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			<title>Solidarität mit dem Widerstand in der Türkei</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/solidaritat-mit-dem-widerstand-in-der-turkei</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Solidaritätsdemonstration
	Dienstag, den 18.06.2013, 17:00
Aachen Elisenbrunnen
Aufrufer: Aachen Halkevi, Aachen Alevi Kültür Merkezi, Aachen Kürt Halkevi und weitere Aachener Beteiligte und Unterstüzer
	
Türkische Polizisten in Istanbul verschießen Tränengas.
	In der Nacht zum Sonntag beantworteten türkische Sicherheitskräfte den Volksaufstand am dem Taksimplatz mit brutaler Gewalt. Sie stürmten den Gezi-Park und setzten dabei erneut Tränengas und Wasserwerfer ein. Hunderte Aktivisten flohen in Seitenstraßen. Etliche Verletzte wurden Augenzeugen zufolge auf Bahren aus dem Park getragen und in Krankenwagen abtransportiert. Die Polizei feuerte Tränengas in die umliegenden Straßen, um die Demonstranten weiter zu vertreiben. Viele von ihnen flüchteten in Panik in ein Hotel am Rande des Parks. Einige hatten sich dort übergeben müssen. Familien mit kleinen Kindern seien in die Seitenstraßen gerannt, um sich vor der Polizeigewalt zu schützen.
	Die „Föderation demokratischer Arbeitervereine, DIDF“ berichtet auf ihrer Webite http://didf.de/?p=3238 von dem Besuch und den Erfahrungen einer deutschen Delegation auf dem Taksimplatz. Der stellvertretende Landessprecher der Linkspartei NRW, Azad Tarhan floh mit einer anderen Gruppe in eine Bar in der Nähe des Taksimplatzes und erklärte in einem Telefongespräch: „Das friedliche Protestcamp am Gezi Park wurde völlig unvermittelt von der Polizei angegriffen. Erst explodierten Schreckschussgranaten über unseren Köpfen, wenige Sekunden später hagelte es Gasbomben. Allein in meinem unmittelbaren Umfeld gingen drei bis vier Gasbomben nieder. Inzwischen ist das gesamte Viertel  in eine dichte Gaswolke gehüllt.  Es ist ein Zustand wie im Bürgerkrieg.“
	Die AKP-Regierung setzt inzwischen fast jedes Mittel ein, um die Rechte der Volksbewegung einzuschränken. Mit Tränengas und Terror gegen friedliche Menschen kämpft die AKP-Regierung um ihr politisches Überleben und betreibt somit auf eine Polititk, die auf Demokratieabbau, Privatisierungen staatlicher Betriebe, auf Repression gegen die kurdische Bevölkerung, Gewerkschaften und andere gesellschaftliche Kräfte setzt. Und nicht zuletzt setzt das Erdogan-Regime auf eine Kriegspolitik gegen Syrien, um zur Regionalmacht im Nahen und Mittleren Osten aufzusteigen.
	Wir wollen uns mit dem Widerstand in der Türkei solidarisieren und rufen zur Teilnahme der kurzfristig von den o.a. Aachener Organisationen einberufenen Demonstration auf. Die Appelle aus dem Umfeld der Bundesregierung zur „Mäßigung“ der türkischen staatlichen Repressionsmaßnahmen sind wenig überzeugend, solange sie den staatlichen Terror gegen die friedliche Blockupy-Demonstration Anfang Juni in Frankfurt nicht einschliessen. Außerdem ist es an der Zeit, die militärische Zusammenarbeit der Bundesrepublik mit der Türkei zu beenden, beginnend mit dem sofortigen Abzug der zur Aggression gegen Syrien stationierten Patriot-Raketenabwehrsysteme der Bundeswehr.
	Wir verweisen auf Forderungen, die in der Türkei entstanden sind und im Einklang mit hunderttausenden Demonstrierenden stehen:
	    – Die Abriss- bzw. Baupläne für den Gezi-Park und das Atatürk-Kulturzentrum müssen sofort gestoppt werden.
    – Die AKP-Regierung muss abtreten.
    – Alle festgenommenen Aktivisten müssen sofort und ohne Auflagen freigelassen werden.
    – Die Amtsträger, die sich gegen das Volk schuldig gemacht haben, müssen sofort ihrer Ämter enthoben werden.
    – Alle Versuche, das Informationsrecht einzuschränken, müssen sofort unterlassen werden.
    – Alle Versammlungs- und Demonstrationsverbote und Einschränkungen müssen beseitigt werden.
    – Die Hindernisse, die die freie und uneingeschränkte politische Mitwirkung des Volkes einschränken, und alle
       antidemokratischen Bestimmungen des Parteiengesetzes müssen sofort abgeschafft werden.
    – Alle Bestrebungen, dem Volk eine einheitliche Lebensart vorzuschreiben, müssen sofort gestoppt werden.
	Beteiligt Euch an der Solidaritätsdemonstration am kommenden Dienstag ab 17:00 Uhr Aachen Elisenbrunnen!
	
