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Anarchic update news all over the world - 29.11.2018
Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 - Letter from a
reader: Freinet and radical pedagogies (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. alas barricadas: Brussels is founded an international
federation of delivery food delivery service with presence in 12
countries (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, brighton solfed: The arrogance continues, and so
does our fight! (Youngs dispute update) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST STATE AND
CAPITALIZING HEIGHT
- WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER by dirty horse APO
[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Nantes - Nantes: an
aperitif debate on struggles in the hospital sector (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [CAB Gender WG] WOMEN AGAINST PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE, THE
POLICE STATE AND THE FASCIST ASCENT IN BRAZIL AND
THE WORLD by
Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, SOLIDARITY FEDERATION: Unsecure Lettings
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Following the article " Network Radical pedagogies: that flourish a hundred collectives "
in Alternative libertarian October, a reader wanted to react. The monthly Alternative
Libertarian publishes articles that reflect the orientations of AL, but it is also
enriched sometimes with other points of view and analyzes, if they do not seem
antagonistic. It is therefore fair that some articles are debating. ---- Radical
pedagogies want to raise awareness about social inequalities and discrimination (classism,
sexism, racism, handiphobia, LGBTQIphobies ...). Refusing to reproduce the oppressions
should be at the heart of the reflection of all pedagogues. We see so many who do not
apply in class what they preach in meetings at night ...
But I did not understand, in the article of AL of October, where are anchored the "
collectives " evoked and on what common bases they could be found. It is not enough to
make a website to pool resources that one claims to adhere to, without mentioning the
actual practice on the ground.
? Network " Radical Pedagogies ": what a hundred collectives , AL of October bloom
To my great surprise, the " radical pedagogies " do not seem to include the Freinet
movement, which for a century has been working on anti-racism, feminism and equality. This
movement is organized around a clear political text - " Perspectives for a Popular
Education " - within the International Federation of Modern School Movements (Fimem) and,
in France, the Cooperative Institute of the School. modern (Icem). It groups practitioners
who dare, in a revolutionary way, to say that they are their own educationalists. The
image of the blacksmith who forges his own tools is the expression of this thought which
ignores the break between the manual and the intellectual.
If it were necessary to create a new movement and one that already exists, it would be
necessary to begin by explaining the meaning of this rupture: what could one neither find
nor build within the Fimem ?
Looking at the website of Iresmo, an institute that promotes this radical pedagogy
network, I have not found an answer ; it seems to be more of a university movement than a
practitioner organization.
Reading Paulo Freire's texts is extremely interesting, but that is not enough to read
texts from Freinet. We must act together, we must confront these texts to the reality of
groups of children, adolescents, in classrooms, centers and neighborhoods. This is where
we will eventually see real political disagreements. Freinet, for example, refused to work
with Montessori because he was a layman and communist, while she was a believer and
collaborated with Mussolini. On the other hand, where are the differences between Paulo
Freire's disciples and Icem ? Like Freinet, I always fear people who " talk about "
instead of " acting with ". We can not build a network of practitioners without first
doing it with those who think every day about children to real emancipatory practices.
Véronique Decker (93), Icem activist
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Courrier-d-une-lectrice-Freinet-et-les-pedagogies-radicales
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Message: 2
At the initiative of AlterSummit and Transnational Social Strike, an important meeting of
31 different collectives and unions took place. A hundred dealers met at an international
congress on October 25 and 26, 2018 in Brussels. Coming from France, Italy, Finland,
Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria,
Switzerland and Belgium for two days they put together ideas, tactics, strategies and
lessons from their local struggles and founded the Transnational Courier Federation. ----
An IWW Couriers Network member who attended the event explains the scope of the groups
involved and the general mood: ---- Map detailing all the organizations across Europe that
attend the summit ---- It was very well organized, with simultaneous translation into
English, French, Spanish and German. The vast majority of the dealer groups present were
self-organized collectives, independent of unions. Trade union centers (such as IWW) were
also present. In particular: Deliverunion (associated with FAU of Germany) and Syndicom.
Germans and Austrians are associated with larger unions, as are Norwegian dealers. The
debate was developed horizontally and was very affable. Taking into account that it was
taking place in 4 languages simultaneously, the meeting was very effective to share common
concerns.
The Valencian Intersindical , for its part, explains that:
We have been one of the 19 unions that have participated. Trade unions have been present
such as: LAB (Euskal Herria), CIG (Galiza), CGT (France), SUD SOLIDAIRES (France), FGTB
(Belgium), FNV (Holland) or UNIA (Switzerland). There have also been groups of delivery
people from Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Germany, France, England, Belgium,
Italy, Finland and the Spanish state. Among the groups of dealers there was a
representation of Riders x Rights of Valencia and Barcelona.
The sessions lasted two days and focused at first on the presentation of the respective
struggles and tactics employed by the delivery people and their unions in each country.
Later on, they shared common issues and demands across borders and addressed the
possibility of create transnational support structures to help delivery people organize
themselves in their respective countries. After the discussion sessions on these issues,
the whole assembly met again to vote for the creation of an international group that
promotes the organization of distributors around the world, organized through the
following structure:
An international federation of distributors and unions.
The membership would be open to collectives and unions that are run by the distributors
themselves and can prove the base organization of delivery drivers. Individual
distributors can have observer status if they do not wish to join a collective or official
union.
The exact weight of the vote will be determined at future meetings.
It was decided to call the federation, the TRANSNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COURIERS (TFC) to
emphasize the global nature of the struggle.
All the organizations present must be founding members.
The details of how the Federation will be managed on a day-to-day basis, as well as its
statutes and ethics (which future organizations that wish to join should comply) were left
for future discussions, but to close a series of key demands was agreed upon for all those
present that member organizations would seek from their employers:
Respect.
Freedom of association.
Fair definition of time dedicated to work.
Security in employment.
Insurance.
Greater transparency of data and applications.
