# RiseUp4Rojava – 27 /28 Jan’19 – Where actions take place

Many organizations and groups around the world followed the call of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, to defend the revolution in Rojava. We want to share some of the events, that will happen in this global days of actions. More will come…
Demonstrations, Meetings and other Events:

New: Magdeburg (Germany)
Protest: Monday 28. January, 6pm
Breiter Weg (on front of Karstadt) Magdeburg
Solidaritätsbündnis Kurdistan-Magdeburg

New: Heraklio (Crete / Greece)
Demonstration: Sunday 27. January, 12pm
Lion Square
Hevalên Girîtê

New: Stockholm (Sweden)
Protest: Monday 28. January, 4pm
Olof Palmes gata 17, SE-111 22 Stockholm, Sverige
SAAB’s head office in Stockholm
„No Support For Erdogan“

New: Malmö (Sweden)
Protest: Monday 28. January, 12pm
Rönnviksgatan 13, SE-213 74 Malmö, Sverige
„No Support For Erdogan“

Gaspé (Canada)
Info, Film & Discussion: Sunday 27. January, 5pm
Centre communautaire Douglas Community Center, 28 St-Patrick Avenue, Gaspé G4X 2Y2
Réseau Libertaire Brume NoireMadrid (Spain)
Demonstration: Sunday 27. January, 12pm
Tirso de Molina Square, Madrid
Azadî. Plataforma de Solidaritat amb el Poble Kurd

Free OcalanBarcelona (Catalonia)
Demonstration: Sunday 27. January 2pm,
Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, M/L3 Zona Universitaria, Barcelona
Azadî. Plataforma de Solidaritat amb el Poble Kurd

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March 8 Feminist General Strike plans: Spreading Wildfire

UPDATE: The call for a feminist General Strike, at work and at home  is spreading around the world and extending for more days. Reports are appearing of extensive organising, especially in Spain, Italy, Rojava and Brazil.

Again this year it will be the minority CNT and CGT anarcho-syndicalist trade unions who call the Feminist General Strike on 8th March International Women Workers Day in Spain. This strike registration gives the huge popular  ‘Work and Home’ feminist strike some legal protection against continuous State attacks.


Read in …Castellano Spanish  | Catalá | Galego

CNT STATEMENT

The National Confederation of Labor, in response to the call of the feminist movement and in accordance with the principles of the organization, will convene on March 8 a feminist general strike of 24 hours in all sectors, so that anyone from any part of the territory will have all the legal guarantees to support the strike.

  • The Spanish State is a land where the feminist fight stands strong. on January 15 there were protests of women in many cities for two reasons: 1) supporting their Andalucian sisters on the inauguration of the new right wing government of Vox-PP-Ciudadanos, and 2) uniting forces towards the 8M strike. Though the main unions (CCOO, UGT, USO) called for partial strikes, others (CGT, CNT) called for a general strike. Meaning, the movement broadens.

Almost a year after the historic 8M strike of 2018 that mobilized millions of people in defense of women’s rights, the reasons that motivated that call remain fully valid.

Women continue to face day after day a capitalist and patriarchal society that denies them the most basic right to non-discrimination.

The violence that is exerted on women, at home, in the street or at work, must be attacked and annulled by society as a whole to aspire to live in a more just and egalitarian environment.

As a union, CNT faces every day the labor discrimination suffered by women only because they are so. Neither the current legislation nor the courts protect the right of women to work on equal terms with their male colleagues.

Abusive agreements, lack of effective tools to guarantee the same salary for performances of equal value, unrecognized illnesses characteristic of work in feminized sectors, harassment and sexual abuse, are just some examples of the conditions that women live in their work environment.

Faced with this reality, CNT will summon the entire working class to a feminist general strike on March 8 to demand the elimination of the wage gap, both direct and indirect, the elimination of obstacles in access and promotion in employment (sticky soil). and glass ceiling), measures that facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life from co-responsibility, eliminate the reform of the pension law in

which only 23% of women will retire at 65, as well as the end of all discrimination at work at the service of the family home.

