In this piece Bray relates a range of global movements from mass neighbourhood assemblies in Argentina, to the squares movement in Europe and Occupy Wall Street to various political conceptions of power, movement building and electoral politics. He begins with drawing a distinction between horizontalism as a specific form of popular mobilization that has recently emerged and more broadly the practices of horizontal style organising.
From this he points out that while anarchism is horizontal in its approach to organising and movement building, horizontalism is much more fluid, “non-ideological,” and lends itself to decidedly non-horizontal directions of electoral organising – politics which anarchists have traditionally contrasted their politics in opposition.
The decades that have followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 have witnessed a historic resurgence of directly democratic, federalist politics among global social movements on a scale unheard of since the first decades of the twentieth century.
This article shows that the accusation of Genocide of the Uyghurs by China is totally false… There is no dip in the Uyghur population and Xinjiang is booming.
BUT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. Because every day dozens of articles, reports, videos, from establishment journalists, politicians, think tanks and news outlets, take the Genocide as an established fact, guaranteed by President Biden.
All feeding from the poison trough of the US war machine.
Then they reproduce the lie millions or billions of times around the planet. .
Check it out for yourself!
Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of “genocide” against the Muslim Uyghur population in China’s Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
William has been in prison a month now for participating in the protests against the @LlibertatHasel Let us keep it in mind in all mobilizations for our rights and freedoms #LlibertatWilliam
You can write to William here..
William Aitken is still being detained because he is deemed a ‘flight risk’ due to Brexit
On 2/17 they arrested William Scotsman, 30 years old, resident of St Antoni (BCN) for 4 years, lives with a partner, has a job and has a brother here. Imprisoned since the 18th for being a foreigner William wants to get out of anonymity and prison Let us write to him and release him!
Berlin. We as Interkiezionale call on all solidary and freedom-loving people to bring the city into turmoil on and around March 25 against the eviction of the Kiezkneipe (neighbourhood bar) Meuterei.
The pub collective Meuterei has been creating a space for exchange, networking and solidarity in Reichenberger Straße for 10 years. Such places are increasingly being pushed out of this city. With the Syndikat and Liebig34, we had to say a painful goodbye to two autonomous spaces, and after the eviction attempt of Meuterei, many more attacks on left-wing projects will follow.
Berlin. The time has come. Goran Nenadic, the landlord of the Meuterei premises at Reichenberger 58, has filed the eviction notice.
It is as if the Syrian Arab Army were involved in a giant game of whack-a-mole. Each time it carries out a successful operation on one of its numerous battlefields, it gets punished elsewhere.
On March 16th, a convoy of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) elite 4th Division was ambushed in the countryside of Daraa. Despite heavy fire from the SAA, the gunmen were able to escape after killing 22 service members and injuring at least five others.
The situation in Daraa is quite complicated. In February, the SAA was preparing to launch a large-scale operation to arrest a group of wanted militants in western Daraa. However former rebel leaders expelled the group from the area and accepted a new reconciliation agreement. The operation was thus avoided, but there has been no cessation of hostilities.
March 20, 2021 “Information Clearing House” – – “The Canary” – – #FacistBritain has been trending on Twitter. But can we quantify whether the UK is descending into a modern, fascist state? Simply put: yes, we can.
Fascism’s “defining characteristics”: nationalism, power, authoritarian government and disregard for human rights
Che Scott-Heron Newton tweeted how she believed fascism was “presenting in modern Britain”. She noted four areas. One was “Powerful and Continuing Nationalism”. In this instance, she gave the example of police protecting a Winston Churchill statue:
Defining characteristics of fascism and how it’s presenting in modern Britain:
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La decisión del Parlamento Europeo de allanar el camino para la extradición de políticos independentistas catalanes a España es una amenaza para la democracia europea, dijo a RT el exlíder catalán Carles Puigdemont.
Puigdemont huyó de España en 2017, después de que Madrid lo acusara de rebelión, sedición y uso indebido de fondos públicos para organizar la votación de la independencia catalana ese año mientras se desempeñaba como jefe del gobierno de la región.
En enero de 2020, un tribunal belga se negó a extraditar al político a España, citando su inmunidad procesal como miembro del Parlamento Europeo. Sin embargo, el máximo órgano legislativo de la UE votó este mes para despojarlo a él y a otros dos eurodiputados independentistas de Cataluña de la inmunidad parlamentaria, allanando el camino para su posible extradición.
En declaraciones a Going Underground de RT con Afshin Rattansi, Puigdemont calificó la decisión de sus colegas eurodiputados como “una clara amenaza contra uno de los fundamentos de la democracia europea”.
“Cuando un miembro del Parlamento Europeo es procesado políticamente y el parlamento no defiende su inmunidad, es una muy mala señal”, dijo.
Eso no está en el marco de la legislación europea y, de hecho, socava la autoridad moral de la Unión Europea para enseñar a otras regiones del mundo a proteger los derechos humanos y los valores fundamentales.
Puigdemont dijo que continúa sirviendo como eurodiputado, participando en eventos oficiales, incluso cuando la extradición una vez más se cierne sobre él. Está convencido de que “no tendrá un juicio justo” en su país de origen.
