This month for our “Read of the Month”, Spirit of Revolt, instead of a pamphlet booklet or serial, we have chosen a bundle of leaflets, all with interesting information or comments, most still as relevant today as they were the day they were produced. Put together they make for some very interesting reading and some great ideas.
November issue of the free Glasgow Keelie is out, again it is pact with info, opinions, criticisms and events, Its prying eyes have looked at everything from Cop-26 to Covid 19, our councillors' shenanigans to corporate bosses duplicity. You can read it online line HERE, and now it is also available in various pubs and cafes across the city. Pick up your copy and join that ever growing band of Keelies that want to be involved in the shaping of our city and our society for the benefit of all our people.
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. It reopened in 2006 after a three-year refurbishment and since then has been one of Scotland's most popular visitor attractions. WikipediaHowever, the powers that be in the Kremlin in George Square, our city council, decide to close it to the general public during the Cop-out-26 Carnival of Illusions. On the evening of November 1st.it was reopened, not to the public, but to the carbon spew entourage from around the world. They are guests at an "event" where they will be wined and dined. All the "great and the good" are there, Prince Charles, climate change hypocrite with his helicopter, personal train, limousines etc.. Other members of the Windsor family are there, each of them with a carbon footprint equivalent to a small village. They will be addressed by the Queen, via video link, while she sits in opulence in her humble abode, with its acres and army of servants and security. They will all spout about how we have to change the way we live, of course the mean you and I, not them. They will continue with their life of obscene opulence and their massive carbon footprint. Hypocrisy seem a far too mild a word to name their spewing of platitudes, it is difficult to understand why they aren't laughing out loud at their own empty words. Are they too ignorant to realise that they are part of the problem and can never supply us with the answer.
The state makes the rules and it will always formulate them to protect the status quo. What was legal to day can be illegal tomorrow and what was illegal to day could be legal tomorrow. However we should always remember, those who make the rules control the game, and they have the privileged position of changing those rules as they see fit. So playing to their rules means that you can never win
The following is an interesting article from The Collective:
“Potential illegality comes within the law today, but the farseeing eye of the censor looks ahead to foresee its possible outcome. In the same way social deviance today might be a possible object of study or surprise, tomorrow it could become a concrete manifestation of social subversion.” – Alfredo Bonanno, IllegalityThe jury’s still out on what they’ll call this moment in His-story. Perhaps we’re too close to know. They may chalk it up as a post-Something: post-Trump, post-George Floyd, post-COVID (though this one is still premature). Regardless of name, anarchists traveling through moments, like this one, accumulate baggage they carry onto the next trail: suitcases brimming with perspective, experience, joy, heartache. A particularly heavy piece of baggage comes from the current moment: new laws to govern the new normal.
As a result, new transgressors are named.
Previously legal acts are now illegal. The free movement of bodies is restricted through health passports. And curfews, whether for virus or riots, illegalize the act of existing in space and time – the potential consequences for allegedly violating these rules are put on display in the sexual assault and murder of Sarah Everard by police. Virtual spaces are not immune to this shift, either. “Formal” illegality, such as hosting certain anarchist media online, is reclassified into “real” illegality in the form of terrorism charges, as seen in the case of Toby Shone [1]. In this way, an existing political critique of distributing anarchist literature transformed into an illegal social critique due to the context of unrest. This, then, justified the convenient enforcement of post-9/11 laws – legal baggage from a previous state of exception – in the same way that subversive music, books, and sexualities continue to be censored.
“Insurrection leads us to no longer let ourselves be arranged, but rather to arrange ourselves” – Max Stirner, The Unique and its Property
While the enforcement of laws is largely unremarkable to the irreverent anarchist, it can be beneficial to reflect on how we are arranged in this new legal landscape to anticipate and outmaneuver new attempts to restrict everyday life. Past examples of shifting legal landscapes include the popularization of surveillance cameras over the past 50 years and heightened security practices we still rely on as a result of the Green Scare. How will our current legal context in the new normal influence how anarchists arrange themselves illegally in the future?
