Anarchic update news all over the world - 2.11.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  fcs villa verde, cnt.es: If our work is not worth it,
      produce without us por Union section Hostelcarria (ca, it)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  Autonomous Action, Helsinki: Action of solidarity with the
      actions of the parents of the arrested russian antifascists was
      held [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  freedom news: The Claws of Empire, the Rise of Fascism:
      Brazilian Anarchist Statement on Bolsonaro (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  US, black rose fed: FROM PITTSBURGH TO BRAZIL: ANTISEMITISM
      AND FASCIST VIOLENCE By Julia T. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, ESE: November 1: Striking Concentration: 11am,
      Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens (Solon and
      Asklipios) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Poland, Workers initiative, ozzip.pl: Report from the 2nd
      Social Congress of Women. For higher wages and lower rents
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  colectivo libertario evora: FAI DENIES THAT THE PORTUGUESE
      UAP GROUP IS FEDERATED IN THE ORGANIZATION (pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





This, among others, was one of the slogans used in the 2017 international women's strike. 
---- There are many cases where women organize and fight in the workplace against the 
abuses and inequalities that we suffer through the alliance of capitalism, patriarchy and 
employers. In our union we find more and more cases of women who have said enough and have 
undertaken the struggle through the trade union,  confronting the employer using as a tool 
the mutual support, solidarity and self-management, leading their conflict in the first 
person and without delegating no one. This is the case of the compañeras of the Trade 
Union Section of Hostalcarria, which have launched a 7-day strike at the Hostal Inter 
Plaza Mayor.
 From the Work Group of Feminisms of the Southern District CNT we want to make an appeal 
to our neighbors and neighbors, collectives, associations and feminist movement to join 
and show their support and solidarity to the compañeras. Their strike is everyone's, 
because their rights are ours.  (You can write to fcsvillaverdealto@cnt.es to receive all 
the information of concentrations, pickets and acts).

The Hostal Ínter Plaza Mayor not only does not deign to recognize as such the trade union 
section created, violating the fundamental right of free unionization, but has decided to 
further worsen the working conditions already suffered by the chambermaids previously 
(lack of recognition of labor categories or real hours of work in contract, unpaid 
compulsory overtime, among others), reducing their hours of contribution to Social 
Security, planning the outsourcing of the cleaning service and notifying the dismissal of 
the entire staff of female waitresses floor of the Inter Plaza Mayor hotel for this 
outsourcing process at the end of the month.

Everyone knows that the feminized sectors are the most precarious.

We must attack those agreements negotiated between employers and the servant unions of 
power that are perpetuating this inequality.

We must force the adoption of ILO conventions so that feminized jobs have the same rights 
and remuneration as the rest.

We must guarantee the safety of the day laborers who come here to work and prevent the 
bosses from exploiting them, violating and denigrating them.

Because without economic emancipation we can not aspire to the emancipation and liberation 
of women. And do not build another economic and social model.

You have all the information of the conflict in the following link:

http://fcs-villaverde.cnt.es/si-nuestro-trabajo-no-vale-produzcan-sin-nosotras/

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On October 28, 2018 in Helsinki in front of the Russian Embassy. 10 people took part in 
the action, mostly anti-fascists and anarchists from Russia and some activists from 
Finland. ---- There were banners and posters in English, Russian and Finnish languages: 
"FSB is the main terrorist!", "Freedom to Russian anti-fascists", "Freedom to political 
prisoners", "Solidarity has no borders, our hearts are with you!". Slogans were chanted in 
Russian and English: "Stop repressions of the police", "Freedom for imprisoned 
anti-fascists", "FSB is the main terrorist", "Freedom for political prisoners","Freedom 
for anarchist prisoners," "Putin, ski, Magadan," "Putin, your hands are in blood," and 
others. ---- The action was held without any incidents ---- Anarchist Black Cross Helsinki 
---- Anti-fascist initiative "Comrades Network"

https://avtonom.org/news/v-helsinki-proshla-akciya-solidarnosti-s-arestovannymi-aktivistami-po-delam-seti-i-novogo

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Message: 3





The current Brazilian political scenario requires a lot of lucidity and coolness for all 
popular organizers and their analysis of reality. We of Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira 
(Brazilian Anarchist Coordination) modestly seek to give our contribution to the 
understanding of the convulsing social and political situation, which is defined by the 
legal-parliamentary coup that deposed Worker's Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff from 
office. We recently experienced the breakdown of the so-called New Republic agreement from 
1988[1]. This pact maintained social exclusion of those at the bottom, at the same time it 
guaranteed minimum legal rights, in a coalition involving bourgeois politicians, 
corporations, the armed forces and part of the reformist sectors of the Left.

