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Sydney, Australia: Solidarity Action for Anarchist and Antifascist Prisoners in Russia
In response to a solidarity appeal from comrades in Russia, on the 18th of March, the day of the Russian elections, a group of anarchists in Sydney gathered at the Russian consulate. We distributed leaflets about the situation of imprisoned Russian anarchists and antifascists and chanted slogans against police, prisons and the Putin regime.
#Fight4Afrin Communique 2: Now or Never – Resistance is Life
The revolution of Rojava is going through her darkest hours. Despite the worldwide and relentless actions of millions and countless acts of militant resistance in solidarity with the struggle of Afrin the rulers of this world decided to slaughter the people in Rojava. Today the fascist Turkish army and their Islamist mercenaries entered the city of Afrin.
We are not shocked. We are furious. We showed in the last weeks that we are ready to risk everything to save this revolution. Now it is the time to spread the heroic resistance of YPJ/YPG and the people of Afrin in the most radical way all over the world. Now is the time to light up the Newroz fires right in the heart of the beast. In these fires our furious, determination and hope will shine.
Now, we will take the war against Turkish fascism and its supporters to the streets of the metropoles. We will defend our hopes and attack everyone who is part of this plot against Afrin. Whatever might be necessary, we will stop this war right now!
Rise up for Afrin and the revolution of Rojava!
Death to Turkish fascism and its collaborators!
War against war!
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18th of March 2018
Iceland: Graffiti in West Reykjavík in solidarity with Afrin and remembering fallen YPG fighter Haukur Hilmarsson.
Jakarta, Indonesia: Anarchist Presence at the Women’s March 2018
Warrang / Sydney, So-Called Australia: Unauthorised Protest at the Mardi Gras 2018 Parade by Pink Bloc
Warrang / Sydney, So-Called Australia: Unauthorised Protest at the Mardi Gras 2018 Parade by Pink Bloc
BACK IN ’78 AND 40 YEARS LATER QUEERS REVOLTED AND QUEERS WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO
WE STAND AGAINST ALL OPPRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS & CORPORATIONS APPROPRIATING AND CAPITALISING ON OUR CONTINUING STRUGGLE
In 1978 queers took to the streets of Darlinghurst to denounce the intersectional oppressions we have faced for centuries. Queers with legitimate political critiques of the homophobic, patriarchal, capitalist status quo used a diversity of protest strategies to defiantly celebrate our identities and genders. Some danced, some kissed, and some carried placards, but most significantly, militant queers, fed up with being criminalized (and subject to various forms of physical, sexual, verbal abuse), literally fought the enemy, the notoriously violent, homophobic Darlinghurst cops, for our right to exist.
Now, 40 years later, queers continue the struggle against ongoing and diverse examples of state sanctioned anti-queer violence, and the capitalist pink-washing of what Mardi Gras represents as a significant moment in queer revolutionary resistance. Remember, ‘they’ only gave us ‘rights’ because we rioted!
40 years ago, staunch queers deliberately took to the streets to assert our rage as causalities of socially sanctioned violence by the mainstream establishment: police, religious bodies, authoritarian state-run institutions (prisons, psych wards etc) and homophobic “upright citizens”.
Today, in tribute to the original political nature of Mardi Gras, we continue to denounce state tyranny in all it’s forms – not just in the name of freedom and liberation for queer communities – but in solidarity with all those who are subject to ongoing criminalization due to their ethnicity/nationality, migration status, non-mainstream lifestyle choices, occupations, gender identities, class, species, and radical political praxis.
We stand against all institutions and corporations who seek to appropriate, dilute or profit from the ongoing struggle for genuine queer and trans liberation – which we recognize as a rejection of the heteronormative “gay lifestyle” being pushed upon us. Hence, we utterly reject the rainbow assimilationism of the multi-million dollar corporate (parasitical) conglomeration which has become the a-political Mardi Gras spectacle.
Although we recognize and acknowledge that struggle gains have been made, and they indeed should be celebrated; all around the clouds of oppression loom imminently and ominously. On an international level, fascism is on the rise, and while “they” may not come first for the queers this time, they will surely come one day, under new guises. Our head in the sand hedonism is not only an insult to those who fought in the past, and an insult to those who suffer now, but it is also the victorious manifestation of deliberate social conditioning by a dominant and oppressive system that has never been defeated, only wounded. We have been distracted by glitter and bright lights, bought off by the mundane promises of festivity and consumption, while all around us others live in misery and the planet is being destroyed.
