Today's Topics:
1. [Greece] Libertarian solidarity caravan has arrived at
Exarchia By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, Workers' Initiative: Depression in the era of
capitalism [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Holand, CALL By Free Bond Secretariat -[Amsterdam]
Intersectional/Anticapitalist block at Women's March (nl)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE ozzip: "Stop feedbackom" - quite
a rat race at Amazon (video), 26 Feb 2019 Department: National
activities Movie gallery [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. freedom news: Italian anarchists for the general women's
strike (it) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. avtonom: "Yellow vests" Act 15: fraternity against arrogance
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Greece anarkismo.net: Falling from the clouds ... by Anthous
- Eleutherian figure [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Solidarity is our weapon! In 27 vans, 65 companions and companions from France,
Switzerland and Belgium arrived at the heart of the Greek anarchist movement in Exarchia
on Monday evening to create yet another caravan of solidarity. The libertarian convoy
carried food, clothing, toys, hygiene products, medicines and essential supplies for
refugees and immigrants, and to support self-managed structures in Greece. ---- >>
Photographic report here (photos of Marios Lolos): ----
http://blogyy.net/2019/02/26/un-convoi-historique/ ---- Related Items: ----
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2018/05/31/franca-grecia-caravana-anarquista-solidaria-nos-passaremos/
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https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2017/11/19/grecia-caravana-anarquista-solidaria-internacionalista-ja-chegou-a-exarchia-en-atenas/
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2017/11/02/franca-novo-filme-a-caminho-de-exarchia-narrativa-of-a-caravana-solidaria-nautouto/
anarchist-ana news agency
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Message: 2
Before the upcoming "Manifas", we publish an article by Sylwia Rebosz from the Warsaw
Environmental Commission, which appeared in this year's Warsaw Gazeta Manifowa. ---- We
are fosterlings of the capitalist system. From an early age, we hear that in order to earn
more than the national average, we have to get up as dawn as Jan Kulczyk or, as the motto
of Amazon, work hard, play with work and create a story. Then we can be sure that our
effort will be rewarded with avocado food every day for breakfast and a life full of
satisfaction. But let's return to reality. We work more, our productivity does not
increase, we return to homes more tired than ever before, and this is reflected in our
mental health.
As part of my "professional career" I was not employed full time in any place.
Nevertheless, I had to be present at a specific place at fixed times. I remember once,
during a standard check-up visit, my then-doctor offered me the release for two weeks. I
was then overwhelmed by the atmosphere at work, which intensified the symptoms of my
depression. I refused because I knew that I had to earn the proverbial bread, grit my
teeth and put in the fifth gear to prove that I deserved to extend the contract every
month. A few weeks later I was released, which I seriously suffered.
Despite the openness declared in many workplaces, people with mental disorders still
tremble that co-workers will attach them an "appropriate" patch. Once I was a witness, as
the person heading the department wondered if the question of mental disorders was ethical
when recruiting.
She was afraid that the employed person would neglect his work and take unpaid days
regularly. Meanwhile, from conversations with my friends, I know that when there are days
when they would not go out of bed most of the time, they usually go to work or, if they
are taking a day off, they explain themselves to a prosaic illness, for example colds or
poisoning. They are afraid that at the moment when they will make a depressive come out at
the workplace, they will face consequences such as exemption. Another form of
discrimination against people with mental disorders is mobbing, which may additionally
intensify the symptoms of the disease.
Employers often use subtle forms of violence that are not easy to prove before the court.
Taking into account the financial and emotional costs of the processes, a large part of
those affected by the phenomenon of mobbing, prefer to let go than to fight the battle
with former superiors. This leads to a vicious circle in which the employing company is
unpunished.
Recently, I came across the statement that for a person with disorder it is better to work
on a junk contract, despite the lack of a sense of security, than unemployment. This is a
false optics aimed at deepening class divisions among female employees. Only mutual help,
organizing in the workplace and consistently talking about what we are struggling with
will allow us to de -abuse psychiatric disorders.