	
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:50:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Berlin-Kreuzberg: Soli-demo for the revolt in Turkey (Germany)</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/berlinkreuzberg-solidemo-for-the-revolt-in-turkey-germany</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Berlin-Kreuzberg salutes the people revolting in Turkey
Everyday since the beginning of the revolt about two weeks ago, people went on the streets in Berlin to show their solidarity with the ongoing fights in Turkey. Another short and wild demonstration took place in the center of Kreuzberg yesterday evening, the 7th of June, where around 50 people marched towards Kottbusser Tor, shouting slogans and lighting fireworks.
Material from a construction site got pulled on the street, so after a short while the traffic was blocked in every direction. The cops, that were making a drugraid at this moment, got attacked with stones, paintbombs and fire. After that the mob dispersed. 
Shortly before the demonstrators reached Kottbusser Tor, leaflets were spread in the close area. The text was written in turkish and german and circulated some days before fridays action. Banners were hung up as well saying „Berlin salutes Istanbul-for social revolt worldwide“ and „Özgürlük için omuz omuza!“ („Side by side towards freedom“). As was written in the newspapers two people got arrested by the cops and released the next day.
We send our solidarity to them as well, since they are facing the repression of the police and the state justice system.
We will be back again, where, when and how we want. Take part in the demonstrations, prepare actions and show the rebels that we are fighting on their side, just in a different city.
Our thoughts are with the families, friends and comrades of Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, Abdullah Cömert and Ethem Sarısülük, that got killed during the revolt.
Freedom for the prisoners!
Side by side towards freedom!


The leaflet that was handed out:

Solidarity with the revolting people
People flock the streets, barricades are set up, cars are burning and everything thats not fixed gets thrown at the police. The sky is clouded by teargas and a scream for freedom makes its way through the dust.
The planned destruction of one of the last green spots in Istanbul, to have a shopping mall instead, was the spark that brought thousand of people on the streets for resistance. Until now the revolt spread like a wildfire all over the country.
No matter how different the motivations and reasons of everyone involved may be, they open new spaces of self-organization, solidarity and controversy by bursting the existent.
All these things that are rarely happening in this world as we know it. Between school, work, paying your rent, feeding your family and so on, it looks like there is no time to dispute with the destruction of our environment.
We like the fact, that there are people that still doing exactly that. As we can see, the small fights in your daily life can be the trigger of a general uprising.
We are recognizing the smoke signals of the cities and we see these fights matching up with our own ones- against displacement, degradation and police violence.
That’s why we call out for solidarity with the people of the uprising. Let them see the signals on Bosporus as well, so that they are not all one.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Sind die „BfD“ aus einem Bündnis ausgetreten in dem sie nie Mitglied waren?</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/sind-die-„bfd“-aus-einem-bundnis-ausgetreten-in-dem-sie-nie-mitglied-waren</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nachtrag :
	Ludger Dove, einer der Sprecher des Dürener „BgR“, hat die Begründung Heidi Meier-Grass für den Austritt der „Bürger für Düren“ aus dem Dürener Bündnis gegen Rechts, laut Dürener Nachrichten,  als unwahr zurück gewiesen.  Er hat sich in diesem Zusammenhang von den Aktivitäten der Antifa Düren distanziert. Jetzt heist es von Seiten des „BgR“, Meier-Grass, Bürgerin für Düren, war nie Mitglied im Bündnis.
	Die Erklärung des Dürener „BgR“: hier
	An unserer Kritik am „BgR“ ändert sich dadurch allerdings NICHTS! Denn eine Mitgliedschaft der „BfD“ im Bündnis gegen Rechts wäre nicht ungewöhnlich.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Sind die „BfD“ aus einem Bündnis ausgetreten in dem sie nie Mitglied war?</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/sind-die-„bfd“-aus-einem-bundnis-ausgetreten-in-dem-sie-nie-mitglied-war</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nachtrag :
	Nachdem Ludger Dove, einer der Sprecher des Dürener „BgR“, die Begründung der Heidi Meier-Grass zum Austritt der „Bürger für Düren“ aus dem Dürener Bündnis gegen Rechts laut Dürener Nachrichten  wortreich als unwahr zurück gewiesen und sich von den Aktivitäten der Antifa Düren distanzierrt hat, heist es jetzt von Seiten des „BgR“, Meier-Grass, Bürgerinn für Düren, war nie Mitglied im Bündnis.
	Die Erklärung des Dürener „BgR“: hier
	An unserer Kritik am „BgR“ ändert sich dadurch allerdings NICHTS! Denn eine Mitgliedschaft der „BfD“ im Bündnis gegen Rechts wäre nicht ungewöhnlich.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:10:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Die Totalitarismus-und Extremismusdoktrin</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/die-totalitarismusund-extremismusdoktrin</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nicht zum ersten mal wird auch gegen die Antifa Düren die Totalitarismus-Extremismuskeule geschwungen. Fast alle größeren Parteien in Düren beteiligen sich daran. Selbst in den Reihen des Dürener „BgR“ sind diese Leute vertreten. Jüngst haben die Bürger für Düren diese Keule gegen die Antifa geschwungen unter anderem um von ihrem Rutsch nach rechts abzulenken.
	Der Extremismusbegriff wird seit den 70er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts verwendet und entstammt der bürgerlichen Ideologie. Besonders gern wird dieser Begriff dann verwendet, wenn es darum geht, antifaschistisches– also „linksextremistisches“ Engagement zu kriminalisieren. In den letzten Jahren haben sich vor allem der selbsternannte Extremismusforscher Eckhard Jesse, seines Zeichens selbsternannter Extremismusforscher, sowie Hannah Arendt mit ihrer „philosophischen Totalitarismustheorie“ hervorgetan.
	Aus aktuellem Anlass weisen wir auf folgende, von uns voll inhaltlich mitgetragene Kritik hin:
	