Common spaces for delivery people.
After the closing of the summit, a massive race of more than 1000 delivery people was held
in the city of Brussels, an excellent way to show the collective power of the delivery
people all over the world!
First state assembly of Riders x Rights in Madrid
In addition, this weekend is taking place the first state assembly of Riders x Rights (
twitter , facebook ), participant in the international meeting in Brussels. This group not
only promotes the organization in the work centers, but also the creation of cooperatives
by the distributors - in their case it is called Mensakas. According to the Ciclosfera
website:
"We seek to make visible the state of labor precarization of the distributors within the
big platforms, but we also want to find forces and initiatives that sow a more hopeful
path for the sector, and subsequently; Alternatives to "collaborative economies" (that of
collaborative, have nothing), "said the statement.
Participating in the activity are the Pájara Ciclomensajería (Madrid), Cleta (Madrid),
CoopCycle (Paris), Mensakas (Barcelona) and Riders x Derechos (Valencia / Barcelona). "We
do not believe that we are doing anything new: these relations of labor subordination and
exploitation have always existed, but we know that the organization is the basis for
regulating and guaranteeing decent work for all," the organizers add. "Labor rights and
guarantees did not come alone, and it is our responsibility to defend them and guarantee a
responsible, ecological and sustainable labor framework," they say.
The open activities that will take place during the weekend will be the following:
Sunday 25
18h: Open Assembly of Riders x Rights (CS La Ingobernable: Calle Gobernador 39, Metro Atocha)
Monday 26
09.30h - Bicifestation. Output: Cibeles. Route: Offices of Deliveroo and Glovo to finish
in Tribunal (Malasaña).
12h - Press Conference - Tribunal (Malasaña)
6pm - Open Forum 'Can technology be democratized within the framework of the "gig
economy"?' (Energy Sea: Calle de Toledo 108 - Puerta de Toledo Metro).
In this last meeting will be explained, as the organization explains, "cases of local
initiatives and cooperation projects in larger networks, reasoning about the possibilities
and limits of large platforms and small innovative cooperative projects that are born as a
result of the self-determination of the distributors ".
http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/40990
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Message: 3
We have been slightly under the radar lately with our dispute against Youngs Estate
Agents. However, this does not mean we haven't been very busy with it over the past few
months, as we have kept working with Patrick in a number of ways. Here is an update on the
current situation. ---- People might remember that we have been supporting Patrick for
over a year now, as he was demanding compensation for the longstanding dramatic state of
dilapidation of his flat and for the repair work that his landlord's and Youngs'
consistent negligence forced him to carry out by himself, as well as, and most important
still, for the outstanding repair work to be completed swiftly and at an industry standard
(more info here). In response to the campaign, both Patrick and other SolFed members have
been violently harassed by Youngs and their associates (link 1, link 2), and Patrick has
been served an eviction notice in January, which was successfully rejected in court. This
has not discouraged the landlord, however, who has been completely unwilling to initiate
any form of dialogue with Patrick or us and has served a second eviction order in August.
As a form of immediate and concrete solidarity, we have raised over £400 for Patrick via
an online fundraiser (link 3 - thank you to everyone who donated), in order to help him
cover legal expenses and potential costs of moving to a new home and everything that that
might come with. Meanwhile, we have helped Patrick with requesting for an Environmental
Health Inspection to be carried out by Brighton and Hove Council. Somewhat unsurprisingly,
this has been far from a smooth process, given that we have had to chase the council
several times before they eventually decided to do their job, after a number of empty
promises. The inspection resulted in an Enforcement Notice being sent by the council to
the landlord, instructing him to carry out the repair work. This acknowledges and
vindicates the claim Patrick and ourselves have been making over the past year about the
hazardous condition of the property. As per the notice, a schedule of the enforced work
was supposed to be sent to Patrick by the 6th November. Yet, staying true to their
attitude, both the landlord and Youngs are ignoring the notice, even pretending that this
has not been issued at all. The landlord has instead served a new possession order, trying
to force through the eviction while dodging his duties once again.
In response to yet another display of arrogance from this rogue landlord and his gang of
bullies, Patrick is still determined to put up a fight, for which we will continue to
support him however we can. Now as always, an injury to one is an injury to all!
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/the-arrogance-continues-and-so-does-our-fight-youngs-dispute-update-25112018
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Message: 4
against the sell-off of labor struggles by union bureaucracies ---- THE STRUGGLE ARMS OF
THE WORKERS! ---- The history of social and class struggles shows us that the proletarians
have nothing to expect from institutions, parliaments, elections, bureaucratic trade union
leaderships and class struggle mediators who deal with bosses pleading for their alms. All
they have to win will be the result of their widespread, organized, militant and radical
struggles. Only the total overthrow of the state and capitalism, the social expropriation
of the wealth that we ourselves produce and eradicate a caste of rulers, the organization
from the bottom of the social and classical counterattack, the revolution for a new
society of communality, solidarity, freedom can justify the cravings and real social needs
of the oppressed and exploited of the whole world.
ORGANIZATION ON THE BASE - DOCUMENTARY CONDUCT!