The construction of the Brazilian State, however, has always been closer to the interests 
of the imperialist shift powers than to its own population. The State has always 
criminalized the poor as a norm of institutionalized bourgeois democracy. The PT led 
governments since Lula have increased the criminal machine of public order operated by the 
entire legislative and judicial apparatus, reproducing the super-incarceration of the poor 
and Black population, as well as sustaining a repressive apparatus that attacks social 
struggles.

The so-called pact of class reconciliation was broken and the collaborationist agenda[of 
social compromise]was torn apart to be replaced by an agenda of financialized capitalism. 
These have replaced things such as social rights, relative freedoms and public services, 
which we should remember were historical achievements of popular movements.

The Empire Shows Its Claws
We cannot understand the current historical moment in our country isolated from the 
geopolitical reality of the Latin American continent. We need to calibrate our analytical 
tools and better locate Brazil as a peripheral nation within the world-system to 
understand what is at stake. The country has continued to maintain its primary industry of 
agro-exports and has aligned itself with the IIRSA Plan (Initiative for the Integration of 
  South American Regional Infrastructure, now called COSIPLAN).[2]This plan sought to 
maximise the exploitation of our natural resources and speed up the process of supplying 
international markets to the benefit transnational corporations.This plan is a new 
offensive aligned with free-trade treaties established between United States and countries 
in the region. It's an attempt to expand the neoliberal model in South America, supported 
by progressive and center-left governments.

The crisis of 2008 created major difficulties for the US to maintain their international 
agenda, which since the fall of The Twin Towers[the WTC 9/11 attack], began to present as 
the main objective the guarantee of their global hegemony which is evident by numerous 
aggressive military interventions by the empire. It's also evident that imperialism guides 
itself by the idea that "where Brazil goes, Latin America will go as well." It's clear our 
continent, Latin America, is seen as a strategic reserve of resources (political, natural, 
energy) for the use of US, which makes the political situation of Brazil so important to 
Washington.

The coup of 2016 did not only disassemble the small gains from the previous period as it 
made the financial and international control of the national economy stronger, by 
purchasing "assets." These adjustments are required to be made by the judicial class, 
especially the judges themselves, which can be seen by the fact the Lava-Jato 
investigation[3]is aligned with imperialism, by using the strategy of lawfare.[4]It also 
increases the control of infrastructure, renewable energies, service, health and education 
by North-American and Chinese corporations. In regards to oil, 13 multinationals have 
already appropriated 75 % of the pre-salt[oil below the ocean surface], especially, Shell 
and BP, whose last auction rounds took place in October this year. From a political point 
of view, the action of imperialism is to disrupt any possibility of the Brazilian 
situation (even if it's governed by a center-left reformist government) to represent any 
threat to its interests at continental level. It is important to clarify that the outcome 
of the current electoral race will significantly impact the crises of Venezuelan regime, 
possibly contributing to political destabilization, or even the possibility of military 
intervention.

The New National Security Doctrine: Politics and Threats of the Military
It must be pointed out that some years ago, while under Lula's Workers Party government, a 
new National Security Doctrine was inaugurated with General Etchegoyen of the Brazilian 
armed forces[appointed as Secretary of Security by Temer]. This doctrine sees groups 
linked to drug trafficking, human rights or environmental NGOs, "ideological" government 
agencies, and social movements linked to a left vision as being new internal enemies. 
Other elements of this doctrine is the emptying of the role of university and research, a 
tougher stance of the penal code, continuity and expansion of mass incarceration, and 
adoption of counter-espionage measures. The doctrine uses means of social communication 
control, the spread of rumors, discrediting of accusers and the use of false documents. 
The promotion of strikes, road closures, occupation of lands and buildings and the 
struggle for social rights for political minorities are characterised as "terrorist actions."

It was this new doctrine responsible for the anti-terrorism bill approved by Dilma. Its 
goal was to create a new pact, a "new democracy," where the military play an active role 
in the geopolitics of the continent and national politics.

To summarize: The "Democratic State of Law"[5]is mounted on top of a state of exception 
for the "dangerous classes " is now in the process of reconfiguration in the power plays 
of the dominant classes (in some places, the narco-state), and makes it emergence from 
reasons interior to the state and its relations with the interests of imperialism. Under 
these circumstances, reaction factors operate as a police State.  An adjustment that cuts 
so deep into the flesh of the people and deeply increased the ambitions of the capitalist 
class and its lackeys, sooner or later, calls security in their favor and extends the 
space of the exception to redefine the normality of the system.