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Pressemeldung des DITIB-Bundesverband 2013-05-21</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/pressemeldung-des-ditibbundesverband-20130521</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Offene Morddrohungsparole in Düren deutet auf rechte Täterschaft hin
	Unfassbare Moschee-Übergriff-Serie: „NSU lebt weiter und ihr werdet die nächsten Opfer sein!!!“
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			<title>Rassistische Ausfälle in Heimbach?</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/rassistische-ausfalle-in-heimbach</link>
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	 http://www.ksta.de/bergheim/ausflug-am-vatertag-rassistischer-uebergriff-auf-camper-,15189172,22799962.html
	http://www.ksta.de/bergheim/campingplatz-streit-keine-stellungnahme-von-der-polizei,15189172,22850930.html]]></description>
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			<title>Athens: Responsibility claim for explosive attack on vehicle of the Koridallos prisons director, in the district of Dafni, on June 7th, 2013 (Greece)</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/athens-responsibility-claim-for-explosive-attack-on-vehicle-of-the-koridallos-prisons-director-in-the-district-of-dafni-on-june-7th-2013-greece</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX PROJECT
Freedom for anarchists of praxis incarcerated in Italy
i. ‘Return of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from the ashes’
Only in those moments when our tension for freedom is rejoined with practice do we truly manage to live anarchy, here and now. Unfortunately the dream we carry in our hearts is too great to avoid the risk of finding ourselves up against the monstrous wall of authority raised in defense of the State and Capital. When we really put our life in play, inevitably we end up confronting the hardness there is in the struggle: death and prison.
Nicola Gai, Italian comrade accused in the Olga Cell-FAI case [May 2013]
The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire-FAI/IRF in collaboration with comrades from the Consciousness Gangs, honouring our old and timeless friendship, blew up the private car of the female director of Koridallos men’s prisons, Maria Stefi, as a display of genuine solidarity with our ten imprisoned brothers and sister, Giorgos P., Olga, Gerasimos, Christos, Michalis, Giorgos, Haris, Theofilos, Panagiotis, Damiano, that have taken responsibility for their participation in the Conspiracy.
After almost two years of silence throughout the Greek territory, the CCF returns. Maintaining a common front with the Consciousness Gangs, the FAI cells (‘Antifascist Front’, ‘Unscathed Cell of Vengeance’, ‘Lone Wolf Cell’, etc.) and the Sect of Revolutionaries, we support and strengthen the international conspiracy of the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front.
The bomb we placed at the vehicle of the director of Koridallos prisons is the first drops before the storm. Or, as it was written in the last communiqué by the CCF against the Greek minister of Justice…
Certainly the necessity for strategy is now clearer than ever before. A lightning does not ever travel in straight repetitive lines. It bursts out unannounced. Even a seeming ‘silence’ is no retreat but quietness before the thunder…
[Clandestine sector, Informal Anarchist Federation/Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (February 2011)]
So, now it’s time to make noise again. Noise against the militarization in prisons and the continuous police raids by the disgraceful scum of the EKAM special suppressive antiterrorist unit. Noise concerning the inquisition at prison councils, where prison service prosecutors and directors are poisoning inmates with fruitless hopes, at the same time that the denied requests for days of leave or conditional release are being stacked on top of each other. Noise for all those unimportant wearing the jailers’ uniform that think they personify Power and thus give orders. Noise about the terrifying silence of the majority of prisoners that have long ago exchanged freedom and dignity with a heroin dose, or day wages, or a more ‘favorable’ prison transfer, or a brand new mobile phone… Noise for the prolonged silence and inaction of a ‘space’ that likes to be called anarchist, but are in essence as petty bourgeois and decadent as the society’s civilization that they’re supposedly fighting.
ii. Chronicle of a war foretold
Over the recent months, a new regime prevails in Greek prisons. The ministry of Justice as well as the prison administration and the public prosecution promote the model of militarization for the ‘correctional system.’ To date there have been dozens of raids by fully armed EKAM cops into prisoners’ cells, as part of the restructuring of prisons. These hooded chickens with the full-body police harness have oftentimes shown ‘guts’ by hitting people in handcuffs. In the correctional brothel of Grevena, the pigs used also taser devices (electroshock weapons) against prisoners handcuffed behind their back. In Koridallos prisons, the night raid operation of forty to fifty EKAM cops was carried out through the ‘courtesy’ of the director Maria Stefi and the prosecutor Troupi, who did not miss out on provocations and bullying from a safe distance.
We know that it never gets dark there, inside your prisons. Therein memories are scratching, and one forgets how the sky looks without bars and barbed wire. If death had its own colour, it should be painted on your prisons. Because the realm of slow death lies on the inside, and one can feel it every single day. It’s hanging from the walls in corridors, it sounds with every locking of a door, it cries silently in disciplinary cells… There is no reason to continue the ‘critique’ of your ‘correctional’ system.
We have said it in the past, when we placed a bomb of twenty kilos on the outer wall of Koridallos prisons three years ago. Our imprisoned brothers and sister from the CCF say it definitely better than we do, through their writings, participating in the international dialogue of the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front.
Besides, we do not expect something better from the empire of Power that is flavoured with the ‘courteousness’ of democracy. All of its officials handle perfectly their duties.
The judges sat on their imperial throne are handing prison sentences that challenge even the scientific average of human lifespan: ‘Double life sentence’… ‘Two hundred years in prison’… ‘Eighty years in prison’… To them, the names of the accused are ultimately nothing but small annoying ink stains on their thick indictments that must be erased.
Below them are the prisons directors; the small gods of penitentiary institutions that give their commands behind their distant offices having the confidence of being ‘the housemaster.’ This ‘business’ is run by them anyway.
Next to them are the prisons prosecutors, the ‘hand of god’. Their signature opens the doors of ‘heaven’ or ‘hell.’ ‘Conditional release from prison… rejected.’ ‘Five days of leave from prison… rejected.’ ‘Rejected’… ‘rejected’… ‘rejected’… is the only word they know to say. But these are all enemies. The only thing to ask from your enemy is ultimate war.