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/publicystyka/spoleczenstwo/item/2456-depresja-w-czasach-kapitalizmu
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Message: 3
We are going to march together to spread an intersectional, anti-capitalist message on
March 9 at the Women´s March. Come to the Women's March and join us! Let's fight against
all forms of exploitation and oppression! ---- Politicians only work for capitalists and
help them to maximize their profits at every cost, instead of creating qualitative and
accessible education and health care. They use tax money, paid for by working class
people, to give bonusses to themselves and multinationals. And to drop bombs on innocent
people to gain access to oil and other resources. The extraction of these resources
creates war and climate disasters. People have to flee for this Western neo-colonial
imperialism. It is destroying the lives of millions of people, just for profits and greed.
Capitalism, racism, sexism and the destructing of the climate are all connected. And the
state violently opposses this system upon us. At the annual Womens march we are walking an
intersectional demo to combat this system.
Especially women and other non-cis-men suffer from the current system. For profit, the
wages for women are smaller, and the wages for women of colour are even lower. Starting
from childhood, people are forced into a binary system. Girls and boys are made by us
telling them how to act and what to wear. When you don't fit in one of the boxes, you're
discriminated against. This system can only be abolished if our anarchism is explicitly
feminst and queer. So bring all your purple-black and pink-black flags! To break this
system we have use a diversity of people and tactics; working together and solidarity are
our strongest weapons.
We are walking this demonstration, expecially, in solidarity with Joke Kaviaar, an
anarchist rebel who's currently in prison in the Netherlands for writing critical texts
about the Dutch migration policies. (Do you want to know more about Joke Kaviaar, her case
and ways to support her? Check out: 13-september.nl/)
See this link for more info on the Women's march.
Where and when?
Saturday 9 March, 12.30 - 15.00
Dam Square, Amsterdam
https://www.vrijebond.org/amsterdam-intersectional-anticapitalist-block-at-womens-march/
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Message: 4
The position of trade unions operating at Amazon on the subject of amendments to Annex No.
3 to the Work Regulations. ---- Amazon Annex No. 3 was introduced in 2014 without the
involvement of trade union organizations. He was repeatedly criticized both in court and
during union protests. The annex mainly concerns the procedure of handing notes (remarks
on the necessity of improvement), if the employee does not realize 100% of the assumed
quantitative or qualitative standard within one week. Amazon recommends to dismiss an
employee who has obtained 4 such notes week by week, or 6 a year. ---- Thanks to the
discussions between the union and the employer that ended in October 2018, the Annex was
officially suspended for 5 months. This step was considered a breakthrough in the fight to
improve working conditions in Amazon magazines. At that time, none of the employees were
dismissed for failing to meet the standards.
Between October 18 and January 24, 2019, trade union organizations met with
representatives of the board seven times. Unfortunately, the talks ended in a fiasco: the
proposals of unions were rejected, Amazon wanted to introduce unfavorable entries. He also
did not provide documents and procedures requested by the social party (including rules on
how the minimum standard is defined, level definitions, dimensions of particular product
categories that affect minima and other key documents).
The relationships based on the results of the employee survey - which nearly a thousand
employees completed in December - developed joint proposals for changes beneficial to
employees. We wanted the assessment to be carried out once a month, not once a week. We
suggested that the ratings be negated by negative evaluations, and the employee had the
opportunity to appeal against the negative assessment. We demanded provisions that prevent
uncontrolled raising of standards without introducing improvements and consulting the
social side. We have asked that the employer should take into account when assessing
Individual possibilities, including psychophysical conditions and employee-independent
obstacles to work, such as downtimes or failures.
Amazon, on the other hand, proposed: leaving the decision to give the feedbacks to the
managers (we criticized this solution for the lack of clear criteria and freedom), the
deletion of praise, the possibility of giving feedback also by the leaders. Amazon wanted
to liquidate the so-called the learning curve that currently makes the lower standard for
learners on new processes. The employer also wanted to extend the possibility of giving
the feeder up to 4 weeks in the absence of an employee (from the current 7 days).