The struggle can and must no longer be just about ‘our’ rights. We as queers must show our support and active solidarity with the ‘others’, who are the burning witches and faggots of our age. By embracing the heteronormative values and morality of nationalism and capitalism, we only perpetuate norms which have done nothing but marginalize and oppress us and those we stand in solidarity with. We believe that homo-nationalism is akin to pink fascism, and that we all have a duty to ensure that the assimilationism so many of us are celebrating is critiqued through an anti-fascist and anti-capitalist lens.
As radical queers, we struggle for true and all-encompassing liberation. Selling queer culture is not “liberation”. A continuation of colonization, First Nations genocide, land dispossession and theft of indigenous land is not “liberation”. A continuation of a border regime that routinely punishes queer refugees through indefinite “detention” in immigration prisons, and regularly deports queers back to unsafe countries is not “liberation”. The over-representation of queers and trans people in state prisons and/or psychiatric institutions is not “liberation”.
Embracing capitalism is not “liberation”, not for queers and not for anyone else. We stand against the inherent inequality and injustice of a capitalist system, which normalizes patriarchal and kyriarchal systems of authoritarian power. Further, we vehemently renounce the capitalist take-over of our struggle, our passion and our very identities. Embracing the violent and oppressive institutions of this colonialist, racist government is in direct conflict with genuine notions of liberation (which we recognize as inherently involving principles of mutual aid, solidarity, collaborative struggle, direct action and the freedom of our sexuality and our lives from internalized straight, capitalist, religiously inspired values).
Cop violence against queers and trans people continues today and our identities are repeatedly erased and criminalized by the in-justice system and the prison/industrial/military complex. There is nothing to “celebrate” about the inclusion of rainbow cops at a commemoration of our struggle. A rainbow baton is still a weapon. At no point were the cops accountable for the outright violence of the past and the continuing violence of today. The inclusion of the Australian “Defense” Force at a commemoration of our struggle for freedom is nothing short of offensive and inappropriate, particularly given that our struggle transcends ‘national’ politically constructed borders, and the A.D.F. is complicit in both imprisoning and deporting queers while war itself is the anti-thesis of liberation and freedom. In recognizing the original nature of Mardi Gras as a political event, involving direct action against oppression, we utterly disavow the participation of state and corporate entities. There is no space for the Liberal Party which upholds the homophobic, transphobic and racist status quo, to pretend that they are anything different simply because they have a few token assimilationist rainbow members. Similarly, there is no space here for corporations complicit in our suffering, such as Qantas – which is active in deporting queer refugees to danger, or ANZ Bank – that is profiting from investing in environmentally destructive coal mining.
Mardi Gras for too long has come to embody all the values that are anti-ethical to queer and trans liberation. The Mardi Gras parade itself personifies the vapid, farcical face of capitalist pink washing with just a token nod to genuine queer and trans grassroots groups. This is why tonight we – a loose collection of radical queers who sometimes use the banner of Pink Bloc – symbolically interrupted this narrative, by briefly halting the march to draw attention to the fact that many of us view Mardi Gras assimilation as something to revolt against. This self satisfied festival not only effectively papers over but includes all the foul aspects of society that oppress us. We say no to corporatization of our lives and struggle. We say no to cops and politicians gaining PR milage off our backs.
For a queer, anti-capitalist, future! Revolt, rebel, and reject! First we riot, then we celebrate!
Australia: Former Tamil Tiger Deported to Sri Lanka
Received on 23.02.18:
FORMER TAMIL TIGER DEPORTED TO SRI LANKA
23 February 2018
The Tamil Refugee Council condemns the Australian government for deporting to Sri Lanka a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers).
Santharuban, who fled the country in 2012, last night was taken into custody for questioning in Colombo, the capital, on arrival just after 10pm local time.
He had been handcuffed and removed from the Broadmeadows detention centre (Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation) on Tuesday evening and was driven to Sydney – escorted by four guards, one Border Force agent and one doctor – where he was detained.
Early Thursday morning, he was asked to sign a deportation document. He claims that when he refused, Border Force agents grabbed him by the shirt and threatened to handcuff him, tape his mouth shut and drag him onto the plane.
Santharuban signed the document out of fear for his safety and subsequently was put on a flight to Sri Lanka, accompanied by two guards.