The Center-Left Bets All Their Chips At the Polls
The Brazilian left and center-left bet their luck at the ballot box expecting bourgeois 
democracy to come to their rescue, protect their rights, and limit the strangle and defeat 
of imperialism. While the system lifts the gun sight and wears the toga or the uniform to 
exercise power, it is always with support from the US government. The opposition movements 
on the left which emerged after the legal-parliamentary coup, and which took the streets, 
now unfortunately enters into this pragmatic logic of the state and government, where the 
enemy of the far right-wing would be supposedly won by the ballot box and vote.

The center-left strives to channel these efforts into electoral build-up by spending all 
its energy with the institutional dispute and the rotten game of electoral parties, to the 
detriment of class struggle. The Brazilian political scene is tainted by the fraud of a 
representation which for the bourgeois liberals has always been a mechanism of usurpation 
of collective forces and common goods by the powerful will of minorities. But we know that 
the system twists the constitution and melts the rule of law when it comes to defending 
the interests of its dominant classes.

We must build a long-term work that points out the unions and popular organizations as the 
most correct alternative for the people to defend their rights and participate in 
political life and by deepening direct democracy, repudiating the reconciliation of 
classes, and giving combat without truce to proto-fascism.

Proto-Fascism as a Super-Dose of the Elite Program
Such configuration of political power is also supported by propaganda tactics and direct 
action from reactionary sectors and ideologically affiliated groups on the far right which 
are generally backed by law enforcement. A factor that gains incidence in the streets and 
that everything suggests that it will grow, making space for its agents to repress the 
national political scene and align it with what is happening at continental level.

But there is more. Coming together with this is economic frustration, the failure of 
political solutions through representation, and the destabilization of values associated 
with positions of power in family, culture, and education. We also see a conservative 
subjective production which uses religious evangelicals as a popular base for 
distribution. This new right transitioned from anti-PT rhetoric to a radicalized 
anti-political and anti-system rhetoric, setting itself up as a right that does not speak 
only to the elites, but also to the popular and peripheral sectors. They act in the social 
vacuum left by the center-left, which puts itself only in defense of bourgeois democracy.

The despicable figure of Bolsonaro is part of this attempt to deepen the destruction of 
social rights and the patriarchal violence against women, LGBT, indigenous, Blacks and 
maroons. Violence that materialized in several attacks throughout the country lead by 
Bolsonaro supporters, among which one that resulted in the brutal murder of Capoeira 
Master Moa of Katendê in Salvador.[6]Far from minimizing the barbarity that Bolsonaro 
represents, it is necessary to place him within the logic of the application of the 
adjustment[neoliberalism], of the imperialist recolonialization of the country at a faster 
pace than it would be under a center-left government.

The Polls Do Not Beat Imperialism, Tax Adjustment and Proto-Fascism!
The result of the elections therefore does not solve the complex context posed by the 
correlation of forces opposed to the working class. All scenarios only serve to deepen the 
class struggle and against oppression. The "useful vote" against the Bolsonaro sheet makes 
at most an extension, leading to a "third shift" that will not be decided at the polls. 
The struggle is long-term to build a class and mass alternative that does not surrender to 
the reasons of state, governability and agreements subordinate to the empire.But it must 
also be a social force capable of defeating the bourgeoisie, imperialism and its attacks.

Our class flags need to be lifted up at this time of proto-FASCIST AND NEOLIBERAL ATTACK. 
We must not succumb to the panic and fear caused by the reactionary elites. Our role is to 
actively resist, strengthen class solidarity, ensure the fight in the streets, and the 
permanent mobilization of from below!

Therefore, We Defend:

Unity of anti-fascism beyond the polls, at the base level and on the streets - struggle is 
what will define it. The unity will take place in action and mobilizations against the 
neoliberal attacks and the barbarity promoted by Bolsonaro and his supporters.
Fight for social rights. Fight against privatization and attacks on the bottom. Fight 
against attacks on education, welfare reform, fight against rising cost of living, 
criminalization of social movements and the process of genocide of the Black, peripheral 
and indigenous people.
Building of a general strike against the advancement of fascism and the attacks on the 
rights of the workers which is the agenda of imperialism of the next period and of the 
business elites and independent policies of the elections.
The Strength of the People Can Stop Fascism! Against the Neoliberal Barbarism, Struggle 
and Organize!

Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (Brazilian Anarchist Coordination)

To read more on the political situation in Brazil we recommend "Interview on the 
Assassination of Marielle Franco" and a statement by the CAB "Marielle Franco, Presente! - 
Political Murder and State Terrorism in Brazil."

