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Appeal: Days of international solidarity with deserters

Appeal: Days of international solidarity with deserters

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The war in Ukraine continues with all the negative consequences for much of the world. However, acts of desertion and draft evasion also continue, which, if widespread, could lead to the end of the war. Anarchists from the Central European region are therefore publishing this call to organise active support for deserters. Wherever we live, let us make every other day a day of international working-class solidarity and resistance against the war. Let us organise in workplaces, schools and streets to strengthen the influence of desertions. Let us fight for dignified conditions for all who refuse to serve as a cannon fodder in the inter-imperialist war.

At least 200,000 people are fleeing Russia to escape Putin’s military mobilisation, and tens of thousands more are avoiding mobilisation in Ukraine. Yet some voices claim that “the number of deserters is so negligible that it is strange to even begin to talk about it.” These cynical attempts to “make invisible” people who choose not to serve in the army, to defect or to emigrate for political reasons, must be opposed. Their voices must be heard and practical help must be given.
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Letter of D released from custody: how the cops investigate (France)

Letter of D released from custody: how the cops investigate

Received 16/09/22

Hello,

HelI was released from Draguignan prison on 31 August. We think there are a couple of things that should be known.

To quickly explain their judicial pastiche in October 2021 they condemn me to 6 months for violence that I did not commit, the trial is really bad because it is not me who decided on the defence and thus the attitude to be held in the court, well I am here condemned for having put une mite à un pointeur. I get out in February 2022. Once out I knew I had to move away from there but I couldn’t. In March 2022, they put me in police custody with crazy accusations of death threats. A detention that would last 6 months..

In police custody in March the cops mentioned the anarchist site Attaque to me.

An exchange with a cop that struck me:

– Can you explain to me why I’m the one in custody?
– We know that in this story you’re the victim but you’re not completely innocent (well on other occasions I would have answered that I’m neither victim nor innocent nor guilty and that I’m screwing him, but given the crazy stuff I found myself involved in, I nevertheless wanted to know)
– But you think I did what exactly?
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France, Toulouse : perturbation of the 2nd public survey about the construction of a new jail in Muret

Originally published on the local anti athoritarian website :
https://iaata.info/Perturbation-de-la-2eme-enquete-publique-sur-la-construction-d-une-nouvelle-5484.html

8 octobre 2022

This monday 3 october at 6pm, we gathered at 10 people to go to charles de gaulle high school of Muret where a meeting was held in the frame of a public survey which takes place from the 15 september to the 14 october 2022.

Beginning 2021, a first public survey already occured about the 615 new jail places construction project for 2027.
Despite numerous oppositions gathered and an unfavourable opinion given by the investigation commissary, the jail’s public utility was anyway declared during summer 2021. All of this was only advisory, with the initiative of a 15 000 jail places plan, it’s the state which decide in last resort and do as it wants. Despite everything, a second public survey is actually occuring and got for goal to obtain a derogation for the destruction of protected species caused by the project.

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Calais, France: Communique written by R, British militant held in CRA and under threat of expulsion to the UK.

via: https://lille.indymedia.org/spip.php?article34689&lang=fr

Calais: Communique written by R, British militant held in CRA and under threat of expulsion to the UK.

My name is R, British citizen, militant in Calais in solidarity with exiled people and involved in the opening of squats last February. I am currently under house arrest in a CAES 45 minutes drive from my home,being subject to an OQTF [obligation to leave French territory], an IRTF [prohibition to return to French territory, a re-entry ban] of one year and a withdrawal of my residence permit. I have been “free” since Monday after spending 3 nights in the CRA [administrative detention centre] of Lesquin and after having been detained by the PAF [Police Aux Frontières] in Calais for 15 hours (they transferred my to Lille to separate me from my comrades).

The authorities targeted me because I had been a militant for two years for the rights of exiled people in Calais. They targeted me because we opened a place where our administrative situations do not matter, a place belonging to exiled people and spared from violence of the State and because we began to create bonds of solidarity between all those who struggle for the rights of the exiled people in France and elsewhere. The State wants people to be isolated, tired, homeless, without any legal resources; they do not want people with papers to support them. So they withdraw my residence permit, they lock me up in CRA and expel me to England. They haven’t understood that it won’t change anything except to give energy, motivation, and rage to the militants in Calais and elsewhere because, with these repressive acts, we are told “your activities threaten the smooth running of our violent policies”.

