A-Infos (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Trous Noirs program on Radio Libertaire (every Monday, 4-6 PM) (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Monday, October 27 (4 PM - 6 PM) ---- Pierre Bance, author of Another 
Future for Kurdistan? Libertarian Municipalism and Democratic 
Confederalism and The Fascinating Democracy of Rojava. The Social 
Contract of the Federation of Northern Syria, is publishing a landmark 
book with Noir & Rouge: ---- The Great Federation - Direct Democracy and 
Federal Life. ---- He recalls the hopes of emancipation towards "another 
future": ---- "All over the planet, in cities and countryside alike, 
women and men are seeking to change the world by decolonizing their 
imagination from state and market alienation. All are choosing direct 
democracy as a mode of organization." ---- But it is not enough to 
aspire to a society of federated communes; it is necessary to prepare 
for this change well in advance: to develop a social contract describing 
"the institutions of self-administration signaling the end of the State 
and the institutions of self-management enacting the end of Capital."

For Pierre Bance, the time has come to go on the offensive; to consider 
solutions that could bring about a shift towards communalism and 
libertarian federalism.

The interest and complexity of this work require several broadcasts.

Following those of September 29 and October 13, this broadcast will 
address "the dynamics of convergence to the social contract":

- Various attempts thwarted by party co-optations (World Social Forum) 
or by the survival of Trotsky-Leninist genes (creation of the New 
Anti-Capitalist Party): "The party form has once again shown itself to 
be an obstacle to the emancipatory revolution."

In Turkey and Syria, the Kurds are attempting to establish a popular 
movement that unites at the community or neighborhood level. Limitations 
are imposed in particular by the unfavorable political and military 
context and the survival of Leninism among some minority PKK militants.

- How can we imagine and organize a different future? "The old society 
will be overthrown by those better organized than it": Pierre Bance 
proposes coordinating "all those who identify with direct democracy, 
autonomous communities, and federalism" into a "Movement for Direct 
Democracy" organized around local unions, a prefiguration of future 
communities.

Monday, November 3 (4 PM - 6 PM)

During the meetings organized in mid-August in the Caulnes community 
center (Côtes d'Armor) by several groups of the Anarchist Federation, 
the Friday evening panel discussion was of great interest to the large 
number of attendees: the topic was Artificial Intelligence (AI), 
addressed by Patrick, who has been intimately familiar with this field 
since its inception.

The exponential growth of investment in many countries is beginning to 
generate various applications. The first interested parties are, of 
course, armies and security forces (drones, unmanned aircraft, facial 
recognition, etc.).

Patrick showed how the utopia of replacing humans with machines is 
likely to turn into a nightmare, leading to a true dystopia if we don't 
react quickly.

Radio Libertaire was present and recorded the presentation and the 
responses to the many questions from the audience.

Monday, November 10 (4 PM - 6 PM)

On October 5, the "Anarchist Book Fair" was held in Merlieux (Aisne) 
with a large attendance. Radio Libertaire recorded two presentations 
followed by answers to questions:

- Gérard Mordillat discussed an important event in sixteenth-century 
Germany, illustrated in a comic book for which he wrote the script: The 
Peasants' War.

Overwhelmed by poverty, led by the monk Thomas Münzer, tens of thousands 
of peasants plundered monasteries, freed nuns, and burned castles.

- Louis Armel, bookseller and founder of the independent publishing 
house "La Lucarne des Ecrivains," read poems by Ziad Medoukh, who lives 
in Gaza and recently published "Cry of Love for Gaza - 50 Poems from 
Gaza, from Palestine for Life, Hope, Peace, and Solidarity, in the Midst 
of Carnage." It expresses the fabulous dream of living again in a free 
and happy country, or of dying there...

https://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=8650
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