Today's Topics:
1. Poland, INICJATYWA PRACOWNICZA - WORKERS' INITIATIVE: 100th
Anniversary of Poland's Independence - What will not we learn at
official academies? [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, ZSP-IWA, wins another court case with POLO market
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. India, thecominganarchy: When India Kills Journalists -
SARTHAK TOMAR (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, SOLIDARITY IN THE 21 COMPETITORS AND
COMPETITORS OF THE ANTI-FOCUS MOTORWAY By APO
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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In connection with the approaching hundredth anniversary of Poland's independence and the
next March of Independence organized by nationalist and neo-fascist movements, we publish
an introduction to the 49th issue of the Bulletin of Inicjatywa Pracownicza by Jaroslaw
Urbanski: ---- It is inevitably approaching November 11. This year is the equal, 100th
anniversary of Poland's independence. Celebrations in such circumstances are usually a
pretext for the authorities to present their version of history. Most often, this is not a
story consistent with what we know about labor and social struggles. In the times of the
Polish People's Republic, official academies tried to prove that the guiding power of the
nation and workers was always a version of the Marxist party, although it often differed
from the truth. The significance of the trade union movement was ignored according to the
Leninist principle of the superiority of political awareness over social and the
superiority of political parties over trade unions. Today is exactly the same.
In order to stay in power, political parties will compete in the competition for the most
beautiful patriot, impersonating the historic success of Poland's regaining independence.
Whose success was it? Nationalists from petty bourgeois and intelligent homes or workers
and wage laborers? We will hear a lot in November about Pilsudski, Dmowski, Wielkopolska
Uprising and subsequent Silesian uprisings. We will not learn anything, or very little,
about the revolutionary and social movement. On the subject of repression, prisons and
political killings. Already in the spring and summer of 1918, powerful waves of strikes
swept through the Polish lands. One of the historians writes that they embraced "almost
all branches of industry, institutions and offices. They exploded under economic slogans,
but they often turned into political, directed against the occupation authorities ". For
example, in July 1918, a strike of miners broke out in Silesia, in which 60,000 people
took part. workers. At that time, they were brutally suppressed by invading armies.
Similar protests took place virtually all over the country and did not cease after the
proclamation of independence.
In the spring of 1919, for example, agricultural strikes in Wielkopolska and 1,500
agricultural farms in the Lublin region broke out. The second wave of dissatisfaction in
the countryside swept in October of the same year. About 200,000 struck agricultural
workers from all over the country under the slogan of handing over to smallholder and
landless peasants landed land without redemption. In response to the strike, brutal
repression was used. People died, this time from the hands of the Polish police and in the
name of nationalist ideology. In Poznan, on April 26, 1920, the police opened fire on
orders issued by the national authorities (endecia) to protesting railwaymen. 9
demonstrators were killed and 13 injured. The immediate cause of the protest was the
rising prices and political ambitions of the local power elites. On May 4, the funeral of
those murdered took place, attended by about 30,000 people. Similar incidents have also
occurred in other cities. "In Bydgoszcz," writes the historian, "the demonstrations took
on such dimensions that it was necessary to use the army to restore order in the city."
The unrest persisted until 1923, when battles intensified across the country: miners,
steelworkers, and fibrils struck. The most important was the general strike on the
railways. He met with severe repressions from the authorities. Mass arrests took place,
conscription was announced, payments were stopped, and enterprises were militarized. In
Krakow, there were armed fights between workers, police and army. The workers mastered a
part of the city. 18 workers, 14 soldiers and officers were killed, and several hundred
people were injured. Under the influence of these events, the government made concessions:
it canceled the ad hoc courts and the militarization of the railway, and promised to deal
with the railwaymen's demands.
Krakow's events can be regarded as the symbolic end of the cycle of workers' struggles
accompanying the regaining of sovereignty by Poland. Workers and workers in their rebirth
and struggle led in the reborn Poland to the implementation of collective employment
contracts, labor inspection, statutory regulated work time in industry (8 hours) and
agriculture (9 hours). From 1922 there were also paid holidays of 8 days after working one
year, and after three years - 15 days. Another revolutionary solution were high overtime
supplements (the first two overtime hours pay 50% more, and the next 100%). Agricultural
reform has begun. And so on. The solutions introduced at that time in Poland were one of
the first of its kind in the world, but the new nationalist authorities did not intend to
give way to the working and trade unions.