Notes

1988 is the year Brazil's constitution was approved after the end of the military 
dictatorship which began in 1964 and lasted over 20 years.
The Initiative for the Integration of South American Regional Infrastructure (IISAR), now 
called COSIPLAN, regional development and integration plan to create regional 
infrastructure such as major highways often facilitate the growth of extractive 
industries. The effort is similar to Plan Pueblo-Panama in Mexico and Central America.
The Lava-Jato or "Car Wash" scandal was an investigation into political corruption 
involving numerous high profile politicians.
Lawfare, a term combining law and warfare, the use of law for warfare.
"Democratic State of Law" in Brazil is similar to the US concept of "the rule of law" - a 
condition whereby laws and rights are respected by individuals and the government.
Master Moa was Black capoeira instructor who was stabbed to death by a supporter of 
Bolsonaro after he participated in a public forum and supported the PT candidate.
Source: Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira

Translation, photo and notes: Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation

https://freedomnews.org.uk/the-claws-of-empire-the-rise-of-fascism-brazilian-anarchist-statement-on-bolsonaro/?fbclid=IwAR0KlfD63buVFtvN5MHt_6q2WLe8JNNfeUmwdu_AKkPetEPOt2X8oWrq-FQ

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Antisemitic violence has spiked dramatically in the United States with 2018 being the 
largest single year increase on record since 1994. From desecrations of graveyards to the 
massacre of eleven worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, this confluence 
of bigotry and white supremacist fervor exemplifies a growing global wave of fascist 
violence which endangers us all. When the Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers screamed "All 
Jews must die!" as he opened fire Saturday morning, he chose his targets not only out of 
antisemitism - a theoretical core of white nationalist ideology - but also for the reason 
that the synagogue worked with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, an organization which 
honors our people's history as refugees by helping displaced people all over the world. 
This tradition of solidarity, often called "tikkun olum" or "repairing the world," is part 
of the reason Jews have historically played important roles in revolutionary struggles 
against capitalism and fascism around the world.

Antisemitism at the Heart of White Nationalism
Often though fascism and antisemitism are both terms widely misunderstood on the Left; in 
order to offer a liberatory alternative to the barbarism of capitalism and white 
supremacy, we must first define these threats. In its most essential form, fascism is 
organized reactionary political violence, with defining features such as extreme 
nationalism, misogyny, authoritarianism, anti-communism, and racism. Yet, fascism is not 
simply state repression or a fixed ideology, but rather a dynamic process which requires 
popular violence from below to seize power.

Antisemitism is at the heart of fascist ideology in its contemporary form, which is often 
called white nationalism. As anti-fascist researcher Eric Ward emphasizes, without coming 
to terms with "the centrality of antisemitism to White nationalist ideology," the Left 
will fail to understand how white supremacists fuel their virulent racism and xenophobia. 
Antisemitism operates differently from other forms of oppression, which disempower their 
victims based on poverty, racialization, or colonized status. Antisemitism instead thrives 
on an illusion of power and privilege, which deflects blame from the system of capitalism 
itself onto individuals. Jews have historically acted as middlemen for capitalists, as 
landlords or bankers when denied the right to other employment, farming or ownership of 
land. It is no coincidence that feudal and early capitalist societies chose Jews to embody 
the most obvious symbols of capitalist oppression. As April Rosenblum defines it, 
"Antisemitism's job is to make ruling classes invisible. It protects ruling class power 
structures, diverting anger at injustice toward Jews instead." Jews have always provided a 
convenient scapegoat for capitalists, as a presumably all powerful and wealthy group whose 
privilege can be discarded at any time. Sephardic and Mizrahi communities have a more 
complex relationship to white supremacy, as they face both antisemitism and overt racism 
and colonialism. Not all Jews are white, but even white Jews can lose their whiteness.

Fascism and Failed Revolutions
To envision the relationship between fascism and antisemitism from a different angle, we 
should remember the words of Jewish Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin that "every 
resurgence of fascism bears witness to a failed revolution." In other words, when 
institutions of the left like political parties and movements fail to mobilize the 
revolutionary potential of the moment and to provide a real alternative to the constant 
crises of capitalism this paves the way for reaction. This was true regarding the Social 
Democratic Party in Weimar Germany and applies to many other Left parties today. In these 
situations, reactionaries shift the blame towards Jews, immigrant populations and other 
marginalized communities.

Benjamin's insight is prescient and incisive in understanding the rapid ascendance of Jair 
Bolsonaro to the Presidency of Brazil. After 14 years in power from 2002 to 2016, the 
commodity boom which gave the class conciliation approach of the Workers' Party (PT) 
breathing room had come to an end. As waves of austerity measures, worker strikes, street 
rebellions and subsequent repression ensued, the alienation of the PT's base set the stage 
for the right-wing to use a corruption scandal to engineer a parliamentary coup and remove 
PT President Dilma Rousseff from power and jail the popular former PT President Lula de 
Silva. With disillusionment in the political system becoming widespread Bolsonaro, 
formerly an isolated and minor figure, was able to rise in popularity by presenting 
himself as a savior. Conveniently Bolsonaro also received support from figures such as 
former Trump operative Steve Bannon and the Koch brothers.

