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Latest Headlines:
(en) France, UCL press release - Hangover for LREM and defeat to the taste of victory for the RN (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jul 01 05:41:56 GMT 2022
This is the cold shower for the presidential camp. If LREM and its satellites
managed to avoid the scenario of cohabitation with the NUPES which made them so
nightmare, they failed to obtain an absolute majority with their coalition. A
first in the history of the Fifth Republic since the transition to the five-year
term and the reversal of the electoral calendar in 2002! Although they are
weakened by this disavowal which occurred so soon after his re-election, it is
likely that President Macron and his party will seek to concoct a grub with the
most traditional right or even the far right to save their five-year term and bar
the road to the social democratic left. So here we go again for five years of
social and police violence, ecological destruction, contempt for feminist and
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(en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Rivière-du-loup: Opposition to the Medway Group real estate megaproject (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jul 01 05:40:37 GMT 2022
The 9-storey complex made up of shops, 400 parking spaces and condos is causing a
lot of anger in the town of Rivière-du-loup, in Bas-du-Fleuve, where tenants were
already having difficulty finding apartments. affordable housing. Many had the
unpleasant surprise of learning that their homes were going to be destroyed to
make way for the tower that is breaking the tranquility of their street. Others
are rightly alert to possible rent increases. The town hall hastened to give its
approval to the megaproject despite the opposition of several citizens of the
city. ---- A very pretty poster has flowered in the last hours on the poles of
downtown Rivière-du-loup where you can see a dinosaur with the head of Yan
Boudreau, president of the Medway Group. The project is denounced as "monstrous"
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(en) UK, AFED, organise magazine: SUPPORT THE RAIL WORKERS STRIKE! - CURRENT EVENTS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jul 01 05:40:34 GMT 2022
With the bosses? Never. With the union reps? Sometimes. With the rank and file?
Always! ---- We at Organise give our full support to the striking workers of the
RMT. Here we are publishing an article explaining the real reasons behind the
action, from a friend and comrade who wishes to remain anonymous. ---- I am a
typical railway worker based in Bristol, I have worked on the railway for over 3
years, having started just under a year before the Covid-19 pandemic. I worked
through the pandemic as normal, as did all of my colleagues. We understood that
our job was to keep the country going through difficult times. We risked our
health to come in and do our job, sadly many of our colleagues didn't make it and
I miss them deeply.
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(en) Colombia, Vía Libre: Analysis of the second round of the 2022 presidential elections (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jul 01 05:38:12 GMT 2022
In this text we present an analysis of the results of the second round of the
2022 presidential elections in Colombia from the perspective of Grupo Libertario
Vía Libre. To that end, we analyze the increase in electoral participation, the
historic victory of the center left, the deep limitations of the national
agreement program and democratic capitalism, as well as some anarchist
perspectives for social change. ---- Increased voter turnout ---- According to
bulletin 63 of the pre-count of the National Registry of Civil Status, with
99.99% of the tables counted, these votes registered a relative increase in
participation in these elections: 22,658,694 votes and 58.09% of the total number
of voters. This represents an increase of 1,217,089 votes and an increase of 3.1%
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(en) France, UCL AL #328 - Culture, Read: Roumier and Mahieux "Power, politics, social movements", Les Utopiques n°19, March 2022 (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Fri Jul 01 05:37:18 GMT 2022
Reopening an age-old debate is never easy. Relations between the organs of power,
politics, trade unions and social movements are complex, and the
interpenetrations multiple. Behind these questions lies an essential issue: that
of the autonomy of the social movement, of the search for a political outlet for
the struggles. ---- Independence, autonomy or subservience of the trade union
movement to political parties : these issues run through social movements and
continue to polarize debates among those who want to change society. ---- This
new issue of the review Les Utopiques offers us, as usual, views, sensibilities,
cross-experiences and reflections more focused on politics around the Charter of
Amiens (which, voted by the CGT in 1906, assigns to trade unionism the " double
