Anarchic update news all over the world - 10.09.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  bangladesh, BASF: Tea garden workers stage demo for wage
      hike by: akmshihab (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #286 - High School: The
      Blanquer chainsaw (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Russia, avtonom: An anarchist pension: how will it be?
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, notts black arrow: Dates for you diary - events
      coming up in October and November 2018 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Anarchist Federation: Rumours have been jumping up about far
      right and transphobic stickers popping up in Manchester, Leeds
      and London with razor blades stuck behind them. 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




Tea garden workers on Sunday demonstrated in Sylhet reiterating their demand for fixing 
their daily wage at Tk 300 while rejecting the government decision to increase their daily 
wage by just Tk 17. ---- Tea workers brought out a procession under the banner of the 
district unit of Bangladesh Cha Sramik Federation from Lakkatura Tea Garden area and held 
a rally there after parading Biman Bandar Road in the area to press home their demand for 
wage hike. ---- Leaders of tea workers at the rally expressed their frustrations over the 
government directive to set their daily wage at Tk 102 from existing Tk 85. ---- They said 
that fixing Tk 102 as daily wage of a worker at a time when the price of one kilogram rice 
was more than Tk 45 was a sign of government's ‘utter indifference' towards improving the 
lives of tea workers.

Bangladesh Cha Shramik Federation central unit convener Hridesh Mudi presided over the rally.

The federation's district unit president Sushanta Sinha Suman, executive member Santosh 
Baraik, Langkat Lohar, Shelly Das and Biren Singh also addressed.

http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news/tea-garden-workers-stage-demo-for-wage-hike/

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Since the announcement of the "  reform  " of vocational high schools by Jean-Michel 
Blanquer on May 28, worries are growing among teachers and staff. The trade unions relayed 
it by writing a joint letter to the minister on June 14th. One thing is certain: the 
balance of power will be built as of the beginning of September. ---- The stakes around 
the first ministerial announcements are posed: here we are facing a "   reform   " of 
vocational high schools that draws on two sources. That of the austere dogma with a social 
plan that threatens thousands of posts, between 6,000 and 7,000 according to union 
estimates, of the order of 10% of the global workforce. Macronien that of elitism with the 
orbiting of "   harvard professional   " intended to "   meilleur.es   " ... while at the 
same time there are hundreds of lessons that are promised to the removal, mainly education 
"   General  For the majority of high school students. 300 to 400 hours less in the pro 
bin according to the grids, 200 in CAP: it is clear to remove a lot to those who already 
have little.

Because what Blanquer does not speak about, these are legitimate demands expressed in many 
professional high schools that fight, too often in vain, for means that would make it 
possible to ensure conditions of work and study. not acceptable.

Where are the reception classes for first-time students  ? Where are the hours of 
consultation for educational teams to build projects  ? Where are the hours of duplication 
to adapt to school audiences in difficulty to give them the opportunity to more and better 
progress  ? Where are the investments in terms of buildings that would give space to 
students and staff to imagine another high school life  ? Where are the means in school 
life that would ensure a stronger presence of adult staff to better support students ? 
Where are the guarantees in terms of academic pursuits for high school students ?

The "   reform   " Blanquer is not the one needed by professional high schools, their 
staff as their students.

At the time of mobilization
This is why it is necessary to build a response that asks the real questions and carries 
the real claims. Most trade union organizations are well aware of this. This was expressed 
by an inter-union letter sent to the ministry on June 14th. Open personnel letters have 
also emerged, pointing to the blind spots of communication on this "   reform   " which 
promises to be very high risk.

Disagreements are still present on the approach to have: thus the Snetaa-FO believes that 
the time is first to negotiate "  cold  " with the services of the Ministry. The urgency 
would be to " give time to time ". But several signals indicate instead that it is the 
mobilization that is the order of the day, and this as of the return of September.

A national petition was launched by the CGT calling for an " emergency plan for the 
professional path ". Departmental or academic inter-unions, whose composition may be of 
variable geometry, have already met and discussed initiatives to be taken. On 
Orléans-Tours, for example, it is a day of common union information hours on all the 
professional high schools of the academy which is already scheduled on Tuesday, September 
18th. This idea seems to have been taken up by Snuep-FSU (third organization at national 
level).

