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(en) France, OCL Reims: Radio: Henri Simon seen by himself (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jan 22 06:52:45 GMT 2025
Henri Simon was born on November 25, 1922 and died on December 16, 2024
---- An interview about his life, his work and his political
commitments, and therefore in particular on the subject of Socialism or
Barbarism, the refusal of work and class struggles in France, Poland,
Spain and England during the 1950s-1970s with Henri Simon, council
communist, notably author of June 25, 1976 in Poland: Workers Against
Capital, Spartacus, 1977; Poland 1980-82, Class Struggle and Capital
Crisis, Spartacus, 1982 and of "To the bitter end". Miners' Strike in
Great Britain (March 1984-March 1985), Acratie, 1987; and co-author with
Cajo Brendel of From Anti-Francoism to Post-Francoism. Political
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(en) France, Lamouette Enragee: Hi Henri... "For Marxists, I am an anarchist and for anarchists, I am a Marxist." (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jan 22 06:52:27 GMT 2025
Henri Simon left us on December 16, 2024. If we happened to meet him in
Paris, our exchanges were above all letters. Henri always took the care
and time to respond fraternally to our requests. Whether we were looking
for some text or document that we assumed to be in his files or simple
information, we were assured of his response. Thus, he dug up his
correspondence with the CCOPLR - Comité de la Côte d'Opale pour la
Promotion des Luttes Radicales - a short-lived group of councilist and
surrealist activists located in Berck and Boulogne-sur-mer in the early
1970s. In the same way, he sent us copious documentation produced at the
time by the SLT - Syndicat de Lutte des Travailleurs d'Usinor Dunkerque
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(en) France, Monde Libertaire - ML Editorial No. 1868: The Khaki Camelots (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jan 22 06:52:17 GMT 2025
They are beautiful, in their goose poop tinsel, the tycoons and
technocrats of shady finance. With a lot of greenwashing, they try to
palm off on us gadgets and other electrical junk, from cars to
smartphones, filled to the brim with rare earths and minerals stained
with the blood of the exploited who toil in the man-eating mines. Alas,
to power all these things, to perpetuate our consumption of ephemeral
cell phones and all these supposedly indispensable gadgets, we will have
to crack the atom, again and again. And in the meantime, cyclones,
fires, and pollution peaks in cities near the Indian factories
manufacturing our green and virtuous wind turbines will continue to mow
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(en) France, UCL AL #355 - Culture, Read Dominique Manotti: Marseille 73 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jan 22 06:52:06 GMT 2025
Here is a thriller that Manotti has the secret to. A compendium of
breathtaking action, intrigue, political and social struggles and racist
politico-police domination. ---- The story follows Commissioner Daquin,
a character present in other works by Manotti, who investigates the
assassination of a young man of Algerian origin in 1973. That year,
fifty Maghrebis, mainly Algerians, were shot dead in public spaces. A
decade after Algerian independence, the colonialists of French Algeria
were recycled into the state apparatus, and the most virulent, present
in the police, continued their racist "war" against immigrant workers
from North Africa and their children.
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(en) France, OCL CA #345 - MARTINIQUE Anger persists (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jan 22 06:51:44 GMT 2025
Martinique has been experiencing a major popular movement against the
high cost of living since the beginning of September (1). On November 5,
the prefect announced the lifting of the curfew in this overseas
department, but demonstrations and urban riots remain very much in
people's minds. ---- The agreement of October 16 ---- After a month and
a half of popular mobilization against the high cost of living initiated
by the RPPRAC (Rally for the Protection of Afro-Caribbean Peoples and
Resources), an agreement was reached on October 16 between the prefect
(representative of the colonial state), the president of the CTM
(territorial community of Martinique) and the bosses of the large-scale
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(en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #38-24: Once upon a time. Indymedia: an example of militant communication. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Jan 22 06:51:26 GMT 2025
There are anniversaries of all kinds, we remember, we celebrate, we
celebrate events even very distant in time, both happy and sad,
sometimes even forgotten (or unknown) by most people and even facts that
historically have no foundation. Sometimes these occasions can be a way
like any other, to remember a known past or to make it known to the
younger ones. When it goes well, useful lessons can be drawn from these
stories, as in our case. ---- At the end of November, among who knows
how many other anniversaries, 25 years will have passed since the
creation of "Indymedia", something that for anagraphic reasons does not
belong to the personal memory of those who are between 20 and 30 years
...
(en) Russia, Avonom: And who are the judges? "Trends of Order and Chaos", episode 188 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Jan 21 06:25:04 GMT 2025
Expansion of the "extremism" registry ---- On December 12, the State
Duma very cheerfully, immediately in the second and third readings,
adopted a bill expanding the inclusion of citizens in the lists of
extremists and terrorists. In particular, now they can include citizens
accused of publicly disseminating so-called "fakes" about the Russian
army, or discrediting the RF Armed Forces. That is, those who write the
truth about the war against Ukraine. The law should come into force on
June 1, 2025.
In the American film "The Nuremberg Trials", judges of the Third Reich
are on trial. Their lawyer builds a defense on the basis that these
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(en) Australia, Melbourne MACG: A Woman's Place is in the Class Struggle (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Jan 21 06:25:00 GMT 2025
Sexism: A Tool of the Ruling Class ---- Around the world, young men are
being drawn into far-right politics by sexist billionaires, politicians,
and media companies. In Australia, the government responds to rampant
domestic and sexual violence - including by police, some of the worst
offenders - with empty words and inquiries that go nowhere. Activists do
their best to confront sexist attitudes and deal with the symptoms of
living in a sexist society, but aren't able to challenge the system at
its root.
As feminists, we believe fighting the class struggle and fighting sexism
are two sides of the same coin. Working class power is the best weapon
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(en) France, OCL CA #345 - Digital barbarism The criminal exploitation of technological metals in Congo (DRC) (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Jan 21 06:24:52 GMT 2025
There are the wars that take center stage in Ukraine, Gaza or South
Lebanon. There are all these wars, ongoing or whose embers remain alive,
and which are less talked about: from Yemen to Ethiopia, from Myanmar to
Syria, via Afghanistan. And then there are the underground wars, little
known, which nevertheless concern us, such as those for the extraction
of minerals without which smartphones, computers and electric cars would
not work. ---- A censored war ---- These are the wars that interest me,
specifically the one in Congo (Kinshasa) which passes under the media
radar. For example, in the first half of 2024, the American daily The
New York Times published around fifty articles on the Congo compared to
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(en) France, UCL AL #355 - Antifascism, Germany: The Far Right on the Rise (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Tue Jan 21 06:24:46 GMT 2025
A series of electoral successes, rising fascist street violence and the
prospect of next year's federal elections: where does the far right
stand in Germany? ---- The summer of 2024 has undoubtedly marked a new
stage in the development of Alternative für Deutschland ("Alternative
for Germany", AfD)[1]and, with it, of the entire German far right. In
the European elections in June, for the first time in the history of the
Federal Republic, a far-right party came in second in a national election.
In the regional elections in Thuringia, it was the first time that such
a party had won a regional election. In the elections in Saxony and
Brandenburg, the AfD narrowly missed out on winning the elections. This
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