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| − | '''A-Infos''' is a multilingual news service by, for, and about [[anarchism|anarchists]]. In the struggle for a free society, we distribute news and articles in several languages, covering a wide range of areas.
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| − | These include workplace, environmental and anti-imperialist struggles as well as the fight against [[racism]], [[sexism]], and [[homophobia]].
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| − | News items on A-Infos are distributed on our mailing lists and stored in our web archive. The project has began in [[1995]] on [[September 6]].
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| − | == The A-Infos Vision ==
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| − | The A-Infos Project is coordinated by an international collective of revolutionary [[anti-authoritarianism|anti-authoritarian]], [[anti-capitalism|anti-capitalist]] [[activism|activists]], involved with [[class struggle]] and who regard it as a total social struggle.
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| − | These are people who conceive themselves as revolutionary class struggle [[social anarchism|social anarchists]], [[anarcho-communism|anarcho-communists]], [[libertarian communism|libertarian communists]], [[syndicalism|syndicalists]] and [[fellow traveler|others who hold similar opinions]] but use other labels.
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| − | A-Infos is organized by people who feel anarchism is a social theory, and that a [[revolution]] is necessary to bring about the new class-less social order, and that this revolution can only be made by the vast majority of the working people.
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| − | The specific kind of anarchism we talk about and promote is the anarchism of the [[Haymarket martyrs]] and those expelled by [[Karl Marx]] from the [[First International]] for criticizing his [[authoritarianism]] and the [[elitism|elitist]], [[vanguardism|vanguardist]] degradation of the masses of the working class...
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| − | We do not support the kind of anarchism proposed by some pseudo-modernists and pseudo-"revolutionaries" who regard symbolic activity as substitute to mass struggle, or the kind of anarchism of "[[himanism|humanists]]" who hold other tasks as equal or more important than the revolutionary struggle for abolishing the capitalist system.
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| − | A-Infos’ work is not inspired by [[egoism|egoistic]] and egocentric [[individualism]], [[primitivism]], "[[anarcho-capitalism|free capitalism without a state]]" or even a state without free capitalism - who oppose the present capitalist order but do not offer instead a viable model of modern social order of [[freedom]], [[equality]], and [[solidarity]].
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| − | It is not enough for individuals and groups to use an anarchist label for their texts to be distributed by A-Infos.
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| − | In the struggle for a free society, we distribute news and articles in several languages, covering a wide range of areas of struggle. These include workplace and environmental struggles as well as the fight against racism, sexism and homophobia. A-Infos also distributes news on indigenous people’s [[anti-colonialism|anti-colonialist]] fight against settlers, [[occupation]] and [[marginalization]], as well as [[anti-nationalism|anti-nationalist]] and anti-regional separatist struggles, because workers have no country but the world as a whole....
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| − | A-Infos is specialized press agency, in the service (as we see it best) of the movement of revolutionary anti-capitalist activists who are involved in the various social struggles against the capitalist class and its social system.
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| − | A-Infos is not an open "liberal" service that distributes anything "we" are sympathetic to -- it is not [[Indymedia]]. It is first of all a free distribution tool for information from and about collectives of anarchist (and other anti-authoritarian revolutionaries) involved in the struggle.
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| − | A-Infos workers do not think we are the ones who should decide who, on the social anarchist camp, is a "real" anarchist or not. However, as resources are limited, we have the right and duty to (autonomously) choose what we distribute what we feel is best among the contributions and contributors. The freedom of association the A-Infos collective is based on means nothing without the freedom not to associate, if workers so choose.
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| − | A-Infos has a role to play in the world anarchist movement. Information is strength. A-Infos helps to build a sense of an international movement. A-Infos is, to a certain extent, one of the few international organizational tools of the movement. But to keep this role it must stay a tool in the service of the movement and not a free-for-all information service.
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| − | A-Infos is not just an internal movement tool. Like the [[Anarchist FAQ]], it's also a means to present the movement to the wider audience and to a new generation, and acquaint them with international aspects of the movement.
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| − | A-Infos is an autonomous anarchist press agency that is not the bullhorn of any "social" movement. Even when self-proclaimed anarchists (or even if real ones) are involved is not a guarantee A-Infos will distribute contributions. Even if we ourselves sympathize with given movements is no guarantee articles will be posted.
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| − | Thus, A-Infos distributes the news and analysis its workers want to share with the world non-authoritarian activists community -- mainly posts from anti-authoritarian revolutionary collectives and reports about direct action of social struggle both of activists and of common people in their daily life.
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| − | Anyone who is not satisfied with the services we provide, is welcome to use other services or build her/his own.
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| − | A-infos is both an organizational tool, a propaganda tool, and an information tool of the movement -- and is not merely "news by, about and of interest to anarchists."
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| − | ==External link==
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| − | * http://www.ainfos.ca
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| − | [[Category:Anarchist organizations]]
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