Call this an exercise in precognition, to live in illegality more effectively.
What acts are likely to shift from “potential” to “real” illegality in the near future? Will mutual aid projects, like Food Not Bombs, be able to occupy the same space and time they did before, or will there be an uptick in conflict? How do anarchist media projects continue to rely on a corporatized, State-cooperative internet? This same skepticism can be extended to our individual reliance on "private" and "secure" tech used to communicate, like Protonmail and Signal. What other common tactics or tools are outdated in our new context? What mindsets don’t apply anymore? How does illegality look down the trail?
How far will laws in the new normal go? Will there be Voight-Kampff tests to differentiate anarchists from law-abiding citizens? Will legal changes be swift in the form of executive orders and armed police, or will requirements, regulations, and bans slowly devour us from the inside out? Can this be anticipated or stopped?
As anarchists...how do we not get caught?
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[1] While these terrorism charges were dropped, they created the context for a guilty plea agreement on bogus drug charges.
At the moment Glasgow is in lockdown, nothing to do with covid19, we are in a city under siege simply because the powerful and privileged have descended on our fair city to waffle their way through this period with their art of illusion weaving, and we all know that the powerful and privileged are so loved, they need a wall of armour wrapped around them. This military style police wall snaking its way throughout our city, has another purpose, to stifle and abort protests and intimidate protestors, they want to give the impression that we are all happy with this cop-out-26 carnival of illusions. However, all they are doing is increasing the ever growing public view of the police, that they can't be trusted, to one of a complete sense of loathing. Our right to protest is not a privilege, it is a basic human right, to openly protest at what you see as wrong, unjust, or manufactured lies, at policies and actions that you believe will damage your life or that of others in some way. To stifle this is raising the banner of fascism and confirming, we don't live in a democracy.
Short Reports from NetPol & Scalp
When the ‘Rail to the COP’ train arrived in Glasgow yesterday evening with young activists from all over Europe, some campaigners holding a ‘Welcome to Scotland’ were reportedly threatened with arrest.
On the Pilgrims March police threatened all its stewards as "organisers" of an unauthorised procession. One was then picked, had their details taken and told they would be considered for possible prosecution.
We have heard reports of police increasingly stopping & searching people in Glasgow. Officers are refusing to give a written receipt, even though everyone has a right to receive one.
Abuse of power should come as no surprise, but now is a good time to memorise the info on our bust card around stop & search.
Police don't keep us safe, we keep us safe.
One example yesterday involved Metropolitan Police officers, who often pull the excuse that they have "run out of forms" back in London – but how does this meet Police Scotland’s “commitment to upholding human rights”?
Police are all over Glasgow filming campaigners and Forward Intelligence Team officers (deployed to identify and gather information on activists) have told individuals that “no protesters are allowed” in a number of pubs when there is no protest taking place.
Our history is usually a hidden history as this present economic system has no place for those who wish to change the status quo. All the more reason we must record and preserve our history, and make it easily accessible to all. The history of anarchism is the long and difficult struggle of people for justice and freedom, without our recorded history, we were never there, our struggles become invisible. It is also a text book for the next generation to learn from and advance that undying human desire for a just and fair world of freedom for all, for an end to exploitation and authority over others.
The following from The Trans Metropolitan Review:
We are pleased to belatedly announce the publication of Secolo Nuovo; or, The Times of Promise, published by Detritus Books out of Olympia, Washington. This work of anarchist fiction and history took over a decade to complete and was shaped by many hands, including our own. We wish to congratulate the researchers, archivists, historians, publishers, and thankless scribes who made this book a reality.
To honor the contents of the book, including that which escaped its pages, we are happy to release our latest film, L’epoca D’oro (or, the Golden Age), a chronicle of rebellion from the 1880s to the 1910s. Included in the film are Cree warriors fighting the Canadian state, Apache warriors fighting the Mexican and US state, anarchists fighting every state on earth, and an eccentric inventor named Nikola Tesla who is determined to create a planetary system of free, clean energy. All of these events are touched on in Secolo Nuovo, and our film can be seen as a companion to the book, enlarging its scope both geographically and mentally.