CONCENTRATION - WALKING: WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER, 10 AM from the ANNEX
anarchist group "dignified horse" APO & comrades, comrades
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Message: 5
For many months now, there are countless mobilizations, strikes and actions by hospital
and clinic staff to warn about the deterioration of the conditions of care and struggle to
defend their working conditions. ---- And you have to fight ! Because the " health plan "
announced by the government will only aggravate the situation: industrialization of the
health system, lack of resources, under-strength ... Alternative Libertaire offers you a
cocktail debate to better understand the situation in the hospital sectors. Our
discussions will be nourished by the story of caregivers mobilized in Nantes clinics and
at the University Hospital Center. These testimonies will allow us to discuss together the
specificity of these struggles, but also to think of the links of solidarity between users
and users of health services and caregivers.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Nantes-apero-debat-sur-les-luttes-dans-le-secteur-hospitalier
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Message: 6
"If they kill me, I will raise the arms of the tomb and I will be stronger" --
Minerva Mirabal ---- On this November 25, an international day of violence against women,
we, the anarchist women of the organizations that build the Brazilian Anarchist
Coordination, propose a reflection on the meaning of the date and invite everyone to join
in the fight against violence chauvinists and patriarchs. ---- This date was established
in honor of the sisters Minerva, Patrícia and Maria Teresa Mirabal, murdered on November
25, 1960 by the secret police during the regime of the dictator Leonidas Trujillo. The
Moths, as they were known, had a trajectory of militancy and resistance against the
authoritarian regime. They had their vehicle intercepted, being murdered and thrown into a
ravine, to make it appear that they had suffered an accident. Since 1981, this day has
become a mark of the struggle of Latin American women against the violence that affects us.
Gender inequality is a historically constructed fact, present in most human societies, and
no nation in the world gives women the same rights as men. Violence against women is one
of the most serious violations of human rights, maintained through subjective, material
and symbolic mechanisms that naturalize and justify it in multiple forms. Thus, gender
inequality is one of the strongest and oldest elements of domination that structures the
hierarchical order of our societies.
When we talk about violence against women, we want to reinforce that it refers to a set of
practices inserted in our daily lives. From the physical exploitation of our productive
and reproductive forces, on forms such as rape (present in prostitution, pornography,
pedophilia, etc.), withdrawal of control of our own birth rate (abortion criminalized and
illegal, lack of public health policies - etc.), unpaid domestic work or in precarious
conditions, moral / sexual harassment in the workplace and / or study, deprivation of
access to education and property, as well as psychological and / or physical torture .
That is, everything that prevents us from being seen, understood, respected and accepted
as human beings. In many parts of the world, from ancient times, women are excluded from
the status of persons with a right to dignity. Today, in capitalist, patriarchal, racist
and classist societies spreading across the globe, these forms of violence are maintained,
up-to-date, and overrun by unjust laws imposed by conservative and neo-liberal governments
- such as crimes called "passionals" they are more than Feminicides.
The patriarchy establishes a social code of honor that is masculine and is given through
the control of women and the dispute with other men. This code is constructed, above all,
based on an active (phallic) sexuality imposed on a supposed passivity of the woman, this
binary game legitimizes the patterns of toxic and violent masculinities. It is the
imposition of the subject on the object - the woman. The masculinizing logic imposes on us
certain roles that must be socially interpreted, in which any deviation is under penalty
of punishment. In this logic, men exercise disciplinary violence against women. Thus, the
perpetrator of violence is never blamed: "He beat because she provoked, raped because of
the clothes, because she went out on the street at the wrong time.", "Rape for her to
learn to be a woman." Because we, women,
Rape, authorized by the aggressive eroticism of the Western male, is a perfect way to
murder the feminine identity (s). No wonder it has been thought and used as a weapon of
war for centuries. And today it remains a corrective and coercive strategy in the daily
war that exists as women, racialized, lesbian, poor and in so many other places of
vulnerability. When, at the end of 2017, the 18 men of a Special Commission of the Chamber
of Deputies approved the text of PEC 181/2015 (which prevents the interruption of
pregnancy even in cases of rape or risk of death for the mother), celebrated the maneuver
which they held, celebrated another way of killing the female. They feel in the right to
decide on our bodies, and to deny us our autonomy, our freedom of choice over our own
organs. Religion, state and family try to uproot the agency of insertion in social
relations and become merely bodies available. What happens is the attempt of a
demonstration of superiority of forces (physical and political), with the intention of
submitting to us. We must also mention that the women who suffer most from the
criminalization of abortion are poor, black and peripheral women who have been denied
access to public health, prevention and livelihood policies.
In the case of Latin America, as well as in other societies structured by the initial
framework of the colonial rape of native women brought by the diaspora and by racism
created by a regime of slavery that underlies global capitalism, we women, especially
Black, Indigenous, Northeastern and we are facing a real war to survive. This cycle
initiated in colonial exploration shows that the consequences of this violation were and
continue to be the conception of new subjects likely to be enslaved and subjected. When
men and the state (as a broad extension of patriarchal power) interfere with the
self-management of our bodies, they are controlling labor for capitalist exploitation. Be
it in the areas of demographic control and abortion, or in the exploitation of domestic
and care work, unpaid.
Violence strikes us in the domestic space, at work, in the street, in school, in militancy
and in so many other environments and situations. We face rape and sexual harassment from
known, unknown, states. Our rights are not respected and we are increasingly following
their withdrawals, conquered by so many years of sweat and blood. In many places we still
do not have access to education, health, decent housing, water, light, we work harder and
we receive less, we become mothers earlier and we almost always assume a child alone (by
the abandonment of the companions many times before the child is born), we face the
violence and the murder of our sons and daughters in the peripheries, we are heads of
family and we lose sleep to plant, harvest and put food on the table, we do not get day
care for our children, we are ridiculed and disrespected all the time, treated like
objects in most TV advertisements, sexualizing our bodies to sell goods that do not even
have anything to do with us. We face the violence of poverty that kills us of hunger, of
dehumanizing misery, of the state that takes our territories, homes, belongings, and
destroys our natural resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being
women: 13 times a day in the Brazil (registration data since 2013). Not to mention the
hate crimes committed against transgender and transvestite women in the world that kills
LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing more and more with the conservative and
neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil. treated as objects in most TV advertisements,
sexualizing our bodies to sell goods that do not even have anything to do with us. We face
the violence of poverty that kills us of hunger, of dehumanizing misery, of the state that
takes our territories, homes, belongings, and destroys our natural resources, we die in
unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being women: 13 times a day in the Brazil
(registration data since 2013). Not to mention the hate crimes committed against
transgender and transvestite women in the world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and
that is growing more and more with the conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in
Brazil. treated as objects in most TV advertisements, sexualizing our bodies to sell goods
that do not even have anything to do with us. We face the violence of poverty that kills
us of hunger, of dehumanizing misery, of the state that takes our territories, homes,
belongings, and destroys our natural resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die
murdered for being women: 13 times a day in the Brazil (registration data since 2013). Not
to mention the hate crimes committed against transgender and transvestite women in the
world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing more and more with the
conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil. of the misery that dehumanizes
us, of the state that takes our territories, houses, belongings, and destroys our natural
resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being women: 13 times a day in
Brazil. Not to mention the hate crimes committed against transgender and transvestite
women in the world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing more and more
with the conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil. of the misery that
dehumanizes us, of the state that takes our territories, houses, belongings, and destroys
our natural resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being women: 13
times a day in Brazil. Not to mention the hate crimes committed against transgender and
transvestite women in the world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing
more and more with the conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil.
