Ukraine: Meeting of workers of occupied factory in Kherson - anarchist report Friday, February 13 2009

Russian original: news.zaraz.org Original, machine translation fixed by English speaker: mollymew.blogspot.com (also some more amended machine translations available there) Molly's translation corrected by Russian speaker: avtonom.org T

hroughout the night before the rally we did banners and a variety of posters and an action plan for the next rally. In the morning at 10 o'clock we met comrades from Kiev and immediately headed for the seized plant, which is approximately 5 minutes walk from the station. By the morning we made some 15 posters with the slogans - «The workers and students together», «Kherson Today and tomorrow the whole Ukraine», «One solution - the resistance», «To workers: plant, wages, worker control», «Revolution NOW» etc., and one big banner - «Do not give up, keep up the strike». ----

Lebrija, a whole town organizes and fights unemployment

http://www.alasbarricadas.org

Anarchist direct action in the andalusian countryside

ALB travelled last friday to Lebrija, a sevillian locality of about 26000 inhabitants, to support the demonstration that took place that same day in the streets and to interview comrade Victoriano Vela, a 35 year old bricklayer and one of the instigators, as militant of the local Union of the CNT, of the mobilizations that since last week follow one another, demanding the creation of a Bourse du Travail (fr: labour exchange or council) under popular control so as to provide jobs to the unemployed.We henceforth transcribe the content of the interview we held with him.

1- How did this mobilization arise, and which are its demands?

Well, the thing began in October, when a group of comrades came to the Union talking about the problem of the division of labour in jobs for the City Council, and the shameless patronage that it hides, since only those who are loyal to the PSOE (the party that governs the locality) are employed.

These nights are for Alexis: A closer look into the December uprising in Greece by Lola Rent Email: cacophony_collective@riseup.net 25 Jan 2009

Eleven days after the 15-year old boy Alexandros Grogopoulos was killed by a police bullet in Athens, I decide to travel to Greece. The following article is no news, nor is it an analysis of the news. It is an attempt to create more understanding of the inner workings of the uprising, the sociopolitical and cultural climate in which it took place and the movement behind it. It does not attempt to give an objective representation of the uprising instead it is written from a highly subjective perspective and a compilation of interviews I held with people from the anarchist/anti-autoritarian movement in Thessaloniki.

http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/206772/index.php

I travel to Thessaloniki.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Greek anarchists pay for senior's torched kiosk

http://greeceriots.blogspot.com/2009/01/greek-anarchists-pay-for-seniors.html

THESSALONIKI, Greece - Two months after her kiosk was torched in local riots an elderly woman from Thessaloniki has received an unlikely cash gift from anarchists to rebuild her life, a press report said on Tuesday. "As anarchists, we felt we should support a fellow human victimized by blind violence," an organization calling itself Anarchist Initiative said in a statement sent to Eleftherotypia daily.

The anarchists set up a special bank account to support 74-year-old Harikleia Ananiadou and collected 13,000 euros ($18,000 US) for the cause. "We gave what we could, even beyond our means, because we know that it would be difficult for her to make a new start at her age," initiative member Panagiotis Papadopoulos told Angelioforos daily. "It was an act of solidarity to a woman who could be our mother," he added.

http://teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/

Thousands of students and other groups took to the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki yesterday Jan 9th 2009 to protest the present Greek government and its policies. The government has announced that it has decided on a policy of zero tolerence in dealing with Greece's recent wave of unrest and the change in the ruling New Democracy party's change in tactics was seen in a more aggresive stance on the part of the MAT (Greek riot police) on Friday.

However, the change in tactics has proved to be less effective than hoped for as most of the arrests carried out the Athens authorities turned out to be lawyers acting as volunteer legal advisors to those taking part in yesterday's march. The 18 lawyers have filed a suit against deputy minister for law and order, after the head of the riot squad that detained them said that he was carrying out a "political decision", according a report on the Greek TV station Skai's, web site.

http://awalls.org/war_on_gaza_met_with_dissent

PALESTINE: Joint struggles the AAtW participated in Friday and Saturday

http://awalls.org/

This week the focus was on the Friday demonstrations against the separation fence in Bil'in (the 201st), in Ni'ilin (the eighth month) and in Umm Salamuna (nearing the two years' anniversary). Some of the comrades that could not come to the demonstrations in the Palestinian areas participated in the one of the radical left coalition in Tel Aviv against the approaching Israeli onslaught on Gaza, that materialized Saturday noon.

Friday noon near the road block on the outskirts of Ni'ilin, there was also another demonstration - that of the youth of the Likud party (probably the ruling one after the coming February election) which was widely promoted in the media during the week. They demonstrated against the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative (AAtW) and the Palestinians who make trouble for the Israeli State forces in the demonstrations against the separation fence.

December 24, 2008 ATHENS [MENL] -- Greece, amid the worst unrest in decades, has acquired an advanced security system from the United States. A leading U.S. firm has delivered a command, control, communications, coordination and integration system to Greek authorities. Science Applications International Corp. said the C4I system would coordinate police, coast guard, fire and ambulance services. http://www.menewsline.com/article-1150,2332-Amid-Riots-Greece-Acquires-C-I-S.aspx

Doing without a ruler: in defence of anarchism

The word derives from the Greek; it means 'without a ruler' and the idea is that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.

This week we are looking at anarchism and why it has mostly played a minor role in political life and philosophy. The autonomous collective that is The Philosopher's Zone investigates.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2008/2434271.htm

This is the transcript for the original broadcast of this program (3 May 2008).