In the early 1930s, when the political system of the pre-war Polish capitalist state
solidified and began to exhibit authoritarian tendencies, changes evidently unfavorable
for workers were introduced. Liquidated (in 1933), among others the so-called. English
Saturday and halves of extra work for overtime. In 1937 and 1938, brutes were dealt with
anxieties in the countryside, during which - according to the government of the Second
Polish Republic -42 peasants died. The heroes today elevated to the pedestal on the 100th
anniversary of regaining independence were often politically - and sometimes directly -
responsible for the trash of over 1000 protesters in interwar Poland. Only in the years
1932-1937, according to official statistics, a total of 818 people were killed as a result
of the state's suppression of strikes and demonstrations. Interesting, whose names and
surnames (such as 9 killed in Poznan in a protest of railwaymen) fall from the lips of one
of the prominent politicians. However, we should remember them.
Jaroslaw Urbanski
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/publicystyka/spoleczenstwo/item/2427-100-rocznica-odzyskania-niepodleglosci-czego-nie-dowiemy-sie-na-oficjalnych-akademiach
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In 2017, POLOmarket filed a penal case for "defamation" against Rafal from the Polish
Syndicalist Association, a former employee of one of the chain stores. The alleged
defamation was to be informed in the mass communication media, the Polish Radio Program 3,
Gazeta Wyborcza and the ZSP website, among others o overtime and other abuses against
employees that took place in the supermarket. ---- On 27 September 2018, the District
Court in Bydgoszcz discontinued criminal proceedings and ordered the company to pay the
costs of the proceedings. ---- The court stated, inter alia: ---- "From the very extensive
and fairly detailed report of the accused, it clearly follows how employees' rights were
respected in the POLOmarket store in Bydgoszcz at 410 Fordonska Street while he was
employed there.[...]Store manager EK knew about the fact that he was a disabled person,
despite this she did not inform the cadres about it ... she did not send a certificate of
disability, which she received from the accused. "
The court, considering credible the testimonies of former employees and the reports of the
National Labor Inspectorate, that:
- employees transported meat and other goods with their own cars, which was not reflected
in the work records
- there were difficulties in using meal breaks
- there were cases of employees calling on their days in a free schedule, some of them
were afraid to refuse to carry out the abovementioned order
- employees raised the fact that overtime and night hours were
not properly recorded - no proper accidents were reported at work
- employees were not trained in the operation of the electric wheelchair and were not
equipped with protective footwear
- the signatures on the attendance lists were falsified
At the same time, the Court refused to believe the claims of the store manager and its
deputies. In the opinion of the Court, as the persons who were responsible for the
violation of employee rights, they had an interest in presenting a favorable version of
events for themselves, and not a reality consistent with reality.
The court further stated:
"Rafal[...]acted in the name of public interest (former employees of the POLOmarket chain
of stores, with which he protested in connection with the violation of employee rights),
and not only his own private
[...]
According to the court, the accused said the above-mentioned content, through mass media,
he acted to protect a socially motivated interest, and it is beyond any such interest to
defend workers' rights against being violated by employers.
[...]
according to art. 14 Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms, art. 21 par. 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and
art. 11 of the Labor Code is prohibited any discrimination (even indirect), including Due
to trade union membership, the action of the accused by means of utterances to the mass
media was a simple generalized reaction to the violation of workers 'rights of specific
persons who together with the defendants, under the aegis of the trade union
"Syndykalistów Polski" acted in defense of their workers' rights. As a side note, the
norms of law in Polish law give protection to an individual person from the point of view
of her good name, as well as the general population from the point of view of, for
example, employee rights. "
The verdict is not yet final.
http://zsp.net.pl
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After the brutal murder of Washington Post's Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad, the
American media for the first time has even tried to consider that there might be questions
about Saudi regime's legitimacy on human right ground. Record of Indian squads attacking
journalists, like other "misadventures" (read "crimes") of Indian armed forces are easily
lost in the memory hole of Indian intellectual culture. ---- In the late 1987 there were
four newspapers in the Jaffna region of northern Sri Lanka, ‘Eelamurasu', organ of the
LTTE; ‘Uthayan' and ‘Eelanadu', which rarely had any news content in and; ‘Murasoli', that
started in 1986, was the only independent newspaper in the region. Its founder and editor
Sinnadurai Thiruchelvam was arrested multiple times by the Indian Peace Keeping Force
(IPKF) and his 17 year old son was brutally murdered by Indian backed and trained EPRLF on
May 10th 1987.