The only postulate of unions to which Amazon was able to support, concerned the extension
of working time in the process subject to assessment to 10 hours. - but only subject to
consent for all other adverse changes. Acceptance of these changes would worsen the
working conditions. Therefore, on February 22, 2019, both trade union organizations acting
in concert agreed to completely reject the proposed changes proposed by Amazon, blocking
their implementation. This means that the existing shape of Attachment No. 3 is maintained
(from March 20, employees may receive notes about the need to improve), because the unions
may block new entries, but they do not have the possibility of deleting the previous ones.
We announce further actions for the liquidation of feedback. We take the view that the
evaluation procedure at Amazon is not fair or objective and has nothing to do with the
employee's assessment within the meaning of the Labor Code. Our opinion was recently
shared by the Court, reinstating our colleague, released in POZ1 in 2016 for standards, on
February 6, 2019. According to the court, the employee evaluation system can not be based
on continuous competition - by witnesses referred to as the "rat race". An assessment
system that does not include positive achievements (praise) is also unacceptable. The
verdict is not yet final. In the near future, we will inform you about further plans.
Intercompany Commission OZZ Employee Initiative at Amazon.
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2457-stop-feedbackom-dosc-wyscigu-szczurow-w-amazon
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Message: 5
The Italian Anarchist Federation writes on why it will be mobilising for the global strike
initiative on March 8th, amid an atmosphere of reaction which has been driving repressive
reforms. ---- The Italian Anarchist Federation supports the general feminist strike that
will mark March 8th in many countries of the world. ---- Rather than being any mere ritual
and done out of purely testimonial logic, the strike is a necessary moment of rupture to
reinforce and highlight the struggle against all forms of discrimination, against all
forms of domination that would subject our lives and our bodies. ---- Today more than
ever, reactionary forces are raging against those who claim freedom and self-determination
through initiatives and political measures under the banner of sexism and "defending the
family" - the actions of a patriarchal culture rooted and constantly renewed through its
roots in and benefit to the logics of exploitation.
Wage differences for the same job, unemployment, underemployment, precariousness, cuts in
social spending. The social war strongly attacks women by reducing their economic autonomy
and exalting the role of the family as the best method of survival. A family that rests on
the consolidation of traditional roles, on sexist morality, on hierarchy, on the
subordination of women. A family that, the chronicles and the statistics offer us
merciless testimony, is the first place of violence. This is the traditional family that
is so dear to priests, fascists and all those who want to impose, as well as poverty, even
total control of lives and choices.
The family is the fortress around which these forces continually re-found a hierarchical
and exclusive social and political order. On the left, as on the right, from those who
would like it extended to homosexual couples to those who want it modeled on the "sacred"
family. "An institution that is a guarantee of stability for governments.
Familial sexism is the common denominator of many measures and interventions undertaken by
the Italian government: from the citizenship income welfare scheme, and similar schemes,
which operate on a family basis, to the budget laws applied to rural families; from the
review of maternity leave, to the Pillon Bill to fight divorce; from the disinvestment on
anti-violence centers to the closure of the consultors, to attacks on abortion.
Measures and processes that, in large part, the previous governments have anticipated and
initiated and which now, with the current government, are being expressed in particularly
reactionary and repressive terms. Now more than ever it is necessary to develop a lucid
and attentive debate that tackles the issues of the question and individuals, in addition
to the articulations of oppression and the strategies that make it possible to overcome
them, even the contradictions that patriarchal culture can nurture in the sphere of our
relations.
Today more than ever it is necessary to support the struggles and the self-managed
experiences that want to counteract the sexist policies and affirm the practices of freedom.
For these reasons, as anarchists, we will be present in the streets of the eighth of March.
