Common Struggle / Lucha Común

Are we going to make predictions about 2012? Certainly a degree of bravado and bluster is always necessary for someone to step up to the soapbox and preach the bleeding obvious about what is ahead of us, and the anarchist movement is littered with discarded soapboxes. Do we even dare to imagine what responses the deepening crisis will bring? -- We continue to live through an intense period of social transformation, one that is at times chaotic and unpredictable, but one that is also unique and open to all kinds of influences and new expectations. Where does capitalism go now, and what do we do to aid its downfall? Two questions we couldn’t have imagined posing five years ago and here they are, as we take hold of 2012, presenting themselves as real challenges. ...

Yesterday afternoon (31-2-12), David Venegas Reyes, a member of the Oaxacan collective Oaxaca Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo Autonomía y Libertad (VOCAL) was finally freed. According to information supplied by the legal department of Section 22, the release took place without the payment of any bail and without any charges being made since Venegas Reyes was released following confirmation that he had not committed any crime for which he could have been arrested. ---- It should be remembered that the arrest of Venegas Reyes came about in very unclear circumstances while he was accompanying the women's caravan which had begun its return to San Juan Copala. This is thus the beginning of the end for the media and State lynch-mob campaign against those who were accompanying the caravan on its return to San Juan Copala. ...

Yesterday afternoon (31-2-12), David Venegas Reyes, a member of the Oaxacan collective Oaxaca Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo Autonomía y Libertad (VOCAL) was finally freed. According to information supplied by the legal department of Section 22, the release took place without the payment of any bail and without any charges being made since Venegas Reyes was released following confirmation that he had not committed any crime for which he could have been arrested. ---- It should be remembered that the arrest of Venegas Reyes came about in very unclear circumstances while he was accompanying the women's caravan which had begun its return to San Juan Copala. This is thus the beginning of the end for the media and State lynch-mob campaign against those who were accompanying the caravan on its return to San Juan Copala. ...

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LabourStart headline - Source: RFE/Radio Liberty

LabourStart headline - Source: ITUC

“Una organización es verdaderamente revolucionaria, si se plantea y resuelve adecuadamente el problema del poder”.
FAU, 1972

On a chilly 1st February evening, in Fine Gael’s heartland of Castlebar, over 140 people turned out for the first public meeting of the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT) in Mayo. Although the meeting was scheduled for 7:30, by 7:15 the room in the Welcome Inn was quietly filling up, much to the surprise of those of us who had been there to organise things since 7:00.

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By Zach Ruiter

Justice for Levi is a collation dedicated to the memory of Levi Schaeffer. The coalition had successfully challenged the Ontario Police at the Ontario Superior Court. The court ruled the conduct of police who shot and killed Schaeffer violated the Police Services Act. The Ontario Police have successfully appealed the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada, which is expected to hear the case sometime in December 2012.

The officers in question, Kris Wood and Mark Pullbrook collaborated with police lawyer Andrew McKay to write/fabricate their notes. This allowed the officers to get their stories straight before submitting them to the Special Investigations Unit.

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At the time of writing the wave of outrage over the killing of 73 young football supporters in Port Said on 2 Feb 2012, a year to the day after the Battle of the Camels in Tahrir Square, is still raging around the Interior Ministry in Cairo. Legend has it, that in the early 1970s the then Foreign Minister of Maoist China, Zhou En Lai, was asked what he thought of the French Revolution and replied "it is too early to tell". Certainly the effects of the Egyptian Revolution are far too early to tell. As we enter Year II, the anniversary has been marked by monster demonstrations in Tahrir Square, followed by the provocation of yesterday's massacre.

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On Saturday 28th January Unlock NAMA opened an occupied building in the center of Dublin for a day of lectures about NAMA, Ireland's 'Bad Bank.' The event was cut short by a large number of police who turned up and ordered them out of the building. In this 40 minute interview Andrew Flood interviews Cat & Moira from Unlock NAMA about the occupation, what NAMA is and what Unlock NAMA demands.

 

Image: All rights reserved by Paul C Reynolds - used with permission

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SOPA & ACTA are the latest attempts by traditional capitalism to reverse a transformation in the exchange of goods that has been escalating over the last couple of decades. In a widely discussed interview in 2005, Bill Gates called the free culture/open source movement "new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and movie-makers and software makers under various guises." This outraged many in the movement who were more inclined to identify with the Ayn Randite ultra-free market right than the traditional left, but in fact he had a point. Many failed to see it because 'communism' for almost everyone has come to mean something like the old Soviet Union. But the word means a lot more than that failed top down experiment. Why was Gates right and why is this to be welcomed?

Pic: Act Up-Paris and La Quadrature's ACTAivists in Luzern, in front of the negotiation site.

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Anarşist bir duruş olarak 'vicdani ret' 03 Şubat 2012 YETİŞ PAYÇU Türkiye'de henüz hukuksal olarak tanınmayan vicdani ret için başta savaş karşıtları olmak üzere çeşitli grupların çalışmaları sürüyor. Vicdani ret ile ilgili olarak 11. 12. 2009'da Anayasa Mahkemesi'nin kararıyla kapatılan Demokratik Toplum Partisi (DTP) 13 Kasım 2008'de TBMM'ye yasa önerisi verdi. DTP Diyarbakır Milletvekili Akın Birdal, dünyanın pek çok ülkesinde vicdani reddin tanındığını belirterek, rakamlara göre 1 milyon gencin çeşitli gerekçelerle askerlikten uzak olduğunu ve bunlara vicdani ret hakkının tanınması gerektiğini ...