Also included is a review of Secolo Nuovo by Marieke Bivar, recently printed in The Fifth Estate, the longest running anarchist newspaper in the US.
As always, we hope these works can aid you in your current struggles, whatever they may be.
Long Live Anarchy!
Every state by necessity has its police force, it needs its paid thugs as it tries to control the population and stop them from making changes to society that would benefit all and remove the power and privileges of the parasite class that try to control all aspects of our lives. They can beat up, kill and maim but are very rarely brought to justice, and if they are held to account by the loaded judiciary, they usually get off very lightly indeed. This case from Greece is replicated in some form or other in states across the globe. Where there is state power, there is no justice, no freedom.
In the early hours of Saturday 23/10/21, 7 bike cops were chasing a car they thought was stolen. In it were three young guys, which the cops recognized as roma. A bit later, there were 38 fire-shots, aimed not at the tires of the car (in their supposed attempt to stop it), but higher; in a clear attempt to injure/murder the passengers of the car. All shots were fired by the cops. The three young guys were unarmed. Nikos Sampanis, the 18-year-old co-driver was instantly killed, as he was hit with 2 bullets on the chest. A 16-year-old is injured and still in hospital and the 14-year-old driver ran away amidst gunfire. The cops were initially arrested and were charged with the felony of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter.
A few minutes after their *arrest*, Spyridon Georgiadis, Minister for Development and Investment, tweeted his congratulations to the murderous cops. The Citizen Protection Minister, Takis Theodorikakos, paid them a visit in jail. For “symbolic reasons” as he stated.
From the very first moment, mass media in Greece focused on the fact that the murdered young man is a “roma”. Additionally, they falsely reported that he had a heavy criminal record. This was proven to be a blatant lie. In fact, the notorious police reporter Nina Karamitrou posted a photo of a man with dark skin holding a gun, presenting him as the dead Nikos. The photo was fake. The cops’ attorney, A. Kougias, characterized the roma community in Greece “a plague”. Al. Kougias is a well-known lawyer from criminal cases but also a defense lawyer in cases of the Greek mafia. He was also the defense attorney for the cop that murdered 16-year-old A.Grigoropoulos in 2008.
The greek reality is that the roma community is constantly targetted by the authorities and subjected to racism and discrimination in the greek society. The roma community is a typical case of a marginalized community.
Yesterday evening the investigator and prosectutor decided to release from custody with no restrictive measures all cops with felony charges. Once again, minutes after the decision, the Citizen Protection Minister, Takis Theodorikakos, expressed his “satisfaction on the decision of the independent judiciary”.
Your democracy is fed on blood – The cops murder – Corrupt Greek Mass Media fabricate news directed by the state and capital – The judiciary harbours and enables
WE DO NOT FORGIVE – WE DO NOT FORGET
One of the many.
As Cop-26 draws ever nearer and Glasgow becomes a city under siege what will be the outcome of this jamboree? It will be a media frenzy as the bosses of capital, political ballerinas and members of the financial Mafia jockey for their position in front of the camera, where they can spout their platitudes, empty promises, blatant lies and wait for the applause. I'll stick with the label that attached to this high carbon footprint affair some time ago, Cop-Out-26 Carnival.
Though at the moment it is not getting much publicity, the ordinary people of this city and around the world are fully aware of the sham and hypocrisy inherent in this Carnival of illusions and are organising in their hundreds of thousands to show their anger and frustration at this expensive hypocritical illusion. They will take to the streets, they will make sure their voices are heard, they will make their messages clear, capitalism can't solve the problems we face, capitalism is the cause of the problems.
The following from Act for Freedom Now:
Who are we?
We are a group of friends, comrades and accomplices who are organising in various capacities in Glasgow, Scotland. On COP26
Between the 31st of October and the 12th of November, representatives of state and capital are going to descend upon Glasgow in the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference(COP26). If we look at previous and historical UN attempts to “tackle” climate change, all we can find is three decades of inaction and greenwashing. There is no evidence that COP26 will be any different; in fact, this conference seems to be reaching new heights of hypocrisy, smugness and arrogance.