8th March Working Group of the Italian Anarchist Federation
This article is an edited machine translation of an essay which originally appeared in
Umanita Nova
https://freedomnews.org.uk/italian-anarchists-for-the-general-womens-strike/
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Message: 6
For the 15th week in a row, protesters in yellow vests are taking to the streets and roads
of France, protesting against the neoliberal policies of the "president of the rich"
Macron. The heat of movement does not subside. February 23 on the streets protested at
least 113 thousand (103 thousand a week ago). The authorities still ignore the demands of
the protesters. While waiting for people to get bored on the streets, they are combining
police terror with a strategy of slander and discredit. The number of participants is
systematically underestimated (this time official sources called the figure of "only" 47
thousand), and all spontaneous protest movements are trying to identify with neo-fascists
who have penetrated into the ranks of the demonstrators, despite the fact that many
leading activists denounced racist and anti-Semitic tricks.
5 demonstrations were planned in Paris, including 3 meetings and 2 processions ("Yellow
Tsunami" and "All to the Champs Elysees - we will not surrender"). The march to the
"beautiful quarters" began at noon on the Champs Elysées, the traditional site of the
weekly protest. At the end of the march, on the approach to the Trocadero Esplanade, the
police used tear gas bombs, trying to disperse the demonstrators. In response, flew
bottles and other items. Collisions occurred; the police pushed. At least 28 people were
detained.
The city of Clermont-Ferrand was completely blocked and blocked in anticipation of the
protests. Shopping centers, parks and public buildings are closed, concerts and
performances canceled. The demonstration in the city took place with whistles and shouts
"Castaner - in shackles, Macron - behind the bars" (Kastaner - Minister of Internal
Affairs of the macro regime), "The end of the world, the end of the month - one fight." By
3.30 pm most of the protesters gathered in Zhod Square, where barricades of burning urns
were erected. Skirmishes with the police began.
On the city's trade artery, dozens of "yellow vests" clashed with the police special
forces CRS, who opened fire with rubber bullets. 9 demonstrators were injured, and 7 of
them were detained. Wounded and 2 policemen. During the clashes, a dozen showcases of
banks and commercial establishments in the city center were smashed. By the end of the
day, only 33 people were detained, including 16 left under arrest.
In Bordeaux, the demonstration itself was calm, but at the end there were clashes. In
order to avoid collisions, the organizers themselves blocked access to Puy-Berlan Square,
where 5 people usually clashed were detained for throwing various objects at the police
and carrying dangerous things.
In Toulouse, thousands of demonstrations in the city lasted 3 hours in a relaxed
atmosphere and ended in the square of the Capitol in front of the city hall. Participants
posted a huge banner with the inscription: "We are all mobilizing against the antisocial
policy of Macron!". The police fired tear gas at the protesters, and they retreated to the
adjacent streets. The policemen were thrown with bottles and Molotov cocktails. The guards
of the capitalist order used tear gas and used a water cannon near the city center. Then
the demonstrators regrouped and moved along the boulevards with singing through the tear
gas clouds. At least 4 people were detained.
In the morning, in Toulouse, about a hundred protesters again blocked access to the Amazon
warehouse platform, stopping all deliveries. The leaflets they handed out to drivers said:
"Amazon is destroying jobs and the planet."
An interregional manifestation took place in Rennes, which brought together people from
all over Brittany, the Pays de Loire and Tournénies. "Macron resigned, Castaner was
imprisoned," protesters chanted. Demonstrators marched to Republic Square. The authorities
tried to prevent them from entering the city center. Clashes broke out between police and
protesters; the police used gas. During the protests, the windows of banks and real estate
firms were broken; Burned urns burned. 7 policemen and 4 demonstrators were injured.
Police detained 26 people, confiscating weapons, knives and lead pipes. In Epinal,
thousands of people took to the streets. Protesters broke the prefectural grids and hit
the windows. About 1,000 "yellow vests" had a massive picnic at Chambord Castle to draw
attention to the demands of the movement.
