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Demonstrators shout anti-government slogans as one of them carry a placard with a picture of Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during a protest against internet censorship in Istanbul May 15, 2011. Thousands of people marched in central Istanbul to protest against the government’s plan to filter the internet. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY – Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) TEMPLATE OUT – RTR2MG6MTurkish anti riot police officers block People’ Democracy Party’s (HDP) headquarter as HDP members call a protest against Turkey’s “Olive Branch” operation in Syria on January 21, 2018 in Diyarbakir. Turkey on January 20 launched operation “Olive Branch”
”Updated balance of SDFs of Turkish terrorist attacks with 405 deaths up to Saturday, January 27, 2018.” The SDF detail 308 ‘Turkish and mercenary’ and 97 local deaths so far ” But Erdogan’s invading forces proudly claim to have murdered nearly 500 local people.
some of the volunteers from the self defense forces killed by the Turkish invasion
from Forces Democràtiques Sirianes ”The Central Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDR) has issued a STATEMENT on the ongoing confrontations with the Turkish army. In the same he reports that in the last seven days 308 Turkish soldiers and mercenaries, including four officers and a leader of the Turkish bands, died. 54 civilians died and 134 were injured by terrorist attacks by the Turkish army. Finally, 43 SDF combatants lost their lives during the fighting.
note: hundreds of journalists have been jailed in Turkey and exiled reporters have received death threats on state TV.. “Blow the brains out of three or five of them. Look how frightened they’ll be,” (see link below post). This post is shared public information and does not necessarily reflect the views of the blogger.
Turkish terrorist aviation attacked the people of Jilbir. Located in the district of Sherawa, Jilbir has been the victim of an overwhelming massacre of which the victims have not yet totaled. Several children have been charred by the Turkish terrorist bombs in which it is possibly the worst terrorist massacre of what we endure in 2018. And the terrorists are the second NATO armyHundreds of aerial bombings have been reported. . … more photos of Turkish atrocities in Afrin. HERE http://kurdiscat.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/turquia-comet-una-matanca-de-criatures.html
SDF: Turkish attacks on Afrin repelled and the area was cleared of gangs
AFRIN (ANF) – Syrian Democratic Forces General Command released a statement about the latest situation in the Turkish state’s invasion operation against Afrin Canton of Rojava. Full text of the statement is as follows; “Turkey tries to realize its plans on the region by deceiving the peoples of the region. Turkish occupation army, with the mercenaries it has long been training in Turkey, wants to sow the seeds of hostility between Arab and Kurdish entities of Afrin. Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries tried to invade parts of Afrin under the cover of Turkish air force, tanks and artillery shelling.
The local YPG volunteers proudly post a video of the destruction of an invading Turkish tank. But Turkey has the 2nd army in Nato with 1000’s of tanks and has been given a free hand by Russia for round the clock aerial bombing.
Our forces have been carrying out a special operation on Turkish troops and terrorists in the last few hours. As the operation and clashes continue heavily, current results are as following; The operation has been taking place in five different areas. Adah Manli, Shadia and Surka villages of Raju district and Shinkal village of Bulbul district have been fully cleared off Turkish troops and the mercenaries. Intense clashes at some parts of the border area are continuing. Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries’ attempts to enter Afrin once again failed. Turkish occupation army, who failed advance into Afrin on the ground, once again targeted civilians with multiple airstrikes. The bombardment carried out on Rubar IDP camp, Cilbir village of Sherawa district and the area surrounding Afrin city center caused many civilian deaths. Turkish occupation army attacks Reyhanli district of Hatay city itself only to legitimate the ongoing massacre and blames our forces for this. We once again stress that we have nothing to do in shelling civilian settlements. We never target the territory outside of our borders. We once again stress that the social media rumors and the allegations delivered by some media outlets should not be trusted unless officially confirmed by General Command statements. SDF General Command will keep the public up to date about the results of the battle and resistance. During the clashes that are still going on, a number of Turkish soldiers and its mercenaries were killed. Detailed statement on theresults of the attacks and our resistance is going to be issued later.” from .. http://kurdishdailynews.org/2018/01/21/sdf-turkish-attacks-afrin-repelled-area-cleared-gangs/
Turkish anti riot police officers block People’ Democracy Party’s (HDP) headquarter as HDP members call a protest against Turkey’s “Olive Branch” operation in Syria on January 21, 2018 in Diyarbakir. Turkey on January 20 launched operation “Olive Branch”. 35 people were ordered arrested for posting tweets against the invasion. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday warned the HDP not to take to the streets to protest the operation in Afrin: “You are being closely followed. If you try to take to the streets, know that our security forces will be at your neck.” “If anyone is in the streets upon calls [from the HDP], they will pay dearly for it. This is a national fight, and whoever opposes us will be crushed.” Erdoğan added. from: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/01/21/erdogan-threatens-hdp-over-afrin-whoever-opposes-us-will-be-crushed/
Erdoğan’s news agency targets exiled journalists over Afrin messages
”Aydın Ünal, a former speechwriter of President Erdoğan and current Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy, warned Turkish journalists in exile of extrajudicial killings in a column published on Dec. 4 in the pro-Erdoğan Yeni Şafak daily.