Bolsanaro is not only a bigot, homophobe, misogynist, and militarist, but is a true 
adherent to fascist ideology. Marginalized Brazilians realize they are in grave danger; as 
the founder of São Paulo's annual gay pride parade put it, "It's as if the gates of hell 
have been opened - as if hunting season had been declared." This comment is not hyperbolic 
in a year of constant political violence targeting socialists, feminists, LGBT community 
members, and Afro-Brazilians. Many fear Bolsonaro's brazen bigotry and public support for 
extrajudicial killings will launch a new era of brutality and genocidal violence, a 
prescient fear in a fledgling republic only 30 years from its last dictatorship. Indeed, 
the new President promises a "cleansing never seen before in Brazilian history" and 
torture and civil war on an unprecedented scale. Unlike Trump, whose lacks a cogent 
fascist ideology, Bolsonaro draws on a historic tradition that lost power but never truly 
disappeared.

"We Will Outlive Them"
As humanity faces the seemingly insurmountable threat of looming fascism, we must 
celebrate the survival of our peoples and those who gave their lives to struggle against 
it. We honor our ancestors when we stand in solidarity with racial, religious, sexual, and 
gender minorities around the world, but not when we sacrifice the safety of others for our 
own. Fascism is an ancient foe, one that Jews have attempted to escape through nationalism 
and militarism. The Israeli state's disregard for victims of antisemitism is incredibly 
clear as members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultra nationalist Likud 
party blame the victims in Pittsburgh for their own deaths because they dared to welcome 
Muslim refugees. Instead, those who immediately stood in solidarity with the massacred 
congregants were the Muslim community of Pittsburgh.

Racism and apartheid will never keep us safe and the policies of the Israeli state have 
created unlikely alliances between real antisemites and Jews. The anti-Muslim bigotry of 
Netanyahu and his allies is so extreme that they actively "inspire" white supremacists 
like Richard Spencer with their anti-refugee and apartheid policies, such as the recent 
"Jewish Nation State Law" which officially legalized racial apartheid. Their reaction to 
antisemitism truly pales in comparison to the violence they inflict in our name on 
innocent Palestinians.

To build a future without fascism, we must honor the tradition of our socialist and 
internationalist ancestors, and fight where we stand, to defend all our communities from 
those who would prefer to see us burn. As the old Yiddish song that Polish Jews sang as 
they stared down their executioners goes, "We will outlive them." We must fuel 
revolutionary anti-fascist movements with this spirit of collective memory to honor the 
sacrifice and resilience of all victims of fascist violence around the world.

Julia T. is a Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation member in Los Angeles.

http://blackrosefed.org/pittsburgh-brazil-antisemitism-fascist-violence/

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The nightmarish situation in the workplace continues after the "exit from the 
memorandums", with the lowest and lowest hunger salary, with rubber timetable, with the 
abolition of collective agreements, resulting in the failure to meet our basic needs. On 
the other hand, the government has already begun storming about the upcoming elections, in 
connection with raising the minimum wage and restoring Collective Labor Agreements. 
Substantial changes for the benefit of workers do not come with government orders and 
ministerial decisions, but from workers' own struggle. ---- Under these conditions, 
primary unions and grassroots organizations took the initiative to declare a cross-country 
strike from below. Co-ordination and solidarity of workers can bring victorious struggles. 
A strike organized by the bottom, with the actual participation of the workers in the 
collective processes, with general assemblies and without the intermediary of the 
bureaucrats of GSEE, can and must be our weapon. For so many years, GSEE has preached 
24-hour strikes for the eyes of the world without any organization. A GSEE, allegedly a 
"worker representative," who on 30 May reached a point of strike in consultation with 
employers' organizations, with whom the world of work can not and has no common interest. 
support.
Increases in wages to live in dignity
Fewer working hours
No worker without collective agreement
Striking Concentration: 11am, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens
(Solon and Asklipios)
Eleftherias Union of Athens

http://ese.espiv.net
e-mail: ese-ath@espiv.net

https://ese.espiv.net/2018/10/30/01-16/

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Message: 6





On October 13, 2018, in Poznan, the second edition of the Social Women's Congress took 
place. Over 100 people representing 20 labor, accommodation and women's organizations 
participated in it. Almost 9 hours we discussed the problems we face in our workplaces and 
in our cities. During the first edition of the Congress, which took place in March this 
year, we developed 20 program postulates regarding the issues of employees and tenants. On 
September 8, we organized a debate on which the tenants confronted their demands with the 
candidates for the mayor of Warsaw. The Second Congress in Poznan served to summarize our 
struggles before the new cadence of the local government began. ---- The first part of the 
meeting referred to the genesis and meaning of the six postulates, which are directly 
related to the ongoing activities undertaken by women associated in the Workers 
Initiative, in Warsaw and the Wielkopolska Tenant Association.