Within this conjuncture of reconfiguration of financial capitalism, fiscal adjustment and
police states, the farce of bourgeois democracy will increasingly represent a violent
enemy of our rights. Our bodies have always been territories of disputes, negotiations and
booty of wars. There are many examples of how violence reaps the lives of our own. We do
not forget the body of Claudia Silva Ferreira, black woman, peripheral and mother, dragged
by police on the asphalt for 350 meters. We do not forget Luana Barbosa Santos, black
woman, peripheral, lesbian and mother, beaten and killed by the police mainly for not
performing femininity. We have not forgotten Marielle Franco, a black woman, a lesbian, a
leader, the victim of an overt political assassination. We do not forget the dead stabbed
transvestite by four men who shouted for 'Bolsonaro', who like so many other transvestites
and transsexuals does not have a name in the reports. We do not forget so many indigenous
women, expelled from their lands and dead, by violence that is physical, psychological and
spiritual.
The election of Jair Bolsonaro is yet another event within the phenomenon of the
organization of an extreme right, of a neoliberal and fascist revival that represents, in
Brazil, in Latin America and in the world, the updating and improvement of organized
violence inside and outside the milestones institutions. Having us women as one of the
main targets. We have against us attacks from conservative sectors, senates and
congresses, religious groups, men from our intimate, public and political circles. The
symbolic gear of patriarchy controls bodies (and their relation to sexual and reproductive
rights) through the state, which in turn is controlled by capital. Our struggle,
therefore, is fundamentally anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-state. The
patriarchal state is our enemy,
It is necessary to involve the entire society in overcoming this violent culture. It is
necessary to recognize and pay attention to the institutional forms of violence
perpetrated by the State. We have every reason to keep fighting. As we write, news comes
from more and more women murdered for being women. That is why we anarchists believe that
fighting these mechanisms of domination and extermination of our existences must be built
through struggles, organized and engaged in social transformation. By the political,
economic and moral recognition of our humanity, by the end of the commodification of our
bodies and forces, by the end of the humiliations and symbolic violations. Without ever
losing sight of how close our battles are. Building a strong people is building strong women!
For all those who are not. In memory of all the fighters. Underneath, underneath, we
continue to be and build resistance.
https://anarquismo.noblogs.org/?p=988
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Message: 7
Liverpool housing housing dispute Letting agency anarcho-syndicalism direct action
casework ---- Landlords and letting agencies continue to exploit the vulnerable and
transient nature the current housing sector forces tenants to live in. In the beginning of
2017, three prospective tenants attended a viewing of a house in Wavertree managed by
Secure Lettings. The tenants were assured and convinced by a member of staff that the
visible damp problems were a result of the house being empty for a while. "Just leave the
windows open often enough and it will sort itself out". The house wasn't perfect, not even
ideal, but the tenants decided to trust the agency and begin living there.
A couple of months passed and the damp turned to mold. Mould spores began to affect one of
the asthmatic tenants, disrupting sleeping patterns and causing fatigue throughout the
day. After constant reminders from the tenants and a failure to respond quickly and
properly to these concerns, a damp course was carried out two and a half months later.
This had no effect as it wasn't rising damp and the mould persisted throughout the 18
month tenancy.
Around the winter holiday period two leaks sprung simultaneously and water began to enter
into the house. The agency were made aware of this and they expressed their frustration
towards the tenants for persisting with their communications and conveying the detrimental
effect their living situation was having on their physical and mental health, which later
warranted diagnosis from doctors.
Tenants were soon informed that the house was being sold, but were reassured that the
landlord wished to sell to an investor who would keep the tenants in the property.
Unsurprisingly this didn't hold true. Tenants were forced to live through a humiliating
and invasive period of strangers walking through their house and personal spaces, deciding
which walls they would knock down if they bought the property. The tenants were notified
of a sale and were handed an eviction notice. In an inspection on the last day of the
tenancy, staff at Secure Lettings acted in a physically threatening manner towards the
tenants before marching them out of their own home after they had expressed their
dissatisfaction with the management of the property.
Despite the house being left in a better condition than it was found, the landlord and
agency saw fit to deduct a third of the deposit laid down on the property. Tenants
notified Solidarity Federation of the situation and with our support fought to retrieve
their stolen deposit and gain compensation for the treatment they endured.
In a society and age that is defined by zero hours contracts, poor working conditions,
unsecure living situations, mounting agency fees and poor housing standards, never has it
been so important to challenge the position employers and landlords place themselves in.
They maintain a facade of power and control. When the facts are laid out, it is clear that
this is just a facade. When workers and tenants stand in solidarity, they cower at our
potential. When we demand to be treated with respect and dignity, they fear us. This case
is a testament to that fact.