Andrey Demidov. Yellow vests: 15 act, fraternity against arrogance
We publish the impressions of a well-known public activist, co-chairman of the Teacher
trade union, Andrei Demidov, about the fifteenth round of opposition to the French state
and the Yellow Vests movement on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
"They are inadequate, these" yellow vests "." The girl in front of me, in Moscow
stretching the vowels, frowns in displeasure. We are sitting in a cafe on the Seine
embankment in the center of Paris with a group of Russian-speaking Parisians and discuss
the prospects for holding a large non-commercial event in a month. I see her for the first
time and I don't know anything other than a name. But I can easily reconstruct her claims
to LJ. "We have to work, there is nothing to rally." Such remarks are full on Russian
forums in France. And in Russia too.
The lion's share of LiveJournal just works a lot and goes to protest on its legal day off,
but there's no desire to argue, and I just remember how an hour ago I walked past this
cafe in a demonstration of yellow vests ...
Today we started from the Arc de Triomphe. The bright sun created a festive atmosphere,
many slogans, often on the backs, written with a marker on yellow vests. Here are two
middle-aged men in front, obviously a husband and wife. On the back of one is written,
"Whatever happens, we will not leave the family." And here is the family - I ask Karin.
"They call it movement," she says. We catch up with them and enter into conversation. They
are from the suburbs. Half an hour by car. The emphasis is on the spirit of unity. People
felt like a people. Came out of their capsules everyday problems and saw each other.
"Today we stopped and picked up a man who was walking in the same direction. A few months
ago we would not have done that, "says the man. He's right. In a sense, this whole huge
crowd feels like a huge family. The atmosphere of unity is fascinating.
In addition to the usual slogans for the resignation of Macron and the Minister of
Internal Affairs Castaner chant: "Paris, get up, rise!" Everyone is discussing the recent
speech of the minister to the schoolchildren, where he allegedly announced that plastic
bullets tearing up pieces of meat and knocking out eyes are not harmful to health at all.
Probably at this moment he is the most hated man in France.
Speaking of schoolchildren. In the morning at the starting point of the gathering of a
group of demonstrators from the 18th district, we met Karol, a miniature brown-haired
woman with bright green eyes. She came with her husband, child and dog. During the
distribution of leaflets to passersby we got to talking. She works as a high school
teacher in a suburb of Paris. Her personal situation is not so dramatic, but she is
completely unhappy with the state of the education system. However, she acknowledges that
the school only reflects the problems accumulated in society.
- "We have a lot of children with unfavorable life situation. I know for sure that in our
school there are children who are forced to sleep in a car. What can I demand from them?
But the social worker in our school works only half a day a week. The society has
abandoned these people, and the school too "...
A huge mass of people moving through the main streets of the city, changing direction and
describing something like a giant ellipse. The police does not interfere, only tries to
block the side streets and is trodden in a liquid line on the sidewalks, trying to keep up
with the demonstrators. "The storefronts are covering for us" - the protesters are having
fun. On Rivoli Street, visitors to the Louvre gaze in amazement at the current human mass
from the windows of the halls and through the lattices of the gates of the inner
courtyard. The people joyfully greet them as much as anyone who waves a hand from the
window of a house we pass by.
But not everyone is so complacent. "Bourgeois, stop eating, let's go with us," the
demonstrator shouts to the people who are sitting on the veranda of an expensive
restaurant on the veranda on the occasion of a warm day. Those, looking up from the
plates, look dumbfounded at the huge crowd that instantly filled the street. However, the
demonstrator does not insist and quickly leaves the frightened inhabitants.
A lot of music. People carry speakers with them, from which vigorous rhythms rush, helping
to move their legs faster. The guy goes with an electric guitar and plays something
spirit-lifting on the go. Many people dance around. At this time, as they say, the LJ
group is trying to break through to the agricultural exhibition, where President Macron is
showing the country the image of a politician close to the people. The guards save the
president from talking to furious voters. The image of the "democrat" is taking root with
difficulty.