Like last year, CNT is positioned behind the feminist movement and, along with other social groups and organizations, will continue working to achieve a true political and social change where care is recognized, valued and shared.

Because all oppression will find the CNT in front, the 8M will go out to join our strength and contribute to the success of the call.

Permanent Secretariat of the Confederal Committee

 

 

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CNT convocará huelga general feminista de 24 horas el 8 de marzo

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Anarchist Library ..New Free Books.. Jan ’19.. Vaneigem.. Le Guin.. Öcalan .. Proudhon.. Anon.. Bookchin.. Debord..etc

Here are the links to the latest books uploaded to The Anarchist Library in the last month or so.  All are free to read online and download in various formats

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index  shared with thanks

Beyond the Impossible — Author: Raoul Vaneigem

Title: Beyond the ImpossibleDate: 2012Notes: Published in L’Impossible #2, April 2012. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! on 16 May 2012.Source: Retrieved on 17th January 2019 from http://www.notbored.org/beyond-the-impossible.htmlRaoul Vaneigem –

”Concerning the “Yellow Jackets”: Everything is possible, even self – managing assemblies in the middle of street intersections, villages and neighborhoods”Vaneigem

The Prisons Must Be Destroyed — Author: Raoul Vaneigem

Title: The Prisons Must Be DestroyedDate: 2004Notes: Written by Raoul Vaneigem in 2004. Translated from the French by Jordan M.L., 2005. Footnotes by NOT BORED!, except where noted.Source: Retrieved on 17th January 2019 from http://www.notbored.org/prisons.html

Six Questions for Raoul Vaneigem — Author: Raoul Vaneigem, Javier Urdanibia

Title: Six Questions for Raoul VaneigemSubtitle: “A Radical Change Is At Our Door”Date: 2007Notes: Questions posed in French by Javier Urdanibia. First published in Castilian in La Felguera #12, 2007. 

Printed in French as part of Vaneigem’s book L’Etat n’est plus rien, soyons tout [Editions Rue des Cascades, 2010]. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! 19 May 2012.Source: Retrieved on 17th January 2019 from http://www.notbored.org/six-questions.html

Indigenous Anarchy & The Need for a Rejection of the Colonizer’s “Civilization” — Author: ziq

Title: Indigenous Anarchy & The Need for a Rejection of the Colonizer’s “Civilization”Date: 2018-11-12Source: Retrieved on 2019-01-12 from https://raddle.me/wiki/Indigenous_AnarchyJan 13, 19

Title: Towards an Alliance of Flames in Each Indignant HeartDate: Spring 1998Source: Retrieved on 1/10/19 from https://web.archive.org/web/20020622185754/http://www.charm.net:80/~claustro/outlaw/alliance_of_flames/default.htmJan 11, 19
Title: Workers Against WorkSubDate: From Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #51, Spring/Summer 2001,Source: Retrieved on January 1, 2019 from https://web.archive.org/web/20011205102625/http://www.anarchymag.org:80/51/review_workers.htmlJan 11, 19

Guy Debord – Revolutionary — Author: John Zerzan

Title: Guy Debord – RevolutionarySubtitle: Reviewed by John ZerzanDate: From Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed #44, Fall/Winter 1997-’98, Vol. 15, No. 2Source: Retrieved on January 11, 2019 from https://archive.org/details/AnarchyAJournalOfDesireArmedNoTwoJan 11, 19

The Principle of Federation — Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Title: The Principle of FederationSubtitle: and the Need to Reconstitute the Party of RevolutionDate: 1863Notes: Translated by Richard Vernon. Only the first part and the first chapter of the second part are translated, as these were what Vernon considered “the theoretical core of the work”. Introduction and preface by Richard Vernon. Conclusion translated by Ian Harvey. Footnotes are both Vernon and Proudhon’s.Source: Retrieved on 09 December, 2018 from http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#11, introduction retrieved from http://www.ditext.com/vernon/proudhon.html and conclusion retrieved from Iain McKay’s Property Is Theft! Jan 9, 19

