As anarchists we are always looking at ways to get our message across to the general public, there is a multitude of methods, dialogue, meetings, leaflets, literature, poetry, protests, demonstrations, music, squats, by example, and many many more, and we should utilise them all to our advantage.
Talking to Lee Reed, anarchist organizer and MC from Hamilton, ON and self-described mouthy jerk. We talk about how his political music and focus have changed over time, artists and anarchists finding themselves in conflict over gentrification and figuring out what to do about it, Locke St repression and supporting Pride defenders, his recent Polaris nomination for the Steal City EP, and more. Plus I crammed this episode full of great tracks, old and new. Enjoy! Music in this episode: Lee Reed - The Bank Mat Heddle feat. Lee Reed - Gtfh Warsawpack - Doomsday Device Lee Reed - Fuck No
It is relentless, it is gaining in pace, it will continue as such, unless we stand up and resist. I'm talking about the march of privatisation, gentrification and corporatism, the commandeering of public spaces, a process that can by any rational thought, be called the culling of the poor. Excluding them to the margins of this new society, built for profit only. The ordinary will be dumped in poverty camps on the periphery, there to be called upon when needed to serve the new society built to the god Mammon. Obviously autonomous spaces are a threat to this financial Mafia dream, so must be rooted out, by rigged laws or brute force. Argument and dialogue will have no more than a delaying effect, they have the wealth, and the power of the state behind them, they know their goal. Do we the ordinary people, know ours?
Anarchist social centres constitute fragile points of passage for
anti-capitalist archipelagos of resistance. There fragility is born of
the (ever increasing) restrictions of private property and State
opposition. Yet they are often the only link to rebellious pasts and
radical presents: they are the vehicles of radical thought and
practices, the precious islands of different futures struggling against
and creating beyond the violence of the present. The Centro de Cultura Libertária of Cacilhas-Almada, Portugal is
the oldest anarchist cultural centre in Iberia; a centre whose space is
now threatened by rampant real-estate speculation. From the CCL, we
share their urgent call for solidarity.
The CCL needs your support! The Centro de Cultura Libertária, an anarchist association
with 44 years of activity in Cacilhas-Almada, Portugal, is again
threatened. The continued pressure of the real estate business, the
change in the rental law and the gentrification
that forces the departure of residents from the central spaces of
cities, the destruction of non-profit spaces or the closure of
neighborhood stores, now also touches the CCL. What is happening? This is not the first time that the CCL’s permanence in its historic headquarters has been called into question. Between 2009 and 2011 the Centro de Cultura Libertária
resisted an eviction procedure initiated by the landlord. Only the
solidarity of many collectives and individuals here and beyond allowed
us to face the costs of the judicial process, which led to two trials
and one appeal. In the end, we reached a rent increase agreement that
allowed us to continue in the space without changes in the duration of
the contract. However, in 2014, as a result of the changes in the rent law in favor
of property owners’ interests, the CCL contract duration was set at
five years. At the end of 2018, we have reached the point where, as has
happened to thousands of tenants, the continuation of the rent of our
space will be at the mercy of the owner’s will and the conditions that
he wants to impose on us. Why support the CCL? The CCL is an anarchist cultural centre founded in 1974 by old
libertarian militants who resisted the dictatorship, occupying since
then the space rented at number 121 Rua Candido dos Reis, in
Cacilhas-Almada. The Center has a unique library and archive in
Portugal, with documents produced over the last hundred years, as well
as a bookshop promoting libertarian culture. It has been a fundamental
space for anarchism in Portugal, welcoming successive generations of
libertarians. During its existence, the Center hosted numerous
activities, such as debates, meetings, reading circles, video sessions,