1) Raise wages in institutions paid from the city and voivodeship budget. 
(Inter-enterprise Commission OZZ IP at the Nursery Teams in Poznan and the Factory 
Commission of the OZZ IP at the Clinical Hospital of the Transfiguration).

2) Abolish rents and debts and start real payments for heating up with electricity until 
all communal and social premises are connected to CO (Warsaw Association of Tenants).

3) Inclusion of the time allocated for commuting to the place of work in the total time of 
the working day (the OZZ Inter-enterprise Commission Inicjatywa Pracownicza in Amazon 
Fulfillment Poland Sp.zoo).

4) Adjustment of the income criterion when granting municipal and social housing, 
abolition of the yardage criterion and introduction of rules for granting social premises 
that meet the real needs of residents and residents of municipalities (Wielkopolska 
Association of Tenants).

5) Universal pension at the minimum wage level (Environmental Committee of Journalists and 
Journalists at OZZ IP).

6) Stop the reprivatization of real estate and repair the social harm caused by it. 
(Warsaw Association of Tenants).

During the second part of the Congress, we divided into three groups, in which we 
discussed the activities that enabled implementation of the postulates from the list that 
we created during the first edition of the Congress.

1st group regarding tenants' demands

The fight for better housing conditions belongs to the sphere of struggle for better 
living conditions for women. We have considered together the question: what is the reason 
that most of them are women who engage in condominiums activities? Local organizers from 
Warsaw, Lódz and Poznan emphasized that at home women not only rest after work, but also 
do unpaid care work. For women, a home is a second workplace, for which, in addition, they 
have to pay rent (which often absorbs most wages). Most often, women are responsible for 
cleaning the flat (but also washing, ironing, etc.), which means that in communal premises 
without CO they usually wash away poisonous fungi and mold from the walls, which is why 
they are more often exposed to dangerous diseases. In addition, women more often than men 
take care of administrative matters related to housing, they more often deal with the 
household budget and pay bills for the flat. Observations in the group were in line with 
recent CBOS surveys. It is not surprising then that it is women who protest against poor 
housing conditions and excessive fees.

We also mentioned that women more often than men keep in touch with their neighbors, hence 
it is easier for them to build solidarity in the joint struggle for a roof over their 
heads. In violent relationships, it is often the woman who is forced to leave her 
apartment with her children. In such situations, the possibility of renting a flat cheaply 
allows you to stand on your own.

During the meeting, we decided to try to coordinate some activities at the inter-city 
level. In particular, as the already cooperating Warsaw and Wielkopolska WSLe, we want to 
try to clarify the ties in the field of tenants with the Lodz Association "Bratnia Pomoc", 
the Wroclaw Lokatorka Action, the Lublin Lokator Action and the Social Justice Movement. 
The workshop meeting was attended by delegates from Warsaw and Wielkopolska WSL, RSS and 
"Bratniej Pomocy", but we are counting on the participation of organizations from Wroclaw 
and Lublin in further works.

According to the findings, we want to try to intervene at inter-city level through a 
common slogan-postulate (based on the first SKK accommodation postulate): Universal access 
to public housing by expanding the resource, and changing income and metric criteria. 
These apartments should be cheap, healthy (i.e., unheated and with access to central 
heating) and adapted to the needs (e.g. disabled people).

In order to start the coordination, we decided that we would like to publish a brochure 
that would include:
1) developing the situation of the municipal / social housing stock in the city (number 
and status, main problems)
2) Developing the fight for better housing as a struggle to improve women's lives, based 
on discussion from the workshop.
3) a model project of changing a housing resolution to be adopted at the self-government 
level in each city. The project would enable implementation of our postulate on universal 
access at the legal level and would be developed by a supporting legal group (proposed by 
a female attorney present at the workshop). The draft resolution would contain legal 
grounds for the introduction of a municipal housing protection system for women victims of 
violence based on experience from Wroclaw.

