‘In a world ruled by ceaseless capitalist competition, where people are pitted to work against each other, anarchists offer a different vision: Mutual Aid. Continue reading “What Is Mutual Aid.. Great Submedia Video”
translated from Kurdish CAT with thanks, original below
A brigade of the Free Syrian Army (FSA, Free Syrian Army) has joined the SDF ( Syrian Democratic Forces) . The integration was announced at a press conference in the city of Al-Hasakah.
The Union of Free Officers announced they were leaving the ranks of the FSA and joining the self-defense forces. Their representatives expressed a strong aversion to the type of Islam that has been permeating the FSA. In the beginning this revolutionary movement was born in lay and secular sectors opposed to the Assad dictatorship… continues below
What is the SDF?… a fast expanding multi ethnic, multi religion, anti sexist, non authoritarian federation
by wikipedia... Since its founding last year dozens of rebel militias of all ethnic and religious hues have flocked to join the SDF (see long list and details below), as they can retain their identities and participate equally, embracing the new ideology of ‘Democratic Confederalism’ of the Rojava revolution. By May 2016 the SDF had up to 80,000 fighters and the percentage of Kurds was only about 60% and falling (wikipedia). Continue reading “Rojava Revolution gets support: Mass Desertions to join SDF”
About 120,000 women have taken to the streets to celebrate the end of the three day 31 st National Meeting of Women in Rosario (Argentina). After holding fruitful workshops, they held a march to demand the recognition of the rights and freedoms of women.
The massive march took place after two days of meetings on a date that has become one of the most important for women in Latin America.
The peaceful women’s march was suppressed by troops and police forces, who fired rubber bullets and gas at the demonstrators for several hours, causing at least 17 injuries.
The workshops which had the greatest participation and had to be replicated were the strategies for abortion, relationships, violence, maltreatment and abuse, femicide, trafficking and sexual exploitation, trade unions, indigenous peoples, unemployment, contraception and abortion and feminization of poverty.
The Women’s meetup culminated Monday in the city of Rosario, with a strong demand for budget increases to enforce the law on protection against domestic violence, the declaration of national emergency to stop femicide murders and a celebration of the size and success of the conference, which brought together over 70,000 women from across the country. Continue reading “120,000 celebrate Women’s Meetup.. Police attack final Rosario Demo: videos”
The police and the carabinieri surrounded the block and raided the 
building, beating people and even using pepper spray, the residents say.
The newly elected council member for the housing emergency, Virginia Gieri, said that the residents “came out peacefully”, but the residents and witnesses say something different. One man passed out after he was beaten and another person was injured.
Gieri, a loyal follower of Renzi, was appointed to the delicate job of being in charge of the housing emergency in Bologna, after the last incumbent, Amelia Frascaroli, was considered to be too soft.
Renzi’s government is holding a line of absolute repression against housing occupations, and PD local authorities all over Italy are toeing this line, even in places – like Bologna – where the party claims to be more “tolerant” and to have a welfare-oriented tradition. Continue reading “Last housing Occupation in Bologna has been evicted”
The Canica Dispossessed Bank will house the Exchange Network of the same name and the Neighbourhood Solidarity Economy
translated from Diagonal by The Free
La Canica is an exchange network established for some time in various neighborhoods, which has a social currency alternative to the euro and is already promoting, with some success, the formation of cooperatives and collectivization of resources and means of production.
Now an ex Bankia branch has been occupied as a social center, using the same name La Canica.
This former branch of Bankia in Lavapies (Madrid) suffered dozens of demonstrations by the Housing Assemblies. In it, from 2012 activists managed to cripple dozens of evictions and force the signing of many social rent contracts. A couple of years later, Bankia decided to close it down. Continue reading “Anti-money exchange Network Occupies ex Bankia branch”
It hardly seems necessary to summarize what has gone down inside U.S. prisons since September 9th. Hunger strikes, work stoppages, and riots have spread throughout the country on a scale that we likely aren’t even fully aware of yet.
Some uprisings appeared took us by surprise, such as in several Florida prisons, while others presumably grew from recent organizing endeavors on the inside, such as at Kinross in Michigan or Holman in Alabama. By rough estimates, over 20,000 prisoners were involved in some way. That’s huge.
On the outside, solidarity burned so brightly all over the world. Banner drops, graffiti slogans, noise demonstrations and more showed that we had the backs of all who would partake in the strike. It is worth noting however that the vast majority of this took place the first weekend of the strike. Continue reading “Call for renewed Worldwide Actions in Solidarity with Prison Strike, Oct 15-22”
Public Killing and Torturing bulls will be legalised again in Catalunya by order of the central government. This is the latest of a series of blatantly anti Catalan orders by the Spanish Constitutional and Supreme Courts.
The Courts are politically controlled and have always supported dubious, self serving and even openly fascist proposals instigated by the far right 1% and the Catholic Church. The ban on bullfighting in Catalonia is seen as a traitorous way of asserting that ‘Catalonia is not Spain’.
Bullfighting is defined (by them) as “common cultural heritage” of Spain and can not be vetoed by a regional law, says the court, due to a clause in the Constitution which gives cultural heritage to the Central Government.
Bullfighting is the cultural heritage of the Conquest, in Spain it represents the exaltation of torture and legitimation of authoritarian male abuse and violence. Continue reading “Spanish State forces Bullfighting on Catalans”
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