workshops, dinners and various learning workshops, and served as home to
many libertarian groups and collectives. Different publications came
out of the space, such as the Voz Anarquista in the 1970s, Antithesis in the 1980s, the Anarchist Information Bulletin in the 1990s, and Húmus magazine in the first decade of this century. As an anarchist association, the functioning of the CCL’s internal
organisation is horizontal and is based on the assembly of its members,
where decisions are made and the tasks inherent to the life of the
association are distributed. Participation in the CCL is always
voluntary, unpaid and non-profit. The only sources of funding are
membership fees, the bookstore, dinners and solidarity donations. What future for the CCL? We do not want the Centro de Cultura Libertária to end! We want it to continue to exist as an active libertarian association for many years! But at the moment the future of the CCL is open: it can remain in the
same space, paying a much higher rent, or move to a new space, where we
would try to have better conditions for our activities, but where
expenses will also be higher. In both cases, and given the conditions imposed by the current
housing market bubble, we know that we will need financial means that we
do not have. For this reason, we will start a fundraising campaign,
which will include crowdfunding, concerts, dinners and other
initiatives. We count on your solidarity support so that together we can guarantee a future for the CCL. Center for Libertarian Culture
October 2018 C.C.L. bank account details for donations
Holder: CENTRO DE CULTURA LIBERTÁRIA
IBAN: PT50003501790000215493029
(Bank: Caixa Geral de Depósitos) Contacts
E-mail: ateneu2000@gmail.com
Mail: Apartado 40 / 2800-801 Almada – Portugal http://culturalibertaria.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/CulturaLibertariaCentro The website for the crowdfunding effort can be foundhere.
For the Centre’s blog, clickhere. Original Portuguese language statement from CCL,HERE
May 15th. a day the Palestinians mark with righteous anger, it is the day the Nakba is commemorated, (which in Arabic means catastrophe). This year it will mark 70 years of persecution, repression and genocide,70 years of a continuous brutal land grab by the Israeli state,70 years of generations of Palestinians being confined to the largest open air prison in the world. Yet the states of this world ignore this savagery against an entire people, not only do they turn their backs on the ongoing genocide of a people, but they arm the aggressor state with all the latest weaponry, and give them a welcoming seat the the table of international power structures.
We can't expect the Western power states of this world to end this genocide and land grab, they are friends of the Zionist state of Israel, it is their policeman in the Middle East, Also, the Israeli Zionist state is worth a lot of business to the power brokers of the West. It will only change when the people across the world take matters into their own hands and stand with the persecuted Palestinian people.
The following two extracts are from The Independent and are worth reading in full.
---The current Israeli land
grab in the West Bank and the mushrooming illegal settlement
construction that is squeezing Palestinians out of Jerusalem is a repeat
of an earlier episode, a perpetual drama that has lasted more than a
century. Zionist colonial settlement in Palestine began in
earnest in 1881, when the leaders of the Zionist Movement in Europe eyed
Arab Palestine as an exclusive home for Jews, paying little heed to the
indigenous inhabitants of the land. These early ambitions culminated
into a bloody but well-orchestrated terror campaign in 1947-48,
resulting in the creation of the state of Israel atop the ruins of
Palestine. Nearly 600 Palestinian towns, villages and localities were
destroyed to make space for an exclusively Jewish state. Since
then, only names and titles have changed. Zionist militias that
orchestrated the genocide of the Palestinians prior to the establishment
of Israel merged together to form the Israeli army; and the leaders of
these groups became Israel’s leaders. At the end of his life, my
grandfather’s only wish was to be buried in Beit Daras. Instead, he was
crammed into the ever-bourgeoning Nuseirat Refugee Camp cemetery.
