A-Infos (en) Holland, WHAT IS AGA? ANARCHIST GROUP OF AMSTERDAM (AGA)* [nl]

The AGA is a group of people which cooperates for creating solutions and 
alternatives for the problems which they encounter at the workplace, at 
school or somewhere else in the society. The main point is anarchism. 
The AGA fights for self-management and a world without exploitation or 
oppression in which the production is according to need and not for 
profit. Organisation The AGA is a collective without hierarchy. In every 
meeting, once in two weeks, all matters with which the group occupies 
itself are discussed. This concerns making action plans in case of 
problems at work, but also organising meetings and making and spreading 
of propaganda material. All decisions must be taken in this meeting, in 
which consensus is strived for. Decisions that are taken outside this 
meeting of members must at first be discussed and

adopted. This can be the case when AGA cooperates with other groups in a 
federative link. The AGA maintains contacts with similar base groups in 
other places and cooperates regularly with several anti-authoritarian 
organisations. The AGA has been dovetailed to Buiten de Orde 
(http://www.buitendeorde.nl <http://www.buitendeorde.nl/>). Direct 
action The resources which the AGA applies are diverse forms of direct 
action and information.


The emphasis lies on self-organisation and there is therefore no 
mediation of representatives, or mediators. All action is undertaken 
directly by the members themselves. Therefore direct action is based on 
solidarity and mutual aid. Examples of action topics are (illegalised) 
work, squatting/living, people without papers, anti-repression, 
anti-detention. In the previous years some employers of inns have been 
put under pressure with actions to pay remunerations still due. Tenants 
and squatters have been assisted with their conflicts with landlord or 
municipality, which wanted the occupants from the house to leave because 
of reasons of speculation. The AGA has cooperated with initiatives of 
people without papers and has organised solidarity actions. Individual 
freedoms and collective achievements are damaged by the government and

repressive measures increase. Also more and more and longer prison 
sentences are imposed. The prison system is a destructive protuberance 
of the state. For this reason everything is being done to weaken this 
pillar of the regime.


Anarcho-syndicalism The central topic of the AGA is the fight between 
labour and capital. Boycott, sabotage and

strike are forms of direct action in this fight. Boycott against a 
certain company exists of paralysing the activity of that company by not 
using the products or services of it. Punctuality action, slow working, 
blockades and occupations are forms of action with which the production 
process is sabotaged. Strike is meant to stop the production process. 
The strike must be unlimited and only ends when the requirements are 
granted. In this the AGA tries to play a stimulating and organising role 
to realise self-management. Information To inform people about the 
actions and ideas of the AGA and others, the free booklet Directe Actie 
is published irregularly in association with Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) 
Amsterdam, a solidarity group (anarchist and left-radical) prisoners. 
One can get or look at Directe Actie at several places in the 
Netherlands. The AGA holds consulting-hour and anarchist library in 
Infokafee Bollox, 1st Schinkelstraat 14-16, every

Saturday from 14 hours till 18 hours (phone: 020 6790712). In the 
anarchist library one can lend books against a small guarantor. Also 
there lies a large quantity of independent information for inspection in 
the form of magazines. Other applied forms of propaganda are leaflets, 
stickers, information - and discussion meetings. The mail

address of the AGA is PO Box 16521.,1001 RA Amsterdam or aga@squat.com.

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* From their web page (in Duch) 
http://agamsterdam.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/wat-is-aga/
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