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(en) Brazil, OASL-CAB: The extreme right will not be defeated by the polls and with class conciliation! - Electoral farce (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Oct 06 06:09:52 GMT 2022
We are coming to the end of 2022, and with that, we are living the period of
another electoral circus, this time with even more airs of spectacle, in the
midst of a still very serious scenario of hunger, misery and violence against the
oppressed classes. With the machine in their favor, Bolsonaro and the Military,
in addition to focusing on the electoral game, maintain a mobilized and violent
base of supporters, as demonstrated by the acts of September 7 and recent
episodes. ---- Meanwhile, a broad political front headed by Lula and Alckmin
calls for a conciliation of classes even further back than in recent periods.
This movement was represented by the pro-democracy letters, articulated by the
great employers' organizations, such as Fiesp and Febraban, the most aristocratic
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(en) France, UCL AL #330 - Antifascism, Revisionism: Le Figaro rehabilitates Franco (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Oct 06 06:09:38 GMT 2022
In its summer issue, Le Figaro Histoire publishes an interview with Pio Moa.
Former communist activist, now repentant, and author of a book, The Myths of the
Spanish Civil War, he supports the thesis that the responsibility for the
Francoist coup of July 1936, and the war that followed, lies to the violence of
the communists and anarchists who were preparing a revolution. ---- Le Figaro
Histoire is delivering an anthology issue to us this summer 2022. First of all,
its cover, in its own heroic and flamboyant style, highlights two conquistadors
on horseback in a setting that one imagines of a South American forest, no doubt
in search of Eldorado. ---- The main subject then, the Epic of the conquistadors,
where we rehabilitate the figure of Cortes, apostle of interbreeding, unfairly
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(en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman -[Self-managed pot]Your groceries increase... Their profits too! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Oct 06 06:09:12 GMT 2022
Last Sunday, members and friends of the Collectif Emma Goldman held a new edition
of La Marmite autogérée in downtown Chicoutimi. The participants did not fail to
underline their joy and their enthusiasm to the members of the collective in
front of the return of the Marmite. Barely an hour after the start of the
activity, the entire contents of the large pot of spag had been distributed, the
coffee stove was empty and the dozens of eggs on the table had been given away.
As in previous editions, this activity makes it possible to put forward the
principles of cooperation and mutual aid, to put aside mediation and money, to
have interesting discussions on the different realities experienced downtown .
But above all, to have a good time, time that does not benefit capital but
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(en) Argentina, Rosario, FAR: September 28. International Day of Struggle for Safe Abortion - We anarchists have been fighting for a long time to be able to decide on our bodies!! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Oct 06 06:08:58 GMT 2022
From the FAR we believe that feminism and the anti-patriarchal struggle are
strategic in order to build a new world and end this system of domination that
oppresses us in multiple ways. ---- This last year, the fight for free abortion
was a central axis around which we were in the streets from the student,
neighborhood and union organizations to which we belong. We believe that a demand
was expressed from below that became unavoidable, leading to the law of legal
interruption of pregnancy being very close to being approved. However, the same
parliamentary game sets rules that ended up favoring the most conservative and
reactionary sectors, leaving the law postponed for at least a year and hundreds
of women condemned to have abortions in the worst conditions of secrecy and
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(en) Germany, fda-ifa: Back from summer break? What summer break?! from FAU Dresden (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Oct 06 06:01:30 GMT 2022
As you may have noticed, our public relations mandates are still understaffed.