Title: The StraitSubtitle: Book of Obenabi. His SongsDate: 1988Notes: Black and Red, Detroit.Source: Scanned and OCR’d from the original book by a librarianJan 6, 19

The Ecology of Freedom — Author: Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin

Title: The Ecology of FreedomSubtitle: The Emergence and Dissolution of HierarchyDate: 1982Notes: Converted September 2018; Published by Cheshire BookJan 5, 19

 

My anarchism — Author: Rosa Blat

Title: My anarchismDate: 2018Notes: This text was written following the publication of « Contre l’anarchisme, un apport au débat sur les identités. [1]» It isn’t a conversation with the peddlers of ideas who let themselves spit sneakily on a diverse stream they are incapable of understanding. It is though a ”response to a response”[2] that was written answering this text, and which seemed to me as sorry as the first one was. Translation from french by Bus Stop Press.Source: original translation from frenchJan 5, 19

Trump’s Betrayal of YPG – Paris Commune Falls Again? — Author: David Van Deusen

Title: Trump’s Betrayal of YPG – Paris Commune Falls Again?Date: December, 2018Jan 5, 19

North-East of Syria, Rojava: The Kobani canton, in the Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava, more commonly known as Syrian Kurdistan or Western Kurdistan, struggles against Daesh. Here, demonstration in a street of Kobani for the release of Apo, Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Young Kurdish women in the crowd of demonstrators. (Photo by: Andia/UIG via Getty Images)

Notes on the Commune — Author: LL

Title: Notes on the CommuneDate: Spring 2012Notes: footnotes references at end are missing the textual reference.Source: copied out of Lawless: a manual for warJan 5, 19

The Witch’s Child — Author: Anonymous

Title: The Witch’s ChildDate: April 23, 2011Notes: Available in additional formats at https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2018/04/14/the-witchs-child-audiozine-2/Source: Retrieved on December 28, 2018 from https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/the-witchs-child/Jan 5, 19Anarchism at the End of the World — Author: Darren Allen

Title: Anarchism at the End of the WorldSubtitle: An Introduction to the Instinct that Won’t Go AwayDate: 10th December 2018Source: Retrieved on December 10, 2018 from http://expressiveegg.org/2018/12/10/anarchism-at-the-end-of-the-world/Jan 5, 19

Tyranny Shaken in the Caribbean — Author: Anonymous

Title: Tyranny Shaken in the CaribbeanDate: April, 1959Notes: VIEWS & COMMENTS, No. 34, April, 1959, A Libertarian League Publication, whole issue of VIEWS & COMMENTS, No. 34, April, 1959 is at http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/libertarian-league-publisher-views-comments-number-34Source: Scanned from VIEWS & COMMENTS, No. 34, April, 1959Dec 27, 18

Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona — Author: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional

Title: Sixth Declaration of the Selva LacandonaDec 26, 18Union of Bulgarian Anarchists in Exile — Author: Union of Bulgarian Anarchists in Exile

Title: Union of Bulgarian Anarchists in ExileSubtitle: Urgent and ImportantDate: Paris, April 1, 1958; New York, January, 1959Notes: Whole issue of Views & Comments number 33 is at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/libertarian-league-views-comments-number-33Source: Scanned from Views & Comments Number 33, January, 1959Dec 21, 18

Notes on the Commune — Author: LL

Title: Notes on the CommuneDate: Spring 2012Notes: footnotes references at end are missing the textual reference.Source: copied out of Lawless: a manual for warDec 21, 18

Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest Attack — Author: Flower Bomb

Title: Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest AttackSubtitle: A Response to “Beyond Negativity: What Comes After Gender Nihilism?”Date: 12/8/2018Dec 17, 18