“Es vergonzoso que las instituciones europeas tengan una prueba clara de que se trata de un enjuiciamiento político por parte de un estado miembro [de la UE] y que colaboren y sean parte de ese enjuiciamiento”, dijo, destacando que fue elegido para el Parlamento Europeo por los ciudadanos de Cataluña que apoyan sus puntos de vista. Puigdemont agregó que esperaba que la UE le enviara a Madrid un mensaje de que deben “resolver los conflictos políticos utilizando herramientas políticas”.
En 2017, más del 90% de los catalanes respaldaron la independencia en una votación que nunca fue autorizada por el gobierno español y luego fue invalidada por el Tribunal Constitucional de España. Varios importantes políticos independentistas fueron encarcelados por su papel en el referéndum. Los veredictos provocaron protestas a gran escala en la capital de Cataluña, Barcelona, algunas de las cuales provocaron enfrentamientos con la policía.
La hostilidad del gobierno español hacia la independencia catalana siguió siendo la misma después de que Pedro Sánchez, del partido socialista PSOE, se convirtiera en primer ministro en 2018, según Puigdemont. Dijo que el nuevo gobierno actualizó su “vocabulario” en comparación con sus predecesores del conservador Partido Popular, “pero eso es todo”.
Barcelona 01 10 2017 Politica Referendum 1-O elecciones la policia nacional ha intentado desalojar a las personas concentradas en las puertas del colegio electoral Ramon Llull Foto Ferran Nadeu
“Nada ha cambiado. La gente permanece en la cárcel. La gente permanece en el exilio. El fiscal general está procesando ideas ”, argumentó Puigdemont, y dijo que los funcionarios en Madrid“ preguntan por el diálogo, pero de una manera muy retórica ”.
La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores española, Arancha González Laya, por su parte, elogió al Parlamento Europeo por poner fin a la inmunidad del exlíder catalán. “Los problemas de Cataluña se van a resolver en España, y no en Europa”, dijo. Puigdemont opina lo contrario.
National police were imported in a failed attempt to stop the Catalan Referendum
El mensaje que queremos compartir con el resto de europeos: los catalanes somos parte de Europa, y nuestra crisis es una crisis europea.
“La democracia europea está [siendo] exanimada en cómo Europa manejará esa crisis”, dijo.
Stripping Catalan MEPs of immunity from prosecution ‘undermines EU’s moral authority’ – region’s ex-leader to RT
Follow RT on The European Parliament’s decision to pave the way for the extradition of Catalan pro-independence politicians to Spain is a threat to European democracy, Catalonia’s former leader, Carles Puigdemont, told RT.
Puigdemont fled Spain in 2017, after Madrid charged him with rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds for organizing the Catalan independence vote that year while serving as the head of the region’s government.
In January 2020, a Belgian court refused to extradite the politician to Spain, citing his immunity from prosecution as a member of the European Parliament. However, the EU’s top legislative body voted this month to strip him and two other pro-independence MEPs from Catalonia of parliamentary immunity, paving the way for their possible extradition.
People clash with Spanish Guardia Civil guards outside a polling station in Sant Julia de Ramis, where Catalan president Puiugdemont was to vote, on October 1, 2017, on the day of a referendum on independence for Catalonia banned by Madrid. More than 5.3 million Catalans are called today to vote in a referendum on independence, surrounded by uncertainty over the intention of Spanish institutions to prevent this plebiscite banned by justice. / AFP PHOTO / Raymond ROIG 4638#Agencia AFP
Speaking to RT’s Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi, Puigdemont called the decision by fellow MEPs “a clear threat against one of the basics of the European democracy.”
“When a member of the European Parliament is politically prosecuted, and the parliament fails to defend his immunity, that is a very bad sign,” he said.
That is not in the frame of European law, and that undermines, in fact, the moral authority of the European Union to teach other regions of the world to protect human rights and fundamental values.
Puigdemont said he continues to serve as MEP, participating in official events, even as extradition once again looms over him. He is convinced he “will not have a fair trial” in his home country.
“It is shameful for European institutions to have a clear proof that it is a political prosecution by a member state [of the EU] and to collaborate and to be a part of that prosecution,” he said, stressing that he was elected to the European Parliament by the people of Catalonia who support his views. Puigdemont added that he had hoped the EU would send Madrid a message that they must “solve political conflicts using political tools.”
In 2017, more than 90% of Catalans backed independence in a vote that was never authorized by the Spanish government and was later invalidated by Spain’s Constitutional Court. Several top pro-independence politicians were jailed for their role in the referendum. The verdicts sparked large-scale protests in Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, some of which led to clashes with police.
With leaders still jailed 3 years later support for independence has a bigger majority in the Catalan Parliament
The Spanish government’s hostility towards Catalan independence remained the same after Pedro Sanchez from the socialist PSOE party became prime minister in 2018, according to Puigdemont. He said the new government updated its ‘vocabulary’ compared to their predecessors from the conservative People’s Party, “but that’s all.”
Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, meanwhile, praised the European Parliament for ending the former Catalan leader’s immunity. “Catalonia’s problems are to be resolved in Spain – and not in Europe,” she said. Puigdemont has the opposite opinion.
The message we want to share with the rest of the Europeans: We Catalans are part of Europe, and our crisis is a European crisis.
“European democracy is [being] exanimated in how Europe will manage that crisis,” he said.
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