If you have found yourself battling with irresponsible landlords or letting agencies, join
the solidarity network. Join the Solidarity Federation.
http://www.solfed.org.uk/liverpool/unsecure-lettings
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1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 - Letter from a
reader: Freinet and radical pedagogies (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. alas barricadas: Brussels is founded an international
federation of delivery food delivery service with presence in 12
countries (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, brighton solfed: The arrogance continues, and so
does our fight! (Youngs dispute update) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST STATE AND
CAPITALIZING HEIGHT
- WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER by dirty horse APO
[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Nantes - Nantes: an
aperitif debate on struggles in the hospital sector (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [CAB Gender WG] WOMEN AGAINST PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE, THE
POLICE STATE AND THE FASCIST ASCENT IN BRAZIL AND
THE WORLD by
Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, SOLIDARITY FEDERATION: Unsecure Lettings
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Following the article " Network Radical pedagogies: that flourish a hundred collectives "
in Alternative libertarian October, a reader wanted to react. The monthly Alternative
Libertarian publishes articles that reflect the orientations of AL, but it is also
enriched sometimes with other points of view and analyzes, if they do not seem
antagonistic. It is therefore fair that some articles are debating. ---- Radical
pedagogies want to raise awareness about social inequalities and discrimination (classism,
sexism, racism, handiphobia, LGBTQIphobies ...). Refusing to reproduce the oppressions
should be at the heart of the reflection of all pedagogues. We see so many who do not
apply in class what they preach in meetings at night ...
But I did not understand, in the article of AL of October, where are anchored the "
collectives " evoked and on what common bases they could be found. It is not enough to
make a website to pool resources that one claims to adhere to, without mentioning the
actual practice on the ground.
? Network " Radical Pedagogies ": what a hundred collectives , AL of October bloom
To my great surprise, the " radical pedagogies " do not seem to include the Freinet
movement, which for a century has been working on anti-racism, feminism and equality. This
movement is organized around a clear political text - " Perspectives for a Popular
Education " - within the International Federation of Modern School Movements (Fimem) and,
in France, the Cooperative Institute of the School. modern (Icem). It groups practitioners
who dare, in a revolutionary way, to say that they are their own educationalists. The
image of the blacksmith who forges his own tools is the expression of this thought which
ignores the break between the manual and the intellectual.
If it were necessary to create a new movement and one that already exists, it would be
necessary to begin by explaining the meaning of this rupture: what could one neither find
nor build within the Fimem ?
Looking at the website of Iresmo, an institute that promotes this radical pedagogy
network, I have not found an answer ; it seems to be more of a university movement than a
practitioner organization.
Reading Paulo Freire's texts is extremely interesting, but that is not enough to read
texts from Freinet. We must act together, we must confront these texts to the reality of
groups of children, adolescents, in classrooms, centers and neighborhoods. This is where
we will eventually see real political disagreements. Freinet, for example, refused to work
with Montessori because he was a layman and communist, while she was a believer and
collaborated with Mussolini. On the other hand, where are the differences between Paulo
Freire's disciples and Icem ? Like Freinet, I always fear people who " talk about "
instead of " acting with ". We can not build a network of practitioners without first
doing it with those who think every day about children to real emancipatory practices.
Véronique Decker (93), Icem activist
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Courrier-d-une-lectrice-Freinet-et-les-pedagogies-radicales
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Message: 2
At the initiative of AlterSummit and Transnational Social Strike, an important meeting of
31 different collectives and unions took place. A hundred dealers met at an international
congress on October 25 and 26, 2018 in Brussels. Coming from France, Italy, Finland,
Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria,
Switzerland and Belgium for two days they put together ideas, tactics, strategies and
lessons from their local struggles and founded the Transnational Courier Federation. ----
An IWW Couriers Network member who attended the event explains the scope of the groups
involved and the general mood: ---- Map detailing all the organizations across Europe that
attend the summit ---- It was very well organized, with simultaneous translation into
English, French, Spanish and German. The vast majority of the dealer groups present were
self-organized collectives, independent of unions. Trade union centers (such as IWW) were
also present. In particular: Deliverunion (associated with FAU of Germany) and Syndicom.
Germans and Austrians are associated with larger unions, as are Norwegian dealers. The
debate was developed horizontally and was very affable. Taking into account that it was
taking place in 4 languages simultaneously, the meeting was very effective to share common
concerns.
The Valencian Intersindical , for its part, explains that:
We have been one of the 19 unions that have participated. Trade unions have been present
such as: LAB (Euskal Herria), CIG (Galiza), CGT (France), SUD SOLIDAIRES (France), FGTB
(Belgium), FNV (Holland) or UNIA (Switzerland). There have also been groups of delivery
people from Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Germany, France, England, Belgium,
Italy, Finland and the Spanish state. Among the groups of dealers there was a
representation of Riders x Rights of Valencia and Barcelona.
The sessions lasted two days and focused at first on the presentation of the respective
struggles and tactics employed by the delivery people and their unions in each country.
Later on, they shared common issues and demands across borders and addressed the
possibility of create transnational support structures to help delivery people organize
themselves in their respective countries. After the discussion sessions on these issues,
the whole assembly met again to vote for the creation of an international group that
promotes the organization of distributors around the world, organized through the
following structure:
An international federation of distributors and unions.
The membership would be open to collectives and unions that are run by the distributors
themselves and can prove the base organization of delivery drivers. Individual
distributors can have observer status if they do not wish to join a collective or official
union.
The exact weight of the vote will be determined at future meetings.
It was decided to call the federation, the TRANSNATIONAL FEDERATION OF COURIERS (TFC) to
emphasize the global nature of the struggle.
All the organizations present must be founding members.
The details of how the Federation will be managed on a day-to-day basis, as well as its
statutes and ethics (which future organizations that wish to join should comply) were left
for future discussions, but to close a series of key demands was agreed upon for all those
present that member organizations would seek from their employers:
Respect.
Freedom of association.
Fair definition of time dedicated to work.
Security in employment.
Insurance.
Greater transparency of data and applications.
Common spaces for delivery people.