While pushing the myth of “green energy” throughout messaging around COP26, the UK state is attempting to open a massive new oil field in the sea north of Scotland. While maintaining a thin facade of inclusivity, the conference is excluding, through COVID restrictions which prevent them from ever reaching negotiations, the voices of those most impacted by the ecocidal policies of state and capital. While those most responsible for the climate catastrophe sit cosily in their conference centres, the people of Glasgow will have to put up with the militarisation of our streets and neighbourhoods at an unprecedented scale, as police from all over the UK infest our city. These are only some of the thousands of hypocrisies we will no doubt see around COP26. How can we expect such a conference to change anything when its largest monetary sponsors are Scotland’s largest polluters?
COP26, for us, is nothing but another attempt by international capitalism to defang and appropriate the climate struggle, greenwash its greatest ecocidal excesses and ensure its proliferation, by turning yet another crisis into a profit source – with the rest of us bearing the cost.
We are, therefore, highly doubtful of its ability to yield any positive climate action, never mind to “save the world”.
Radical resistance in Glasgow
Unfortunately, gone are the days of the Red Clydeside, of the tens of thousands amassed at the Battle of George Square (although we wouldn’t be surprised if the British state pulled out the tanks for COP). Gone, also, are the days where we could establish rolling blockades against G8 summits in Scotland, at the peak of the anti-globalisation movement in 2005 . At the moment, radical forces in Glasgow are few and far between, with the milieu rendered weak by repression and burnout. Every now and then, however, one sees glimmers of hope, most recently the resistance to an anti-immigrant raid in the Pollokshields area in May 2021, which saw a spontaneous reaction from a few neighbours become a successful anti-eviction action by hundreds.
It slips out of the headlines as the sexual exploits of the rich an famous take its place, or some celebrity's divorce is posted as more important. However it is still there, the heroic and long running struggle of the people of north and east Syria. A struggle that is marked with victories, setbacks, blood and the force of the fascist regime in Turkey. They deserve our unstinting support and solidarity.
Online forum | World Kobani Day solidarity event
Saturday, October 30, 7:30pm | Zoom
SPEAKERS
Saleh Muslim: Former co-chair of the Democratic Union Party, the main party of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
Roziv Ehmed: Young woman activist from the Jineoloji Center in Kobane.
Nujin Derya: Member of Andrea Wolf Institute of Jineoloji Academy. Nujin has lived and worked in Jinwar for more than two years.
On World Kobane Day (November 1), Kurds and their friends across the globe commemorate and celebrate the defeat of the 'Islamic State' by the mainly Kurdish Peoples and Women’s Protection Units (YPG and YPJ). We also remember and honour the 11,000 martyrs who lost their lives in this struggle.
On this day we also celebrate the achievements of the Rojava Revolution and draw attention to ongoing threats and attacks by the Turkey and its jihadist mercenaries, as well as highlighting the importance of international solidarity.
The Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society Australia, together with Australians for Kurdistan and Rojava Solidarity Sydney have organised a webinar to commemorate and celebrate World Kobane Day.
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With inflation rising, energy prices soaring, national insurance increases, now more than ever public transport is an necessity for getting to work and getting around in our daily lives. So the cost of transport is another burden on the shoulders of those struggling to make ends meet. All the more reason to shout for public transport to be taken into public ownership with proper investment for a system run on a not for profit basis. why should our daily lives be burden with making a profit for a bunch of very rich shareholders.
An event that should be worth supporting:
Dear Get Glasgow Moving supporters,
COP26 is nearly upon us! Did you see the news that delegates are being given free multi-modal smartcards? Something we Glaswegians have been demanding for years.
This gives us even more reason to take to the streets! We're involved in organising several events and actions over the next two weeks to demand better public transport.