The axe of criticism along with the nausea of unanswered questions falls heavy on the inhabitants of the country of prisons. It falls heavy on the prisoners themselves, most of whom accept passively their incarceration in the sweatshops of democracy. Far from resembling a subculture of the revolutionary imaginary icon of imprisoned ‘fighters’ as a heightened projection of the living herein, the reality in prisons sounds frighteningly ugly: passivity… snitching… customization… licking the prison service’s ass… getting high on drugs… racism… cowardly cheekiness… self-pity… falsity…
Yet, this pathetic crowd can be transformed at once and become ‘combatant’ when it comes to a bottle cap of smack, to debts and loans, to the sovereignty of each clan. That is when the prisoners’ inventiveness triumphs. A piece of iron turns into a murderous knife in the most skilful hands, and a sock hiding a heavy object turns into a weapon for the inner-hostilities between inmates, who have learned much better how to eat each others’ flesh than they ever did on the outside.
With the same stunning inventiveness, they hide in the most unlikely places smack and other drugs they want to carry. However, this ingenuity is absent when it comes to seeking revenge against those who locked them up and deprived them of their freedom. How many former and current prison inmates were involved in actual revenge on their jailers? How many prisoners found the home address of a chief warden, or ambushed a prosecutor that threw their request for leave or probation in the trash bin?
For this we call minority prisoners, who still have dignity, to plan tens of acts of vengeance.
iii. The FAI/IRF international conspiracy
From our part over here, with the bombing against the director of Koridallos prisons, we coordinate our attacks through the FAI/IRF international network. It started when our brothers and sisters in Chile, of the ‘Panagiotis Argirou’ insurrectionary anti-authoritarian cell, targeted the National Association of Penitentiary Functionaries in Santiago on May 12th.
FAI/IRF is an international conspiracy of anarchists of praxis that sets fire on the defense positions of reformist societist anarchists. It gets rid of the smell of mold that has settled in anarchy seen at amphitheatres, and fills the air with the smell of gunpowder, black anarchy, nighttime, explosions, gunshots, sabotages. This explains why the International Revolutionary Front of FAI and Conspiracy is on top of the anarchist dangers list as cited in recent Europol reports.
Diffusion and informal organizing within the new anarchy into autonomous cells of direct action are what really scare the police of the whole world. Therefore, the State and the enemies of anarchy do not easily forget the anarchist militants who are held captive under their prisons’ authority.
iv. For the brothers and sisters missing…
In Germany, comrade Thomas Meyer-Falk —who is held hostage for participation in bank robbery with the aim of supporting subversive projects— has already served his sentence, but remains incarcerated. In his case, an old law of Nazi Germany was applied, under which prisoners may continue to be kept in prison indefinitely, even when they have served their entire prison term, if they are deemed ‘dangerous to society’… Thomas Meyer-Falk, with his uncompromising attitude and refusal to kneel in front of Power, is still considered dangerous for the social machine.
[Footnote in the original :] In Bulgaria, our comrade Jock Palfreeman remains hostage in prison, after a scuffle with nearly fifteen fascists who tortured a Roma. A fascist fell dead in the scuffle and another was seriously injured. We, for our part, send a signal of solidarity to Jock and a promise that he is not alone.
At the same time, our brother Gabriel Pombo Da Silva is currently incarcerated in Spain —moved from Germany a few months ago— and our brother Marco Camenisch is imprisoned in Switzerland. Our two brothers are confined for many years in the galleys of democracy because of their subversive and anarchic action. Gabriel —who has fought numerous times against the FIES [footnote in the original :] special prison regime— is accused of a scuffle with cops in the German city of Aachen, and Marco is accused of eco-sabotages, escape from prison and armed clash with border guards. While they have become eligible for conditional release from prison, the international state machine tries to keep them hostage, linking them to the ‘operation Ardire’, a case conceived by the Italian State. A police case against the FAI/IRF network, in which apart from Marco and Gabriel our comrades Giuseppe (‘Peppe’), Stefano, Elisa, Sergio, Alessandro are co-accused and remanded in Italy, while some of our CCF comrades imprisoned in Greece are also ‘under investigation.’
The state apparatus and its justice are now experimenting with similar alchemies in Greece. Our brother and CCF member Gerasimos Tsakalos is at the top of the blacklist of interrogators and judges. Currently, he has spent thirty one months on remand —the ceiling is eighteen months— and his pretrial detention was extended to another six months, describing him as ‘particularly dangerous.’ Nevertheless, the charlatans of justice make newer experiments as well. They open yet another case file, the double robbery in Velventos [Kozani], and charge Gerasimos for instigating crimes by delivering a new pretrial detention order to him. He is thus accused as instigator in a bank robbery case that occurred when he was already still in prison. What’s more, we do not forget that last year, when his eighteen months’ remand period was reaching an end, the mop called Mokkas (special appellate judge for the preliminary investigations) put him on the second consecutive remand, while the comrade was in hospital conducting hunger strike.
All this reinforce the certainty that we have, now more than ever before: the liberation of our comrades will only happen through violence, with guns, with an anarchist tromocracy and intensification of the new anarchist urban guerrilla warfare… and then, woe to whoever stands in the way of our comrades’ liberation.
v. Everything continues…
The struggle does not end just because some unimportant folks got tired, and now they only show off their anarcho-medals on the catwalk, in the mire of Exarchia [downtown Athens], nor does it stop because some folks shit in their own pants and hunker down in whatever they’ve put on ice, or in their pseudo-assemblies.
For us, there is no middle ground. They who declare openly their anarchist intentions are facing a decisive dilemma, to either act or give up anarchy forever. There can never be anarchy at the rear of coffee shops and gossiping… Either act or shut up…
In closing the proclamation of our reoccurrence along with the Consciousness Gangs, we would like to dedicate our attack with all our strength to our brothers and sisters imprisoned in the Italian State’s cells, and furthermore send out our conspirative signal to Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai, both accused of shooting Roberto Adinolfi ([footnote in the original :] chief executive of nuclear firm), an act for which the Olga Cell-FAI/FRI has claimed responsibility.