After the closing of the summit, a massive race of more than 1000 delivery people was held
in the city of Brussels, an excellent way to show the collective power of the delivery
people all over the world!
First state assembly of Riders x Rights in Madrid
In addition, this weekend is taking place the first state assembly of Riders x Rights (
twitter , facebook ), participant in the international meeting in Brussels. This group not
only promotes the organization in the work centers, but also the creation of cooperatives
by the distributors - in their case it is called Mensakas. According to the Ciclosfera
website:
"We seek to make visible the state of labor precarization of the distributors within the
big platforms, but we also want to find forces and initiatives that sow a more hopeful
path for the sector, and subsequently; Alternatives to "collaborative economies" (that of
collaborative, have nothing), "said the statement.
Participating in the activity are the Pájara Ciclomensajería (Madrid), Cleta (Madrid),
CoopCycle (Paris), Mensakas (Barcelona) and Riders x Derechos (Valencia / Barcelona). "We
do not believe that we are doing anything new: these relations of labor subordination and
exploitation have always existed, but we know that the organization is the basis for
regulating and guaranteeing decent work for all," the organizers add. "Labor rights and
guarantees did not come alone, and it is our responsibility to defend them and guarantee a
responsible, ecological and sustainable labor framework," they say.
The open activities that will take place during the weekend will be the following:
Sunday 25
18h: Open Assembly of Riders x Rights (CS La Ingobernable: Calle Gobernador 39, Metro Atocha)
Monday 26
09.30h - Bicifestation. Output: Cibeles. Route: Offices of Deliveroo and Glovo to finish
in Tribunal (Malasaña).
12h - Press Conference - Tribunal (Malasaña)
6pm - Open Forum 'Can technology be democratized within the framework of the "gig
economy"?' (Energy Sea: Calle de Toledo 108 - Puerta de Toledo Metro).
In this last meeting will be explained, as the organization explains, "cases of local
initiatives and cooperation projects in larger networks, reasoning about the possibilities
and limits of large platforms and small innovative cooperative projects that are born as a
result of the self-determination of the distributors ".
http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/40990
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Message: 3
We have been slightly under the radar lately with our dispute against Youngs Estate
Agents. However, this does not mean we haven't been very busy with it over the past few
months, as we have kept working with Patrick in a number of ways. Here is an update on the
current situation. ---- People might remember that we have been supporting Patrick for
over a year now, as he was demanding compensation for the longstanding dramatic state of
dilapidation of his flat and for the repair work that his landlord's and Youngs'
consistent negligence forced him to carry out by himself, as well as, and most important
still, for the outstanding repair work to be completed swiftly and at an industry standard
(more info here). In response to the campaign, both Patrick and other SolFed members have
been violently harassed by Youngs and their associates (link 1, link 2), and Patrick has
been served an eviction notice in January, which was successfully rejected in court. This
has not discouraged the landlord, however, who has been completely unwilling to initiate
any form of dialogue with Patrick or us and has served a second eviction order in August.
As a form of immediate and concrete solidarity, we have raised over £400 for Patrick via
an online fundraiser (link 3 - thank you to everyone who donated), in order to help him
cover legal expenses and potential costs of moving to a new home and everything that that
might come with. Meanwhile, we have helped Patrick with requesting for an Environmental
Health Inspection to be carried out by Brighton and Hove Council. Somewhat unsurprisingly,
this has been far from a smooth process, given that we have had to chase the council
several times before they eventually decided to do their job, after a number of empty
promises. The inspection resulted in an Enforcement Notice being sent by the council to
the landlord, instructing him to carry out the repair work. This acknowledges and
vindicates the claim Patrick and ourselves have been making over the past year about the
hazardous condition of the property. As per the notice, a schedule of the enforced work
was supposed to be sent to Patrick by the 6th November. Yet, staying true to their
attitude, both the landlord and Youngs are ignoring the notice, even pretending that this
has not been issued at all. The landlord has instead served a new possession order, trying
to force through the eviction while dodging his duties once again.
In response to yet another display of arrogance from this rogue landlord and his gang of
bullies, Patrick is still determined to put up a fight, for which we will continue to
support him however we can. Now as always, an injury to one is an injury to all!
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/the-arrogance-continues-and-so-does-our-fight-youngs-dispute-update-25112018
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Message: 4
against the sell-off of labor struggles by union bureaucracies ---- THE STRUGGLE ARMS OF
THE WORKERS! ---- The history of social and class struggles shows us that the proletarians
have nothing to expect from institutions, parliaments, elections, bureaucratic trade union
leaderships and class struggle mediators who deal with bosses pleading for their alms. All
they have to win will be the result of their widespread, organized, militant and radical
struggles. Only the total overthrow of the state and capitalism, the social expropriation
of the wealth that we ourselves produce and eradicate a caste of rulers, the organization
from the bottom of the social and classical counterattack, the revolution for a new
society of communality, solidarity, freedom can justify the cravings and real social needs
of the oppressed and exploited of the whole world.
ORGANIZATION ON THE BASE - DOCUMENTARY CONDUCT!
CONCENTRATION - WALKING: WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER, 10 AM from the ANNEX
anarchist group "dignified horse" APO & comrades, comrades
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Message: 5
For many months now, there are countless mobilizations, strikes and actions by hospital
and clinic staff to warn about the deterioration of the conditions of care and struggle to
defend their working conditions. ---- And you have to fight ! Because the " health plan "
announced by the government will only aggravate the situation: industrialization of the
health system, lack of resources, under-strength ... Alternative Libertaire offers you a
cocktail debate to better understand the situation in the hospital sectors. Our
discussions will be nourished by the story of caregivers mobilized in Nantes clinics and
at the University Hospital Center. These testimonies will allow us to discuss together the
specificity of these struggles, but also to think of the links of solidarity between users
and users of health services and caregivers.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Nantes-apero-debat-sur-les-luttes-dans-le-secteur-hospitalier
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Message: 6
"If they kill me, I will raise the arms of the tomb and I will be stronger" --
Minerva Mirabal ---- On this November 25, an international day of violence against women,
we, the anarchist women of the organizations that build the Brazilian Anarchist
Coordination, propose a reflection on the meaning of the date and invite everyone to join
in the fight against violence chauvinists and patriarchs. ---- This date was established
in honor of the sisters Minerva, Patrícia and Maria Teresa Mirabal, murdered on November
25, 1960 by the secret police during the regime of the dictator Leonidas Trujillo. The
Moths, as they were known, had a trajectory of militancy and resistance against the
authoritarian regime. They had their vehicle intercepted, being murdered and thrown into a
ravine, to make it appear that they had suffered an accident. Since 1981, this day has
become a mark of the struggle of Latin American women against the violence that affects us.