What Is a Dispositif? — Author: Gilles Deleuze

Title: What Is a Dispositif?Date: 1992Notes: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/what%20is%20dispositif.pdfSource: Two Regimes of MadnessDec 16, 18

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From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power — Author: Giorgio Agamben

Title: From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent PowerDate: 2013Notes: Transcript of a public lecture by Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed auditorium in Athens on November 16, 2013.Source: https://roarmag.org/essays/agamben-destituent-power-democracyDec 16, 18

Social Wealth Must Belong to Those Who Created It — Author: Louis-Auguste Blanqui

Title: Social Wealth Must Belong to Those Who Created ItDate: 1834Source: Retrieved on December 8th, 2018 from https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/social-wealth-must-belong-to-those-who-created-it-february-1834Dec 16, 18

Address to the Living — Author: Raoul Vaneigem

Title: Address to the LivingSubtitle: Concerning the Death That Governs Them and the Opportuneness of the Present Moment for Getting Rid of ItDate: October 16th, 1989Notes: Translated by Jordan Levinson in 2005. Six missing paragraphs (four in “Against Anti-Terrorism” — which was missing completely, the last from “To Rediscover a Blooming Childhood…” and the first from “The Time Torn from the Living”) were subsequently translated from the printed edition, that also served as a basis for adapting segments of the text and for organizing the chapters.Source: Retrieved on October 2nd, 2018 from http://inventin.lautre.net/livres/Vaneigem-Address-to-the-living.pdfDec 16, 18

War and Peace in Kurdistan — Author: Abdullah Ocalan

Title: War and Peace in KurdistanSubtitle: Perspectives for a political solution of the Kurdish questionNotes: Published by: International Initiative Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan – Peace in KurdistanSource: http://www.freedom-for-ocalan.com/english/download/Ocalan-War-and-Peace-in-Kurdistan.pdfDec 16, 18

Interview with Abdullah Ocalan — Author: Abdullah OcalanTitle: Interview with Abdullah OcalanDate: June 1998Notes: Abdullah Öcalan: “We Are Fighting Turks Everywhere”, Middle East Quarterly, June 1998, pp. 7985, http://www.meforum.org/399/abdullahocalanwearefightingturkseverywhereSource: https://www.academia.edu/31739562/Interview_with_Abdullah_Öcalan_-_Michael_M._Gunter_1998Dec 16, The Xtended Release Manifesto — Author: Xtended Release

Title: The Xtended Release ManifestoDate: 11/06/2018Dec 16, 18

Title: Declaration on the Democratic Solution of the Kurdish QuestionSubtitle: The Defence Arguments that the Head of the PKK ABdullah Ocalan Presented at “The Trail of the Century”Date: 1999Notes: This is Ocalan’s 1999 defense in courtSource: https://web.archive.org/web/20071020183517/http://www.geocities.com/kurdifi/ocelan.htmlDec 16, 18


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#FreeWestPapua: Trans-Papua Highway.. Ecocide and Genocide for Quick Cash $$

A Highway Megaproject Tears at the Heart of New Guinea’s Rainforest

 

…. illustrations and #FreeWestPapua info added…. The Indonesian government is building a 2,700-mile road network on the island of New Guinea, opening up some of the world’s last great tropical rainforests to development and threatening unique indigenous cultures. Can international pressure force Indonesia to scale back this megaproject?

The Pacific island of New Guinea, which harbors one of the world’s largest and most intact tropical rainforests, is the epicenter of Australasia’s tropical biodiversity. The island’s unique denizens, including tree-kangaroos and birds of paradise, are representative of a regional flora and fauna so fantastically diverse that Charles Darwin once mused such creatures must have been made by a “separate Creator.” Today, researchers are still merely sampling its primeval intricacies.


The Indonesian military clears trees for a segment of the Trans-Papua Highway in northern Papua. Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace

New Guinea is also among the most culturally and linguistically diverse places on earth, with human populations that are genetically distinct from all others alive today. Not until the 1930s did the Western world discover many hundreds of unique indigenous societies in New Guinea’s vast mountains and highlands. And only in the 1950s did European colonists, miners, and loggers begin to exploit the region.

