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Arrogant ‘King’ Macron bids to Gag Global South – France has only 0.7% of world Telegram users-

Jailing Durov is like incarcerating the Post Office for “illegal” statements written in private letters…

from thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-DOn on 30th Aug 24 ( on Telegram../t.me/thefreeonline )

Over 950 MILLION of us use Telegram, but only 6 million in France – yet with supreme arrogance power junkie Macron tries to deprive us all of freedom to express, create., and organize without police and State control.

Consider the Indian state with 100 million users, where tens of millions of farmers and day workers use Telegram in resisting destitution by Big Ag and Thatcherite capitalism.

And what about the giant Russian Federation which tried and failed to close down Telegram and had to back down and live with it, with over 34 million users in a dozen national cultures, thriving alongside the ultra nationalist regime.

What about Brazil?- where the oligarchy still own most of the land and the media, with over 22 million of us relying on free speech on Telegram, millions of homeless have a safe channel organizing in land and shantytown solidarity occupations.

And in the West? Every week we witness new laws restricting, censoring and closing down digital and basic public freedoms. Indeed reports claim that the US may be behind the French crackdown. 27 million people in the United States have downloaded Telegram and represent a pool of free speech and maybe a vital brake on totalitarian crowd-think in the capital of predator Capitalism.

Let’s not forget the millions in the Middle East, Egypt, Saudi, Turkey.. where open expression is often deadly dangerous, as well as Indonesia, Nigeria, Bangladesh Colombia, Mexico…. where repressed minorities could be deprived of safe contact by the hubris of ‘Little King’ Macron.

Anti-censorship activists have described Durov’s arrest as part of a wider campaign against free speech waged by Western governments, with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden accusing France of taking the entrepreneur “hostage” in order to access private communications on Telegram.

Arrest of Telegram CEO sparks cyberattacks against French websites

UAE suspends 10 billion $ deal to buy 80 fighter jets from France over attack on Telegram …

Political chaos in France after Macron refuses to accept PM from winning leftwing coalition…

France has been plunged into further political chaos after ‘KING’ Macron refused to name a prime minister from the leftwing coalition that won the most parliamentary seats in the snap election he himself called….

OUR ONLY HOMELAND IS REVOLT POSTER IN THE STREETS ( South London, UK )

‘It’s time to act, face each other, face reality, choose our companions in struggle and confront what is destroying us.

from thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-DLD August 2024 via Act for freedom now! (on Telegram:t.me/thefreeonline)

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OUR ONLY HOMELAND IS REVOLT

AUTHORITY HAS EVERYONE IN A VICE GRIP.

Dealing out crumbs through humiliating charity and robotised slavery. With nothing to guarantee any more, the technicians in power promise only crisis and emergency – and soon war. In the guise of defence against the rabid attacks in recent weeks they have enhanced their arsenal of social control against all of us.

MEANWHILE RACIST ATTACKS TAKE PLACE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

The perpetrators target ‘immigrants’ (or whoever they classify as such) with abuse, chemical dousing, threats, beatings, fire and bricks.

This is the worst kind of cowardice: kneeling in front of bosses and leaders, but leaping up to strike at anyone they fear coming from below them.

Without a doubt masses of angry citizens join behind them, perhaps more hesitant to act, but no less lobotomised by fear of the outsider.

What they don’t see is that every inch of space is at the mercy of profit and control.

Everyone and everything is molded in the image of an inhuman ‘progress’. The human dream of belonging and co-existence is murdered and re-animated as the zombie of imperiled nationalism.

This disgrace is encouraged by the mass conformity of addiction to politics, media and social media. It is a high-tech attention racket, churning out new things to be terrified of, or furious at – anything to keep us scrolling and clicking.

Now, after the smoke of would-be pogroms has cleared, the state continues to sing its lullaby of ‘safety’ – set in a fairytale kingdom of multicultural unity.

But we know its knights in shining armour are cops, judges, screws, snitches, and tech companies selling DIY surveillance.

And the unity they defend is only made up of deadly, voluntary obedience – to subhuman housing and rent, life-devouring work, and poisonous consumption.

To let ourselves be lulled by the sham product of ‘security’ comes at a high price – our own living thought and will to act: a nice deal for those with power and privilege, and shameful dispossession for the rest of us, left sitting ducks.

Enough of all that! We won’t help to decorate this exploited wasteland with flags and democratic lies.

It’s time to act, face each other, face reality, choose our companions in struggle and confront what is destroying us.

The Anarchists Combatting the Far Right on YouTube

In the Harehills neighbourhood of Leeds, the attempt by the cops and social services to abduct several children against their will led to a night of multi-racial rebellion from the combative youth of the area.

In Croydon a gathering of 50 people, against a fascist threat that came to nothing, didn’t let the moment go to waste – attacking police and barricading streets.

But we don’t need to wait for the final straw.

Let’s form self-organised groups, without flags or leaders, meet, talk, identify the questions that are making our lives unliveable, starving our children, throwing us out into the streets or forcing us to live in urban destitution and humiliation.

The Feminist Anti-Fascist Assembly

Without unions or political parties, let’s self-organise the attack on the existent with those we choose and coordinate our struggles, bringing forth quality, solidarity, joy, starting right now to create a world worth living in.

Where there is dignity there is revolt!

a few anarchists in South London