Gender inequality is a historically constructed fact, present in most human societies, and
no nation in the world gives women the same rights as men. Violence against women is one
of the most serious violations of human rights, maintained through subjective, material
and symbolic mechanisms that naturalize and justify it in multiple forms. Thus, gender
inequality is one of the strongest and oldest elements of domination that structures the
hierarchical order of our societies.
When we talk about violence against women, we want to reinforce that it refers to a set of
practices inserted in our daily lives. From the physical exploitation of our productive
and reproductive forces, on forms such as rape (present in prostitution, pornography,
pedophilia, etc.), withdrawal of control of our own birth rate (abortion criminalized and
illegal, lack of public health policies - etc.), unpaid domestic work or in precarious
conditions, moral / sexual harassment in the workplace and / or study, deprivation of
access to education and property, as well as psychological and / or physical torture .
That is, everything that prevents us from being seen, understood, respected and accepted
as human beings. In many parts of the world, from ancient times, women are excluded from
the status of persons with a right to dignity. Today, in capitalist, patriarchal, racist
and classist societies spreading across the globe, these forms of violence are maintained,
up-to-date, and overrun by unjust laws imposed by conservative and neo-liberal governments
- such as crimes called "passionals" they are more than Feminicides.
The patriarchy establishes a social code of honor that is masculine and is given through
the control of women and the dispute with other men. This code is constructed, above all,
based on an active (phallic) sexuality imposed on a supposed passivity of the woman, this
binary game legitimizes the patterns of toxic and violent masculinities. It is the
imposition of the subject on the object - the woman. The masculinizing logic imposes on us
certain roles that must be socially interpreted, in which any deviation is under penalty
of punishment. In this logic, men exercise disciplinary violence against women. Thus, the
perpetrator of violence is never blamed: "He beat because she provoked, raped because of
the clothes, because she went out on the street at the wrong time.", "Rape for her to
learn to be a woman." Because we, women,
Rape, authorized by the aggressive eroticism of the Western male, is a perfect way to
murder the feminine identity (s). No wonder it has been thought and used as a weapon of
war for centuries. And today it remains a corrective and coercive strategy in the daily
war that exists as women, racialized, lesbian, poor and in so many other places of
vulnerability. When, at the end of 2017, the 18 men of a Special Commission of the Chamber
of Deputies approved the text of PEC 181/2015 (which prevents the interruption of
pregnancy even in cases of rape or risk of death for the mother), celebrated the maneuver
which they held, celebrated another way of killing the female. They feel in the right to
decide on our bodies, and to deny us our autonomy, our freedom of choice over our own
organs. Religion, state and family try to uproot the agency of insertion in social
relations and become merely bodies available. What happens is the attempt of a
demonstration of superiority of forces (physical and political), with the intention of
submitting to us. We must also mention that the women who suffer most from the
criminalization of abortion are poor, black and peripheral women who have been denied
access to public health, prevention and livelihood policies.
In the case of Latin America, as well as in other societies structured by the initial
framework of the colonial rape of native women brought by the diaspora and by racism
created by a regime of slavery that underlies global capitalism, we women, especially
Black, Indigenous, Northeastern and we are facing a real war to survive. This cycle
initiated in colonial exploration shows that the consequences of this violation were and
continue to be the conception of new subjects likely to be enslaved and subjected. When
men and the state (as a broad extension of patriarchal power) interfere with the
self-management of our bodies, they are controlling labor for capitalist exploitation. Be
it in the areas of demographic control and abortion, or in the exploitation of domestic
and care work, unpaid.
Violence strikes us in the domestic space, at work, in the street, in school, in militancy
and in so many other environments and situations. We face rape and sexual harassment from
known, unknown, states. Our rights are not respected and we are increasingly following
their withdrawals, conquered by so many years of sweat and blood. In many places we still
do not have access to education, health, decent housing, water, light, we work harder and
we receive less, we become mothers earlier and we almost always assume a child alone (by
the abandonment of the companions many times before the child is born), we face the
violence and the murder of our sons and daughters in the peripheries, we are heads of
family and we lose sleep to plant, harvest and put food on the table, we do not get day
care for our children, we are ridiculed and disrespected all the time, treated like
objects in most TV advertisements, sexualizing our bodies to sell goods that do not even
have anything to do with us. We face the violence of poverty that kills us of hunger, of
dehumanizing misery, of the state that takes our territories, homes, belongings, and
destroys our natural resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being
women: 13 times a day in the Brazil (registration data since 2013). Not to mention the
hate crimes committed against transgender and transvestite women in the world that kills
LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing more and more with the conservative and
neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil. treated as objects in most TV advertisements,
sexualizing our bodies to sell goods that do not even have anything to do with us. We face
the violence of poverty that kills us of hunger, of dehumanizing misery, of the state that
takes our territories, homes, belongings, and destroys our natural resources, we die in
unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being women: 13 times a day in the Brazil
(registration data since 2013). Not to mention the hate crimes committed against
transgender and transvestite women in the world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and
that is growing more and more with the conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in
Brazil. treated as objects in most TV advertisements, sexualizing our bodies to sell goods
that do not even have anything to do with us. We face the violence of poverty that kills
us of hunger, of dehumanizing misery, of the state that takes our territories, homes,
belongings, and destroys our natural resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die
murdered for being women: 13 times a day in the Brazil (registration data since 2013). Not
to mention the hate crimes committed against transgender and transvestite women in the
world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing more and more with the
conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil. of the misery that dehumanizes
us, of the state that takes our territories, houses, belongings, and destroys our natural
resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being women: 13 times a day in
Brazil. Not to mention the hate crimes committed against transgender and transvestite
women in the world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing more and more
with the conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil. of the misery that
dehumanizes us, of the state that takes our territories, houses, belongings, and destroys
our natural resources, we die in unsafe abortions, we die murdered for being women: 13
times a day in Brazil. Not to mention the hate crimes committed against transgender and
transvestite women in the world that kills LGBT more, s in the world, and that is growing
more and more with the conservative and neo-Pentecostal wave now active in Brazil.
