Demonstreer mee voor de sluiting van de bajesboten! ---- Zaterdag 25 september 15.00 u ? Zaandam Sinds 2007 worden er in de Achtersluispolder te Zaandam mensen opgesloten omdat ze geen geldige papieren hebben. Opsluiting leidt bij veel van deze mensen tot psychische klachten. Verhalen van zelfmoordpogingen en psychoses bereiken nooit het brede publiek doordat Justitie deze misstanden in een doofpot stopt. Volgens een anonieme werknemer van Justitie zijn al meer dan eens gedetineerden waarbij tuberculose is geconstateerd op straat gezet zonder dat zij gepaste medische behandeling hebben ontvangen. ---- Mensen die medische behandeling vragen worden standaard afgescheept met paracetamol (ook voor angstgevoelens, slapeloosheid,verkoudheid e.d). Deze praktijken moeten stoppen. Wij eisen niet zozeer betere detentieomstandigheden, wij pleitten voor de vrijlating van deze ...

La guerra contra el narcotráfico emprendida por Felipe Calderón garantiza los intereses de gobernabilidad capitalista que necesitan la oligarquía mexicana y sus jefes la oligarquía yanqui que gobierna el mundo. Esta guerra le ha proporcionado causa y gobernabilidad interior a Felipe Calderón no tanto por el consenso social que esta guerra tenga entre los mexicanos sino por la imposición de una militarización que impide el ejercicio libre de la protesta social por la vía del terror. Principalmente en el norte del país estudiantes, trabajadores, niños y mujeres han muerto por las balas del ejercito mexicano, baste recordar y nunca será en demasía a los niños Martín y Brayan asesinados en Tamaulipas en un retén del ejército y el reciente asesinato de un padre y su hijo en el estado de Nuevo León, también por los militares que “combaten” al narcotráfico.

The 2008 Pogroms shattered the illusion among many Leftists – despite numerous early warning signs – that South
Africa’s poor was an essentially undifferentiated class of the righteously angry oppressed. The killing spree left
62 people dead, 670 wounded, more than 100,000 displaced and 35,000 languishing in displacee camps. Although
most of the dead were foreigners, 21 were South Africans – demonstrating that all of the victims were seen as
“outsiders” in one way or another by those wielding the pangas (machetes). Some of the killers used the unrest
as an excuse to settle personal scores; some were driven by ethnic hatred, others by calculated greed. A year ago,
in September 2009, I travelled to four townships around Gauteng, three of which had seen pogroms in 2008 (Atteridgeville,
Tembisa and Jeppestown) and one of which had not (Soweto), speaking to community activists and to
survivors of the 2008 attacks to try and take the temperature at the grassroots regarding “outsiders,” in other
words, had the threat of killings receded? After all, for the first week of the 2008 killings, the authorities sat back
and cynically watched the damage being done, assessing, perhaps, xenophobia’s usefulness in future as a divideand-
rule strategy. The bad news is the ugly fact that many in our townships believe another pogrom is being
planned for sometime after the World Cup, now that the world’s eyes are turned elsewhere. So how did the original
Pogroms flourish – and how can they be stopped in future?

The 2008 Pogroms shattered the illusion among many Leftists – despite numerous early warning signs – that South
Africa’s poor was an essentially undifferentiated class of the righteously angry oppressed. The killing spree left
62 people dead, 670 wounded, more than 100,000 displaced and 35,000 languishing in displacee camps. Although
most of the dead were foreigners, 21 were South Africans – demonstrating that all of the victims were seen as
“outsiders” in one way or another by those wielding the pangas (machetes). Some of the killers used the unrest
as an excuse to settle personal scores; some were driven by ethnic hatred, others by calculated greed. A year ago,
in September 2009, I travelled to four townships around Gauteng, three of which had seen pogroms in 2008 (Atteridgeville,
Tembisa and Jeppestown) and one of which had not (Soweto), speaking to community activists and to
survivors of the 2008 attacks to try and take the temperature at the grassroots regarding “outsiders,” in other
words, had the threat of killings receded? After all, for the first week of the 2008 killings, the authorities sat back
and cynically watched the damage being done, assessing, perhaps, xenophobia’s usefulness in future as a divideand-
rule strategy. The bad news is the ugly fact that many in our townships believe another pogrom is being
planned for sometime after the World Cup, now that the world’s eyes are turned elsewhere. So how did the original
Pogroms flourish – and how can they be stopped in future?

Του Bob James --- Η παρούσα μετάφραση βασίστηκε κυρίως σε μια μπροσούρα, γραμμένη τον Οκτώβρη του 1985 από τον κατʼ εξοχήν ιστορικό του αναρχικού κινήματος της Αυστραλίας, Bob James. --- Η εργασία αυτή κυκλοφόρησε τον Μάη του 1896, ως ξεχωριστή μπροσούρα, στα πλαίσια των εορτασμών για τα (τότε) 100 χρόνια του αυστραλιανού αναρχισμού από τις ομάδες Libertarian Resources (Ελευθεριακές Πηγές) από τη Μελβούρνη και Monty Miller Press από το Σίδνεϊ. --- Η μπροσούρα αυτή (καθώς και πάμπολλα άλλα στοιχεία για την ιστορία του αυστραλιανού αναρχισμού) έχει δημοσιευτεί και ηλεκτρονικά στην ιστοσελίδα www.takver.com/history/andrews.htm ...