According to the latest available polls, the most obvious qualities of Macron are the
French who consider authoritarianism (78%) and arrogant (76%). At the same time, 66% of
French people believe that there are no prerequisites for a change in the style and method
of the president during the five-year period of his being in power. In addition, among the
popular claims against Macron are isolation from everyday realities (51%) and policies in
favor of the richest (47%).
This opinion has not changed and after the start of the "big debate", which according to
the plan of the government should be completed by March 15. Moreover, according to
sociologists who interviewed the French on the topics proposed at the debates, their
result can be very inconvenient for the authorities.
So, the top five most popular among the topics surveyed are as follows:
VAT reduction for essential goods
tax increase on internet giants
Reducing the number of deputies and senators by a third
Indexation of pensions in terms of inflation
Recovery of wealth tax (ISF)
Other ideas are not far from popular - introducing a higher tax on fuel for yachts and
private jets, building more cultural and social centers for recipients of social
assistance, tightening building requirements, and helping farmers move to environmentally
friendly technologies. At the same time, 58% of French people do not believe that the
government will take into account the results of the debates that it itself initiated. So
if the authorities ignore the most popular demands, the debate, instead of defusing the
situation, as their initiators had planned, would be a catalyst for a new round of crisis.
https://avtonom.org/news/zheltye-zhilety-15-akt-bratstvo-protiv-vysokomeriya
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Message: 7
Honestly and politically, we have no common place of cooperation and wider social
interaction with herds that cover up and normalize abusers and rapists and the "killer
laundry" they create. This text is our position on complaints about incidents of gendered
violence that come to us either in the place where we live or at any other geographical
point. Our comrades do not bruise, hurry, do not disguise. ---- The end of 2018 and the
beginning of 2019 have already recorded 3 feminicides. Eleni, Angeliki and Litsa were
murdered by men who thought they were entitled to their body and life. For us these
incidents are the tip of the iceberg of gendered violence and we do not fall from the
clouds in any reported or non-incident. Before feminicide and rape, the icy gambling
violence begins with much smaller incidents that we experience in our everyday life
through harassment at workplaces, teasing the street, abusing women in relationships,
gender discrimination when we return home in the evening, in our entertainment, in
political places and much more that could fill up several pages as examples.
By constantly getting acquainted with complaints of sexist incidents involving members of
"radical" spaces and the cover-up they enjoy in these places, we see that incidents are
treated with the same patriarchal tools both within the social body and within the
supposed "radical" spaces . That is, targeting the spoken subjects, covering up the
rapist-abusers, relativizing the gendered violence, continuing a "washing machine" attempt
to restore regularity. Anti-espionage banners and texts when it comes to incidents of gay
violence outside the left and a / a "space" play first track table. The herd of bullies
and their "helmets" who conceal their abusers and rapacious companions, they use incidents
of gendered violence in which perpetrators are not members of their communities to rinse
out and look out as anti-escorts. The well-known beaten and "washing machine". It is an
attempt to betray oblivion and intends to bury incidents that in fact invalidate the
political declarations of these places. As when a woman resorts to the police and judicial
mechanisms of the state and her life comes under the microscope until it turns out that
the accused is innocent, so when a woman speaks in political places, court courts are set
up until she gets mad that "slander" Battle Rebel Comrade ". Besides, we have been amused
to hear from the "revolutionaries" that gendered violence is a secondary issue and how the
class struggle prevails,
Honestly and politically, we have no common place of cooperation and wider social
interaction with herds that cover up and normalize abusers and rapists and the "killer
laundry" they create. This text is our position on complaints about incidents of gendered
violence that come to us either in the place where we live or at any other geographical
point. Our comrades do not bruise, hurry, do not disguise.
From Berlin to Xanthi and Thessaloniki, from Volos to Athens and Crete, and everywhere,
no one alone in the patch of death.
FASHIONS VISITES WE ARE IN WAR.
Anthous - Eleutherian shape
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31315
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