The words of coherence by the sisters and brothers in war are the only ones that have truly weight. The so-called ‘social anarchism’ makes everything revolve around the instrument ‘assembly’, which has become gym of authoritarianism, terrain of breeding big and smaller leaders, whose sole purpose is self-referentiality. The anarchist politicos do everything they can to stave off the new that advances. The new that advances as well as the making of the informal organization (…)
Alfredo Cospito [March 2013]
Courage and strength to the comrades who anonymously strike at the State and Capital, courage and strength to those who give a name to their own rage, courage and strength to the comrades who give life to the Fai/Fri. We are going to give soul and body to the black international, there is a whole world to destroy. Long live anarchy!
Nicola Gai [May 2013]
Brothers and sisters, the rendezvous is on…
We will be back — sooner than you expect…
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire-FAI/IRF
Consciousness Gangs-FAI/IRF
Sole–Baleno Cell
([Note in the original :] Sole and Baleno —Maria Soledad Rosas and Eduardo Massari— were two anarchist comrades accused of sabotage and anarchic dynamic actions in the 1990s. Baleno ‘committed suicide’ in his prison cell. Sometime later, Sole ‘committed suicide’ in the special conditions of ‘house’ detention imposed to her. Their memory lives within us, in our bullets, in our dynamite…)
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			<title>Stellungnahme der Antifa Düren:</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/stellungnahme-der-antifa-duren</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rechtsrutsch der „Bürger für Düren“(BfD) jetzt auch mit logischer Konsequenz
	Laut Dürener Nachrichten vom 06.06.2013 sind „Die Bürger für Düren“ , sprich Heidi Meier-Grass, aus dem Dürener Bündnis gegen Rechts (BgR) ausgetreten. Dies ist unser Meinung nach ein längst fälliger Schritt. Dass die „BfD“ bis vor kurzem überhaupt noch Mitglied im Dürener Bündnis gegen Rechts waren ist ohnehin nicht nachvollziehbar. Spätesten seit der Lesung mit dem Rechtspopulisten Heinz Buschkowsky, aber auch schon nach den Versuchen von Meier-Grass sich dem Faschisten Rothhanns, der über die „NPD“ ins Rathaus von Düren eingezogen ist, anzubiedern, hätte das „BgR“ die Reißleine ziehen müssen. 
	Rothhanns kein Faschist?
	Als Rothhanns sich im Zusammenhang mit der   Buschkowsky Veranstaltung  für den Einlass seiner Gesinnungskumpanen aus der NPD/ Kameradschaft Aachener Land (KAL), unter ihnen der Führer der verbotenen „KAL“ Rene Laube, eingesetzt hat und von diesen freundschaftlich begrüßt wurde, hätte auch Meier Grass klar sein müssen, das Rothhanns Gesinnungsänderung nicht stattgefunden hat. Sie hat sich einem Faschisten angebiedert und ist diesem offensichtlich nicht nur persöhnlich sondern auch inhaltlich näher gekommen.  
	BgR weist Vorwürfe zurück
	Wenn die Äußerung von Ludger Dove, das Bündnis habe Meier-Grass nicht unter Druck gesetzt, stimmt,  so ist dies ein weiteres Armutszeugnis für das „BgR“, denn genau dies hätte schon lange geschehen müssen. Es gibt zum Beispiel noch andere Mitglieder die eigentlich nichts in einem Bündnis gegen Rechts zu suchen haben. Aber auch hier ist man, aus welchen Gründen auch immer, nicht bereit Gruppen beziehungsweise Einzelpersonen aus dem Bündnis auszuschließen, die mit ihrem Verhalten ein Bündnis gegen rechts konterkarieren. Inhaltlich wir das BgR immer beliebiger.
	Offensichtlich geht es einflussreichen Mitgliedern im Bündnis um Quantität statt um Qualität. Wo gegen nichts einzuwenden wäre, wenn dies nicht zu Lasten der Qualität geschieht. Aber ein Bündnis gegen Rechts mit Rechtspopulisten geht unserer Meinung nach gar nicht. Dies war unter anderem auch ein Grund für die Antifa Düren, als Initiatoren des „BgR“, die Mitgliedschaft im Bündnis ruhen zu lassen.
	Wenn auch die Äußerung von Ludger Dowe, der die Vorwürfe von Meier- Grass bezüglich der Proteste gegen die Buschkowsky- Veranstaltung zurück wies, mit der Begründung, dass die Antifa  schon seit Jahren nicht mehr in die aktuelle Arbeit eingebunden ist und auch keine Sprecherrolle mehr bekleide, Konsens im Bündnis ist, kann man nur fragen Quo vadis Dürener Bündnis gegen Rechts.  Mit dieser Äußerung distanziert sich Dowe nämlich gegen die, allein von der Antifa getragenen, Protesten gegen den rechtspopulistischen Hetzer Buschkowsky. Daraus leitet sich eine indirekte Aussage ab; eine Stimme hat nur, wer uns passt.
	Die Vorraussetzungen, für eine Vollmitgliedschaft der Antifa Düren im Bündnis werden somit immer schlechter denn vom ursprüglichen Anliegen des BgR ist nicht mehr viel übrig. 
	