The Tamil Refugee Council arranged for prominent human rights lawyer K.S. Ratnavale to be present at Colombo airport, and also made arrangements for Santharuban’s family to travel from the north of the country to meet him.
After four hours of questioning, Santharuban was released to his family. Others returning to Sri Lanka have been detained for weeks or months and endured intensive interrogation.
Ratnavale, who is director of the Centre for Human Rights and Development, told the Tamil Refugee Council he is extremely concerned about the situation and, while he is relieved that Santharuban has been released, believes that he will likely be targeted or arrested in the future.
With the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council beginning next week in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government will be hesitant to harm him. But the culture of reprisal in the security forces runs deep.
“We did not stop the government’s reckless and shameful act,” said Aran Mylvaganam, Tamil Refugee Council spokesperson. “But, thankfully, and due in part to the intensive campaigning of activists and advocates in Australia, and the noise that we made to highlight this case, Santharuban, for the time being, has a reprieve. Under the circumstances, it is the best we could have hoped for. But he is still in a perilous situation.”
The Tamil Refugee Council will continue to monitor the situation and stay in contact with people close to Santharuban and his family.
“We know from experience that people released from custody often, in subsequent weeks and months, face renewed harassment, assault and worse from security forces. The dangers facing returned Tamils are well documented by the UN and human rights groups, and affirmed by Tamil activists and civilians,” Mylvaganam said.
“Former members of the LTTE, and those suspected of being associated with the Tigers, face greater risk of reprisals and torture.
“Given the undeniable realities on the ground, we continue to demand that the Australian government not deport Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka.”
Media contact: Aran Mylvaganam 0410 197 814
Greece: Anarchist Prisoner Konstantinos Yiatzoglou Kidnapped from Korydallos Prison by EKAM (Special Anti-Terrorist Unit)
24.02.18: UPDATE 1 – Today at 06:45AM EKAM (Special Anti-Terrorist Unit) invaded Korydallos Prison and violently kidnapped the hunger striker Konstantinos Yiagtzoglou. Konstantinos resisted as best as he could as the masked and uniformed EKAM entered his cell and assaulted him. They then put him in handcuffs and violently dragged him out of his cell while he was in a dazed state from the assault. The wing of the prison was put on lockdown but the prisoners banged on the doors and cursed the cops. So far the wing is still on lockdown.
UPDATE 2 – As soon as the hunger striker Konstantinos Yiagtzoglou was removed from his cell a special transport team took him accompanied by heavily armed members of EKAM. The hunger striker was kidnapped without even letting him bring his clothes, personal belongings or even his medication. A-wing is still on lockdown as the prison authorities are frightened about the reactions of the prisoners. This is the second time in a month that EKAM have kidnapped prisoners from A-Wing. And all this occurring under the so-called left-wing Syriza government of ‘rights’.
(via Athens Indymedia, translated by Insurrection News)
France: First Press Release from a Few Owls about the Bure Eviction
22.02.18: This morning at 6:15am the eviction of the Lejuc wood (Bois Lejuc) started with 500 riot cops, reinforced/orchestrated by a communication campaign from the home secretary (ministre de l’interieur), the news channels diffusing shock images of military vehicles gathered next to the Lejuc wood, cabins being invaded, cops in balaclavas armed with chainsaws and cameras…
The operation, supposed to be because of a court decision last year about eviction of the wood from le tribunal de grande instance de Bar-le-Duc, came before all legal cases had finished (especially if Andra owns the wood or not) and before the end of the period of non eviction in winter even though many living/occupation structures had been built in and around the wood. There is even a place where local elected officials changed their headquarters to an address in the wood. Andra can’t legally start any work in the wood, the French environmental authority concluded in October 2017 that Andra had to do an environmental survey of the area before proceeding with any exploration/preparation work. There is a nesting period in the middle of March that prevents any work and Andra does not have the permit to do any forest clearing.
Like in 2012 in Notre-Dames-des-landes, the bulldozers are just behind the riot cops, to destroy as quickly as possible any living areas not even leaving time for people to collect personal belongings. Already following the first eviction of the wood in July 2016 the machines of Andra cleared illegally a large number of trees before opposition forces reoccupied the forest in the middle of August 2016.