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(en) France, UCL AL #328 - Ecology: Vaucluse: the "zapatatists" of Pertuis do not leave concrete (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 30 05:37:53 GMT 2022
More than 800 people mobilized on May 14 in Pertuis in the Vaucluse against a
project to extend an economic activity zone threatening 86 hectares of fertile
land. Activists have been fighting for more than three years against this project
and alert residents to the excesses of local politics. ---- We are in 2022 AD,
the whole Earth is attacked by concrete. All ? Nope ! A village populated by
diehard Zapatatistas resists the invader again and again. This village is that of
Pertuis, in the heart of Provence, whose mayor, Roger Pellenc, has still not
understood that money and concrete cannot be eaten. But nearly 30 associations
and collectives are there to remind him by fighting for almost three years
against a project to extend an economic activity zone threatening 86 hectares of
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(en) Spaine, CGT returns to the streets together with alternative unionism "against the reforms that make the working class precarious" (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 30 05:37:42 GMT 2022
On June 25, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) returns to the streets of
Valencia with a joint call for alternative trade unionism in Plaza del Temple
"against the reforms that make the working class more precarious." ---- CGT
together with the alternative trade unionism of Valencia (CNT, COS and
Intersindical Valenciana) calls for a rally in Plaza del Temple on June 25
"against the reforms that make the working class precarious" and emphasizes three
demands such as "the complete repeal of the labor reforms of 2010 and 2012,
against the cost of living and the general rise in prices and the opposition to
the income pact that aims to contain salary and pension increases."
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(en) Czech, AFED: How to help anarchists in Russia and Ukraine (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 30 05:37:29 GMT 2022
Continuously updated overview of support options for meaningful activities
outside the official structure. ---- In the ongoing Putin War, anarchists, both
in Ukraine and in Russia itself, are not left out. Of course, their ability to
reach material and financial support through official channels is limited, so we
would like to keep track of credible grassroot initiatives that you can support.
---- If you know of other options or have up-to-date information on existing
ones, please do not hesitate to contact us. ---- The Ukrainian operation
Operation Solidarity writes about itself: ---- We are supporters of horizontal
society, solidarity and cooperation from various cities in Ukraine. Today, we
have joined forces in the "Operation Solidarity" volunteer project to help all
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(en) Czech, AFED: Watch out for anti-imperialism idiots! - Review of the brochure "We told you" about the Syrian perspective of the war in Ukraine (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 30 05:37:15 GMT 2022
One of the publications prepared for this year's Anarchist Book Festival (AFK)
was a yellow-blue brochure, published by Salé Distribution , which, even after
the demise of the Salé info shop, is actively involved in disseminating (not
only) anarchist books and other publications. The brochure called We Told You
This is a great contribution to the debate on the war in Ukraine. He views it
from the perspective of one collective, two authors and two authors from the
perspective of the Syrian revolution against dictator Bashar al-Assad. It reveals
the bloody fascist nature of Putin's regime, the hypocrisy of the West, which has
"looked elsewhere" for years, as well as the idiocy of the part of the left that
has imprisoned itself in the prism of Euro-Atlantic imperialism.
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(en) Australia, ac meanjin: When We Fight We Can Win: How We Stopped An Eviction By Iswed Tiggjan (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Thu Jun 30 05:36:17 GMT 2022
As a membership delegate for the South-East Queensland Union of Renters I first
met David at a talk the union held in Moorooka. I didn't get much of a chance to
talk to David then, but my comrades did. All I really remember was the woman he
was with telling us during the Q and A that David needed union support. ----
David informed one of my fellow delegates that he was a disability pensioner
living in public housing, and that he was in the midst of a long battle with the
Department of Housing who seemed determined to evict him. David came to our next
meeting and filled us in on what had been happening. About his long running
dispute with the department, and their apparent determination to send him back
into homelessness. One thing he said during the meeting particularly stuck in my
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