Day: October 7, 2009

Recently members of the ASF presented a letter of protest to the Serbian government in protest about the arrest of IWA comrades in Serbia. The letter is shown below and a video of the event can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyuzLBbvpMo

Open letter to the Serbian Consulate, Australia

We demand the release by the Serbian government of Ratibor Trivunac, Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Đokić and Nikola Mitrović, members of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI). We protest the unjust arrest and detainment of our comrades on trumped-up charges, which the ASI has vehemently denied (http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=7227).
This attack on the ASI, and by extension the International Workers Association (IWA), is an attack on organised labour everywhere. All dissenters should be concerned by the trend towards labelling all dissent “terrorism.” The latest escalation of oppression by the Serbian government comes after an ASI member was arrested for the trivial offence burning an American flag. Clearly there is an attempt to target the ASI. This will not go unnoticed internationally.
Even today, in coordination with this action comrades are also protesting at the Serbian consulate in Britain.

Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation Melbourne 11/9/2009

Thursday October 1 there was a demo in Bern by FAU. People gathered at the station marched towards the Embassy through the old town. There were about thirty people. They distributed leaflets and spoke outside the embassy and then returned to the station where there was another speech.

A second protest was held on Sunday Oct. 4 in front of the Embassy. Again the rally was organized by FAU. FAU is like ASI: a rank and file trade union. That is to say without a trade union officials and with workers’ autonomy.

At 19:00 30-40 people gathered and left the station towards the Serbian embassy with banners and flags going noisily through the downtown. Hundreds of flyers informing people of the situation of the accused were distributed. Before the Serbian Embassy, an open letter to their ambassadors was read. After that, the protesters went back to the station. Finally, an open letter to Serbian intellectuals supporting the accused was read under the canopy (outside the station). Around 20:15, the event was dissolved by its organizers.