A national union of trade unions working in vocational education will meet on 28 August. 
At the time of writing we do not know the result, but it is clear that a first strike 
date, rather quickly, seems a necessity. With or without the majority union  ? Perhaps it 
will be necessary to free oneself from it.

One could imagine a combative inter-union axis CGT-FSU-SUD succeed in driving a 
significant proportion of personnel in the action. Left to take care of next to broader 
initiatives.

It's up to the staff to decide
Even if the period of the summer holidays was obviously not favorable, it goes back from 
the last collective times in professional lycées (corrections, meetings of end of the year 
...) that the teachers and the personnel welcomed very negatively the announcements 
ministerial. The idea of organizing union information hours in one place each day, as 
suggested by the Orleans-Tours unions, would make it possible to measure the availability 
and determination to act together. Because it is well on the employees of high schools 
pro, and first on them and them, that can rest a real balance of power. Everything is to 
discuss: what mobilization to build  ? How to associate the users  ? What counter fires to 
turn against ministerial propaganda ? What claims to put forward, high school by high 
school if necessary  ?

And then, because it will be inevitable, what strike to build  ? Should we be satisfied 
with a few days of action scattered throughout the year  ? Is not it better to bet to 
widen strikers basins, relying on close days called nationally  ?

For this, it is necessary from the outset to ask the question of the articulation between 
inter-union initiatives and self-organization. The first hours of union information for 
the 2018-2019 school year can be used to establish assembly practices that ensure that the 
mobilization is anchored as close as possible to the field. From these meetings, it is 
hoped that delegates will be commissioned to coordinate, at different levels, proposals 
for actions and initiatives from the staff themselves. That trade union organizations can 
of course support and promote. To have all this in mind right now is to prepare to defend 
oneself, not to allow oneself to be attacked.

Theo Roumier, Unionist SUD Education

This article is adapted from a ticket produced for the Club Mediapart .

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lycee-professionnel-La-tronconneuse-Blanquer

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Raising the retirement age is an act of liquidating by the current authorities one of the 
most significant elements of the "social state" that we inherited from the Soviet era. 
This sacramental event is a good occasion for us, anarchists, to answer the question: How 
will the pension provision in the society that we are striving to build look like? ---- 
There is a terrible information noise. It consists of ridiculous attempts of the state to 
"justify" the benefits of pension reform for the population and its widespread angry 
condemnation, which can be summarized in the abstract: There is not enough money to 
support the elderly, cut your own parasitic super profits! A third party is added to a few 
convinced marketers who sincerely believe that "it is necessary to raise the retirement 
age - it is higher in all developed countries."

All this is superficial and fussy. And most importantly, we, as anarcho-communists, can 
not in any way be satisfied with the requirement to leave the age unchanged and raise 
pensions. So you have to turn off the volume, and in silence to deal with the topic in 
essence.

1. The crux of the problem
A universal state pension is an attribute of a social state-that is, a form of state 
organization that demagogically claims to reflect the collective interests of its citizens 
and provide them with support. In practice, the "social state" proves to be somewhat more 
harmful than the "non-social" state, because it replaces very many functions that society 
previously performed without the state, including social support.

Why do you need a pension? The pension is necessary because people, because of the 
age-related weakening of health (and also because of injuries, congenital and acquired 
diseases, etc.) lose the ability to provide themselves with their own work (in this case 
it does not matter - to provide directly by "natural" production or to engage in types of 
work, rewarded in this society).

In pre-retirement days, such people, in the first place, were provided by children 
(usually numerous), and more widely - the family, in some cases - the community. However, 
the industrial age, with its reduction in the birth rate and the new economic situation, 
made the former scheme almost unviable. Along with this, the "social state" created an 
effective replacement of the tradition through a universal pension.

The pension is welcome (hence the desire to retire no later than the due or, for example, 
the right to retire earlier as a privilege for certain categories of employees). The 
reason for this - first, the alienated nature of labor. Work is often perceived as an 
unpleasant burden, opposed to man, and the opportunity to get rid of it as soon as 
possible, having received material support and remaining a socially approved unit, is 
perceived as a blessing. Secondly, commodity-money relations by their very nature generate 
a sense of lack of means of subsistence for each individual. And the opportunity to start 
earning extra income without making additional efforts is desirable for everyone (this 
often involves family obligations and much more).