Στην Ουκρανία το 1918-1920
Η Συνομοσπονδία Αναρχικών Οργανώσεων Ναμπάτ, καλύτερα γνωστή απλά ως Nabat (Набат), ήταν μια αναρχική οργάνωση που αναπτύχθηκε στην Ουκρανία μεταξύ του 1918 και του 1920. Η περιοχή που είχε περισσότερη επιρροή μερικές φορές ονομαζόταν η Ελεύθερη Περιοχή (Free Territory), αν και η Ναμπάτ είχε παρουσία σε όλες τις μεγάλες πόλεις της νότιας Ουκρανίας. Η λέξη Ναμπάτ είναι Ρωσικής/Ουκρανικής προέλευσης και σημαίνει καμπανάκι σήμανσης κινδύνου. Η ομάδα δημοσίευσε μια εφημερίδα με το ίδιο όνομα.

Troubled tracks as pay claim looms for the underground ---- The triple dispute on London Underground (LUL) over redundancies, pay and victimisations appears at first sight to have fizzled out after the initial 48 hour strike back in June. ---- The redundancy issue was resolved for the time being by a compromise where management have not conceded the principle of no compulsory redundancies but no RMT member will be made redundant, for now. The deadline for unions to accept or reject the pay offer has been extended until the beginning of October, as ASLEF, Unite! and TSSA have asked for more time to consider it. Activists from these unions have admitted that they had been waiting for the RMT to “punch itself out” fighting Transport for London (TfL) management on its own, intending to come in, win the dispute and poach members from it at the last minute. ...

Troubled tracks as pay claim looms for the underground ---- The triple dispute on London Underground (LUL) over redundancies, pay and victimisations appears at first sight to have fizzled out after the initial 48 hour strike back in June. ---- The redundancy issue was resolved for the time being by a compromise where management have not conceded the principle of no compulsory redundancies but no RMT member will be made redundant, for now. The deadline for unions to accept or reject the pay offer has been extended until the beginning of October, as ASLEF, Unite! and TSSA have asked for more time to consider it. Activists from these unions have admitted that they had been waiting for the RMT to “punch itself out” fighting Transport for London (TfL) management on its own, intending to come in, win the dispute and poach members from it at the last minute. ...

2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT), a militant anarchist union in Spain. ---- When General Franco led his fascist revolt in 1936 workers rose up throughout the country, Where anarchist ideas were popular (as in Catalonia and Aragon) a social revolution occurred, showing that society could indeed function along anarchist lines. In hospitals, factories, mills, bus & train services, water & electricity, the workers of the CNT reorganised and administered production, distribution, and public services without bosses, managers, or the authority of the state. More than 60% of agricultural land was collectively cultivated by the peasants themselves, without landlords, without bosses, and without any ‘need’ for capitalist competition to spur production. And in keeping with the CNT’s rejection of sexism women played a major part in ...

2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT), a militant anarchist union in Spain. ---- When General Franco led his fascist revolt in 1936 workers rose up throughout the country, Where anarchist ideas were popular (as in Catalonia and Aragon) a social revolution occurred, showing that society could indeed function along anarchist lines. In hospitals, factories, mills, bus & train services, water & electricity, the workers of the CNT reorganised and administered production, distribution, and public services without bosses, managers, or the authority of the state. More than 60% of agricultural land was collectively cultivated by the peasants themselves, without landlords, without bosses, and without any ‘need’ for capitalist competition to spur production. And in keeping with the CNT’s rejection of sexism women played a major part in ...

Note: Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were IWW members at the time of these events in 1990.

By Kevin Fagan, Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle - September 8, 2010; Reproduced in accordance with Fair Use Guidelines.

It's an infamous case that never seems to go away, even after millions of dollars have been paid out in civil settlements and police say the trail has gone cold.

The case is the 1990 bombing in Oakland of Earth First environmental activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, who were nearly killed when a nail-studded explosive device blew up in their car.

Nobody was ever charged with the attack, and now, two decades later, the FBI wants to destroy the last bits of evidence it has been storing ever since the investigation dribbled dry - remnants of the bomb and one like it that blew up in a North Bay town a few days earlier.

Not so fast, says Cherney, 54, who has never given up trying to solve the case himself.

Saying in court briefs that the evidence "provides the last best hope for learning who bombed Judi Bari," Cherney and his lawyers were in federal court Wednesday in San Francisco to try to force the FBI to turn the evidence over to them so they can run DNA and other tests on it.

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From MPST ANHO

On the evening of 30.08.2010 a group of anarchists have attacked by Molotov cocktails Russian embassy in Minsk. One of the diplomat cars was burnt. By this action we express our fury and protest to the arrests and repressions against defenders of Khimki forest in Moscow.

While our friends are beaten up by fascist mercenaries, riot police are pressing and arresting innocent people – treats and arrests became everyday routine. Our friends now have to suffer in jails or live in fear to be imprisoned just because they fight for freedom, people and environment.

But bureaucrats and capitalists care just for their bribes and profits, they don’t care what happens tomorrow, they are ready to abolish every protest or disagreement with cruelty. What comes next – the death squads?

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From Yahoo

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles riot police arrested 22 protestors and fired rubber bullets in a second night of clashes after a Guatemalan immigrant was shot dead in a confrontation with officers, officials said early Wednesday. Angry mostly Hispanic demonstrators hurled rocks, bottles and eggs at the local police station in the MacArthur Park area near downtown Los Angeles, according to an AFP photographer on the scene. Those arrested were detained on charges including unlawful assembly and failing to disperse after the violence, said Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer Karen Rayner.

The black-clad riot police fired rubber bullets and non-lethal bean-bags to disperse the crowd. No protestors or police were injured, but one person was struck by a slingshot projectile, according to police.

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From Anarkismo The second issue of our libertarian, class-struggle magazine is now being distributed. “¡Avancemos!” is a mouthpiece for those sectors of the people who struggle and a tool for social and revolutionary transformation. Editorial: * Forward! Towards a new future Analysis: * Statement one year on from Bagua. The bloodshed will never be forgotten: [...]

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