. Παραθέτουμε ολόκληρο το κείμενο των προτάσεων του Μπακούνιν που υποβλήθηκαν και ψηφίστηκαν ομόφωνα στο συνέδριο της αναρχικής Λίγκας «Για την Δημοκρατία και την Ειρήνη», που έγινε το 1867 στην Ελβετία. Όχι για κανένα άλλο λόγο παρά μόνο για ανάγνωση του εύρους των αναρχικών ιδεών αφού οι αναρχικοί ήταν από τους πρώτους που μίλησαν για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Ευρώπης των λαών. Υποστήριζε ότι οποιοσδήποτε πόλεμος μεταξύ τους θα είναι εμφύλιος και αδελφοκτόνος.

Several groups are calling for a rally and march in Monastiraki Square in Athens on Saturday 4/2/12 at 12:00. Some of the posters calling for the demonstration.

"Let's put back on our lips the word REVOLUTION"

"No Tolerance - No Consensus To the emergency regime that is enforced by the local and global economic and political bosses - For the social and class counter offensive, for a society of social equality, solidarity and freedom"

 

the red letters write: "Consensus or Default" - They have declared a war against us and they are asking as to keep peaceful - General Social Revolt

"Against the wild exploitation, misery, fear, racism, social cannibalism and intensive repression promoted by the sweeping attack of the state, the bosses and transnational mechanisms of sovereignty We should respond with social and class solidarity in the workplaces, in the neighbourhoods and on the streets. In front of institutional deployment, the state of emergency and the blackmailing dilemma: “Consensus or Default” we should set the real dilemma from below: “Capitalism or Revolution” Self-organised – Uncontrolled and Radical Struggles -Social and Class Counter Offensive for a society of freedom, equality solidarity for a society without exploitation of human by human being. March 4 February 2012 at 12:00 Monastiraki Square"

 

 

 

 

O Fórum do Anarquismo Organizado (FAO) - representado por suas organizações da região Sudeste (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro / FARJ e Organização Anarquista Socialismo Libertário / OASL-SP) - coordenou, entre 21 e 22 de janeiro de 2012, o I Seminário de Formação da Região Sudeste. O seminário reuniu, nas dependências do Centro de Cultura Social do Rio de Janeiro, além da FARJ e da OASL, coletivos em processo de articulação ou aproximação com o FAO e individualidades interessadas em se organizar ou ingressar nas organizações já constituídas. Estiveram presentes militantes dos estados do Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais e Paraná, cumprindo um triplo objetivo: fortalecer o processo nas organizações existentes; estimular a criação de novas organizações/núcleos; ...

A guerra não declarada contra o Irã já ultrapassou há bom tempo os limites de uma guerra retórica. Desde os governos de Bush II, que na sua política de ?guerra contra o terror? enquadrou o Irã no ?eixo do mal?, até o governo Obama, os Estados Unidos conseguiram que a ONU passasse 4 sanções econômicas contra o Irã. Todas as sanções são justificadas com o mesmo argumento: o governo dos aiatolás está enriquecendo urânio com o propósito de construir armas nucleares. A última resolução, de 9 de junho de 2011, ampliou o escopo de sanções já aprovadas nas três resoluções anteriores. A resolução prevê punições a entidades estrangeiras que venham a vender petróleo refinado ao Irã, ou auxiliar a sua capacidade doméstica de refinamento. Países estão proibidos também de permitir que o Irã invista em suas plantas de ...

Gostaríamos de informar que em 8 de fevereiro de 2012 haverá um novo julgamento contra quatro membros da Iniciativa Anarco-Sindicalista (ASI) da Sérvia, e de dois anarquistas não afiliados, de Belgrado, como parte de um processo judicial contra os Seis de Belgrado (BG6). Os seis libertários em Belgrado são acusados de incitar, auxiliar e executar um ataque contra a Embaixada da Grécia em Belgrado, no final de agosto de 2009, em solidariedade a um preso político grego em greve de fome. Imediatamente após o ataque à embaixada, os BG6 (Tadej Kurepa, Ratibor Trivunac, Ivan Savic, Ivan Vulovic, Nikola Mitrovic e Sanja Dojkic) foram detidos e mantidos presos durante os seguintes seis meses, acusados de "terrorismo internacional". Graças à mobilização maciça de apoio, tanto global como localmente, foram liberados ...

« La liberté de la femme s'étendra jusqu'où s'étend son pouvoir de se libérer elle-même. » - Emma Goldman Sommaire du Monde Libertaire # 1658 du 2 au 8 Février 2012 Actualité L'égalité sexuelle toujours en retard, par R. Pino, page 3 Attaques contre les RTT, par M. Silberstein, page 4 Météo syndicale, par T. Impétueux, page 5 Chronique néphrétique, page 5 ...

On Saturday 28th January Unlock NAMA opened an occupied building in the center of Dublin for a day of lectures about NAMA, Ireland's 'Bad Bank.' The event was cut short by a large number of police who turned up and ordered them out of the building. In this 40 minute interview Andrew Flood interviews Cat & Moira from Unlock NAMA about the occupation, what NAMA is and what Unlock NAMA demands.

Image: All rights reserved by Paul C Reynolds - used with permission

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