Here antagonism arises: in a class society, the state and partly the capitalists tend to 
let people retire later and pay as little as possible, saving more money for themselves 
and more intensively exploiting the labor resources of society, while the majority of the 
people are interested in the opposite.

2. Transformation of the pension problem in a libertarian society
The transition to an anarchic society will greatly change the outlines of the problem. We 
note at once that the issue of preserving (temporary) or abolishing the money turnover or 
its equivalents in this text is left out of brackets.

First, the alienation of labor-through the abolition of economic exploitation (the 
appropriation by the capitalist of the result of total labor), the involvement of each 
worker in the management of the labor process, and the freedom to change work, in 
accordance with the needs of the community, will be overcome as much as possible. 
Secondly, the process of obtaining material benefits will become collective - "to each 
according to the needs", based on the production capabilities of society.

These two innovations will eliminate the problem of "covetedness" of pensions as a right 
to depend on. If the work is liberated as much as possible, it, as far as possible, ceases 
to be a nuisance, from which it is necessary to get rid quickly. And if everyone gets 
"according to the needs", based on the results of the work of the whole society, then the 
meaning of additional subsidies is lost.

Thus, it can be expected that an elderly or unhealthy person will choose labor-free forms 
that are not burdensome for himself and useful for society, in convenient volumes for 
himself, instead of switching to full dependency, while retaining his former level of 
well-being.

However, the problem of full or partial incapacity for work and, as a result, the need for 
a pension (or wider social support), the release of labor does not remove ...

3. Who will help the disabled?
Now, the state or private savings funds acting as a kind of banks can pay pensions. Both 
these institutions are categorically rejected by the anarcho-communists, the first as a 
machine of oppression, the latter as parasitic speculative economic actors. Who will 
provide social support for the disabled in a libertarian society?

To answer this question, you first need to find out who will inherit the material wealth 
that the state and capital now assigns? These will be bodies of territorial 
self-government (consisting of several levels up to interregional ones) and associations 
of workers who can function as fully integrated with territorial bodies (especially if an 
enterprise functions locally) or separately, but in close cooperation and with mutual 
agreements (first of all, in the situation with the enterprise, scattered across several 
territories).

Recognizing a person incapacitated, the community takes on his material security, which is 
carried out either at the expense of local resources, or with the involvement of 
additional participation of broader self-government bodies.

In the situation of collective and equitable decision-making, as well as the distribution 
of economic goods in the community according to the principle of "according to needs" - 
one can expect that self-government bodies, unlike the state and capitalists, will not be 
interested in maximally cutting the ability of a disabled person to receive material 
support from society.

In such a system, the existence of a single retirement age is not necessary, although it 
can be established by the decision of public self-government structures.

Like any radical project, the anarchist communist social support plan may seem remote and 
redundant. However, given the speed of social transformations in the modern world, it is 
very likely that this future is not far off. And it is the proposed scenario that allows 
solving the complex problem of social support for the elderly person, which in the present 
system is insoluble because of such factors as the interests of the state and capital, the 
alienation of labor and the particular nature of appropriating its results.

Phil Kuznetsov

Specially for the site "Fighter Anarchist" https://bo-ak.org/

https://avtonom.org/freenews/anarhistskaya-pensiya-kak-eto-budet

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These events are coming up in Nottingham ...

At the Sparrows' Nest:
Saturday 27th October at 2:00 pm: 
http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/index.php/14-news-and-events/161-upcoming-event-rosemary-muge-on-poaching-27th-oct-2pm

The Second Nottingham Radical Bookfair, and lots of supporting events on the same day!
Saturday 17th November 11:00 am - 4:30 pm: 
https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/the-second-nottingham-radical-bookfair/
https://nottsblackarrow.wordpress.com/

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If you encounter these, please take a photo of the sticker and razor blade and send them 
to us and any other local action group, eitherway we'll forward the info to the folks we 
know nearby and look into sorting it out. ---- DO NOT REMOVE WITH YOUR FINGERS. ---- Use 
your keys or a card.
If you are seeing a rise in your area, hit us up and we'll sort you some lovely anarchist 
stickers.
There is no space on our streets for such reckless hate and we must counter it with every 
tool with have available.
Stickers, posters and grafitti are the art of social change and we must keep it 
revolutionary and compassionate x

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