However, he remained a Badrasawi – as the people of my village are
called – to the end, holding so passionately onto the memories of a
place that, for him – for all of us – remains sacred and real. For
the millions of refugees, and for the thousands of protesters at the
Gaza border, Palestine is no longer just a piece of earth but a
perpetual fight for justice – in the name of those who died along the
dusty trails of exile and of those who are yet to be born
---Everyone in the Great Return March knows full well they will not be returning to their ’48 lands, as they call them – at least not any day soon. They know full well that they risk being killed by Israeli snipers by even approaching the barrier wall – 40 have been shot dead in the past four weeks. But for most protesters it will be an achievement just to show the world they have not forgotten what happened in 1948, even if the world has forgotten them. The “right of return” enshrined in 1948 in United Nations Resolution 194 is felt perhaps most strongly by Palestinian refugees of Gaza precisely because so many once lived just a few miles from Gaza’s walls. Almost all the refugees who reached Gaza were village farmers, deprived of their livelihoods too as they lived off the land. Running in terror, past other burning villages, they left grapes on the vine and wheat just harvested, taking nothing with them, such was the panic. Many soon tried to return if only to get food to eat and to finish the harvest, but almost all were forced back by Israeli troops. From the end of the war the attempt to return never stopped, but Israel called returnees terrorists, imprisoning them or shooting them on sight.
In this Alice in Wonderland world, in the eyes of the state, those who fight the injustice and repression, are classified as terrorist, the fact is, the state is the terrorist. Its so called freedom is a prison fenced by total surveillance, guarded by armed militarised police, and managed by a loaded judicial system, all to protect the privileges, wealth and power of those who control the capitalist juggernaut. The freedom the state offers you is an illusion, a world of smoke and mirrors, of lies and deception, an empty life of submission to the will of capital, what resistance to this mirage offers you, is freedom and justice.
This video was made one month after the disappearance of Santiago
Maldonado in the hands of Gendarmerie. The lifeless body of Santiago
was "found" on October 17 -78 days after his
disappearance-in the Chubut River 300 meters upstream from the place
where he was seen captured by Gendarmerie, and in an area that had
been raked in different occasions by those who carried out their
search. Facundo Jones Huala is still detained awaiting trial for
extradition to Chile. The persecution and repression of Mapuche
communities in resistance continue to grow, while in the region
dominated by the Chilean state the political prisoners reach thirty.
On November 25, 2017, in the territorial recovery of the Lafken
Winkul Mapu community, in the vicinity of Villa Mascardi, Río Negro,
Rafael Nahuel was shot dead in the back in an attempt to evict by the
Argentine Naval Prefecture. Santiago Maldonado and Rafael Nahuel live
in the struggle! Freedom to Facundo Jones Huala! Terrorist is the
State!
The Rebel
Rebel rebel break the rule,
What does it matter that a “wise” man sees a fool.
The only way to stop the capitalist system from turning the planet into a tarmac ball is to resit it at every turn. When money is the driving force all other values sink into the swamp of greed, If tarmac and concrete can create more wealth and power for those who already control most of the wealth on the planet, then that is what you will get, more treeless landscapes, more high-rise real estate. Their greed sustains them, and they are blinded by their own illusions of greatness, they fail to see that they are the creators of their own destruction, as well as that of humanity.
It might seem a daunting task to stop the capitalist juggernaut of greed, but resistance is growing, along with determination. More and more people see the looming disaster, the glaring inequality, the savage injustice of the system, and are venting their anger and joining in the that resistance. We can all play our part, by joining and/or supporting the resistance wherever it appears, or creating our own pressure point on the system.
An on going struggle of resistance that is coming under ever increasing pressure is the struggle to save the Hambach forest. The brutish forces of the state are increasing their attempts at eviction, they can only be defeated by solidarity and increased support for the resistance.
Arriving early in the morning, the cops were met with
activists occupying blockading-infrastructure, including 2 tripods, 3
monopods, a skypod, and a 3 meter deep tunnel.
The cutting of the Hambacher Forest was officially stopped early this
season, on a court-decision, postponing cutting until October 1st 2018,
however the risk of eviction of the occupation is as great as ever.
The ‘Hambi 9’ would love to get mail! Exact information, including adresses and languages, can be found on the blog of ABC Rhineland.
