Towards Womens’ Freedom: collective manifesto of the WSM (Ireland)

UPDATED: The Workers Solidarity Movement’s collectively agreed position on women’s freedom.

1. We recognise that women are specially oppressed as a gender, that they face oppression as women. We call this oppression sexism. As anarchists we oppose sexism wherever it exists on principle and in practice.

2.1 The nature of women’s oppression has changed as societies have developed. For example, the oppression of women that might have existed in some pre-class societies assumed a fundamentally new character with the development of class society. Just as the oppression of women in feudal societies changed its character with the development of capitalism.

2.2 We reject the idea that women are in any way inferior to men or that women are biologically predisposed to assume certain roles in society. Sexism, racism etc are not genetic traits but, rather, are formed by social existence, upbringing and education.

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Ecuador: Denuncian cierre eminente de Acción Ecológica

QUITO. La activista Esperanza Martínez (c), de Acción Ecológica, se solidarizó con la fundación Pachamama. Estuardo Vera

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Urgente! COMUNICADO POR EL CIERRE INMINENTE DE ACCIÓN ECOLÓGICA

20 Dic 2016

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Acción Ecológica denuncia la solicitud de procedimiento administrativo de cierre (extinción y disolución) de nuestra organización solicitada por Diego Torres Saldaña, Vice-Ministro de Seguridad Interna, al Ministro del Ambiente, por desviarnos de los fines y objetivos para los cuales fuimos constituidas.

Esta decisión administrativa, de acuerdo a la notificación del Ministerio del Interior al Ministerio del Ambiente (MDI-VSI-2016-00033), fue tomada por difundir “los graves impactos ambientales y al ecosistema que resultarían de la actividad extractivista” en la Cordillera del Cóndor y por alertar sobre la violación de derechos humanos de las comunidades que viven en esta zona. Debemos decir, que son precisamente estos objetivos por los cuales se constituyó Acción Ecológica, como lo señala el artículo 2 de nuestro estatuto: “Promover la defensa de los…

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Anarchists Monica and Francisco Win Jail Cut to 4 yrs 6 Months

It should have been an acquittal. This was a political show trial with lots of media hype over what was basically a large firework. The aim of the police was to link Monica and Francisco with anarchists arrested on suspicion in the Piñata and Pandora police raids and brand them all as terrorists in an organisation called GAC.

None of this worked out for them despite choosing rabid far right prosecutors and magistrates. There was extensive solidarity and support and instead of 44 years they got 12 years jail, on the basis of blurry security camera photos that ”proved” they were in the city at the time.

Now the Supreme Court has reduced that to 4 and a half and since they have already endured nearly 3 years incarceration we will be planning freedom celebrations soon!!

….media circus inventing the ''shocking destruction'' after the ”bomb” which Monica and Fran are accused of planting in the Zaragoza Basilica, symbol of the Catholic/Fascist dictatorship… State demanded 44 yrs jail each with zero evidence. — ….media circus inventing the ”shocking destruction” after the ”bomb” which Monica and Fran are accused of planting in the Zaragoza Basilica, symbol of the Catholic/Fascist dictatorship… State demanded 44 yrs jail each with zero evidence.

After 3 years in jail the Supreme Court has reduced the sentence from twelve years to four and a half years for two Chilean anarchist militants who supposedly attacked the Basilica of El Pilar de Zaragoza Continue reading “Anarchists Monica and Francisco Win Jail Cut to 4 yrs 6 Months”

Erdogan Jails and Tortures 195,000 People who Might not Like Him. 512 Kids under 6 Years. 5,971 children

from Kurdis Cat, transalation thefreeonline

The few hours that the assault lasted are serving the Turkish president very well. Without any trial, without evidence, without elements of judgment, without international observers, Erdogan continues with his purge … without limits.

Thousands of Turkey coup prisoners ‘raped, starved and hogtied’

A state Emergency Decree, has served, to detain 195,000 opponents, dissidents or simply unconnected people. The figures have been compiled by the Istanbul Human Rights Association (İHD) which has presented them in front of Bakırköy women’s prison.

see also: Torture rife in Turkish prisons: Journalism breathes its last

The report stressed that women prisoners are ‘being killed by solitary confinement’, it demanded the release of the women prisoners with illnesses and denounced the defenceless situation of the children who are incarcerated with their mothers.

In total there are 510 children prisoners under 6 years old.

see also: Beating, torture and religious imposition inside children and youth prison

The association has estimated that there are 5,971 minors in Erdogan’s prisons and 79 LGBT prisoners.

The main problems faced by prisoners of Erdogan are poor nutrition and unhealthy food that cause stomach upsets and poor hygiene in cells of 6-7 people.

see also: Turkey: Systematic Torture, Rape of Political Prisoners

However, the worst situation is for political prisoners: they are subjected to torture in jail and forced nudity.

information from: La Asociación de Derechos Humanos ( İHD)

comments:

..’Erdogan is by now clearly mentally unfit to hold office. His worsening paranoid schizophrenic symptoms, linked to his extreme megalomania has led him to force a civil war with the 18 million Kurdish minority, who were well embarked on a process of peaceful integration. Gaining popularity and power in a controlled press by his xenophobic excesses his paranoid obsession with possible enemies has nevertheless let loose massive purges, torture, blackmail and invasions in Syria and Iraq that would make dictators like Pol Pot or Josef Stalin blush’.

original en castellano

Erdogan ya ha detenido 195.000 personas desde el supuesto golpe

from Kurdis Cat, Las pocas horas que duró la asonada les están sirviendo de mucho al presidente turco. Sin ningún juicio, sin pruebas, sin elementos de juicio, sin observadores internacionales Erdogan sigue con su purga… sin límite.

El OHAL, decreto de Estado de Urgencia, ha servido, para detener a 195.000 opositores, disidentes o, simplemente, no afectos. Las cifras las ha recopilado la Asociación de Derechos Humanos ( İHD) de Estambul que las ha presentado frente a la prisión de mujeres de Bakırköy.

En la misma denunció que “el aislamiento de las presas las mata”, solicitó la libertad de las presas enfermas y denunció la situación de indefensión de los niños que están encarcelados con sus madres.

En total se trata de 510 menores de 6 años.

La asociación ha cifrado en 5.971 las personas menores de edad que están en cárceles de Erdogan y 79 más por ser LGTB.

Los principales problemas que sufren los presos de Erdogan son una nutrición muy deficiente y con alimentos poco saludables que originan en el malestar estomacal o falta de higiene en celdas de 6-7 personas.

Sin embargo la situación peor es para los/las presos/as políticos/as: son sometidos/as a torturas en la cárcel y a desnudos forzados.