με κάθε ευκαιρία κονδύλια και μετοχές, αυτοί που σηκώνουν το δαχτυλάκι για να μας πουν για το «δημόσιο συμφέρον», αυτοί που δεν μπορούν να σεβαστούν τα δεκατρία χρόνια αντίστασης και αλληλεγγύης, πολιτισμού και αυτοοργάνωσης, αυτοί ναι, είναι που πρέπει να εκκενωθούν από τα πόστα τους. Τώρα!

The fascists who call themselves "anarchists"
A libertarian Marxist friend sent me a reference to a report on an international gathering of “National Anarchists.” It appeared in Keith Preston’s site, “Attack the System,” at https://attackthesystem.com/2017/07/10/national-anarchi...47073

This is my response.

Era la mañana del pasado 28 de junio, tractores del ingenio cañero del terrateniente Álvaro Saa se preparaban para efectuar un desalojo violento contra las comunidades liberadoras de la madre tierra asentadas en la finca García Abajo en Corinto, Cauca. Como no podía ser de otra manera, la escolta de dicha maquinaria estaba compuesta de forma mixta entre la vigilancia privada (que actúa básicamente como grupos paramilitares, que entre otras cosas, asesinaron en abril pasado a Javier Oteca a escasos cientos de metros de donde se efectuaba el actual desalojo) y la fuerza pública, acostumbrada ya a actuar junto a civiles encapuchados y con la mayor sevicia del mundo. Esta violenta alianza entre los elementos legales y civiles recuerdan las peores épocas de las llamadas convivir, no solo porque civiles armados con escopetas y pistolas disparan a la población civil frente a los ojos de la policía y el ejército como si nada, sino porque la fuerza militar ha encontrado un nuevo nido de odio dentro del conflicto de tierras que vive actualmente el norte del cauca, creando nuevos enemigos públicos que mantengan el orden del miedo del que no solo se alimenta el uribismo, sino también el peor del neoliberalismo de la pax romana santista.

The collected political writings of the German anarchist Erich Muhsam reveal much about not only his ideas, but the remarkable life and times he lived in.

The Use of Herbert Marcuse to Justify Left Suppression of Free Speech
There has recently been controversy on the Left over "free speech" for right-wingers (not necessarily fascists). Should it be supported or physically opposed? Some leftists have revived interest in the ideas of Herbert Marcuse on "repressive tolerance" and why it should be opposed. Marcuse's theory is reviewed and arguments are raised against it from a revolutionary anti-authoritarian perspective.

Every year in either Dublin or Belfast the pro and anti choice movements come head to head around the so called ‘Rally for Life’.  This year it was Dublin’s unwilling role to play host to the bigot parade.  It mattered more years than many as a referendum on the hated 8th Amendment that bans abortion is promised for next year.  It could be that the next Dublin bigot parade scheduled for 2019 will come after they have suffered a major defeat.

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Τι ξεφύτρωσε στην οδό Χρήστου Ευθυμίου 22; ΣΥΝΔΙ. Κ.Α.&
Στο ΣΥΝΔΙ. Κ. Α. Τ καλλιεργείται η ενότητα, η αλληλεγγύη και η επιθετικότητα των εργατικών αγώνων, απέναντι στα αφεντικά, τον κρατικό μηχανισμό και τους σχεδιασμούς τους, αλλά κι εναντία στα γεννήματά τους δηλαδή τους φασίστες, την απάθεια και την κοινωνική συναίνεση. Και σε αυτά τα πεδία της μάχης, δεν νίκησε ποτέ κανείς μόνος/η. Είναι υπόθεση της τάξης που δημιουργεί αυτόν τον κόσμο, υπάρχει εξαιτίας της και θα είναι αυτή που θα τον γκρεμοτσακίσει. Είναι υπόθεση της εργατικής τάξης. Σε αυτή απευθύνεται το ΣΥΝΔΙ. Κ. Α. Τ.

Towards The Creation Of Regional North American Anarchist Federations & The Adoption Of An Organizational Model From Which a Broad Based Strategy Can Be Carried Out
"The Road Not Taken" is a historic proposal that was provided to the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC) from the Black Heart Anarchist Collective-Columbus Ohio in 2001. Previous to now this proposal was treated as an internal FRAC document and has never been made available online or to the public. Ultimately the proposal was not adopted by FRAC. It is being provided now as it shows some of the internal debate and discussions that were taking place in the anarchist movement shortly after The Battle of Seattle. The document also highlights one road that aspects of the anarchist movement viewed as open to it, even if this road was never taken. Now that we are struggling against an increasing fascist tendency in the U.S. and beyond [2017], we as a movement need to explore those crossroads that post-Seattle presented us, and re-evaluate the strategic and tactical directions the movement took then in order for us in the present to build a stronger more effective movement today.

This proposal was provided to the still forming Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (Great Lakes Region-Midwest) in December, 2001 by the Black Heart Anarchist Collective (Columbus, Ohio). It was not adopted by the federation. It was also sent to the Northeast Federation of Anarcho Communists. David Van Deusen wrote this document with Lady. The proposal was adopted as a position by the Black Heart Anarchist Collective as a whole, whose members also had input into the content. The Black Heart Anarchist Collective was an offshoot of Anti-Racist Action-Columbus. The collective (which included Van Deusen, Lady, Dustin, Noah, and others) formed for the primary purpose of engaging in discussions with other regional anarchist collectives about forming the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives. The Black Heart Anarchist Collective were participants in a number of meetings leading up to the creation of the federation. However, prior to the official formation of the federation Van Deusen & Lady moved back to Vermont, the collective disbanded, and was never an official member collective of the federation. Van Deusen (who co-founded The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective) was in Ohio, and a member of Anti-Racist Action, for some time in 2001-2002. The Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives folded in 2005.

Le scuole, da quando sono gestite da sedicenti "presidi-manager", che mirano ad esercitare un certo tipo di "politica", nell'accezione più deteriore del termine, ossia nel senso di un'operazione di squallido proselitismo clientelare ad esclusivo vantaggio di sé e di altri notabili politici locali, non sono più ambienti sani ed integri moralmente, frequentabili dai discenti...

Para reprimir la manifestación, el gobierno de Mauricio Macri ordenó a la Policía de la Ciudad dispersar violentamente el lugar, golpeando y ultrajando a los manifestantes presentes, hiriendo en el rostro y el cuerpo a nuestro compañero Nicolás de Antueno. En estos momentos, se encuentra lesionado e incomunicado, casi en un secuestro por parte del Estado.

Saturday saw the annual anti-choice parade and yet again RTE reported a grossly inflated figure of the number marching.  They headlined it as ‘tens of thousands’ and in the body of the article quoted the organisers claiming 70,000 without further comment, appearing to endorse it.  As we are going to show below at the very least that’s a tenfold exaggeration, in fact by our count about 5300 people took part.  And while that estimate might be out by 10 or even 20% its physically impossible for it to be out by up to 1500% as that would require ten people too fit into a one meter square space.

We use the same counting methodologies (see below) for almost every demonstration that takes place in Dublin, from huge anti water charges protests to smaller but still significant ones on a huge range of issues.  We do these sorts of counts more than a dozen times a year.  We don’t always publicise the numbers we reach - organisers always tend to overestimate somewhat, most often guessing a figure that is twice what actually attended.  Generally we agree with what the demands of a demonstration are so we don’t want to appear to undermine it by publicly providing real numbers.  But we do count, we do use those counts internally in the WSM and we often communicate them directly to organisers. 

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Now, the way to take will be to create a new model organization: a Confederation of Autonomous Municipalities/Communities.