All those who seek a society freed from the constraints of authoritarianism and state control, must show their appreciation of the victory of the ZAD resistance. Also a struggle that lasted years with a successful outcome for the protesters, must have a volume of lessons we can all tap into. However our support must stay with the those Zad resisters, as no doubt the state is planning a way to discredit, disband and evict them, to reclaim the territory.
The establishment propaganda machine, that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media will be working in overdrive to drag them into the terrorists category. The state will be eager and willing to deal with them as such, in the eyes of the state apparatus, all those who resist its repressive control, are viewed as terrorists.
The media is reving up their attempts to frame the coming political
decision on the future of the planned airport on the occupied area of
the ZAD NDDL in a flattering light and not sign off a possible stop to
the construction as a win for the Zadistes. At the same time the
mediatic landscape is being prepared for a possible violent eviction.
The structures that have grown in and around the Zone à défendre of
Notre-Dames-des-Landes not only offer a rarely visible somewhat
independent alternative to a life driven by financial questions and
dominated by capitalist forces but a small but real threat to the
state-supported organizational structure. Fixed points of reference and
contact like a ZAD are important in a time were we need events like the
G20 to mobilize broadly and physical escalation to reach more than our
own small circles. We need practical experience with alternative
structures when we dream of smashing the present measures of oppression
and state structures. A Zad at least can be a valid example for a local
community and the problems encountered in a society based on those.
Tactics and techniques need to be shared, tested, discussed; big
protests, work in affinity groups and a periodic exchange on
insurrectionary praxis can only reach so far in making them accessible,
being approachable in every day life is important. While we try to do
that in an urban context amidst peoples daily struggle and strong
gentrification, more removed projects like the ZADs offer a somewhat
accesible venue for people fed up with, or not bound to cities, on the
road, looking for a new base, an exchange away from their usual
surrounding and simply a meeting point for struggles not focused on the
urban spheres and of course a pretty good location for diverse
skillsharing and practice.
When the dirty batons of the executive maggots of state & society
will come down again in an attempt to reestablish their order and law
in the ZAD not only is it an attack on all those longing for
emancipation and autonomy but also a chance we should use to carry over
the energy we found in Hamburg and show that we can take our own free
spaces and furiously bash back at least when threatened more directly.
Our solidarity is with everyone in the ZAD.
Don’t let anyone drive you apart!
We will fight on your side!
PS: Yesterday we read the government is coming back to what they
blared out at the beginning of the month, the airport will not be built!
We’re with you in the fight to keep the ZAD NDDL around as a social
structure, living space, playground and inspiration for a long time.
Our hearts rejoice at the small ‘victory’ for our struggles and
structures and the environment. We know they won’t change their
perpective and the same logic will keep throwing other monstrous
projects and attacks at us. But this success after years of work also
means there is more power and a lot of experience to bring to other
fights. Be it NDDL, Bure,TAV, Europa City, Güz, Hambacher Forst…Lets
make their fears a reality and their projects a nightmare!
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Notes: Loudmouthed questions were thrown through
traditional and social media.”Why would the Zadistes stay? Why should
the state not evict them? Do they have guns? etc etc
Odoxa an enterprise linked to the populist channels BFMTV and
Itelé is presenting a biased survey. What’s being presented as every
second french person (or 6 out of 10) is in favour of a violent eviction
of the ZAD NDDL is really 56% out of a 1006 person sample in a very
biased survey on feelings of insecurity and national security.
Journal du Dimanche ran a news article entitled “NDDL secret
photos from the ZAD” with stolen out of context photos constructing a
mythical weapons stach, trenches and tunnels, others relayed an SCRT
(french press service) snippe that picked up JdD wording, stating that
the presence of weapons is proven.