Second group regarding postulates of public sector employees

The workshop focused primarily on the specificity of the public sector and the resulting 
consequences for our attempts to self-organize. The state in which wages in the public 
sector depend on the directorates of the facilities, from the central or local government, 
allows the three entities to avoid liability for poor working conditions and pay. Despite 
the fact that the economic situation has improved, for the last 10 years local and central 
authorities justify cutting and marginalizing the public sector with the financial crisis. 
The fictitious professions related to care, hospital maintenance, education, culture etc. 
are invariably treated by politicians as unnecessary ballast. We must continue to oppose 
the conservative-liberal politics, which recognizes our work only as a cost.

After last year's protests in Poznan, which resulted from the promise of a promise not 
paid by the president, the situation has not changed. President Jaskowiak, together with 
the rest of liberal politicians, continues to emphasize the importance of women for Polish 
democracy. His policy, however, prevents us from actually participating in this system. 
This is because the maintenance of low wages forces us to long hours of work after which 
the only thing we can get involved in is to gather forces before the next day of grinding.

The city's budget is not just a profit and loss statement. Its shape determines political 
decisions. The current authorities have been doing nothing for the past four years to 
improve the situation of feminised and low-paid jobs that allow public institutions to 
function. In fact, the problem is not the city budget too small, but the unequal 
distribution of funds - for high salaries and bonuses for officials, low wages and cuts 
for public employees. Without changing the rules for dividing public finance, politicians 
will always push us to the margins. Similar cases could be mentioned much more, such as 
the difficult situation of the kindergarten workers in Belchatów associated in the Unions 
'Workers' Union or employees of Poznan's hospitals financed by the central authorities. 
During the discussion, we agreed

Another important problem is that people employed in budget units are systematically 
divided into those who receive higher wages and those working at hunger rates. In 
hospitals, pay inequalities are formalized by means of laws, e.g. the recently introduced 
Law on Medical Employees. In this way, solidarity between individual professional groups 
breaks down and hierarchies between them. Instead of focusing on inequalities in wages 
between women and men (which are the largest among managers in Poland), inequalities 
between individual professions should be eliminated. Within the so-called Professions of 
feminised pay inequalities are small, while differences between the industries themselves 
often take on a significant scale.

The specificity of public institutions lies in the fact that their management is sensitive 
to their own image. Its undermining can increase the impact of information campaigns, 
protests and strikes. During their lifetime, it is worth taking actions that will allow 
the residents to gain support. Bad working conditions, living in scarcity and overworking 
of people employed in budgetary institutions also threaten those who use their services. 
Bad working conditions in the budget sector are poor living conditions in the city and the 
responsibility for this state of affairs is on the management and authorities. Moreover, 
in the case of determining our demands, we do not want to be guided by their usefulness 
for business and whether their implementation will increase productivity. We are fighting 
to regain our lives for us and our relatives, to have time for our own passions, friends, 
family. Our role is not to improve business operations and increase its profits. We 
require better terms of employment to be able to refuse to work two jobs without fear that 
someone will find us inefficient. What we consider to be socially useful does not have to 
bring profit to business.

Fighting for better working conditions and pay, we must not forget that no plant can 
function without employees and employees. This is the source of our strength. If we are 
experts in the stable operation of the plant, we also know how to disrupt its operation in 
such a way as to reduce the efficiency of work. Employees gave several examples of slowing 
down or refusing to work, which forced the management to change several problematic 
issues. Among them were such activities as refusal to perform activities beyond the scope 
of duties, calm work while maintaining health and safety rules. These activities draw 
attention to the shortage of personnel and work overload, and at the same time do not 
force us to conduct demeaning discussions with the management.

III group regarding postulates related to the organization of work:

Ministers participated in the discussion on postulates related to work organization. 
people associated under the OZZ Employee Initiative and employed in Amazona, Volkswagen 
and non-governmental organizations, a representative of coalitions associating female 
employees employed in sex business and persons supporting care workers in homes for the 
elderly.

The introduction to the discussion concerned the linking of hired work, full-time or 
precarious work, with reproductive work, i.e. performed in households. Many demands 
seemingly related only to the wage labor zone, such as payroll (raise) or related to work 
organization (right to break and rest, impact on the pace of work through social control 
of norms) is directly related to the work done by all, though definitely more often by 
women, caring work, as well as what we do in the so-called free time, indispensable for us 
to be able to come back to work again. For example, we are demanding higher wages, not to 
have to work overtime, and spend time with your family instead. We demand breaks, rest at 
work, weekends and a lower pace of work,

Not only is physical depletion the work discussed in detail on the example of Amazon or 
Volkswagen, but also on psychological pressure, exerted by continuous control, or we are 
making norms, or - as discussed in the non-governmental sector - mobbing and the resulting 
health problems psychological, related to the use of violence in foundations and 
organizations. The proposing answer may be building a trade union as a support network (eg 
by resisting the management board's pressure to "sacrifice" for the foundation's mission, 
that is, sacrifice their rights and health as employees, or the idea of introducing union 
workers to the councils) from other foundations to influence working conditions).