However, there is a lot of everyday help and union work hidden behind blank media
channels. In the last few months, our members have again helped each other with a
variety of problems: company groups have been set up in companies, workers from
agriculture and horticulture are currently organizing an industry network, we
took action against layoffs and wage cuts, helped us with debts, problems with
the Job center, the tax return and the residence permit, informed Ukrainian
workers about their rights in Germany and much more. ---- In order to be able to
do all this, many of our members continued their education, including this coming
weekend at the FAU summer school with a large number of workshops. In addition,
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(en) Czech, AFED: Reflections on the Occupy movement during this year's unrest in Sri Lanka from an anarchist there (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Oct 05 09:47:37 GMT 2022
In the following, Sri Lankan anarchist 'Gadfly', who participated in the protest
movement that overthrew President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, reflects on GotaGoGama
(Goto, Go Home), the occupation that was at the heart of the movement. Gama is
the Sinhalese word for "village"; the Tamil equivalent is gramam. Since April 9,
protesters have permanently occupied Galle Face, a half-kilometer oceanfront park
in the center of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. On 9 July, a massive mob stormed
the presidential palace, the presidential secretariat and the prime minister's
residence, forcing Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country.
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(en) France, UCL AL #330 - History, 1919: Educational and libertarian revolution in Weimar Germany (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Oct 05 09:47:21 GMT 2022
In the aftermath of the First World War, and despite the failure of the
Spartacist revolution of 1919, the first years of the Weimar Republic saw the
birth of numerous emancipatory social experiments. This was particularly the case
with the libertarian school communities of Hamburg, Gemeinschaftsschulen, and in
particular the Wendeschule, which went the furthest in applying libertarian
principles both in terms of teaching practices and the organization of school
life. The rise of National Socialism definitively sealed the fate of the last
community schools. ---- The history of Hamburg's school communities
(Gemeinschaftsschulen), which will see the birth of some of the most daring
emancipatory school experiments, is part of a broader movement, the New School,
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(en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Quebec City: Launch of the Children's Anarchist Dictionary on October 15 (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Oct 05 09:46:49 GMT 2022
Since the appearance of anarchism, education has been the subject of great
concern among activists, because it takes part in the maintenance or
transformation of societies and their relations of domination. Anarchists were
early aware of the essential place to be given to education in social
conflicts[1]. Infatuated with hope, revolt and freedom, they always ask
themselves: how am I going to pass on my values and my ideas to the next
generation? It is not a question of tracing a path for it, nor of instilling in
it a new ready-to-think - freedom is too dear to us. Nevertheless, in the face of
issues such as exploitation and alienation, systemic oppressions, militarism and
the climate crisis, it is only natural for libertarians to encourage children to
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(en) Greece, Liberta Salonica: Program of events of the Initiative "Many roads - Common goals" | 24/9, 25/9, 8/10, 9/10 ...to talk about our lives, to organize our resistances! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Oct 05 09:46:38 GMT 2022
Don't go quietly into the peaceful night. ---- To rage, to rage when the light
dies. ---- For several years now, but especially in the last three, we are faced
with a multi-level and on all fronts attack that will intensify in the coming
difficult winter. It is obvious that the regime chooses, as its only way out, the
invocation of the internal and/or external enemy. They have the impression that
by hitting the most radical part of the social movement they will succeed in
terrorizing the oppressed and the exploited, rallying the far-right and
far-centrist audiences and avoiding the social processes born from the impasses
of the exploitative system. History will not do them any favors, because History
is made by people who fight against the dark.
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(en) Italy, Unicobas: NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE - ON 2 DECEMBER 2022 UNITY GENERAL STRIKE OF ALL BASIC TRADE UNION (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Wed Oct 05 09:46:20 GMT 2022
On Friday 2 December 2022 all the Italian grassroots trade union organizations
proclaimed the national inter-category general strike. All public and private
sectors are affected, from health to school, from factories to transport. The
strike is proclaimed FOR: ---- 1) Renewal of contracts and increase in wages with
automatic adjustment to the cost of living and with recovery of real inflation.
---- 2) Introduction by law of the minimum wage of 12 euros per hour. ---- 3)
Cancellation of increases in tariffs for services and energy, freezing and
calming the prices of primary goods and fuels, confiscation of the extra-revenues
accrued by oil, gas and fuel companies.
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