POPULAR FRONT ? Lets DARE to DO IT !- CNT-AIT

OCCUPY FACTORIES, BUSINESSES AND HOSPITALS ! OCCUPY UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS! GENERAL STRIKE

from thefreeonline le 25 juin 2024 Par CNT-AIT PHOTOS HERE thanks!(see- The Free on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)

In the collective and historical imagination, the Popular Front echoes two events that occurred in the summer of 1936, in France by one hand and in Spain by the other.

In France, in June 1936, a wave of spontaneous strikes ignited France following the victory of the coalition of different political parties ranging from far left (Communist Party, PCF), social democrats (Socialist Party, SFIO) and center left (Radical Party).

And in Spain, on July 19, 1936, a popular insurrection, initiated by the popular class and the anarchists of the CNT-AIT, defeated the fascist coup of General Franco in reaction to the election of a coalition of far-left, left-wing and Republican political parties.

In France, these millions of strikers, by occupying their factories, without waiting for the instructions of the political parties and even often AGAINST the instructions of moderation of these political parties, have created such a balance of power against the Employers and the Bourgeoisie that the latter had rushed to make concessions like never before in the social history of this country, for fear that the strikers become radicalized and the revolt transforms into revolution.

And it was the left-wing parties of the Popular Front which broke the dynamic of the strikers, asking them to stop their movement (the communist leader Maurice Thorez proclaiming his famous phrase “you have to know how to end a strike”.)

This first betrayal of the left was the beginning of a long series which ended tragically: the French Popular Front abandoned the Spanish Popular Front which ended up being crushed by the Francoists, which by its side had the support of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.

In 1938, the radical socialist Daladier signed the laws on “undesirable foreigners”, a foreshadowing of the current French Minister of Police Darmanin’s laws against migrants. And in 1940, the deputies of the Popular Front Chamber voted (1) 569 for and 80 against giving full powers to Marshal Pétain.

The Spanish Popular Front also experienced a disastrous destiny: while the Libertarian Revolution initiated by the anarchists on July 19, 1936 tried, in extremely difficult conditions, to invent another future, freed from the State and Capitalism, the Republican Government kept putting obstacles in their way.

He was unfortunately helped by certain anarchists who believed in the sincerity of the Republicans to block fascism. Unfortunately, many Republicans, starting with the Communists, still preferred fascism rather than Anarchism and in May 1937, the Spanish Popular Front stabbed in the back the anarchist revolutionaries of the CNT-AIT and the heterodox communists of the POUM.

This was the end of the revolution and shortly after the defeat of the Popular Front against the fascists.

Let History serve as a lesson to us: when workers are united, when they act directly on their own, without obeying the instructions of political parties who will always end up betraying, then workers and more generally the popular class can do things magnificent and grandiose, it can even conquer the sky.

If workers abandon their autonomy and their capacity for initiative to representatives, whether political or trade unionists, they will sooner or later be promised to serve as cannon fodder, for the State, for Capital, or for a political faction against another.

Poverty, climate change, racism and the rise of identity or religious ideas, inequalities of all kinds… Yes, it’s true, we need a radical change in society, a break with the dominant order.

To those who dream of a Popular Front through the ballot box, we warn them against the disappointments to come: how these left-wing politicians, of whom Mélenchon is the caricature, who have been all failures since 1981 (2), can represent any hope of a break with a System which – literally – feeds them, whether in the form of their remuneration as elected officials or in the form of state subsidies to their political party or their union?

Our only hope can only come from our self-organization, autonomously and horizontally, without a leader, without a spokesperson, without anyone who speaks in our name.

So yes, as at the time of the Popular Front, rather than passively waiting for some savior to come out of the polls (especially since the result risks being that of the far-right), now and without waiting anymore:

LET’S OCCUPY OUR FACTORIES, LET’S OCCUPY OUR BUSINESSES, LET’S OCCUPY OUR HOSPITALS,
LET’S OCCUPY OUR UNIVERSITIES AND OUR HIGH SCHOOLS!

AGAINST FASCISM AND FOR LIFE!

GENERAL STRIKE !

CNT-AIT Anarchosyndicalism!