On my many visits to Greece, mainly Athens, I have always found the public transport cheap, and what is more it was publicly owned and run with the people in mind, lots of concession for those who needed them. However, since the Troika, (ECB, Expert Crooked Bastards, EC, Executive Criminals, IMF, International Mankind Fuckers) got a strangle hold on the Greek state, it has demanded that all public assets be transferred to their greedy corporate buddies. Everything in sight is being privatised, this includes the once publicly owned and reasonable transport system, of course this is happening in countries across the globe. Just another sign that the financial Mafia are out to bleed the public dry.
What this has meant is that fares are rising, control by the system is increasing and large sections of the community are being exclude from the once cheap transport system. It seems that this is not being accepted in a subservient manner by sections of the people, they have decided to hit back at the profiteers and hit them where it hurts, in their bank accounts. They are taking action that will slow down the whole process of control and cost the plunders of the public purse, lots of that stuff they worship, "money".
In the early hours of Saturday December 2nd we attacked the centre of application collection and issuing of registered electronic travelcards of OASA, on 153 Thessalonikis street, Kallithea station, with an incendiary device. The above function was taken on by OASA as well as personnel from 2 companies which are in charge of installing and operating the new electronic systems of control on public transport (turnstiles, electronic tickets etc.), LG CNS and GEK TERNA. Our intervention resulted in the complete destruction of very expensive technological equipment (computers, scanners, special ticket printers etc) that belongs exclusively to the companies-contractors, as well as a massive amount of copies of registered electronic travel-cards and issuing applications. Our message is clear: just like you organize our exclusion from public transport and want to control our every movement in the cities, we organize to destroy your plans. Methodically, with rage and a plan we organize your worst nightmares! The incendiary attack on a main structure of the OASA-state-contractors plannings is added to the diverse factual moves of resistance against the systems of control, surveillance and exclusion which are set up on public transport recently. Against its restructuring, we chose to carry out a targeted act aiming at creating the greatest possible damage, the greatest possible cost for those who have received millions of euros in order to organize the exclusion of large parts of social strata from public transport. To factually contribute to the blocking of the unobstructed implementation of their plans, to further promote the wider social struggle for free transportation. While the ministry of Transport proceeds to the gradual closure of turnstiles at the entrances of Metro stations and endless lines are formed at the electronic tickets and registered travelcards, we chose to express our rage. Instead if standing in lines and becoming desperate, instead of legitimizing the plans of state-contractors against our daily material interests, instead of being vulnerable towards inspectors and turnstiles, instead of thinking INDIVIDUALLY, we chose to organize and act COLLECTIVELY. We chose to attack and torch the shackles they offer us. We chose to break extortion itself and not negotiate the terms of acceptance. We could not care less about the “discomfort and indignation of the passengers” who rush to purchase the sought after ticket, waiting up to 1-2 hours in line. We are not them, we do not speak in their name. We are interested more in those who are thrown out of stations and buses because they do not desire to negotiate their every day need for transportation. This is the position we speak from, this is the position from which we chose to attack the condition of social control and discipline that dominates inside and of public transport. We keep our hate and rage for the daily scalpers and extortionists of our lives, all sorts of inspectors, snitches and cops we see on our path. OASA made an announcement the next day and mentioned that “the extensive and ethically unacceptable practices of the fake ticket networks and the bloodsucking of public wealth has ended and many will have to deal with the truth and justice”. This game played by OASA and the ministry of Transport who attempt to connect the diverse resistance movement with networks and alien interests, is one we have seen before and is ridiculous. We have one thing to say: SHUT YOUR MOUTHS! No political supervisors of the ministry of Transport ever, let alone Spirtzis (minister of Transport) because of his political-party background, can speak of networks and dark interests when addressing others. They should look in the mirror! They should first speak of the public transport bodies that have been set up and raised for decades now as realms of contractors and employment agencies through slavery practices and black-unpaid labour of thousands of workers cleaning and guarding the stations by outsourcing to other networks. They should first speak of the organized bloodsucking of public wealth of the national contractors of public projects that continue to plant toll booths everywhere and the structures (ports, airports etc.) that were built with the money and sweat of other people so they can deliver them to all sorts of contractors and investors at will. FACTUAL RESISTANCE TO THE CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE OF OUR LIVES FREE TRANSPORT FOR ALL STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY TO HUNGER STRIKERS, MEMBERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE N.MAZIOTIS-POLA ROUPA
I was born in Garngad, one of the many slum areas in Glasgow, it is now demolished and renamed Royston. Starting my life in that foul area, I didn't feel deprived, the world I lived in was "normal". Our environment always appears normal, no matter what, it is only when you look out the window, or over the wall, you realise that it is not quite as normal as you thought. That is one of the problems we face, as our freedoms are eroded, and society becomes more controlled, it becomes a way of life, it becomes "the normal". We have to keep looking out that window, looking over that wall and realising that there is a different way of doing things, a better way. The ever increasing repressive legislation, the ever increasing surveillance, the ever more vicious cuts in living standards, is a drip-feed, little by little, like the frog in water that is very slowing being heated, the frog unaware of this sits there until it is too late and is boiled.