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Solidarity message to the revolted peoples in Iran, and to the anti-war movement in Russia, from captive anarchist guerrilla Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis (greek prisons)

My sisters and brothers,

you who today in Iran are fighting against patriarchy, theocracy and class oligarchy, you, who by uncovering your faces, by your blood on the streets, are taking that common struggle one step further up the way to global liberation from authority,
together with you I declare and rejoice over the death of terror.

No one experience of tyranny and servility can be be compared with another. The tortures you have been subjected to by the iranian state, throughout its history, are inconceivable. But the struggle unites us. In Greece, day by day, femicides are multiplying. The priests justify rape through their official statements. The impoverishment of the exploited and the excluded, the killings of migrants and the military repression are dressed with the cloak of nationalism, like everywhere. All the states, the iranian, the greek, the russian, the turkish etc, portray social resistance as the “external enemy”.

The people have no borders. All together we will change the world. History has taught us that only through social self-direction and self-defense can we build popular power. Solidarity, that leads to equality through con-federalism within and on either side of borders, this is our way. For this reason, I salute again the Kurdish Movement of Freedom, for its contribution -with boundless self sacrifice- towards the construction of the internationalist, intercultural and borderless revolutionary movement in the Middle East, and especially towards the global women struggle.
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March and rally (Romería) in commemoration of September 11 (Chile)

March and rally (Romería) in commemoration of September 11

via:informativoanarquista

On September 11 of this year a march to the General Cemetery (romería) took place, displaying banners, posters, pamphlets and setting up barricades and confrontations against the presence of Carabineros (COP).

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Aufstand! For Anarchy

Aufstand! For Anarchy

aufstand.blackblogs.org

So what should tempt us to think that the Internet in particular would be a place where today’s revolutionary awakenings would take place? And certainly we are not so short-sighted as to seriously consider this to be the case. Nevertheless, we observe with a certain uneasiness that both the real and the virtual spaces of exchange among anarchists of the German-speaking contexts are fading away. Even though individual projects still receive some attention and almost every tendency of informally organized anarchism has created its own web presence – even though there are still one or two printed and regularly published newspaper projects and dozens and dozens of brochures, books, flyers, newspapers, posters and stickers which are connected to the anarchist idea and wander from hand to hand among companions – we ask ourselves, to what extent these succeed in carrying the anarchist debate into the public more than sporadically, in the (desperate) attempt to inflame at least a few hearts with the spark of the anarchist idea.

Repeatedly in the past it has been proven that if there is no better alternative, platforms like de.indymedia also have to be used for anarchist exchange. The problem is that anarchist contributions are often deleted there or – perhaps even worse – stand beside deeply authoritarian submissions that absolutely contradict the anarchist idea. No wonder: de.indymedia has always been a platform of the left and will consequently remain so. The fact that more and more decentralized (radical left) alternatives to de.indymedia are currently developing is, in our view, just as incapable of remedying the problem as other strangely conceptualized attempts to create synthesist platforms or even websites of unified organizations selling themselves as contributions to an anarchist debate.

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Microphone solidarity with the uprising in Iran |Saturday 24/9 13.00 Monastiraki Area (Athens,Greece)

May the flame of the uprising in Iran spread across the earth

The assassination of Masha Amini by the vice police, has sparked a giant uprising in the territory of the Iranian State in recent days. Large-scale demonstrations, wild clashes with the repressive apparatus, attacks on police stations, destruction of State and capitalist targets make up a mosaic of a spontaneous anti-state uprising, which puts God and the State in the crosshairs. It sets its sights on decades of cruel repression and oppression.
In recent decades the rulers of the Iranian State have chosen religious fundamentalism as a mechanism of governance. A counter-revolutionary strategy by which those in power try to present exploitation, oppression, murder as divine and virtuous work. They impose national unity around a common religion so as to conceal social and class antagonisms. They divide them from below by creating false juxtapositions such as the issue of faith, reinforcing the oppression of women with their total control by men and of course by the State. The extreme oppression of femininity, heretics, those who deviate from official doctrine is the daily life of those from below in this corner of the world. It is precisely in this context that the horrific murder of Masha took place.