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Original text in French : FRONT POPULAIRE ? CHICHE ! OCCUPATION DES USINES, DES ENTREPRISES, DES HOPITAUX, DES FAC ET DES LYCEES ! GREVE GENERALE ! http://cnt-ait.info/2024/06/14/front-populaire-chiche

Palestine Action blockade Elbit’s Bristol HQ and target banks in Manchester – Freedom

Elbit’s Bristol HQ manages its British operations, and has been targeted by Palestine action on many previous occasions.

from thefreeonline on Jun 26th by Palestine Actionany/ FreedomNews

Activists step up actions against arms company in a third week of targeted disruption

Palestine Action says seven of its activists attached themselves this morning to vehicles and blocked the entrance to Elbit Systems’ UK headquarters.

Two other groups targeted the offices of JP Morgan Chase and a Barclays Bank branch in Altrincham overnight.

“Elbit Systems uses Gaza as a laboratory to develop their weaponry, a business model which has no place in any society”, said the group.

“By arming Israel and allowing Elbit to operate in this country, our political establishment have failed to abide by their legal and moral obligations to end complicity in the Gaza genocide”.

Last week, activists invaded the Kent premises of Instro Precision, where thay began “dismantling technology, machinery and parts” involved in the “manufacture of scopes, sights, and targeting equipment for Israel’s exterminationist military”.

Police put it to arrestees that had caused the factory £1million in damage.

Rooftop protest UAV Engines, Shenstone 31/10/23

Factories in Staffordshire and Leicester were also recently blockaded by activists.

The banks, who continue to invest in the Israeli arms company, had their windows smashed and red paint thrown over their fronts.

JP Morgan Chase reduced their stake in Elbit by 70% a month ago, but their remaining investment is currently valued at around $16million.

Entrance to JP Morgan Chase offices in Manchester, 26 June 2024

Earlier this month, 20 branches of Barclays Bank in England and Scotland were targeted by Palestine Action and Shut It Down, a direct action group targeting companies who finance climate chaos.

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FREEDOM!- Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder RELEASED after years of US/UK revenge jail

“Julian is free!!!!” his wife Stella wrote on X. “Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU – yes, YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU, THANK YOU.”

from thefreeonline on 25 Jun 2024 Al Jazeera and news agencies The Free now on Telegram: – t.me/thefreeonline

Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the United Kingdom and is travelling home to Australia after he pleads guilty to a single charge of breaching the espionage law in the United States.

Assange, 52, will plead guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

He was freed from the UK’s high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday and taken to the airport where he flew out of the country. Assange will appear at a court in Saipan, a US Pacific territory at 9am on Wednesday (23:00 GMT on Tuesday) where he will be sentenced to 62 months of time already served.

“Julian Assange is free,” Wikileaks said in a statement posted on X.

“He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stanstead airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.”

Russia’s Maria Zakharova again demands US remove its nuclear weapons from Europe— diplomat

Like the Cuban missile crisis in reverse, the US is deploying Thermonuclear Bombs right up to Russia’s borders

from thefreeonline on June 24, 2024 by Lou at Tales From The Conspiratum (NEW- The Free on Telegram: HERE)

Maria Zakharova pointed out that said missions are based on the forward deployment of US weapons in Europe “thousands of kilometers away from the US national territory and within operational reach of Russian territory”

MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. Moscow demands that Washington withdraw all US nuclear weapons from Europe and eliminate the infrastructure for their deployment, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

US gives no response to Russia’s proposal to return nuclear weapons to its soil – MFA

The US recently certified their F35A fighters stationed in European bases to carry the new ‘programmable’ B61-12 nukes now being delivered to German. Belgian, Dutch, Italian and soon British US military bases.

“Regardless of the combat readiness of the weapons allocated for NATO’s joint nuclear missions, this extremely destabilizing practice in itself remains the most serious problem for the security of the continent,” the diplomat said.

Poland and the Baltic countries have asked NATO to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in their territories, and countries including Germany and Italy have called for expanding the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe to ‘support the region’s defense capacity building’.

Terrorist USA is now Delivering new B61-12 Thermonuclear Bombs to Europe- Compatible with old F16 Fighter Bombers now being Donated to Ukraine

“Our demands in this regard remain unchanged and include the withdrawal of all US nuclear weapons from Europe, as well as the elimination of the infrastructure for their deployment there,” she emphasized..