The AKP deputy listed the names of journalists to be targeted: Ekrem Dumanlı, Adem Yavuz Arslan, Celil Sağır, Bülent Keneş, Abdülhamit Bilici, Erhan Başyurt, Emre Uslu, Akın İpek and Can Dündar.” ”In an undated video of a live TV program shared last month on social media, journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, staunch supporters of President Erdoğan, called on the Turkish intelligence service to assassinate former Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı and columnists Emre Uslu, Abdullah Bozkurt and İhsan Yılmaz: “Blow the brains out of three or five of them. Look how frightened they’ll be,” he said. from https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/01/22/erdogans-news-agency-targets-exiled-journalists-over-afrin-messages/
Mercenary-terrorists confess being trained in Turkey
”Turkey has been training thousands of terrorists to attack the Kurds, many of them forced to join up as their salaries (via Saudi, Qatar, the US, etc) have been cut as the Syrian war winds down. A number of them are thought to be ex ISIS jihadists. .. earlier report:… Terrorist Mohammad Aqel Akk said U.S, Qatari and Saudi personnel trained them for 45 days in Salqin, Idleb and later they went to complete their training in Turkey where every trainee was given USD 200.
“We then returned to Aleppo and commenced a huge attack on army posts in Aleppo, but our operation was a failure and we got caught,” he added. https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/terrorists-confession
International academics: “An attack against the peaceful citizens of Efrîn is a flagrant act of aggression against a region and a peaceful and democratically governed population” Saturday, January 20, 2018
We, the undersigned academics and human rights activists, demand that the leaders of Russia, Iran and the United States ensure that Turkey does not break the sovereignty of the Syrian borders and that the people of Efrîn in Syria can live in peace.
In Efrîn, the mostly Kurdish population, is one of the most stable and secure regions in Syria. With very little international help, Efrîn has hosted so many Syrian refugees in the last five years that its population has doubled to 400,000. Efrîn is now surrounded by enemies: jihadist groups backed by Turkey, al-Qaeda and Turkey itself.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to attack the YPG Kurds or the Popular Protection Units, with which the United States has allied themselves against IS.
Turkey accuses YPG of being “terrorists” despite the long history of YPG of creating democratic local government councils in each of the peoples that have freed from IS and its repeated statements that are not interested in Turkey and that they want to function only as the defense of the Syrian Kurds and other ethnic groups living in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), also known as “Rojava”, which includes Efrîn.Continue reading “Chomsky and Human Rights Activists defend Efrîn (Afrin) from Terrorist Turkey”
Turkish invasion against Efrîn already with 7 dead and 17 injured on Saturday, January 20, 2018 The Turkish terrorist operation began yesterday January 19 with a low profile. Twenty vehicles transported Idlib Islamists to Kilis across Turkish territory.
In Efrîn it has been raining for days, in spite of this, from Azaz and Al Bab 2 columns of Turkish mercenaries attacked the region of Shehba, located between Manbij and Efrîn. The first ran into the defensive lines of Jaish al Thuwar (JaT, Army of the Revolutionaries). The towns of Hezwan and Ziwan were victims of the attacks of the Erdogan hordes. The mercenaries, however, retired defeated by Jaish in the Thuwar, with support from Jabhat al-Akrad, with 4 dead and 5 wounded. Allied forces pursued and attackedTurkish positions in Mare and El Bab.
A second Turkish column attacked the villages of Şexaqi and Tiwes, north-east of Bab. Erdogan’s mercenaries withdrew with two dead and 12 injured.
