CNT-AIT texts in english
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.
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.
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 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.
__The IWA would like to show its solidarity with the social protests occuring in France which are yet another example of resistance to the overbearing exploitation that working people around the world are facing. Below we would like to publish parts of a text sent by the CNT-AIT and an appeal for solidarity.__
[Gilet Jaunes / 17 Novembre / Soutien International / Anglais] The French anarcho-syndicalists of CNT-AIT (F) (French section of the International Workers Association) in Toulouse participated on November 24 in a day of protest, organized by the movement of « yellow vests », which opposes the increase in fuel prices and the high cost of living in […]
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Friday 4 November 2005 Yes, life in the popular suburbs are full of daily violence: The violence of being refused a job even though you have all of the necessary diplomas, because of what your face looks like; The violence of having to take one temporary job after another, slave labour paid with crumbs; The […]
Monday 13 June 2005 Often, in order to attain some visibility, a libertarian organization or its members must struggle to be represented accurately when confiding in journalists. Certainly, anarcho-syndicalists are not hiding underground. We are not trying to infiltrate other groups by misrepresenting our ideas, but how do we represent ourselves and get some accurate […]
Saturday 1 December 2001 CASE STUDY – FRANCE In France, all workplaces with more than 50 employees elect représentatives to Works Councils. Those workplaces with less than 50 workers elect staff representatives, who meet with management once a month, to undertake the same role as Works Councils. The French unions are small by northern European […]