Now the tress are still occupied by many owls. 20 riot cops are at the base of the trees. Quite a few people were arrested during the operation or are encircled on paths leading to the wood, a lot of ID checks took place. At least one person has been arrested and taken in custody. Resist everywhere
This eviction decided by Macron’s government come in a context of cracking down on social movements, workers, students, migrants etc It’s putting into place an American social and industrial model that makes people poorer, destroys the environment and is applied by force. The president Macron is walking in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher: There Is No Alternative. The message is clear.
This spectacular police operation is before everything a political manoeuvre to ensure that resistance doesn’t spring up everywhere after the airport project in Notre-Dame-des-Landes was abandoned. An operation trying to stop dead in its tracks any national movement, with the symbol of small house created by a group in Dijon that was set to be installed this week. In the orchestrated words of the local prefet ” this construction project showed the determination of opponents to install for a long time”. We say that this was a bad bet. We’ve already been installed in the wood for a long time and everywhere around in villages where we live but also everywhere in France where every police operation gains support from people opposing the project of CIGEO. This morning the state chose to send a strong message that confirmed to us the need to continue resisting and organising all over France and beyond and that CIGEO is a crucial point for the nuclear industry that imposes itself by force but pretends that people can have a say along the way.
When we started occupying the Lejec wood in June 2016 we never thought that one a half years later we would still be here, that Andra had to pull-out of the forest, that dozens of Bure support groups would have been created all over France. The politicians as usual are (on a TV news channel) trying to play the game of those evil nasty squatters vs the pacific citizens, this kind of speech has never worked in Bure and we work together here even if some ways of doing things are different. All the media have been talking about is from the ZAD to Bure, to try to enter this message into the minds of people. We’ve always said that there wasn’t a ZAD in Bure, that it’s the whole territory, everywhere because atomic horrors and the steamroller of ideas that goes with it doesn’t have borders when we’re talking about wiping about existence of people and where they live in the name of profit and control.
The police pornography and media spectacle with their images of destruction this so called “return to a lawful state” won’t let things go out of our minds and hearts, they won’t bury all that has happened in the last few years in Bure and all around us neither will they stop us in the years to come. To evict the Lejuc wood this morning, was to hit and attack everywhere everyone that has come by in their thousands in the past years and still has a part of Bure inside them.
Every attack will reinforce our determination, we will never be atomised!
(via Bure will be their downfall!)
Germany: Anarchist Comrade Lisa Transferred to New Prison
On Tuesday, February 20th, our comrade was transferred to another prison in Germany, JVA Willich II, about 60km from Cologne, where she was previously. We do not know yet how long she will be there, but we will still leave her new address so that she can continue to receive letters and solidarity photos.
Lisa Dorfer JVA Willich II GartenstraSSe 2 47877 Willich
Germany
Peike is an anarchist from Amsterdam, currently standing trial in Hamburg for alleged participation in the G20 riots last summer.
He has already been convicted and sentenced to serve 2 years and 7 months imprisonment, but on the 9th of February 2018 his appeal process commenced.
He is currently awaiting the verdict on his appeal.
For more info on his case check: freepeike.noblogs.org
Greece: Anarchist Prisoner of War Konstantinos Yiagtzoglou Begins Hunger Strike
Today, 21.02.18, anarchist prisoner Konstantinos Yiagtzoglou commenced a hunger strike to demand his transfer from the prisons of Larissa to the prisons of Korydallos following the rejection of his request by the Central Committee for Transfers. He is currently in Korydallos Prison, where he was sent yesterday for an ongoing court case. A text from the comrade will follow in the coming days.
We call for an emergency open assembly to plan solidarity actions for the comrade’s hunger strike and share information on the case on Thursday, February 22nd at 19:00 at the Polytechnic (Gini building).
Assembly of Solidarity for Konstantinos Yiagtzoglou
(via Athens Indymedia, translated by Insurrection News)
Bremen, Germany: Arson Attack Against Military Contractor OHB in Solidarity with Afrin
We declare our solidarity with the revolutionary Rojava project in Kurdistan and its defence. With our action we oppose the Turkish war of aggression in Afrin. We call for the sabotage of the German arms industry!
During the night of the 20th to the 21st of February, we carried out an arson attack against OHB’s headquarters in Bremen. OHB is one of the leading companies in space technology. The main business of OHB is military research and production. One of their current major contract orders comes from the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). OHB is currently building a spy satellite for them.
Responsibility for the wars and crises of the world is often right here.
Fire and Flames to the German Arms Industry!
Solidarity greetings to the Wendland!
(via Chronik, translated by Insurrection News)