How long will we sit and ignore the heat, how long will we absorb the toxic, the repressive, the shift further and further away from tolerance, before we stand up and say, enough, this is not an acceptable "normal".
Across the world states are in crises, as the system they attempt to manage, capitalism, is itself, in crisis. Capitalism has mandated the states to manage the civil population, while they rip them off, but more and more people are seeing through the shabby illusion, more and more the people are resisting. As capitalism lurches from one crisis to another, the state’s job of managing the people becomes a task doomed to failure. Resistance to this system of control and exploitation takes many shapes, from the organised groups, to the individuals who fight the system on a daily basis, in their own particular way, but fight they do. Of course in the eyes of the system, any acts of resistance, which in fact are self defence, will never be classified as such, it will be labelled, vandalism, hooliganism, terrorism, and a host of other demonising isms. This will then be followed up with the full violence and brutality of their “judicial system”. The artefacts and symbols of the exploitative, repressive system of the festering marriage of capitalism and state are all around us. The expensive cars, the luxury hotels, the designer label shops, the banks, the sweatshop places of labour, the injustice of poverty, all supported by an army of police and CCTV cameras, all to let you know your pecking order in this hierarchical nightmare. However that is also one of its weaknesses, everything is out their, open to acts of self defence, acts of resistance, acts of righteous anger.
This article, posted in Contra Info, is from Brazil, a country no stranger to the savage ravishes of capitalism, and no stranger to the people's resistance to this brutal system:
Every stone thrown is the expression of indignation of all of us, tired of being used, manipulated and dominated by those in government, by the media, by the multinationals… A brick is charged with rage, frustration and more than anything else the freedom of disobedience, of disrespect to property. A brick into a window is the expression of insubmission, of those instincts that were not and never will be domesticated and pacified. It is the capacity to overcome the margins of citizenist protest towards the path of free rebellion. A brick carries all the courage of leaving the house and abandoning the role of the spectator in front of a screen, to run out to the streets and transform them into a field of political action. The streets, where we meet, do not belong to anybody but the revolt. The streets open the way to take back our lives, they open the way to insubmission and dignity… They open the doors so that everyone can be responsible for themselves without depending on any institution, they open the way of “fuck the State” and of autonomy… and we are there because our rage is expanding, against the social order, not against the puppet that carries the title of the President, but against the entire state structure… because it’s clear to us that the streets shout much more than “Out With Temer”. From the streets, we’re uncontrollable, in the complicity of the hoodie we’re stronger, and we can live intensively in spaces where the banks will never be something to be defended but institutions that profit from inequality, that take over lives with blows of credit cards and financial interests. There where the bourgeois car is not a dream but a symbol of vanity; where a shop is selling privileges and not just clothes… where we’re able to attack materially against domination. That the internal repression led by candidates and affiliates of political parties don’t put a halt to our rage, that they don’t put a halt to direct actions…
This title from Black International, “Individuality and the
anarchist group”, written by Gerasimos Tsakalos of the Conspiracy
of Cells of Fire – Urban Guerrilla Cell, is about a topic that
concerns many of those who are an active part of the anarchist
tension. Concerning not just the way comrades negotiate and conduct
themselves within minimal organisational structures (clusters,
networks, affinity groups) of informality and attack, and the effect
of those forms on individuals, it also looks at the problems that can
arise and some possible solutions. All this can add to a notional
‘to-be-completed’ mapping of some of the borderlands
between the peripheries of the social and the clandestine for those
traversing such terrains.