Heidi Meier-Grass
	
Bürgermeister Larue begrüßt den Faschisten Rothhanns bei seinem Einzug ins Stadtparlament
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:10:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Solidarität gegen Polizeigewalt</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Die Antifa Düren setzt der Polizeigewalt die Solidarität mit den von dieser Gewalt Betroffenen entgegen
	
Der Schwarze Block ist eingekesselt
	„Widerstand gegen Kapitalismus und Krise ist legitim und notwendig“ Wir solidarisieren uns mit den sozialen Kämpfen in Frankfurt, der Türkei und weltweit.
	Frankfurt/Main 
	Das Vorgehen der Polizei am vergangen Samstag in Frankfurt war ein Angriff auf die elementarsten Grundrechte. Die polizeilichen Übergriffe mit Hilfe von Pfefferspray und Schlagstöcken, bei denen über 300 Menschen verletzt wurden – darunter auch mehrere Journalist_innen – bedeuten ein Außerkraftsetzen von demokratischen Grundrechten. Mit dem Angriff auf die Demonstration sollte die Bewegung demoralisiert und gespalten werden. Aber Staat und Polizei haben die Solidarität und die Einigkeit unter den Bündnispartner_innen und den AktivistInnen völlig unterschätzt. Wenn die Polizei einen Teil unserer Demonstration angreift, dann greift sie uns alle an.
	Türkei-landesweit
	Wir solidarisieren uns  mit den Protesten in der Türkei. In der Türkei gehen seit einigen Tagen hunderttausende Menschen auf die Straße um gegen die rechtskonservative AKP Regierung zu demonstrieren und sind dabei ständigen Polizeiübergriffen ausgesetzt. Auslöser war der geplante Umbau des „Gezi-Parks“, einer Grünanlage in Istanbul, der Luxuswohnungen und einem Einkaufscenter weichen soll. Didf machte deutlich, dass die Menschen in der Türkei als Reaktion auf die Selbstherrlichkeit und den autoritären Regierungsstil der AKP-Regierung auf die Straße gehen, dabei die Zahl der Verletzten in die Tausende geht. Es kamen bei den Protesten bislang mehrere Menschen ums Leben. Die Menschen in der Türkei haben genug von der korrupten Regierung, von der Schere zwischen Arm und Reich, von der Polizeibrutalität und dem Krieg gegen das kurdische Volk.
	Zudem gedenken wir dem Antifaschisten Clément Méric, der vergangenen Mittwoch in Paris von zwei Faschisten umgebracht wurde. Dieser mörderische Anschlag reiht sich in eine anhaltende Welle von rechter und faschistischer Straßengewalt in Frankreich ein. Vor allem die homophoben Protesten der vergangenen Wochen waren von neo-faschistischen Gruppen zur Mobilisierung genutzt wurden.
	Unsere Solidarität gilt allen Opfern des Polizeieinsatzes und den Betroffenen autoritären Krisenmanagements, egal ob in Frankfurt, der Türkei oder sonstwo!
	Wir lassen uns das Recht auf Versammlungsfreiheit nicht nehmen und werden auch nächstes Jahr nach Frankfurt fahren! Und wir werden viel mehr sein! Ob Frankfurt oder Istanbul, ob Madrid oder Kairo:
	Hoch die internationale Solidarität! Yaşasın uluslararası dayanışma!
	Der Kapitalismus ist nicht das Ende der Geschichte!
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:30:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>EU: No austerity for military spending</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/eu-no-austerity-for-military-spending</link>
			<description><![CDATA[High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding European sovereign debt crisis — and continue to undermine efforts to resolve it.
A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the ways in which excessive militarization directly fed into the unfolding European debt crisis, and continues to undermine efforts to resolve it. Below the downlink links and infographic you can find the executive summary of the report.
Executive Summary:

