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Slovenia: Policeman complains of Attack by Horde of Anarchists after Bookfair

from thefreeonline by Ana Horvat at Nova24TV via Anarchist News.

2023

Police Officer In His Criminal Complaint Against Anarchists: “I Was Tripped Up By A Stranger And Then Kicked Two Or Three Times By Another…”

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After a horde of anarchists from the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair destroyed private property and assaulted and beat several police officers last Saturday, one of the police officers filed a verbal criminal charge against the attackers.

The police officer, who will not be named due to the protection of personal data, stated in his verbal criminal complaint that he had been harmed, and the verbal criminal complaint is, in fact, a proposal for prosecution.

In the record of the verbal criminal complaint, the policeman began by explaining the circumstances of the event, namely that on the 8th of July 2023, in the evening hours, he was on duty, protecting the event in the Ljubljana area and that at around 10.15 p.m., while monitoring the crowd, he and his police colleague noticed “an unidentified young woman who wanted to spray-paint graffiti on a city r bus at the intersection of Masarykova and Metelkova Streets.”.

He explained that, in order to prevent the crime, he and his colleague ran towards the unknown woman, who was trying to disappear in the crowd.

“As I got close enough to where I could grab her with my arm, a stranger tripped me up, so I fell to my knees while running and then caught myself on my hands.

In the process, the second unknown perpetrator kicked me two or three times in the back, which hurt me a lot,” the police officer described the incident in his verbal criminal complaint. Although he got up as quickly as he could, he could not see or identify his attacker because of the large crowd.

He went on to explain that he felt severe pain in his knees and back and that he became nauseous, and that his colleague who was with him was not in his field of vision. During the attack, the police officer was wearing a body cam, which must have recorded everything, as it was not injured during the fall.

He and his colleague immediately informed the competent authorities about the attack, as the officer had contacted the University Medical Centre Ljubljana because of the light injuries he had sustained.

On their website, the anarchists rant about collective freedom, social equality and solidarity, but then turn to violence against those who think differently than they do. They even brag about their vandalism on Twitter.

After the event in Ljubljana, the anarchism.info profile wrote: “In connection with the large demonstration during the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair, on the 8th of July in Ljubljana, Slovenia, some cops and cop cars where “handled”.” They even added the hashtag #ACAB.

The Balkan Anarchist Book Fair is anything but a “cultural” event. It is more like an organised horde of anarchists, vandals and thugs who gather in different places every year. Like all radical leftists, they share the same ideas.

They blame everything in the world on nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia or any other form of violence, and then they come to Ljubljana and attack the police.

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Imperial disintegration in Africa / Falling dominoes of Western Neo Colonial Scam

from thefreeonline on August 6, 2023 by Matthew Hunter at Peoples World.

With the headquarters of the ruling party burning behind them, supporters of mutinous soldiers demonstrate in Niamey, Niger, Thursday, July 27, 2023. Governing bodies in Africa condemned the coup against Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, but not everyone is joining in the hostility. Neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali have said any foreign intervention in Niger will be deemed an act of war against them as well. | Fatahoulaye Hassane Midou / AP

What’s happening in West Africa?

_{Originally published in the People’s World on August 2, 2023}

News of a military coup in the West African country of Niger has reignited condemnations of the colonial West, and marks at least the 10th coup in the Sahel region since 2008: Burkina Faso (2014, 2015, 2022), Mali (2012, 2020, 2021), Mauritania (2008), Gambia (2014), and Guinea (2021)—and all have some connection to U.S. military training via United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).

However, these coups have occurred specifically in Francophone African countries and have led to an intense backlash against that old colonial empire. So, is this a case of U.S. neocolonial aggression blowing back in the face of Western imperialism, creating a resurgence of the revolutionary potential of the region? Or is it a long-game maneuver between imperialist powers? Or is it something else entirely?

NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy / by Djibo SobukweFebruary 25, 2022In “INTERNATIONAL NEWS”

In order to begin understanding past and current developments in Africa, it is important to understand neocolonialism as a phase in the development of imperialism. The latter was briefly defined by one of its most well-known critics; V.I. Lenin called imperialism the “monopoly stage of capitalism.”

As for neocolonialism, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah famously said that its essence consisted of “a state which is…, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty,” but which has, in reality, an “economic system and thus…political policy…directed from outside.”

For centuries, the people of Africa suffered under slavery, oppression, and exploitation by European colonialism. The European imperialist powers in 1885 at the Berlin Conference formally split the continent amongst themselves. They stole political and economic sovereignty away from the people of the continent without any voice in the matter. Through such colonial exploitation, the surplus value derived from the continent was exported to the colonizing nations.

_{^{A string of coups: People cheer in celebration as security forces drive through the streets of the capital Bamako, Mali, Aug. 19, 2020, a day after armed soldiers fired into the air outside President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s home and took him into their custody. The Sahel’s latest wave of coups kicked off in Mali in August 2020 when the democratically-elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was overthrown by soldiers led by Col. Assimi Goita. |}}

Nigeria’s Senate refuses to support ECOWAS plan for West-backed military intervention

from thefreeonline on August 05, 2023 by Pavan Kulkarni at Peoples Dispatch shared with thanks

A day after ECOWAS chiefs of staffs finalized plans for a military intervention, Nigeria’s Senate refused support President Bola Tinubu’s proposal to deploy soldiers. Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS. Meanwhile, Niger has seen multiple demonstrations in support of the coup that overthrew Mohamed BazoumAugust 05, 2023 by Pavan Kulkarni

Fears Of French and US Attacks as Uranium exports stopped in Niger Coup

The regional bloc, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has drawn up a plan for a military invasion of Niger to restore the ousted Mohamed Bazoum to presidency. However, in Nigeria, whose president Bola Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS, the Senate has refused to support the military intervention.

World African War’ threat as West mobilizes to keep Uranium and Gold looting from Niger

On Saturday, August 5, at a closed-door executive session to deliberate on Tinubu’s letter seeking the Senate’s support for “military buildup and deployment of personnel for military intervention,” “almost all senators… totally ruled out the military options,” an unnamed senator told Premium Times.

Pointing out that “our military is highly ill-equipped and not prepared to fight any war,” the Senators argued that “the Federal Government should focus on solving the Boko Haram, banditry, and ESN/IPOB menaces… instead of contemplating going to war in a foreign country.”

The war plans were prepared at a meeting of the chiefs of staff of ECOWAS member countries which ended on Friday, August 4. “All the elements that will go into any eventual intervention have been worked out here, including the resources needed, the how and when we are going to deploy the force,” said Abdel Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political affairs, Peace and Security.

Burkina Faso and Mali say Western ‘intervention’ in Niger will be Declaration of War.