The artillery attacks on Efrîn continue (and air attacks begin)The Turkish terrorist bombs fell on the civil zones of Rajo, Sherawa, Bilbile and Shiye, in the Kurdish corner, and Herbel, Um El-Hosh and Tel Rifa’at, in the north of Aleppo.
International academics: “An attack against the peaceful citizens of Efrîn is a flagrant act of aggression against a region and a peaceful and democratically governed population” to Saturday, January 20, 2018
We, the undersigned academics and human rights activists, demand that the leaders of Russia, Iran and the United States ensure that Turkey does not break the sovereignty of the Syrian borders and that the people of Efrîn in Syria can live in peace.
In Efrîn, the mostly Kurdish population, is one of the most stable and secure regions in Syria. With very little international help, Efrîn has hosted so many Syrian refugees in the last five years that its population has doubled to 400,000. Efrîn is now surrounded by enemies: jihadist groups backed by Turkey, al-Qaeda and Turkey itself. Continue reading “updated..Turkish Terrorist Erdogan orders Bombing of Afrin in new Outrage”
by Pablo Heraklio The anarchist militant and libertarian economist Abraham Guillén Sanz wasn born on March 9, 1913 in Corduente (Guadalajara, Spain), in a peasant family,
PDF book about the economics of the Spanish libertarian collectives 1936-1939.. An improved attempt at describing the possibilities of how production and distribution might be organised on libertarian communist linesfrom an anarcho-syndicalist perspective has been made by SolFed here: http://www.solfed.org.uk/solfed/the-economics-of-freedom
As a young man he did agricultural work and worked extracting resin. Then he studied in Madrid on a scholarship from the republican authorities. Affiliated with the Young Libertarian Youth, he was also a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI).
During the first months of the Revolution and Civil War he was director of Juventud Libre (Free Youth), published by the Peninsular Committee of the Libertarian Youth. He was also editor of Castilla Libre and CNT. He went to the front lines and from 1938 he was political commissar in the XIV Division and the IV Army Corps, commanded by Cipriano Mera. He was also a leader of the Nosotros Group and a spokesman for FAI, the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) and the Iron Column in Valencia.
The end of the war found him in Alicante, where he was arrested in the port. He was convicted by a Francoist War court which asked for the death penalty. Later it was commuted to the penalty of 20 years...
He was transferred to the penitentiary colony of Añover de Tajo, from where he escaped in 1942.
Then he was part of the National Committee of the clandestine CNT until his arrest in 1943.
Locked in the jail of Carabanchel, he escaped again on New Year’s Eve that same year and, helped by a clan of libertarian gypsies, he went to France in 1944.
In French exile he was editor of the underground publication of the Solidaridad Obrera newspaper wirth Laureano Cerrada and later became involved in the activities of the pro-Communist Supreme Junta of the Spanish National Union (UNE), for which he was expelled from the CNT on February 1 of 1946. He was rehabilitated with the arrival of Germinal Esgleas with the exiled cpmrades.
In 1948 he emigrated to Argentina and spent time in Uruguay and Cuba. During Peronism he edited ‘Economy and Finance’. In Buenos Aires he graduated in Economics and became Professor of Political Economy and Director of Economic Research in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires.
In Argentina he collaborated in several newspapers, such as El Laboralista y Democracia, in Montevideo de Accion, and in Lima de La Prensa. He was also an economic advisor to the University of Labor of Uruguay and internationalist expert of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in self-management economy and cooperative development in Peru.
note: ‘Libertarian’ in this translation just means anarchist in the Spanish sense of collective revolution, not in the rightwing US sense..
In 1961 he was imprisoned for a few months accused of being a member of the Uturuncos, active guerrillas in northwestern Argentina during 1960 and 1961; As a result of this, he requested political asylum in Uruguay in 1962 and, shortly after, he got in touch with the revolutionary elements of this country. During these years he was closely investigated by the Latin American and North American intelligence services.
When Franco died, he returned to the Peninsula and in recent years stood out as a lecturer and essay writer in the libertarian press (Anarkia, Year Zero, Bicycle, Cenit, CNT, Espoir, Icaria, Ideas-Orto, Libertarian History, Letter A , Nahia, El Olivo del Oho, Workers Solidarity, Land and Freedom, Working Life, etc.).Abraham Guillén, 1989
His name – he also used pseudonyms (Jaime de las Heras, Fernando Molina, Arapey, etc. – became popular as an expert in urban guerrilla techniques, in multinationals, in self-management and in issues related to the war in Spain and the degeneration of communism.