 Five years into the financial and economic crisis in Europe, and there is still an elephant in Brussels that few are talking about. The elephant is the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis. As social infrastructure is being slashed, spending on weapon systems is hardly being reduced. While pensions and wages have been cut, the arms industry continues to profit from new orders as well as outstanding debts.
The shocking fact at a time of austerity is that EU military expenditure totalled €194 billion in 2010, equivalent to the annual deficits of Greece, Italy and Spain combined.
Perversely, the voices that are protesting the loudest in Brussels are the siren calls of military lobbyists, warning of “disaster” if any further cuts are made to military spending. This paper shows that the real disaster has emerged from years of high European military spending and corrupt arms deals. This dynamic contributed substantially to the debt crisis in countries such as Greece and Portugal and continues to weigh heavily on future budgets in all of the crisis countries.
The power of the military-industrial lobby also makes any effective cuts less likely. This is perhaps most starkly shown in how the German government, while demanding ever higher sacrifices in social cuts, has been lobbying behind the scenes against military cuts because of concerns this would affect its own arms industry.
The paper reveals how:
High levels of military spending in countries now at the epicentre of the euro crisis played a significant role in causing their debt crises. Greece has been Europe’s biggest spender in relative terms for most of the past four decades, spending almost twice as much of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence as the EU average.Spain’s military expenditure increased 29% between 2000 and 2008, due to massive weapon purchases. It now faces huge problems repaying debts for its unnecessary military programmes.
As a former Spanish secretary of state for defence said: “We should not have acquired systems that we are not going to use, for conflict situations that do not exist and, what is worse, with funds that we did not have then and we do not have now.” Even the most recent casualty of the crisis, Cyprus, owes some of its debt troubles to a 50% increase in military spending over the past decade, the majority of which came after 2007.
The debts caused by arms sales were often a result of corrupt deals between government officials, but are being paid for by ordinary people facing savage cuts in social services. Investigations of an arms deal signed by Portugal in 2004 to buy two submarines for one billion euros, agreed by then-prime minister Manuel Barroso (now President of the EU Commission) have identified more than a dozen suspicious brokerage and consulting agreements that cost Portugal at least €34 million. Up to eight arms deals signed by the Greek government since the late 1990s are being investigated by judicial authorities for possible illegal bribes and kickbacks to state officials and politicians.
Military spending has been reduced as a result of the crisis in those countries most affected by the crisis, but most states still have military spending levels comparable to or higher than ten years ago. European countries rank 4th (UK), 5th (France), 9th (Germany) and 11th (Italy) in the list of major global military spenders. Even Italy, facing debts of €1.8 trillion, still spends a higher proportion of its GDP on military expenditure than the post-Cold War low of 1995.
The military spending cuts, where they have come, have almost entirely fallen on people – reductions in personnel, lower wages and pensions – rather than on arms purchases. The budget for arms purchases actually rose from €38.8 billion in 2006 to €42.9 billion in 2010 – up more than 10% – while personnel costs went down from €110.0 billion in 2006 to €98.7 billion in 2010, a 10% decrease that took largely place between 2008 and 2009.
While countries like Germany have insisted on the harshest cuts of social budgets by crisis countries to pay back debts, they have been much less supportive of cuts in military spending that would threaten arms sales. France and Germany have pressured the Greek government not to reduce defence spending. France is currently arranging a lease deal with Greece for two of Europe’s most expensive frigates; the surprising move is said to be largely “driven by political considerations, rather than an initiative of the armed forces”. In 2010 the Dutch government granted export licences worth €53 million to equip the Greek navy. As an aide to former Greek prime minister Papandreou noted: “No one is saying ‘Buy our warships or we won’t bail you out.’ But the clear implication is that they will be more supportive if we do”.
Continued high military spending has led to a boom in arms companies’ profits and an even more aggressive push of arms sales abroad ignoring human rights concerns. The hundred largest companies in the sector sold arms to the value of some €318 billion in 2011, 51% higher in real terms compared to 2002. Anticipating decreased demand at home, industry gets even more active political support in promoting arms sales abroad.In early 2013 French president François Hollande visited the United Arab Emirates to push them to buy the Rafale fighter aircraft. UK prime minister David Cameron visited the Emirates and Saudi Arabia in November 2012 to promote major arms sales packages. Spain hopes to win a highly controversial contract from Saudi Arabia for 250 Leopard 2 tanks, in which it is competing with Germany – the original builder of the tank.
Research shows that investment in the military is the least effective way to create jobs, regardless of the other costs of military spending. According to a University of Massachusetts study, defence spending per US$ one billion creates the fewest number of jobs, less than half of what it could generate if invested in education and public transport. At a time of desperate need for investment in job creation, supporting a bloated and wasteful military can not be justified given how many more jobs such money would create in areas such as health and public transport.
Despite the clear evidence of the cost of high military spending, military leaders continue to push a distorted and preposterous notion that European Union’s defence cuts threaten the security of Europe’s nations. NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen “has used every occasion to cajole alliance members into investing and collaborating more in defense.”
Gen. Patrick de Rousiers, the French chairman of the EU Military Committee, at a hearing in the European Parliament, even suggested Europe’s future was at stake if military spending was not increased. “What place can a Europe of 500 million inhabitants have if it doesn’t have credible capacity to ensure its security?” he asked rhetorically.
We believe, by contrast, that at a time when the European Commission’s agenda of permanent austerity faces ever-growing challenges, there is one area where Europe could do much more to impose austerity. And that is the arena of military spending and the arms industry.
Abolishing nuclear weapons owned by France and the UK could save several billions of euros every year and fulfil a major pledge made by these countries under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to finally eliminate nuclear weapons. Reductions of all EU nations’ military spending to Ireland’s levels (0.6% of GDP) would save many more billions.
Writing off dirty debts caused by arms deals concluded through bribes, would be a good first step to lay the bill for the crisis with those who helped cause it. Such measures would also prove that at a time of crisis, Europe is prepared to invest in a future desired by its citizens rather than its warmongers.

To see the original reports on pdf please visit the source ROARMAG.org 
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			<title>Troops face court martial over EDL links</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/troops-face-court-martial-over-edl-links</link>
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A surge in anti-Islamic sentiment among members of the Armed Forces has prompted concerns over links to right-wing groups such as the English Defence League and the British National Party.