The newly upgraded B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb was …

Two Nuclear warning Radar stations hundreds of kms into Russia have been attacked and damaged, clearly with expert NATO help.This is what you would do as a prelude to a surprise US ‘decapitation’ Nuclear War Attack. Stern Russian warnings of a nuclear catastrophe barely make it into the Western media as the final Red Lines are crossed... US Armageddon Nukes coming to Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany- NATO Generals Ecstatic

Zakharova pointed out that said missions are based on the forward deployment of US weapons in Europe “thousands of kilometers away from the US national territory and within operational reach of Russian territory.”

Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that NATO member states have begun consultations on the need to put nuclear weapons on alert. He also said that the United States and its European allies are currently updating their nuclear arsenals.

If Russia is attacked it will be already too late for us to demonstrate or complain, as it will have no choice in the first minutes but to unleash a Nuclear Response. Firing just one of their new hypersonic unstoppable 200 ton Russian Sarmat-2 missiles (known as Satan-2) would release a dozen 750,000 tons (kilotons) of tnt each warhead, destroying all of Poland and its people in less than 5 minutes.

Followed by destruction of the whole planet. Really! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat

A successful test of the now deployed Russian Satan-2 in April 2022 «saw the RS-28 traverse roughly 3700 miles in 20 minutes—equating to an average speed of Mach 14.5, or over three miles per second».

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Moscow reveals details of Ukrainian attack on nuclear power plant October 29, 2023

‘Smart’ US nukes for ‘Nuclear First Strike’ coming now to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands

You can Dial Up the Destructive Power of these Cool New little Nukes to 50,000 tons of TNT equivalent – –

Without asking! US sends First Strike Nukes to Europe and UK – for wonky F35 jets-max 83 Hiroshimas each—abril 24, 2023

The F16 attacks will rely on integrated US drone, satellite and starlink systems, likely from NATO bases in Poland and Germany, and linking via their underground bunkers in Ukraine

The future will always be weird… for inhabitants of the present

by Indie Research.net 24 /6/24

“I use a theoretical approach that draws on the notion of sediments of time”
(Reinhart Koselleck)

To celebrate its 50th anniversary the Review of International Studies has just published a Special issue examining the challenges facing global politics for the next 50 years:

Like many modern social sciences, IR has regularly turned its attention backwards towards its historical origins… Looking to the past has been an exercise in contextualising and making sense of present disciplinary understandings…. Rather than revisit the past again, therefore, the editorial team chose to invite authors to look towards the future.

Ten contributions identify several recurrent and salient issues raised by the task of thinking about the next 50 years:

How to think about the future
Revisiting the past in order to interrogate legacy “narratives” and identify their influence on our view and understanding of the present and the possible futures.
How technological change mediates, and often directly generates, power relations and their changes over time.
Trajectories of socio-technical change over the last 200 years which have left us with a range of socio-ecological crises which operate at a planetary scale.

In this post, I want to highlight two papers profiling a single key idea: Thinking about the future with our present conceptual baggage is like thinking of travelling to the stars on a chariot or dreaming about freedom inside a jail.

The control of the future?

The idea is well captured in Mark Lazy’s paper¹ “The Future of Control/The Control of the Future:”

In this article, I want to suggest that, while it might be risky to predict specific events or the emergence of specific technologies, I think we can provide a ‘sketch’ of the challenges and desires that might be central to the political, economic, social, and ethical problems that will intensify in the years out to 2074.

He beging describing how Gilles Deleuze suggested in the 1980s that surveillance could become ubiquitous. The multiplication of security challenges, together with technologies and actors, in particular non-state actors, will likely continue to accelerate over the next 50 years. The desire for control is fundamental to the politics of security in modernity.

States will seek to produce societies of control to produce order and security in a situation of domestic disruption and foreign ‘interference’
Individuals, groups, and non-state actors might be able to engage in activities with dramatic impacts, the type of actions previously only states would be able to orchestrate: individuals exploring technology and biology, groups exploring the possibilities of AI for nefarious activities, criminals exploring the potential of robotics (and AI and robotics) to create new crimes of the future.