For many, he was the creator of the urban guerrilla and its practical American configurations (tupamaros, uturuncos, etc.); some have described him as anarcomarxista and guevarista.
Abraham Guillén Sanz died on August 1, 1993 in Madrid (Spain). Professor Donald C. Hodges gave an important part of the personal file of Abraham Guillén in the George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida, USA).
Source – PACO HEALTH: ABRAHAN GUILLEN SANZ – ECONOMIST, ANARCHIST AND CREATOR OF THE URBAN GUERRILLERA 25.10.2017
original en castellano
martes, 2 de enero de 2018
Abraham Guillén Sanz – economista, anarquista y creador de la guerrilla urbana
Abraham Guillén Sanz – economista, anarquista y creador de la guerrilla urbana
El 9 de marzo de 1913 – según algunos el 13 de marzo – nace en Corduente (Guadalajara, Castilla, España), en una familia campesina, el militante anarquista y economista libertario Abraham Guillén Sanz.
De joven hizo tareas agrícolas y trabajó extrayendo resina. Luego estudió en Madrid becado por las autoridades republicanas. Afiliado a las Juventudes Libertarias de bien jovencito, fue también miembro de la Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) y de la Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI).
Durante los primeros meses de la Guerra Civil fue director de Juventud Libre, editada por el Comité Peninsular de las Juventudes Libertarias. También fue redactor de Castilla Libre y de CNT. Marchó al frente y a partir de 1938 fue comisario político en la XIV División y del IV Cuerpo del Ejército, comandado por Cipriano Mera.
También dirigió Nosotros, portavoz de FAI, de la Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL) y de la Columna de Hierro en Valencia.
El final de la guerra lo sorprendió en Alicante, donde fue detenido en el puerto. Condenado por un tribunal de guerra franquista, que le pidió la pena de muerte. Posteriormente fue conmutada durante el proceso por la pena de 20 años.
Fue trasladado a la colonia penitenciaria de Añover de Tajo, de donde pudo evadirse en 1942.
Luego formó parte del Comité Nacional de la CNT clandestina hasta su detención en 1943.
Encerrado en la cárcel de Carabanchel, pudo huir la noche de Fin de Año de ese mismo año y, ayudado por un clan de gitanos libertarios, pasó a Francia en 1944.
En el exilio francés dirigió en la sombra Solidaridad Obrera en la época de Laureano Cerrada y más tarde se implicó en las actividades de la procomunista Junta Suprema de la Unión Nacional Española (UNE), por lo que fue expulsado de la CNT el 1 de febrero de 1946. Fue rehabilitado con la llegada de Germinal Esgleas a la dirección del exilio.
En 1948 emigra a la Argentina y pasó un tiempo en Uruguay y Cuba. Durante el peronismo editó Economía y finanzas. En Buenos Aires se licenció en Económicas y fue profesor de Economía Política y director de Investigación Económica de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de Buenos Aires.
En Argentina colaboró en diversos periódicos, como El Laboralista y Democracia, en Montevideo de Acción, y en Lima de La Prensa. También fue asesor económico de la Universidad del Trabajo de Uruguay y experto internacionalista de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) en economía autogestionaria y desarrollo cooperativo en Perú.
En 1961 fue encarcelado durante unos meses acusado de ser miembro de los uturuncos, guerrilla activa en el noroeste de la Argentina durante 1960 y 1961; raíz de este hecho pidió asilo político en Uruguay en 1962 y, poco después, se puso en contacto con los elementos revolucionarios de este país. Durante estos años fue investigado de cerca por los servicios de inteligencia latinoamericanos y norteamericanos.
Al morir Franco, regresó a la Península y en los últimos años destacó como conferenciante y escritor de ensayos en la prensa libertaria (Anarkia, Año Zero, Bicicleta, Cenit, CNT, Espoir, Icaria, Ideas-Orto, Historia Libertaria, La Letra A, Nahia, El Olivo del Búho, Solidaridad Obrera, Tierra y Libertad, Vida Obrera, etc.).