In sectors related to the third sector, care work or sex work, the main problem is the 
bargaining of employment contracts and the use of mandate contracts despite a clear 
employment relationship (provision of work under the supervision of the superior, at a 
specific place and time) or work in black. It is connected with the lack of paying 
overtime, and even the possibility of receiving them - which in the third sector, for 
example, results from the high pace of work imposed by the dates of projects and grants. 
In such a situation, it may be useful to monitor and publicize the replacement of 
contracts of employment with contracts in organizations - sending inquiries to the 
organization (when they announce the recruitment under the terms of the mandate 
agreement), why they do not want to apply contracts of employment - which now brings 
effect and more and more organizations the order is withdrawn from the contracts.

Also, employees of nursing home private network for the elderly, whose example is 
discussed, have problems with employment contracts: sometimes over half of the 
childminders work on a contract, but they do not want to accept employment contracts, 
because then they would not be able to work overtime and their basic salary is not enough 
for maintenance. As a consequence, contracts work 200-230 hours a month for 24- or even 
32-hour changes, which ends up with health problems (mainly with the backbone). Some sleep 
in centers to save, their work is strictly controlled: the performance of each care 
activity must be confirmed on the barcode reader.

We talked about the tools of action, resisting and organizing: from informal ones, such as 
a common refusal to adapt to any job requirements (joint breaks, slowing down work), to 
formal: collective disputes, lawsuits (over a dozen running an IP committee at Amazon, 
including in the scope of standards), cooperation with external institutions to defend 
employee rights (Labor Inspectorate, Labor Inspection Laboratory measuring energy 
expenditure, Construction supervision), legal advice. In the care sector, a good strategy 
is to build solidarity with the recipients of services (eg patients and patients' 
families), to strengthen the strength of employees and to put pressure on the management.

The Volkswagen Commission discussed the questionnaire, which the colleagues conducted 
among the crew - as a tool on the one hand to formulate demands and exert pressure on the 
board (eg when the management wants to introduce unfavorable changes in working time - the 
survey concerned the introduction of an additional weekend change and clear criteria for 
moving to a new factory - employees did not know who and on what terms will be 
transferred); and shortening the billing time (so that overtime is paid immediately). The 
survey gave the visibility of the trade union, gave the floor to the employees in their 
own case and the opportunity to influence the change in the workplace.

The last plenary discussion of Congress focused on the content of the statement we 
issued[Declaration of the organizers of the Second Social Congress of Women: What do we 
demand from the new authorities]and the issue of organizing the next congress. The Social 
Congress of Women was established to strengthen current struggles by working out joint 
employment and tenant demands. I and II SKK in Poznan and the debate of SKK in Warsaw were 
organized as members of the Workers' Initiative and Warsaw and Wielkopolska WSL 
committees. The discussion on II SKK's statement showed the willingness of other 
organizations and environments to use SKK as a tool to strengthen the struggles in the 
social field. The organization of III SKK was announced by delegates from Torun.

Organizations participating in the II SKK: the Social Justice Movement, the 
Inter-Enterprise Workers' Union "Zjednoczeni", the Warsaw Association of Tenants, the 
Wielkopolska Association of Tenants, the National Trade Union Workers Initiative, the 8 
March Initiative (Wroclaw), the Academic Protest Committee, the Total Party, the Sex Work 
Poland Coalition , Manifa Poznan, In Our Case, Women's Torun Stroke, Foundation No Only 
Mother Poland, Collective Manifa Torunska, Association "Bratnia Pomoc", Abortive Dream 
Team, Women's Eye Analyzer, Feminoteka, Women's Agreement March 8

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2421-sprawozdanie-z-ii-socjalnego-kongresu-kobiet-o-wyzsze-place-i-nizsze-czynsze

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A few days ago, a new self-titled facebook group, the UAP-FAI Debating Group, announced 
the creation of the Portuguese Anarchist Union, affiliated to the FAI, and a Debate Group 
"open to all people of UAP-FA I) affected by the anarchist ideology and sympathizers and 
members of the UAP-FAI. " ---- Not knowing fully the existence of this group (whose 
proponents said they did not know the organizations, groups or structures existing in 
Portugal in the libertarian field) and stranger to their membership in FAI, whose action 
we follow closely, we contacted the companions of the Iberian Anarchist Federation, by 
mail, informed us that this group is not affiliated with the FAI. Only the Associative 
Pact of the Federation was sent to them, at their request. ---- 
https://colectivolibertarioevora.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/fai-desmente-que-o-grupo-portugues-uap-esteja-federado-na-organizacao/

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