« The fight against war » Evert Arvidsson’s article in Dagstidningen Arbetaren (SAC’s magazine), published in 1956 The activity of the SAC in the cause of peace is as old as the organization itself. Probably, there is no movement in our country that has proportionately done such a great job for peace and international fraternization as the […]
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PARIS : inauguration of the garden Federica MONTSENY and Republican exorcism
Today, on August 24, 2019, the mayor of Paris, a member of the Socialist Party (the one of the non-intervention in Spain in 1936 and much more bullshit since …), The Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Spain (put in place by the military rebellion led by Caudillo Franco) ), the Ambassador of the […]
1939-1945: Anarchist activity in France during World War II
Patchy historical information about the activity of some anarchists – revolutionary and pacifist – in France during World War II and under occupation.
RETIREMENT HOMES and ELDERLY NURSING HOMES (EHPAD) : WHEN ABUSE IS INSTITUTIONAL
Currently, since beginning of summer 2019, a huge movement of strike is hitting the Health care industry in France, and especially the Nursing homes for elderly (EHPAD in French) and the Hospitals’ Emergency unit.
This movement fights for dignity for workers and for hospital patients.
What is new is that this movement emerged from the workers themselves, inspired by the dynamic of the Yellow Vests, outside from the trade-unions (even if unions are running after the movement to try to catch it and canalize it)
To understand what is at stake, we republish below an article we issued 10 years ago exactly … when we supported struggles and strikes of staff from different retirement homes. But at that time those strikes ran only localy, in isolated movements, so it didn’t last enough for a global change.
While the overall situation has not changed from what we described in our article (apart the name of the Ministers that has changed, but policy stays as ever .. ), maybe the generalized awareness of the workers in this industry will lead to a general strike (and not isolated struggles) that would achieve a balance of power sufficient ?
SOLIDARITY WITH HONG KONG REVOLUTIONARIES / 没有 暴徒 只有 暴政 – 与 香港 革命者 团结一致
没有 暴徒 只有 暴政
The Hong Kong revolutionaries invaded Hong Kong’s parliament on July 1, 2019, to protest against the Chinese communist party’s despotism, which seeks to expand its hold on the territory.
Inside the parliament, after having destroyed the symbols of the control of the Communist Party over the territory, they unfurled a black banner on which one could read « there are no violent people [rioters], There is only a violent politic [tyranny] « .
ANARCHISM IN INDONESIA
ANARCHISM IN INDONESIA by Vadim Damier and Kirill Limanov The leftist movement in Dutch East Indies emerged first under the influence of the Social Democratic and Socialist currents of the Netherlands. Anarchist ideas were little known (1), although one of the first critics of the Dutch colonial system was the writer-anarchist Eduard Douwes Dekker, known […]
INDONESIA : SOLIDARITY WITH OUR COMPANIONS
A wave of repression of unheard-of violence fell on our anarchosyndicalist and anarchist companions in Indonesia.
In Bandung alone, the police arrested 619 people, who were penned, undressed, head-shaved, piled up and taken away in pick-up , shorn and marked with red paint.
ULAC SMAH ULAC – WE WILL HAVE NO MERCY : THE ALGERIAN UPRISING IS ALSO OURS
Insurgent Algerians,
The struggle that you have been carrying forward against all society’s rulers since April 2001 is an example for us and for all the exploited. Your uninterrupted rebellion has shown that the terrorism of the state and the integralist groups, allied for a decade in the slaughter of the poor to the benefit of the rich, has not lessened your ferocity. You have understood that faced with the infectious disease of military dictatorship and the plague of Islamic fundamentalism, the only choice is open revolt. In the union of two capitalisms, the liberal one that privatizes and fires people in mass and the socialist-bureaucratic one that tortures and kills, you have responded with the unity of a generalized struggle.
APOLOGIA FOR THE ALGERIAN INSURRECTION
Quevedo said about Spanish people : « they haven’t been able to be historians but they deserved to be ». This is still right concerning the 1936 Spanish revolution : others have written the history of the events. It’s too early to write the history of the insurrection that started in Algeria during spring 2001, but it’s not too late to defend it ; in other words to fight the deep indifference, puffed up with historic recklessness, as we see it in France.
Sail Mohamed, LIFE AND REVOLT OF AN ALGERIAN ANARCHIST
Sail Mohamed Ameriane ben Amerzaine was born on 14 October 1894 at Tarbeit-Beni-Ouglis in the Berber region of Kabylie, Algeria.
Like many Algerians, he recieved little schooling. A driver-mechanic by trade, all his life he thirsted for culture and took great pains to educate himself. From a Muslim Berber background, he became a convined atheist. During the First World War he was interned for insubordination and then desertion from the French Army. His sympathies for anarchism were already developing.