Today, these unique rainforests are being carved up by a massive, ill-advised, and exceptionally risky road-building scheme. The Trans-Papua Highway will sprawl like a massive spiderweb over much of the Indonesian-ruled, western half of New Guinea, known as Papua or West Papua.


The areas circled are projected to experience intense deforestation when the Trans-Papua Highway is completed. Courtesy of William Laurance

Totalling 2,700 miles in length, this highway network will penetrate deeply into densely forested or remote mountainous regions to increase access to minerals, fossil fuels, timber, and land for agri-business ventures, including vast palm oil plantations. Many road segments will traverse precariously steep, virgin terrain. Continue reading “#FreeWestPapua: Trans-Papua Highway.. Ecocide and Genocide for Quick Cash $$”

Climate Emergency School Strikes going Viral ..#FridaysForFuture

#FridaysForFuture: “We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not”

FridaysForFuture      Published by Enough is Enough. Written by Riot Turtle.       More and more cities across the globe are joining the Frifays for Future school strikes.

On the German territory alone students will go on strike in more than 50 cities on Friday January 18. The school strikes for climate justice were started by 16 year old Greta Thunberg last year.

Students and others hold up placards with climate messages during a demonstration against climate change in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Thousands of students as part of the Youth for Climate movement took time off school Thursday to call for stronger action against climate change. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press)

Is it an anarchist movement.? .. No its not, but many of the school strikes are self-organized and there are many cities where young anarchists are involved in the school strikes. The movement for climate justice is growing fast, many young people are getting active because they see that the “traditional” political system is not acting against climate change. Continue reading “Climate Emergency School Strikes going Viral ..#FridaysForFuture”

Police protect hired Thugs to Evict occupied Speculation Flats #AlertaDesokupa

info from  La_Directa     and  Twitter.. Violent attacks and charges were made by the Mossos local police while protecting  an illegal eviction executed by Desokupa, the private Eviction Company,  in the Poble-sec barrio of Barcelona . One supporter and three from the squatting collective were arrested, instead of the hired thugs.

”Although the converted ‘luxury’ flats were finally lost the emergency neighbourhood mobiization brought crowds of people onto the streets in record time to block the private mercenaries of the speculation company until the police charged twice”..

Two -UnSquat- thugs

This was in the context of increasing mobilizations by tenants, unions and neighbourhood groups against the wave of corporate buyouts and evictions for property speculation and gentrification in the city. Continue reading “Police protect hired Thugs to Evict occupied Speculation Flats #AlertaDesokupa”

‘Not One Step Back’ feminist demo Snowballs into a Hundred

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#NiUnPasoAtrás  (Not One Step Back) moves from Seville to a hundred cities .

 The news of the despicable Vox in power generated rage on social networks and sparked calls for multiple demonstrations and rallies

The slogans # NiUnPasoAtrásenIgualdad (Not One Step Back In Equality) and #OurRightsNoSeNegocian (Out Rights Aren’r Negotiable) have moved from Andalusia to a hundred cities throughout the State to show the rejection of the PP (Right Wing opposition) agreement with the new openly fascist party Vox to invest their candidate and control the local Parliament in Andalusia.

by Álvaro Minguito El Salto Editorial Staff    translatiions from  The Free

The first session of the Investiture Plenary Session in the Andalusian Parliament took place Tuesday morning  while on the street a huge demonstration led by the feminist movements demanded not to negotiate with the rights of women.

“Not a step back” and “Our rights are not negotiable” have been the main arguments of a mobilization that began at midday before the doors of the Andalusian Parliament, in Seville, and that the feminist movement has supported throughout the State with demonstrations mushrooming and spreading to a hundred cities and towns in the afternoon.