Serving soldiers have risked court martial by sharing inflammatory and racist images and jokes via social media while expressing their support for far-right groups.
The EDL’s “Armed Forces Division” Facebook page has attracted expressions of support from more than 12,700 people, some of whom are believed to be serving soldiers. On the day of Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder it was visited at least 21,000 times.
The increase in anti-Islamic activity comes as the Ministry of Defence tries to boost recruitment from within the Muslim community. The MoD has previously confirmed it is investigating the activity of at least ten forces personnel in relation to their support for the EDL, but yesterday it reiterated that it believed the problem to be among only a “tiny proportion” of its 170,000 staff.
Tommy Robinson, the EDL leader, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has repeatedly called for the support of the Armed Forces, presenting them as natural allies.
On June 2, he tweeted: “Armed forces support Edl, Edl support armed forces,” with a photograph of a masked British soldier in Helmand province, Afghanistan, posing with a weapon in front of an EDL flag.
Individual soldiers from The Rifles, The Mercian Regiment, The Royal Artillery, The Royal Logistics Corps, The RAF Regiment, The Royal Regiment of Scotland and the Royal Navy have all shown support through the EDL’s Armed Forces Division. All were identifiable as serving or recently serving from information posted on their social media profiles.
One soldier from the Mercian Regiment wrote on the day that Drummer Rigby was murdered: “What the f*** is going on with this country … you dirty f***ing scumbags!! get the f*** out of our country!! where the f*** are the BNP when we need them most.”
Earlier this week two British soldiers in Germany were convicted of abuse of Afghan civilians.
Serving Colour Sergeant Glen Hughes was last week accused of planning a sponsored walk so that EDL supporters could get money to the charity Help for Heroes, after it rejected funds from the extremist group. He also tweeted “dirty Muslims” and spoke of the need to “get rid of the scum” before deleting the offending posts. He has denied any involvement with the EDL.
Searchlight, the anti-fascist organisation, said it believed there had been an increase in forces representation at EDL rallies in the past 18 months. “You have got to be careful because you get people turning up to EDL marches in regimental berets who have never served a day in their lives,” said Gerry Gable from Searchlight. But he added: “Last year one MoD officer said to me that there are real concerns about infiltration by the far Right in the Army.”
Searchlight published a number of recent articles about Ralph Hebden 32, who it believed had attempted to build far-right support in the Royal Marines. Marine Hebden served two tours in Afghanistan. He was found dead in the North Sea after disappearing in March. He was later the subject of a lengthy obituary on the BNP website, which said that he had acted as personal security for its leader, Nick Griffin.
Forces chiefs said last year that the services must work harder to recruit from ethnic minorities, particularly the Muslim community.
Major General Nick Carter, who is heading the Army 2020 reforms programme, said that socio-economic brackets from which the forces were primarily recruited would be 25 per cent ethnic minorities by 2020. There are currently just 610 acknowledged Muslims serving — around 0.3 per cent of the total Armed Forces. The Muslim community is estimated at 4.6 per cent of the population.
An MoD spokesman said: “Of course we would be concerned with attempts by any organisation that promotes activity which is contrary to the values and standard of the Armed Forces. All those who are found to fall short of the Armed Forces’ high standards or who are found to have committed an offence under the Armed Forces Act are dealt with administratively — up to and including dismissal — or through the disciplinary process.”
From Hope Not Hate . Report by John Simpson and Tom Coghlan. 07.06.13
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			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:20:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Let&#039;s push thoughts forward!</title>
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                    Rückblick auf „Was interessiert mich Deutschland!?“        
        


    
            
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Das war sie nun, die antinationale Veranstaltungsreihe „Was interessiert mich Deutschland!?“ Die Resonanz halten wir insgesamt für zufriedenstellend, insbesondere die satirische Lesung mit Rainer Trampert und Thomas Ebermann sowie die Podiumsdiskussion „Was heißt hier eigentlich &#039;Wir&#039;?“ mit Renate Dillmann, Ilka Schröder und wiederum Thomas Ebermann stießen auf reges Interesse.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>It&#039;s not enough to be angry!</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/its-not-enough-to-be-angry</link>
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                    Let´s get things started!        
        


    
            
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	Seit nunmehr fünf Jahren zieht die jüngste Krise des Kapitalismus unter verschiedenen Namen ihre Kreise. Was 2007 zunächst auf die USA begrenzt als Immobilienkrise begann, weitete sich bald aus zu einer Bankenkrise, einer Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise, einer Schuldenkrise, einer Staatskrise und zuletzt „sogar“ zu einer Vertrauenskrise. Es kriselt offenbar einiges, und dementsprechend überschlagen sich nächtliche Sitzungen von Politik und Wirtschaft bzw. überbieten sich die Regierungen mit Sanierungsplänen und Rettungsschirmen, Schuldenschnitten und Euro-Bonds. Sie haben sichtliche Mühen, ihre jeweiligen Wirtschaftsstandorte zu halten bzw. den gemeinsamen „Standort Europa“ zu retten.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Klassen - Kämpfe - Kommunismus</title>
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                    Podiumsdiskussion mit Peter Decker und Michael Heinrich        
        

Seit 2007 steckt der Kapitalismus in einer Verwertungskrise, Banken und Staaten drohen Bankrott zu gehen, ganze Wirtschaftsektoren knicken ein. Seit Beginn bemühen sich die Regierungen der Industrienationen mit Sparprogrammen, Rettungsschirmen und Finanzmarktregulationen der Krise etwas entgegenzusetzen, um sie möglichst unbeschadet zu überstehen bzw. das Beste aus ihr zu machen.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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