One cannot help but be outraged and disgusted by the hypocritical condemnations of Western States and political parties, calling for more rights for women and condemning religious fanaticism. The same States that fostered fundamentalist movements as a counterbalance to the growing radical movements and struggles in the `60s and `70s across the Middle East. The same ones that in their territories breed the whole world of patriarchy, carry out genocide and State murder of those who are left over or resist, the same ones that are waging and preparing to wage bloody wars for the interests of their masters and their power. The same States that have repeatedly bloodied the Middle East and plundered the “third world” so that the people uprooted by this Religious Fundamentalism and wars drowned in the Mediterranean, were trapped in fences, left to die by the thousands out of indifference.
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Mexico: Assault on the military quarter of the 35th division of the Mexican army at Guerrero

Assault on the military quarter of the 35th division of the Mexican army at Guerrero.

Yesterday during the national days of protest against the kidnapping and murder of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa high school, comrades together with the parents of the kidnapped students went outside the walls of the 35th military division of the Mexican army. After pulling down the cameras they drove a Coca Cola truck into the entrance.

An article from a local newspaper:
https://replicaguerrero.com/2022/09/13/normalistas-lanzan-un-camion-cohetones-y-piedras-en-la-35-zona-militar-de-chilpancingo/
A video on TV
https://mega.nz/file/0QZDSACS#y2Vreq6GOf3Mi6PRnBnufdPvEDWUflLXUI7MDDrIxOo

via: ilrovescio.info

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CHILE : NO PUBLICAR – DO NOT PUBLISH (ES/EN)

Esta filmación corresponde a una ficción basada en la información proporcionada por diferentes comités coordinadores y populares defensores del pueblo chileno, y a petición y necesidad de los familiares y amigos de presos políticos en el contexto de la Revuelta . Hay más de 1500 niños, hermanos, sobrinas, sobrinos y amigos que han estado encarcelados durante meses e incluso años. Estas son algunas de las «evidencias» contra ellos:

Tomé una selfie en un lugar cerca de la escena del crimen.

Su ropa era similar a la de las cámaras de la policía.

Alardeando publicaciones sobre acciones que ocurrieron durante una protesta.

Mensaje para toparse a una manifestación el día de los eventos.

Aparece en color en prensa independiente transmite en vivo el día de los eventos.

Tiene un tatuaje en la misma zona que el sospechoso, aunque el diseño no se puede distinguir.

Ese día el acusado no estaba en casa.

Participa en un comedor social y un grupo de un lugar vulnerable de la ciudad.

Por absurdo que parezca, estas son algunas de las «evidencias» que por sí mismas, según la justicia chilena, pueden mantenerte en prisión por investigación durante AÑOS, y en el peor de los casos, cumpliendo una condena.
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Two GPS trackers found under a vehicle in Berlin (Germany)


Source: de.indymedia.org/node/215986

Two GPS trackers were found under a vehicle in Berlin, Germany (the second one was found a few days after the first one was found and removed). They were attached with strong magnets in a hollow space between the plastic covering of the bumper and the body, precisely behind the left rear wheel. Each tracker consisted of two metal cases connected by a cable. The first one contained a battery pack, and the second one the tracker itself, including a smaller battery, two antennas, and a SIM card.
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Railway Blockade on Unceded Nitassinan (Saguenay)

Wednesday evening, a collective of Indigenous and settler activists blocked the Roberval-Saguenay railroad belonging to the multinational corporation Rio Tinto in solidarity with the National Committee for First Peoples’ Rights which is paralyzing for a third consecutive day the railroad line located at the border of Labrador and Schefferville, which is used by the mining company Tata Steel. The solidarity blockade lasted one hour. These actions have the objective of reminding the governments that the members of the Indigenous communities in this country will no longer accept any compromises regarding criminal acts committed against them.

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Episode 59 of bad news – angry voices from around the world.

Episode 59 (08/2022)
With the following content:

call out for the week in solidarity with anarchist prisoners.

solidarity.international

a-radio-berlin did a interview about the the Weekend Libertaire, an anarchist meeting that took place from the 29th to 31st of July 2022 in St-Imier, in Switzerland. They talked to a comrade on the spot who helped to organize the meeting.

https://anarchy2023.org/en

frequenzA did a interview with an comrade from A-feminist group “salomé” about their group, their work and the situation they face in the Greek society as in the movement.

download it directly from archive,org here:

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ASML: semiconductor dependency

Two attacks severely impacted the operations of semiconductor giants STMicroelectronics and Soitec last April. As a contribution to imagining possibilities for hitting where it hurts, here is a brief overview of ASML – an unavoidable dependency for all semiconductor manufacturers.

ASML may be the most important company you’ve never heard of. The $220B Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint. Its key product is an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machine, which “prints” tiny circuits onto Silicon wafers. Continue reading ASML: semiconductor dependency →