Written from the lived experience of an armed anarchist urban
guerrilla who is imprisoned in the isolation dungeon of Korydallos
prison in Athens, Greece, this is not a dreamy fantasy but a text
which was developed in the furnace of practical theory and it’s
consequences. The horizontal forms of organisation which are
described here are ones that have been used and developed in
practice, not from scriptures, but in the actual chaos of the
everyday.
For a black international of anarchists of
praxis.
Act For Freedom Now has produced it first printout, a catalogue of resistance and insurgency from across the world, against a system that has only one aim, the exploitation of the planet and the majority of its population for the aggrandisement of the few. Actions of resistance have a myriad of variations, but a common aim, the destruction of a system that is destroying our planet and the lives of its population. One thing that comes across is that it is a transnational struggle, by those living in the poorest of conditions in the "developing countries" to those with better conditions in the "developed countries". The desire is always the same, a decent life for all, free from repression and authority, an opportunity to have control over our own lives in co-operation with others, based on mutual aid and respect, developed in a sustainable manner.
About act for free! “In the chaos of our own existence we
are a part of the imponderable element which organizes subversion, plans
mutinies, that leave even ourselves dazed. The translation of texts,
letters, communiqués, etc. so that comrades in other countries around
the world can read about the desires and ideas and projectuality of the
comrades in Greece, is one more weapon at our disposal. What began as a
simple desire and a challenge, has brought us into a new field of
experiences, acquaintances and responsibilities. Now that we’re here,
they will not get rid of us easily. We have become another aspect of the asymmetric threat. The war to the end, has already begun. …” This
is why, as individuals with our actions and solidarity, we will
continue with all means possible as anarchist revolutionary
insurrectionalists, to express our thoughts and desires, whether it’s
through the letters-texts of our fighting comrades who are hostages in
the hell-holes of Greek democracy and all over the world, or through the
actions of the comrades everywhere outside in the streets day and night
with all means until social liberation for Anarchy. Act for freedom now!
If you are in or around the area, it might be worth a wee visit. Could be fun, could be interesting, could be informative, could be all three, why not pop in and see.
Squatters & Homeless Autonomy (SHA) are hosting five days of talks, workshops, skill-shares & socials this week in a central London squatted space. So far, events include:
Monday 10th, 6pm: Street Resistance In our age of state and fascist violence, self-defence is a necessity. Join Monday’s street resistance session, including muay thai and dirty boxing, to develop confidence, technique and composure. Communal vegan food and film afterwards!
Tuesday 11th, 7pm: Talk on Class Stigma, by Lisa Mckenzie Join Class War’s Lisa Mckenzie for a talk and discussion on ‘class stigma': the false identities, such as ‘chav’, ‘scrounger’ or ‘thief’, and the anti-working class beliefs they create.
Wednesday 12th, 4pm: Bike Clinic & Culturefuck Cinema Tired of bland, commodified, hyper-Westernised culture? Fuck that! Join our culturefuck cinema night, sure to melt your mind. Leave cultural assumptions at home! Also come along to the free bike clinic for all your carbon-free, bike-punx needs.