# NiUnPasoAtrás  (Not One Step Back)
Manifestation Sevilla  Álvaro Minguito

The slogansheard in Seville spread in the afternoon to the main cities of Andalusia and have also to  A Coruña, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao, Burgos, Cáceres, Madrid, Valencia or Zaragoza, etc etc.

The mobilization in more than a hundred cities has overflowed the borders of the Spanish State, and there have also been concentrations in Paris amd Berlin.

The voices of feminists is joined by those of LGBT movements. Thus, the entities that make up the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals (FELGTB) have supported the mobilizations.

If the right comes for us, we’re going to turn purple ✊🏽 #NiUnPasoAtras pic.twitter.com/iYbzHYjmk7   – Sonia (@lventseasporte) January 15, 2019

The federation is concerned about “the proliferation of hate speech in the governing bodies of Andalusia” and fears “a setback in the degree of respect for the rights and freedoms of the people that make up our society,” in reference to the initial proposals presented by Vox to give their support to Juan Manuel Moreno in the investiture, which included the repeal of the laws of gender violence and LGTBI equality in Andalusia.

Juan Manuel Moreno, candidate of the PP, has revealed in the first Plenary of the session of investiture of the Parliament of Andalusia some of his proposals, among which are the suppression of the inheritamce tax and the limitation of mandates to eight years.

Málaga # Málaga ‘We do not fit into the  Plaza Constitución’,  15E # niunpasoatrás # niunpasoatrásenigualdad #FeminismoAndaluz #NoNegociamosYoVoy # Andalucía #parlamentoandaluz #InvestiduraAnd # 15Enero # 15E #feminism #sororidad #visibilidad pic.twitter.com/HtCYo0oINc

some info from – La Poderío (@lapoderiofem) January 15, 2019  translatiions from  The Free

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#NiUnPasoAtrás se traslada de Sevilla a un centenar de ciudades tras el discurso de investidura de Moreno

Los lemas #NiUnPasoAtrásenIgualdad y #NuestrosDerechosNoSeNegocian se han trasladado de Andalucía a un centenar de ciudades en todo el Estado para mostrar el rechazo al acuerdo del PP con Vox para investir a su candidato en Andalucía.

La primera sesión del Pleno de Investidura en el Parlamento de Andalucía que se ha celebrado esta mañana ha tenido lugar mientras en la calle los movimientos feministas reclamaban no negociar con los derechos de las mujeres.

“Ni un paso atrás” y “Nuestros derechos no se negocian” han sido los argumentos principales de una movilización que comenzaba a mediodía ante las puertas de Parlamento andaluz, en Sevilla, y que el movimiento feminista ha respaldado en todo el Estado con concentraciones en un centenar de ciudades por la tarde.

Las consignas que se han escuchado en Sevilla se han trasladado por la tarde a las principales ciudades de Andalucía y han sido también las mismas en A Coruña, Barcelona, Bilbao, Burgos, Cáceres, Madrid, Valencia o Zaragoza.

La movilización en más de un centenar de ciudades ha desbordado las fronteras del Estado español, y ha habido concentraciones también en París o Berlín.

A las voces de las feministas se han unido las de los movimientos LGTB. Así, las entidades que integran la Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans y Bisexuales (FELGTB) han secundado las movilizaciones.

La federación se muestra preocupada por “la proliferación de los discursos de odio en los órganos de gobierno de Andalucía” y teme “un retroceso en el grado de respeto a los derechos y las libertades de las personas que componen nuestra sociedad”, en referencia a las propuestas iniciales presentadas por Vox para dar su apoyo a Juan Manuel Moreno en la investidura, que incluían la derogación de las leyes de violencia de género e igualdad LGTBI andaluza.

Juan Manuel Moreno, candidato del PP, ha desgranado en el primer Pleno de la sesión de investidura del Parlamento de Andalucía algunas de sus propuestas, entre las que están la supresión del impuesto de sucesiones o la limitación de los mandatos a ocho años.