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25.01.2022 Albert Einstein in Barcelona: "My name is Albert Einstein and I am also revolutionary, an anti-authoritarian" In February 1923 Albert Einstein visited Barcelona at the invitation of the Mancomunitat (the forerunner to the Generalitat, the Catalan government, which was reestablished in 1932) to give a series of sponsored lectures explaining his theory of relativity. On arrival he insisted on meeting with and giving talks to members of the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist labou...Continue reading

23.01.2022 Today members of ASF North West Tasmania went to visit Bunnings Devonport to speak to the manager and hand out leaflets including to staff against the wage theft and unfair dismissal of ASF Melbourne North member Ivan. We asked the the matter be resolved promptly or we will be returning and ramping up our actions along on the North West Coast. Working overtime should be paid at agreed rates. Asserting your rights at work is not a proper reason to terminate someone's employmen...t. Touch one, touch all! ASF-IWA

23.01.2022 International week against unpaid wages - Semana internacional contra el impago de salarios | October 12-18th | Del 12 al 18 de Octubre. International Workers' Association - Asociación Internacional de les Trabajadores. https://www.iwa-ait.org

21.01.2022 Fighting Back. International Week of Actions against Unpaid Wages

20.01.2022 And again in solidarity with mainland workers, ASF are planning a direct action on the North West Coast of Tassie! Come along and join us in the fight. PM the page for more information

19.01.2022 Talk / live stream - Sunday October 11! 3PM CET. ( Midnight Australian Eastern Time, Moscow 4PM, India 6:30PM, Bangladesh 7PM, Jakarta 8PM, New York 9AM.) During the week of October 12-18, the IWA is holding an International Week against Unpaid Wages. During the talk we will hear about some examples of problems with different forms of wage theft and how Sections of the IWA have taken action. In English. https://www.facebook.com/events/841618156377068

19.01.2022 The Sub-Secretariat of the Asia Pacific IWA is calling on all friends and supporters and those who believe in the rights of workers to support the IWA campaign ...for justice for 11 former Ansell Lanka workers unjustly sacked for attempting to unionise their workplace. This group of workers included some who had worked for the company for 20 years and decided to unionise their workplace to combat the intimidation they were subject to and to protect their interests. On 13 October 2013, they were summarily dismissed. The workers launched a legal action in the courts in Sri Lanka but the case has dragged on for almost 7 years with the Ansell company instructing their legal team to appeal and delay as much as is possible to thwart the workers pursuit of justice. In July 2020, the sacked Ansell Lanka workers appealed directly to the Sub-Secretariat of the Asia Pacific IWA for assistance. As a first step, the Asia Pacific IWA is calling for a campaign of protest emails to be sent to the following executives of the Ansell Company; Magnus Nicolin Managing Director and Chief Exceutive Officer, Email : [email protected] Catherine Stribley Company secretary, Email: [email protected] Please let them know of your concern that workers have been sacked for nothing other than exercising their right to organise as workers into a union and pursue and protect their interests by collective bargaining. The demands of the unjustly sacked Ansell Lanka workers are: *Condemnation of violence perpetrated by the Ansell Corporation against workers organising unions to protect their interests. * Condemnation of arbitrary termination of employment by the Ansell Corporation without due process of its workers for organising unions to protect their interests. *Demand the full re-instatement of the workers *Demand full compensation for loss incurred due to unjust termination of employment.

19.01.2022 Solidarity to the uprising in #Belarus and to the Belarusian Anarchist Black Cross from the ASF NWT. Салдарнасць з пастаннем у Беларус - Свабода!!

16.01.2022 MEM Bhopal's Union of Various Trades started a community library initiative which is run by MEM members and these little poets, writers, painters and dreamers. ... These masks were provided by HUNAR, Eka - The Communicators' Collective. We continuously need funds to keep the library functioning. With schools closed, the library is the only place for the children to get together, learn and create. Please donate. It helps us with rent for space and procurement of stationery, books etc. Please DM for details.

15.01.2022 9 February 2020 - Four protests at Bunnings outlets took place in support of ASF Melbourne North member, Ivan, in support of his claim for re-instatement. These protests took place at Belmont (WA), Coburg (VIC), Devonport (TAS) and Fyshwick (ACT) Here are some pix from the action in Perth;

12.01.2022 "My chains are better than yours!" We won't fight for a better slavery. We fight any sort of slavery and opression. "Mis cadenas son mejor que las tuyas!" No lucharemos por una mejor esclavitud. Luchamos contra todo tipo de esclavitud y opresión.

10.01.2022 SNAP RALLY TODAY 12:30pm ULVERSTONE SOLIDARITY WITH SIMPLOT WORKERS Simplot, Mason Street, Ulverstone 12.30pm... In response to the importation of SA spuds into Tassie, the AMWU are holding a snap action at Simplot today in protest. Workers are concerned about the impact on the industry and jobs here. Apart from the biosecurity risk, Coles & Woolies are adding to the pressure already on the local industry and jobs.

09.01.2022 Dear PPAS Comrades, The ASF sends its greeting to you on the occasion of your third Congress. We believe your achievements in building your organisation over th...e last few years are truly inspiring. We know a lot of work and serious thinking has gone into it. In this regard, we also send special welcome to the new sections of the PPAS in Pekalongan, Kendal and Magelang. We think it is important to remember that capitalism and the state are two heads of the same beast, authority: the authority of power and the authority of property. Destroying authority can only be final at the end of the revolution, but we kill parts of authority every time we create direct democracy by building our own institutions. This is the culture of anarchism: the building organisations we control directly and collectively, looking upon each other as equals. It is through this building that we see the members of PPAS express their freedom. There are very few organisations in the world right now as successful at building their own freedom and equality as the PPAS. We are proud to call you comrades, and you should be proud of your achievements. We in the ASF continue to look forward to the ASF and the PPAS supporting each other in the future as members of the IWA. Good luck for your Congress. We wish you all the best. Yours in the struggle, ASF-IWA Secretariat

07.01.2022 Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality. Mikhail Bakunin

06.01.2022 On this day in 1986, the ASF was founded at a meeting at Jura Books, 417 King St., Newtown by former members of the Rebel Worker Group, Melbourne Anarcho-Syndicalist Group as well as Bulgarian and Spanish anarchist exiles. Today, 27 January marks the 34th Anniversary of ASF-IWA

04.01.2022 Well done comrades! Solidarity!

03.01.2022 Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully stimulated advanced minds in the Anglo-Saxon countries, Holland and Spain in particular, and Democracy in the sense to which Rousseau gave expression in his Social Contract, and which found its most influential representatives in the leaders of French Jacobinism. While Liberalism in its social theories started off from ...the individual and wished to limit the state's activities to a minimum, Democracy took its stand on an abstract collective concept, Rousseau's general will, which it sought to fix in the national state. Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and since most of the original adherents of both did scarcely consider the economic conditions of society, the further development of these conditions could not be practically reconciled with the original principles of Democracy, and still less with those of Liberalism. Democracy with its motto of equality of all citizens before the law, and Liberalism with its right of man over his own person, both were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economy. As long as millions of human beings in every country have to sell their labour to a small minority of owners, and sink into the most wretched misery if they can find no buyers, the so-called equality before the law remains merely a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can be no talk of a right over one's own person, for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if one does not want to starve. Rudolf Rocker, Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism See more

03.01.2022 A message from Thomas Mayor, National Indigenous Officer regarding Black Lives Matter.

02.01.2022 With help from comrades, BASF is distributing soap to impoverished tea workers in Bangladesh.