There are two we're particularly keen for you to attend:
Next Wednesday 3 November, 6:30pm we're holding our first in-person event since before the pandemic. Please come down and say hello:
Transforming Public Transport to Fight Climate Change
Wednesday 3 November 2021, 6:30-8pm
The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow, G41 2PZ
Invite your friends and share details on Facebook and Twitter:
Invite your friends to share on Facebook and on Twitter
And the following Wednesday 10 November, 9am - on the COP's 'Transport Day' - we're organising a big demo in George Square. We need a massive turn out, so please also invite your friends and share details on Facebook and Twitter.
Demand Better Public Transport Demonstration
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 9-10am
City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, G2 1DU
We'll also be on the big global day of action demo on Saturday 6 November, assembling at 11:30am in Kelvingrove Park. If you want to join Get Glasgow Moving members and supporters marching with the Take Back Our Buses bike bus, please leave your contact details so we can arrange a meeting place.
We look forward to seeing you very soon!
With best wishes,
Ellie, Susan, Miles, Brenda, David, Gavin, Neil, Jill, Flick and Calum
Your voluntary Committee
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Introducing Rose City Radical, a new publication from so-called Portland, Oregon about radical social movements and community building.
Rose City Radical is a monthly, locally based, cooperatively operated newspaper by and for working class Portlanders. At a time of social crises, we amplify perspectives of those fighting for a world based in equality, care, and love. Responding to a lack of quality media coverage on radical social movements and organizing, we publish articles that reflect on current possibilities at the local scale, offer constructive critical analysis, and inspire transformative action.
In our first ever issue, Taking Root, we’re harkening back to the Latin origins of the word “radical” – radix, meaning “root.” To be radical in this sense means to go to the root sources of issues, rather than settling for surface adjustments. Capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, and imperialism invade all aspects of our lives and truly resisting them requires deep commitments to personal and collective change.We’d like to be a resource for Portlanders struggling against the police, landlords, bosses, racist vigilantes, and environmental disasters like wildfires. Solidarity and mutual aid ground everything we do. Our aim is to provide an open space for dialogue, critique, and inspiration within local movements.
NOT ONE MORE STATE MURDER
In a neighbourhood like Perama, which for decades has known the murder of workers in the sweatshops of the N / E shipowners, state bullets, the killing of an unarmed child, we have brought the war to outside the courtyards of the houses of the Neoktista (Newly built district), a stone’s throw from the cauldrons of death.
On the night of Friday, October 22, after a chase that started in Thebes and was to end in Perama, the cops killed a 20-year-old Roma man and seriously wounded a 16-year-old boy, after firing shots in bursts. The sheriffs of each Theodorikakos ( minister of citizen protection) did not hesitate to empty their guns among the courtyards and it was purely a matter of luck that the families of the surrounding houses did not receive bullets.
This cold-blooded execution is not a sudden event, but it is part of a series of escalating incidents of state violence against anyone who does not comply with the dictates of the doctrine that determines who is “delinquent” and who is not. The current line of “zero tolerance” in persecution is not an isolated part of the overall repression by the state, but faces society at a time when everything that goes beyond control and surveillance is declared illegal, from demonstrations and strikes, to movement in public space and the self-determination of our bodies.
The ever-increasing “criminalization” of our lives and the legitimization of state murders will not stop anywhere but will continue in every aspect of social life, if we do not stop it. Here, we have to say that the prosecution authorities and judicial mechanisms are “notorious”, together with their accomplices of the media who cover up hired killers. A state that launders paedophiles is the same state that kills and eliminates the childhood of life and, ultimately, life itself.
But life is reborn and finds its way where there is resistance through solidarity and rebellion, whatever shatters the dystopia of state and capital. We oppose our will for struggle and freedom, overcoming all social divisions. We are in conflict with democratic illusions and the murderous state.
LIFE – FREEDOM
ANARCHISTS FROM PERAMA AREA
The answer to every state assassination and state repression should be fire.
As an initial reaction we chose to reflexively attack the peaceful aristocrats of the northern suburbs because the repression is class and so are state assassinations.
ANGER
FIRE
REVENGE
ANARCHISTS
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