Su nombre – también usó seudónimos (Jaime de las Heras, Fernando Molina, Arapey, etc. – se popularizó como experto en técnicas de guerrilla urbana, en multinacionales, en autogestión y en temas relacionados con la guerra España y la degeneración del comunismo.
Para muchos, fue el creador de la guerrilla urbana y de sus plasmaciones prácticas americanas (tupamaros, uturuncos, etc.); algunos lo han calificado de anarcomarxista y guevarista.
Abraham Guillén Sanz murió el 1 de agosto de 1993 en Madrid (España ). El profesor Donald C. Hodges dio una importante parte del archivo personal de Abraham Guillén en la George A. Smathers Libraries de la Universidad de Florida (Gainesville, Florida, EE.UU.).
Bibliografía Es autor de una cincuentena de libros sobre economía, política, filosofía, estrategia, historia, etc., entre los que podemos destacar:
El destino de Hispanoamérica (1952)
Monopolios y latifundios contra la economía argentina (1956)
Radiografía del plan Prebisch (1956)
La oligarquía en la crisis de la economía argentina (1956)
La agonía del imperialismo (1957), Historia de la revolución española (1961)
El imperialismo del dólar (1962)
25 años de economía franquista (1964)
Estrategia de la guerrilla urbana (1965)
Teoría de la violencia (1965)
La Segunda revolución española (1965)
Uruguay: país en crisis (1966)
Dialéctica de la política (1967)
El dilema económico de América Latina (1967)
Checoslovaquia 1968 (1968, con otros)
Pesca industrial y desarrollo económico (1968)
Desafío al Pentágono (1969)
La rebelión del tercer mundo (1969)
Democracia directa (1970)
Socialismo de autogestión. Del utopía a la realidad (1971)
La década crítica de América Latina (1972)
La caída del dólar (1972)
La colonización financiera del FMI (1973)
La élite del poder en España (1973)
Philosophy of the urban guerrilla (1973)
Poder y crisis del dólar (1973)
El cooperativismo Peruano (1975)
La larga crisis de América Latina (1975)
Explosión demográfica, latifundios y revoluciones en América Latina (1975)
El «Gap» tecnológico entre las dos Américas (1975 )
Las inversiones Extranjeras en América Latina (1975)
La propiedad social, modelo peruana de autogestión (Lima 1976)
LTT-IBM en España (1977)
Revalorización de la guerrilla urbana (1977, con Hodges), Guerrilla Y (1978 , con otros)
El capitalismo soviético: última etapa del imperialismo (1979)
By: thecollectiveThe following zines were published over the past month or so within the broad anarchist space. As always, we encourage folks to read, discuss, and engage with the ideas within. Organizing study groups, talk about them with your friends, leave copies in random places, or write scathing critiques of the ideas contained within and circulate them widely. Anarchist ideas are sharper when accompanied by a robust dialog and debate.
If you have suggestions for titles to include next month, let us know.
Below & Beyond Trump: Power and Counter-Power in 2017
This is a “strategy and analysis document” published by the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. It provides an analysis of the political context for social anarchists in 2017 and the prospects for “pro-organizational revolutionary anarchists” to intervene in the current period. The documents focuses on (briefly) understanding ruling class power, social movements, and offers suggestions for a path forward. In response to their understanding of the contemporary period, they call for building social movements from below, offensive campaigns, and developing explicitly socialist practices and programs. It reads a lot like a political party platform with a lot of vague statements, sloganeering, and solutions.
This is the fourth issue of a counter-information project based in Bloomington, Indiana called Plain Words. This issue features a few reports on actions in Bloomington (anti-logging and grand jury solidarity) alongside a number of longer essays. The stand-outs include “Mirror, Kaleidoscope, Dagger: What is Anarchism?” and an essay remembering the life of Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg.Continue reading “9 Anarchist Zines from December 2017, free download”
Continue reading “Boycott Turkey: 449 Twitter and Facebook users Arrested for opposing Afrin Slaughter”
We, the undersigned academics and human rights activists, demand that the leaders of Russia, Iran and the United States ensure that Turkey does not break the sovereignty of the Syrian borders and that the people of Efrîn in Syria can live in peace.
We, the undersigned academics and human rights activists, demand that the leaders of Russia, Iran and the United States ensure that Turkey does not break the sovereignty of the Syrian borders and that the people of Efrîn in Syria can live in peace.
The Free 