Within this conjuncture of reconfiguration of financial capitalism, fiscal adjustment and
police states, the farce of bourgeois democracy will increasingly represent a violent
enemy of our rights. Our bodies have always been territories of disputes, negotiations and
booty of wars. There are many examples of how violence reaps the lives of our own. We do
not forget the body of Claudia Silva Ferreira, black woman, peripheral and mother, dragged
by police on the asphalt for 350 meters. We do not forget Luana Barbosa Santos, black
woman, peripheral, lesbian and mother, beaten and killed by the police mainly for not
performing femininity. We have not forgotten Marielle Franco, a black woman, a lesbian, a
leader, the victim of an overt political assassination. We do not forget the dead stabbed
transvestite by four men who shouted for 'Bolsonaro', who like so many other transvestites
and transsexuals does not have a name in the reports. We do not forget so many indigenous
women, expelled from their lands and dead, by violence that is physical, psychological and
spiritual.
The election of Jair Bolsonaro is yet another event within the phenomenon of the
organization of an extreme right, of a neoliberal and fascist revival that represents, in
Brazil, in Latin America and in the world, the updating and improvement of organized
violence inside and outside the milestones institutions. Having us women as one of the
main targets. We have against us attacks from conservative sectors, senates and
congresses, religious groups, men from our intimate, public and political circles. The
symbolic gear of patriarchy controls bodies (and their relation to sexual and reproductive
rights) through the state, which in turn is controlled by capital. Our struggle,
therefore, is fundamentally anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-state. The
patriarchal state is our enemy,
It is necessary to involve the entire society in overcoming this violent culture. It is
necessary to recognize and pay attention to the institutional forms of violence
perpetrated by the State. We have every reason to keep fighting. As we write, news comes
from more and more women murdered for being women. That is why we anarchists believe that
fighting these mechanisms of domination and extermination of our existences must be built
through struggles, organized and engaged in social transformation. By the political,
economic and moral recognition of our humanity, by the end of the commodification of our
bodies and forces, by the end of the humiliations and symbolic violations. Without ever
losing sight of how close our battles are. Building a strong people is building strong women!
For all those who are not. In memory of all the fighters. Underneath, underneath, we
continue to be and build resistance.
https://anarquismo.noblogs.org/?p=988
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Message: 7
Liverpool housing housing dispute Letting agency anarcho-syndicalism direct action
casework ---- Landlords and letting agencies continue to exploit the vulnerable and
transient nature the current housing sector forces tenants to live in. In the beginning of
2017, three prospective tenants attended a viewing of a house in Wavertree managed by
Secure Lettings. The tenants were assured and convinced by a member of staff that the
visible damp problems were a result of the house being empty for a while. "Just leave the
windows open often enough and it will sort itself out". The house wasn't perfect, not even
ideal, but the tenants decided to trust the agency and begin living there.
A couple of months passed and the damp turned to mold. Mould spores began to affect one of
the asthmatic tenants, disrupting sleeping patterns and causing fatigue throughout the
day. After constant reminders from the tenants and a failure to respond quickly and
properly to these concerns, a damp course was carried out two and a half months later.
This had no effect as it wasn't rising damp and the mould persisted throughout the 18
month tenancy.
Around the winter holiday period two leaks sprung simultaneously and water began to enter
into the house. The agency were made aware of this and they expressed their frustration
towards the tenants for persisting with their communications and conveying the detrimental
effect their living situation was having on their physical and mental health, which later
warranted diagnosis from doctors.
Tenants were soon informed that the house was being sold, but were reassured that the
landlord wished to sell to an investor who would keep the tenants in the property.
Unsurprisingly this didn't hold true. Tenants were forced to live through a humiliating
and invasive period of strangers walking through their house and personal spaces, deciding
which walls they would knock down if they bought the property. The tenants were notified
of a sale and were handed an eviction notice. In an inspection on the last day of the
tenancy, staff at Secure Lettings acted in a physically threatening manner towards the
tenants before marching them out of their own home after they had expressed their
dissatisfaction with the management of the property.
Despite the house being left in a better condition than it was found, the landlord and
agency saw fit to deduct a third of the deposit laid down on the property. Tenants
notified Solidarity Federation of the situation and with our support fought to retrieve
their stolen deposit and gain compensation for the treatment they endured.
In a society and age that is defined by zero hours contracts, poor working conditions,
unsecure living situations, mounting agency fees and poor housing standards, never has it
been so important to challenge the position employers and landlords place themselves in.
They maintain a facade of power and control. When the facts are laid out, it is clear that
this is just a facade. When workers and tenants stand in solidarity, they cower at our
potential. When we demand to be treated with respect and dignity, they fear us. This case
is a testament to that fact.
If you have found yourself battling with irresponsible landlords or letting agencies, join
the solidarity network. Join the Solidarity Federation.
http://www.solfed.org.uk/liverpool/unsecure-lettings
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