This was before the October indecent that turned the IPKF and LTTE murderously against
each other and that led to murder, rapes, kidnapping and destruction of agriculture in the
Jaffna region by the IPKF. Later this month Indian forces also bombed the offices of
‘Murasoli' and ‘Eelamurasu.'
On October 21-22 1987. IPKF killed over 200 patients, staff members and civilians in the
Jaffna Hospital. The details are sketchy for obvious reasons - no wittiness was left
alive, and local media was silenced. But according to Immigration and Refugee Board of
Canada, Indian forces attacked the hospital claiming the LTTE militants were in hiding.
None of this was every reported by the most liberal section Indian media like India Today,
the only Indian publication that had a reporter in Jaffna and ran a cover story in
November about the hard time Indian forces were having because of restrictions on killing
civilians; and also Frontline, which until 1986 were reporting about the atrocities of all
sides but ignored the IPKF atrocities when they began.
This is not an exercise in historical study. But this attitude of Indian forces and media
is still alive and has gotten even worse over the decade. Indian forces by definition can
never do any wrong or crime and in many cases are the victims, from Kashmir to
Chattishghar where Indian forces bomb its population from helicopters.
This week marked the 31st anniversary of the Jaffna Hospital Massacre by the IPKF.
https://thecominganarchy.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/jaffna/
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CONGRESS: MONDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2018, EFETEIO (Deggleri Street), 9am ---- On September 30,
2012, anti-fascist mopeds are being carried out in the neighborhoods of the center of
Athens, which is struck by repressive forces. Fifteen anti-fascists and anti-Fascists are
captured in the wider area and then tormented in GADA. Six more anti-fascists will be
accused later in the same persecution. Six years later, the 21 fighters are being tried at
first instance on Nov. 12 with criminal charges. A few days later, on November 29, the
trial of the Delta Torturers is expected to begin following a lawsuit filed against their
comrades and comrades. ---- This mosquito was part of a large series of anti-fascist
mobilizations which in the context of the wider anti-fascist and anarchist struggle
attempted and succeeded in hindering the spread of the Golden Dawn Nazis, socializing the
state's contribution to the formation of the modern fascist partisans and awakening
consciences the necessity of political and social self-defense against state and sub-state
mechanisms.
In particular, the 30 September motorbike with mass participation took place in the area
of America Square, where in the past days a fascist pogrom against immigrants from a few
dozen neo-Nazis took place. Some of them move against the moped, they are repelled and
followed by a generalized attack from the suppression forces with the javelin, flash
grenades and teargun. The arrested are led to GADA where they are tortured for hours, with
the then Minister Dim. Order N. Denia to publicly support both the dissolution of the
course and the torture that followed.
The attack of the DELTA group on the dissolution of the motorized demonstration and the
torture in GADA was exemplary. They were meant to bend resistance both against the
fascists and the state patrons. The promotion of modern totalitarianism by the state and
capital, the attack on the social and class weak for the sake of their complete obedience
and the overthrow of the resistances is the general framework that mobilizes the state and
partisan mechanisms that do not hide behind the democratic factions despite barbarity.
The barbarity of a regime that spreads misery and war to then manage their results with
concentration camps and the establishment of the Emergency Situation. Using the fascist
gangs to strike those who fight and intimidate those who have every reason to resist. He
maintains in the same direction, regardless of his political managers: The creation of a
society-katergo.
At this juncture, we are again confronted with the attempted emergence of nationalism -
which is primed in every way by the media - on the occasion of the "Macedonian". Through
this treaty, fascist-partisan groups attempt to re-emerge in the public space, always
protected and assisted by the police, and disperse their racist poison into the public
discourse in order to do what they always did: attack the contestants and places struggle
and terrorize the weaker social strata such as refugees and immigrants. The arrest of
occupation of Libertatia during a "Macedonian rally", the assault on the Free Social Space
"School", the repeated attacks on the occupation of Lelas Karagiannis 37, the assault on
the occupation of a former PIKA in Athens,
Against this regime oppressed and exploited are the only way of self-organization and
solidarity. Social self-defense and the creation of mutual self-help structures. The
overthrow of state and capitalist barbarism to build the libertarian and non-class society
of Anarchy and Communism. On this road no one is alone ...
AGAINST THE STATE
AGREEMENT AND THE FASHIC-TACTICAL CONFORMITY
AGAINST MODERN INTEGRATION
SOCIAL AND CLASSICAL SELF-ORGANIZATION AND GAMING
Anarchist college "Circle of Fire" - a
member of the APO (Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Societies)
http://apo.squathost.com/
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