Anarchic update news all over the world - 5 - 8 - 2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  verba-volant: Communiqué of the Political Anarchist
      Organization in solidarity with the squatter Mundo Nuevo (ca, fr,
      gr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  anarkismo.net: Statement by Arash Hampay by Dmitri - MACG
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  wsm.ie: Work and Workplace Organising: a Workers Solidarity
      Movement position paper (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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This statement from the Organization anarchist politics , in solidarity with the squatter 
New World , was published on its website following a publication in a medium of digital 
disinformation, through which the repressive state apparatus put the squatter in point Of 
aim We hope to be able to spread more news about this case soon. ---- Solidarity with the 
squat New World. Remove the squatters hands -- Attacks on political squatters and occupied 
places continue to provide shelter for refugees and immigrants, through continuous 
publications in the press. The most recent of these was an article against the squatting 
New World, written obviously by the Secret Police, and posted on a Thessaloniki website. 
Recently the busy social center Sxoleio (School) has received threats from the 
municipality of Thessaloniki. At the same time the squatter Rosa Nera Khania threatened 
with eviction is due to agreements between the lucrative nature Polytechnic School of 
Crete and entrepreneurs in the tourism industry. The Rector of the University, playing the 
role of the businessman, blatantly declared that imminent repression will be "for the good 
of society."

The references (in several published articles) to tax evictions from the Papoutsadiko 
squatters, the City Plaza Hotel and the immigrant roof squatter at Zoodoxou Pigis Street 
119 in Athens, as well as the pressure exerted in the cases In which the owners of 
squatter buildings are universities, such as the squatters Lelas Karagianni, 37 and 
Vankouver, in Athens, and Evangelismos, in Heraclion, are made to penalize the 
anarchist-anti-authoritarian character of these projects, as well as Such as solidarity in 
practice with refugees and immigrants.
These are articles mounted by the police, which usually have the form of "suggestions" to 
the government. In fact, they come to serve directly the planning of the State, creating a 
repressive environment. A similar media hysteria took place last summer, when just after 
the "No Border" celebration in Thessaloniki the squatters Orfanotrofio (whose building was 
demolished), Mandalideio and Hurriya were dislodged. The start of the recent wave of 
repression was given by the Minister of Public Order, N. Toskas, with successive 
interviews and statements, first after the eviction of the squatters Villa Zografou and 
Alkiviadou in Athens, and then after the eviction of the okupa Albatross in Thessaloniki, 
confirming state planning of evictions,
The attacks and repression of the squatters are part of the offensive of the state and the 
employers to the social and class resistances that are emerging against their murderous 
planning. Refugees and immigrants are imprisoned in barracks, and institutional racism is 
growing (paving the way for neo-Nazi gangs and cultivating social cannibalism), the 
offensive of Capital devastates the lives and dignity of workers and unemployed with the 
continuous imposition of each time New measures that lead to indigence and submission, 
worker-murders of the employers are increasing, class and social mobilizations are 
confronted with police violence and defamation (as was the case with people struggling for 
Free use of mass transportation,
In this confrontation between the predators of power and people fighting for freedom, 
equality and dignity, the squatters are both refuges and places where solidarity, 
self-organization and resistance develop on all fronts of social war And class. As such we 
will defend them by all means, in a combative and organized way.

No surrender, no truce, in the struggle against the repressive plans of the State. To 
collectivize our resistance, to organize the self-defense of the movement, to move to 
social and class counterattack, to social revolution, anarchy and libertarian communism.
Anarchist Political Organization-Federation of Collectivities

http://verba-volant.info/es/comunicado-de-la-organizacion-anarquista-politica-en-solidaridad-con-la-okupa-mundo-nuevo/

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An urgent response needs to be taken by activists and solidarity groups in EU and the rest 
of the world to demand the freedom the hunger strikers and immediate access to medical 
care for them. ---- Statement by Arash Hampay since July 31, 2017 ---- Behrooz Arash is 
dying. He sent me a voice message yesterday in which he was saying that his skin is 
falling off his body. We have been worried about his situation for a long time now. The 
body gets damaged after the loss of 10 % of the body weight. Behrooz has lost far more 
than that. He was 60 kilograms when he started his hunger strike. The last time he was 
weighed he was 44 kilograms. That happened last week. It means more than 30 % of his body 
weight. ---- We expected the police to respond to all the demands from the doctors, the 
lawyers and others to take both Behrooz Arash and Kozhin Hussein to the hospital but they 
have not been taken there. WE expected from them that they do care about the survival of 
the hunger strikers, that they do value their lives, but we were wrong. Until this very 
moment, they are locked inside and prevented by the police to get any access to medical 
care or vitamins. Without medical care in this very critical situation.

Behrooz Arash also told me that nothing regarding their eventual release would happen 
until 7th of August. He won´t survive until then. The greek government and the greek 
police is killing him. Whatever is going to happen to Behrooz and Kozhin they are 
responsible for that.

An urgent response needs to be taken by activists and solidarity groups in EU and the rest 
of the world to demand the freedom the hunger strikers and immediate access to medical 
care for them.

*Originally published at Arash Hampay Facebook profile.

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http://www.anarkismo.net/article/30409

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Note to readers: ---- This paper sits under the Anarchism, Oppression & Exploitation and 
Class and Exploitation papers in the WSM position papers. It doesn't repeat the material 
to be found in those papers. ---- Passed by National Conference, July 2017. ---- Work and 
the Workplace ---- The workplace remains the location where many of us are likely to spend 
much of our adult lives.  We are dependent on the wage we earn for food, housing and all 
our basic and complex needs. ---- The workplace is anywhere where we do work. For many 
people this means turning up to work shifts for a business, i.e the capitalist workplace 
---- However, for many people the home is their workplace, and for others it is one of 
their main workplaces. This domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning, and care work such 
as tending to infirm relatives and child rearing, is mostly done by women and goes unpaid 
and unrecognised as ‘real work' in capitalist patriarchal society. However, it is 
fundamental to sustaining ourselves and reproducing human society and it deserves to be 
paid. Workplace struggle should include the demand for a wage for domestic work at present 
and ultimately achieve a free and fair division of all socially necessary labour.

We recognise that the strike is not limited to the capitalist workplace but also involves 
the ‘social strike' for example in the sphere of reproductive labour (such as domestic 
work) and continued functioning of the city.

Many of us experience work as a place where we have very limited control over what we do 
and when we do it, never mind what is produced.  As individual workers we often have 
little or no choice other than obeying the legal and, for the more marginalised of us, 
even illegal instructions of our boss.

Workplace Struggle - Unions

Yet workers are not powerless.  Without our work nothing is produced.  Some of us have 
some power because our skills are rare but most of us are replaceable and therefore our 
only power is that obtained through collective struggle.

Over time the organisation of collective struggle resulted in the formation of

https://www.wsm.ie/c/work-and-workplace-organising

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