Thursday 13th, 7pm: Stop TTIP and ‘Infiltration in our Movements’ On Day 4 of Regeneration, activists from StopTTIP UK will be talking on the looming future of corporate “free trade” agreements and how we can combat it, and Green and Black Cross will be speaking on the state of police infiltration in our movements.
Events will take place at 67 Guildford St., just off Russell Square Further events and location to be confirmed over at SHA’s Arsebook page.
Is this getting organised, or just making a noise? We have to do something, or we will end up living in a totally privatised world, with the corporate bosses in full control. Though they are not that far off that position today. Under such a sustained attack on the ordinary people of this country, resistance on all fronts, is a duty, solidarity is our weapon for victory.
Just three weeks since we launched the call for a week long protest &
festival against the The Conservative Party Conference and we've been
overwhelmed by the support from the public, organisations &
campaigns. These events now have massive potential and it’s time to
spread the excitement. The Tories think they can take over
Manchester from 4-7 October. They want to dominate the headlines
with their politics of austerity, with their plans to further rip
apart the welfare state. Let’s stop this from happening!
The People's Assembly, alongside unions, campaigns and local
groups, is co-ordinating a national week of action in Manchester
throughout their conference. All day, everyday, that they are there,
we will be too. Coaches and transport is being organised from across
the country. We are appealing to as many people as possible to take
off a couple of days from work and stay for as much of the activity
as you can.
Events will include a national
demonstration (Sunday 4 October), meetings on topics including:
Privatisation, Save our NHS, Climate Change, Education, TTIP, Europe,
alternatives to austerity. Plus theatre performances, workshops,
direct action, People's Cinema, comedy, music, flash mobs, tent
cities & more...
Participants throughout the week include:
Jeremy Corbyn MP, Frankie Boyle, Charlotte Church, Sam Fairbairn,
Frances O'Grady, Len McCluskey, Mark Serwotka, Julie Hesmondhalgh,
Owen Jones, John Hillary, Terry Christian, Sam Duckworth, Kate
Marlow, Mark McGowan, Kevin Maguire, Francesca Martinez, Mark Steel,
Jeremy Hardy, Dave Ward, Sara Pascoe, David Walker (Bishop of
Manchester), Lindsey German...and more to be announced!
Accomodation:
The People's Assembly will be providing cheap accommodation for a
couple of quid a night. This won't be glamorous . As it
stands we are booking a large sports centre in the evenings where
people can sleep. Toilets & shower facilities will be available
and we're in discussions with organisations about providing
discounted food for those staying over. You'll need to bring a
sleeping bag and camping mat. We'll organise somewhere to store bags
and belongings during the day. Full details and booking will be
available in the next couple of weeks. Alternatively you can book
yourself into hostels or hotels. Click here for local
hostels We'll keep you updated with all
arrangements. Transport:
Keep
checking the People's Assembly website for updates
about what coaches have been booked, where they are picking up from
and when.
Let’s
get organised!!
The People's Assembly Against
Austerityhttp://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/
A thousand times or more, you have walked from A to B, and waved your banner, you have shouted your slogans, you have listened to their speeches. Then you have gone home and waited for the next election, guess what, it has changed nothing. The capitalist beast is still in there exploiting, repressing, enslaving and plundering the earth's resources to the point of destruction, our planet is dyeing from a human greed inflicted wound. The rich and powerful, who don't give a shit about you or the planet, get richer and more powerful, the corporations and the financial Mafia have made puppets of national governments, you are fodder for their greed machine. So is the plan, to continue to march from A to B, continue to wave your banner, continue to shout the latest slogan, continue to listen to their speeches and then wait for the next election? They say that one sign of insanity is to keep doing the same thing but expecting a different result. Surely we are not all insane?
We have to organise outside the system, we have to circumvent its rules, we have to try to live the alternative to their mantra of greed and perpetual growth. To abide by the rules of your executioner, is to accept certain death. Capitalism is the executioner of the planet. Our existence depends on the death of capitalism.
